checkmate

Clark lifted his head from the menu when he heard someone speak. She was standing beside the table, glancing down at him from where she stood. Specifically staring at him and calling him the wrong name. "Oh, actually it's-" He tried to get a word in to correct her but the girl just kept going and he took that time to curiously look her over. She looked like she could be related to Lois. He knew Lois's features well. She slid in across from him describing how it was her favourite coffee shop and finally she mentioned her sister. He couldn't help but smile at the mention of Lois. "You must be Lucy." Clark said, "Um, sure. Okay, but don't you want to see your sister?"

"Guess you glanced at her file right?" Somehow Lucy was DOUBTFUL talks of a little sister casually came up in conversation, especially when Lois was always aiming towards her story like a cannonball. "- not that I blame you. Gotham is a hell hole and you should be cautious of your partner. Though she's more of your mentor I guess?" After all, Lois was always the headliner. He agreed much to her relief, but he also inquired which-- typical of a reporter honestly. "I come in here before class every day. It's convenient, not super cheap but nowhere is, but I like it. I like being Lucy." Her voice hushed. "Not 'Lois Lane's sister'. My request really translates to 'don't make me get a new coffee place'." Was she being dramatic, maybe a little. Had she seen the cause and effect more then once in the past? Yep.

“What are you doing here?” Lois blurted out, before she could stop herself. The sight of her younger sister standing in a Gotham lecture hall had thrown her for a loop, which wasn’t something that happened to Lois very often. She took pride in being on top of things, being on the ball, however you wanted to put it. A part of her felt an instinctive leap of joy in her chest, happiness at seeing her little sister again after such a long time. Despite the fact that their relationship was often more turbulent than a plane ride through a snowstorm, she loved Lucy (no sitcom-related pun intended). 

Lucy never bothered to tell Lois much of what she planned to do. Her elder sister had no need to hear about it, not to mention if Lois didn't approve (as she often didn't) it would lead to a nose sticking where it didn't belong. It was the same way before Lois Lane became a household name, and now that she was one it certainly didn't change, only extended her reach. Not that Sam Lane was much better. So all in all, Lucy didn't make a habit of telling her family what she was up to. ( There was a time, so long ago, where she tried. It didn't turn out well, and the mistake hadn't been repeated since ).