Update!
What a blast this is going to be!
“Lois,” Clark shouted down the phone. “LOIS!” He stood up from his desk in shock.
He’s not very good with bombs, is he?
Lois experienced the fastest lifetime recap ever as the chunk of ceiling dropped.
Huh. I’d thought she’d be more used to those by now. Also, what’s she got to recap? Aside from the recent one-week engagement?
Mom drinking, Dad leaving, looking after Lucy, college, work, more work, award,
See?
Somehow the ceiling missed Lois by inches, smashing to the floor just to her right but crushing her phone.
Let’s hope she wasn’t holding on to it at the time.
A second explosion rocked the building again at that moment and Lois watched as supporting columns in the lobby began to collapse around her.
ANNOUCMENT: Please leave the building in an orderly fashion. You will be hearing loud bangs and notice our cleaning staff is a bit behind on their work…
this time desperately dodging multiple chunks of falling concrete.
This is like an arcade game, isn’t it?
Just as she made it to a gaping hole in the wall she was struck from behind, something impacting on her skull.
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Did one of the terrorists shoot her with a gun? You only mentioned a lack of amnesia. You never said she’d survive. And there’s several movies out there dealing with deceased loved ones returning to haunt the living.
The closer he got to Coast City the more he tried to focus on Lois’ heartbeat.
He does realize that her heartbeat is still from the past, right? She could already be dead. Like the light from a star that has long since gone nova.
I wasn’t there.
I couldn’t save her.
Why Lex is a proponent of gilded cages. Or shackles and a bed. Depending on the mood.
My goodness I must have been flying at nearly light-speed, came a dispassionate thought in the back of his mind.
No, only 30-40 times the speed of sound.
so he just dived straight in and began removing rubble, hoping desperately that he would come across her anyway.
Buried in the ruble?
He turned round to see Coast City’s resident hero. “Lantern,” he acknowledged. “I’m here to help.”
Oh. *That’s* where Coast City is.
“Obviously,” he chuckled. “I mean, how did you know, how did you get here?”
SUPERMAN: Lois Lane is in town.
GL: Oh. Right. Got it.
“I was, uhm, on the phone with Lois Lane and heard the explosion.”
He knows? They in a club or something?
“You!” Green Lantern pointed at him incredulously. “On the phone? ... with Lois Lane!”
GL a LL-fanboy, huh?
“Yes, but now I can’t find her and there’s too much destruction to waste time on one particular person.”
LOIS:
*waste*? I’m *waste?
I’m so getting wasted when I get out of here.
The despair at the loss of life warred inside with his hope over continuing to hear Lois’ heartbeat.
Wouldn’t it be awkward if the rubble shifted suddenly and then the heartbeat would go faint and stop?
“Hey,” came a shout from behind. “I’ve found her.”
LOIS: Green…Green…*Lantern*! My hero!
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A superhero shouldn’t waste time taking an uninjured person to hospital, she thought.
Maybe she’s injured. Maybe half her lower torso has been smashed by the rubble.
But the only way I could get him to stay and keep helping was for me to promise that I’d get you to hospital.
and started to plan the fastest route back to the scene of the destruction.
GL: I think it’s best if you sedate Ms. Lane here.
Don’t be responsible for me breaking my word to Superman.”
Superman would be a formidable enemy?
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But to be fair, GL only promised to take Lois to the hospital. He never promised that Lois would stay.
Eyewitness account ... journalist on the spot ... Green Lantern ... Superman. It’ll have it all.”
But she slept through most of the commotion. And she’s too close to the rest of the story.
After she’d been discharged, diagnosed with ‘minor bump on the head’ and ‘major impatience’,
Dr.: I have never seen a skull as thick has hers. Must have saved her life.
Lois made her way back to the disaster site complete with painkillers gracing her handbag.
Trying to peddle drugs to the explosion victims?
But as he blinked and focussed on her she saw that wash away to be replaced by ... something she must be misinterpreting.
Annoyance? Despair? Resignation?
“We found a third bomb still live. Green Lantern shielded it and has flown away to a safe distance.” She watched the shutters come down over his eyes again and he turned away. “And I can no longer hear any heartbeats.”
I just realized, wouldn’t it be fun if the green glow from Green Lantern would be based on Kryptonite?
“At least you are safe. I don’t know what I would have done if ...” Lois knew she must have looked shocked at his words, as he stopped and pulled away.
Oh boy. Also, will she cheat on her fiancé?
“I need a friend. A good friend, as I think I’m about to embark on a ... difficult period in my life. I need someone I can talk to about things, about how I’m feeling. Can I come to you?”
Oh boy. That’s not going to end well.
“Yes, me and Clark. When I’ve talked to him, can I come and find you? I ... uh ... think I will need friendly support.”
She wants to break up with Clark? Because she’s now crushing on Green Lantern?
She wants to tell Superman that she has the hots for Clark and he doesn’t love her like that. He’s more the platonic guy?
“I screamed at you down the phone this afternoon. The conference was bombed and every time I tried to call, you weren’t there. I’m supposed to be your fiancée. Clark what is going on?”
Oh boy. He made a doo-doo?
He found it hard to breathe for a moment, excitement taking over. She called herself my fiancée. Maybe it’s not over.
Funny how having your fiancée mad at you can be considered a good thing
otherwise I could have ... I could have ...” and that’s when he heard the shock and the terror that was underlying her anger, and her voice cracked.
She finally got something to loose!
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And then he decided ...
He would tell her anyway.
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Oh boy. That confession will probably be another 2 parts off. The end of part 14, I’d say. Could be 15, even, but I doubt that. Really depends on how much additional chaos is inserted between then and now
Michael
