It would be nice to be pain free for awhile. /Yes, 2016, I'm eyeing you!/
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Thank you. I couldn't have been so long-winded without your encouragement.
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SUPERMAN: Always. Just make sure you don't take any photos of me rescuing fashion models.

LOIS: Indeed. I did not see them wearing any…fashion on those photographs.
There's no smiling during an emergency then? Noted.
I just figured. With death and mayhem abounding, it would be highly inappropriate to be in a chipper mood if you’re a superhero wearing tights.
BATMAN: What else would one wear? And I’m never chipper.
TONY STARK:
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I don’t wear tights. And I’m always chipper.
ER: Did she just come out to the newsroom?
EW: As a nice person? Or do you mean Clark did?
As a couple.
JIMBO:

EW: Actually, next part posts today. Dragons?... Wait, you weren't talking about my story were you? <behaves like Lois does when she sees Clark with a blonde> It's GoT season again, isn't it?
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Also, dragons are so cute while they’re still smaller than a fully grown T-Rex.
Is it a lie, if he doesn't know it's a lie?
OBI WAN: No.
LOIS: Yes.
CLARK: Superman says he pleads the 5th.
Why do I suddenly see a hair shampoo commercial featuring Barry?
They predicted that outcome 20 years ago, didn't they?

STORY: Glancing around, he didn’t see his favorite journalist as he paused in front of her desk.
ER: Cat? Did he forget she’s now in Houston?
EW: /agrees with that assessment/
LOIS: /does not agree/
Oh but it is.
LEX: Plus, I usually go with Lois as my daughter/paramour/2nd wife.
EW: Disturbing.
It’s one of the alt-world fics out there.
LEX: Clearly, who she was before she married me is irrelevant.
I think I know why so many of his relationships crash and burn.
So, Lois can't be polite? Or learn things?
/sends some new skates to Mr. DeVil/
ER: Oh, it’s been for Jimmy. Duh!
EW: /see? Lois hasn’t learned things/
/cancels skates order/
ER: Our little raccoon is in the zone, huh?
EW: Is that a bad thing?
No. Just funny and adorable.
CAT: You mean *I'm* the good girl in this story? /can’t believe this and now that she’s married, she can’t even top it. Outside her bedroom that is/
She could try her living room and kitchen, though.
Did Cloe ever work for the local Smallville paper? I thought she went straight from the High School paper to Metropolis.

Good point. I just went with ‘funny’.
Lois doesn't want everyone to pick up on the fact that Superman lies. They might tie him to Clark that way.
CLARK: Very funny.
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What? Lex knows how stinky the Met Star is. Do you think HE reads that paper?
He might have a staffer mark up anything that requires follow up cut breaks?
Well, in comparison to the author of that acrostic...
A nun would be a sinner?
Except that Tempus has been wiped out of existence. Hmmm. Maybe it's time for a refresher course.
What can I say? He’s handy. And once MLT wrote a story with Tempus being the main reason for their problems and yet, he wasn’t in the story at all. At least, till the very end.
Yes, apparently all smart women have that problem. It's why so many of them fake being dumb.

LEX: What do you mean, ‘fake’?
Like they do when they’re in bed with him.
LEX:

LOIS: Well, he *did* think I really wanted to marry Luthor at one point.
Wouldn’t that make her a gold digger instead of a whore? One could add the ‘slut’ if she still intended to have a Clark and a Superman on the side, though.
Kiss on the newsroom floor. Oh... you meant as a couple, not out of the conference room.
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ER: Right. He might just start doing it to mess with them now.
JIMBO: /got a naughty idea on how to keep Lois alive for another 100 parts/

LOIS:

ER: And get birth control, huh?
EW: huh Because someone cloned Jimbo?
No, because with a fake Jimmy, that’s it for Jimmy Interruptus and then Lois might end up in a situation that could get her preggers.
No, but there's only one who's been called THE blonde, since Lois went into space.
LOIS: I'm NOT blonde!
A bit selfcentered, aren’t we? Also, didn’t she use a blonde wig, too?
Big Louie isn't bigger than THE Boss.
He could be…
LOIS: That was purely an accident!
CLARK: Sure. Pure. Let's call it that, shall we?

LOIS: Oh, no! Not that old nickname again.
Well…now that the pregnancy is off, one does need a new pastime.
CLARK: Now, Michael. That's not nice. Lois is a very nice girl. You heard Cat. Lois hasn't had sex in YEARS. Why would she want to break that streak?
LOIS: /realizes that a few important bits haven’t made it from Krypton to Earth/
CAT: /can’t believe she’s missing that show/ I knew I shouldn't have moved.


Michael