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

I apologize for any errors as I don't have the eyelid power to proofread this one more time before posting. Luckily, I prepped this a few days ago before RL went haywire crazy over the last 36 hours. I promise to double check it in the morning when I've had more than 4 hours sleep.

Anyway, this thread is for comments.

(Also, don't blame John for his wonderful suggestion. Blame my characters for taking his germ of an idea and running with it.)

FINALLY! It's about (insert word of choice here) time!

Wells: I say!

*does not compute* Did he just tell something legitimately true here???

Christina: Thank you for reading and commenting.
Yes. It sounded like the bumbling type of mistake Herb Wells might make without realizing the consequences of. Had he not done this, would the sorcerer been less likely to make the curse happen for "all time" and just for this lifetime? I always felt that Herb's presence never seemed to make the world better and more Utopian. Had he never invented the time machine would there have been advances in the technologies to invent a time window and allow canon Clark to be trapped between time or to allow Tempus to wreck havoc in multiple eras and dimensions? I believe it all stems back to Herb's initial trip with the time machine.

Yes, but with canon Lois and Clark he was able to take them into the past to fix the curse. That's not possible here, since he can't go into the past in this dimension further than the day when Kal-El arrived in 1966. So, the pain and agony of showing Clark what might have been would have been permanent.

Good question! Thanks for you comments.

First off, I'm still not sure what "wonderful suggestion" I'm not being blamed for.

Boo.

Clark will get to see Lois.

Is he trying to make it so Lois has to pay, or would it just be too odd if he is always late?

Not nearly as much as Wells the meddler may think.

Hilarious how quickly Wells rushes to the wrost possible conclusion.

Had she joined up with Intergang?

Luckily not, but no thanks to what Wells has told him to date.

Wells is right on the wig, right or being in disguise, wrong on why.

About this much time in our posting schedule has elapse (ducking).

That is the true measure of things being good.

Maybe it was Lois who did the saving, but without Clark there, she did not feel kind hearted enough to save the person.

This actually fits with what the Sorcerer said. Him rushing to false conclusions makes sense.

Maybe he should have thought of this before telling Clark of the cure.

I think it would flow better as "in the Brazilian rainforest."

I thought Wells brought Clark here for a vacation, not to find love.

Saying Clark took "liberties" with her really does not add up. She begged him all the way. At that, she seems to have largely forgiven him immediately, and if anything kept an initial resentment that he had not gone further.

Good, because it totally was.

Yes, that would have been a better course of action.

at the use of our favorite name.

Yes, but at least then they could have been sure.

Yes, Jack is back.

Which of course Wells failed to do. He never does anything good.

Nope, Lois wasn't inside.

Is Wells crazy, admitting this.

On the other hand, if you act outrageous enough people ignore you. On the other hand, there are people who go around deliberately acting as if they are time travelers.

Was it that bad before Superman showed up?

they get to be together, at least for a little.

Ah, so sweat.

So either she went with someone she knew, or was passed out from drinking when she left.

It wouldn't do any good, he would use his floating abilities to avoid crashing.

Lucy: If she is going to do a fake wedding, why not with the right man, that is, Clark Kent.

At least there is one peson properly mad at Luthor for his actions.

I can't help saying Sam is right.

I think that would work better as "it still felt as if she had"

Ellen: Oh he apologized for kissing Mrs. Del Campo a lot. He just never meant any of those apologies.

Lois: Like all of his wedding vows.

Yes, more kissing.

Sadness, no kiss.

Yeah, more touching.

I like the sound of this.

Gag.

Lois: you tell me, your the one who had her disappeared.

Gag.

I think "care of both of them" would sound better.

No wonder she likes having Clark do it, she started doing laundry far too young.

Good, Lois is still thinking.

Another lie from Luthor.

So private, that no one is let out (AKA the LUC?)?

Which raises the question of why she is still engaged to the disrespecting slob.

Hogwash and lies.

Good thing she didn't name Clark.

Hogwash, he could have offered them all jobs. Especially Jimbo.

Maybe then he would hate Superman less.

I think that would flow better as "against the Daily Planet".

Lois: I quit the Planet before you bought it.

Only because Luthor had already set up a situation to kill the paper.

I think it would flow better as "and make them jealous."

More grounds not to marry him.

John: Once again, you're spoiling me.
That refers back to what I responded to Kismatt last week...
It had been your suggestion to invite Ellen to lunch with Lex, and then my characters ran and ran with the idea.

I'm trying for at least one Lois and Clark scene (or flashback) per part. I keep moving scenes and part breaks around so it doesn't always happen, but that's the goal.

The latter.
CLARK: She's got the high paying job.

CLARK: I don't know. It was pretty touch and go for a while there.

Slap-stick works best with wrong assumptions.

Maybe.

If Wells had showed up a month earlier. Actually, I was trying to stretch Clark's heartache to May, but I didn't quite make it.

/wipes face/ Okay. Okay. I'll try to up the speed at which time passes in this dimension.

Yes, Wells mistakes haven't totally screwed up canon Lois and Clark's happiness.
CLARK: Sure. :rolleyes: THEY get their 'happily ever after'. Nah, I'm happy for them. If it's possible for them, then it's possible for me, right? /crickets/ Right?!

I thought it would be funny to have it be Herb's fault for the seriousness of the soul mate's curse and none of them know it. If he had never meddled in the first place, Lady Loisette and Sir Charles would have been in trouble, but not the future generations.

He's trying to be honest with the man. Herb is definitely a "with friends like these, who needs enemies" type friend. He's working with the best intentions but then screws everything up. He's definitely NOT the same Herb Wells found in KenJ's stories.

Thanks. Fixed.

It's been over a year (his internal clock) since he brought Clark here. How exactly he remembers things may not be exactly how they happened.

Yes, the Readers know this, but Herb does not. When he last saw Clark, Clark had mentioned that they had become more intimate than previously and didn't think Lois would forgive him for taking liberties while she was essentially drunk.

Just a little red herring to freak the readers into thinking that Herb was going to meddle again.

Probably.

-- Continuation of the response to John's FDK -- Here's a case of Herb making decisions for other characters lives without consulting them first. It's kind of the same approach that Clark originally takes with Lois (or what can be described as the Contact Mistake).

Jack was just passing him when Jimbo yelled for Jack to be stopped. He didn't have time.

I always find it interesting how honest Wells is about what he's been doing and where he's been (or when) and people seem to accept it.

Yes, Jimbo took Herb's 'future' reference as a metaphor.

No, not in this dimension. But now that this dimension HAS a Superman, taking him away might send the world into chaos.

/makes checkmark next to this part/

Thanks... I think. You meant "sweet", right?

Both are possibilities, yes.

Either way it wouldn't hurt him.

LOIS: Now, Lucy don't be giving Clark ideas.
LUCY: :rolleyes: LO-is. He already has them.

Sam Lane from RfaS seemed to be trying to make a connection with Lois. He might not have been the husband he should have been to Ellen, but in some sense he was always trying to look after Lois's best interest, even if she never felt his love. Sam also blames himself a bit for Lois getting shot -- since it was because of his cyborgs that Menken kidnapped Lois. I'm also not 100% sure that he didn't know Menken had financial backers, so Lex Luthor stepping in just about that time probably raised more than one red flag in his book.

Yep. I'm going to have to agree with Sam too. Let's not tell him what canon Superman did to Lois, shall we?

Thanks. Fixed.

I thought only Lois knew about those kisses.

Only there's no evidence to support that theory.

Don't worry. Lois is lying here.

Thanks. Fixed.

My kids do laundry. My six y.o. sorts, and my 9 y.o. helps fold, and they're both in charge of putting away their own clothes. If they're never taught, they'll never learn.

He said "maybe", so technically it's more of a misdirection... or is it?

Or the Luthor House for the Mentally Unstable, perhaps?

LEX: Because she loves me and has no other options. Oh, I'm rich, too.
LOIS: Because the longer I stay engaged to the jerk the more he lets down his guard, so I can get under his skin with this hypodermic needle...
CLARK: Lois...
LOIS: Fine. So, I can search his drawers.
CLARK: Lois!
LOIS: :rolleyes: Office drawers, Clark. Please.
CLARK: Right. Of course. My mistake.
LEX: She doesn't have to be engaged to me to check out... what am I saying, I don't wear 'drawers'.
LOIS: Oc-To-Pus!

That was on purpose.

Jimbo was a summer intern and not high enough on the pecking ladder to get a job offer.

Clark has already saved him after he was shot and Lex doesn't like him any better.

Thanks. Fixed.

Days before. Negotiations and bribes had already been paid out. He just needed to sign the paperwork.

LEX: Well, yeah. But that's beside the point.

Fixed. Thanks.

LOIS: It's a faux engagement. Didn't you get the memo?
CLARK: It must have been in the same bunch as mine.

TEMUS: :rolleyes:

Oooh! Flashback to umm…part before last?

So, HG’s not the most observant one, is he?
HG: You miss *one* psychotic hitchhiker and you’re branded for life.
TEMPUS: /puts away smoldering brand iron/

Maybe Mr Kent and young Mr. Olsen share more than an apartment? Dying the hair. Riding motorcycles. It all screams midlife crisis.

Maybe this Lois scared him blond?



You’re evil!

Maybe the Lady Score had many a man fall accidentally on her in her bedchamber.

See! See!

Well…apparently, the versions from the Alt dimension are all rotten and dark and full of unfulfilled sexual debauchery, so…
WRONG CLARK: /eyes Luthor/ …not so much?

/pushes over ibuprofen to EW/ What you get for telling instead of showing us a meandering path through HG’s year abroad.

Where did he get that one from?

Oh, it’s just a gutter rat trying to earn some cash by selling yellow Superman souveniers.

Yes, but in a universe such as the one described, Mr. Olsen could live in a gated estate, armed guards on the walls, and own a handful of professional caregivers.

/scratches head/ Her mother? But we’ve not seen anything happen…

LEX: I like that idea. Nigel! Niiiiigel!

He *would* look funny, bobbing up and down in the air above the staircase.

Funny. The same (dead and drove her kid batty) can be said for the late Mrs. Wayne.
BRUCE: Funny? *Funny*?

Hmm…considering what kind of stuff Canon-Clark did to his Lois…well…

LEX: So… wedding sheets bait?

He’s touching her even though she’s all sweatted up?

LEX: Don’t worry, my darling. You said you tried to call her for days. If she were actually bleeding to death, she’s dead already by now. The human body can only survive two days without water, so even if the blood-loss didn’t kill her, the thirst would have.
LOIS: What…What are you saying?
LEX: :rolleyes: That you should get yourself cleaned up for the opera. There’s no need to check on your mother right now.

Oooh! Just like with a wife married to a drunk.



So, she started to date the Brazillian exchange student and gotten with child from him? Sam then got the exchange student deported and the child sent to a Brazillian orphanage. Some say the exchange student was so broken up, he took to the cloth.

Uh, oh. Someone pulled a pin out of her.

Considering Lex probably owns most of LexCorp through various shell corporations…
LEX: Your point being…?

Hmm…maybe use 2nd person there after ‘money’?

So… he thinks that Lois is just a spoiled brat, wrought to throwing temper-tantrums?
LEX: She’s a woman, so… Michael

Darth Michael: Thanks for your continued readership, comments, and chuckles.
But Wells has been looking for a way to save Tempus's life?
TEMPUS: And Lois's womb.

Not a flashback, but a repeat of the same disguise.

What a great idea, especially since I never have a Batman in my alt-dimensions.
CLARK: Why didn't I think of that?

That sounds about right. Plus, if he shows up, she might kiss him.

Thank you. Is this because I've managed to torture Herb a bit too?

ALT-LOIS: Is he implying that I'm a slut?

Different from canon (or true) Clark's soul, not other people.

So, you don't like me teasing the reader with the red herring treatment?

Thanks. /pops pill/ Did you think I merely would have him jump in his time machine and go forward three months? Wouldn't that be more evil?

The trash can where Mrs. Cox dumped it.



Oh, don't encourage him.

Last we heard of Mrs. Lane, she had dumped a glass of red wine (accidentally) into Lex's lap at lunch.

NIGEL: You tried that already, sir.

And that would make her feel better?

I thought so.

But he never said things were HER fault.

You mean "Marry me and I'll return your mother alive?" That sounds like something Tempus Tex would do.

LEX: Well, I admit it would make her more difficult to tie up but does cut down on the friction burns.

Wow, that is cold.

So, Lois has already been a housewife and crossed it off her life list? Well, that explains a lot. I thought it would explain her penchant for cooking in that manner.

Maaaaayyyybbbbeeee. But usually men aren't allowed into the sleeping areas of the YWCA.

CLARK:

Probably not, since every one knows he owns it. Oh, you mean, he's the only stock holder who would benefit? Good one!

Thanks. Fixed.

LEX: It's a time-honored negotiation technique.

LEX: Xerxes! Time to go hunting again, boy.

/looks at Part 165/ Perhaps. Perhaps not.

Thanks for your comments!

I've already read the Superman effect, so I do know why Tempus vanished. But it is so fun to speculate about things that I don't believe. I also never have believed that Lois was really pregnant, but it is so fun to pretend that she is, that I tried to keep it up as long as possible.

Although, maybe she is pregnant. I was listening to the radio the other day and they talked about a lady who called the ambulance and they came and found her in labor, and she had no clue she was pregnant. She thought she was going through another miscarriage as she had just over a year before. The baby might not have been quite full term, but it did survive, and was at least 7 months.

I was just reading a plot untwist where Clark avoid's all of the incidents in contact by convincing Lois she wants to drive home from the airport with him, not to be safe, but because they can do fun things in the car. It actually is one of the better plot untwists. Almost as good as using the Resurection drug instead of freezing in "And the Answer Is", although the later does not quite wipe out the whole episode.

Person who would otherwise be searching under a landslide in Oso, Washington: When you have Superman help with natural disasters for a little bit, you never want to go back to week-long searches.

Yes, although I am so poor at spelling, that I had to check this. Really, I think it should be swet and sweet. Sweat should be pronounced like the attribute of candy.

I don't think they even established that Sam Lane was an adulterer in season 1. I actually felt that Lois came off fairly badly in that episode. Yes, I saw why she was mad, but Clark had a point that she was just as much a workaholic as her father, and while I guess I understood why she still held a grudge, I felt sorry for Sam who was trying to reach out to her and being rebuffed.

You’re welcome!

Huh…

LOIS: Men! :rolleyes: Don’t even have enough clothes for original costumes.



So…out of character for Lex?

Why they have windows you can sneak into…

Thank you.

Michael