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Maybe he could arrange to meet her as Superman and watch his words?

Clark's eyebrows lifted. "Agnes? Who's that? A relative?"

That made Lois chuckle. "No, though I suppose we both think of her as a surrogate something. She's my neighbor. She's eighty-four going on twenty, and I've known her since I moved into my apartment building many years ago." Her grin broadened and she shook her head. "She's quite a character."

"Sounds like you're close," Clark observed.

She paused to pull up a few blades of grass, then rolled them absently between her fingers as she went on. "I bounced around a bit, staying with different friends for short periods of time while I worked a couple of jobs--one in the evenings and another on the weekends. It was tough, but I refused to let me school work slip. I had a lot of sleepless nights as I stayed up late to finish my homework." She smiled, but there was little humor in it. "It paid off, though, and I graduated with Valedictorian honors. I got several scholarships, and between those and the money I'd managed to save while working, I was able to put myself through college."

"Didn't you have an inheritance, or get anything from their life insurance policies?"

"That would have been nice," Lois agreed, "but the ironic thing was, as smart as my parents were, they were never very practical. My dad was a scientist and my mom was a nurse, so they made a decent living, but they put most of their earnings into funding my dad's research. There wasn't much left to inherit. To make matters worse, they'd let their life insurance policy lapse several months before the accident and never got around to renewing it. No, I was pretty much on my own."

Lois looked up shyly, and their eyes met. She stared into Clark's beautiful brown eyes and found herself transfixed by the gentleness and compassion she saw there, shining through from the depths of his soul. She was aware of Clark lifting a hand to her face, but she found herself unable to move, unable to breathe, as the world around her faded into a misty haze. The only thing that remained in focus was the man in front of her.

She forced a smile she didn't feel amidst the raging confusion seeping through her body, then nodded. "Thanks, Clark. For now, though, let's just head back to the Planet. It sounds like you have work to do." Then her voice became more business-like as she forced the unsettling emotions from the surface. "You need to get in touch with Mr. Super Hero for me, too, remember?"

Clark sighed, the mood of before now broken. "I know, Lois. I'll see what I can do."

Originally posted by Tank:
Tank (who thinks that Erin should take advantage of the current lightness in story posts and post her next chapter say... tomorrow?)

posted by Tank:
Oh, what an hussy that Lois is. Allowing a man she hardly knows to almost kiss her.Tsk.Tsk.
Clark I can understand. After all, who could resist Lois Lane.