Alrighty so most people should have seen it coming. It feels like that was a good wrap up for the beginning portion of this story. Now onto the next portion. Stay safe.
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Atlanta Georgia, Highland Square
Clark opened his slowly only to see a tuff of blonde hair sprawled over him. He had been awoken by the sounds of grace waking and demanding attention. He turned his hide to the side expecting to see her right next to then in her crib, but quickly remembered everything that happened last night and how they ended up knocked out on the couch after a night of fun together. Clark placed a kiss on Alicia's forehead before carefully removing himself from the couch so she could continue to sleep while he checked on Grace.
He quickly put some clothes on while heading over to Grace's crib. Grace had been flailing her arms in his direction as soon as he entered the room babbling happily to him. Clark picked her up and gave her a couple of light kisses as he said, "Good morning to you too sweetie. Let's get you changed." Clark changed her diaper while making very clear one-sided talks to her.
Once he finished cleaning up, he decided to brush his teeth with one hand using the other to carry Grace. They made their way to kitchen where Clark started getting Grace's bottle and purées ready. He sat them both down at the table and began feeding her. It was around halfway through Grace's bottle that Alicia started to stir and slowly got up to look around when she spotted them both at the table and sent a smile towards him. Clark also sent a grin before pointing down which caused her to follow and look down to which she realized why it had felt so cold before giving a small "Eep" and quickly making her way to the bedroom for some clothes.
Clark figured she was probably going through her morning routine, so after he finished feeding Grace, he sat her in her high chair and moved it closer to him in the kitchen then began making breakfast for himself and Alicia.
Alicia came up behind him and wrapped her arms around him giving him a quick kiss as he turned to her. Clark couldn't help but comment, "So I get breakfast and a show I think you spoil me too much at times." Alicia gave a playful swat to his chest before saying, "You had to ruin the moment. Also, that show is meant only for your eyes, so if you could give me a little warning next time so Grace doesn't have to see us." Clark gave her a smirk before turning fully around and giving her much longer and deeper kiss then saying, "Alright I'm sorry I will make sure to inform of it next time it happens. I made a full English breakfast and it should be ready in about another five minutes." Alicia let go her wrap around him and headed over to Grace while he finished up.
About halfway through the meal and of the going through the plans for the day Alicia asked, "If Jimmy would have survived do you think him and Chloe would have lived happily ever after?" Clark slightly taken off from the question before answering, "I think so I mean Chloe did say that after all that once they had a little bit more normalcy in their lives she wanted to start a family." Alicia nodded her head saying, "I figured as much which brings to question was his death set in stone?" Clark raised an eyebrow at this to which she responded, "Remember what Grace said when she first came to us Chloe was with her uncle Ollie and they had a child she had never heard of or met Jimmy I would presume meant he died as even if things didn't work out I imagine they wouldn't at least try and stay friends. We are already changing things from the future which it will be different but there are certain events which are fixed I guess which leads me to believe that Chloe and Oliver will ended building their own bond through this." Clark just looked at her stumped and unsure of how to answer that. Eventually Clark nodded his head in acknowledgment of what she said having some level truth to it.
After they both finished eating Clark got ready to head over to the hospital to check up with Chloe and Oliver while Alicia did the last minute checks on everything for move. Clark picked up grace and gave her a kiss on her forehead saying, "Now you be good for your mother, okay." Clark placed her back and made his way to Alicia giving her a quick kiss on the cheek before saying "I should be back in about an hour or two then we can start moving down to Florida." Alicia gave him a quick wave as he left saying "Bye. I hope everything goes well." She locked the door behind him and made her way to Grace
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Metropolis, Metropolis Hospital
Clark made his way to Chloe's room where he saw Oliver already waiting with her as a nurse was asking her some questions. He finally came in once the nurse was finished and started to leave.
As he took his seat next to Oliver and Chloe, he passed a coffee from Oliver and gave a quick "Thanks." They sat there for around twenty seconds in silence before Oliver spoke up, "So I made a couple of calls to see if I could find anything on where Lois is, but as of right now they have come up with nothing." Clark nodded his head before adding, "I planned to check out The Daily Planet later tonight hopefully while no one is there to see if maybe she was following a dangerous story or lead. Hopefully, I'll find something that can lead us to her." Chloe kept her head down the entire time not giving a response to either of them.
They sat there for about a minute before Clark finally asked, "So how are you holding up?" This seemed to be the wrong thing to say as Chloe immediately leveled a glare before saying in a strained and teeth gritted voice, "How am I holding up? Well let's see I had to deal with a literal monster straight from hell who wouldn't leave me alone like some lovesick puppy only for me and my husband to barely survive the whole ordeal. The best part though is that even after making it through that what ended up truly breaking was a god damn drunk driver. To just add a cherry on top the person I need now more than ever can't be found, so Clark I am holding up fan freaking tastic!" Clark didn't take her anger to heart as he saw tears trailing down her cheek.
Deciding to give whatever comfort they could the two heroes out of uniform stayed quite as Chloe let her emotions run. It took about five minutes before she finished crying and asked for a tissue which Oliver was happy to help her get. After she finished cleaning up, she turned to them and said, "Sorry for blowing up at you. You guys are just trying to be there for me and thanks for that." Clark took one of her hands in his giving it a squeeze while saying, "We will always be there for you and even though I'm going to be in Florida now I'm only one call away and I know that if I'm having a problem and can't help Oliver will be there in heartbeat." Chloe looked over to Oliver and saw him send her a smile and a nod. They spent the next half hour talking about trying to find Lois and what could have happened to her.
Clark began getting up from his seat as he said, "Alright I'm head back now it's moving day for us, so keep me in the loop on leads to Lois and I'll get back to you guys tomorrow after I check The Daily Planet tonight." They both gave a nod with Chloe replying "I think I need a break from this whole hero life for a while. I'm just going to focus on trying to find Lois and try to readjust my priorities and purpose in life." Both heroes understood the strain this life would bring to people and wouldn't hold anything against her for her decision. Oliver decided to stay back for a little longer while Clark exited her room to head home.
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Atlanta Georgia, Highland Square
Clark stopped right in front of the door quietly opening it and made his way inside. As he came to the living room, he saw a sight that Clark found more beautiful than anything else he had ever scene. Alicia was sleeping peacefully on the couch with Grace also sleeping on top of her chest. Clark felt that since he came back earlier than he had previously said he would let them finish their nap, but not before grabbing the camera to take a picture or two.
Around an hour later Grace began waking up and started to play with her mother's face which in turn woke her up. She turned her head and saw Clark putting a book down and said, "I guess we decided to take a little nap while waiting for you. How did everything go? Chloe doing any better?" Clark walked over to her and picked up grace from on top of her which led to Grace deciding to pull his ear off as a toy. This didn't affect Clark so he let it be and answered, "She is doing about well as anyone could be doing in that situation. I think it will take her some time and hopefully we can find Lois soon so that she can be there as well. Chloe also said she wants to take break from the hero lifestyle which is understandable since she has been helping me since we were still in high school. Now that both of you are awake are, we ready to start moving?" Alicia gave him a nod and a light smile as he wrapped an arm around before speeding them both off.
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Titusville Florida, Dream Space Coast Apartments
Clark put Alicia down at the door to their new apartment where she opened it then took Grace from Clark. Clark checked the spacing again before asking, "I'll bring in the big and heavy stuff like the bed, couch, and dressers and then move to boxes. It should take be a couple minutes get there grab it and come back if you can stand where you want me to place things, so that later we can make adjustments as needed." Alicia gave him a nod saying, "Sure thing."
They spent the next hour and a half going through this process until they completed the move. Once Clark finished and got back, he went to take a shower quickly since he had worked up a sweat while Alicia began opening boxes. Even with Clark's speed it still took a couple of hours to unbox and place everything where they wanted it and before they even knew it, they were getting later into the day with it already past six. They decided to just have Clark go pick a pizza since neither of them felt like cooking that night. As Clark went out to go pick it up Alicia decided to give Grace a bath who still seemed curious about the new location she was at. Alicia was able to get Grace's bath over quickly as she was starting to get used to it and avoiding Grace's attempt to play with the water.
Clark got back with their dinner as Alicia was changing Grace into her one-piece. Alicia saw him and said, "Great, can you watch her while a take shower then we can eat?" Clark grabbed Grace as he said, "Sure thing." They both split up with him heading to the living area with Grace and Alicia heading to the bathroom. Alicia came back from her shower about ten minutes later with her hair wrapped in a towel saying, "Sorry for making you wait, but let's go ahead and eat because I am starving." Clark gave a quick reheat to the pizza with his vision before they dug into it just to make sure it was perfect.
They both sat down on the couch with their slices as Alicia asked, "Did you want to watch a movie or do want to head out as soon your done eating." Clark shook his head as he swallowed and replied back, "No, we can watch a movie since its still pretty earlier and there would probably be people still there, so hopefully by the time we finish the movie it should be late enough. Did you have a specific movie you wanted to watch?" Alicia spent a second to finish chewing then swallowing her bite before answering, "Yeah I was thinking Armageddon, it's around two and half hours long, but I think you will enjoy it." Alicia put the movie in and they both snuggled in together as they watched.
As it finished Clark couldn't help, but comment, "I did enjoy it, and I definitely see the irony of saving the world from an asteroid trying to destroy earth." Alicia let out a yawn before replying, "I'm glad. I think I'm going to head to bed, so try not to be out to late and stay safe please. I'll see you in the morning love you." Clark gave her a quick kiss goodnight before locking up and heading out.
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Metropolis, The Daily Planet
It was almost midnight as Clark made his way into The Daily Planet and started looking through Lois's things. He checked her computer to see if her could find any leads to stories she may have been following that lead to her disappearance. After spending close to an hour there with nothing to show for his efforts he decided there was nothing to learn here at the moment. As he was about to leave, he remembered, 'Oh yeah Alicia said I should put the legion ring somewhere safe, so I should not leave it here where it is open to anyone.' He went to his desk and couldn't find the ring. He kept searching for a couple minutes thinking that he might have misplaced it maybe in a different drawer. At this point Clark was panicking coming to the conclusion that somebody clearly took it, but it wasn't until he started putting the pieces together did, he feel the need to take a seat.
Clark called Oliver and as he picked up, he immediately started, "I think we might have a major problem and I do not know how we are going to fix it." Oliver felt this conversation might be better in person and asked, "Alright how about you head over to my place and we can discuss whatever you found which I can only assume has to do with what you found at The Daily Planet about Lois." Clark answered back, "Okay I'm heading over now." Clark ended the call and made is his way to Oliver to discuss his theory.
