Lois is more likely to be actively aggressive, I think. smile But there might be moments of tension -- I'm thinking of WIEAK, when Lois is ticked at Clark and does the whole bachelorette auction thing... and somewhere in there is a sequence of her and Clark sitting at their desks pointedly ignoring each other. Maybe in Top Copy, too...

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K