Clark had known that the Rocky Mountain National Park was huge, but he’d never appreciated just how big it was until he’d had to search every inch of it. Right now, looking for Lois felt like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Awww!!
And if, as Clark was convinced, her husband intended to stage another ‘accident’, there were plenty of steep drops, deep lakes, slopes with loose scree and deserted trails.
How about a remote frozen cliff someone could fall off of and get snagged and maybe freeze to death? And maybe there are some birds that could be quite hungry and... oh... sorry... never mind me
From what he remembered, Olsen had gone to prison continually protesting his innocence.
Eek!! Poor Jimmy's still in jail?!
Bingo! It was an underground building of some sort. And, unless the forest rangers were into constructing underground shelters, or the government really was concealing the existence of aliens from outer space, Clark was pretty sure that this had to be where Luthor was hiding Lois.
Now, he just had to get inside and find her.
Yay!!! Except... this has 7 more parts to it... Is is too much to hope for a wrap up in the next part or two... then have the rest be waffy goodness?
I'm thinking Lois will be trapped for a while longer... or... actually, maybe not, maybe Lab just traumatized me and the rest of the story will be L&C bringing Luthor down? I know, I know... shut up, RAFO.
Camera!
She raised her head slowly and flicked her gaze carefully around the room. Why hadn’t it occurred to her earlier that Lex probably had cameras installed so that he could keep an eye on what she was doing? This room seemed to have been constructed especially for its purpose, so adding a few cameras wouldn’t exactly have been difficult. Which meant, of course, that he’d have seen her frantic search, the sheet she’d plaited and the knives she’d carefully broken...
See!! Told you so!!
But she darted out of his reach, at the same time jabbing the knife in. He yelped in pain. While he was distracted, she hooked her foot around his ankle and pulled. Caught off-balance, he fell, but as he went down he tried to grab her. Again, she jumped out of his reach.
Go Lois!!!!! Now, just when you think there's no way out... your "ride" will show up.
First, though, he needed to deal with the couple of tiny objects he’d seen embedded in the nearby rock. Shorting the cameras was the work of less than a second. Smiling at the satisfying sizzle each made as he destroyed it,
Hee hee!!
He pulled his glasses down his nose again and began the job of cutting out a hole in the steel.
LOL... I forgot that he wasn't in the Suit for a second. <g> Which brings up a good point... is Superman to emerge in this trilogy? Certainly at least the idea, right? Hmmm...
And what he saw made him smile in reluctant admiration, while at the same time his heart leapt into his throat. He supposed that was just typical of Lois Lane, multiple Kerth award-winner. She couldn’t possibly just sit back and wait patiently for him to rescue her, could she? No. She had to risk life and limb to rescue herself.
Setting off at a pace no human could match, he sped along the corridors until he got to where he wanted to be. And then he stopped, and waited.
Would it be just plain wrong to call Clark a stinker? <g> He's going to wait for her to run into him? :rolleyes:
Oh god. She’d been caught.
His hands were on her arms, holding her firmly. She tried to struggle, but he was way too strong for her. Think, Lois! She tried to hook her ankle around his the way she’d done with Lex, but before she could even make contact he’d wrapped his arms around her and lifted her off her feet.
Feeling sick inside, she tried to wriggle. And then a soft, blissfully familiar voice met her ears.
“Are you that unhappy to see me?”
Stinker!! <g>
But then she remembered that they weren’t out of danger yet. “Clark! He’s got guards, and they’ll have guns...”
I wonder if Clark knows that he's bullet-proof...
“Don’t be. Didn’t I tell you that I’m invulnerable?”
“Now you tell me?” she exclaimed.
LOL!! (Even though it feels sorta inappropriate to laugh at a time like this... <g>)
“I kicked him,” she said in satisfaction, and saw him wince. “Not there!
ROTFLMAO!!!!
“Rachel?” Lois was taken aback by her reaction to the name of a woman she didn’t even know. Was she actually jealous?
Lois fell silent as it occurred to her who had been hiding his true nature all along - and how she had completely failed to notice.
Awww!! Poor Lois!!
Sara (who's dying to read more... but figures since Lois is safe and it's after 2am - technically Christmas - she ought to get to sleep before Santa gets here
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