I haven't been commenting -- mostly 'cause I've been sneaking reading time at work goofy and don't want to compound that with feedback-giving time. But I am loving this story. You defanged Paul, but made Claude worse... potentially, anyway. It's great, too, the way Lois keeps getting glimpses and clues about Clark.

And Clark thinks Lois won't recognize him. He may be in for a big surprise. laugh Wonder how long she'll string him along?

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K