The phone rang five minutes late, per Lois’s norm.
Lois always takes 5 minutes longer than Clark to get there?
LOIS:
CLARK:
All this lying around doing nothing, but sunbathing
Umm…you’ve got some dirt on the page there. /scratches at dirt/
LOIS:
“Oh, no,” she groaned. “That wasn’t an interview, Clark, and you know it. It was an ambush.”
“‘Nobody deserves it more’?” he quoted what she had said.
“Are you saying he doesn’t?” she hollared.
Nobody deserved to die twice, no matter what he had done, but this wasn’t the time to say that to Lois.
I think that might be hazardous to his health. And Lois is already in the business of offing beaus.
LNN wasn’t the only media outlet that had pundits wondering where Superman had disappeared off to during Luthor’s moment of need.
Maybe Lucy could give him an alibi of how he and Lucy went at it in California?
“I understand,” he said, bringing his focus back to Lois’s problem. “Those kinds of reporters give a bad name to the rest of us.”
He talking about the type that is breaking and entering, conning a fiancé, and generally committing larceny?
Who knew when a gust of wind might knock off a potted plant from Lois’s fire escape?
Superman!
Or when Lois got the urge to dump out her unused dregs from a hot pot of coffee from her window?
Or empty her chamber pot after her drainage got clogged up?
She didn’t speak for a moment and he thought he heard her sigh. “They offered me a chance of a lifetime,” Lois said.
/watches as Lois boards the Challanger after having one night of passion with Clark/
“Don’t you want to know…? Damn! They offered it to you first, didn’t they?” she growled.
She doesn’t like it when she gets sloppy seconds?
“Yes, but I didn’t accept. You know that I couldn’t,” he said.
Because he’s got that issue with tight spaces? On the plus side, nobody would have wondered if he had floated around in space.
“You know when I said I needed a few days of space, I figured you could use some too.” He winced. That had sounded better in his head.
So long as Lois doesn’t try to pick the air lock?
He sighed. “If I could take you myself, I would,” he said tenderly. If Lois were ever to fly out of the Earth’s atmosphere, it would be with a ship around her.
Couldn’t he get an old space capsule and take her up there? Or take her out to a cemetery, leave her with a gun, and wait for the magic to happen?
“Of course. It may be a P.R. opportunity for them, but this will be a boon for your career. Wait until you see your first view of the Earth from space. Oh, minha, it’ll take your breath away.”
He’s talking like he’s been up there already.
I’ll be lucky if you’ll want to partner with me after this,” he said with a chuckle.
Later…
LOIS:
“Nah. I only partner with the best; Linda doesn’t qualify and Cat’s moving to Texas,” Clark replied, hoping that Lois didn’t read into his words that he thought Cat was her equal, which he didn’t.
Well…Cat did figure it out on her own.
“I missed out because someone tried to blow up the shuttle. Blame them, not Superman. Besides, I was a stowaway,” she reminded him. “I could have been kicked off for that reason alone.”
Hey, she should consider herself lucky. If she had tagged along, they might have charged her for the fare and then she’d be working it off on her back at the Metro Club till she’s forty.
Later… (again)
CAPTAIN: I don’t know. She must have thought it was the ladies room or something. I mean, the airlock door *was* painted red.
He cleared his throat. “So, when do you leave?”
“Thursday, I think. I don’t have the official schedule yet,” she said.
“This week?” he gasped.
But doesn’t it take months of training first?
She was so ready for some alone time to finally get to know Clark, all of him.
Pregnancy hormones making her horny?
This time it wouldn’t be him running off on their relationship, but her.
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anymore than he could come and visit Clark Kent’s girlfriend in space.
You think they wouldn’t let him visit?
Ha! And to think that Henderson wanted to put her in a safe house. No way could Lex Luthor find her in space.
LEX: So, these new contracts by EPRAD for the space station…
“I do have a few requests about the trip, though,” she said, before launching into her idea.
Personal bathroom? Extra chocolate on the food supply?
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LOIS: What do you mean – they don’t take chocolate up into space?
Even though Clark’s healing ability was one of the first to return, he didn’t want to chance his newly discovered sensitive stomach on food that was left on warmers for who knew how long.
Huh, shouldn’t the food be quite unspoiled? Otherwise, the guests would be lying in their rooms, soiling the bed and bathroom, instead of spending their money on the casino floor?
“After my UNN interview, when I was floating on cloud nine, I asked for another interview,” Jimmy said, staring down into his mug of beer. “With their H.R. department.”
So, that’s how you’re going to get rid of him?
“They were kind, but definite. They had no room for a still photographer in their live-action news department,” he said. “I told them I could do video.”
Clark winced.
“Yeah. They didn’t buy it either.
Maybe he should have shown them the flicks he made with his cousin and some of the college coeds from Jimbo’s class?
“I’ll be up shortly,” Jimmy called with a wave to his friend’s departing back.
Finally.
Then, again, CK hadn’t won a thousand dollars on his third pull of a lever as Jimmy had.
Oh, God. What could he say to her without sounding like a creep? She probably had hundreds of men come on to her.
How about ‘Hi, I’ve been looking all over for you, trying to find you. Do you mind if I follow you around?’
“Hi…” Jenny replied slowly, unsurely.
Did she not remember him? Had the connection only been on his side?
“Jimmy,” he said. “We talked last night.”
She pointed at him. “Right. Hi.”
So, Jimbo only paid Jenny for the first night, then, trying to give his cuz a weekend to remember?
“You’re that photographer Luthor framed,” she said, her hand gestured wildly. “James something. Of course! Jimmy. Duh.”
“Oh, my God! Your friend, CK…” Her hand shook as she pointed at him. “He must be Clark Kent, the reporter friend you talked about, and the girlfriend he was calling…” She snapped her fingers. “Lois! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!”
“Was she cheating on Lex Luthor?”
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It broke the poor chap’s heart.
He’s back? But why are they calling in Vegas?
Four blocks away, down on the side streets off the Strip, a woman knelt in a dark alleyway. Clark could see the legs of a man lying on the ground next to her.
Oh dear. Did someone shoot Jimmy? Is he dead? Did they rob him for the 1000 bucks?
He glanced back at the couple and saw the man reach up and cup the woman’s jaw. “Superman’s back in Metropolis, Jenny. He can’t hear you.”
He’s still alive?
“He pulled you into an alley and tried to steal your purse,” Jimmy replied, as if he had no other option. “What was I supposed to do?”
Wet himself?
“Surprise is the best element of defense,” he replied. “Lois Lane taught me that.”
“Come on, hero. I’ve got ice back at my place,” she said. She glanced around the alley. “Let’s pick up your money first.”
Aww…he’s going to get laid
“No, what we should do is get moving. Like the Tusken Raiders, muggers are easily scared but he’ll come back,”
In greater numbers?
Jenny laughed. “Oh, Jimmy. Don’t tell me you’re one those people.”
And the nerd won’t get laid after all…
Jimmy sputtered, “This is the first time I’ve mentioned…” He grinned, pointing at her. “Yeah, but you recognized it.”
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“Of course, I recognized it. It’s only the best movie ever made.”
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He was glad to know that his friend was okay and just the mention of Superman had been enough to scare the would-be thief away.
THIEF: That dude must have been on meth or something. Throwing good money around like that.
If you've been living on the distant forest moon of Endor for the last century, here's the info you need to understand Jimmy and Jenny's conversation:
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