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Chapter II: All the world is waiting for you
Superman was still distracted when he flew through Lois Lane´s window later that night. The woman was setting up the table when she noticed him watching her.
"Don´t do that, is freaky" she laughed.
"I´m sorry, I didn´t think I would scare you"
"You didn´t" she kissed him softly.
He responded, holding her close and sighed. For the first time, he was feeling a complete stranger around her. And he immediately knew that, if there was ever a feeling there, it had been buried deep.
"What´s wrong, darling?"
"It´s nothing, just a very long day. I´m fine"
"Okay, okay, then let me feed you something. Sit down"
"Thank you" he muttered, doing so "What are we having?"
"Croque-messieur. A French dish my mum taught me"
Superman soon lost interest in the food –before he could even say it sounded yummy- when he looked at her walk away in a silk red blouse with a plunged V neckline, a dark blue mini skirt and red high heeled shoes, with her hair loose past her shoulders and down her back. Everything, except the tiara. It all suited her well, very well indeed, but all he could think about –given the resemblance of the outfit- was mysterious Wonder Woman and when would he be seeing her again. But Lois was unaware of that until he spoke.
"Lois, you are a very skillful reporter. Can I ask you something?"
"What a silly question, of course you can"
"What do you know about Wonder Woman?"
Tensing up, she nearly lost grip of the dishes. Breathing deeply, Lois turned around.
"Wonder Woman? Why do you want to know about her?"
"I´m just curious" he shrugged.
"She is gorgeous" Lois replied, pretending to be nonchalant.
"Are you jealous, Lois?"
"Me? No. Why, oh, why would I ever have a reason to be jealous of Wonder Woman?"
"Don´t be ridiculous, I don´t even know her"
"But you very much want to, I bet. I knew there was something wrong. I knew"
"You´re making assumptions…"
"Then" she said on the verge of tears "Look into my eyes and tell me you don´t like her. Tell me you don´t want to meet her. Tell me you will never meet her. Is as simple as that"
"I can´t do that, Lois. I can´t"
"Oh my God" she broke down crying "You are already in love with her. I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. I knew you didn´t love me. I knew I wasn´t good enough"
Sighing, he went to her and hugged her.
"I´m sorry. I never said that and…"
"Don´t touch me"
"You are not being reasonable"
"You´re going after that whore and I´m not being reasonable? You are a jerk. Fuck off. Get out of here"
He took a step back trying to gather a coherent answer and surprised at the fact he was way more insulted because Lois called the black haired goddess a whore than because she called him a jerk -when in fact he did nothing-, or because of her swear words.
"That woman is going to regret the day she tore us apart"
"You better watch your mouth Lois because you´ve been anything but a fool tonight. Wonder Woman didn´t tore us apart, but it haves no sense going on when you´re acting like this"
"I told you to go away"
"Fine"
"You are…" she groaned upset.
"Leaving"
Shaking his head, he flew out of the room, completely astounded by her outburst. There hadn´t been an actual reason. But being also Clark Kent he knew full well Lois was obsessed with him. He knew she was completely and absolutely possessive. She saw a menace in the heroine and she couldn´t stand it. He guessed she would eventually calm down and think things through. But it was too late.
He didn´t have it planned, to leave her. He didn´t have an affair with Wonder Woman. It was true he didn´t even know her… and the fact he wanted to know her, too.
But he couldn´t change the way things turned out. What a bright wonderful thing to do… asking about another heavenly gorgeous woman when we were having a date. You rock, Clark Kent.
After all, Lois was just a disgusted and indignant woman, she wasn´t really dangerous… was she?
Two weeks later.
Nervously watching his watch once more without actually checking on the time, Clark sighed again and ran his hand through his hair. Two weeks to get an interview with Diana Prince and yet he had been waiting a full hour to be ushered in.
He was alone. He had nothing to do but wait. And he started to think. He certainly didn´t like it.
He wished he had never asked about Wonder Woman. He wished he had never met her. He was Superman, but the woman was out of his reach. He was very well and fine with Lois, how did the heroine found a gash to make her way into his mind? Just like a quick clean cut of a blade…
That´s simple. You´re not fooling anyone. You and Lois weren´t fine. She tricked you into her side and you felt comfortable there… until now. Until you find yourself not knowing what to do.
Clark sighed again. He was astounded of the times he could do it in just sixty minutes. He was terribly troubled and he couldn´t focus. He really didn´t know what to do about Lois. Talk to her again? Ignore her? He felt like a traitor, but he couldn´t force his heart when it wasn´t with her. Lois was a good woman and she deserved someone who could bring her what he never would: security, a home. She wouldn´t speak to him since the incident and... he didn´t know if he had a right to ask her to do so. Even if it was only to apologize and let her know he wished, he wanted, the best for her. And that wasn´t him, it was never him. Because in fact, Lois was right. He wasn´t in love with Wonder Woman, since he had only saw her once, but it would be silly not to admit he was completely infatuated by her. Two weeks had gone by and he couldn´t get the beautiful heroine out of his mind. Someone who was his equal. What a mess. He sighed.
"My, my, Mister Bond-Kent" he heard a familiar voice call "Who would tell I would get to see you again so soon?"
How does she know my name? He thought. I only told the Daily Planet was sending someone. I never said who. She probably should have been expecting a woman.
His doubts vanished when he looked up and his mouth fell open. Clark was facing the very same woman he crashed onto two weeks ago, just before he met Wonder Woman. But this time, she was wearing a black skirt, withe shirt and killing high stilettos. Diana was the mesmerizing picture of a mermaid.
Two weeks to gather the information and I didn´t get a single picture of the woman. How clever of me. I´ve definitely been very distracted and didn´t do my job right.
"Good morning Miss Prince" he stood up and shook her hand, getting immediately hooked by her gaze and lost into her eyes. He didn´t let it go until she removed it.
"Good morning. How can I help you?"
"I just have a few questions. For the article we´re publishing about you"
"Come in" she smiled, opening the door wider and closing it after him "I´m sorry for making you wait"
Sitting behind her desk, she invited him to sit down too.
"It´s okay. Thank you for your time."
"Would you like some coffee?"
"No, I´m fine. Thanks"
She picked up the phone.
"Sure?"
"Yes"
"Kendra, can you get me a cup of coffee, please? Strong. A spoon of cream. Two spoons of sugar..."
She hung up.
"Okay, I´m listening"
Clark was taken aback by the sight of the pretty CEO, posing behind her desk under the sunlight floating in through the window, and having troubles to put his ideas together. Before he could utter a word, her blackberry sprung to life over the table and in the lightened screen he saw a picture of Diana Prince hugging another man. And the pang of jealousy he felt out of the blue had no explanation at all.
"My… condolences on the dead of your fiancé"
She frowned, obviously disgusted at his words.
"Is that why you´re here? To talk about Steven?" she took the call "Yes, Harrison" she listened for a while, her expression becoming somber until she hissed "That you have blown what?... Don´t do a thing until I call again"
The low tone she used was definitely commanding. He certainly wouldn´t like to be under her claws as an employee. But the woman she was, that… was delightfully challenging.
"I have to go" she said coldly, hanging up, upset at the question and the call.
"Miss Prince, I assure you..."
With ruthless efficiency she stood up and grabbed her Gucci bag.
"There has been an accident in one of my major buildings in Gotham City. I have to leave" Diana said in a low voice cleaning a tear from her cheek, uprooted by the mention of her lost love "As you must know, I have told every journalist I wouldn´t be talking about Captain Trevor or Wonder Woman´s implication in his dead. And I won´t yet. I don´t want to. If there´s something else you want to talk about, you´re welcome to come back tomorrow morning"
Saying this, she rushed away, his gaze following her.
Don´t be such a dumb Clark. You still have an issue with Lois… don´t you? You can´t be having a crush in not one but two other women. Two. You maroon.
"And yet I do" he sighed, fixing his gaze on the chair Diana Prince just left empty. Two words with the woman and he already knew she was someone no one would want to mess up with.
Wait. Did she just said Wonder Woman´s implication on her fiancé´s dead? I should have researched that one better. And where is she heading? A car ride to Gotham City will take at least an hour. I´m sure they can´t spare that much time. They need Superman´s help.
"Want me to help you out, Mr. Kent?" A blond woman asked, placing Diana´s cup of coffee over the desk and staring at him up and down appreciatively.
"No, thanks" he stood up, fully conscious of the silly image he must have painted sitting there and lost in his thoughts. About this woman´s boss "I know the way out"
"Oh" she said disappointed "Will you be coming back?"
"Tomorrow morning. Miss Prince still owes me that interview"
"I´m sure she´ll be glad to answer your questions tomorrow. Would you like to have a tour around?"
"No, thanks. I´m sure she can arrange that tomorrow. Actually, I have somewhere else to be now. Good bye, Kendra"
With those words he rushed away too. What he didn´t know was that Superman and Wonder Woman where heading to the same spot and they were about to meet once more.
"Somewhere else? Wasn´t he here for the interview and the tour?" The girl whispered confused.
Before Wonder Woman landed over Themyscira Chemicals´s burning up building, she noticed the strange bat sign shinning over Gotham City´s clouded sky. She knew she definitely hadn't been visiting the place as often as she should have. And she took upon herself to do so now on.
Her factories, since the moment they were hers, never had those kind of accidents out of the blue. Something was really wrong, and she was determined to find out what.
Diana kicked a window to make her way in and a wave of heat hit her fully on the face as the crystal pieces rained in, shattered by her powerful heel. Coughing, the amazon jumped into the boiling oven. Her first thought was to rescue all the workmen. Then she could find out what was going on.
Wonder Woman had rescued three of them when she noticed another blue and red blur going from side to side and helping her with the task. She didn´t know who it was. She hadn´t given a second thought to the man in the blue tights and the cape she saw in Metropolis –even when she had to admit he was terribly handsome, her heart was still set somewhere else-. But she was indeed grateful. The place wouldn´t stand in one piece for too long.
And then, someone hit her from behind with something cold and hard, making her turn around immediately.
She found a tall muscly man aiming a gun at her.
"I´m actually a fan of yours, and I know you´re good, but there´s nothing you can do to get yourself out of this. You´re doomed"
In a matter of seconds, he emptied a gun on her, but Diana´s bracelets were even faster rejecting them all at incredible speed.
"Is that all you´ve got? It actually tickled"
"No, actually, young lady, that was just the beginning" someone said and laughed. The sound of that laughter made Diana tremble to the bones. Only someone deeply perverted and with a very twisted mind could laugh like that. So sharp… and cold. Turning around, she discovered a man with his face painted in withe an a scar along it from the edge of his lips to his cheekbones, all stained in red. He was wearing a purple suit and holding a knife. Indeed, a mad man. A very dangerous crazy twisted man. Seeing him run his tongue over his lips to moisture them sent goose bumps down her spine. The man was creepy, alright. But she could deal with that.
Superman pushed him and placed himself between the Joker and Wonder Woman.
"Oh, oh, oh, superhero guy wants to protect his bunny" he said, with a maniac loud laugh again.
"It´s Superman" "It´s Wonder Woman" they both said at the same time.
"Stay aside beautiful, let me deal with this"
"I can deal with my own disasters" she smirked playfully, standing next to him "This is a battlefield, not a bedroom where you flirt... stud"
The Joker moistened his lips for the tenth time and ordered the men that were now surrounding the heroes.
"Kill them"
Bullets and knifes cascaded over them and both heroes fought easily to repel them. They were way outnumbered, but bullets wouldn´t harm any of them. One by one, they went knocking the Joker´s heralds down.
Sliding her right foot to the side, Diana popped down falling over her left knee to stop yet another pair of bullets with her bracelets. When she saw it, she understood it had been all a set up. The crazy clown -who´s name she still ignored- approached Superman from behind with a green knife. Something shiny, and odd. As he went approaching, Superman was getting more dizzy and his movements more weak.
Grabbing her tiara, she threw it to him and it hit the villain's hand, making the knife fall to the floor and away from her enemy.
She quickly rolled to it, stopping more bullets cold on her way and pulling another man down with a kick. Wonder Woman didn´t kill, and she stood to her principles. She grabbed the weapon, quickly sliding it into her right boot and found her tiara, replacing it on her head.
By that moment, all the men were defeated and Superman laid down unconscious.
"It seems it´s only you and me now"
And then, she felt it. The Joker wrapped two arms strongly around her, pressing her throat tightly and cutting the air out of her lungs, which made her too weak to react and set herself free.
"Why so serious?" he asked, getting another knife into her mouth "Do you want to know how I got these scars?"
She grimaced, fighting for her limbs to react.
"Well. I had a wife. She was a cutie. But she had a car accident and hit her head hard. When she woke up, she wasn´t the same woman. She wouldn´t remember anything. The first time she saw me at the hospital she asked me… why… was… I… so… serious. She attacked me, I didn´t want to hurt her. So when I slipped, falling to the floor, she jumped on me and did…"
Wonder Woman kicked him fiercely between his legs before he uttered his next words, causing a scream of pain from him and his arms to release her.
"That wasn´t nice bunny" he muttered as she breathed in mouthfuls of air in despair "I was just trying to get my knife. You took something mine and I want it back"
The Joker kicked the ground and that move made a blade unleash from his shoe. He kicked Diana´s leg under her knee and slid his foot down, causing her a deep cut along her calf.
Her scream of pain was soul-shattering. She immediately fell to floor with a loud thud, over a pool of her own blood.
When the villain took a step towards her, determined to kill her, one of the windows exploded before them and a black figure flew in, landing between them.
"Oh, Batman" the Joker laughed again delighted "Now we´re indeed all here"
N/A: So, so, so… That´s all for the time being. If you want more, click the green button below please ;) Hope it wasn´t that bad.
Hellacre13: Thanks for reviewing! I´m glad you liked it. And well, then I hope you´ll like next chapter even more than this one (If you hate Steven, lol). And yes, indeed she has gotten more confident, lol. The rolling eyes thing made me laugh. Thanks! And yay for LC :)
Melympe: Thanks for reviewing too! I´m happy you liked and found the reaction perfect! In fact it made me grin too when I pictured it so I wrote it! Lol And well, here you already know what happened with Steve :P I´ll think about getting a beta, thanks!
Robenson: Thanks for reviewing. Note taken :)
AClover: Thanks for reviewing! And yay cause you loved it. Yes they are cute ^^ And oohhh yes he´s infatuated, haha. And if you want help with your spanish, I´m here ;)
"As a wise old friend of mine told me once, princess: Some men just want to watch the world burn"