Summary: What if all the worst parts of your personality came together to lead you to the right decision, but for all the wrong reasons? When Clark gets a tip that's too hot for him to handle, he has to make a decision that could melt his relationship with Lois into lava. This is a light story, with a little swath of angst, a little dash of WAFFY-ness and a LOT of silly choices that the original series probably could have gotten away with in the 90's, but television really couldn't get away with now. (We'll see if this fic can get away with it.)
tl;dr: There's a proposal, and possibly some bad decisions.
A/N:This adjusts the show's timeline in Barbarians at the Planet. Here, Luthor never buys the Daily Planet. The sequence here is that Luthor blows up the Planet, then proposes, not the other way around.
This was supposed to be a 5 page story maximum, a series of clipped vignette scenes with the same basic plot and absolutely no consequences (sort of like if Tank wrote happy endings). But I can't manage to write something less than 50 pages these days, and that style of comedy eludes me. So this is just a terribly failed writing exercise.
But, like One More Chance, it's one of those little throw-away pieces living on my hard drive. The holiday season brings chaos, so in the spirit of seasons changing and chaos erupting whether we are planning for it or not, I hope you found a little enjoyment in this one.
This chapter lives
here.
Huge thanks to 90stvfangirl and CalliopeWayne for such kind and helpful beta work! Any errors are mine, as I have a habit of editing even after the betas have done their excellent supportive work.
Thanks in advance for any feedback - every comment is fuel for another page of another story.
Thanks for reading!
