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Lois Lane (reporterlois) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2008-02-04 20:47:00

Entry tags:

apocalyptic plot, clark kent/superman, lois lane (movie)

Who: Superman and Lois, probably NPC's
What: After Superman defeats Apocalypse here
When: Later tonight
Warnings: None I can think of

The televisions in the newsroom were tuned to every imaginable network still broadcasting. Most of them were airing the same reports and warnings about what areas in the world had taken the most damage and where to stay away from. Lois glanced up every minute or two to look for for news on Superman. She knew the phantom zone projector was completed, she knew Superman was looking for Apocalypse, and she knew it was happening soon.

And then a familiar voice coming off one of the televisions caught her ear. She jumped out of her seat and nearly ran to the right television that was airing an international station. There was Superman, delivering and receiving blows with Apocalypse in a ferocious battle. She was joined by co-workers as every television was switched to the same station and they stood and watched, holding their breaths. Silence filled the newsroom as everyone tensed up.

Lois knew from years of watching him that Superman was beginning to tire. But she knew he could do it, he had to. He wouldn't let up. They watched as Superman activated some sort of field, which slowly trapped the mutant, then the reporter announced that Superman had defeated Apocalypse. Early cheers that went up around the newsroom were cut short when everyone watched in horror as Superman was hit by the beam and fell into the sea.

Lois was already on her way out the door as Superman hit the water, heading for the portkey to take her to New York. Her heart was thundering in her chest. She wouldn't rest until they found Superman. She couldn't lose him, not here, not again. Why did she have to be so far away?

It seemed to take forever to get to New York, and even longer to get to the shoreline where crowds had gathered to watch the final battle. From what people were saying, Superman hadn't been seen yet. Lois fought her way through the crowd, muttering excuses and calling out Superman's name. She'd join the search effort, she'd get on one of those news helicopters or a search plane or a boat until he was found. Lois fought her way amongst the heavy crowd at the shoreline, headed towards a Coast Guard vehicle at a small pier. "Excuse me, sir? Sir!" she called to an officer.

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nosecretid
2008-02-05 04:29 am UTC (link)

The Coast Guard officer glanced at her, seeing a pretty girl and nothing more.

"What is it, Miss?"

Out in the water, others were already searching, and divers were about to go in. But the battle site was a ways out, yet, and no one had seen anything. The ocean seemed turbulent and some were saying a storm was coming.

***

Deep down, Superman floated, eyes closed, hurting, feeling completely unconnected...

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reporterlois
2008-02-05 04:41 am UTC (link)

"I need to join the rescue efforts. Is your plane ready to go?" She gestured towards the sea plane sitting there, feeling the worst senses of deja vu.

He stared and stammered for a second, looking at her in a business suit and heels, surprised at her reply. "Uh... er... There's plenty of people looking for him, Miss, they'll find him."

"Look," said Lois, hands on her hips, "I'm reporter Lois Lane for the D-- London Times. I don't know if that means anything here in the States, but Superman is my friend and I am not going to sit around while everyone else searches for him. Please. Take me out on your plane. I've been in them before."

The officer seemed to be considering, glancing out at the search and the waves still created after the battle. He scratched at the back of his head, "I want to help you, Ms. Lane, but... those waves might be too hard to take off from once we get out there, and I can't guarantee--"

"What if I pay you?" she blurted out.

He blinked. "Pay me? ...Are you trying to bribe me?"

Lois stepped closer. "I'll do anything to join the search. Anything. I can't lose him again. Do you understand?"

He seemed to recognize something in her eyes, whether it was desperation or affection for Superman or something else, it worked. He glanced around, then jerked his head towards his plane. "C'mon. If you're a friend of his, you might know how to help find him better. Just don't mention you tried to bribe me, okay?"

Lois followed him but her eyes were focused out at sea. "Superman!" Maybe if she called his name enough, he'd know they were trying to find him. Maybe he could hear her voice through the wind and the waves and the oncoming storm. Maybe not. But she had to try.

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nosecretid
2008-02-05 04:48 am UTC (link)

The sea-plane carried them out into the water, and the storm, far out, seemed to sense them, and come faster. reports started coming in of planes and boats having to pull back as the waves got worse.

***

Superman felt something calling, something pulling, and he shook his head, oxygen escaping his mouth as he groaned. What was he supposed to do? He opened his eyes slowly, and saw light, so far away and strained for it. But it seemed so far away and he was so tired.

***

ON the sea-plane a doctor and a scientist were playing back some close footage oif the last moments. When the beam, shot out from Apocalypse, they froze it and analyzed it.

"Huhn, almost like... red light... a laser maybe?"

"Why would that affect him?"

"Hell if I know..."

And the search continued.

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reporterlois
2008-02-05 04:54 am UTC (link)

"Ma'am..." her pilot started.

"I've been in worse, trust me!" she yelled over the sound of the waves. "We'll make it! We have to go all the way out to where they were fighting!"

They passed other planes and boats headed back, but Lois was insistent. "These are the coordinates they guess where he went down," he told her, beginning to circle around the area.

Lois took off her headset. It was eerie how much this plane was like Richard's and eerie how history seemed to be repeating itself. "Superman!" she yelled, searching for any sign of him in the water. She called his name over and over, willing him to show any sign of himself as the storm got worse.

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nosecretid
2008-02-05 05:03 am UTC (link)

Somewhere down deep, he struggled for light, and air. He struggled and he heard... a voice. A familiar voice. Even in the moments of darkness a smile crossed his face. Of course she would be here... And he struggled upward...

***

Then the storm was on them, and roaring with winds and waves higher than normal, a relic of the fight, and causing havok with the navigation.

"We have to go back! We can;t even take off in this!! If we stay, we will go down!"

***

And somewhere, he heard, and struggled faster, moving through the water toward the light, and the sound...

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reporterlois
2008-02-05 05:10 am UTC (link)

"No!" Lois shouted, putting her headset back on so they could talk. Superman had saved her life countless times, and she wasn't going to let him down now. "We have to stay! He's around here somewhere! Five more minutes!"

Her eyes searched the waters frantically. "Superman! Come on! I know you can hear me!"

The pilot glanced out his window. "Wait, I think I just saw something! Right over there!"

Lois craned her neck to see as he circled the plane to their left.

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nosecretid
2008-02-05 05:24 am UTC (link)

And a wave crashed over the plane as he did, causing it to list one way, then the other, just as a voice said.

"Lady and Gentlemen, you should really be inside on a day like this..."

And the plane slowly, slowly... lifted.

Underneath it, Superman gritted his teeth and moved. He felt like he had gone a hundred rounds with Darkseid. Then he blinked. Who was Darkseid?

But he shook his head and concentrated as the plane slowly gained height against the storm, and he lifted it, almost hanging on to it as much as lifting, willing his strange connection to gravity to work this time and take them upward.

"This seems familiar, Miss Lane."

Then he smiled as they lifted truly clear of all the water and he turned them toward the shore.

"Hang on everyone, we should be at the dock soon."

They moved that way, and he gritted his teeth at how slow it felt, but finally they reached the shore and the dock, and people gaping at him as he set the plane down securely on the dock, not beside it.

He waited for the crew to get out safely before he nodded to Lois.

"Miss Lane. Seems as if we have played this tune before."

He smiled to her, not quite trembling where he stood.

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reporterlois
2008-02-05 05:37 am UTC (link)

The Coast Guard pilot gaped as the plane was lifted and turned towards land. Lois was surprised as well, figuring Cla -- Superman must be under the plane.

"A little too familiar!" she called back, but said no more so that he could focus his strength. She was worried about him. She felt how slow they were going.

Once safely on the dock, Lois thanked the Coast Guard officer quickly before she scrambled out. She stared at Superman, relieved and worried all at the same time. "Yes. We have. Are you all right? We intended to rescue you, not be the ones needing rescuing." She was heedless of the dozens and dozens of reporters and TV cameras around.

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nosecretid
2008-02-05 05:45 am UTC (link)

To her eyes he let her see how tired he was, how weakened he felt.

"A little tired. Mind if I grab a lift? I have some things to do back near where you came in?"

Then he turned and smiled to the crowd, smiling, confident.

"Thank you all. It's nice to see that people are decent and helpful, even to a stranger they don't know anything about. I'll be around in the next few weeks, helping with reconstruction, so I hope to see you all there."

He gave that smile and wave and then nodded to Lois.

"Ready, Miss Lane?"

He held out his hand to her.

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	reporterlois 2008-02-05 06:09 am UTC (link)
	Lois looked at him with a small question in her eyes, assuming he must've meant the portkey. She could see how tired he was, how drained. "You're not flying us, are you?" she said under her breath as she took his hand. "You're too tired. I managed to find a cab here..." She wasn't sure what he meant to do for transportation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosecretid 2008-02-05 06:17 am UTC (link)
	"Just to the portkey. Come on." Under his breath to her, and then he took her hand and took off. he sent them out of sight of the rest and sighed as he slipped lower. "Where is the portkey?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

reporterlois
2008-02-05 06:29 am UTC (link)

Lois gripped his arm tightly, her breath leaving her temporarily as her feet left the ground. She hadn't experienced flying in quite awhile.

"You did it," she said quietly, proudly. "You did it." He'd arrived just in time, it seemed.

She gave him directions to the portkey. "Do you want to stay at my place? Do you need a..." she stopped as she remembered how well the hospital had worked for him last time. "Doctor?"

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nosecretid
2008-02-05 06:36 am UTC (link)

He held her carefully as she directed him.

"Too slow, a lot of people died."

He shook his head. He would feel that for a long time. He had been too slow, too unsure. And people had paid for it.

Then he smiled at her, softly and tiredly.

"Thanks, your sofa would be good. Sleep should help. When I feel better, I will go up there and get some more sun."

He pointed up.

	nosecretid 2008-02-06 04:53 am UTC (link)
	"Making breakfast, a half hour ago, and I know." He smiled at her, very Clark-ish. "Yes, but I am hungry, an I heard you stirring, so I made you coffee and food." He quirked an eyebrow at her. "How did you sleep?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)