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Well, in this chapter you covered almost four years of Clark's and Lois's lives in the form of letters. And it worked very well, too. Some things were so heartbreaking to read:

The family moved away while he was at camp!!!! Incredible!!!

Oh no!!! Clark has started to accidentally set things on fire with his heat vision!

And then there is Lois's life:



At least Maisie's name is familiar and somehow friendly. But poor Clark has been branded a pyromaniac.

Lois got on her high school paper as a freshman! Yeah! And her parents are back together, and Ellen is off the bottle, at least for now.

But...

At the Lang's place??? He is with Lana??? Oh no!!!

Well, good. Wayne Irig is helping Clark, and Clark is working for Maisie on weekends.

Don't date her, Clark!!!!

Smart aleck!!!

He is envious! And I think he just misses her.







And Lois is dating others, too.

He could have come to Metropolis, but he didn't want to!

And she can't come to Midwest.

And he graduated, but she couldn't come, but now he's got his own telephone, so now she can call him!

Well, all in all that was a very interesting and satisfying way of covering almost four years of young Lois and Clark's lives, Carol!

Ann

There was so much in these letters, both in what was written and in what was written between the lines. He doesn't think he started the fires but he doesn't know. He doesn't want to live on-campus for several different reasons--heat vision and floating in his sleep come to my mind.

I like how you've woven the little details about Norcrosse and Judd in there, as well. And I can't forget why he was taking Rachel to the prom when he was seeing Lana. It was all so nicely thought out. Excellent work.

Elisabeth

This is a fun tale. I think it's really sweet that Lois and Clark keep up as pen pals for four whole years. And I do trust that they will manage to see each other again someday. :-)

This chapter was so sweet, Carol. I loved seeing Lois and Clark through the years. Letters tend to be interesting to read because people express themselves differently in a letter as opposed to talking face to face. So it was great to kind of read between the lines here.

I just had a thought. Wouldn't it be interesting if the first time Loia and Clark saw each other after camp would be when Clark applies at the DP? Of course, I have no idea if that's where you're going with this or not, but it would be interesting to see the chemistry, no?

The letter's were nice. Different but nice.
So, this means that all Clark has to do is win a Pulitzer together with Lois and then they are off to Vegas? And in the meantime, they will just move in together since they are now engaged?

Michael

Just wanted to say Carol, that I think late December is an excellent time for a birthday.

Poor Clark, yes, but at least one good thing came out of Dec 1976. Or is that a matter of opinion?

Ann - have I mentioned how much I love your feedback?! It's nice to see other people's reactions 'line by line' so to speak [yeah, I know I should do it too - it's what I try to do as a BR - not every line of course, but the thoughts running through my head...] I also think he *knew* how the second fire [and maybe the first one] started, but it's something he can mention in a letter [oh, by the way, my heat vision has been hard to control this week... ]. I tried to stick sort of close to canon in the sense that he dated Lana and went to prom with Rachel and Lois dated Joe in her 'date the quarterback' phase.

Elisabeth - I don't think Clark was as much 'with Lana' as going out a few times for lack of anything better to do. He'll tell Lois more about his deal with Rachel later. And you're right - one big reason why he wanted to go to Midwest was because he could live at home and not have to live on campus [like many Universities require for the first couple of years for out of area students]. The commute - if he's careful - won't be hard for him and he doesn't have to worry about roommates.

Amy - don't worry they will .

Beth - that would be interesting wouldn't it ? Kind of like seeing Lois and Kaylie switch bodies [to steal Terry's idea and push it as my own /me whistles innocently].

Michael - I'm not sure 'engaged' is quite the right word! As this chapter ends they are only 16 and 18 after all! And I think one of them may have been much more serious about the exchange than the other . I let you decide which one.

Gr8 - I'm glad that Dec is a good birthday! I'm sure Clark will be happier knowing that something good came out of Dec. 1976!!! Thank you for reading!

Thank you all so much for the feedback! I'm glad you liked it. The letters are a bit different and that worried me a bit, but I didn't want to just have a big long paragraph of 'then Clark started fires then moved to Maisie's then to the Lang's and dated Lana and took Rachel to prom then graduated'. I mean what fun is that ?

The next chapter will see the reunion between our two favorite reporter wanna-bes [because that's really all they are at the moment ]. From the little bit of speculation here, I'm guessing it's going to throw you guys for a bit of a loop in the sense that you may not see it coming [but not a bad loop - I don't think...].

Chapter 3 has been re-beta'd by Alisha and I'm really dying to post it and 4 is ready for rebetaing since I changed some stuff and Ch. 5 and 6 are done [I think - think I just tweaked a bit here and there] and am reading 7 now, but 8... 8 needs a lot of work. If I can get some of that done tonight [while DH is mowing] then I'll post part 3 early this week. 9 also needs a lot of work. Okay - basically I just convinced myself to consider a 2xs a week posting schedule if I can make any progress on Ch. 8 at all because that gives me two and a half weeks to get 8-9 done. Yeah, yeah, yeah - thinking out loud .

Thank you again guys - I appreciate it!
Carol

Oh, oh, please! *jumps up and down* I know. I know. It's Lois, right?

Michael