He’d asked such a simple question and for the life of her Lois Lane couldn’t get herself to speak. That was an odd occurrence alone considering she could usually talk enough for a room full of people, but no matter how hard she tried to formulate words, no sound seemed to want to come out of her mouth. She kept scrubbing away at the blood, not caring that doing so was causing her knuckles to get scraped up in the process.
If she hadn’t gone and asked for a hunt this would never have happened. Rose and Dick would never have signed up along with her. Rose wouldn’t have picked the Rakshasha case. Her friends wouldn’t have been as severely hurt as they had been and she wouldn’t have knowingly sent a kid to his death. And from the amount of blood and spray patterns on the ground and walls it hadn’t been a merciful death. This world was so very different from her own, and for all her talk and belief in being able to handle it, at not needing to be babysat when she went off to do her own things, time and again she was constantly proving that she did need the help. Maybe if she didn’t fight so hard against that helping hand the events wouldn’t have transpired the way that they did. But what had happened couldn’t be altered and she was going to need to deal with the consequences even if Lois Lane had no idea how to do so at the moment.
Death was part of life and in a war it was inevitable that others would die, she knew that. One couldn’t grow up the daughter of a General and not have been taught that lesson, but that didn’t stop the sick feeling in her stomach. For all the classes she’d taken, actually being in the field and taking on monsters was entirely different than she’d imagined. This hadn’t been taking on criminals or busting illegal activities. It had been facing an evil head on that looked human, that used trickery to do so, and somehow killing it.
What the hell had she been thinking when she decided to take on a hunt? Lois wasn’t even sure she knew the answer to that question anymore.
She knew she needed to say something, but there was no way in hell she could handle looking at Clark as she did so. She didn’t want to see the disappointment she was sure she’d see in those blue eyes of his once he knew.
“I had Loki bring Guy the boy.” Lois paused in her scrubbing and gestured around to all of the blood. “I’m guessing you can tell what happened next.”