The next morning, Chloe had decided to get up early, seen as she didn't really go to sleep at all anyway, she thought there's no point lying around in bed when there's plenty of things to be doing.

She first began by going out to feed the chickens, ever since she had 'temporarily' moved in with Clark when Rikki turned up; she had taken a fondness to the chickens. She found something satisfying about caring for them everyday and being the only thing they looked forward to every morning…well apart from them just wanting their food, Chloe happily thought to herself, as she threw corn to the floor and watched the scurry around her feet, fighting each other for the first band of seeds.

After which, she started tidying up the house and making it more presentable after the mess which they had made before hand whilst comfort eating, when trying to assure Lois that Rikki and her friends were fine and were probably out getting to know their surroundings.

It wasn't long till Clark began to stir to the noise of Chloe bustling around down stairs God what does that woman not do? he thought lying intently, happy to just listen to the love of his life's heartbeat, as he followed her with his hearing around the house.

Long ago when they first began to date, it hadn't taken them long to realise that they were meant for each other and Clark found that anytime away from Chloe was becoming harder and harder. He had always felt protective of Chloe and that hadn't changed, it was a couple of months after they had become serious that he found he could recognise Chloe's heartbeat wherever she was, he could tune his hearing onto her heart anytime, anywhere. At first he thought that this may have been 'stalker like' but when Chloe found out, she thought it was amazing and was happy that they had grown so close together, feeling special to be a part of Clark's life.

He soon decided that he had spent way too much time apart from Chloe already and began his decent down stairs. She was stood over the sink washing up, as he came from behind and slipped his arms around her waist, making her jump, though he felt her quickly relax under his touch.

"Morning sweetie" Clark whispered into her ear, watching her body tremble at his words…he still found it amusing the affect he could have on her with mere words.

"Morning to you to sleepy head…at least you could get to sleep" Chloe started as she flicked water his way, but found he had already seen it coming and had super-sped around to the other side of the table.

"No fair…that's cheating" Chloe playfully whined, dramatically pouting her lips out as she crossed her arms stubbornly, watching Clark's face and how he was trying to decided whether or not she was being sincere or sarcastic. She decided to put him out of his misery before he completely freaked out…he looks so cute when he's confused Chloe thought making her way over to his side.

"Don't worry…it'll take a lot more than that to turn me against 'the man of steel'" Chloe seductively purred as she ran her hand up his broad chest, along his neck until she pulled his head towards her, claiming his lips for what seemed a lifetime, until they were pulled back to reality with the sound of the girls fighting to use the bathroom.

"They're awake…sounds like a job for Superman up there" Chloe teased, when all of a sudden Clark had sped away and returned dressed as Superman in front of her.

"I was only joking Clark…what are you doing, what if they see you!" Chloe questioned, continuously looking to the stairs in case one of them decided to come down. "Wait you have that face what are you listening to?" she ordered her hands sitting purposefully on her hips.

"Sorry Chlo I have to go there's a bank robbery going on in down town New York…I'll be back for breakfast, waffles please…" Chloe swore she heard as he took off out the back door, careful not to let any of their guests see him leave.

"There he goes…maybe he'll be able to take me to New York with him one day for a vacation?" Chloe muttered, her mind wondering to the wonderful things they could do and see…until she was pulled back as Rikki came bounding down the stairs.

"Morning, sorry about last night…we just couldn't get to sleep" Rikki apologised sitting down on one of the stools around the island table.

"Yer I know that feeling" Chloe retorted, as she passed over a glass of fresh orange juice.

"Sorry again…so what's for breakfast? I'm starving"

"Waffles I guess…that's what Clark wants anyway" Chloe explained smiling to herself.

"Cool"

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"Rikki…Rikki…you awake?" Cleo whispered as she leant towards Rikki lying on the bed besides her. They had only two single beds in the room, so Rikki had gotten one to herself, obviously seen as this is her family home and Cleo had whined until Emma decided to let her have the bed for the first night, they had agreed that they would all alternate between the two beds and the sleeping bag.

"Yer…I'm awake I guess" Rikki stammered sleepily, stretching as she sat up in bed.

"Emma…you awake?" Cleo whispered again as she dropped her head off the side of the bed, stopping mere inches away from Emma's face.

"Arrr…Cleo what are you doing in my face?" Emma asked her heart in her throat from the shock.

"Sorry..." Cleo stated innocently as she sat back up on her own bed.

"Don't worry about it"

"God I'm so hungry, with everything that happened yesterday I can't believe we skipped dinner" Rikki groaned stepping out of bed, grabbing her toiletry bag.

"Rikki wait, I am going in the bathroom first…I just spent the whole night in a sleeping bag, I think I deserve it!" Emma declared standing faster than ever before grabbing her own bag and moving to the door.

"What! No way I'm going first!" Rikki shouted back moving faster to try and beat her to the door.

Before Rikki could turn the handler, Emma had frozen the lock, smiling smugly her way.

"Ha that wont stop me" Rikki said as she raised her hand and instantly melted the ice away, pulling the door open and high-tailing it to the bathroom down the hall.

"you should have seen that coming Emma" Cleo chimed in still sat on the bed watching this extremely amusing ordeal pan out before her, secretly knowing that there was another bathroom downstairs and thought to herself that she would wait for these to two to become so distracted with each other to notice her slip away down stairs.

It didn't take long for Cleo's plan to be put into motion as Emma and Rikki stood fighting to get through the small bathroom door. She took one last look and snuck past them and headed down stairs.

Half way down she spotted Clark and Chloe stood talking in the kitchen when she saw something unbelievable…one minute Clark was stood behind Chloe then all of a sudden he was stood on the other side of the room. But Chloe didn't seem fazed by it at all, as though she had seen this many times over.

Cleo was frozen in her tracks, but decided it would be best to not let them know she had seen anything, as she quietly sneaked back up stairs before they noticed she was even there.

Reaching the top, she lifelessly trudged along the landing and walked straight past and angry looking Emma stood outside the bathroom door without so much as a word. Emma could immediately tell that something wasn't right with her when she didn't respond to her words.

"Cleo…CLEO! Where did you go? What's wrong with you?" Emma was almost shouting as she continued to walk mindlessly into their bedroom.

Emma followed her in and watched her slump onto the bed, her appearance still stunned, as she looked as though she thinking really hard about something.

Rikki came out of the bathroom and joined the two girls back in the bedroom, seeing Cleo just sat on the bed and Emma snapping her fingers in front of her face.

"What happened?" Rikki asked throwing her bag down and rushing to Cleo's side.

"Cleo…what's wrong?" Emma asked more calmly placing her hand on Cleo's shoulder.

"I…I…Clark…he…was there then…"

"You're not making any sense Cleo, what are you trying to say?" Rikki asked becoming impatient with her reaction.

"Clark…one minute he was standing with Chloe the next…he…he was on the other side of the room, like within seconds…no, mille-seconds of whatever they call it…but Chloe she…she didn't even seem surprised, like she already knew he could do that" Cleo managed to explain still trying to clarify things in her own mind.

"What…that's impossible" Rikki said obviously looking as though she was not believing anything she was being told.

"Coming from a mermaid!" Emma interrupted, only saying what was already going through all their minds.

"What could this mean…has he got powers like us? Should we tell him what I saw?" Cleo asked only now being able to start thinking without becoming completely confused.

"No! If he wanted to tell us he would have already, we should know better than anyone that keeping our powers secret is vital to our safety, I don't blame him…after all he probably doesn't trust us completely yet, just as we don't trust them with our secret" Emma proclaimed, watching both girls nod in agreement with her.

"You're right…let's just act normal, as though we don't know anything and if he decides to tell us then so be it…come on, get dressed you two I am gunna go down stirs and see what's for breakfast…I'm so hungry" Rikki rolled out as she headed for the door.

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Once everyone was seated in the kitchen, Chloe arranged a plate of waffles on the island table and placed a fresh pitcher of orange down along with it. Watching the girls eyeing her food hungrily as they waited for her permission to dig in.

"Where's Clark, I could have sworn I heard him earlier…I thought you were both off work today?" Rikki questioned, hoping to get some answers about their discovery about Clark from his girlfriend.

"Clark? Oh he…um…he had to pop out for a bit, he'll be back soon…well girls don't just sit there you look starving…dig in" Chloe offered, trying to change the subject before she gave away that she was hiding something.

"I won't say no to that" Cleo replied as she took a fresh waffle off the plate, just as she did all three girls stopped and looked to Chloe when they heard a thud come from up stairs.

"What was that?" Emma asked, dropping her fork and syrup.

"Oh that was probably nothing…don't worry about it…more waffles" Chloe nervously added, as she lifted the plate towards her guests.

The girls decided to take Chloe's word for it, when suddenly they noticed Chloe's eyes practically jump out her head, but when they turned around nothing was there.

"What the hell was that about?" Rikki blurted out as she got up and walked to the bottom of the stairs peering upwards for any sign of movement.

"Rikki come back and eat your breakfast, you don't want it getting cold" Chloe tried again to change the subject but Rikki wasn't budging she definitely has Lois's gene for nosiness.

"Yer Rikki come on" Cleo encouraged, feeling sorry for Chloe knowing that she was trying her best to keep things normal when obviously they were anything but, but she could understand that, this is exactly what she has to do back home.

Before anything more could be said, Clark came walking through the front door, smiling innocently towards the girls and joining Chloe at the opposite end of the table.

"Waffles, my favourite…enough there for me too?" Clark asked as she leant over examining the remains of Chloe's to-die-for waffles.

"Yer…of course, help yourself" Chloe replied smiling one of her toothy smiles, watching Rikki take her seat, a puzzled expression on her face.

"Where did you go this early in the morning Clark?" Rikki questioned, determined to get some answers.

"Oh we had run out of milk so I went to buy some more" He quickly covered as he began to devour his waffles.

"So where is it? I didn't see you come in with any milk" Emma noticed looking around the kitchen, clarifying her thought.

"Oh right, yer I forgot to pick it up on my way in…its in the truck, I'll be right back sweetie" Clark said kissing Chloe on the cheek as he headed out the door and super-sped into town and brought some milk returning almost seconds later with the pint on milk in his hands,

"Here we are" he said placing the milk into the fridge.

Everyone finished their breakfast and sat stuffed, looking at the last remaining waffle on the plate.

"Anyone want the last waffle?" Clark asked as he watched the girls fall back in their chairs.

"NO!" Each of them shouted in unison.

"Great more for me!" Clark cheerfully exclaimed taking the waffle smothering it in syrup.

"How can you eat another bite? I feel like I'm about to burst" Cleo slurred out watching Clark engulf the waffle within seconds as she to fell back, a satisfied look on his face.

"I can never let any of Chloe's waffles go to waste, it would be unjust"

Chloe was just about to start clearing the table when Lois came barging through the front door, stumbling upon everyone sat in the kitchen, obviously surprised by the amount of people staring at her.

"Oh hi" Lois nervously announced, stopped in her tracks, noticing the look she was receiving from Clark.

"Lois…what did I tell you about letting yourself into my house" Clark groaned his voice hardening as he spoke his words, crossing his well defined arms across his enormous chest,

"Chill Smallville, it won't happen again...pinky promise" Lois suggested mockingly holding out her little finger innocently. Clark couldn't help but smile at her reaction, soon forgiving her and ushering her into his home to join them.

"Any food left for me?"

"Sorry I just ate the last of Chloe's infamous waffles" Clark informed looking rather smug, knowing that it would annoy Lois beyond belief.

"You sure know how to make a girls blood boil don't ya Smallville!" Lois retorted smacking her bag onto the table.

Well...What do you think? Comments are welcome :D