Chapter 5(Until otherwise noted in the synopsis, canon Lois will be referred to as her secret identity name ‘Lucy El’ or ‘Kal’s Lois’ and alt-Lois will be referred to just as ‘Lois.’)
Alt-Clark made love to his Lois and instantly fell head-over-heels in love with this exquisite, long-haired, blind beauty. Unfortunately, Lois was technically Lex Luthor’s wife. Clark, being Superman, could not ruin his wholesome image by having it known that he had an affair / relationship with another man’s wife. After making her breakfast and asking his Lois not to tell anyone else about them, Superman returned to Singapore to help with search and rescue after the devastation caused by the cyclone.
Due to her blindness and a misunderstanding during her rescue, Lois never learned her hero’s name. She decided to call him Mr. Amazing.
Left alone in the Smallville farmhouse, Lois decided to check in with Perry at the
Daily Planet. It was only after telephoning the newspaper that Lois realized that Perry was now the mayor of Metropolis. She talked to Barry Balson (Superman beat reporter) about her rescue from Lex Luthor. Not knowing that her hero was already a household name, she told Barry all about this flying hero who had rescued her. Cat Grant, who had been listening in on the conversation, gleefully informed Lois that if she wanted her job back at the
Planet, Lois would need to prove she still had it by digging up new information on their resident alien Superman (Lois’s hero) and his girlfriend Ultra Woman.
Humiliated and confused by her new lover (Mr. Amazing), Lois contacted Perry at the Mayor’s office. Within moments of speaking with her, Perry easily wormed it out of Lois about her new intimate relationship with Superman (Perry – already in on Clark’s love for this Lois – was a trustworthy confidant). Lois learned from Perry that indeed Superman was from another planet, that he had dated a woman named Ultra Woman (in the past), and that he had a range of interesting and super abilities. Perry also informed her that Lois could not expect to have a future relationship with Superman, as he was an international hero and could not survive the public scrutiny of an affair with a married woman. What Perry, Cat, and Barry all failed to mention to Lois – and what everyone already knew – was that Superman was also Clark Kent.
When Superman returned to the Smallville house after sundown in Singapore, Lois greeted him more affectionately than he had ever known. She then informed him that once they returned to Metropolis, they could no longer be an item for it would certainly harm his standing as a hero. Her understanding of his situation made Superman love her even more as he sadly agreed with her. They spent one last afternoon making love. But she did not inform him that she had learned of his identity as Superman – the world’s hero. He thought she was still blissfully unaware of anything about him.
Clark returned to Metropolis to make sure Lois’s apartment was safe for her arrival and bumped into Lucy, who had come back early from her trip to the Kents’ farm. They decided that it would be best – since Lois was blind and needed some assistance – for the two Loises to share the apartment and for homeless Sam to move in with Clark. Lucy guessed correctly that more had happened between Clark and his Lois than he let on. He asked her not to say anything to anyone for the good of Superman’s reputation.
Superman flew Lois to her apartment for a private greeting party. The whole ‘find Lois’ gang was there – her father, Perry White, James Olsen and Lucy. Lois kissed Superman’s cheek and let him know that she knew he was Superman. To Clark it felt like she had been lying to him as he still thought she had known nothing about him, even his moniker. Lucy tried to tell him that Lois was just getting him back for not telling him who he was, but the Man of Steel had already disappeared out the window. Lois asked about Clark Kent and was told that he had been at the gathering, but had left early.
After midnight, Superman returned only to be denied entrance into Lois’s room by Lucy, who thought she was protecting both Lois and Clark from the scandal their relationship would cause. Lucy argued with him about not revealing his true identity to his Lois, but Superman – after almost a year of every part of his life under a microscope – loved that Lois had accepted him without even a name. Instead of helping, Lucy just created a wedge between herself and the lovers. Clark was angry at Lucy for once again being right. And Lois was angry at Lucy for sticking her nose where it didn’t belong, as Lois had no plans on letting her Mr. Amazing go so easily.
Meanwhile back in Lucy’s home dimension, her husband returned to the Kent Farm in hopes of seeing his future pregnant wife again. Upon his arrival, his mother told him that Lois had not only left, but she was truly the other Clark’s Lois, who was unable to see her Clark due to still being married to Lex Luthor.
Back in the alternate dimension, Lex Luthor contacted alt-Clark the Monday morning before Christmas, informing Clark that he not only wanted his wife back but that he would drag Clark and Superman’s name through the mud to get her back, if need be. Acting editor Cat Grant made a
Daily Planet edict that no one was to tell Lois Lane of Superman’s true identity, so that ‘the best investigative reporter in Metropolis’ could figure it out on her own, or Cat would demote or fire them.
Caught between a rock-and-a-hard-place, Clark went to introduce his Clark Kent self to his Lois, wondering if she would recognize either his touch or voice as Superman. Lois felt something, but did not tie it to her Mr. Amazing. He also realized he could see Lois as Clark Kent – as friends – as long as Lois continued to not know he was also Superman. Meanwhile, Sam was becoming more and more suspicious that something had happened between his daughter and the ‘tights-wearing-freak.’ Then Lucy and Sam had Lois tell them about how Lex blinded her in hopes of discovering a cure. It turned out that Lois was blinded in the same manner and by the same men who had blinded Superman in Lucy’s dimension (“The Eyes Have It.”) Lucy of course knew how to reverse the blindness because of how she had cured her own Superman.
That afternoon Lois – now cured of her blindness – barged into the bullpen and demanded that Clark Kent give her back her stuff, which Lucy had told her that Clark had cleared out of her apartment before she had moved in. While at the
Daily Planet, Lois also ran into her step-son Jaxon Xavier – who was working for the paper’s website and also in research – and who promptly contacted his father to tell Lex of Lola Dane’s whereabouts. Instead of waiting around to convince him otherwise, Lois had Clark take her back to her secure apartment. On the trip there, Clark mistakenly mentioned to her that he had a ‘secret girlfriend’ – namely, Lois herself.
On Christmas Eve morning on the way to work, Lucy – mistaken for Lola Dane Luthor (AKA alt-Lois) – was abducted by Lex Luthor and his thugs. She was able to get one “help Superman” out before her mouth was taped shut. Not knowing what Lex Luthor would do if he discovered her condition, Lucy decided to use the extra strength she had developed with her ‘super’ pregnancy to get away. Lex Luthor escaped, because Lucy promptly passed out once she was in Superman’s awaiting arms.
Superman flew Lucy back to the apartment and to Sam for an examination, where she was diagnosed with higher than normal blood pressure. Dr. Lane directed her to remain on bed rest. Lois was supposed to meet for a photo-op breakfast with Mayor Perry White, with her father as her ‘bodyguard.’ With Lucy ill, Sam decided to stay with her, causing Clark to pick up the body guarding slack. Before Superman left the apartment, he made a date with Lois to meet for a late night rendezvous.
At breakfast, Perry gave Clark the third degree for not revealing his true identity to Lois and then tried to convince Clark that Lois was entirely the wrong woman for him and his super image. When Clark admitted he didn’t have the self-control to stay away from Lois, Perry taunted him – in front of Lois – for not having bought his ‘secret girlfriend’ a Christmas gift.
Superman arrived at Lois’s apartment that night with a Christmas tree, only to find her asleep on the couch. He ended up decorating the apartment and tree by himself. As he was carrying Lois back to bed, she awoke and their ‘date’ began with Lois asking him 101 questions, including about his sexual history. She wanted to make sure he had had enough experience to know the difference between love and sex. Superman once again admitted that he loved her, because he had fallen in love with her while they had been searching for her. When he left for the night – after telling her that he could not be seen with her anymore because of Lex Luthor’s threats – Superman admitted that he had only made love to ‘Lois Lane.’ In her bedroom, Lois discovered that Mr. Amazing’s Christmas gift to her was a roomful of chocolates from around the world.
Christmas was low-key – except for the fact that Lois’s love of Christmas matched that of Lucy’s husband’s, canon Clark. Despite being only just returned to Metropolis, Lois had gifts for everyone including T-shirts for Lucy and Clark. Clark gave Lucy the framed wedding photo Martha had given to him in November when he had visited the canon dimension to help rid the world of Tempus. Lucy gave Lois Moonbeam’s – divorce attorney at law – business card, so Lois could get started on her divorce from Lex Luthor.
On New Year’s Eve, Lois finally went to meet with her new attorney only to discover that she already knew her. Star – Moonbeam’s name before she changed it when she became a lawyer – had told Lois before she had left for the Congo not to go or she would miss out on true love. Then while they discussed how best to start on the divorce proceedings, Moonbeam realized that Lois had met her soul mate. Lois naturally assumed it to be Mr. Amazing and was shocked to learn that it was Clark. Then Moonbeam told her that she had made a mistake and yes, it was Mr. Amazing. Then reading Lois’s future, her lawyer / psychic informed her that to get fully away from Lex and to capture the man of her dreams, Lois would lose her name and something else she had always wanted and something she had never thought she wanted.
Upset that Clark had still never returned the stuff he took from her apartment, that Mr. Amazing was good to his word about keeping his distance from her, and that she had been stuck in her apartment for ‘her protection’ (so she wouldn’t get kid-napped by Lex), Lois snuck out to Smallville in early January. She had cut her hair to look like Lucy, stolen Lucy’s clothes and her ID (false that it was) and Clark’s credit card and taken a trip out to the Smallville house to try to get her laptop back. At the house though, she was halted by the presence of the security alarm. She wandered the property and discovered the dimension-hopping time machine hiding under an invisibility tarp in the barn. Lois used this to take a trip to Lucy’s home dimension, without knowing that was where she would end up.
Martha found her and contacted her son Clark, asking Clark to get their unwanted visitor from another dimension back home. When Superman showed up to take Lois back to her own dimension, Lois thought he was her Superman. Shocked by the appearance of the other Lois who obviously had been intimate with the other Superman like his mother had told him, Superman checked to see if indeed this Lois was pregnant and could possibly be the same woman with whom he had made out with back in December. Indeed she was – around a month pregnant.
Superman returned this other Lois to her home dimension and broke into Alt-Clark’s Smallville house so that they could contact him to take custody of her from him. Superman called the
Daily Planet searching for Clark Kent and instead found not only Jaxon Xavier but also a self-proclaimed Superman expert – Lucy El. Lucy tried to hold it together as she got the information from her Kal-El about Lois’s whereabouts to give it to the other Clark without her husband knowing that he was actually speaking to his missing Lois.
Lois, who had eavesdropped on Superman’s conversation with Lucy, realized that he might be Lucy’s missing husband Kal-El. Still muddled by the idea of two dimensions, and pulled toward canon Clark due to the whole soul-mate vibe, Lois tried to seduce him for information about Lucy and Ultra Woman, while still not one hundred percent clear on how he couldn’t be
her Superman. Canon Clark on the other hand, still could not believe that
this Lois was the one he made out with in his parents’ barn a month earlier and allowed himself to be kissed by alt-Lois to see if he could ascertain the truth that way.
It was at that moment that alt-Superman arrived in Smallville to find his girlfriend in the arms of canon Clark. Alt-Clark’s anger exploded and the two Supermen took their ‘discussion’ outdoors. While fighting, alt-Clark implied that he had been more than intimate with Clark’s wife while visiting the canon dimension to help with Tempus.
This infuriated canon Clark, who then took the time machine back home. Alt-Clark caught a ride and the two of them continued their fight in Martha’s backyard. She brought the clash to an immediate end and had the two Supermen come inside to talk like adults. In the course of their discussion, alt-Clark admitted that he hadn’t been honest with alt-Lois about his true identity. He also told canon Clark that he did have a pregnant woman under his ‘protection’ pretending to be the wife of his birth name (i.e. Lucy El, wife of Kal El), but the child was not his, but Kal-El’s. Martha was sure her son would catch all the dropped hints about his missing Lois, but they seemed to slip right on past him.
Realizing that they had left alt-Lois alone in his house in his Smallville, alt-Clark took the time machine and returned to her.
Meanwhile, canon Clark discussed his kissing of alt-Lois with his mother and also discussed whether or not he should tell his wife. Clark decided he should as he and his wife had agreed not to keep secrets from one another.
At the same time in the other dimension, freaked out not only about the two dimensions but also by her Superman’s rage at finding her kissing canon Superman, Lois jumped into her rental car and hightailed it down the road to Topeka straight into a snowstorm. As she thought through all that she had learned in the canon dimension and from canon Superman, Lois put two and two together and realized that Superman was actually Clark Kent. She decided to turn around and discuss this new development with him, when her car slid on the slick road, ending up in partially in a ditch. As she tried to get out of the car, a snowplow came down the road and pushed her car all the way into the ditch. The accident caused Lois to be knocked around inside the car.
Alt-Clark returned to his home dimension to discover that his girlfriend had left his Smallville house. Deciding to allow her time to cool down instead of chasing her, Clark soon overheard a call for EMTs about a car and driver in a ditch. He arrived at the scene to find Lois in very bad shape, bleeding and her neck at a weird angle. As he rushed her off to the hospital, they were struck by lightning. Due to the lightning strike, Clark was forced to land them in the woods near his Smallville house. With one last look at him, Lois went limp. While grieving for Lois at his Smallville house, Clark heard her heart still beating. Realizing that she was probably close to death – who could survive all that? – Clark rushed back to Metropolis to bring Sam Lane back to say his final good-bye to his daughter.
Clark himself mourned for the loss of the only woman he had truly ever loved, feeling he was to blame. Eventually, Sam came to him to tell him that Lois didn’t die; in fact, Sam couldn’t find anything wrong with her, except that she was still unconscious. Clark examined her body and could not find one broken bone.
Lois awoke the next morning refreshed and surprised to find that Clark was sitting by her bedside. She hadn’t forgotten her epiphany from the day before and planned on giving him back tenfold for lying to her. Lois found her father making breakfast downstairs and learned that he too knew the truth and had been keeping it from her. Unfortunately, perhaps due to the car accident or the lightning strike, the baby that canon Superman had said she was carrying died –Lois had a miscarriage.
On top of all that, strange things kept happening to Lois that morning. First, Lois could hear really well. Secondly, when she plopped down in a chair – as she usually did – it broke. Thirdly, when Lucy called to yell at Clark for telling her husband that they had slept together, Lois could hear Lucy as well as if she was talking on the phone with her herself.
Only Lucy knew how Lois had survived both the car accident and the lightning strike, but she refused to tell them over the phone. And the men refused to let Mrs. Kal El ‘fly’ out to Kansas to talk in person. So, Lois decided to punish Clark for keeping his secret identity in the dark, by refusing any contact with Mr. Amazing Superman, who obviously didn’t care enough about her to even check and see if she was all right. Lois insisted that she and Clark return to Metropolis by plane.
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