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Be Not Echoes	By : Isabelle_Jennings Category: DC Verse Comics > Justice League Views: 3674 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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PART 5: IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE
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--- J'ONN ---
Lois woke up snuggled up to a very warm and cuddly Clark Kent. She ran her hand over his shoulder and bicep and started kissing his neck, lazily moving herself a little against him and then as he started to wake as she began to kiss his lips. Soon he was kissing her back and she just felt this surge of joy inside her. It felt so good with him--all warm and homey somehow. Like family almost. It was a crazy feeling, but it was just like there was this wavelength between them that harmonized so easily. Maybe it was that he'd experienced so much loss in his life. Not nearly so much as her, she supposed, but they were both orphans, weren't they? Not unlike the familiarity she'd felt towards Cat... because she and Cat had both lost children. And as sad as it was, it also made her feel less alone.
She felt his sex get hard between them and she smiled, stopping her kisses. She looked at him and hummed a little. "I want to take a bath with you... I have a whirlpool?" She offered. They did smell of sex kind of. And it was early, only a little after five. They had plenty of time and Cat didn't wake up until seven-thirty or eight usually, unless Lois woke her up for some reason. So they had the bath all to themselves for an hour if they wanted. (Lois was an habitual early-riser from growing up in a military family, and she'd sometimes taken the opportunity to go into Cat's room and watch her sleep, though not when Lori was there obviously.)
"Sounds good." He agreed. "Wait, I don't have any clothes here." He realized.
"Mm, I've got some t-shits and shorts that should fit, or you can wear the stuff you came in. Just leave early enough to stop by your place before going to work." Lois reasoned, a little annoyed with the practicality, having been more hoping for romance.
Clark considered that. "...No, we should probably just have a shower. I've got an early meeting with Jeff Sales from the city planning board." He explained.
"This about that thing you're doing on that jack ass trying to push people out of low income housing on old Metro's east side?" She asked.
"Yeah." Clark confirmed.
"Mm, okay then. Shower it is." She smiled and kissed him affectionately, placated by the fact that he was being un-romantic for journalistic reasons at least, to which she could, of course, relate. She still thought he could have at a minimum pretended like it was more of a hardship on him though, but she did like the honesty at least.
The shower was playful and flirting, and she found it very enjoyable them washing one another. She loved his touch, loved touching him, maybe a little too much. When he raced out of the apartment in his rumpled clothes from last night, she felt kind of let down and wistful. For some reason wanting to call Erica just to spite him for leaving her. Okay, so maybe not -just- to spite him. Despite how amazing it was with Clark, Erica had unexpectedly gotten under her skin somehow too. She was very tempting. She smirked a little to herself--so were the twins, she admitted. Having three lovers at once, the extra contact and thoughts, emotions, swirling around, it was very appealing to her. Plus, Margot and Aliki had interesting minds. How free they were with their feelings and how they lived life so always on the edge. But mostly, the way Erica had looked at her when she told her she might ask her to marry her someday, Lois just couldn't shake the memory of that, or the secret desire for Erica to follow through.
She sighed as she finished drying her hair and sat in a loveseat by the windows, looking out over the city and enjoying the feeling of the sun on her skin. She lay on her side and closed her eyes, just trying to embrace a peaceful mood to avoid the fact that she knew she had to make a choice between the two love interests in her life, even though she had very little idea how she was going to do that as of yet.
Before too long, she heard noises and sensed Lori waking up. She got up and rested her forearms on the back of the loveseat, chin on the back of her hands. "Morning, Lori." She greeted in a peaceful mood, smiling a little to see how cute Lori's ruffled hair was.
"Mm? Oh, hey Lois. Where's Clark?" She asked, going about setting some tea to heating on the stove. "Oh, and want some tea?"
"Mm? Oh, sure, sounds great. And Clark left already. All this important reporter business that he felt he needed his own clothes for. Go figure, huh?" She smiled.
Lori just looked at her curiously, going over and sitting on a stool facing her over a counter, resting her chin on her hands, elbows propped up on the counter. "How was it with him?" She asked.
"Hmm..." She hummed. "Amazing, actually. We've definitely got that spark, you know?"
"So... are you choosing him over Erica then?" Lori asked.
"Mm, that's just it, I don't know yet." She admitted, looking down at the floor. "I know I can't, but I kind of want to have both of them somehow now. Like, if I could live two parallel realties at once? One where I chose him, the other where I choose her." It was stupid, but she really did feel kinda stuck.
Lori smiled. "We all wish that sometimes." She answered. "One way or another."
"Very true." Lois agreed, meeting her friend's eyes again.
"Who do you -think- you'll chose?" Lori asked. "If you had to guess, right now."
Lois considered that honestly. Clark was like fire and sunlight, Erica was electric and mysterious like a warm night by the ocean. She could fall so in love with either of them so easily, she knew. "Erica, think." She answered on impulse.
"Why?" Lori asked.
"...As much as I like him, Erica just seems like she'd... I don't know, me with her just makes more sense somehow... I practically had to give him an ultimatum to get him into my bed last night. It was... I didn't like how that made me feel. I guess I'm still mad at him." She admitted. "He kissed my cheek when he said goodbye this morning." She told further, just now realizing she'd been mulling over these feelings in the back of her mind and not thinking about it consciously.
Lori giggled a little. "You wanted tongue?" She asked.
"Of course I did." Lois confirmed. "At least there should have been mouth-to-mouth contact of some kind." She explained, feeling a little depressed by it all of the sudden. "And wake-up sex, that too. There's always wake-up sex with Erica." She told. Still... that warmth Clark made her feel... She didn't like being annoyed with him like she was, she wanted it to be easy and problem free.
"You always want sex." Lori observed teasingly.
"Not always." Lois defended. "And don't pretend like it's not true for you too, Lori."
"Okay, fair point. Cat is very addictive that way for me." Lori agreed with a hint of a blush. "But, you're giving him another chance?" She predicted. The tea pot started to boil and Lori went to make tea for them both, leaving the burner on low to keep the water hot for Cat when she woke.
Lois didn't speak as Lori prepared the tea. She watched as Lori walked over to her and sat down beside her on the loveseat. Lori was in a silk robe, Lois was just wearing a white lacy bra and panties. Lois took a sip of her tea and hummed a little in appreciation. "Yeah, of course I'm going to do that." She confirmed softly. "The love making was really great between us, and like I said: spark... We just... click... Maybe a little too much so, in fact." She quietly admitted that shameful bit of information. Something about getting so close to Clark... scared her a little. She had to finally admit that was true.
"Like why Cat didn't want to be your girlfriend... Too much too fast?" Lori ventured, Cat having told her the truth about that relatively up-front.
Lois looked over at her. "Yeah, maybe so..." Lois had to admit, feeling a little embarrassed by that truth. She'd never pushed Cat for anything after what happened unintentionally between them initially, letting Cat dictate the nature of their relationship almost entirely, but she had to admit, she still wanted for there to be more between them. Even now, she knew herself well enough to know that she'd break up with Erica and Clark both in a heartbeat if Cat said she wanted her like that. Oh, she hoped that if she pursued one of those relationships seriously, that would cease to be true at some point, but for now it was still very much true for her. She kind of hated the idea of making Clark feel that way about her if she dumped him, but she knew that that wasn't a reason to make a decision like this--that being with Clark for a reason like that would be much worse for both of them than not being with him would be. Just like she wouldn't want Cat to be with her for a reason like that. Only if it was really what Cat herself wanted in her soul. "Not so much that I'm giving up on the possibility of being with him yet though."
"So... maybe Clark is the one for you after all? If that's... you know, if you have feelings that strong?" She offered, a little uncomfortable.
Lois just looked into Lori's eyes and smiled. "Lori, Cat's feelings for you, you know they're stronger than hers are for me, right?"
"Uh... I um, yeah, I know that." Lori answered, looking away.
Lois looked down at her hands. "Lori... if Cat really wanted me, like... like I'd be very, very happy if she did... then she wouldn't let fear like that get in the way. She just wouldn't. I kind of like to pretend that's not true sometimes, if I'm feeling low or something, but it's true. If you were me, and I were you, I think she'd... she'd probably still chose you over me. If you know what I mean." She smiled a little at the word jumble she'd just made. What's more, she wasn't sure she completely believed what she'd just said, but... it might be true anyway; probably was... a little bit... or she -hoped- it was only a little bit anyway... (preferably in the macroscopic range...)
"Yeah, I think I do." Lori took Lois's hand in hers and squeezed it a little. "Thanks, Lois." She offered, looking over at her. "You know, it's really kind of frustrating."
"What?" Lois asked.
Lori smiled. "It would really be so much easier if I didn't like you so much." She hugged her. "Know what I mean?"
Lois hugged her back and smiled. "Yeah, I completely know what you mean."
The hug broke up and Lori settled back on the seat, looking out the window and picking up her teacup for another sip. "She told me about that idea of yours. Moving into a bigger place with you?" Lori informed. "You'd... you'd really want that?" She asked.
"Yeah, of course I would. Why not?" Lois asked.
"...Oh, no reason I guess." Lori smiled over to her.
"So... what do you want? I, um, I'll tell her I don't want it, if you, I mean, if you want her more to yourself. I'd completely understand that, if you felt like that I mean." Lois offered, fidgeting about a little.
Lori smiled a little. "Well, thanks for that at least." She answered, reaching a hand over and laying it on Lois's thigh.
"Yeah, of course." Lois replied, putting her hand over Lori's. "So...?"
"So, I guess I'm still thinking about it?" She told, meeting Lois's eyes. "I'm kind of leaning towards a 'yes' though."
"Really?" Lois asked, smiling.
"Yeah. I mean, I know it means a lot to her. You too I guess." She took Lois's hand in hers and held it. "And I have to admit, I do kind of like the idea of having you around for some reason." She confessed. "As probably idiotic as that is of me." She laughed.
"You think I might try to steal her from you? Lori, I..." But Lori brought up two fingers to cover her lips to symbolically stop her in mid-speech.
"No, I don't think that." Lori smiled a little ruefully. "If you were going to try something like that, I think you would have by now. No... I guess if I were more of an insecure person than I am, I'd be a little afraid -she- might do something; you know if we had an argument or something? You so close and tempting, and that you wouldn't say no."
"Except I would say no." Lois told softly.
"Huh? You..." Lori was surprised.
"I'd say no. In that situation, of course I would." Lois told softly. "If... if anything were to happen, between her and me, I wouldn't say yes unless it was real. Unless I knew it's what she wanted, not just for a night. If for no other reason than it would hurt too much to do otherwise." She smiled to herself a little. "And I think you'd also have had to have done something really spectacularly dumb to mess things up between you for that to happen. So, as long as you don't do that, your relationship with her is probably safe from me." She admitted. "I really do like you a lot." She spoke more softly. "I don't want to hurt you, if I can possibly help it..."
"Hm." Lori smiled. "Mutual." She hugged her.
"I'm glad." Lois hugged her back. She really was very grateful for Lori in fact, in large part at least. That she was such a good person with an open heart and all. She had to figure most other women would have tried to cut Lois out of Cat's life as much as possible. And Lois would have probably had to have let them, and that would have hurt... very badly.
The second hug broke apart. "If it's any help, I'd pick Erica, if it were up to me." She told.
"Hm? Why's that?" Lois asked curiously.
"Um, basically because she's a woman. And you are too, no matter what or who you were before. Maybe I'm just bias because I had such a bad experience, but I think women are just better for women, as mates." She explained, reflectively. "A man just wouldn't be like you are about this. Not unless he was gay maybe, but then this situation wouldn't be this situation if you were a gay man. I know it sounds kind of bigoted... and maybe it is. But I still think it's probably true anyway." She looked off at her and Cat's collection of CDs, not meeting Lois's eyes.
"Huh. Well... Mm, maybe you're right. I certainly wouldn't know for sure. But... I don't think it really applies to me as much as you might think. I mean, you're right, like I am now, I'm definitely 100% woman. But I don't have to be. Culturally, green Martians took on gender roles because of our history with the people of Saturn, how our ancestors mimicked them during one point in our evolution; but when it came to sex? Those already very changeable appearances would just fade away past a certain point for us... In our natural state, our scientists were fairly certain, we don't even actually have gender at all. So I could be a man with Clark just as easily." She smiled. "In fact I think I'd like to try it at least once, out of curiosity at least. But I really don't think it would make too much difference to me... Though I guess I wouldn't really know until I tried, right? I guess I'll just have to see..."
Lori just shook her head a little but smiled a bit ruefully. "Sometimes..."
"Sometimes what?" Lois asked.
"Sometimes you really surprise me, that's all. Often in fact. And that's not a bad thing." She patted Lois's hand and got up from the couch. "I need to start cooking breakfast."
"Something with sea weed?" Lois perked up. She completely loved Lori's cooking. For some reason though, Cat wasn't quite so taken with it, although she'd said she liked it well enough.
"For you? Of course." Lori smiled, always pleased when Lois appreciated her cooking so much; realizing, as a mermaid, her taste in food might not always be so compatible with land people. Lois even liked the more raw dishes she served. She chalked it up to her being an alien, but was grateful for it none the less.
"Mm, yum. Can I help?" Lois offered.
"Sure. Can you chop the hazelnuts?" Lori had a real weakness for hazelnuts for some reason. She ate them like candy sometimes, Lois had noticed.
"Of course." Lois agreed happily.
Not long after that, Cat came out of her room and the three of them ate breakfast together.
--- KAL ---
It was about two in the afternoon, Kal was on his own as 'Superman'. He'd taken leave from work early, claiming to be following leads. So far, he'd stopped seven separate crimes. All mostly in the area of the city where Harvey Bullock had worked. He'd decided to make that a priority, as so few others seemed to make that neighborhood a priority. He'd just stopped a group of kids robbing a corner gas station. One of them had spat in his face and said some, well, things that turned his ears a little red, actually, especially coming from a kid so young.
He was on a roof, sitting on the edge and looking down at the people below, just wondering about life in general, when he heard a faint sound behind him. "I was wondering when I'd see you again, Bruce." He spoke, not looking back.
"I guess I don't have to tell you not to jump." Bruce replied.
Kal smiled as the Batman sat down beside him on the ledge. "True." He agreed.
"So, Clark Kent, is it? Wouldn't have expected that." Bruce told.
Kal looked at him, surprised. Then he shook his head a little ruefully. "Fair's fair I guess."
"I thought so." Bruce answered. "I've been following your exploits around here recently. I walked the streets down there, people seem to be living with... less weight on their shoulders. Less weariness. More hope. You gave that to them Clark... That's impressive. To me at least." He admitted quietly.
"Is that your way of telling me you've decided you like me?" Kal asked.
"I... suppose it is--that I find myself respecting you at least." He allowed. "I hope you keep it up."
"I plan to." Kal pledged to him.
--- J'ONN ---
Lois was down by the waterfront crouched behind some crates with Jimmy and his camera. She'd been working for this for weeks. She'd thought about inviting Clark to go with her, but he'd begged off after lunch, saying he had some business of his own to take care of. It had frustrated her, she'd wanted to share this with him, and, okay, maybe impress him some too. Generally, she was finding more and more that Clark was turning out to be frustrating and hard for her to pin down. When it had seemed just so... easy with him, at first. Was Lori right? Was it just that human men and women weren't all that compatible in long term relationships? She knew there was some truth there at least, how much she had yet to decide for herself on. Honestly though, she tended to think it was probably just a problem with Clark rather than some nefarious worldwide phenomenon at work. She just had to get to the bottom of it. Soon, preferably.
The ship's gangplank lowered and ship's hands disembarked, were met by dock hands, and they set about getting the ship secured. Equipment, forklifts and such, were being brought into position to offload the cargo. Lois's hands squeezed into fists thinking about how brazen and disgusting these people in Intergang were to be doing this in broad daylight. The people who worked for the docks, many of them, most, probably had no idea what, and who, they were transporting.
She heard Captain Maggie Sawyer's voice in her ear telling her people to get ready. Lois had brought this to her days ago, and, in exchange for the information and all the detective work Lois had already done, gathering evidence and such, Maggie had agreed to give her the exclusive.
It took a while, but the first crates were soon offloaded. Lois heard Maggie give the signal. "Stay back, Jimmy. Take those great pictures you take. I'm going in for a closer look." Lois told Jimmy upon hearing that.
"Lois, are you sure that's... Never mind." He gave up, she was already on her way and experience no doubt told him that he was wasting his breath. Part of her wanted to go invisible and help Maggie; make sure no one was hurt. She was a manhunter after all, her planet's equivalent to police; but, despite that she worried that the incident with Joan Dale/Miss America months ago may have blown her cover, she still held out hope that her ruse would bear fruit in the matter of the real Lois's disappearance if she were patient enough. And Intergang was still on her list of suspects, despite having nothing but the thin thread of knowing Lois had made herself their enemy and that the dark gods who were behind them might have had the ability to take Lois and leave no trace. They had done something similar to Joan; kidnapping her and using her as a power source with no one the wiser, after all. Still, she had not a shred of real evidence to support her suspicion--all the Intergang people whose minds he'd broken into before going under cover as Lois knew nothing of it. But she didn't have all the information on the dark gods themselves, except that they came from a place called Apokolips and were very powerful. She had no way to get to them either, and they were more powerful than she could hope to take on head on. She'd barely managed to pull through against one of them after all, and she'd had the feel of fire about her, fire such as she'd never wish to see--so going to where Lashina and her fellows lived, it seemed to be very probable suicide for her; which would of course not help Lois in the least. So she'd decided to be every bit the thorn in their side the real Lois had been, more even, and see if they tipped their hand. If she -knew- they had her, she'd find a way to free her. God fire or not.
It happened then, Maggie's troops descended on the boat with overwhelming force. Gotham-Metro's Special Crimes Division landing like a ton of bricks. The men on the boats pulled out those other-worldly energy weapons of theirs, but, thanks to Kara Ze's Star Corp, the S.C.D. unit were nearly as well armed. And they had John Henry Irons with them in his Steel armor, as well as Gilotina, a rogue Fury from the dark gods (whom she'd talked to as J'onn before while searching for Lois, but gotten little useful information from), and Prysm (Gilotina's girlfriend and the reason the Fury'd ran and taken refuge on Earth). As she watched, it was clear the Intergang thugs didn't stand a chance.
When it was over, Lois walked out from hiding and congratulated Maggie on her success, going with her to see as the human cargo was being freed and the designer drugs and weapons cargo were being investigated. "My god, what were they doing to these people..." Maggie spoke as she and Lois got a look at the people Intergang had been shipping. They had that other-worldly technology implanted in or attached to them and were non-responsive, packed like they were just freight.
"...Soldiers, I'd guess." Lois told. "Human weapons. Fuck, this is even worse than I thought." She was just realizing how very serious this was turning into. "If they reach a certain scale with this stuff, it'll be worldwide war... and we might not be the winners." She unconsciously reached her hand out to take Maggie's. Maggie held her hand back a moment then let go. Lois was sacred. Why was this happening? Again? To say she did not want to be the last survivor of a second world would be a very grim understatement.
"Courage, Lane." Maggie smiled to her. "We beat them today, we'll beat them tomorrow." She offered in comfort.
Lois smiled. "I'm glad the city has you, Maggie." She replied.
Just then there was a shout, 'We've got a man down over here!' one of Maggie's officers had called, causing others to rush to where he was. Lois looked at Maggie and, wordlessly, they both went to find out who was hurt, or who was dead.
"It's a civilian, Mam." An officer informed, coming up to Maggie. "Your photographer... if I had to guess." He directed this to Lois.
"Jimmy?" She spoke softly, taking off through the crates and past the officers until she was where she'd left the young photographer.
"Is he...?" She started to ask, seeing a medic beside him, but her words stopped when she realized he was dead. She stood there for a few seconds. "Fuck!" She cursed loudly, banging her fist into a nearby crate. She realized her mistake in time to make it appear as though her hand was bleeding thankfully. "I shouldn't have left him here." She spoke sorrowfully, turning away and finding Maggie standing there.
Maggie came over to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "If you hadn't, you'd probably be dead too." She turned to look at the dead boy. "No, this is my fault much more than its yours, Lois. It was my call to let you inside the perimeter. You're civilians..." She trailed off and shook her head. "Do we know who did this?" She asked a lieutenant.
"Someone from Intergang got by us somehow. We took surveillance before we moved, should be able to pull an ID once we match who's on the video to who's in custody or in a body bag and see who's missing." The lieutenant replied.
"Whisper A'Daire. It has to be." Lois told bitterly, having met the woman before and having been surprised to see her with the Intergang group on the docks. If anyone of them could have escaped through all of that, it would have been her.
"Lane?" Maggie turned to her. "I think you need to tell me what else you know, right now. That name wasn't in the intel you gave me. I thought we agreed, full disclosure?"
Lois met her eyes, shaking her head a little. "I had no idea she would be here, but I know I saw her coming off the boat before you and your people moved in. She's high up in their organization, and... very dangerous. You'd... you would need a whole S.W.A.T. team to take her on; Jimmy didn't stand a chance." She met Maggie's eyes again. "I've seen her in action once, in Italy--it was a massacre. I've been digging into these creeps for a long time Maggie, not just for this operation. Maybe... maybe I should give you everything I have on them."
"I think that would be a very smart idea." Maggie narrowed her eyes. "One that should have occurred to you a lot sooner, I shouldn't need to tell you."
Lois looked over at Jimmy's body, photos of the crime scene being taken for evidence. It struck her as... she didn't know what, that he was being photographed like that when he'd spent his adult life doing the same. It struck her as sad, at any rate. "Message received. Loud and clear." She agreed, feeling all the more guilty.
Maggie walked over to her and put a hand on Lois's forearm. "Hey, it probably wouldn't have made a difference anyway, you know?" She tried to comfort her.
Lois met her eyes and moved forwards and hugged the surprised captain. Maggie hugged her back after a beat.
Lois moved away. "Um, thanks for that." She spoke, looking a little embarrassed.
Maggie smiled to her. "Of course." She offered compassionately. "We all need a hug sometimes, I guess." She told, looking at her lieutenant, his face serious as he took notes on the crime scene. "Even stone-faced police lieutenants, I'd bet." She observed playfully, causing lieutenant Murphy to look to her with a puzzled expression, which made Lois smile a little.
There was a loud blast from over by the docks just then, followed by the sounds of fighting.
"Stay here--I mean it Lois!" Maggie commanded her. "Baker, Collins, watch her!" She commanded two of her officers. "Everyone else, with me!" She charged towards the sound of the battle.
Lois closed her hands into fists. She used her telepathy to look through the eyes of someone in Maggie's team who was on the docks. She saw it was the people from the crates with the Intergang weapons systems on them--they'd become active; some of them had taken up weapons from the crates, and all were attacking anything that moved. They were hyper aggressive, brutal, and increasingly well-armed. She looked further. Prysm was down, and Gilotina was protecting her, Lois sensed the Fury would flee with her lover to protect her the first chance she got and leave the others to fend for themselves. Irons had been taken by surprise and was being swarmed by five of them, not fairing too well. Maggie's troupes weren't in formation, were cut off in smaller groups, and there were a lot of these rage-filled soldiers, maybe just too many. If she didn't do something, people, police officers, were going to die; her friend Maggie among them perhaps. With her powers though, she knew she could stop this quickly before anyone got hurt...
She was about to go into her two minders' heads and make them think she was still here when she wasn't (so she could sneak away and help) when she saw something passing overhead in her peripheral vision. The next second, the sounds started to change. She refocused on seeing through the eyes of Maggie's people and saw a red and blue blur moving faster than human eyes could follow. In just seconds, all the soldiers were disarmed and restrained. Then, the eyes she was looking through got a clear look at him: Superman. Lois was so surprised she lost focus and snapped out of looking through the other person's eyes. "Did not see that coming." She spoke to herself, walking through the boxes.
"Ms. Lane, wait." Officer Collins called after her.
"Don't worry." She called back to the woman. "It's all over, can't you hear it? Didn't you see Superman flying overhead? I need to get an interview with him!" She explained on the run, the two officers giving chase.
She reached the clearing of boxes and stopped short when she saw him. He glowed with power and presence even more now, like he'd been purposefully tamping it down when he was Clark. No wonder people couldn't see through it easily. She was in motion again though before Collins or Baker could get to her. "Kal-El!" She called what she guessed must be his real name out, knowing he didn't like 'Superman' from talking with him as Clark.
He turned and their eyes met. There was a flash of fear on his part, gone in a second. He was afraid she would know who he was, wasn't he? Well, she did; had the second she'd got a good look, but she wasn't going to let on just yet. "Lois Lane, Dailey Planet. Got time for an interview?" She asked him.
"I, um, yeah." He spoke. "I guess we could do that." He answered; unconsciously acting a bit like Clark in shy-guy mode, she noticed.
"Say, have we met before?" She asked, winking at him playfully.
He slapped his face with his hand and groaned a little. "Should have known." He muttered.
"Superman?" Maggie asked, looking between him and Lois questioningly.
"He prefers Kal-El, or just Kal; don't you Kal?" She teased him.
"Yeah, I. Lois, don't you think we should go somewhere and talk about this? You know, the interview?" He prompted.
"Lead the way, handsome." She acquiesced.
He groaned a little.
"Well, um, thanks for the help... Kal?" Maggie offered.
"Glad to." Kal smiled to her.
"What's going on with you two?" Maggie asked Lois. "Do you know him?"
"You could say we've met." Lois told, not taking her eyes from Kal's.
"Uh... huh... You'll have to tell me about that sometime, Lane. Seems you do like to live an interesting life." Maggie observed, going to check on her troops. Lois looked and saw that Prysm was fine, just dazed, and she was glad for it. Not nearly as glad as Gilotina was, who was actually crying a little as she hugged her lover. It was all a very romantic scene actually, and Lois smiled to herself to see it.
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