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Alright. Let's dine in.
New Years Football Season
It’s a short one with a possibly funny title. This could be Queenie.
Nope. Actually, I hoped to make people think it could be Carrie, since, you know, but oh well.
Lois Lane was, to put it mildly, frustrated. And the worst part was that there wasn’t really anyone to blame
Oh no, where is Clark in this universe?
...he's busy doing super-saves. Thus, no one present to blame :-)
It certainly wasn’t Clark’s fault that there were always some idiots on New Year’s Eve who couldn’t properly handle the fireworks they had bought.
/Does math/
Post revelation. She mellowed over the years—
LOIS: Hey!
--so season three?
Close, but not close enough.
And now such a situation had escalated again and there had been a small fire at first, but it quickly spread and required Superman’s help.
You don’t launch fireworks when there’s a dry season going on.
Really don't know how the weather in MP would be around that time...good question to consider.
Which would have been fine if she and her husband
Oops! Now, who does possibly way after marriage fic. Hmm… also, football indicates an American author.
Well, both was dictated by the prompts, so..not helpful.
Not that she was particularly interested in football. She had never understood the appeal of watching a bunch of sweaty men fight over a ball.
You could get that from TV. Hmm, will need to see the prompts. If someone requested football, all bets are off.
Indeed. And let me tell you: I was *not* happy to see I got "football" as prompt. Like, of all the authors, why they'd giv eit to the less skilled perosn of them all? Probably because I'm the only guy on the roaster...mis-Kal-culation there.
The fact that her father was a sports doctor and was often absent during her childhood because he had to treat some stupid football player who had overdone it again certainly didn’t help fuel any potential enthusiasm for football.
Hey, it could have been a cheerleader who had overdone the splits!
Do they count as sporters? Hrm...
SAM: As a doctr, I have to help all those who are in need of one. You didn't know that?
And she could certainly think of…more pleasant ways to spend the last evening of the year with Clark than sitting in a crowded stadium and listening to her colleagues holler.
Sitting home alone while Superman is busy working the fires?
Or even better, sitting at home with Clark while Superman is busy elsewhere.
CLARK: Shh, Lois, not so loud. Superman could hear us doing...stuff, fireworks or not.
Oh that’s funny!
It is? Apparently, everyone thinks so. Granted, I didn't really think about the, ahem, implications, when I rolled up with that name.
COACH GAINES: What implications? X-K can't be aquired in small round balls!
And Clark, the lover of his hometown that he was, had made the mistake of publicly announcing in the bullpen that he would, of course, support “his” team.
Which means Lois has to support her team!
Sometimes, you are too perceptive, and ruin your on fun discovering the story going forward.
Obviously his competitive wife couldn’t just let that happen. She may not have cared about football – not at all – but she was a true Metropolis girl, born and bred, and there was no way a team from somewhere in the middle of nowhere was going to beat HER city. Which she had made clear to Clark!
I was only joking! But Lois is known to be tad competitive from time to time!
Never make jokes about that in front of Lois. She will always hear you and act accordingly!
and (that had been Clark’s condition) had to publicly admit to the loser that they were in the wrong.
LOIS : I’ll win. No need to panic.
Rrrright... The best bets are safe bets and all that.
Lois was…less enthusiastic about that in particular, but eventually agreed.
Hehehe
That's the joy of being married for a while - your partner knows what htey have to be careful with.
Anything else would have been far too close to conceding a possible defeat, after all.
/squints/ Queenie did challenge me to a bet over a ficathon guess. She might be angling to get fic out of it. Will have to wait and see. I also need to check who else is short and funny…
Hey, did you just call me short? I will let you know that I'm a rather tall guy...which has it's pros and cons. As for the funny...well, I'm trying.
. “Clark, where
Are you?” she murmured to herself.
Oops, extra line break! But it’s too short for KSaraSara fic. And no touching or heartbeats so far. And no sweet kids. Nah, I’ll keep KSaraSara in the other fic. Good thing I read that one first.
I don't know how that line-break happened, it was not intentional on my part. Hrm...weird.
she heard the familiar “swoosh” sound,
Need to search who does that one.
/edit: many a FoLC/
Yup, I've seen that quite often. No clue, that should be safe terraint.
And he clearly needed a shower. Damn it!
So did Lois! But it’s way too short for other Sara!
It's also the not-detailled-section.
LOIS: Rules are there to be...modified.
ME: Maybe. But I don't think I'm good at this, plus it would make guesisng harder if it's in another area. So, DEAL WITH IT!
Damn it! And she couldn’t even come join him because that would inevitably mean a massive delay.
I did mention this.
As I said...your precognition ability will be your doom one day.
Well, I’m afraid we won’t be able to do it with the car anymore.
/decides to mentally edit ‘with’ to ‘in’/
Ah, English. Such a complicated language sometimes, isn't it?
We’ll probably have to resort to the air alternative, if you don’t mind…”
Lois didn’t. It was the simplest, most practical solution. She agreed – which had nothing at all to do with the fact that she was able to snuggle particularly close to Clark’s chest and bury her hands in his hair for the next few minutes. In no way.
Wheeee, Lois is adorabs!
LOIS: It's just faster, and no need to search for a parking slot. THat's it, nothing else.
CLARK: If that's the case, why did your heartbeat just got faster?
LOIS: Shutup and fly!
Clark refrained from commenting that it wasn’t really fair to pit a big city against a small one whose fan base was on the other side of the country, but oh well. That's life.
I would worry more about talent.
SMALLBALLS coach: we got Superman!
CLARK: Mo-om!
MARTHA: Clark honey, make sure to not get your suit all dirty on the field again! I'm so done with washing these every other visit.
CLARK: But mooom, it's not my fault my wife follows your "not look at the face" part of the idea a little too often...
LOIS: Hey, I didn't hear you complain back then!
“I see you had some… fun and that’s why you’re almost late?”
how… oh, windswept hair!
Did I mention you're way to perceptive? I think so...
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Okay, who is the one shamelessly doing allusion to dark side stuff. Can’t be Sara Two because she’d just turn off the lights. Sara One would have them touching until Clark hears a heartbeat. Michael’s not playing. And Queenie, she’d lock ‘em in a dungeon. Hmm… who else is there…?
DARKSEID: Don't you dare to bring up my name! There is no space in this fic for an earth conquest!
That is not what Michael was...ah, nevermind. I seriously didn't plan this to be so full of...ahem...steamy remakrs, but the characters had their own ideas, so...blame them?
He grinned and pointed at Clark’s inexplicably disheveled hairstyle. Which had to be solely due to flying…right? Not that Lois could tell Jimmy that. Darnit!
See?
Also, who’s using ‘darnit’?
/edit: no one in recent years/
Honestly, chances are high I picked that up somewhere while reading old L&C fics. Well, if it's ancient, I have to get it out of my vocabulary then.
At least Jimmy dutifully wore his Meteors shirt. An ally in her corner, good. So she would let him get away with that sassy comment – just this one time.
/imagines egg on face after not nominating this for Queenfic/
It surprises me how many in this FDK thread consider this worth of being a Queenfic. It's a great reward, really.
Almost the entire top squad of the Metropolis team didn’t show up.
It’s beneath them.
And I always thought a football field was supposed to be an even place, at least if it's well taken car eof. But then again, we established I know nothing about FB, so...who knows.
Ladies and gentlemen, I, um, unfortunately have to inform you that today’s football game unfortunately cannot take place for…logistical reasons!”
Uh-huh…
Very credible, isn't it?
LEX: I would not have bought it. My IQ is beyond that. Plus, I likely would have been behind it if this were set in Season 1.
Go away Lex, you were forbidden form this one per prompt!
Another thing not every author does. Telling Lois ‘no’ I mean.
If you go forward, you'll see that I don't, either.
“Excuse me, Lois Lane, Daily Planet. May I ask what “logistical reasons” these could be that lead to the fact that the Meteors’ best and most successful players are not on the field, but everyone else is?”
The Smallballs brought homemade hootch and shared with their hosts. It turned out be a tad strong.
Given what happened with the SV Crows in Superman & Lois (and keep in mind this was JUST the high-school team) that becomes a whole lot mor elikely.
GAINES: I was not involved! It was all the players! Trust me, I'm a perosn of authority!
But Clark, this guy knows something, and I want to know it too!”
Oh, very cute. But not queenstyle. The rest of the mischief I trust Mary to do, but completely changing her speech style… eehhh…
Oh nooo, and I almost had you...what, oh what, went wrong?
Another clue. Not everyone still does that oldtimey style these days.
/edit: Blind Passenger!/
Oops, got me there I think. Honestly, I assume most people are using visual markers, underlining or whatever, but since that's not really a working option, this seems to be the easiest way to go for emphasis.
/takes note for the next GTA fic to not use that pattern again.../
Also to search for.
/edit: Blind Passenger!/
Oh drat! I'm sure I got that habit from other fics, too...Or not? Hrmpf! So, no frustrating situations for Lois for the next GTA! That's...quite a chalenge.
LOIS: Are you saying I have a temper??
/sweats/
“Oh man, if I had known that, I could have spent the evening with Penny. She wasn’t happy when I told her I had a work-related commitment,” Jimmy whined.
Football with friends. Why didn’t he bring her?
JIMMY: It’s best to be less than forthcoming with facts when in a relationship. I learned that from the Chief.
ALICE: And see how that worked out for him, heh?
My reply would have been: He was afraid some of his ex-girlfriends of the week might also be present...no need to get in trouble.
“Well, son, I wouldn’t describe attending a football game with co-workers as work-related. It's not like you're Elvis putting Priscilla off because he has to socialize with other big shots in the music industry at an event..."
See?
Why are you even reading fic when you already know what will come next all the time anyways? Or is it me and I'm too obvious?
until Lois suddenly realized something horrifying.
“Clark, what do we do now?”
“Huh?”
“Well, we agreed that whoever’s team wins would get to decide how we would ring in the new year together
Lois has no proof that she won (it’s a pre-concluded fact) and while that’s not worse than lo-, not winning, it’s close.
LOIS: Proof is important. We can't press a story without solid, fail-safe proof. Perry tells me every once in a while.
PERRY: Darlin, Since I officially don't know Clark's secret identity, your claims about Superman's qualities in bed are not sufficiently confirmed and therefore can't be puslished on the People of Interest pages.
“Well, it wasn’t my team’s fault, so…”
“Don’t you dare, Kent!”
“Calm down, it was a joke Lois!”
What can I say, L&C bante ris fun to write.
Lois glared at him. “Not! Funny!”
It was!
I agree, but I'm afraid that's a matter of perspective, and Lois has her own.
So it happened that the Lane-Kent couple enjoyed dinner together in a nice restaurant and a good glass of wine (which was more like lunch if you cared about the time change from Metropolis to Paris, but who looked that closely?)
That’s a cute way to place the setting of their dinner! Now, who messes with time zones like that. I noticed a mention of time zone ignoring in a summary or a remark a few days ago. So either on Discord or in an AO3 story. #nothelpful
Urm, sorry not sorry? I honestly hae no clue what you could refer to there. As for messing with the timezones..yeah, in hindsight, I realize i screwed up there, it should have been the other way around from Paris to Metropolis. Luckily, no one notices, it seems.
And then they moved on to, let’s say, activities that showed the respective other how much they valued and needed them and would continue to do so in the coming year.
THE END
Awwwwwwwww! Also
I wanted a fluff enidng that also fits the tone so...there. Mission (hopefully) acomplishd.
-Football (US)
-Married life
-A Mystery
Okay, with the prompt it can be non-Us FOLC, too. Need to check Blind Passenger more thoroughly.
To be fair, I haven't written that much (I really want to, but time/RL has other ideas...) so there's not much material for you to work with, unfortunately.
Don’t want:
-Lex
-Divorce
-Au
Which is the reason this isn’t about the pro-football player Lex The Great and his wife Lois getting a divorce.
LOL
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Okay, with all the indicators, it looks like
Blind PassengerIt weren't all that much clues, so...that's a good thing, I assume.
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The only thing to worry about is, I did not find anything that jumps out at me as native German speaker. Hmm…which makes me worry about my own style
That's good to know, because it measn I didn't mess up my English too much. After being called out for using "she had been served" in one fic, I tried to avoid stuff like that happening again.
Honestly, I'm not sure though if I can take the full credit for that, since I sent this over to Verity for technical editing before it got published. So, it might very well be the case she fixed some things here or there, I didn't make a word-by-word check on the published version to find out. (MAybe I should...)
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As for the prompts:
Gah, I’m sure “Football” came up on Discord. /looks/ hmm… I might have missed it in the scroll of the search result
Again, I can't help you there...
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Very funny story, in case the comments didn’t make this clear. If anything I did pick up on was unintentional, I truly was just looking for clues
Michael
