LOL! I'm going to answer this one only because I have a revelation I'd like to use. It's A Guest from the Blue, by... me.
And here's a new one:
"What are you?" Lois whispered.
Her arms still clung to Clark's neck, and she was soft and warm in his arms, but her muscles were tense, and she held herself stiffly away from him. Very different from the yielding woman he had held in his arms on the dance floor earlier. His heart ached at the change in her attitude toward him, and it took him two tries before he could answer her. "A-a friend . . . I hope," he said at last.
She bit her lower lip and swallowed, but her voice still came out as a whisper. "Y-you're flying . . . without a hang-glider or even
flapping your arms."
A brief, unamused smile lifted the corners of his mouth. "It was a surprise to me the first time it happened, too." He turned his head to look at her, her face just inches from is. "Can we wait to talk about this until we get to my place?"
"Y-your place?"
"My apartment," he said.
"You have an . . . ?"
"Apartment? Yeah, and a job, too."
Silence stretched between them, which Clark finally broke to say, "Are you okay?"
She stiffened. "What do you mean?"
"Did I hurt you when I grabbed you? I mean . . . I didn't have a lot of time for finesse."
"No, I--" She relaxed slightly against his supporting arm and studied his face. "I'm fine. Thank you," she added.
The prim courtesy brought a faint smile to his face, and he swung his gaze from the cityscape ahead of them to meet her curious eyes. "You're welcome." He dropped out of the night onto a dark balcony facing an otherwise featureless alley and gently set her on her feet.
Lois tugged her bodice up from the marginally legal position it had slipped to when she fell, adjusted her straps, and smoothed her skirt down to cover her legs as Clark felt in his trouser pocket for his keys. When he opened the door and flipped on the light in the mud room, he turned back and gestured for her to step inside, but she balked. "Why are we here?" she asked.
He sighed. "To talk. I figured you'd have some questions for me."
Wendy
