Chris, good instalment.
I like the fact that CJ's actions did have consequences. You don't face down a gun weilding maniac out to kill you and yours and not have consequences.
I'm a sucker for hospital waiting room scenes. It gives your characters lots of time to run an emotional gambit, from relief to abject worry and back to relief once they get some 'good' news. I'm surprized that the doctor couldn't have at least given Lois a 'given time, he should recover fully' instead of the more cryptic, we've made him comfortable.
One minor point of contention for me. Lois, rightly goes into a tirade about CJ flying into the path of Lex's bullet. She rants about how he could have been killed, as she should because she'd thinking about him. His assertion that since he had somehow gotten his flying power back that he might have assumed that he'd have his invulnerability back also lessens the impact of what he did. In essence he's telling Lois that he wasn't really risking anything in trying to save her. It makes what he did seem less heroic and less self-sacrificing to save the woman he loves.
You need to add a sentence or two after that conversation having Clark tell Lois that he would have done the same thing even if he'd known that he was completely vulnerable. After all, he'd think that her life was more important than his own.
Good story, decent wham.
Tank (who supposes that the final part will be filled with all that 'yucky' waffy stuff)
