Hi,

Great part.

Get back, please!


More ASAP, Please.

MAF

Not being a Lex fan, I loved this one most of all. Thanks.

YAY, you're back .

So, when's the next part?

~Julia

Killing Luthor is a great hobby.

Nan

Ding Dong the Lex is Dead the wicked Lex is dead!

That Lex is dead is good. That Lois killed him is not. Even if she wasn't trying for dead (which I think she was), killing another human being is an extremely traumatic experience, especially if the victime is well-known to the killer.

Clark is going to have his hands full helping Lois through this situation. She's crossed a line that most people don't ever get close to, and it's going to affect her for the foreseeable future if not for the rest of her life. And how will little Jon take learning that Mommy kicked Daddy over a balcony railing and splattered him all over the sidewalk? When will she tell him? Will he view Clark (who surely will be his stepfather) as an interloper?

What will she tell Jon about Lex? How will she explain that this boy's father was a sociopathic monster? There may only be one more post on this story, but it's not over, not by a long shot.

Oh, by the way, it's excellent. Having Lex undone by his own vanity (keeping a loaded weapon in his private museum - how stupid is that?) is a stroke of ironic genius. And I could just see Lex's face lose its smugness as the "minor details" kept piling up. The razor banter between Lois and Lex was outstanding.

Keep up the wonderful work! I can't wait to see how it ends.

I loved this part! Finally Lois and Clark are free. Lex went !

Have I mentioned that I just love your writing style? Your particular method of stream-of-consciousness, to me, makes it read extremely realistically, and on top of that, you have such a beautiful way with words

I loved the verbal sparring between Lex and Lois especially.

A fall from grace to be sure.

Ditto Terry - this was great, Sara! How are the mighty fallen, indeed! - but is either of them going to get over their fear of actually saying anything to the other?

Congratulations on finishing the story! And so does this mean we get part 18 today???


Wendy

Very powerful, great job!

Glad you're back!

~Liz

Loved it! Maybe made to be broken, only to be put back together again, better than before.

And can there really be so much of an issue over killing, when it's either her or him? Better Lex than Lois, after all. *splat*

Actually, in a case of clear self-defense, the DA has the authority to decide whether it's even worth it to waste the taxpayers money in much of an investigation. Considering that Lex had kidnapped Lois and Clark, and was obviously trying to murder his wife, my guess would be that the DA would decline to press any charges at all. At the worst, it might be ruled a case of justifiable homicide, but more likely it would be ruled either self-defense or an accident, since Lois wasn't actually trying to kill him. She was simply trying to keep him from killing her.

Nan

Sara

An excellent part! Very powerful!

Tricia

Wow

Terry and Aria, I'm so darned thrilled you guys liked the Lois/Lex banter I have something of a phobia about writing dialogue, so I'm ridiculously happy you both commented on it

Terry and Wendy - thank you both for your comments about how Lex's death is going to affect Lois They inspired some extra lines in the last scene - hope I managed to cover the issue adequately

Karen, you're wonderful - this was the whole idea behind naming it Made to be Broken <g>

Nan said;

I have to say that this was my feeling when I wrote this scene She was clearly acting in self-defence, and since the fact that he'd kidnapped her was made clear to the police long before he went , I would have figured that the DA wouldn't have wasted time trying to press charges in such a clear-cut case of self-defence.

And Terry, once again, thank you for this comment;

That was one of the things that annoyed me when I was writing this story - that however long I made it, or however much I tried to explore it, in a way it would never be over. So I decided to leave it at just one more post - and trust me, trying to work in a somewhat happy ending took some doing! - and I guess everything else will have to remain unexplored territory... like a lot of Lois and Clark, I guess

And along that vein... before anybody mentions a certain s-word... no. No way. Not a chance, never. <g>

And a certain somebody put the idea about posting the last part today into my head <g> so I'm running off to close my eyes, cross my fingers and click the scary button for the last time Once again, *thank you all*! You've made my day!

Sara [bouncing allllll the way to the "post new topic" button <g>]