They naturally fit so well together as a team and Clark no longer has to do it surreptitiously while trying to explain it away with a ridiculous excuse.
When the door slid open, revealing the bullpen below, there was a pause, and then a sudden hush, and then a cacophony of voices and clapping as her coworkers realized she had returned. She held up a hand to stop the applause, waving away their appreciation, but behind the embarrassment, he could see in her eyes how much it meant to her.
See Lois? Your coworkers do care for you.
“He needs to go home tomorrow,” Lois answered for him. She was only half focused on the conversation, as she flipped through her rolodex. “He needs to be at work on Thursday. If this lead doesn’t pan out, I’m going to take that sick time and go with him. Until the police catch Luthor. Or until they determine it’s safe for me to come back.”
Clark watched as both Perry and Jimmy went wide-eyed with shock, and then wiped the looks from their faces. He could only assume his face mirrored theirs. She had told him she would come. She hadn’t said how long she would stay.
“You’re going to go to Kansas…indefinitely?” Perry asked, his voice both incredulous and concerned.
“If we don’t catch Luthor,” she reiterated, looking up. “That’s not a problem, is it?”
“No,” Perry said quickly. “Not a problem. You take as much time as you need.”
Perry and Jimmy must be thinking she had a personality transplant or perhaps hit her head harder than they thought.
A half-hour later they were seated in a conference room with two banker’s boxes full of files sitting in front of them.
“We’re never going to get through all of these today,” Lois whined. “Trust Luthor to bury the evidence in a thousand pounds of red tape.”
Clark smiled and reached for a box, checking to make sure the door was closed and no one could see in. “I might be able to give us a little assist here.”
She looked at him curiously as he lifted a hefty stack of files and held them in one hand, his opposite thumb poised to fan through the documents. He grinned at her, and then slid down his glasses and skimmed through at super speed looking for anything that mentioned a basement, bomb shelter, separate structure, or sewage.
Love seeing Clark openly use his powers in front of her like his sure cut down on the research time.
Clark had barely slept the night before, his mind and body still reeling from the ecstasy of taking her flying. It had been beyond his wildest imaginings. He had never dreamed that she would love it so much or take to it so quickly. He had longed to fly with her, but he had envisioned leisurely flights, low to the ground. He had not imagined that they would be able to fly at speeds far faster than an airline jet or that he would be able to take her above the clouds to see the stars.
Now his mind reeled with all the possibilities. In the nearly twelve years since he had started flying, really flying, he had visited every corner of the earth. There were so many things, so many places, that had left him in awe. So many times he had wished he had someone to share that wonder with. And now, he did. He could take her deep into the bamboo forests of China to see the pandas. He could take her north during the endless nights of winter to see the Aurora Borealis. He could take her out in the middle of the ocean to listen to the whales sing their way home.
They could swim in pools fed by breathtaking waterfalls and sleep under the stars on beaches where no human had walked before. Together they could travel to places he had never been. They could make their own discoveries together.
He could give her the world.
And he could take her home with him. Whenever he wanted. No more waiting a month for just a few days with her. He could come to her, and he could bring her to Smallville. And he would never have to lay in his bed and ache for her the way he had on her birthday.
Sounds divine!
Except for the simmering fear that lay deep in his stomach.
Clark’s overprotective nature when it comes to Lois has always been the sticking point of their relationship. Let’s hope there’s no ‘breaking up with you for your own good’ moment.
Keep it up I’m waiting with baited breath for the next part.
