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Five minutes earlier, Clark had leaned back in his chair. His story was filed and he had a couple of hours to Christmas shop. He still needed to find just the right thing for Lois. He glanced over at her, sitting nose to her computer screen, and smiled. He sighed. That other Clark was right. He was the luckiest man alive.

Lois turned to him and smiled. “Clark, what time are your folks getting in next Tuesday?”

He searched his mind, but it was a blank. All he could think of was her smile. He shrugged. “I can’t remember.”

“Could you give them a call and find out? I’m trying to schedule an interview with the Mayor.”

“OK.” Maybe he could get her to take off early this evening as well. He could make dinner reservations at his favorite restaurant, Chez Kent. Clark dialed the phone, but didn’t take his eyes off his wife. It was ringing off the hook. Where were his parents? He glanced at the television to see if that storm hit earlier than they were expecting.

“Martha, check and see if you can get me a box of Double Fudge Crunch Bars, could you?”

“Lois?” he asked. It couldn’t be Lois. He was looking at Lois. She was still at her desk. But he would recognize his wife’s voice anywhere. And who else would want a box of Double Fudge Crunch Bars, Lois’s favorite chocolate vice? Whoever it was was still on the line. He heard her swallow.

“He’s gone into this super protective mode. I’m not allowed to fly. I can’t go anywhere in Metropolis unless someone from his approved list goes with me. I’m not allowed to taunt super villains anymore.”

Sam compromised only so far as insisting that the time machine – who knew that H.G. Wells had left one with Clark? – would be brought to her as opposed to her being to flown to it.

I won’t leave the apartment, I promise. Who knows what all this interdimensional travel is doing to the baby?”

“Are you actually worried about the baby’s safety or do you hate being sent away like some poor defenseless woman?”

“Both,” she growled.

Superman stepped off the machine and then spun into his Clark clothes. Lois put a hand to her mouth. That was her Clark’s move.

“Sorry, but it really is more convenient.”

Clark glanced at him skeptically. “She’s never admitted that I’m right before. You must have misheard her.”

“No. He heard me correctly,” Lois said reentering the room with snow boots on her feet, her heavy coat on and a small suitcase in hand. “It might never happen again, so savor the moment.”

He grinned. “Believe me, I am.”

A male voice spoke from the machine. “Lois Lane – DNA authorized and approved.”

“It’s been programmed only to work with you, me and Mr. Wells. Safety precaution, in case someone else stumbled across it,” Clark explained. Then he showed her how to reprogram the machine to return to his dimension.

“So, I turn this knob here. Set the date and time here?”

“No! Don’t touch the date and time knob or you’ll travel through time.

Lois nodded. She hoped she would remember two days hence.

She sighed. “No visiting Kal. No contacting Kal. No leaving the Kent farm for any reason whatsoever.”

She saluted him. “Yes, sir. Martha knows I’m coming, right?”

Clark’s eyes went wide as saucers.

“Can I stay for the weekend? Clark’s worried about our safety,” she said, setting her hand on her tummy.

You know, it's still funny that time-traveling is considered safer for the little one than flying.

Won't the baby get IDTT-sickness when it's born in one dimension and then move to the other?

Lois got herself an obedient clone, is now hiding somewhere until the clone's gone to visit her Clark, and then pop back out!

So, what happens when Lois's DNA changes again a bit after she's over there?

So, they're leaving a function interdimensional timetravel device in Lois's care? Are they *crazy*? Didn't they read "There's No Place Like Home?"

Huh. Did she get nudie pics done?

Huh. And what a big D.E.!

That'd be a good way for introducing the flashback from a couple of parts earlier.

It's an obvious question?

And how are they going to hide Clark's and Rachel's lovechild?

Hmm... And we'll have great grandparents taking care of little Kara for a week or two...

So, is Alt-Lois going to be all Christmassy?

As long as he/she is returned to canon dimension within a reasonable amount of time that is.

Do you really think Lois would have anything to do with Clones? Really?