"What the hell are you talking about?"
Lois' tone meant business.
"Yeah, Ollie, what do you know?" AC said, having a feeling it must be pretty juicy, judging from the deep red Clark was beginning to turn.
"I'm just sayin', I think Clark got farther than you or I did," Oliver said, amidst a chuckle. Seeing Lois' ticked off glare, Ollie cleared his throat. "Of course, you were on some kind of love potion."
"That would explain it," Bart grinned.
Turning slowly to Clark, Lois crossed her arms over her chest. "You're very quiet, Clark," she said, emphasizing her use of his first name instead of her nickname for him.
"Um…well…"
"Start talking."
"Oh I can do better than that," Oliver grinned, getting up out of the chair. Clark looked at Ollie, having a feeling he knew what Ollie was going for, and quickly stands up to block his way.
"You don't wanna do this," Clark muttered.
"Hey man, I thought you told her. What'd you say? No more secrets?"
He stole a glance at a now fuming Lois, and also noticed Bart slowly inching away from her on the sofa. Just met her and already he can sense the outburst coming.
"And I meant it," Clark said quietly, but determinedly. "I just…sorta forgot about this one."
"Forgot about what one?" Lois said through clenched teeth, suddenly standing next to him and Oliver.
"Now Lois…"
"Don't you 'now Lois' me Clark Kent. Start talking!"
Oblivious to the grins of the four other men in the room, Lois moved herself directly in front of Clark, fists clenched at her side. Oliver wagged his eyebrows at Clark over Lois' head, smiling triumphantly. His bluff to retrieve what Clark thought he was going for had totally worked. Taking his seat, he prepared himself for the show. And there was no better show than a worked up Lois.
"Um…maybe we should go somewhere and talk…"
"Oh no…no way. I want your buddies here to see a mere mortal girl kick your extra terrestrial ass."
"It's not what you think," he said pointedly.
"What I think is that you remember that night, even though you swore to me you didn't!"
"Okay…then it is what you think…," he responded, an attempt at humor. "But I didn't lie…"
"Like hell you didn't!"
"No, I mean…ok I lied about that…but I didn't lie about…you know," he said, leaning closer to her. Well, as close as he dared with her current mood.
"No, Clark, I don't know…what?"
"He means you didn't christen anything here. Well, fully anyway," Oliver interjected, offering a life preserver to the drowning man in front of him.
Of course, by doing that, he had leapt right into the deep end. He cringed slightly as Lois turned toward him.
"You seem to know an awful lot," she said slowly, her tone calculated.
"Wait a minute," Bart chimed in. "You were here?"
Victor cleared his throat. "Here? Um….where exactly?" he asked, suddenly jumping up out of his chair and deciding to just lean against the back of it.
Turning back to Clark, fresh anger washing over her as the implication hit her, Lois planted her closed fists on her hips. "You brought me here that night?"
"Well…yeah," Clark said weakly.
"You brought me to my ex-boyfriend's apartment?"
"I wasn't exactly myself either that night Lois," Clark retaliated, in an attempt to defend himself.
"But at least YOU had some idea of what you were doing! That's what you told me about the red K, that it doesn't change you, it just strips away your inhibitions. And you brought me here? WHY?"
Clark shifted his weight uncomfortably, trying desperately to come up with a way to avoid that question. Particularly because the reason he brought her here, the reason for his jealousy that night was sitting less than six feet away from them.
"Wait a minute."
He watched with a hint of relief as Lois whirled back towards Oliver.
"What?" Oliver responded anxiously. He was starting to see this little bluff may not have been his best idea.
"You've got security cameras all over this place don't you?"
Oliver fidgeted slightly, noticeably trying to evade Lois' question when Victor chimed in.
"You kidding? You can't breathe in this place without being on camera," he said, trailing off at the end when he saw the angry stares from both Oliver and Clark.
Taking a deep breath, Lois marched over to Oliver and held out her hand.
"Hand it over."
"Lois, I don't know what you're talking about," Oliver said nervously.
An evil smirk crossed Lois' lips, causing Oliver to squirm uncomfortably.
"Oh really?" she purred, leaning down towards Oliver. "You know, since this seems to be a day for secrets coming out, I'm wondering if your buddies here know all about that little game you like to play…Robin Hood."
"Lois…," Oliver choked out.
"Ohhhh the Jolly Green Archer has some naughty fantasies, huh?" AC said, seeing a usually in control Oliver start to get very flustered.
"Wait a minute," Clark snapped suddenly, none too happy, "You told me you two never…"
"Like you have room to question me right now!"
His jealousy causing him to gain a bit of footing in this argument, he took a step toward her. "I don't know, Lois, seems to me we have a pot kettle situation here."
Standing and turning towards him, Clark saw the fury in those beautiful eyes of hers.
Yeah. Thinking how beautiful she is instead of how you're gonna get out of this alive is the right move right now, a sarcastic voice rang through his head.
"Oh I don't think so. I never lied. We never slept together. Not for lack of trying though. We just got interrupted. A lot," she grumbled, and then turns back to Ollie. "So, I do have some very interesting information that I'm sure our merry archer here would like to keep quiet."
"No, spill, SPILL!"
"You're gonna be Impulse for the rest of your natural born life if you don't shut up," Oliver snapped at a very amused Bart. He then turned to Lois. Seeing she's not kidding around, and knowing he totally brought this on himself, he looked at Clark and shook his head.
"Sorry, man."
Clark watched helplessly as Ollie got up and left the room. When he heard Bart laughing, he turned toward him, glaring.
"Man, this is like the best day ever."
"Leave it to Lois Lane to reduce Green Arrow and the newly christened Superman to nervous little boys," AC chimed in.
Feeling the compliment in AC's words, Lois turned to him, giving him a triumphant grin. Clark rolled his eyes, and is amazed at how Lois almost sensed that and whipped back around towards him. Ollie returned, holding a slim DVD case in his hand.
"Here," he said, holding it out to Lois, who snatched it out of his hand.
"I take it you've seen this?" she said, her eyes moving back and forth between them.
They both mumbled 'yeah', their eyes suddenly finding the floor very interesting.
Lois took a deep breath in, attempting to control her anger.
"Great…that's just…great," she said. Turning towards Bart, Victor, and AC, she suddenly plastered a smile on her face. "Well, it was nice meeting you two. And AC, it was really great to see you again," she said sweetly, and for added emphasis (and to torture Clark), she walked over and leaned down, planting a soft kiss nearer to his lips than Clark would like. Clark groaned softly at that, stuffing his clenched fists into his pockets and trying to ignore the knowing grin on AC's face.
Turning, Lois started heading toward the elevator, but stopped in front of Clark and Ollie.
"I'll deal with you two later," she huffed, and stalked into the lift, slamming the heavy door as best she could.
A stunned silence enveloped the room, Hurricane Lois having achieved its usual effect.
Bart got up from the couch, and headed over to Clark, slapping him on the shoulder.
"Dude, she's awesome!"