Darth Michael: Sorry about the delay, Michael. I tend to pile too much on my plate.
Drinking Tea Down the Rabbit Hole
So, the story of Lois sitting in her hole?
Um... Lois? No....
You know me. I like to throw some extraneous characters into the plot to shake things up from time to time. I'll try to behave better after my hiatus, but no guarantees.
So, he likes their sanity, their husbands, their children?
No, he likes to take those things from women.
Then why is she boinking him?
BETSY: Why wouldn’t she? /duh!/
Perhaps things aren't exactly as they were purported to be.
Brenda had noticed this about Lex the first night that they met five years before.
/Michael scratches his head in confusion/
What? Did you naturally assume what Lex thought to be their first meeting was the first time she saw him in society?
Brandy is circulating in some strange circles. Or is Sally a drug company sales rep?
Ding! Ding! Ding! The latter.
In terms of how to get rid of her crabs?
Um... no.
Oh, on how to prevent getting crabs?
Um... don't eat them?
/surprised that a woman would be so blunt/ Does this…qualify her for an opportunistic golddigger and borderline sex-for-money contractor?
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I think so.
Wouldn’t it be more cost efficient to hire a death contractor from one of the former Eastern Block nations?
Only for the ones who didn't take the money.
LEX: Everyone needs a hobby?
That sounds about right for him.
If Sally had been serious about catching this prize fish, she shouldn’t have opened her legs to him in the first place. Men desired more that which they could not have.
LOIS: /wave/
LOIS: That's why I've been playing hard to get with Superman for all these months.
PERRY:
CLARK:
You have?
CAT: Is that what you call throwing yourself at his feet and saying "Take me, now!"? Interesting, Lois.
Nope. No question about it. She doesn't like other women.
So, had some failed relationships in highschool and college? Maybe a highschool teacher who wouldn’t give her an A afterwards?
I was thinking more along the lines of a college prof who taught her things he shouldn't have.
She sounds like a very special kind of call-girl.
You mean one who whips a man if he's naughty and doesn't take the money on the dresser?
/scratches head/ You don’t mean…Nah…couldn’t be…
BATMAN: /confuses her for Cat Woman/
Well... she *is* his type... or at least, Bruce's... Or she is NOW.
Two days after the cocktail party, LexCorp bought out her acquaintance’s pharmaceutical company and Sally had been fired.
So, he…Sally, she didn’t…
Ensnare Lex? Nope.
By the end of the week, Brenda heard through the hospital grapevine that Sally had swallowed too many pills and never woke up.
Maybe it was cleanup?
This part was actually so long many pages had to be cut to make it fit into one part. That theory was presented (as well as the longer scene regarding Sally) was in the first draft.
Oh. Does that mean Lex traded sex for money? Doesn’t that make him a joyboy? What if the company’s executives are all comprised of men?
LEX: I contract that one out to my personal assistant.
MRS. COX: I'll do anything for Lex. /receives memo/ Say what?
After that, it had become a game for Brenda to guess at each party she attended whom Lex Luthor was going to bed.
Okay? That doesn’t sound healthy.
I'm sorry. Were we assuming that Brenda was mentally sound?
She’s quite the conniving little bitca?
BRENDA: Why, thank you.
So, she not into the whole 2.5 kids and a picket fence scene?
No, she's a career woman.
LOIS: An insult to career women, you mean.
BRENDA: At least I didn't sleep my way... scratch that. Never mind.
LOIS: I didn't sleep with Perry. And I certainly didn't sleep (or do anything else intimately) with Lex Luthor.
If Luthor ever came to her, Brenda would let him know from their first interaction who really was in charge.
Nigel?
No, only from Nigel's POV.
Plus, divorces are costly?
That and she didn't want to be handcuffed to only one man.
Awww…she’s such a fine match for Lex. Much better than that harlot reporter he tried to ensnare.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Clearly, Nightfall had been even too much for the Man of Steel to handle.
No, actually, Lois was…
CLARK: Actually, I've had it under advisement not to "handle" Lois. She wears the pants in our relationship and me the tights. Wait. That didn't come out quite right.
LOIS: Sounds good to me.
ER: /giggles/
LEX: No one *ever*! That’s not… *string*?
I meant puppetry strings, but that works, too.
LOIS: Why are you looking at me for verification? I didn't see Lex's sex tape.
CLARK: Can I throw up now?
The drug was never meant to keep them interested in sex *after* they had sex for the first time.
LOIS: Doesn’t work to get them to have sex in the first time, either, so it’s useless.
So after consummation of the relationship, pheromones no longer work?
Would they use ‘king’ and ‘queen’ in an electoral form of government? And how often would they hold votes? Every four years as was common top-side? Or would they go with a more Athenean model with all the able-bodied free men allowed to take part in the discussion and voting on issues of public concern.
LEX: Yes, we’d use the Athenean model, where all the free men are allowed a vote.
And all women must succumb to the king? /Actually, I don't think that was the Athenean model. I do believe it was used in Braveheart though/ Society would have started over from scratch with the head warlord (i.e. king) in charge. Lex was setting himself up for this position.
She doesn’t sound entirely stable.
Does she sound more unstable than Lex?
Brenda had to admit that she found a kind of freedom to not caring for a jerk she made crawl naked across the floor or beg for mercy when she had him tied down.
He *agreed* to that?
LEX: No, but then I didn't agree to the handcuffs either.
BRENDA: The crawling was in reference to other men.
Suddenly, the strong man who had fought against every one of her demands disappeared and was replaced by a docile, nervous, and modest man.
LEX: /Can't believe that all his training of Lex-C had been for naught/
It's that whole Nature vs. Nurture debate again.
Controlling such a man took another set of skills.
ER: /wonders if they were mothering skills/ ?
Mothering, caring, loving... possibly.
Aaaawww her maternal instinct got spiked.
Men she knew weren't exactly looking for a mother figure.
She does sound like the Sultan Mother.
BRENDA:
Is this a bad thing?
I wonder if that might not be that after her father and his brother had abused her, she went to sex as her go-to interaction with men?
I wasn't heading in that type of backstory.
Perhaps she likes slime?
Close.
They don’t have much security downstairs, do they?
NIGEL CoS: Why do you think I’m back?
Nigel IS their security.
KIRK Devlin: I didn't feel all that safe around him.
All locks are functional?
LEX: The better to keep Lois from picking all the locks.
To keep others from touching Lex's personal property and to keep her secure.
Maybe the apes had learned to dress wounds by now?
In three months?
“And what are we going to tell them? That Mr. Luthor’s fiancée was rescued from the no longer existent Topside?”
Well…it would explain her injuries?
ASABI: See!
Aaaawww…now with love comes jealousy.
No, she already loved him. She's now thinking he's been stringing her along.
LEX: I've already told you. It's not a string!
Yes, but he got a lot of it. And in the cold nights of the nuclear winter, warmth can be a very valuable commodity.
Yes, but cuddling up to a snake won't make one very warm.
And you never know what a good lawyer could do when you got married to only one of the personalities.
Allowing his other personalities to cheat?
So, Lex came back for a visit? And then Brandy went all Daenerys on him?
If he stayed much longer in the bunker, that's entirely possible.
Maybe Lexy and Asabi have a more than professional relationship?
BRENDA: Denial. Denial. Denial.
What kind of ‘exit plan’ was that?
ER: /suggests that get transported back to the 1960s/
Or death. One of the two.
On the other hand, maybe St. John had meant that Lex Luthor planned to kill the entire Luthor Underground Community.
ER: /shhhhh. The captives might hear you/
BRENDA: How can we be Earth's survival if we don't survive?
For fun? Maybe a re-enactment of Doom or another first-person shooter computer game?
I was thinking more, slowly close the air vents and let them suffocate. Or perhaps locking the elevators so that they could never escape and eventually turn on one another. Or turn into those creepy underground dwellers who worship the bomb from Planet of the Apes.
Then why bring in people with mental diseases?
What if they hadn't searched for that? Perhaps Brenda was so good that she had them all fooled.
Maybe the elevator only goes into a hardened bunker 50 meters below the surface. Or maybe a tunnel 300 meters below the surface before coming up topside in the mountains to the northeast of Metropolis?
That's the entrance which has the three year lock.
I’m not sure this action would be legal. Besides, if they are caught, their actions would be akin to a coup d'etat and treason and might have them put in front of a firing squad.
But a plan without risks isn't one worth undertaking.
Sounds like she’s dealing with him like he’s got the mental and social capabilities of a child.
BRENDA: He's male... so... what's your point?
LEX: Leeeeeech! Did you put bunny-DNA into the mix?
No, but Lexy has the horns of a teenager and Lex (original) doesn't.
LEX: I think I've just been insulted.
Not really, no. They already have quit the Oedipal situation going on there…
But Lex-C seems to idolize his "father" figure.
LEXY: What do you mean Dad *touched* you? Death to the scoundrel!
Or not.
Awww…he still got his first crush and thinks all men are controlled only by the strings their love interests pull.
He thinks Lois is super cool and would distract Dad from his hobby down in the bunker. He knows that Lois could do that to him.
Yes, Lois is a very smart woman when it comes to ensnaring wealthy and powerful men. Also explains why she hasn’t yet been able to ensnare the First Lord of Krypton, what with her being all wanton and stuff towards him.
Well, she did tell him that nothing happened between them at the hospital... so... maybe she's just a tease.
He took a woman’s ‘no’ as a challenge.
A man’s, too.
SUPERMAN: /wallbash/
Awww…Lexy also likes to boink a Lois.
LEXY: And?
Because Lexy would diddle in his father’s place?
According to the Lex, Jr. and Jaxon plotlines, yes.
Oh, right. He made it out alive, but that was it.
She doesn't know that.
There they are. And all still alive and well…
Well, the part isn't over yet...only the first half of the FDK.
