My corner of the sky

[wherethestoryis]

Characters: Lois Lane and open!
Date: During the mis-spell event!
Location: Lots of places in Keeliai!
Situation: Lois has Kryptonian powers, she's not sure whose. (Spoiler: Jor-El's.) But her husband's a teenager. She has some issues.
Warnings/Rating: Language, I'm sure.

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[wherethestoryis]

Lois looks up, a little surprised, and turns her head towards the voice. As her ears refocus--yep, there's definitely a person there, and she has so much more respect for Clark than she already did, just for sorting all these sounds out.

However, she hasn't quite figured out the nuances of vision quite yet... which has left her rather puzzled. Maybe there might be a way to pick whoeer it is up on another spectrum? Clark does that, she thinks... In the meantime, she taps her ear in explanation. "Just a side effect of Zatanna's little mishap," she says, mildly exasperated. Okay, more than mildly. Extremely. Honestly, if she had to have powers, couldn't she at least not be twice her husband's apparent age?

(Zatanna is lucky to be alive.)

[witchnotwarlock]

"Oh! Sorry," Billy winced sympathetically. "A lot of people got powers that aren't their own. Uh. Obviously." He had to give a laugh, though, and he raised his hand, watching it turn back into a green hand.

Still not his own hand, and ugh. Ugh. "At least you didn't switch bodies with anyone?" He pauses. "Unless you did, and I'm not actually talking to a woman. Or I am. I'm sorry in either case?" Billy sighed, leaning forward and putting his head in his hands.

"This is so confusing."

[wherethestoryis]

"No, no body switch, thank god," Lois agrees. "Though things are weird enough as it is--my husband's a teenager at the moment. Zatanna has taken steps toward a premature demise."

She's not entirely serious. Still, while she looks fantastic for her age... she is obviously not in her early twenties. Even that would have been a stretch with Clark a teenager.

"As far as powers go, though, I'm pretty happy. I never get to fly under my own agency." And more, they're Kryptonian powers; she has a fairly good idea how they work and how to control them.

[witchnotwarlock]

"...Your husband is a teenager now?" Billy looks up, unable to hide his grin, or his laugh that shook the slowly starting to reveal shoulders. Green shoulders, but still! That was something.

"Um. That's really tough?" He looked away, getting control of the laughter. He just couldn't think of it like that, just how does he do that? How do you date a teenager? Especially when it's your husband? That was like him dating Teddy when he was a kid.

...Oh god. "Flying is really cool!" Billy nodded, and his face fell as fast as it had brightened. "I can fly. When I'm using my powers, in my body. I miss it."

[wherethestoryis]

"Yes, he's a teenager," she says with an ominous scowl. No, she is really not going to elaborate any further, because it is in fact very, very tough and really incredibly frustrating.

But that's private, and while she might be willing to bemoan it with Dinah or someone... not random kid.

She glances his way, and then winces. "I'm sorry," she says sincerely. "Everyone I've known who can fly... it's a joy. I can't begin to describe it, or how they feel when it's gone."

[witchnotwarlock]

He gets one look at her face and looks down. No laughter from that anymore. It's obviously a sensitive subject, and yeah, he's not touching that with a five foot pole. Or any pole. Just, not going to touch that one.

"No, it's okay." He waved his hand. "It just makes me feel like when I didn't have any powers, so it's okay." He looked up and gave her a small smile.

It reminded him of being weak, and helpless.

[wherethestoryis]

Well. Sensitive in the sense of 'she is not getting lazy morning rituals because he looks about sixteen.' Not emotionally sensitive otherwise. Look, Lois has priorities sometimes; no one said they were good priorities.

"Yeah, I've seen that a lot," she says sympathetically. "I know a fair number of the heroes back home, and I've seen them without powers."

Most especially she remembers Clark on any number of occasions when he's been without. She's seen how much he hates not being able to help as he usually does.

[witchnotwarlock]

Billy has to give a laugh at that. "I know a lot of people back home who would be freaking out a lot more then me about this. I didn't get mine until recently, you know? But people who are born with them, well."

He gives a shrug. "It's like cutting off a limb or something. Or something worse." Billy doesn't know how Victor is taking all of this. He knows somewhat, but maybe he's okay with being cut off of his own things, because he has Billy's to contend with.

"You look like you're having fun, though. Have fun while you can, right?" Change of subject.