Sue, you are spoiling us rotten with all these great short stories!

Lex's obsession with Lois does come in handy once in a while!

I like this. Clark loves Lois, but he still accepts that she can be such a pain and he doesn't necessarily want to provoke that side of her personality.

Yes, tell her!

You write Lois so well!

!!!!!

Great ending. Great story. Thank you, Sue!

Sue, you have this little obsession with paint-off-wall scorching. 'Fess up -- you get kickbacks from contractors, don't you?


Sweet little revelation. Thanks for sharing -- I needed something waffy. (I have a code in by node. )

Okay, Sue, before I give you any fdk, I first have to say...

Rivka "I have a code in my node" - HAH! That totally cracked me up. I had to laugh out loud at that one. Of course, not laughing at you, laughing... uh... with you? Sorry! Take some N-Quil and get some sleep. Poor thing.

Okay... now...

Sue, I love this - very nice:

Wonderful banter.

That line cracked me up.

Okay, even though we know that Clark will be okay - that regular bullets can't hurt him - this still tugged at my heart strings... I could feel Lois's fear (what if he wasn't telling the truth?)

And this? I just LOVED this! Lois trying so hard to get in a good position and Clark helping her, telling her to lift up and he would do the rest. He slipped his arm around her and held her against him. <DJ melts into a waffy puddle>

Now... NOW I'm going to tell on you. FoLCs, I saw this story way back in October when she first started it. And I'm here to tell you that she changed it. It was going to be much longer - with a scene that felt like it could have come straight out of North by Northwest (Cary Grant movie) - you know, when they are up on top of mount Rushmore in that eclectic, architectural looking house/cabin? Mmmm, I really liked it. But Sue decided to take the story a different direction - which was fine! Don't get me wrong! I totally LOVED this story as it is.

But what I'm trying to do is to start a petition to get her to incorporate the scene she originally cut, into a different story. (It was a revelation scene too, and Lois didn't really believe Clark... and oh, I'd better not say any more).

So, Sue, here's your beta, voicing her "official" petition for this "cut scene" to make it into another story.

<DJ ducks and waits for the impending beating to come later - when the guards aren't watching...>

Love ya Sue.

-- MR

omg, omg, omg...!!! A story by Sue!

/me tries to relax. Sorry, can't help it, I just get so excited when I see you posting something. Sue, you could post the phone book and I would read it. (especially if you throw in Clark's phone number in there... cause, you know... *lol*)

I savored every last line of this. It's just so cute and fun and... awww!

Yay!

Yay! Suefic!

And that's pretty much all my brain will come up with at the moment. Perhaps later, I'll be able to find something more coherent to say.

One thing this story reminds me is to never be a bad guy. Backstab or be backstabbed. Yikes, what a lide/death.

DJ quoted this and I can't help but quote it myself. I remember reading the scene and thinking about the fear Lois must feel. She was just laughing some minutes ago when Clark had confessed the alter ego thing to her, the whole thing must seem incredibly surreal. Either way, it felt like such a tense, frightening moment. Possibly my favorite part of the fic, I love the physicality of it too--the detail of how he covers her cheek with his hand. I'm reminded of what some people say that in intense moments we take refuge in what's concrete--for me it's how she hears him breathing.

*sigh* So nice.

A great fic as always, Sue.

Love this. Tell her, tell her, tell her….

Oh, that’s good. She laughed.

Wow, great revelation. Excellent banter, as usual. And how can you not love the concept of Lois and Clark trapped together within close proximity of one another for an extended period of time? Hee!

Have you seen the movie Out of Sight by any chance?

Oh, my, you really did it again.

My favourite part was Lois' reaction to Clark's revelation. I'd never have been able to come up with this.

Of course, there's still the problem of Nigel and Lex to be solved... Please?

Ok, this totally cracked me up! I have to gather some composure before I start the rest of my night with people, and it's going to take a minute.

But seriously, I agree. Sue could post the assembly manual to my telescope, and it would be the best goshdarn booklet ever.

Some quick favs:
That was pretty funny! <g> It was the last reaction from her I expected myself! Poor Clark.

Awww. That's so cute.

And that's so *Lois.*

JD

hehe! believe me, it took me a few minutes to stop laughing so I could actually type that. lol!

Imagine... if Sue wrote user manuals, you wouldn't have to tell people to RTFM - they'd actually do it on their own. Heck, the manuals would make the best-seller's list.

I find it interesting that they remember the places they've shared meals not by the food they ate but the conversations (or conflicts) that took place. That, in a nutshell, is so very Lois that I laughed at this as much as I laughed at Lois's initial reaction to Clark's confession.

I find it a little surprising that Lois, who thought about what she now knows was not Clark's death and miraculous ressurection, didn't call him on his allowing her to think he was dead. Of course, we don't know what they talked about as he flew her back to Metropolis.

This is a most original premise, that Clark would reveal his secret to Lois to keep her from doing something that almost surely would get her killed. He allows them to be placed in an untenable situation by keeping his dual identity secret, and Lois doesn't explode all over him for it. Then, there is that flight, and the conversation afterward...

Adorable! Laura

Loved it Laura. You know I'm a sucker for the revelations where Lois doen't get too mad.

This made me laugh so hard I almost cried. If only that were true! It would be much less dull to write (or read) SOP's, training plans and all the freakin' documentation required for changes to the system if I was allowed spice it up a bit.

Rivka - I hope you're feeling better. I've been laid up myself the past couple of days with a stomach bug. Silly girl! Is George Clooney in that movie? Yes? Then I definitely saw it. I vaguely remember the trunk scene - mostly I remember the love scene shown in flashbacks. That was HOT and original! DJ, I can't believe you haven't beaten me to a pulp yet. I only wheedled you into co-writing with me and then left you hanging for days without a word.

Thanks to everyone who's posted feedback. When I finally dragged myself out of bed it was beyond lovely to find your words waiting for me.

If they saw how good your writing is, I bet they'd let you spice up those manuals.

Hope you are feeling better....

Hah! As if! I was worried about you though (I tend to be the paranoid type ) not because I hadn't received anything from you but because I hadn't even seen you reply to your fdk yet. I knew something was wrong.

<hugs>

New Sue's fic! Woohoo!

Awwwwww... So WAFFy! Love it!

The revelation scene was priceless. Well, all of Sue's revelation scenes are incredibly awesome. They could be gathered up in a book: "Manual of Creative Revelations" by Sue S.

LOL! I sorry about your stomach bug. I hope you get better soon.

Andreia

Yay! Another Sue story and it was totally sweet!

Jackie

Like they all already said: great story, great ending but... where did the kiss go??????? :p

So here I am, coming late to the game again. I sat down to read this a few days ago and was in such a terrible mood that I had to stop because I wasn’t enjoying it and was only focusing on my problems. So I’m coming back now to leave you some wonderful fdk on a wonderful story now that I can fully enjoy it. ^_^

No, but I’m sure Sue is making you do it so she can make them cuddle. ^_~

Poor Lois, she has no clue just how safe she is. Sometimes you just wanna kick Clark for making her go through so much just because of his secret. It isn’t till I really think about situations like this, that I tend to take Lois’ side and think Clark is a big jerk. Most of the time I take his because we the reader/watchers have been in on the secret the whole time, but moments like this when I contemplate just how terrified I would be in her place. I think I might be a little ticked later once I remembered moments like this that he hadn’t told me he could yank me out of danger.

But then again… Lois seems to get a thrill out of danger. You would almost think that if she knew he was superman she might put herself into more danger because she knows he would save her. Kinda like a twisted thrill ride. Anyway… ending my ramble now.

Torture him a bit Lois! ^_^ Make him think about what he is missing out on!

*grumbles* Cause he is a pansy boy sometimes and he makes us all want to strangle him… and then jump him and lick his mole off.

It’s so cute how he is afraid of her reaction one minute and the offended and pouty about it the next. Perfect reaction you wrote there. ^_^

Do it! Do it! I love the sexual tension when they fight. Haha.

It’s statements like this that make you want to just squeeze him and forgive him anything…

I like that he doesn’t keep count because it isn’t a matter of what she owes him or something he even thinks twice about. He does it because he cares about her and it is instinctive and something ingrained him to do and because he loves her.

Such a great little story Sue. I very much enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing it with us yet again and feeding your little minions. ^_~

Okay, Sue, the longer I wait the worse it will get... so, I've been drowning in work at school lately. This isn't a fun time of the year to be a teacher, believe me. And... I don't know if I should say this, but I will anyway... Okay. You know how Lois felt about other guys after she had met Clark? Whatever she might have been telling herself about Mister Greenjeans and the Hack from Nowheresville, the truth is, after she had met Clark, well, then all other guys were... not quite Clark. So. I came across the Clark of all revelation stories recently, CC Aiken's alternative ending to The Friends We'd Do For A Friend. And CC's story is so... so perfect, so funny, so sweet, so in character, so adorably ridiculous, so lovely... and it's nfic. And the actual revelation happens during, uh, a certain activity. Well... let me just say that after I had read CC's story I was not really in the mood for any other revelation piece, because I had already met the Clark of this genre, you know?

Okay... but that's like saying that once you have read a book you absolutely, totally liked, you don't have to read anything else for the rest of your life. Once you've heard a song you totally love, you won't need to listen to any other songs, ever.... It just doesn't work like that. So, just like Jojo, I needed to re-read this story in order to appreciate it. What makes your story glitter and shine to an LNC-ep-challenged person like me is your masterful way of writing Lois and Clark dialogue. All of it is perfect. Heck, even I, who have seen so little of the episodes, can totally hear Lois and Clark's voices. Consider this:

Isn't it so spot-on and perfect how they keep talking to each other and replying to each other's questions by asking a new question?

And when Lois finally makes a statement, instead of asking a new question, this is what she says:

Oh, so, so, so Lois!!!

And how totally perfect is this, where Lois seems to voice Clark's thoughts?

I have to confess something - No, I have to confess something - No, I'll go first! Is this Lois and Clark or is it Lois and Clark?

This is nowhere near as bad as when Clark proposed to Lois instead of telling her his secret. Talk about horrible timing! Lois's timing is at least slightly unfortunate. On the other hand, what she tells Clark is really erotic, too.

And oh, the way you show us how they - or at least Clark - is practically bursting with the need to tell Lois what he needs to tell her, and yet he keeps holding back, totally frightened of what will happen if he does tell her.

This, too, is so lovely - how the erotic tension is rising between them, how Clark is inching towards honesty with Lois, and how they keep answering questions by asking each other more questions.

But suddenly Lois says something that has a very good chance to make Clark confess:

She has a plan? Clark, your male pride, let alone your Superman-hood, requires that you inform her that you have a better plan than her.

Her plan is better? Come on, Clark. Now you need to tell her about yourself not only for her sake, but for your own as well!

Okay... inching towards revelation... inching... inching....

And we're there!!!

I love Lois's reaction. (And it reminds me at least a little of CC's story, which I'm still so full of....)

I liked CC-Clark's reaction to Lois's laughter better... sorry, Sue....

But this is totally vintage Sue again, the way Lois and Clark talk to each other.

And this is lovely.

I love how Lois is suddenly slightly in awe of Clark, now that he has turned himself into Superman right before her. And then nit-picking, stickler-for-detail Lois makes an appearance, solving the mystery about the temperature of some champagne and a supposedly broken light bulb that has been bothering her. I mean, now she is thinking about something like that! So Lois!!!

And this is another absolutely adorable detail - Lois is watching "their" car roll down a hill from the vantage point of Clark's sneakers, floating in the air, fifty feet above the ground.

I like the ending, too, although ultimately it doesn't speak to me as strongly as your other stories do. Why doesn't it? Is it simply because this story isn't nfic? Maybe, just maybe, my long years of frustration at the way Lois and Clark wouldn't become lovers somehow makes me feel this is one more story where they don't take that final step. Especially since I know what a master you are at writing precisely the kind of stories where they do. Remember, though, that if I ultimately didn't think that your story was really and truly Clark to me, the reason for this is probably that I'm simply not the right kind of Lois for your story.


Ann

Thanks for the well wishes - I almost feel human again now.

Andreia - I always get such a kick out of the fun animations you add to your FDK. I loved the bouncy smilie tossing hearts in the air. It reminded me of Lois in Pheremone, My Lovely.

Cris - sorry, no kiss. Like Terry, you can just imagine what they talked about (or did) on the flight home. <g>

JoJo! I was so happy to see you post that I don't care how late it was. I'm sorry things have been rough for you lately. I hope they're improving now. <hugs> You say that like it's a *bad* thing. You try going around for over a decade with the mental image of them tied up in a trunk together and see how desperate you are to have them cuddle! Yep. And once the initial shock wears off I'm sure she'll have a few choice words to say about it. But, like you said, then she'll just get into trouble on a more regular basis. I laughed so hard I snorted over this: Ramble away! That's great - "a twisted thrill ride". But most of my thoughts on that score are more fit for the nfic forum... Back off, sister! I've warned you before to leave the freckle alone. My thoughts *exactly*.

Ann, you just never run out of ways to needle me about writing more nfic, do you? <g> I hope you told CC all this! I haven't read the story (but I'll put it on that ever-lengthening list of must-reads). So what was his reaction? You didn't say so I'm left to wonder. Did he laugh with her? Walk away in a huff? It irritates me that, after the first couple of seasons, the writer's emasculated Clark and he didn't compete with Lois like he used to. Sure, you're dating/married, but grow a pair, buddy! On some level it *has* to bother him that she's always so smug and assured, especially when he knows that she's dead wrong in her assumptions.

Thanks to everyone who has left feedback. I really do appreciate it very, very, VERY much!

Hahaha, I'm glad I'm not the only one that was thinking the dirty thoughts when I said twisted thrill ride.


Lois throws herself off a building. Along comes Superman to rescue her.

Lois: Oh wow, that was a rush. It makes me wanna do naughty things.
Clark: Huh? What?
Lois: Make me ork Superman, make me ork!
Clark: You aren't quite right in the head are you Lois?
Lois: Don't talk to me about being crazy. You think you are two different people! That's okay... let's go make crazy babies together!

And this is why Jojo doesn't write nfic... *Cough* but I know a pretty lady who does...

Well, Lois didn't laugh at him because he said that he was Superman. When he said that to her, she simply slicked back his hair to see if he looked like Superman that way, and, well, he did. (After all, his hair, as well as the rest of him, was within very easy access to her right then. And he, incidentally, was too ecstatically happy to worry about what she thought about his being Superman.) What she laughed at was what she made him say during his, ummm, moment of ecstasy. He didn't walk away from her in a huff, since walking away would have taken a bit of extricating himself from her, but he did tell her that now he might have to leave Metropolis and possibly the Earth. Instead, the close proximity of her laughter-quivering body made him feel, uh, "up" to the task again. And then he made her feel totally exquisite and sort of repeat his incredible statement of silliness during her, ummmm, moment of hitting her personal bulls-eye. And then Perry and Jimmy started to break down the door....

Yes, I told CC, Sue.

Ann

Ann, you really must watch the eps. Really...

Yes, wouldn't it, Jojo?

Oh, what a delightful suggestion!!!

Ann

Had missed this story the first time.. just caught up with this on the archives.

Wow!! superb, lovely, and adorable.

Ditto here, just found it. What can I say? It was brilliant, just like the rest of your stories! Thanks for posting it!