I only needed to read as far as the words "Dr. Ducos" and I knew...this is an awesome story. Jenni Debbage's
The Forgotten So many choices...
But some time ago all of that started to change. And the unblinking glare of the spotlight had begun to show some cracks in Superman's persona. There was a seam in his cape, one reporter had noted once, that hadn't been there before. He must carry something, then. A phone, a pager, a watch, maybe?
It had been a pager. That had started with her first pregnancy. STAR labs had invented it - the signal could reach him anywhere. And Martha had sewn a nearly invisible pocket for it. Nearly invisible.
As far as observations went, it wasn't momentous. It was just the small start, the drip. That one day was a steady trickle, that the next day was a gentle flow, that some day would be a river... Nothing too far out of bounds or too explosive. Just one thing that followed the next thing, which served to make Superman less mysterious, more knowable.
