What a sweet ending to such a well-written tale. Lois and Clark only being able to see one another twice in those 2-3 weeks only hammers in the reason that a long-distant relationship wouldn't work for them. They're too busy to have "free time" to spend together (unless they give up sleep).

Of course, he'd (lunkheadly) want to surprise her. [Linked Image] So Clark!

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Stupidly, she'd thought it would be like before she went to Paris. She'd miss him, yeah, but it would be a low-grade thing, like a distant ache. Not this grinding, yearning loneliness. She sighed.
I love this! It's so Lois! Of course, she wouldn't realize HOW much their relationship had changed in France.

I love how she had been guarding CLARK'S desk from new hires who might unsuspectingly be assigned a desk that wasn't rightfully their's.

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“Permanently. That is, if you'll have me?”
clap Just like Clark to inadvertently propose too early! Love it!

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“Get back to work. This is a newsroom, not happy hour at Buckingham Palace!”
So Perry! Although, I can't see this kind of proposal there. wink (There's a 'happy hour' at the Buckingham Palace?)

One little quibble:
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Clark followed Lois back to her desk. Later, they needed to talk - after all, he'd practically proposed in the middle of the newsroom, and she'd accepted - but right now, he had a lot to catch up on.
Wasn't Clark already at Lois desk (with the two coffees) when she ran to greet him?

What a wonderful WAFFy ending to a story that wins on both A and B plots! clap I enjoyed it very much!

VirginiaR.
"On the long road, take small steps." -- Jor-el, "The Foundling"
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"clearly there is a lack of understanding between those two... he speaks Lunkheadanian and she Stubbornanian" -- chelo.