Clark picked up Lois and was about to carry her offstage, when he remembered the young audience. He didn't want to scare them, so he said, "I have to go see the good fairy. He can help break the spell."

Clark told Lex and Lana to keep the kids entertained until he fixed things. He scanned Lois with his x-ray vision. She hadn't injured herself falling. He looked at her right pointer finger. It had been pricked. He told Jimmy to watch her, so that no one would try to hurt her again. When he went back in, Lex and Lana were having trouble with the kids.

One kid shouted, "Get her, prince. She killed Sleeping Beauty!"

"I told you before, you little brat," Lex said. "I'm Sleeping Beauty's father and I'd know if she was dead. She's not."

All the kids began chanting, "Get her! Get her!"

Clark gave a sharp whistle and said, "Calm down. Everything is fine. Talk nicely to the characters."

Clark looked at the spindle. There was a needle on it and it was coated in some kind of goop. He took it off and went back out. "This is what she pricked herself with, Jimmy. Go find someone in the hospital that knows what it is and tell them what happened," Clark said, handing Jimmy the needle. "I'll stay with Lois."

Chloe came out and asked what was going on.

"She's really sleeping. She got some kind of drug into her body from a needle on the spinning wheel."

Jimmy came back with a man in a white lab coat.

"We were experimenting with the stuff in the lab. It's a type of barbiturate, which is a sedative. We've been trying to get it so that the second it enters the system, it knocks you out. It went missing this morning."

"She's going to be okay, right?" Clark asked.

"It's never been tested on a human before. It's such a small dose; she can't be out of it for too long."

As soon as the man had said this, Lois slowly opened her eyes. "What happened?" she drawled in a heavy voice.

"You've been asleep for a few minutes," Clark told her. "Somebody put a sedative on the spindle."

"We'd better get back in there and finish up the play," Lois said.

"It's okay," Chloe said. "You don't have to finish it given the circumstances."

"Are you serious?" Lois asked. "I did not go to all this trouble to not complete this thing."

"I suppose it's okay," the man said, "but she's still going to be sleepy. She needs someone to stay by her."

"I can do it," Clark said.

"While you're doing your play, we're going to launch an investigation and figure out who did this," the man said.

There really wasn't much left to the play. The kids saw that Sleeping Beauty was alive and was going to live happily ever after with the prince. Then they answered some of the kid's questions and took pictures.

The 'actors' went back out into the hall and were told the hospital had video footage of a disgruntled employee placing it there. He had been taken into custody. Lois assured the worried hospital personnel that she wasn't going to sue.

Lois was too tired to change, so Clark and Lois kept their costumes on, but everyone else changed. They were waiting on Chloe, who was talking to the head nurse. At last, she joined the group. "I've got good news, guys. They all loved you and liked how you all put an original spin on it. They want you to come and do a play once a month."

Everyone's mouth hung open in speechlessness except for Lois'. She was leaning against Clark because of her sleepiness. Clark had his arm around her waist. "If I wasn't so tired, dear cousin, I would come after you," and then she yawned, as if to emphasize the fact.

"Relax, I value my life. I knew you all wouldn't go for it. I don't know why though. I thought it was fun."

"You weren't onstage," Jimmy pointed out, "as a fairy. I heard some of those kids making fun of me."

"And you didn't get drugged," Lois said.

"Yeah, you're right," Chloe said. "Come on let's all go back to the Talon. I'm sure Sleeping Lois is going to want to take a nap."

The End