Whoo boy, do I feel like devil's advocate here or what? I swear I'm not trying to be though! Honest.
Well, I just wanted to add, in respect to situations involving trauma and such, such cases as described are rare, and most importantly after the grieving process has not adequately given the person enough closure - usually persons who engage in such acts also have other instability in their lives, which isn't a case for either Lois or Clark.
Dundan - all your points sound valid to me in their own context (at least to my foggy brain at 3 am
), but what you mention above doesn't, in *my* opinion, fit with the story. You say "after the grieving process." In the story, there hasn't *been* any time to grieve "properly." There's only that instantaneous (I'll be amazed if I spelled that right at this hour
) wham of pain and that first stage of denial - this didn't really happen, it couldn't have happened, but somewhere deep down, I know it did, but I don't want to think right now. About anything. And you feel sort of suspended in a place that's not quite reality. That's how I see it. And that's where I think Lois and Clark both were.
And I'm going to stop now. For one, I'm afraid that I really have rambled this time, and for two, Jose's going to see this and know I didn't make it to bed yet. I'm going now, I swear! :p
Sara (who's really starting to wonder about her choice in words - *devil's* advocate - and what that says about the authors
)
