Title: A Pound of Flesh
Author: angelic_editor
Rating: G
Summary: Clark’s Superman duties weigh silently on Lois -- more than even he realizes.
Feedback: Better than chocolate, especially since I'm so new at this. Be brutal; I welcome comments and criticism of all kinds.
Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine; the words are. Please don't take legal action, as poor college students aren't worth suing, anyway.
Miscellaneous: This teeny drabble is what happened when I got stuck on a bit of dialogue for the next chapter of "A Million Little Pieces." I'm not procrastinating. Really.
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It cost her.
Every time.
When he got that faraway look in his eyes. When he vaulted into the sky to save a stranger’s life. When her heart twisted with worry -- it cost her.
How much, he’d never know.
Clark might be Superman, but he wasn’t completely invulnerable. All it took was some nut with a sliver of Kryptonite. Wedge that in the one infinitesimal chink in Clark’s seamless armor, and he’d be lost.
And she’d be wrecked.
But Lois didn’t dare tell him -- he worried about her far too much as it was. She couldn’t bear to stitch another suffocating patch of guilt on his already stifling blanket of responsibility.
It cost her -- but loving her husband was worth any price.
