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Is Lois channeling Elizabeth Bennett here?

I think this should be "everyone else in the newsroom".

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.

Ultra Woman: Thanks for dropping by to share your frustration at...
CLARK: Really, I thought it was spelled L-O-I-S-L-A-N-E, my bad.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And now for the other side...

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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.

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.

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?

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.



Clark isn't real?

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


IolantheAlias: Hey, there! Thanks for popping in.
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.

John: How's the headache? Any better? Did you hear that, Nigel? John thinks e-mail accounts are secure from us.

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.

Um.... no.

Yes, but Clark doesn't know what she's thinking.

LOIS: Yes, that would have been good.

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.

Canon Lois told canon Clark that she knew in a park. It's symbolic.

Not just in WHALTTA.

CLARK: Right. I forgot she wanted to talk to me about some investigation.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

But she's always interrupting him whenever he wants to tell her his secret. That has to stop sometime.

Well, let's just say, Lois knows how to get what she wants.

She wanted to get his attention and fast about how important what she had to say way. This did that.

Well, Lex killing Lois would have definitely shortened the story, but then we wouldn't have gotten to my wonderful horrible scene.

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?

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.

-- Continuation of response to John's FDK --

It's hard to see things from someone's POV if one doesn't understand it.

CLARK: Yes, I see. Hindsight is 20/20. Got that. Thanks.

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.

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.

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?

LOIS: No. And No.

LOIS: He knows me. He should know that isn't what I want.

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.

How about "Tell me you'll still love me, even if I go ahead with this undercover sting against Lex?"

Because he's forgetting one key aspect of Lois's personality. Her willingness to forgo her personal life for her career aspirations.

Because his life experiences have shown him that good things don't come to him?

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.

Clark? Never!
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.

LOIS: That he's going to tell me CK=SM? And what does sex have to do with that?

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."

CLARK: Yeah. That would have been better. I must say, I'm not too eloquent at the spur of the moment.

Because he's afraid that if he doesn't speak up he'll lose Lois forever.



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.

Yes, he hasn't learned from his past mistakes, now how he?

LOIS: Hey, my heart isn't feeling so go either here.

Yeah. There's no coming back from that line.

Yes.

CLARK: /his ego a puddle at his feet/ huh?

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

Oh, yeah.

She's talking 'names' not personalities.

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.

Oh, dear. John's gone off the deep end.

CLARK: But she admitted to knowing the truth. Should I still pretend we're two people?
LOIS: You should have stopped pretending long ago.

He should have told her earlier.

Had Lois defended Lex recently? No.

After she pushed him to it.

Technically, she told Lex the same thing.
PERRY: From what I can tell, nobody knows you, honey.

When push came to shove.

-- Continuation of response to John's FDK --
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.

Yes, Perry has mentioned this before.

PERRY: /scoffs/ That will be the day.

LOIS: Not 'dating' as in 'date', 'dating' as in 'in love'.

LOIS: That she must have a darn good reason for it.

Again, this is about what Clark wants, not what Lois wants.

CLARK: Ditto what John said.

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.

Some people who fly in this story have eidetic memories. Everyone else's memories are a bit more fuzzy.

True.

LOIS: Clearly, that is merely a minor detail. Not nearly important enough to share with the woman he loves enough to propose to!

Fixed. Thanks.

But this story wouldn't be as much fun if she wasn't.
ARI: Open up the new ward! We've got a patient coming in!

But canon Lois was not trying to hide from a psychopathic murderer.

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 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.

Well, since she has not said anything about undercover or sting, it is really hard for Clark to get that at all.

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.

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. :rolleyes:

I’ve heard that boinking her brains out is supposed to be a miracle cure for her getting over the slight.

LOIS: Maybe us having kids is not the best idea after all. I wonder if that cute FBI agent is available…



Shave her legs up to her hips and get a prescription for birth control?

Up-chuck?

/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.

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

Maybe it would have been less traumatic for her if he had simply dropped his britches in front of her.

LEX: I beg to differ.



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.

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

/hands Clark a body-length mirror he can hold up in Lois’s face/

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?

Didn’t want to spill the beans to Lex’s newest main squeeze, huh?

/supplies list of choice words/

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



Michael

Sometimes the best place to hide is out in public.

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.

As if Lois can always see the truth in what Clark's says.

Neither of those are recently.

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.

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. more like the aftermath of his crush. Ugh.

I hope everything is back up and working as it should.

True, but usually she has to forgive him to get to the make-up sex.

He meant as opposed to her loving Superman.


LOIS:

That would be bad. /See StopQuitDont's Double Jeopardy / WHAM: it has stuff in it even ERs don't like to read.

LOIS: Sounds quite nauseating.

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

PERRY: I've asked her to now get me some cold hard facts.

He was planning on telling her anyway, so he just wants to get points for that.

Because he doesn't want to jump to the logical conclusion, just in case he's wrong?

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.

He was planning on mentioning it on the plane, but Lois made him change his plans.

Investigate the hell out of Lex.

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.

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.

CLARK: I thought you guys all wanted me to propose.

Hmmm. Sounds like ER and Tempus don't think there's a way out for Alt-Clark and this Lois.

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.

LOIS: I *meant* and expect her to believe him.
LEX: Oh.

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.

Yes, but all that he knows of that is Kal and El and Krypton.

-- Continuation of Response to Michael's FDK --
CLARK: Will you stop using the Luthor 3000 for your translating uses? It has some very inaccurate flaws.

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!

Ah, the Stockholm proposal?

CLARK: I didn't *say* that.
LOIS: But that's what you meant, isn't it?
CLARK:

LOIS: Gfic.

Wait. He didn't say that? Ooops?
CLARK:

Um... she just 'quit'.

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.

Don't worry, Michael. It'll get better.... eventually.

Or they just have mad fighting sex instead until she forgets why she’s mad?

I’ve only skimmed that one to know what’s being posted. Not really my kind of story, though.

Hmm…neither pregnant nor a clone. Or maybe, she’s a pregnant clone?



CAT: Normally, it would be hot, steamy facts, but given that they’ve been collected by the Ice Queen…

I don’t think that is helping his case.

Hmm…nah, I’ll stick with him being dumber than Tempus.
TEMPUS: Exactly! Wait, what?

So, she’s going to jump right into the danger and Lex’s bed instead?





Not until his twin shows up, no.

Good thing they’re not near a playground?

LEX: “I’m very rich” and “I want you in my bed”?

/checks owner’s manual/ No, it states right here: proven to be 100% correct in translations of pond scum and pocket lint musings.

Very popular with the LnC crowd.





Yes, but that would be dangerous.

The first CW Oliver Queen.

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.

Michael

CLARK: There's other kinds of sex other than mad-fighting sex? Hmmmm. Who knew?
LANA:

That would be quite the twist, wouldn't it?

PERRY: What's this? Moist foggy facts at best. Sorry, this won't do. Try harder, Lane.

CLARK: So, it's not the one who has the most points at the end who wins?
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.

Exactly, What? (or was that Clark / Lois you were speaking for?)

LOIS: He has a one track mind, doesn't he?

Michael