I would give my life for you - 2
SIX MONTHS LATER
Jonathan had won the elections and was now a loved senator for Kansas. Clark still at university and every day he visited his mother at her new apartment at Metropolis. But never talked his father about her, because the last time he did Jonathan spent the night drinking in a bar.
Lionel Luthor had listened about the Kent's family. He had been told that Martha had left the farm, but nobody knew about her… it was as if she had disappeared from the State. That morning he had a meeting in a hotel at the other side of the city, he left early and he hadn't have breakfast, so he went to the hotel bar and asked for a coffee. While he waited for it, he took a newspaper and read it from the middle, where there was an article about the Luthor's Corp.
"Your coffee" said a sweet woman's voice "Do you want anything else?"
"No thanks…" he said as he put up his face "Oh my God, Martha!" exclaimed.
"Lionel!" exclaimed her too.
That was the first time she met anybody from Smallville after left Jonathan. With the tension of the moment Lionel hit the cup and all the coffee spilled on his trousers.
"Oh my god! Let me clean it!" said Martha as she quickly took a cloth and kneeled down to dry the coffee.
"Martha…" said Lionel as he hold her hand to stop her "don't do it" he was staring at her and she was hypnotized for his sweetly look "What are you doing here?"
"I'm working" said Martha looking to the floor trying to ignore those eyes.
"As a waitress in a hotel!" exclaimed Lionel "You can do something better! You had worked for the Luthor Corp. and you were a great businesswoman…"
She smiled, but she still at the floor.
"Thank you, Lionel. But that's the real life… I'm a forty-five-year-old woman, I have to pay the rent of my apartment, and that's the only job I could find."
"Come back to the Luthor Corp.!"
"No"
"Why not?"
"Because I got this alone, without the help of the richest man of Metropolis"
"I thought that you saw me as a friend…"
Martha continued cleaning his trousers without say anything.
"Ok… you don't want my help… but you will lunch with me today"
"What? No!"
"Why not?"
"Because… I don't know…"
"Great. I will be waiting for you at the hotel's restaurant, come when your turn have finished, ok?"
"I won't"
"I will be there anyway"
Late, at lunch time, Martha took off her job's clothes, and wearing a skirt and a blouse walked to the hotel's restaurant to see if Lionel really was there. And he was.
"You still here…" said her when she was behind him.
Lionel stood up and moved away the chair to let her sit.
"Thanks" she said.
"I'm glad that you have come…" said him smiling.
They asked their meal and they drunk toast their lives.
"So… I know that you left Jonathan before the elections. I would be hard for you…"
"I was. Really hard." She breathed hard to stop her crying "But he had changed. He used to ask me about all, but this time he did all thinking just on himself… I couldn't stay there seeing how he destroyed his life and our family risking his health and his life as he's doing. I needed some time to think…"
"So… are you going to come back with him now… I mean… he's a great senator, now"
"I have got this job at my own, I'm living alone, and Clark visits me nearly every day… I would lye if I say that I don't miss him, but I'm not ready to come back with him… and I feel that this life is mine, just mine… and that's great"
"What about Mr. Clark, does your father know about all this?"
"I haven't told him… but all the state televisions talked about the split up of the Senator Kent during the campaign… so I'm sure he knows… but he hasn't tried to find me…"
"And Clark? He visits you every day, but how does he feel with al this?"
"Bad. He feels really bad… but he's starting to understand that we're not going to come back again easily"
"What about love? Is there a new love in your life?"
"No, there isn't" she smiled "I haven't time for love"
"I can't believe it. You're a pretty woman… I'm sure that you have won the heart of a lot of men of the city"
"You're so nice" she laughed "But I haven't"
Lionel smiled. They were nearly finishing their lunch.
"Ok. I don't want to waste this opportunity… I haven't met you for months, and if I let you go without ask it to you, the next time you will be married again"
"Don't joke!" said her laughing.
"What about if I invite you for a dinner and a dance, tonight?"
"I would say: no"
"Oh no! Don't say that! I will pick you up, ok?"
"Ok… I will finish work at eight, wait me at the entrance"
TO BE CONTINUED…
After their dinner and dance night, Martha and Lionel had some more dates before the day that Martha let him to take her back to home.
"Do you live here?" asked Lionel watching at that untidy street, and that all building.
"I do… I said you that it wasn't a good idea to come here"
"No! it's good!" exclaimed Lionel "It's just that… you're really courageous to return here every night"
They went upstairs, and they went into a little apartment which was really different of the rest of the street. It was tidy and clean, and it really was a home.
"Just you could be able to transform something like this in a home" said Lionel.
"Thanks" said Martha "Do you want some drink?"
"Yeah"
Martha opened a champagne bottle and put some in two glasses. She sat on the sofa with Lionel and they drunk toast their friendship.
After opened the second bottle, non of them wear shoes, and they both were really happy and closed to each other.
"Lionel" began Martha "do you know what? I wasn't as happy as I said when we met the first time at the hotel… but after this month we have spent together, I can say that I'm really, really happy!"
"That's so lovely!" said Lionel "I have really enjoyed theses weeks, too"
Suddenly, Martha went closer to him and kissed his lips.
"Martha… you're drunk" said Lionel.
"Not more than you" said him.
And he kissed her back, and at the morning they woke up together on the sofa.
Martha was on Lionel, they both were naked.
"Lionel…" said Martha waking him up.
"What?" said him before opened his eyes. When he did, he found Martha's red hair on his face "Oh my god! What have we done?"
"Good morning…" said Martha, and she kissed his lips.
"Martha… are you sure of that?"
"I said you that I wasn't drunk…" she said laughing. "Do want some breakfast?"
"Sure" he said smiling.
When Lionel had dressed himself, walked towards Martha, who was making pancakes, and round her waist with his arms. Then he kissed her and whispered on her ear: "I love you"
She didn't say anything, but she kissed him passionately.
"I have a Christmas party the next Friday, I want you to come with me" said Lionel.
"I will be really glad to go with you"
The next week, at that Christmas party, Martha wore a long red dressed and her hair curly. Lionel gave her a nice rubies necklace for Christmas present, with a beautiful red tulips bunch that he left at the apartment with some water.
They were dancing, when Martha suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" asked Lionel.
"Jonathan…" whispered Martha. She hadn't met him since she left the farm, and that was months ago.
"Do you want us to leave?"
"No…" said Martha.
"Do you want me to leave?" asked Lionel more seriously.
"No, of course not!"
"Ok… I will take you some drink"
Lionel left, and Martha stayed there watching how her ex-husband spoke with the people of the party, until he saw her.
"Martha!" exclaimed Jonathan.
"Hi Jonathan… or should I say: Senator Kent" said Martha.
"Please, just Jonathan, Martha"
She smiled.
"You look really pretty today" said him.
"Thanks"
"Clark doesn't speak too much about you, but he says that you're fine"
"I am"
"So… Have you come alone?"
Just at that moment Lionel came with two glasses of punch.
"Hi Jonathan" said Lionel.
"Lionel" said Jonathan so cold "I see." And he turned back to leave them.
"No, Jonathan wait!" begged Martha.
"Why? To tell me how happy you are with… him"
"No! To tell you that I'm just trying to continue my life… and that this is what you should do too" said Martha.
"Well, congratulations… now I understand why I was sent the divorce papers the other day… well, don't worry happy couple, I will sign them when I arrived home"
"Jonathan, please… don't be as cruel with her" asked Lionel rounding her waist with his arm.
"I'm not being cruel… but she was when she left me in the middle of the elections…"
"You were risking your health and life for nothing!"
"Is this nothing!? I'm a senator, now, I'm someone! Like him!"
"No, Jonathan, you're a senator… but you still being the same man I left that night at the farm… you still without understand that I left you because I couldn't see how you destroyed yourself"
Jonathan turned round again to left them without say anything else, but Martha put hand on his shoulder to stop him, she wanted to explain that to him better, but at that moment the light was cut and they listened a shoot. The people began to shout and to run out the room. When the light come back Lionel and Jonathan found themselves in front of each other. Martha was on the floor with a lot of blood round of her.
TO BE CONTINUED…