A/N OMG thank you all so much for the great reviews! As a new writer you have no idea how much it means that you like my story so much.

31st Century

Lois awoke to the sun rising in her bedroom. When, Garth had shown her the room the night before she had been awestruck by the view from the sheer glass wall. The seamless glass had offered up the entire city for her enjoyment, but now it was the antithesis of contentment.

"What they don't believe in curtains in the 31st century?" Disgruntled Lois threw her pillow at the window and the covers over her head.

The night before had been a long one, starting out in her time and then proceeding to the future. Even with all that had happened Lois had still protested adamantly to Garth that she wasn't tired. But at Garth's insistence she eventually settled in and had fallen asleep almost as soon as she laid her head on the pillow.

Throwing the covers back off of herself she gave up on getting more sleep. She was up and there were things to do, most important of which was getting back home. Lois knew that if she was going to be of any help at all, it wasn't going to happen if she hid in a queen sized bed.

Dressed and shuffling down the hall Lois met up with Imra who was holding what appeared to be a very large cup of coffee.

"Oh god I hope that's what I think it is!"

"It's coffee, hot and sweet like you like it." Imra answered smiling softly.

Lois took the cup inhaling deeply and taking a large unladylike gulp. "Thank you, you're a lifesaver"

"You have no idea," Imra quipped. "Come on the boys are waiting in the living room."

In the living room Rokk and Garth sat hunched over talking quietly among themselves. They were absorbed in what they were discussing, but Garth didn't fail to notice Lois's entrance.

"Good morning beautiful!" Garth greeted a huge smile on his face.

"Um morning," Lois replied a little dismayed at such a warm welcome from so young a boy.

"So do we have a plan yet?" Imra asked changing the subject as she plopped herself down on the chair next to Rokk.

"Well actually, we think we've come up with something." Rokk looked up at Lois and patted the spot on the sofa next to him, "Lois sit here; I want to show you something."

Rokk sat forward and placed a finger on the ordinary coffee table in front of him. Much to Lois's surprise the table lit from within revealing a huge computer screen. Upon closer inspection Lois noticed a file opened to pages of the Daily Planet.

"Look familiar?"

"Yea it's the Daily Planet. But, what's that got to do with…"

"Look at the date Lois," Rokk pointed to the printed date in the right hand corner of the table, "May 15th 2009."

Dragging his finger across the table top Lois watched the paper's front page flip, to that of the 16th's, 17th's, and onward for about a weeks worth of issues.

"Lois, in all of these issues, not a single one has anything written by you and there's also no mention of the Blur."

"Well, these words never crossed my lips but, I'm not exactly the most prolific writer of the 21st century. And as for the Blur maybe…"

At this remark it was impossible for Lois not to catch the looks exchanged by her new found friends. "What?"

"Lois in the short time we've known you, it seems very unlikely that you'd let even a weeks worth of papers go to print minus your byline." Irma hoped to put aside Lois's suspicions and move the topic back to the matter at hand. "Plus you can't possibly think of it as a coincidence?"

"What that my name and the Blur's magically go dark in the news world, please."

Rokk cut in, he was concerned, He needed to make Lois understand. "Lois this is important, you're not in the paper because you're here, in the future. In your time you've gone missing."

Rokk then flipped the pages on the screen again going to the third page of the May 17th edition. "Look Lois!"

Lois stared down at a picture of herself. She knew it well; it was her press photo, the one she used to open doors and uncover the truth. She hated that photo, even though it offered her access to places and people she'd never get otherwise. She had always thought that the photo looked forced, her smile and expression lacking.

Lois shifted her gaze up to the headline above her photo. Simple and straightforward it revealed to Lois what Rokk had been trying to explain, "Planet Reporter Still Missing after Beast Attack"

Lois was shocked. "They think I'm missing?"

Rokk grabbed Lois's arm, "You are missing, at least there you are. But we can fix that, we can send you back but you have to understand. You've got it wrong about you and the Blur. We don't think it's a coincidence that you're both missing from the paper at the same time."

"What are you saying; that you think I'm the reason the Blur goes all emo on us?"

"Partially, yes." Rokk got quiet then, he didn't know if there was any more he should say.

Lois noted the sudden change in mood, there was a somber quality that leaked into the room. Uncomfortable Lois looked down at the paper again. Before any of them could do anything to stop her Lois dragged her finger across the table. The page flipped and Lois was confronted with yet another familiar photo.

"Oh god, Jimmy!" Lois's hand leapt to her mouth holding in a sob as tears threatened to fall from her eyelashes. "Chloe! You told me she was fine; how could she possibly be fine?!"

"She was fine, physically, at the time we didn't know all the details. We didn't know about Jimmy until this morning. And when we did we weren't sure if it was something we should tell you." Imra put her hand on Lois's shoulder trying to comfort the woman.

Lois was having none of it. She was hurt and angry. She was tired of being in the future. She wanted to be home, at the planet across from Clark, she'd even write a kitten adoption story if she could just go home and end all this horrible news.

"So you were going to just keep me in the dark. You were never going to tell me that one of my closest friends, a coworker, and my cousin's ex is dead. That he was killed by the same psycho that my cousin ran off with!"

Lois shot up from the couch, "I want to go home, now! You need to send me back. You have the power to go back in time. Send me back to before Jimmy was killed. I can save him, please!"

"We can't do that Lois! Listen, we never meant to hurt you. We made a mistake. We know now that knowing about Jimmy's death won't have an impact on the future. It's just going to make things harder on you."

Rokk stood up and grabbed Lois gently by the shoulders and looked directly into Lois's eyes. He didn't want to say what he knew he had to,

"Lois you can't save Jimmy. We can't send you that far back in time. If we have any hope of changing the future the way we hope to, we have to send you back one week after the attack!"

A/N: Sorry Jimmy fans. I didn't want to see him go either but he's gone in the finale and I wanted to write this as realistic as possible. I hope you still enjoy it and I promise all will be revealed soon!