FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/16/10 05:34 AM
As always, comments appreciated! 
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/16/10 08:53 AM
*Happy sigh*. That was wonderful!
I especially liked the card's inscription. Sheer beauty!
I thoroughly enjoyed your entire story. Well done!
Joy,
Lynn
I especially liked the card's inscription. Sheer beauty!
I thoroughly enjoyed your entire story. Well done!
Joy,
Lynn
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/16/10 02:29 PM
Nice! I concur with mozartmaid and that line is also my favorite, Clark's note on the roses: Just wonderful and the best way to build a strong relationship - love on friendship!
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"Red for love, and yellow for friendship. Friendship surrounded by love, and love built on friendship. Yours forever, Clark."
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/16/10 08:53 PM
Really nice story. Very sweet. Thanks, keep on writing. Laura
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/16/10 09:36 PM
A really enjoyable, sweet, WAFFy fic. I'm glad that you got them together (of course, I'm biased that way.) 
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/17/10 12:27 AM
This picture summarizes something that happened again and again as I was reading the comics as a kid, and what I have also seen in the Superman movies:
![[Linked Image]](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/85061379_029a154161.jpg)
Superman/Clark Kent has left Lois. (She, of course, wouldn't strike a pose quite as melodramatic as this one, but she would feel as abandoned as the woman in this picture.)
Which is why my favorite quote from part 4 of your fic is this one:
He is back. But will he stay? I'm reminded of Sound of Music, and the song that the Nuns sang about Maria:
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
Let's hope Lois can catch the cloud of Clark and hold the moonbeam of Clark in her hand. It probably helps that Clark loves her. I, too, very much liked Clark's card to Lois and his roses to her, courtesy of Abbey!
Welcome back with more stories!
Ann
Superman/Clark Kent has left Lois. (She, of course, wouldn't strike a pose quite as melodramatic as this one, but she would feel as abandoned as the woman in this picture.)
Which is why my favorite quote from part 4 of your fic is this one:
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“My article was written in the hopes of bringing back a hero to us. A hero who has lost his way, maybe because of the War, maybe because of--circumstance, maybe because…” <<of me>> “…of things beyond his control. The words I wrote were the truth, and I only hope that someday, somehow, they might reach the man---”
She stopped. Through the haze of lights, she thought she saw a flutter of red on the balcony.
She stopped. Through the haze of lights, she thought she saw a flutter of red on the balcony.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay
And listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
Let's hope Lois can catch the cloud of Clark and hold the moonbeam of Clark in her hand. It probably helps that Clark loves her. I, too, very much liked Clark's card to Lois and his roses to her, courtesy of Abbey!
Welcome back with more stories!
Ann
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/17/10 06:20 PM
This was great. I read all 4 parts in a single sitting and enjoyed it very much.
I liked the way you set the story in the golden age but applied elements from the story.
Very well done and very enjoyable.
Bob
I liked the way you set the story in the golden age but applied elements from the story.
Very well done and very enjoyable.
Bob
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/17/10 07:49 PM
Excellent! I loved it. It was sweet, tender and just lovely.
Hopefully we will see more stories from you soon
Kathy
www.chili-everyway.com
Hopefully we will see more stories from you soon
Kathy
www.chili-everyway.com
Re: FDK Courage 4/4 - 07/19/10 12:44 PM
Thanks everyone! Glad you enjoyed it! The roses scene was almost an afterthought---I figured there needed to be one more 'beat' in there between an almost reconciliation and full-blown honest love for each other. And I had read a really good fic about the yellow roses Lois had destroyed that brought the original scene from The Prankster (or the Return of?) more significance in my mind and so I thought it was a fitting bridge. And Abbey just couldn't help meddling one last time
Until the next fic! =) Happy reading! =)
Until the next fic! =) Happy reading! =)