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

The Smallville Arc is finally at an end after only roughly 15 parts. Should I still have any readers left , I would like to let them know that the timeline will now once again speed up. I apologize for the length of the Smallville Arc, but it was very important to what will come in the future.

/fans self/ Say, is anyone else hot? /tugs nervously at collar/. Comments?

Sounds like Clark is taking things too slow with his five point plan. I hope something happens to nudge him along. Love the residents of Smallville selling fake Krpytonite meteors!

A little heat in November? How timely.

Joan

Eeeep! Some very good parts are approaching! I might have to read them again!

JOAN: I didn't scare you off with my crazy characters and lack of Clarkie bear!

Another hacker! Nah, just joking. She's a Beta. She might actually know which direction this rollercoaster turns next. Glad you enjoyed the next series of loop de loops.

Five steps!? I guess it translates as "he will never tell her". Ever.

How? He keeps lying to her. Does he want to build trust based on a lie?

Vague? Give Lois a flimsy clue and she will dig until she finds the deepest secrets. She found the real Clark Kent's grave and she didn't even know he had existed. And why would any woman understand that a man can’t say his ex-fiancé’s name?

Hello! If you want it to be believable just levitate!

Let's see: Everybody thought Superman was invulnerable. Nobody but the Kents knew about kryptonite. He passed out. He was captured by Trask. He was hurt and shot. He barely could stand up. Tell me again, oh smart one, why should she believe you were Superman?

Half truth is half lie. And half lie is still a lie. :rolleyes:

See? He will never tell her.

Hummm... In Smallville we have proof that Clark didn't grow up there, his false past story and the real Clark Kent's grave. What will be important in the future?

Andreia

Ultra Woman: Okay, you're bashing Clark in his lunkhead, but he deserves it.
In Clark's defense, he *wants* to tell her, which is more than canon Clark did at this part in canon. <<ducking>>

Well, even this Clark does have that little bit of optimism left. <<ducking again, from tomatoes this time>>

EW: <<hands UW a 2x4>> Hit away! Although, I don't understand how Luthor would find out before Lois, but it *could* happen. Both Luthor and Lois are looking in all the wrong places for Clark's past. Also, Clark doesn't know that Lois has heard Jonathan's theory about Clark's Italian ancestry.

By showing to her that even though she doesn't know his history, she knows the kind of man he has (otherwise) always shown her that he is.

I have never told my husband the names of all my former beaus as they were not important to our relationship. What happened in those relationship, yes; the man's name, not so much. Clark is working on this age-old tradition. Of course, Lois isn't like other women and it is *possible* that she won't accept only half-truths.

CLARK: But then she'd know for certain and I'd have no way to change my mind and back out again. What if she reacted like Lana. I don't think I could take that a second time. What if she hated me and never wanted to talk to me again? What if...

LOIS: Snap out of it!

CLARK: Right. Thanks, I needed that. Now, where were we?

LOIS: You were telling me about your past.

CLARK: Right. Uh... Um...

LOIS: This is going to take a while.

CLARK: Because I said "I am Superman"?

CLARK: Yes, but, it's better than all lies, isn't it? Anyway, that other stuff really isn't important for our relationship, right? <<ducking more tomatoes>>

He thinks because Lois cares for Superman, there is a greater possiblity that she'll forgive him for keeping that secret (once he tells her). Telling Lois about the other Lois might be something she'd might never forgive him for, and therefore is the scariest secret of them all.

Yes, all those things were discovered during the Smallville arc, but those were only things that LOIS learned.

My problem is Clark/Superman's seeming lack of seriousness about kryptonite. He told Lois in the previous chapter he doesn't know if it can kill him!? Shouldn't he look into this. Shouldn't he know?!

He admitted that the baby Kal may have dies because K weakened him and other factors killed him. So at the least K can indirectly kill Clark.

Lex will know for sure soon enough.

Superman's naivete will ultimately lead to his death. Being an innocent Boy Scout believing the the goodness of everyone won't cut it in a world with larger than life villains like Lex.

Lois needs to knock some sense into him or he won't be long for this world.

Randi: Welcome to my story!

Lack of seriousness? I'm not sure about that. Whether or not Kryptonite could kill Clark on its own, K still hurts like hell and it's not like he'll go and buy Kryptonite Crunchies at the local market for breakfast just to test it out (as one recent spoof suggested).

Yes, Lex won't care about tested theories. He'll be willing to test them out on his own.

Does my Clark believe in the goodness of everyone more than canon Clark? I don't seem him as naive. I see him as more world wise, less womanwise, than canon Clark.

You're probably right about that. <<hands Randi a 2x4 spiked with K to test out on Clark>>

Please, don't kill Clark but feel free to maime him. This isn't a death fic.

CLARK: Hey! I mean, yea! But, still, HEY!

No this isn't a death-fic. Though I am a big fan of the occasional death-fic. They are too rare here.

But Clark's lackluster concern about K. in this story makes him too much the "canon" Boy Scout.

Let's just say that this Clark/Supes in a "real" world with this Lex - well you figure it out.

Clark: Did she have to emphasize we slept in different beds?

Well, now we are moving into MoSB. I hope Lois begins to suspect Luthor, but I am not holding my breath.

They are still partners.

I don't know. I think Clark should let the victory set in for a bit.

She is breaking up with him. This is very sad.

Maybe there is still hope.

Clark, you should have told her everything on the flight back.

Wait, did she finally accept his term of endearment?

I guess she didn't really accept it.

He should have just told her everything on the flight. She would have moved beyond it in less than a month.

Lousy excuse. He is all one person.

This just might work.

If he just calls her Lana it won't be so bad. And since she met Lana Jessup, would it really give her clues to speak of Lana Lang?

No, I don;t think she will.

It seems like he did a lot of these things in canon and she never noticed.

Why doesn't this cause Lois more pause. In canon she actually asks Clark "What planet are you from, your running and not even sweating" at the start of the episode.

Which makes it all the more amazing she does not figure out the secret sooner.

Actually I think why she does not figure out sooner is it is so fun to write stories where Lois does not know. Once she knowns, you generally can't go back.

Superman from movie: You can always give her a mind blanking kiss.

canon Clark: That sounds like a very dangerous idea. I do not like it when Lois looses her memories.

Personally I think he should plan on this. What if M&J accidentally let him being from another dimension slip because they think he has revealed more than he actually has?

Well, I don;t really understand that either. I think the logic behind coming to this dimension was flawed to begin with.

I cannot see any good coming from this. She will want to know the origin of his costume. What is he going to tell her?

All the more reason to tell her the truth now. She will return to calling him Clark.

I had almost forgotten it won't work. Clark knows that Superman is not the cause of the problem.

Hmm, on the other hand this might not be good. Lois might not help him out as much when he does not need the help. She might turn against Clark and Superman just to be spiteful.

I guess it is good that Trask produced the rest of the Kryptonite. Now all known despisits of it are held by the Kents, and not easily findable by Luthor's agents.

fooling those guillible city slickers. It is a good thing that Lois did not produce a description of Kryptonite, or did she?

Clark now has a back story that goes back 10 years.

Clark: This is an outrage. To even suggest my father had illegitimate children. This is totally outrageous.

I just hope Lois does not share what she "knows" with Luthor.

I am surprised Luthor's agents have not dug up rumors of the marriage of Lois and Jerome.

Lois is getting more inquisitive.

Lois is still on Superman's side.

Well, in some ways it is amazing he did not come up with this explanation in canon. Of couse having gone nearly a year as Superman full time in the other demension gives him experience to know the claim is ludicrous.

I think there is a mistake in this phrase.

Is this true? I thought he could turn these off.

Good point. Just standing there is not using any superpower. However Luthor might see it differently.

I like this response a lot better than in canon.

I always thought this whole response was just plain stupid. Superman saved lives and they arrest him. The people of Metropolis deserve Luthor, they facilitate his power by being so stupid.

In Clark's defense, he never told her the Italy story. He also does not know she overheard it.

Still, I have to agree his plan is flawed. I think he should have already told her.

Hey, in this demension they have cornered and hid all known quantities of Kryptonite. They also did not destroy it in a way that might infect the water supply.

I really do not see what Clark could do more than he has done. Kryptonite hurts, so I see no reason for him to test his endurance. He does not yet have a trusted professor-friend like Dr. Klein or Dr. Hamilton to work with on this issue.

I think even Dr. Lane is in hiding.

JOHN: Another 3 parter. You spoil me.

LOIS: YES! Do you want everyone at work to think we slept together?

Actually, I'm re-organizing my TOC. Since my story is much, *much* longer than I originally anticipated, I'm going to note on the TOC the beginning and ending of each story arc, thereby making it easier for someone to jump in and read a WC "Short" as it may. (Not too short as Technically, Part 62 - with "Hot in the City" begins the 7th story arc, whose name I'm not quite ready to announce. )

CLARK: I would like to thank Martha and Jonathan in believing in me, even when I didn't deserve it.

CLARK: I have a PLAN! <<ducking as one of UW stray tomatoes flies into this FDK>>

Win some, lose others.

Um, John, I think you forgot this:

Saying it now, would just look pathetic and needy and a last ditch effort for her not to dump his butt.

Um... No.

I don't know. I liked that one. It was totally NOT Lois, but it was sweet.

CLARK: I might be able to see through anything but lead, but my laser vision doesn't let me see into the future.

Good Point. Think Clark knows that?

Depends on how he says it and what kind of mood Lois is in, I suspect.

It would take one phonecall for Lois to learn Lana Jessup's maiden name, and after the way Clark looked at her in Smallville, and the fact that Lana isn't as common a name as "Jennifer" or "Beth", probably too coincidental for Lois's tastes.

As I said before, it's all in the way he mentions it.

Yes, but this Clark is a bit more paranoid, so he hasn't done much of it.

CLARK: What do you mean she DIDN'T notice? Geez! So much for Step 3.

So, he's professional. I'm assuming that the heat wave didn't begin the day of the Press Conference, so he's been dressing that way for days, if not weeks in that heat.

This Lois is a bit more atuned to leaps of logic than canon Lois.

Unless you give her amnesia.

Agree heartedly with canon Clark.

No point on planning on getting to Step 5, if he never makes it to Step 4.

-- Response to John's FDK -- Cont.


CLARK: You think I should have stayed in *my* dimension?

I had a discussion about this with my Betas. We think it has more to do with Judges not liking people (any people) flaunting their orders right after they made them. She doesn't want to appear as if she holds even Superman above the law.

All "known".

One of my pet peeves.

And look what those Kryptonite tests are doing to him in Mouse’s story “Madness”!

This will be brought up again soon, but when Tommy Garrision turned himself in hoping to get more Cyborg vitamins. (Before Smallville – Clark read an article in the paper about it.) Didn’t work. Tommy’s in jail with no cyborg juice. Dr. Lane came out of hiding. Although, I didn’t state the fact outright; it was more implied.

True, I mentioned it before, but I had forgotten in the intervening weeks.

So, not so long and not really funny, either. Except for the part where Lois

When Lex asks for a paternity test to confirm the little bun really is his and not Clark’s after the horrendous events of PML and what Lex did during the time?



/watches as Lois goes googly-eyed again/



Can they print that in the Smallville Post?

Well, he hasn’t yet attempted to actually steal a story. Or sleep with her, so…

And it had gone so well for Martha and Lois.



for The Rival





How about a fair booth with Lois and Clark, and the visitors can pay a dollar to see them kiss?

He really is good at this whole avoidance thing, isn’t he?

/waits for it to blow up in his face like that nuclear bomb form Super Mann/

LOIS: It’s Cat, isn’t it? No, wait, you’re way too chummy with her. And why are you so chummy with her anyway. So, it’s Linda, then? OMG, it *is* Linda!

/squints/

That’s just self-preservation.

Michael

Hi Virginia,

I don't have a lot of time, but I'm catching up with my reading (or trying to, at least!)

Just wanted to quote this line:

I love it!

Michael: RL finally let go of its strangle hold, did it?



Wow! That was a quick courtship, marriage, and honeymoon.

CLARK: And you guys say I don't know what to say to make Lois all soft in the knees.

SMALLVILLE POST: Judge Tells Sheriff: Three Strikes and You're Out!

LOIS: What a great image of what happened inside Clark's chest.

LOIS:

-- Response to Michael's FDK -- Cont.

CLARK: Okay, okay. It was Lana, Lana Lang.

LOIS: Lana? Smallville Lana? But she's been married for almost 10 years to Hank? You're lying to me again, aren't you?

CLARK: It was a different Lana.

LOIS: Strange coincidence, isn't it? That there were two women in the world named Lana Lang?

CLARK: How did you know Hank's wife's maiden name was Lang?

LOIS: <<holds out hand>> Hi, I'm Lois Lane, 3 time Kerth Award winner for INVESTIGATIVE Journalism. :rolleyes:

CLARK: Right. <<grins sheepishly>> Funny story that...

LOIS: <<Holds up hand>> Save your breath.

<<ER Imagination>> LOIS: <<fanning self>> My, it's getting hold in here. Oh. Oh! OH! VERY, *very* hot. I need to take off some of my clothes and jump on my partner...

Like Lois wouldn't enjoy it.

LOIS: Sounds good to me.

CLARK: I'm actually from Australia. G'day.

Poor Clark, he doesn't even know how much he upsets his rival.

LEX: <<sniffling>> Exactly.

LEX: No, it's not time for my congical visits with Ari.

LOIS: That man! He shot you! Clark, why aren't you lying in a puddle of blood?

CLARK: Oh, right. Sorry.

Oh, dear, you're thinking like a minion, Michael. Have you been sick?

LEX: <<lifts up earmarked copy>>I have one, and it says here on page 134, "When ridding oneself of an enemy who has progressed past the level of nuisance, one must be sure to do it in a complex way, with many opportunities to escape which will inevitably fail."

CLARK: I double majored in Journalism and Physics.

Why do you think Perry is holding her down?

Technically, I believe that the Attorney for the City (aka, City Attorney) is in another branch of the judical from the ADAs.

Sydney: Thanks for stopping by to say hi!

Well, it's true, isn't it?

Michael

O-kay.

CLARK: I'm not?

Small town news gets such a bad rap.

LOIS: How to who the girl?

LOIS: And this is my fault, how?

CLARK: You mean, I could have...?

LEX: <<checks 1993 calender>> And HOW did you get a copy of a book that hasn't been published yet?

I am guessing Max's mom voted for him. And since you had to write in Hank, he probably got a few other votes here and there. And if it was a special election, than I would be surprised if even 1000 people voted. It was probably 493 to 15.

Virginia you are right the city attorney is a totally different think than the District Attorney. The city attorney advises the city on legal matters, and goes to court on behalf of the city.

I am not sure how New Troy is set up (OK, since it does not exist, and is sort of New York, except I think in this espisode they mention New York, and the map in the pilot makes it look at least to me like Metropolis is in Pennsylvania, so we just know it is not New Jersey <from what they say in "Twas the Night Before Mxymass"> so you probably have multiple options on how the DA works. In Michigan we don't even call the state(ish) prosecutors DAs, we call them County Prosecutors, because they are elected by county. There are federal district attorney's (I think we have at two in Michigan) who handle federal cases, but in most other states they also have state DAs who are elected by "district" that may or may not correspond to anything.

That said, being the DA would probably be a step up from being the city attornye (especially if Chung is not the city attorney, but just on the staff), so I could imagine the city attorney running for the more powerful position of DA. Federal DAs are not elected, but appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate, and I don;t think any state has more than four (each of which covers a specific part of the state). New York City though is split between two US District Attorney's though, although both cover more than the city.

Isn't Tudors 16th century?

Since Max's mom knows him better than most people and wants what's best for her county, I'm guessing "no". But I'm sure she told him she voted for him.

Thank you for the political analysis.

I have learned some things from watching crime drama on TV.

I believe that the DA's (and ADAs for that matter) from the show represent the State of NT, as opposed to being Federal DAs.

Yes. But isn't the 19th century closer to the 16th century in language than the 20th / 21st centuries? <<And the reference to the Tudors was a joke>>

Thanks No idea how much FDK I’ll get done this weekend. Let’s hope some, otherwise, I’ll never catch up till Christmas…

Michael

That's some Christmas gift!

I've only just gotten started.

CLARK: <<to EW>>

Okay, now it makes sense. And, no, Clark has no idea how to woo.

LOIS: You make me sound like a dog.

CLARK:

No, then someone might think he's alive and the clone might change Lex's will.

I would agree with that assesment, but that position would still be seen as a step up from city attorney.

Good point. Also, I didn’t mean *all* parts till Christmas, just the catching up part. Otherwise, it might cause EW inbox overload.

My, he really can’t take any, can he? No wonder Lois won’t put out for him.

Michael

Don't worry on that account. My Inbox can handle it.

LOIS: I won't? I mean, Right! I won't!

Right. Of course, sorry.

Right. Gmail



Michael