Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews, this is sort of a Lois centric drabble chapter. I hope u like. Then the next chapter will be about the wedding of Lois and Clark. The chapter after next hopefully will be about the twins, Casey and Kyle and perhaps Lois and Clark's afternoon getaway to Mexico.

Chapter 2

Lois stood there long after they were out of sight, her mind going back to the day that fate had decided to bring them together again.

It was less than seventeen years ago to the day that Clark Kent had come back into her life, after having not seen him in four years.

Lois had been working as a reporter for the Daily Planet for two years. Then one day out of the blue the door to her office swung open and her editor Perry White walked in with a tall man behind him. Lois didn't really look at the man with Perry.

"I'm almost done with my story." She stated still typing away on her laptop.

"You'd better be. You know when the deadline is. I would like you to meet the new reporter on the block.

Lois tried not to scowl as she stopped typing and looked up really noticing Perry's companion.

"This is–"

"Smallville!" Lois shrieked getting up from her chair.

She threw her arms around Clark she hadn't seen him in years.

"Hey Lois." Clark said.

She could tell by the tone of his voice that he was blushing.

"You two know each other? Good. You'll both be covering the same beat–"

"What a minute I am the only reporter on this beat?" Lois said.

"You know as well as I do that I've been looking for someone to take over since Mike went back to Crenshaw." Perry said.

"But Mr. White." Lois had tried to whine.

"No buts Ms. Lane. Clark has impeccable spelling and accredited degree in journalism and he is one of the fastest typists in the world." Perry said walking from the room.

Would that man always let it hang over her head that her degree wasn't legit?

Lois sighed and took in how much Clark had changed he had traded in his flannel for a black suit and tie and he wore the cutest glasses.

He might have stood the chance of turning her head if it weren't for Superman his alter ego.

Superman who had many times after that day saved her from the ridiculous situations she had gotten herself into.

She had been very attracted to the caped vigilante that was not even human. And yet she had a lot of fun with Clark and she was very content around him even if they weren't off on some romantic fly around the city.

She spent most of her time covering stories with Clark and pining for Superman.

If she'd only known earlier that the two men were one and the same and they were both infatuated with her. It took her an extremely long time to put everything together to gather the clues.

Clark was never around at the same time as Superman. And sometimes it seemed Clark was deliberately trying to be a dork, he had been much cooler when she knew him from before.

She damned herself knowing her cousin would have figured the whole thing out long before she had.

They were covering a big story in the heart of Los Angeles when she decided to confront him. They'd been working together for two years it was about damn time, in Lois's opinion.

"Clark, we need to talk." Lois stated firmly.

Clark looked up from his coffee.

"Okay…" He seemed to let the word dangle forever.

Lois was suddenly nervous, she didn't get nervous unless someone was trying to kill her.

"Why do you wear those glasses?" She asked.

That hadn't been her original opening question but it would surely do, now that it was out there she couldn't take it back.

"I mean why don't you, you know get contacts?"

"I don't know I guess I'm old fashioned." Clark blushed.

Lois couldn't take it anymore.

"I know your secret," She blurted.

"What?" Clark asked effectively spilling the scalding coffee all over his arm.

Lois grabbed her napkin and quickly started to dab him with it, the hot coffee didn't seem to bother him much, the fake yelp of pain was so obvious.

"We'd better go back to the hotel and talk about how that didn't really hurt you." Lois said simply.

Clark sighed resignedly, "Alright, I'll tell you the whole story again."

"What do you mean again!" Lois demanded.

Clark blushed, "Well this one time–"

"I don't even wanna know!" Lois shrieked.

"But you knew." Clark said.

"What?"

"You weren't ready so I–"

Lois threw some money down on the table, "I need to know everything now." Lois said standing up.

Clark threw down some extra money for the waitress and followed Lois as she stalked out of the café.

Once they had gotten back to their hotel rooms. Lois locked the door and closed the curtains, "Okay Smallville, spill it." She said.

She hadn't called him Smallville since they started working together at the Daily Planet Perry said it wasn't professional.

"As you might have figured out I am Superman." Clark revealed pushing his glasses up on his nose.

Lois sighed and reached up taking them off completely.

"Yeah I think I got that part. Why did you lie to me?"

"When you first found out there was this whole thing, and Lex and then I got my powers back and you were stressing it's all very complicated."

"I see. No actually don't see. Why did you make me forget?"

"You weren't ready to know, you were stressing way worse than you are now." Clark told her.

"How did you make me forget?"

Clark blushed, "I–I kissed you," he stuttered.

"So you're gonna kiss me again and make me forget or are you going to let me remember this time?" She asked.

"I still don't get this." Lois said rubbing her temples.

"I'm gonna take you somewhere. We've been there before but this time I'm really hoping you'll get to remember everything, it was hard for me to know about the night we spent together when you didn't." Clark said.

Lois was totally floored, "We spent the night together, spent the night together?"

Blushing Clark nodded.

"Was I any good?" Lois asked.

Clark rolled his eyes, "I really like you Lois. But I don't think we can be together."

Lois was more than disappointed by that, hell, she was pissed.

"How come?"

"Well, I'm not exactly human and you're 100 human. We can't exactly–we can't do a lot of things normal couples do."

"Oh? You're not equipped to consummate with a human female?"

"Actually, you are not equipped to consummate with a Kryptoian male."

"How'd we do it before?"

"I gave up my powers."

"I let you do that? What you do is important what if something happened–I couldn't take it if a lot of people got hurt because you gave up your powers just to be with me."

"You didn't want me to. But I did, I did it for you Lois." Clark said.

Lois wanted to cry, none of her other boyfriends would even give up their Monday night football, and Clark gave up his powers his destiny for her.

"You wanted to be with me that much?" She said trying to stave off the tears that were threatening to fall.

"I still want to be with you Lois."

"Okay question, if I kiss you right now will I forget everything again?" She asked.

"No," Clark said before he could get the word out Lois had threw her arms around his neck and pulled him into a kiss.

She finally had to break it off she needed to breathe though she was sure Clark could have kept it up much longer.

Looking up into his eyes, "I want to be with you Clark. I just didn't know it. I want all of you. I want the regular Clark Kent and I want the Superman. What do I have to do to make this work?" Lois asked.

"I don't know, let me change and we can find out." Clark said.

He moved away from her and went into the bathroom. He was a blue and red blur when he emerged in full Superman gear.

"Wow." Lois said.

She knew that Clark Kent was Superman it was another thing all together to actually see it.

"You ready?" he asked.

She nodded.

He took her hand and led her over to the balcony.

With shaking hands she opened the sliding glass door.

"Well, off we go." Clark/Superman grabbed her by the waist and they zoomed up and across the sky.

The view was spectacular, but Lois already knew this from her other fly along with Superman.

Finally, Superman flew them inside of an amazing ice cave, Lois got the strange feeling she'd been there before.

"This is my other fortress of solitude," he explained setting her down.

"Nice, did you make this yourself."

"Well, after my dad died I found this crystal, and I came to this place and it made the fortress." Clark explained.

"Oh," Lois said.

"Lois do you think you can hang out here for a few minutes, I've gotta go stop a mudslide." He said.

"Yeah sure."

As soon as he was gone Lois started fiddling with the crystals, and then a hologram of a woman appeared.

She had jet black hair and blue eyes, she looked an awful lot like Clark.

Then the hologram started to talk.

But Lois didn't have time for this.

Clark had given her haphazard explanation of the holograms.

If she really wanted to get through to the Kryptoians to let them know she was going to be with Clark-Kal-el- Superman, which ever name he was going by at the moment. And she needed their help to do it.

The best place to make her presence know was at the caves. It was where a lot of freaky stuff happened in Smallville.

The only problem was getting there. She was presently in the middle of the Artic. She would just have to wait until Superman returned.

He flew up not five minutes later. He didn't even look muddy.

"Thought you had a mudslide to stop?"

"I stopped it."

"How come you're not muddy?" she asked.

"I went and cleaned up a bit." He told her.

"Okay, um… can we go to the Kawatchea caves? It'll take like a second. I wanna have a little talk with your people." Lois said.

He eyed her warily, "What are you gonna do Lois?"

"You'll see giddy up Smallville. Let's fly."