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My apologies for the late posting. For the foreseeable future, at least, it seems as if Wednesday is a more quiet night on which to post. As I mentioned when I posted my note last night, I am back down to a 5 part cushion. I cannot allow myself to post if I drop any further behind. I need that cushion to make sure any major errors in timeline and scene organization can be fixed prior to posting. I do have the following scenes mapped out in OneNote and not just in my head. Thank you, KatherineKent, for the recommendation and the procrastination device. I hope the next parts will roll out quickly (or at least once per week as RL allows), so that I don't have make any more delayed postings.

For those of you who are scientifically minded, and recognized the ".fits" filename extension to the other document on the Nightfall Virus disk, and are familiar with this program, I hope its use here doesn't seem out of place. I stumbled across this during my research and it seemed to fit (no pun intended) with the information Prof. Daitch may have given to Lois, along with the copy of the file supposedly sent to him by his friend in England. If FITS wouldn't have been used in this way (in describing or imagining something in space), please let me know and I shall remove it.

Also, I know that "grunge" is usually assigned to bands out of Seattle, not Metropolis, but Jimbo uses the term here more to describe a style of music rather than a location.

EDIT: I know I jump forward a bit in the timeline over these last few parts, but I want to move along quickly instead of hang out any longer in the quagmire that is this investigation.

That's the end of tonight blathering, please post any comments here. Thank you for reading.

It is a curious thought. I know many (not all) of the other versions of Lois have a father that is in the military having (ultimately) good secrets that need to be kept. This version doesn't have that (strongly) part of his makeup. Yes they retconned the military into her history in Season 2 but that version never seemed jive with the humorous actions of the character from that season forward. He didn't really seem a military type to me. I might have bought the Season 1 version being former military (especially with his implant tech, it would have been an ideal match with the military replacing a vets arms and legs if amputated) but not the Season 2+ one.

Still haven't explained the different universes thing, have you, Clark?

Alt-Clark: I plead the fifth.

*Clark with his tongue in cheek* Alt-Clark: Amber waves of grain, and a small-tightly knit community where everyone knew everyone's name and nearly everything else about each other. Not to mention a mom who loves her apple pie and a father who needed help on the tractor from time to time. It was so close to living in Smallville, Kansas that I had to build it into my back-history as Clark.

Not exactly. It's one of those cases where she doesn't even have a CLUE. If she even suspected there was SUCH a thing as different dimensions I wonder if she'd believe that he might be from it. Then again, the idea of a flying man is implausible enough.

That is sadly true. I don't know of many other instances where that's the case, but it is true.

Hmmmm... I almost get the feeling that Luthor's father killed his mother (like he said) but that HE was the killer of his father. After that he went on the run and never, EVER looked back.

Did he exist in your own dimension, Clark? Maybe you can get some hints from the differences there about his history.

Quite honestly, I don't know when Clark and Lois had all that much downtime prior to Ordinary People to really talk. I can't imagine these two lasting that long on that talk.

Christina: Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts.
I'm a little lost on where LnC canon showed that Sam Lane had been in the military in S2. We were introduced to Sam's brother "Mike" who had been in the military. And we were introduced to the fact that Jack Olsen had been in the military (we then learn in S3, he went from there to the NIA). And that Lois's friend, Molly Flynn had a boyfriend in the military. I agree that if they had introduced a military aspect to Sam's career in S1, it would have been a logical transition into helping wounded vets with cyborgisation. Perhaps it would have stopped them from making S4's Sam Lane so eccentric.

Back in Part 15, I explained Alt-Lois's background, which, although it contained a military upbringing, is still different from Lois's standard comic / Smallville (or even LnC) canon norm:
The baby mentioned, of course, would have been Lucy.

Well, he *did* mention it, but he was pretending as if he were joking at the time.

In the animated series Justice League's (or UJL) version of "For the Man Who Has Everything" they showed Kal and his family living in a house surrounded by grain fields on Krypton, which was very reminiscent of a farm in Kansas, so it's not that big of a stretch to believe that.

Okay, so maybe she hasn't given up on her blinders quite yet, but who's fault is that?

LOIS: Not mine!

CLARK: Is it ever?

Lois's gut also told her to push Clark away and chase after Superman, and to date Dan, despite having started a relationship with Clark. In Lois's private life, her gut is often more wrong than right.

Could be...

In Alt-dimension, naming a building or business after a living person is illegal, so even if Lex Luthor existed (with that name) and he was basically the same man he is in canon dimension, it's possible that Clark had never heard of him. In fact, he hadn't heard of Lex Luthor until he visited other dimensions and didn't know he was bad news until coming to this dimension. (Since LexComm Telephone was still alive and well in "Lois & Clarks" I'm guessing he was familiar with Lex Luthor because of Lex's propensity for naming things after himself.)

And when they DO try to talk, Clark thinks she's saying one thing (I'd like Chocolate from Switzerland) instead of sitting there listening to what she's actually saying. I don't think until they're camping and roasting bananas do they actually have down time to talk.

Oh, dear. Christina, you don't believe this omission is one Lois would ever forgive him for? Even though they haven't really had time to have a real discussion since she learned CK=SM?

CLARK: /nervously starts to bite his fingernails to the quick/

LOIS: Well, *that* decides it!

I went back to the scripts to find out where I thought I saw "military family" mentioned and the only script I could think of was "Target: Jimmy Olsen." I realized that I scanned for "Sam" and couldn't find it. Turns out that JIMMY is the one with the military base background. Don't know if his father was military at the time but that would mesh well with his father being NIA.

IOW, no, this Lois doesn't have a known military family background.

Or when Tempus jumped universes he decided to eliminate the competition, so to speak, and destroyed Luthor before he was particularly well known.

Or hey, maybe Luthor actually managed to be a good guy for a change and was off helping orphans in Africa or something!

… Naw.

Wondering how Clark and Lois will arrange their evening chats now. I guess they could come up with something else, but losing the cannolis will be such a tragedy!!!

As I was reading, I was pleased and surprised to see you stick a .fits file on the disk. When I was in college, I took images of variable stars in the .fits format, and I used a program to analyze those images to get data to study the stars' light curves. It's completely reasonable that there would be an image of the asteroid in that format along with the data.

Colleen: Thanks for reading.
possibly.

Well, he may have gone to Africa... Um... Define "helping" again.

I'm going to have to agree with you. Lex as a good guy sounds like quite a boring character.

While I've been quite subtle about it, weeks and weeks are passing by. Herb visited in early-mid May. The Wedding is supposed to happen in mid-June (the 18th by by notes). I'm sure that if Lois and Clark want to meet, they'll figure out a way to do it. Don't forget, she still has that cell phone. They're also meeting on Sundays to do her laundry.

Thanks for your comments.

mrsMxyzptlk: Oooooh. Another comment. Glad to pleasantly surprise a scientist!

Kyle Griffin?

JACK NAPIER: You need a reason for it?

She does know that he hunts women for sport, right?
LEX: At least I don’t flay them! /hides Game of Thrones mint edition underneath pillow/

CLARK:

Plus, get her into bed.

Hellooo! Three-date-rule!
PAUL: Helloooo! Co-ed!

No, Lex doesn’t know that he’s a horrible man and a criminal, so that can’t be it.

LEX: Nah, I just like to go where all Kryptonians want to go.



She *is* a bit full of herself, isn’t she?
LEX: I think it’s adorable.

LEX: Booooriiiing!

Problems with the ozone layer or some such thing. Plus, his father found out that his mother had been deedling with all the household guards in the months before her pregnancy, so his arrival was highly suspect. Nor-El, well… he turned out much better after Jor-El locked Lara up in a tower and they made a second baby.

No, Clark actually switched universes to get away from that nutjob.

I don’t know. I think Clark fell for just another Lana, there. He’d be so much better off dating that blonde A.D.A.

So, what you’re saying is that Clark should happily trust a woman, who’s doublecrossing her present fiancé because of some perceived wrong he allegedly did to her and which she has never even mentioned to said fiancé before starting to screw him out of his livelihood and social standing?



Maybe she could stuff the diskette into his desk and then call the cops?

Yes, but he’s in college now and likely experimenting with various substances that one can burn and then inhale to affect an altered state of consciousness.

So much for Clark not running for the hills again.

An “I Love Lucy” reboot?

Plus, Lex doesn’t want Lois to cavort with male Kryptonian strippers during her bachelorette party.

Now, Lois, he said ‘woman’ not ‘chick’ and I’m sure he only disrespected her experience, not her body or her gender.

Duh! What with the bait sitting at home, stuffing herself with pizza.

Michael

Darth Michael: Thanks for popping in.
If only he weren't still in jail.
KYLE: Sigh. Lost opportunities.

AKA Joker, right? If so, I have a brother? Cool!

So, it *is* why he left "Krypton". (Lois's definiation of the other universe.)
HERB: From a certain POV.

MAYSON: Does Lucy have a wacky paranoid sister in this one? Actually, that could be a funny show. Where the audience knows her sister isn't nuts, but Lucy and everyone else thinks she is.
LUCY: /ducking behind the couch/ Hide! It's my sister. She thinks her partner is an alien who flies around saving people.

Of course! THAT'S why Lex took Lois to see Othello. To keep an eye on her, so she couldn't go out and have fun once last time before marrying a geezer.
OTOH, that would be a fun meet story for Lois and Clark.
Maybe it's happened to Lex before, so he's outlawed a maid-of-honor from every wedding after that.
LEX: What do you mean my fiancee ran off to Vegas with one of the strippers from her batchelorette party?

By mentioning her sex at all, it implies it. If Jimmy had hired a male lawyer, would Lex have mentioned that the lawyer was male? No. /For example, if you exchange "woman" from that description of "Some woman straight out of law school" statement with a different race, sexual orientation, or body size, the offense becomes more noticeable./

LOIS: I'm not always the bait, otherwise he wouldn't always be ditching me to go save someone else.

Well, Clark is her chocolate substitute, so when he doesn't show up chocolate suddenly doesn't seem so appetizing.

You could always do both, Lex.

Which is why it's more fun to explore this way.

Cause Lois is a hot babe?

Possibly.

Met Star Headline: "SURGEON GENERAL RECOMMENDS THUGS NOT SHARE SHAVING UTENSILS"

Being dead?

Ooops. Skipped too much? But there were more fun scenes I wanted to get to? Talking about it wasn't enough?

CLARK: What?! I was talking about washing and folding her laundry. What did you think I meant?
LOIS:

Why would Ellen be there?

JONATHAN: Keep that sicko away from my wife.

So, wiping Tempus out from the timeline gets rid of Lex too? Hmmmm. Sounds promising.

According to Wikepedia the known extensions for FITS are: .fits, .fit , and .fts .

Thanks for you comments. Now, I've got to figure out why my toolbars suddenly went wonky on me and disappeared. /grumble. I knew I shouldn't have downloaded that new Adobe update./

EDIT: Logged off the internet and came back and there they were! Phew.

Yes, she has found the message. that this is easier to put in smiles.


The key to vindicating Clark.

John: Hi John!
Yes, the new smilie drop down menu is nice, isn't it? They are limiting our smilies to 15 per post though, and 10 quotes (last I heard).

Only time will tell.

Thanks for your comments.

I think the smily limit was 15 before, so that has not changed.






I feared that as well.


Also the person she should most suspect as the maker of the problem.

I'd love it if Lois figured out he was the one who orchestrated her going to jail.


If he can kill SM there is an awful lot of profit.


When has Luthor shown he cared how many other people died to advance his plans?

Luthor will tell the truth never.

Ooooh, more!

It was just a friendly reminder.

Good! /checks box/

Lex caused the asteroid? Wow!

LEX: You doubted my influence in this universe?

That would be a difficult one for her to figure out, since it had been an anonymous tipster.

LEX: Sounds good to me.

LEX: What is this "care" word? I don't understand.

LEX: So, does that mean that when I tell Chef Andre that I liked the garlic chicken, I'm lying? Why would I do that? It would be almost like lying to spare his feelings and that's inconceivable.

Thanks for your comments, John.

I'm surprised Lois considers the posibility there has ever been a better investigative reporter.


Not likely, since it seems he was working on the lair before he ever took notice of Lois.


Clark really needs to tell her what is actually happening.


While letting her know that he didn't do it just for her might hurt a little, it would make his actions make more sense. Otherwise his refusal to pretend to date her as CK so she could really date him as SM makes no sense.


Even if he does believe it now, she needs actions that show he believes it.

Oops, she just exposed Jimbo Olsen.


Such preparations at times are hard for undercover contacts.


I think that would flow better as "but not for a".

As if the Planet matters in his overall business.


she has a joint opinion with Clark.


Luthor is worse than I thought.

Yes! he is there.

Oh, I was so hoping the investigation was over.


He used the special name, yeah.


Only if they can prove it's Jimbo's lunchbox.