Chapter 3
Hi Sara!
She wasn’t keen on spending money for a full night in a hotel, especially since they were really only going to get a few hours of sleep there, but at this point she would have paid anything just for a clean mattress and a pillow.
Hey, it’s Planet money! Also, would she be willing to pay in kind if she could sleep in Clark’s old bedroom in Kansas and get a home cooked breakfast?
She was more than used to her partner getting this reaction from women, but the closer they got, the less she liked it.
/carefully wraps claw filing set for Lois’s birthday/ which reminds me, we never got Clark staging a party for Lois in season two!
She inched closer to him and gently touched his arm – a gesture that did not go unnoticed by the woman who gave a slight frown.
Subtle, Lois, really subtle. Why not just have Clark only book a single room with a double bed.
Ah cannae give ye two,” the woman replied with a shrug. “We’ve only got one room the now.”
Oops? You do know that this is supposedly a non-FTB story, don’t you?
Lois had difficulty following what the woman was saying.
I’ll translate : only one big bed. How about you share?
Clark gave her a nervous glance and she realised that he was waiting to see what her reaction would be to this bit of news.
Receptionist: the hunk can stay at my place for the night. (sorry, no accent)
“Fine,” she said tiredly. “We’ll take one with two Queen beds.”
Ah, sorry.
Ah only have the one room. A suite wi’ one King bed.”
See? We don’t do two-bed rooms over here.
The room may shake a wee bit, but it’s no’ but the subway underneath ye. Pay it no mind.”
Hey, they can make their own room-shaking if you don’t mind!
. “Think of it like…a bed with a free built in massage.”
Oooh, I got an idea!
she realised that she would have to share with Clark – a prospect she found both exciting and terrifying.
What’s the worst that could happen?
Lois: /points at quadruplets from season four vision/
HGWells:
Scottish didn’t seem to mind frigid temperatures inside their homes and hotels.
Gives the couple a chance to snuggle up under the covers.
“It’s alright,” she reassured him with a yawn. “I won’t bite. I’m too tired to.”
“And now here we are in bed together.”
Lois is super easy.
LOIS: People did call me catty when it comes to Clark. Or Superman. I just figured I shouldn’t disappoint them.
. “I just…wasn’t sure you wanted to after the whole Ralph’s Pagoda mess. And I didn’t know how to ask you again. Somehow it seemed scarier.”
Like asking the possessed girl from The Exorcist?
“Clark, we’re partners and best friends. This isn’t scary. It’s terrifying.”
. She smiled and fought the urge to kiss him. She wasn’t sure what might happen if she kissed him right now.
Based on past experience, once she pulls back to get naked, he’d fall asleep.
“Really,” she told him. “I even made reservations for a romantic dinner in Belfast as a surprise. I guess that’s part of the reason I’m so on edge.”
“We could maybe consider this our ‘almost-almost-first-date’ if you want.”
Almost-third-date with almost third-date activities.
“I dunno,” she drawled with a somewhat mischievous smile. “I don’t go to bed with just anyone. Especially not on an ‘almost-almost-first-date’.”
“Will you…” she hesitated, unsure of why she was suddenly so nervous with him. “Will you hold me? Until I fall asleep, that is?”
Oooooooooh
He was warm and his arms were gentle and strong. She closed her eyes and drifted off into oblivion as the subway gently rumbled beneath them.
aaaaaaaaawwwwwww
Another fun chapter!
Michael
