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You knew we couldn't come to Smallville without running into Lana, now didn't you?

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I won't be able to post Part 51 on the regular posting date (Thursday / Friday) due to a RL conflict. I can either post it one day early, or push it back to the next posting spot which will be next Sunday / Monday. My apologies for any confusion this might cause.

Well, it could be worse. Maybe. Still I think is what we should have.

Clark, that is not fair. You wouldn't have the scatch if Martha had not opened the box. That is not Lois' fault. Or maybe if you had been wise and asked Martha to describe what was in the box first. But no, you just had to go and let her open it, without thinking.

It sounds to me like she intentionally got him scatched. Clark you should be yelling

Well, at least she is cooperating with his undercover identity.

Well, at least now she is asking questions that cut to the core of the issue.

He was 100% truthful. This is more of a home to him than his deminsions Smallville. In part because this Smallville did not reject him.

He is making a little progress.

Well, things could be worse. Still, why does he hold back so. I guess I know but still.

The frustrating thing is that no matter how much Clark tells her truths, they do not add up.

They didn't know he existed.

Clark: How can I tell her without maligning good people like the Kents. This is so hard. Clark has lost her. Except I don't believe it. I don't believe it at all.

I think it is the reverse. Regaining her needs to be built on trusting and telling her. I was hoping that Lois would not let him go there, but I guess she did. I think they both need time to think about what was said, although I really wonder if they will.

Nice to see the interaction between Clark and Jonathan. I wish Clark would come clean with Lois. He's in danger of pushing things way too far.

Joan

Well, maybe he will come around to saying more.

I am not even sure that would have been a postive at all. Even Lois seeing him floating could not have made her more angry at him.

She is not a prima donna, will not ever help on the farm type like Lana.

I think there is ways to tell Lois.

He really should get another pair of glasses.

She would not be playing the role of estranged wife. She also would not have been so calm when Clark was hurt. She would have gone totally and completely balistic on Martha if she knew the truth.

However not exactly why Clark says that. He needs to see that Lois would love him for him, not for his abilities.

If Clark would tell her the truth, she would love him cuts and all.

Clark needs to hear this. Hopefully he will act on it.

This does not make sense. I never understood this theory at all. She would be the best protector ever. I never understand this theory.

Well, it does make sense. If she knew that CK=SM, than she would believe all sorts of things, like that he had a reason to mistrust Luthor.

At least he knows he needs help. This is a good first step.

I was hoping she had heard all the conversation, especially the in bed if she knew part.

Well, at least she knows that much. Not enough to really help, but still.

I guess Bureau 39 is big enough they did not recognize any operative at the farm.

How is Clark going to get out of that one? How, of how? I am hoping she goes through with it.

Oh, another nickname. Fun.

Well, he can't hide forever.

She remembers.

It is a pretty big lie. I do not really see this as holding a grudege at all. He has not in any way resolved the issue.

I knew this was Lana from the first time I saw that line. Or at least was 90% sure.

Totally true.

It took me a bit to realize that Lois had misunderstood his line. I totally understood he meant himself.

Um, Clark get out of your pity party.

And this is a good thing, how?

I am a bit surprised she dod not mention how he had helped her when she was shot.

Oh, I was so hoping.

Well, she muight not have known everyone in town before she turned 10.

Now they know why the Kents did not call the sherrif. I am wondering how Clark will react to news that Rachel is dead.

*holds laughter in until she's red in the face*

Well I still can't for the life of me figure out how you are going to fix this but I will be hanging around to see. Laura

John: Wow! This FDK is almost as long as this part. Thanks for the feedback!

Yep, they could have been shot and/or captured by the people over at the Irig farm. This is not the worst case scenario.

Hindsight is always 20/20. Anyway, if it had been Thomas who got hit in the face with the branch (let's say by accident), you wouldn't be faulting him, now would you?

You don't go on many hikes do you? Getting slapped in the face with a branch is a right of passage. True, she probably let go of it to ease some of her annoyance at Clark, but it isn't as if she put his eye out. (Good thing he was wearing glasses.)

She kinda hoping it will blow up in his face, but yeah she's going along for the ride to see where they're headed.

No, sorry, this will not be sweet and fluffy canon GGGoH.

Is this sarcasim?

Yep, alt-Clark has different foes in Smallville to content with. Canon Clark had the menu, alt-Clark has mosquitoes.

CLARK: I always TRY to be honest, and only lie when the truth would give too much away.

Yes, pretty much. Of course, wouldn't dealing with Trask on his own be worse than having back up?

I promise that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

CLARK: But... but... you wanted the TRUTH!

LOIS: I have had some training in the art of the interview.

Yes, but his Smallville did accept him back later on (when he was 16).

CLARK: Well, I could tell her that I'm a stranger from another planet as well as from another dimension, but I hear Dr. Carlin's Home for the Mentally Unbalanced is still in the permit stages.

Does he get points for trying?

Yep.

So, he doesn't answer at all.

Yes, well, the Trusting, loving Lois who made him Superman had 2.5 years with her Clark adapting from Mad Dog into the woman she was.

He IS telling her the truth, just not the full truth. It's this full truth he doesn't believe she'll accept.

CLARK: Also, I'm vulnerable now, so she might actually be able to remove my spleen with her bare hand.

At the moment, he doesn't think she'd believe either. To believe the second she needs to accept the first (otherwise she'd just think he was crazy, because he has no proof of it). How would she believe he's Superman with all his injuries? "Uh... Lois, really, I'm Superman, but there's this rock that can take away my abilities and... Lois?" Why *would* she believe him? And the only real way to get her to believe him would be to show her the Kryptonite and re-expose himself to it, and he doesn't really want to do that.

It's interesting that everyone thought this line refers to Lana. Clark's been in foster care since he was 10. He froze fish tanks, and set furnature on fire, he damaged stuff with his strength before he was able to get control of these abilities. Most everyone he knew while he was in foster homes, from foster parents, to teachers, to counselors have given him a disappointed expression at least once. He'd give a good first impression, because at heart he was really a good kid, but then something would happen and there would be the look.

Wow! I earned a point?

It's easier not to be defensive if one doesn't feel like one is being attacked.

I believe he explained his reasoning quite well.

Nope, she was in attack and keep her prey unbalanced mode.

CLARK: That's the great thing about vague statements like that. They can mean almost anything.

Very well put!

There was a "maybe" in that conditional statement.

It's been a long day for both of them. Yep, time and space can heal a lot.

John: FDK - Part 2 -

Possibly. I believe he's in "avoid the topic" mode.

While knowing that CK=SM will solve the why he lied problem, it doesn't solve the way he treated her bouncing her between CK and SM problem or the fact that he KEPT ON lying to her, instead of telling her the truth. She'd still be angry, but it would be a different kind of anger.

Neither woman is a prima donna, per se, but I'd say that Lana HAS more experience with farms and animals than Lois has had.

CLARK: See, Lois, I don't know how to use a razor, so I MUST be Superman on green rocks.

LOIS: :rolleyes:

CLARK: Nah, I don't think she'd buy it.

He will. He never had this problem in alt-dimension, because if he didn't wear his glasses it wasn't like he was revealing another side of himself (pre-coming out at Superman, post- Tempus outed him).

Maybe, maybe not. She did accuse Martha "What did you do to him?" but Clark reassured her that he was fine.

Joke.

Maybe. Maybe not. Superman did break her heart after all.

He needs to hear it, but he doesn't know how to act on it.

Yep, another one of Clark's flawed reasonings.

Even canon Clark did not see these truths.

Clark isn't so blind to know when he's waist deep in manure.

Nope. Conviently only part of the conversation. You'd think these people would learn not to trust eavesdropped conversations by now.

At this point, she's not thinking B39. That was just a wild leap of logic, when she mentioned it the day before (or possibly a bit of memory recall).



I thought it was funny. Don't worry, this one won't stick.

CLARK: I can try.



True. Basically, he's saying "yes, I lied. You don't have to keep throwing it in my face."

LANA: Thank you. I consider myself more than pretty, but I'll accept that.

Lois doesn't know what this Clark has gone through, and has NEVER felt this way (well, since she got off on her own away from her folks.)

He explains his motivation later.

HENDERSON: Murder in the first degree charges mean jail time. Even if it's justifiable.

Thank you. I knew there was some other thing I was missing.

It's good to keep hope alive.

It's not that big of a town, but you're right.

Thank you.

Yep, he's in danger of swallowing that whole leg of his.

Christina: Thank you for such indepth FDK!

Oh, dear.

I see you and I have the same sense of humor. I felt he needed a different trial than that of the papercut.

Martha said in GGGoH that her son had never been sick. I'm assuming the aura / invulnerablity worked from an early age. I never believed the line that Clark only became invulnerable in teenagehood with his other abilities. Yes, it's difficult to think someone in journalism has never gotten a papercut until so late in life.

You think she should lie and tell him that she loves him to hear the truth?

LOIS: But you said your parents died?

Foster parent, not second adoptive parents. They may have taken him into their homes, and helped raise him, but that does not make them family.

True.

He doesn't want to speak badly of the Kents. He doesn't want to lie. So he remains quiet. As the truth is unbelievable.

CLARK: Different.

Her skin feels the same, how he feels it (perceives it) is different.

See. Unbelieveable.

This is his Second time, but yes, pretty much.

As I mentioned to John above. The disappointed expressions predate Lana. So, no. He was tossed from household to household from 10 to 18. During that time he lost control of his abilities from time to time. And every time he thought he was making inroads with trust with a family, something would happen, and he'd get "the look". After a time, he just stopped trying and just tried to fade into the background. If they didn't notice him, they were less likely to be disappointed in him.

He's kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment. The truth is the last thing that would sound believable at the moment.

Pretty much.

Yes, but she doesn't know that. Anyway, who do you think "Superman" represents for her? Her one "true love" whom she'll never be able to be with? Well, his go-to nickname "honey" has already been veto'd by Lois (because it's what ghost Clark called her).

True. Actually "sweet thing" is a hold-over from the Metro Club.

If only Clark had gotten the phone message.

The only thing really holding him here is Lois, and she can't see that.

I thought you might.



She doesn't agree with him.

After Walt and Rachel died the Irigs were persicuted (ostrocized), so Thomas didn't spend much time in town. He moved to Wichita upon graduation and only returned to Smallville a year before, staying out of town as much as possible. Hank and Lana also no longer live in town and haven't really seen Thomas since he was in high school. They remembered that he was tall and dark (like Clark), plus he's a distance and has his back to them.

Uh... no. Walt's dead. Plus, Walt was short and stocky with red hair, like his mother (Barbara Irig).

Thank you.

Glad you're still here for the ride, Laura. Per the fixing it, let's just say the road will get rockier before it smooths out for a while.

Lois:Thomas has never claimed to love me. Clark has, therefore he should be more tolerant of me and my actions, and forgive me more.

I think it already blew up in his face, but maybe I am just being too pesimistic.

we are. Hmm, I am just hoping there is some redemption somewhere. Maybe I shouln't be though. This is called "wrong Clark". Hmm, maybe I should just give up all hope.

However I can't. I am still hoping we will somehow get Clarkie bear out of it. I am not giving up on the hope for Clarkie bear yet.

Mosquitoes and branches.

Clark:Trask, what Trask. We have not yet met Trask.
Reader:Trust us Clark, you will.
Clark:Humm, well Martha and Jonathan could have helped me, why do I need Lois.
Reader:Lois is your partner and friend. She can't let you die, then she would never know your secret.
Clark:OK, so maybe, eventually, I will be glad that Lois came. Not yet though. So far, she has not been a vital help. Yes, she helped them bring me back into the house after Kryptonite exposure, but she made me sleep on the couch while ill. OK, I was not really thinking of getting sex out of claiming she was my wife, well, I wasn;t thinking that far ahead.
Lois:Yeah, right, Jerome.
Clark:Married couples don't have sex every night.
Lois:Try, not ever unless you stop lieing to me.
Clark:I was not born in Kansas.
Lois:Where were you born than.
Clark:I stopped lieing to you, that was the requirement.
Lois:No that was the minimum, you have to tell me the full truth.
Clark:Now you make it much harder.


Oh, so Trask won't manage to kill him? Or Lois will kiss him somewhere in Smallville? Wait, in canon they didn't kiss in Smallville. We will accept Lois hugging Clark before they return to Metropolis, but will not hold our breaths for even that much.

Lois:All the turth. No more avoid or obscuring names or anything like that.

Clark:Could have fooled me with some of you impossible questions so far.
Lois:I give you the glare of death.

Yes, but his Smallville did accept him back later on (when he was 16).

Plus, she had worked througgh the anger of learning Clark had been lieing to her about his Super side twice, and she had just remembered saving him as an infant before meeting him again. She also had an almost wedding and his death to shock her into seeing she really did love Clark, and Linda and Mayson working to steal him from her, and her expeirence as Ultra Women and saving blind Superman, and chosing him over Dan, and lots of other things.

At least if she slapped him and said "don't pretend that didn't hurt, Superman" he could say "it really did hurt". I think at some level if he could get her to believe he was Superman right now, which I am sure he could, she would be most accpeting while he is vulnerable.

Why do I say he could convince her he is Superman? Because he could tell her about things they did together in a feeling way that only Superman could do.

Come to think of it, I think he could tell her he is Superman and that he only recently came to earth from a different planet. He maybe should hold off on explaining that it was a parelel earth and not Krypton he left most recently. Well, just tell her, he stopped somewhere else for a while after leaving Krypton. Avoid explaining the parellel earth for a bit more. Hmm, it would less the shock at least.

I still stand by suffering from Lana. She is the one who constantly told him he had to hide, had to try to pretend to fit in.

Maybe others hurt him as well, but Lana hurt him for much longer and rammed it into him much deeper.

Hi Virginia,

Finally, time to catch up!


Poor Clark! A bleeding brow AND mosquito bites! I'm with you, Clark, I hate mosquito bites!

LOIS:

CLARK:

CLARK: Well, the Kents ARE my parents, but they died , you know, in another dimension and....

LOIS:

CAT: No, Lois, he's not crazy.

CAT: Yes, it is! But tell her the truth, Clark. Anyway, you're an horrible liar.

Because Jonathan is a new Al Capone? No, just kidding.

CLARK:

CAT: Well, for once, you're right, Lois.

Please, not Lana!

IT IS Lana.

Well...

So is it possible for this Martha and Jonathan to rmember Lois and Clark visiting them. From reading "Another Lois" I am thinking yes, but I am not sure.

Even if it is, it makes 100% sense why they would not. You don't expect to see people looking the same as they did back in the mid-1960s in the mid-1990s, especially when based on their current age they just might have been infants by then.

I was also wondering if people would remember the odd couple renting a car, and if there might be some sort of record of it that Lois might find. However, even if Lois did find a record of Clark Kent renting a car in 1966 she would never think it connected with this Clark Kent.

John: Thanks for the indepth FDK.

Oh, so he should be a pushover like he was with Lana? I cannot comment on when, where, or how the revelation will come about due to the rules of spoilage.

Okay, Lana DID give Clark the “disappointed expression” but he was already well familiar with it before they started dating.

Sydney: Hi!

Always good to hear from my readers.

Yep, I do love to torture my characters.

But that was *after* she reminded them of her and Clark's visit.

Exactly. Unless you know to compare them, people wouldn't automatically assume this is the same people, especially since they haven't aged in almost 30 years. Unless, of course, they were looking at Dick Clark or Ralph Machicho (1st Karate Kid).

Lois would have to remember herself that she had been in this universe back in 1966, which she doesn't. I'm guessing the rental car guy is probably dead by now, so no chance of him remembering.

But water *stings* on open wounds. Especially small scratches.

Lois!

Sounds like a Roman encampment.

He fell into some bushes?



Oh my. He could still dress as Superman. Carry her like Superman. Until he stumbles and she falls. Make love to her like Superman – superquick and only once.

Duh! His wife kicked him out.

No, he’s just a regular guy. Lying. Cheating. And Cat’s the only woman he won’t touch. But that’s more because of a personal challenge.

He foster parents

Right Clark.

Wrong Clark.

Translation: My true love’s dead so I’ll settle for you.

Lois! She’s a bit of a Lana, isn’t she?

Good questions.

A mirror image.



Isn’t that Cat’s signature endearment?

Eeeeeeeeehhh…

He’s really making a case for himself, isn’t he?





Looks like you were right about her not appreciating a squatter.

Don’t worry. He isn’t able to run very fast right now.



Oh boy.

Oh boy.

Oh dear.

Oh my.



That’s nothing. You she have seen what she’d do to a computer

LOIS: Ewww. Do you have any idea were those come from?

CLARK: No, she just never attributed that floaty feeling to anything but my prowess in bed.

Eeeeehhhh…



He really doesn’t get the hint about them being estranged and his sleeping on the couch, does he? Then again, he probably has never come across an IRS marriage.

RALPH: Even I can see how that one’s a fishy excuse.

He’d be permanently in a wheelchair?

You know. Those tricks would never work in today’s world. As it stands, one has to wonder why the field offices choose their assignments instead of the Bighead Central.

Although, I’m not sure that’s the better option.



Polygamy?

/points at TV show named ‘Smallville’/

Dr. FRISKIN: Why do you think you have such commitment issues?

Actually…

No. He’s not flexible enough that way. It’s also why he needs a Lois.

/points/ She’s Lois?

Michael

Clark: She does? I was begining to loose hope. Thankyou for the help.

Clark:Hmm, but I have come to Smallville a bunch of other times, and Lois survived in Metropolis for all of those.
Reader:That was before you knew about Ms. Kahn's death, at least mostly.
Clark:Good point, no Luthor here. OK, so maybe it is better to have Lois here, but I wish I could have come up with a better sotry than us being married.

Michael:

LOIS: Oh? Does it?

LOIS: Michael! What? Are you saying he didn't deserve it? <<looks skeptical>>

LOIS: Let's hope that Trask doesn't like to walk around in a toga.

No. Actually, he keeps his balance quite well.

LOIS: Who Me?

LOIS: New anger, different day.

Except when your parents die and strange things start to happen when you're around.

Spaceballs! I haven't seen that in forever!

MARTHA:

Well, the Kents have accepted him as well.

Yeah! What's up with them?

CLARK: Come on, guys, aren't you being a little harsh?

EW: He has no sense of humor.

Yes, but by not answering he doesn't have to lie more.

She can't handle the Truth!

Okay, she could handle it, but she wouldn't believe it.

LOIS: I've never broken my knuckles on Clark. <at least not in this story>

LOIS: But Cat said Superman could go all night long without stopping?

CLARK:



Yes, but I've read ahead.

Michael - FDK Response cont. -

CLARK: I don't mind if she catches me. Every time she lays hand on me, feels like a caress. Only now that I've got K poisoning... Well, I'd rather die by her hand than somebody else's.

LOIS: I'm not going to kill you.

CLARK: You aren't?

LOIS: How will ever get any answers if you're dead?

CLARK: Oh.

CLARK: Er... That wasn't the computer, that was the gift from her sister.



LOIS: Maybe I meant both.

CLARK: Well, Lois, I hear that a female Mad Dog is often referred to by another name, and since you want me to be fully honest with you...

CLARK: But I've been in this dimension for less than 6 months. Then again, I'm me.

There are all forms of hell.

LOIS: No, I took it off to try on the brown dress, but then didn't have enough cash, so I've been wandering around in the buff hoping that Clark would notice, but instead he's drooling over some blonde with brats. Of course, I'm still wearing my business suit!

Glad you're enjoying As The Corn Turns.

Date rape. Not abandoned in a cornfield rape by a stranger.

CLARK: Yes, I like having Lois nearby as opposed to back in Metropolis where she could be getting in danger by herself. True, I've made a mess of things, but I'm sure it will work out in the end.

LOIS: Sure, buddy, you keep on thinking that.

That’s naughty! No Clark-nookie for you on your wedding night with Lex.


*That’s* not the point. You wouldn’t shoot Lex either below the bellybutton for bugging you, would you?

Michael

Michael:

LOIS: Say what? I'm doing what?

LOIS: Depends on when he bothers me? In the middle of a story? On a date with Superman? When I get to the steamy part of a romance novel? While eating chocolate ice-cream with hot fudge sauce and whipped cream? I could always use a stun gun, taser, BB gun, full force water hose nossel, rubber band... for those offenses. All non-lethal. Unless, of course, you meant British form of bugging, then YES, yes, I would.

CLARK: So would I.

CLARK: You mean, she can get angrier?

LOIS:

CLARK: Yes, I've met with one or two or 12 of those in my day.

CLARK: What? Mom! Dad! You wouldn't?

LEX: It was an ACCIDENT! Really, you people, try to kill off someone to make a girl strip off her clothes for you and jump your bones and suddenly you're evil.

CLARK: I don't want to lie, but no matter what I say, Lois isn't going to believe me. I'm the boy who cried wolf and now he's suddenly arrived and nobody's coming to save the sheep.

LOIS: Likely story.

CLARK: See.

CLARK: You mean I could drink away my worries now?

CLARK: But I like you. I don't like Lawyers. You make Lois say and do funny things.

LOIS: <wearing a maid's outfit dusting> What? I'm undercover.

CLARK: See?

DEAD CLARK: Actually, I gave her permission to move on with New Clark as long as he wasn't an evil clone. This one's a bit of a lunkhead, but he doesn't seem evil.

EW: I do write sad endings very well. But I guess there's always a first time. I mean, *not* with this story. Maybe if I turned M&J evil or something and Tanked you all. But NOT this story. This story is all about the HAPPY ENDINGS, isn't it?

OBI WAN:

MARTHA: I don't have any half-dead houseplants. Sorry, how about some coffee mugs, dear.

CLARK: <points at Lois> She's the one who wanted me to be 100% honest.

LOIS: Blaming the victim there, buddy?

CLARK: Lois, even when you've been shot, you're never the victim.

LOIS: Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. I mean, I haven't forgiven you.

True.

CLARK: Lois sticks out even in cammo.

LOIS: Is that a sexest joke, there, Chuck?

CLARK: No! I just meant, because you're so beautiful. Does anyone have any feet? I'm fresh out.

Michael

on that video. Super cool. I wonder what Clark's powers would be like under a blue sun?

LOIS: See, he hasn't even scratched the surface of my anger.

CLARK: But I helped BUILD that!

MARTHA: Yes, and we thank you for that.

LEX:

CLARK: Oh, right. Ah, what the hell. She hates me already anyway!

DEAD CLARK: And that makes him different from me, how?

There, fix it. I drive my Betas crazy with my dropped negative contractions.

Oh, did Lois replace her grey coffee mug with a Superman one?

LOIS: No, but maybe I could get one of those ones that as it cools off, Superman's uniform disappears. <<after they return to Metropolis, while drinking coffee during the morning meeting>> Hey, you know what's funny, without his uniform, Clark, Superman looks just like you.

CAT: How would YOU know that, Lois?

LOIS: <<holding out mug>>

CAT: About Clark, I mean.

LOIS: Oh, look at the time... I need to write a story about... something bad. Lying... cheating... politican or something. Hey, it sure is hot in Metropolis, yeah! I could write about that! Tootles!

CLARK: <<shakes head>> I don't know what she's talking about. Superman doesn't look anything like that naked.

<<Clock ticking on the wall of the office as they all stare at Clark, and Cat starts to giggle>>

CAT: Oh, honey, sure he does. Who do you think sold them the photo?

CLARK: That isn't what I meant!

GEM-Dimension CLARK: Don't knock it, til you try it.

Well, blue Kryptonite made for a very unhappily married Lois during her honeymoon.

Michael

Well, that doesn't sound like a good thing.

Haven't read that one either. I think that's a bad plan!

I aim to please. Although, I've been known to go off-target sometimes.

No, it’s good. For us. Lois was

It’s just a vignette on the dark side. Light reading after waking up.



/Watches as Virginia’s moon rocket shoots towards Mars/

Michael

I meant for Lois.

Mars? No, I meant Gotham City instead of Metropolis. Of course, they don't usually appreciate my Batman jokes.

BW<BM>: But we do appreciate all your Superman jokes.

CLARK: Superman jokes?

LOIS: There isn't anything funny about Superman!

EW:

How many Batmen does it take to crash the Batmobil?

How many Supermen does it take to satisfy Lois Lane?

Michael

None, it drives on autopilot?

LOIS: Concenseus is out on this. As I have yet to be satisfied.

Michael