A Pound of Flesh

by angelic_editor <Moxie406@yahoo.com>

Rated: G

Submitted: July 2006

Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine; the words are. Please don't take legal action, as poor college students aren't worth suing, anyway.

Feedback: Better than chocolate, especially since I'm so new at this. I welcome comments and criticism of all kinds, so be brutal.

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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 already. 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.

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