Oooooh, such a sweet (yes, pun intended... ) story! I love it how Lois fights with herself and - having lost the battle - finds lots of sooo cute excuses for her behavior

Awww, and I'm soooo sorry for poor Clark

Really a great story
Loved the open ending

Thank you for pulling me away from my paper writing. I very much appreciate it .

Loved this! Very much! Loved her excuses for 'liberating' the chocolate. So very Lois.

And poor Clark.

Great revelation! Love it! Now go get Luthor!!!
Carol

Not being able to say no to chocolate and Superman,... that sounds about right

.. and am I crazy for thinking she's right??

Oh, and I loved this revelation, maybe this time Lois will actually listen to Clark about Luthor.

-Camy

*has a sudden craving for chocolate*

Lovely story, Lara. I specifically liked the revelation and Lois' declaration that chocolate shouldn't be kept around to go bad. So true. *g*

Saskia

Mmm, yay for doing chocolate a favor! I have to agree with Lois on that one. Cute revelation story, all around. And Clark was so brave for exposing his secret to her--but if there's one thing *he* can't say no to, it's Lois!

Yay, you posted! Leaving FDK as I read...

LOL! How very Lois.

We're onto you now, Megan, you want to send Lois to the loony bin so you can have Clark all to yourself!



Awww

*smirk*

Yay!!

This so rocked, Lara!

So nice, Lara

Lois sure wins big time - she and Clark will get the Luthor story that will win them a Kerth, of course; she finds out "The Secret", plus.... she gets chocolate. It doesn't get any better than that - at least on the gfic side

c.

Come on, Clark. Stick your tongue in her mouth and get evidence! And seriously, in a non-gutter-related comment, I love how you have her smile awkwardly, the way she pronounces "nothing," and then swallows the chocolate. It's SO Lois!

Ha, I may try that as an excuse next time I, uh, accidentally go to the Coach store. But I'm saving the purse before it goes out of style!

Awww, poor Clark!

I love your subtle description of Lex from Clark's point of view. It simply speaks volumes; as does our poor (hot) farmboy's sadness.

WOW!

Lara, you rock! Not only can you help my newspaper with the correct le/la usage for crepes, but you also can write! HELLA good, may I add! I love this! It's great how it presents two time elements without being overtly verbose. It's absolutely fantastic, so go turn on some Celine and do a victory dance!

Yes, I know:

Superb... loved the revelation scene especially Clark putting his glasses back in place to.. talk.

Smooth! Love the ending. You end it just before Lois ruins our sweet story with her response. So which does Clark get, the Lady or the Tiger?

Elisabeth

THAT is how it SHOULD have been! Nice job! Laura

Delightful but

They are just sitting there... and Lois is supposed not to touch?



Eating chocolate - who, me?

But it is hard to deny it when the treat is in your mouth...

And she had to swallow the whole thing without having time to savour it!

I sort of agree with her - you don't want to know what happened to a bar of chocolate with nuts that I had just forgotten in a drawer for three years... <insert green retching gremlin>

And the ending! Hah, what an ending! Tell me, Lara, is it possible to kill another person with chocolate? Maybe if you have a truffle with a soft tender kryptonite filling? Then again, I know why Clark put on his glasses again. When I was a kid there was a code of honour which said that you mustn't hit a guy with glasses!

Lovely! Hey, I'm ready for another piece of chocolate, Lara!

Ann

Hi Lara,

It might have taken you a little longer to reach your goal, but good things are worth waiting for ... and not just chocolate.

This was truly a little 'treat' of a story. Sweet and with just the right amount of tartness, and a wonderfully yummy finish.

Loved it.
Yours Jenni

I'm putting this on my to-read list for next week!

JD

"No'shing" - that says it all! I can see the look on her face so plainly.



I really, really love that this story has solid before-and-after line. The moment when everything changes always fascinates me because there's so much depth to explore. In this case, the chocolate scene shows how sweet and even innocent life was before compared to how it is after.

Great line.

I've always enjoyed matter-of-fact revelations, and this is a really good one. He's pretty much saying, "We don't have time for your histrionics, there's something important going on here, you can yell later, for now listen to me!" This is what he should have done in the show. And it's a great zinger of an ending!

This was a great little vignette, Lara.

I can always relate to chocolate-loving Lois and your/Lois's explanation that she was just *freeing* the chocolate: wonderful

I could so picture this. It reminded me of Lois eating Perry's last donut and then blaming Carl from Travel (was it?), who was out of town, unfortunately. Great.

awww - I find that reply smart and sweet and also a little sad ...

Gotta love straight-back-to-the-issue-at-hand Clark

All in all, this was such a cute little story. Thanks a lot for sharing

Eva

This was great, Lara! What a nice surprise. Thank you .

Caroline

awww! Thank you all so much!

I really appreciate all your comments - they totally made my day. Thank you!

Well, I haven't read it yet, but I LOVE the title. Truffles and Tribulations indeed. I love the Star Trek pun.

hehehe! I'm glad that someone caught on to that.

Tribbles (and tribulations?)! No, the Troubles with Tribbles (I think). Guess I should have picked it up. But that was never my favorite episode. There was not enough for Spock to do in it.



Spock experiencing transporter troubles, if not troubles with tribbles or truffles!

Ann

Ann, you're close enough. It's actually "Tribbles and Tribulations" an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- which, in fact, basically puts the cast of DS9 on the Enterprise, in the past, during the events of "The Trouble with Tribbles"

...and it's got Dax swooning over Spock. hehehe! Which totally reminded me that I used to have a *huge* crush on Mr. Spock when I was 6 years old. *giggles* (I also loved cmdr. Koenig, from Space 1999 -- I guess I was a sci-fi fan real early on. haha!)

The Trouble With Tribbles was the original Kirk and Spock episode - from 1967? Maybe, because I'm sitting here with "Star Trek: FotoNovel #3, The Trouble with Tribbles" in my hand. Copyright 1967, it says in the book. I had no idea about the Tribbles and Tribulations, however - I sort of dropped out of Star Trek after Spock was left behind.

And speaking about nothing, I googled "Spock" - and goodness, what pictures of some people's favorite Vulcan there appear to be out there!!!

Ann

Actually the name of the DS9 show was "Trials and Tribble-ations".

Me thinks Ann has a crush on Spock.

I used to have one on Kirk with Spock a close second - until I realized that the actors that played them were both older than my father.

In case you don't know, those 'guys' that played Spock and Kirk are the same age and will soon be 84.

Denny ... Denny Crane

IMDb gives his birth date as 1931

I never much cared for Kirk, but Denny Crane is hilarious (although I haven't seen much of this season.)

I'll just add again that I loved your story, Lara.

c.

Oh man.... you know, it's really bad when I can manage to mess up my Star Trek puns. *lol* Good thing my friends don't know - they'd shun me. hehehe!

84? No... 77. And notice that Bill Shatner was born in Montreal, just btw. *giggles* (oh and yeah... Denny Crane! hahaha! love him!)

Hmm... How very interesting. I'm sure I read some where a long time ago that he was born in 1924. But things change in Hollywood. But then, too, Nancy could have a faulty memory.

Hmmm... that reminds me of something I read sometime during the 1980s, "Nancy Reagan has turned 61 again".

Maybe the old Star Trek heroes used to be born in 1924, but nowadays they were born in 1931, so that they are 77 again?

(And I'm sorry if this is getting a bit silly... )

Ann

lol - but Shatner has always been pretty open about his age - with his early history in the Canadian theatre and TV business it was hard not to be, I guess. It's a pretty small world up here.

c.

I too think that the 1931 birth year is right. Nancy is right that both Shatner and Nimoy were born in the same year. And during a 2nd season episode, Kirk said at one point "I'm 34 years old", and I know that was pretty close to his right age. Shatner would actually have been a couple of years older, but not already in his forties by then.

I'm not a particular fan of DS9, but I did love that time travel episode, especially the reference to the Klingon head ridges (or, rather, lack of them...)

Getting off of ST and back to L&C - this was a lovely story, Lara. I can so picture Lois saving the chocolate. I loved the whole thing, including

Guess again, Lois! Terrific stuff!

Kathy

Thanks Kathy!

Ann - "she turned 61 again", really? LOL! I guess that's like me saying I'm 18 with 20 years of experience.

You know... all this talk about tribbles... I was on my way home tonight and I realized I should have called this "The Trouble with Truffles".... And I'm totally kicking myself, now. That would have been a much better pun. *sigh* That's what I get for writing stories at 2AM and coming up with titles at 3. *giggles*

No way. Trufflies and Tribulations is a way better title. It's close enough to trials and tribulations that it rolls off the tongue.

Elisabeth

I agree. Truffles and Tribulations is a way better title.

Hmm... I guess Shatner and Nimoy are older than my mom not my dad. Either way, I find that kind of weird...


Feedback (Real feedback)...

What a great line! I love this!!

I’ll remember that the next time I’m tempted by chocolate.

I won’t tell you what I’m thinking.

Aww... He’s so sweet.

That’s got to be one of the best revelations I’ve read. I love this story!!!

*giggles* OK, I won't change it, then.

Nancy -- about that "chocolate and Superman" line, believe me when I say I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for the comments! Really made my morning!

And thanks again to everyone. I can't begin to tell you how happy it's made me to read your comments.

ok... I know I'm posting way way late... but Lara, PLEASE say you are continuing this! :p

Hi all!

-Breanna

Just to settle the Star Trek argument...

One of my prized possessions is a laserdisc (1) called Triple Tribble Trouble, which has all THREE (and yes, there were three) Star Trek tribble episodes on it. I just checked the sleeve to get the correct episode titles:

Side one has The Trouble With Tribbles and the first half of More Tribbles, More Troubles, the one everybody forgets - one of the animated episodes. It's OK, but not as good as its predecessor. Side two has the remainder of the animated episode and the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations - note the hyphen.

As far as I know there has never been a DVD release, which is very odd.

(1) 12" double sided optical disk, looks like a giant CD, predecessor of DVDs, holds 45 minutes video per side. I got into them when they were just going out of use and it was possible to buy the disks incredibly cheaply. Still have a hundred or so around, though I'm gradually replacing the better ones with DVDs where available.


Later - just checked Wikipedia and there are apparently tribbles visible in the bar scene of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and the evacuation scene of Star Trek Generations. Weird, considering they're still regarded as pests. They also turn up very briefly in an episode of Enterprise

Oh, right, there was a TAS episode with Tribbles. I'd definitely forgotten about that. Thanks for the info, Marcus!

...as for Tribbles popping up everywhere, at the rate they reproduce, I'm not surprised, really. *giggles* Oh, look! There's even one in my office:



Breanna - thank you for the comments! I'm not really sure how I could continue this, honestly. How about:

~.~.~

"Wait," Lois said, shaking her head. She tore open the small packet she held. Taking a truffle from it, she raised her hand to Clark's mouth. On his questioning look, she replied simply, "Open up."

He obliged, letting her feed him the chocolate, though his expression remained one of puzzlement.

"Chocolate and Superman," Lois explained with a grin, "now, you're completely irresistible."

~ The End? ~