For Clark: SuperAnna!

[downsidedarling]

Anna leads Clark through a handy-dandy Nexus portal into her living room.

The front door to her apartment is looking distinctly unwell.

In the way where the doorknob is lying crumpled on the floor, dented with what appear to be finger-marks.

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[hero_farmboy]

"See, that's what I really don't want to find out."

[downsidedarling]

"Cheri..."

She kisses him on the cheek again, then once more on the corner of his jaw, right there.

"It'll be fine," she murmurs. "You'll see."

[hero_farmboy]

Hid eyes flutter briefly and then he takes her by the shoulders and pushes her back gently.

"Not until you've got a better handle on your strength."

[downsidedarling]

"C'mon."

Without really thinking about it, she pushes back, stepping in close again and hugging him.

"I'll be fine. I haven't broken anything since that doorknob."

Yep, this would be the puppy eyes.

[hero_farmboy]

Clark remains unmoved.

"Yeah, because you're thinking about it. It's really not all that easy to concentrate on holding back when you're doing... that."

[downsidedarling]

"I'm sure I'll manage somehow," murmurs Anna, kissing him again.

Play fair? She wouldn't know how.

And she's certain it can't be any more difficult than holding still while someone drills holes through your bones. That had been an interesting contract.

[hero_farmboy]

"In time, yeah, you will," he says sternly, stepping back. "Your first day isn't really the time to put it to the test."

[downsidedarling]

"Aww."

Anna sighs.

"Fine, fine."

She makes an ostentatious brushing-off gesture, as though to visibly divest herself of the urge to kidnap Clark back to her apartment and have her way with him.

It sort of works.

[hero_farmboy]

"Patience is a virtue, you know," he advises.

[downsidedarling]

"Not one I've ever practiced," she retorts, smirking.

[hero_farmboy]

"Well, now's as good a time as any to learn."

[downsidedarling]

"Oui, cheri," she acquiesces affectionately.

[hero_farmboy]

"Good." Clark nods firmly, indicating that case is closed. "Anything else you want to do?"

[downsidedarling]

That rueful-yet-mischievous grin is as good as a 'no', really.

[hero_farmboy]

He snorts softly. "You're incorrigible, you know that?"

[downsidedarling]

She chuckles.

"Oui, cheri."