Love and Heroes

Love and Heroes


Lois was working on her story for the “Blackout” She commented to Richard who was sitting nearby, as Clark walked passed. “Weird. If these times are right, the blackout spread from a specific origin point.”

Richard asked her, as Clark turned his gaze from Lois “Where?” Lois shrugged and replied, whilst holding a high lighter as she read through the information she had gathered over the last couple of hours. “I’m not sure yet.”

Richard suddenly asked “With the super-hearing, does he hear each sound by itself or everything at once?” Clark switched on his computer monitor and used the super-hearing in question to listen to what was being said about him. “Both” was Lois’s reply.

Clark continued to listen as Richard said “He’s certainly is taller then I thought. 6’4” Richard had a slight smile on his face as he added “I love that he can see through anything. I’d have fun with that.” Lois smiled slightly and corrected him “Anything but lead.”

They all looked up when Jason came passed with a dustbin on his head, his arms were out stretched in front of him, and he was making growling sounds. Richard smirked at this. The little boy feared monsters under the bed, but still he would put a bin on his head and pretend to be what he feared.

“I bet he’s” he begun to say, but was cut off mid sentence. “225 pounds, faster then a speeding bullet, draws his power from the sun, invulnerable to anything but kryptonite, and he never lies.”

Clark stifled a smile, she sure did know a lot about him. It warmed him that she remembered those things about him. Surely if she could remember all that she wasn’t so adverse to him.

Richard asked “Kryptonite?” Lois replied “Radioactive pieces of his home world. It’s deadly. To him.” Richard looked thoughtful as he asked Lois “Lois, how tall would say Clark is?”

Lois looked over at Clark who was standing near a filing cabinet and was looking through a large grey folder that had a black and white stripe running across the bottom.

She said to Richard “About 6’3”, 6’4”, 200 maybe 215 pounds.” Both she and Richard were studying Clark so intently he could practically feel their gazes boring though him, it was making him extremely uncomfortable.

Clark quickly decided it was time to crank the goofy farm boy routine up a notch. He did not at all like the sound of where the conversation between Lois and Richard was going. It was bound to have a point somewhere, a point that had the potential to bust open his secret.

Sure he didn’t mind them talking about his alter ego, that was well and good. But the fact they were speculating and comparing the goofy farm boy persona he showed to the news room every day and the flying hero in a red cape, well, then he decided that was taking speculation far too far for his own comfort.

He smiled and lifted his hand and waved over to them. This caused Lois to laugh and turn away and Richard to bury his face in his arms and snicker. Clark let out a sigh of relief, disaster officially averted.

He could deal with and tolerate Lois and Richard making fun of him, even if it did grate on his last nerve that it was Lois who was doing it. At least his secret was still safe and intact and those two were no longer speculating over who he was.