Well, since Roger didn't make a comments folder, that means I get to do it! Yay!

BTW, I've also updated the TOC . In doing so, I discovered that part 10 is topic # 234. Cool.

Anyway, great part, Roger!

Poor Clark. I thought things were pretty bad for him at the end of the last part, but you managed to make it worse.

On the other hand, we did get that great bit with Lex's new bride calling him "Clark." Hee hee.

I was surprised that Lois didn't think of getting an annulment or a divorce or something. Maybe she was still a little muddle-headed from the drug. I should think, though, that she'd have realized that a marriage preformed while under the influence would not hold much legal weight.

Of course, Lex himself does hold quite a bit of legal weight... Not to mention that filing the paperwork for annulmet probably would have set off all sorts of alarms with Lex's staff.

I did stop to wonder if Lois would call the Kents, but it would be a rather awkward conversation.

Great job with the characterizations. Lex is suitably evil, Clark is suitably despairing, and Lois is, well... Lois.

Looking forward to seeing what goes down in Kansas. L&C have a lot of talking to do, and Lex has a lot of slow painful dying to do.

Paul

Poor Lex... :p , not that the readers are going to complain

Expecting eagerly the resolution, Roger!

Jose

Hi,

Great part.

Roger

An excellent part!

Tricia

Roger, good instalment.

I can see how this is shaping up.

Clark has regained his powers so he flys out to Smallville to try to get his parents out of harms way only to find that Lex got there first and his parents have been brutally murdered by Luthor. Having nothing left to live for, Clark flys off to spend the rest of his days in the Artic.

Meanwhile, Lois finally makes it to Smallville only to find Lex waiting for her at the Kent homestead. Lois is horrified by what Lex has done and comes up with a plan to exact revenge. She cooks for Lex!

After dispatching Luthor, Lois, lost in depression over the turn her life has taken wanders into the chicken coop. The poor chickens who haven't been fed in days. Let's just say that the end of Lois Lane is not pretty.

Looks like the only one who gets to live happily ever after is Mrs. Cox.

Tank (who is amazed at Roger's clever wrap up of this story)

Geez Tank, you always hurt the ones you love?

Even if Lois does an Elvis Impersonator, she's gonna need ID to claim her ticket. Lex'll find her.

ERRRK, poor Clark. Some days he should just throw Lex in a cement mixer.

TEEEEJ
Testing new signature. Doug, Doug, we hardly knew ye.

Tank,

You are scaring me.

MAF

Tank,

As much as I love you, I'm glad you're not writing this last chapter.

OK, Roger, please show us some more of your winning ways!

Dual post - sorry.

Thanks all for your responses!

Paul wrote:

I couldn't resist. Sometimes it's more enjoyable to dig a hole for them than to get them out.

At the moment, Lois is thinking about getting away from Lex. Legal maneuvers take months, if not years sometimes. The scope Lois is thinking of is in terms of hours. She needs to escape to plan her next move, and she thinks the only person who can help her is Clark. But who knows what might happen?

Tricia wrote:

Thank you very much. I actually find Lex very difficult to write because I have a tendency to go too far sometimes. Lois is easiest for me to write, followed by Clark.

Tank wrote:

Have you been peeking at my hard drive again? How did you know what I was planning? Now I have to go and rewrite it. Darn. <bg>

TEEEEJ (is that enough E's?) wrote:
Only if one of his men happen to see her ID, so that's very unlikely since they couldn't possibly cover every flight out of Las Vegas. McCarran is an enormous airport. They could do a computer search, but by the time they figure it out, she'd be long gone.

Rats! Now I have to go rewrite it again. I must be getting too predictable.

Thanks to Paul, Jose, Maria, Tricia, Tank, TEEEEEEJ, ethnica, and Rivka for your comments.

Part 11 is coming up in a few minutes.