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