Lois sighed and put down the magazine. She was tired, bored, but most of all ready for the private plane they were in to land.

"How much longer?" Lois asked Clark.

"We're over Kansas now. Not much." Clark went back to the book he was reading.

"Clark, I've been thinking…and I don't think we should tell anyone about our new relationship."

Clark quickly looked up. "What?"

"It's just we're going to have a lot to deal with and adjust to, you know?" She gestured to the airplane bathroom.

She was referring to Diana, an Amazon from Paradise Island. Lois had gone there on a story for the Inquisitor, and Clark had come along to protect her. Diana had been called to be an ambassador for the island and do good for the world; Clark and Lois had to help her. Diana was still on the naïve side. Her English was getting better all the time, but a Greek accent was still evident; with time she might not even have an accent. They'd had to forge a lot of documents in Greece to make it look like she was a native there, so she could get a passport. It had seemed evident that they couldn't have taken the honest route in this instance. They would certainly be busy helping Diana adjust to a modern culture in the coming weeks.

"Do you really want our family and friends to be asking a lot of nosy questions and be concerned with our love life on top of everything?"

"I guess not," but he didn't sound too sure.

She kissed him gently on the lips. "I promise as soon as we get Diana settled, we'll have a dinner or something and tell everybody."

Diana came out of the bathroom in the outfit she had borrowed from Lois.

"A bathroom is such a wonderful thing," she said with excitement, "and I still can't get over that we're flying. This is such an advanced civilization!"

"In some respects," Clark said.

"You'll have to excuse him," Lois explained. "He was born to an even more advanced civilization. We must seem like apes to him."

Clark blushed. "I wasn't comparing. I was talking about from a moral standpoint. Something every civilization struggles with."

Lois smiled and patted his leg, "I know you were."

He rolled his eyes. Being in a relationship with her wouldn't stop the teasing.

The pilot came over the intercom, "Please buckle up. We're about to make a landing in the Smallville airport."

Clark and Lois buckled up.

"Do I have to?" Diana asked. "If something happens to the plane, it won't really hurt me."

"Probably not," Clark answered, "but you have to do what normal people do to blend in."

Diana buckled up and looked out the window. As they got closer to the ground, she spotted the American flag on top of a pole. "That is the most beautiful design I have ever seen in my life."

"The flag?" Lois asked. "I guess if you've never seen it before, it's something to look at."

"It's amazing," Diana said, still staring.

"Betsy Ross thanks you I'm sure," Lois said.

"Can you wear it?" Diana asked, unable to get over its beauty.

"I guess you can get it on a t-shirt," Clark said.

"Or you can just sew it around yourself like a bathing suit. It would be a gloriously patriotic thing to do, and you'd be in the height of fashion," Lois joked, but Diana obviously wasn't.

"I'd make some slight alterations. Maybe put in a little yellow. Yellow is such a nice color," Diana mused.

Lois didn't know whether to laugh or explain that you couldn't go around dressed in a slightly altered American flag.

She chose to laugh.