Chapter One part Four- Saying Goodbye or Saying Hello?:
Lois set the small bouquet of flowers over her cousin and uncle's gravestones with a grim expression on her face, she sat down quiet at first until she could barely hold it inside any longer.
"I have a confession to make, I didn't go to your guy's funeral. I hate funerals." She pauses while trying to find the right words to say to both marble tombstones in front of her, "The General says everybody does, it's a way of paying tribute to a life well-led."
Emotion begins to overcome her and she struggles to keep the tears at bay but instead laughs sadly, "I hate myself for being weak and I knew that when I came here, it would make it real. Its so hard to be here in Smallville and not see you guys at your home playing Friday night Scrabble or Uncle Gabe making corny jokes when we had friends over, everything seems different without my little cousin by my side when I need her now more then ever. But I promise that I'll find out who did this to you, even if I have to do it alone."
If she had been minding her surroundings, she would have noticed that Clark was hiding in the shadows listening to her heartfelt confession over her family's grave and he decided to make his presence known when he stepped towards her saying, "You're not alone."
Lois was quick to wipe her tears and turn to face Clark, who was sporting his signature red shirt and blue jacket combo.
"A fact you could've shared instead of breathing down my neck." Lois says rising to her feet to face the red/blur intruder while she continued, "But its good to see that we've moved on from the 'clothing optional' stage of our relationship."
Clark couldn't help but smirk at her sarcastic behavior and just stayed where he was with his reply, "I didn't know you'd be here, Lois. I just came here to pay my respects to Chloe."
She just crossed her arms over her chest, "Nice to see that your synapses is all fired up and working again, I thought I was going to be stuck with an amnesic alien."
Clark finally stepped towards her saying, "I actually prefer intergalactic traveler over alien, but seeing as how you were gone for three years…its kind of hard to fill you in on the things going on with my life."
The anger and slight frustration could be heard in his voice and it just caused that traditional aspect to Lois and Clark's relationship to kick in only with the words left unsaid during their three year absences, and this time it was Lois who snapped back.
"You know what Clark, I didn't come all the way back to Smallville just to hear you lecture me about my life when you've kept so much more shit hidden from me aside from your unique heritage." She pauses to take a breath before continuing on her anger/frustration fueled rant, "When your dad had a heart attack, I had to hear about it a month too late from Chloe. How do you think it made me feel every time Chloe told me about the time when the tornado ruined the spring formal, or your brief romances with both Lana, Kyla Willowbrook, and Alicia Baker?"
She paused again waiting for a response but cut him off before he could say anything, "It hurt even more when you couldn't at least pick up the phone and call me about your mom losing the baby or at least let me know that you were okay when you ran off for three months in Metropolis. Why couldn't you have at least emailed me or called?"
Clark could see the tears in her eyes and even though they still had lots to talk about, he wrapped his arms around her embracing her in a much needed hug before pulling away from her saying, "Look, I know that things have changed between us but why don't you let me help you find out who did this to Chloe?" he pauses only to see her hesitate and just smile, "Come on, you can even stay at our house while you're in town. Not like you haven't done that already."
Lois thought about it before answering, "Fine, just know that I don't pay attention to curfews and I never make my bed."
He couldn't help but smirk until something caught his eyes, the ground in front of Chloe's grave seemed oddly different then most of the gravesites.
Lois turned to face her cousin's grave and just looked at Clark confused, "What's wrong, Clark? You act like you've never seen a grave before."
He just ignores her comment and focuses his eyes to a flash of an empty casket buried six feet under, surprise swept in as he turned to Lois saying, "Chloe's alive."
Lois could only look at him spectacle until something clicked inside of her head and the reporter in her took over, "Then there's only one place we need to go."
He watches her walk away and soon chases after her saying, "Why do I get the feeling that we're going to get into trouble?"
She couldn't help but smirk with her response, "Cause its what we always do."
Clark was about to retort but decided best to let the young army brat win this part of the conversation…for now.
TBC…
So that was Chapter One, what did you guys think of it? I know that Lois kind of seemed to go off on Clark but you have to remember that she's been in Gotham for years while Clark went through different relationships, discovered his kryptonian heritage, and had family issue. REVIEWS!