Ann wrote back to me:
To Lois, their lovemaking is beyond anything she could ever have imagined, and her shock at being told that her lover is leaving for Krypton in a few hours is absolutely devastating. In my story, Lois is desperate to have Clark's child, so that she will have something left of her lover. At the same time, however, she feels absolutely unable to tell Clark's parents that she is expecting their son's child.
So the long and short of it is that Clara has never met Jonathan and Martha, and in fact she had never heard about their existence until she stole Lois's diary. (She also didn't know anything at all about her father before she read what Lois had written in her diary.) This is an important reason for why Clara is feeling so betrayed, and it is an important reason for why she is so determined to go to Smallville to meet her grandparents.
I can see her being desperate to have Clark's child, but to cut Clark's family out of his child's life is not a good thing, and on the surface looks to be incredibly selfish and hard-hearted. If a girl or young woman showed up on my doorstep claiming to be my unknown grandchild, I would not feel very charitable to her mother. I'd consider it the minimum of politeness to be notified of her existence.
Oh, my. This is truly out of character for "our" Lois, but apparently not for "your" Lois. Does this mean that she has been less than completely honest with other people in her life? Has she cut professional corners and maybe lowered her ethical standards more than once to get a story?
Seen in this light, Clara's decision to flee to Smallville may have some far-reaching consequences for Lois, too. This will certainly shock Jonathan and Martha, and Clara will surely not treat this witholding of information lightly. Lois's credibility as a mother is at stake here, and unless she comes up with an absolutely dynamite explanation for her lack of action, it's going to cost her dearly, maybe for the rest of her life.
And what if Clark has had intermittent contact with his parents over the years? What will the news that he had a child with Lois do to him? How will it affect his position on New Krypton (assuming he has an exalted position at all)? What might it do to any relationship he might have established there (like with Zara and any children they might have had)? And even if he hasn't had any contact with Earth during that time, might he not return some day? There's trouble coming.
This may necessitate a couple of additional chapters from you, Ann, while you hammer out this seeming act of selfishness. Unless Lois has a really,
really good reason for keeping the Kents in the dark, she's going to lose a great deal of her future.
So keep up the good work! I definitely want to read about Clara's first meeting with her grandparents, and I want to see how they react. This could be more than just explosive. It could go pear-shaped and nuclear in a hurry.
(Got that one from another author on this site. Means "go really, really bad." Or so I was told.)
