Back to You

By Folc4evernaday (folc4evernaday@gmail.com)

Rated: G

Submitted: January 2019

Summary: After Lois recovers her memories in the episode
"Oepidus Wrecks," she comes to an important decision that will
forever change her and Clark's future.

Story Size: 723 words (4Kb as text)

*A/N: *Huge thank you to Deadly Chakram and NostalgiaKick for
Beta Reading for me. This is a Challenge Response to the "Lyric
Challenge" for Kerth Challenge #2. The song that came on was
"Back to you" by Selena Gomez. I present you a lot sadder of a
fic than I anticipated.

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Butterflies.

They fluttered inside Lois Lane as she fingered the ring on her
left hand. Tears shimmered in her eyes as she recalled the last
five weeks of hell she had gone through. She and Clark should
have been enjoying newlywed life, but instead, they had survived
kidnapping, amnesia, and brainwashing. A shudder ran through her
as she recalled just how close they had come to losing
everything

Five weeks ago she had been sitting here with Clark stressing
over her mother's pestering of minor details that didn't seem
that significant at the time. She had been days away from her
wedding day. The day she had looked to as the beginning of
forever with Clark and the first chapter of the rest of their
lives together.

The little things.

They had been little minute insignificant things but one by one
they began to build up inside her.

The flowers she never got to see.

The music she never got to hear.

The smiles she never got to share.

The memories she never had.

Every bit of it had been taken from her.

Seeing Clark's expression when she walked down the aisle.

Seeing her friends and loved ones share the moment that was meant
to change her and Clark's lives forever.

There was no happily ever after.

There was no celebration.

There was nothing left but emptiness and sorrow where there
should have been joy and excitement.

She should have been on her honeymoon.

She should have been married.

She should have been basking in the glow of newlywed life.

Instead, she was recovering.

Recovering from yet another disaster.

Kidnapping

Wanda Detroit

Memory Loss

Brainwashing

Memory Loss

Loss

Stolen were the moments she'd looked forward to sharing with her
family and friends. No more lists. No more coordinators or giving
in to demands that didn't match up to the picture she imagined
in her mind. She'd lost too much. She'd come so close to losing
everything. Now all she wanted was to right the grievous wrong
that had been bestowed upon her and Clark.

"You ready?"

Lois turned to see her fiance standing a few feet away, donning
the red, blue and yellow Superman suit and the two garment bags
he held across his arm. There was something so endearing about
his facial expression. A smile crossed her face as she turned to
him, swiping the few tears that had escaped earlier.

"I've been ready for months now," she said, rising to her
feet.

His hand moved to cup her cheek, silently acknowledging the
emotions she was holding back. Her hand moved to the crest on his
chest, tracing the red and yellow emblem with her index finger
like she had so many times before, but this time felt different.
How many times had she and Clark been pulled apart by forces
outside their control? Mad scientists. Career criminals.
Well-meaning DEA Agents and more recently clone makers and psycho
psychiatrists. Still, through it all, they continued to seek one
another out. Never able to give up on one another. She always
came back to him and he to her.

"You sure about this?" he asked one last time. "We can wait
and..."

She cut him off, leaning in to kiss him, reaffirming the
commitment to their decision the only way she knew how. His
fingers threaded through her hair and his lips pressed hard
against hers, fueled by the pain from almost losing her these
last few weeks.

Her lips parted just long enough to whisper out loud the plea she
needed him to hear so the pain from the last few weeks could be
pushed out of the forefront of her mind. A strangled cry escaped
her throat coupled with two words she'd said again and again
after regaining her memory.

"Marry me."

THE END