Chris, this is wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!

So that's what's so horrible about being a Guardian angel, eh? That you lose heaven, possibly forever? That you are returned to the earth, becoming Flesh again? That your memory is wiped? Now that memory thing would be a great inconvenience, if you ask me. The only task imaginable for a Guardian angel would be to guard his or her Guardee ( LOVE that word!!!! goofy ) but how can you do that if you don't remember anything?

The thing I've loved most of all about Lois being an angel is that she has been able to Watch Clark Kent in an objective, impersonal way, without getting all her defences up and getting herself all tied up in knots. So she has been able to immediately see and fully realize what an incredibly wonderful person Clark is. If she is now going to return to the Earth with her memory wiped, will she react to Clark in her most tiresome and contemptuous Lois Lane fashion all over again?

And how will she even get to meet him? Will it be the job of some other angel - perhaps Kilmartin? -to make sure that that happens?

And how the heck will she be able to be his Guardian angel, if she doesn't even know that that is what she is???

But maybe the simple fact that she always comes to him in the end, gives him her heart, makes him belong, holds him in the warmth of her embrace, envelops him in her love - maybe that's it? The things she's been doing over and over again in hundreds and hundreds of Lois and Clark stories that we've been reading on these boards or in the Archive? Maybe, in each and every one of these stories, Lois has actually been Clark's Guardian Angel, even though neither she nor we have had a clue about it?

Wow. Chris, have you explained it all to us? The magic, the miracle of Lois and Clark? The fact that he is the most wonderful, amazing man on this Earth, and she is his Guardian Angel? Who gives him the love that he must have, to be able to give himself to the world?

She gives him phileo. The love between a man and a woman. So that he can give the world his love, which is damn near agape, divine love, if you ask me.

Well, Superman has always been like a god, so powerful and kind. But Clark Kent, who is just a man, can't do without phileo if he is to keep the superhero going.

And Lois has given it to him, all along.

Wow.

I'm so bowled over by this marvellous revelation of what Lois and Clark are all about, that I find it very hard to concentrate on the wonderful and/or intriguing details of a more minor art that this story is so full of. Like when Lois considers her own angelhood:
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"I often wonder why I was chosen at all," Lois muttered. "I mean, I've never been naturally angelic."
Well, me splutters into my coffee and splashes it all over my keyboard! LOL!!! rotflol Couldn't agree more, Lois, you are not naturally angelic! And yet... and yet, that is precisely what you are. You are Superman's destiny, his Guardian angel.

Being Superman's - and Clark's - Guardian angel is Lois's destiny. Loving him, and being loved by him, is her destiny. I love the way Chris makes her understand this:
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She knew what she was doing. She'd seen heaven, yes, but she'd also seen Clark. She'd seen what he'd needed. She'd felt the echoes of human desire coursing through her body, remembered how it felt to feel attraction, to want to love and be loved.

She knew that with Clark she could give and have it all. It would be as close to heaven on earth as it was possible to get.

Plus she'd be doing something good. Something wonderful. Something... Noble. Or it would have been noble if she was giving more than she would receive.
Yes, Lois. It is a noble thing that you will fill Superman with agape, when you give him phileo. But when he gives you phileo in return, it will feel like heaven on the earth.

There is so much more to say here, but I shouldn't let my comment be as long as the part of your story that I'm commenting on. So I just have to ask you two questions. Who was that last Guardian Angel before Lois, the one who was made Guardian Angel in 1702? And all those tragedies in human literature and art that were inspired by Guardianships gone awry - could you give us a few examples of those, please?

Wow, Chris. For all my babbling, I'm speechless at the beauty of this. It is fabulous!!!

Ann