A/N: My dear readers, Finally the new chapter... :) I am sooo sorry for the long wait!

Busard: Tess' intentions will start to get a bit more clear with the next chapter...

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A huge thanks goes to my betas Dragon166, and Astha22 as well as a special thanks to Supesfan18 for the creative input in this story!

4.

"Celeste?" Jason asked on their drive back home from the shopping center.

The young woman looked into the rearview mirror while still keeping an eye on the road. "What's up?" she asked, pressing out a smile. She was still not in the condition to think straight.

"Are you okay?" he asked her, concerned.

She gulped and fought back the tears as she nodded. She didn't want him to notice that she was still very shaken up. The thought that something bad could have happened to him or Jasmine still sent million of shivers down her spine.

The car went quiet as Jason plopped back into his seat. Clark just looked at his wife. He could feel the tension rolling off her. Releasing a long sigh, he stared out of the window. A year ago, Lex Luthor and Kitty Kowalski had been sighed in public after almost killing Superman with blue Kryptonite six months before. The criminal mastermind had been immediately arrested and imprisoned while there had been no charges against his female companion. Unfortunately, the district attorney hadn't had any chance to press charges against Luthor either. Not the robbery in the museum, not the creation of New Krypton, and certainly not for almost killing Superman. Lex had come free after only twenty-four hours in prison.

Clark was so angry right now. It had been sheer luck that he had heard Celeste's heartbeat shooting up rapidly. When he had arrived at the supermarket, he had instantly noticed the Kryptonite, making it impossible for him to help his wife, his son and Lois' and Richard's little girl as Superman. How lucky that I could scare him away just by showing up, he thought. Lex Luthor was a genius when it came to planing a crime, but what had happened at the supermarket indicated that his archenemy was absolutely desperate. Something was really off and this concerned him greatly. Celeste was in great danger and so was Jason. With another sigh he turned his head and looked at Jason. He needed to make sure that they were safe. He couldn't afford something like the incident at the supermarket to be happening again. This was why he made the decision to cut back his duties as Superman until he was sure they were absolutely safe.

Celeste didn't want to face her husband. She knew that he was concerned. He had told her often enough, but she had always played the threat down as she thought the criminal had no reason to threaten her as he didn't know that Clark Kent was Superman. But unfortunately, she hadn't realized that Lex would do anything to go after Jason in order to threaten Superman and therefore after the people who spent time with the young boy. She felt bad, really bad and she had to admit that she was really scared to see the monster again as an ice cold shiver ran down her spine just by thinking of it.

Sighing, she glanced at her husband, who took gently her hand and squeezed it.

Clark was sitting on the floor later that evening, his legs crossed, cuddled up with Celeste who was sitting in his lap and kissing him passionately. Stripping off her top, he smiled.

"What are you doing?" she asked sheepily, nodding into direction of the room where Jason and Jasmine were sleeping. She was really relieved that he hadn't lectured her at all about what had happened in the supermarket.

He stopped, x-rayed the room, smiled, and looked deep into her green eyes.

"Celebrating the second anniversary when we met the first time."

"That's not fair Mr. Kent. Your son saw me first," Celeste protested, trying to stand up. "I should get some lime squash and have a toast with him," she said as her whole face lit up with her gorgeous smile.

Catching her arm, he swept her back into his lap and placed a passionate kiss on her lips. "Yes. But it was my coat that kept you warm that night," he stated mischievously as he helped her out of her pyjama bottoms, leaving her sitting naked in his lap.

Celeste moaned. She didn't want to wait any longer and shifted her body to straddle on his strong thighs.

Kissing him passionately, she confessed, "Have I ever told you, that I felt asleep wrapped in your coat?"

"No," he realized beween her kisses as he also got rid of his clothes. "But I knew the moment I had the coat back."

Now Celeste stopped kissing him.

"How?" she asked curiously.

He just shifted a bit and started to make love with her very slowly.

"Because it smelled irresistibly of your perfume," he whispered, closing his eyes, enjoying to be so close to her and having her safe in his arms.

Celeste just smiled as a little moan escaped her throat. They both got lost in their intimate movements as silent snow flakes began falling on the floor outside of the apartment.

Celeste woke up as she heard Jasmine crying. She and Clark were still lying on the floor, where they had made love before, and she was somehow tangled in between Clark's legs and arms. When she stood up, he shifted a bit.

"What happened?" he asked sleepily, slowly opening his eyes.

As his wife got up from the floor, she said "Lois told me that Jasmine's molar teeth are about to break through and that she is sometimes very unsettled during the night."

She slipped into her nightgown and walked into the office, where Jasmine was standing in the travel bed. Thick tears were rolling down the little girl's cheeks as she was putting one of her fist into her mouth.

"Oh my poor darling," Celeste said and swept the crying child in her arms.

"Hm... Is she okay?" Jason turned around to face Celeste, still half asleep.

Clark, who had come into the room right after Celeste, tousled his son's hair and bent down to give him a kiss on his brow.

"She's okay buddy. Just a bit of a tooth ache," he explained.

Jason nodded. "Mmmmmmmkay," and turned around to continue sleeping.

Celeste just smiled and went out of the room.

"Could you please pass me on the Nurofen? Lois asked me to give it to her when she is too unsettled," she asked her husband while trying to soothe the crying girl and brushing her tears from her face with her palms.

After she had given her the medicine, she tucked Jasmine in between her and Clark in their bed. The girl was still upset, but eventually the Nurofen started to work and she fell asleep in Celeste's arms.

Clark sweeped a blonde lock of hair out of Celeste's face and tucked it behind her ear and glanced dreamingly into her deep green eyes.

"I love you," he stated and smiled.

"I love you, too," his wife replied and kissed him passionately on his lips.

She glanced deep into his eyes and bit her bottom lip as she evaluated if she should tell him what else had happened that day.

"I got an offer to play a role in a Hollywood movie before this stupid henchman guy showed up and tried to kidnap Jason," she finally told him the big news of the day.

"What?" Clark shouted out, now sitting upright.

"Sssssssssschhhhhhhhhhtttttt," Celeste tried to calm him down. When Clark saw that Jasmine started to cry again, he apologized as he took the little girl into his arms to soothe her. The moment Jasmine was in his arms, she closed her eyes again and felt instantly asleep.

Celeste tilted her head to the left.

"How do you do that?" she asked, smiling.

"I'm just irresistible with women. This is just one of my abilities. Did you forget?" he teased her.

"How could I?" Celeste replied, sitting up and catching his chin to kiss him.

"Tell me about the offer," he asked when she had released his lips again.

With a long sigh, Celeste crossed her legs and brushed a strain of raven black hair out of his face.

"The producer of the movie called me today. His name is Chung Hong. He even showed up in the grocery shop to get an answer out of me."

"What? He stalked you?" Clark asked, looking concernedly into her eyes.

"Don't worry. I scared him away," she reassured him.

Now he smiled. "I bet you did. What did he offer you exactly?"

Celeste sighed. "A lead role in a movie about a dancer moving into the big city to find her fortune."

"Wow. That sounds familiar," he realized.

"Yes it certainly does. Anyway, I'm not sure if I want to take the offer. I mean, he didn't have the chance to explain how I would be involved, but apart from this, I'm not sure if we can afford to have people snooping into our lives. Especially with what's going on at the moment with Lex Luthor."

Now Clark looked deep into her eyes.

"You mean snooping into my life."

She just shrugged. "Yes, in your and Superman's life. What if one of this bloody paparazzis somehow gets a hint?"

Clark bent a bit forward and smiled in his sweetest smile.

"What makes you think you will be famous after the movie is released?"

She burst out into laugher.

"Clark Jerome Kent," she stated between her giggles. "You are the cheekiest boy I have ever met!"

Clark smiled, got up, and carried Jasmine into her bed where she continued to sleep. When he came back into the bed, he cuddled up into Celeste's arms.

"What do you want to do?" he asked and looked at her provocative.

"Well considering he offered me a lead role in a Hollywood blockbuster," she tried to explain, "I would really like to do it. It's so exciting just to think about it."

"Then why don't you try it?"

Celeste sat up and looked at him.

"Are you sure you really can't get Alzheimer's Disease? I just told you why," she said, frustrated, curling her bottom lip to make her point.

"Celeste, I heard you, but I will not stand in your way. And Superman certainly won't either. It's your life, and if you want to do it, then what are you waiting for?"

"Are you really okay with it?" she asked anxiously.

He nodded. "Yes. I will support you with any decision you will make and I will stand one hundred percent behind you."

Now his wife hugged him so hard that he was almost falling out of the bed.

"Thank you, thank you! I love you. I love you. I l-o-v-e you! I will make sure no paparazzo will ever come near us. I promise," she exclaimed excitedly as she was at the same time overwhelmed about the fact that even though they were in real danger and threatened by the foxiest villain in the world, her husband somehow managed to make her feel like they were living a normal life.

Clark caught her chin and kissed her gently. "You're welcome!" he said softly as he released her lips.