I finally finished the Investigation arc (Part 193). When that comes back from beta, I might post the remaining parts more quickly. I'm currently re-reading and editing "Section I: Wrong Boy Meets the Right Girl" (Parts 1-100ish) for submitting to the Archives. Man, this is a long story. I spent an hour JUST doing grammar and spelling re-check last night, and I only made it through page 250 (out of a whole heck of a lot more). Many thanks to all the readers who have stuck with me so far.
Darth Michael: Thanks for the FDK.
EW: Sorry to hear about you being sick. I hope you're feeling better now.
ER: Yeah, thanks. Feeling better now. Sort of. Apparently drinking bright-green syrup is good for people so long as they’re not from previously blown-up planets.
CLARK: /glances at empty glass of cough syrup/ Ooops.
Well, I've got it now. Thanks for spreading it along.
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(just joking. I got this one from my daughter, who seems to have recovered a lot more quickly than I am.)
Is she the Lois with the tight bun on her head?
Why doesn't anyone think that Lois would want to hire an expert to make sure this is done right? /my betas also assumed Ms. Riviera was Lois/
That was the Daily Planet, wasn’t it?
Yes.
A tall woman with raven black hair
Lois?
Lois tall? Not unless the man is short. /eyes Franklin Stern/ Yeah, I don't think so.
and icy blue eyes entered his office.
/confused/
Eyes kind of like that really blonde dragon lady from GoT.
Ding! Ding! Ding! While DC comics might find women interchangeable in their comics, the rest of us prefer to hire more female characters to play different parts for our stories.
He does realize that everyone and their ne’er-do-well teenage offspring can print out fake business cards, right?
So, nobody should read, collect, or distribute business cards because of the few fakes out in the world?
ER: /just realized something/ Just like hookers!
One you hire for pleasure, the other pain. It depends on the client, though, which service they get from which provider.
He does realize that if the client would want him to know, she’d be tagging along, right? Or the name would already have been mentioned.
Not necessarily.
Well, he started it.
ER: /recommends Franklin Stern use the force to obtain information/
/point to the dark lord/
Well, he won't learn anything from a dead attorney.
STERN: Learn? I was just making the world a better place.
Something like that.
A donation to the Superman Foundation. Lois hasn't even earned less than a dollar from the sale.
What if the client next asks for a million dollars a year, for as long as the client shall live?
All terms of the sale will be told before the papers are signed, but if he isn't willing to listen to terms, he doesn't get to know even the price offered.
Didn’t attend the same law school as Bender, did she?
No, probably not.
Thanks. Fixed.
She doesn’t like dealing with lawyers. Or red tape.
The Metro Club closed down and she can no longer earn the funds needed to do the repairs?
Lois *did* watch Empire, didn’t she?
Yes. /cough/ Stern ISN'T Vader. He just plays him in the movies. /cough/
“No. No, you would own it and run it as you see fit, but should you decide to sell the company or the building within the first five years of ownership, the original sale will be invalidated and the ownership of the Daily Planet would revert to my client.”
ER: /Likes Lois playing Hardball/
Don't forget there's a part of Lois which remembers what happened towards the end of S2.
Is that the reason she kept Clark? Because she’d not give up a pet even if it’s a bit difficult?
To pet? /ducking/
Some say she has a sharp tongue?
It was the only way he could convince her to wear his engagement ring?
When they release Lex’s home videos of him and his fiancée?
LOIS: Those were destroyed! I mean, what?
JENNY: Excuse me?
I think that comma might be overdoing it.
But it's sooooo pretty.
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No? Fine, I'll take it out. /psst./ Thanks.
Couldn’t he wear a paper bag over his head?
WOMEN OF METROPOLIS: Why is Clark Kent flying with a paper bag over his head?
CAT: What? I thought we've already established that I'm the only woman in Metropolis who looks men in the face.
Hey, that's exactly what Clark's reaction was.
Because he believes Jenny to be a succubus?
It wouldn't be the first time. Also, it's Las Vegas, so it's possible.
Because it reminds him of the PDA he often displays with Lois in the middle of the newsroom?
Actually, Lois and Clark have never been open and honest about their relationship in the middle of the bullpen. Supply closet, yes. Bullpen, no.
Instead of the 22 y/o college boy?
Are you saying that young men don't mature ANY between 16 and 22?
I wonder if they will pick Jimmy for a fully body search because he looks like a roughian?
1994, not 2004. He could be snorting coke while going through security and they wouldn't notice. Or carrying a strange colored bottle of soda, or a couple bottles of wine, or shampoo, perfume, etc, or wearing some odd looking shoes, or uncomfortable underwear. Sigh. Oh, the good old days of airport security when we thought a metal detector and an x-ray machine were enough to keep us safe.
/waits for Clark so see Lois again/
CLARK: /giggle, blush, squirm/ Hi, Lois.
ER: /translates 22 y.o. male "talked all night" into pictures/
CLARK: /covers ears/ I don't need to know the details.
Ooops.
Fixed. Thanks.
Oh, sorry. Since he's a policeman, he's not allowed to have...well, romantic thoughts?
CAT: /throws hissy fit/ Did he just compare me to a hooker?
LOIS: /blase`/ Clark does it all the time, too!
CLARK: I never compared Cat to a hooker. Only Lois.
Not in this st... Well, only her actions towards Luthor.
LOIS:
CAT: Are you saying the shoe doesn't fit that description, Lois?
LOIS: Well, maybe in this one case, but Luthor was never a satisfied customer.
CLAUDE: Why do you think I stole her story? I needed to get something out of those hours I wasted seducing Lois. /suddenly dies from ax to back of head/
LOIS:
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Apparently, Billy Jr. didn’t like her new step dad.
/hands Michael a Clarkie bear/ Although, I don't know what Billy Jr. would have thought if Dad had brought Cat home either.
So, her first statement’s a lie, then?
“Good morning, Inspector Henderson. I am Catherine Grant of the Houston Chronicle. Do you have time for a few questions?”
She never said that she wanted information about Luthor.
Or maybe see if he can’t find a good hookup at a bar somewhere.
Sadly, he doesn't have time for even that. Plus, he has a teenage daughter at home to check in with.
Bill! Also, considering later: EW! /shock/
What did I do?
CAT: Where do you think I earned the nickname 'Cat'? Did you really think it was a shortening of Catherine?
Busy day.
Gagged and bound in Lex’s new bedroom?
There's always that possibility.
CLARK: But Luthor's dead.
Cat food?
/points at previous remark by EW to set up this train of thought/ /ugh-ugh/
I have no idea to what you could possibly be referring.
Cream comes from milked cows.
Same way she knows just how his hand fits around her pregnancy-enhanced chest area.
CLARK: Um...
Say what?
CAT: Now, of course, everyone is going to think it was a fantasy. Good thing I have it on video tape.
CLARK: Say, what?!
Another highly entertaining part, Virginia! Say, just doing a rough estimate here, but it looks like you could get to an even 200 by year’s end, right? Considering the upcoming break and all…
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Just brushing up on my banter. I've completed 193 parts, then I'll be going on hiatus and posting my Auction story for KK (while trying to get something to LabRat at the Archives and seriously looking for a RL job). So, it's possible. I'd like to have a nice cushion of parts back in place before I start posting again (after Part 193). It all depends on how quickly I can find a job, and how busy that makes me.
