Originally posted by Lois_Lane_Fan:
my challenge to you is to post your ideas for a Cat Grant story here. Lois and Clark can be involved, too, but Cat has to be the star of this one. If I see an idea that inspires me, I'll use it.
AU - Swap the time frames of "All Shook Up" and "The Green, Green Glow of Home". Leave "Pheromone,My Lovely" after both of these.
Tracy Dawn Scoggins was born November 13, 1953, thus she was 40 during most of Season 1 of L&C.
Dean Cain was born July 31, 1966. In "Tempus Fugitive" we learn Clark arrived in 1966, only a few months old.
Teri Hatcher was born December 8, 1964, but IIRC Lois was supposed to be younger than Clark. don't recall Lois's DOB in the show, if we were ever told.
Making Cat the same age as Tracy makes her 13 years older than Clark.
After the Nightfall incident Cat is reinventing herself. Long before she got her gossip column she was a serious reporter, and tended to dress more professionally.
As she hit her early thirties she went through a period of dressing more provocatively and suddenly doors she'd been fighting against opened and her career hit a higher gear and she had her own column by 32.
By the time of Nightfall she is rather bored with her role, witness Lois having to provoke her to hit on Clark.
Cat: Who's the new tight end?
Lois: Why don't you just throw your usual forward pass and find out?
So after the Nightfall incident Cat is reinventing herself. Trying to do some more serious news. When Lois tries to beg off going to Smallville in "Green Glow of Home"
PERRY: Sounds like a story to me.
LOIS: Let Clark go then. I'll stay and watch for Superman.
Cat jumps right in and ends up being the one going to Smallville with Clark.
She tumbles to Superman being just a role Clark Kent plays, likely because she is far more aware of how someone can hide behind a role.
During "All Shook Up" she is the one who helps Clark, no fake relationship stuff, and because she is in the know and has let the Kents know, they don't leave Smallville, instead Cat helps Clark figure out who he is and how to save the planet from the Nightfall fragments.
She also becomes Clark's partner for some stories, and in his private secret investigation of Lex Luthor. Lois is dating Luthor.
Both Clark and Superman disappear. Unknown to Lois, Jimmy, Perry Luthor has Superman in his Kryptonite cage.
Cat is the only one with a clue that Kryptonite exists. She is also the only one who knows what Clark was really working on.
So she has be recruit help, Inspector Henderson, Perry, Jimmy, Eduardo, and so forth.
She has to lead the way, bring down Lex Luthor, stop the wedding and pull Clark out of his cage and get him changed into Clark clothing and come up with a cover story.