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The Door opens onto the terrain at the base of Olympus, as always, but this second visit is slightly different than the first. They won't be hiking up the sacred mountain, not unless Clark wants to see it again, and the landscape is ordinary. Aside from being gorgeous and Mediterranean, anyway.

"Come on, my house isn't too far from here."

Eirene's smile isn't quite as blissful now, and the totally euphoric feeling has -- actually not disappeared, just lessened slightly.

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"How about I give you a tour of the place, and you pick which room you'd like to sleep in tonight. Let me go rummage up some sleepwear for you in mine. What do you normally wear?"

"Uh." Well, that depends. But Clark will go for the safe answer. "Sweats and a t-shirt. But you don't have to go through any trouble."

"No trouble, but I will be conjuring them up. There shouldn't be any side effects. Give me a couple minutes?" She darts up to the first floor on assent, and returns several minutes later with a pair of sweatpants and a white t shirt, both of which are perfectly ordinary made-by-goddess garments.

"Here."

Clark waits patiently, walking slowly around the sitting room while she's gone. He accepts the clothes gratefully.

"You know, you don't have to hide every time you want to do something like that. I have to get used to it eventually."

"I don't?" She tilts her head, studying him intently for a long moment, and then nods. "Hows this. For anything major I have to do, I'll do that out of sight, because I really don't want to make you uncomfortable. Small thing, like pjs, I'll stick around for."

"Oh, I forgot something." Eirene reaches out to gently tug him down so she can kiss his cheek, and maybe his jaw too.

"Sounds good." For now.

But then there's kissing, and magic is shoved out of Clark's mind fairly quickly.

"Okay," she murmurs between transferring her lips from his jaw back towards his ear. Honestly, she's not really paying much attention to anything else but this.

The tour can wait a minute or two.

Or four or five.

When her lips return in the vicinity of his mouth, he'll make sure she doesn't miss them this time.

She doesn't, and might, in fact, linger there for quite some time to make up for the fact that they were given no attention the first time.

Eventually she'll notice that she's pressed against him, and ease back a couple of inches.

Clark doesn't appear to mind, as his arms have found their way around her waist, but when she moves back, he won't stop her.

"We should probably start that tour."

"We should." After she steals just one more kiss. Those are more addicting than oreos.

Eventually, she moves away again, cheeks bright pink, and gestures towards the bathroom area. "Living room, kitchen, bathroom over there. I'll show you mine, in case something happens in the middle of the night," Eirene is used to kids, of course, "and that is this way."

Once up the stairs to the next level, she'll show the ... ah, huge bedroom, closet and master bath that would probably make a certain alter ego trade his leather jacket in for.

Clark grins, following her dutifully. "I might have a bad dream or something." he agrees, only mildly amused.

"It's nice." Again, he means it. He's just not one of those people who gets overly enthusiastic about decor.

"Yeah," Eirene remarks dryly," and I'll get you a glass of water and tuck you back in. I meant in case of an emergency."

Restraining a giggle proves futile, however, and then it's off to the attic. Which is a small, but still fairly comfortable room currently serving as an office/guest room.

"Here we are."

"You'll tuck me in? Well, now I might have to have one on purpose," he teases.

The ceiling of the attic is eyed, but it seems high enough. "Pretty cozy." Which is a compliment. Clark likes cozy.

She's blushing big time now, trying not to imagine settling down next to him like she's done with countless kids before.

"Uh... yeah. Cozy. Enough room for a desk and a bed, as you can see."

Which she is not looking at.

"Yeah, there is," he agrees with a nod, looking around some more. "I think it'll do."

"Groovy!" Eirene beams, and then takes a moment to look him over thoroughly, before turning towards the bed that's there now and waggling her fingers at it.

This accomplishes two things; the bed growing in width and length until it'll be comfortable for him, and blue plaid sheets appearing on the mattress.

They match the curtains behind him.

"There. All set for the night."

Clark raises his eyebrows at the display, but he told her not to hide it.

"So, is the finger waving actually necessary, or is that just for show?"

"Show? I make people nervous if I just look at something and it changes. If they have something to focus on, I guess it isn't so scary."

Beat.

"Sorry."

He reaches a hand out to lift her chin. "There's nothing to apologize for. That's what I meant, not that I thought you were showing off or anything."

"Thanks. I'm just really nervous now about ... this is how I am here, moreso than in the bar, and I don't want to make you so -- running you off because I use my divine powers to do things is the last thing I want."

Tiny, sheepish smile.

"I'm not running anywhere," he assures her, stroking his thumb just below her lower lip. "And this is your home. You should be yourself. I can handle it."

Her grin is a genuine one. "Thank you, Clark." He'll get a real kiss for it too.

He can more than handle this. And does.

Then she might just give him a little more to handle, without turning it into something else entirely.

She hopes.