Very good to see you post a new part, Sara!
Jonathan's conversation with Clark was good, particularly the fact that he asked Clark why he was going to spend the weekend with Mayson. I'm glad Clark was given the chance to explain. Now he just needs to tell Lois, too - but maybe he really has?
I loved this:
“You should tell Mayson the truth about how you feel, son, and not allow her to hope, you know, unless you’re willing to give up on Lois entirely.”
Clark looked at his dad with a slight smile. “You know I couldn’t give up on Lois, Dad. She—she’s Lois—and there’s no one else like her…” he added softly, honestly.
Martha's conversation with Lois was at least as good. This was probably my favorite part:
“I wonder, now, if we didn’t make a mistake in emphasizing secrecy so much, if we didn’t hurt Clark somehow by making him feel like he could never really be accepted for who he really is. But we were so afraid, you see. We found a baby in a space-ship and he was ours, our son, and we just couldn’t bear to lose him.”
I'm glad she acknowledges that to herself, and that she explained it to Lois.
I'm glad, too, that Martha made Lois see how lonely and lost Clark had been when he grew up.
They both looked up at him, faces flushed with merriment, and he was suddenly filled with the disturbing certainty that whatever they’d just been laughing over definitely involved him.
He opened his mouth to speak but Lois forestalled him by glancing at his mother and inexplicably (to him, at least) saying, “You were right,” and for some reason, those three words sent them both off into another wave of laughter.
He threw a suspicious look at his mother—what had she been telling Lois?—and his embarrassment made his tone more curt than it otherwise might have been as he asked, “Ready to go, Mom?”
I love, too, how Clark comes back and finds Lois and his Mom apparently gossiping and giggling about
him, and that makes him so endearingly embarrassed.
And this is so sweet, too:
She and Lois both stood up and, as Lois appeared to hesitate, his mother rather impulsively hugged Lois and Lois returned the hug. Clark’s irritation vanished, his expression softening, at the sight of the two most important women in his life hugging. And a voice whispered in some corner of his mind, it looks like Mom is welcoming Lois to the family.
“She cares about you quite a bit, Clark. I’m so glad you finally told her the truth.”
“I didn’t really mean to tell her,” he admitted rather ruefully. “It just slipped out.”
Martha’s laughter was soft and lingered in the night air around them. “Well, I’m still glad you told her. And I know you are too.”
“Yes, I am,” he acknowledged. “I’ve hated having to lie to her, Mom.”
How sweet!
“Goodnight, Mom.”
“Goodnight, Clark. You sure you don’t want to come in for a while?”
He shook his head and she smiled. “Of course you don’t, what am I thinking. You’ll want to hurry back to your Lois.”
Aaaawww!!!!!
Okay, Sara, I hope we won't have to wait for a very long time for the final part. And I hope, too, that Clark and Lois will
really kiss and make up in the final part! (If you know what I mean....?
)
Ann
