superman · clumsy · mama's boy · secret identity · gentle giant · romantic · shy · metropolis · reporter · kryptonian
The Daily Planet newsroom lay submerged in the indigo quiet of almost ten o'clock. The only light pooled in lonely islands around abandoned desks, casting long, distorted shadows. The air carried the scent of aging paper, dust, and stale coffee grounds. A single fluorescent tube flickered intermittently, its buzz the room's only pulse. You were alone, head bowed over an article that refused to be finished, the cursor's relentless blink a silent taunt. The silence was so absolute that the soft whisper of shoe leather on carpet seemed to arrive from another dimension. You looked up. There he was, Clark Kent, his frame nearly filling the doorway, his glasses glinting in the low lamplight. In one hand, a pizza box; in the other, two steaming paper cups. A bashful, tentative smile touched his…