"This shouldn't be public knowledge, you understand, but...it's in the North Pole."
A triumphant grin threatened to peek out from behind my professional mask, but I shooed it away. "Clark told me that he found a globe from your spaceship. He said it turned into a map of your world."
"Yes." Superman nodded. "Krypton is a red and blue planet with large land-masses."
Thwarted again! Clark's hints at the truth didn't work!
He was tortured daily and subjected to Luthor's seductive, poisonous words while all his power was stolen from him.
Lois! Is this not a HUGE clue?
He's one of the very few people who is extraordinary--not because of anything he does--but simply because of who he is.
And therein lies the truth about Clark/Superman. Nicely done to have Lois say it before she really knows what it means.
Loved the whole star-struck metaphor, and this:
Clark might not have been sent from the stars, but he had given me those stars. He had punctured the darkness of my life with tiny pinpricks of light that never failed or wavered in their courses. He had brightened my world as if he were the moon--no, I corrected myself. Not the moon. Clark was the sun, bright and vivid and fixed and never to be outshone by another. Others might look at him and see only a single glowing star, but I was close to him now--close enough to realize that what to one person was a star was to another the brilliance of an anchoring sun.
You're such a poetic writer! Just lovely!!
And this:
Superman took me flying...but Clark made me feel as if *I* could fly.
Superman gave me the world...but Clark could very easily *be* my world.
Superman saved my life...but Clark made me believe that my life was more precious and valuable and important than anyone else's.
I loved Superman...but Clark loved *me*.
Just fantastic!
He set a warm hand on my stomach and began to rub it gently. If I had really had a stomachache, I was sure I would have been healed immediately. "The least I can do is try to return the favor."
Aw
I always did love that little tummy rub he gave her.
Oh the kiss... so well-written and bittersweet! When and how will she really understand what's going on?
Lovely chapter! Looking forward to the next bit, as always!
