Hi all!

I'm looking for a specific fic that I read (at least) a couple years ago. I believe it was set in first season, H.G. Wells decides to head off all of the hastles and kinda tricks L&C into getting married, shortly after they met. :p They both thought that they were the witnesses, at first.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

-Breanna

That should be First Night by Carol M.

/waves frantically
then
/jumps up and down clapping hands

Someone's actually looking for a fic of mine?!

Yes. That sounds like First Night.

In the interests of full disclosure, however, I must warn you I cringe repeatedly when reading it... .

Carol

Thanks!

Don't worry Carol, I've read it before... and apparently my mind wants to read it again because I can't seem to get it out of my head. :p

-Breanna

I'm not sure I read that one.

Sounds like the next thing on my list.

James

EDIT!!!

Tell me it doesn't end there! (ok, I admit it, I accidently cheated and read the last paragraph first. Sue me.)

The sequel is Valley of the Shadow .

At one point there was a sequel to that planned but that was YEARS ago [though I did actually find part of it recently], but I think there's enough closure with VotS that it's not necessary like it was with FN.

Technically, FN is a sequel to Chris H's 'Baby I Hardly Knew You' which is no longer on the archive but is not necessary to read. There were a few minor changes to it and most of it is quoted in flashbacks so...

Carol [who went and reread the last para of FN and sees where James was coming from ]

Ok... *phew* I was wondering why I couldn't find the 'prequel' this morning... I can't remember if I had read it the first time or not. Do you know why it is no longer available? How long was it?

-Breanna

The author was accused of plagiarism and found to have plagiarised some content of previous work. Her stories were removed from the Archive as a result as it was felt we couldn't take the risk that these had been fully or partly plagiarised also.

LabRat

Very little of BIHKY wasn't included - I think mainly Lois listening to a song at the end. Mainly as I'm not a big fan of songfic and that's essentially all that segment/flashback would have been. There were also enough minor changes [the gift exchange, calling Clark 'CJ' instead of 'Clark' and a couple other small things] to make it where you would still need the flashbacks, you know?

When the whole thing about Chris came out, I asked an admin [Pam?] and she said this particular story was not one of the ones that were being questioned but that all stories were being removed and that FN wasn't a problem at all.

I thought I had sent an updated file to Labby a long time ago with a revised A/N to clarify that, but it's quite possible I only thought about it .

When I read the fic, I thought it was just calling out for a sequel when they meet at the DP. Today, I would probably write my own 'prequel' through flashbacks or whatever, but this is actually the first fic I ever started and Chris was gracious with me and encouraged me to use hers as a jumping off point, approving all of the changes I wanted to make.

Thanks.
Carol

I have Baby, I Hardly New You on my harddrive. I keep all the stories I've read on my computer. If anyone wants to read it I can email it to you. I guess that is okay with the board?

*** Slight spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't read the sequel***


Carol... I loved First Night (again) ... but personally, I couldn't bring myself to read the sequel (don't remember if I had read it before). I am not very good with WHAM's of that nature... Poor L&C...

Awww.

I'm glad you loved it and yes it is a hard WHAM to deal with, but I like to think they come through it stronger, but I do understand completely the reluctance to read.

I did recently find what I had of the third story in the series, but that was right as I had a huge hard drive crash and when life got too busy to write and I lost touch with the fandom for a while. Right now there's too many others in my queue, but it's always possible...

Thanks again!
Carol

*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

Michael

Please write it! I recently reread 'First Night', but didn't go on to the sequel (too whammy for my liking - I especially disliked Ellen in that story), but I'd love to read more!

Carol, I have read First night and Valley of the Shadow so many times! I'll be so happy to read more about your Clark and Lois!

Simona
who is having a very hard time tiping with only her right hand, because her left hand (her writing hand!)is broken.

/staggers and falls over

Wow. I cringe so much when I read that. /cringes just thinking about it

It was my first real not-to-avoid-schoolwork-so-writing-something-for-fun fic.

I didn't much like Ellen in that fic either, but there was an explanation in III iirc.

Tell you what... I'll add it to the queue...

OTOH, OTOH Sequel [Nano], The-fic-that-shall-remain-nameless-but-I-love [CANNOT wait to do that one if I can come up with a secondary A plot for it]. Then in no particular order: VotS sequel, a couple other OTOH spinoffs, Building a Life [Learning to Love sequel]...

And an 'Assignment' fic here and there. Hmm... haven't done one of those in a while, should ponder that tomorrow since I've made some real progress on OTOH this weekend.

Thanks so much you guys!
Carol