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Anti-K reminded me of that great show that was canceled before it got a chance to get off the ground. In "Flash Forward" the characters (everyone on Earth actually) pass out and live somewhere between roughly 3 minutes in the actual future (not as their past selves but as their future selves, memories, and thoughts).

What if something similar happened in S1 LnC, where the characters all flashed forward to S3 or S4 and saw, let's say, 3 minutes of their future. Which 3 minutes would it be?

For reference (for those of you who never caught the show), people who were dead in the future saw nothing. (Oh, yeah, and a lot of people died when everyone on Earth passed out, but that was part of the fun ) The focus of destruction could be limited to Metropolis (or those people within the Daily Planet), sounds like the kind of lab accident that Lex Labs would perform.

Would Lois wake up knowing that Clark was Superman? Or would she only know that they were married and/or that she loved him? I could see Lois freaking out if she saw herself in love with Clark and instead of telling him that, deny seeing anything. Then when it was discovered that all those who saw nothing were dead in the future, it would certainly freak Clark out. Clark would wake up knowing that Lois would eventually love him. Would he panic wondering if now Lois knew the truth about how CK=S? (Duh! Of course, he would.) How would it change their lives? What would Lex Luthor see?

What if they saw something that made them think the other was dead? (No one says they have to see something *good* about the future, after all.)

Like Clark seeing Lois "vanish" when Tim and Amber Lake snatch her up? Or when she was frozen to be presented to Mazik when he demanded her dead body? Or maybe Lois sees Clark disappear through the time window in Meet John Doe. Or maybe she sees Clark get shot in the club in TOGoM. Maybe that speeds up her willingness to tell him how she feels about him.

Sorry, my muse is being evil tonight.

Mwahahahahahahahaha...

I'm with DC on this one. Lots of potential for evil here. Lois could see herself standing in front of her own grave (S3) and then when she later discovers that the people who were dead didn't see anything, be utterly confused. I like the idea of Clark seeing Superman carry Lois' dead(well, not dead, but he wouldn't know that) body to Mazik. Or Clark could see one of the times when Mxyzptlk rewound time and things just kept getting bleaker (not likely, but fun). Superman breaking up with Lois for her own good- which would be fun from both perspectives...

Yeah. Now somebody definitely has to take this on, just so I can see what happens...

I do too. Sooooooo much potiential for angst!!!

How about those three minutes when Clark / Superman is trying to wake Lois up from having frozen her? Clark will think that he killed Lois and she's dead, and that he's unsuccessful in waking her. Lois would first think that she's dead, because she only got half a memory, and the other half will be remembering a) Superman froze her to death, and b) S=CK. How's THAT for Evil? :p What would Lois from early S1 think about THOSE events?

And it's not "seeing" oneself in the future, but "living" as oneself in the future. So, Clark wouldn't "see Superman carrying Lois", he would experience it.

Well, just to touch on what Mouse mentioned. If Lois sees her grave from the alt. dimension, it does have 1993 written on it. So this wouldn't work if the flash event was staged anywhere from the middle of season 1 foward.

But - what if Lois saw her grave and Clark experienced Lois' "dead" body in his arms, trying to revive her. After the event, they compare notes and come to the conclusion that Clark really *is* going to cause her death!!! Again, this would have to happen early season 1 for the 1993 to be valid in Lois' mind.

Well, on the "Flash Forward" show everyone saw the exact same 3 minutes of time. Like 10:02 - 10:05pm on such-a-such-a-date. That's how they were able to tie the events together and discover that they weren't just dreams but actual images from the future. If everyone had random images from the future, how would they know that the "flashes" were real?

The alt-dimension grave scene would work, as Lois wouldn't know at first that it was images of the future. She would see a tombstone that read she was going to die in 1993 (and of course, she'd think she as a ghost saw it, especially if she ran into HG Wells soon thereafter), and all Clark would remember is that Lois disappeared into thin air. If done early enough in S1, it would work and be pretty freaky. As long as Lois didn't touch her hair and notice it was short. Then she'd be terrified to cut her hair for the rest of 1993.

Was just gonna say that, Virginia. Also, Clark's 3 minutes without Lois would be compounded not only by the fact that she's simply not with him but that he literally couldn't hear or feel her presence anywhere. Ooh- but another side issue with that. How would time really work in that instance? Technically, Lois was gone for only about five minutes in 'real' time, but she was there for more than a day (or two?

Also, I had another thought. Clark flashes forward and finds himself in the middle of a marriage ceremony... to Zara. Lois' flash presents her with both knowledge of CK=S but also how helplessly in love with him she is. On the other hand, with Lois dealing with those revelations, Clark turns his attentions not to Lois, but to the mysterious population of New Kryptonians of which he previously had no knowledge. If it happens early enough in S1, then perhaps he doesn't even know his heritage yet. And so he engrosses himself with studying that and slowly draws away from a Lois who is finally beginning to accept things and reach out to him... Dang, the evilness just refuses to leave my system...

Flash Forward Challenge James posted something smiliar a few years ago, I've started a fic but my busy schedule at the moment kills my muse.
But I'd love to read if anyone would write such a story.

What if everyone but Clark flashed forward--not because he dies, but because of some Kryptonian difference? It would make for some interesting conversations when everyone starts comparing notes, particularly if Lois finds out CK=S.

Oh, right I had forgotten about that. Lois is gone for several days, but returns only like 10 seconds after she left. Would she then remember the whole trip to the other dimension or only three minutes of it? I guess you could make the call either way.

Or his Kryptonian genetics could cause him to flash to a different point in the future. That could be fun.

How about flashing forward about 18 years?

Clark experiences being in the middle of rescue work in a third world county assisted by a "Supergirl" who calls him Dad.

Lois experiences being accused by her teenaged son, floating in front of her, of cheating on her husband with Superman.

It would have to be at least 20 years, because Clark didn't start flying until he was 18. If "Supergirl" started flying around the same time and was approximately a year or two older than her brother, that would give her time to develop the Supergirl persona.

Yeah, that would totally freak Lois out because A) her father had been a cheater, and B) she'd know that sometime in the future she would be sleeping with Superman (wouldn't that put some ackwardness into their relationship), but marrying someone else . Or, of course, you could have the younger son be discovering some other super power (which developed earlier).

OR if you want to have LOTS of fun, you could have the flash happen BEFORE Lois meets Clark or before Clark develops the Superman persona.