Thank you all for the kind comments!
mozartmaid and DW - I'm glad the year snippets worked well together. The tie seemed looser than I had wanted, but I hoped that my title would help to bring it together.
Thanks, Laurach, Jen, and Artemis!
scifiJoan - Once you said it, I could see the case for Mayson being insecure, but I've always seen as secure even with Clark. She's so pushy with him. I can see that she let him walk all over her as well, but then Lois does this as well for awhile (with the running out on her thing). I saw this as Mayson just really believing that Clark was a nice guy and there had to be reasonable reasons for his actions.
Lynn - That's such a beautiful description of this fic, I feel unworthy of it.
Vicki - I agree, year 1 to 2 definitely has the biggest change in her feelings.
