I posted slightly early tonight because my Internet has been running VERY slowly all day. I hope it's not the Ides of Metropolis.

Feel free to comment or throw tomatoes at me here.

Thanks for reading.

Awesome. I love it.

When Lois was talking to Carlo and dreaming about Clark speaking seductively to her in Italian I caught the Carlo/Carlos reference and wondered if there was something going on. I was pretty sure that this was some way for Clark to be in contact.

Love that he went to all this trouble to neck with her in the stairwell.

Fantastic.

Now just give Lois that break she's after. Next time she visits Lex he just happens to be out of the office ... with his safe left wide open ... and a diary filled in with Lex's crimes ...

Please.

Ok, I haven't even finished reading this story as I type this (just got to the point where Carlo's "son" delivered the pizza) and I started (quietly, my 5 month old was asleep next to me after all) squeeing and going Double entendre intended, I'm sure.

that Lois gave into another of Lex's demands.

at the non-cooperative Mayson. I hope this causes Clark to dislike her from day one.

Cat: If you think there is any chance of Clark falling for someone other than Clark, you are confused.

Which might help if it includes a photo.

This is so sad to loose bobby from the story.

Good, she got that right about Clark.

Boo, Nigel is so annoying.

Which will never be deemed to have happened.

I wonder if this should be "her to the Luthor House for Homeless Children".

Arguably this is a better use of her skill set than serving dinner. Of course that would require the Luthor House to actually be a charity worth supporting.

This sounds like a major violation of her freedom.

Quit the investigation?

Would the other things also, like eating pizza, involve the use of her mouth?

Such is not likely with the extremely condescending Luthor.

She should accidentally drop something on it to make it unwearable. Clark might give her a dress as a present, but never in a way to imply he thinks she doesn't know how to dress for an event.

That seems to be over the top, and insulting. It almost screams "Lois, I think you are too fat, I would like you to loose some weight". Although it is probably more "I want to be able to watch you run in sexy outfits on the tredmill". No one in their right mind would call Lois fat.

And she thinks Luthor would ever provide anyone such? He is the one who thought he was doing her a service by arranging Schwartz to be her lawyer.

Don't blame him, when he as so obviously set up.

Only because he is not likely to survive jail. (Duck).

How annoying. Okay, if she really wanted to marry him, this might not be so bad, but since she doesn't. Although, if she wanted to marry Luthor we would wonder about her sanity.

Gag.

Part of me thinks it might flow better as "in hopes of learning something".

I always though Clark, not Lois, was the patient one.

The food is good? On the other hand, most people don't go with dates they can't stand, although maybe more than we want to admit.

Toni Taylor: I never could stand Lex.

she got this furniture to be closer with Clark.

Do you mean "Luthor's sense of style that is like a decorator" or "the sense of style possessed by Luthor's decorator"? It is not clear from the current wording.

Good, she still reacts the right way at any contact with Clark.

Someoe has figured out what her heart wants.

I think it would flow better as "She went to the telephone".

Is this another one of his "subtle" hints that he thinks she should loose weight, serving sinless chicken breast?

Isn't that what Luthor normally call her?

How can she think of her mother this way when Luthor is so much worse?

Than what was it that Cat wrote of in her column?

Lois: If you read tabloids, you can't hold me responsibl for the negative consequences. I havn't set a wedding date, so whatever they printed must be a lie.

Why is she so surprised, when he tried to sneak her into his bed under so many other guises in the past?

Since she plans on skipping the wedding if worst comes to worst, why bother putting any energy in it?

Good, because he does not deserve forgiveness.

Good, she made sure to state that Luthor deliberately fired.

An android.

That would be sort of scary though, since her mother would have come up with the idea of her marrying Luthor from some other source.

Now that is tacky, the force the brides hand on a given day with an announcement.

Holding either in a place called a "conference center", seems to me the opposite of high class.

I love that image. I hope we get to it soon.

Lois is falling for voices even more quickly now.

Lois: I don't want pizza, I want you.

To make them nice and moist when they meet Clark.

Did Carlo really mean to say that? I would think he would say "do you want them to be filled", although I have to say the way it is now is much sexier.

Clark and Luthor will hve to watch out for Carlo.

I think this exchange is more sexy than the one Lois and Clark the last night she was in the Lexor.

Now Nigel is really going down, he is stealing Lois's special pizza.

Oh, it wasn't Nigel. Well, Luthor has much more aginst him now.

Lois: I would like to be satisfied by you.

she does not always, in all cases think of him as Clark. That Clark is here.

Like the tip of her tongue between his lips.

She thinks of him as Clark.

She will be tempted to go back to her theory he was raised in Italy after eating it.

Lois: Maybe he first came to Italy, and then read one of my articles in the DP and decided that he needed to meet me.

I thought it was her meal made by Clark.

Yes, she is moaning at Clark's work.

Party more, they will have a date.

Lois: I'm not the one whose a Lunkhead.

Yes, she is enjoying it.

Yay they are finally together again. Missed that. Laura

Squeee! That's the noise people make when their inbox overflowith, right? Thank you for not shooting me with tomatoes for Lois's overly flirty retort to Clark's teasing remark that he was reminding her what's she missing (by being in-depth with the Luthor investigation instead being in-depth with him).

KatherineKent: Thanks for reading and commenting.
I mean... That's cool. Thanks.

Well, I wanted him not to let her be the one to initiate contact, because frankly he no longer wanted to wait for her nor was he sure he'd catch it when she did. Plus, he figured she couldn't say no to chocolate filled cookies.
LOIS: Well, that's just... just....
CLARK: Accurate?

CLARK:

Thanks.

LEX: Dear Diary; Today was just awesome! I wore my black Armani Tuxedo with the pearl and emerald cufflinks, which I know Superman noticed. Ha! Fooled ya, Steel Man. Lois and I went out, and she hung on my arm all night. I knew eventually all those years of accumulating dough would allow me to buy something I really want: the love of a picky woman. Even the Kryptonite on her engagement ring scared off Superman tonight at the charity event. Boo-ya! I rule to world! Reminder: Give Mrs. Cox and Nigel bonuses for their work in blowing up the Daily Planet and killing off those minions who've already failed me this year. Gee, and it's only April. Also, call maintenance. I've forgotten the code to lock my vault full of cooked books and kryptonite.



I'm glad you enjoyed it.


Christina: Thanks for taking the time to comment, despite sleeping babe in arms.
I'm glad I hit the right note for you. Also, the delivery guy wasn't "Carlo's son" but the ugly Americano.

Well, he does have more experience hiding his true self than canon Clark does.

Oh, yeah.

John: You're spoiling me. Thank you.
Sometimes you need to give up something to get something.

No comment.

Don't be ridiculous. Clark doesn't like himself enough to fall for himself. /note to self: stay out of Metropolis./

One would hope that anyone that Lex hired would have graduated higher and from a more prestigious law school than a poor public defender.

LOIS:
JIMMY: *YOU* cry? Hello? What about me, here?

You mean, as we all wonder about Canon Lois's sanity?

Better his arm than his lips.

Thanks. Fixed.

Lois's POV. Lois's opinion of herself.

One must date a thousand frogs to find one prince.

Nope. Actually, Toni liked Lex until he double-crossed her.

Continuation of response to John's FDK -- Actually, she mentioned that when she bought the sofa. Just a reminder of that.

Nope, neither of those. Her hard uncomfortable furniture reminded her of Luthor *and* of his decorator's sense of style, since she doubts that Lex really did more than approve of his decorator's choices.

But if Clark sent her a note and Lex found out, it could mean trouble for her and Clark.

What? You think food is the only way to a man's heart? Ha!
CLARK:

Sorry, typo. Originally, I believe I wrote, "she went to telephone the pizzeria" and then changed it and forgot the definite article (again). Fixed. I wrote a story once (you know, one of those novel sized stories I used to write before I started writing these ditties here on the boards) where one of the characters dropped definite articles all the time when he spoke. I blame him for every time this happens.

Or is it one of Lex's subtle hints that he thinks all women are weight conscious and prefer diet food all the time, whether or not they actually do. It's Lex not taking the time to find out what Lois actually wants to eat.

So, evil can't incarnate in more than one form?
LOIS: I've known my mother longer?

Poor Lois, I bet she is desperately searching for clues to put Lex in jail, hope soon can acomplish her goal.

yuju! The canoli scene makes me believe that MAYBE you may delight us with an nFic post. ..
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I think he under-estimates how pleasurable it is to Lois to eat food made by a man who really loves her. I also think he under-estimates how enjoyable it will be for him when she shows her appreciation at the pleasure he has given her.

How is Clark so familiar with the diet of the significant others of rich men?

Clark: Lana always tried for that diet, and me I had to earn the money to make it logical she followed it.

I'm surprised this didn't lead to him finding out the curse does not apply.

So it wasn't an emergency?

Clark: The suit is very tight. I had t leave quickly so people would not accuse me of being indecent.

He could just fake not feeling good.

Clark: We don't want other people to think Kryptonite works.

And maybe Luthor speaks the truth at times.

I see Virginia has already replied to some of my FDK, but I'm still not done.

Lois being safe anywhere near Luthor is an oxymoron.

Sounds like a good plan. I just have this fear that Luthor might be vindictive enough to stab Lois for making eyes at the Super-hero, and be prideful enough to think he can get away with it at a formal dinner.

Lex: I wouldn't be the first extremely rich man to get away with killing a double-crossing woman.

Good think he delivered the pizza in a disguise.

That would be really disrobing. Too bad he didn't scan this closely earier.

Is this with his x-ray vision?

Clark: I did't need to use my x-ray vision to figure out she was wearing a purple bra.

Clark: She ate my cannoli.

Lois: I was hoping to enjoy your cannoli in a different way.

They are touching.

Lois: I hope to touch him with more than just my arms.

Clark: Yes, were on camera, so we might as well run away Lois.

He should have gone for my plan.

Clark: But I tell the truth.

Lois: Except about being Superman.

Clark: Hey, the first time I told you I was superman, you laughed at me. Hmm, I did tell you I was Superman, months before I proposed.

Lois: It doesn't count if you're bleading when making the claim.

Clark: So if I proposed while bleeding I could propose before telling you.

Lois: No. Anyway, you could have told me while I was in your arms while going to look at your ship in Smallville.

Clark: But I am Clark first, so I wanted to tell you as Clark.

Lois: How can you be Clark first when you grew up on Krypton and just stole Clark's identity not even a year ago.

Clark: I'll explain later, but right now there's a volcano going off in Hawaii that I have to divert.

More kissing. We seem to have just broken the canon season one kiss record in this scene.

Canon Lois: That is far too easy.

Canon Clark: and whose fault is that?

Canon Lois: Your's lunkhead. If you had kissed me in the supply closet, instead of turning me over to Toni Taylor. Or drawn me in for a kiss just after Trask got shot. Or actually kissed me when I was under he influence of Revenege. Or insisted on dancing with meinstead of going off with Linda. Or lots of other times probably too, we could have kissed a lot more.

more touching.

Lois: Oh, that's why he is being so nice. He is trying to make up for the offense of reading the Metropolis Star.

Lois: You taste better than chocolate.

Yes, Clark rescuted Lois.

Lois: I would have saved myself first.

Chocalte binging? What?

Lois: When we go camping, will just have bananas. now she can have a chocolate wedding cake.

Lois: I have no plan of marrying anyone.

more touching.

they'll have a fun night, without complicating discussions.

Lois: I should have flirted with him more.

What about Chuckie?

Clark: You only have to do that when you're undercover.

more kissing.

Lois: Why couldn't he have slipped it into my pocket, specifically my back pocket.

Clark: Because you were showing me your good lingerie.

Lois: Only in my day dream, not reality.

Clark: Okay, because I wanted to avoid anything close to the positions we had while eating spaghetti last September.

Lois: But those were so fun Chuckie.

Lois: Clark you don't have to get me things to get my kisses.

Clark: I will still anyway.

Lois: Can you put it under my bra for me Clark.

We were hoping she would lift up her blouse on the other side.

Clark: Not me, I would have been too tempted to test what would activate the curse then.

Yes, more kissing.

Lois: If I'd know his hand would be drawn to where I put the phone, I might have put it on the other end of my shirt.

Oh, you meant that kind of cheek.

Yes, more touching.

Why did she have to ruin things?

Clark: I'm glad she did, otherwise we would have come close to finding out if the curse applies.

I think you just want to say "threw him against an inceberg".

It almost seems that in her extasy she called him by the wrong name.

Lois: You can help me clean my lingerie.

Yeah, more touching.

Lois: Don't even try going there, big boy.

Clark: Only the kind you haven't tasted yet.

Lois: Oh, I've tasted it, just not told you fully about it.

Clark: What?

Lois: I'll have to tell you about what happned in the hospital another time.

Clark: We could do it without you using your mouth.

I try.

Cat: Lois the next time you play trivial pursuit with Clark, you should do it the way I do with Phil.

Lois: There is only one guy I want to wow, and it doesn't matter what I wear to do it. I just have to take it off in the right way.

Exactly. There is no good way to explain what Canon Lois did in getting engaged to Luthor. She came off as a sniveling idiot, especially with how she just totally accepted Luthor's pronouncement that the DP was a total loss. Also her who "I love Clark, but I am still going to kiss Luthor on the lips" was pretty awful.

And I thought you were going to point out this Clark, unlike canon Clark, is not an extremely patient man.

He's tried to kill her boyfriend on multiple occasions, and she is surprised he is rude?

She has often seemed far too quick to defend his actions in the matter.

It is much better when Luthor is made to pay for his crimes. Death is the easy way out. Although if Clark had let Luthor die in "The Phoenix" we would maybe have been spared the wedding Aarghh.

I'd forgotten that he spoke Italian to her then.

Clark: Us delivery guys would love it though.

I've been told Italian pizza is not any good, so I'm not sure that is really a good idea.

I think it seemed more intimate when I was imagining Clark made it for her.

Lois: Because none of your stories have yet been this delicious. Although didn't I moan during the production phase of your Metro Club story.

chelo: Thanks for reading and stopping by to

I was really worried about the canoli joke, because I wasn't sure if it stepped over the line or not. My betas assured me that since Lois was only talking about pastries or cookies there wasn't anything to worry about.

-- Continuation of response to John's FDK --

MORE?

But he didn't make it; he only bought it. Don't worry, he'll cook for her again sometime, I'm sure.

LEX: No, I'm sorry, Mr. Kent. I'm not hiring a new personal chef at the moment.

Not of all 'rich men', just this guy. Lex doesn't seem like the type of person to ever enjoy eating pizza.

LEX: /holding a fork and knife/ What do you mean I have to use my *hands*?

Luckily, this Clark never used his super powers to pad his or Lana's lifestyle.

But they are a charity event AND he's dressed as Superman.

CLARK: So, in a way, you could describe it as an "emergency".

Wouldn't it be better to have Lex think it repels him from Lois?

At times, he does.

CANON CLARK: Oh, shut up! I still can make love to her and you can't.

CANON LOIS: Want to bet on that?

-- Continuation of response to John's FDK --

See, you can teach an old Kryptonian new tricks.

CLARK: Who are you calling old?

So, are you saying that Lois wore her sexy lingerie and wandered around in her apartment, when she knew Lex was watching her every move? And, then, she went down her hall to throw out her trash without covering up?

Hey, two out of three of those things would woo me!

Yes. Aren't they basically a rolled cookie filled with frosting? (only better than that.)

Resisting threesome joke... resisting.

Okay.

CLARK: Hey, you're the one who mentioned Lex.

Vanilla cream?

Just not his?

LOIS: We're still talking cookies, right?

CLARK: They serve canoli at the hospital?

LOIS: Why would I want to waste a perfectly good canoli by sticking it in your ear?

You mean 'strip trivial pursuit'.
PHIL: Strangely enough, she starts off behind and then for some reason, I lose the ability to concentrate and she ends up winning.
CAT:

She's undercover playing his girlfriend. As long as he doesn't hand her over to the 'guys' for a test drive, she'll allow bending of the rules.

I'm going to have to agree with you there.

CLARK: /holds out exasperated hand to beautiful woman he loves, to whom he has not yet made love, as exhibit 'A'/ I'd say I've been VERY patient.

But not right in front of her face and in public!

LEX: Only because she loves me.
CLARK: I'm going to hurl.
LOIS: Right there with you, buddy.

But he dies so well... come on, one more for the captive audience, huh, Lex?
LEX: Isn't three times enough?

LOIS: So, I should tip the Chinese food and Indian food and Mexican food delivery guys in the same manner?

/a few days later a new note is slipped under Lois's door/

CARLO'S GOES INTERNATIONAL!

59 Million Italians like it. It's different from U.S. pizza, but I'm sure Clark knows better than to order the ones with the poached egg on top (that one surprised me).

CLARK: I prefer to cook in front of Lois.

CLARK: I concede that point.
LOIS:

I forgot about Luthor having Lois's apartment under surveillance.

I was thinking they were more like crepes, but I might be wrong. I guess "cookie" probably does work. I normally think of chocolate-chip cookies though.

I guess I should have been more clear. Did we learn about Clark binging on chocolate while under amnesia?

Lois: Well, he did clearly overcome another one of his fears during that time.


Is that what Chucky is? I wondered why my co-teacher reacted the way she did when the five-year-olds in our class mentioned watching Chucky.

Meow!
CAT: Well, Lois could always just ask Clark about whether the interior decoration is done in matching colors.

Yes, but couldn’t servicing Metropolis’s eternal Man of the Year be considered a community service?

maybe if she asked Denny if he knows some kid that goes by the name of ‘Mouse’?



Also ,Lois would probably first blow the brains out of the editor and then herself before doing those.

Well…they do have to get married before she starts showing or she couldn’t be wearing white. And what a scandal that would be.

LEX: Yes, Ellen, I did pay a grand for your daughter’s attentions.

What about instead someone locking Lex up with an amorous psychopath?

/Imagines voice of Super Mario/

And now we replace him with a 60 y/o heavy set man with gray hair.

Michael

Just another one of Lois's everyday annoyances.

I love to bake, but I've never tried to make cannoli, though. From my recollection, they are wafer thin cookie, which are rolled around a manicotti mold (a piece of metal tubing) when hot from the oven. So when they cool the "cookie" part is hard and brittle as dried uncooked pasta. Then the filling is piped inside. /Sounds like a lot of work to basically eat a bunch of gift-wrapped filling, to me./

I'm also a big fan of Chocolate Chip Cookies. My favorite cookie recipe book is called 100 (or 101?) Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes. Lately, I've been experimenting with sugar thumbprint cookies with a dollip of raspberry jam. Yummy!

Yes, my kids live a rough life.

When he arrived at the DP, he did a taste test of donuts. Later on, he told Lois he really craving chocolate, and even searches his apartment for cookies. Binging for you and me is a bit different than how Clark would describe his own binging for chocolate.

CLARK: I did?

Darth Michael: I meant to get to this yesterday, but between two sick kids and doing taxes I'm glad you liked it.

Well, I have made some positive progress. One of the girls used to want to be Catwoman all the time, but now I have convinced her instead that she wants to be Ultrawoman. I also told them that Superwoman is Lois Kent. Take that stupid makers of the New 52 and undoing the Lois/Clark marriage for now. They brought up Superwoman just because I was drawing Superman.

The girl who had me draw Ultrawoman for her did insist this was so everyone would know she is Ultrawoman.

Well, I must applaud your kindergartners for going straight to looking for Super "Woman" and not Super "Girl" (completely different person). Yes, Ultra Woman is a much better role model for young girls that a cat burglar, a definite improvement.

You mean, because he could feel obligated to employ the same measures to her, too?





Oops as in he became Banta poodoo?

Lex needs to give her more clues. She’s not that good with the subtle ones.

Oops?

She was? When was that?

Michael