Carol, this was good... I liked seeing inside Clark's head through this whole process... but I really did want to see his reaction to Lois's little comment smile Maybe a third story, called Altered Reality? <g> Or something, just to reflect the new facts on the ground.

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K