Chapter 8: The whirlwind of time…
Time seemed to move at the speed of light. Before long two months had passed. Lois didn't actually kill Clark, since she didn't have any green-K with her, but she did make him squirm in his boots, much to Jason's delight. Ever Martha joined in the make-Clark-squirm fun by telling Lois and Jason some of the most embarrassing stories from his childhood, such as his reaction the first time he saw a cat when they had gone to visit one of her cousins in Milwaukee when he was 5-years-old. Penny's cat came out into the living room and jumped onto Clark's lap. Clark screeched like a banshee and jumped at least four feet in the air before running off to hide behind my apron. Jonathan, bless his soul, almost cracked his skull when he fell out of his chair in laughter… And so they spent the rest of the day, Lois telling stories of Jason when he was younger; which made Jason squirm to no end and ended up hiding his face beneath the cushions on the sofa along with his father, both looking like a pair of father and son ostriches; and Martha continued telling her stories of Clark. By the end of the day, both women had become the best of friends…
A couple of days later, Lois and Jason moved back to their house, although Clark was a frequent visitor…
News of Lois and Richard's break-up and his subsequent arrest spread throughout the newsroom like wildfire come Monday morning. No one believed what had happened, but with Superman as witness to at least part of it, they had no choice but to accept it. Lois decided not to press charges against Richard so he was released from jail Monday afternoon. Richard appeared at the Planet only long enough to hand in his resignation to Perry, effective immediately. He then boarded his commuter flight to London, where he stayed for two weeks before flying to China. Never to heard from again…………………………… Or so it seemed………………………………………
Lois and Clark attempted to keep their relationship a secret for some time, but it was of no use. A month after the breakup, one of their co-workers, Maggie Sawyer, saw them as they were walking out of a restaurant with Jason one Saturday night and saw the kiss, and heard Jason call Clark Daddy. Monday morning, the Planet's rumor mill had caught wind of the relationship between Lois and Clark and Jason's true paternity, the news spreading like wildfire throughout the bullpen. Lois and Clark came into work late since they had been interviewing the mayoral prospects for the next election, but when they did come in the noise volume in the bullpen dropped so they would not know what they had been talking about. Cat Grant was jealous since she had always had a thing for the good ol' farm boy. But Clark wouldn't even give her the time of day in a clock shop since he only had eyes for Lois. Late in the day, Cat sauntered over to Clark's desk leaning on the corner so as to block Lois' view. She attempted to seduce Clark as she was asking him if Superman was now up for grabs. Poor Clark didn't know whether to answer or run away screaming. Fortunately, Lois who had been listening to the whole thing came up and saved her man, both of his sides with, "I don't think you're his type. He's got better taste than that" Lois smirked.
Clark had that look of a deer in the headlights as the two women glared at each other. Lois noticed and gave him a quick kiss on the lips and went back to her desk laughing. Things when on like that for a while. Similar scenes played out like that at Clark's desk. Sometimes it appeared that the two women were actually cats, one black and one red, hissing and spitting at each other with their claws raised to strike. Jimmy once made this comment to Clark, and he responded by saying, "I half expect that claws will come out of Lois' dainty paws and I sometimes don't know whether to get her a saucer of milk or a cat toy.
Lois overheard his comment and walked up to him purring like a kitten, and laid her "paws" on his chest. She rubbed her nose to his and said, "Meow. Which is cat talk for… You're sleeping on the couch tonight, honey!" Then she walked away. Poor Clark now wished he had kept his mouth shut. He quickly followed her, hoping to wiggle his way out of his punishment, while Jimmy looked on shaking his head, with an amused little smile on his face. Who knew Superman was a big baby? Cat continued her campaign to "Get Superman" even after he had appeared telling her he wasn't interested. Perry assigned Lois and Clark to work as a full-time team once again, raising circulation by 10 in two weeks, which made their editor in chief extremely pleased. Clark actually found that having Lois around when there was an emergency gave him even easier excuses to leave, since she was great at making up believable excuses. Having a partner on the ground wasn't so bad after all. And he absolutely loved having a family. It was only a week after they had been exposed as a couple that he had bought her ring, though he was still trying to work up the courage to ask her.