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So, anyone want to comment?

Oh, and Happy 100 Years of 'Pride and Prejudice'. Go Jane! You inspire us all.

Oh, great! :rolleyes: To make an even worse mess she must have said it while still on the phone, didn't she? . Probably Lex will answer: I knew you would come around, Lois. I love you, too, Darling.

Lois and Clark's Cupid must look like this:

Andreia

I meant to comment on the Elizabeth Bennett quote in the last update but forgot in my post. When it got mentioned again above I REALLY meant to mention it, but you went ahead and did it yourself anyway just another paragraph later.

Great chapter. And great way to get in reference to another classic romance couple.

So Lois is channeling Elizabeth Bennett!

Lois is putting on a show for the microphones in her apartment, but how does she know that Perry's office wasn't bugged? In which case not only would Lex know which story and which "hack", but he would also know what Lois is up to. And what is preventing Perry from discussing her predicament with Jimmy, Cat, or Clark somewhere in the newsroom that is bugged? In fact, how does Lex not know that they're on to him?

And if Lex doesn't have Perry's office bugged, then how much effort would it take to find out who Lois is mad at in the newsroom?

Psst! Lois! Look for a man who wouldn't feel that you actually owed him anything for helping you.

How did she really expect him to react to what she told him? Once again she's expecting him to read her mind and know that she's investigating Lex when she has never given him any reason to believe that that's the case.

Lois really treats Clark like garbage; I'm almost to the point of campaigning for him to go back home and try to patch things up with Lana. Or at least go back in time a few years and find his own Lois.

Woah! That's quite a slanted view on marriage. I realize that Lois has had no good role models in this area, but there are lots of ways that women benefit from marriage, including all the mutual benefits, especially when kids enter the picture. Of course, I assume that Lois isn't thinking about kids, either.

Does she have any reason to believe that Clark would treat her that way?

Maybe because she doesn't act like she loves him... ?

Well, it helps if she actually conveys her intentions to him.

That's an entirely different question. She knows that he had a bad experience with a past fiancee. She should think that whatever happened there has something to do with his behavior. Once again, she's expecting him to cater to her demands and whims and put every consideration for her first when she's not even remotely willing to do the same for him. She completely ignores his point of view and the impact her actions have on him.

This Lois is quite the narcissist.

Hooray!!!!!!!!!! You've redeemed her (somewhat - pending her acting on her epiphany)!

Do it, Clark, do it!

Ok, maybe hold off.

"...There's this guy who's been stalking me, and he's really creepy, and I wish Lex could get rid of him for me. He lives in that tall tower in the middle of the city..."

Lex: Done and done.

Why do people in stories and TV and whatnot always cite talking to oneself as a sign of craziness? Everyone talks to themselves. Maybe some people don't actually do it out loud, but my guess is that it's rare for someone to never talk out loud to oneself.

... Then wouldn't they want her on their side...?

So what happens when Lois's resignation is actually processed, and once she's done messing around at LNN, the DP board won't let Perry re-hire her because she's unstable?

So at the end, she's still on the phone...? Or did she hang up before she yelled at Superman? It looks like she's still on the phone, so what is Lex going to make of her outburst? The way she phrased it, it doesn't quite fit in the conversation. Maybe that won't matter to him.

Clark:I don't think I can bear having Lois rip me apart 3 more times like that.

He really should have asked her why she was thinking about it.

I think that should be "returning to the topic at hand" there is a way for him to phrase it acceptably tomorrow. OK, maybe Lois means "today" in a slightly broader sense.

that no one has told Clark this until now.

that he did not do this.

I wish he had had and followed this advice.

Good to keep in mind.

He really should have. Lois had not even given Lex an answer yet.

that Lois does not learn about it. that she won't have such anytime soon.

Well, it has been 22 years or so since Clark had his Mom's baking, so his memory is probably not all that good.

He has passed the first step, admitting he is wrong.

he is getting some reassurance.

I guess I see her point, but Clark was scared.

Clark:Then why did she reject my proposal when she found we were one and the same.

Martha:Because you worded it so horribly.

Which is the one of the big reason she is going through with her crazy plan.

Yes on the first part, sadly no on the second.

Actually she probably would have been more furious if she hadn't know.

Good point, someone had to tell him.



He really was not listening back in October when Lois explained to him that she needed more than just feelings.

that he is beginning to doubt she loves him.

I think he is right on why she didn't accept, but for the wrong reasons. She knew how much it would tare Clark up if she accepted without him knowing what was up. However, they messed up the talking to eachother session, and so now he is being torn up just like she wanted to avoid.

I guess this almost makes sense, but not really.



Martha:When women say "advice" they mean "advice" not action.

It would help if she said this aloud.

The way Jonathan describes it, it does sound like advice.

Technically not. It would have been worse to say "Go get in bed with the devil, I don't care."

He should have just pushed forward with the assumption that he was right.

This is Lois, she keeps everything a secret. She even keeps her undercover investigations a secret from her boss. It is amazing Clark knew about her being at the Metro Club at all.

I wasn't the only one head-bashing last part.

Jonathan seems to have a really negative view of Lois.

He underestimates Luthor's ability to guess. Also, seems to overestimate Lois's ability to hang up on Luthor.

She spent the night at his place before the cameras were removed. At least Luthor thought that was what he saw, well, OK he thought a lot more than spending the night.

Which to Luthor would just mean he was trying to avoid getting caught. Luthor would assume Superman has had sex with multiple women. He projects his morals on others.

I am glad he stayed away. This story would be much more harrowing if he hadn't. Although part of me does not want to contemplate the horror of this story being more harrowing.

Are you sure Clark. She said she was going to dinner with you before Luthor shot her.

This story would be somewhat better if he actually did. Although, it isn't his fault she quit the DP already. She could have waited until the end of the day. It's not like LNN human resources people will even be in until Monday.

Which maybe should cause them to wonder what Lois is really up to.

Lois:Tell the what, staff. Because there is no way I am ever having children with Luthor. Clark, maybe, Luthor never.

Which causes me to hope that Lois is really not pregnant. If she is pregnant that will cause Clark emotional breakdown. Even though it will be his child, he will assume it must be Luthor's.

But Clark, if she gave up on you, she would give up on the investigation. OK, he doesn't know that, but I had to say it to try and feel a little better. There is a reason I fastforwarded through most of "Barbarians at the Planet" and "Fall of the House of Luthor" the first time I watched Lois and Clark, even though I knew that Lois and Clark got married. My first clear knowledge of exposure to the show is from reading a TV troupes entry on the episode "Sex, Lies and Videotapes", so I knew Lois and Clark would get married to eachother and this was not the no net progress work we got with the 1970s/1980s Superman movies (although to be fair, I think even there the plan was to eventually put Lois and Clark together as a couple, that just went out the window when creative control went to other people).

She really should have waited another day. What could it have hurt? OK, she might have lost her determination. Somehow I can't see that as bad though.

In the hospital. In the Honeymoon Suite. She ran back to him, when she could have learned more spending more time talking to Luthor.

Clark still loves Lois.

Yes but there Elizabeth turned down the rich Mr. Darcy, here Lois is turning to the rich Mr. Luthor.

Get Superman to fry him? See, I was right that she should have let Lex die. It would be much safer for the DP.

she is going to call up Clark and accept his proposal instead. OK, I shouldn't needlessly get my hopes up like that.

But does she want others to think this as well.

Lois:Perry knows the truth. He will let me come back.

Reader:Only if he is still alive.

She should have thought about this and not quit the DP so rashly.

Just go back to Clark Lois, he loves you as a person, not as a thing he wishes to exert control over.

She really should have thought things out more from his perspective. She does know he has been engaged before. She was just thinking about his fiancée when accusing all Kryptonians of being lunkheads.

At least she knows Clark's attraction to her is more than just physical. Something that is not clear for Lex.

she should have lead with the investigation, not the proposal.

that she has such a negative reaction to a proposal.

this was really not a wise plan to turn her personal life into something under a microscope.

But she has not been showing that love, so now he is getting scared and uncertain.

She did say that the proposal was a wonderful opportunity. His interpretation was the most consistent with what she actually said.

Today is normally written as one word.

I think that would be "and the Daily Planet".

Gag.

Not with the limited responsibilities Luthor would allow her.

Not with more and more people quitting LNN in disgust over the lies it tells about SM.

Actually, TV news has never been known for being breaking news. I mean, they generally give ads about the news hours before they air it. OK, maybe LNN is more like CNN. Still.

By trying to kill her best friend. By driving a wedge between her and her best friend. By constantly bad mouthing and maligning her best friend.

How can she stand to do this.

She should have formulated something for Clark to do in this investigation before going to talk to him.

As opposed to being Clark's wife when she owes him the much bigger death of being alive. Although, this I never got in Another Lois. Why didn't Lois die in the shuttle explosion along with those hundred other people.

Not if she tells her mother that Lex treated her like a prostitute.

She should destroy it as a proxy for destroying Lex.

that he didn't fly straight here from the Kent place.

she loves Clark.

But he did tell her everything he knows about Luthor.

Well, she hadn't said no, what was he supposed to think?

Well, she did give up on even trying to restart. The one time her being stubborn and barreling ahead would have helped she didn't.

Now she is just being petty.

Well, she had said that Lex offered a possibly once-in-a-life-time prospect. What else was he supposed to think.

That is totally unfair. He was scared and in shock and really worried, especially since she said the proposal opened up a great prospect.

Because actions speak louder than words, and when her actions are to hide anything with him, and publicly admit only a connection with Lex, it hurts.

No one else has ever loved him, why would Lois be any different?

Because she broke up with him, refused to acknowledged their relationship, and told him to date other women.

Because that makes no sense. Especially because she has never told him what she knows about the L.U.C.

It does when he spend years in foster care, when his parents died on him and such.

But she was specifically thinking about his fiancée earlier this day.

Finally she is getting the picture. It would make even more sense if she knew about alt-dimension.

Like what Lois seems to be doing by kissing him while accepting expensive gifts from Lex.

And then she started doing the exact same kinds of things.

Good, she recognizes the similarity.

I am surprised it has taken her this long to realize just how hurtful that is. Clark wouldn't do that to allow Lois to date Superman, and he would have gotten the best of both worlds. Although why he didn't just tell her then and there "Lois, it's all one and the same, since I am both Clark Kent and Superman", well, OK, he wanted her to love CK, but he should have realized just how manipulative that was.

Good question. She really should have considered the emotional cost of this absurd plan.

So she is the proud one. Does that mean Clark exemplifies prejudice, or is Lois exemplifying both emotions. On another note, Jane Austen fans everywhere wish Pride and Prejudice was this long.

But why? She has 3 Kerth Awards, the last won after Clark showed up.

Now that she realizes this, I wish she would give up this stupid investigation.

She has not really internalized anything he has told her.

This is why he should have told her, because then he could have reemphazied to her that what he has told her about his past is true. that he has not managed to tell her that.

Yes, which is why she should just have yelled at him earlier.

Exactly, she has hurt him way more than Lex ever could. Lex might be able to hurt his body, but she has ripped him to shreds emotionally.

that she has cut herself off from him.

See, she should really have avoided the M word at all costs.

Exactly, she really should have thought this through better.

She really should have had Superman come and whisk her away to an undisclosed secret corner of Metropolis.

She really is in too deep.

That was the stupidest thing she could have done. She should have tried to see things from his perspective.

Why should he. He bared his soul, and then had her come and rip it to shreds.

OK, I am just too mad at both of them for being total lunkheads. I just knew something horrible would happen when she went with her stupid undercover plan. I am feeling perturbed at everyone. I am trying to not be too put out, but I am just discouraged with things.

That would only be a problem if Clark decided to fly in.

Deep under cover is overrated.

What ever, she should just give up.

There has to be an easier way to bring Luthor down.

It would be a way to end Lex pursuing her without bringing Clark or the DP into the picture. Sounds like a perfect plan.

But can she trust that the Jimmies won't also reveal this detail to Clark?

Gag, just gag.

Give it up Lois. You are never going to get the Kryptonite.

Gag.

As long as she is dating Lex no one there will truly respect her.

Only because as far as she knew Lex had died.

He only thinks this because he knows too little about that dimension. For all he knows Lois was a widow when he met her.

that he still thinks she is attracted to Luthor.

Gag.

No he is not. He belongs in Lois's arms, and since she is not here, he is not where he belongs.

Gag.

Why didn't he learn his lesson about not rushing into things?

Gag.



Are you trying to crush Clark?

Clark’s jaw fell open. Lois had accused him of not knowing or understanding who she was this morning, and if that truly was Lois Lane standing in her apartment, she was absolutely correct. He didn’t know her at all.

She really should have used his name.

I was re-reading part 143 (where they learn about Monique Kahn's death). I think Clark really has no one to blame for his current problems than himself. He is the one who did not trust Lois with information so many times.

I also realized with Lois knowing that Lex is the voyeur, if she, Henderson and Clark pooled what they know they could probably make a circumstantial case against Lex for the murder of Kahn, but I am not sure that would really hold up in court.

Ultra Woman: Thank you for your comments.
Your questions will be answered in Part 142.

I love your smilies. It is true that this Lois and Clark have a harder mountain to overcome to find happiness.... or shall I say a *different* mountain to overcome.
CANON CLARK: Thank you for the correction. I thought our mountain was pretty big too.


KatherineKent: Thank you for reading.
Yes, Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books and my inspiration for much of what happened in the park. You may not recall, but in Another Lois, we discover during Lois's flashback to when she is waiting in her non-lead lined nightgown for Superman to show up and to ask him if there was any chance for them, she is reading 'Pride and Predjudice'. Perhaps that is what subconsciously influenced her to say what she said in the park, perhaps not.

Thank you. In many ways, Lois and Clark are like Elizabeth and Darcy.

mrsMxyzptlk: Thank you for the long FDK.
Perhaps a little bit.

When the Voyeur bugged the DP the previous summer, he only bugged Lois's desk. She is standing by the assumption that Lex is only interested in her personally and not the working of the DP. This assumption may be her downfall. Since Lois told Perry that Lex was the Voyeur, he is now on his guard and knowing that Lois's desk area was bugged in the past, and being that Lois has gone deep undercover, isn't likely to mention the fact on the newsroom floor.

Would he really care if they were? His power is so overwhelming and over-arching would he not be able to defeat such a minor disruption to his plans?

Um... isn't Lois usually mad at her co-workers? Perhaps he'll review the tapes of the visitors to Toni Taylor and assume that Cat is the one to whom Lois is referring. Or someone else might be scapegoated by accident.

This is part of her 'lies to Lex' monologue to convince him to do what she wants on her behalf, not how she truly feels.

She expected him to hear her out before reacting.

Maybe Lex isn't so bad after all.

Because they're always told in stories and in tv shows that this is a sign of insanity?

LOIS: Reporters are a petty bunch.

If she brings in the goods on Lex Luthor, they might see her differently.

Answers to these questions, coming up! Maybe if Lex discovers that Lois is still in love with Superman, he'll just dump her and move on with his life, brushing that one failure under the carpet. Leaving Lois with no love or job prospects in the future and Clark wanting to head back to his old dimension. Or not.

John: Another extra long FDK!

-- Continuation of Response to John's FDK -- So, *that's* your solution?

They should just give creative control back to those who deserve it!
LOIS: Me!
CLARK: ME!
LOIS: Definitely not you, lunkhead. Me!
FanFictionWriters: US!
LEX:

So, is she still hiding her investigation from him? Or has she just not had the opportunity to tell him all?

LOIS: Ye of little faith.

So Lois's work will never speak for itself. Good to know.

Exactly.

But if she had loved Lex wouldn't she have been the widow "Lois Luthor"?

Cat means Metropolis. Daily Planet. Clark's been out of town chasing nuclear bombs. This is his first time back into the office since right after he was held hostage.

Everyone told him he needs to talk to Lois. He learned that she left the Daily Planet, he wants to make sure it wasn't because of him.

These are lies and she doesn't know he's listening in.

Again. She wants Clark to know that she loves him, but not for Lex to know.

Ooops. Missed one.
I think you mean "Part 43" because Monique Kahn doesn't come up in Part 143, which hasn't even been posted yet.
CLARK: See, I knew I was at fault.

With all the pull Lex has in town, it would never have made it to court. This is why they need proof, lots and lots of proof.

Hmm.... interesting point.

Then she should have explained herself. He starts in on his proposal or whatever, and she puts her hands up and says, "Wait Clark! Let me tell you what's going on!" and then spits it out. You can't tell me that Lois doesn't know how to talk over someone and make herself heard until they listen.



The ends do not justify the means, especially when the publisher can be held liable for her actions and her safety. Besides which, her questionable methods might well get a bunch of evidence thrown out of court when it gets to that point. Her actions are a reflection on the paper, and if Lois ends up interfering with a police investigation, that bad press, if not actual legal action, will fall on the Daily Planet, since she was claiming to act in her role as a Daily Planet employee. The Daily Planet is in the business of reporting the news and selling newspapers, not bringing down crime bosses. They can't afford to have employees going off half-cocked on their own personal vendettas.

Wow, that's wishful thinking.

Yes, I meant 43. It gets confusing when I am doing re-reading about 100 parts behind. I more recently ended halfway through part 47, again, and this time am holding on to the nice calm of things being right longer.

It is the process of pushing things to the very edge, getting your way by being more obstinate and stubborn than your opponents. The term is usually associated with political negotiations.

It might not be exactly the right term for what Clark did. His was more the laying it all on the line. Brinkmanship assumes each side has opposite goals, in theory Clark and Lois have the same goals. In practice, it is more complex, but it is probably not the right term.

At least in canon she was discussing the plan with him before the dress arrived.

I should have said "this is Lois, she managed to keep her investigation of Lex so secret, she did not admit she was investigating him in her own thoughts for a few months".

I meant the cameras from the DP and at Lois's place, I think more the latter. From this he is able to infer when Lois went to Clark's, and how long she remained there.

I probably overreact and internalize pain too much.

Lois is the one who said it was a proposal of marriage. What else was Clark supposed to think she was talking about?

Yes, Lana ‘asked for his advice’ back in his own dimension.

No, he could have said: Fine, go and marry your rich sugardaddy, you golddigging whore. I think that would have been worse.

Superman and Clark both have the same birthmark on their…, well…Lois got to examine it during his hospital stay.

Two minutes later in the closet, after they met again.
CLARK: But you said you wanted me right now?
LOIS:

LEX: /holds up signed ownership certificate for one Lois Joanne Lane/

Michael

So, you're saying that this shouldn't have been the one time she FINALLY let Clark speak the truth? Where's the fun in that?

Ah... The true reason for the DP's money problems. As long as Lois doesn't reveal her investigation as a "personal vendetta" and gets results, thus increasing the readership of the paper, I don't think the bosses upstairs will mind much. Anyway, Lois, Perry, and Clark would argue "YES" it is the job of reporters to uncover crimes and crime bosses not being actively investigated by police. Or at least it WAS the job of reporters to undercover the ugly truth about things before they went all social media on us.

I keep threatening John, that one of these days (you know about 2015, when I finish all those other stories on my docket), I'll write something where everything the reader would like to see happen and yet NEVER does happen in one of my stories because it would be too neat, clean, or easy. LOL. I have the strangest feeling that it would be the dullest story ever... either that of hilariously funny.

Yes, it sounds like Clark 'laid it all on the line' and Lois did brinkmanship when she kept forcing Clark NOT to reveal himself to her.

Well, I do have the insight (and outline) to know that there's a happily ever after at the end... because it's my story. So, yes, it could seem more harrowing for the Readers than for me.

Darth Michael: Sorry about not responding to FDK this weekend. I've become addicted to "Beauty and the Beast" (S1) which just became available on Netflix's Instant list. I've watched 16 episodes (or thereabouts) in like 5 days. /BTW: The only reason I haven't become addicted to Castle is that it was dropped from Netflix's Instant List just prior to everyone recommending it on the boards. I'm currently working through about 10 other shows on discs, including Smallville, which I must say is a VERY slow process. I keep hoping Castle will be put back up on the Instant list./

No, I don't think that would've been as bad, being how Lois feels about doctors, hospitals, and children.

Sounds horrendous.

I thought so.

Nope. Lana only wanted his 'protection'; hence why he's so confused that Lois wants something else from him.



Lip?

-- Continuation of Response to Michael's FDK --
Yes, if he had read her mind properly, he would have seen she would have wanted him to last longer than two minutes.

LOIS: Let me see that! /grabs certificate out of his hands and tears it into tiny pieces of paper/

He does think that, doesn't he? How sad for him to think she'll be that easy.

So, if she showed up only wearing SM's briefs...?

LOIS: Hello? I want this to be a successful investigation, not a successful case of VD.

Is there some reason he thinks Lois is Cat?

That's what she wants him to think.

Wouldn't she rather that he brought protection instead of being over-protective?

LEX: Darling, why are your fingers so rough?
LOIS: Oh, I was broke into your secret sex room with my lock picks.

MRS. COX: But, Lex, I'm allergic to dogs, which is why I ask you to keep Xerxes at the manor house.

Yes, but she doesn't know that.
LOIS: What do you mean 'Loises' as in plural?

CLARK: So, I picked the wrong week to propose. Gotcha.

CLARK: That might not work, but she can give it a try if she wants.
LOIS: /shows up at his apartment in a harem costume/ I want you, Clark.
CLARK: Okay.

LEX: I got snowed in at my hotel in Chicago during the winter graduation of the UoC: Journalism class of 1993, and I got bored.

/shrugs sheepishly/

CAT: Thanks, Michael.

Oh dear! I so know that problem. You just want to watch one more episode. Maybe another one before heading to bed. 42 more minutes won’t hurt, right? Why is it midnight?

That’s just 3-4 episodes a day. That’s nothing.

Those…those…Tempus-owned- On the plus side, now that it’s got 5 seasons under the hood, it’s probably going to show up on various local networks in syndication.

I know. I usually stick to one show at a time. Maybe do a drama and a comedy in parallel, so I can go long and short and funny and serious.



Lawyer exam before allowed to represent in a courtroom. Clark’s apparently not good at lawyery double-speak.

Michael

The sad thing is you hit the end of the Season and you're ready for more and the episodes just aren't available yet. She thinks I'm human! Ha-ha!

SAM: Sometimes it's best and more humane to put the patient out of its misery.
LOIS: :rolleyes: Which is why my father made cyborgs instead of letting the braindead just die.

LANA: It sounds more like Clark coming to ME for advice.

Belly button?
CLARK: I don't have one of those.
LOIS: And thus we know how I figured out you weren't from around here.

MRS. COX: Oh, sorry, I sold your shares in LJL to a.... /checks invoice/ Mr. Kal-El. I believe he's middle eastern.

Sounds familiar. I think someone had Lex dying of AIDS in one of their stories and Lois was ghost writing his autobiography... SQD perhaps?

LEX: I've never had a problem with it before.

CLARK: That's not allowed.

CLARK: But I thought because I have two Y chromosomes and you have two X, we couldn't make children of our own. That's what Lana told me.
LOIS: /hands Clark lead-lined box/ I've made you an appointment to speak to my Dad about the birds and bees.
CLARK: What's with the box?
LOIS: Just a gift for my father. Give it to him first.

CLARK: There's only been the one, not counting THIS one.

You didn't see Clark's reverse psychology trick at work, did you? Told Lois that her plan wouldn't work, only because he knew it would.

PHIL: I'm more of a traditionalist.
CAT: Also, I don't want to see my parents naked. It might scar me for life.

Yikes!

Ooooh! Chuck! /has gotten boxed set this year/

Michael

Nice. I made my hubby watch it several nights in a row, he's gotten bored with it (since it doesn't seem to be going anywhere) and so it's mine again. MINE! All MINE! /precious/

LEX & LOIS's OFFSPRING: We're the only ones the NK's didn't want!


CLARK:

Nah, she just wants Clark to feel it when Sam punches him.

CAT: No. Why do you ask?

I actually watched Season 1-3 or so while I was on sickleave with a bad cough and stuff. I think I went through 5 episodes a day while tending to my respiratory system... I didn't get bored Michael

Actually, this is a GOOD thing. It means I can watch it whenever I want... and have free time... er... procrastinating on Wrong Clark... Oh, look, something shiny...

I just finished rewatching Seasons 1-3 of Game of Thrones in preparation for April 6th Lois will make one fine bride for Lex.

Michael

LEX: See, Michael agrees with me.

I don’t think he knows just how many husbands get offed by their wives, does he?

Michael