Oh, Jenni, keep it coming. This is good stuff. This MBS needs the light fluffy stuff, the long angsty stuff, and the intense painful stuff, too. This may be a dark story, but you can't eat cookies and cotton candy all the time! Even Lois would eat ice cream and cry while watching Ivory Towers. Now there was some angst!
And concerning what a previous poster said about cutting it too short? You've already done that with Clark's finger. Let's have a lengthy, meaty part next time.
(Oops! Sorry about that last pun.)