Chapter 8 – Crash

A Month Later

Clark walked out of the bathroom holding his suit in one hand and a bar of soap in the other. "So I was thinking…" the blemish just wouldn't go away.

"Hmm," Lois says completely distracted. She was in front of her computer screen, typing up her latest article on Superman and his successful rescue of a power plant that nearly exploded less than six hours ago.

Still trying to scrub it off, Clark continues. "I was thinking we could visit my parents today." He and Lois have been together for a month now and they've kept it relatively low key. Not even their co-workers knew they were together but Lois and Clark knew better that people suspected.

It is a newsroom after all.

In the meantime, Clark wanted to bring Lois back to the farm so they could tell his parents in person that things were getting serious between them.

"Hmm-mm…" typing more lines before she reached the end.

Clark finally gives up. "Lois, this mess won't go away," he complained.

"Use another one." She clicks send. Done.

"There must be something in those chemicals that no detergent, bleach or otherwise, could remove." Clark motioned to the outfit before throwing it on the ground.

Lois twirled her chair and smiled at him.

"You're cute when you're flustered"

Clark huffed while giving her a grin. He picked up his outfit and a thought comes to mind. Maybe his mom would know how to fix it.

Later in the Afternoon

Lois came home and noticed there were bags packed. Clark exited their bedroom wearing his favorite buttoned up red plaid shirt, which actually is one of her favorites too.

"Uhhhh…" Lois begins confusingly. "Are we going somewhere?"

Clark looks at her. "We're going to Smallville," he says, picking up their bags.

Lois raised her eyebrows, and shook her head. Clark glared at her, his voice going deep. "To visit my parents," he sharply reminded her.

Lois's eyes go wide.

"We are!" She had no idea.

"Yes!" he confirmed. "I asked you this morning"

"You did?" But she didn't remember.

He sighed. "I'm tired of hiding, Lois. I want to tell my parents about us," he says with so much love. There's just no way Lois could refuse him.

"We're not hiding." Clark rolled his eyes; his girlfriend can be so stubborn.

"Okay, so maybe I like the fact that I have you all to myself. Sue me"

Smallville, Kansas

Lois and Clark are driving a few miles from the Kent Farm. Lois has been quiet throughout the entire drive, and Clark tried to figure out why.

"Is there something wrong?" he asks, his head moving back and forth from the road.

Lois turns to him. "Huh?" She's been lost in thought since they left Metropolis.

"You've been quiet, Lois. It's unnatural"

She lightly punches him on the arm. "I can be quiet"

"Of course," he agreed. Then he smirked, "When you're asleep"

"You're gonna spend the rest of this weekend alone on the couch, mister"

"I'm serious, Lois. You've been out of it. Do you really not want to tell my parents about us?"

"It's not about that," she assured, combing her fingers through his hair.

"Then what?" Clark was becoming extremely confused. He looks at her. "It's like your mind has been somewhere else all day"

"Clark," she whispered. She looks at the road and her eyes go wide. "CLARK!" she screamed.

He looked back onto the road but it was too late. A semi-truck swerved into their lane and smashed it off the road, flipping their SUV over and into the ditch.

Clark, hanging upside down but physically unharmed, called for Lois.

"Lois. Lois are you all right? Lois?" He turns his head and saw she wasn't responding to his calls. "Lois, baby, talk to me!" He pushed the tightened pieces apart to give them room. "LOIS!" Clark begins to panic.

He's no help to her like this.

Clark focused his strength to tear open his driver's side door so he could get out. "It's okay, honey, I'm here, I'm gonna get you out." There is still no response.

Clark speeded around the vehicle and tore open her passenger door. He cupped her face with his hand.

"Lois," he says, his voice filled with hysteria. "Please, say something." He carefully lifted her out unconscious body out of the wreckage. Her eyes begin to flutter open.

"Lois!" Clark says relieved. "Wake-up, honey. It's me"

"Cl…ark" she tries to speak softly.

"I'm here." He kisser her lips and then her forehead, where a large gash dripped blood by her temple. "Everything is gonna be okay."

Clark felt his whole world falling.

And then he heard another voice. "HELP! SOMEBODY HELP ME!"

Clark looked up and saw the truck driver wedged into his seat, the windshield completely destroyed. He looked down on Lois's battered body.

"I'm not leaving you," he whispers to her selfishly, cradling her in his arms.

"Go," she says faintly.

"No"

"Go…" she forced herself to say.

Tears streamed down Clark's face. He didn't want to let her go. Just this once, he didn't want to leave her side, but with one more 'Go' from her, he couldn't refuse.

He gently laid her head on the ground and spun into his alter-ego.

Superman.

In a matter of seconds, he saves the second victim, his wounds were minimal.

Looking to where he left Lois, he felt something wrong. He super speeds back to her side and x-rayed her. He got frightened when he found her pulse and heart rate weakening.

Superman removed his cape and wrapped it around her, holding her carefully before flying them up into the sky.

"It's gonna be okay, I'm not going to lose you"

He needed to get her help.

Smallville General

"Help her, please." Superman entered the E.R. holding Lois in his arms, his voice pleading. She wasn't getting any better. "I can't help her"

The check-in clerk ordered a stretcher in where Superman reluctantly let's her go.

"Please, save her," he says once more, defeated.

"We'll do everything we can, Superman," the on-call surgeon says.

Save her.

To be continued…