I couldn't resist bringing it forward. Actually, I was tempted to separtate the two and have Fireworks, and After the Fireworks... But I'm already working on another epic.

Comments?

Many thanks for my Beta readers Mrs. Luthor and IolantheAlias for correcting my errors. BTW, guys, I changed some things since you last read through it. (Including the final line.)

Fireworks TOC

Hi Virginia,

Obviously an alt world epic.

Wonderful story. She remembered and waited. Very nice.

Very cute! laura

Just had to read this again. Love, love, loveeee!

I still nominate this goes on your 'I shall make this one shot into an epic someday' list.

Just saaaayin'!

love the story! was hoping there would be more, please?

/squints eyes/

Hey, he waited *years*?
He’s going to kick himself if Lois had to get her experience some place else.

Ooooh! He still remembers her.

You know, I keep wondering what will happen when they do surprise drug tests…







/suggests a big shipment of paava leaves/

Like a gust of wind? Like a…hurricane?

Does remote stalking count, too?

Uuuuu…

'handling her'

Did Lex also try to dance with Judd?

- - - -

Michael

Ken: I'll have to catch up with you later. I've got to respond to your other FDK first. More? That's Four!

Wonderful epilogue, Virginia!

I love how you change the Pilot: very funny... and very cute!

I'd like to quote my favorite line, but it's impossible to find only one: I'd have to quote all the epilogue!

Well done!

Just so you know...I'm supposed to be going to sleep now. I have to get up really early in the morning. I'm blaming any sleep deprivation on you and your story.

Yay! I was hoping you'd bring us here.



Well, teenage years aren't kind to us all. All that awkwardness and stuff.

Awww! You made me melt!

Awww!

Awesomeness!

Perfect ruse to get him the job?

She really *did* follow his work! Yay!

I *do* love the idea of them interacting in the Congo. I've read one or two fics that delt with that premise.

*That's* what unhinges his jaw? Tsk tsk, Clark!

Yes? And she wants to see him in the copy room, ASAP?

Ooops?

Ah, was wondering if/how that would be worked in.

As in she remembers ALL about you, Clark.








What a wonderful, wonderful tale filled with WAFFy goodness! I bow to your skills!

Michael: I'm caught up! No, wait, more people have posted FDK! At least, I had time to work on WC offline.

Maybe he likes a woman with experience? Maybe I'll write out some scenes on how Lois got from Florida to here. We'll see. Sometimes it's the not knowing and the wondering that makes a story fun.

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<strong> Wonderful epilogue, Virginia!

I love how you change the Pilot: very funny... and very cute!

I'd like to quote my favorite line, but it's impossible to find only one: I'd have to quote all the epilogue!

Well done!

Thanks. I'm glad you like obsessive Lois chasing Clark all over the world. I figure if Lois ever really wanted something, she'd go after it, so why not a man?

Deadly Chakram: Wow, thanks! Sorry about your sleep.



Good thing he knows of a pilot who will fly them to Vegas super quick for super cheap.

Oh, my. Thank you. I'm just glad people enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it.

Thank you. I'm glad my "Fireworks" weren't too hot for your liking.

There There. I’m sure people are willing to stop responding if you ask them nicely.

Michael

Don't worry about it. It was well worth it.

True.

Well, she laid it on a little thick for Perry's benefit.

Which went daily, then hourly?

Good point.

He also never loses the luggage.

Michael: NO! Don't stop responding. I'm deathly allergic to an empty e-mail inbox.

Which why it was necessary for them to kiss other people to realize it wasn't.

Well, Lois *was* trying to gather him, from a certain point of view.

Precisely.

According to Claude, you mean.



I believe at one point he says, "There's no secrets in Smallville."

It's nice when you surprise me.

Hopefully, he won't have to wait as long as he did in canon.

Or we could just leave it open for later sequels?

Deadly Chakram: More FDK Sequels!

Thank you.

She was taken a bit by surprise. She knew he'd be coming someday soon, she just didn't realize it would be *that* day.

Unfortunately not. The Internet wasn't that detailed in the late 80s and early 90s.

Luggage? They need clothes?

Yeah, but she did a great job of shoving "you need to hire this guy" down Perry's throat.

Meh. I wasn't online until 1996 when I got my first home computer. Of course, I was only a freshman in high school at the time...

Well, they need something so they aren't flying nude.

Oh, goodie! Well, not the allergy. Or, actually, yeah, that too.

That’s what extra-marital affairs in the seventh year are for.

Michael

And that is different from Lois shoving anything else down Perry's throat, how?

WWW (as we know it today) established with the introduction of the Mosasic web browser in 1993/1994.

LUGGAGE! Of course, they'll still have the clothes they brought on their backs. I meant once they got there. Not flying there naked. Well, Clark was naked.

Michael:

It means I respond to your FDK in a timely basis to re-fill my mailbox sooner than later with your FDK-FDK-FDK-FDK responses.

Let's see if they met in 1984 + 7 years = 1991. 7 year itch already come and gone. (Plus, would she want to do it with someone who couldn't really curl her toes?)

Let me guess? For next year's tomato crop?

She'll have access to Kryptonite before then, so it's best if he doesn't wait that long.

What? Only 4 more days of your holiday left?

Michael

True, but if they can't even curl her toes, she couldn't expect them to rock her world, could she?

Threaten him with it if he pulls a Second Honeymoon on her.

I'm envious!

Michael

But she doesn't want him a bloody plup in the hospital unless she puts him there. Plus, bloody plup not good for honeymooning (see Second Honeymoon for example).

You keep saying that. You do realize that every one of your FDKs is like a little vignette of its own, don't you?

Who said anything about bloody pulps. Just have him unable to break the silk scarfs she uses to tie him to her bed.

It is? Michael

My bad. What is some kind of lunkhead? Why would he do that?

Just the kind of vignettes us EWM like to read.

Hmm...
* Because it's not proper to have relations with a Lois he's not married to?
* Because Lois wants to have relations with Superman but he wants her to have relations with Clark?
* Because Lois wants to paint him with chocolate?
* Because he's afraid of intimacy?
* Because he's a lunkhead and doesn't know a good thing when it playfully bites him in the heiney?

Michael

These all work but the chocolate one. Canon Clark likes chocolate, remember. That one might be an incentive.

That was a creative, funny twist of a story with a delightful ending.

I hope you'll keep writing the occasional short story for those of us who don't have the time for epics.

Thank you, Happy. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I find it fun to twist canon on it's ear.

I have written a few short pieces = 7 posted this year, in fact (all are already on the Archives). Clearly, I have no social life.

I do owe the Summer Ficathon one more before... oh, dear, is it less than 2 weeks until September? Okay, that Water Fight story might come in a little late.

Michael