The windows let in plenty of light, and Lois watches it change, from afternoon to evening
Longest day of her life, no doubt.
Lois thinks about offering her help,
Burning dinner is not helping, Lois.
Lois thinks about offering her help,
I wondered too. Taxpayer dollars? A thank you from the government?
Pretend that she has not forced herself into their life in multiple, unwelcome ways.
Awwww!
Lois smiles. A real smile. A small, tremulous smile that seems a bit too close to tears for comfort but that she doesn’t mind anyway because, for the first time, she feels like perhaps she is not the enemy
Awww! Now, remember that feeling when you finally see Clark.
wonders if it is as bare as the places on the fridge where his pictures should be
With the way he's shaking and all, I'd be surprised to find more than a bed in there.
Her presence is enough to do that all on its own, reminder of all they once had and no longer do thanks to her.
An it's going to take her a very long time to stop viewing herself like this.
YAY!
His back is to her and yet…and yet he knows she is there.
As always, he knows.
Neither Clark, nor Superman, he is some strange hybrid,
Love this whole section.
Awww! And since he's a terrible liar, we can only assume the smile is genuine.
He is insane. He has cracked and broken and doesn’t remember what happened.
So sad but so funny!
(Those are happy but heartbroken tears, BYW.)
and does not move (does not rise from his grave to comfort her).
Love this.
She forgets, most of the time, that he wasn’t there very long (only two months; only eight weeks and four days); he slipped in so easily, fit in so well, that it seems he was always there.
Love this. It feels so right, so accurate in what we see in canon.
(Clark could always say so much with a single look).
Very true.
“I’m here,” he says in a small voice. “And I’m getting better.”
Aaaaaaand cue more heartbreak.
She is going to take this stranger, and she is going to make him better.
As we all knew she would.
I am SOOOOO thrilled we got to see their meeting in this chapter. So short, so full of emotion, so wonderfully heartbreaking. Can't wait until you give us more!
