Thank you for that little bit of humour about where the complaints should go, Jenni!
But there is no cause for complaints here, but rather very much the opposite. This is a lovely part which put such a happy smile on my face.
Let's return to the humour for a little while. I loved this:
He really did want to go home. How could he have been such a lunkhead? And an even worse thought came to mind... was this one of his less endearing character traits?
As a non-native English speaker who don't live in an English-speaking environment, I'm always wondering what it is I'm not getting when I come across words that I don't know. Nevertheless, I've always thought of "lunkhead" as a word that probably doesn't exist in the English language. I've thought of it as a pure "Lois and Clark" word, not even a word that belongs to the wider Lois and Clark universe, but as a word that Lois and Clark use between themselves to describe Clark's more or less charming stupidity. Assuming I'm correct about this, I found it so endearing that Clark would think of himself as "a lunkhead", and ask himself if this was one of his less endearing character traits.
I completely loved this, too:
"Sometimes, what I try to say come out all wrong. I guess I'm just not good with words anymore, which probably surprises you, since I was a journalist once upon a time."
A little grin twitched Lois' lips. "Actually, strange though it seems, you were never great with words when it came to your personal life, though you did get better with practice."
Hah! I've been reading Sue S's wonderful Revisionist History lately, but I've been going crazy about Clark's inability to talk about his feelings and express his love for Lois in words in that story, and I've been going on and on about it in my comments. I love it that you call attention to the same flaw of Clark's in this story, Jenni!
And then there is the whole last part of this chapter. I feel it is a little too long for me to quote all of it, but I absolutely loved the way Lois explained to Clark that it didn't matter to her if he never got his powers back, or if he never could be Superman again. She loved
him, Clark, not the powers that made him Superman. And I loved, completely loved, that brief, feather-light kiss between them. Most certainly I also loved Lois's request that Clark trust her, that he dare to put himself in her hands, and his promise that he did, and would. And, of course, I loved Matt's elation.
The happiness and hope and
love between Lois, Clark and Matt in this chapter is, well, just so, so beautiful.
Ann
More and more it gets obvious how much damage was done to him. I hope very much he will recover with the help of Lois and his family. I´m looking forward to reading that!
