Congratulations, Sara!
I love how you ended this. Not perfectly, not with a pristine bow on absolutely every loose end - a story like this
has to have some untidiness, some unresolved issues, because it's simply not realistic that either Lois or Clark could recover easily from what happened. This was just right.
I felt my heart melting when Clark said he wanted to be a hero to Lois.
And I
loved the final lines:
"I love you, Clark," she whispered, looking straight into his face.
"I know you do," he said, a lump the size of a boulder forming in his throat as he looked at her - his love, his life, his future.
He heaved her up off the ground, and together they walked back to the farmhouse, to the place of fire and shadows where her son cried.
Behind them, the moon shone on and on, illuminating the branches of the big oak tree, intertwined forever and startling in their beauty.
Just beautiful!
This story is now going on my Kerth list...
Wendy
