I read and caught up with story last night. What a fun idea and reveal!
I loved his reaction to the suit, and how Lois didn't assume CK=SM from finding his secret closet. It's interesting how you had him recognize himself with glasses when no one else did. It was so funny his thoughts about why Lois had brought him this suit and not the business suit from the picture.
He was going to kiss her, and he’d make damn sure he wouldn’t forget this one.
So, he knows he kissed her already?
A sharp rapping at the door startled them both apart. Lois, wide-eyed and breathing heavily, just stared for a half a second. Another knock, but neither of them moved.
"Clark, open up! It's Jimmy," came a muffled voice through the door.
Lois sat back and gave him a worried look before she stood and moved toward the front door. "Something must be wrong."
Clark followed her up the stairs onto the landing, still unsettled by both the kiss and the sudden interruption. Who was Jimmy?
She opened the door quickly, out of breath, and he wondered fleetingly if it was from her rushed trip to the door or his kiss. Before he could ponder that further, a young man came through the door hurriedly and turned to face them on the landing.
Am I the only one who wondered what Jimmy would think at seeing a glasses-less Clark?
Well, he could solve one problem for the young man--if he was Superman, he wasn't missing any longer. He was about to open his mouth to say so when he felt a sharp tug on his arm.
Lois spoke before he could. "We'll find him, Jimmy. He's got to be out there somewhere. Why don't you head back to the Planet and see if you can pull up any sightings of anything having fallen from the sky last night. Clark and I will hit the streets and look for Superman."
Sooooo, Jimmy doesn't notice who Clark looks like without his glasses? I guess he does have something else on his mind. Wouldn't it be funny, if he said "Hi, Superman" to Clark without a second thought before rattling on to Lois about how they needed to find Superman to save the world.
Why was the Clark part of him filtering back, but he couldn't remember anything about Superman?
Except for the kisses Superman shared with Lois.
She leaned into him and he pulled her into an embrace, stroking her hair as her head came to rest against his chest.
"I don't want to die," she whispered into him. He could feel her body start to tremble, barely perceptible, as if she were trying to hold back her emotions.
And then something inside of him clicked into place. His mind was flooded with images. Red and blue. The cape. Him in the suit. Saving her. Again. And again. He felt a sharp pull in his chest, his heart racing. Losing Lois was not OK. His chest tightened. The anxiety was there again in his gut. But this time it was different. This time…
He remembered how he felt in all those moments, saving Lois, almost not making it. The fear was almost paralyzing. Losing Lois was. Not. OK.
He couldn’t lose her now.
Awwwww.
"No, Lois. I mean we don't need to call them."
She stopped mid-pace and turned to look at him. That voice... it was deeper, confident, and it was Superman's.
The End
THE END??? No, no, no! We need more! This is such a fun story. Many thanks to Darth Michael for giving you the nudge you needed to finish it.
Super Shook Up 6/6 (and there'll be an epilogue, too)
