THREE WORDS

They stood across from each other, both heavy with emotion, and Lois deep in a sea of confusion. For more than a minute, they engaged in a staring contest. She noticed the heavy frown on his face his arms folded He was acting very strange, as if she had betrayed him somehow. They were friends, and recently very distant friends thanks to him. So why was he going all he-man on her? "What in the hell has gotten into him?" Still reeling from disbelieve she finally broke the silence and asked vey loudly.

"What the hell was that about?"

She unfolded her arms and started waving them in the air as she continued. "Why are you acting like such a…such a Jerk?" Her mouth was twisted into a frown and her eyebrows were raised in a silent challenge. She had thrown the gauntlet down, they were going to fight. He was more than willing to oblige her.

"What are you talking about?" It's not my fault he happened to show up!"

He hated the thought she could show anyone else how she felt and not him. "Who was that guy? Why was he being so familiar with her?" he wondered with a large amount of jealousy.

"Who is he? Why was he asking you out?"

"He came to see your Mother…I knew him from the Naval Station I was at." She took a breath in an attempt to mentally calm herself.

"Look," She started nervously "I know things have been really weird between us lately, so I am trying my best NOT to get mad at you, but Dammit Clark this is none of your business!"

He circled around the room and her around her like a Big Bad Bear. It made her heart beat out of her chest. Then he stopped in front of her and said…

"Are you SURE it's none of my business?" Before she could decide how to answer him he added…"You better think about your answer…"

"What do you want?" she asked nervously.

"I want you to tell me how you can go out after all these guys, if you're supposed to be in love with me?!

"What? Wha…What did you say?" her heart fell at his feet….hoping he wasn't mad, and yet knowing he was mad.

"I know Lois! I heard you talking to Lucy Last the other day. I heard everything!"

Maybe she could salvage this…

"Yo...yo...you misunderstood; it wasn't what you thought…really…" it sounded like the lie it was.

"I know what you said…." And it's exactly what I think!"

"No….you're wrong! I didn't mean it not like that…"

"And what about all those things you wrote…tell me you didn't mean them?"

She gasped and looked at her jump drive, and realized, he knew, not only did he know, he knew exactly all her hidden thoughts.

Suddenly she moved to a chair, but quick.

"You…You took it from me…!" she said holding it up and then she got angry.

"HOW DARE YOU! You, of all people! You, who guards his own secrets with his life! How dare you! I have never ever invaded your privacy! Do you know how many questions I have never asked you because I respected you? Do you? And then you do this?"

Even though she was mad, she was still scared, and still sitting. But she couldn't believe he would do such a thing.

"Maybe you're right…maybe you didn't mean it!" He was still angry, thinking of those other guys that she let gets close to her…

"How would you know anything?" Fighting the urge to cry, She gets up and starts to leave…

"I want to hear you say it! I want you to look at me and say the same words you said about me last week...I think I deserve to hear it!"

"I don't have to take this!" And even though she was shaking she stormed out the door, but Clark wasn't finished.He followed her out the door and yelled out to her,

"What's the matter Lois? You're the General's daughter; you're supposed to be fearless! Are you afraid of three words?"

She stopped dead in her tracks.

You are aren't you? You're afraid to say it…Well I dare you! I dare you to say them to me!

She turned and walked back in the house past him at the door. She put everything on the counter and made sure to put the table between them.

"Please don't hate me, please don't hate me!" she kept thinking to herself and then she thought… "If you hate me I'll kill you!"

He took a step towards her and she looked at him and said to him pleadingly

"Just give me a minute will you?"

He stopped frowning and nervously awaited her confession.

She looked around, she couldn't tell from his eyes what he was thinking…and she was scared, scared to say these words and what he would do or not do afterwards. But she couldn't find a way out of it no matter where she looked. He still was waiting, even though she had squirmed around for more than a minute looking up and down and pacing on her side of the table, he waited patiently, scared if he said anything, she would dart away like a rabbit on kryptonite.

She was holding her hands together as if she was holding on for dear life when she looked at him and said it. It took all the breath away from her lungs to say it.

"I'm...I'm...I'minLovewithyou…I have been for a long time….It's okay I get..." she was about to faint from her aching heart. But she took a breath and finally finished "…I get it."

He wanted to kiss her, but he was still angry…
"Get what? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you what…I couldn't…you didn't feel the same; you don't…feel the same. It's pointless..."

"And how could you go out with Oliver, or AC or any other guy?" How could you? You never even tried, to give me a chance."

"I never had a chance, that's why…I would have never…if I thought for a second…"
"What difference does it make?"

And with that, she had decided that he didn't feel the same, with tears in her eyes she rushed past him and out the door, only to find two big strong arms turning her around. He started kissing her, with his hands all over her she felt relieve, a sweet final relieve, But when he starts to carry her up the stairs, she has a moment of uncertainty and says

"This is going way to fast!" And then tells him-

"Put Me down!"

He kisses her, super hearing or not, he doesn't want to hear her say this!
One kiss, three steps,

"Stop it! Put me down!"

One long Kiss, the top of the stairs...

"Please, I'm can't do this...we're going to fas..."
One more kiss, and she is on her back on his bed and his door is closed and locked...Clark Kent is quick! But not too quick.

She looks at him breathlessly as he has her pinned lovingly to his bed and he for a few seconds just watches her, not let her up, and not listening to the ramblings of this is going to fast.

"If you were any other guy...I would have taken you out at the bottom of the stairs..."

He just gives her his Famous Clark Kent smile.

"I could still take you out you know..."

"I'm not any other guy, and no, you can't take me out."

"You wanna bet?"

"Go ahead, Try!"

"I warned you!" With that, she tries to flip him, only to find that none of her moves works on him.

He is smiling at her physical attempts to move him; he starts to kiss her...

She starts kissing him back; she has never been beaten by a guy before.

FINI