Author's Notes: I had to get out of first person point-of-view in this chapter for good reason and I don't know if I'm going to stop it for good.

Metamorphosis – Chapter 34

"What?"

Lois is angered by her father's meddling. He disappears for months on end, and when he returns, he expects her to be the exact same person he left months ago. Something about his actions wasn't sitting well with her.

"I don't want you to unpack. A helicopter will be landing on the roof in ten minutes. I want you on that plane, no questions asked," said Sam Lane in his command voice.

"Dad?" Lois tried to get a word in but her father refuses to listen to her pleas.

"Lo. For once, do as I ask"

Lois could hear the panic in his voice. Something else is happening; she could feel it in her gut. Something has her father scared, and not a lot of things can scare him, so whatever it is, it's making her worry too.

Suddenly, two of his subordinates enter the apartment to grab her bags.

"Dad, please…"

"I'm sorry, Lo"

Suddenly, as she's being ushered towards the elevator, only one face came into her mind. 'To hell with this,' she uttered softly, elbowing one soldier in the face and punching the other with her left hand balled into a fist. She shoves them away and rushes to the staircase, she could barely hear the soldier's calling for her to stop until she continued to run down the steps as fast as she could.

She needed to see him, and she wasn't about to do it with a phone call, a telegram or an email.

Lois quickly hailed a cab. "Metropolis University. And step on it," she ordered the cab driver.

Less than ten minutes later, in his dorm room, Clark is feverishly concentrating on his current assignment, straining often to think of his girlfriend. Instead of working on economics paper and how it contributes to changes in social society, he finds himself planning their next trip together.

All of the sudden, his super hearing picks up rapid footsteps coming from outside. Clark quickly leaves his desk to see what's going on but before I could reach the door, it bursts open and Lois appeared, throwing her arms around him as if clinging for life.

"Hey. Are you okay?" he felt her arms tighten around him. "Shh… it's okay, I'm here. What happened"

"I don't know," he faintly heard her say, and she said it right besides his ear.

Clark grows worried.

"Get me out of here, please," she says, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. Clark nods and doesn't press any further. Lois's eyes divert to his window and Clark follows her lead. There were men dressed in military BDU's. Lois looks back to Clark. "Now would be good"

Clark quickly leads them away, and once the coast was clear, they took off.

Clark had been lucky that it had been dark outside or else people would've seen them taking off from campus. They land at a Motel 6 just outside of Metropolis. Clark is still left confused by the events that have happened in the last few minutes.

Immediately, they pay for a room in cash.

"All right, can you tell me now what's happening? Who were those guys?"

"I don't know," Lois answered with uncertainty. "I went to meet my dad, and suddenly he ordered me to leave Metropolis"

"What?" Clark says in disbelief.

"And I couldn't leave," her voice broke slightly. "I couldn't leave… without… saying goodbye to you first"

Clark shook his head, not wanting to hear it.

"I can protect you"

"I know you can," she says softly. "But see, when the General tells me to pack, it isn't without good reason." A pause… "And whatever it is, it's serious and I can't have that around you. If you even give them a single reason to investigate you… Clark, this isn't Lionel or Lex Luthor," she tries in an attempt to make him understand. "This is the U.S. government"

"I don't care, I've handled worse"

"You should," she says in a tone that showed she wasn't by all means joking around.

"I can take you away from all this until it blows over. You don't have to do this alone," Clark expressed with all the emotion he could muster up. Just when things are so perfect, she had to leave.

"It's not about doing it alone, it's about doing what's best," she rationalized.

"Well, what's best isn't good enough," Clark returned angrily. "I love…"

Lois stops him from saying it. "Please don't."

"No, I want to say it. I love…" Lois stops him once more by pulling him in, his lips crashing against hers with electricity they hadn't known was there until they crossed that line. Everything around them seemed to fade into a blur of colors. "Make love to me, Clark"

Their kisses were fast, urgent, full of need and passion that's long been held between them like fireworks ready to explode.

He pushes her lightly against the wall, his hands exploring every bit of her upper body while hers maneuver their way from his neck, down his torso and to the buckles of his pants.

"Lois," he whispered, his breathing ragged.

"Don't." She kissed him deeper, more intense. All thoughts quickly faded from his mind and all he could think about is her.

Clark lifted her against the wall and moved to the bed nearby, still kissing her. The night wouldn't end there.

Lois woke up a couple of hours after and spent a brief moment just watching Clark sleep peacefully besides her. What she wouldn't do to experience this every day she opened her eyes. With his arms tightly wrapped her hear waist, she carefully removed herself from his embrace.

The sudden coldness in the air almost forced her to take her place back by Clark's side but she resisted.

She quietly searched for her clothes all over the room, and before she leaves, she takes one last look at the man that won heart.

"I love you," she whispered softly in his sleep, kissing him once more on the lips before leaving.

One Year Later

In Smallville, Kansas, Lois Lane finds herself in the Kawatche Caves, staring at each mark and committing it to memory for no particular reason. This place is a part of Clark and she felt an overwhelming need to be there just to be close to him in some way.

"Hello? Lois?"

Lois let out a weak smile and turned away from the cave paintings to stare in the eyes of the other woman in Clark Kent's life.

His mother.

"Hi, Mrs. Kent," said Lois, swallowing hard. Before she can say anything further, the older woman enveloped her in a big hug and Lois finds herself cherishing the moment as much as possible.

"How are you?" Martha asks, holding Lois's face in her hands.

Lois smiled weakly.

A lot has happened.

To be continued…