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Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Clark TOC can be found Here

The Smallville Arc is finally at an end after only roughly 15 parts. Should I still have any readers left , I would like to let them know that the timeline will now once again speed up. I apologize for the length of the Smallville Arc, but it was very important to what will come in the future.

/fans self/ Say, is anyone else hot? /tugs nervously at collar/. Comments?

Sounds like Clark is taking things too slow with his five point plan. I hope something happens to nudge him along. Love the residents of Smallville selling fake Krpytonite meteors!

A little heat in November? How timely.

Joan

Eeeep! Some very good parts are approaching! I might have to read them again!

JOAN: I didn't scare you off with my crazy characters and lack of Clarkie bear!

Another hacker! Nah, just joking. She's a Beta. She might actually know which direction this rollercoaster turns next. Glad you enjoyed the next series of loop de loops.

Five steps!? I guess it translates as "he will never tell her". Ever.

How? He keeps lying to her. Does he want to build trust based on a lie?

Vague? Give Lois a flimsy clue and she will dig until she finds the deepest secrets. She found the real Clark Kent's grave and she didn't even know he had existed. And why would any woman understand that a man can’t say his ex-fiancé’s name?

Hello! If you want it to be believable just levitate!

Let's see: Everybody thought Superman was invulnerable. Nobody but the Kents knew about kryptonite. He passed out. He was captured by Trask. He was hurt and shot. He barely could stand up. Tell me again, oh smart one, why should she believe you were Superman?

Half truth is half lie. And half lie is still a lie. :rolleyes:

See? He will never tell her.

Hummm... In Smallville we have proof that Clark didn't grow up there, his false past story and the real Clark Kent's grave. What will be important in the future?

Andreia

Ultra Woman: Okay, you're bashing Clark in his lunkhead, but he deserves it.
In Clark's defense, he *wants* to tell her, which is more than canon Clark did at this part in canon. <<ducking>>

Well, even this Clark does have that little bit of optimism left. <<ducking again, from tomatoes this time>>

EW: <<hands UW a 2x4>> Hit away! Although, I don't understand how Luthor would find out before Lois, but it *could* happen. Both Luthor and Lois are looking in all the wrong places for Clark's past. Also, Clark doesn't know that Lois has heard Jonathan's theory about Clark's Italian ancestry.

By showing to her that even though she doesn't know his history, she knows the kind of man he has (otherwise) always shown her that he is.

I have never told my husband the names of all my former beaus as they were not important to our relationship. What happened in those relationship, yes; the man's name, not so much. Clark is working on this age-old tradition. Of course, Lois isn't like other women and it is *possible* that she won't accept only half-truths.

CLARK: But then she'd know for certain and I'd have no way to change my mind and back out again. What if she reacted like Lana. I don't think I could take that a second time. What if she hated me and never wanted to talk to me again? What if...

LOIS: Snap out of it!

CLARK: Right. Thanks, I needed that. Now, where were we?

LOIS: You were telling me about your past.

CLARK: Right. Uh... Um...

LOIS: This is going to take a while.

CLARK: Because I said "I am Superman"?

CLARK: Yes, but, it's better than all lies, isn't it? Anyway, that other stuff really isn't important for our relationship, right? <<ducking more tomatoes>>

He thinks because Lois cares for Superman, there is a greater possiblity that she'll forgive him for keeping that secret (once he tells her). Telling Lois about the other Lois might be something she'd might never forgive him for, and therefore is the scariest secret of them all.

Yes, all those things were discovered during the Smallville arc, but those were only things that LOIS learned.

My problem is Clark/Superman's seeming lack of seriousness about kryptonite. He told Lois in the previous chapter he doesn't know if it can kill him!? Shouldn't he look into this. Shouldn't he know?!

He admitted that the baby Kal may have dies because K weakened him and other factors killed him. So at the least K can indirectly kill Clark.

Lex will know for sure soon enough.

Superman's naivete will ultimately lead to his death. Being an innocent Boy Scout believing the the goodness of everyone won't cut it in a world with larger than life villains like Lex.

Lois needs to knock some sense into him or he won't be long for this world.

Randi: Welcome to my story!

Lack of seriousness? I'm not sure about that. Whether or not Kryptonite could kill Clark on its own, K still hurts like hell and it's not like he'll go and buy Kryptonite Crunchies at the local market for breakfast just to test it out (as one recent spoof suggested).

Yes, Lex won't care about tested theories. He'll be willing to test them out on his own.

Does my Clark believe in the goodness of everyone more than canon Clark? I don't seem him as naive. I see him as more world wise, less womanwise, than canon Clark.

You're probably right about that. <<hands Randi a 2x4 spiked with K to test out on Clark>>

Please, don't kill Clark but feel free to maime him. This isn't a death fic.

CLARK: Hey! I mean, yea! But, still, HEY!

No this isn't a death-fic. Though I am a big fan of the occasional death-fic. They are too rare here.

But Clark's lackluster concern about K. in this story makes him too much the "canon" Boy Scout.

Let's just say that this Clark/Supes in a "real" world with this Lex - well you figure it out.

Clark: Did she have to emphasize we slept in different beds?

Well, now we are moving into MoSB. I hope Lois begins to suspect Luthor, but I am not holding my breath.

They are still partners.

I don't know. I think Clark should let the victory set in for a bit.

She is breaking up with him. This is very sad.

Maybe there is still hope.

Clark, you should have told her everything on the flight back.

Wait, did she finally accept his term of endearment?

I guess she didn't really accept it.

He should have just told her everything on the flight. She would have moved beyond it in less than a month.

Lousy excuse. He is all one person.

This just might work.

If he just calls her Lana it won't be so bad. And since she met Lana Jessup, would it really give her clues to speak of Lana Lang?

No, I don;t think she will.

It seems like he did a lot of these things in canon and she never noticed.

Why doesn't this cause Lois more pause. In canon she actually asks Clark "What planet are you from, your running and not even sweating" at the start of the episode.

Which makes it all the more amazing she does not figure out the secret sooner.

Actually I think why she does not figure out sooner is it is so fun to write stories where Lois does not know. Once she knowns, you generally can't go back.

Superman from movie: You can always give her a mind blanking kiss.

canon Clark: That sounds like a very dangerous idea. I do not like it when Lois looses her memories.

Personally I think he should plan on this. What if M&J accidentally let him being from another dimension slip because they think he has revealed more than he actually has?

Well, I don;t really understand that either. I think the logic behind coming to this dimension was flawed to begin with.

I cannot see any good coming from this. She will want to know the origin of his costume. What is he going to tell her?

All the more reason to tell her the truth now. She will return to calling him Clark.

I had almost forgotten it won't work. Clark knows that Superman is not the cause of the problem.

Hmm, on the other hand this might not be good. Lois might not help him out as much when he does not need the help. She might turn against Clark and Superman just to be spiteful.

I guess it is good that Trask produced the rest of the Kryptonite. Now all known despisits of it are held by the Kents, and not easily findable by Luthor's agents.

fooling those guillible city slickers. It is a good thing that Lois did not produce a description of Kryptonite, or did she?

Clark now has a back story that goes back 10 years.

Clark: This is an outrage. To even suggest my father had illegitimate children. This is totally outrageous.

I just hope Lois does not share what she "knows" with Luthor.

I am surprised Luthor's agents have not dug up rumors of the marriage of Lois and Jerome.

Lois is getting more inquisitive.

Lois is still on Superman's side.

Well, in some ways it is amazing he did not come up with this explanation in canon. Of couse having gone nearly a year as Superman full time in the other demension gives him experience to know the claim is ludicrous.

I think there is a mistake in this phrase.

Is this true? I thought he could turn these off.

Good point. Just standing there is not using any superpower. However Luthor might see it differently.

I like this response a lot better than in canon.

I always thought this whole response was just plain stupid. Superman saved lives and they arrest him. The people of Metropolis deserve Luthor, they facilitate his power by being so stupid.

In Clark's defense, he never told her the Italy story. He also does not know she overheard it.

Still, I have to agree his plan is flawed. I think he should have already told her.

Hey, in this demension they have cornered and hid all known quantities of Kryptonite. They also did not destroy it in a way that might infect the water supply.

I really do not see what Clark could do more than he has done. Kryptonite hurts, so I see no reason for him to test his endurance. He does not yet have a trusted professor-friend like Dr. Klein or Dr. Hamilton to work with on this issue.

I think even Dr. Lane is in hiding.

JOHN: Another 3 parter. You spoil me.

LOIS: YES! Do you want everyone at work to think we slept together?

Actually, I'm re-organizing my TOC. Since my story is much, *much* longer than I originally anticipated, I'm going to note on the TOC the beginning and ending of each story arc, thereby making it easier for someone to jump in and read a WC "Short" as it may. (Not too short as Technically, Part 62 - with "Hot in the City" begins the 7th story arc, whose name I'm not quite ready to announce. )

CLARK: I would like to thank Martha and Jonathan in believing in me, even when I didn't deserve it.

CLARK: I have a PLAN! <<ducking as one of UW stray tomatoes flies into this FDK>>

Win some, lose others.

Um, John, I think you forgot this:

Saying it now, would just look pathetic and needy and a last ditch effort for her not to dump his butt.

Um... No.

I don't know. I liked that one. It was totally NOT Lois, but it was sweet.

CLARK: I might be able to see through anything but lead, but my laser vision doesn't let me see into the future.

Good Point. Think Clark knows that?

Depends on how he says it and what kind of mood Lois is in, I suspect.

It would take one phonecall for Lois to learn Lana Jessup's maiden name, and after the way Clark looked at her in Smallville, and the fact that Lana isn't as common a name as "Jennifer" or "Beth", probably too coincidental for Lois's tastes.

As I said before, it's all in the way he mentions it.

Yes, but this Clark is a bit more paranoid, so he hasn't done much of it.

CLARK: What do you mean she DIDN'T notice? Geez! So much for Step 3.

So, he's professional. I'm assuming that the heat wave didn't begin the day of the Press Conference, so he's been dressing that way for days, if not weeks in that heat.

This Lois is a bit more atuned to leaps of logic than canon Lois.

Unless you give her amnesia.

Agree heartedly with canon Clark.

No point on planning on getting to Step 5, if he never makes it to Step 4.

-- Response to John's FDK -- Cont.


CLARK: You think I should have stayed in *my* dimension?

I had a discussion about this with my Betas. We think it has more to do with Judges not liking people (any people) flaunting their orders right after they made them. She doesn't want to appear as if she holds even Superman above the law.

All "known".

One of my pet peeves.

And look what those Kryptonite tests are doing to him in Mouse’s story “Madness”!

This will be brought up again soon, but when Tommy Garrision turned himself in hoping to get more Cyborg vitamins. (Before Smallville – Clark read an article in the paper about it.) Didn’t work. Tommy’s in jail with no cyborg juice. Dr. Lane came out of hiding. Although, I didn’t state the fact outright; it was more implied.

True, I mentioned it before, but I had forgotten in the intervening weeks.

So, not so long and not really funny, either. Except for the part where Lois

When Lex asks for a paternity test to confirm the little bun really is his and not Clark’s after the horrendous events of PML and what Lex did during the time?



/watches as Lois goes googly-eyed again/



Can they print that in the Smallville Post?

Well, he hasn’t yet attempted to actually steal a story. Or sleep with her, so…

And it had gone so well for Martha and Lois.



for The Rival





How about a fair booth with Lois and Clark, and the visitors can pay a dollar to see them kiss?

He really is good at this whole avoidance thing, isn’t he?

/waits for it to blow up in his face like that nuclear bomb form Super Mann/

LOIS: It’s Cat, isn’t it? No, wait, you’re way too chummy with her. And why are you so chummy with her anyway. So, it’s Linda, then? OMG, it *is* Linda!

/squints/

That’s just self-preservation.

Michael

Hi Virginia,

I don't have a lot of time, but I'm catching up with my reading (or trying to, at least!)

Just wanted to quote this line:

I love it!