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Later that night while Jason was sleeping, Lois and Richard walked hand in hand by the river, along the edge of their property.
"You know week before last when we were talking about my earliest articles on Superman?" Lois looked at Richard then looked away toward the moon rising over the horizon.
"Yeah, I asked you if you were in love with him." Richard spoke with his characteristic confidence and understanding.
"Well, I think I lied when I said I wasn't," she paused and took a deep breath. "I can't quite remember… there was something happened that happened before he left, something up north in the mountains. Then there was that article in the Planet's Tuesday Science Feature about the Hubble Space Telescope sighting Krypton, and then he left. I was in love with him."
"Oh?" Richard knew his and Clark and Jason's side of this. But Lois as usual was the wild card here. He didn't expect her to run off with Jason. Or without him either for that matter.
"Yeah, but now that he's back..." trailing off, Lois stopped and held Richard's hand tightly as he took another step. "Look bear with me, okay, I have to process these feelings and it's not going where you might think it is…okay?"
"Sure, honey. I'm here for you, now that he's back, you feel what?" Richard wasn't sure quite where she was going with this. He just wanted her to keep going, knowing that he was paying attention.
"Well, a while back I felt was a yearning and longing for him to come back. But that faded." She took both of his hands trying to connect. She had to share these feelings with him. Richard deserved to know the truth; she wanted to give him confidence that she was with him, not going to run off.
"And…keep going." Richard added, open and encouraging.
"Well, you were always there, always so patient and understanding, always so good with Jason. That means so much."
Richard squeezed Lois's hand gently.
"I realized that being in love with Superman is like having a crush on a movie star. A girl can be in love with superstars like Vince Vaughan or Brandon Routh all she wants, but one day she wakes up and realizes that the celebrity crush was just a dream. Reality is the man she's with day in and day out. Reality is you."
"Wow, thanks."
"I mean think about it. If Jason gets scraped up at school, either one of us can rush over to get him. You can wash him up while I bandage him. You can take him fishing. I don't have to worry that while we're in the middle of a romantic evening you're going to have to fly off to stop a mudslide in a jungle or rescue a sinking ferry boat in the Indian Ocean, or bend steel with your bare hands to stop a robbery.
"I was in love with Superman. And I was jealous of the whole world. But now, I've grown up a bit, and I'm in love with you. You are a good man, Richard White."
"Thanks. I love you, too, Lois. I always will."