Gaaaahhh! Paul!!!! Can I strangle him?
But what a great chapter! So Donny Landover is smart enough to realize that the football players will ruin themselves for real if they hurt Lois.
Clark looked on in disbelief. If he’d found her a moment later or been unable to distract the football players by shaking the building... He shuttered to think what the consequences might have been.
Lois and Molly and the football players thought it was an earthquake, but it was just Clark shaking the building!
(By the way, it should be "shuddered".)
Then they both fell silent as the tension between them seemed to rise. Lois saw Charlie’s eyes flick down to her lips and her mouth parted slightly, her heart rate picking up in anticipation. Was this it? Was he finally going to kiss her?
“Well, anyway... Well, I should...” Charlie said, backing towards the door.
“Right,” Lois said, trying to quash her disappointment.
Aww...
Satisfied with his reasoning, he again sat down in the machine, dropping some more of his gold into the fuel input valve and pushed the power button.
Sparks were flying almost immediately. Jumping from the machine, he blew cold air over the panel. The sounds of life coming from the machine died almost instantly. He sank down onto the side of the bed, stared at the frozen panel on the now dead machine and felt... almost relieved.
Ha! Clark can't go back! I can understand that he is 'almost' relieved!
The next few days developed into something of a pattern. Clark used the mornings while Lois was in class to continue his research into time travel.
He’d tried reading Einstein’s theoretical writings on the subject. But without a science background, the information had been hard going. And in the end, he had to say that he still didn’t really understand what he’d read.
Sorry to break it to you, Clark, but... Einstein would have said that time travel is impossible! Sorry!
“Dr. Brown, please. If someone were stuck in the past, how would you advise them to get home?” Clark had asked.
Brown had simply muttered something incomprehensible about lightning, DeLorean sports cars and clock towers.
So that's what it takes to travel in time! Start with a DeLorean sports car! Don't forget to drive by a clock tower... how about Big Ben?
Lois glanced over at Charlie as the two of them walked up the steps to the coroner’s office. So far the investigation wasn’t going nearly as well as she’d hoped. On the other hand, she wasn’t sure that she didn’t sort of relish the time it was taking. After all, once it was over, would Charlie leave? Was that why he’d stayed so long in 1987 - because he wanted to help her with this investigation. Her heart ached at the thought of losing him. How was it that she’d managed to become so attached to him in just a week?
Adorable! Lois expects "Charlie" to go home soon! She doesn't know that he isn't able to.
And they know about Angelina Wesley, and Lois wrote a great article about it, and that creep Paul rejected it. Why? Could
he be involved in the GHB case himself?
Lois, now is the time to take this piece of investigative journalism to - well, why not to the Daily Planet?
Ann
