There Is No Spoon, I'm glad you enjoyed the story. BTW, your moniker is intriguing.
AntiKryptonite, Tempus really is the villain we all love to hate, isn't he?
Darth Michael, thank you for giving me the opportunity to say something I hadn't been able to work into the story. Here's the timeline:
Tempus traveled back in time to when Kal-El was a baby to save Krypton. Kryptonians observed earth remotely for about two decades. During that time, Kal-El spotted and fell in love with a young Earth woman who had recently been hired by a certain newspaper. It is in large part because of her that he agrees to leave his planet of origin to reside in a foreign land.
He arrives on earth in the mid 1990s. Wells convinces him to take a brief trip to the future to capture Tempus. After Tempus is incarcerated, Kal-El is then returned to the past, where he woos Lois.
I think this story has some interesting possibilities for an alt-beginning, but work is keeping me too busy these days to put in the time necessary for a lengthy story. (My recently posted "Echolalia" is probably about as long a story as I am likely to write any time soon, and that one flowed as I wrote it.)
I like your story twist. It would have added yet another layer of irony. I wish I had thought of it!
Joy,
Lynn
