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Oh so very true, Sue. But I guess that's always the problem with time travel. What's your point of reference? For instance, think what could happen if Wells got them together in college, before Lois got burned by Paul. They could already be together happily ever after.

Only there is one small issue there. What about the rest of the world. How many children will not be born because of the changes. Sure, they probably get replaced by different ones, But just the fact that Mayson stays alive can mean that one family won't find each other and Mayson will have the kids instead. And what about NK? Will it mean civil war and tons of deaths?

Which basically is the problem. You change the past, you change people's lives in the future. And the only consolation you have is your point of reference. LnC will still be there. Utopia can happen. But not everybody will come out ahead

Not that I'm saying 'don't snip the timeline', just saying, maybe the future shown in S3 and s4 was the twisted timeline that had to be rectified

So, part 10? Still waiting

Michael

So it could kind of be like Frequency where everything just changes around him?

more later...

Very cool part, and I was right in thinking that somethings would be totally unexpected, like in the beginning, it was Clark with whom Wells was talking.

And the stopgap theory... cool!

I absolutely loved all your plot untwists, especially their apparent inability to procreate.. wow! mind boggling!

Wow I didn't see that coming! I love it! What a crazy and wonderful theory! Laura

I'm having a major OMG! moment. I just read the entire story and the audaciousness of it all leaves me speechless. I am still soaking it all in so I don’t have a feel for where it is going yet.

My read is that based on what Wells says, if he leaves things as they are, the universe will collapse. Personally, I see a split timeline.

1. Leave the Lois’s where they are any you have one kid of split.
2. Put them back and you have a different split.

Of course, you may put them back and the universe implodes anyway.

Finally, what if the switch makes everything worse instead of better? You might poof a perfectly good future just to have the alternate time line that overlays it be worse than the one you started with.

Time line meddling can be hazardous to your (and everyone else’s) health!

Bob

When the timelines split, will future Lois and Clark know that they are reliving things though, or will the future they know, vanish as well? (kind of like that memory zapper thing in Men in Black?)

Time travel stories are so fun, but I'm a curious person, and they often make my head hurt, cause I think of loads of questions that need answers...

Wouldn't it be nice if Flark (okay, 1998 Clark) wakes up in the morning, feeling disoriented and sad because he can't give Lois children. And suddenly the world seems to wink out just momentarily all around him, and then it comes back (you know, like a power outage where the power is restored almost immediately) and then Lois comes walking into their bedroom, holding their baby in her arms?

Ann

So 10 is coming... when exactly?!

Or maybe he will have a couple toddlers climb on the bed. I'm looking forward to seeing how this ends.

Yeah when will 10 be here?

Ditto to pretty much everyone else! And this:

Is ridiculously original and gets the Really Freaking Interesting Award for tonight.

Great part,
JD

I confess, seeing this much FDK, while it is unbelievably exhilarating, also has me doing a little bit of this

Hey, if you'd gotten it to me last night you'd have it back already! And if you get it to me today, you'll likely have it back within the hour. Tomorrow, however, I'm gone till 4 and can make no such promises...

And I specifically didn't hint last night though I could have!

Carol [who accepts *NO* blame]

Sue, all I can say is that when you are finished with this story and it has stopped echoing in your head (or at least started echoing more quietly), you have *got* to come read Foreshadowing, etc. I won't put a spoiler here, but I will say that the similarities and the differences are almost creepy. We could have a two-woman comparative literature class with just these stories.

Great Part Sue!
I'm still a bit confused about the time travel and the alteration of 1998 so I hope that the last part will be on soon so I don't have to wonder anymore
I liked it that you saved Mayson because I liked her.

I'm late for this feedback train, but since you haven't posted part 10 yet, I'll go ahead anyway.

I loved this part and wholeheartedly support Jen's "Really Freaking Interesting Award" for originality. Using the NK disruptor as a Utopia killer is quite brilliant.

Like others, it makes me want to slap Herbie upside the head, though. Let's see... go back in time and get some of the super-swimmers before the NK invasion so that future Lois can get pregnant...

OR...

Destroy the universe as we know it by changing the timeline and then ... ONLY THEN ... asking just one of the 7-8 billion people affected if that's okay.

:rolleyes:

Of course, I also have to ask this... If future Lois marries past Clark and gets immediately pregnant, then if Wells switches them back, future Lois and future Clark could also have a natural child together.

Of course, past Lois and past Clark would have to deal with the consequences, but hey, they've got time now that Lex is dead, right? Isn't that what Wells was trying to do?

When are we getting the last chapter?

Ummmm... Sue?



Ann

To quote Ron from Kim Possible

Alas, I cannot blame Carol (who has nudged me consistently) for the delay. I have to plead that RL issues are sucking up my time, as well as my private meltdown that either the story was too complicated and/or too obvious/identical to other stories.

HappyGirl - I think you'd have to include at least three other authors if you're going to do a comparative reading. I stated at the outset in my author's notes that I got the idea for a switcheroo from RodStewFan and Kipp's "Switch" (an nfic) and Kipp's sequel "Not Again" (also nfic). Last summer when I was telling a group of FoLC's about the story I was working on, I was informed that zoomway wrote one as well (sorry, I don't know the title).

Kathryn - I've been reworking 10 to try and make it crystal clear what's going on. Hopefully you won't be confused after that.

Brenda! - You're right -- I've been dawdling all this time in the hopes that you'd come back. :p Seriously, I'm thrilled/relieved/delighted to find out that you're still reading.

Ann - Soon! I'm hoping to have time tonight. <fingers crossed>

dcarson - Very true - but it's the disturbing concepts that make it so fun.

I apologize both for the delay and for attempting to write without a beta. I see now that what made perfect sense in my mind really should have been reviewed by a sentient being first. Mea culpa!

No No Sue! Forget your doubts, the other similar stories and trust yourself. Just let it roll, babe!
Readers are intelligent enough to like similar stories and appreciate their differences. You're rethinking it too hard. Heck, we'll *all* beta for you!

Artemis
p.s. I thought the explanation with the NK molecule disruptor was original and very cool (if sad for LnC)