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This is a short superman I wrote a while ago, I hope you enjoy it, please review.

Arty

White Noise

A Superman Fanfic

Oneshot

"Why do you do it?"

Lois Lane watched as the strange man called Superman paused just as he started to fly away from her. He made an impressive image in front of the moving symbol of the daily planet. Red and blue on gold, his cape flapping gracefully in the wind.

"Do what Miss Lane?" He asked after a beat, he looked momentarily confused, so Lois gestured at the city around them "Save people. Protect this city…Protect this world! Why do you do it?"

Superman studied her curiously and glided closer. "Why do you ask?" He asked softly. Lois shrugged "I want to understand you better. I guess, you rush into danger so easily, whether it's a mugging or a terrorist attack. You're not from this planet yet you protect it! I want to know why you care!"

Lois found herself panting in the silence that followed her rant. When he spoke it wasn't it wasn't what she expected.

"Close your eyes"

"What?"

He settled down in front of her "Close your eyes if you want to know." He said softly. Lois studied his eyes before shutting her own "What do you hear?" He questioned.

Lois frowned.

"Cars. Why?"

Superman chuckled causing her to open her eye to glare, his next words stopped her "Is that all? Your lucky!" He laughed before sobering.

"I hear it all."

Lois jerked in surprise "All what?"

"Everything I hear your boss in his office, talking to Jimmy about his recent work. I hear the couple arguing sixteen blocks away about money. I hear rats, cockroaches and humans. I hear a man talking to his girlfriend about killing his wife. I hear a mother trying to settle her baby to sleep." He explained quietly his eyes never leaving hers.

Lois swallowed, her throat suddenly dry.

"All the time?"

He finally looked away.

"Yes"

"How are you still sane?"

Superman stared at the daily planet's globe his eyes galaxies away. "When I was younger it almost did, until I learnt to…filter it. When it becomes to much, I can quiet it until its just whispers…white noise."

He looked at her suddenly intense "Could you ignore it? Millions if not billions of voices calling-no screaming for me to help them? Could you live with the fact that they died because of you didn't help?"

He started to hover and smiled slightly "…And I may not have been born here but I grew up here and I consider it my home."

And with that he was gone. Lois watched him in the distance before heading to the roof exit, she paused as she opened the door, looking back she whispered something silently before going inside.

Flying to save the wife from her husband and his girlfriend who were just about to run her over, Superman smiled as he heard Lois's words.

"Thank you, Superman."

Chapter End.

AN:

hope you enjoyed it, please review no flames,

Arty.