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“There is not a way you could have possibly phrased a proposal today, where I would have accepted it,” Lois went on.
Is Lois channeling Elizabeth Bennett here?


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Lois pulled open the door and announced loud enough for everyone else in newsroom to hear,
I think this should be "everyone else in the newsroom".


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smile1 Yes, both were wrong and dealt with this meeting badly. I love the irony of two people who work in the communications field who are so bad at communicating themselves.

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How do you spell lunkhead? Oh, yes, C-L-A-R-K K-E-N-T.
CLARK: Really, I thought it was spelled L-O-I-S-L-A-N-E, my bad.

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He should try telling the truth. If she believes he is a strange visitant from another planet, why wouldn't she believe he came from another dimension? mad
Because he has no way to prove it, or back it up with any cold hard facts. For some people, aliens are more believable than inter-dimensional and time-travel. Plus, she told him 'why should she believe anything that came out of his mouth'. At this point and time, bringing it up will just sound like more lies (in his opinion).

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Does he think Lois is so obtuse that she wouldn't understand time travel and multi-dimensions? razz Martha and Jonathan didn't know him, he didn't have any proof, he took their's son identity without asking them and even so they believed him. If simple farmers could understand multi-dimensions and alt-worlds, why couldn't a brilliant and intelligent reporter? [Gaaa! - Love the smilie, BTW]
Actually, Martha and Jonathan had proof. They knew about the baby with the S-shield who arrived in 1966 via spaceship. They heard Jor-El tell Clark that the globe was attuned to him. Also, it explains why Superman chose a couple of farmers in Kansas as his pet project. Could Clark explain the same thing to Lois? Probably, once she calms down and is willing to listen or believe anything else he tells her.

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And correct me if I am wrong, but what I have gathered so far is that he wants to marry Lois but never tell her the truth about his dimension, about his true Lois and canon Lois, because "she wouldn't believe it". [Cave man - very mad - made club with kryptonite chunks to hit SM over head]
Or possibly he's knows that Lois *isn't* stupid and she'll remember his earlier teasing that he came to this dimension because of her. So, if he told her he came from Alt-Dimension, he knows he would have to tell her about alt-Lois and canon-Lois in his explanation of "why" he came, and he's afraid that Lois won't see that as a good thing.

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I was right. A long time ago I said he would never tell her. He didn't. sad She found out by herself and even when he found out she knew, he didn't tell anything. She had to tell him that she knew. [which made Lois a very angry woman]
Yeah, well, I tend to write stories where Lois always figures it out. I find it insulting to Lois's intelligence if Clark *has* to tell her.

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Lois isn't without fault, either. She is acting alone, in a harebrained scheme without a backup plan. She started this role "operation" to get Lex's kryptonite (as if he would be so stupid to show or give it to her [can you believe this woman?] ) and now she is going to accept his proposal to save the Planet, without evidences to support her claims. As as far as I see it, she has no proof that Luthor wants to buy the Planet. Research about the Daily Planet is not proof, considering he is a business man that owns a TV station and possibly has holdings in other media companies. She has gone too deep in this crazy plot and maybe she is beyond rescue. [realizes what this might mean for our beloved Mad Dog]
Yeah, well, she's known for her hunches and jumping into things without a plan or back-up. Her back-up here is Cat Grant, who has been (kind of) informed of Lois's plan. You have to also remember (though I haven't shown them recently) that Lois does have some memories of canon and Another Lois time-line, so part of her "logic" and gut-feeling on what Lex is up to comes from her psychic feelings.

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I believe they have so many problems because he isn't her Clark and she isn't his Lois. It's like they speak different languages. They talk and argue but one can't understand what the other is saying. They are never on the same page. sad
Ah. So, Andreia believes Lois and alt-Clark aren't soul mates. So, does that mean that can't forge out a happily-ever-after anyway? Thank you for your comments.


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And now for the other side... hyper

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Lois is an idiot.
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“There is not a way you could have possibly phrased a proposal today, where I would have accepted it,” Lois went on.
Is Lois channeling Elizabeth Bennett here?
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KatherineKent: Thank you for your comments.
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Ye, you got them talking ... which is what we all wanted. BUT you didn't get it right. They talked about all the wrong stuff, it was horrible. NO!
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Clark made a real mess of his reveal/proposal. He was going to tell her and it all would have been fine, but he went off on an absolute tangent with his proposal.
Yes, this conversation would have gone better if they each said what they had come there to say instead of reacting to what the other said.

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And Lois ... I think she majorly over reacted. She's known about Clark, and come to terms with it, for a long time now. She acted as if she'd only just figured it out.
Yes, she had forgiven Clark for not telling, she understood why, but then for him to propose without still having told her when she was giving him full opportunity to tell her... pushed her explode button.

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ARGH. They can't get it right at all. I'm guessing that is because the are NOT right for each other. He is the WRONG Clark.
Yes, they may not be a perfect fit, but does that mean without a lot of hard work (on both sides) they still cannot make it work?

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I know we are all probably rooting for them to get together and have a 'happily ever after' but I'm getting the feeling that it's not going to happen. Especially as this is only part 2 of a trilogy. I think that the real Clark is going to come back in part 3 somehow.
One of the reasons this story is so long is that I'm telling the ENTIRE story within Book 2. Book 3 is another adventure entirely, using these same characters, or at least, some of them. We will have a resolution of some sort by the end of Book 2.

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Does that mean there will be a time 'reset' again, because, even though this Lois and Clark are NOT soulmates, they HAVE fallen in love. To split them up and bring back the real Clark, but Lois to keep her memory of Alt-Clark would be so horrible. And poor Alt-Clark. If you send him back home with his memory of TRULY being in love with a Lois Lane that will be even more cruel.
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*Sigh* And I just realised that if I'm right then we have at least another 100 parts before the final happy ending in part 3 with real Clark and Lois, I guess.
Clark isn't real? evil


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Kismatt: Glad to see someone caught my humor in this part. wave


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I remember being blown away when I read this chapter during the beta.

Just wanted to re-read it to see if I'm still blown away.

Yep.

Awesome chapter.
[Linked Image] Awwww. Shucks. Thanks.

As I told Iolanthe when she first read this part, this scene and the one with Cat trying to convince Clark he's SM (from ASU) were the reason / inspiration for writing this story. The majority of this part (with some editing) was written before I finished writing Another Lois. It only took 139 parts but I finally got here. thud


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Yes, yes he should have. Which in some ways makes Lois's anger at him even less understandable. She is mad at him because he did not run to her when she called, but she has gotten mad at him so many times for it, he is trying to do better.
Yes, he is getting better on the checking up on her and his over-protectiveness, but he still has a long way to go. Also, Lois's anger isn't always logical.

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Is there no where in Metropolis free from Lex's all-seeing eye.
Um.... no.

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Clark, offer to take her somewhere private and safe.
Yes, but Clark doesn't know what she's thinking.

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She really should ask Clark do to a looking around to see if anyone is following them.
LOIS: [Linked Image] Yes, that would have been good.

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no, the question is, "why was I such an idiot to think I could keep it a secret from Lois", you should have insisted on telling her when Wells knocked.
CLARK: /back during make-out session with Revenge-addled Lois/ Minha, I want nothing more than to make love to you, but I've got to go out for a meeting. While I'm out, why don't you just contemplate what it will be like making love to Superman. Okay? Bye-now.

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But they still are in the park. He really should ask if she would like to go to his apartment so they can actually speak without being overheard.
Canon Lois told canon Clark that she knew in a park. It's symbolic. laugh

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I have to say that in WHALTTA they did way too much talking out in the open.
Not just in WHALTTA.

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So, he thinks SM was her investigation, and SM=CK was her discovery? He thinks that is what she wants to talk about.
CLARK: Right. I forgot she wanted to talk to me about some investigation.

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[so frustrated that] they are both too focused on their own concerns.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

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Clark, she said need, let her go first.
But she's always interrupting him whenever he wants to tell her his secret. That has to stop sometime.

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Now that was just plain rude on her part.
Well, let's just say, Lois knows how to get what she wants.

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“Lex proposed,” she whispered when he caught up.
JOHN: [Argh!] she should not have started this way.
She wanted to get his attention and fast about how important what she had to say way. This did that.

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Clark:How about "no", "never", "not in a million years". Things like that.

Lois:But he might have gotten angry and killed me.

Reader:Oh, this would have been such a better way to go.
Well, Lex killing Lois would have definitely shortened the story, but then we wouldn't have gotten to my wonderful horrible scene.

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sadand also he is not listening or thinking. He knows Lex is an evil man who will kill, so he really does know Lois can feel unsafe.
Canon Lois never felt unsafe with Lex, because she never distrusted him. Lois hasn't shown that she distrusts Lex, so how will Clark know that she feels unsafe around him?

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She really, really should stop to consider what is happening to Clark, and why he is reacting so.
As you said it before, they are both self-absorbed with their own problems at the moment that they cannot think what the other one is going through.


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-- Continuation of response to John's FDK --
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2 minutes later

Lois:How was I supposed to know the North Metropolis High School chess team would be playing games and the Central Atlantic Backgammon championship would be both happening here this morning?
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he needs to remember that it was to him she mentioned a desire to be handcuffed, not to Lex.

Clark:But many women marry a man other than who they love.

Reader:Do you really think Lois would do such.

Clark:Well, no, but I also didn't think Lois would be so quick to run off because of some expensive peace of jewelry, and I didn't think she would abandon her date at the magic of the night ball. But she did those things.
It's hard to see things from someone's POV if one doesn't understand it.

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He really should stop and ask for clarification.
CLARK: Yes, I see. Hindsight is 20/20. Got that. Thanks.

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[so frustrated] How does she even think her boyfriend can give her unbiased advice on this. It makes no sense.
She's asking him to think about what she's saying as her "partner" not her "boyfriend". Another reason why dating at work isn't a good idea.

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somehow I don't think Clark is really listening.
CLARK: I think she said something like "Lex Proposed" and then, "Blah, blah, blah, blah. I didn't say no. Blah, blah." At least. That's all my brain could comprehend.

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If she knows, then why is she even asking Clark. This makes no sense, especially to him.
She knows (with her brain) that she should continue her investigation, but her heart is telling her that she shouldn't do this without talking to Clark first and let him know what's going on.
LOIS: So, you're saying I wasn't being clear?

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This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I will never get again.
Clark:To marry? To marry a rich man?
LOIS: No. And No.

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Although, it really does seem she is saying "this is my one chance to marry, if I say no, I might never get another chance". At least based on what Clark knows.
LOIS: He knows me. He should know that isn't what I want.

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I don’t know how to meld these two contradictory parts warring inside of me.”
JOHN: This really does make it sound like she has positive feelings for Lex despite the negative feelings that Clark has towards him. Even knowing what I do, that is still the only way the last line makes sense.
Her brain says this will be the only opportunity to get within the 'belly of the beast' and get close to Lex. Her heart wants to stop this investigation and be close to Clark. Those are the two part warring inside of her. Her career goals and her heart.

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If this is not a request for "make a simple solution for me to move forward", then I have never heard one.
How about "Tell me you'll still love me, even if I go ahead with this undercover sting against Lex?"

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Clark:Marry me and forget about Luthor.

Reader:I really think that is the only way for Clark to ever interpret these lines. Lois asks for a "best way forward" without telling Clark anything about what she is trying to do. She has made it sound like she wants to marry and sees Lex as her only option.
Because he's forgetting one key aspect of Lois's personality. Her willingness to forgo her personal life for her career aspirations.

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stop treating Lois as if she is super shallow Clark. She fell in love with you as Clark, not just you as Superman. She loves you. Aargh, why can't he see that.
Because his life experiences have shown him that good things don't come to him?

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Clark, you don't have to do anything. Action is not what Lois needs now. She needs a friend to listen to her concerns. Be that friend Clark.
This, sadly, is the major contention in many relationships. A woman wants to talk and be heard, and a man wants to give advice on how something should be fixed or take action to fix it.

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He is going to do something stupid.
Clark? Never! wink
BATMAN: This is why I'm the brains of the Justice League.
SUPERMAN: Hey!
WONDER WOMAN: Don't worry about it, Superman. We only let Batman think that, but we know the truth.
SUPERMAN: Thank you.
WONDER WOMAN: I'm the brains behind this outfit.
BATMAN: No, what I said was 'how do you expect any man to think clearly while you wear that outfit?'
WONDER WOMAN: That's your problem.

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Considering their actual experience, and the clothes she brought to the Lexor, it makes sense that Lois might expect what is coming.
LOIS: That he's going to tell me CK=SM? And what does sex have to do with that?

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If he didn’t speak up and tell her now, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
JOHN: No, he will be glad for not being a total lunkhead.
Well, from Clark's POV getting engaged or married is the highest way of telling someone that you love them. It isn't from Lois's POV, because they both see becoming married differently. So, to him, saying "Lois, I want to marry you" is like him saying "Lois, I love you so much, I want to give my whole self to you." But what Lois hears is "Lois, I want you to give yourself to me."

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Then tell her that Clark, tell her "I have wanted to do this for months, but I knew I should wait longer, but with things going how they are now, I fear I will never get a chance."
CLARK: Yeah. That would have been better. I must say, I'm not too eloquent at the spur of the moment.

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Then don't do it Clark. Oh why, why is he such a lunkhead?
Because he's afraid that if he doesn't speak up he'll lose Lois forever.

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Oh, this is such a trainwreck.
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Well, at least that means he does not have it here to use as a stand in ring.
Yes, that would be a bad precedent. Also, it's my understanding that men don't re-use engagement rings because if he didn't marry the first woman he gave it to, it means the ring is cursed.

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Yet, I cannot – in good conscience – let you
JOHN: [ARGH!] This is just a horrible line. Clark, you have no control over her actions.
Yes, he hasn't learned from his past mistakes, now how he?

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sad she just crushed his heart, totally.
LOIS: Hey, my heart isn't feeling so go either here.

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If you want to get married so badly, why not choose me?”
JOHN: [calls hospital for neck brace] this is just the worst thing he could have said.
Yeah. There's no coming back from that line.

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He caressed her cheek, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear.
JOHN: Isn't that the things she always things Superman does?
Yes.

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He really should point out that that was not his only reason, just the catalyst to act now.
CLARK: /his ego a puddle at his feet/ huh?

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Just tell her Clark.
CLARK: Clearly, she isn't in any mood to listen to anything I have to say in my defense.

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sad this is the worst possible way for her to tell him.
Oh, yeah. evil

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“I have no idea who you are!” Lois announced, throwing her hands into the air.
JOHN: Now that is just unfair. She knows who he is. A kind, caring individual who loves her. His name is not part of that equation.
She's talking 'names' not personalities.

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Clark:I was the one who turned down your very attractive and high pressure attempt to get us to make love.
LOIS: Yeah. And that made me feel just peachy keen.
CLARK: There's no winning here, isn't there?
BATMAN: I recommend backing away slowly with your hands in a surrender position.

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[happy] he is speaking the truth. Although he should have [been happy?]
Oh, dear. John's gone off the deep end.

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[excited that] he speaks of himself as Superman while dressed as Clark.
CLARK: But she admitted to knowing the truth. Should I still pretend we're two people?
LOIS: You should have stopped pretending long ago.

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sad he just opened up to her about what he knows, and all she can do is accuse.
He should have told her earlier.

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Well, her constantly defending him made it seem that way.
Had Lois defended Lex recently? No.

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sad this is so unfair. Especially since he did just tell her.
After she pushed him to it.

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“How can you say that you love me, when you don’t even know me?”
JOHN: This is the worst line possible.
Technically, she told Lex the same thing.
PERRY: From what I can tell, nobody knows you, honey.

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He just told her all the key facts.
When push came to shove.


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-- Continuation of response to John's FDK --
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And she crushed his heart. She claims to be doing this for him, but I think it is mainly motivated by her own selfishness.
Partly to prove something to herself, partly to save Clark. And she didn't come out of that scene in the park unscathed either. She realized how much the man she had put most of her trust into, didn't trust her at all.

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Perry:I have on multiple occasions said I do not want employees with conflicts of interest.
Yes, Perry has mentioned this before.

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He has a really, really, really good point. So good, I think Lois should just apologize for being so rude.
PERRY: /scoffs/ That will be the day.

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Perry:How do we know that? The only dates we see you go on are with Luthor.
LOIS: Not 'dating' as in 'date', 'dating' as in 'in love'.

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Perry:And then you flung yourself at a richer, more powerful man. What is he supposed to think?
LOIS: That she must have a darn good reason for it.

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Perry:And you don't think he would take you to Vegas and marry you this afternoon if you were willing. Lois, that boy wants you in the worst way possible, of course he would do that.
Again, this is about what Clark wants, not what Lois wants.

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How often had she kissed him at work over the last month,
JOHN: Not nearly enough.
CLARK: Ditto what John said.

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People don't feel right about secret relationships, they want to let things be open in the light. If Clark was ok with secret relationships, they could have been making love all last summer. He hates secrecy, and wants to be open about his relationship with Lois.
Yeah, well, Lois's idea of love and relationships is a bit screwed up. If you remember, she was willing to date SM last summer in disguise.

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She had thought that Clark understood that she was putting her life, her wants, and her desires on hold for him,
JOHN: How, she never said such. She said that she was confused by kissing Superman. She said it was to protect her. She manipulated him into not going public by saying if they did she would be in danger. She never said anything about protecting him.
Some people who fly in this story have eidetic memories. Everyone else's memories are a bit more fuzzy.

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Well, it would really have helped if she told him what she was really doing.
True.

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But she did know that Clark was Superman.
LOIS: Clearly, that is merely a minor detail. mad Not nearly important enough to share with the woman he loves enough to propose to!

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I think that should be "he be willing to".
Fixed. Thanks.

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[so frustrated] she is really crazy.
But this story wouldn't be as much fun if she wasn't.
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Actually, I have to say that this is no worse that in canon, and probably it is better than what happened in canon.
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Canon Lois told canon Clark that she knew in a park. It's symbolic.
But canon Lois was not trying to hide from a psychopathic murderer.

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She's asking him to think about what she's saying as her "partner" not her "boyfriend". Another reason why dating at work isn't a good idea.
Acutally, normally asking Clark to think in these two different phases would work. If she was just dating her work partner things would not be so bad. But when she decides to faux-date her main focus of investigation, she has created too large a mess for anyone to handle.

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Her brain says this will be the only opportunity to get within the 'belly of the beast' and get close to Lex. Her heart wants to stop this investigation and be close to Clark. Those are the two part warring inside of her. Her career goals and her heart.
It makes sense when you explain it, but I still don't see it really flowing from what she actually said, and there is no way that Clark will ever get that from what she said. Not even if Cat can convince him that Lois is just under cover will that follow from what Lois said.

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How about "Tell me you'll still love me, even if I go ahead with this undercover sting against Lex?"
Well, since she has not said anything about undercover or sting, it is really hard for Clark to get that at all.


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Had Lois defended Lex recently
She defended him as a good person after he had both shot and bought her. She believed him over Brigitte Kahn and whatever sense of investigating the issue Clark had developed. When she flat out rejects his attempts to point out problems with Lex like that, what other choice does he have but to not say anything.

He had tried to trust her with details of the investigation, and she had accused him of being jealous and petty and not listened to him at all.

Although, to be fair, Lois maybe was already using Lex as part of an investigation back then, but even her attempt to get Clark to see her relationship with Lex as like his with Cat just does not work. Clark never presented his relationship with Cat as romantic, but Lois clearly was putting on romantic airs with Lex.


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and something for which he would be lucky if she ever forgave him,
I’ve heard that boinking her brains out is supposed to be a miracle cure for her getting over the slight.

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He had once thought it necessary for love to blossom between Lois and Clark, but now he wasn’t as convinced of that.
LOIS: Maybe us having kids is not the best idea after all. I wonder if that cute FBI agent is available…

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. She had been ten minutes late and she apologized right away for being so,
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I mean, I know what I should do.
Shave her legs up to her hips and get a prescription for birth control?

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I know how I feel about him and what I want to do.
Up-chuck?

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Did he want to hear how she loved Clark, but how Lex would be a much better match for her because of his social status and wealth? Certainly not.
/hands Lois a t-shirt stating: My boyfriend thinks I’m a social climbing whore and all he got me for my wedding was this t-shirt.

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Clark took Lois’s hands in his. “I have loved you since the first moment I saw you. You are intelligent and brave and beautiful and selfless and funny, a true friend and partner.”
I don’t think this is going to end well.
TEMPUS: [Linked Image] And to think, all I would have had to do was mix and mingle the Lois and Clarks of the different universes. Herb would have never figured it out.

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He had always wondered what she’d be like stunned speechless and he guessed he now knew.
Maybe it would have been less traumatic for her if he had simply dropped his britches in front of her.

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“A man cannot claim to love a woman when all he has ever done is lie to her.”
LEX: I beg to differ.

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“That’s not true,” he sputtered, getting to his feet in the need to defend his integrity. “I don’t lie to you.”
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How could he explain to her that Clark Kent was his name?
He *wasn’t* born Clark Jerome Kent from Smallville, Kansas. He was born Kal of the House of El, husband of Za of the House of Ra, crown prince of Krypton.


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Okay, so she did know. The fury at him made sense; he had even anticipated it. He swallowed, trying to choose his next words carefully.
Translation: He’s trying to come up with a convincing lie.

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Now, you ask me to marry you without giving me the common courtesy of first telling me who you really are. Why should I believe you love me now?”
/hands Clark a body-length mirror he can hold up in Lois’s face/

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She thought of him, of Superman, as a liar and she had made a good case. He didn’t want to grovel. Either she wanted him or she didn’t.
So, he’s never heard about the ‘kidnap her to a lonesome island in the Pacific until she’s come around to his side of the bed’ angle?

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Clark cleared his throat, before admitting, “I didn’t tell you because we thought you might be too close to him, Lois.”
Didn’t want to spill the beans to Lex’s newest main squeeze, huh?

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“But Clark – and I am calling you this, because I really don’t have a proper name to call you –
/supplies list of choice words/

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The problem was that her facts were all correct.
So, ‘I’m sorry isn’t too far up on his idea list’? Or ‘you were right, I was wrong’?

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“There is not a way you could have possibly phrased a proposal today, where I would have accepted it,” Lois went on.
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Originally posted by John Lambert:
EW: Canon Lois told canon Clark that she knew in a park. It's symbolic.
JOHN: But canon Lois was not trying to hide from a psychopathic murderer.
Sometimes the best place to hide is out in public.

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Acutally, normally asking Clark to think in these two different phases would work. If she was just dating her work partner things would not be so bad. But when she decides to faux-date her main focus of investigation, she has created too large a mess for anyone to handle.
It's another way Lois is extrapolating Clark's sense of 'super' into all aspects of his life. There's a reason this story isn't called 'Wrong Lois'.
LOIS: Because that would be factually inaccurate. Because I'm *never* wrong... I just mess up sometimes.

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It makes sense when you explain it, but I still don't see it really flowing from what she actually said, and there is no way that Clark will ever get that from what she said. Not even if Cat can convince him that Lois is just under cover will that follow from what Lois said.
As if Lois can always see the truth in what Clark's says.

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EW: Had Lois defended Lex recently
JOHN: She defended him as a good person after he had both shot and bought her. She believed him over Brigitte Kahn and whatever sense of investigating the issue Clark had developed. When she flat out rejects his attempts to point out problems with Lex like that, what other choice does he have but to not say anything.
Neither of those are recently.

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He had tried to trust her with details of the investigation, and she had accused him of being jealous and petty and not listened to him at all.
Do you mean HERE or earlier in the story? Because HERE, she already knew that Lex was bad and she didn't need to hear that. If you mean previously, it still wasn't really since Nightfall or even the beginning of the year, so not recently at all.

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Although, to be fair, Lois maybe was already using Lex as part of an investigation back then, but even her attempt to get Clark to see her relationship with Lex as like his with Cat just does not work. Clark never presented his relationship with Cat as romantic, but Lois clearly was putting on romantic airs with Lex.
LOIS: To say that there was as much romance between me and Lex as there was between Clark and Cat would be factually accurate, unless Clark lied to me about his relationship with Cat. Just because Lex thinks that there was more going on than there was on my half, is *his* problem not... well, okay, it's MY problem now. grumble more like the aftermath of his crush. Ugh.


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Originally posted by Darth Michael:
Now I’ve got my new computer monitor. It’s a bit scary. Almost bigger than my TV. On the downside, my Internet connection dumped all over me this weekend. I’m now online via a very round-about hookup that ends with my phone providing LnC-FDK with a lifeline. My provider is telling me a support technician will get back to me within the next two days. And if I’m lucky, some miracle will happen and the connection will fix itself before then.
I hope everything is back up and working as it should.

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I’ve heard that boinking her brains out is supposed to be a miracle cure for her getting over the slight.
True, but usually she has to forgive him to get to the make-up sex.

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LOIS: Maybe us having kids is not the best idea after all. I wonder if that cute FBI agent is available…
He meant as opposed to her loving Superman.

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LOIS: No, that was because I knew Clark would soon be fondling my upper body area. I mean, yes, bomb. Help, Superman.
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Oh no, Lex has knocked her out and then knocked her up.
That would be bad. /See StopQuitDont's Double Jeopardy / WHAM: it has stuff in it even ERs don't like to read.

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Maybe he should have added some frog legs to it as toppings. I hear they offer all sorts of toppings for frozen yogurt.
LOIS: [Linked Image] Sounds quite nauseating.

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/raises hand about not wanting ice cream, or chocolate in non-liquid form, at ten o’clock in the morning either/
LOIS: It's now a proven fact that Darth Michael isn't a woman.

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Or, maybe, she’s already submitted her tell-all story about her night of sexual bliss with Superman, and how he’s tricked all of Metropolis, for tomorrow’s headline.
PERRY: [Linked Image] I've asked her to now get me some cold hard facts.

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LOIS: mad That…manipulative horse’s behind!
He was planning on telling her anyway, so he just wants to get points for that.

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/determines one needs to use *very* small words with Clark. Maybe even pictures to go with them/ At least, it explains why he’s got zippers on his boots instead of shoe laces.
Because he doesn't want to jump to the logical conclusion, just in case he's wrong?

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Go do unspeakable things to yourself?
He's a killer. She was in his car. If she insulted him, it's possible she could be at the bottom of Hob's bay by now.

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LEX: I should have recorded it and sent a signed copy to Superman.
He was planning on mentioning it on the plane, but Lois made him change his plans.

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Shave her legs up to her hips and get a prescription for birth control?
Investigate the hell out of Lex.

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I know how I feel about him and what I want to do.
ER: /suggests/ Up-chuck?
Yes, he makes her nauseous and not in the good way, and all she wants to do is stay as far away from his as possible but that would be running away and Lois Lane DOESN'T run away.

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/hands Lois a t-shirt stating: My boyfriend thinks I’m a social climbing whore and all he got me for my wedding was this t-shirt.
LANA: I have one of those, except it now read's "my EX-boyfriend...", not that I would ever wear it because it was a t-shirt and that would just be tacky.

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I don’t think this is going to end well.
CLARK: I thought you guys all wanted me to propose.

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TEMPUS: And to think, all I would have had to do was mix and mingle the Lois and Clarks of the different universes. Herb would have never figured it out.
Hmmm. Sounds like ER and Tempus don't think there's a way out for Alt-Clark and this Lois.

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Maybe it would have been less traumatic for her if he had simply dropped his britches in front of her.
OFFICER: And HERE's your ticket for indecent exposure at a public park, Superman.
CLARK: I knew I should have left the Suit at home.

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“A man cannot claim to love a woman when all he has ever done is lie to her.”
LEX: I beg to differ.
LOIS: I *meant* and expect her to believe him.
LEX: Oh.

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“That’s not true,” he sputtered, getting to his feet in the need to defend his integrity. “I don’t lie to you.”
ER: /thinks this would not be the best place to lie, Clark/
CLARK: Most of what I say to Lois is the truth!
LOIS: It's that 2% that isn't that keeps getting you in trouble.
LEX: Yes, it's much better to go with 98% lies and 2% truth instead. I've always found that ratio to work best with women I want to bed.

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He *wasn’t* born Clark Jerome Kent from Smallville, Kansas. He was born Kal of the House of El, husband of Za of the House of Ra, crown prince of Krypton.
Yes, but all that he knows of that is Kal and El and Krypton.


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Translation: He’s trying to come up with a convincing lie.
CLARK: Will you stop using the Luthor 3000 for your translating uses? It has some very inaccurate flaws.

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/hands Clark a body-length mirror he can hold up in Lois’s face/
LOIS: Well, duh. I should have realized that. Sorry. Let me rephrase. "Why should I marry you?"
/turns mirror around so it acts like an x-ray to Clark's clothing, i.e. removing them/
LOIS: Oh, right. Sorry, of course, I'll marry you. How about tonight? I'm free tonight.
CLARK: /gulps/ So, soon? Well, better that you die happy than with Luthor. Okay!

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So, he’s never heard about the ‘kidnap her to a lonesome island in the Pacific until she’s come around to his side of the bed’ angle?
Ah, the Stockholm proposal?

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Didn’t want to spill the beans to Lex’s newest main squeeze, huh?
CLARK: I didn't *say* that.
LOIS: But that's what you meant, isn't it?
CLARK: [Linked Image]

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/supplies list of choice words/
LOIS: Gfic.

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So, ‘I’m sorry isn’t too far up on his idea list’? Or ‘you were right, I was wrong’?
Wait. He didn't say that? eek Ooops?
CLARK: help

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She stomped over to her desk, picked up her nameplate and marched towards the elevators.
ER: Wait, what now?
Um... she just 'quit'.

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she’s not just doing this because she’s under-the-covers. She’s really mad at Perry.
No, she's doing this because she thinks it's the only way to save the DP. If Lex has been expressing interest in the DP because of her, if she separates herself from the Planet, maybe Lex will no longer be interested in it. It's an end round.

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That part sort of left ER cut off at the kneecaps.
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I hope everything is back up and working as it should.
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True, but usually she has to forgive him to get to the make-up sex.
Or they just have mad fighting sex instead until she forgets why she’s mad?

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quote:Oh no, Lex has knocked her out and then knocked her up.

That would be bad. /See StopQuitDont's Double Jeopardy/ WHAM: it has stuff in it even ERs don't like to read.
[Linked Image] I’ve only skimmed that one to know what’s being posted. Not really my kind of story, though.

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quote:Maybe he should have added some frog legs to it as toppings. I hear they offer all sorts of toppings for frozen yogurt.

LOIS: - Sounds quite nauseating.
Hmm…neither pregnant nor a clone. Or maybe, she’s a pregnant clone?

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LOIS: It's now a proven fact that Darth Michael isn't a woman.
[Linked Image] [Linked Image]

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PERRY: - I've asked her to now get me some cold hard facts.
CAT: Normally, it would be hot, steamy facts, but given that they’ve been collected by the Ice Queen…

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quote: LOIS: mad That…manipulative horse’s behind!

He was planning on telling her anyway, so he just wants to get points for that.
I don’t think that is helping his case.

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Because he doesn't want to jump to the logical conclusion, just in case he's wrong?
Hmm…nah, I’ll stick with him being dumber than Tempus.
TEMPUS: Exactly! Wait, what?

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Yes, he makes her nauseous and not in the good way, and all she wants to do is stay as far away from his as possible but that would be running away and Lois Lane DOESN'T run away.
So, she’s going to jump right into the danger and Lex’s bed instead?

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LANA: I have one of those, except it now read's "my EX-boyfriend...", not that I would ever wear it because it was a t-shirt and that would just be tacky.
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quote: I don’t think this is going to end well.

CLARK: I thought you guys all wanted me to propose.
[Linked Image]

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Hmmm. Sounds like ER and Tempus don't think there's a way out for Alt-Clark and this Lois.
[Linked Image] Not until his twin shows up, no.

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OFFICER: And HERE's your ticket for indecent exposure at a public park, Superman.
CLARK: I knew I should have left the Suit at home.
laugh Good thing they’re not near a playground?

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CLARK: Most of what I say to Lois is the truth!
LOIS: It's that 2% that isn't that keeps getting you in trouble.
LEX: Yes, it's much better to go with 98% lies and 2% truth instead. I've always found that ratio to work best with women I want to bed.
LEX: “I’m very rich” and “I want you in my bed”?

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quote: Translation: He’s trying to come up with a convincing lie.

CLARK: Will you stop using the Luthor 3000 for your translating uses? It has some very inaccurate flaws.
/checks owner’s manual/ No, it states right here: proven to be 100% correct in translations of pond scum and pocket lint musings.

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LOIS: Oh, right. Sorry, of course, I'll marry you. How about tonight? I'm free tonight.
CLARK: /gulps/ So, soon? Well, better that you die happy than with Luthor. Okay!
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quote: So, he’s never heard about the ‘kidnap her to a lonesome island in the Pacific until she’s come around to his side of the bed’ angle?

Ah, the Stockholm proposal?
Very popular with the LnC crowd.

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quote: So, ‘I’m sorry isn’t too far up on his idea list’? Or ‘you were right, I was wrong’?

Wait. He didn't say that? <realizes Clark is stereotypical male> Ooops?
CLARK: <hides from green-coated household implements>
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quote: /points at her biological clock and the missing chromosome?
LOIS: /so mad her clock explodes/

PERRY: Feeling better now?
LOIS: Much. Thanks. I needed that.
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Perhaps Perry's line should read "Lois, Lex might not be the most egotistical one in your relationship."
Yes, but that would be dangerous.

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Always a good choice, but he's been done before. I was thinking maybe someone new.
The first CW Oliver Queen.

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quote: She stomped over to her desk, picked up her nameplate and marched towards the elevators.
ER: Wait, what now?

Um... she just 'quit'.
Yeah, but why take her nameplate if she’s really done with the Daily Planet. Or, rather, why take the nameplace if she’s not really done with the Daily Planet. Lex wouldn’t think twice about it either way.

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EW: True, but usually she has to forgive him to get to the make-up sex.
ER: Or they just have mad fighting sex instead until she forgets why she’s mad?
CLARK: There's other kinds of sex other than mad-fighting sex? Hmmmm. Who knew?
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LOIS: - Sounds quite nauseating.
ER: Hmm…neither pregnant nor a clone. Or maybe, she’s a pregnant clone?
That would be quite the twist, wouldn't it?

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PERRY: - I've asked her to now get me some cold hard facts.
CAT: Normally, it would be hot, steamy facts, but given that they’ve been collected by the Ice Queen…
PERRY: What's this? Moist foggy facts at best. Sorry, this won't do. Try harder, Lane.

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LOIS: mad That…manipulative horse’s behind!

EW: He was planning on telling her anyway, so he just wants to get points for that.
ER: I don’t think that is helping his case.
CLARK: So, it's not the one who has the most points at the end who wins? [Linked Image]
LOIS: No, dork, it's the one who let's me have the most points by the end who wins.
LEX: Well, count me out then unless, of course, someone is willing to sell me their points.

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Because he doesn't want to jump to the logical conclusion, just in case he's wrong?
ER: Hmm…nah, I’ll stick with him being dumber than Tempus.
TEMPUS: Exactly! Wait, what?
Exactly, What? (or was that Clark / Lois you were speaking for?)

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EW: Yes, he makes her nauseous and not in the good way, and all she wants to do is stay as far away from his as possible but that would be running away and Lois Lane DOESN'T run away.
ER: So, she’s going to jump right into the danger and Lex’s bed instead?
LOIS: He has a one track mind, doesn't he?

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ER: I don’t think this is going to end well.

CLARK: I thought you guys all wanted me to propose.
ER: /admits, not quite like this/
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That would be quite the twist, wouldn't it?
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