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Thank you all for reading. It's been a while so I thought I'd send another

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I did not expect Lois to learn of this so soon, from Cat.

Clark:It was Cat's idea to insinuate she was you, not mine.

One story is not shopping around for a new partner, especially when she is till going by Lois Lane.

That was before she took on the Laderman case, focused huge amounts of resources into the Luthor investigation that she refuses to tell him anything about, and neglected to call him about closing the Moskal story.

Actually the whole Cat inpersonate Lois plan was not his idea at all. Anyway Cat inpersonating Lois to work on an investigation does not really create perceived distance.

she really does trust Clark.

Actually since the curse applies only to her, maybe there is in theory. In practice I do not see that happening, but for reasons other than what Lois thinks.

Lex is not acting like an only associate.

What if he thinks she really has broken up with him?

Then she should stop hiding so much of her professional life from him.

Or at least not gone out with Luthor again the next day. I would say she has gone on four dates with Luthor. There is no way to not count his driving her home from the Majic Club. I mean, they were drinking champaign together.

I think she is underestimating how much it hurt him to have his secret date with Lois cut in on by Luthor.

I guess this will help, a little.

It would not have been quite the same since Lois was not presenting a false front to Superman.

I seem to have forgotten that.

It's not paranoia if you really are being watched.

Dr. Klein is here. They really should have introduced him much earlier in the show.

She begans to admit the truth.

That only works if Clark knows it. If he doesn't, it still tears him up a lot.

Interesting view. Probably because Luthor figured that Superman seeing Lois die would cut him up so much he would stop being Superman.

Why not just send it to Clark?

So Dr. Muldoon figured that she needed to be the one to bring the resources to keep people alive through pregnancies in the New Dawn. OK, that was Smiley's line, but it works with Luthor's arc too.

He is going to tell her The Secret.

Wait, I though we were two days past the apartment incident?

But if he tells her, then as Superman he can warn her against Luthor. Come on Clark, trust Lois.

If you tell her the Secret you can unhoodwink her, right Clark?

So now she has told him she knows, without making it clear.

Interesting that she tells him this.

Maybe she thinks he has multiple personalities?

Does she really think these facts relate to him being Superman? Although, actually she might be right.

I think I am now confused? Is Clark right that she was not talking about Superman, or has she just managed to misdirect him because she is off base in her idea of why he came to earth.

So did she just promise to not use Ck=SM against him, or is she talking about something else?

But they are fake dates. Although without Lois making it clear what her goals are this is not really evident.

This makes no sense.





Now it makes sense. Although, without her in the picture does she really expect an attack from Lex's goons? Is she trying to misdirect Clark even more.

Now it makes sense.

Now that was a low blow.

Clark:Then why were you so quick to run off with him when he said he had something for you?

She does have a good point. Clark really had to tell Lois he was going with Linda for the jealousy plan to work at all.

she told him. Although I was so, so hoping he would tell her The Secret. I am very he didn't.

touching.

Even better.

Now if he would only believe her.

Lois:I'm not the one who is working with someone posing as my partner.

he will go to her place. Hmm, will he find that the voyer has returned?

He still has issues.

Have them kiss! Have them kiss!

more touching.

Lois only knows Clark's second biggest secret; she just doesn't know that he has a bigger one.

I like this twist on their conversation. There's so much that they're trying to convey but not say. I was confused here, though:

I can't remember what was going on when they were at the Lexor. That's not when they broke up, is it? And I'm not sure which chapter it would be in to go re-read. I'm sure once someone points it out to me, I'll remember what Clark's referring to.

Lois totally has no idea that she just totally slipped up. Or else it was completely intentional to throw Clark off-balance to make him more compliant. I'm not sure which. Probably the former.

Boo for Lois acting manipulative like Lana. I wonder if Clark's protesting will make her more or less likely to repeat it. Cannon Clark seemed to like Lois acting like this, but experience can sure make us react differently to the same things.

Good chapter. I like all the Lois-Clark interaction. I was a bit disappointed, though, that Lois didn't follow Clark out to corner him in some secluded corner of wherever he was going to look up those drugs in order to get some... quality time. Oh, well. At least they're talking. And if all their positive interactions are physical, that's a pretty shallow relationship. Still, smoochies are nice.

I don't think this is "issues" so much as hating being manipulated by high-maintenance, self-centered girlfriends. He doesn't want Lois to think that she can just bat her eyelashes at him to get him to do whatever she wants. She keeps demanding that he always defer to her and believe whatever she tells him, no matter how much it contradicts appearances, without giving him any reason whatsoever to trust her. She can't just keep claiming "trust me" indefinitely without showing him that she's trustworthy. On the other hand, there's a fine line between demonstrating that you won't be manipulated and just being belligerent. I don't think he crossed that line here, but if she keeps pushing his buttons, that's the way this would go.

Love this line from Cat:

It's always fun to see Cat and Lois sparring.

And leave it to Lois to be ready to throw Linda King under the bus!

Joan

Okay, fav lines from this episode of As the Cape Flaps:

Thank you all for the comments.
LOIS: Well, that would explain a lot.



Lois is just showing a different side of her anger. She knows the only reason Clark would ask Linda out would be to make her jealous, so she gave the opposite reaction to freak him out.



LOIS: Because he's my SOURCE! I thought he had INFORMATION for me!
CLARK: :rolleyes:

CLARK: Well, she didn't tell me about her 'dates' with Luthor, and I was still pretty jealous when I found out about them after the fact.

-- Continuation of Response to John's FDK --
Maybe someone should tell him to read between the lines?

Freudian typo that worked beautifully.

How Lois keeps Clark confused during her investigation.

So did canon Clark.

His future grandchildren doesn't mean they aren't hers.

CLARK: I just love it when she calls me "partner".

LOIS: Exactly!

Has the Voyeur returned?

See Mrs. M's note about this. She's spot on! He still has issues but it's more about the manipulation.

The lack of a kiss will be explained in Part 114. <<that and they're standing in the bullpen>>

Thanks for your FDK!

mrsMxyzptlk:
Sadly, this arc isn't about the smoochies; it's more about the A-Plot and how hard this undercover assignment and the non-relationship relationship ruse are.
LEX: <<clears throat>> Again, I'd be more than willing to do... /looks at the word 'smoochies' and absolutely refuses to say that word in reference to himself as it would be out-of-character/... *kissing* with Lois. I know in our contracts it says "Lois is only to kiss Clark" but my lawyer has been looking at the wording and since she has already broken the contract by kissing Superman, we feel that there is room for negotiation.
CLARK: No.
LOIS:
LEX: So... that's a maybe?

Spot on!

Thank you for your FDK.

Joan: Thank you for the comments. I'm glad some of my readers appreciate Cat, even if only for her verbal sparring with Lois.
LOIS: Beaten up, thrown under a bus, whichever. Linda deserves it. <<wanders over to the Nfic board to spout some political non-correct terms about her former friend>>
CLARK: <<wryly>> At least Lois isn't jealous or upset because I'm acting like she is.

Thanks for reading.


Kismatt: Okay, it looks like we have a winner! I love your subtitle for "Wrong Clark":
I'm sooooooo stealing that!

Spiffy! I was wracking my brain trying to figure it out, but your change clarifies it perfectly.

Sigh. I guess I'll have to slog through your interesting A-plots then.


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Well, this is the furthest into a story before he tells her, ever, so I do have grounds to complain. He has chickened out more times than I can count.

that he is still not fully trusting her.

But canon Lois had amended loving him with "like a brother".

So does she think this is a bigger secret than that SM=CK, or is she just trying to make sure he does not guess that she knows CK=SM?

So she actually promised to notuse either against him.

I guess in theory this will get him to stop trying to make her jealous.

Clark:He said "something" not "some information". In this one case Luthor was being absolutely truthful.

OK, so maybe Clark did not have to tell her, but she had to find out. If it remained a secret it would be a waste of jealousy building activities, and just horrendous, because then Clark would get nothing out of suffering through an evening with Linda.

I was re-watching the New Krypton arc and noticed that at one point near the end of "Through a Glass Datrkly", Zara is talking to Ching and says something about "our children".

But canon Clark did not have Lois going out with Luthor at the time, or have her tell him his secret was not worth her telling him.

True, but I still liked the our so much better.

It is definately a more friendly term than "college". It also has enough possible meanings that telling an amnesiac Clark that "Lois Lane is your partner" can give him the totally wrong idea (or maybe it is the totally right idea).

Well, I am hoping they kiss soon.

CAT: Because Clark only does Lois. Duh!
LOIS: Actually, apparently he does everyone *but* me.

She doesn’t sound angry at all.

It’s about an aspiring doctor who was so in student dept, she had to turning tricks to keep her credit rating at a sustainable level. And now she’s gone missing. Good thing journalism school’s much cheaper than studying to become a doctor.
LINDA: Only if you don’t try to sustain a drug habit.

See? All Lois does is looking good in a mini-skirt propped on the hood of Clark’s car while he’s out solving cases.

Pulitzer.
LOIS: Where?

Oh, this will be fun if EW manages to sustain this until Clark leaves for the Met Star. Lois will be so ticked off, she’ll jump right into bed with the devil.
LEX: ‘rescue toy’ And yeah, that’s my favorite pet peeve. Why not have blackmail a guy into jumping out of a plane without a chute and when Superman comes to rescue him, he gets the Kryptonite out?
LEX: Why would Lois need resucing? It’s much more likely that Superman would collapse on her living room floor.


I do wonder though, why would Lex leave the watch on Lois when he has her kidnapped himself instead of Church doing it? Unless she just ends up a floater, and then Superman can use the homing signal to get her out before she’s too much chewed up by the fish.

Ooooh!

Hmm… I did wonder that when she walked in. But since Lois now thinks so too, nah, she’s just Ralph bait.

Did Cat just paint a target on her chest for Lex to aim at?

Michael

Oh, the, I still have time to change your mind. Good. How about the Cat in Louis and Clara. I liked her.

LOIS: I've found it difficult to make Clark think anything other than what Clark wants to think.
CLARK:

LOIS: Because "separate" stories doesn't mean stories with other people!

LOIS: Say, WHAT?
CLARK: Nothing, Minha.

Doc Hamiliton came from the comics canon, but I agree with you that he was culpable in TOGOM.

I'm sure that if there had been a S5 Dr. Klein would have been a series regular.

CAT: Depends on the circumstances.

Well, by the time this story is finished it will be longer than any story on the Archives (save Nan's Home, had it been one story instead of a series), so I grant you that, but it never was meant to be. Because I fleshed out some of these episodes more than gloss over them, I've had to make Clark and Lois be interrupted more than I meant to originally. Now, it's fun just to try and find new ways to interrupt their conversations. But, alas, this cannot go on forever.

Out of the two, which secret would Clark want to tell LESS people that CK=SM or that he can't complete the sexual act? I'm thinking the latter. Nah, you were right, she's telling him the truth and then covering it up with subterfuge.

LOIS: Why would he tell me he has INFORMATION for me in front of Superman? Really!

Oh, I don't think I've ever noticed that, but then again, it's been a while since I watched that arc.

Darth Michael: Thank you for your entertaining comments.
Actually, Lois doesn't know that, but otherwise

Cheating on her body was one thing, but cheating on his partner! That's worse than cheating on one's wife!
CLARK: Uh... no.

LOIS: Or a chocolate habit.

LOIS: Who does Clark think he is? Remington Steele?
CLARK: Uh... no. Man of Steel.
<<ba.dum.dump.>>
/Crickets chirp/

LOIS: (cont.) There's no Pulitzer on *my* desk!

LOIS: I'm not *that* hard up. I'd jump into bed with Jimmy first.
JIMMY: Uh... Sorry, Lois, but I'm kind of dating your sister, long distance relationship and all, so... no.
LEX:

That would be a "no". And, Clark, we're the "evil" people.

What's that for? Her hair?

Okay, not "Cat" or "Linda" professional, but businesswoman professional.

Apparently, Eugene stole it from an evidence room or something? Can't remember off the top of my head where it got it, definitely at the courthouse. She's just waiting for the appropriate way to depose of it.
CLARK: <<hands on hips>> This sounds like a job for Superman!

CAT: Don't be ridiculous! I love Metropolis and the Daily Planet. I'd never leave. Unless it was bombed and I was out of a job or something.

Poor Lex. He thought it meant that they'd both be there.

Only as a last resort.



Glad you enjoyed.

Well, if one were to calculate how much time Superman spent rescuing Lois vs. how much time he spent in her living room...
LEX: Too much math. As long as he doesn't die in her bedroom.

Perhaps he's too distracted by her beauty to remember it's a homing device on her wrist. Or that she's too stupid to have it checked out and the signal recorded.
LOIS: And this is why he'll always fail.

-- Continuation of Response to Michael's FDK --
RITA: Re-write over here! Re-write! I don't want to be Ralph bait!

LEX: /glances up from co-ed/ Huh? What was that?
EW: Nope, she slipped on past.



See! Cat's not so bad a reporter.

Kind of defeats the purpose to moving here though, doesn't it?

CAT: He can kiss me and wipe my memory clean. /Oh, wait that was an LLF story/

CLARK: I do *not* wet the bed!

LOIS: In other words, "no".

CLARK: Nowhere. Nowhere is that appropriate!



CLARK: I guess that could work as long as I don't talk to myself in the third person. Oooooh! But that's so hard!

Would that be me or Lois?
LOIS: You! You're the one always putting words into my mouth.

Yes.

No, I'm saving that for later.

Better kiss it better.
LOIS: Not on the newsroom floor, he doesn't. <<grabs Clark's arm>> Into the supply closet.

Are you *sure* about that?

Beat up Linda King?

/Place image of Lois exploding like a nuclear bomb here, please/

LOIS: Exactly! It prevents me from having sex.
CLARK: /considers this/ So, it means it wouldn't trigger the curse that way? Okay! Let's go! Deserted Island Time, but the watch stays here.
LOIS:

*FUTURE* Grandchildren. Not any that they have now.

So, in other words, Eugene Laderman is toast?

CLARK: No, no, no. *That* voice doesn't lead to sex. Trust me on this.

Actually, I have to admit that Cat here in this story is probably not as bad as I make her out to be. If it was not for her fighting Lois for her proper place as Clark's best friend I might not dislike her as much as I do. That was one thing I liked about L&C, Lois was always Clark's best friend.

Actually though, that is why on thinking about it, Clark proposing before telling her he was SM was so distressing to her.

I think the discussions that we have had on "should Clark propose before telling Lois he is SM" miss a big point. If Lois was primarily Clark's love interest, that would work. However, the fact that Lois can still want to be friends with Clark when she is engaged to Luthor, show that the relationship is more than just love.

So there is another question. At what point does a friend become so close that Clark should tell them. If Clark had told Jimmy before Lois, it would have made Lois really mad. True, here Clark did not tell Cat, she just figured it out, but I understand why Lois finds this disturbing, and I feel for her.