I think the baby is going to help then to be closer

Jose

What a part! Fiest Lois in her meanest and everything goung asunder - and then the turning point.

It has been such agony, so it's really relieving to read about their relationship growing closer.

It's good that they're trying to be civilized, but if she hadn't been pregnant the marriage would have been annulled, and I've never seen a marriage work because of an upcoming baby. Although both are now reeling from all the emotions the fact remains that having a baby cannot keep a broken relationship intact.

The true measure of a person is how they treat you when you're at your lowest (in Clark's case sick and needing an operation to live), and that's when Lois knowingly treated Clark like a pitiable pest. She made it obvious that she wants him to live, just not with her. Their having a baby, no matter how welcome, cannot alter that unchangeable reality.

I can see a HEA here: they divorce and stay friends. Are they supposed to stay together for the baby's sake? Eventually one or the other is going to want to experience real love in his or her life, not just share the bond of legalized parenting. They don't need to be married for that.

Wow this was like being on a roller coaster! I am glad it ended up rather calmly. Good segment. Laura

Well, thank goodness!

Didn't have a chance to comment on the last part, but I have to say as big a fan of S1 Lois as I am, I was just ready to punch her in the nose.

Seems, though, that they reached the boiling point, everything bubbled up and over in big, ugly catharsis, and now maybe...that teaspoon of something happy...ish?

Really a nice job of involving the reader. Love how long the posts are, and how much I want to tear the hair from the characters. That's a compliment- can't read this and not feel strongly!

CC

Hi there girls

I agree with CC. I love the long postings... I can never have enough of them!

Having the baby concieved in an artificial way kind of disapointed me, but it came on the right time, thanks God.

Lois is finally breaking down the walls around her and finally i could manage to diminish the level of tranquilizer i was taking to follow this story.

I am much calmer now... I couldn´t take all that situation for any longer.

Thanks girls... for a really great part.

SQD, , and Jenny... you are great!

MDL.

Hello Ladies!

I agree that you guys do an excellent job of invoking emotions- something not everyone can do well. Also, this aspect of the relationship was definately needed to provide a little relief from all the tension.

It's nice to see that they are both growing up a little, though it is a bit worrisome that they are still trying to play the 'avoiding game'... although beginning to tell people may force everything in the open.

All in all- great post as usual. It seems that they are subconciously becoming attached without either of them knowing it! I look forward to reading more!

sunkist

Way to put it. It was about time.

JD

I agree! It's hard to believe that she cares for him, it seemed that she cares only for herself.
Clark is blind if he only thinks about the baby, and forgives and forgets how Lois treated him.

Excellent part

Hi,

Great part.

How do you know if something will work, including
love, if it hasnt been tested?These two fought with themselves as with each other. Both have
acknowledged their mistakes, have apologized and
are moving to compromise. I say the marrage will work, baby or no.
{I liked first season Lois, the girl knew how to cuss)

Lois --> Please don't blame these feelings on the prego state. Ugh.

You have captrued season 1 Lois perfectly from part 1 to now. I have loved how you have encorporated the episodes with your creation.

Keep rockin'

Truth is, that isn't a marriage, they are only living together as friends.

Marriage is not legal paper. First, marriage without sex *ever* is sham.

All is not Lois's fault. Clark shouldn't have pressured her to marriage and living together.

And though he hasn't demanded anything, he have expected - and got disappointed.

Wow!

You continue to handle this delicate situation with its complex emotions incredibly competently. I'm totally blown away.

Irene

Hey, you have a point. Would pregnancy through
artifical insemination consummate a marrage?

Agreed, but when you are found lacking, as a Season 1 Lois eventually is, no one should keep trying to make something out of nothing. Only when she evolves into a Season 2 Lois is she worth anyone trying to pursue a relationship.

No one can change another person; the change has to come from within. But we can decide how much of their crap we're going to put up with before we say 'enough is enough.' I personally hope Clark remembers that he'd reached that point and doesn't let the hazy thoughts of fatherhood sway him into thinking they have a future.

Maybe it's time for a Lois and Clark story where they don't make it. I've questioned their futures before but I've never felt as strongly about their failure as I do with this story. Her being a b*(h when he's dying is unforgivable. He may have been the alien, but she was the one less than human.

No. Clark would have an annulment because Bernie could tertify. Only, he would have to tell everybody the reason for marriage, otherwise all would condemn him abandoning a pregnant woman.

In fact, Lois acts not like a wife but like a woman who uses Clark as a sperm donator - though she wants a baby not for heself but in order to save Superman.

Wow! The sheer number of replies in this folder took my breath away!

First, let me say thanks to everyone for continuing to read this. And for commenting so whole-heartedly. When this idea first evolved for this story, I never imagined readers would feel so strongly about it. Just knowing we've been able to accomplish such emotion has made all the effort put into this worth while.

I do hope our writing can eventually help Lois evolve. After all, what is Superman without his Lois Lane?

Please, keep reading and letting us know how we've manage to capture the feel and emotions we set out to.

SQD (who is sure poor Jenni is chomping at the bit-- she was so nervous about posting this!)

Lois did manage to get herself into rather deep expletive deletions this time. But I do think that her fears and struggles with marrage are not without merit, given her history. Still, she is willig to try, for whatever reason. This Lois and Clark seem more real to me because of their fears and struggles.But they are addressing the problems
which gives me hope.
I agree that change must come from within.I see that in Lois. She stepped out of herself with her offer to have this child. She agreedtomarrage,and to share his living space, more concessions.The wedding night was beautifuly handled. She sought to please him without teasing. She did for Clark,what she had never done for another.
So they fight; as with so much in life, you live,and you learn to roll with the punches.

THAT'S IT - that's why I cannot possibly see this couple work! She doesn't care if Clark lives or dies or sets himself on fire; she's saving Superman . She has no concerns for Clark's well-being, his physical or emotional health, other than a cursory statement that he should not overexert himself as Superman. But she doesn't give a hair on a fat monkey's butt about 'Clark the man'. She's made her feelings crystal clear to the dying man sleeping alone in that attic.

OK, she's not blind, she can see he's hot. So what? There's a big difference between thinking someone is hot and caring about them, the same difference as between sex and love.

A man who lost his wife told me that one of the things that happened during her illness was that he ceased to talk carelessly, like one normally does. I think if Lois really cared for Clark, even as a friend, she would think about him all the time, not about herself and her insecurities.

She thinks so much about the result - how to save his life in the future - that she totally forgets how to make his life more full and precious just now.

Lois is such a prude. It is breaking my heart that Clark has to sleep upstairs in the attic. I understand the whole space/privacy/issues of marriage thing, but 'cmon the dude is dying. At least give him his bed so if he needs to toss his cookies he can be in a more amorable position to run for the loo; I can see him now falling down the spiral staircase. I can understand her hesiation, but the whole illness thing changes everything. I know Lois has more sence, compasion and logistics in her head somewhere.

The attic sounds cool. I'll go sleep there.

Lois is too wrapped into herself. Boy is she learning a lot about herself. She needs to act less irratic mad dog lane and more level headed. She *agreed* to the situation - she needs to deal w/ it in a mature fashion.

I can hardly wait to see how this goes. Please mooooooooooooore. I want to see how the hottest team in town survives this one.

I love the story but I really think Lois has crossed the line into inhumanity here. The kindness and friendship she showed by her willingness to give birth has been totally decimated by her actions since their marriage.

They never should have married. He is sick; he is dying! His possibly last wish was to marry Lois and have a child he could call his own! That really should have not been too much for an intelligent adult to understand. If she couldn't do it, she should have backed out, not used him as a whipping boy for her vicious tongue and insecurities. It's all he can do to try to live each day to the fullest and she has made his possibly last days H**L!

This situation gave Season 1 Lois a chance to demonstrate that she had an unselfish bone in her body. She failed.

I can understand why a lot of people are ganging up on Lois but Clark is part of the problem as well.

As I see it the problem of this relationship (marriage or no marriage) stems form miscommunication which is very much in character for first season Lois and Clark.

While Lois suffers from a few insecurities so does Clark and the fact that they haven't really discussed anything, partly because of time constraints, certainly doesn't help them deal with this extraordinary situation as individuals or as two persons in a relationship.

People seem to forget that by the time Lois did some thinking and some maturing Clark was the one acting like a child and not talking with Lois. He even decided to go ahead and have the papers for an anullment drawn without discussing this with Lois he just informed her of his intent.

Avia (who suspects she'll need to edit this a lot after posting at 1:30 am )

I re-read the story, trying to figure out just when I began to despise Lois. From the minute they came back from their trip, it's been all about how she feel trapped. She's been an absolute witch to a man who's dying. She insisted on the baby, he insisted on the marriage. Does that mean he's volunteered to be her doormat?

The transplant may not work. What are her paranoid insecurities when compared to a man's life? Somehow it's easy for me to excuse the behavior of a man who's dying when he loses his patience when dealing with a shrew. I understand why he gave up on her. He may be dying, but he still has feelings and she's purposely stomped all over them.

I'd personally like to see Lois deserve Clark, not just get him on a silver platter because she's pregnant.