Chapter 12 Part 5- "One to go"

Lois's head lay in his sheet covered lap enjoying the taste of rocky road ice cream while Clark stared down at her almost amused by the situation.

"How can you eat that stuff for breakfast?"

She just shrugged and plopped the spoon back into the carton, "I just had a sudden craving for something sweet."

He lets out a playful scoff bringing her attention back towards him, "And I'm not sweet."

She keeps the sheet close around her as she sits up bringing her face closer to his with playful smirk on her face, "Oh I think you're very sweet Smallville." She brushes her lips over his in a teasing manner before pulling away when he leaned towards her and took the spoon back out of the carton to enjoy another bite of the delicious treat, "I just like this a whole lot better." She looks at him through her lashes trying to hide the playfulness in her voice but it was no use.

With lightening fast speed, the carton disappeared and Lois found herself pinned to the mattress with Clark looming over her with a predatory heat behind his eyes and a smug smirk on his face, "That's not what you were saying last night."

Her eyebrows arch at his words and the playful smile on her face reappears, "I'm starting to like this new side of you, Clark Kent."

Their bodies are pressed closer together when he moves in for a kiss when suddenly someone begins to pound on the door rapidly, "Maybe if we don't answer they'll go away" she says looking from the door back towards Clark as they laid there in silence and the knocking ceased allowing the couple to let out a much needed sigh of relief, "Where were we again?" she asks slipping her arms around him pulling her closer ready to fall back into their previous embrace when once again the pounding on the door started again.

Clark buried his face in her neck trying to stifle a laugh at Lois's frustration towards whoever was knocking and was about to say something when she pushed him off of her causing him to fall to the ground with a loud thud.

Suddenly the door burst open with pieces of the doorframe flying towards the ground causing Lois to grip the sheet tighter against her chest, "What the hell Bruce!" she exclaims looking from the broken door to her ex clearly surprised and slightly flustered.

He gestured behind him while saying, "I was coming to tell you that Clark's not in his room and the receptionist said he hasn't checked out." He pauses when he notices the sudden look cross her face and he notices a flannel shirt right under his feet, "Oh" he says looking surprised and embarrassed, "I'm just gonna go…" he starts to back away and grabs the cracked door, "Be sure to be finished with whatever it is that you two were doing quickly. We've still got a stone to find and a gang of assassins after us." He closes the door behind him and lets out a breath before walking away.

Lois meanwhile fell back against the mattress with her face buried in her hands, "That was the most awkward seconds in my entire life."

"At least one of us was covered."

Nyssa looked around at the temple landscape until her eyes landed on a familiar tree shape and began walking towards it, "Well what do we have here?" she asks herself when she stands at the base of the tree to see a tiny crack in the center that looks as if it had been struck by something.

She notices the crack trails downwards towards the soil; "Jin!" she calls out to her assistant and he races to her side, "Go get something to dig with; I think I've found what we've been looking for." He rushes off leaving his mistress to stare at the tree with a glint in her eyes.

"Soon."

Lois leaned against the car rubbing the back of her neck while Bruce ran images of the "map" through his laptop, "You okay?" Clark leans his body over to whisper concerned.

Her hand stops kneading her neck and she lets it drop to her side while she just nodded to the farm boy with a smile, "I'll be okay once the stone is safe. Then I go back home to deal with the everyday stress I'm use to rather than being chased by crazed assassins." Her head falls on his shoulder with a huff, "Why cant something normal ever happen to us?"

Clark just smiled and wrapped his arm around her, "If I've learned anything it's that being normal isn't all its cracked up to be."

They share a private smile but soon pull away quickly when Bruce comes back towards them with a negative shake of his head, "If you two are done with the PDA. I think I found something." He turns his laptop around showing them the image of a tree that matches the same design of the map, "It's not uncommon for mapmakers to manipulate maps when the objects they lead to are extremely powerful."

"Okay so where's this tree?"

Bruce shook his head, "This species of tree could be anywhere in China, it would take us weeks maybe months until we find the right one."

"We don't have weeks or months to search for this thing. If you haven't noticed we are being chased by assassins and a dragon lady."

While Bruce and Lois continued to bicker at each other, the noise around the kryptonian faded away into silence causing him to look around confused when suddenly he was thrown to his knees in pain over the loud hum.

She races to his side, "What is it?" he doesn't answer and soon the noise stops, "Clark?" she asks softly clutching his shoulder tightly.

He grabs her hand and gives it a soft squeeze before disappearing right in front of them, "Does he always do that?" Bruce asks standing at her side.

Lois looks back at him with a small smirk, "You get use to it"

Meanwhile…at the same time…

Nyssa smiled at the shallow hole and reached inside the cool soil to feel around but stopped suddenly when she felt something hard against her hand.

The strange object turned out to be a dirt covered horse statue with strange text written on the bottom, "Get the car ready Jin." She says while bashing the statue against the tree until a bright light of energy burst out and the stone shines brightly in the sunlight, "We've got a flight to catch."

While she was distracted with talking to her goons, a cold gust of wind breezed by and the stone was gone with a note in its place reading: Better luck next time!

Nyssa Al Ghul was notorious for her temper and when she looked back to see the note right where the stone should be, she let out a yell of frustration and took out her frustration on a nearby goon by dislocating his shoulder before stabbing him with one of her heel spikes that was dipped in snake venom, "He'll pay for this." She whispers to herself menacingly and kicks away the body of her goon before calling out, "Find me that Stone! Or you can join your comrade."

TBC

This chapter is going into one more part so it doesn't look cramped or anything then there will only be 4 chapters left of the story but I can guarantee that they will be the best you've ever read in the story or at least I hope so lol.

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Spoilers of what's to come (Don't read if you don't wanna be spoiled)

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Richard and Clark work together to find Lois which causes for some hostility and jealousy between them but also something Richard says to Clark has a profound affect on him. Also Lois learns the truth about whose been sending her those packages and what they want (you guys know this already if you've been reading)

In the aftermath of Lois's kidnapping, Lois and Clark try to figure out their relationship but it gets put on hold when Bruce returns with some bad news.

Lois does something that puts her life at risk in order to get the final stone and Clark learns that she still has her files on him from "Accidental Relations" but he doesn't react the way you would think he does.

Destiny is fulfilled and six years later, Lois is in for a huge surprise.