One Irish Rover

Metropolis – Morning

The clock next to the bed turned to the hour and music began to play. It was Van Morrison and Bob Dylan singing Crazy Love.

I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heaven's open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song

She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love

The bed shifted next to Clark and then he felt a weight on his stomach. As he opened his eyes he found himself looking out at a smiling Diana. She wasn't wearing anything and Clark could feel his libido jump start at the sight of her.

"Morning,' he said with a smile.

"And it's going to be a very good morning, Kal,' Diana replied with a suggestive smile.

"Feeling a little twirly this morning?" He asked with a grin. A confused look came over her features.

"What?"

"It's a nice way of saying horny, Diana," he replied with a laugh.

"Oh." She smiled, then leaned down and kissed him. In between kisses she whispered, "Guess."

"I'm going to go with yes, 'he murmured between kisses.

"Are you saying you're not?' Diana asked and then glanced over her shoulder. "I think we both know that would be a lie."

"Yeah, that tends to happen when a beautiful woman is sitting naked on top of me,' he offered. "By the way, if this is part of getting to know you, I'm really on board with it like 110 percent. Fun, naked sexy time, count me in."

"It's certainly going to be a part of it from now on," Diana replied with a big smile and a laugh. "They'll be other parts but lets just concentrate on this one for now."

"You'll get no objections from me,' he whispered as he pulled her down to kiss her. Clark was ready to take it to the next step and started to roll them both over.

"No,' Diana whispered, stopping him and taking hold of both of his hands and raising them above his head. She remained on top of him.

"This will be a relationship of equals, Kal,' Diana said with a erotic smile, still holding his hands above his head. "This time I get to be on top and decide the pace."

"Oh, really?' Clark asked with a smile.

"Yes."

Diana was just dipping down to kiss him again when his phone went off. Clark glanced at it on his night table and then looked back at Diana. She was staring at him.

"You're not really thinking of answering it now, are you?"

"It could be important."

"This is important,' Diana said, gesturing towards him and then herself. "Besides if it was an emergency they would contact you on your League communicator."

The phone continued to ring. Clark managed to wriggle one of his arms out of her grasp and quickly picked up the phone. He glanced at number and knew exactly who it was.

"Look, I'm really, really , really sorry,' he apologetically offered. "I know it's not the best time, but I kind of have to answer that."

"Seriously?"

"Yeah, it's Ma, it might be important," he replied. "And again so, so, so, sorry."

Diana made no move to get off him as he brought the phone up to his ear. She just sat there staring at him. He mouthed the word 'Sorry' again and then answered it.

"Hi, Ma, what's going on?" Clark said. "Is something wrong?"

Diana just glared down at him while he tried to talk to his mother. With her amazing hearing Diana had no trouble hearing both parties in the phone conversation.

"No, nothing's wrong, Ma,' he said. "Um, well I was in the middle of something that's why it took me so long to answer."

Clark cringed a little as he saw the expression on Diana's face.

"What? Oh, no, um, ah, nothing-nothing important, don't worry,' he said to his mother. "So what's up?"

Diana mouthed the words "nothing important' and then whispered, "Are you serious?"

"It's my mom,' Clark whispered back, holding his hand over the phone. "What am I supposed to say to her?"

"The truth,' Diana immediately whispered in reply. "You and I are consenting adults, Kal, I'm sure she'd appreciate honesty."

"You mean tell her what we're doing? What we're doing right now and were about to do? Seriously?" Clark whispered with a look of shock on his face. "Yeah, right and then we can drop in on your mother to give her the heads up and see how that goes over. Just let me handle this, please."

Diana was about to reply, but Clark was talking to his mother again.

"So how's everything in Smallville?" He asked. As he listened to his mother relay the recent goings on among the locals, Clark could see Diana was frustrated with him. She hadn't moved from her position on top of him, but her expression clearly indicated she wasn't happy with this turn of events.

"Huh? What's that? Oh, The Oak Ridge Boys are playing at the fair this year?' Clark said to his mother. "That's nice. I didn't even know they were still alive but great, just great. I'm sure they'll do Elvira and whatever other songs they did thirty years ago. Should be fun."

Diana watched his expression change as his mother related she was going to the fair with a date.

"What?" Clark said, shifting all his focus to the conversation he was having with his mother. "You're going to the fair with Ben from down the road? You're dating, Ma?"

Diana couldn't help smiling as she listened to Mrs. Kent inform Clark she was an adult and a widow and if she wanted to go on a date he didn't have any say in it.

"I know that, Ma,' Clark offered, although he really didn't like the idea of his mom going on a date with some dude from down the road. "It's just kind of a shock really."

He listened a little more as his mother set him straight.

"Okay, I get it Ma, it's your life. Got it."

He was just about to try and wrap up the call as gently as he could when Ma Kent asked him the question he wasn't prepared for. She said since she was dating now, had he thought about dating someone himself? Had he found a nice girl to be his girlfriend and to go out with?

"Um, what?' Clark said, caught off guard. "Have I gotten around to finding a girlfriend yet? I'm not really comfortable having this conversation with you Ma."

Diana looked at him, raised her eyebrows and smiled. Clark was trying to listen to his mother while Diana proceeded to lean down and kiss him.

"Mm-umm,' Clark groaned against her lips. "Ah, I mean, uh-huh, yes, Ma I know you're only looking out for me. I do appreciate it but this really isn't a good time for this conversation."

Clark listened as his mother replied and Diana continued to kiss along his jawline and then down his neck in the most distracting way.

"Yes, Ma, I know there are probably lots of nice girls in Metropolis I could date."

Diana stopped kissing him and leaned back to look into his eyes. She gave him a look that pretty much said, 'what the hell, Kal?' He mimed saying 'Sorry' and then pointed to the phone as an excuse and shrugged his shoulders.

"Although, technically I'm in Metropolis right now and I'm a nice girl," Diana teasingly whispered.

'You're not helping,' Clark whispered in reply, covering the mouthpiece of the phone. He was about to say more, but once again Martha Kent caught him off guard.

"Wh-What?" Clark replied. "Well, yeah, that's true, Ma, there are a lot of nice young women in the League."

Diana smiled and pointed to herself, while mouthing the word, 'me.' She was enjoying watching Clark squirm while talking to his mother but then Mrs. Kent said something that surprised Diana.

"Have I thought about asking who out? What? Ask Zatanna out?" Clark repeated his mother's questions while looking nervously up at Diana. "No, not-not really, Ma."

"Zatanna? What the hell, Kal?" Diana whispered. She was clearly not happy.

"A couple of months ago I mentioned to Zee my mother and a couple of friends were coming up to see her show,' Clark quickly whispered while holding his hand over the phone. "She comped them great seats right up front and went out front to meet them afterwards. I didn't even know she did it till later. She kind of charmed my mother and Ma's been a little taken with her since."

Diana had to admit his explanation sounded right. Zatanna could be quite charming and it was a nice thing she did for them. Diana reluctantly nodded in agreement. Clark thought he'd dodged a bullet, but his mom inadvertently tossed him from the frying pan into the fry with her next question. She asked if not Zatanna then why not Wonder Woman?

"Diana?" Clark replied in surprise, his eyes looking into Diana's as her frown turned into a big smile.

"Your mom thinks you should ask me out, Kal,' Diana teasingly whispered. "I haven't even met her and she thinks I'd be a good match for you. "

Of course while this was happening between the two of them, Martha Kent had continued to talk. Clark was still looking at Diana as Martha said, I know you thought she was kind of frighteningly over enthusiastic and eager like a maniac for battle when you first met her Clark, but she seems really nice on TV.

Clark cringed as he saw the smile disappear from Diana's lips. He wisely covered the phone again.

"Overly enthusiastic like a maniac Kal? Seriously?"

"It was just a first impression, I swear,' he whispered quickly in reply. "I was wrong, completely wrong. I can't believe Ma remembered that. I'm really, really, really sorry."

He could see she wasn't buying his explanation. Diana slipped off of him and started to get off the bed.

"Ma, I got to go, an emergency has come up,' Clark quickly said. "I'll call you later, okay? Love you."

He waited just long enough for Ma to say goodbye and the hung up the phone. Diana was picking up her clothes from the floor and was clearly not happy. She started out of the room and towards the front door. Clark did the first thing he could think of and put on a burst of speed to get in front of Diana. When he saw the look on her face he realized standing in front of her naked probably wasn't the wisest move.

"Diana, please, let me explain,' he offered, holding his hands straight on in front of him to stop her.

"Get out of the way, Kal,' Diana snapped back. "I'm an over enthusiastic maniac for battle, remember? That's what you told your mother about me. You think I'm some barbarian like everyone else did when I arrived, don't you?"

"No, of course not."

"Then why did you tell you mother that?" Diana asked.

"Well, in my defense the first time I ever laid eyes on you, you were flying down with a sword in your hand hacking demons in half left and right and you had a smile on your face,' Clark said. "You got to admit you did seem to be enjoying yourself a lot."

"Get out of the way, Kal!"

He didn't move out of the way but took a step towards her. That was probably a dangerous move considering her mood, but he didn't want her leaving like this.

"Just for the record, I seem to recall you having a smile on your face when you hit Hal that same day,' Diana pointed out. "You seemed to be enjoying that a little too much!"

"Well, it was Hal, come on,' Clark replied.

There was a pause in the discussion as they just stood looking at each other.

"Okay, I'll give you that one,' Diana finally said. "Still, I can't believe you were like everyone else in your opinion of me back then. Just get out of the way so I can go, Kal!"

"Look, Diana, I didn't know you back then,' Clark said, his voice much softer. "Yes that was my first impression but it's changed since then. I got to know you and realized how wrong I was. We became friends and I realized what an amazing person you really are."

Diana seemed to soften a bit as he continued.

"You do have a bit of a temper, you know,' Clark said with a smile. "Every once and awhile when we're in a battle I look over and catch you still smiling. You trained all your life and are really good at it. I think you enjoy it sometimes, but not in a bad way."

"I don't smile in battle,' Diana replied. Some of the heat had gone out of her voice. She had trained and was good at it. Yes, she took pride in her abilities but she didn't smile like she was having fun or anything.

"Okay, well we'll have to agree to disagree on that,' Clark said, moving even closer to her. "I've gotten to know you as a friend since then and was just starting to get to know you even better. I made a mistake judging you when we first met but I know that now. We're different people then we were back then and know each other better now. I mean we're dance partners, you're not going to bail on me now are you?"

Diana knew he was trying to charm her. She also knew it was working. She looked at him and saw a small smile on his lips and most of her anger seemed to drift away.

"So we're back to you trying to charm and flatter me, Kal?" She asked looking him in the eye, but not letting all of her anger go just yet.

He took a step closer and gently put his arms around her.

"Well, we did just discover another way to get to know each other last night, Diana,' he replied. "We could try that too if you want?"

She looked at him for a moment and then closed the distance between them, kissing him. It was a good kiss.

"You can lead at the next dance class, Kal, but I'm leading now,' Diana whispered. Her anger had changed to desire. She took his hand in hers and started back towards the bedroom.

"Yes, ma'am."