Well done, Christina.
My own thoughts: Lois will see Clark, but won't believe her eyes. Given her thoughts in ILTY on anything not explainable by science, she will reject what her eyes are telling her and will just assume (incorrectly) that Clark has some sort of rappelling gear which she just can't see because it is too dark. She will also assume (alas, correctly), that he is outside her window because he is being stalker-ish. She will tell him off in no uncertain terms and the next day will demand that Perry fire Clark. Perry will refuse on the grounds that since she didn't go to the police and she has no evidence, it would just be a "he-said, she-said" situation and if he fired Clark, Clark could claim wrongful termination. Perry does, however, agree to put them on opposite sides of the bullpen and not be partners.
So here's where you get to choose your own adventure:
1) The Tank ending: Clark is so distraught over both what he had done and Lois' reaction to him that he quits his job and starts working as an anchor at WGBS. Lois and Jimmy are killed by the "accident" which Dr. Baines causes, since Clark isn't there to rescue them.
Clark never becomes Superman, and so everyone aboard the habitation module dies when the bomb explodes. This compounds Clark's feelings of guilt. He knows of no way to commit suicide, so he does the next best thing: He constructs a Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic where he lives the rest of his life. Jonathan is so devastated by Clark's precipitous and permanent departure that he dies of a heart attack. Martha's grief at losing both her husband and her son causes her to go insane and she spends the rest of her life in a mental hospital.
2) The closest-to-WAFFy-as-I-can-come-up-with ending: Everything else continues more-or-less as it did in the pilot (except for the Lois-and-Clark heart-to-heart while being chained up) until Clark swallows the bomb and flies Lois back to the DP. She immediately realizes who Superman really is and decides to pretend to forgive Clark so that she can work with him in order to gather sufficient evidence to be able to write a strong enough CK=S story that Perry (or the competition) will publish it. Although her forgiveness is entirely an act at first, Clark's gentle demeanour and Superman's personification of the good get her to realize that what he did -- while reprehensible -- was something that was not his typical behaviour, and she eventually comes to forgive him in earnest. By the time she has enough evidence, she has decided not to go for the Pulitzer with this story, after all. (Or, alternately, she could go ahead with publishing the story and this would then be the launching off point for Alisha Knight's phenomenal -- but disquieting -- story
From the Ruins.)
3) The create-your-own-ending: ?
Joy,
Lynn
p.s., Any other takers on this challenge?
