Originally posted by John Lambert:
I think canon Clark did the same thing multiple times. The best way to work out the time line from Whine, Whine Whine to ATAI to WHATTA is to assume that And the Answer Is opens on the last in a long line of Clark being on the verge of telling Lois, with him having wimped out a bunch of times before.
Yes, with canon Clark's luck something or someone always interrupted.
That happened in this fic too. When Clark decided to tell Lois, after she had kissed him on Trask's plane, she herself stopped him by telling him that she was only using him as a decoy boyfriend. The night Lois gets shot, he feels like he should tell her again, but realizes the timing is off. Once he thinks more about it, he again decides to wait. It's a scary thing to tell the person you love your deepest darkest secret, especially if you've been toying with them about it for months now. He knows she will be angry when he tells her (that much of a lunkhead, he is not) especially after what happened with his experience with Lana... so, a part of him is chickening out too.
