Hey Sara,
yeah, I'll do my own Kerth reading process soon. Gladly, I catched up with most (but by far not all) stories that were released last year.
Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, I always felt Mayson gets a bit mistreated in fanfic here and there for "stealing" Clark from Lois (or trying to do so). But unlike other "rivals" I always thought her to be a good person inside who just has a problem with Superman's way to do stuff. Since the source of her anger about him was never really explained in the show, I decided to think about something reasonable. I still believe just killing her off the way they did was a very lazy and cheap way to get rid of her character. I actually thought a bit about how Superman would work in a legal frame, that he technically isn't working for the state or the police and therefore not allowed to take care of criminals and that, if he intervenes to early, the consequence could be those criminals would be released since they didn't came to commit their crime, actually. Now, to be fair, "this" Clark is IMO the version who is most willing to work together with police, firefighters etc. in their work unlike other versions of the character.
