About an hour later Superman landed gracefully back onto the roof top of the Daily Planet, placing Lois down gently next to him. She reached up, kissed him again and he wrapped his arms around her in response. "I think I'd get fired if I gave every interviewee this treatment," she smirked.

"I sincerely hope you don't," Superman replied, running his hand through her hair and looking into her brown eyes.

Suddenly the door burst open as Jimmy Olsen stumbled through the threshold. "Lois! I know it's late but..." The young photographer stopped dead as Lois and Superman broke from their embrace. "Was I interrupting something?"

"No," said Superman, trying to hold back laughter as he heard Lois mutter "Yes" under her breath. "Good night Lois, I'll see you soon."

"I'll see you at the next disaster, Superman," Lois smiled. The Man of Steel turned to leave but was stopped by Jimmy.

"Wait," shouted the man, holding out his hand and clutching a camera. "Can I get a photo of you?"

"Sure, Metropolis needs to see my face in order to trust me," Superman stated. He reached out to shake Jimmy's hand.

"Jimmy Olsen, Superman. Superman, Jimmy Olsen," Lois introduced the pair to one another. Jimmy took hand of the outstretched hand and shook it firmly. How can he have so much power in his hands and yet shake our hands? How does he kiss me so gently and tenderly.

"A pleasure to meet you Jimmy."

"It's an honour Superman," gushed the photographer. "Can I take the shot now?"

"Certainly," said Superman, flying up, placing his hands on his hips and giving the lens a smile.

The shutter clicked and Jimmy shifted his frame to get another angle. "Excellent, let's get another one over her," he instructed, pointing at the globe that span behind the photographer.

Superman started to make his way over when he froze rigid. "I'm sorry Jimmy, Lois, but there's a situation occurring and I need to put a stop to it. Before either Lois or Jimmy could argue, The Man of Steel was gone, leaving only a gust of wind in his wake.

Lois watched as her man flew off into the horizon before walking over and gripping her hand onto the photographer's shoulder, making him jump. "C'mon Olsen, we have a story to write..."

xxXxx

Superman sped across the state. He could feel the power of a solar flare pulsing through his veins. That explains the trip to the clouds with Lois. He reached the cornfield that was typical of Smallville and stopped and watched as a blonde girl struggled to hold a spacecraft up from smashing into the earth below. He zoomed towards her but his powers sapped as he grew nearer and nearer to the Kryptonite lying in the ground. It's powers must be greater too, under the influence of the solar flare. He saw a pick up truck was going to collide with the ship if he didn't alter the crash course. The Man of Steel smashed into the side of the extraterrestrial vehicle, pushing it off course. The extra power from the solar flare caused him to keep traveling across the field, so far that he no longer felt the Kryptonite as he was out of range. Superman's eyes grew red as he used his heat vision to destroy any Kryptonite that he could see. He scanned the spaceship for any signs of life and found none. What a waste. Looking at the car, he saw two bodies, both still breathing but in terrible condition. Superman sped over to them and put out the fire that raged around the overturned vehicle. He picked each one of them up in his arms and ran them to Metropolis General Hospital. He burst into the I.C.U. and placed them on separate beds. He burned his shield onto the man in military uniform's watch and shouted to the stunned doctors that these men needed urgent assistance before disappearing.

Returning to the crash site, Superman picked up the spacecraft and soared out into space. Flying straight past the moon, The Man of Steel flung the space ship out towards Mars. So there are other aliens in this universe aside from me. Satisfied that the ship would make it home, (having discovered its homeland from the logo on the side of the spacecraft) Superman turned back and returned for one last check.

Everything seemed fine. The car had exploded and the crash site had stopped smoking. But Superman hadn't seen where the girl had gone. He x-rayed the area briefly and then he spotted her. She was buried about five hundred metres below the surface and wasn't moving. The Man of Steel punched through the ground and floated down the tunnel made earlier by her body. He had to stop every ten metres to destroy more radioactive rock from his home planet, which meant that he made slow progress. A few minutes later he reached her. The blonde was still breathing but had broken her back and looked severely ill. Then something caught his eye.

A bracelet hung off her outstretched arm. Is that my family symbol? Superman stopped still and took in the revelation. He wasn't alone in the world, the universe. He really had a family. Someone like him.

He snatched her up took off in flight. He zoomed through the dirt and burst out of the ground before speeding across the Earth. He lay her down a top of a the Eiffel Tower, away from prying eyes. He sat patiently and watched as she healed, her back snapping back into place. She opened her eyes and blinked after about thirty seconds before sitting bold upright and screaming "Where am I?"

"Don't worry you're safe. You're in France, on planet Earth. That was a brave thing you did, trying to save that spaceship from crashing," Superman said, looking down from his vantage point on top of the Tower, a few feet above her.

Her head turned slowly to look up at her saviour. His cape fluttered in the wind and he wore the symbol of her house on his chest. "Kal-El?"

"How do you know that name?"

xxXxx

Author's Note: Thanks again for reading and reviewing! I am always grateful for that. Please let me know how you think the story is going and if I am getting the characters/dialogue right. It would really be appreciated.

I'm sorry this one's a little out of the timeline, I realised as soon as I posted the last chapter the night before that I had accidentally jumped across the time vortex! Oh well.

Just to let you know that next up is Batman/Catwoman and then some Chloe and Ollie (who are my favourite couple out of the series and to write for).

Anyway thanks again. I've totally lost track of my supposed schedule but as long as I get a chapter out once a week I'm happy. Cheers!