Part 11
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She had thought Kent might send her a thank-you note.
She hadn’t expected him to show up at her office to try and pay her back. She really hadn’t expected him to actually make it past Mercy into her office.
“I really have to pay you back,” he pleaded, almost begged.
She looked at her watch.
“You really came all this way, just to pay me back because I paid for the tuxedo I ruined ( ... )
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I'll love to see her reaction when she realizes this encounter have left her a little gift.
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Actually, it was not originally my intention for this particular encounter to result in Conner... I'm going back and forth on the question now though, because this scenario allows characters to stay relatively faultless, which depending on the tone I want the story to take might be exactly where I want the characters. Lex gets to feel vulnerable and betrayed, but Clark still gets to be the all-American boy scout whose ill-thought-out daliance wasn't really his fault. On the other hand, I can't imagine that Lex Luthor wouldn't have taken protective measures, if you know what I mean ( ... )
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On why Lois can't conceive but Lex can without magical or technological intervention. Another path could be claiming Lois is sterile.She's a army brat and has been chasing stories recklessly for years before Superman debuted. It'd be real simple for her to have receive a injury of that nature with dangerous life she leads.
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I kinda like boy scout Clark and appreciate that about him. And protective measures can fail, I think, even without aliens and weird mad science being involved.
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Many writers seem to think that, in order for a character to be grey, they need to be jerks to everyone around them. That shows they have depth, supposedly.
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So, there's a couple of questions; the first of which is would a drunk Lex Luthor and a slightly drunk Clark Kent high on red kryptonite bother with a condom? I'm pretty sure Clark was not planning on "getting lucky" that night, though I think Lex would be the kind of woman to take it upon herself to be prepared. The second is, would it do any good. Here there are at least two reasons why it might not, one being along the lines of "Man of steel, woman of Kleenex"--simply that a little latex membrane wouldn't stand a chance against Superman's super swimmers. The other is of course that couple of drunk people might screw up with the application ( ... )
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Sure, in life, you can just ignore that chance, but this is comic book world. Practically every other kid is one of a pair of twins. There are weirder things.
There is also the distant but existent possibility that Lex herself isn't "normal". This one probably didn't have lots of exposure to magic space rocks, but some of those mystery mad science experiments might have changed some part of her biology enough that normal contraceptive methods fail. Maybe??
(Look, I'm a Liberal Arts person. No science here.)
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Lex is a scientific genius no way she has unprotected sex she can do the cost benefit analysis and can probably figure out that using condoms is worth the reduced risk of stds but she's a scientific genius and she knows that people don't use them correctly and I think she'd have a back-up thing in case of drunkenness or stupidity if she were on the pill she might have forgotten to take one because she's a very busy woman but she would know that she's a very busy woman and might not get a chance to take it she would want something reliable that required no thought and left close to no room for human error like an IUD let's look at how often those fail *Wikipedia* oh basically never huh oh wait wasn't there that nifty wrongful life suit thing we learned about in torts *Google* ok its called wrongful pregnancy and ( ... )
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