I'll preface this by saying that I haven't yet had the chance to sit and read Another Lois yet. Darn muse is running me ragged on my end, every free moment I get it seems.
Their waitress noted that they often held hands and caressed each other’s face – physically and sometimes with just a gaze.
Awww! Love that description.
The woman gazed at her husband and then chuckled. “No. We haven’t been married fifty years. This is the fiftieth anniversary of the day we met.”
Awww!
For that poor woman, that decision was a mistake and possibly for the rest of us as well.
Oh dear.
It was this night of drinking that caused the young man to end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning.
Not good.
Working at the hospital was a doctor, who wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the quick actions of one Superman.
Interesting... Is she Tempus' mom? And the drunk is his father?
Now, this doctor said something, her exact wording having been lost, to convince the man that drinking was not the solution to his problems. It was her kindness, understanding, and persuasiveness that made him finally agree to check himself into rehab and become sober.
Ah...that's cool.
While in rehab he happened to meet a young woman, also trying to become sober. They fell in love and, as people like to say, the rest is history. Together, this couple helped each other stay on the wagon, and in due course, were married and had two children.
Ah, so she is *not* Tempus' mom, but this new lady.
It was this second child, who while she was at college happened, on a whim, to bring her roommate home for Thanksgiving break and introduce her to her older brother’s best friend. This best friend of her brother’s, the oldest child of the man who got drunk after going on that horrible blind date with the waitress, turned out to be Tempus’s great, great grandfather. The college roommate of the younger child was Tempus’s great, great grandmother.
Oooh! A twist!
A meeting that would never have happened if Clark Kent hadn’t fallen in love at first sight with Lois Lane on the day they met all those years ago
Oooh! So evil! Clark's actions caused Tempus' eventual birth!
(of course, not taking in account Superman’s rescue of Earth from Nightfall, or the second-coming of a great flood, or Metropolis from the giant tsunami, or several deadly viruses, which for some reason, evil time-traveling masterminds never take into account)
he erroneously concluded it would be “safe” for him to go back in time and kill Superman as a baby.
Oooooh!
Fun little story! I love the twist!
