Shayne! You've done it again!
Kal El pretended he didn’t know Lisa as he signed her autograph book; naturally it was one of those with his emblem on the cover.
Lisa has learned very quickly that she has to play a role.
Lois had to wonder about the contradiction he posed. He treated his household servants as though they were invisible, actively attempting to maintain a distant and impersonal relationship with them.
Yet with strangers he was capable of acts of generosity and kindness that he obviously didn’t want the rest of the world to know about.
When he’d emerged from the building, he’d been as cold and impersonal as he’d ever been, and if Lois hadn’t known better she’d have assumed that was how he was.
He was an expert at hiding his feelings, at keeping secrets, and while Lois should have felt repelled by that, instead she felt reassured. She and Lisa had the biggest secret on the planet, and this was the man who was going to keep it safe.
Lois is finally starting to get to know Clark and trust him. She's starting to understand why he is the way he is.
Her attraction for Clark though had never waned. The more she knew about him, the more she wanted to know about him.
He was dangerous to her in a way that Superman wasn’t. Superman was never going to be able to really share himself with anyone. Whatever life he had at home meant that he had secrets he never intended to share, any more than Lois would tell Lisa’s secret.
The person he showed the world wasn’t his real self, but only a mask, the best part of what he was held up to the light and put on display.
Lois could respect that because of what Superman represented, but she was never going to be able to fall in love with a facsimile.
Clark though…he tried to hide his pain, but Lois kept seeing flashes of his real self, of the little boy who’d been left standing on a lonely road with parents who were never coming back.
Don't run from him Lois! Stay and help him. Clark needs Lois more than he knows.
It was getting harder and harder to maintain the detachment that she needed to keep. Having to remind herself that this wasn’t a permanent situation was getting more difficult as she grew accustomed to his presence.
“It’s going to be hard giving all this up,” Lois said.
Clark glanced in her direction and said, “What?”
“It’s going to be hard, moving back to Metropolis.” Lois spoke quietly but firmly.
As I have said before...I don't see Lois moving back to Metropolis. Maybe Clark will come clean and tell her the truth, all of it. And tell her that he needs her just as much as she needs him.
I don't have to tell you Shayne that this was fabulous. But I do have to say...
GET ON POSTING THE NEXT PART!~Sheila
