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Superman is starting to worry me... I know in the original premise Wells was going to take him back before he left so his memories would be gone like in Tempus Fugitive... but its really unsettling to see his memories altering that substantially...

Other than that... good build up of tension... I can't wait to see how BatP and HoL turn out...

And it's always hard to see Lois miss Lex so easily >< And especially to be so hypocritical about it... again I like how your Clark calls her on it too... she is being just as set in her opinion as he is... but then we, the readers, know he's right... so it's harder to see her perspective.

I agree with Lieta. It's very scary to see Superman's memories altering as time goes by. And Lois, getting the Lex proposal? At least now Clark has told her his suspicions and they'll percolate for awhile. I can't see Lois saying "yes" now that Clark has shown her his evidence.

Or maybe she would, just to prove a point of some sort. That would be so Lois.

It's always a big debate between FoLCs - if Clark told Lois his suspicitions about Lex Luthor, would she agree with him or would it antagonize her more?

If he doens't tell her (the way he did in canon - he told her he was dangerous, but didn't tell her the reasons) than it looks like it's nothing but jealousy. And she doens't see any reason to listen to him.

But if he does tell/show her the evidence - it's nothing he can prove, so it looks like Clark is out to get someone she considers a friend. And she becomes more defensive in this case.

In both ways, I think Lois ulimately feels Clark can't trust her instincts - and that hurts her. And Clark knows Lois can't trust his instincts. And that hurts him.

I can see both angles easily (especially with the story I'm writing, where Lois and Clark's daughter is in a similar situation.)

And Superman's conflicting memories is still making me very nervous. Can he go home? Will his marriage survive when and if he does? Do I dare read on? (of course I will.)

Evil, pure evil.

Visiting is losing it!

Lois is marrying Lex, nothing happen to cause her to have second thoughts at the alter so this Lois will likely end up Mrs. Luthor.

All those Superman Lex confrontations did not occur to him so his belief that Lex is evil is not as strong as canon Clark's feelings.

Thus this much more passive Clark is not likely to move into action as rapidly and as intensely as Canon Clark did in his efforts to bring down Luthor in time.

Thank you all for the comments. I'll come back and give more detailed responses later, but in case I don't get to it tonight, wanted to send a quick thank you so you'd know how much I appreciate the feedback!

Interesting, very interesting. What will this Lois do? Is her relationship with Clark strong enough for her to start questioning Lex? I never could get over how Lois did not question in depth Lex duplicating her apartment. What about her relationship with Superman? Will he interfere since he is no longer trying to preserve the timeline as strickly as before? Will she ask to see Superman? In fact, who is he (Superman) really? Lots of questions and alas I have no answers. Looking forward to upcoming chapters

Thanks again for the comments!

Sara - The plan is for Wells to take him back to shortly after he left, but not necessarily to erase his memories of being here. It's more so that Lois and the kids are not alone all that time. I don't deal with is exactly, but the idea of Superman forgetting his time here makes me sad. While he's definitely suffering right now, he's built a really strong relationship with this Clark - something he's never had before - both in terms of Clark being an equal in age and being a Kryptonian. While his role is a bit big brotherly, it's still more equal than his relationship with Jimmy. I don't think he'd want to forget that aspect of his time here.

You're right, IolantheAlias, it would be very like Lois to say yes to Lex just to prove a point to Clark. I just checked and Lois gives her answer to Lex in chapt 55. So, while I probably won't post until later, it won't be too long now.

Sara - Funny thing about Clark sharing his Lex' suspicions with Lois. That wasn't planned at all. I have to say, this story was written in sort of a strange way. I had the idea and started it - writing maybe the first chapter and a half or so. Then I tabled it for a long while. But while it was languishing on my hard drive, I would often think about it, knowing I intended to go back to it. And what happened in the interim was that a lot of the end was written. Not necessarily in the way you'll see it here, but short scenes with ideas for how I would weave the scenes together. So I've always known sort of where I was headed with this.

But I still haven't gotten to the place where I had stuff written yet (the first of it is in chapter 55), and so when I wrote this chapter and Lois asked Clark to see what he had on Lex, I sort of freaked out. It wasn't planned at all, and it really didn't fit with where I was going and yet, I couldn't seem to make her stop asking. I swear there was a little Lois in my head yelling at me, "I'm not that stupid!" over and over. I finally placated her by writing what you've seen, and then while she was quiet, gagged her before she could see that she wasn't going to buy Clark's evidence.

Wow, Patrick, your guess for where I'm going could just about end in one part. Lois says yes (do we need to see the marriage?), Visiting commits suicide (does he just offer himself to Luthor?), and Clark lives the rest of his life alone and sad...

I like happy endings, so sorry, you're stuck with one. But of course, that's why there's more than one chapter left. None of these characters are exactly poised for a happy ending here.

robinson - Sadly, Lois never questions Lex. Sorry. But then things in this universe start making much bigger departures from what we know soon, so as it turns out, this may make sense.

And who is Superman really? Sadly, I'm not sure that will be answered for awhile.

I have to admit, of all the chapters in this story, chapter 55 makes me the most nervous, so I hope you're all still with me tomorrow...

Okay. Hm, Lois didn't buy the evidence. She was a bit irrationally there, but you explained. Well, the outside of it

You know, Nancy, you did tell us that Superman is form an alternate universe, and of course he has to be since he has a different past. And yet, all the time he seems to have altered his future, err past, err whatever.

10 more parts

Michael

Michael - Isn't Lois being irrational just Lois being Lois?

Seriously, in her defense, Clark's evidence was circumstantial. He had a lot of it, but since she didn't listen to it all, I could see how from her perspective, thinking Clark is out to get Lex, it could come across like he was reaching.

I know, it's just, she seemed closer to Clark before Oh well.

On the other hand, there are two shiny, new parts up for my reading pleasure in the morning.

Michael