Eeeep!!! Like Sara said! Honestly, Luthor gives me the creeps and worse.... Darn, he scares me.
And whenever I read about Lois marrying Luthor, I keep asking myself how the heck she could even think of doing that. How could she be so blind? So stupid?
I think you give us an answer which is as good as any I've come across. Lois was indulging her own inner little-girl princess and princess dreams:
Lex. Her husband. A man she should be happy to see after being away for four days. So much for her little girl's dreams of meeting Prince Charming and living happily ever after with him.
Of course, those little girl's dreams weren't her only reason for marrying Lex, because more importantly, Lois found herself very alone and pretty much abandoned by those she had depended on. So she believed in Lex probably because she wanted and needed to believe, or hope, that he was Prince Charming, who'd come to save her and make her happy for the rest of her life.
I also loved the fact that Lois compared Lex's palace with a castle from a fairy tale:
Well, she was living in a palace that looked grand enough to be that of a princess.
If you read those old fairy tales, you'll note that the Prince's castle is often described in more detail than the Prince himself. Reared on fairy tales, and wanting to believe in them, Lois may have fallen in love with Lex's fairy-tale riches and the good use he seemed to put them to, rather than with the man himself. And please note that in the fairy tales, the Prince who lives in a castle is always a fine and good man, and always a great catch for a girl.
But the castle that Lois lives in could easily be taken right out of your nightmares. That bodyguard Gary who just emerges, soundlessly, out of the shadows and confronts her when she comes home - he made me jump almost as bad as Lois. And this little description of something in Lex's palace made my skin crawl:
Expensive copies of old masters adorned the walls - the originals were locked somewhere in a vault under the building. Lex had once mentioned it to Nigel in front of her, but he'd never taken her there or even shown any wish to.
Yeah, well, you may get more than you bargained for when Lex finally takes you there, Lois. Who knows, maybe Clark will keep you company in that vault, locked in a Kryptonite cage?
But even though Lois knows that she doesn't love Lex, that she is even grateful that they have separate bedrooms, she still doesn't like the idea of cheating on him, or even of divorcing him, I think. Undoubtedly this is so because of the bad example set to her by her father:
She was repeating what she had suffered from as a child.
She was becoming what she had always loathed.
She was turning into her father.
Well, she realizes that her father's betrayal of his family isn't comparable to her divorce of Lex. But still she feels bad about walking out on Lex, I think, and she doesn't want to compare Lex's inadequacies as a lover with Clark's cherishing of her:
And now she couldn't blame it on herself any more, she mused as memories of her night with Clark rushed back to her. She pushed them away, feeling too embarrassed to contemplate them in this less than private place. Lex could come in any moment, and she didn't want to be thinking about Clark then.
You sure make me worry about Lois, Kae. Marrying Lex was the very, very worst thing she ever did in her life. This is going to be a ride that will get much, much worse before it gets any better, I can definitely see that.... But I don't doubt that you will make the nail-biting agonizing wait worth it!
Ann
