Author's Notes: It's about time I updated this. I've been juggling a few stories here and there, and I thank you for putting up with it. I needed to get this chapter out of the way before I start throwing in the big guns.

Later in the afternoon

After lunch, Lois and Clark headed out in one direction while Bruce and Rachel went off in another. Lois, who is now half-drenched, tightened Clark's jacket around herself.

"You know, you still haven't told me what you and Rachel were talking about in the bathroom?" Clark asks, trying to fish for information. He and Bruce were more than a little curious to know what went on in there.

"I can't"

"But I'm your boyfriend," Clark argued.

"I know, but I can't"

"Why not?"

"It's this unspoken rule among girlfriends," she explained in the simplest of terms, but Clark wasn't buying it.

"You can't tell me anything?"

She shook her head. "Nope"

"What if it's a matter of life and death?"

"Call the police," she answers lightly.

Clark grins. "That's cold." He pulls her in and lays a kiss on her forehead. "I was thinking – maybe – we could take a vacation"

"Clark," she says dragging his name out. "Not to burst your bubble, but I think it's safe to say that we're already on vacation"

Clark narrowed his eyes up into the sky, the sight of various tall buildings in his view. "I was thinking more in line of blue skies, warm weather, sandy beach and an ocean we can skinny dip in," he shares with her intimately.

"Hmm." She wrapped her arms around his neck, enjoying the thought. "That's not such a bad vacation." She kisses him on the lips. "But haven't we done that already?" she asks with a smirk, recalling their earlier tryst several months ago.

Lois had a point and Clark blushed at the memory.

"Come on," he takes her hand and leads her across the street, at the edge of Gotham Park. "It's beautiful out, let's take a shortcut"

"Do you even know where you're going?"

"No"

No matter how in love she was with him, she had to let out a groan. "I don't want to get lost," she complained.

"It's a park," he reminded her, like it was the most easiest and obvious thing in the world to maneuver.

"So is Central Park, and I got lost there twice," she scoffed. "That place should really come with a topographic map"

Clark laughed. "It's not that bad." He lifted her up and carried her in his arms. "See – You won't get lost," he showed her, confident in his directional abilities.

"Of course I won't get lost," she agreed but then added, "I've got you to do that for me"

"Oh really," he says mischievously. Lois caught that look and found herself in her own mischievous territory.

"What are you thinking?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," he answers with a wide grin. Clark looks past her shoulder and Lois follows suit. Oh no, he wouldn't, Lois thought.

"Don't you dare?"

Clark walked closer to the pond that was less than twenty feet from the two of them.

"Honey, you're already wet"

"All the more reason why you should put me down now"

Clark hurried forward. "Okay"

"NO!" Clark stopped and she slapped him playfully on the shoulder. "I meant put me down here, not over there." She pointed to the pond.

Clark couldn't help but laugh at how he finally had Lois where he wanted her. As he succumbed to her hypnotic green eyes that beckoned for him to put her down. When he did, Lois swept him down with her right back leg, Clark falling on his back to the grass and Lois right on top of him.

"This is 'much' better," she says with a devilish smile.

She brushed her lips light against his before Clark took the initiative and dived towards her. Their mouths crashing together and emotions exploding. They were like that for several minutes until a man on horseback interrupted their moment on bliss.

"Excuse me"

Lois and Clark look up from their um… position.

"Hi!" Clark squeaked and Lois got up fixing her disheveled hair. They looked at the man saddled up on a horse with his bright shiny police badge sparkling from the nearly banished sunlight.

"We were just…"

Clark tries to help. "Doing…" he wasn't doing too well on the help part.

"Stuff"

"CPR stuff," Clark repeated differently.

Lois rolled her eyes, but then immediately chuckled at the thought. Clark glared at her for not helping the situation much.

"On your own time, please or I'll be forced to cite you with…" Lois cut him off before he could finish that thought.

"Totally understand officer." She pulled on Clark's arm. "We'll be on our way." They walked awkwardly away from the officer and by the time they were a good a ways clear from him, the two broke out in small fits of laughter.

"I can't believe you got us caught like that"

"Me!" Clark was astonished and amused. "You started it!"

She ignored the accusation with a shrug. "All I did was wrestle you to the ground"

"Seduced was more like it"

Lois grabbed him by the collar and pulled him in again for another kiss. One, so she could shut him up and two, because its been entirely too long since they've really been this intimate with one another.

"You're very controlling," he mused in between kisses.

"Don't tell me you don't like it"

"Na-uh," he says, enjoying the feel of her against him. "Whew!" he says amazed at how she makes him feel. "We should really get going"

She breathed out. "If you insist"

Clark put his arm around her as they walked back towards her Uncle Luke's place. On the way there, they shared stories, jokes and kisses. When they made it back, they climbed the steps with a happiness that you only see with couples that are in love.

By the time they reached the top, they shared another long kiss only to be witnessed by the last person they expected.

"Hey guys"

Lois and Clark break apart as fast as they did when the officer caught them.

"Chloe," they both say in unison.

To be continued…