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Mad Dog on the loose.

Comments appreciated.

we moved back to Lois and Clark parts.

I guess it was good I did not have that high hopes for a trip to Kansas.

She's being punished for taking the law into her won hands and assuming she knows better than it.

I can see why she is mad about it.

Well that might still happen. In fact, maybe she should play up the angle of prosecution for seeking the truth to the committee.

It sounded like she had agreed, so I doubted it.

That sounds like more than it is worth. Plus, it would not solve her limited travel issues very quickly if they went to trial.

That would make it hard to win.

Generally they do not take paid work as such.

I doubt anyone could get their main job counted as community service.

This seems an odd way to phrase the question.

Maybe both of those at once.

Is this so Clark can't insist she stops talking to Luthor?

That was not the first issue I saw, but it is a good point.

That was the angle I figured from the beginning.

Hopefully she did not mention the last part in the negotiations.

I guess Perry figures she did mention the crooked D.A.s in her harangue.

I am surprised she went on that line of attack.

Would people be that spiteful? Actually, I can see Mayson Drake being that spiteful.

Actually if she had not complained and gotten the 50 hours, she could have done it all with one week of vacation.

Hopefully Lois will be glad to see that Clark still recognizes her fire.

I guess not.

Is she trying to outrage Clark?

Maybe it is Schwartz and not Drake who is lying.

Well, hopefully Clark will be glad that she wants to spend time away with him. Although it is unclear whether this is because it keeps her from Kansas or London that it bothers her more.

he thinks it is a wonderful idea.

that Clark has given up hope. Although I have to admit I had very low hopes for them actually making it to Kansas, although I did not expect Mayson et al to be the reason they did not go.

I was going to say they should appeal for a special exception, and go by normal air. However I guess Lois really does not want to tell more people about her and Clark than absolutely necessary.

Sort of like in canon?

at Lois for even mentioning the Majic of the Night Ball to Luthor. What Lois really needs is a disguise so she can go places with Clark without anyone recognizing her and stealing her from him.

for Clark.

If Lois keeps brushing him off for Luthor, I will not be surprised if he gives up and uses his powers to get rich.

Maybe he should have created somewhere on his suit to carry it. Hmm, that brings up issues like, what happens to his wallet while he is Superman?

I am surprised that never drove him to using his power for money. Although, if he had, would Lana still have accepted the gifts? Would that have made Lana ok with him having powers, if he had used them to make more to get her stuff?

Sometimes I do not understand why he did not break up with Lana sooner.

Considering Lana's aversion to flying by Clark, I can see the reasoning behind this. Why he was willing to marry someone who disliked his true self, not so much.

That would require her to want to be anykind of Mom at all.

at all the talk of Lana.

He should have countered sued for emotional abuse considering how much she demeaned who he truly was. If the world was just they would see her as a major emotional abuser and punish her for it.

Lois:Like there is a difference.

Clark:What?

Lois:As I said before, you both act remarkably the same. I wonder why that is.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Although I doubt she would go along.

I think Clark needs to learn more about reading Lois if he thinks that.

Clark:Or is it you janst can't bare the idea of missing you weekly meetings with Luthor.

It's not like it should matter, since he does not get sick.

I hope they team up on exposing Carpenter.

But she really can't make much progress on it until she can travel, so maybe she should expedite her community service instead of dragging it out.

How could he have even more a moment forgot that?

He should propose this name to Lois, at least it would lighten the mood.

Now that is really an unfair comment on Lois' part.

Why did he do something so unwise as smile. He really should have shared the potential name aloud.

Why did he still going dancing with Linda after Lois said she didn't want him to? He could have pleaded not wanting to disrupt her relationship with Carpenter.

Clark:Why do I consider Jimmy a friend, again?

Clark, stop being such a lunkhead. You can do nothing but loose sticking up for Linda.

I could certainly see Lois classifying going to a meeting as her bosses date as Linda meriting the title.

So much for mad Lois accidently revealing she knows The Secret.

Clark:I have absolutely no idea about that detail. Now, if you did that Lois, I would know immediately, although you would not have any need to do that.

Lois:So you turned down dinner with me, when you were supposed to be bringing me.

Lois:See, I told you she was a slut. She uses her body to get money.

Clark:Maybe she has bugs in the supply closet.

Lex Luthor is convinced there is no belonging there.

I thought this was about others realizing it, not him.

These understand it well.

Cat Grant, but she does seem to fight it as much as she can.

This sounds like a very bad plan.

They are coming close to fooling themselves.

I guess that is a way to explain away some of Lois and Clark's pre-first date date-like activities.

This is a new development. In canon Clark had to speak up to avoid Lois getting written off as just his plus one.

Lois:Clark, next time understand the event before hand, so you can bring me along.

Clark:But I thought we were pretending not to be dating.

Lois:I still like being with you.

Lois:Why would I want to meet a man who has his journalists use such simplistic language.

he is already bailing on the planet. This is going to go awful.

He should take Lois to the supply room and explain what is going on.

So he should discuss this with Lois.

With Lois as the planet, Perry should not worry about that at all.

I think he is underestimating Lois' ability to

Hopefully she hears the underlying message.

See, I said he had underestimated her ability to do that.

Clark:Luthor does it all the time, and you never get mad at him.

Reader:So much for Lois's claims that she treats Luthor like she treats her co-workers.

I am mainly not understanding why Lois is exploding. I wish it was part of an elaborate cover plan to his defection, but I don't think that is it.

Well, this will make his defection fully believable, I just hope he can find a way to get her to forgive him.

Still, The anger is probably more that he is leaving. I wonder if she has any memories from the time before of this incident.

Not when it is accompanied by Lois going ballistic about it. Anyway, liking Lois as a person does not mean he still has loyalty to the failed newspaper she works for.

This seems like a needlessly risky plan.

The one hope is that he called her Minha. That name should be a clue that he still loves her, completely.

Lois, are you trying to expose his secret?

Clark:I guess you can be bought Lois, since the guy who gave you a watch can kiss your cheek whenever he choses.

Hmm, I wonder if Lois is wearing the watch at at this point.

Lois:You want a convincing seen to show you have left us for the Star, I gave you it.

Lois:Whatever, that coffee must have been weak, you don't have any burns.

Lois:Well, Linda won't doubt you want to go to her now.

I am glad to see he did not deliberately plan that level of insult.

Lois:You are not the only one with an eidetic memory. OK, maybe you are, but I still remember what the love of my life wore on our first date, even if he doesn't.

Clark:At least for the date with you, I bought a new suit. For the one with Linda, I used one from last year.

Lois:Not helping Clark, not helping at all.

Lois:If I tossed my mug, your secret would be out buddy.

Clark:What secret?

Lois:That you are Superman?

Clark:How would the mug prove that is the hot coffee didn't.

Lois:I don't know, but I just wanted to shout that to expose your secret anyway.

This is just over the top enough, that Lois might be able to claim it was all a ruse.

Why is he bringing that up now. Better to leave an option than kill all hope.

Although, she did say "Chuck", so maybe there is hope.

Well, considering her being ballistic about him kissing her cheek does not square with the reality of them making out in the supply closet, Clark probably has some grounds for hope. Although the fact that his defection is a cover also gives some hope. Still, I think he should have told her what he planned. He could have written her a note or something.

Of course she has, this is Lois Lane, Kerth winner he is dealing with,she figures out everything.

Clark:Than why does she not recognize me without my glasses.

Reader:Maybe she does Clark, maybe she does.

But she also told him she really didn't want him to do it.

Clark, stop counting on Perry to do the communicating with your partner that you should be doing.

I was so hoping he would figure out a way not to defect, or at least tell Lois first.

Well, if Perry did tell her Clark was secretly defecting, she is doing an awfully good job of faking her anger.

Perry:What makes you think that Clark is going undercover? How do you know I have any part in this plan?

Well her anger did make it so Carpenter was not likely to suspect a double-cross. Although, Carpenter gave me the impression of being too sure of himself to doubt that everyone would flock to his banner.

This has not prevented Perry from having Clark not tell Lois about investigations in the past. Although I guess she does not know about it.

On the first reading I somehow thought that Perry had expected Clark to tell Lois what they were up to. However, it seems that he did not plan such. Although they should have been more clear about whether to tell Lois or not, since Clark thinking Perry might have told her means they had not made a firm decision on telling Lois.

I wonder if her memories of past lives help. Still, knowing that a-Clark loves her, makes it unlikely to expect him to really leave. Knowing he is Superman might sway her to suspect he won't leave, but only if you assume Carpenter is a crook. That assumption I think is partly fueled by Lois' memory.

See, I don't buy that Superman is the deciding factor. He still has to live somewhere. On the other hand, even without the Superman factor leaving does not make sense after what happened in the honeymoon suite.

she still does not know which is the true identity. that not cheating on her came first.

This is true. I still have to wonder if she isn't partly willing to trust him because she is doing undercover work with Luthor.

This is the part where I did get the impression that Perry thinks Clark told her. They should have discussed the particulars before hand, although I do have to suspect it would have lacked the feel of reality if they did. Even if Lois could have given it her fully furry, Clark would have been hard pressed to react with genuine surprise.

Perry:I figured you could only have played into Clark's plan so perfectly by planning it.

To be fair, it was more of a non-date. And he only agreed to it because Lois insisted on it, well, OK, maybe Lois going with Lex helped bring it about to.

This is speeding up the time table, but I guess the elevator incident happened weeks ago.

Perry:Lois, You seem to learn lots of things from kissing. Superman's identity, Clark's plans. Maybe if you and Clark kissed more often, you would have a Pulitzer.

The kiss called up memories of a past life what is with all the wrong people touching in this part.

he is still sticking up for Lois.

Carpenter:So they have a more intimate relationship than I thought, if Clark knows about her performance.

Well, it will be now that he told it.

No wonder Lois hates Linda. Her choice of adjectives is horrible. This is not modesty, it is respect for others by not needlessly maligning them. Modesty is speaking less of your good qualities.

I guess it might relate to modesty if it is spun as desperate actions to keep the one good employee. But that would be a hard way to spin it, considering Clark had nothing to do with the scooping of Linda the day before.

I like the injections about his intentions. In canon they tried to leave it open that Clark really was defecting until Lois invaded his apartment. I really hope we do see that scene. OK, more like I would love having that scene, but doubt it will come up.

I know this is canon, but it always seemed that Carpenter was too open about his methods considering how illegal they were.

More literal than any wise boss would be.

Hmm, well, I see we only have one more part left in this section. I guess it has been Ok, but there has been too little Lois and Clark interacting. I guess we had some this part, but not the type we really want.

that they aren't going to go to Kansas anytime soon.

John: I'll try to squeeze in some FDK response while I'm waiting for my kids to get ready to run errands. Thank you for reading and commenting.


She *did* break the law and get caught.

I didn't know if I was being clear or subtle, so I decided to have Jimmy ask the question, so no assumptions are made.

I gave Lois a VERY good plea deal, not that she sees it that way. I could have given her 500 hours of community service.

Which is why she decided to take the deal. Path of least resistance. Of course, she doesn't *have* to be happy about it.

Okay, now she's on a babbling vent fest and nit-picking everything (in case you hadn't noticed).

I changed he question to "how many hours did you get?" Thanks.



Lana was all that Clark knew and all that he had, and he thought she loved him.

Because until canon Lois came along, he didn't like his true self much either. Being different hadn't been able to save the good people in his life, and made other people not like him, and the burden of his secret rested squarely on his shoulders.

True.

Well, being with Lana was a big ol' influential chunk of his life.

He just wanted Lana and the incident to go away quickly and quietly as possible.

CLARK: I'm a great guy?
LOIS: No, that can't be it. Must be something else.
CLARK:

Luckily, Clark's thoughts didn't go there.

CLARK: That's the rumor.

She's still hoping that SM will change his mind.

-- Continuation of Response to John's FDK -- CLARK: Not forgot, forgot. I just didn't have it at the forefront of my mind.

I doubt she'd have seen the humor of it.

He danced with her in canon without upsetting Carpenter. Perhaps Carpenter was using Linda as a lure to entice away good reporters from other papers.

LOIS:


LOIS:

LOIS: I didn't say I wasn't angry.

Yes, but it's always good idea to have a back-up plan.

I'm sure that little tid-bit won't anger her in the least, since she's doing the same, right?

Clark discussed it with Perry that morning while Lois was out at her meeting with the ADA and her lawyer. Perry knows that Lois and Clark haven't had any private time to discuss it.

Partly.

She's trusting Clark not to cheat because she's not cheating?

Linda has been around for most of the month of March and we're nearing the end of March.

LOIS: He had me institutionalized for hearing voices. What do you think?

LOIS: Ewww. I don't *let* Lex kiss me. He does it without my permission every time.

LOIS: I was mad?

Oh, you haven't heard of Lois Lane's Standards of Double Standards then?

This is essentially the same conversation she has with Perry during the finding out that Clark had the globe event in Foundling.

LOIS: What does Kansas have to do with Clark Kent?
CLARK:

Oh, sorry, was Lois supposed to be a Vulcan in this story? Logic and anger usually don't ever go hand-in-hand.

But only to those of us privy to Clark's thoughts.

CLARK: That was always a given.

Well, first, they would have to have a moment of privacy to talk...

That's the official story, and by saying that Clark's gone, he's saying that the conversation is over.

Perry's not stupid. He knows something's going on.

LOIS: *I'm* not cheating!

LOIS: I owe that tramp nothing!

Carpenter's still hopeful. It *is* the Met Star, after all, who wouldn't want to work for it?

It wasn't a negative view of her journalistic abilities, it was surprise anyone would want to hire someone caught breaking the law to get a story.

He's not attacking Lois, actually, he's not saying more than he did in canon.

See, I told you he isn't without hope.

It wasn't that he was undervaluing Lois's words, more that he didn't want to think about Linda and Carpenter being intimate, especially while in the room with them during a job interview.

Scooped the Met Star on gossip about Lex's girlfriend.

CAT: She walked into that mess. If she's going to go out in public with Lex, then it's my job to report it.

CLARK: A head's up from Cat would have been nice too.

Would she?

Right and nobody else from the DP will have mentioned it?

It could be construed as modesty, if Clark doesn't want it spread around that someone threw coffee in his face.

I think in canon it was more for the shock value for the audience. He did give that huge grin after Lois threw him out of her apartment.

I'm sure his words sound innocent enough if one doesn't know he's actually making thing happen.

that is just so what Lana would say.

Lois:I still wish he would forget her, so we can move our relationship forward.

Good point. Although I was more thinking the world is unjust, and a Superman would never win an abuse suit of any kind.

Lois:I can be very persuasive.

Well, we essentially got two Lois and Clark dates in "The Rival", and now we have none. Plus the Lois and Clark date in "Illusions of Grandeur" was cut short, and the other one vanished. Hmm, we have come up with almost as many Season 1 Lois and Clark dates as Season 2.

Lois:But I am so much more fun, Clarkie.

Clark:

Her claim about her relationship with Lex, her reaction to Clark kissing her, or both?

Clark:I wish she would explain it to me.

Lois:Maybe if you start explaining your plans to me before doing them, I will reciprocate, eventually.

Jimmy:Then why did I get burned by some of the splash?

Oh, interesting.

Canon Lois got away with less time of Linda too. How does she get all the lucky breaks?

Perry:If you really objected to it, you would stop chumming around with him. You defenetely do not throw coffee on him like you did to Clark.

I hadn't thought of that. It seems worse here, because she is actually doing those things, instead of just in theory probably doing them.

Which at the rate we are going will never happen.

Perry:I know what you two do in the supply closet, and having dinner with Luthor does not seem faithful to that.

Lois "loyal" Lane.

But he thinks Carpenter is going around doing exactly that. While on the other hand, it is not really clear that is what Lois was doing at all.

I didn't like the way he jumped ship in canon either.

Lois:He should just be glad Carpernter is unlikely to make the same pre-highering demands of him he made of Linda.

Lois:I am not Lex's girlfriend.

This is what leads to me considering him over confident.

Or a Hershey Bar taped to a long stick?

Mayson offered Lois a deal: Clark or prison. Lois chose prison. Mayson figures she can now make a move on Clark while Lois rots in prison.

Taking care of aging billionaires by giving them sponge baths?
LEX: /pulls out birth certificate that looks like it’s from the last centure/

/waves good bye to Perry/

She is punished for breaking the law and making a fool out of government officials.
LOIS: They made fools out of themselves.

Lois doesn’t seem to think so.

Maybe that will teach her to keep to television and only show her cute bum on prime time TV while reporting on the mayor’s parade and Lex’s latest charitable function.
LEX: One can only hope. Crawling through the mud of society is not becoming for the next Mrs. Luthor.

Yes. Had she allowed due process to reign, he’d have been in front of a judge much sooner, there he could have told them that he’s innocent, and then be aquitted.

STANNIS: I like this ADA. She is hard and fair. Just my kind of gal.
STANNIS’s Nigel: Yes. My liege cut off some of my fingers for the smuggling and made me a lord for the saving. He is a very just man.

They hand those out for outstanding journalism, not for moonlighting as a P.I.

I don’t think she did. But maybe helping out in an old-folks home will teach her humility.

What Lex hears: She is willing to do disgusting things if it keeps her out of the country club.



One of Lex’s charities.

Would it be considered charitable work if she volunteered as a concubine for the Lord Kal El?
Horde of Barely-Legal Highschool Girls: We’d do that community service to get some college acceptance credit!

LEX: Because it’s fun?

500?

I’d go with #2.

He does remember that he’s kind of immune to bodily harm as long as he stays away from Henderson’s office, doesn’t he?

and Does that mean she’s not allowed to interview her fellow miscreant- erm community servants?

I think she got the extra 100 hours for the crooked D.A. remark.

See?

Actually, until she’s done serving her time, it would be very bad to put a convicted felon in charge of the front page. Maybe dog shows, obituaries, and doing the editing for Ralph’s work on the classified section would be best.

Oh, that stipulation was meant for the time until she had worked off her community service. Now I get it. How about she took a week vacation and worked off the original 50 hours in one fell swoop? But nooo… Besides, in the olden days, they had women volunteering at the temples to take care of the bodily needs of those who couldn’t afford prostitutes or wives. I’m quite sure that qualified as community service back then.

See?

And a solicitation charge added, thanks to an inside tip by one Charles King.

She’s not a fan of Superman.

Was Schwartz ralphing Lois? Or was Lex figuring that Clemmons would overrule his ADA when push came to shove.

She’s guilty. And those solicitation charges would have made her eligible for an appearance in Cat’s Corner.

LEX: I just have to pay the mayor so he orders Lois into my bed? Nigel! Asabi! Bring me my Nigel!

Couldn’t Superman use a flat piece of Nightfall to scoop up the entire Kent Farm and fly it to New Troy? Or what if Superman married Lois. Him being a foreign dignitary and all would mean they both have diplomatic immunity and Lois could flip off that ADA bitch and her notion of justice.

As seen with Nightfall. And he did dash against *that* rock pretty darn hard after flying so high.

The blonde skank currently nesting in his apartment?

She’s not even hiding her twotiming anymore?

JIMMY: You’ve been friend-zoned. And with the state of prenups in this country, it doesn’t look like friends-with-benefits-zoned, either.

Yes, but considering the gold digger sitting one desk over, that would give him an edge over her current sugar daddy.

She sounds expensive. Let’s hope she was worth the money he spent.

What if Lois left New Troy on her own accord? Wouldn’t it then be okay to move her to some place of his choosing?
LEX: And hold her there as his sex slave. Yes. That’s a mighty fine idea.



And using Clark as a fake date so she could exchange sexual favors for career advancement doesn’t count?

No, she didn’t. She thinks he’s too minor to register in her usefulness scale.

/whispers ‘at’ instead of ‘as’/

Oh boy.

Yes, but that’s not it. He just told her ‘ta-da, I’ll head to the Star’ and kissed her on the cheek and called her ‘minha’ to emphasize that she’s just a woman and he’s a man on the way up who won’t be held back by his main squeeze.

He’s going to go for the nuclear option. Oh boy. And Lois is going to remove his interesting parts for this. Given how he’s unwilling to use them, anyway.

Sounds like she’s primed to jump into Lex’s bed.

Michael

Edit:

It's funny how many parallels there where in the FDKs (did FDK-while-reading, so it's all original thoughts)

Actually, Carpenter doesn’t hire people who had been *caught* doing illegal things.
LINDA: umm…
LOIS: He doesn’t know about your solicitation charge from when you were 17. That’s in a sealed juvie record.

but I would have lowered her asking price to $50.

In some universes, he does.

Right. LANA is the reason they aren't moving forward with their relationship.
CLARK: Who's this Lana person?

Which is why he settled out of court.

Picky. Picky. They've kissed more than in S1.

Mainly, it's the discovery that he's going undercover and he didn't tell her about it beforehand. She thought he wouldn't keep secrets like that from her, and then he went and proved her wrong, which just makes her mad.

CLARK: She really shouldn't make assumptions about me.



Linda worked at the Met Star the same amount of time. Only in this story, Lois discovered her earlier.

LOIS:
The Next Time she sees Lex:
LOIS: /throws hot coffee in his face / You're right. That does feel good.

LOIS: I'm being perfectly faithful. I'm not doing what I do with Clark in the Supply Closet with any other man, and I'm not eating dinner with Clark. See! Faithful.

LOIS: Hee-hee. I'm keeping Clark on his toes. That's what I'm doing.

CLARK: Some of us draw that line in the sand and refuse to cross it.
LOIS: What do you mean 'some of us'? Do you think.... That I would....

CAT: A picture is an easier sell than 1000 words.
CARPENDER: We should hire that woman at the Met Star! She understands that words and facts get in the way of a good story.

Darth Michael: Cheers!
Yes, that would have worked better.
LOIS: I've almost got it... I've almost got it...

LOIS:

LOIS: No, sorry, Lex. That's what Julio got. Ooooh. Julio!
JULIO:
LOIS: Have fun, Lex!


LOIS: Clearly, Michael, you missed the silent "just" in my sentence.

It happens. Rarely, but it does.

Does that mean she can be patient number one for the Luthor House for the Mentally Unbalanced?

Fixed. Thanks.

He is.

And moved.

For killing Clark?

Great Readers think alike?

CARPENDER: I don't care if my reporter gets arrested; they're a dime a dozen. All I care is that in doing so they give me a week's worth of sold out newspapers and front page stories.

Michael

Do you really want to anger a Mad Dog behind bars?

Ah, Metropolis justice hard a work.

LOIS:

SUPERMAN: Yes, I do get that kind of letter. I send them a list of reputable therapists instead.

LOIS: What is he referring to?
EW: No idea.

That's why it didn't happen in this fic.
CLARK: That was wink, wasn't it? Why was she winking?

Perhaps he thought she should just love him for himself?
LANA: Sounds like a regular job to me.

What’s she supposed to do? Make like a monkey?



No fun.



Michael