I couldn't wait until I actually had more time, so I'm just binging the next chapter immediately, lol.
Lois came into the farm kitchen, her bag on her arm and a pizza box in her hand.
Starting strong with a classic like Lois Lane and a pizza! I love it!
“You don’t want to be the farmhand, do you?” he said. “You’re going straight for the farm manager position.”
It seems like he's really gotten to know her!
“Mourning?”
Clark nodded. “For my father.”
I guessed, but still sad.
“Actually, I don’t know what she needs, but I was hoping you being here would help keep her from slipping into the blackness.”
oooof, that line is like a punch to the gut!
With a flash of insight, Lois suspected that Clark had been so worried about his mom, he had barely grieved for his father.
Increasingly heartbreaking to leave them frozen in time like this.
Which meant Clark probably didn’t get to talk about his dad either. “Tell me about him,” Lois said.
Ugh, this is so important, and so well done to give her this line. After a couple of weeks, a month(?), everyone stops asking, and it becomes so hard for the griever.
“No,” Clark said with a short laugh. “Mom was his life. As much as he loved the farm, he loved Mom more.”
OMG, just keep breaking my heart here.
"...Dad tried to help many hopeless cases. Mostly, he couldn’t save them. Occasionally, he did. Either way, they always got his best effort.”
I love the depth of this version of Jonathan that you're crafting for us. It makes sense that Clark would be raised by a man like this.
Lois, seemingly without any great effort or intent, had loosed his tongue and got him talking.
He could have done the whole job in five minutes.
This whole section is infuriating, totally apt and totally well done.
And all he wanted to do was spend time with Lois.
Awwww
To her future… without the man she loved.
Because a day without seeing Clark had felt strangely empty.
What a great last line for this chapter!
