Getting lost in one another's intense gaze was enough to make both of them lose control.
Clark caressed her softly from place to place with kisses preceding it. He feels her tighten and he relished the feelings she can so easily invoke in him.
The water surrounding them in their quiet passion had become calm, hearing only the soft sounds of droplets.
The experience was beyond amazing… and they both gave in.
Ring
Ring
The sudden sound of Clark's cell phone startled him awake. Rubbing his eyes, he was greeted by warm sunlight piercing its way through the half-closed blinds.
Then realization hit him.
Last night.
Could it all been a dream?
His question was answered when he felt another person next to him move slightly.
Not a dream.
Clark turned and was overwhelmed.
A smile broke his way onto his face as he continued to watch her sleep and remembering what had happened between them the night before brought back even more feelings.
Is there really more to them than friendship?
Ring
Ring
The cell phone continued to sound off.
"Uhh…" Lois moaned, barely waking gripping the sheets tighter around her.
Clark grinned, looks like he wasn't the only one disturbed.
He finally picks up his phone. "Hello," he says almost too excitedly.
"Clark! Where have you been? I've been trying to call your cells for hours!" Chloe yelled from the other line.
Clark was dazed for a moment before answering.
"Chloe." He paused, looking back to Lois lying peacefully asleep next to him. "Chloe!" It dawned on him. "Hey, good morning," he added sort of nervously.
"What happened? I was worried," Chloe says.
Clark looked around himself. "We had a minor setback." He got out of bed slowly, his flesh suddenly exposed. He took a deep breath. Last night had definitely been real.
He quickly made his way to the bathroom, Lois' scent still lingered. He cleared his head and shifted his cell to the other ear, cradling it with his shoulder as he quickly put his boxers on. Chloe had said a long string of words he completely missed out on.
"Chloe!" he interrupted. "Where are you?"
"I'm in the lobby, I'll be there in a few minutes"
Clark's eyes go wide, almost tripping to get out of the bathroom. Chloe is here. Oh no. Clark looked around frantic at the mess, memories of last night the reason for it.
He raked through his hair thinking up a game plan. As Chloe began talking again, he looked one more time at Lois to make sure she was still asleep. When she was, he put his cell atop a nearby shelf and went ahead to do some speed cleaning.
Seconds later, he put the phone back to his ear. "Uh huh. Yeah," he mumbled to Chloe still talking. He really had no idea what she was talking about.
He sees Lois stir awake.
"Clark…" she spoke softly.
Clark immediately cut her off by slashing a gesture across his throat. 'Chloe' he mouthed, pointing to the phone. Lois' eyes sprung awake at the implications.
Lois was fast to wrap the bed sheets around her and frantically searched to put her clothes on. As she did so, she was a bit surprised to see the room look so clean.
A few seconds later, with their bearing still in tact, they hear a knock on the door.
Like a boy who had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Clark sprung upright and Lois leads to open the door.
"Hey Chloe!" she greeted forcefully. She knew she was going to hell.
"What's up with you?" Chloe says, noting her cousin's odd behavior. Once she took a look at the room, and the thing in the center of it, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"See!" Clark exclaimed, point to the bed.
Still brushing off the sudden wake-up call, Lois rolled her eyes in amusement. He didn't complain about any of that last night.
"So, Chloe, what's up?" Lois began. The sooner they finish this, the less inclined she is to dwell on it.
"Like I was telling Clark here, I was worried when you two didn't call me last night"
Lois looked at Clark silently asking with her eyes what she was talking about. He only shook his head and shrugging. He had no idea what Chloe had been talking to him about since she called.
"There's a perfectly good reason," Lois quickly explained, pushing particular events from the previous night out of her thoughts.
"A very good reason," Clark jumped in to agree.
"The lights went out"
"And the elevator couldn't move," he added.
"The whole building wasn't working right," Lois gestured to the place.
Chloe sighed. "I know this mission sucks for you two and all, but I expected a better excuse than that," she says a little disappointed.
Lois and Clark's eyes narrow at her words.
"Did you two do anything at all?" Chloe berated.
"Chloe!" Lois was a bit offended, totally forgetting about her and Clark's tryst.
"The power did go out!" Clark says, and as if things couldn't get any worse, he sees a Trojan wrapper behind her left heel.
Clark stiffens.
He turned away from Chloe briefly to signal Lois about another problem.
She couldn't understand a single thing he was trying to communicate with her.
"What's wrong with you two?" Chloe observed. They were both acting more weird than usual.
"What… nothing… it was a rough night," Lois lied, and she didn't like it one bit. "Look Chlo, we're really sorry." They really were. "We'll find something, I promise." Clark backed to the other side and pretended to drop something. He quickly swipes the wrapper off the floor and shoved it in his pocket.
"You won't have to," Chloe says, leaving Lois confused. "Turns out the anonymous tip gave me the wrong hotel. The paper already has someone over there. I'm a complete bust!" she adds, slumping down on the bed.
Lois sympathizes. "I'm sorry," and held her cousin in a hug.
"This seemed so much easier in high school," Chloe admitted.
"Just give it time," Lois encouraged.
Half an hour later…
"That was close," Clark breathed out a sigh or relief when Chloe left, leaving him and Lois to pack up and leave too.
"What the hell were you talking about earlier?"
Clark was embarrassed to show her. He couldn't understand why since they've both seen more of each other in the last 24 hours than they have since they've met. Thinking back to how they first met… or not.
He took out what he hid in his pants pocket.
"Oh man," Lois says seeing the wrapper in his hand. "Okay, that was close"
"Isn't that what I just said," he says. Lois always seems to take to things better than him.
"Look," Lois attempts to point out. "Last night… was… great," she had to admit. I mean, it was great; there can't be any tiptoeing around that.
"But…"
"But it can't happen again. I mean, come on. We can barely stand each other.
"You'll have to explain that a little more in depth for me," Clark says surprised with himself that he wouldn't let her go that easily.
Lois stood her ground. "What is there to explain?"
"More, actually," answered Clark. "First it was the elevator, and now last night. I'm not just going to forget about it like it never happened"
"You don't like me," she reminded him.
"Just because we can't stand each other some times didn't mean I dislike you. On the contrary, I like our verbal matches"
"This is crazy"
"And last night wasn't? Lois, I was happy last night." She stopped to express his thoughts more fluidly. "I've been happy all weekend… even before," he says genuinely. "Maybe there's something here between us"
"The only thing here is our hormones, the real world awaits us…" she points to the window. "Out there"
"Okay, fine," he says doing it her way for now. A new wave of confidence was flowing inside him. "You keep running away, and I'll keep pursuing"
"And what if I never stop?" she couldn't help but play it his way as well.
Clark this time didn't say anything and just smirked at her. They may not be ready for it now, but people change… they grow… and he knew that he and Lois had a lot of growing to do as people. Last night confirmed to him that he's willing to wait forever if he had to.
"After you, Mrs. Cain," Clark says gesturing to the exit of their suite using their alias.
Lois grinned; he certainly wasn't taking his time nor was he not making it easy to resist him.
"Very well then, Mr. Cain," she returned his gaze.
The future was looking mighty interesting for them both.
The End