Good instalment.
I love the way you are leading the gentle readers on. You've used the latest switch to give your characters 'a feel' for what their loved ones had to go through so that when things are set a right that everyone will live happily ever after.
HAH! Was a cleverly devious ploy. You lull the gentle readers into thinking that this newly gained insight will lead to the requisite waffy, happy ending, but then WHAM!
Lane and Clark will find Tempus just in time for him to fall off a building or something so that he can't be of any help to them. And Lois and altClark will take the device to Bernie, whom we know won't have any clue as to how to fix it. He may be a bright researcher, but come on, future technology? I don't think so. Then, of course, the janitor will come along and thinking it is trash (after all it is broken) will toss it away to be lost forever.
So the end then becomes, each Lois is forever stranded in the wrong universe with the wrong Clark but still live happily ever after. And the moral will be; it's best to pair off with a good friend and be moderately happy then to attach yourself to a loved one and live the life of extreme emotional highs and lows.
Right?
Tank (who is constantly amazed at how he is able to perceive all these things in a fic before they actually happen)
