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I love how when all else fails, Lois turns to the Planet. And I can't wait for more, =) Especially if we get to see something along the lines of:

"Clark, you need to sit down... ok, here's the deal... I'm from three years in the future, I'm your wife, and I know you're Superman... Clark? Clark?! Wow... I didn't know you could faint..."

Oh thank you! I kept checking to see if there was part two posted yet and look what you did! You posted chapter 2!

LOVED IT.

The reactions are very appropriate and I was giggling at the closet full of dead writers line. Hilarious!! I feel sorry for future Clark! It sure shows how much lois matured in the years she's been married to Clark.

so uh.. anytime you feel like posting chapter 3, feel free I'll be looking for it!

Yeah, but coy doesn't help me procrastinate, and this is three thousand times more interesting than work. :p Really solid part! 1995 must be a tougher year to be in...there's very few topics you can open with to prove you're from the future. :p

Looking forward to more,
JD

Thank god for your generous mood. Since here is already the 26th (my birthday) it felt like a present. thanks

I'm sure he would have done that if he could... and if she hadn't run away before he could've said anything.

I don't that did never happen to me, yet ... unfortunalety.

Lois starts babbling that's a good sign, isn't it?

Love your story please more soon

Please tell me that part 3 is up on Monday! Excellent. Lois is freaked in both times but in 1995 Clark is still happy and only fairly clueless.

I love how scared and lost, almost panicked, Lois from 1995 is when she realizes that she is in 1998. So often, when we meet time travelling in movies and stories, people just take everything in stride when they are thrown into another time. Well, I can tell you that I wouldn't, and I find it so appropriate that Lois doesn't either. This hit me like a punch at my solar plexus:

Her home isn't gone, but it isn't hers anymore. She has lost it. Her world is gone, like the little bistro that Lucy had loved so much, and the burgundy carpet of what used to be her building, and the keyboard with the worn-away 'e' (the most common letter of the English language) that she had used only this morning, only it was three years ago, and the nameplate that read only 'Lois Lane'. It is all gone. And she has been thrown into a future that she doesn't know, as lost and out of place as a dinosaur from the past.

Worst of all is that her Clark is gone. No, worst of all is the realization that he was never there: the charming farmboy from Kansas. He was Superman all along. And he fooled her so completely; and now she has found out that three years into the future he will have taken over her completely, too: married her, made her move to another home, changed her from 'Lois Lane' to 'Lois Lane Kent'.

No wonder that her first reaction to finding out about Clark's secret was a desperate need to run away. To preserve an ounce of herself.

Poor Lois. The best thing Clark could do for her that night was to make her see that not only was Clark Superman, but Superman was Clark:

It isn't just Lois's world that is gone from her, and it isn't just the horrible compounding factor that Clark is gone, the Clark she thought she knew. No, she is gone herself, too, the Lois she thought she was. The smart Lois. The Lois who saw through things and people that fooled others:

Yes, she had seen through Dudley Michaels. But what about Clark? She hadn't seen through him. The biggest deception act in Metropolis, no, in the world, had been playing out right under her nose, and she hadn't noticed a thing. Where was the hard-nosed cynical reporter that she prided herself on being? Her only consolation is that others have been fooled, too:

It is interesting how you show us that Clark's deception of Lois was a huge big deal for Lois, but not for Clark. For him, the problem was making Lois love and accept the farmboy side of him, because then, and only then, could he tell her the rest. That's why he knows so perfectly well how long the two of them have been married, but not how long Lois has known his secret:

Lois, on the other hand, knows another number very well:

Again, I love how you show us how weirded out Lois is by her entire situation. Nevertheless, she is a trooper:

So funny! So Lois!

I'm very much looking forward to more of this!

Ann

P.S. I like literary Lois:

Good, Lois! You have read your HG Wells and your Thomas More!

Wow I was happy to see this today. thank you. I am riveted to this story. I can't wait for more. I can understand Lois's reaction. I am waiting for her to start wondering about more, like: how is he as a lover? Do they have super sex? Is he different then other men in that department? Can he tell when she is aroused? etc...

Whee! Things are happening!

Tee-hee!

Very important question!

You know, I should be keeping track. But can you tell those of us who have forgotten (in a footnote or something) what the eight times were?

I'm impressed by your attention to detail. I remember in "Revisionist History", I think, where it was important how many times Clark/Superman kissed Lois. And how that was a big part of the honesty in the end. So when you put this in about how many times Lois has flown with Superman, it brings back good memories.

Meanwhile, with Lois98 back in 1995:
Ah, the Cassandra effect! You can tell the future but nobody will listen to you!

You've set up a ton of good questions. I can't wait to see where you're going next!

Don't be coy, post early and often! (Just like voting in Chicago.)

Hi Sue! I missed the FDK train for part 1, but I'm really enjoying this story, particularly seeing S2/pre-revelation Lois being tossed into the future. I loved many things about both posts, but the best is how you showed past!Lois 'freaking' out about being married to Clark and wanting to go home. The way you described her panic made me feel for her.

As always, the tiny details you give paint such a vivid picture of what's happening, both physically and emotionally for the characters. Like this... After all of the evidence, that simple card taped to her monitor is what finally convinces her. And it's so Lois to feel cheated out of the much anticipated first date.

Sorry if this has been quoted already, but this just made me ROTFL. I always love the way you mix humor with angst and always leave me curious about what will come next. Oh, and I love the bit about Star and how a psychic not knowing about Clark/Superman made Lois feel better.

Can't wait to find out what "important" thing future!Lois needs to tell Clark. More soon.

Sue's back! Sue's back!

I couldn't believe it when I got on boards today and saw a new Sue's story! And there were already two parts posted!!!!

Don't be coy, you can post next part whenever you feel like it. I won't complain if you post it twice a day.

Hail Queen Sue!

Andreia /giddy with happiness

Yeah, what they said. This is awesome, Sue -- I'm delighted to see you writing again! And this story is really wonderful so far, so post more of it soon, okay?

(we need an emoticon for pleading bambi-eyes...)

As for the plot or lack thereof -- well, one of my favorite Sue stories is Risorgimentio, which wasn't plot-heavy, either. So I'm good.

I'm not doing details 'cause I'm not supposed to be reading & FDK-ing at work but the "closetful of dead writers" comment was hilarious.

PJ

Oh wow, a Sue story. This is just great. Keep it coming!

Artemis

Okay, I know that I don't have the energy to mimic Ann's post and I read this first thing in the morning on my way to work and then work happened all I can remember now was *wee*, *yay*, *aww*,

So, is part 3 coming up on Tuesday?

Michael

I vote for Monday afternoon. I mean, after all, it's Monday... we need cheering up. Plus I have a nasty headache, and reading more of this story would surely make me feel better, and when it's in your power to help me, surely you wouldn't leave me to suffer???

Oh, no, wait. You're an author. You live to make readers suffer.

PJ

yay! Sue Story!
I loved the closetful of dead writers line, and *everything else*! can't wait for part 3

Yeah!

I'm glad it's working out this way. Lois has switched times with herself. She's taking a huge risk to either discover or prevent something she thinks they missed the first time at Bender's murder.

But does she realize just how huge this risk is? Will younger-Lois do something in older-Lois' time which will damage her credibility as a journalist? Will she change the past and either create a different time line or - worse yet - eliminate her own future? If so, will she change history so much that Wells can't put her back where she really belongs. Those are scary thoughts.

Like Ann, I laughed at the Thomas More reference. I don't know why no one else ever picked up on that. And the thought of a melange of dead SF authors dreaming up ways to mess up their lives is funny and frightening all at the same time. I just hope Robert Heinlein isn't among them. The Master would do all kinds of horrible things to them before allowing them to prevail. And you'd be feeding him suggestions.

Next part is when, exactly?

That would be fine

Holy fetch! Look what the feedback fairy brought me!

Oh yay!!! A new Sue story! I love how you've set this up, and I can't wait to see how it all plays out. And thanks for posting another part so quickly- but it just leaves me wanting more more MORE!!!



Adele

Dorky Dancing... wasn't that a teen movie, in the 80's?

Yes, we see how this works -- pay attention guys, it's our way of getting to the next part faster...

PJ