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Sorry about my Bruce Wayne digression. I know I promised no appearance of the Caped Crusader in this epic... er... soap opera, but I wrote this part after re-reading '[K]Nightfall' and had Bruce on my mind.

Comments always appreciated.

Darn it, I was going to bed! And then I saw

and I knew I had to stay up and read it...

That's what she meant by "Stop It!" ? Gah! She's so dense! How is he supposed to know that's what she means? I realize that she's trying to leave a note that won't convey anything to a third party if it's intercepted, but not conveying anything to the second party does her no good in the first place. I'm thoroughly frustrated with Lois and have been for a while. I'm really not sure what Clark sees in her at this point.

She could have said, "Stop Moping," or something to that effect without giving anything away.

I'm wondering whether Rat is opening the messages or it's someone else. I hope it's just Rat, but I expect that we won't find out for some time, if ever.

What's she really expecting out of their relationship, anyway? There's a big difference between "I don't want to get married yet" and "I don't want to say yes because I hate the way you asked me" and "I never want to get married". She needs to convey which it is to Clark. (Of course, this would require actual communication...)

Once again, words don't mean much if your actions don't back them up.

Might help.

I like how Lois convinced her tail not to try to tail her the entire time she was out. I wonder what Lex will think of her giving her tail her itinerary.

Lois is doing what she does best, moving things forward.

The antithesis of her current boyfriend.

He probably has not spoken to a woman as beautiful as Lois before.

Clark:Obviously, he has never spoken to Lois before, and no one else on earth is as beautiful as her.

No but evidently he does hire idiots if the guy falls for that trap.

From where Clark got her birthday present.

She has a month-and-a-half to conclude the investigation. I hope she does it faster, but I have doubts.

The real smart would also realize she is calling Luthor both because Ladderman wasn't.

And now he has fully admitted who he works for without Lois having actually named anyone.

There is a reason why Phil gets described as awkward. His questions come off wrong.

that he uses the past tense with Lois.

Clark has a really good point.

On reading this again I realized that Cat did not say or even imply there was not really a breakup.

this is the worst thing Cat could have possibly said.

Cat could not possibly be making things worse.

She didn't say never, just not today.

But saving Clark is Lois's main goal. Without the Kryptonite issue, she might well have given up. More clearly without the Kryptonite issues she would have brought Clark in much sooner.

Now the trick is getting Clark to really believe this.

So why was Cat engaged before?

There is so little he knows about her. Of course it might be because he still assumes this is the same Lois as he met from canon dimension, except when forced to think otherwise, and he knows she does not fear marriage. Interestingly enough he is wrong in that view.

After having read this I noticed this is 1 counsin, 2 weddings.

He is not paying close enough attention, although I guess he can't really hear the difference between 2 of her cousin's weddings, and 2 of her cousins' weddings. Although if Cat meant the other she would probably have said weddings of two of her counsins. So maybe Cat is making undue assumptions. Maybe it is just this cousin and not weddings in general that Lois avoids.

He underestimates how much Lois's mother is good at hounding and how good Cat is at hearing one side of a conversation and knowing what is happening.

Well, now I will accept Cat does have a point.

I thought it was because he has great muscles and is really fast.

Lois:I was in love with Clark before I knew how fast he is.

I knew Cat could not keep up the only claim.

Clark:That was because I was her boyfriend.

Clark:Lois is the most beautiful woman there is.

Clark:Because she figured out that Cat knew before she did. No wonder Lois is so mad.

Things are bad, very bad.

She only sort of lied. It is true that Lois hates marriage.

I wish he would believe this.

At least he is now being forced to think outside the box, but it is taking so long.

There they go again, talking around each other.

Well, Lois wins the award for minimalism.

Unless Lois sent the note.

But she isn't blind.

he still has hope.



Stop hiding from her of course. Stop not being seen by her.

that he missed her.

She knows what is up.

she prefers Clark.

Oh the irony.

Like Luthor and his 3 unacknowledged love children?

I'm surprised she doesn't just have the DP delivered, that would be cheaper.

Not in a way that he understood.

Yes.

I think that should be "in trouble with Lex".

He feels responsible for letting his Lois die.

One Lois dying on his watch was one too many. Although his going out of town at this point shows a trust in Lois not dying.

Little things can kill her. Like bullets. And poison.

More jealousy of the jaguar, fearing her soul mate lived in this world.

Wouldn't that work better getting inside some other part of his body. she knows Clark will be ok.

In this case he was not being a clueless lunkhead, he was deliberately sabotaging his relationship.

Being too good hearted to seek what he really wants.

Nope, he would not learn of the curse for another month and a half.

See, I said Lois's pregnancy test came back positive.

It worked, she got a kiss from the guy she wanted a kiss from.

Not when she realized that he had been shot by Trask?

Just one Clark not running fast was all she needed.

She would have a shiny ring on her finger by now. Maybe not two bands, but a shiny ring for sure.

Why do I think she would have protested if he started to fly at that point, even if it was to Tahiti.

She really will get to go to Tahiti.

Kismatt: Thanks for tuning in for the midnight showing.
Sometimes, I wonder if I'm being too subtle with it.


mrsMxyzptlk: Thank you for reading despite the frustration my characters bring.
Perhaps she had explained herself more fully with that note she had left him when he was in Brazil. You know, that note tucked inside the newspapers that Jimmy took with him, so people wouldn't know that Clark wasn't home.

Clark still remembers the good times. Her current behavior is confounding him. Plus, he's a glutton for punishment.

Yes, she could have, but where's the fun in actually having them communicate?

Being that Lois hands the notes unopened to Rat to deliver and Rat slides them under Clark's door, it would have to be a very sneaking person to open the door just to read a note, and then leave again, leaving the note, wouldn't it?

She didn't say 'she *never* wanted to get married'. There was a time in my life when I thought I'd never get married because of how my mother taught me to view marriage, and then I met and fell in love with my husband of 18 years and that all changed. Clark has made her loosen her previous career-orientated life plan (made firm after Claude used her), but it's hard for her to give up those beliefs so quickly.

This is why Ellen's character always confused me. Half the time she's a man-bashing, marriage-bashing, 'stand on your own two feet without a man' woman (I recognized very well in the mother that raised me), and the other half of the time she's planning this huge wedding for Lois and Clark. It was as if she had split personalities.

Yes, but that's part of the undercover package. Acting one way, while actually meaning another.

CLARK:

Hmmmm. Is the private eye all that forthcoming to his employer?

Thanks for your thoughts. I promise that your concerns will be addressed in the future.

John: You spoil me. Thanks for stopping by and FDKing.
She's doing her best.

Lex?

Poor Mitch. What a sheltered life he's led.

/cough/ Biased /cough/

LEX: Did he fall? No! See, I don't always hire idiots. /holds up pistol and fires at current line of cheap thugs/ Try to save a dime, here and there.

That's the one!

Nope, she has roughly 6 weeks before all her freedom is taken away from her and her already limited communication disappears completely.
LOIS: I hope this investigation is tied up before then!

She means that within her career she's met up with unsavory types, she wasn't referring to any one person.
LOIS: Or two, if you include Nigel St. John.

LOIS: I *do* know how to make sources talk. They don't give out Kerth awards to just anyone, you know.

He's just trying to figure out how close of a relationship Cat and Clark had.

He doesn't know any better.

Specifically, no.

CAT: What? You want me to lie?

CAT: I'm doing my best.

CLARK: So, today?
LOIS: No.
CLARK: How about now?
LOIS: :rolleyes: He'll never learn, will he? It's not about the question, it's about the attitude surrounding the question, and the timing of the question.

In some ways, yes. But Cat knows Lois sees Lex as a huge story which once she got her teeth into she won't let go of until she's done.

CAT: Look into my eyes, deep into my eyes. /dangles a locket on a string between them/ You're getting sleepy very sleepy...
CLARK:
CAT: Ooops. Too sleepy.

Because she was young and naive. She didn't marry him, did she?

-- Continuation of Response to John's FDK --
Clark thinks Lois doesn't fear marriage otherwise why would she get engaged to Lex.

Yes, they are still getting to know each other. There is a lot both of them still don't know about one another. For some couples (Phil and Cat, for example) that might not be a big issue... but Lois and Clark, it's a stumbling block.

Yes, that would be her cousin Cindy (from ARGH wedding arc) who has been married multiple times.

It is possible, it's just Cindy Lois dislikes.

Even canon Clark doesn't meet Ellen until S3, isn't it?

Or perhaps it's just weddings for others when she herself felt she would never find a man worthy of loving. Weddings can be depressing for some people.

CLARK: Hey, guys, I really don't move that fast.
JIMMY: Didn't you ask her out on the first day you met?
CLARK: Well, okay, but she turned me down.
LOIS: Didn't you kiss me when we became permanent partners?
PERRY: Say, what?
CLARK: Really, Chief, she's making it sound much worse than it was.
CAT: Didn't you tell me that you and Lois made out in a supply closet at the Metro Club...?
LOIS: He said *what*?
CLARK: Okay, it's proven fact. I move fast. I met Lois in May, and made out with her in October and started dating her in February. That's lightning fast. /sarcastically/ How can the Flash even keep up with me?

CAT: Come on, you don't think how Clark looks naked didn't factor in at all? Please! Lois may deny it, but she's only human.
PHIL: You've seen Clark naked?
CAT: I didn't say that, but technically 'yes', but he was moving too fast for me to see anything.
PHIL: I win! I win! I win!

Clark doesn't know that Lois isn't blind to Lex. Maybe Bruce, but not Lex.

Stop Lex. Stop the wedding. Stop the engagement. Stop Lex taking over the DP. Stop being a total lunkhead.
LOIS: Those all work for me.

What can I say? I'm a Tempus fan.

Three? Jaxon... Lex Jr... Who's number 3?
LEX:
JACK: Please, not me!

Sometimes Lois's building is locked from the outside (Lord of the Flys), sometimes it's not (all those unannounced visitors, such as Dan, Det. Reed, etc.)

Ooops. Fixed.

That would be the one... and his folks.

He does have a tendency to fly from pain in his heart. Also, alt-Lois didn't die on his watch. She died before he would've met her.

CLARK: Cars. Lex Luthor. Falling down stairs. Slipping in the bathtub.
LOIS: Think about my death much, there, Kent? That's a bit morbid.

Yes, and the knowledge that Herb would be back in February to turn back time.

Nope. She forgot about the whole doppelganger thing.

CLARK: I'm okay?

Yep. He stuck his foot in his mouth on purpose.

Being too good hearted to take what he knows he should give to others.
LOIS: EXcuse me?

She's thinking about the psychological issues due to dating a manipulative person such as Lana.
LANA: Or Lois. She's just a manipulative.
CLARK:

Looks like she’s servicing her newest customer some pretty mean balls.



Good thing Mr. Luthor has issued a mandatory sickness aversion therapy to his employees.



So, Mitchell going to phone in sick tomorrow, claiming he’s got two broken legs?

No, if she were an idiot, he’d be doing her and then send her on her way.

So, he’s working for Superman and she’s not into shooting the messenger? Which bizzaro-zone did we fall into now?



How about option three: Have her escorted into his dacha, make a nice weekend out of it, and then dispose of her remains in the Hobbs river?

He doesn’t know because he doesn’t usually x-ray guys?

Because Clark prefers to hang out with priests and play with icicles?

I don’t think Clark socialized much back in his home dimension.
LANA: Tell me about it. I could never take him anyplace I’d like to get invited to again.

LOIS: I understood him just fine. He called me a lying skank who’s whoring out her body for a bit of ice on her ears and hot wheels underneath her buns.
CLARK: I understood her perfectly when she told me to suck it up because she’d never marry a loser-freak like me.
CAT: So, he’s hoping they’re never going to invite Lois and Clark for the holidays?

Including the groom
LOIS:

‘gentleman’? ‘philanthropist’?

CLARK: Because I’m such a miserable failure that even an oozing boil like Lex Luthor is better as a suitor?

Poor Cat. Thanks to the fact that Clark was never able to pleasure her, she’s not yet figured out that he’s not a female of his species.
ZARA: Yes, our men make dung beetles look like theoretical physicists.
SHELDON: I only asked Lenard to collect his poop for study *once*…

LOIS: I’d be open to try that…

Michael

Darth Michael: Oooh... Look, almost missed this one.
LOIS: You mean like this? /searched for green crystal mace but came up empty on images/
CLARK:

Isn’t it?

Michael

LOIS: No, mace... as in... /strangely enough this one is from some DC Universe game/

LOIS: And from street level.

LOIS: DINNER, not sex.

PHIL: Cat! No. Not him.

Umm... in *our* time, 'yes'. In story time, it was only a few days.

:rolleyes:

Michael

New parts magically appear every Tuesday night / Wednesday morning (depending on your time zone). Unfortunately, I was recently hit with the RL fairy who is known bless people with writer's block. I've now sent her on her way again (my apologies for the next person she visits) and hope to catch up with my cushion soon.

TEMPUS: Temporal magic. Me likey!
ER: Appears right when I get into work. Must be evil magic.

Huh, that’s funny. I’ve just met a nice fairy who has a letter of recommendation from a Virginia R. Says she can help me find time for RL and playing with iron chairs.

Michael