My personal favorite line was about how it took time and effort to scare away a new partner -- speaks the voice of experience, Lois? goofy

This story is obviously getting a lot more serious. I just hope Lois will remember the good things about Clark while she's learning the bad ones...

Oh, and I liked the way Clark managed to communicate to Lois that he wasn't going to gossip about her personal life, and that he had not recognized her name before. I'm guessing he had a little time in Perry's office to start to assimilate the shock.

If you wanted to create a sense of fascinated dread, there at the end, well... congratulations, it worked! <g> I'm simultaneously dying to and afraid of learning more about Clark's past. Whatever it is, it can't be good. frown

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