Chapter Five

"I…" Jimmy began before he shook his head, he turned to Lois who was continuing to stare at him. "I guess nothing, Chief," he said before continuing to eye Lois who was watching him. Her expression seemed to convince him that there was something else going on here. At the same time though, he wasn't sure whether he should get involved or not. Lois was a tough girl. Even if this man had adopted some of Clark's mannerisms it didn't mean Lois wasn't aware of being scammed.

"Have you seen Chris though?" Lois asked before hearing something from behind her and she turned around with a soft smile. How Jimmy had come to such an accurate conclusion, she wasn't sure.

"Sorry," Chris said as he looked between them, "I wanted to get some water."

"That's all right," Perry said before looking at Lois's desk. He moved some papers around, tidying them as the top female reporter watched them. "As I was saying to Lois, we do have an opening. Of course, not anything exciting. Getting coffee, doing copies, that ki-"

"Fixing broken items," Jimmy said and Perry nodded.

"As time goes though and if you show real talent and potential, you could become like Jimmy here," he gestured, "go up the ranks. We had one heck of a great reporter in Kent and that's not focusing on what I want to go his extra curriculars. We can test you out since Lois recommended you."

"I recommend you too, by the way," Cat purred and Lois gave her a warning shot. "Come on, we all know that you're not moving on from your deceased husband," the gossip columnist told her. "I mean, he really was a super man in other ways than his abilities."

"I know that he was…he was an amazing man, the best," Lois argued and saw Jimmy frown. Lois had to imagine that in Jimmy's head he was feeling that she was getting tricked by someone who was interested in taking Clark's place in her life. He couldn't know the truth, it was impossible. "However, Clark would have wanted me to move on and be happy. He would have wanted Johnathan to be happy and protected and it seems unbelievable that even he would be able to come back to life."

Perry stood there with a sad smile as his eyes went to where Clark's desk used to be, now being used by somebody else. "Well, uh, let's go talk about that job," he said as he turned to Chris and Lois gave a sigh of relief. For some reason, Jimmy was still studying her, she had to believe that he was doing that out of concern for her. It seemed impossible that he would know the truth.

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Clark looked down at Johnathan as he held the little boy in his arms. Johnathan had his arms wrapped around his neck and had his cheek pressed to his shoulder. It was amazing to hold him again. Despite spending most of the time since the last time he had been with his family in recovery, he had felt such a craving for this.

"Are you okay?" Lois asked as she studied him. She saw him come and sit down on a chair near her and she studied him. There was so much of the old him behind the physical appearance. His change in appearance definitely wasn't a deal breaker. In fact, she was getting accustomed to it already.

"I'm fine," he said before sighing as he heard something, someone about to jump off of a roof. Lois noticed this and took Johnathan out of his arms. She watched him go, wishing that she could think of a better disguise for him to use. Since the world had found out about the connection between Clark Kent and Superman, people were looking at others more carefully and there would definitely be people scrutinizing him.

She knew he wouldn't be long and sat down, holding the little boy on her lap. He was so much like his father and that had become a comfort to her. She always had a little part of Clark with her. Now she had so much more. Hearing a knock on the door, Lois hoisted the little boy up to her shoulder and he giggled loudly as she kissed his cheek.

"Who do you think that is?" Lois asked before going to the door. She took a step back and opened it before staring at the woman on the other side in surprise. "Lucy?" she asked as she saw her sister standing there. She appeared in despair and Lois knew she had no other choice but to let her in. "What is it?" she asked as she took a step to the side, "What's wrong?"

"Darren broke up with me," Lucy said as she felt the tears in her eyes. Lois watched her feeling terrible but she wasn't sure whether this was the place she should be.

"Are you sure?" Lois asked before seeing Johnathan start to fall asleep. "I mean, maybe you misheard what he wanted to tell you."

"I was there when he said that he no longer wants to be with me and that he no longer wants to see me," Lucy complained before turning away. "After all that I've put up with recently. I thought that dating someone new, different, would be good for me. It doesn't matter what part of the world they are from, even other cultures won't show you respect. I mean, you did the best thing possible when you married an alien."

"It wasn't that he was an alien that I fell in love with Clark," Lois argued. She didn't want to go into how that statement had hit her in the wrong way, made her feel that there was something wrong with that. She often tried to ignore the idea that Clark wasn't of her species because of the way he had been brought up as a human, the way he looked human, the way he acted as if there was little difference between the two of them. He wasn't some green glowing extraterrestrial.

"Wasn't it?" Lucy asked as she raised an eyebrow.

There was a sound from the back door and Lucy turned to Lois confused before going in the direction that the noise came from. She paused as she saw 'Chris' who had changed back into regular clothes. "You never told me you had anyone here," Lucy said as she stared at her sister in shock. Lois had assured her that she wasn't interested in men other than Clark. To see an unknown male in this house was almost bizarre.

"Yes, I…" Lois began but Clark held his hand out to Lucy, seeing Lois shrug behind her to say that she wasn't expecting for this to happen.

"Hi, Chris Kwon. I recently started at the Planet and Lois, Ms. La-" he said and Lois coughed, her eyes focusing on Lucy. "I mean, Mrs. Kent has been kind enough to let me rent a room whilst I'm getting back on my feet."

Lucy smiled to him, blinking away her tears. "Well, lucky her. You're gorgeous by the way."

Clark took a step back awkwardly as he rubbed his neck. He couldn't just tell her that he and Lois were actually still married – although technically, they weren't – and that he had come back from the dead wanting to be with her.

Lois looked to her younger sister, "Lucy just broke up with her boyfriend," she tried to explain but Lucy placed both hands around Clark's. Of course, she didn't know who he was when he was in this new body. Nobody really would know who he was.

"Which makes me single," she said and Clark looked at Lois very nervously. How were they going to get out of this if Lucy was attracted to him? She was family after all. You couldn't be too harsh to family members.

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Lucy sighed as she sat on the sofa. She had wanted for Lois to offer her either her bedroom or to make Chris surrender the guest bedroom but she hadn't done either of those for her. In fact, Lucy felt a weird vibe as if Lois didn't want to comfort her. She had always helped her before. Even when Lois was off on an assignment, Clark had been there to take care of her and talk to her. He was an amazing brother-in-law despite the fact that he had been lying to the entire world.

She should have suspected more from him. She should have tried to find out his secret and expose him for who he really was. She could have sold that story for a little extra money. However, if she had sold that story then Lois would have never forgiven her. It was too bad that Lucy would never be able to thank Clark for all he had done, not only as the man of steel but as himself as well.

"So, what's the story with him?" Lucy asked as she turned to Lois who tensed with her sister's eyes on her. "I mean, you told me that no man would ever be lucky enough to take Clark Kent's place and here you are with your rebound guy."

"My rebound guy?" Lois coughed as she looked at her in disbelief, "Chris….Mr. Kwon is not my rebound guy. I had Superman. I don't get together with just anyone."

"So, can I have him?" Lucy asked and Lois froze. She put down the scrapbook of all of Clark's old writings that she was looking at. She turned to her sister and raised an eyebrow. She didn't know how to respond but there was something within her that made it so she wanted to bring Lucy down a little bit, let her know that Chris wasn't available to date.

"You can't have him," Lois told her. She looked away, "Didn't you just end things with Darren? I mean, it sounds like you truly loved him." Lois sighed as her fingers gently brushed against a picture of Clark. She smiled again as she looked at the book and then saw Superman's image. She should have known for so long who he was, she shouldn't have been blinded as if she had a silly schoolgirl crush.

"You might not want a rebound guy," Lucy said before sighing, "but I want one. It would only be one time, I could use him to make Darren jealous. I mean -"

"I don't want such a thing to happen," Lois said as she stood. She looked at her sister showing her protectiveness of the new man in her house, the new man in her life. Lois looked up painfully to where both of those important males to her were before she turned to her sister. "I'm sorry. I don't want you talking about them. I'm going to have to ask that you -"

"You're going to have to ask…what?" Lucy said suspiciously and Lois stared at her, her heart beating nervously in her chest but she shook her head. Best to just come out with it.

"That you leave. I hate being the type of person that Daddy was to us but I can't explain it. I don't want you to hurt Clar-Chri-Mr. Kwon," she said as Lucy studied her slip. Was this some kind of Freudian slip so that Lois could enter into a relationship with a younger man without being judged for it. Was she scared that Clark would never forgive her?

"I thought you were into white guys and only white guys," Lucy shrugged as she looked to the left overs from their dinner.

Lois laughed and wiped a few tears from her eyes, "I knew that Clark was a Kryptonian when I married him," she argued. "I'm not bound by someone's genetic makeup. I like companionship, someone who I don't scare off, someone who finds pleasure in being around me."

Lucy shook her head. Lois might not like it but she had to figure out a way to make Chris Kwon fall in love with her.

End of Chapter Five

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