"You're angsting again," Chloe said. Yearsādecades nowāspent as Clark Kent's best friend had given her a sixth sense for angst. She could look at her fiancĆ©, just lying in bed with his hands behind his head, maybe thinking about his fantasy football league or the lyrics to a Kylie Minogue song or how silly putty picked up newspaper comicsāand nope, she knew he was thinking about Doomsday.
"Why'd you ever put my ring on your finger?" Davis asked her.
Ding-ding-ding!
"I was a monster, Chlo. A literal monster."
"Because you were
literally
programmed to be. You had no choice, any more than I had a choice to be blonde. And you're better now. Focus on that."
He turned on his side, facing her as she took off her earrings at her vanity table. "I was a serial killer. I know what it's like to kill someone with my bare hands, to wash the blood out from under my fingernails, toā"
Blah, blah, blah. It wasn't enough for her to get this at work from the reformed villains like Huntress and whatshisface, she had to come home to it too. It came and went, and she did her best to comfort him, but sometimes it felt like he was milking it.
She pulled her nightgown off.
He stopped talking about some drunk driver whose head he twisted off. "Chloe?"
"Even back then, the only thing that made you feel better was me." She drew back the covers. Under them, he was dressed. She could fix that. "Time for a double dose."
"Chloe, Iā" Just like that, she was under the covers, pressed up against him, kissing him and rubbing at his clothed crotch. He grew half-hard, but that was all, and barely reciprocated her interest. "Chloe, I'm serious. What do you even see in me?"
Chloe reached down for the laptop she kept under the bed, booted it up and sat it on her legs before herself and Davis. "Alright. You're not in the mood. I get it. Let's just see if we can find something to fix that."
If asked, that was the reason she had Redtube bookmarked. It wasn't.
Davis was turning sympathetic, the way he always did. "If you want sex, I could always eat you out. It's no big deal."
"I don't want sex, Bloom. I want to get
fucked.
I want you to stop thinking about shit that happened
years
ago and start thinking about how tight my pussy is." She popped the computer on his belly, video loading. Then her hand slipped under his boxers' waistband. "Here. Watch this. Tell me what you think."
Chloe laid her head on his chest as the porn started. She wanted to watch too.
It only took a few moments for Davis's brow to furrow. "Is that--?"
It damn sure looked like it. Chloe made a mental note to look into that later.
She stopped moving her hand around. As much as she admired and looked up to Clarkāhe wasn't
her
man of steel.
She'd look into it
much
later.
***
Chloe tried not to be too smug about being in a stable relationship, given everyone's unromantic involvement with vigilantism. Even Clark and Lois, as meant to be as anyone could ask, were still having a trouble setting a date for their wedding's take-two. Tess Mercer, her fellow tech guru and the moneybags of the Watchtower operation, didn't have a steady boyfriend, and Kara Kent was quite possibly asexual. It wouldn't do to lord over them that she'd slapped a ring on some washboard abs and had gotten far more beef from buying that particular cow than either of her (according to the comment section of the Daily Planet, which she hardly ever visited) more attractive colleagues were getting for free.
Still, she was pretty sure that they were pretty sure that she'd had sex.
"What's the news?" Tess asked, resplendent in her usual subdued business suit, the skirt showing off just enough of her long legs to be respectable as she lolled against one of the Watchtower's railings.
"Well, it's a bit sensitive. And it involves Kara."
Kara had been fiddling with her own red skirt, as if comparing it to Tess's. Now she floated up a few inches into the air. "Me? What'd I do?"
"Nothing, it's justāhere. Better if I show you."
Chloe tapped at her keyboard with a comforting racket, putting up a certain video on the Watchtower's largest screen. Kara watched as time stamp 13:42 was cued up and played. Suddenly, her face filled the monitor: contorted in agonized ecstasy, rocking so fast she blurred as she was hit with staccato force from behind. Her bare shoulders and wobbling breastsāall that was visible from the present angleāproved the image's subtext was no accident. She was being taken from behind. Hard.
"Fuck me! Yes! Fuck me harder! Yeā"