Between Best Friends
Tracey, I enjoyed the way you portrayed L&C as such good friends. Even though the rest of the story wasn't in canon, I like to think that the first part (the weekly pizza-and-a-movie night) was what really happened off camera in the series.
"Lois, if you go home now, you know what's going to happen? We're going to both spend the rest of the weekend obsessing about this, and then we're going to go into work on Monday, meticulously avoiding each other and the mere mention of tonight. We'll walk on eggshells for the next month and be miserable and barely able to work together, until one day when one of us finally blows up and we hash it out." He took a breath. "And I don't know what you think, but I don't want to go through all that. Do you?"
That was such an insightful comment from Clark after their kissing went too far, and it is so exactly what L&C do. It was nice to see Clark be less internal and more upfront about their relationship. Many times, we've seen him calm Lois down when she is going off on some kind of rant, but he rarely had the nerve to use his skill on their personal relationship. If he had, they might have gotten together much sooner.
I don't know why, but I just love this little exchange:
"But what if I want to go home now?" she challenged him.
"So go home," he mumbled, his eyes still closed. His arm belied his words, however, not budging an inch.
"... I guess I could stay, then."
"So stay," came the short, sweet, sleepy answer.
