Wow... Ann said it all!!!!
She really did!!!! BUT.... I have to, still, point out a few of my favorite moments in this powerful, emotional, *fantastic* section.
The emotional connection had been startling enough, but this was more. Weaker, but more... frightening? She wasn't sure how she felt about it. Unbalanced, maybe. Like getting used to a new pair of shoes or something. It just took time to adjust to. Hopefully.
She wondered if Clark could feel her pain.
You do such a wonderful job showing Lois's unsettled feelings toward this connection they clearly have. You can almost see her defences going up, but the fact that she's rationalizing to herself that it will just take time to get used to and looking at him, wondering if he feels it too... the fact that she's *not* running scared in another direction, shows that while this is alarming and new and yes, a little unsettling (like a pair of new shoes
), it's even a little soothing. That you manage to get so many emotions across in such a quick moment is just so.... so.... wow.
And just this whole part....
She'd seen him differently, though.
He'd been weak and hardly standing, yet he'd managed to cross half a warehouse to dive in front of her...
She'd had her doubts until that moment. Now there was no more fear, no more worrying that he hadn't meant what he'd said. That *she* was the one he wanted. The one he needed.
Like she needed him.
And instead of feeling suffocating, the thought was liberating.
She smiled, still watching him.
OH! Yay!! No more fear! As Ann said, Lois's introspection, her realization, of the strength in Clark that no one really sees is just wonderful, brilliant. I love her musings here, and just her moment of complete honesty, in which she realizes his feelings... and her own. This is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
And lastly....
This whole nightmare. More than three years of her life, it'd been. Well, she was through being a victim now. It would only be a little while longer before she could close the book on this chapter of her life and start a new one...
Hopefully with Clark at her side.
Yes!!!!! Wonderful! This is such a great moment, her thinking about everything, feeling overwhelmed by it all, knowing it's not yet fully behind her, but so ready for it to be. You can feel her anxiety, her longing to be able to start fresh and be happy... with Clark. Fantastic, stuff, Sara!
Now to read the rest... <g>
~Nicole
