Things were getting more tense at the hospital. Jor-El pulled Kal-El aside and ignored Alfred's blatant stare from afar.
"You need to retrieve Lois and bring her to the hospital. Now that Chloe is without sight, it will look all the more daunting that she is not here. And it is quite unbelievable that she would not have heard about the creature and come here to find out if her family was safe." Jor-El counseled.
"I know," Kal-El admitted, "and that tale you told General Lane and Bruce, I suspect, made them believe that they do not have the upper hand here anymore. I suppose it is not necessary to keep anyone as a hostage."
Jor-El lowered his voice some.
"Did you begin the process with Lois?"
"If you're asking if I've made love to her, then yes, I have. Unfortunately, the mark is still upon her, so we will have to continue on with our relationship. But I am worried about pulling her out of the Fortress. She has been weakened by the mark." Kal-El said worriedly.
"Yes, but the copulation alone, should sustain her outside of the Fortress until the two of you can return there. You called what Lois and yourself have a 'relationship'? So Lois and yourself have come to some kind of understanding?" Jor-El asked.
"Nothing formal. But once Chloe is through this crisis, we can make our relationship common knowledge. Father, we have the means to help Chloe restore her sight..."
"Kal-El, we are not going to interfere in Earth medicine. It is archaic and thousands of years behind what we can do on Krypton, but there are some things we should not meddle in on this planet. Though I am sorry this is happening to Chloe." Jor-El said somberly, as he spied Ella walking up to her ex-husband. Kal-El noticed what his father was looking at.
"Father, it will be a matter of time before General Lane tells Ella about Mother. Maybe you should just let him do it."
Jor-El looked at his son.
"I think General Lane is wise enough to realize that if he does anything to go against me, we will leave this planet and leave Lor-Zod here for them to deal with. And it is my place to tell Ella about your mother, not his. Now go and bring Lois to the hospital before Ella begins looking for her daughter herself." Jor-El told his son. Kal-El slipped off down the hallway.
Meanwhile, Ella confronted her ex-husband.
"Do you actually know where Lois is at this moment? Something is wrong, I can feel it!"
"Why don't you ask your husband, Ella? By the way, I told Lucy to stay put where she is. I want her as far away from this crap your husband's people brought down on us here, as possible." General Lane told Ella, not even bothering to hide his contempt for her. He was tempted to tell her about Jor-El's true marital status, but he suspected that that would not go over well with Lois. Besides, the truth about everything would come out soon enough.
Ella turned away from Sam, just as her cellphone rang. She frowned when she saw it was from Forest Glen Sanitarium. That was where her sister and Chloe's mother, Moira, was hospitalized. Why would they be calling? Did someone hear about Chloe and somehow Moira, in her near catatonic state, understood what had happened to her daughter?
"Hello?" Ella asked.
"Mrs. El? This is Dr Crosby from Forest Glen. How are you today?"
"Not well, actually. My niece was hurt in that attack on the Daily Planet. I am at the hospital with her now."
"Oh. Oh that is very unfortunate. I don't quite know how to tell you this, Mrs. El..."
"Please call me, Ella. You have been caring for my sister for years."
"Alright, Ella. Moira has come out of her catatonia. And she wants to see her daughter." Dr. Crosby told her pointedly.
Ella almost dropped her phone! General Lane could see that his ex-wife had received some shocking news and moved to her side. But Jor-El got to her first and pulled her away from General Lane.
"Darling? What is it? Who are you speaking to?" Jor-El wanted to know. Ella excused herself for a moment from her caller and looked at her husband.
"My sister has come out of her catatonic state. And she wants to see Chloe! What do I tell her?"
"Darling, we will go to the sanitarium and see to your sister's care. Kal-El heard from Lois. She had a problem with her car and he is bringing her here now. Chloe will be in good hands while we are gone." Jor-El said ignoring Sam Lane's disgust at the blatant lie he had told about Lois.
General Lane approached Ella.
"Do you want me to say anything to Gabe when he gets here?" he asked her. Ella shook her head.
"No. For all I know her recovery is temporary. Jor-El and I will go and see what is really going on." Ella said and reached for Jor-El's hand. As a scientist, Jor-El was also going along to ascertain how something that he assumed was a medical impossibility (Moira Sullivan's ever recovering), was now a reality? Especially on the same day her only daughter has lost her eyesight.
Kal-El sensed something was wrong as soon as he arrived at the console in the Kawatche caves. The console itself looked as if it was half crumbled! He took out his disc and found that it just barely fit into the space allowed for it!
When he arrived at the Fortress, it was in shambles!
"LOIS!" Kal-El screamed in panic and fright. Did an earthquake occur? Whatever happened, he had left Lois in peril and from the looks of this place, there was no way anyone could have survived...
He heard weak coughing! Then, Kal-El spotted Lois climbing out from under one of the couches he had provided, which was also hidden behind a fallen ice structure. She crawled out and Kal-El hurried over to her to help her up-and held on to her as if he couldn't bear to let her go.
Lois noted this and didn't resist how tightly his arms were around her, or how his head was buried in her hair...until it went on for a little too long.
"Uh Kal-El? I'm fine but thanks for caring."
Kal-El let go of her and looked her over.
"You are unhurt?"
"Yes, I'm fine! Kal-El, some total weirdo must have stolen that disc thing you used to bring me here! I came out of the back and found this creep, naked, over by your crystals! I shot him in the ass with an arrow and he freaked! His eyes turned red and he changed into this icky, kind of paper mache looking monster."
"Paper mache?" Kal-El asked, not quite understanding.
"It's this kind of substance used for crafts and stuff...never mind. The point is once he changed I ran for it, found a place to hide and then played dead when it looked like he found me. He then used his tail to kind of break a hole out of this place. Where are we anyway? Like at the North Pole or Antarctica because NOW it is getting cold!"
"I want you to stay here." Kal-El ordered her, as he went to investigate the breach in the structure. Lois watched him walk off then looked around at all of the mess. There were deep holes that no one could climb out of, in some parts of this place!
Meanwhile, Kal-El could see that there was a huge hole in a wall of the Fortress on the east end. He knew one of the crystals would repair the damage in a timely manner, but it didn't make him feel any better about the fact that Lois could have been killed. And she had had no way of getting out of here.
Kal-El was so lost in his morose thoughts over the matter, that he did not notice Lois until she was by his side, still dressed like Black Canary.
"Where are we?" she said, staring out into the frozen wasteland outside of the Fortress.
"Never mind that. We cannot stay here. Lois, that man that was here...he turned into that creature at the Daily Planet and attacked many of your co-workers. Chloe was one of his victims. She is now blind."
Lois's mouth dropped open!
"What the hell, Kal-El?! What do you mean that thing was at the Daily Planet? And it blinded Chloe? I have to get to her!"
"I will take you to her and answer all of your questions when we leave here. I brought a vehicle."
"Why? Flying would be faster, wouldn't it?"
Kal-El raised a brow.
"Suddenly you don't mind flying with me?" he asked slyly.
"I'm just saying this is an emergency." Lois answered in a surly manner.
"Yes it would be. But unfortunately, your absence has been noticed at the hospital. Chloe's father is on his way and your mother is beginning to think that something has happened to you."
"Something DID happen to me." Lois replied tartly.
"The story will be," Kal-El continued as if she had not spoken, "is that you were looking into a story when you heard about the attack on the Daily Planet. You tried to get back but your car had problems. So I need to bring you in car. Or at least I should."
"Fine." Lois sighed softly. "But we need to go back home so I can change. I can't go back to the hospital dressed like this. And alot of the clothes you got for me fell down some crevice. But the Green Arrow outfit along with the bow and arrows are still here." Lois told him. Kal-El thought that was quite odd and at the same time, quite telling. His eyes roamed over Lois in her costume. How he longed to stay here with her and play 'Green Arrow and Black Canary'. But life interrupted their lovemaking. Hopefully not for long.
Lois hurried up to her room quickly at the mansion, and managed to evade the prying eyes of any servants. She opened the door, closed it quickly behind her and went to her closet. The trick was to find something to wear that looked like she had been out looking in to a story, but didn't look overly dressy.
Lois unzipped the leather suit that was part of the Black Canary ensemble, and took off the mask. She had been completely naked under the costume and wondered if the real Black Canary wore any undergarments when she put this on to fight crime? The suit itself was so form fitting, she didn't see how the woman that really was this crime fighter, actually could wear it and be comfortable?
Chloe is blind and I'm thinking about some chick's underwear, Lois thought. I have to get going here...
Lois didn't have time to hang up the costume, so she folded it and reached up on the top shelf to set it up there. But she couldn't reach it. She then stood on her tippy toes but for whatever reason, that shelf seemed light years away. Lois then remembered that she usually used a step stool. She was about to turn to look around for it, when she felt Kal-El's hands span her bare waist and lift her, so that she could put the costume up on the top shelf!
Lois giggled and placed it up there, before Kal-El set her down, and she turned into his arms which locked around her possessively. His hands were on the small of her back.
He bent down to kiss her, but Lois turned her face away.
"We can't. We need to be with Chloe." she whispered but her arms went up around his neck.
Kal-El said nothing in response to that. He was marveling at the fact that twelve hours before, Lois wouldn't never allowed him to hold her in this manner. The feel of her full, young breasts, straining against him, was almost more than he could bear!
But he took a deep breath and let go of her. She walked past him and looked in some drawers, sadly, for underwear. Kal-El moved towards one of her windows and peered out, before settling down into a chair.
"So," Lois began talking as she walked back to her closet to look for something to wear, "the guy that showed up at the Fortress and turned into that creature is Cat Grant's husband? And this guy is also the Vice-President Zod's son?"
"Yes. Zod created a few beings like him," Kal-El lied, keeping up his father's fake story, "so there are no telling how many creatures are on this planet, like the man that calls himself Davis Bloom."
"I don't think anything on this planet could stop that thing or others like it," Lois noted, rummaging through hangers, "but I do wonder why the hell Green Arrow, Black Canary and Batman haven't done anything? They had to know this guy was roaming loose."
Kal-El stared over at Lois wearing an amused expression on his face.
"You think they were negligent?"
"Of course they were! And that is the story I plan to write!"
"Lois, the Daily Planet is in shambles! I suppose maybe there is an online version..." Kal-El began, but Lois gave him a look of disdain as she settled on a brown ensemble of some sort.
"The press never sleeps on this planet, Kal-El, during danger. I'm sure Perry White will find a way to keep the presses rolling." Lois predicted, tossing down the clothing on her bed. She then walked over to her dresser mirror, picked up her hairbrush and threw her head forward to brush her hair from the nape.
The blood rushed through Kal-El's veins as his eyes covered her entirely. This woman was going to carry his child one day. Sooner rather than later. And for a moment, Bruce Wayne crept into his mind. Would he be able to completely pry Lois's heart and mind from a man that didn't care for her as much as he did?
He couldn't think about that now, or the main goal, which was to get those weapons out of the hands of the government and businesses like Wayne Enterprises. The throbbing in his loins was the only thing that mattered at this moment and he hurriedly undressed.
When Lois finally lifted her head and put down the brush, she looked over at Kal-El and saw him standing there, naked and ready, wearing a firm, yet, naughty smile.
"Kal-El, we can't!" Lois pleaded but stared at him with anticipation as he moved towards her. Her hair was now covering her breasts like a cape and he reached out to move her hair aside...
"Please, let's just get dressed and get to Chloe! We won't be able to do this anymore anyway. She will need you and..."
Kal-El stopped Lois's mouth with his own, kissing her passionately, while pulling her into his arms so that their bodies were molded together. She kissed him back intensely as he lowered her on to the bed.
Thoughts of Chloe melted away, as Kal-El's nearly tyrannical thrusts had Lois's body crashing up and down on the bed, while her mind was brain dead and dizzy. She clenched Kal-El's sculpted back while she continued to endure his forceful member, as it vibrated deeply within her.
Adrenaline and blood flowed through Kal-El as his body merged hungrily and fiercely with her own, until bolts of pleasure streaked through both of them. Lois emitted a moan/scream and she now clutched at the back of Kal-El's shoulders until the dizzying pleasure she was experiencing, subsided.
It would take them longer to get to the hospital now.
But get to the hospital, they did. Only in the privacy of the elevator, did Kal-El envelope his heavy arm around Lois''s trim waist.
"We can't look like we...Kal-El, you have to let go of me. We're here to see Chloe and..."
"What does one have to do with the other?" Kal-El asked. He looked up at the tiresome numbers that would tell them which floor Chloe was on. Lois reached out and stopped the elevator, then pulled out of Kal-El's hold!
"When we get to Chloe, you are her loving boyfriend. She is NOT going to understand any of this. And even learning about it, might set her back. Besides, my mother will insist she stays with us and I plan to do everything I can, to make sure my cousin recovers."
"So do I, Lois. I care about Chloe. But she is not you. And what is happening between us is far too important to put on hold. I will restrain myself when she comes to stay with us, but I will also tell her that it is over."
"And she'll think it's over because she's blind! Look, just be a decent boyfriend. And to keep up appearances, I will start seeing Bruce."
"No." Kal-El said coldly.
"It will be pretend."
Kal-El looked into her eyes.
"Swear it will be pretend. Swear it on our unborn child's life!"
Lois swallowed. Those were high stakes there...
"Okay, I will swear on it."
"Say it, Lois!"
"I swear on our unborn child's life I will only pretend to be Bruce Wayne's girlfriend. Okay? Are you happy?"
"Not especially." Kal-El said in a surly tone. Lois started the elevator again and Kal-El slipped a muscular hold around her middle again.
"Kal-El we just talked about this..."
"About my restraining myself from touching you however and whenever I like. I will try. And I don't feel like 'trying' now. So if people see us this way, you should 'try' and tell people that you're upset over Chloe and I'm comforting you. " he said tightening his hold on her.
Lois did not say anymore and she found herself leaning into his hard arm. Because God help her, she realized in that moment, that THIS was how a man acted when he wanted to be with a woman. And so far, Bruce Wayne hadn't come close to acting this way towards her. Not at all.
