"Chloe, I thought you said you did not want more information." Lois laughed as they sat and drank coffee in the Talon.
"I lied. I am thrilled that you and Clark finally got your act together. I was beginning to think it would never happen."
"I was surprised that Clark wanted to go and see Oliver. I did not know men confided as much as women."
"You're kidding, right! Jimmy is one of the worst gossips I know." Chloe laughed. "To be honest I think Clark just wanted an excuse to stay away from us two in case we embarrassed him."
Lois smiled. "and both of us know how easy it is to embarrass him."
Chloe grinned.
"What I should tell the Blur tonight?" Lois asked changing the subject.
"Just tell him that you love someone else. I am sure he will understand."
"How do you know?" Lois asked, as something in her voice made her suspicious.
"I don't..." she lied.
Lois decided to drop it, wondering what Clark and Oliver were talking about.
In Metropolis, Clark was pacing up and down Oliver's penthouse. "What should I say to Stiletto?"
"The truth would be a good start." his friend quipped. "She will understand. I mean, you do think Lois is the one for you."
"Of course. I love her but...I feel some sort of weird connection to Stiletto that is hard to ignore." Clark announced puzzled by his feelings.
"I don't have a crystal ball but I guarantee by the end of the night, things will be clearer." Oliver replied cryptically.
"Ok..." Clark raised a brief smile and then thought about his new relationship with Lois. "She is amazing isn't she?"
"You two are meant to be. I knew at the wedding that you would end up together once you gave up on the ghost of Lana."
"I know...I have not treated Lois very well over the past few months. I should never have ran back to Lana."
Oliver patted his shoulder. "I think you have learnt from your mistakes and maybe you needed that one last fling with Lana to realise you weren't meant to be."
"I think I will head back to Smallville now and see what Lois is up to." He smiled as he drove back home.
The smell of burnt food welcomed him back. He smiled that Lois had obviously gone to the bother of cooking for him even though the results were as expected.
He walked in on a very flustered Lois. "Sorry Clark, I did not want you to walk in on my disaster."
"Lois, I am not dating you for your cooking. Let me help you." He grabbed the tray of cookies out of her hand.
"Thanks."
He put the tray down and wiped some of the cookie dough off her cheek before kissing her gently. He licked the dough off his finger.
"That tastes delicious." he remarked.
"You know, there is some more dough left." she told him with a strange look on her face.
"Do you want me to help you cook them?" Clark asked naively trying to be helpful.
"Who said anything about cooking" She grabbed the bowl and Clark's hand.
Lois woke up. There was chocolate everywhere. She left Clark asleep and headed for the shower. It was getting dark and she needed to head into the city to confront the Blur. At least she had been able to keep her mind off breaking the news to him.
When she got out the shower, she noticed Clark was awake. "Do you want to come back to bed?" he asked boldly.
"I can't" she replied disappointedly. "You know we both need to deal with...you know who."
He sighed knowing she was right.
Lois headed back to the Talon to get ready and headed into town. She agreed to meet Clark back at the farm by midnight. She just hoped the Blur was not too busy to have the conversation with. By 9pm, she was in Metropolis by the phone box, pacing up and down nervously.
He did not appear immediately making her even more anxious. She was worried he would not appear as she had stood him up the previous night. But she needn't had worried, as she felt a familiar gust of wind and the sensation of her feet leaving the ground.
"Hi." the Blur said with a definite stutter in his voice.
"Hi." Lois replied back, puzzled by the distance he put between them, as he walked towards the opposite side of the roof.
Clark was worried that Stiletto would try and instigate something and he did not want to hurt her by pushing her off, so he walked away from her.
"I am sorry about last night." she said. "But something happened last night, which has changed things for me."
He was going to say the same thing but she held her hand up to stop him. "Could you hear me out? This is going to be difficult for me to say, and I have rehearsed all day...well maybe not all day." sh e was starting to go off topic.
"Ok, then I have something to say to you."
The seriousness in his voice worried her. Was he going to declare his love for her or something. She knew she had to tell him before he had a chance to.
"Ok, before I start...the last week has been...nice and I feel honored that you chose me to open up to. It must have taken a lot for you to do that. Well...I have this friend, who I have known for the past four years and..." She stopped for a moment.
Clark could not work out where this was going.
"Anyway...we hated each other at first and could not be in the same room as each other without bickering."
"Sounds familiar." he commented, thinking of Lois and his friendship at the beginning.
She continued. "Looking back I think there was a spark between us from the beginning but he was not interested. He could not see past his high-school girlfriend." Lois started to fiddle with her mask, suddenly she realised what she needed to do.
"Before I continue, I need you to know that I am a fraud. I am not some superhero. I became Stiletto in the hope that I could meet and talk to you. I suppose as time went on, it became so much more than story..."
"So you are a journalist?" he asked. "Why didn't you just ask for an interview? You did not need to put your life a risk for a story."
"Come on..." she laughed, "There is no way, I would have scored a one on one with you if I had not donned the mask. Anyway I hate to disappoint you but I am not some hot shot reporter more like a intern at the Daily Planet."
Clark felt hot all of a sudden, the realisation hitting him like a freight train. No wonder he had felt attracted to her...this was the woman who could make his heart race like no one else had, and she had been right under his nose all this time.
Lois noticed his change of expression. "I am so sorry that I tricked you. I can see you are mad. I just wanted you to know that I am not hero." As she said those last few words, she pulled off her mask and voice modulator.
Clark looked at her wanting to reveal himself to her. "Now I know what you look like, I think it is only fair that I do the same." he reached for his hood, but before he could remove it...she ran up and pulled his hand away.
"Please don't. I don't want you to reveal yourself to me. I do not deserve to be the first one to know. Please let me finish my story and you will understand why."
He nodded and sat down next to her, waiting for the rest of her tale. "Go on..."
"My name is Lois Lane, if you are wondering. Eh...now where was I? Oh yeah. So I was saying about this man. Over the year or so, my feelings for him have become much deeper and I thought we would end up together a few months ago, but then his ex girlfriend came back and put a stop to that."
Lois was becoming upset. "I need to get to the point."
Clark put his hand on hers. "Just take your time. I want to hear the rest."
"To cut a long story... in the past few days, we have finally admitted our true feelings to each other, and I am in love with him. I know I had no right to use you the way I did but I was so confused. I hope you can forgive me." She pleaded with him. "Ok, tell me what you are thinking."
His heart skipped a beat when said she loved him. "Ok, I have three things I want to say." he announced taking a deep breath.
"Firstly...I am not angry with you, how could I be." he said softly. "Secondly I never hated you all those years ago." he could see her face changing as he said those last words. "And finally and most importantly, I love you Lois and I will never feel this way about anyone else..." With that he ripped his hood off, revealing himself.
Lois felt faint but steadied herself. "Clark...what..." she stammered, the confusion and shock registering on her face.
Her confusion suddenly turned to anger. "You're the Blur." she got up to walk away, but he was not going to let her. "Lois, you need to listen. Why are you angry?"
She started to pound his chest with frustration. "Let me go. How could you act as though you did not know who I was all this time."
"I promise...up until a few moments ago, I did not know who Stiletto was."
"And you expect me to believe that when you told me the other day about your x-ray vision. You would have scanned me the moment we met. I was not born yesterday."
"I did scan you, Lois. But your mask is lead lined so I could not see through it."
She calmed a little. "Oliver made it."
They both realised what was going on, slightly lessening the tension between them. Clark was the first to comment.
"Lois, did you ever have a feeling that someone has been pulling the strings behind the scenes." he suggested.
"Guess we were just puppets in the grander scheme of things. I have a feeling that Oliver is not working alone."
"Anyway...let's get back to the important stuff. Lois, can we talk?" Clark asked, trying to act whilst Lois was calm.
She tried to get mad at him again but then she saw the apologetic look on his face. "Ok,.."
"Firstly I am so relieved that you are Stiletto because it explains why I was so drawn to her. I think that proves we are meant to be together. I know it is asking a lot with everything that has gone on but I would love it if we can give it a go."
Lois listened to his every word. "Clark, I love you. I never had a problem with the Blur's unique heritage so why should it change my feelings for you. It is not everyday a girl finds out her boyfriend is an intergalactic superhero." she smiled, and hugged him.
"I was going to tell you." he explained.
"I know you would have. I guess I am not the only one knows...Chloe and Oliver obviously have some insider knowledge."
"Yeah they do."
Lois thought for a moment. "You know it is kind of weird, but knowing about your secret has suddenly made a lot of things fall into the place. I guess that barn door was not a weather anomaly." she grinned.
"No, I had a cold and sneezed."
"And I could help but notice the looks between you and parents when I entered the room sometimes."
"You probably interrupted some heavy discussions. I did not make things easy for my parents over the years." Clark explained.
"I am sure they would have gone through it all again for you." she offered. "As I have told the Blur...you I mean. God, this is so confusing. You are a hero, Clark and I cannot believe how lucky I am that you let me in."
He placed his hand under her chin, and lifted it up, kissing her passionately. "You are amazing, Lo, and I am sorry for all the upset I have caused you over the past few months."
She kissed him back. "Let's just concentrate on the present for the time being. What happened in the past...is well...in the past." she laughed.
He suddenly became distracted.
"Clark, if you need to go and rescue someone, just go. I will be here waiting when you get back."
He shook his head. "It is not that. I think we were right to be suspicious about Oliver having an accomplice. Don't look, but Green Arrow and Chloe are on a roof top behind us. They obviously couldn't miss the show."
"Let's give them a show they will never forget." Lois started to whisper a plan in his ear.
Oliver and Chloe high fived each other on the nearby roof top as they saw Clark speed off into the night with Lois.
"It worked!" Chloe announced excitedly,
"Mission complete." her partner in crime replied.
"By the looks of it, we won't be seeing those two for a few days." she commented.
Oliver smiled. "Guess not!"
Next morning, Chloe headed downstairs at the Talon to get her coffee before driving to ISIS. She wondered if Lois would bunk off today to spend the day with Clark, but her question was soon answered when she found Lois sitting at one of the booths.
"Lois, what are you doing here?" she asked, concerned by the forlorn look on her cousin's face.
Lois looked up but did not smile. "I am waiting for you. Is it is ok to grab a lift into Metropolis."
"But I thought..." Chloe replied, but then stopped. She did not want Lois to discover that she was spying on her and Clark last night.
"Thought what?"
"Nothing...hmm...I was just wondering what happened with the Blur last night. Did he take it ok?"
"Don't act all innocent." Lois snapped. "You knew Clark was the Blur and you let me make a fool of myself."
Chloe was confused. "I thought that it would have gone ok. Are you having trouble dealing with his double identity? You must understand that I needed to protect his secret."
Lois sat back. "I know. Sorry Chloe. It's just everything has gone pear shaped. I had no problem accepting his deception and he was fine with me being Stiletto but..." Lois paused.
"But what?" Chloe probed.
"The spark has gone..." Lois announced with obvious devastation in her face.
"What spark?"
"You know between Clark and me. He is not attracted to me. He admitted it must have been the mystery of Stiletto and her outfit that attracted him to her, or me..."
"But Lois, you got together before he knew you were Stiletto." Chloe replied.
"Yeah but he told me that he was thinking about Stiletto the other night when...you know." she went bright red, her eyes moist from the forming tears.
Chloe just sat there with her mouth gaping open. "Clark would never say that."
"Ask him!" Lois replied. "He is at the farm at the moment."
Chloe stood up determined to give him a piece of her mind. "Lois, you take my car. I will text him and tell him to pick me up. He needs to hear some home truths."
Lois looked at her. "Do you think it will work?" she whimpered.
Clark looked sheepish when he pulled outside the Talon to see an obviously very mad Chloe waiting for him.
"So what's going on?" Chloe asked.
"Nice to see you too." he replied sarcastically. "Get out the wrong side of bed this morning?" Clark asked, only worsening her mood.
"Why are you doing it Clark. You're under the influence of Red K, aren't you? Lois is devastated."
"So this is what all this is about! And for your information, I am not under the influence of anything."
"How could you tell Lois that you were not attracted to her, only to Stiletto?"
"Chloe, she asked...and after all the secrets and lies I went through with Lana, I felt honesty was the best policy. I cannot change how I feel. I mean Stiletto had a killer body in that leather suit."
"But it was Lois and she still has the body." Chloe suggested annoyed.
"Well I did ask if she was willing to put the suit on again, but she just got upset." he smiled.
"You are on Red K."
"I'm not...honestly." he replied.
"In that case you won't mind coming to ISIS so we can scan you. Oliver is meeting us there."
"Chloe, why are you interfering? This has nothing to do with you. It is between me and Lois." he announced.
The trip to ISIS was an oddly quiet one. Oliver was already logged into the system when they arrived. "I think we are all set."
Chloe watched as she waited for the machine to alarm, but it never did. "My god, you are not kidding are you?"
"I told you, but you wouldn't listen." Clark smiled knowingly.
Before Chloe answered they were interrupted by the arrival of Lois.
"Hi Lo." Clark said, smiling. She walked over and kissed him.
Chloe and Oliver just looked at one another. "What the hell?"
Clark looked at Lois. "I'll let you explain."
"I cannot believe you guys fell for it." Lois started to giggle, waiting for their charade to register on their faces.
"Fell for what?" Oliver asked.
"We saw you on the roof yesterday, and worked out that you had been pulling the strings all along." Clark explained. "So we thought we would get out own back."
"I thought it was out of character for you, Clark, but you seemed so convincing." Chloe exclaimed.
"I hate to tell you guys but we were not the main instigator of the grand plan. A certain Senator in Washington may have contributed as well." Oliver announced.
"Mom! I guess we will have to pay her a visit." Clark replied. "Anyway we'd better get back to work."
As Lois and Clark walked along the street towards the Planet, she turned to him. "Chloe told me that you wanted to ask me to dress up as Stiletto again. I am sure that can be arranged as long as you reciprocate."
"I don't think I will look very good in tight leather." he joked.
"That was not what I meant." she smiled. "But to be honest I think you could rock that look."
He turned and looked at her, and wondered what he had just got himself into...
THE END