Ah! Another Quotable!
Because once, years ago, that was *her*. Hoping for attention from a more experienced reporter. Patiently biding her time as she waited for the chance to show that she was more than just a young intern. Touched by anything he threw her way, by the French-accented words he’d directed to her.
And when the end had come, it was quick and messy and so terribly painful and it’s still playing itself out in her life now, like electricity crackling down the line, energy that can’t be drained, only redirected.
This was really hard to write I'm sure. The kind of treatment that Claude lashed onto Lois was cruel, the effects of such treatment lasts a lifetime. Fortunately for Lois, she was able to redirect those energies into a great professional life, but her personal life suffered.
Thankfully she did not want to put Clark through the same pain and thinking she was doing him a favor rebuffed him.
Happily, he did not pay attention to that and looked into Lois' heart.
