Blackmailed - 5
"He was scared…" whispered Martha while she drunk her coffee.
"What?"
"Sean. He got frightened when he saw he had hurt me…"
"But he said that he would come back…"
"I know…" she said drinking a little more coffee as her look rolled down. Lionel noticed he had become a little sat and hugged her.
"You needn't be worry, ok? We'll advice to your office that you can't began this week, and I'll take you to Smallville…"
"That won't work… he knows the farm, he was a Clark's mate at school…"
"I'm not going to let you give him what he wants, Martha…"
"But it will be over then…" she exclaimed "… just a night"
"NO! No. No. No." said once and again, Lionel "I'm not, Martha… If we're together now, you're problems are mine too, and we're going to solution this as a couple… not giving you to a mad guy!"
Martha looked at him, his eyes were red of rage, he was nearly crying, and suddenly, a tear felt down his cheek and stopped on his lip… before in felt down Martha kissed him and tasted the salty flavor of that little tear mixed with the sweet one of his love.
"You are not going to leave me ever, are you?" she asked sweetly letting her head on his shoulder to feel the safeness he always gave her.
"No, of course I'm not…" he whispered kissing her hair.
They stayed like that for a few minutes, until the door's bell rang. Martha trembled.
"Is it him?" asked Lionel. But Martha just answered with a worrying look. "Ok… stay here, I will open"
"No! If he finds you here…"
Lionel didn't let her finish… he kissed sweetly her lips and she stayed kneeling on the sofa looking at the door that Lionel opened.
It would be impossible to say who was more surprised to see the other there: if it was Lionel, who was hoping the man who was blackmailing Martha to punch his face; or if it was Clark, who was hopping to find his mother alone and nervous to began her new job in just a pair of days.
"Clark!" exclaimed Lionel "Hi!"
"Hi Lionel…" said Clark slowly "What are you doing here?"
"He's visiting your mother, sweetheart" said Martha quickly standing from the sofa "Can't him?"
"Oh… yeah! Sure he can…" said Clark walking inside "It's just that… I wasn't hoping him here… Hi mummy…" and he kissed her cheek.
"Hello sweetheart"
"It's just ten in the morning…" said Clark "Is there a fly as early?"
"I came with the Luthor's jet" that wasn't a lie.
"Have you already breakfast, sweetheart?" asked Martha.
"I have, mum…" his eyes didn't left Lionel's, like if he was looking for something in the man's look.
"So… why has you came, dear?" asked Martha "There's anything wrong at home?"
"No, there isn't… I just wanted to know how were going your first days in Washington…"
"That's the same I came too" said Lionel.
"It's really nice to have two as great men looking after me…" said Martha kissing a cheek of each one "Are you both staying for lunch?"
"Yeah" they answered at the same time.
"Great! So… I should go to buy some foot… the cupboards still empty…"
"I'm coming with you…" said Lionel.
"It's not necessary, Lionel"
"Of course it is" said Lionel thinking on how much dangerous it could be for Martha to go out alone.
"Listen to my mother, Lionel… she said it isn't necessary…" said Clark "Why don't we let her go out as we stay here… talking"
"That sounds so great!" exclaimed Martha "I'm going to take my bag.
Lionel followed her to the room.
"Are you mad? You can't go out alone!"
"He can't suspect anything, Lionel…" whispered Martha knowing that her son could be listening them from the living room. "I will be fine, there's a little supermarket at the corner, I'm going to buy a few things to cook the meal and I'll come back… just ten minutes, ok?"
Lionel walked her to the door and went out the corridor with her…
"Be careful, ok?"
"I'll be fine…" repeated Martha kissing him and leaving as Lionel went inside just when Clark had stopped his x-ray vision.
"What's going on, Lionel?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" his voice trembled thinking that Clark had found out about Martha's blackmailed and she would think he had tell him…
"Have you spent the night here?" he asked.
"No!"
"Don't lie! I saw she kissed you!"
"What? How…? You shouldn't spy people, Clark!"
"Don't try to teach me! She's weak because the moving, how can you take advantage of the situation to seduce her?!"
"I'm not…!"
"Don't replay me!" interrupted Clark. "He's my mother and I'm not going to let her ruin her life falling in love with you just because you desire her!"
"You should be talking with her about this, Clark… not with me…"
"No! I'm talking with you because I want you to take your private jet and go back to Metropolis right now!"
"Clark, you should calm… I love your mother!"
"You're not able to love anybody, Lionel…"
"You can think what you want, Clark… but I love her… I love your mother more than anything… and you can't ask me to go far from her…"
"No, but I can ask her to go far from you…"
"She's happy with me! You have to understand it!"
"I'm not going to understand that my mother has falled in love with the man my father had hated as much!" shouted Clark anger "She just loved my father…"
"Wait" said Lionel.
"What?"
"Haven't you heard anything?"
"Heard what?"
"What time is it?"
"Eleven past five"
"She left twenty minutes ago!" exclaimed Lionel leaving the apartment.
"What? Wait me! What's on?!"
In the middle of the corridor there was a supermarket plastic back on the floor. Lionel run there: pasta, tomato, some broken eggs…
"Martha!" he exclaimed running downstairs.
TO BE CONTINUED…