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CHAPTER FIVE

She woke up to the sound of her cell phone going off. She looked first at the clock before answering it. "7:30AM! Who the hell is calling?" She reached over to answer her phone. "What do you want?"

"Lois Lane," the voice on the other side said.

"Sorry, stranger, but that's not going to happen. I have a boyfriend who will kick your ass if he ever heard you say that," Lois said.

"It's Zod…from RAO."

Lois shot up from her bed, well Clark's bad. "Zod? Umm…can I ask why you're calling?"

"It's Tess. She's worse than I thought. I fear that her plans with RAO will destroy everything I've worked for," Zod said.

"That sti-," Lois began saying.

Zod knew what she would say. "You're the key to getting my plans with RAO back on track," Zod said. He paused for a moment. "I need you to meet me somewhere."

That caught Lois by surprise. "Um…Ok. Just give me a second to tell Clark and we'll go together," Lois said.

"No!" Zod exclaimed. He had to come up with a reasonable excuse to want to meet Lois alone. "You must come alone. Tess is beginning to suspect me and if she sees me with your boyfriend she'll know something is up. I would hate to see you boyfriend get hurt."

Lois immediately thought about when she was Stiletto. Clark nearly died because of her. She wouldn't let that happen again.

When Lois remained quiet for a few seconds, Zod knew he had her. He knew for a fact that she would show up there alone.

"Where do you want to meet?"

\S/

Clark woke up and was surprised when the house was pure silence. He knew Lois was one to make noise. So, he began to panic. He went upstairs to his empty bedroom.

Then he spotted it. On the unmade bed was a note. He walked over to the bed and read it out loud.

"I know you expected me to wake up with you and have a nice breakfast together, but work calls. You looked like you were having a pretty good dream so I didn't want to wake you. I'll see you at the Daily Planet.

P.S. That dream better have been about me. "

Clark knew from the second he started reading the note that Lois had snuck off with Zod. He knew Lois would do anything for a story. This was no different. Except it was different this time. Zod was involved in this story. Zod wouldn't hesitate to kill Lois if it meant getting to Clark. He had to get to her first.

\S/

"Did we really have to meet in an abandoned warehouse?"

"Well, meeting somewhere public would be rather obvious, wouldn't it?" Zod asked.

"Yeah, I guess so," Lois said.

Zod didn't waste any time. He snuck behind Lois and put a cloth full of alcohol close to her face knocking her unconscious. He let the body fall to the ground. "That should get Kal-El to come."

CHAPTER SIX

She slowly began to wake up. The first thing she noticed was that she was tied up. Not really tight, but tight enough to keep her in place. "What the hell?" Lois asked. She tried to untie herself, but she was unable to.

"You should really think twice about who you date," a voice said.

Lois saw a body in the shadows standing there watching her. "Why don't you come out to face me?"

Zod stepped out of the shadows and showed his face to her. "You're no the one I want to fight," he said.

Suddenly it all came back to her. She had snuck away from Clark to come meet Zod. It was a choice she began to regret. "Why are you doing this?" she asked.

"Because your boyfriend is the blur."

\S/

He listened for her heart beat. It didn't take long for him to find it. It was her, afterall.

He was surprised when her heartbeat lead him to an abandoned warehouse. Then again he didn't know what Zod had planned.

H should have used his X-Ray vision to see what was going on inside, but he didn't. He was too worried about Lois and getting her to safety. He should have worried about his own also.

Lois was in the middle of calling Zod a Crazy loon for thinking her mild mannered farm boy of a boyfriend was the Infamous Blur. From the corner of her eye, she saw Clark standing at the door way. Normally she would have laughed at him for wearing such a crazy and ridiculous outfit, but she recognized that outfit. It was the outfit she saw on the Blur when he save her from John.

She started to put the pieces together. Maybe he really was the Blur. Maybe Zod was right.

She didn't get the chance to yell at him or get mad at him for keeping such a secret from her for so long. That would have to wait because Clark immediately feel to the ground.

She put the pieces together rather rapidly. The Blur had told her that he had a weakness. He also told her that it wasn't the usual weakness. By the way he was looking at the meteor rocks, Lois was sure it was them.

"I thought we had an agreement," Clark spoke to Zod.

"I'm General Zod. I make no agreements," Zod said.

Clark was clearly in pain. Lois didn't care if she had been lying to her for years. She just wanted to take his pain away.

Clark looked over at Lois then back to Zod. "Let her go. This is between me and you. She's just an innocent by stander," she said.

"You would think after all the deaths that happened because of you, that you would stay away from people. After all, everyone close to you only ends up getting hurt in the end," Zod said.

"The Blur saves people. He doesn't murder them," Lois said.

"Not purposely, no," Zod said. He walked over to Clark and stood there looking down at his body on the ground. "So, you didn't tell her your little secret, did you? You are responsible for so many deaths. Lex. Lionel. Jimmy. You even killed your own father."

"It's not what you think, Lois. I didn't kill them!"

"You may not have pulled the trigger, but you caused it. Lex; you drove Oliver so mad that he murdered him., Lionel; died protecting your secret from his own son. Jimmy; only knew your secret for a day when you led him to his death. Your father; paid the price because you just couldn't stand to watch the woman you loved at the time die. So, you used your birth father's fortress to go back in time to save your precious Lana, but you watched as your father died in your own arms. How does it feel, Kal-el?"

"Smallville, don't listen to him. He's just trying to get to you. You can't blame yourself for all those deaths," Lois said.

"But it's true, Lois. It's my fault they're dead," Clark said.

"No, it's not! You're the Blur! You are the Savior to this city! You save people everyday! You are the man that I fell in love with and the person I have faith in," Lois said.

Even through the pain he smiled at he. He knew he had to get her out of there. "Untie yourself, Lois."

He still had the ability to control her. So, she did as was commanded. After she untied herself, she looked up at him and realized what was going on. "I like the way you think, Smallville."

"What's going on here?" Zod asked. He walked closer to Lois so that he was standing directly in front of her.

Clark couldn't let him get too close. "Punch him in the face!"

Once again, she obeyed by punching his nose. "Take that, Zod!" Lois exclaimed.

However that didn't bring Zod down. Sure he had a bloody nose, but he still had some fight in him.

Clark saw that. "Punch him as fast as you can until you knock him out!"

As if in some kind of super speed mode, Lois punched him non-stop. It didn't take long at all for Zod to become unconscious. His body feel to the ground.

Lois quickly got up and ran to Clark. "It'll be easier just to get you out of here, won't it?" she asked.

"Yeah," Clark said weakly. The kryptonite was getting to him.

"Let's get you outside," Lois said.

A couple of minutes later, Clark was outside. His powers were starting to come back to him. "Thanks, Lois."

"You're not off the hook yet, Clark. You lied to me!" Lois exclaimed.

"Hit me. Slap me. Punch me. Anything. It's what I deserve," Clark said.

"I'm not going to hit you, Smallville. Besides, I doubt it'll even hurt," Lois said.

"Wait a minute, I just gave you a command -."

"And I wasn't forced to obey it," Lois finished off for him.

"I guess the spell is gone," Clark said.

"But we still have some problems to face," she said.

"Yeah we do," he said.

"But for right now, I want to appreciate that both my boyfriend and I are still alive," Lois said.

"So, I'm still your boyfriend?" Clark asked.

"You can't get rid of me that easily," Lois said.

"And I never want to."

TBC