Yay, I just
knew Star would have some answers... even if they were the most convoluted confusing answers ever.
Star smiled. “Your partner asked me to come.”
Clark is so sweet.
“He doesn’t trust the man with the green eyes,” Star explained, sitting down on the sofa.
Well that's universal.
“I was responding to your thoughts. Small weddings are much more romantic.”
Probably one of the smallest with only her, Clark and a single witness.
“Lois, your brain is like a cheap TV, full of static, but one thing is coming through loud and clear,” Star said.
The skeptical reporter couldn’t wait to hear what it was.
“You love Clark.”
Lois’ jaw dropped. No. Well, yes, but there was no way that this woman could have pulled that out of thin air. “Jimmy told you.”
Star scrunched her eyes. “Who?”
Yay! I just
knew it was Clark she was speaking to!
“Anyway, it happens after the dead man returns,” Star explained.
The prediction of Alt-Clark's arrival?
"Yes, the dead man returns. You die. Then time starts over,” Star said, ticking the timeline off on her fingers.
Makes sense. Alt-Clark comes to Lois's world and she goes with him to the beginning of when she meet original Clark to start things over.
Star knocked the event out of the air as unimportant. “You die, but it’s not really you.” She lifted up her finger. “Actually, it’s this… your death, or what is assumed to be your death… is the catalyst for time to change. I guess it angers the gods or something.”
I'm sure it would anger Rao as well as our planet's God. If Jor-El hadn't sent Kal-El to Earth, their soulmate selves never would have met.
“And will I be happy?” Lois had to ask. “When the mostly dead man returns?”
“Oh, no. You’ll be miserable.”
That actually sounds about right for when they first met. We know that at first she was tolerating Clark rather than actually enjoying her time with him. It was only in retrospect (and discarding her interest in Superman) that she recognized the positive elements about him.
“Oh, yes. He’s a tyrant. And you must be on the lookout for his ex-wife. She’s the one who kills you… the ‘other you’ you. The one that’s not you,” clarified Star with this rain of mud.
Wait, what? Ex-wife. Zara? And is Herb bringing Alt-Clark over only to have him temporarily marry her and save Lois?
“He was engaged, but it got broken off because he met you… only not you.” Star’s brow furrowed.
Ah, she's talking about her original Lois self at the moment, not the current Lois self.
“No. The ‘not you’ that gets killed won’t really be you, just someone made to look like you. This ‘other you’ that broke up Clark’s engagement really is you, only not really.”
Hmmmm... sooo... the broken off engagement-Lois is Clone-Lois rather than original Lois.
“No. The ‘not you’ that gets killed won’t really be you, just someone made to look like you. This ‘other you’ that broke up Clark’s engagement really is you, only not really.”
Ok, we have Original canon, alt-canon (with both real and Clone Loises) and alt-dimension (with as far as we can tell a dead Lois.)
“Clark is married to this other me? The me that dies?” Lois grasped onto something that made sense.
“No, the one that broke up his engagement. And she’s married to her Clark, not your Clark,” Star said, eyeing the ice cream.
“There’s more than one Clark? What? The ‘before’ Clark and the ‘after’ Clark?” Lois asked.
Yup, three Clarks not just two.
“Yes. There’s Old Clark and New Clark,” the psychic announced with a grin. “I wondered why Clark said to tell you goodbye. He’s not coming back. He’s lost, but he knows you’ll be okay, because you’ll have the New Clark, see?”
What happened to original recipe Clark? Or is that original Clark?
“Old Clark gets lost when the future becomes the past. He’ll be Old Clark, but you’ll have a New Clark.”
“I don’t want a New Clark, I love the Old Clark!” Lois said adamantly.
“You’ll love the New Clark too,” Star reassured her.
Jimmy would interpret that to mean that HE is the "New Clark."
"And the New Clark needs you. Right now he’s drowning in sorrow because he lost his Lois like you’ll lose your Clark. Well, lost your Clark.” She cocked her head to the side. “You don’t really have him, do you?”
If she's talking about a corporeal Clark, she most certainly doesn't.
“Then let’s stop the past from becoming the future!” Lois said. It seemed obvious what must be done. “I’ve invested too much to lose Clark now. Tyrant or not.”
“Clark isn’t a tyrant.”
“Huh?” Hadn’t Star said that the dead man was a tyrant?
It took me a re-read to figure this out. The tyrant is Luthor, the ex-wife is Arianna Carlin and then the Old Clark, is original recipe Clark dead at birth and New Clark is Alt-Clark.
“And is New Clark like Old Clark?” Lois snapped, getting more and more aggravated by this whole scenario. As if people were interchangeable. Why was she giving this woman time of day again?
“Yes, in all the ways that are important. He will love you more than anyone ever has. He will protect you and care for you. The two of you will be happy until death do you part.”
Yes, he most certainly would.
“Well, no. You and Old Clark are a perfect fit. One hundred out of one hundred. Soul mates. Once your life with New Clark has ended and you have died, you and Old Clark will find each other again. You and New Clark are a close match, but only like ninety-five out of one hundred. Alike souls but not a perfect match. You will be happy with New Clark, Lois, and he will be happy with you. You both will take what life has dealt each of you and make the most of it.”
Most definitely Alt-Clark.
That’s what I want too, honey, but if it doesn’t happen, if I can’t be there for you, I’d rather you find happiness with this New Clark – as long as he isn’t a clone – than with Luthor, Scardino, or Patrick. Because if this New Clark is anything like me, he’ll love you with all of his being.
I just knew he wouldn't have too much trouble with Alt-Clark being her happiness. On second re-read though, won't he think Alt-Clark is a clone?
She took a deep breath and wiped the tears from her cheeks. She set the half-gallon of ice cream on the coffee table and faced Star. “You said that I die after Clark returned from the dead, right?”
“No, I didn’t say that. Old Clark remains dead,” said Star, reaching over to the ice cream with her spoon.
“What about his ex-wife?” Lois screamed.
I was never married, Clark said at the same time Star told Lois, “Not Clark’s ex-wife.”
This was the point in which I went back and re-read everything Star said and did some sort of diagram to figure it out. Sometimes you actually need to doodle out (with multiple colors of pen) what she's said for it to make sense.
According to Star, Lois is the one out of sync with this world because her soulmate is dead. I can't wait for her to meet her "almost soulmate." Something tells me she'll put two and two together when that happens if she hadn't already. I seriously hope you've written one where she does finish that novel she told Clark about on Trask's plane. It'd be curious to read.
