Darth Michael: 
Oooh! Catching up
Hey, me, too!
Then again, Lois’s last fiancé has a rapsheet that’s going to be way longer than Lucy’s ex boyfriend’s.
CLARK: One hopes.
They’re more dangerous and the adrenalin gives things an extra kick in bed?
Speaking of that... Nah. That might spoil things.
Maybe they need to put up some of those ‘don’t shoot the aliens’ signs?
LOIS: /seriously considers this/
CLARK: Seriously?
First Metallo, no Wally? I’m guessing, since Lex isn’t really all that dead, and wasn’t shivved in the prison yard either, there’s no need for super power transference, huh? And Clark’s not going to take Lois in a thunderstorm, either, so we can nix Ultra Woman showing up any time soon, too.
Yep, I have other plot points in mind.
At the Daily 'Cat Grant used to work there' Planet? No, I don't think so.
So when other women start to snuggle up to Superman, steal a kiss or a grope, she won’t be mad at him?
LOIS: He's faster than a speeding bullet but he can't runaway from another woman's lips?
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With Superman, ‘kraken’ would be better. As in ‘Excuse me, there’s a kraken attacking a supertanker in the bay’.
I love it! I really should come to you for ideas! I mean, since you're not using them.
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How about: ‘Aren’t you dating Clark Kent?’ That way Superman wouldn’t be sullied by Lois’s attempts at sexual intimacy with a man other than her boyfriend.
Yeah, that's probably logical... but not as fun a conversation.
To be fair, her subconscious has been slipping those hints into her thoughts for at least two episodes now. I think she’s ready, even if she doesn’t want to admit it. Just like it was with the pheromones.
Has it only been two episodes?
Because she’s staying with her boyfriend and that’s not something a single lady would do?
SUPERMAN: Not on Krypton!
Maybe they even registered as Mr. and Mrs. Kent in the Lexor. That way, they’d already be legally married in Metropolis.
Hmm…http://sls.colostate.edu/data/sites/1/documents/CommonLaw.pdf Fascinating. They could just end up being married if she’s not really careful now. After all, if Superman pronounces her to Clark Kent’s wife, then it must be true. Superman doesn’t lie.
Gee, that would be a fun loophole.
LOIS & CLARK: Fun? For who?
EW: You!
LOIS: Oh, right.
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CLARK: Speak for yourself.
LOIS: I always do.
What if Clark merely called for her in the buff?
He’d have Superman ask Lois to undress and come see him? Like she’s his concubine or something of the sorts?
Sorry, word play. In the previous sentence, she had thought what would happen if she called his bluff... which somehow dissolved in her mind to him calling to her in the buff. Hence, why Lois keeps getting distracted at work. All that word play.
And what happens once they do get married?
That's a good question. My Magic 8 Ball has said not to tell you.
Or she could keep her hands on Superman and they not say anything at all. Like ‘no comment’ to the pictures of Superman absconding with the romantic partner of Clark Kent into Chateau Roberge?
Yea, that would be bad for Superman's reputation.
Boyscout.
Flying Menance.
Alien Invader.
Alter-ego, not arch nemesis.
Maybe he should try and refrain from calling her ‘insane’ though. Just a suggestion.
Which is why he didn't say it aloud.
Like a Xerox machine. One flash of light and it’s all over and copied. They could try it – borrow one of the Planet’s copy machines, carry it to the roof during a thunderstorm, use it as furniture the way Cat had used it with Phil, and when it’s all over, they’ll find out if Lois is now super, too.
It could work!
Well, it *was* done in a time when no reputable woman would give up her virtue outside the bonds of marriage.
LOISETTE: You mean, I could have just absconded with Charles and everything would have been fine? Really? I’ll never let men do the paperwork again. Ever!
I had to drop in that plot, because apparently there's some terrific fic over on the Archives that uses it. Or so I've been told.
They might well be in one piece. Just in a more compressed form.
He meant their bones.
He’d rather they use a cab from now on?
Yes.
Plus, I remember distinctly when she managed to smash her car into a garage door. When she hit a fire hydrant so hard, she lost her memory. And I’m sure there’s other incidents that show she’s not a safe participant in traffic.
Exactly!
I think he could have phrased it better than ‘I sacrificed two innocent people at the Altar of Time so I could claim you for myself’.
But then his guilt wouldn't factor in.
Actually, I think the exact wording was…that she’s still alive but Clark wouldn’t like her very much.
Oh, no. Herb *never* told Clark that. He implied that there was no way to bring her into the future and have it end happily for Clark.
“Before I die would be nice,” she added wryly.
Before their wedding then.
ER: /very surprised -- yet pleasantly so -- that Clark could be so wry about Lois's possible death due to their shared love/
Yep. I went there.
Clark's less of a nice guy within the confines of his skull.
Because he’s a cowardly cheat, trying to trick Lois into his bed and absconding with her stories?
Um... no. Because he considers THIS as his logical explanation on why he can't recall a future, he never lived.
