Save Me by salymander (NC-17)

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Fandom: SUPERMAN
Pairing: Lois/Superman
Author on LJ: salymander
Author Website: Dream Harder
Why this must be read: How does one get from here to there? From terror to safety? From longing to love? And from love to loss? In this story, Lois Lane reflects on her relationship with Superman. She recalls how they came together only to mysteriously drift apart. Now, years later, as a mother and fiancée, Lois looks back and wonders if she could have done anything differently. Lyrically written and poignant, this has to be my favourite backstory for these characters. Spoilers for both Superman II and Superman Returns

Thinking back on it all, years later, she wondered how much was illusion and how much just plain youth. Falling in love could be as heated as a forest fire and just as consuming. She’d loved people, but not this way. She’d had a high school sweetheart and lived with a man for three weeks in college. Most of the men she’d been with in her life, if you looked at them from the point of view of a writer, were nothing more than filler. Something to add to spice up the boring chapters of her life, nothing more. Superman had been something special. She knew she’d never love anyone the way she had loved him, not even Richard. With Superman she had given herself freely, without any real doubt or fear. She’d hidden nothing and assumed that he had done the same. She hadn’t worried about the consequences, had just allowed herself to be carried away by the tide of it all. She didn’t do that now.

Save Me