A/N: I know I said this weekend, but I just couldn't wait to post it. I blame my short attention span;) So, here is the last chapter of Threat, enjoy.

"Penny for your thoughts," a familiar voice said behind him.

"You know, I never thought I would be happy to hear your voice," Clark said with a hint of a smile on his face.

"So, you did miss me," she said with a teasing smile.

"Who wouldn't miss you," Clark said as he rolled his eyes and gave her the Kent megawatt smile. "How long are you planning on staying now that the threats are over?"

"Even though the threats might be over once the General gives an assignment, you stick with it," she said with a shrug.

His smile got a little wider, "Does that mean you'll be staying for the whole year?"

"Most likely, but you know if I didn't know any better, I would think you are going to miss me," she said with a challenging gaze.

"Who else will be here to boss me around."

"Well, I'm pretty sure I owe you a pretty big apology." Lois reached into her back pocket and pulled out his little black book. "I really thought there were just drawings of Lana in there. I've seen your obsession for her and I just assumed. I'm sorry," she said sincerely while handing him the book.

"It's okay Lois, I forgive you. Just as long as you promise never to tell Lana and to never tell anyone else I or you know.

"Yeah….umm, we'll see about that…by the way, you're a really great drawler," she said quickly changing the subject. "I have to say they almost looked like photographs of their happiest times. Except one doesn't make sense to me," she said walking towards him.

"Oh really," he asked and then gulped, "What one might that be?"

"Oh, just the drawing of me, all the rest seem so happy. Chloe with her mysterious glint like she was looking for something; Pete with his flirtatious smile, like he knew he was going to get to you; and your parents, like they were the only two people in the world and they loved each other more than anything." She paused for a brief moment and looked towards Clark for any kind of gesture that might explain things. She bit her lip and decided to proceed on, "Then, there was the one of me. I wasn't smiling. I wasn't laughing. I didn't even have any kind of glint in my eye, at least that I could place. Why do you see me like that when you think of my happiest moment?" Clark was looking down as if he was ashamed or too shy to show his face. "It just doesn't make sense to me, that's all."

"Well-umm," he stammered. She smiled a little at his nervous manor. "I don't know. I've seen you smile and laugh when you're around Chloe. But, whenever you're teasing me or just proved yourself right over me, there's this glint in your eye. I could never really place what it was. I just call it Lois," he said slowly looking up with a blush on his cheeks. "You don't have to be smiling for you to be happy. I always see happiness when there's that certain emotion in the eye that no one can explain, or when it's there and no one ever wants to admit it. With you it's when you're teasing," he said with a shrug.

Lois was at a loss for words. She looked at him with a strange expression like he just grew six heads. She just stood there staring at him for a little bit before she took two strides forward and hugged him. She hugged him! This was not the reaction Clark was expecting. He was expecting her to ask questions or to yell at him. But, she hugged him. Clark just smiled and returned the hug. She never ceased to amaze him. "Thank you," she whispered as she slipped out of his arms. "By the way I left something in there for you," she said mysteriously as she winked and left the barn. Clark quickly went over and picked up his black book. He flipped all the way to the last drawing of Lois and lingered on it for a little bit. Then, he flipped one more page. On this page he was surprised to see a face. It was a smiley face with a huge smile on its face. To the side there was a letter written in Lois's chicken scratch.

Dear Smallville,

It's time you start seeing yourself like this and stop worrying about what other people's needs are. You deserve to be just as happy as anyone of us. You deserve to treat yourself sometimes. Quit worrying about what other people might think and go for what you want. You only get to live your life once, so live it up. You walk around brooding and living other people's lives. You always act like you never know who you are or what you will become. As Benjamin N. Cardozo once put it, 'We are what we believe we are.' It's time for you to start believing in who you are. Don't worry about what other people might think. From now on it's all about what you want. No more brooding Smallville.

You're best friend (even if you may never admit it),

Lois Lane

P.S. This wasn't my real surprise. I was rummaging through some old pictures of you and this one made me laugh. I hope it brings the same joy to you. By the way, don't kill me.

Clark looked at the last sentence carefully. What did she mean by don't kill her? He slowly turned the page and was shocked and embarrassed at the picture before him. It was when he was five. He had wanted to try on his mother's dresses and jewelry. Of course she didn't know about it till he pranced down the stairs in her high heels. He remembered her laughing hysterically at him all dressed up in her stuff. He remembered that he had gotten mad that she made fun of him. She apologized and told him that he could be her model. She had her camera out and started snapping pictures. He never thought it would come back and haunt him. Now that Lois knew, he was never going to hear the end of it. He made exasperated sigh and look at what she had wrote to the side. 'This explains so much Smallville.' He could just imagine her laughing at him right now. Well, now he knew two things. One, that payback was going to be sweet. Two, that life with Lois in it was never going to get boring. Well, at least the year he had left with her.

The End..or just the beginning :)

A/N: Thank you all that stayed with me through this story, I really appreciate that. I also want to thank everyone that reviewed this story, that really did keep me writing. I'm thinking about making a sequel, but I'm not sure yet. We'll just have to see where my creative juices take me. I am working on another story, but I'm not going to start posting it until I have finished it. Again, thanks everyone:)