Hi Mary!
Clark looked up with a start. His partner stood in front of the entrance to the CostMart, one hand gripping the handle of an over-flowing shopping cart while the other cradled...a baby?! Never mind the questions of how and why Lois had come to California; how and why was she nursing a baby?!
Is this a flashpoint situation?
“Give me a hand with these, will you?” she ordered, pushing the cart towards him and then adjusting the baby's position against her...her...chest...area.
Considering you said ‘nursing a baby’ before I can’t help but consider you were literal in that and now Clark has the problem that Lois is adjusting a baby against her … her…chest … aera
It suckled enthusiastically, unperturbed at being jostled. “I swear that one wheel is cemented in place!”
Yep, poor dear is flustered.
She led him to a car in the parking section reserved for mothers. Was that why she had brought a baby with her?
Wait, that didn't make any sense!
Indeed. She wouldn’t be nursing a borrowed baby.
“Here, hold him for a minute so I can check the receipt,” Lois said, suddenly handing off ten pounds of wriggling baby. “Yes, that's right; here's Daddy,” she cooed, then turned her attention to the long scroll of paper sticking out from one of the bags.
CLARK:
She stared off into the middle distance, a wistful smile on her face. “Yeah, it seems like only yesterday, doesn't it?”
Mary, Queen of the Capes, if you did a time travel piece in May I will have you know that you must track anyone who commented over to the FDK challenge thread.
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“If you were...what?” Clark suddenly became aware of someone standing right behind him. He turned slowly, coming face to face with...himself. “...Uh...?”
Ooops?
Lois looked between the two versions of himself, and the color suddenly drained from her face. “Oh...oh no...”
“…not *again*!”
Clark's doppelganger wordlessly held his hands out for the child.
Am I in the Twilight Zone?!”
No, some Elseworld most likely.
His voice dropped further. “The truth is, we're from another universe.”
*they are*? Wait, does that mean they’re using universe hopping to make use of sales. Plus, if they pay with credit card, it won’t charge in their home dimension.
“Can we not talk about this in the parking lot?” Lois whispered. “My husband and I are having enough trouble adapting without the whole neighborhood thinking we're crazy.”
Eeep! They’re refugees!
“It's a long story,” his counterpart explained, “but the short version is that we live here now. We've been trying not to interfere with your life too much, but...now that you've seen us...”
Two Supermen are better than one. Good for driving Lex Luthor crazy.
CANON LOIS:
ELSE-LOIS: No! Absolutely not. Nononono. NO! /looks at Else-Clark/ I don’t care what bond you sense, that’s a hard pass. No.
She paused. “But before we go, do you think you could help us put all this stuff in the car?”
Very cute one! The start of another universe?
but I really missed writing on my laptop in the middle of the night, and now here we are.
Mo pwease?
Michael
