By Sammi Burleigh <Sammy149@aol.com>
Rated PG
Submitted July 1999
Summary: What if a different song had been playing in the Planet newsroom when Herkimer Johnson's Vibro-Whammy was switched on? Find out in this rewrite of the final scenes of the episode "Oedipus Wrecks"!
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Clark was describing Lois' feelings for Deter and how he acted towards her to Perry and Jimmy. He turned to see Lois and Deter walking towards him. Clark stiffened and clinched his fist. He felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Just take your cue from the master of cool here, huh? Slow and easy," Perry instructed.
Lois approached them and greeted the three men by saying, "Perry, Jimmy, Clark, I quit."
Jimmy, thinking that he had heard her wrong, asked, "You what?"
"I need to get away so that I can totally recover," she clarified.
"We're leaving the country," Deter added.
"No, no, you can't," Clark said desperately.
"We're going to the South of France. Max has a home there, and he thinks that one-on-one intensive therapy … " Lois trailed off.
Perry lunged at Deter, but was held back by Jimmy. He shouted, "What are you doing, you little brainsucker?"
Clark turned to Lois and said quietly, "Lois, listen to me."
"No, I know what's best for me."
"Hey, what's the deal here?" Perry yelled.
Jimmy was still holding Perry back as he said, "Chief, calm down."
Perry was out for blood it seemed. Doctor Max Deter's blood. He refused to be calmed or pacified. "No, the gates are up, and this calamity train is gonna stop now!"
"Breathe or something," Jimmy told Perry.
"Lois, I can't let you go, not this time," Clark said firmly. He was prepared to do anything to stop Lois from leaving with Deter.
"Clark, you have no choice in this," Deter said smugly.
"Deter, trust me on this, you have no idea who you're talking to," Clark said threateningly.
Suddenly, the electromagnetic wave that had been terrorizing the cityfor the past few days started again. Clark grimaced with pain; the wave gave him a headache. A copyboy stumbled at the force of the wave and turned on the radio. Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" was playing. Everyone in the newsroom, except Lois and Clark, started dancing to the music.
Lois collapsed to the floor, overcome by memories. She called out for Deter, but since he was waltzing with Ralph, Clark knelt down to hold her.
*There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed
If I just listened to it right outside the window*
*There were days when the sun was so cruel
That all the tears turned to dust
And I just knew my eyes were drying up forever*
*I finished crying in the instant that you left
And I can't remember where or when or how*
<Lois asking Clark if she knows him at the end of Seconds.>
* And I banished every memory that you and I had ever made*
<Lois hitting her head escaping from the cave in>
*But when you touch me like this*
<Clark touching Lois' face when she comforts him after the robbery in ATAI>
*And you hold me like that*
<Superman and Lois flying through the Daily Planet window in the Pilot>
*I just have to admit that it's all coming back to me
When I touch you like this*
<Lois telling Superman that she thought that she would never see him again in
Metallo>
*And when I hold you like that*
<Lois and Clark dancing in CoM>
*It's so hard to believe but
It's all coming back to me
It's all coming back to me
It's all coming back to me now*
*There were moments of gold
And there were flashes of light*
<Clark changing into Superman in TF>
*There were things I'd never do again
But then they'd always seemed right*
<Lois walking down the aisle to Lex in HoL>
*There were nights of endless pleasure
It was more than any laws allow
Baby, Baby*
<Lois and Clark kissing on the bed in VD>
*If I kiss you like this*
<The kiss on the plane in SVFAP>
*And you whisper like that*
<Lois and Clark making their wedding toasts in INPY>
*It was lost long ago
But it's all coming back to me
If you want me like this
And if you need me like that
It was dead long ago
But it's all coming back to me
It's so hard to resist
And it's all coming back to me
I can barely recall
But it's all coming back to me now
It's all coming back to me*
*There were those empty threats and hollow lies*
<Lois leaving Clark the 'Forget It' note in WWW>
*And whenever you tried to hurt me
I just hurt you even worse
And so much deeper*
*There were hours that just went on for days
When alone at last we'd count up all the chances
That were lost to us forever*
<Lois thinking about Clark, calling him, going to his
apartment, etc. in WWW>
*But you were history with the slamming of the door*
<Lois slamming her apartment door in Clark's face in the Rival.>
*And I made myself so strong again somehow
And I never wasted any time on you since then*
*But if I touch you like this*
<Lois touching the S at the end of TF before the kiss>
*And you kiss me like that*
<Kiss in the newsroom at the end of COTOC>
*It was gone with the wind
But it's all coming back to me
It's all coming back, it's all coming back to me now*
*There were moments of gold
And there were flashes of light*
<Lois taking off Clark's glasses in WHALTTA ("Who's asking, Clark or
Superman?")>
*There were things we'd never do again
But then they'd always seemed right*
<Lois slamming the door in Clark's face in LL>
*There were nights of endless pleasure
It was more than all your laws allow*
<The kiss to distract the maid in Honeymoon in Metropolis>
*When you touch me like this*
<Superman touching Lois' face in ATAI>
*And when you hold me like that*
<Clark holding Lois from behind on the balcony at the end of HIWTHI>
*It was gone with the wind
But it's all coming back to me
When I see you like this
And when you see me like that
Then we see what we want to see
All coming back to me
The flesh and the fantasies*
<Lois watching Clark through the door in the Phoenix>
*All coming back to me
I can barely recall
But it's all coming back to me now*
*If you forgive me all this
And I forgive you all that
We forgive and forget
And it's all coming back to me*
<Lois and Clark making up in JSN>
*When you see me like this
And when I see you like that
Then we see what we want to see
All coming back to me
The flesh and the fantasies*
<Lois and Clark in the Pilot (I said nine, I thought you'd be naked … um
ready.)>
*It's all coming back to me
I can barely recall
But it's all coming back to me now*
*It's all coming back to me
And when you kiss me like this*
<The kiss in Lucky Leon>
*It's all coming back to me
And when I touch you like this*
<Lois and Clark on the sofa in the Phoenix>
*If you do it like this
It's all coming back to me
And if we … *
The electromagnetic wave stopped. Everyone stopped dancing and someone turned the radio off.
"Judas Priest! It happened again! I want someone on this. Now!" Perry yelled.
Lois and Clark were still on the floor. He helped her up and she smiled at him. Deter walked over to them.
"Lois, we need to hurry or we'll miss our plane," he said.
Lois turned away from Clark to face Deter and said loudly, "Doctor, I think our time together is over." She raised her fist and punched him.
She smiled at Clark. "I'm back." She kissed him.
They were brought back to reality by a loud cheer. The whole staff was gathered around them cheering and smiling.
Clark walked over to his desk and pulled something out of a drawer. He walked back to Lois.
"Will you marry me?" he whispered.
She smiled and nodded. He slipped the diamond ring back on her finger. Applause rang from every corner of the newsroom.
Deter slunk out of the newsroom in defeat. His departure was unnoticed, since everyone was watching Lois and Clark who were engaged in another kiss.
THE END
Disclaimers: The characters belong to the person(s) who created and/or own them as does the song, "It's All Coming Back To Me Now".