---- Chapter 30
Clark covered his mouth as he walked through the bullpen at the Planet, unsuccessfully stifling a yawn. After further talk last night, he and Lois had decided that they would come into work, sleep deprivation and all. He'd flown over to her apartment and grabbed some clothes for her to wear for work, and had said goodnight to her smiling at him as she closed his bedroom door.
He was still shocked she hadn't walked out on him. His heart had stopped when she'd said never again, because knowing Lois, he would have sworn she was going to say she was never going to let him hurt her again and walked out. As it was, things were not only way better than he'd expected after that conversation, but they were just all around better than he could have hoped.
She'd kissed him! Better yet, she'd been thinking about kissing him and what cold have been for months, just like he had. That fact was getting him through the day, because he'd barely slept for three days. After last night, he'd been so revved up that things were going to hell that sleep had been evasive at best. The previous couple had been full of saves. He may not need as much sleep as a human did, but three days without and heavy Superman duty was taking its toll.
"Kent! Get in here!"
Clark was about to sit down but straightened back up a little bit, leaving his shoulders in their usual workplace slouch as he walked back to Perry's office. He walked in and closed the door behind him.
"You bellowed, Chief?"
Perry handed him a file folder, not saying anything. Clark looked in it, finding documents about military personnel in Washington D.C. and other areas of the world.
"What is this?"
"An old contact of mine got that to me today. He says that all the military personnel in that file are part of a joint LexCorp and a rogue government agency plan to take out the Justice League."
Clark's head shot up from the file to Perry, his eyes wide. Perry couldn't know, could he? "Then why are you giving this to me? This story has Lois written all over it."
"Keep looking at the files."
Confused, Clark flipped through the personnel names, going through it until he stopped at a name.
"That can't be right."
"That's why I didn't give this to Lois. If this all checks out then she's not going to be able to stay objective. Hell, I don't mind my writers getting personally involved in a story, just look at Lois, but handing something like this to her would be like handing dynamite to a pyromaniac."
Clark sighed, flipping the file folder closed and rubbed at his forehead with his free hand. "I can't lie to her, Chief. I'd been keeping something from her for a while now and told her last night. She understood and we're closer because of it. If I do this and don't tell her about it after that, though, she will hurt me."
Clark watched as Perry sat down behind his desk, frowning and rubbing his hands together. "I'm not going to tell you that you can't tell Lois about this. No offense, but she's the best and would really help find out if this is legitimate quickly."
"None taken, Chief. I know that she's better than me at finding the facts about things, no matter how much trouble it gets her into. That being said, I think she has the right to know. She will remove parts of me that I'm fond of if I don't tell her."
"Fine. Take her into a conference room and show her the file."
"I take it you don't want to be there for this."
"I'm sure I'll be seeing her about it, there or not, since I'm the one that got the information."
Clark looked at the closed folder once more before nodding to Perry and walking out. Lois had gotten like three hours of sleep, and now he had to break this kind of news to her. She was going to think the worst, then kill him for being the messenger. The part he dreaded was that she was going to be hurt. He'd seen enough of that last night.
He walked over to Lois's desk, where she was chewing on a pencil and staring at her computer screen. There were two empty Starbuck's cups on her desk and a coffee mug within arms length. Maybe he should go get her some more first. After stopping and thinking a second, he doubted it would help any. He finally got to her after bumping into somebody and apologizing.
"Lois?"
She turned to look at him as she pulled the pencil from her mouth. "What's up, Smallville?"
"Let's go talk in the conference room."
She looked back to her screen a second before nodding and standing up, grabbing her coffee cup and walking to the conference room. He followed, a few steps behind. This was just not his day as far as having to tell Lois stuff went.
Clark watched as Lois leaned back against the conference table, looking at him with curiosity. "Ok, here we are. What's going on?"
Clark handed her the file folder and watched her start to flip through. "Perry got this from an old source today. These people are supposedly involved in a joint venture of LexCorp and a rogue government agency to take out the Justice League."
"Are you kidding me?"
"I don't know yet. I got the file about three minutes before you did."
"Speaking of, why did Chief give you this and not me? This is my kind of story because of my contact with Superman." She looked up at him, smirking. "Because of my contact with you, I guess."
"Glad to be of help. The reason he gave it to me is because..."
"Holy shit."
"Yeah."
She looked up at him. "This is wrong. It has to be wrong."
"Let's prove it."
The room was quickly silent as Lois read the file and Clark stood there with his hands in his pockets. He didn't want to interrupt her but he also wanted to tell her that everything was going to be ok.
"What are you going to do about this?"
Clark shook his head, pulling himself from his musings and looked to Lois. "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that somebody is possibly threatening the Justice League with LexCorp backing it. What are you, being you, going to do about it?"
Clark shrugged. "I'll get word up to the others and investigate with you."
"That's it?"
"Were you expecting something more?"
"I don't know. Superman... you and I never really delved too far into the topic of the Justice League. I always meant to, but we would get on to a different topic and I'd forget about it."
"Don't you usually write your questions down?"
Lois rolled her eyes and stood up. "We were just talking when you stopped by my balcony, not doing interviews. It's not like I was going to try and script my questions to a friend about his work. That would be strange, even for me."
"True." Clark took the file from her and sped read through it. "Well, there's nothing in here directly linking anybody to LexCorp or an attack on the League." He looked up at Lois, who was frowning. "What?"
She waved a hand at the file. "Now I know how you get things done so quickly. I always thought you'd just taken a speed reading course and done a lot of typing, but with what I know now, things make a lot more sense."
Clark smiled at her. "Guess I lost all my mysterious qualities, didn't I?"
"Yeah, but you gain everything you lost and a lot more by being somebody that saves people and the world." Lois snapped her fingers. "That's why you're always making the lame excuses and running off!"
"Correct."
"I knew you couldn't forget your wallet or leave your oven on every single day. Or forget dry cleaning that often, not to mention appointments with doctors and dentists. You don't even see them, do you?"
"No dentists. I've had a couple doctors, though. We can talk about that later, though. I'm going to go talk to... you know who Batman is, don't you?" It just struck him as he was about to say the name Batman. Lois knew Bruce, both claiming to be very close.
In response to his question, she nodded. "Well then, I'm going to go see Bruce and let him know about this. He can get in touch with everybody faster than I can."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I have to find them while Bruce can get in touch with them with the comm system in a snap."
"Chloe knows too, doesn't she?"
"Yeah, for a while now." He thought about it for a moment, trying to come up with the years. "It's been about nine years now, actually. I can't believe that it's been that many years, even if I was absent for about half of them.
"Anyway, like I said, we can talk about this later. I'm going to go talk to Bruce and be back in about half an hour, ok?"
"Sounds good. I'm going to do some more background on these names, which should take approximately the same amount of time."
Clark smiled at her and walked out of the room, making his way over to the stairwell. He x-rayed up to the roof, finding nobody there or in between, and sped up to it. He took off a second later, having switched into his Superman suit, and sped towards Gotham. A moment later he was landing in front of the Wayne Manor, back in his work clothes and ringing the doorbell. Alfred soon opened it.
"Ah, Mr. Kent. Please come in."
"Thanks, Alfred. Is Bruce here?"
"He's sleeping. Would you like me to wake him?"
"Yes, please. This isn't urgent, but it needs to be looked into sooner rather than later."
A few minutes later, Bruce was walking into the den Clark was sitting in. He stood up, giving the man an apologetic smile. "Sorry to wake you, Bruce."
"Don't worry about it, Jack and my other duties would have had me up soon anyway. What's going on?"
"I got a file at work today. Perry received information on military officials working for a rogue government agency and LexCorp. Their supposed target is the League."
"Where's the file?"
"Lois has it back at the Planet. She's doing further research into the background of everybody in it as we speak. I'll have a copy of everything in it to you by this evening. Right now, though, I think you should let everybody know so they can keep their eyes open for any possible surveillance or odd happenings."
"They'll know soon enough. Come on."
Clark followed Bruce and both were soon in the Batcave. Bruce had already contacted Oliver, Bart and Diana and was attempting to get A.C.
"I'm going to head back to Metropolis, Bruce," Clark said. "You know everything I know and I told Lois I'd be back from seeing you by now."
"Wait, you told Lois you were going to come here? Why?"
"I told her I'm Superman last night."
"About time. You do know my wife is going to kill you for not bringing her in to help with that task, don't you?"
"I hadn't thought about it until you mentioned it, but yes, she'd going to make sure Jack is safely with you and then find a way to harm me. You don't keep kryptonite around, do you?"
"Fortunately for you, no."
Clark let out a sigh of relief. He couldn't believe that he hadn't told Chloe about the fact that Lois knew yet, even if he was working on minimal rest. Poor Jack was going to lose his Uncle Clark before he even really got to know him. Clark pulled at his tie a little bit. Poor Uncle Clark was more like it.
"Ok then. I'm going to head back because Lois is bound to do something rash. Now that her partner is virtually indestructible, she's liable to do even more things that will scare years off my life, however long it may be."
"Good luck."
Clark flew out of the Batcave and back to Metropolis, landing on the roof of the Planet . He decided to walk down the stairs at normal speed, which took him a few minutes but he finally got down to his floor. He walked into the bullpen, looking around for Lois but not spotting her.
"Kent! Where have you been?"
Clark looked over at Perry, who was standing next to his desk. "I had an errand to run, chief. What's going on?"
"What's going on is Lois rushed out of here about twenty minutes ago yelling something about clearing a name. You know what I'm talking about."
"Yeah. Any idea where she went?"
"No."
"Alright, I'll try to find her." Clark grabbed the file off of Lois's desk and handed it to Perry. "Could you have somebody make copies of everything in here?"
"Consider it done. Jimmy!"
Clark walked to the elevators, getting into one as it opened up and hitting the lobby button. It seemed to take forever but he finally got to the ground floor. He stepped out of the building, watching people shuffle by. It was a beautiful day, really, and he'd have noticed it more if he wasn't so focused on finding Lois. How was he going to do it, though?
He joined a throng of people walking then ducked into an alley a second later. He quickly switched clothes and took off flying, looking at the city below. He was probably overreacting, really. Lois was probably not doing anything insane like she usually did. He bet that she had just been...
Oh, who the hell was he kidding? She was out there doing what she did best in all likelihood, and it was only going to be a matter of time before...
"Superman!"
Clark's hearing picked up on Lois calling him. He sped back towards it, pushing himself to be faster. He stopped above an ordinary looking building not far from the Planet. He x-rayed the building and spotted Lois tied up in a room that also contained two guys with knives.
He sped down into the building and to Lois's position. He knocked out the men without any hassle and moved over to Lois, tearing the ropes away, followed by the rag they'd tied around her mouth.
"Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. Nothing out of the ordinary, really."
"How did you even yell for me with that gag on?"
"They didn't gag me until I called for you."
"They bad guys never learn, do they?"
"Doesn't look like it, no."
Clark smiled and pulled her into a hug, which she reciprocated. He let her go a second later. "Sorry, it's just..."
She smiled at him. "I feel the same way."
"How do you manage to get into this much trouble in the half hour that I was in Gotham talking to Bruce? It's almost like you have your own power: able to find trouble in a single bound."
"Ha. Ha. Your attempts at humor aside, I found something that a few of the people in the file had in common and that was this place. Welcome to Panther Corp."
"Panther Corp? What do they do here?"
"I don't know, that's why I came. What I do know," she said as she reached into her blouse, "is that I have these documents and would like to go back to the Planet to look them over."
He smiled as he saw her break out into a wide grin. He didn't know how she did it, but she always seemed to get what she wanted, even when taken hostage. "Sounds like a plan." He picked her up and flew them out of there, this time landing and setting her down in front of the Planet. Time to put on the act.
"Please, Miss Lane, be more careful in the future."
"You know me, Superman."
"That's why I'm asking."
Clark flew off, landing nearby after making a quick inspection of the city. He walked back to the building and took the elevator up, pushing his glasses up his nose as he exited into the bullpen. He spotted Lois talking to Perry by their desks, and walked over to them. Yet another show to put on. "Lois! Where'd you go?"
"I was out being a journalist, Smallville. You'll have to try it sometime."
"I'll see what I can do. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. Superman saved me, everything worked out fine. Plus, we got these." She lifted up the papers as evidence of her success.
"Lois, hun, I don't know how you do it, but you always do. You and Clark are going to crack this in no time. Keep me updated."
Clark watched Perry head back to his office before turning back to Lois. "So, what exactly did you get over there aside from bound and gagged?"
"I found that all the people in that file that were ex-military had done or were currently doing consulting for that company, Panther Corp. According to these papers, they're a security firm for the high and mighty, providing top level guards and technology for a few Fortune 500 businesses. Want to take a wild guess about who recently acquired it?"
"LexCorp."
"Right. I'm thinking baldy knew their reputation and is using them to get the best security he can for something. The papers are a print out of the LexCorp account. I was shocked that they didn't have the stuff encrypted or something, but I'm not going to complain. We now know all the security measures they've taken and where the facility is."
"That's almost too good to be true."
"I know. I haven't had a chance to check into anything, of course, but we'll probably have some more answers in a few hours."
A few hours later, Lois and Clark were stumped. The facility that was listed on the paper did not exist, at least not so far as they could tell. The road didn't exist and the building didn't exist. Clark had even done a flyover to make sure and there was nothing, after which he'd felt ridiculous because he was trying to find something that didn't exist.
"This explains the easily acquired papers."
"If you call being taken prisoner easy, I'm afraid of what you classify as difficult."
"You know what I mean, Smallville." Lois tossed the papers on the desk and picked up the file folder again. "I just can't figure out why she's in here. Lucy isn't military, yet she's in a file with a bunch of current and former military personnel, possibly involved with a plot to take down the Justice League.
"I talked to her recently and she sounded great. She's on good terms with the General and has a steady job in D.C. She even has this new boyfriend named Paul! Everything points to her being a regular person, or at least as regular as a Lane can get, but now I find out she may be involved in this. What the hell happened?"
Clark leaned forward, running a hand through his hair. "We'll figure this out, Lois. I promise."
"But when? We don't know if this is legitimate, and if it is, we don't know what their plan is or when it's going to happen. They could have kryptonite, Clark, and knowing Lex probably do. What would happen if they actually took out some of the Justice League?"
"That isn't going to happen, Lois, I promise. We won't let it." He wasn't sure if he meant that the League wouldn't or the two of them wouldn't, but he knew that one way or another he needed to be correct. Neither of his teams could let something like this happen.
"Damn!"
Clark had looked away for a second but turned back to find Lois sucking on one of her fingers. "What happened?"
"Paper cut," she said around her finger.
"That big a damn for a paper cut?"
"Hey, trying to prove that my little sister isn't part of a plan to take out a couple people I'm very close to, not to mention people that save lives, is leaving me a little stressed out, ok?"
Clark held up his hands in surrender. "Sorry, sorry." He picked up the copy of the files on his desk. "Look, I'm going to take these to Bruce. Since we never stopped for lunch and it's basically dinner time, albeit an early one, you want me to bring something back?"
"No, I'm just going to order some Chinese."
"I can get better stuff, I promise. Very authentic, if you get my drift."
She eyed him for a second before shrugging. "Fine. I doubt it could happen, but if you bring back food that isn't as good as the stuff we usually order, I'm going to get some from our usual place and make you pay for it."
"Deal."
Clark flew to Gotham and dropped the file off with Bruce, then quickly took off for China. Twenty minutes later he was landing on the roof of the Planet. He quickly switched into his suit again and sped down the stairs and walked into the bullpen, setting the food down on his desk. He looked around but couldn't find Lois anywhere. He walked over to Perry's office and knocked on the door, entering when a gruff response came.
"Chief, have you seen Lois?"
"Not in the past few minutes. Why?"
"No reason, really. I just brought us some food and figured she'd want to get at it while it's hot but..."
Clark looked back towards their adjoining desks and found Lois digging into one of the cartons of food. "Nevermind. Guess she was just in the restroom or something."
Clark walked back to his desk, smiling as Lois spotted him. "What were you doing in Perry's office?"
"Looking for you. I've left here twice today and you were gone both times I got back. After this morning, I was playing the odds that you'd left to follow a hunch."
"Sorry, just a bathroom break."
They ate quietly, each lost in thoughts about what could happen if the implications about the people in the file were true. While Clark certainly didn't want an attack on his friends, he didn't want to see Lois get hurt either by having her sister involved in something like this. If such a plan came to fruition and was executed, he had no idea what would happen to Lucy if she were caught.
He put his food down and flipped through all the files again. Other than the Panther Industries connection Lois had found, he hadn't been able to get anything on these people. Aside from her, they were all exemplary soldiers; from a General to some Privates, not a one of them had a bad mark on his record. The fact that they could be involved in a plot with LexCorp... it just didn't seem right.
"I think we're going about this the wrong way."
"What?"
Clark sat up from his slightly reclined position and let his elbows rest on his desk. "I said I think we're going about this the wrong way. Instead of finding connections about them that aren't listed, we need to figure out what the common thread is between all of them. I mean, not a one has a black mark on his record. We both checked that to make sure. Let's take this down to the basic facts and see what they have in common, like we should have from the beginning."
"Alright, so they're all strangely prone to good behavior, outside of the fact that they're allegedly trying to off some of Earth's best inhabitants." She paused a second. "I need to be able to see the information without flipping through the folder."
Lois grabbed the file, a couple cartons of food and her bottle of water and started walking back towards a conference room. Clark quickly grabbed the rest of the food and followed. He found Lois starting to lay out each of the files on top of the conference table. Once done, she started in on her rice again.
"Check where they're all from, Smallville."
He did as asked. What he found was surprising. "Huh."
"What?"
"They're all from Metropolis or a nearby city."
"That's unusually helpful, and I feel stupid for not checking it sooner. Nice of these jackass traitors to be born so nearby, though."
"I wonder..." Clark quickly wrote down all the names and walked out of the conference room. He found Jimmy standing near Perry's office.
"Jimmy!"
"Yeah, CK?"
"I need you to check these names for me, all records you can find about most current residence."
Jimmy took the list from him, giving it a quick once over before giving a nod. "You got it."
Clark walked back to the room and found that Lois hadn't moved while he was gone. "I'm having Jimmy check all current residences for the people we have files on."
"I'm going to go out on a limb and say he's going to have a problem finding anything. Lex wouldn't be sloppy enough to let men he's working with be listed in anything. No, what we need to do is find Lucy."
"What?"
"If I can find Lucy and talk to her... I don't know. I just need to find her."
"Why don't you call they General, see if he might know. They've been pretty close ever since your attack. I wouldn't find it a stretch if he knew where she was, even if she was supposed to be under the radar."
"I already did. He said that he talked to her a couple days ago when he was in D.C., but she had a plane to catch not long after they had lunch and couldn't tell him where she was going. She claimed it was because of work."
"What company does she work for?"
"Um, Yuan Cell."
"What do they do?"
"I have no idea. I was so happy that Lucy had settled down and taken a real job I never bothered to do a background check on the company. Call me crazy, but I didn't think I had to. I know Lucy was running from the authorities for a long time, but I really thought she'd cleaned her act up this time."
"We don't know anything yet, Lois, not really. Don't jump to any judgements yet. Even with her history, give Lucy the benefit of the doubt because this seems pretty ambitious for her. I'm going to go out and see what information I can find on them. Keep checking those files for commonalities."
Clark headed out to his desk, sitting down and typing in Yuan Cell for a search. He came up with three companies that didn't even have a website in English and one that did, so he found a phone number for it and dialed.
"Yuan Cell Technologies, this is Barbara. How may I direct your call?"
"Hi, this is Clark Kent of the Daily Planet. I was wondering if you could connect me to an employee based out of Washington D.C. named Lucy Lane."
"I'm sorry, sir, but our company doesn't have any employees based anywhere but our office here in Des Moines."
"Ok, thank you very much."
Clark put the phone down, frowning. He had thought as Lois had, that Lucy had turned herself around and started a clean life for herself. Sighing, he stood up and walked back into the conference room, where he found Lois staring at a piece of paper. He didn't think she'd even heard him come in again until she spoke.
"Struck out, didn't you?."
"How'd you know?"
She held the piece of paper up, which he took from her hand and looked at.
YUAN CELL LUCY LANE
"It's an anagram," he breathed out, his shoulders slumping. He looked back to her as she rested her face in her hands.
"You got it, Smallville."
"How you kids doing in here?"
Clark looked over to Perry, who was standing in the doorway holding his jacket. "We've had better days, Chief. We thought we had some early success today, but that turned out to be fairly useless and haven't come up with much since."
"Well, I'm headed home for the night, and both of you look like you could use a good nights sleep. Don't work too late. Lois, I'm sorry about all this."
"Thanks, Perry."
Clark gave him a weak smile and nod goodbye, watching him walk away before turning and looking out the window at the Metropolis skyline. The sun was setting behind the jumble of skyscrapers. He looked at Lois, and found she was sitting back in her chair, staring off into space. He sat down next to her.
"Perry's right, Lois. We should head home, get some sleep. We're both working on minimal sleep after last night, which was exhausting in its own right."
"If I'm on my own, I'm liable to get myself into trouble, which I'm too tired for, or worse yet, brood on my sisterly failures. If it's alright, I'm just going to crash at your place."
"You don't even have to ask, Lois."
The cab ride to his place was quiet. Clark would glance over at Lois every couple minutes to find her staring out the window. He hated that this was taking such a toll on her. She'd already started blaming herself for the situation if the sisterly failures line was any indication. He wished she wouldn't be so hard on herself when it came to the failures of others, but doubted it would be easy to break her of a long standing habit.
They got to his building and he paid the driver. They walked into the building silently, and rode up in the elevator the same way. He almost felt like he was back in the time when she'd barely talk to him, but he knew her mind was elsewhere and he didn't want to push her into a conversation she didn't want.
Clark held the door to his apartment open for Lois as she walked in and closed it behind himself. Taking off his jacket, he walked to his room and tossed it on the bed, then loosened his tie and tossed it with his jacket before walking back out to the living room and finding Lois sitting on the couch and staring out into space. He couldn't hold his silence anymore.
"Are you ok?"
"I don't know, Smallville. I thought I was done with all this Lucy bullshit, but here I am again, trying to figure out what she's doing, where she's doing it and why. No, you know what," she said, "I'm not alright. Today was already going to be a long day because of the very little sleep, but add this kind of news on it and I feel like I've run two marathons today.
"I mean, this day went from us making out like horny teenagers to you dropping a freaking bombshell on me that your Superman. And hey, I think I handled the situation like a pro. After that, I get a few hours sleep, we make our way into the Planet and I find out that my sister may very well be involved in a plot to kill you, Bruce and all the other members of the Justice League.
"Today has gone from high to low, and I can't seem to stop it from going lower." She stood up and walked over to him. "I'm sick of it. I don't want to feel low anymore." Clark watched her stop right in front of him, staring into his eyes. Suddenly she grabbed his shirt and pulled him down, kissing him demandingly.
Well, who was he to refuse her demands?
Clark kissed her back for all he was worth, really hoping that it would never end. After last night, he hadn't known if he'd ever have the chance to kiss her again, and here she was initiating things. Leave it to Lois to take huge news like that in stride.
He quickly found himself being guided back through his bedroom door as they broke apart to catch their breath. Clark watched her breathe heavily as she stared at him through what he could only describe as hungry eyes. It only lasted a second though before she lunged at him again, this time getting her tongue into the act right away and yanking at his shirt, which quickly lost its buttons and was pulled off.
Before he knew it, he'd lost his undershirt and pants and they were on the bed, Lois in her bra and skirt straddling him in his boxers as they kissed. Clark started focusing his kisses on the spot where her neck met her collarbone, which produced a sound somewhere between a moan and a purr. Whatever it was, it made him throb just a little more than he had been.
Lois pulled herself up off him and unzipped her skirt, pulling it off. Clark sat up a second later, going back to kissing that great spot and started moving down, kissing her until he got to the top of her breast. With a flick of his finger, he tore her bra in half and threw it away.
"Hey-oh god..."
Clark had started licking around her nipple, teasing it until he finally took it in his mouth and started sucking on it. She was moaning again, and her hips had started grinding into his, eliciting the same response in him. He switched to her other breast, giving it the same treatment he'd given the first.
Very quickly, Clark found himself sans boxers and Lois sans underwear. He wished he could have been surprised she was on top, but with his limited brain function at the moment, he was shocked that he could even be aware of his own name.
Lois kissed him lightly and took hold of him, his eyes nearly rolling up into his head. It had been a long time since he'd been in a position even remotely like this, and that had been him doing everything. This was Lois in her usual role of taking command and making things happen.
Very suddenly, Clark thought of something. He thought he might die if this came back to bite him in the ass, but it needed to be brought up.
"Protection," he mumbled.
"What?" She stroked him again with her hand and he just about lost the will to speak.
"I don't have any... protection..."
"On the pill."
She stroked him one last time then positioned him at her entrance, not pausing before sliding down on top of him. Clark just about lost it right there. He opened his eyes after a second and found her with her eyes closed, mouth slightly open before she opened her eyes and locked in on his. They just stayed like that a moment before she started moving, Clark's hips thrusting up to meet her of their own volition.
This was too good, and the way she was staring at him... He leaned up and kissed her, unable to stop himself. Her pace increased, and he found himself making noises he didn't know he could make. Their tongues started moving in a very similar rhythm to their bodies and Clark grabbed her hips, hoping to slow her down to make things last.
Did she just growl?
He could feel her fighting his grip, so he moved one hand from her hips to her butt, squeezing it lightly. Soon his other hand started migrating and she picked up the pace again. He could feel her contracting around him and knew it was just a matter of time, for him anyway. Her moans and various other sounds were getting a lot louder, and he hoped it meant she was there because he was.
When she yelled his name, all control disappeared and he let himself go, thrusting up one last time as he came inside her. He couldn't tell, but he might have been yelling her name. His brain was too numb to know one way or another.
Lois collapsed on his chest. It took a second to get started, but he wrapped an arm around her, knowing that it was just about the extent of his physical abilities at the moment. He thanked every deity he could think of for not having somebody call for help and interrupt them. After years of questioning it, maybe somebody up there, out there, wherever, really did like him.
"Ok," Lois said, "I can't believe that you've only had sex once before this. That was... so good I can't think of a word worthy to describe it."
He smiled down at her, but could only really see the top of her head. "I guess I was just waiting for the right woman."
He watched her crane her neck to look at him, eyeing him a second before she shook her head and scooted up, resting her head on his chest and yawning. "That is just the cheesiest thing I've ever heard, Smallville, and I totally believe it." She closed her eyes and kissed his chest. "Ok, nap time, then round two... wow, you have a great chest..."
He could barely make the final few words out as she mumbled herself into slumber. He felt his eyes drooping and looked at Lois one last time before allowing his eyes to fall shut. The last thought he had before falling asleep was about how much he loved Lois.
