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I like how Henderson doesn't confirm it. VERY clever. I especially like that Lois didn't catch on the first time. I bet she kicked herself later.


Elisabeth

In situations like this one, I always point my finger accusingly at the same party. Clark! Well, consider. He lies to his partner for at least about a year, and then he accidentally reveals his secret to her. She accepts the whole thing in stride, is not mad, admits that she may have provoked him to lie to her, and declares her love for him. And he sulks?

What makes Clark so sullen is that he doesn't know if Lois loves him for him. That is to say, now that Lois knows that the non-superpowered farmboy doesn't exist, she doesn't love that part of him (since it doesn't exist, since no part of Clark is non-superpowered). So now he can't know if she would ever have loved him for the non-superpowered guy that he wanted her to believe that he was. Oh noooohhh!!!!

Well, clearly - the problem here is Clark. He must come to terms with who he really is, and he must dare to present himself as the man he really is to the woman that he loves.

Coming to terms with who he really is can't be easy for a man like Clark. Let's face it, he is an alien. He really is. That is a hard thing to admit to the woman that he loves. Perhaps Clark was thinking that if he could manage to make Lois love the non-superpowered façade that he shows to the world, then that façade would get vindicated, and it would become, sort of, the real thing. Lois loves the ordinary farmboy disguise and the ordinary farmboy disguise becomes a real man. If Lois loves him as an ordinary human being, then he becomes an ordinary human being. And then he belongs.

Well, newsflash, Clark. Things don't work that way. Lois can't make your Kryptonian genes go away. (Besides, are you really sure you would want her to? Would you really, really want to be absolutely normal and non-superpowered? Don't you want to keep your powers and just find a way to make your alienness go away?)

Being an alien has a lot to do with loneliness for Clark. As an alien, he is the absolutely only one of his kind on the Earth. Lois can't make that aspect of his loneliness go away. Clark must come to terms with the fact that she can offer him her love, her complete acceptance, but she can't change his heritage or his DNA.

In the end, the solution can't be that Lois just pleads with Clark. She is not the one who must change her ways or her outlook here. Clark is. If Clark won't believe her, then maybe she should inform him, gently, that they should stop seeing each other for a while, so that he can make up his mind about whether he is able to love and trust her, and whether he can believe that he deserves being loved by her for the man that he really is.

Ann

Clark thinking if Lois has ever lied to him on the important things... loved the role-reversal and all the little tidbits in this terrific story! And yay for Lex Luthor being investigated...

Looking forward to the resolution of... the B-plot

Loved it Carol! Can't wait for the next part.

I need to amend something I said in my previous post. I guess I made it sound as if Lois was asking for some sort of "justice" or tit for tat - if you don't believe in me, I don't believe in you. Here is my love, take it or leave it and butt out if you can't shape up.

But that is certainly not what Clark needs to hear in his present vulnerable state. If Lois really loves him, and I think she does, she should tell him so. And she should tell him, too, that if he has any hope for their love at all, she will wait for him.

Ann

Hi Carol

I'm sorry not to have posted feedback earlier, but I've been sort of strapped for time lately. Anyway, I really like those HiM settings where Lois and Clark find creative ways to solve the one big bed dilemma. And the way Lois didn't blow up, well

Michael

Carol, I'm sorry it's taken me this long to get round to reading this part!

I loved it, and if you post the next part soon I promise I'll be quicker at reading it and therefore leaving feedback.

- Alisha (with her fingers crossed behind her back... just in case)