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With Lois being so out of it during this part, it's difficult to see exactly what went on. Lois feels like poison (both literally and metaphorically) to Clark and has decided it's best if she lets that poison kill her rather than kill him.

I can only assume that Clark's feeling as if a large part of his heart died anyway. His best friend/adopted brother was serious hurt due to their friendship and the woman he cares about most... well, has just gone wacko. First, she was kidnapped (Clark's fault -- well, at least according to him). Secondly, she volunteered to be injected with the only substance that could hurt Superman. Clark either will think that Lois hates him for her being kidnapped or that she's suicidal. (He might be right on that latter one.) He might figure out that Lois was saving Jimmy/James, but in his depression and self-loathing, my guess is his thoughts aren't going to go there first. Thirdly, she doesn't want to have anything more to do with him. She refuses to see him in the hospital and returns to "life" in Metropolis after deemed "cured". Yep, Clark's going to be blaming himself major time for that and thinking that Lois does, too, when the truth is that Lois is blaming herself for Clark's problems.

Time for Jimmy and/or Martha to Gibbs slap Clark and set him straight. The question is will Perry be up to the job of Gibbs slapping Lois?

How many of us think that maybe Lois isn't exactly cured and might be avoiding Clark out of fear of hurting him more?

It was great to finally see the flashback to what happened in Smallville. Lois's self-preserving anger-tude was spot on. It's so hard to look back on one's life and see how one's blind pig-headed stubbornness ruined it. To have it flash back to her at this point when she knows that Trask's treatment literally hurt Clark explains Lois's downward tailspin.

So, Trask died in a fiery explosion. Interesting. Did someone... eh-hem... set that Kryptonite juice factory on fire from a safe distance, per chance? Did he really die in the explosion or was it the wall he struck first after flying across the room? Or did he die in another manner? Perhaps getting stabbed by a Kryptonite juice needle to the heart?

Sorry to hear that you won't be upping your posting schedule. Congratulations on working so hard on your novel. That must be a terrific writer's group! I hope you let us know when it gets published, so we can tell all our friends to go out and buy it! Can you give us a hint on the genre?