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Trust In Love


"Hey sleepy head! Time for breakfast." Jimmy threw his wet bath towel at the figure sleeping on his couch.

Ethan stirred but did not open his eyes. He came over to Jimmy's from the house looking for beer. Something that Jimmy had in stock, well, not much of after Ethan and he were done. He heard a phone ringing somewhere in the house.

"He's here. I'll take care of everything." he heard Jimmy say. Who was that? Linda? Lucy?

"Yo Ethan! Eggs and bacon on the stove now! Piping hot coffee in the pot. Get up!"

Ethan mumbled something but still continued sleeping. The next thing he knew, he felt his face getting splashed with ice cold water. His shirt was dripping wet. He choked as the water entered his nose.

"Now that I have your attention..." Jimmy said holding a dry towel out to his sopping wet friend and placing the drinking glass on the coffee table.

"Man, I was going to get up in 5 minutes." Ethan complained as he dabbed his face dry.

"Linda is worried sick. Why did you storm out on her like that? That was not cool Ethan." Jimmy stood up and got two TV trays from behind his bookshelf.

Jimmy's apartment looked a lot like Ethan's old pad with the exception that Lucy had declared war on the disarray that existed and set out to organize everything in the house. She was about halfway done at this point and the woman's touch in the place was becoming evident.

"I told you, I was jealous. That Dean is bad news." he got up and headed to the small kitchen to pour himself some coffee.

"Linda is worried sick Ethan. She has called everybody you both know."

"Good. Let her worry."

"Ethan..."

'Maybe Dean can help her find me. She did not even fly after me ! That says a lot about how seriously she is taking this relationship." the jealousy in his voice was quite evident. He picked up the coffee and immediately scalded his tongue.

"Serves you right. " Jimmy replied with sarcasm.

"Whose side are you on?" he asked Jimmy.

"Neither. Look, you have to understand something. Linda is new to everything happening around her. She doesn't know anybody except us. Why deny her the right to make new friends?"

"Dean is jockeying for more than friendship." he stabbed the bacon with his fork to make a sandwich. the meat fell off and he had to stab it a few times before stayed on.

Jimmy set up his own table and sat across from his friend. Wondering what had happened to the Ethan who would give up his life for Linda. He hoped that he would never be that way with Lucy.

"It's bacon Ethan. Don't take your jealousy out on it." Jimmy reminded him as he cracked his sunny side up egg with his slice of bread.

"Ethan, go home. Talk to Linda. This is not the time to zone out. Whatever the problem is, work it out."

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"Linda, are you alright?" Lucy was worried when she arrived at Linda and Ethan's place with the front door unlocked.

Her friend was sitting on the couch looking like she had been crying all night. She had gone downstairs to try and wait up for Ethan as the sun began to come up. It was evident that he was not coming back to the house anytime soon so she got on the phone calling everyone she knew the minute her wrist watch beeped 9 AM. The usual wake up time at the dorm.

Lucy had barely sat down when Linda threw herself crying into the arms of her friend. "He left me Linda. He promised me he would never do that! He said it would always be us could he have lied to me? "

"Wait a minute. Get a hold of yourself girl. Start at the top. What happened? Who left?" Lucy drove out to the house when she heard Linda sobbing and talking incoherently on the phone. No questions were necessary between the two women who considered each other sisters. When one of them needed help, the other would definitely come.

"Ethan. Last night. I came home with Dean after dinner and we were sitting outside talking then Ethan stormed out and punched Dean in the jaw."

"You went out? On a date? With Dean? Are you crazy! You have a boyfriend! to make it worse, you brought Dean back here! " Lucy scolded her.

"Why do you and Ethan keep calling calling it a date? We had dinner, we talked. We are friends. We forgot the time so he took me home because it was late and I wasn't just about to fly off and let him know who I really am. Besides, Clark told me to always bring my friends home. This is my home. I brought my friend home. That was all I did!"

"Linda, at a certain point, you and Ethan will have to sort out this living arrangement. This will get far more complicated in the future. As for Dean, I knew something was wrong when he started calling you Linda Lee at work as if it meant something to him." Lucy recalled. She had her suspicions about Dean trying to strike up a relationship of sorts with Linda but never thought that Linda was actually encouraging it.

"We don't have a relationship!" Linda insisted. She got up from the couch and headed to the kitchen. She poured some orange juice into two glasses and offered one to Lucy who had followed her.

"Did you tell Dean that? Have you told Ethan that? Linda, this is exactly why I did not want you to move in with Ethan." Lucy was just plain exasperated with her friends innocence now.

She knew that Linda would be attracted to other men eventually and she had hoped that she would be able to help her friend learn how to play the field. Instead, Linda got deeper and deeper into a relationship she did not understand.

"He did not want to talk. Get the cheese and butter from the fridge will you please? " Linda answered. She put the glass down and brought out the loaf bread from the bread box.

"Do you know where he is right now? We should go to him. You two need to straighten this out." Lucy suggested as she opened the fridge.

A thought suddenly occurred to Lucy, "Why didn't you fly after him?"

"The way he looked at me last night, the anger and hurt in his eyes... somehow I knew that the last person he wanted to see or talk to was Kara." she replied as she continued to fix their cheese sandwiches.

They were halfway through their breakfast when Linda's super hearing heard the approaching roar of Ethan's motorcycle. "He's here."

He entered through the kitchen door and saw the two women finishing up their meal. "Hey Lucy! Think you can give us some privacy after you finish?"

"No problem. I was just leaving." Lucy gathered her keys from the table and motioned to Linda to talk to him as she left.

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They sat across from each other at the dining table. Looking deeply into each others eyes, they both knew that somebody had to say the first word but neither of them seemed to want to take the step. Why was it so hard for them to talk to each other now?

"Ethan, I..." Linda began but he held up his hand to interrupt her.

"You did not do anything wrong Linda. I spent the night at Jimmy's and we talked. I understand now. I was wrong. I forgot that you need to make other friends. I forgot that you would not have brought Dean to the house if you did not consider him a friend. He is somebody I should have considered a friend too."

"Why did you hit him Ethan? That was not necessary. I told you, it was an innocent dinner. Between friends."

He sighed and moved his chair closer to her. It was somehow very important for him to see the look in her eyes while he explained himself.

"I'm crazy in love with you Linda. I thought I was losing you."

"Losing me?" the wonder that filled her eyes pained him. He never realized how wrong he was about everything until that very moment.

"I was jealous. Look, who wouldn't be? Dean is a businessman whom everybody in town knows has a chance to go off to the big city and study at some big fancy college. He can be somebody. I am just a gardener. I can't offer you anything else but what I already have. I can't compete."

"Oh Ethan!" she cried as she pulled him closer to her. Hugging him tightly.

"How could you be so insecure? Remember what I told you? Remember who owns this?" she placed his hand over her heart.

"Why couldn't you trust in what we have. When I went back to Argo City, I placed my trust in our love. That you would wait for me and continue to love me even if I was not around to keep you reassured of how I feel for you. Why couldn't you trust in my love for you the same way?" she asked.

"Linda, I am only human. I have thoughts, emotions, and impulses that you won't always understand."

"But I am willing to learn and understand. If you would only talk to me instead of hitting people and storming out, you could teach me about how a relationship works. What you expect of me, how I should act. I could tell you how I feel about things. You scared me last night when you left and said you were not coming back." she answered as he pulled away from her.

"You told me that home is where the heart is. When you left last night and did not come back, I wondered if your heart no longer felt at home here. I thought you were not going to come back to me. You are my home Ethan. My home is always going to be where ever you are. With you I feel safe. I take security in the love you offer me. Your understanding and care is my protection on this strange planet."her voice cracked as she tried to explain to him. But he chose to turn away from her.

He wasn't going to look at her. He was not going to weaken. But his heart won over his mind once more. Within him, he knew that she had a lifetime to learn everything that would make her human.

Clark had warned him about it before giving his blessing to the room mate set up. He thought he could handle it. Clark knew all the human ways. He was practically human since he grew up on Earth. Kara on the other hand, what she knew, all that she knew about life would be useless to her now. She would need help in easing into the norms of her new home planet. She was sure to stumble and fall along the way, but she would learn from it. After all, that is what made everybody human, learning from mistakes. Now he had to prove to Clark and Lois, and anyone else who told Linda that they thought this set up was a mistake or would not work that he was in this with her for the long haul. That was what their love was all about.

Turning once again to face her, he saw her crying like a child. Wiping her eyes and nose with her hands. "You will never lose me Linda."

"Then promise me you will never do that again. Promise me! My heart is at at home only where it knows you will also be. " she was gasping for breath between sobs.

He slowly raised his thumb to her lower lip. Her lips felt soft and supple at his touch. Her stiff and nervous body almost immediately relaxed as he wrapped an arm around her. He began slowly circling her lips with his thumb before touching his lips to her now closed and wet eyelids.

"No more tears my Karalinda. No more tears. This will never happen again."

Instinctively, Linda's own fingers searched for his lips to caress before submitting her own lips to his tears flavored lips.

They let the answering machine answer the ringing phone.

"Kara. It's Kal-El. Pick up the phone." came her cousin's voice over the speaker.

Ethan relaxed his grip to let her go.

"I have to take this." she told him as she let go of him and went to take the call.