Wow! Thank you all so very much!!! I'm really glad that you liked this.
Yes, it's an unusual opportunity for Lois to offer Superman the kind of comfort she normally only gets the chance to offer post-revelation - in fact, probably only thinks about offering at that stage.
Tank said:
I hope you don't think that this qualified as a wham? I never for one moment felt that Lois was in any real danger. I never doubted that Superman wouldn't come and save the day. Please tell me that none of the gentle readers actually thought that Wendy would injure or kill Lois in a story.
Well... I will just say that one of my BRs was holding out hope right until the last moment.
Right, El?
Hazel wondered why Clark stayed with Lois. Vicki got it partially right: yes, he is very shocked by almost losing Lois, but there's more than that going on here. All will be revealed in part 2, but there were some clues to it in part 1:
If he went away now, how could he guarantee that he would not be haunted by his fears, by nightmares of what could have happened to her? Imagining her beloved face staring sightlessly, accusingly, up at him, as so many others had mere hours earlier - all those poor people he hadn’t been in time to save when the landslide had hit.
The thought that people had died because he hadn’t been able to get there in time was painful. The thought that one of those people might have been Lois was... torture. Even flying back with her to her apartment, he’d been tormented by waking visions of what could have been. If he left her now, he knew that those images would not leave him.
Ines, CC, I hope you both had wonderful birthdays too!
Thank you all again! Part 2 coming up very soon.
Wendy
