"That's the same thing it did in my dream!"

"What?"

"It happened almost exactly like that! We put both our hands on the medallion and it…it"

"What were we doing? Arguing, Fighting?"

"No…we…we were…" and then she did it. She grabbed his neck and pulled his mouth to hers. Suddenly he forgot all about the medallion. But she didn't, she held it firmly in her left hand as she proceeded to surrender to the emotions that where overwhelming her.

"Marriage or not…I'll have my honeymoon!"

She pulled him to her anxiously so that he was straddling her, and then anxiously pulled his coat off his arms and throw it behind them both. His hands propped himself up on both sides of her shoulders and when he moved his leg to get a better position, that's when she felt the pain hit her like a sledge hammer. He knew it the moment it did, her felt her cries inside his mouth as she reluctantly pushed on him to move.

He jumped over to her side quickly and began apologizing.

"Lois, I'm sorry…are you okay?"

"No. I'm not okay…this is seriously cramping my style!"

She laid her head back in defeat. "God! Can this get any worse?"

It took one second for things to get worse.

A swarm of dark bird like creatures began swarming around Clark. He reached for the medallion but was thrown back at least thirty feet away from the small lean too. Lois jumped up in pain and threw the nearest thing at them, to no avail. Clark leapt forward and they attacked him.

Clawing and tear at his flesh, Lois screamed and he shouted at her "The medallion…let me have the…"

She put herself between him and the creatures and thrust the medallion in his hand. He thrust it at the creatures and they disintegrated. He fell back and closed his eyes. Blood was gushing from his chest and face. Now it was her turn too tend to his wounds.

She took his torn shirt off of him and poured water on his wounds. "God, this looks bad!" she worried aloud.

"It's fine, I just need to get in the sun."

"What? Are you delirious? And in case you haven't noticed…there is no sun!"

"Never mind..."

"We need to find a better place to hide out until we get out of here." Lois picked up the map and handed it to him. "I don't understand how you manage to keep surprising me…but I'm hoping you can keep it up just a little longer."

"That makes two of us!"

He took several minutes looking at the map, and then looking at her pacing clumsily in the small hut. He saw where they could go, but it would delay getting back by several hours, maybe even a day.

"Here…it's a cave….it should provide better protection."

"How can you be so sure?"

"Because, I recognize the symbol on it." It was an S in a diamond, and another symbol for health. He was hoping it would help speed the healing on Lois leg…if that was even possible. In this strange land…anything was possible.

"Right, because that explains everything!"

"Lois, just trust me…please."

"Fine, but one of these days, you are going to have to explain something to me!"

"Here." He threw one of the strange robes to her. We need to fit in. then he handed her a knife. He kept the medallion. He put on another robe.

"Don't we just look like the happy mar…." she stopped, she almost said the happy married couple.

"What?"

Embarrassed, she replied quickly "Nothing, never mind!" and started out ahead of him.

"Slow down Lois! You supposed to be following me!"

"Well then lead Dammit!" And she held her arm out point at the bare terrain in front of them.

He put his arm around her waist in attempt to help her, but she gently pushed him away.

"I'm fine Clark…"

And then she stumbled. He of course caught her. She pulled herself back up and gave him a glare as she leaned on him for support. He shot back a disapproving look.

"One minute she nice and the next she so mad. What did I do?" Clark wasn't sure at all if she was giving in to him or just giving in to her fears. He wished it was him, but he was afraid it was her fears getting the better of her. Either way, he wasn't going to let her down.

"How far is this cave?"

"At least three hours away…"

"Three hours?"

"I can carry you when you get tired…"

She looked him with her mouth hanging open and shaking her head she very firmly said…

"Don't you dare!"

It was going to be along journey