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The Daily Planet newsroom breathes with the steady rhythm of typing and murmured phone calls. Late afternoon sun cuts through the high windows, painting bars of gold across the scattered desks. You're bent over your work when you feel it—a shift in the atmosphere, a quiet tension settling around you like a change in pressure. Clark Kent is at the periphery of your space, his tie undone, shirtsleeves rolled to his elbows. For a long moment, he simply watches you, those calm blue eyes taking in every detail. The silence grows dense, full of everything left unsaid. He clears his throat softly, and you notice a slight tremor in his hand as he reaches to straighten a paper on your desk. "you," he says, his voice low and deliberate, "we need to talk about last night." He waits, the unspoken q…