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Sorry about cutting the beginning scene in two but I had to cut it somewhere.

Comments welcome as the episodes collide.

Love this!


For some reason, Linda King comes to mind but I don't that's it. You've got me curious.


Joan

Clark: Um... just how happy are you trying to keep Lex?

Lois is all over the place in this chapter. I like her reasoning about Clark's motivations. Some of what she's deduced is right, though for the wrong reasons. He did get a job at the Daily Planet to be close to her, after all.

I'm thinking that Lois was sub-consciously moaning quietly as she recalled her steamy dreams, and Clark couldn't handle hearing that.

I love these two sentences. This sums up Lois Lane from Action Comics #1 on. Superman is the most powerful man on the planet, but Lois can turn him to goo with just a seductive look.

My guess for who the "Anyone but her" is is Linda King. It's about that far into the story, right? And the paper is having circulation problems.

Well, that is the way Luthor gets away with things, no one investigating.

When Lois decides to try sneaking down to the bunker.

But that only applies if she ever hears the all clear.

Now he is thinking of of himself in the 3rd person. Hmm, he is also thinking of "clark Kent" as a mask.

If it was not for the super corny jokes I do not know if the intensity of this part would have been surviviable.

Clark:She is only my partner, we don't spend enough time together.

She's waiting for you in the supply closet you lunkhead.

I think that should be "Without a word", or "without saying a word". You need another word there.

Then why did he not follow up on it?

Can't Clark hear the other end of the line, so if it is his perspective shouldn't we hear both sides of the conversation.

Oh no, oh no, oh no, he is going to overreact.

Is she trying to make Clark feel horrible?

She should have been more upfront about this.

Clark:I don't have romantic dinner dates with my sources.

Clark:And what exactly do you do to keep Luthor happy?

Even though Clark has some level of split personallity, talking about himself in the third person, I think you meant "he could stop them".

At least she is smiling.

I don;t think she is that petty.

This is better than I would have expected things to go.



See, I knew being friends with Cat was a bad idea.

Lois:But Lex does not get any of this or this

although I think Clark still does have a point about having to be hidden is not the same.

I hope he is sufficiently reassured. On the other hand, she has not directly addressed the issue of meeting with Luthor with Clark before.

So sticking up for himself would equal pouting?

He does not trust her enough, really. Although Cat's poison does not help.

Clark:Were just friends to most people, Luthor is not someone you want as a friend.

Well, I guess this is true from a certain point of view, but I doubt Clark would agree "that's all" if he knew everything that Lois was plotting.

Hopefully she does.

Clark really should not know what that means, so Lois should protest, so Clark should start to wonder why she does not react with a "how do you know about that" here.

Clark:Well, you do seem to get into a lot of danger.

Clark:It sure looks like your dating Lex.

Hopefully Clark will actually hear her this time.

Awww.

What does she mean by this?

Wells and his unhelpful meedling. They would probably married by now if it was not for his talk of curses. This is pure torture of Clark.

I really hope I am right and Lois liedabout the night at the hospital. I do not expect Herb to tell Clark that he thinks his assesment is wrong. Of course maybe I have made Herb too much into a badguy. But he is responsible for torturing Clark.

Well, he is mostly half wrong. Lois knows enough about him that probably only the curse might change her views. And even if they did not consumate in the hospital I don't think she will accept the curse as real.

Wait, is the curse why Clark does not want to deal with magic?

Clark:Lois, you are the one who doesn;t want to be seen with me.

There is no lack of pretending in this story.

although if he thinks Lois could ever send him away he does not get it.

You know, this makes me realize that the makers of Lois and Clark were less sadistic than they could have been. They could have actually showed us Lois dieing in "Soul Mates" and then had Wells show up. Although I am not sure the show could have survived that outrage. Soul Mates was weird enough as it was. But with the death only being a line from a ewspaper we could basically laugh in the show.

I don;t think Clark will be OK again until Lois can convince him to stop fearing the curse.

So we are now two weeks past nightfall, to March 11, 1994?

Well, she is right it related to things that happened where Clark was before, she is just confused as to where he was before.

I am glad you added this in earlier. The lack of continuity between episodes is the biggest problem with Lois and Clark. Although it is not the only TV show to have this problem, and not the worst by TV standard either. I think the problem with Lois and Clark is that unlike say "I Love Lucy", the characters relationship develops in the show.

she sees that Luthor is a crook.

Where there is smoke there's a fire.

He really needs to tell her this whole thing from his view as soon as possible. I don't know she will quite agree with it. The only way she is going to understand him is if he tells her about the other dimension. Hmm, so does she think his parents real died, or does she think that story is a bunch of lies?

Lois:And if he had just said "Lois, I am Superman" everything would have been solved. But no, he had to keep his secret.

Wow, she is really down on marriage, although I guess with her parents as an example it is not too surprising.

So yes, she would consider marrying him.

But how did he hurt her to save his skin? It hurt him to break up with her too.

Clark:Hey, I got to kiss her, how can I complain?

Oh no, oh no, oh no.

For a moment I was afraid that Lois was planning to kiss Luthor.

He should suspect it, even if he has not yet.

Her knwoing but him not knowing she knows is turning out worse than I expected. You know, I don't think it would have been this bad in canon. There she knew that he had a backstory as CK.

Nah, he hates SM for deeper reasons.

Anymore ridiculous than a billonaire being a crime boss? Any more ridiculous than the arc?

because he did not have surveilance equitments and spies everywhere? Of course he could have Lois.

This is a real good question. I am not even sure Clark explaining the full truth will convince her.

Unless his true self is Clark, and he feels that at a very deep level. Although I am only partly convinced of this.

Yes, that's why he came.

You know Lois should wonder more about why he decided to steal the identitiy of a child who had been dead for over 20 years. Would it not have made more sense to take the identity of someone who died in a crash, or at sea, recently? On the other hand, since Clark Kent died so young, there was really no identitity to steal. Lois should maybe wonder more about that.

Now see what he should have done was made short appearences in strategic other locations first to build a portfolio.

Clark:But it was so easy to get a job in my dimension.

But if he had had a job she would have rejected him as an out-of-bounds co-worker.

Actually he had probably more experience than Lois. He really needs to tell her about the other dimension.

I am pretty sure this second guess is the right one.

Lois now knows this is almost certain to have been Luthor. She has enough to see Luthor is using her as a pawn, if she will just analize it.

At least she recognizes that this confused Clark, even if not seeing fully why.

Actually it was more he did not realize that SM would attract so much admiration from Lois.

Yes it was.

I guess she is no longer draeaming of her past lives.

So much for her staying mad at Clark.

That would have made the story a lot shorter.

If he could he would know she knew he was CK, so I think she should assume no.

No just her heart rate and expressions.

they did disprove the power of the curse. Hmm, OK, that it probably only one reading of that line.

But he tried to tell her, multiple times.

Wait, they have extremely high research turnover.

I had no clue who this might be until I read through the comments. I noticed someone mentioned Linda King, and I think it might be her.

Joan: Thank you for reading. I'm glad you're enjoying Lois's love to hate relationship with Ralph.

That's one vote for Linda.


mrsMxyzptlk: Thanks for the feedback.

EW: /wraps arms around computer screen/ I have no idea why you might think Clark might react like this at some point.

Until she knows otherwise, she needs to find meaning in the facts as she knows them.



LOIS: Well, it wasn't fair that he was the only one who had superpowers. I'll have to make do with mine.

Yes, there are circulation problems happening at the Planet. I figured it just appearing out of nowhere during the Rival made no sense, so despite Superman, the Planet has already been having financial troubles.

That's 2, two votes for Linda.

John: Thank you again for the long FDK.

Clark and Cat are.

LOIS: Personally, I think one trip down there was enough for me.

Clark shouldn't know how Superman feels about such things, so in some ways CK is a mask as much as SM is. He really isn't a whole person, except around those who know (and he knows) the truth.

Oh, was this part intense? I'm working to find the humor during these dark times. Be patient with me.

Actually, they haven't even been spending enough time together recently to be partners.



Oh, does it? Thanks. Fixed.

He was distracted by his conversation with Henderson.

Clark usually doesn't try to eavesdrop on all of Lois's conversations. You'll notice that by the middle of the conversation, he IS listening in.

LOIS: Well, slapping his face for letting me hang out in the supply closet for all that time, is out of the question. Anyway, there is no way for her to avoid Clark from overhearing. He should trust that I love him, and wouldn't cheat on him with Lex.

LOIS: You mean like he was upfront with me about his dual-personality?

LOIS: Trust me, I'd rather eat dinner with you. Dinner with Lex is two hours of trying not to hurl.

LOIS: What exactly are you implying, there, Kent?

Ooopps. Fixed.

LOIS: Okay, Chuck, that's the very last time I'll let you taking your knowledge of Cat and applying it to me. The VERY last time. I'll forgive you this time, but don't let it happen again. You don't want me to apply my knowledge of Claude and assume you'd do the same thing, now do you?

-- Continuation of Response to John's FDK --
LOIS: I shouldn't have to explain my actions. He needs to trust me more.

In this scenario, pretty much... since he *was* pouting.

LOIS: That's my story, and I'm sticking with it. If he knew "all", I would hope he'd understand how difficult this is for me.

He didn't SAY that Superman would rescue her, he thought it. All Lois is hearing (or would be hearing if she didn't know the truth) is that she shouldn't be afraid to tell Lex what she really thinks of him.

He hears it, but doesn't necessarily believe it.

That he should have come to the supply closet.

Actually, in S4's PvsLL, they do ask SM directly if he loves Lois, while on the stand no less, and he never answered the question.

LOIS: Hello! Not kissing Lex.

Often is children who have lived long enough to establish an identity but who have their identities stolen, so that the thief can make their past into anything they want and not worry about running into anyone else who might have known the victim beforehand.

Pretty much. Also, he wanted to get to the DP and Lois Lane and his new life as soon as possible.

LOIS: Details. Details.

I don't think I've ever seen a fic where the events surrounding the Prometheus remain the same, but Clark is able to save Lois without creating a hero in the process.

She's used to referring to this person as "someone" as opposed to Lex. When she gets proof (hard facts, people!) that Lex was behind it, her thoughts will change.

She's only just thinking about this from Clark's POV.

Not here, no. These trees are the ones when he took up to the mountain to tell her about the cameras and microphones in her apartment.

It's another one of his super powers. It's impossible for people to stay mad at him forever.

CLARK: <<shrugs adorably>>

Different, not necessarily shorter.



I would say so. It's a lot of grunt work, with little pay, and almost no recognition.

So, that's three votes for Linda.

LINDA: And Lois thinks SHE'S so popular. Ha!

Well, he answers by saying that Clakr loves Lois, which I guess is not an answer at all.

OK, maybe she did not plan her wardroabe with this meeting in mind.

Well, Wells thought they would be if he did not return sooner to intervene.

I am not sure I buy that story.

I guess that is at least an argument for Wells waiting until the wedding is a done deal to tell them. It still does not explain why he did not time it so he intercepted them as they reutrned to their apartment.

I think they cared a lot more about B-plot continuity.

So she does believe that it is true. That is good.

So anti-marriage she got engaged to Lex?

I either forgot that detail, or missed it.

Well, I am glad she is, even if she still does not understand why he did what he did.

Wait, I thought staying mad was Lois' power. Somewhere she said "you can fly, I can stay mad."

I think their relationship would be further along at this point in time. Although, it might have taken just as much writting to get their, so we might actually not have a shorter story length wise, just cover less time.

I think Linda is misinterpreting our votes.

Like Jimmy Hoffa…

I’m sure she’s getting out of there once she’s no longer viable as a consort and her mind goes from the pills and alcohol.

He spent too much time with Lois.

Cesspit, where he dumps people like Ralph when they misquote him?

/smells rat/

Oh?

Wait, he really did orchestrate the nookie?

They have a word for that.
LINDA: Professional journalism.

Well, he *could* put Lex into low Earth orbit. Okay, it would be more than half-a-mile away from Lois, but I’m sure Clark wouldn’t mind that all too much.

Lois’s head would pop off like a Mr.Bubblehead?

LOIS: Thanks, but I don’t like ‘em used.

LEX: Well, I have four limbs, plus my bed as a chain affixed to each post, so that means I have eight options with which to fixate her. Just like an octopus.

What if he puts a hand inside her mouth?

MLT once explained extensively why that won’t help if you eat dinner first. Or have a drink with your host.





Oooooh! Her ex from college is in town :p Come to think of it, Lois does have a track record of being ‘friendly’ with people she works with and then getting her story stolen by them.

Michael

Clark:Why do people keep making references to President Presley's Secretary of Labor?

Well, not if you don't know CK=SM, it's not an answer. (Wow, was that a triple negative? Touche! She's still mad.

At its heart this is a time-travel story. Time is very important, more important than the number of pages I can whittle it down to.

Darth Michael: Sorry about the lack of responding. I went camping this weekend and then returned home to no pages written for my new part and a dead router. And you say this like it's a bad thing.
CLARK: <<nods quickly>>

Exactly!

CLARK: Well, at least she wasn't mad.

ZARA: Can you not see why I wanted to remain single?
CHING:

Possibly.

PAUL BENDER: I never stole her story!

Michael

Currently, caught up. Only had to postpone last Tuesday's posting. Oh, wait, I posted a new part last night. Now I have to write another part before Tuesaday. We're good. I'm already 4 pages done.
Yep, they were easy enough instructions that my hubby, who couldn't program a VCR (back when we programmed one), could have done it... not that I let him, mind you. I bought it and set it up before he came home. Kind of like daylight savings. I'm in charge of changing the clocks... or, well, he'd late for work.

CLARK: I am more than willing to let Luthor do it all by himself. I'd much rather do it with you.
LOIS: Awwww. Isn't he romantic?
CLARK:
LOIS: Okay, here are the instructions for my new coffee table. I'm going to make coffee, you know, to put on top.
CLARK:
CLARK: That's quite a shocker!

You did realize that this was a Gfic, right?

They call that denial, don’t they?

Michael

Maybe, but I was more debating whether we would still be in the process of the story getting done, and I figured that the answer was yes. Moving the time line around does not shorten the amount of material.