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Actually…” Cat paused as she concentrated on the cape for a moment, turning the fabric. “You didn’t happen to leave it at the Metropolis Sewage Reclamation Facility, did you?” Her expression seemed a tad too innocent as she avoided his gaze.

“What? No,” he scoffed. “Why?”

“No reason. I’m sure your new partner will eventually learn to never steal another story again,” Cat suggested with a slight giggle. “It would serve Miss Holier-Than-Thou to be taken down a peg or two.”

“Cat!” Clark rebuked. “I refuse to defend you to her if this attitude continues. If you and I are to be friends, you need to learn to be nicer to Lois.”

“Yeah, right, Clark. I don’t see that happening anytime soon,”

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“You can buy another one,” he suggested. “Are you ready to go back to your car?”

“Uh-huh,” she said with a nod a moment before she felt his arms surround her and lift her into the air. She closed her eyes and laid her head against his chest. “Thank you,” she murmured.

“Anytime,” he whispered, and Lois could have sworn that he kissed the top of her head. That little endearment was worth the hours out in the muck, and the swamp, and the mosquitoes, and the humiliation of being tricked by her partner.

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Superman nodded and scooped her back into his arms, which was more than fine by her. “Where to?” he asked, shifting his cape so that it draped over her.

Soon, she felt the breeze of the cool morning air on her face, and she tucked her head into the nape of his neck. “Tahiti. I’ve always wanted to go to Tahiti.”

His warm and friendly voice, with just a hint of laughter, replied, “How about home? We’ll do Tahiti another day.”

“You know I’m going to hold you to that, don’t you?” Lois said, and she felt him adjust his hold on her so that she was closer to him, almost like a hug or an embrace. She would take that as a ‘yes’.

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Lois laughed, a scoffing guffaw of surprise. “Uh, no. Do you think I’d have let myself get stuck out in the middle of the Metropolis Sewage Reclamation Facility if I was psychic?”

The line in his jaw hardened. “Is that where you were?” Superman spoke with hardness she had never heard from him previously, but it was gone the next he spoke. “Why were you there?”

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“Could you stay? I’m tired of chasing you down.” She blushed at her directness. “I mean, you could come in and…” Lois searched for a plausible reason for him to stay. ‘Meet my sister’? No, that wasn’t important. ‘Have a coffee’? No, that was silly. She couldn’t picture this man sitting down for… well, anything. “We could finally get that interview done.” That was the most plausible reason, but on the romance scale tipped down at nada.

“Now?” He seemed surprised. “Don’t you want to…” He cleared his throat. “Clean up and get some rest?”

“Now,” she insisted, knocking on the window again and waving at her sister. “I’m too wound up to sleep. Please.”

Lucy opened the window. “You weren’t kidding me, Lois. Wow! You really do know Superman,” she gushed, backing away from the opening.

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So, Lois thinks that Clark sent her on a wild goose chase. Clark thinks it's Cat. What will happen when Lois confronts Clark about it?

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And Lois thinks it's Clark: too funny, after all it WAS him in the show!

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Clark! What the... If you don't want a cheerleader you're certainly not helping yourself any.

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Hmmmm. No probably not, but you see he was worried about his lady love and he found her caught in a tree. He's a little overprotective since he lost his original Lois.

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Only another reason to use her mad money for a "Super Date."

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All the more reason for her to believe it was Clark. Superman's reaction would make her think that a friend of Superman's caused it to happen and he was upset with him. Only the "friend of Superman" was a "her" instead.

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Well, at least they have a chaperone on sight.

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Oh, joy. A chaperone. Do you think these horny little lovers cannot be trusted to be alone?

Joan: Another Cat. Hmmmm. Maybe I should have made it Jimmy.

Ken: Blantantly obvious to the reader or to Lois? Maybe it was Perry? Nah, nobody would have believed that.

Mouserocks: I always thought Cat was clever. I think she knew in canon too, but never said anything, just enjoyed watching the fun unfold before her.

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Very interesting scene here. Jimmy's rambling and Lucy's retelling of their conversation was hilarious. Poor kid doesn't have a shot, does he? And interesting developments with Lois and Superman... wish things would move a bit faster though... can't wait for more!

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Yes, I was just trying to make it as frustrating as possible for Clark to get the information he needed to solve the problem. Well, Lucy DOES accept Jimmy's date offer in canon. You don't think he'll have as good a luck in this dimension? Poor fellow. Yes, sorry about the pacing. There was so much I wanted to tell. The story starts to move along faster soon (when I return from my vacation); I learned to summarize scenes instead of write them out in full. For the most part.

Laura: Yes, Lois knows Superman. Well, she knows HER Superman, she just doesn't realize that THIS Superman isn't the same one she "knows" about. It does make it darn confusing to Clark though.

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Yes, I was just trying to make it as frustrating as possible for Clark to get the information he needed to solve the problem. Well, Lucy DOES accept Jimmy's date offer in canon. You don't think he'll have as good a luck in this dimension? Poor fellow. Yes, sorry about the pacing. There was so much I wanted to tell. The story starts to move along faster soon (when I return from my vacation); I learned to summarize scenes instead of write them out in full. For the most part.

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Wait-- summarize?! Not the important parts, right? Not the <<gasp>> love scenes?!?



By the by, when is your vacation happening again? Just so I know when to put down somewhere on my calander "head injury" due to doing this in frustration and come out looking like this .

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Wait-- summarize?! Not the important parts, right? Not the <<gasp>> love scenes?!?

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Some of the canon plot points will happen as characters thinking back on things that had happened. (Kind of like Lois and Clark's discussion of the George Thompson interview was summarized instead of shown.) This will happen more often, and even with some of the new plot points for this new dimension. Actually, there was a whole entire part that started out as a few bantering lines in a flashback... then I said 'no', I should flesh this out more... and presto, a whole new LnC banter-filled part. (Oh, and Clark rewarded me for this fleshing out these two scenes by revealing a part of himself to the readers.) Actually, Lois is still kind of ticked off at Clark for not revealing this side to her. Anyway... it means that the second Plot arc (the Summer Arc) only took 10-ish parts, instead of the 21 parts of first arc. See, all good! Right. I'm currently finishing up Part 35 as I write this. I would be further along in my story, but my characters were inspired by a Sue S. story I happen to be reading and ran away from my outline for a couple of parts to go off and be romantic. Characters, what are you going to do, huh?

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By the by, when is your vacation happening again? Just so I know when to put down somewhere on my calander "head injury" due to doing this in frustration and come out looking like this .

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Um.... ... soon. Um... I was planning on taking off after the end of this plot arc, which finishes up around... um... Part 21, which will post just after the 4th. Oh, look, that's next week. Golly gee. This will give me time to build my cushion back from 16 to 20 parts, possbily write that Summer fic-a-thon story that I've been thinking about, finally get my redline version of Missing Lois back to my G.E. (Sorry, Marcelle ), celebrate my son's 5th birthday, and travel to visit my sister. If everything works out the way I plan, I should start posting again every other day about July 23rd. Unless I get mad amounts of FDK insisting that I should post a part each week of my vacation to tide you all over. (Plus, I need to give Michael time to catch up. Poor fellow, he's back on Part 12.)

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Christina: Thank you for the comments. Your muse is named "MargotLois"?

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Clark! What the... If you don't want a cheerleader you're certainly not helping yourself any.

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When I have a specific "voice" I can hear that's what I call the muse based upon it. "Margot!Lois" is the Lois Lane from the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder as Clark and Lois. Occasionally one of my other character/muses has had a say in something I'm reading or writing (once or twice I've actually had to write the resulting "conversation" just so I can get a handle on the differences in characterization.)

Good point, sadly Margot!Lois doesn't know that Reeve!Superman is just about as protective of her considering nearly losing her in that earthquake.

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“Jimmy?” Clark rubbed his eyes again. “What’s up? Emergency?”

“No. Well, I don’t know. I hope not.

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“Glad to hear everything is working out for you and Lois’ sister…”

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“Did Lucy say why she was looking for me?”

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“Goodbye, Jimmy,” Clark said, not waiting for the man to respond before hanging up.

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So, Jimmy’s not in good standing, huh? Also, I’m sensing a speechpattern.

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and then when I went to leave, I found this envelope under the door addressed to Lois…”

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So, she scribbled down your phone number and told me that if she wasn’t home by eleven that I should call you…”

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“Well, I… I went out with my friends, and one thing led to another and, well, I didn’t get home until after midnight.

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I figured Lois was asleep in her bed, so I got ready to crash, and then I figured since it was Lois and all, I should probably double check, because if she wasn’t there, and I didn’t call you, she’d be royally ticked off,”

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“Well, it was a good thing I did, […] and would end up yelling at me for interrupting her.”

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Lois slapped another mosquito from her cheek and reached back into the swampy water surrounding her, searching once more for her flashlight

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She wasn’t quite sure who the prankster who had sent her out to the Metropolis Sewage Reclamation Facility was, but she had a really good idea.

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“Anytime,” he whispered, and Lois could have sworn that he kissed the top of her head. That little endearment was worth the hours out in the muck, and the swamp, and the mosquitoes, and the humiliation of being tricked by her partner.

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“I don’t think I’ll be able to drive,” Lois told him.

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His warm and friendly voice, with just a hint of laughter, replied, “How about home? We’ll do Tahiti another day.”

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The line in his jaw hardened. “Is that where you were?”

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Superman spoke with hardness she had never heard from him previously,

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He sighed. “Ms. Lane, the spaceship in which I arrived to Earth is no longer viable.”

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She couldn’t picture this man sitting down for… well, anything.

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“Why do you need a chaperone?” Lucy asked, confused, glancing between the two of them.

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It’s only a foot, Lane, she admonished herself, but a small part of her – a part that she would never in a thousand years, under the torture of death, ever admit to – acknowledged a kinship to Cinderella and her prince when he had slipped the glass slipper onto her foot.

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“Yes, how…? Do you read minds?” Lois demanded, trying to empty all the impure thoughts from her conscious mind, but only being able to do the opposite.

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“You came here to ‘help’? I need a little bit more of a quote than that,” she explained, hoping he bought her reason to delay him. “Something like, ‘I have not yet begun to fight!’ or ‘Damn the torpedoes!’, something like that. I mean, if you said ‘I am here to fight for truth!’ or ‘justice’...”

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“Ms. Lane, the next time you’re in trouble, a simple ‘Help, Superman!’ will get my attention faster than trying to find Mr. Kent to relay a message.”

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“Ms. Lane, I hope the next time our paths cross, it is on a more social occasion,”

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Michael: I'm Back! It's good to be home to my desktop. Lots of work to do before I catch up though. So, let me start with you.

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Umm… Someone’s got stuck in the sewage?

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Nah. Whatever gave you that idea?

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I’m thinking Jimmy missed a step there. Well, hasn’t found the staircase yet.

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So, Jimmy’s not in good standing, huh? Also, I’m sensing a speechpattern.

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So, orgy and she got home late?

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‘Have a coffee’? No, that was silly.

Why? It’s code for…well…getting to know the whole Superman.

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She couldn’t picture this man sitting down for… well, anything.

How about a lapdance from Lois?

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Is THAT why Clark can contact Superman and Lois can't?!

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