Chapter 1

Present time (some time in the future post season 11 but this is the present time for this story)

Lois opened her eyes. The sun was streaming in through the window directly on to her face. Instantly she thought Clark, you forgot to close the drapes when you went out on a save! Then, she smelled the coffee coming from the kitchen and she mentally forgave him. Lois then rolled over away from the sunlight and sat up. She looked down at Clark's old football jersey and decided she was decent enough for breakfast. She walked out of the bedroom and saw Clark facing the stove as he was finishing up breakfast. He was wearing a white t-shirt and pajama pants. Lois smiled and thought to herself, no matter how hard I try to get him to sleep in less he stays with the white shirt and plaid pajamas. Despite the plaid, he does look sexy in that white shirt.

"Morning Smallville" said Lois as she walked to the cupboard to get out her coffee mug.

"Smallville eh, did I do something wrong?" replied Clark.

"You forgot and left the drapes open again, when you went to save someone last night or early this morning. I didn't get to sleep in" she said with a faux pout.

"What makes you think I forgot? You know we have work today. I know you had a great time at Oliver's birthday party but that was 2 nights ago."

"Yeah yeah… I'm still tired for some reason. I guess I just need more coffee," responded Lois as she poured herself a cup of coffee. She sat down at the bar. In front of her was a plate with two pieces of toast and two pieces of bacon on it. Clark spun around with the skillet in hand and put two eggs on his plate and one on Lois's. Lois looked over at Clark with frown on her face.

"What? You never want more than one egg."

"I feel extra hungry today," said Lois as she used her fork and one of her pieces of toast to take one of Clark's eggs. "Besides it's not like you need to eat it"

Clark sat there and stared at her. He watched as she quickly ate everything in front of her. When she looked again at his plate, Clark used his super speed to grab it away from her reach. He quickly ate his food before she could steal anymore of it.

Lois saw this and started to protest but then stopped. "oh" She let out as she ran to the bathroom. Clark followed her. Lois was already kneeling at the toilet when Clark kneelt down beside her. He used one hand to hold her hair back and the other to comfort her. He stayed with her while her breakfast came back up.

"Lois, are you ok?" he asked.

"I don't know" she answered truthfully. "I think I must have had some bad sushi at Ollie's"

"I dunno, you should go get checked out" said Clark as Lois was gargling some mouth wash.

"Ugh! Fine. I have to meet a source before going in to the office. We are meeting near S.T.A.R. labs so I'll see if Emil can squeeze me in"

"Lois. You should go to your regular doctor. Emil could be busy"

Lois stopped brushing her teeth and spit before saying "First of all if Emil is good enough to be the personal doctor of Superman and the rest of the Justice League then he should be good enough to take care of a mere mortal like me. He did figure out a way to get rid of that radiation stuff Lex sprayed on you. And second the last regular doctor you made me go see turned out to be brainwashing his patients into becoming his personal hit squad." Lois said all this all the while waving her tooth brush at Clark, as if to make her point more emphatic.

"I didn't make you go see Dr. Mendenhall. You went to him to dig up a story, but besides that, Emil has a whole lab to run." Responded Clark as before he grabbed his own toothbrush.

"You said it yourself that Vergil Swann created S.T.A.R. labs to help the traveler, that's you. And I am your wife, so I should get some of those benefits too…"

"Lois…" he tried to protest while he was brushing his own teeth.

"Don't Lois me! I can either go to Emil or I'm not going to anyone."

"Fine" he said exasperated.

"Geeze Smallville I wonder sometimes if anyone else could handle you. I mean if I hadn't gown up arguing with the General and making sure Lucy didn't pull a fast one on me I don't think I would be able to convince you sometimes."

"I don't care if there is no one else because I know you're the only one for me" he said as he grabbed her and kissed her.

After recovering from the kiss, Lois looked past Clark and saw the clock. "I'm going to be late!" She ran past him and into her closet to get some clean clothes on. Clark finished in the bathroom and went back to the kitchen to clean up after breakfast. He just finished the last dish as Lois fully clothed and her hair finished ran past him. She grabbed a banana and said "Don't forget we have that meeting with Perry at 11. Bye babe."

Clark quickly got dressed and put on his glasses before leaving for the day. He made his way across town. He stopped at the news stand across the street from the Planet for coffee. He went up to the light and waited for the crossing walk signal.

"Excuse me young man has someone already hit the button?" came a voice next to Clark. He turned and saw next to him an elderly lady holding two large bags of groceries waiting for the light like him.

"Yes mam' here let me help you with those."

"Oh I don't want to trouble you. Besides you have your coffee."

Clark quickly finished his coffee and tossed the cup into the nearest trash can, "There. No excuses now" he said as he motioned for her to give him the bags.

"Well, OK" she said as she handed over the bags. Clark carried the bags across the street for her and she said, "my building is right over here" she pointed down the street. He walked with her up the steps to her doorway. "Ok young man now let me give you something for your trouble" she said as she started to look through her purse.

"No ma'am I couldn't. It was no trouble at all."

"Wow, it seems you can take the farm boy out of Smallville but not the Kent manners"

"How … Agh!" Clark collapsed as a green light started to emanate from the old lady. The bags spilled over.

"You and your selflessness. Have you ever heard 'no good deed goes unpunished?' But no, to kill you would be too easy. You deserve a life filled with pain Clark Kent! You will suffer for all the pain you have caused me!"

"Wha?"

"I will make sure all those you love suffer before you and only when you beg for your own death will my vengeance be satisfied!" and then she was gone in a flash of purple light.

One of the apples form the grocery bag had rolled down the street and a pedestrian looked up to see where it came from. They saw Clark on the landing still dazed. "Sir, are you all right?" they said as they ran up the stairs.

Clark was still a little dazed but said, "yeah… I think so. Did you see where the old lady went?"

"I think you hit your head Mr. I didn't see any old lady here, just you and your groceries. Do you need help to get inside?"

"No. um thanks. I was actually on my way to work. Thank you for your help. I guess I must have slipped" said Clark as he gathered up the produce that had spilled out onto the street.

"Your taking groceries with your to work?"

"No. I mean yes. Well, it's bring your favorite healthy snack day at work. I never can decide what my favorite is, so I am bringing them all. Thanks again." said Clark as he started down the stairs holding the groceries. He quickly walked down the street towards the Daily Planet. He didn't feel like getting stopped and asked 20 questions about the bags so he super sped past everyone until he got to his and Lois's office. He put the bags down in the corner and got his cellphone out. He dialed Watchtower.

"Go for watchtower" came the slightly robotic sound of Tess Mercer's voice. Clark and the league had rescued her from being trapped inside Lex's mind when she used the neurotoxin on him after he had stabbed her. She had been trapped inside for almost a year but Dr. Hamilton and Bruce Wayne had figured out a way to transfer her mental imprint into a modified H.E.D. unit. Tess took her transition into the automaton better than commander Henshaw had.

"Tess, put the league on alert I was just attacked."

"Do you need assistance?"

"No, she's gone now. I didn't recognize her but she knew who I was and about Clark Kent. I'm texting you the address now. When you check the street cameras it was the old lady. I carried her bags for her and she unleashed something on me. I think it was green kryptonite but she didn't wave it at me. I just felt it. It was really strong there must have been a lot of it."

"How did you get away?"

"I didn't she just said that death wasn't good enough for me, and that she was going to take away everyone that I cared about to get her revenge. Then she just disappeared"

"It seems you pissed off the wrong granny. I will send the word out and try to find some camera footage of the attacker. But it sounds like she is going to go after the people you care the most about."

"Lois! I got to go"- click Clark hung up the phone and quickly changed into his superman costume. He raced out the window.

"CK, is that you?" asked Jimmy Olsen as he peaked his head in. He saw the window open and the bags of produce in the corner. "Must have been the wind" he said as he went over to lock to window.