Chapter Eleven
Maggie looked up from her book when she noticed that something or someone was blocking her light only to realize that it was Alec, "Oh…Hi" she greets the boy closing her book quickly and putting it back in her bag.
"Waiting for your ride?" he asks while taking off his backpack and setting it down on the grass right beside hers and sees her nod in response, "My aunt's running late to."
"My dad's not late; he just got tied up with a story. He's a reporter at the Daily Planet."
Alec immediately perks up and looked at her with a small amount of excitement in his eyes, "Does he know the red blue blur?
She looks at him confused and watches as he digs into his backpack where he pulls out several newspaper clippings each talking about her father's saves around the city most were written by Lois.
"He's this city's very own Warrior Angel." He hands her all the clippings including a sketch of what he thought the hero looked like dressed in red and blue with the exception that it was missing the House of El symbol, "I've spent my whole life dreaming about real superheroes and now this proves that I was right."
She looks over the articles to make sure that there was no mention of the hero's description, "This kind of stuff happens on a daily basis where I come from except those people were infected with meteor rock."
"Just like Peter Parker." He says mostly to himself but Maggie hears the comment and just smiles at the enthusiasm her friend was displaying towards the hero who just so happened to be her father.
Suddenly the honk of a horn caused Alec to pack up his stuff and say goodbye before running towards his aunt's car which drove away seconds later leaving her alone once again.
It was only a few minutes later that her father's truck pulled up and he jumped out, "Sorry I'm late sweetie." he walks over to her and kisses her on the forehead while grabbing her stuff, "Mr. White had another emergency conference and I couldn't get away."
"That's okay Dad, I understand." She hops into the passenger side door which Clark closes behind her before moving around to the driver side where he puts her stuff in the middle and hops in, "I'm almost eight years old. I can take care of myself."
He lets out a small chuckle, "You could be sixteen and I would still worry about you." The red pickup starts its journey home, "Maybe I should sign you for an after school program or something that way you don't have to sit out here by yourself."
"There's always the school bus." She offers looking up towards her father a little hopeful, "Most kids at my school take the bus home and there parents don't have a problem with it."
"Well when you get a little older then you can take the bus but for now you're going to day care or whatever after school programs they have here." The truck pulls to a stop at a red light and he looks over at her with a small smile, "I just want you to be safe."
She doesn't respond to his words but before he could say anything else the light turned green and the traffic began to move, "You know your mother was the same way with me." She immediately looks towards him, "Every time I was overprotective of her, she would stop talking and we would just sit there until one of us finally spoke."
"Why were you overprotective of her? I thought she had a meteor power."
"Well that may be true but when she was pregnant with you I would constantly follow her around making sure both of you were okay." He pauses clearly becoming uncomfortable with the conversation and the memories they brought but he pushed them aside and continued, "When I found out that you didn't have any of my abilities it just made me even more protective of you cause unlike me you can be hurt and I never want that to happen."
Maggie takes in his words and thinks it over the rest of the way home until the passenger side door opened and her father helped her down then grabbed her things, "Daddy." He looks down at her after locking the car, "Would you still be this protective of me even if I did have abilities?"
"Of course I would." He squats down in front of her, "Your grandparents were this way with me even with my powers and sometimes it may seem like I'm going overboard but just know that I love you no matter what."
"Even if I had spots?"
Clark just laughed at the question and grabs her hand as they walk towards the freight elevator, "Spots, stripes, whatever your mind can think of."
"What about if I had a tail?"
Unable to get rid of the smile on his face and the bout of laughter at the little one's questions, "That too." Replied Clark as father and daughter stood in the large elevator which rolled up towards their home.
Later that night while Maggie slept comfortably in her bed with Shelby at her side, Clark was busy working on his laptop while listening to the police scanner hoping that Winslow Schott would make an appearance soon and his superhero persona would be there to grab him.
"This is an APB. All available cars to Metro National Bank. We have a two eleven sierra in progress. Possible armed suspects, proceed with caution." The dispatcher's voice radioed in through the scanner prompting Clark to close his laptop and walk into his room where his costume was waiting
Clark set his glasses on the end table near the balcony but before he left he was quick to call his cousin who appeared in front of him as soon as he hung up, "Nice tights cuz." She jokes while lounging on his couch where she looked at him to see that he wasn't pleased with her tone, "Relax Kal. I've got everything handled here on the home front just make sure you come back in one piece.
He stand there a little hesitant, "Are you sure you've got it covered?" Kara looks back gives him a look that causes him to shut up and let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding as opened the door where he does a quick scan of the area to make sure no one was looking, "I'll be back soon." he disappears in a red blue blur.
"Cant wait." She replies with sarcasm when she blurs back to the couch with freshly made popcorn thanks to her heat vision.
The blonde kryptonian just sits there eating her snack while channel surfing for several minutes before settling on a movie about a girl caught in a love triangle with a werewolf and vampire, "Human's are weird." She says to herself just as she pops another kernel into her mouth and lounged back comfortably in the couch unaware of who was coming up in the elevator.
Jimmy was clicking pictures of the thieves who were being escorted to the squad cars by the police when he panned over and noticed that something was burned into the wall across the street.
"Where are you going?" asks Lois when she notices him walking across the street away from where the action was taking place, "Perry's not gonna be happy when hears about you wasting the paper's money because of your artistic visions."
He faked a laugh, "Very funny Lane." He peels back a few of the posters to reveal what looked like an S, "Hey Lois!" he calls over after snapping a few shots, "Come take a look at this."
Lois pulls back her remark and just walks across the street only to stop when she watches Jimmy pull away more of the posters to reveal a diamond shape S scorched onto the brick wall, "What do you think it means?"
A flash of her mysterious savior entered her mind and she walked past Jimmy where she ran her hands over the image only to have black soot appear in her fingerprints, "It's him." She says with a small smile, "This blur guy that's been saving everyone was just here and we missed him." Another flash this time of Clark's face but she shook off the idea of the farmboy from Kansas being the city's new vigilante.
"So now he's vandalizing public property? Who is this guy?"
'Clark' Lois thought almost instantly and turned around to face him with that spark she usually got whenever there was a story to be written, "I don't know but I intend to find out"
TBC
I know the chapter is short but there was a part that just didn't fit well as the chapter's end it was better suited for the next one which I'm hoping will be much longer.
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