Hi Sara!
Lois and Clark are on a family road trip with their 7-year-old daughter Hannah, and they are positively baffled how she’s been awake so long. Another in the series of Sweet Kid Stories.
So good to see another one of those!
Why isn’t she asleep yet?” Lois hissed at Clark under her breath after checking on Hannah in the rearview mirror for the hundredth time this road trip.
Waiting for Clark to be able and fly them home instead of driving?
See here:
Love and Capes – In the Time of Covid, Page 49“Nine hours. Plus she went to bed late last night,” he said, still whispering.
Too much sun, huh? Need to start lathering her up good and well.
“Honey, she was babbling so much she might as well have been the Falls.”
Aww, what you get when crossing the little babbling brook with a solar battery.
Oh, like you’ve never babbled!” she whisper-yelled at him
There so cute!
The point is that she’s only had like 5 hours of sleep in the past 28 hours! That’s not enough for a 7-year-old.”
Clark: You think? Five whole hours? We need to see the Doc about this. I only needed four at that age. Hope she’s not sick or something…
hate how she gets laser focused on that thing,” Lois said, her voice still quiet.
Remembering how she got VD'd by Jaxon?
We could take it away?” he suggested again. “No!” she hissed again. “There’s NO way I’m playing another hour of I-Spy. Nope. Let her have the GameBoy.”
It’s not that...it’s that I was hoping to...discuss grownup things.” Lois frowned.
She got the Kamasutra, Y2K Edition.
Lois gasped quietly. “You don’t think that’s it, Clark, do you??”
See?
But it was another thing altogether to think that there might be some Kryptonian physiology at play when it came to Hannah’s seemingly superhuman ability to stay awake for far too long.
She’ll be so good during tests, able to collate all her classmates’ knowledge in her test.
Why are we whispering, Clark?” Lois pointed out. “She has headphones on...”
/Cocks eyebrow/
Her heart swelled, and she couldn’t help but look back again in the rearview mirror at their daughter, still wearing her headphones and bopping her head along to whatever music her game was playing. “Do you think it’s time to tell her?” Clark asked aloud. “Tell me what?”
Oh this is evil. Also, trying to remember if it was Nan's Dagger series where the girls got their powers a bit sooner due to different maturing rates.
Another fine entry!
Michael
PS: Yes, I saw the copy-editing and grinned.
