Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Clark TOC can be found Here

My apologies for the TMI scene in Part 54. I couldn't resist.

I promise to WHAM warning you the next time I post something that might be considered TMI. (Although, I've already promised no Lois/Claude, Lois/Paul, or Clark/Lana sex flashbacks.)

So, anyway, here's the beginning of my death spiral of cliffies. Hope you enjoyed.

Comments appreciated.

Jimmy cracks me up. That sheriff is a real piece of work.

Clark better get his powers back soon!

Joan

Clark: she is being more cautious than me. Maybe we won't both get captured after all, and eventually we will manage to escape.

Sounds a lot like a certain female reporter we know.

At least she is being honest with herself in this matter.

Negative reader:She is hoping that Clark is injured.

Postive Reader:You are sick and twisted, and no. She is just hoping to see Clark. She wants to see him.

NR:Just keep telling yourself that, we know the truth.

PR:See, seeing an injured Clark is not good in her mind.

[/Quote]An older man with dark grey hair stumbled around the corner. He appeared exhausted and sweaty.[/Quote]

Wayne appears.

Knew it. OK, the fact that last time we were told Wayne was let go, and he was also let go in the original way these incidents played out might be good.

Yes, Lois is being smart. She realizes if he was let go, the bad guys might be watching him.

Lois is thinking very well on her feet. True she almost slipped up and called Clark that. But she threw out the cover instead.

PR:She almost called him Clark. She can't be too angry at him.

NR:Chuck has normally been a sign of endearment. This shows she really is mad at him.
Clark:I think you both are reading too much into this exchange. She is not thinking beyond the moment here.

Clark:If you had told me where we were going, we could have worked out a cover.

Lois:If I had told you where we were going, you could have co-opted the Kents to your lies before we got there.

Clark:Not liekly. Realistically I would just have been panicked longer.

Lois:See, it would not have helped.

Clark:Now she knows about the Kryptonite.

NR:Only that it exists. She won't be able to help you with this. Also, do you want her to know you are effected by a Green rock. This could be really bad.

Clark:But Lois would never use the Krptonite on me.

NR:Want to bet.

Clark:Green crystals can kill Superman.

Lois:How do you know?

Clark:Because Tempus almost did when Superman showed up to rescue Perry and Mr. James B. Olsen at the mayoral debates.

Lois:Where is the number for Dr. Carlin when I need it. Chuck, you clearly need mental help.

Why does she assume Clark knows this detail?

Clark:Well, she is right, I do know.

PR:Well, hopefully it will be a good angry.

Clark:Good angry? I am getting in Lois' better graces without risking my spleen.

NR:You have not made much progress.

Clark:I will take any I can get.

Clark:See Lois, I am not like other guys.

She is improving. This time she did not even start on a wrong name.

Clark:Well, her inner self knows I am Clark, I just have to convince her outself of this fact.

This is not a good plan. Splitting up the party will just make then be captured one at a time.

Clark:Thomas, you do not know Lois well enough.

Clark:Yes, she does not have the resolve to refuse to call me by my name.

Is Bureau 39 really part of the goverment at all?

Of course part of the job of people like Thompson is to deny any knowledge.

Soldiers is not a term I would ever use to describe people with the EPA or the Dept of the Interior. I think Lois knows this is something else, even if she is not admitting it to herself.

They must have taped the DP phone lines than.

She must be in a really tough spot if she is relevied to see Jimmy.

Yep, Jimmy as an outdoorsman is ridiculous. He gets scared way to easily.

Clark:Maybe staying in Trask's custody longer is not such a bad option.

Clark:Jimmy, did you just tell Lois it is great that she is plotting to kill me.

How is Lois going to explain this?

Well, I guess this was the first person whose death she mentioned. So in a way it is the truth.

Jimmy:This means less competition for Lois. So maybe it is a good thing.

At this rate soon Thomas, Jonathan and Martha will also be prioners.

At least Jimmy is focusing on the most important issues.

She should really trust her basic feelings.

Well, at least she no longer believes the EPA lie.

Is Lois determined to split the party into as many components as possible.

Well, now she knows the absolute truth about what is going on.

Hopefully he can put them to good use. Is Trask a wanted criminal for throwing Lois out of a plane?

Obviously because it is believed to have some special ability that will be useful to their plants.

Will she make the connection? Hmm, who would think some random crystal could kill Superman?

Good point. Although Trask does think that Superman is trying to give people a false sense of security. In the long rin the best way to understand Trask is as a total xenophobe. He does not want any aliens on earth, whether they are friendly or not. He wants to start the war.

Thus to start the war, he needs to be killed for more reasons than one.

How exactly does she plan on beating multiple armed Bureau 39 agents?

Well, now she knows where Clark is. Although how she is going to get him free is another question.

Well, I guess seeing is still more shocking than just suspecting. Although it has not really ever been in doubt that they had captured Clark.

Would he get involed in the kidnapping of a reporter? If they could make it not an issue of the Irig farm. I still doubt it.

But who is she going to use as reinforcements? Hank?

Does it really matter one way or the other at that point? He would be mad at them for colluding in hiding the rock either way.

At least she is realizing things might be worse than they are. At this point I think we learn why Clark should tell Lois the truth. If she knew about Krytonite she could help him.

This is the point where it is most obvious that Clark not telling Lois has hurt him more than it did in canon. Of course, in canon it is unclear why Clark does not tell Lois the truth about Krytonite. I understand why he did not tell her before she wrote her article, since he also did not help write it so that the denial of Kryptonite would be more believable. However, I am not sure at all why he did not tell her afterward. Would it not have helped to have her knowing Superman could be hurt and such. Maybe he figured his parents knowing was enough, but they are not usually around.

Maybe she is about to find his ship.

In Smallville? Hmm, actually at the Corn Fest time might make sense. Some of the kids would probably jump at the chance to join the military.

Actually that probably should be action #1. They know that the local sherrif is incompetent at best.

And Jimmy will assume that is where he grew up. Hmm, this will make it so Lois may have Jimmy and Perry thinking she is the crazy one, claiming Clark is not from Smallville.

How does she expect Jimmy to contant Superman?

What about his signal watch?

Under most circumstances this would work.

Yes, Jimmy remembered the watch.

Why doesn;t she also call Perry? Also, does Jimmy have a cell phone?

Well, Wayne probably does not have a cell phone. If she was by city hall she would probably have good reception.

Clark:At least Thomas knows how to cut to the heart of the matter.

Another reason they should have told Lois about the rock. If she had realized how important it was that Trask not find it, maybe she would have revealed her and Thomas postion to get captured instead of Wayne leading Bureau 39 to the Kent farm.

Clark:Somehow between Lois and Thomas they are doing the most vital thing, without knowing why it is so vital.

Jonathan:This is bad. She is mad enough at Jerome right now to use it on him.

Jonathan:Luckily Thomas does not know what it did to Jerome.

Good point. Why didn't Martha tell her? Oh, because she knew the rock was connected to Superman, because they found some with baby Clark, although they did not know it was what killed him.

Of course, Thomas does not realize that they only meant to bring Jerome to help. Lois coming was no more part of Martha's plan than it was part of Clark's plan.

Good thing Jonathan already brought out his shotgun, at least if I followed what was up correctly.

Martha:well, he is the last person who believes Jerome and Lois are married. We don;t want to blow his whole cover.

PR:Don't Hank and Lana believe Jerome and Lois are married.

Martha:Oh, did Jerome spread the lie of his marriage in town too? Soon Maisie will be by asking how our farm hand maanged to marry the Daily Planet's top reporter.

Jonathan:We could tell her that our farm hand also happens to be Metropolis's second rank reporter, Clark Kent.

Martha:No, that will never work. Maisie knows my maiden name is Clark. Even if we can obsure how often Jerome helps out here, that will just open more questions than we want. Nope, not happening.

I guess know we know where Clark gets his absolutely refusal to kill anyone.

Good point. Although destroying the rock seems the best course of action. It is not like then can beat back the B39 hordes with one rifle.

Thomas: Why didn;t someone tell me before I transported it.

At least on short exposure only non-human people. Or at least, not-fully human people. We won't test it around Clark, Jr at all. Yes, I know there is no Clark Jr. in this sotry, but we are just warning people against the tests well in advance. However, it might be detrimental to human health after long exposure.


Clark:Well, you could give him more clues on the type of people it sickens.

Jonathan:We are much better at gaurding your secret than some people.

Canon Lois:It is not my fault that alt-Clark got exposed. What was I supposed to do, not call for help as I was falling to my death. Anyway you don't know anything about that.

Thomas is 50% to figuring out Jerome is Superman. This means that at the current rate things are going soon all of Smallville will "know" that Lois Lane is the wife of Superman.

Jonathan:We might have something else in our barn that is harmful to Superman. On second thought, no.

Wouldn't she say "the glowing rock" or is she trying to emphasize a connection between the glow and Jerome's condition?

Hmm, are they afraid that Thomas telling this will blow Jerome's cover, or is it more that they want to keep the fact that things can hurt Superman secret.

Clark:I am not sure, but I am afraid that Thomas will fail in keeping this information from Lois.

Hmm, I am not sure it will matter much either way. Clark is pretty much to the point where his only course is to tell Lois the truth.

Maybe it is just an expression aquired with marriage.

Clark:Yes, they have a plan. Maybe being a prisoner is not as bad as I though. Other people seem to be doing better than me at planning.

Oh no, doesn't he know how bad this idea is.

Didn't she tell him the Sherrif would be no help. Our only hope is he just mentions Clark being kipnapped, and forgets to say Clark's last name. Oh wait, I do not think there is any hope of that.

Jimmy, always making false assumptions as to who the Sherrif is. Strike one against any help.

Yes, Maxwell has already been shown to be less helpful than Rachel. In the same situation Rachel had the car moved to a legal parking spot, not impounded.

Really missing the point there Jimmy. Yes, I know its canon. But in canon Jimmy was not racing against a car impounding either.

Still not making this clear. Kidnapped would be a better term.

He has not make it clear his friend was kidnapped by an army of lunatics. He has only mentioned one man. Even if Sherrif Harris believes him and wants to do something, which are both doubtful, at this point it sounds like something the Sherrif's office can take care of.

Obviously not. He expects that Sherrif to intervene in kidnapping situations and try to maintain law and order.

Good point. Jimmy should never have mentioned UFOs. He should have gone with my friend was put in chains by a group of armed assailants.

Slightly better, but still not getting to the core of the issue. Also the mention of Kent and Irig were not wise.

Too bad Jimmy did not show him photos.

Totally not surprising.

Max probably gave them this idea.

I am pretty sure that EPA agents do not have a right to arrest.

It is still illegal to kidnap people for it. Plus, it is not tresspassing if you don't own the land. Jimmy has done a really poor job in saying who Clark Kent is.

It appears that Max has no concept of what the rule of law really means. He is also very bigotted if he assumes someone deserves punishment merely because of what their last name is.

This is not a very smart way to respond.

Max seems to excel as projection. He transfers his own motives to Superman.

Jimmy would have been a lot smarter to go with the term "work college" here. He should emphasize for the record that Clark Kent is also a reporter with the daily planet.

Max has so much blood on his hands a little more will not phase him.

Jimmy really needs to learn more about dealing with law enforcement. Max was 100% in the right to impound Jimmy's car.

Disorderly conduct.

I do not believe he can construe anything as a threat. Hopefully this over-the-top action will lead to his being removed from office. However I have my doubts.

Hmm, I guess he could have gotten a new name on coming to this dimension. However then he would have needed a fake drivers license, instead of just using one that did not officially exist.

Clark is still excelling at blaming himself.

I think Lois would be more devastated that her partner was no more.

He really does noeed to see the globe. Also, he needs some postive persepctive. If it was not for him well over 100 more people would be dead.

I was hoping seeing that this Rachel was dead would snap him out of this stupid thought process, but I guess not.

I think if he tells her the truth, she will eventually forgive him.

She wants to understand the truth. Anyway, why would she run off when he is suffering. She likes him more than he gives her credit for.

This will only happen when he stops decieving her though. He has to come clean first.

PR:I don't think she will give up on you, Clark, until she has the truth.

Clark:I am not sure if that is good or bad. Makes it sound like I will have to tell her SM=Ck.

PR:I don;t think you really have a choice anymore.

Lois die again would make sense. However "his new dimension fols die again" seems a bit of an odd formation. It would seem more to the point to say "He couldn't let Lois and his folks die again".

But if he reaveals he is Superman, Trask will have no reason to keep Lois alive. If he does not know, than he will need to keep Lois alive to get more info.

Yes, back to Lois. I have been anticipating this part. I hope she learns something sueful this part.

Is she going to discover the SM to Smallville connection?

she is getting away.

So we end with Lois driving a track that may or may not have soldier in it. Virginia you do really like cliff hanger endings.

I am looking forward to the next part.

This was well written and covered a lot of angles. Good job, I am looking forward to more.

JIMMY: Gotham City has a signal. Metropolis's budge is in the black, and Gotham's in the Red. You'd think Metropolis could afford one, right? Do you think Gotham City would lend us their spare?

John: Wow, 8 FDK responses! They don't believe we exist at all!

Relief that it wasn't Met Star.

Do you think he'd rather die by Trask's hands than Lois's?

LOL.
JIMMY: No! Great that CK's still alive. I discounted everything else she said.

LOIS: Who said I suddenly had to be truthful?



Lois likes finding her own trouble instead of waiting around for trouble to find her.

Well, no, not really.

No proof. Her and Clark's words against his. Thomspon's murder, OTOH.

LOIS: Does it make earthlings have super powers of their own?

Trask thinks he's protecting Earth. Yes, total xenophobe.

No, but putting Clark into shackles was what she wanted to do. Now, she'll have to come up with a new plan.



True. But now Trask is more likely to use the Kents against Clark, so he'll give up Superman.

How?

CLARK: This really isn't a secret that I like telling everyone just to save my own skin. I'd rather risk my own skin to save theirs.

FDK - Cont. -

Yep, recruitment officers like coming to all sorts of community events.

And this is different from yesterday, how?

She figures that the phone call to Perry will take longer.

In 1993, it's doubtful more than a handful of people in Smallville have cell phones.

It wouldn't have stopped B39 from looking ahead to see what's further on down the road. It would have just led to her being captured too.

Correct.

Lois isn't good at relaying messages.

First off, they are NOT contemplating killing Thomas to save Clark's identity. WHY wouldn't a farm hand and a reporter hook up? Love has no bounds.

CLARK: Do I need a reason to see that it's wrong?

How does one destroy it without getting fragments all over one's clothing or spreading the fragments around? Also, not enough time. They'll destroy it later.

It's not Lois's fault that Tempus outed him. It's Tempus's fault.

Let's hope that Thomas doesn't read the Daily Planet.

Wood shaving? Straw? Oats? Feed? Chickens? That candy bar Jonathan snuck out there the day he fell off the ladder that Martha doesn't know about?

Yep. It wasn't the "rock" but the "glow", because Jerome's eyesight is so sensative to bright lights.

They don't want him to spread it around that the rock hurts Jerome, because it might also get out that the rock hurts Superman, letting anyone Thomas told know that Jerome = Superman.

Isn't that part of the guy code? Not to tell another man's wife his secrets, if he doesn't want her to know?

TEMPUS: Everyone is a better planner than you, Clark. You're Superman! Superheroes don't plan, they act.

LOIS: Ooopps.

The sheriff never said that the car wouldn't be impounded by the story, only that he'd listen to Jimmy's emeregency in granting lienency to the fine.

Still canon, I believe.

We now all know why Jimmy will be known for his photography and not his writing. He's not very good at cutting to heart of the matter.

Jimmy's not up on local politics.

1993. No digital cameras. Film is still the norm.

No, but he believes it wholeheartedly.

Max isn't the sharpest tool in the toolbox.

Sheriff Max: You say "kidnap", I say "detain". It is tresspassing if it's a closed government site, not open to the public.

Like that would really matter away from the Big City.

Sheriff Max: I haven't killed anyone! Liable! Slander! Arrest that Commenter!



Plus, a lot more lies.

FDK - Page 3 - Cont.

CLARK: Do you? Really? I think she'd stab me through with a Kryptonite dagger and think things over later.

Good point. Thanks, I'll change it.

Trask would have to capture her first.

Darn spell checker! Never catching the meaning, only the spelling. Thank you.

No. She only has her, Clark's, and Superman's word against Trask's. He said/ she said.

Yep, those are the Smallville files.

that Clark does not hear this. It would really touch his heart to hear the concern on Lois' part. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">CLARK: Damn Kryptonite.

Yes.

Perhaps "threaten to kill the Kents" to get Clark to do his bidding. Time honored technique which, more often than not, works. Although, knowing Trask, he'd still end up killing everyone to get rid of those pesky loose ends.

LOIS: Well, why wouldn't he?

LOIS: Why should I?

LOIS: Boring local politics. I wanted to get moving on the story!

Ummm..... No.

I have quite a few in a row coming up. But I promise, no more Wolfes. Well, not in Smallville, at least.

Thank you. I try to keep my stories entertaining. More coming late Friday night/ early Saturday (depending on your time zone).

Clark:This is a good thing, otherwise Lois would be a prisoner.

PR:Plus, with the sherrif last time now being a dead person, they aren't going to get any help from that angle.

Clark:Last time?

[Qupote]LOIS: It's MY turn to injure Clark. Nobody elses![/Quote]

Clark:Maybe I will stop trying to break out of the chains for a bit.

Actually, I had forgotten about Lex "dieing". No I was refering to Bobby Bigmouth's (I think) description of why he did not tell Lois the truth, because she was too proad and stubborn to be willing to see it.

PR:Hey, Clark hasn't really sent Lois to Luthor. I mean she isn;t engaged to him yet.

Clark: No, please, never. Never let that happen.

Thus I was going for the thought that it is true and not flattery.

Clark:I am still going to hope this is a little victory. I am trying to find some hope.

Hmm, Area 51 is actually officially part of the Nevada Test Site, which is without question a government operation. Now, what actually goes on in Area 51, that is another question.

PR:No, Lois we did not say you had to be truthful. We are just glad that you are being mostly truthful with Jimmy.

I was thinking going back to the farm and making sure that the Kryptonite was where Trask would not find it.

Martha:I was just saying we need to not blow the whole cover to Thomas. He does not associate much with people in town, so its not like he will tell Maisie anything.

Jonathan:"Love has no bounds" whatever. I guess a farm hand and a reporter might marry, but people tend to marry in their class, and reporters things they are above farm hands. Anyway, the big question is how a wandering farm hand in the back country around Smallville met Metropolis's #1 reporter.

Clark:Maybe if Maisie really presses you, tell her I got a job as a bar tender in Metropolis under the alias of Charles King.

Perhaps some New Age experiments? Then again, what use would the government have for love and kindness.

.....

Oh wait...

It also has a magical property of protection.

Only when she has reason to. And she definitely does with Bureau 39. Sadly she didn't have much reason to be paranoid about Clark until recently and none until Luthor shot her.

High praise, indeed. Hope this begins to build a slight affection that is not barred by the fact he doesn't have a history that is trackable.

*side-eying Lois*

Are you suuuure you're over him?

Um, wouldn't her historical memory tell her that it was possible? I guess there's the possibility she just thought this one was an emerald but that it looked similar to kryptonite.

Like Mother (in-Law) like Daughter (in-Law.)

Go Jimmy! Love it when he shows a spine!

Oh dear, things are looking bleaker and bleaker already.

Not sure what you would have used. Charles King? Wouldn't put you in very good with Lois (hinting at the idea that Clark is Linda's relative/husband/Ex.)

Lois: I'm going crazy. That's all there is to it. Loco. Coo Coo for cocoa puffs....

Ok, here's two predictions.

1) the Deja vu/memories is going to play a bigger role in these sorts of things. *waggles eyebrows as she considers the pleasant memory of the Honeymoon suite*

and

2) Max Harris is still going to shoot Trask but (as I expect him to say) "I was aiming at that rotten Kent kid."

*cue whistling from Virginia*

Hi Christina:



Of course, it would have explained to Lois why she remembered his as "Chuck". Of course, all his random obscure writing samples had the name "Clark Kent" on them. It would have been too much lying to change his name completely.

Lois isn't going to think of herself as crazy as long as her historical memories help her. She'll think she's psychic.



AND

If we want to get technical, "last time" was during "Another Lois" in which Trask and B39 didn't go check out the Irig farm, because there was no Superman to kill.

LOIS: I should really be worried, should I, that Clark prefers to be beaten up by Trask instead of me?

Oh, right, THAT reason. Hmmmm. I wonder if that still applies.

LOIS: Is there anything that partner of mine isn't afraid of?

I believe that Area 51 was only revealed as a real place recently and that originally it was a covert designation which the govn't denied existed. (At least that's what I remember from my youth, that the govn't said it was myth and Hollywood said was real.)

LOIS: This isn't the time or place to get into the nitty gritty of the truth.

I still don't see how she'd be able to do this better than Martha and Jonathan.

Oooops! Hit "Add Reply" too soon. Here's another one.

THOMAS: I don't have any reason, other than buying groceries, to go to Smallville. And Joan, at the market, has her own reasons not to be a town gossip. <<more on Joan's story later. >>

See, I knew if you thought about it, you'd come up with a logical story. But I'm sure if you left the gossip up to Maisie she'll come up with something even more believable.

Clark:I don't think I have time to wait for this. I need to figure out how to give myself more trackable history. I guess I will have to tell her CK=SM fairly soon.

Lois:Just becase I can tell he is virile does not mean I an not enraged by his lieing.

Her memories of previous lives are shaky and dreamlike. Even if she remembered well enough to remember Kryptonite, she would probably assume it is so horrible nightmare, and not accept that anything could hurt SM.

Nah, King is a common enough name no one qould suspect a connection. Anyway since Lois knew Linda King when she was single, she would never assume a man named King would be Linda's husband. She probably would also never assume a total slut like Linda would ever go as far as actually getting married, but that is another story.

Clark:Plus, it is not like I am going to mess up if I am using my real name. If I had been going by Charles King and Perry had yelled "King get in here" I might have forgotten he was talkking to me. With going by Jerome around the Kents, Martha always would yell "Clark Jerome Kent, come clean you room" or other things. So an angry Martha yelling "Jerome" and meaning me will cue in my mind very easily. Anyway, I was trying to not interact with them very much at all.

PR:The last time we had a confrontation with B39 in Smallville. We ignore "Another Lois" here, because nothing happened in Smallville. Now if we talk about "Last time during the hostage crises at the Planet" we would mean the time that Lex died.

Clark:Hey, right now Trask is just driving me around in a van. No beatin involved. At least as far as you guys know.

Exactly.

John, you are becoming an expert on my universe.

Good point. A brother maybe.

Of course, I could see competetive Lois seeing this either as a failure on Linda's part (that she needed a man) or a faily on her part (that she couldn't capture a good one), but then she'd dismiss whomever the man is an idiot for marrying Linda anyway.

Not likely.

I'm sure he's gone undercover before Charlie and could used to an alias fairly quickly. This, of course, was one of the problems Lois had with her secret identity in ML.

He didn't interact with anyone as Jerome off the farm, until this current trip.

True. I was just being "technical".

That doesn't mean that the van won't go off a cliff.

Now, that’s just *wrong*.

And he wouldn’t even need tools for it.

Wouldn’t it be fun if Lois ran into Linda?







No, I’d wager with Clark out of the way, Nor and company would be just too happy to have good relations with a significant portion of Earth’s polulation.

No, Clark’s in the one with the light dimming repeatedly.

He could also have neutered him.



You put a damsel in distress on top of a building and dump her over the parapet.

Wouldn’t it be fun if they had actually cut off a couple of his fingers instead of just broken them?

Machine gun nest in the Fortress of Solitude.

JONATHAN: Define ‘people’.

Yeah, wouldn’t want to get dragged into a nasty liability suit for not properly labeling the crystal with an epilepsy warning.

Smallville file!

Oh boy. She *is* rather exposed.

His cradle!

But they contained *chocolate*!





Oh dear. /flashes to Raiders of the Ark/

Superman’s cradle?

Not lacking self confidence, is she?

Michael

Hi Virginia,

I'm trying (again) to catch up : I have 3 parts to read!

So, I don't have a lot of time to comment, but I wanted to tell you how much I love the last lines of this part:

SuperLois to the rescue!

Micahel: It looks like I did this out of order. Sorry.



LOIS: <sarcasm> Yeah, right.

CLARK:

Clark doesn't have any powers so he'd need the powers and Thomas doesn't know he's supposed to.

CLARK: And there is your first lesson about women.

LOIS: Last I checked Clark is 'virile'. Masculine. Manly. Right?

B39 is NIA?

TRASK: Like I care.

THOMAS: But his horns are bigger than that deer's I shot.

JIMMY: What?!

Why Jimmy stays behind the camera.

SHERIFF MAX: What do you think this is, Texas? Arrest that commenter!

MAX: Missed opportunites.

There's a good idea. Let's have Trask shoot the Sheriff instead of Clark! Oh, wait, Sheriff's on his side.

MAX: I'll leave the rest of the world alone, if they leave Smallville alone. Wouldn't want to have deal with all those damn foreigners anyway. They can't speak English good.

EW: These are the opinions of my character, not of the evil writer.

JIMMY: Perry, I've changed my mind, I want to come home to Metropolis now!

Michael! Do you know how much shorter my story would be if you keep giving alt-Clark such ideas?! <Plus, Book 3 would basically be "Clark's Dead. The End", which is a bit shorter than the story I have planned.>

CLARK: Yep, when I screw things up, I go all the way.

Not quite.

Yep.

She's still clothed.



I know!



LOIS: Who do you think I am? Clark?

Hi, Sydney, me too.

Me, either. Glad you liked Lois's pep speech.

LOIS: :rolleyes: I'm always rescuing that partner of mine.

Aww, don’t cha worry. Those fine numbers on top help a lot

Was referring to Trask mentioning Wayne went to the Kents but no mention of having caught Lois and that ne’er-do-well she was with.



/recommends CC Aiken’s Something the Cat Dragged In. It’s a vignette. And one of the most adorable fics on the Archive.

Right.

Can't have another dead Clark, right?

Michael

I am actually totally baffled by why Lois does not suspect Lex. Shouldn't she have some negative inklings from going through this before, or does living on a fracture of time not quite work like that?

You mean Clark doesn't know where Lois is? Trask usually doesn't brag about NOT catching someone though. Yep, poor Clark is in the dark.

That's not true. After their third date, Lex kissed her and asked her to come back to his apartment with him for 'drinks' and she went home and took a scalding hot shower because she was so disgusted with the idea of sex with Lex.

I don't believe Trask's personal life was ever mentioned in canon, which is why we (EWs) can have so much fun with it.

CLARK: What? I can't teach the younger generation about women?

CAT: You can't teach until ye have learned, student!

It's one of those fine line ones. And, yes, I may have slipped that one in for my D.E. fans.

Kind of like Lana.

You do realize that was part of the joke. (Actually, most non-native speakers speak / write better English than approximately 50% of Americans.)

JIMMY: You first!

You're right, he isn't brave enough.

CLARK: Hey, guys, right here. Super hearing (most of the time). Do you mind?

Just read it. Thanks for the recommendation!

CLARK: What? There's a dead... oh, right. Him.

LOIS: Nope, one is more than enough.

The psychic memories don't work like that. They are fleeting, usually just a feeling or an image, a dream that she can remember, only rarely they are more.

Lois doesn't trust Lex like she does in canon and she's certainly not attracted to him. She hasn't had an evidence that he's less that what he's purported to be: billionaire, businessman, philanthropist. She's been using Lex to advance her career and her relationship with Superman. Don't worry, I'm sure that won't backfire on her at any time or point.

Right. The downside of reading stuff spread out over months.

Also and Michael

I'm posting as fast as I can.



TRASK: <pulls out gun again> Pshaw! What do I care about rules. <Aims gun and fires>

It’s okay. I’m reading as fast as I can, too.



LOIS: That’s no excuse for looking and measuring their cup size with your hands.

Michael

Darn RL getting in the way of the important stuff.

CLARK: <scandalized> I never!

LOIS: <looks skeptical>

CLARK: I can read their bra size from the label on the inside... I've said too much, haven't I?

LOIS:

Yes, I know. Sometimes it's difficult to remember that this is the Gfic boards.

RL:



Actually, it would have been fine, gfic-wise. Just very impolite. /walks away from joke/

Michael

JOKE: Hey! Don't leave me hanging here!

/Just teasing. Completely understand. I just couldn't resist./