Thanks for the kind words, Sheila and TOC!
TOC - just some small insight into what I was thinking:
“You need help, Lois,” Superman said, his voice firm, arms folded across his chest. “If you won't go see a doctor voluntarily, I'll take you there myself.”
This isn't right. I understand and like that Clark is concerned about Lois, but I don't think he has the right to make decisions for her. After all, it's not as if he was her fiancé or anything!
I agree, but this is shortly after Clark has died and I think this action is in keeping with the character of Clark that I've written - he has Lois' best interests at heart and has decided that this justifies making decisions for her. I wouldn't be happy if someone did this to me, but I could see Clark (my Clark, anyway) doing this.
Occasionally, like here, he has even made her a deal which he knew or suspected that she wouldn't accept, so that he could tell himself that it wasn't his fault that he had to keeping lying to her, because he really had given her a chance to find out the truth.
I didn't see this as Clark feeling it wasn't his fault that he didn't tell her. I saw it as him not caring if he told her if it would persuade her to do something she needed. Of course, when she doesn't, he feels no need to tell her, but it remains a choice he's made.
This had me physically flinching. I don't like the fact that Clark was going to force Lois to see a doctor against her will, but I realize that it was something he did because he cared about her. I understand and accept that Lois would put up a fight to make him see that he had no right to force her, and I also realize that she could win such a fight only if she used the right words.
But would she call him "Alien"?...
Lois has always been totally supportive of Superman.
I agree, there are few instances where calling Superman "alien" are in character for Lois given her feelings towards Superman.
But Lois on LnC could be mean - and often was mean to Clark saying really awful things to him. So I think Lois has the capacity of saying things that she knows will be hurtful. Typically, she doesn't do this to Superman as she idiolizes him. But in this instance, she's angry at him for not saving Clark. She's stopped seeing him as a hero, he's just another guy who has disappointed her, so she treats him like a regular guy. And sometimes, for Lois, that means saying things that are really cruel if it serves a purpose (like getting her way).
So maybe, maybe, maybe she would tell him something horrible, something she absolutely, totally didn't mean, just because she wasn't herself right then.
I don't think that she meant it anytime she said it - she said it as it was a way to get what she wanted. It doesn't matter that she doesn't think it, what's important to her is that it gets Superman to back off.
But to my knowledge, there have been no other stories where Lois has regarded Superman spitefully because he is an alien.
And again, I don't view her as doing so in my story either. She's not spiteful because he's an alien, she's spiteful because he didn't save Clark and so she's trying to hurt him like he hurt her. Whether or not she actually believes what she's saying is unimportant to her.
But if you want to make them end up together, please don't make Lois say that the whole thing was her own fault just as much as it was Clark's!
I can promise you, while Lois does feel some guilt over this now (as she expressed to Martha) at no point will she think this "evens out" with Clark's wrong. I view what she did as the type of things kindergartners do. She called him a name - yes it was one that hurt him deeply (as do some of the names kids are called in grade school), but these are not usually life altering awful things.
For the few of you still reading, I wanted to apologize for not posting for awhile. I've been both insanely busy and sick, so haven't done much writing lately. I am still sick and leaving for a long weekend vacation tomorrow. I have quite a bit written, but it's not where I want it to be yet and thus I have more writing to do, but won't have a chance to even do so until the middle of next week.
I'm aiming to get the next part up by the end of next week, although it is taking an awful long time for me to get where I want with this part and probably requires me finding to the time to get the sleep necessary to kick this stupid cold (which my weekend does not promise to do at all)...
Thanks for the patience!
