It felt incredibly liberating to tell her. He felt free suddenly; freed from the burden of a secret he’d kept hidden his entire life. He’d actually told someone, and the sky hadn’t fallen in.
AWWWWWW!!!!
She followed him around, and he worried that she might be straining her neck the way she stared up at him. So he nosedived, executed a somersault in mid-air and came to land beside her.
Show off!!
He’d told her the secret he’d spent all week trying to hide from her. In the end, he’d hidden it about as well as that other secret - the fact that he was in love with her. And yet, despite his fears and despite all his parents had warned him about, he didn’t regret it one bit.
Awwww!!
Lex Luthor, billionaire, philanthropist, employer, directly and indirectly, of at least half of Metropolis, friend of politicians and world leaders, Man of the Year four times running... he had tried to kill his wife?
“Just tell them the truth!” Clark protested, but then he halted.
Ah... that's our naive little Clark.
*clink* *clink* “Well, we’ll just have to prove he did it,” he told her decisively. “Which reminds me - you need to tell me exactly what he did. But not here - it’s way past time I got you somewhere safe and warm and where you can get a change of clothes.”
Smallville!!
Sara
