Chapter 2 Flight

Clark rouses from a very comfortable sleep, as his eyes slowly open he turns his head to the right to see a very pretty face staring back at him. "Lana?" he says in a groggy voice, "What are you looking at me like that for?"

"I just like watching you sleep." Lana states softly. "I worry about you sometimes. You seem to always have the weight of the world on your shoulders. I can see how all that stress takes its toll on you. But when you sleep it's like all that stress goes away, you seem at peace."

Clark rubs the sleep from his eyes. "If I seem at peace it's because I'm sleeping next to you."

Lana smiles and turns her head to look out of the small window next to her, outside the sun is setting and the horizon is filled with hues of yellow, orange and pink. She turns her eyes to the ground. "Everything seems so small from up here. It makes the biggest problems seem so insignificant." She turns back to face Clark. "I'm glad I could convince you to run away with me. I think this'll be exactly what both of us need."

Clark pushes himself up in his seat and takes hold of Lana's hand. "You should know by now that you don't have to convince me of anything. I'd follow you anywhere." He brings Lana's hand up to his face and kisses it. Lana chuckles softly, settles down into her seat, wraps her arms around clarks bicep and rests her head on his shoulder. Clark looks out the window and takes a deep breath. "So, you wanna let me in on where you're taking me?"

"I've managed to keep it a surprise so far, you really want me to spoil it just before we get there?"

"I guess not." Clark replied as he let out a yawn.

"Maybe we should both get a little rest." Lana said as she did the same.

Just as they were about to close their eyes the entire plane shook, Clark tensed up and turned his vision to the front of the plane.

"What was that?" He said in a nervous voice.

"Relax." Lana replied not even lifting her head. "It's just a little turbulence."

A ding is heard as the fasten seat belts sign over head lights up.

Clark relaxes and lets out a sigh of relief. "Sorry, guess I'm just a little tense."

Lana, seemingly unfazed, lets out another yawn. " Maybe one day you won't need a plane to fly through the air, then you won't have to worry about turbulence."

Clark chuckles, "very funny."

"You never know Clark." Lana's voice gets lower as she falls asleep. "I believe you can do anything."

Clark looks down at the girl of his dreams sleeping on his shoulder. "Then that's good enough for me." He kisses the top of her head and settles himself into his seat. He takes one more deep breath then closes his eyes and falls back to sleep.

(The next morning)

The light of the sun creeping in through the window rouses Clark from his sleep. He leans ever so slightly so he can see more clearly. "Sunrise?" He speaks to himself, he looks down to see that Lana is still sleeping. "Wherever you're taking me it must be pretty far." He turns his vision back to the window

"That's the point." Lana states as she rouses from her slumber.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."

Lana raises her arms above her head and groans as she stretches. "That's ok my love." She smiles as she turns to look at him. "We'll be landing soon anyway!"

" landing where?" Clark thinks to himself. Suddenly the voice of the pilot comes over the intercom.

"Good morning everyone and what a beautiful morning it is. We're gonna be making our final decent here shortly and we should be landing in.." Lana quickly places her hands over Clarks ears and he is unable to hear the rest. After a few more moments of muffled words Lana removes her hands, takes a magazine from the pouch of the seat in front of her and begins to flip through the pages. Chuckling she says "wouldn't want to spoil the surprise now would we?"

"So I'm guessing that means you're gonna make me close my eyes through the airport? Like you did in metropolis?"

"Maybe." Lana says playfully. "Don't worry. I'll lead the way." she winks at him and smiles.

Clark leans over and whispers in her ear. "You know I could just use my X-ray vision to see it anyway."

Not looking up from her magazine Lana asks, "but you wouldn't do that to me would you? Not after all the work I've put in to make this special?"

"Wouldn't dream of it." Clark answers as he takes Lana's hand.

"Besides." Lana turns her head and softly touches her forehead to clark's and whispers"I said no powers mister!"

"You're the boss." Clark replies as a smile creeps across his face.

Lana smiles and gives him a quick kiss. "I like the sound of that." She sits back and pulls the shade down over her window. "Now sit back and relax till we land, all will be revealed in time," she orders trying to use and alluring voice and succeeding in clarks opinion.

"What ever you say ma'am." he smiles even wider and sits back in his seat.