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Lois Lane [Smallville] (missloislane) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-07-27 12:34:00

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clark kent, complete, day 9, lois lane

Who: Lois Lane and Clark Kent
What: Lois reunites with a friend from home.
Where: Her room at first then the Coffee Bar/Cafe
When: Afternoon; Day 9
Rating: PG; Subject to Change
Status: In Progress

The Planet graced each guest with something special. Something that they can hold onto from what they left behind. And that was the power to make your room look like anything you could imagine. When Lois would wake up every morning, it felt like she was waking up at her small apartment above the town coffee shop called The Talon. It was the only thing she had left to remember. Every little detail, every dish, every furniture, was all in place.. exactly how it would be if she came back to the real thing. Even though it replicates her home, there was something about the place that made her feel... empty. She was alone.

The determined brunette did spend the last few days finding ways to go back, she even did countless research about the planet. As of right now she knew where everything was, she knew that the resort can change dramatically as well. Lois was beginning to adapt.

Right now, Lois was sitting on her sofa.. her wavy chestnut locks were nicely curled and spilled perfectly down her back.. she wore an aqua coloured teeshirt with a pair of dark denim bootcut jeans.. She was seen holding a framed picture of her and her cousin, Chloe Sullivan.. celebrating a birthday together. She smiled as that moment from the picture was coming to mind. Oh they had a blast. She also remembered how she almost lost Chloe.. and that weakened her smile.. "I am not.. going to lose you again." She said outloud with each word very direct. Her eyes started to water.. but Lois chose to fight her emotions. Lois then realized something.. what if she wasn't the only one who was brought here from Kansas? What if Chloe was wondering around the building right now was we speak? Or Clark for that matter? It was possible.. and the only way to find out was to not be couped up in her apartment. She sprung from her sofa and set the picture back on the end table.

The future star reporter grabbed one her jackets, this one being a women's trench coat due to the crazy weather.. then decided leave her apartment and face the new world again from her old one. Lois felt extremely coffee deprived. It was certainly a substitute from her other habit, which was smoking. And she was not about to ruin all of her hard work-- because she ran out of cigarettes. Lois could easily get some more, but coffee was easier. She left her room building and quickly faced the rain and wind to walk over to the next building which held the Coffee bar and internet room as well as the sitting room. Pushing the doors open knowing well her hair was dampened and tattered from the weather.. but she did not care. She instantly sat herself up at the counter and removed her coat.

"Espresso, pronto." She said quickly towards the stone golem on the other side of the counter. And it was quick.. there was a small glass of espresso sitting infront of her in the next 30 seconds. She picked up the small cup and knocked it back despite how hot it was. It burned her throat and she probably shouldn't have done that. After she swallowed it down she released a nice

"Whoo!--Hold on there Stoney, I need a grande regular with cream and sugar." The stone golem did what it was told and delivered her beverage. Caffeine was like fuel to Lois.. it made her focus more, think straighter, and certainly more alert. Lois decided to take this one a littler slower this time.. holding the hot beverage to lips.. her hazel eyes sort of looking around.. the place was a little busier due to the chaos outdoors. Hoping to see a familiar blonde, or a confused farm boy..

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poeticmisery
2008-07-27 10:17 pm UTC (link)

Clark sighed as Lois talked about how strange his hometown was. He always did it, with seeming disbelief. He even rolled his eyes a little bit. All of it was an act, of course, somewhere deep inside there was a sense of dread that one day Lois would reveal his secret and then would blackmail him constantly to do stupid things for her. He could just see her asking sweetly 'Smallville, I like left my car in a tow zone, could you speed down to it, lift it up and carry it to a better parking spot for me? I'd hate for anyone to find out about your seeeecret!'

"Have you ever thought that maybe you're the weird one? My life was certainly a lot more normal before you showed up..." Not that it was true. In fact Lois had found him butt naked in a field that was slightly on fire from his Father's 'Influence' and 'training'. Not that she knew any of that, or thought that it was more than him hitting his head and getting in some sort of weird car accident or something.

Clark pulled ever so slightly away so that Lois didn't hurt her fist as she got in the cheap shot and grabbed his arm as if she'd hurt him, sucking in air. He'd learned to be rather good about faking injuries over the years. "Ow! Yeah, I can really tell you've got tons of 'deep' emotions..." Clark said, rubbing his arm, then paused there. "Wait, are you trying to say you have feelings for me?" He said, making it sound somewhat serious as he took a step out of Lois' immediate punching reach, knowing that if anything that was going to earn him another slug in the arm if not worse. He held up his hands as if to call a truce, which was great as he'd gotten in the last jab. He didn't think Lois would accept.

"I got here the night before last..." Clark said. "Woke up outside of the front gates. Doesn't look like there's anything outside of this place for miles and miles..." Slowly he looked around, and did what Chloe had dubbed the 'Clark Kent stare'. Of course she didn't know he was actually using his X-ray vision to stare through the buildings. It all seemed normal enough, except the rooms themselves, which were either lined with lead or the Planet itself kept him from seeing into. Well, that might mean that his room was well protected... he just hoped Lois didn't ask to go back to it or he'd have to change things around before she got there.

"Have you met this 'Planet'? I talked to someone yesterday who thought that it was actually the real planet beneath our feet..." he said, pausing to think and look down, as if the Planet might suddenly manifest a face and say something of interest.

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missloislane
2008-07-27 11:54 pm UTC (link)

Lois couldn't help but release a harsh breath.. and form an arrogant smirk upon her face once she heard him dare to say that she was the weird one? Clark should know by now that arguing with Lois Lane.. will not end. She will have the last say always. No matter what.

"Hold on there, Cowboy. Let's not forget that little fiasco in the corn fields. My first time ever in Smallville and I stumble in on Clark and Clark Junior. Now something tells me I shouldn't know what you were doing in the middle of a cornfield in your birthday suit. Initiation gone bad? So you tell me again who the weird one is. Come on let's hear it."

When Lois throws her cheap punches at this tall farm boy.. she really does it for fun and games. No real hateful intention to harm him. But it was cute that he said 'Ow'.. She was really about to throw another one if he keeps talking the way is. Especially when he questioned if she has feelings for him.

"Wishful thinking there, Smallville? Get a reality check for once.." She shook her head.. while she continued to listen to him answer her other question..

"So... since you've just got here, did you ever like wonder where I went? How's Chloe since, you know.. last seen her?" Lois was asking as if she has been gone for a month, when it really was just five days. But still werent they the least bit curious as to how she vanished? Not that Lois would be angry if they didn't.. I mean Lois was a busy gal, and she did run off time to time to complete a story. Just like the time she followed Lex Luthor to Detroit. Lois walked back towards the counter to get her coffee mug then back to Clark. Taking another sip or two to calm her down again.

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poeticmisery
2008-07-28 12:52 am UTC (link)

Clark's eyes widened as she immediately brought up the fact that she'd seen him naked, in a corn field, no less. For a brief moment he thought that Lois might be finally putting two and two together about the corn field and start asking questions, but it was really just another way to ruffle his feathers, which meant though Clark was annoyed he wasn't about to have his face plastered all over the front of the Daily Planet, which was exactly what Lois would do if she managed to find out that he was really an alien from another world who moonlighted as a super hero. Of all of the people he could tell, Lois would be the last one. Still...

"Hey wait, didn't you nearly climb in the shower with me like the next week? I guess you must have liked what you saw..." Clark said with a smirk. "And speaking of fields, wasn't it you who had a father who chased us both down with a military helicopter? I'm just saying, Lois, things got a lot weirder when you came into my life..." Clark said, crossing his arms slowly.

"Yeah, wishful thinking, because I walk in on you in the shower all the time..." Clark muttered, half under his breath, but definately loud enough that Lois would hear. Though he'd never admit it to himself he felt for the first time a real sense of normalcy in this crazy place, a feeling that there was, at least a part of him that was back at home. Not that he'd ever admit that to Lois, god only knew how she would gloat about it.

At her statement as if she'd been gone for a year. "You've been gone less than a week, Lois..." Clark said with a bit of exasperation. Lois seemed to think that the whole world stopped the very moment she wasn't there. Clark thought that the world changed when Lois wasn't around too, usually for the better. "Though, now that I think about it, it'd been unusually peaceful the last week, no loud angry beast women charging into my room, waking me up, eating my food. I did think the last week had been rather nice, but I couldn't place why... now I know!"

Clark just smirked. If Lois was planning on getting the last word, she was definitely going to have to work for it.

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missloislane
2008-07-28 01:20 am UTC (link)

Lois shook her head with a smile of pity before she took a sip of her coffee.. "Exaggerate much? I roomed with ten men when I traveled with the general in the army. We shared the same bathroom time to time. It was a normal thing for me. Sorry that you got the wrong idea." She patted his shoulder.. Ten minutes of seeing him and they were already arguing. And in the middle of the coffee shop for that matter. She was surprised people weren't staring.

"As for the Helicopters, you'd expect something like that to happen when we investigate on private FBI property. Which we both agreed to trespass." Lois unfortunately already admitted to him that she was glad he was there. It truly did feel more like home with him around. And it certainly took an edge off her obsession for finding a way out. There really is no possibility.. They were officially stuck.

Lois reveals a petty look towards Clark when he said how peaceful it was without her around.. She walked back up to him. "And how ironic. You are now officially stuck here with me, the angry beast day in and day out. Well look at that, I win again." She said jokingly.. and repeating his harsh words back at him to make him look more of an ass than he really was. She placed her empty coffee mug into his hands.. and then walked past him towards the doors.. she was about to leave but the weather was atrocious... And there was no way she would even dare to withstand those harsh winds and rains..

"Looks like I'm stuck in here. With you."

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poeticmisery
2008-07-28 01:52 am UTC (link)

Clark held up his hands at Lois' more than frank admission that she'd showered regularly with ten other guys, taking a step back and holding up his hands. "Waaaay too much information, as usual Lois, thanks..." Clark remembered now that while he was a virgin Lois was more than likely far more... 'experienced'. Come to think about it, he really had no idea what exactly Lois' past was like with old boyfriends and the like. She never seemed to want to talk about any of it, at least not to him. Not that he wanted to hear about it, the thought of hearing about Lois' exploits was barely above hearing his mom talking about her old boyfriends. It was certainly enough to inspire a shudder.

Clark opened his mouth to say something about Lois' father again, but she did have a point, they both had been trespassing on FBI territory. Clark narrowed his eyes in slight defeat as Lois went in for the killing blow, telling him about how he was stuck in this place with her. Which was more or less true, as far as Clark could see. There was no escaping, and now... now he'd have to keep a wrap on his powers, lest Lois somehow find out. He could only imagine how many people she would gossip to the very moment that she got home. All in all it was enough to make Clark take in a slow breath, and let out a heavy sigh.

"At least my room here has a lock on it..." he replied snarkily, but he was willing to give up on their little back and forth, for the time being. Of course when Lois mentioned the fact that there was now a storm raging outside, Clark looked out the windows and started slightly. She wasn't kidding, it was like the end of days outside, which maybe meant that there was a portal open somewhere? Perhaps Clark could indeed find a way out now... but if he did find a way out then he'd have to go back and get Lois... damned if she didn't make things quite a bit more complicated all in all.

"Looks like..." Clark said in a resigned tone, noting the speed at which a branch flew by. If he left now it'd raise a ton of questions he wasn't willing to answer. "So, I guess we try to make the best of it, huh?" he said, before turning to order a large hot chocolate from the golem. Stuck in a storm with Lois... it was going to be a looooooong day.

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missloislane
2008-07-28 11:56 am UTC (link)

Lois took a slight roll to her eyes when she turned around to face him again.. and then walking back to the counter for another cup of coffee.. She looked back over towards him to make a remark back at him about his room.

"You forget, Smallville.. That I now I have a room of my own. If I also recall, I had one back at home. It's been a while since I stumbled in uninvited. And yet you seem to come by to my apartment uninvited too. Do I really have to bring up the time where I came out of the shower thinking somebody broke in my house?"

She took a seat back on her stool.. taking a sip of her third cup of coffee.. Lois wished she didn't bring that up.. they can really call themselves even now.. She saw him naked, and he saw her. So why does it still feel awkward? She couldn't really understand that one.

"I guess we'll just have to make some kinda best of it. So what does a farmboy do on a rainy day? They have the internet over there in the next room. Don't get too excited, I think it would be unwise to check out pornography in a public place." Lois? Well she sits in and watches various movies, eats chocolate icecream, and watches more.. romantic comedy films. But unfortunately she can't get back to her room to do her usual rainy day routine. She took another drink as she tried to find a way to amuse herself, aside from tossing a few wisecracks at Clark over there.

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poeticmisery
2008-07-28 10:54 pm UTC (link)

Clark sighed and didn't bring up the fact that he was actually trying to protect her. That would only add to her argument about weirdness happening to him, which, in all truth, it did. And that in itself started the long awkward silence of them sitting together in the same coffee shop. He'd seen enough of her to be embarassed, and vice versa, though Lois seemed unphased by the whole thing, which only made Clark more annoyed, and made the situation that much more awkward. Taking in a slow deep breath he contented himself to his hot chocolate, all the while eyeing the windows for the slightest chance that the wind might die down long enough to consider risking venturing out in it. Anything to get away from Lois for a while.

Then again, if Lois managed to stumble out into the hurricane he'd probably wind up having to drag her back. He didn't really want to risk that. Though, he didn't even bother to reply to Lois' pornography comment. It was a deliberate bait and she knew it, the same way she knew that he was too squeaky clean to actually do anything dirty like that. At least when he wasn't exposed to red krytponite, that was. Not that Lois knew anything about that except to think that now and again he just went mental.

"I doubt there's going to be any information that could help us get home... if the planet is supplying all of this for us, why provide any way to escape?" Clark said glumly, though he realized after having said it that Lois was probably just talking about surfing the web, the same way that she did at the Daily Bugle when she was pretending to work. Hell, Clark wondered if that wasn't how she spent most of her time at the Planet in between pieces that would be better off in the Inquisitor.

Pacing slightly Clark contented himself to look through the walls with his X-ray vision, trying to search for the slightest possibility that there was some way of escaping that he'd overlooked. It'd look to Lois as if he were just looking around, though he had to be careful, he knew Lois wasn't the sort to enjoy being bored for very long. He was just glad that they were in a public area or else she'd probably have tried to talk him into playing strip poker with her or something similarly embarassing. Taking another slow sip of his hot chocolate he dared to all but ignore Lois for the time being while he looked around, trying to find some way, any way to get them both out of there.

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missloislane
2008-07-28 11:49 pm UTC (link)

Lois stood back up from her stool sorta watching him look around.. and the typical expression of clueless and boredom was plastered on his face.. She couldn't help but finally tell him.. Lois had her talents. One was determination.. She spent most of her days researching every aspect of where she was. She knew the place like the back of her hand already. A very useful attribute for a reporter.

"You do realize.. There are more things to do in this building then sit in the coffee shop.. In fact, from what I researched; the majority of the activities are held in this one building. So what do you want to do, stare at walls all day? Or I can beat you to a game of basketball over in the gymnasium."

The rooms were held in a separate building. Which Lois can't really access herself to at the moment. Clark was right about one thing though, the planet is supplying everything for them.

"However, I can name one thing that this planet hasn't supplied, fully, well yet. And that is.. our friends and family." Lois stared at him directly, this time being serious.. "That's why I was glad to see you. It gave me hope." Lois walked past him and started to walk towards a door leading to a hall way. She was making her way towards that gymnasium. If Clark was smart enough to relieve himself a little boredom, he would follow too. Lois was also leaving the coffee place, perhaps maybe running into more familier faces. It happend with Clark, it could happen again. And she felt the need to become active again. She really couldn't go for a jog at this certain time and in this certain weather.

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poeticmisery
2008-07-29 12:45 am UTC (link)

"I..." he was about to tell Lois that he could plainly see that there were other things to do but he was looking for a way out. But then that would sound rather silly. So after a long pause of what might have been righteous indignation, Clark simply finished it off with "... I've only been here a day, Lois, it's not like I had the time to explore every inch of the place... not without being able to move faster than a speeding bullet, anyway..." It usually helped to exaggerate about what he could do, make it seem all the more implausible to someone who was watching him. Mild mannered farm boys weren't exactly what you expected to have the powers of a demi god, after all.

"It wouldn't hurt to shoot a few hoops..." Clark said as he watched her walk away. Then again it might be his chance to escape. One good dash and he could be out the door and gone... but then Lois might go looking for him. In fact, given that she seemed rather lonely without anyone that she knew here, it was a fairly good bet that she would go out in whatever to try to find him if she thought he'd been crazy enough to brave it. If someone else had been in danger he would have gladly taken the excuse to leave, but things seemed rather uneventful from what he could tell, save for the storm outside.

Sighing he quickened his pace to catch up with Lois, walking with her towards the gymnasium, noting how big it was. This place seemed a bit more private than the coffee shop, and had Clark been with Katara he might have been a little tongue tied about the situation. With Lois though, it was sort of like being around a relative more than it was being around someone he was interested in. Sure, there'd been a few times when seeing Lois' body had impressed him, but personality mattered way more than looks, and Lois was unfortunately infuriating when it came to personality, so much so that he barely gave her body a second look.

And imagining he felt the same he didn't think twice about stripping off his shirt. It was still soaked to the bone, and he couldn't exactly dry it with heat vision with Lois watching, so he hung it from a bench instead. Giving Lois a rather fine showing of his muscular back as he set down the shirt, and then walked over to one of the racks that held basket balls, dribbling one a few times. Thinking about it, it might be good practice for him to play Lois... a chance to keep his powers in check and make sure that he wasn't showboating too much in a game. Physical sports were the hardest, because it meant having to not use any of the gifts that were available to him with a side thought.

"Seems like the best time for you to play me, anyway..." Clark said with a slight smirk, knowing it would get Lois' goat to hear him brag. "I mean, no one around to see you lose..."

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missloislane
2008-07-29 01:26 am UTC (link)

Once they entered into the gymnasium, Lois pulled out a single hair tie from her pocket.. and gathered her chestnute wavy locks into a pony-tail.. If they were going to play sports, it was easier to have her hair up. She turned to notice that Clark took liberty into removing his shirt. Lois tried not to become too impressed by his well toned physique.. so she looked off then back to him.. then her eyes shifted away.. then back.. For god sakes she was only human. A female being who.. is well impressed by how well he can work out, so to speak. But she was too stubborn to admit it.

"So looks like you chose to play a little shirts and skins. Showing off isn't very attractive either." Lois walked over towards him casually.. and quickly snatching the ball when he dropped it down to dribble it. She then dashed away while dribbling and tossed the ball to the nearest basket. Luckily making it in. She caught it and started to dribble casually facing back towards him..

"Oh my-- just what I suspected would happen. And don't go easy on me just because I'm a girl, Smallville.. It's almost insulting." Lois flashed him an arrogant smirk.. She knew the guy had a basketball net on his farm. She knew he was an athlete. She also loved being able to catch that ball from him too. Lois on the other hand. Being an army-kid certainly made her more stronger, independant, and ability to what the boys can do on a very similar level. She wasn't so much as masculine.. but tough.

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