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For those of you who read Another Lois , I hope you now see what an uphill climb it was for Lois (and H.G. Wells) to find the missing link to save Tempus, and therefore, Clark. Oh, did I mention recently? .

/promptly checks in all throwing knives, explosive fruits, and other harmful weaponry that may or may not be stashed on my person/

I have no use for them tonight. This was great! Absolutely perfect way for Tempus to be destroyed without Superman. At first, I kept guessing about who was who, but I must say the way you ended it was brilliant. And very cute, how one couple started it all.

Edit: Actually, I seriously tried throwing knives the other day whilst at a friends house, awaiting the impending eclipse- and I sucked at it. So I can take those back now. It's the bow and arrows and pellet guns you've got to watch out for- I've got pretty good aim.

While I haven't read Another Lois yet, I liked how you explained all the little things that an event can effect. It never quite sat right with me how Tempus was so uncaring about changing the past (though he was actually necessary to have it go as it should, so Lois and Clark seems a more whatever happened, happened type of time travel. ) And good on you for mentioning Nightfall among others. I think Tempus wasn't very much of a planner after all.

Edited to add something I thought of after posting.

Another time Nightfall was brought up in regards to Tempus in Margaret Brignell's only you series. It was sort of Tempus' last gasp to destroy Utopia by sending an asteroid at Earth. Good series about the Alt-Dimension if you haven't read it.

I'll preface this by saying that I haven't yet had the chance to sit and read Another Lois yet. Darn muse is running me ragged on my end, every free moment I get it seems.

Awww! Love that description.

Awww!

Oh dear.

Not good.

Interesting... Is she Tempus' mom? And the drunk is his father?

Ah...that's cool.

Ah, so she is *not* Tempus' mom, but this new lady.

Oooh! A twist!

Oooh! So evil! Clark's actions caused Tempus' eventual birth!



Oooooh!


Fun little story! I love the twist!

Nice game of connect the dots! Good job! Laura

So does this mean that Tempus wiped himself out in the "Another Lois" universe?? Those evil masterminds, always so short sighted.

Joan

Works for me - Tempus should have erased himself from history the first time he appeared, the mechanism is great fun.

An extra thank you to all of you who read this who didn't read Another Lois first. As you now know this is a stand alone theory /story, which is why I posted it separately from my other stories. I would also like to send out another shout out to my super Betas: Mrs. Luthor and IolantheAlias for all of their hard work.

Deadly Chakram: Hey, I'm okay with you using your spare time writing instead of reading. While I miss your wonderful FDK, I get great stories to read.

Shucks. Thanks.

Not 6 degrees of separation yet. Anyway that doctor is almost 50 and the young man in his 20s. Not to say that type of relationship is impossible, more improbable.

Think of all the people Superman "saved" because he saved this woman's father. It's a ripple effect. By stopping the bomb and allowing the pilot to live, this woman who became a doctor was able to be conceived, and she saved many people over the course of her life, all thanks to Superman.

Tempus is from the 23rd century, so no.

Yep, it's all about who you know. The hurricane caused by the flap of one butterfly's wings.

Well, Clark working for the Daily Planet, meeting and falling for Lois, and then becoming Superman and rescuing the Prometheus all were needed for Tempus' ancestors to meet. So, yes, I'm evil.

Thank you. I figured Tempus would love the irony. Me to Tempus: (At least he's not vendictive or anything, right? Right? I'm going to regret that, aren't I?)

Laura: Thanks. Ooooh. I love connect the dots.

Joan: Yep, that's right; Wells comes up with the same theory but for different reasons. It's hard to be an evil mastermind and care about what happens to all the little people.

I've moved my post to the "Another Lois 25/25" fdk thread, because when I wrote it I didn't realize this was a stand-alone, and people reading it might not have already read "Another Lois," and might not want to read spoilers to that story. So... off it goes!

As far as straight-forward feedback for this story: I liked it. A nice take on the butterfly effect.

Vicki: I will answer most of your comments back on the Another Lois[/i]: The Epilogue FDK , if you don't mind. BTW, there was a reason I posted this:

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I hope you now see what an uphill climb it was for Lois (and H.G. Wells) to find the missing link to save Tempus, and therefore, Clark. Oh, did I mention recently?

at the beginning of this comment section.

I actually made this story intentionally vague on to which Lois and Clark (and Tempus) this involved. It [i]could be canon Lois and canon Clark, or it might not be.

Ooooh! What do have here?
Let’s see…

Lois and Clark?

Yep. And their first meeting.

Michael

Michael: Got bored reading Another Lois and decided to jump ahead, I see. Well, I guess you were close enough to the end, it doesn't really matter if you read this now. It's okay to finish it, I promised not to let anything happen to Lois, during the course of the story, you wouldn't approve of.

No, Lois and Lex. :rolleyes: Of course it was L&C, who else?

Okay, you were right about this one too.

What, you think that Tempus pulled a vendetta on L&C because they didn't tip well?

Hey, I had no idea that this was story No 2 after Another Lois. Does this mean Wrong Clark is the final story in the trilogy? Michael

No, just a bonus vignette. It's too short to be considered a "book".

Let's just say, I'm leaving that up to the reader's imagination.

Translation: and

Yes. /shifty eyes/ Read 'ahead'. You could call it that. /gently points Virginia to Sue's awesome dedication in Part 1 and Part 1's FDK/

/more shifty eyes/

Michael

But I also read something (a rumor perchance) about her withholding parts to torture you.

After I finish Book Two of my Wrong Trilogy I'll still have to write and post Book 3. I -- for some strange reason -- cannot see that finished posting before the end of this year. And then I can finally get back to my sequel of Missing Lois (which if I get my act together and give myself time every day or so to check the redline version my Super G.E. sent me, will hopefully make it to the Archives sometime this year.)

And Ken has promised at least two, if not three, more books of his Matchmaker Chronicles and with him still not even half way through posting the current one and him posting only twice a week, I cannot see those finished posting this year either. Logic, my dear Watson. Logic.

/pst/ Nobody never said nothing about torture.

Very true. Very true, that.

Michael