(hmm, bringing this game back to the top...)
Strangers and Friends by Lote and Jon Wolff. A story where Lois and Clark meet through fan fiction
"Guess what?"
He took an instinctive step backwards, though he knew that was
ridiculous.
<No reason to be alarmed. No point jumping to conclusions. Only a
question.>
"What?" He shot a quick glance behind her, at what she had been
working on. Checking for designs to take over the world, a blue
print for running the city, the flow chart outlining the fall of
her enemies. He saw only...contracts, surveys...largely innocent
looking.
< A story, then. See?>
"I bought the farm today," she stated in a rush, waving the
papers he'd been discreetly deciphering under his nose. "Bought
the whole thing- lock, stock, and barrel. Or...well...more like
derelict sheds, abandoned barn, and...uh...horseshoes."
She was waiting for his response. Her body language sending him
frantic signals to understand, to be happy, enthused...
And he wanted to. He really did, but...
"I give up," he said with an apologetic shrug. "Pretend I just
flew in from a typhoon and I have no idea what you're talking
about."
"I bought your farm, Clark. The Kent place. In Smallville."
"You...bought it? As in...bought it?"
"Yeah." In face of his bewildered silence, her smile dimmed
somewhat, along with some of her energy, her confidence.
He took the papers from her hand and pulled her to sit on the
sofa.
"I...don't understand," he faltered. "Why, Lois?"
