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Martha set down the letter, reached over and hugged him. “Oh, Clark. I’m sorry. So very sorry.”

Clark looked down at the folded letter and then back at Martha, confused. “Why? What did she say?”

Martha’s mouth hung open a moment in surprise. Lois had never told him about the baby. She swallowed. “Tell me about the accident.”

“She told you about that?” He seemed dismayed.

“No. She told me about Clark being there for her, when Superman wasn’t. You still haven’t told her?”

Clark gazed down in shame. “No, I haven’t. Lois and I – Clark, I – have been getting along so well as friends…”

“No, you haven’t. Tell me what happened, Clark.”

“What did she write?” he asked, but Martha pulled the letter away. She raised her eyebrows.

Clark sat down in the chair next to her and buried his face in his hands. “She drove off in to a snowstorm while Kal – your Clark – and I were fighting. Her car slid off the road and was knocked into a ditch by a snowplow.”

“Oh, Clark.” Martha took hold of his hand.

“Her head was bleeding and her neck and spine seemed wrong,” he whispered, a tear running down his cheek. “Her heartbeat was weak when I pulled her out. I was rushing her to the hospital when we got struck out of the sky by lightning. We landed in the woods, there, by the house. She looked at me, said my name, and passed out.” His voice shook. “I was sure she was dead.”

Martha said nothing, just stared at him, her jaw hanging open. “Lightning?”

“Yeah. It was one of those freak electrical snowstorms.”

Martha nodded. “Go on.”

and she still has some of Lois's S1 nastiness.

Whoever the thief was, they were fast.

. Gareth was standing next to Lois, talking to her, waving a hand in front of her face. She looked catatonic.

“Thank God, Clark. Maybe you can do something. I think I broke her. Sorry.”

Usually, there’s a funny story when best friends meet. It becomes an anecdote and everyone laughs. I didn’t realize your story wasn’t one of those.”

Had they met before Singapore? Did she remember and told Gareth? “Go on.”

“I knew she must have a reason for covering herself up like that, I thought she was pregnant, but it stems back to that night, doesn’t it?

That kind of terror scars a woman for life. I saw it countless times back in London.”

What had Lois told him?

“It’s probably just low blood sugar, she’ll be fine,” he reassured him.

“Clark, she hasn’t moved in over an hour.”

“Honey?”

She blinked, once and then once again. Clark turned to Gareth and smiled. His boss looked relieved.

“It’s just a job, right? It doesn’t mean anything, really? A person is more than what they do,” she said in reply.

“A person can start over, become someone else, if the motivation is strong enough. It’s that or death, because that life would be worse than death.” He saw an epiphany light up her eyes. “I could die.”

“Oh?” Lois turned and waved at her boss who was still staring at them from his office. Hesitantly, he waved back. She looked at Clark once more.

It’s you. Perry knew; that’s what he was trying to tell me.”

Her brow furrowed. “Mad? Why would I be mad, Clark?”

OK, Lois didn’t know about Superman;

What? “That makes no sense.”

“Lois Lane,” he growled. Every one of them.

Lucy watched as she went over to her room and returned with a box of chocolates.

“You still have some left? I thought we polished them off the other day.”

Lois smiled. “Not yet. He really outdid himself.”

“Two years, though, Lucy? Come on. Didn’t the wow factor kind-of give him away?”

“Wow factor?” Lucy shook her head, confused.

Lois mouthed the word ‘Wow.’

Lois’s jaw dropped. “Two years?” She patted Lucy’s arm in sympathy. “I’m so sorry.”

“Three years!”

“Oh, my God!” Lois giggled. “You mean, he was.”

Lois handed her another chocolate.

. “If I still didn’t know that they were one and same, I wouldn’t be making excuses for Superman any more, would I? I’d have moved on.” A hint of a smile graced her lips. “Moved on to Clark Kent.”

“But him I can locate.”

“I think my plan should include a little bit of pain for our Mr. Kent.” Lois rubbed her hands together. “I was going to tell him, but I think it would be little more believable if he didn’t know the truth. Just let the truth of his feelings hit him square in the face.”

“Lois!” Lucy gasped, shocked. “We aren’t trying to become evil, remember.”

You want him to tell you the truth, you need to let him know he can have both his cake and eat it, too.

“That’s what I was missing. I need to get them involved. Clark’s right. You are a genius.”

That you don’t even know how to boil water. I expect to be treated better than… What’s that smell?”

“Beef bourguignon. Lois has been giving me a few cooking lessons.”

Bobby started to drool. “Lois? Lois Lane? Do you know when she left town, I lost thirty five pounds in the first month alone?”

Bobby’s big mouth didn’t stop talking throughout the hour it took him to eat all the food that Lucy kept putting in front of him.

Lex plans on announcing to the world that we were a perfectly happy couple until Superman kidnapped his wife and that our marriage dissolved due to marriage infidelity on my part with Superman as the co-plaintiff.

So, it looks like I’m going to be married to Lex until one of us dies.

Tell my Clark that I love him. I love him so much, it hurts not to be near him.

I can take it no longer.

Someone other than him needs to take control of our relationship, and I’m afraid it falls on me to make the hard decision, alone, because he will not admit to me how I know he feels.

Life would be simpler for everybody, if I were dead.

. I wonder each day, if he had been right instead of wrong, would it have made a difference?

Daddy says I’m lucky Superman can’t have children. Strange, I don’t feel lucky.

So, who’s gonna figure it out first?

And will Lucy start banging her head against a wall when Replacement-Lois starts getting mind-spied on. /mutters about having blocked out the name of Jr.’s toy./

‘sorry’? Does he really think that’s a wise and *safe* thing to say to Clark at this moment?

Clark! *Think* Those hints should be enough to give you instant nightmares, oh world-travelled reporter and superhero.

Thinking about running back to Jolly Old?

Huh. Did you leave hints before? Big, broad, flashing hints that I missed?

And now her world comes apart at the seams. Although, she went three years without, too. Better not tell her that Lucy went much, much longer than that.

I meant "nasty" in a good way!

Vixen doesn't show up until Late March 1997.

Gee, if this part has you running back to my silly stories... I do believe I mentioned ML=drama with some funny parts.

No, subtle hints that you missed.

As long as the card doesn't say, "you break it, you bought it".

But, you said they were fast and left only left a golden shimmer behind. That was Vixen. So

I was thinking Gareth running back to Jolly Old England.

Clark returned to the office a couple of hours later. There was a robbery at one of the scientific labs. Computer chips had been stolen. Whoever the thief was, they were fast.