Chapter Eleven

Cassie sat at her new desk in her very own office and looked around her self happily. Her boss had just given her an office of her very own. Before she had been in the middle of a larger room with three other girls' desks surrounding her.

She had put up pictures of her parents and sisters and nieces, and even her cats. She looked down at the envelope she had brought from home with pictures she had wanted to put up in her office there were still a few in it.

Cassie sank heavily into her chair behind her desk and reluctantly pulled out the pictures, dropping the empty envelope on the desk.

They were all different pictures of Clark and her. Cassie dropped them on her desk feeling the happy feeling that had been bursting in her chest wither and die. She felt tears swimming in her eyes. Every little thing seemed to set her off these days.

She hadn't heard from Clark in three days and was really starting to get worried. What if he had decided she wasn't worth it and didn't think she deserved telling? She grabbed her phone but half way through dialling his office number did she slam down the phone. She sank her head into her folded arms on her desk.

When did life get this hard? Every time she heard Superman was in a dangerous situation her heart would constrict to a sickening extent until she couldn't breath and then when she heard he was going to be all right she felt her self relax but feel uncomfortable at the same time. She wanted nothing more then to call Clark and make sure he was really all right. Of course she could never be too obvious, or else he would know she knew his secret.

She got up and grabbed her coat and left her office. She had come in on a Saturday to organize her new office. She ran out of the three-story building glad to feel the sun on her face. She took a deep breath and walked across the street into the enormous park that was stationed across the road from her work.

As she dived into the shade of the park all she wanted was to forget all her stresses for one night, to sit down and read a book in which she could actually take in what she was reading.

"Cassie!" She turned and saw Clark running towards her. She assumed he had tried her office first only to find it closed for the weekend.

He stopped a few feet from her. She looked at him unsure how to act, happy to see him? Aloof? They hadn't covered it in her lengthy education.

"Clark…" Was all she managed, all the saliva in her mouth evaporating the second she opened her mouth.

"Cassie I have been meaning to call you for the past few days-

"Three," She said failing miserably to sound nonchalant.

"Yeah the past three days but things have been pretty hectic and to be frank I haven't known what to say."

Cassie stared at Clark her breath catching in her throat. What had she been expecting? Clark to drop to his knees and say he had never really loved Lois and all he ever wanted was her? Real life didn't work like that.

"Oh?" Was all she managed in a higher voice then she had originally intended, "And what made you know what to say?"

Clark looked at his feet, "I… I don't really know, I just never thought this would happen, I mean I really like you, and …."

He trailed off, Cassie found herself getting alarmingly mad. What? Was he expecting her to sweep him into a hug and say that it didn't matter? That he didn't have to make a decision right now? That it was too hard? Well she wasn't going to, he would just have to choose where he wanted to or not.

"But then I thought," He continued, Cassie had crossed her arms and was giving him a hard look. "I thought what would life be without you," He looked Cassie in the eye and she felt every piece of anger she harboured or spite melt away from her as if it had never existed. "And the more I thought about it the more I hated the answer," He walked over until he was standing right in front of her and he took hold of both her arms. "I…I…" He seemed to be bracing himself for something Cassie stared at him. He took a deep breath, "I...I...I love you Cassandra, and nothing and nobody can ever change that."

Cassie stared up at Clark's towering form her mouth slightly open. She felt like a train had just hit her. Clark was getting slightly pink. "Uh…Cassie?" Clark whispered aware of the fact that an elderly group of people had stopped and were watching them avidly.

Cassie took her arms out of his grasp, for a few seconds Clark looked shocked and hurt, but quickly Cassie wrapped them around his neck. "Aw Clark," She whispered into his ear.

She could hear the elderly people giving a weary applause as if the whole scene was for their benefit. "I love you too," Cassie whispered.

A/N: Ah all the fluff is so…FLUFFY! Good stuff isn't it, now don't take that the wrong way, I mean Fluff in general not my fluff in particular! LOL! Anyway now I have that out the way I can finally start and tackle the actual event I have had in my mind since I saw the movie, hope you keep reading and aren't to turned off by all the fluff.