Part Fourteen of The Beginning of the End

Clark got out of bed. He dressed. He went into the kitchen to make some eggs. He danced around the room with a spatula in his hand.

He was no longer technically a virgin.

Drawn by the smell of cooking albumen, Lois found Clark spinning around the room, careening madly from one side to the other.

She smirked. Yeah, she was that good. "Hey, Smallville," she said, then realized that she'd have to re-think the nickname. There was nothing small about Clark. "Super" was definitely the correct term.

Clark stopped spinning. "Lois!" He was at her side in a millisecond, grabbing her, kissing her. When he stopped, his grin was huge. "I'm so happy."

She patted his cheek. "Of course you are, Clark." She was, too, but it was far too early in the morning to show it.

She did emit a squeak, though, when he picked her up, flew them over to the balcony, then up into the sky. Suddenly, it hit her: she was in love with the greatest American hero that ever lived, and he loved her back. She was filled with wonder as they soared over Metropolis. "Look what's happened to me," she said as they passed above LexCorp. "I can't believe it myself. Suddenly I'm upon top of the world; it should have been somebody else."

Clark laughed. "Believe it or not, we're walking on air." He looked at her fondly as he executed a stunning dive that would leave her breathless and laughing. "I never thought I could feel so free."

"We're flying away on a wing and a prayer," she marveled.

Down below, a pedestrian pointed up to the pajama clad couple soaring through the sky. "Who could it be?" he asked the person next to him.

Clark's supersensitive ears heard him, and he replied, "Believe it or not, it's just me."

Lois was ignorant of the pedestrian's question, and didn't know what the hell he was talking about. But she let it slide, and commented, "It's like the light of a new day, coming from out of the blue. It's breaking me out of the spell I was in, making all of my wishes come true."

Well, not all of them; her wish to have a nice, uninterrupted day with Clark in bed was dashed by the JL beeper.

"Aw, shucks," Clark said. He pressed a button, heard J'onn's voice announcing:

Superman, we need your help! Diana and Batman have been captured by villains!

"Which villain?" Clark wondered. After all, Batman could handle almost any villain by himself, and with Diana by his side, they could take out at least ten. Maybe more, if Batman had any preparation time.

Well…all of them, I think.