Joan: I'm glad you like Penny. I do too. The ambiguous Bruce makes him for a more interesting character. The reader knows he's essentially a good guy, but he's not really good at getting that point across to the Kents.
Michael: And Five! Yep, you're definitely going to finish FDK before I can catch up. I'm in the middle of editing Ch 6 at the moment and you only have 15-ish parts left. (I'm forcing myself to finish working on ML, but I'd rather move on to greener pastures / stories, which is a lot more fun -- for me! But if I don't work on ML now and send it on to LabRat, I'll never do it. So, I'm writing one day, editing the next. My next drama story - the first draft - is already 9 parts long; oh, and I also snuck in and wrote a scene for the sequel to ML, but so far it isn't even long enough for an entire part.)
Oh, dear, my Trask dreams are getting predictable.
So long as he’s honest to himself the rest of the time…
He loves her, he wants her to be safe, he simply doesn't trust her at the moment.
“Either you stay permanently, or you can just leave.”
Well, he started it by moving out! She didn't want him to feel pressured into staying. (Plus, maybe a bit of reverse psychology.)
Still denying instead of ignoring the problem?
How exactly would Lois 'ignore' the problem?
Poison Ivy’s into plants, not technology, although, Technical Fields could mean labs and stuff, too…
That would be the latter.
Like she tried with her extended weekend with Alt-Clark?
Okay, so she's still a little angry with Clark.
So, he tried to obviously turn her off of him? Like that never backfires.
He had a 50/50 chance.
/imagines Batman starting interviews with “I may have hit the guy but I’m a good guy.”

"I only dented him a little bit!" Batman is still fairly new on the scene for my story.
Well, Jimmy’s the same, so…
Yeah, what's up with those two...
Is he worried that the Kryptonite damaged him?
Actually, no.
Yeah, that must have really thrown him off the Clark is Superman bit.
I hear that Bruce is good at looking at the entire picture, not just little corners that people show him.
Yeah, sometimes hanging out with Clark rubs off.