This is a completely fascinating premise. Lois is on a mission; she has to save the life of Clark Kent. But she is also a woman who for two years has felt like a "widow" - if I remember the previous two parts correctly she had never actually married him before he died in her original timeline - but after his death, she realized that Clark Kent had been the center of her life, even the reason for her existence.
Now Lois is a frighteningly mature and supernaturally "knowledgeable" teenager, a young woman with an, at the start, almost exact knowledge of her own future. However, the longer she stays in her new timeline, the more it will deviate from her original one, and the more the entire timeline she has come to will be affected. We are talking about the second law of thermodynamics, which is actually a movement into greater chaos and less predictability, and this in turn is the reason why the arrow of time always carries us inexorably forward. (Enough rambling.)
So the longer Lois stays in her new timeline, the less she will know about what is going to happen in it. The future will eventually become as unknowable to her as it is to us (or pretty much so).
And as others have already pointed out, Lois and Clark have already fallen for each other like a ton of bricks in this timeline. Will Lois really stay away from Clark for another ten years so as not to disturb "the proper timing" of things? Not willingly, no. Not unless you, Shayne, do something to keep young Lois and Clark forcibly apart.
I have to say that I absolutely loved how you showed us, in this chapter, how Clark just instantly recognized this very young woman whom he is destined to love. And I also loved, of course, how Lois was so powerfully affected by seeing and hearing him.
This is very, very beautiful and totally fascinating.
Ann
