You're stopping there??
Okay, another FANTASTIC part, Wendy! The kiss! The offer of blood! The phone call! The birth of "Spaceman", the retirement of "Farmboy"? The almost 'I love you'? What to focus on, what to love the most! It's hard to choose!
Uncaring of good manners, Clark went up and tapped Sutton on the shoulder.
I love this line; Clark is nothing if not the most polite person! Well-mannered, mild-mannered. This line is proof that every line of this story conveys some deeper meaning, and this one, for me, caught my attention, showing how desperate Clark is growing. Nothing matters to him anymore. Not his secret. Not his rescues (this is hard for him, yes, but faced with Lois's death, it does not compare), and most certainly not his very core nature.
“Lois.” He had to halt. His voice was thick and threatening to crack. “Lois, don’t you know that I’d give anything to make you well? All my powers, everything I own...”
He would, too! Might we see him prove this later in the story?
Waiting to find that out, by the way, is TORTURE!
Oh god... What was he supposed to say? How could he tell her about the despair eating him up inside? That gut-wrenching conviction that he was going to lose her - that even now he could see her slipping away, inch by inch, from life? From him?
This is written really beautifully, Wendy.
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~NICOLE
