Okay, Lois upgraded from nasty.
As Lucy stomped towards the elevator without further comment, Clark pondered how well the sisters would get along now, since both of them seemed to be in full-blown porcupine mode.
Oh, the happy thoughts...
She poked him in the chest with her index finger. “Go away and leave me alone, Kent! You come near me again and I’ll have you arrested for sexual harassment!”
Yeah, she'd still need grounds for that...
Lois had stolen his story.
Again.
At least Perry knows.
“About the page one story you snuck in last night after I left.”
“Oh. That.”
“Yes. That.”
She crossed her arms and glanced at the ceiling, then looked back at Perry. “No.”
Perry leaned on his desk with both hands. “Then, do you have anything to say to Clark?”
She turned and looked him up and down. “Nice tie. Is it new?”
Clark clenched his fists and took one step towards her. “Lois!”
“What? Geez, you two are really wound up over – “
“You stole my story!”
She looked at him blankly for a moment, then the light of comprehension dawned in her eyes. “Oh, that. Well, you shouldn’t leave your computer unsecured when you leave the newsroom. It’s in the employee guidelines.”
What the...
“And it should win me another Kerth!” screamed Lois.
Now she sounds like a spoiled four-year-old.
She slowly put her hand on Perry’s extended limb and pushed it down. “I promise you, Perry, if you print any kind of correction, I’ll sue you, the paper, Franklin Stern, Kent, and anyone else who looks like a target. And you won’t like the end result.”
Again, grounds?
Okay, that's not the sweet but nasty. That's Lord Lu'thor having found a new host after the old one did not come out of the sarcophagus again. I sure hope the audience at the Kerths brought umbrellas because they're going to be covered in pea soup.
I've now revised my expectations from happy party time with a cattish Lois to full-blown anxiety mode and wondering how you're going to fix the shelf you ripped from the wall smashed the dolls with
Michael, crawling into a corner and whimpering like a scared little FoLC