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** Fanfic title, or a change of scene **

** SACRIFICE **

Martha and Chloe were frightened; the driver was in the same situation. Clark looked at Lois and told her to stay inside the car. Who thought he was talking about? Lois Lane did not stay quiet easily...Smallville may need reinforcements.

"It's him..." said a man outside when he saw Clark coming out. He recognized him immediately as one of the many infected with kryptonite that had been sent to Belle Reeve...Some men dressed in security uniforms from LuthorCorp surrounded them...Lois picked up the dress and threw the car door, striking one of the armed men...in the confusion, Clark took the opportunity to take away their weapons. Despite the discomfort that represented the dress, Lois was into action and gave a few blows to the 'pseudo guards'...the infected approached Clark and tried to hit him... Clark tried to stay back, but he wore a bracelet with green kryptonite...Clark fell to his knees trying to get away from the source that caused him pain. He was about to attack Kent with a knife when she stepped in...she thought it would be easy to repel the attack but had to be honest and admit that he was stronger than her...the knife pierced her abdomen...she gave a long moan and knocked him down...she took a deep breath and with trembling hands removed the knife...Chloe came to help, while Martha was on the phone asking for help...Lois leaned on the hood the limo hoping they could reach the hospital in time...she didn't want to create a panic situation. She went to help Clark to stand up, but stopped when she saw the blood staining her hands...

"Lois...are you okay...?" Clark stood up and approached her. Lois nodded and quietly put her hand in the wound. She endured the pain and smiled at Clark. The pain overcame and she ended falling into his arms, making him kneel to catch her. Chloe screamed and ran towards them. Clark already had blood on his hands...

"Lois...we'll take you to a hospital...hold on!" Lois smiled and tried to touch his cheek but her hands didn't respond. She was almost unconscious. Chloe knelt beside him and told Clark she could help. She closed her eyes, trying to cure her cousin, but nothing happened...

"it doesn't work...it's not working, Clark...!" Chloe was desperate. Lois was pale and her heart beat irregularly. If Lois had been awake, she had been amazed to see Clark's reaction...his eyes fought back tears...Clark Kent was...crying. He was still holding her in his arms...a hospital in these cases could do not much...Chloe's agitation turned to desperation when she noticed the mark on Lois' back...

"Clark...look at that..." Sullivan said and Clark looked at the place. Chloe was in panic state.

"Jor-el..." he whispered. Martha nodded. "I have to take her to the Fortress..." and saying that, he disappeared with Lois in his arms.

His warmth was amazing...she never thought that she would give her life literally for the man she loved...but if he was okay...that was all she needed...she was beginning to get unconscious, and she let the memories invaded her mind...

** Flashback **

"The procedure was a success..." the doctor left the operating room within the complex of QueenLabs. Lois smiled relieved to Oliver. Lana was in a special recovery room. When they returned to Smallville, she took things in stride. Clark was in the barn. Lana approached with something of fear and Clark looked surprised...Lois surveyed the scene impassively...

Lana approached to Clark slowly, and when he observed that there was no effect of kryptonite to be near her, he hugged her tightly. Lois foolishly thought that after all the ups and downs of the relationship, Clark would be willing to move forward...but now she received the blow that sent her back to reality...

** End Flashback **

** Flashback **

Clark was in the barn. Lois sighed and decided to face him. He must know the truth as soon as possible...

"Clark...I'm telling you the truth..." he refused to believe her and she growled defeated.

"Lana couldn't do something like that..."

"she couldn't...? As well as that time she hit me and almost kills Lex...?"

"she was not herself..."

"forgive me if I break the perfect image you have of her, but better watch out..."

"Lana..." Clark said seeing the aforementioned standing in front of them. Lois had to calm down to avoid hitting her...

"why don't you tell him what you've been doing lately, Lana...?" Lois suggested with anger. Lana shrugged, but still could not hide her discomfort.

"tell me it's not true, Lana..."

"of course not..."

"tell the truth, Lana...for once in your life...be honest" Lana hugged Clark and he looked at Lois with anger.

"I have proof that you have been searching tirelessly for Lex to kill him..."

"I don't have anything to do with Lex, Clark...I promised you that I would forget the matter and I did..." the words were cold, and Lois felt betrayed.

"you have to apologize to Lana..." Clark looked at Lana and she faced him with apparent innocence. Lois didn't expect this change in Clark...he was defending her after all...

"I won't apologize for something that is true...Lana...you killed two men when you were infected with these meteor rocks...!" Lois made a fuss in the air and tried...she tried him to believe her...

"Lois is telling the truth..." Oliver went upstairs and joined Lois for support. Lana looked at him angrily...

"Oliver...just...just leave it like this..." Oliver was surprised by this. Lois was giving up on Clark... and she was opening the way to Lana...

"you have to apologize to Lana...!" Clark shouted. She shook her head. Oliver took her arm and suggested her to leave. Clark Kent had made a decision.

** End Flashback **

** In the Fortress... **

Clark was holding a dying Lois in his arms. The tears of the last son of Krypton were banished by the harsh wind storm in the Arctic...her dress already had a huge blood stain on the stomach...

"Jor-el...! Jor-el...!" He cried in despair seeing that Lois' pulse was almost non-existent...

"I am here, Kal-el..."

"I need your help...save her...!" A full body hologram of Jor-El appeared in a corner of the icy formation.

"Sorry, my son..." Jor-El refused and almost immediately the hologram of Lara appeared.

"Jor-el...our son needs us..."

"Lara...Kal-el must understand that we can not control the existence of humans..."

"Lois Lane can not die..."

"I've helped you before Kal-el...when I gave you the crystal that saved Lana Lang's life..." funny...all these days he hadn't thought of Lana, even though they lived together...

"I'll do anything you want Jor-El...but save her!" There was no hint of fear or remorse...he would do anything without hesitation...because she had risked her life for him...he knelt down...

"Kal-el...get up..." Lara ordered. Their son must be really shocked by Lois' injury...he was begging for help...

"you need to complete your training in order to fulfill your destiny..." Clark nodded. He would do anything to save Lois...

"This would be done, Kal-el..." Clark put Lois on a crystal formation, and it immediately began to shine. Clark stood next to the 'control panel' of the fortress. Then a force field surrounded him and the kryptonian knowledge began to appear...

** STAR CITY HOSPITAL... **

"Good morning, sleeping beauty..." Chloe stroked her hair. Lois stretched and saw that Martha and Jimmy were also in the room.

"Clark...Clark...where is he?" She asked anxiously. Martha pointed out the room. Clark was looking a poster. Lois got up the bed despite the requests from Martha and Chloe, and left the room. She didn't mind that she was wearing an ugly hospital robe...she had to see that Clark was alright...

"Clark...Clark...!" She hugged him.

"Lois Lane..." he spoke as if he barely knew her. Lois felt weird. It was like when she had first met him in that field...naked and amnesiac...

"yes..." he looked at her...different...with desire. He took her by the shoulders and turned her back to him. Clark came over and gently touched the kryptonian mark. A deep sigh from him, gave her chills...

"we must return to the Fortress..." he was not informing her, he was ordering her! When she started to protest, he carried her over his shoulder and started walking toward the exit of the hospital. Martha noted her son's behavior following his reunion with Jor-el and rushed to stop him before he made something crazy...

"Cla...Kal-el, wait!" He stopped and Lois asked him to put her down...

"Let her rest a little more, Kal-el..."

"I have to take her with me to the Fortress..." Lois thought seriously about telling them about her connection to Jor-el, but Martha's voice interrupted her thoughts...

"I understand, Kal-el...but...she must rest" at this point, Chloe was peeping through the door of the room, asking softly to Martha what was happening.

"you can do that in the Fortress" and he took Lois off guard, carrying her again on his shoulder. Martha blocked his way and asked the real reason why he wanted to take Lois to the Fortress...

"I need an heir..." Martha frowned, and Lois asked him to put her down again. He ignored her. She groaned and moved her legs trying to escape...

"what about me...what do I have to do with it?" Clark finally put her down, and looked at her intensely.

"you are my soul mate..." Martha was shocked, Chloe tried by every means to cover the visibility to Jimmy.

"What? what the hell are you talking about...?" Clark looked at her with desire. Martha knew that if he didn't control himself, there was the possibility of starting a fire.

"I have to take you to the fortress to consummate our marriage..." Martha and Lois opened their mouths in surprise...she began to be afraid...he spoke that words perfectly convinced...

"union...? you must be joking!...is this another of your famous lapses of amnesia where you do strange things?" he always kept his eyes on her. Martha saw Clark's face and knew he was using his X ray vision on Lois.

"come with me..." he took Lois by her arm, but Martha stopped him again.

"Kal-el...Kal-el, wait...I promise that when Lois gets better you can take her..." Lois opened her eyes at Mrs. Kent's response. She denied swallowing dry...

"Ahh, ahh...don't say that Mrs. Kent!" her face expressed concern when he said 'consummate the marriage' and when he mentioned the word 'heir'. Not too innocent thoughts convinced her that Clark was speaking of 'that' type of union...

"alright, Martha Kent" fortunately Lois left the hospital that day, and Mrs. Kent has managed to convince Clark to return to Smallville. Lana spoke telling Martha that had been problems with the dress and she would stay with her aunt a few days.

** KENT FARM ... **

"Mrs. Kent...your son is naked...again" Lois covered her eyes while a quiet Clark got out of the bathroom...Martha ran up and put a towel around Clark's waist.

"Clark...you need to cover" he looked at her blankly. He looked at Lois again and the heat in his body rose to see her with so little clothing.

"I am Kal-el of Krypton..."

"yes, sorry..." Martha nodded a little disappointed. Her son didn't remember anything. Martha came downstairs, and Lois was about to enter Clark's room (now hers), when Kal-el took her hand and hurried her inside. He cornered her against the wall.

"I need you, Lois Lane..." He whispered in her ear...and she very nearly fainted.

"give me some space..." she tried to push him but he didn't move.

"you are my soul mate..." Ok...all the hype of 'I'm all male' was attractive, but also scary. It was impossible for the cute and shy farm boy Clark Kent being so direct...

"What do you want...?" she felt he was going to kiss her, and she slipped under his arms...Lois put good distance between them.

"I want to have kids with you..." errr...too straight...she couldn't breathe, and was speechless...

"Kal-el...look, you can't go around kidnapping the first woman to cross in front of you and ask her to have children with you..."

"you are the chosen one...you're not any woman..." Lois was aware that at some point it seemed a nice compliment...but it wasn't nice that he wanted to do 'it' without her consent...

"It's alright..." Kal-el yanked off Crows' jersey and left poor Lois only in her underwear. He gazed her from head to toe intensely. His grin was genuine...

"this will prove..." and again he turned her back to the mirror. Clark signaled the mark once again.

"yes...nice tattoo, isn't?" she said sarcastically. He never flinched.

"you possess my family's kryptonian mark...they chose you" he hugged her. He was half-naked, she was in her underwear...bad combination...She sighed, took him by the shoulders and sat on the bed, as she put on the jersey again. He kept his eyes on her. She sat beside him, perfectly aware of any risk...

"Listen...I need you to give me some time...I am human and I need some rest" Clark interrupted her again when he stroked a few strands of hair that fell across her forehead. It would be difficult to talk to him. Lana's voice outside the room, made her get up and go look out the window.

"Clark...Clark...are you okay?" Lana asked as she hugged him. He shook her off.

"I came as soon as your Mom told me what had happened" she looked at Lois, and Lois was about to leave the room when Clark stopped her.

"stay..." again he was ordering...Lana looked at her intently. Lois sighed and began to explain without the important details. Clark interrupted...

"who are you?" asked the kryptonian. Lana looked at him in shock...

"I'm Lana...your girlfriend" Clark looked at Lois significantly, then at Lana.

"my girlfriend..."

"Ehhmm...Lana...can I speak a moment with you?" Clark got up and began to follow Lois, but she said 'no' and sat him back down in bed...

"you stay here, ok?" Clark nodded, and both girls left the room.

"Look...I'm not sure what happened...we had to go to a charity ball at Star City and Clark joined us, and then someone attacked us...that's the last thing I remember...when I woke up I was in a hospital in Star City, and Clark was...well...like that" Lana nodded, with insecurity.

"But why he doesn't remember me...?" Lois shrugged.

"the truth is...I don't know...I thought that Smallville was a strange town, but honestly...I begin to believe that its people are not far behind..." Lois smiled. Lana knew that she was not telling her the whole truth.

"why was he half naked?" Lois pursed her lips and sighed slightly.

"maybe it has something to do with the fact that he's behaving strange and...let's say that he feels comfortable with being au natural...that or he has a serious exhibitionist complex..." Lois smiled. Lana could not help but laughing. These days away from Clark had helped her to think and rethink things and her relationship with him...Lana asked Lois to give her time alone with Clark...she nodded...they didn't speak, there were only next to each other...he had nothing to say and she would find time to return the engagement ring...

** THAT SAME DAY...AT NIGHT... **

The dinner passed peacefully. Lois was surprised. Clark Kent was out of the routine with the primary colors, and wore a black shirt and black jeans...Lana asked Martha to let her stay with her aunt a few days, and she accepted...Lana was leaving when she noticed Clark looking at Lois who was accommodating her blankets on the couch to going to sleep...

"goodbye, Clark" she kissed him...nothing, not a look or a response...he was laying his eyes on Lois. Lana was talking about the situation with Martha. Lois asked for one of Clark's shirts, and Mrs. Kent told her to take one of those that were in his son's bedroom...she didn't imagine that Clark was already there...standing in front of the bed, waiting for her...

"I hope you don't mind I take one of your shirts...some of my clothes are in Chloe's pla...ce..." she couldn't form the full sentence, because the good view of Clark taking his shirt off became a potent factor of distraction...

"what are you doing!?" He shrugged and began to unfasten his belt buckle...no...no...noooo...don't do that! Lois tried to get out the room, but collided with the closed door. She tried to open it but realized it was locked... Lana and Martha heard a cry in the room and they ran upstairs.

"Let me out...!" Clark raised an eyebrow and walked over to her. Lois was so nervous that she felt her fingers slipping while trying to remove the lock. One click...finally...
"What happened...?" Martha asked while Lois got out and closed the door behind her...seeing her son in the same room with her, taking off his clothes was not something Martha Kent would have liked to see...

"nothing happened..." and Lois pulled the doorknob when she felt Clark trying to open the door. With his strength, he succeeded...

"Lois will stay with me..." Lois opened her mouth surprised, Martha looked at Lois, then looked at Clark; and Lana looked at Clark. Clark took her by the waist and put her back into the room. He slammed the door in the face at Martha and Lana. After a while Lois went out again.

"don't worry, I know how to handle men with amnesia and high hormonal levels...well...if he tries something...don't get me wrong Mrs. Kent, but I swear that your son won't be able to have children..." Martha nodded very concerned, but she knew Lois was telling the truth. Strangely Lois could control the character and acts of Clark when Kal-el appeared.

"But...but ...!"

"don't worry Lana, nothing's going to happen...as I said before, if he tries to do something...I can take care by myself...and I know he wouldn't do anything" Lana was sure of Lois. She had nothing to reproach to her because at a time when the same Lana Lang had needed someone to talk, Lois had been at her side, supporting her...Lana was gone, and Martha went to her room. The house was quiet. Clark was in bed, covered with blankets and staring at Lois, waiting for her to go to bed with him. Sleeping on the floor suddenly seemed reasonable...Clark stood up, picked her up and laid her in bed...

"Kal-el..." She said weakly when he began to unbutton her shirt.

"hmmm..."

"Remember the conversation we had this evening?" He nodded, as he kissed her neck.

"ok...because now...I need to rest" she left him and went under the covers. He did the same. Clark held her possessive stroking her hair, and alternating this with caresses to the female legs. This would be a long night...