Ann, I'm so glad you posted this!
*happy dance*
I love it. Love love *love* it. Every blessed word. How you turned my teensy vignette on its head and bared Clark's soul to us.
This is his fantasy, personified in a man who comes to work every morning, dressed in a conservative suit, an outrageous tie and glasses.
A man from this world.
A man who has no special abilities, nothing to set him apart from other men.
A man who, in spite of his ordinariness, is able to sweep the woman he loves off her feet, if not literally, at least figuratively.
So yes, Clark Kent wants the fantasy. Even if it means having to turn Lois Lane down for not loving him as the ordinary man that he is not.
That's it, isn't it? Clark, in a few simple lines. You stated it beyond perfectly, Ann. Nothing I could've written would've come close to this.
P.S. That intro you were so worried about? Stellar.
