The sixth time, she took her partner’s name off the by-line and sent it off to the city desk editor.
Lois, nooo!!!
That made her mad. “Final copy! You didn’t even see the first copy.”
[...]
He’d given up too easily, and even that irritated her.
Lois, honey, you're really stressed out... Someone bring this woman some oolong tea!
Her patience had lasted through five rescues.
That line made me laugh out loud.
He didn’t need to pull her down with him, forcing her to cover for him and do the work they were both supposed to be doing just because he had decided to do something else with his time. It wasn’t up to her to make this life he’d chosen work for him—especially since he hadn’t asked her for her help.
I was about to point out that this was his way of trusting her, but yes, since he hadn’t asked her for her help...
Had she been that wrong about their friendship?
[...] blinking back tears even as she gifted him an excuse to leave so that he wouldn’t have to come up with one.
Oh, she's so sad. I wish she could face that feeling instead of hiding it behind anger, that would make things easier to work out.
The look he gave her in return had lost all the heat of their argument, but had doubled in intensity.
I wonder if he suspects something. Hmm... I don't think so.
He looked at her incredulously. “How do you tell somebody something like that?”
How about "I am Superman"?
“All that stuff you said. You’ve been lying to Clark about knowing he’s, you know, who he is, that he, er— delivers pizzas in his spare time. When you tell him you’ve been keeping it from him, are you going to tell him that you trust him and he’s your best friend and all that?”
Come on, Jimmy. That would ruin all the drama.
“He can’t apologize if you don’t give him the chance,” he considered, shrugging.
“If he’d just tell me, he’d have a chance,” she pointed out angrily.
“If you’d tell him, you’d give him one,” Jimmy said back.
Jimmy is right, especially because Clark could never tell Lois his secret with her acting so strangely lately. At the same time, I undertand Lois too, because taking that first step means letting go of your pride, and that's genuinely very difficult.
She added his name back to the byline, fingers pressing softly on the keys that spelled out this name.
Lane and Kent.
Her eyes lingered over their names for a moment.
Then she briskly saved the file and submitted it back into her editor’s queue.
Yessss!!! *sighs in relief*
Lois just wasn’t the patient type.
She needed a new plan.
I wonder if Lois realized that her own attitude doesn't exactly seem very receptive to a secret, and now she's going to change drastically. Maybe she'll turn into an unusually sweet and gentle version of herself that Clark will find just as strange! That would be funny - well, assuming it doesn't end up being sad in some way LOL.
I'm looking forward to the next part of the series
