Well, having already made several responses here, I was going to lie back for a while, but since no one has responded to one of my very favorites(!), then I'll just have to answer. Vive60's quote is from Shadowfax's
The Once and Future King And I'll reuse this marvelous story from a couple of posts ago...
Lois paused as if considering the possibility. "You know, I've heard Dan's still available," she finally said.
"Scardino?" Clark gasped.
Lois nodded. "Maybe you'd like me to give him a call. He asked me to marry him, you know," she added. If he was really going to stick to this outrageous idea, she was determined that he not be able to hide behind platitudes. She was determined to make him understand exactly what he was suggesting.
"He asked you to marry him?" Clark asked. This was the first he was hearing of this.
Lois nodded. "When I told him I couldn't see him any more. I wonder if he'd be interested," she mused.
Clark felt his stomach clench into a tight ball. It was hard enough thinking about Lois with another man in abstract terms, but to have her put a name and face on that man was almost too much to bear. Why was she tormenting him like this? He had despised Scardino when he'd pursued Lois years ago. The thought of her in a relationship with Scardino, the thought of Scardino raising his child, was agonizing torture.
"Lois, don't please," he pleaded.
Kathy
