A/N Okay, I felt a bit mean leaving you guys there, so I've added the last chapter. Make sure to look at the Author's Note at the end and Please Please Review!

Previously...

There was a moment's silence before Clark sucked up enough courage to finally say it. "Lois..." 'Or not.' "I'm an alien." The words just fell out of his mouth so quickly, he wasn't sure if she'd understood him. On the other end of the conversation, Lois was debating whether he could say something like this so calmly and it still be a joke. They locked gazes and Lois knew that he wasn't kidding, those blue-green eyes were full of desperation and a desire to be accepted. "You're not talking, that's never good." Clark tried to decipher her expression, x-ray her mind, anything to know what she was thinking at that moment. He got nothing.

Lois blinked before asking a question she already knew the answer to: "You're serious aren't you?" He nodded a puppy-dog look on his face as his eyes searched her face for some kind of reaction. 'She's freaked out. She can't accept me...' He panicked, she still wasn't giving him a response, so he continued.

"I'm from a planet called Krypton. My biological parents sent me to Earth in the first meteor shower, where my human parents found me - naked in a cornfield no less. They took me and my spaceship home." Still silence. Clark decided to say more, his nervousness causing him to go into all out babble mode. "I can lift aeroplanes with one hand; I can run to Metropolis in a second flat; I can see through objects a mile thick; I can hear cries for help on the other side of Smallville; I can burn anything with a single glance; I can send barn doors across town with a single sneeze; I can survive nuclear explosions and can take clips of bullets without getting a scratch on me and I can fly without an engine to help! Lois just say something, tell me I'm a freak, an alien a lunatic. I don't care!" He stopped taking a breath to slow down. "But the most important thing you have to know about me is that I'm completely and totally in love with you."

Lois took in the reel of information not interrupting and keeping her expression to one of a neutral status: In thought. 'Clark Kent, a visitor from another planet who could out-run a speeding bullet and survive an impact with an atom bomb? Huh... Who would have thought?' Lois sifted through these kind of questions before Clark's last sentence caught her off-guard, snapping her back into reality. Her heart stopped. He loved her.

"I love you too Clark." Her voice barely counted as a whisper, as if she was telling him her biggest secret as he had told her his. She had let down her barriers that guarded her heart, and Clark had a one way ticket inside.

Not waiting another moment, Lois leaned over to the guy she had christened 'Smallville' and placed her lips on his. Her arms met behind Clark's head as his hands found her waist and pulled her closer, their bodies fully against each other. The kiss deepened and both of the reporters were thrown into complete ecstasy. Before they knew it, tongues were being wielded, lips nibbled and turns were taken in exploring the pulse points of each others' necks. The world melted around them and their only thought was: 'Why haven't we been doing this the whole time?' When both of them felt their oxygen levels hit an all-time low, the pair broke apart, breathless.

"Wow, that was... Wow." Clark couldn't believe that this was happening, finally happening.

"Y'no, I'd always hoped that it was you." Lois spoke as if she was thinking out loud rather than talking to Clark, she looked up so that their eyes locked together, the excitement of yet another journalistic theory proven right radiating from her own.

"Hoped that what was me?" He didn't get it, he probably wouldn't for a couple more seconds yet - he was still light-headed and felt a little giddy from their first real make out session.

"When I was close to figuring out that Oliver was Green Arrow, he set up a plan to get me off of his trail. Oliver gotta super-strong, super-fast friend of his to pose as Green Arrow, while he was around. Now this Green Arrow happens to be the one that I shared an amazing kiss with..." Clark smirked, he knew where she was going with this and he certainly didn't want to stop her. "So when a super-strong, super-fast hero, also known as the Red-Blue Blur, shows up it's plausible to think that he is the one who I kissed that night. But, here's where I got you Kent, when you kissed me in that records room at the psychiatric hospital, I recognised your technique..." She shot a seductive look Clark's way, hoping that her choice of words got his attention. He leaned over to her, face only a centimetre away before Lois pulled back, smiling, and continued. "At first I thought it was because of that incident with the drugged up lipstick that Valentines day, but then I remembered that kiss in the alley. And then it all made sense with you always disappearing, coming back with stories and information you couldn't have found out. But you knowing all about Oliver and his band of merry men... that confirmed everything. You are the Red-Blue Blur and you kissed me that night in the alley." Lois finished, smug smile mirroring Clark's exactly.

"Lois, I'm impressed. You truly are an amazing reporter."

"Hey, I learned from the best." She beamed, before realizing something that she couldn't work out. "But what about the bullet?" Lois placed her hand to the place in which she had been bleeding only two days before. "I got shot on that roof Clark. You never mentioned a reviving people from the dead power."

Clark stiffened, he had to tell her this now, she needed to know. "I have this fortress, and it gave me the option to heal you... but there was a slight catch." Clark spoke carefully, things could get very ugly and he wanted to avoid that at all costs.

"Isn't there always. Okay Smallville, hit me, how long have I got left to live?"

Clark was glad that the question was at least so negative that the truth actually seemed like good news and she didn't seem angry with him yet - she always called him 'Clark' when she was angry with him. "Actually, centuries."

"Centuries?"

"Yeah, umm... Well, basically in order to save you I had to swap your life span with the life span of a Kryptonian, my biological mother to be exact." Clark tried to dumb it down, Jor-El had made it seem so complicated.

"Right, and that means what exactly?" Lois was new to all of this Kryptonian mumbo jumbo, it was a little confusing.

"You will live a lot longer than a normal human. You don't get powers or anything, but, like me, it will take you centuries to grow old." Clark tried not to show Lois how relieved he was to know that he wouldn't be alone, but he couldn't help it. He was so happy. But Lois, being as observant as she was, picked up on the one snag that Clark was dreading having to explain.

"But what about the General, Lucy, Chloe? They're still normal, you've not affected them with this life span exchange! I have to watch them all die?" Just as Lois finished that sentence, her voice of a very high pitch, a beam of light burst from Clark's desk drawer accompanied by a noise only Clark could hear: the Kryptonian version of a dentist's drill. He reached into the light and grabbed the octagonal key. Lois, wide eyed and clutching onto Clark in surprise, gasped as a voice filled the air.

"Lois Lane, I am Jor-El father of Kal-El or, as you know him, Clark Kent. You are worried that you will outgrow everyone one that you love except for Kal-El, but you do not need to be concerned, for other humans will live a life as long as yours." The voice boomed and Lois felt a little safer with Clark's arms wrapped around her body as they were now. 'Jor-El is intimidating, sure, but I'm sure as hell not gunna give him the satisfaction.'

"Who are they? What are their names?"

There was a small pause before an answer. "There are many, but you a familiar with Chloe Sullivan? She has a power that allows her to heal others by making her body absorb any damage done to a person and then to heal itself. I believe that she too will live for as long as Kal-El and other humans who have abilities acquired by the meteor rocks and other means."

Clark couldn't believe it. 'Not only would I have Lois, but I will have Chloe for the rest of my life too! And maybe even some of the league. I'm not going to be alone, my destiny means that I can help to save the world and be happy too.'

"Thank you father." The key became dull once again and Jor-El was gone.

"I have to tell Chloe." Lois announced, seemingly having debated the prospect. "I have to tell her that she will live like we will. Wait, she knows about where you come from right?"

"Yeah but..."

"I kinda guessed that. I need to see her... Hey, could you fly me there?" It was exciting, thinking that her boyfriend could take her to places in seconds. At least getting to work would be quicker.

"Lois I don't think that's such a good idea." He needed to get the hang of the whole flying thing before he flew with Lois - she wasn't invulnerable.

"Come on, you must do it all the time. You had to have flown to work more than once, you'd just look like a bird or a plane or something from the ground."

"But Lois, I've never flown to work. When you were shot on the roof the other day, you fell off and I jumped after you, which is when I first flew. I've not even practised yet."

"Wait, 'first flew'? You couldn't always fly?"

"I didn't always have this many abilities, I developed them over time. First I got my strength, then speed, x-ray vision, heat vision, super hearing, super breath and the flying all came later. And my body seems to become more and more invulnerable the older I get."

Lois was in a word, impressed. "Woah, you got a lot of weaponry there Smallville..." Clark smiled. "But back to the x-ray vision thing, is it just like an x-ray, or can you see through things?" Lois raised an eyebrow, knowing the answer as Clark turned light pink at the implication.

"Either, I can control it enough now for it to be what I need at the time." Clark didn't like this. 'Why do they always focus on the x-ray vision?'

"Prove it."

Clark turned a deeper shade of puce - only Lois could do that to him in two words. "H- How?" He was afraid of her answer, even with his invulnerability she could make him feel like a frightened little puppy.

"What shape is my birthmark?"

Clark wanted to man up, so he asked more bravely than he felt, "Where is it?"

"Have a look, you'll be sure to find it sooner or later." Lois smiled, enjoying the chance to make him squirm.

"Lois, I-"

She interrupted his attempt to get out of it. "Clark, it's a simple enough question. What shape is it?"

Clark gulped and started to x-ray the less humiliating parts of her body in search of the birthmark. His face was the shade of a tomato by the time he had found the answer to her question. He looked at her, hazel eyes twinkling. 'She was so dead.' "You don't have a birthmark."

"Exactly." Lois turned and ran out of the barn, she was already having so much fun with this and she hadn't even warmed up yet. Just as she was getting a good distance from the wooden structure, Lois turned back to see how far away he was, still running as she did. A gust of wind whooshed past her and she was caught by a pair of strong arms around her waist. "Huh? Hey that's not fair! Powers are cheating Smallville!"

"Oh and that little birthmark test in the loft was fair was it?"

"Like you didn't enjoy that Smallville. Just like you didn't enjoy checking me out this morning..." Lois felt a smug satisfaction as she saw Clark's face give red a whole new tinge.

"But... But... You were asleep!" Clark couldn't believe it, how had she known?

"Come on Smallville, you know I don't get out of bed before eleven unless we're working at the Planet. Besides, I didn't mind the view I got of your own sleeping wear."

Lois and Clark continued their whole new level of bantering hand-in-hand all the way to the house. They would eventually go to Chloe and tell her everything, but it's not like they were short of time. Suddenly it seemed as if the future was a whole lot brighter and the truth of their entwined destinies was a lot less scary. This was the beginning of something amazing - and to think all of that came from a chance meeting in a cornfield.

In the future they would be known as the world's ultimate lovers, but they knew that they couldn't have been given that title if they hadn't been as we all knew them:

Friends First...

Fin

A/N So that could be the end of my first ever Smallville fic. And I'd just like to say that I had a great time writing it. Just want to say a big thank you to everyone who favourited this story or added it to their alerts. I also wanted to thank for everyone's reviews, ideas and support. I have decided to do an epilogue, just to tie off the loose ends so that you know what happens to Wright, Chloe, Oliver, Lois, Clark and everyone in the future.

Lots of Love

Kizzy x