AN: We got another chonky chapter! It would have worked better as multiple chapters, but I refuse to upload a chapter that doesn't feature some smut, so here we are. As with the other Lois Lane entry, different scenes are clearly separated. The steamy stuff starts after [LATER, IN THE MASTER BEDROOM...]. So CTRL+F to that if you want to skip the set-up and aftermath.
By the way, this takes place after the events of "Lois Lane Loves Bondage."
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"I just...I don't understand how you could do something like this. To me. To
us
."
"Clark," Lois quivered, "Please, believe me when I say I couldn't be sorrier." Her hands reached out to cover his like a blanket, but his mighty mitt pulled away so it could support the weight of his hanging head. "It's just-" Lois began, foolishly trying to argue her actions.
"It's just what, Lois?" Clark Kent snapped, staring at her from across the table. Even in his anger, Lois saw more compassion in his eyes than anything. Yet still more anger in them than she'd ever seen him allow. "Oh, no, that's right. I remember now. Your
itch
." Clark had clearly not been persuaded by her explanation from earlier in their fight. The Kryptonian could plainly see that Lois regretted using such a simple word to explain herself. He could see she regretted a lot of things. "Why couldn't you have just talk to me, Lois?" Anger gave his voice an intense firmness. It gave way for the vulnerable hurt as he calmed.
"You're not exactly the easiest person in the world to talk to about these things, Clark," Lois said with an ill-advised amount of mockery.
"You mean about our love life?" He swung back with equal mockery.
"No, Clark. About sex!" Lois exclaimed, gripping the edge of the table that separated them. "How am I supposed to talk to a man who-"
"Talk to your
husband
," Clark interrupted, correcting her argument and in turn weakening it.
Lois took a deep breath. "How am I supposed to talk to my
husband
about my budding interest in being bound and gagged when my
husband
blushes whenever I undress in front of him in the bedroom?" The agitation in her voice bubbled back up. "For God's sake, Clark, you've seen me naked. We have a son together!"
"Exactly!" Clark agreed. His tone, however, showed he was still across the aisle from Lois. "We have a son together, who is thankfully away with the Titans, and he doesn't have to hear about how his mother slept with some villain in Gotham! Tell me, did you choose Gotham in the hopes I wouldn't find out?"
She understood how he might make that assumption. However, she knew no matter where she went, he'd find out. He could not only tell when she was lying, but also when she was keeping a secret.
Damn those Kryptonian senses
, she thought. "Clark, I was going to tell you..."
"Just not
before
you went through with it, right?" Clark huffed, folding his arms across his wide chest and turning away in his chair. It took all his willpower to not look back at her. He loved looking at her, he hated not being able to look at her. He loved everything about her. Her touch, her smell. Both aspects he experienced when she wrapped her arms around him from behind and pressed her cheek against his.
"Clark, please. I love you, and I want to make this right," Lois pleaded while nuzzling the man of her dreams.
He let out a slow, steady, exhale through his nostrils. He was calmer. "I love you too, Lois." Clark rested his hand against her other cheek. "I'll always love you, no matter what. But..." He could hear her heart rate pick up with that one word. "...I don't know how to make this right."
Lois took herself back around, grabbing her chair and sitting in front of him. No more table between them. She needed to make it clear they were meant to be on the same side. Holding his strong hands in her much smaller ones, she pleaded her case. "But I
want
to. I
need
to make this right. So..." If she had super hearing, she would have been able to hear his heart rate pick up with that one word. "...What if we made things even?"
"Even?" Clark repeated, cocking a thick black brow.
"I...slept with someone," Lois struggled to admit aloud, choosing her words carefully as she knew it could just make things go back to square one, "so it's only fair if
you
sleep with someone." Her smile was wide, though clearly nervous.
"You want me to sleep with someone?" The words felt clunky and odd on his tongue. "With someone other than
you
?" Clark had had girlfriends before he came to Metropolis, but nothing ever that went beyond kissing after dates. The moment he met Lois, he knew she was the one. She had been shocked to learn he was a virgin their first night together. Yet after the shock, she seemed elated to pop the cherry of 'a damn Adonis,' as she put it. After that, he only ever wanted to be with Lois. "Lois, come on," he said with a half smirk at the outrageous proposal, "that's not going to work. You and I have watched plenty of movies and TV shows with that plot line and it never works." He was at least somewhat amused by his wife's continuous practical approach to things. If she got something, he should get something of equal value, according to her logic. He just couldn't apply such a simplified logic to their complicated situation.
"It will work with us," Lois confidently claimed.
"Why?"
"Because it
has
to work," Lois strongly stated. "Because I don't what else to do..." she added with far less strength. Before she could collapse further, the strongest arms in the world encircled her and pulled her into his broad chest. She had always felt so safe in his hugs. "So, will you do it?" Lois asked, looking up at her wounded husband she hoped to heal.
"I don't know, Lois..." Clark released his wife and rubbed the back of his thick neck.
"Would it help if I were in the room with you?" The adjustment clearly confused him, so Lois explained. "That way it wouldn't feel like you were doing anything wrong! You'd be reminded that this was my idea and you have my approval!" He didn't answer with words, but she had a knack for body language and could tell he was on board so far.
"Who would even agree to this?" The world's most desirable man wondered.
"Are you kidding? Take your pick!" Lois laughed. "I get thousands of letters every day at the Daily Planet, asking me if you'd be open to a threesome with some eager fan." She couldn't help but chuckle at Clark's blush. She knew he couldn't just ask a stranger, she just wanted to prove a point. "I was thinking someone you know. Someone from the League."
Clark chuckled. "I don't think anyone from the League would just agree to sleep with me like that," he wrongly thought. Clark was ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of the fact that most of his colleagues were very kinky. Though, even a conservative woman would accept the offer without a moment's hestitation. Lois was clearly not going to let the issue slide.
"What about Wonder Woman?"
"Diana?" Clark asked, as if there was more than one Wonder Woman. Well, technically...but anyway, they were talking about the same one. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't attracted to her. What heterosexual man wasn't? "I doubt she'd go for it," he was sorry to disappoint. "She might find the whole situation an insult to you, as a woman, and to her - as a woman."
Lois couldn't argue against that. Chances were that, at best, Diana would instead try to bed Lois in front of Clark, instead of the other way around, to show him the power of women. She didn't hate that idea, but it ran counter to her intentions. "What about Power Girl?"
"Karen?" He was most shocked at the idea, but his blush betrayed an unconscious level of attraction to the proposal. "Lois, she's my cousin!"
"From another dimension!" Lois riposted.
"It's still...Look, this is going to be complicated enough as it is, so let's not add alternate dimensions, timelines, or universes to the mix." Though he'd be lying if he said he wasn't attracted to her, too. It was admittedly hard for him to see her as a relative. Or perhaps his biological urge to repopulate the universe with pure blooded Kryptonians wouldn't allow him to. What's more, she was the only person with a chest as big as his own. Rather than risk the idea enticing him further, he found another hitch to point out. "Plus, I work with these women. I don't want it to get awkward after this is all over."
Clark was also sensing a pattern. Lois was recommending women who could, most likely, handle him at his most 'passionate.' Clark, like other super strength heroes (and villains he hoped) had to hold back when it came to bedroom activities. It wasn't an impossible skill to master, but it was an important one. With his wife's human fragility, Clark had to hold back a lot. However, Lois never failed to please him, so he never minded. He assumed.
Lois let out a deep sigh, running her hands through her hair as she fell back into her chair. "Well, I'm stumped." She had indeed wanted to find him a woman he could really go to town on. Not just for his sake, but her own. Selfishly, perhaps, she wanted Clark to experience letting go in the bedroom. That way, when it was all said and done, he might be willing to be a little rougher with her. Lois didn't feel proud about going behind his back with Selina. Yet, she knew she still wanted more of that intense fucking. Not romantic lovemaking; she wanted to get fucked. And she needed it to be from her husband. Ideally.