Darth Michael: Sorry this took me so long. RL gives me very little home computer time lately.
Ooooh! I totally forgot that we haven’t seen that one yet /dizzy/
I know I'm jumping around more than in the first two sections, but I'm still trying to allude to important ground (A-plot wise).
Awww, she really does love him.
Oh, sorry. That was sarcasm.
and try not to rip out his spleen for being nominated.
Or not.
Oh, good. He figured it out.
Right. It’s not his fault for being the better reporter. Give me a break!
Lois would never think that.
CLARK: Tell me about it.
It’s because he’s not sure whether it’d be better to win or lose, given that Lois isn’t nominated. Which one will him rather land in the sack with her?
LOIS A: Clark, I'm so sorry you lost. I'll stay over and comfort you.
LOIS B: Yea! Clark, you won! Let's celebrate!
CLARK: I can never win, can I?
HERB: Nope, that would be consummating.
LOIS: Nobody said anything about me winning though.
And can you imagine if she’d then lost to him? /evil/
Love that idea!
Well, that’s what Lois gets for slipping into the spot on the society page usually taken up by Cat Grant, or rather her interview victims.
LOIS: This Luthor investigation really was the pits for me, wasn't it?
She’s a good reporter? Some might even say, Lois’s equal?
CAT: Yes.
CLARK: Not aloud.
Jealous that Clark is only associating with women who excel in their respective professions?
MASYON: He’s not associating with me, so that’s not right.
Lois has 3 Kerth awards, hence excelling at her job.
LOIS: I don't think arresting me counts as excelling at one's profession.
Actually, Cat will take care of that one.
Yep.
TEMPUS: Let’s say it together, shall we?
Hip-hip-horray?
But there have been several movies where lightly dressed or slightly undressed female desperados took advantage of the men riding or driving up and down some highway, alleviating them of their worldly possessions and maybe worldly existence.
Well, that's one explanation on how Cat left the banquet with an award.
CAT: I won!
Actually, the real Clark’s just a better journalist. More cultured. More experienced. Better with touchy-feely-stuff.
Also, canon Cat didn't write this article.
Because that’s how she was supposed to behave? Plus, leopards and spots.
Riiiight. Rule 66 isn't it? Double standards.
“Knowing something isn’t an exact science,” she snapped before continuing across the banquet hall.
Actually…
She meant psychically knowing something.
STAR: Actually...
But it’s already the primary topic of discussion at every news gathering in Metropolis, ever since the Claude incident /huh/
Lois's sex life or the lack thereof?
LOIS:
I hate my co-workers.
Maybe he shouldn’t mention that out loud to Lois.
Clark doesn't love Cat and Lois in the same way.
/nuh-uh/ No hitting the pregnant lady.
LOIS: Oh, so SHE get's special treatment just because she wasn't cautious! Typical!
CAT: Superman rescues you when you're not cautious. Isn't that special treatment?
LOIS: I wish!
Regrettably, she saw that he was deep into a conversation with Jimmy and Jenny Olsen.
Awww, they flew up /clap/
Just a cameo, so I didn't have to dedicate an entire scene to them.
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Trying to conserve scenes, so more are dedicated to Lois and Clark.
Like Clark, Jimmy didn’t win, though.
Who did? Wally, for snapping those pics of the senator and two underage hookers in the Lexor’s indoor pool?
No. Wally's not that good of a reporter.
JIMMY: Some guy who got a shot of a murderer as it happened. Politics!
Lois rolled her eyes and stated in a complete monotone as if Clark was feeding her lines she didn’t want to say, “Congratulations, Cat.”
He’s like a puppet master, controlling his little ventriloquist doll with his hand on her backside?
That's not why Clark puts his hand at the base of Lois's back!
CLARK: No. Darn.
Looky there, Lois is smart!
LOIS: Sarcasm. Why is always my intelligence spoken of in jest?
CLARK: Tell me about it!
It’s surprising the one about her knowing who the father is didn’t come up, though.
CAT: After I killed the first few, people stopped asking.
Either that or all the men were afraid it might be them.
Cat hadn’t lost her mind and still wanted to discuss topics completely unrelated to her fertility, but apparently, nobody else thought she was able to do so.
But isn’t that because before she got pregnant, the topic of procreation was her main forte?
So, the irony is only lost on Cat?
CAT:
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I'm good, aren't I?
Could have been worse. Could have been during her speech. Just imagine if the Prankster had shown up with his freezing ray, and either then or when she came to, well… She did get lucky there.
Um... does the Prankster's freezing ray actually make people wet when they're thawed?
Actually, next spring could mean right on time for Valentine’s day. That way, the story about the greatest aborted romance of the century could be bought, gifted, and enjoyed by all the couples to be.
Just in time for his trial!
But on the plus side, someone could have used the opportunity to slip a steak knife into his back. If properly done, it might nick his abdominal aorta and thirty seconds later, et voila, no more Luthor troubles.
CAT: Nobody wants to have a dead body at their wedding reception.
Aww…she remembering the home video she and Lex made some time this spring, huh?
LOIS: Um... no. I have no idea to what this man is referring.
But doesn’t it bring seven years of luck to rub a pregnant woman’s belly? And 77 if she’s carrying Superman’s child?
I always found it rude, especially by strangers.
To be fair, pregnant women attending the Kerth ceremony usually go into labor during it. /points at Kerth archives and the Kerth Curse™/
Well, truthfully, Michael, you did want someone to have a baby in this story. Why not Cat?
I wonder how he detects it when Lois is lying…
CLARK: She opens her mouth.
LOIS:
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Yes, very much enjoying it.
Too bad that Jimmy and Lucy are missing /evil/
You mean Jimbo and Lucy?
Er what now? Also, wouldn’t that be just great, Lucy expecting from Jimmy? Lois would have a fit!
Well, it has been how long since Lois has seen her sister?
CLARK: I was keeping an eye on her over the summer. She wasn't pregnant. Carrying around a infant car seat though... oh. Ooops.
Well…at least, the blue lines?
That's not nice! Jimmy loved Jenny at first sight. He married her at blue lines.
Strangely enough, that didn’t happen for Lois and Clark, though.
Exactly.
Maybe it’s the universe trying to compensate left and right?
Perhaps.
She had proof that she had sex?
But only until the kid is a teenager does she have proof of his father.
Maybe Lucy is pregnant after all?
Wouldn't she have already had the baby by now?
Clark could stay at home? Or maybe they could hire a professional caregiver when the New Krytponians show up?
All possibilities.
Or maybe it’s the children begotten by the union of Clark and Mayson and the union of Lois and Call-Me-Daniel who when themselves forged a union?
CLARK: Now, he's just being cruel.
Anyway, I was sure I’d be a train wreck as a mom.”
But Clark’s good at stopping, or at least, cleaning up, train wrecks.
Good point.
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Chekhov's gun. Good one.
Yes, this dimension is moving further away from canon with every part.
/checks watch/ Yes, Buffy should show up any minute now…
The funny thing is the day I read this I had been thinking about a subplot where Clark meets Buffy... It didn't pan out though. Still funny thought.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
