By six Eirene is hovering near the phone, occasionally checking on the meal sitting in the oven, and feeling like a complete idiot. Of course he's okay, this is Clark. There's a good chance he's halfway around the world, saving people from a cave-in somewhere in Pakistan, or a Japanese village from a typhoon.

Nevermind that the end of October isn't traditional typhoon season - well, not usually. Clark is absolutely fine, he hasn't been kidnapped and held against his will by Lex Luthor (though that thought keeps popping up in her head at worrying rate), and he'll show up any minute. Right?

Right.