I've read a lot of different stories based on TOGOM. But honestly this is one of the best. Thank you so much!
“No,” she said, shaking her head. “No. It’s not too late. You’re here. You’re alive. We can find a way.”
“How, Lois? How? How are we going to explain to a room full of people that what they think they saw never happened. He shot me at point blank range. It was too close to miss. There were three shots. They dragged me out. It’s all over the news. There’s no fixing this. I spent all morning rehashing this with my parents. There’s no way to spin this. Clark Kent is dead.”
Yes there is a way, if you two work together! Clark, don't be such a lunkhead!
“Or you were wearing a bulletproof vest!”
Clark’s jaw dropped.
“We’re trying to come up with all these crazy explanations of how you recovered, when the obvious answer is that you were never shot. There was no blood. No one examined you. You can say you passed out from the shock. Or maybe you were pretending intentionally. Maybe you thought it was safer for me if you played dead. Maybe you met up with Superman after they dumped you, and the two of you…did something?”
Oh man, this is so much better than Dr. Hamilton cloning him! Of course mild-mannered Clark would wear a bullet-proof vest! It would make perfect sense for him to lay low until the heat wore off. Yes!
Tomorrow they could worry about writing the details of his return and hashing out the details of their past and future. Tonight she just wanted to sleep in his arms safe in the knowledge that he was alive, and he loved her, and they had all the time they needed to get things right.
That's my idea of a happy ending!
