Chapter Thirty Five
Months Later…
The red truck pulled up to the dusty driveway and Maggie immediately jumped out to run into her grandparent's embrace while Clark just shook his head and laughed while he grabbed the backpack, "Sorry I'm late. I had a little situation that needed clearing up."
"I really wish you would take a break from being Superman. It's not healthy to be flying off every hour of the day without sleep." Martha says after giving her son a hug when the other kryptonian in the household spoke up.
"I could always takeover for you. Metropolis is in need of a woman's touch." Kara stated and immediately revoked the idea when Martha gave her the whole 'School first, saving the world second' speech.
"Things definitely haven't changed around here" Clark handed off the backpack to Jonathan who gave him a reassuring smile that tonight would go off without a hitch, "I guess I will see you later." He gives Martha a kiss on the cheek then hugs Jonathan and Kara before looking down at Maggie, "I want you to be on your best behavior for your grandparents."
She nods and wraps her arms around him; "Have a good time with Lois" she kisses him on the cheek then takes a step back and watches her father wave goodbye before hopping into his truck and drove off.
Clark's hands over hands prevented her from seeing what the kryptonian had planned, "Can I open my eyes yet?" she asks with a small smile while he continued to lead her towards their destination, "At least tell me why I had to bundle up."
They stop and the large hands move away to reveal a candlelit dinner in the center of the Fortress of Solitude, "Happy Anniversary Lo." He kisses her on the cheek then takes her hand and escorts her to the table, "I brought all your favorite meals. The cheesy breadsticks from that place in Gotham, Pasta from that bistro in Italy and last but not least." He moves around and lifts to lid to their dessert, "Apple pie courtesy of my mother."
"This is amazing." She looks around at the crystalline structures and the romantic dinner he had probably been planning for months, "You're amazing"
He flashes her that charming smile of his as he walks over towards the console of the fortress and begins moving around several of the crystals then walked back to her, "I adjusted the settings so you don't freeze to death." He states while taking her gloves and coat from her, "Think of this as our cabin in the woods."
"More like a cabin in the Yukon." She walks around looking at everything with interest, "I can't believe I'm actually standing in your fortress."
"If we're going to have a life together I want you to know everything about me and this is part of the final piece of the Clark Kent puzzle." He appears at her side and watches her face with great joy as she takes everything in.
"How does this place go unnoticed?"
"There's a camouflage and cloaking mechanism that prevents it from being detected. The fact that it snows also helps keep people from finding it." Clark replies while he held her chair for her then went around to his side of the table, "I may have modified a few things as an extra precaution."
"Like what?" she asks while munching on a piece of cheesy breadsticks and watched a geeky look appear on Clark's face as he moved over towards the console to move around a few crystals until finally the fortress began to grow dark causing Lois to panic.
"Its okay" he says reassuring then twisted one of the crystals to cause the larger crystalline structures to begin twinkling like the stars in the night sky.
"Wow" she looked around in amazement, "It's beautiful." She was oblivious to the fact that Clark was looking at her with a smile.
"The night's not over yet" he says to himself and goes back to enjoy a nice dinner with the woman he loved.
"I have something I've been meaning to ask you" he places his napkin on the now empty plate and despite the cold environment he was sweating as he reached into his pocket and revealed a small box, "I've never been good with words especially when it comes to you but I think I found what I've finally wanted to say"
"I know that it hasn't been easy living with me, Maggie and Superman but that's what makes you…you." Lois looks down anticipating what was going to pop out of the box when Clark grabbed her hand and knelt down in front of her, "You're the woman I want to spend the rest of my life." He cracks open the box to reveal a beautiful diamond ring.
"Oh my god!" she looks at the diamond ring back to Clark and immediately exclaimed, "Yes!" she jumps him causing both to crash to the floor with a loud thud.
"I haven't asked you yet." Clark said with a chuckle as he moved a piece of hair out of her way and kisses her lovingly as wrapped her in his arms never wanting to let her go, "And I didn't even show you the best part"
"What could possibly top this?"
He just smiled…
They flight back to Metropolis was much quicker then she imagined but once her feet were on the grassy lawn she was eager to see what other surprises her future husband had planned for her, "God that sounds good to say" she thinks to herself as she feels Clark leading her through the grass followed by the sound of a door opening and her feet touched a hardwood floor, "Can I open my eyes now? I'm getting kind of antsy"
His laugh was close to her ear and caused her to shiver, "Just a few more seconds" they stop moving and his hands are removed from her eyes, "Okay"
When she opened her eyes she was surprised to see a large empty living room that had a fireplace, "W-What?" she begins walking around to look around the large house confused, "Why are we here?"
He gave her a large and somewhat nervous smile, "This is our new home" he reaches into his jacket to pull out a piece of paper, "All it needs is our signatures"
"This is all so sudden" a look crosses his face, "Not that I don't love it. This is possibly the best night of my entire life; I just don't know what I did to deserve it"
"I only want the best for you…us" he steps towards her leaving the papers on the fireplace mantle, "We can have a fresh start here together." He walks past her and points towards the backyard, "I can build a tree house for the kids" he then moves back towards the fireplace, "Then in the winter after a long day at the office we can sit here and drink hot cocoa while you rest your feet on my lap"
While Clark went on to explain everything he dreamed of doing with her in this house she smiled and could see everything in her mind play out just as he described it with the world's biggest smile.
"Clark" he stops to look at her, "It doesn't matter where we live." She caresses his strong jaw and leans in to press her lips against his, "I'll be happy just as long as we're together." She walks past him to take the papers from the mantle, "But first I think we need to focus on getting married" she folds up the paper and slides it back into his jacket pocket, "After that then we can talk about making this place a proper home"
At this moment Clark fell more in love with her and gave her one of his famous knock your socks off kisses that caused her arms to wrap around his large frame, "What do you say we…" she finishes the rest of her sentence with a soft whisper in his ear and if it was possible the smile on the kryptonian's face grew even larger.
Clark immediately swept her into her arms and they disappeared in a blur leaving their future home behind to celebrate the night's events which were shaping up to be something memorable for the future Mr. & Mrs. Lane-Kent unaware of what would happen next.
"Tag your it!" Maggie squealed and ran out of the yellow farmhouse with Shelby close behind her as Kara chased after her, "No fair!" she exclaimed after Kara used super speed to catch her then super sped away afterwards.
The child gave chase to her super powered relative then ran towards the barn and tapped Jonathan, "Your it grandpa!" she takes off running once again with her faithful companion at her side.
He smiled and stopped what he was doing to chase after his granddaughter, "I'm gonna get you." He called out with an even larger smile on his face while his heart raced faster and faster.
Shelby raced ahead with Maggie following close behind when Jonathan started to slow down feeling out of breath and fatigued after chasing after his grandchild for several minutes when he felt a pain in his arm and immediately recognized what was happening, "Martha" his wife's name fell out in a whisper as he fell to his knees then back.
When Martha looked up she was horrified to find her husband sprawled out on the ground, "Jonathan!" she cried out dropping the plate which shattered into piece while she rushed to her husband's side.
After hearing the screams Maggie stopped and turned back to see her grandmother hunched over her grandfather sobbing and immediately ran back towards them where Martha instructed her to call 911.
Kara appeared and immediately joined Martha's side to help the fallen farmer, "His pulse is getting weaker" the kryptonian says somberly looking into the kind woman's teary eyes, "We need to get him to hospital or he'll die."
The child looked from her unconscious grandfather back to Martha before running off with tears falling down her face as she did what she was told hoping that he would be okay.
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