Thanks, Ann and grinch!
Ann - I hope your mother is okay and it's nothing too serious. Thank you for leaving any feedback at all when you clearly have something much more important going on!
Grinch - I thought you may enjoy this chapter. I'm not sure why, but I thought you may have half expected that the last chapter was the end of Lois and Chad. Since I am going for a happy ending, clearly she won't be "grieving" for forever, but I don't think any sort of ending (with Chad, Clark, or someone else entirely) would be believable without us seeing her emotions as she tries to move on.
And you will definitely see Clark's role ramping up as more than just Lois' support system. This is still first and foremost a Lois fic, but now that she is in Metropolis, we will continue to get glimpses of their relationship from Clark's perspective as well.
I do have another story in the works and it's even started (I had really not intended to do so as I have a ton of reading to do for the Kerths and I've fallen behind on keeping up with other posts on here as well), but I think it will be awhile before I post it. I've been bad about keeping track of where I've mentioned this and where I haven't, so in case I haven't here before now - I'm pregnant and expecting at the end of June. So, given my current writing frequency, I'm hesitant to start posting a story I'm not sure I'll be able to finish before the baby is born.
Probably just because this is my first, I have a hard time imagining what my free time is going to look like after that. I certainly expect (hope?) that I'll have some time to write, but since I also expect that it will be even less than now and that there is some time right afterwards where I won't have any free time, I'd feel badly posting and then disappearing for a few months. So, I want to either get to a place where I'm sure this story will be finished beforehand, or just wait until after the baby is born to start posting.
But of course, I may have some shorter pieces crop up before then. This next story is likely shorter than this one, but not by a lot, but I have a couple of other half-started ideas, some of which are only a few chapters at most.
Right now, I'm just excited to finish this. I'm hoping my next story won't sink into quite so depressing a place.
