Wow, Michael you are first!
What a blast this is going to be!
Well, I hope so.
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?
*nods*
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.
Oh dear. And if it's her writing hand that she's holding it with, then there goes her ability to take notes at interviews.
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…
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.
Those movies usually have the 'dead' character being dead quite a bit nearer the start of the story though. There aren't enough chapters left for me to deal with that kind of romantic plot.
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.
Hey, don't be getting too realistic on me there. There's some kind of rule, in Superman universes, that he can hear what's happening,
as it's happening, even when it's miles away and should still take the speed of sound to get to him.
so he just dived straight in and began removing rubble, hoping desperately that he would come across her anyway.
Buried in the ruble?
Well, I guess he
really hopes that she's not
in the rubble. What he's hoping here is that he
finds her in the rubble.
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.
Yup, it's Green Lantern's home, and it's on the opposite coast to Metropolis.
“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.
“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.
Oh boy she sounds mad!
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?
Um. Yeah.
“Hey,” came a shout from behind. “I’ve found her.”
LOIS: Green…Green…*Lantern*! My hero!
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Nope. *shakes head* There's only one hero for Lois.
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.
And she can't feel it? That's why she thinks she's
not injured?
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.
Good idea!
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.
But when has that ever stopped her before?
Lois made her way back to the disaster site complete with painkillers gracing her handbag.
Trying to peddle drugs to the explosion victims?
I'm sure they will appreciate the Aspirin and Paracetamol!
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?
Someone else had a similar idea.
Here“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.
Nope. Can't see her visiting Superman and telling him that she's marrying Clark even though Clark doesn't love her going very 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?
Nope. Only one superhero she could even crush on.
“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?
What else could he do? *shrugs* Because Lois still doesn't know it looks very bad to her.
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
In this circumstance ... yep.
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
Chaos? Why would I insert any chaos. Oh yes. It's a RomCom.
Anyway. The next lot of chaos is ever so slightly based of a few scenes from You've Got Mail, which is one of my fave RomComs and I've tried to think of a way to do it for LnC, but it's never worked.
