This is the first time I've not entirely liked Chad. I thought he was being a bit selfish. He can work as a doctor almost everywhere, but Lois can only be a star reporter for the Daily Planet in Metropolis, and yet Chad has his heart set on leaving Metropolis. Oh, I could understand him too. Lois was right about this:
I could forbid him to go. Well, not really forbid him, but give him an ultimatum. I couldn't do that, though. I wanted to. I wanted to so much, but how could I? Chad had been here in Metropolis for years for me. How could I deny him this?
Yes, Chad
has been in Metropolis for years for Lois's sake. He really has done that for Lois. Now, though, he wants something more for himself. So therefore...
I was going to have to watch my husband of five years leave me and start a life someplace else.
I was a little irritated at Clark for helping Chad to find work and lodgings in Smallville. Does he want to break up Chad and Lois?
I think Clark was very right about this:
“Look, I don't want to get involved in the middle of things,” Clark said, “but I know how hard a long distance relationship can be. Not just the constantly missing each other, but the fighting and stuff.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
Clark shrugged, “When Rach and I started trying the long distance thing, we fought all the time. When we were apart we fought because we missed each other, and when we were together we fought "cause it was hard to deal with suddenly having another person around. Silly things, but like not being able to eat dinner whenever you want.”
When I was a kid, we lived next to a family where the husband and wife did the long distance relationship thing. He was a sea captain, and he was away for months at a time. (This was in the 1960s.) Then he would come back for brief, intense periods of togetherness with his wife. They seemed happy enough, until the husband lost his job or needed to change jobs or something. Suddenly he was back home all the time, and the two of them were constantly around each other. They started fighting quite badly, and after a few months they got divorced. I remember I was shocked, because this was the first married couple I knew of that got divorced.
I can't help thinking that long distance relationships have a really bad outlook. I have rooted for Chad and Lois up until now, but if Chad insists on moving to Smallville, then I don't know. Will this fic too be one where the natural order in the world of LnC fics is restored, that is, where Lois and Clark are together?
Ann
P.S. The first time I read this passage, I thought you talked about Vitamin E:
The only thing I noticed was that you had low levels of cholesterol and high levels of Vitamin D. The low cholesterol fits with your other resistance to human illness and the vitamin D is probably related to your reaction to the yellow sun,” Chad said.
Did you know that in all recent scientific studies on vitamins, increased levels of Vitamin E have been linked to health hazards, but increased levels of Vitamin D have been linked to health benefits? So don't eat any extra Vitamin E, whatever you do. Have some Vitamin D instead!
And if indeed you changed the vitamin in your fic from E to D, then that was the right thing to do!