Thanks for the FDK!!
cookiesmom Thanks. I just love that you said 'Poor Hodge'. Since his dubious entry into this series, I've been working to make him more likeable. If you felt even the slightest sadness at his demise, I'm
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Sarah Ditto re 'Poor Hodge' comment. Thanks!
You can handle five more chapters - it gets a little smoother from here.
Michael Was he the one to mug Lois?
I should have made this clearer. In the caravan, Lois asks Hodge if he put the note in her bag and he replies that he arranged it.
The actual 'who' is irrelevant to the story - he just paid someone to do it.
Initially, I had Lois asking 'who' but that whole scene was getting way too long, so I cut it out.
I have a question:
Why did the globe get crashed?
Because I need it crashed for a later fic.
I remember Nigel St.John saying that no force on earth could destroy or even penetrate it!
Hodge's bomb set off the K which we know is explosive. We also know K weakens stuff from Krypton (Clark). Put the two together ... and we have a smashed globe.
Does that work?
Bob Thanks for you FDK, Bob.
I was sure that they had grabbed Clark with the knowledge that he was Superman. But this being Trask and all makes that quite believable.
Phew!!
Now about the K and taking Clark to the hospital.
Firstly, I find it fascinating when people see things in my stories that weren't consciously put there by me!
I never even considered this line of thinking.
Lois has a 'hunted' mindset. She doesn't know if Trask is still alive. She doesn't know if Henderson is alive or even if he's a good guy or a bad guy. She doesn't know who is trustworthy and who still believes she and Clark can be used to bring down Superman. She trusted Scardino and got burned.
And if she went to the hospital, can she be sure no one there has been infiltrated by Trask? What if they insist she leaves Clark?
At this point, Lois isn't going anywhere there is the slightest possibility she could be separated from Clark. And she's not trusting anyone either.
Her first thought is to get them hidden - so the cottage.
As for picking up the K - she wanted to take the spaceship ... but that was clearly not possible. So, she took the K so Clark would have something from his home. Remember back on the beach, they talked about how isolated he felt?
Did she join the dots and realise it could be the thing harming him? No - but given she's just been bombed, seen Hodge die, seen the man she loves battered (when she thought he was invulnerable) and her mind is full of who may still be out there wanting to kill them ... maybe it's understandable.
Thanks everyone for your FDK.
Next part later today.
Corrina.