I'm glad to see you say you didn't intend for Lucy to be liked, since the reason I haven't commented on the story up till now is because I dislike her so intensely. If I were Clark, I'd be terrified of someone who has shown such spectacularly poor judgement knowing my secret. Of course, Clark has shown so little backbone in this story that he'll probably roll over for this, too. (Though it was good to see him furious when he hauled Lucy into the conference room -- that's what I'd been waiting to see from him!)
I have no idea how you're going to fix this, but I will be certainly be looking for the last chapter to find out.
