Martha's Surprise
At six am Martha Kent walked down stairs to find Clark and Lois asleep on her couch. It appeared that they hadn't moved much since the night before. Only from the position they had now adopted on the sofa was very 'couplely'. She didn't even care that that wasn't a proper word 'couplely' was definitely the right word for them.
Lois was using Clark as a pillow and had moulded her body to fit his to gain the most amount of warmth. Clark was holding her very tightly but not enough to either harm or wake her, while his head was buried into her hair, that was now everywhere.
She walked over to the counter and turned the coffee pot on before heading outside to get the Daily Planet from the mail box.
When, she returned she was surprised that the smell of coffee hadn't woken Lois or Clark. If anything they seemed to be cosier.
Lois had shifted so her head was buried in Clarks shoulder and her arm was draped around him. But Martha didn't have time to consider the pair as she had just enough time to grab a quick breakfast and glace at the headline.
Mayor resigns! By Lois Lane and Clark Kent
It was Lois and Clarks second by line together in as many days.
Their report yesterday revealed that the Mayor had been receiving bribes for planning permission. Today's story was a follow up; the Mayor has stepped down before the city had a chance to take action…
Martha smiled. The story had been why Clark and Lois had been incommunicado for the last week. They'd gone undercover as a newly weds to stake out the hotel of one of the suspected bribers.
What Martha didn't know was that Lois and Clark hadn't only uncovered the truth about the Mayor: but about Lana's hidden past.
When they'd finally come home yesterday evening they found a celebratory party tea waiting for them. She's invited Sam Lane and he'd turned up and frightened the living day lights out of Clark. Having spent nearly a week playing the devoted husband to his daughter, Clark had been spooked to be in the present of the man who exuded authority.
Especially when Sam had questioned them as to why Lois and Clark hadn't removed their wedding rings. The pair had been embarrassed – tried to laugh it off – but remained characteristically quiet and polite.
But that feeling had almost totally evaporated by the time the festivities had gotten underway.
Last night was a big night; they had a lot to be thankful for. Because, as well as, Chloe and Ollie's engagement - Lois had been promoted. A fact that she could tell Clark couldn't be prouder of. In actuality, it was a tough call as to who was prouder; Lois, Clark or Lois' father.
On a private note, she was thankful that Clark finally had found something he could do without using his abilities to get a head.
She looked over and smiled.
She remembered what Lois and Clark together had meant to Jonathan; her heart warmed. Jonathan had been fascinated to watch them together. He had always laughed when he saw his son, the most powerful person on the planet, being bossed, out witted and generally tormented by Lois.
Jonathan had caught them on the day of Clark's commencement bickering like normal but acted like they were married. He'd seen a rhythm and rhyme to them being together.
He had realised that there was something about Lois that always challenged Clark. She was his opposite in so many ways, it had been clear to Jonathan that part of Clarks maturing that year had been directly due to Lois. She was what he needed: someone who would never be too in-awed by Clark's abilities to stand up to him and say what was what. Even Kal-El had listened to Lois, both watching and listening to her.
And there was another thing. When they'd discovered the effects of Red Kryptonite was on Clark; revealing his secret to his friends had always been high on their list of worse case scenarios. They had been relieved that he had never done so. So when Clark had told her about his midnight 'flight' with Lois before the Luthor engagement party, Martha had just smiled knowingly.
Lois' present in Clarks sphere made him want to prove himself as a man. All her little jokes and his pretending to be weak had irked him so much that as soon as his elemental self had surfaced
She glanced at her watch and realised that she had only a few minutes before she'd be late for her meeting. So she wrote a post-it-note and placed it and the copy of the Plant on the table in front of them before heading out to work.