Hey guys
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AnKS - Lois and Mayson? Fight scene? Whatever could you be talking about
? Yes, Alice and Lucy did, didn't they? That was actually a very late add when I realized there was no reaction by the others. Am still not completely comfortable with it, but we're not really seeing anything except from L/C's POV so it's hard to know what P/A etc are thinking. L/J will be covered in LtL: Lucy's Story eventually.
JD - So sorry about breaking your heart
. Sort of - I guess that means that I'm achieving my goal of making you feel for the characters. Lois/Clark scene? Where's the innocent eyes smilie?
Beth - very incisive
. Shouldn't expect anything less from you though!
Sonia - glad to have you on board!! Hmm... we'll see more of the whole Mayson/Clark thing next go round. Ah - you may have missed the earlier FDK thread - who says Daniel is gone? /me hides
Natascha - glad to see you too! Lucy is more grown up than we see on the show. She's only 18m or so younger than Lois [very different from the show where she's shown as Jimmy's age which is 6-7 years I think]. Secret Identity? Is Lois going to be Ultra Woman?
Ann - you have made me think and add some to a scene later. As far as the difference goes... I'm torn. The three month thing has no magic reason. Just that March generally has really nice days [comparatively] so they could be walking home from work rather than in a car. And Colorado wouldn't be as bad as say in Feb. We all know that it's not something that's easy for Clark to talk about with out M/J around and there is no Superman so it's all cold turkey rather than 'hey i'm the guy in Spandex' it's 'hey, i'm an alien, bet you didn't know they were out there'.
Michael - bonus points to you! Yes, Paul is the second canon character. Moi? Evil? Originally, I hadn't planned for Clark to have a ring at all because it just wasn't in their budget when they got married, or it never occurred to Lois or whatever, but then they surprised me by breaking it so she had to give him one at some point! But I also didn't want him to break Jonathan's ring - so it's lost. Hmmm... glowing green baseball bat... I'll have to see if Trask has one lying around - or maybe Luthor does... If I can find one, I'll send it your way. And yes, the Kids/Money question was posed long after the Nano plot was... well, plotted.
I do have to go with JD here. I think that's an exceptionally extreme example, Ann, and not remotely the same. That guy committed crimes, probably too numerous to mention, and lied about them. That's not what Clark did at all. Should he have told her earlier? Maybe. But - and this comes from my own early marriage experience to an extent - they rarely saw each other long enough to have a real conversation once the honeymoon was [literally] over.
Rona - We haven't really seen what's going through Lois' head just what's for public consumption. We will come back to it. Yes, they do seem to cover large chunks of time sometimes. Some cover 18 months, others will take 3 segments to cover a week - or even a night. /me has visions of a Wayne's World ending dootely doo or whatever where Clark waves his fingers and everything changes
. Thanks for the image! Lois is still only 18 and a couple months and, as I've mentioned before has scars we haven't seen yet that colors how she sees all of this. I think we start to see them in full force in part 13 or 14. You're right about the flirting thing, but I don't think that's what Clark is doing [and I don't think that's what you said either]. He's just a darn nice guy [er... well, you know what I mean], chatting with someone who asked for his help on his way to meet his wife for lunch. From there... we'll see...
Elisabeth - I do understand what you're saying and that certainly isn't my intention - to treat it lightly, though I certainly didn't dwell on it. However - even though they've only known P/A for 36 hours or so at this point - from here on out these six are *family*. None of them have anyone else [except Aunt Louise - who was old enough to get married during WWI and so won't be around forever]. P/A have no kids. Clark has no family left. L/L have just AL. Jimmy's dad is out of the picture and his mom is gone a lot. At some point at least, it makes sense to me at least that they would trust them with the secret - though the timing probably wasn't the best on Clark's part. [And I do get the L/L dating thing now - I didn't in the email but I blame the headache for that
.] One of my favorite sayings is 'Love is a verb' [thank you DC Talk]. Love isn't an emotion or anything else. Love is doing. Taking care of someone when they're sick. Holding your wife's hair when she's throwing up for nine months on end or taking your DH to the hospital at 4 in the morning when you've had literally no sleep because he has a kidney stone. Love is action not feelings. Feelings come and go, but commitment is what stays and it takes action to stay [believe it or not]. It's often times 'easier' to just leave than it is to stay. And even when you're mad at each other or not communicating when something happens [like inadvertently revealing yourself to be an alien to the editor of the most respected newspaper in the world], you pull together. And you are very right about the boundaries. Billy Graham was famous for never being alone [at all] with a woman who wasn't Ruth [I say was because she's no longer with us]. That is something Clark needs to think about - and he will - but he can be quite the naive lunkhead at times. Only time will tell. Too bad no one could give them "Boundaries in Marriage" huh
? And yes, Paul is the guy Lois and Linda King fought over.
Whew. Okay - I think that's everything for now. Part 12 will be up late tonight or tomorrow in keeping with the MWF posting schedule. Here's hoping I can get the muse in gear to keep it.
Thanks again everyone! If nothing else, you've made me think and justify why things have happened the way they did.
Carol