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Okay, don't jump all over me just yet, but I have this idea for a story. It's looking to be a long one, with some angst/tension and a complex A-plot (the details of which, unfortunately, are still being worked out). Trying to think things through, though, I've realized that I'm going to need some help.

Unfortunately, in order to get that help, I'm going to have to give you a good expanation of the premise. It'll take a little while, and, since I'm still in the brainstorming stage, it may not entirely make sense. If you get confused or something, don't worry. Just keep reading to the end and see what you make of things.

When the story starts out, Lois is about three months pregnant. Unfortunately, much as Clark is able to charge his powers while clothed or, to some degree, even while indoors, the baby is developing powers while still in the womb.

For one thing, its kicks are super strong. That's not as bad as it could be, though, because, due to the aura effect, Lois's womb is now invulnerable. The downside of that, however, is that the uterine walls are pressing unforgivingly on her colon.

She goes to see Dr. Klein, but he's not really an OB. Lois is going to have to be hospitalized. Bernie gets her admitted to a small semi-private facility staffed by people he knows and trusts. He gives them some technobabble explanation of why her tissue is "abnormally hardened" (I'll have to work on that somehow...) and gets her set up as best he can.

That's not the end of the problems, though, because the doctors have a lot of trouble monitoring the baby. They can't do an amneo because of the invulnerable placenta, and they can't do a sonogram because, with the baby's superhearing, it causes the kid a lot of pain.

In the meantime, Superman gets attacked, and, well, let's just say he's feeling rather green around the gills. He has to be hospitalized, too.

Between his semi-conscious babbling, Lois's more than ordinary distress, and the odd nature of the baby, rumors start up again about an affair.

While all that's going on, Superman's absence means a sharp rise in the Metropolis crime rate. That is, until rumors of ever more frequent bat sightings start to have an impact.

Lois is now really torn. On the one hand, there's a huge story out there (the bat sightings plus the whole A-plot thing that I haven't really gotten into very much). On the other hand, Clark's really sick. (But if she goes to see him, it'll only fuel the rumors of an affair.) She doesn't know what to do, but what makes it worse is that she really shouldn't leave the hospital. That's frustrating her to no end.

So, that's the set-up. Now, my question is this:

How many of you reading up to this point have already caught on to the significance of the fact that I'm posting all this on April 1st?

Paul

I didn't catch it until u mentioned.

Although maybe I should have, given I'm currently in my college news office, uploading April 1st edition on the web.

Anyways, Happy April Fool's day. (if there is such a greeting).

Paul, I'm going to have to hurt you.

PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I actually believed it till the end, but I'm going to blame it on the early hour.

Kae (who was actually thinking it sounded like such a complicated and soap-opera-ish premise and not Paul's usual style at all! )

Awww man!!! I was *so* looking forward to reading this! Paul... you're rotten!!!!

So... anyone want to tackle this for a story?

Sara

LOL!!!! I was JUST thinking that it was April 1st too, after seeing the thread in the Off Topic section. But I totally didn't connect that with your post until I read your question. Lol . . . you got me for sure. Sheesh, I can't believe I was thinking about it and then totally didn't connect the storyline. Probably because there ARE writers who would write that storyline (I've read a few fics that match it for soap opera-ness), and it didn't seem that unlikely to me that someone would be considering it.
Sidetrack off of Kaethel's endnote: As to your style, I'm not sure if I know it. I've pretty much only read stuff on the Archive, and I've discovered that a bunch of people have different names on here than on the Archive, making it a challenge for me to match nicks and fics together. What are some of your fics? I might have read them and not known.

Try looking for Zombies Ate My Homework. He won a Kerth for it last year. That should get you started.

Nan

Ohhhhh, THAT Paul! (I'll have to remember HatMan = Paul-Gabriel Wiener.) Lol, I see why they said that about your style. I've read about 15 of your fics and that idea certainly wasn't anything like 'em! Great April 1st joke.

LOL!!! You caught me, Paul, fair and square.

Of course, you do know that if you don't get the joke in before 12 noon, it turns back against you? And since I'm sure, what with folcs spread around the world, that quite a few people won't see this until after 12, you could be in serious trouble.

Yvonne

Good. Lord! You totally had me, even after I saw a post saying that you had already started some type of April Fool's joke!

Jen

LOL, Paul. But it *was* shaping up to be a truly awesome Badfic.
Thanks for the giggle.

c.

And I was all set to ask if I could BR for you, Paul...




CC

*giggle* I saw your post, and I saw the date on the post, and thought to myself, "If anyone would do an April Fool's Day joke, it'd be Paul." So of course I read it with a grain of salt.

It was funny, though. hehe

you totally had me, hook-line-and-sinker.

Though, this could be a really good 'bad' fic...

James

You got me too, Paul.

I thought the question would be, "Would you be interested in reading this fic?" Truth be told, I was wondering whether I should tell you how awful it is or just ignore it and hope that it would go away.

Happy April 1st!

gerry

You are EVIL, Paul! LOL, I was totally suckered -- with the caveat that the entire time I was reading, I was thinking, "wow, Paul is really branching out ... this is not the kind of story I would ever expect him to write!"

I should have known. <g>

Kathy

Ditto to what Kathy said. You got me good. I was also thinking that this isn't your style, so I should have suspected something, but didn't.

I really, really wouldn't have minded reading that. Needless to say, didn't suspect it was a joke. (Maybe because I was one day late? )

See ya,
AnnaBtG.