Chapter 8

The sun finally rose as the sunlight stretched into the living room of the talon apartment where Lois sat at the table with a steaming mug of coffee watching the vapours exit from the hot liquid.

Clark, or should she say Kal-El was still out cold from the punch she had delivered him and after manoeuvring him onto the bed she had watched him for over an hour watching him sleep or unconscious state and still had the question running through her mind after a night of know sleep on her behalf.

Why did she hit him?

She still couldn't understand why she did it she had had spats and fall outs with Clark before but nothing had reverted to her hitting him with an intention to cause pain.

The final words that he said to her still rang through her ears.

"…your holding me back!!"

In that moment she felt verbally slapped across his face that after 5 years of friendship that's all that he had to say to her and in that moment she needed to retaliate.

She also hated herself that after a night of tossing and turning she had taken this so personally that she would be outraged that much by his outburst.

But as she glanced at the door to the bedroom the question still remained.

Would her Smallville ever come back?

Before she had chance to think anymore her baby cousin came through the front door and Lois immediately asked.

"Has the results came through from Dr Hamilton yet?" remembering that Emil came through the night and was surprised he could actually take blood from Clark without the syringes breaking on contact.

Chloe sadly shook her head to Lois's immediate disappointment as she returned once more to staring at her coffee.

The smaller cousin walked to the opposite side of the table and sighed as she looked at the brunette and spoke softly.

"Lo…you look exhausted…did you get any sleep last night?"

Lois slowly shook her head and once more glanced at the door hoping he would come out his cheery dorky self once more but the door remained closed.

Chloe watched the slow glances toward the door and felt so sorry for her knowing the events that transpired over night.

"How did the events go over with a certain blond billionaire?" Lois said trying to hide her fatigue.

Chloe sighed knowing Lois was brushing her off but thought best not to irritate her but entertain her question.

"Well…it seems there are two guys in are lives have the same issue…guilt"

Lois looked over to her waiting for her to explain which Chloe did.

"Oliver maybe not as lost as Clark is…but he still partly blames himself for…Jimmy's death" the conclusion took a little longer to say.

Lois put a reassuring hand over hers as they sat in silence for a moment when Chloe saw hanging her head trying to hide her face but the she put her hand under her chin and saw Lois had a couple of tears falling from her face.

"Hey…" she spoke soothingly as she came from round the desk and kneeled in front of Lois holding her hand once more.

"…what's wrong?"

Lois looked at the bedroom door once more and her lip quivered as she looked back at her cousin.

"I'm scared Chloe…"

The small blonde watched as the tears become more apparent as Lois was trying everything to hold in but she slowly concluded.

"…I'm loosing him Chlo" Lois said as she began to weep as Chloe immediately took her and shushed Lois in her arms as the brunette spoke over shoulder.

"I can't loose him…"

On the otherside of Lois bedroom door Kal-El had heard everything that was said as he had to literately put his ear to the door.

"I can't loose him"

Kal-El felt a lump form in his throat as he heard her cry he slid down on the otherside of the door and sat in silence as he heard her weep.

That's when he felt it, the uneasy feeling in his stomach and it wasn't the physical injuries that were the cause. It was the thought of making Lois Lane cry which made his insides hurt.

Kal-El quickly shook it off and tried to fight on the feeling but there it still remained.

He needed to get back to the mission at hand but that briefest of moments he actually forgot what it was until he remembered and sat up and planned ahead.

After 5 minutes of comforting Lois, Chloe thought best to check on Clark while Lois composed herself.

Lois was swilling her face in the bathroom when she heard.

"LOIS!!"

She ran out of the bathroom to Chloe's alarming shout for help.

She stood by Chloe by the entrance to the bedroom and looked around and most importantly to the open window that led down to the fire escape and said in defeat.

"He's gone..."