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Wave If You See Me From Afar by Troll Princess (PG)
Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: Lois/Superman, Lois/Richard
Length: medium length one-shot.
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trollprincess
Author Website: Memories
Why this must be read:
For some reason, way too many people who try to write Lois Lane make her either whiny or a bitch. She's neither. What she is, is a smart, strong, tough woman who can take care of herself but still has a heart.trollprincess captures her beautifully in this character study that explores the time between Superman II and Superman Returns, as Lois deals with the fact that her lover disappeared, and that she's pregnant with an alien child. This story lets her be real, and vibrantly alive. Wonder of wonders, this story also lets Richard be the nice guy he is in the movie, without turning him into a jerk for horning in on Superman's girl.
After a week goes by, you bite off every single one of your fingernails except the one on your right pointer finger, because you need something to drum on your desktop or else you'll go insane.
It's not like Superman hasn't disappeared for a week before. You know this. Ever since he suddenly showed up in Metropolis, Superman has been missing for a seven-day period or longer exactly eight times. Lex, Lex, that thing with the cave and the kryptonite, Lex, the comet thing, Lex ... okay, most of them were Lex. But Lex is in prison and will be there forever and a day at this point, so ... yeah.
Maybe he's taking a vacation.
See, as pissed as you'd be if he were taking a vacation (because, you know, a forwarding number would have been nice), you'd get it. He's sure as hell earned it. You can even picture the scene. Superman on a beach somewhere with a silly drink with an umbrella in it. Lose the tights, keep the Speedo, spit curl coming apart in the humidity.
After you stop being worried and start being angry, which takes about another two weeks of searching empty skies, you get absurdly hateful of his hair.
Stupid spit curl. You hope he has an accident shaving and cuts the damn thing right off.
One day you take one of Jimmy's better shots of Superman and white out the dark curl against his forehead. It's ridiculously moronic revenge and yet you spend the rest of the day beaming like an idiot.
And the worst part of the whole situation is that you can't even complain to Clark about it, because Clark packed up and left town right about the same time Superman did. You only consider slipping the gossip columnist the rumor they ran off together for an hour before you toss the idea right out.
Okay, mostly because you can't see anybody running off with Clark, but still.
Wave If You See Me From Afar
ETA: my bad, I missed that this story has been recced before, byancarett. Mods--should this post get left up or deleted?
Pairing: Lois/Superman, Lois/Richard
Length: medium length one-shot.
Author on LJ:
trollprincessAuthor Website: Memories
Why this must be read:
For some reason, way too many people who try to write Lois Lane make her either whiny or a bitch. She's neither. What she is, is a smart, strong, tough woman who can take care of herself but still has a heart.
trollprincess captures her beautifully in this character study that explores the time between Superman II and Superman Returns, as Lois deals with the fact that her lover disappeared, and that she's pregnant with an alien child. This story lets her be real, and vibrantly alive. Wonder of wonders, this story also lets Richard be the nice guy he is in the movie, without turning him into a jerk for horning in on Superman's girl.After a week goes by, you bite off every single one of your fingernails except the one on your right pointer finger, because you need something to drum on your desktop or else you'll go insane.
It's not like Superman hasn't disappeared for a week before. You know this. Ever since he suddenly showed up in Metropolis, Superman has been missing for a seven-day period or longer exactly eight times. Lex, Lex, that thing with the cave and the kryptonite, Lex, the comet thing, Lex ... okay, most of them were Lex. But Lex is in prison and will be there forever and a day at this point, so ... yeah.
Maybe he's taking a vacation.
See, as pissed as you'd be if he were taking a vacation (because, you know, a forwarding number would have been nice), you'd get it. He's sure as hell earned it. You can even picture the scene. Superman on a beach somewhere with a silly drink with an umbrella in it. Lose the tights, keep the Speedo, spit curl coming apart in the humidity.
After you stop being worried and start being angry, which takes about another two weeks of searching empty skies, you get absurdly hateful of his hair.
Stupid spit curl. You hope he has an accident shaving and cuts the damn thing right off.
One day you take one of Jimmy's better shots of Superman and white out the dark curl against his forehead. It's ridiculously moronic revenge and yet you spend the rest of the day beaming like an idiot.
And the worst part of the whole situation is that you can't even complain to Clark about it, because Clark packed up and left town right about the same time Superman did. You only consider slipping the gossip columnist the rumor they ran off together for an hour before you toss the idea right out.
Okay, mostly because you can't see anybody running off with Clark, but still.
Wave If You See Me From Afar
ETA: my bad, I missed that this story has been recced before, by
ancarett. Mods--should this post get left up or deleted?
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