Almost caught up, now!
But he couldn’t let himself be caught off-guard, should there be a next time. Thinking about that next time kiss had almost distracted Clark from finding out the reason Perry had called him down to the store.
Also, it might cause damage to walls, corners in particular.
“Several… more than several customers got sprayed by the perfume as well.
That could be a lawsuit in the making.
“Wait for it,” Perry had told him.
Lois had snapped out of her daze and had started fanning herself with one of the magazines as a dreamy smile had graced her lips. Clark had never seen her look so vulnerable and sexy.
The time jumps in this section (and probably including the remainder of it in the previous part) have been kind of hard to follow. In particular his Lois-watching took some re-reading to figure out when it was the memory of his surveillance tape watching and his real-life surveillance of Lois. Hmm... I guess I know why I got confused. Reminiscing about surveillance from the past while doing surveillance in the present.
If he found the right spot in the floor, he could see her easily enough from the third floor. He hoped she would be delighted.
That he is spying on her? Oh, wait, he's not using his vision gizmo on her, is he?
Lois entered her room and Clark heard and saw her gasp in delighted surprise.
I thought he'd already put up the shelves three (?) parts ago, causing Lois to run screaming to Perry about someone reorganizing her storage room?
“The H. G. Wells, Perry? Impossible! The man has been dead for…” He hadn’t been able to finish his thought because Perry had held up his encyclopedia of 19th century authors at that moment showing Clark a photograph of the actual author. Clark had done a double take, a triple take, a microscope vision take. And each take had told him the same thing. That second man was H. G. Wells, the author of The Time Machine. “How is that possible?” His laughter had vanished.
Hmm... I'd still have put my money on a doppelganger. After all, a 100 year old photograph, likely not even of a man of that exact age, should be easily enough to get an imposter.
“Maybe they were just sightseeing?” Clark had suggested with hope.
Is it just me or is Clark actually suggesting that they're sightseeing in time?
“And then after being sprayed with the perfume, they were naturally attracted to Lois.”
A bit biased, aren't we, Clark?
“You want me to spy on Lois?” Clark asked incredulously, his eyebrow raised.
I thought he already did that?
“I mean be her best friend. Listen to everything, everything she tells you…”
Sounds like spying. Although, Clark in a Mata Hari get-up and Lois in a Seven Veils get-up might be fun to watch. On Youtube
Michael
