Shayne! Ugggg! What are you doing to us?
“Why?” she asked.
It was a complex question, and Clark considered his answer carefully.
“I want to get to know your mother better,” he said finally. He stared out the window out over the lake. The moonlight lit everything in high relief. He wondered how it would look to a normal person’s eyes.
“Before you tell her?”
Lisa approached, and Clark stepped to the side so she could look out over the lake.
“The last time I told someone my secret, it didn’t work out very well,” Clark said. It was an understatement.
“My mother wouldn’t do anything to hurt you,” Lisa said. “She’s a good person.”
I am so frustrated with Clark. He wants Lisa to keep this from Lois. Well, Lois isn't Lana! I understand where he's coming from...I really do but if anyone can be trusted, it's Lois. She has his child for heaven sake. She would not even tell Clark Kent what she needed to see Superman for! Lois stands to suffer the brunt of publicity and I don't think she's willing to take that chance with Lisa. Lois in NOT Lana!
And by the way, what did that hussy do? Lana? Oh, Clark had better tell Lois before Lana does in the midst of trying to destroy him. Maybe Lois will use the information to help Clark when he gets his *** in such a mess with things that she has to bail him out.
Clark had thought Lana was a good person too. In high school, she’d been a little overbearing, but he’d thought she’d cared about him. It had been more than he’d had with anyone else. After he’d made his first million, she’d gotten a lot friendlier.
It had hurt when he’d realized that she liked who he was while under the influence of the red poison a lot more than she’d liked the person he really was.
When he’d realized what she’d been doing, it had felt like something inside him had died.
“She might not mean to,” Clark said, “But sometimes we hurt people without even knowing what we are doing.”
Exactly Clark! Think about what you're saying here.
Lisa stared at him, and Clark cleared his throat. “If your mother knew…she’d have certain expectations. She’d think I was one kind of person when I really am not. In the end…she’d be disappointed.”
“So you want her to know the real you,” Lisa said quietly.
Clark nodded.
“Ok.” She said simply.
Clark you are a good person or you would not have offered Lois and Lisa to visit. He cannot see that Superman is just Clark in a change of clothes. The good person is in there. He wants so badly to be Lisa's father--a good father but at the same time afraid that he'll screw things up. If he'll just let them, Lois and Lisa will help him.
“After everything we went through, he puts the brat in the nursery?” The muted sound of rage in her voice worried him. She wasn’t stable at the best of times and now he didn’t know what she was going to do.
“Keep an eye on them. Find out why he’s brought them to the house.” The voice was suddenly curt.
Wow, this Lana is the female version of Lex!
I get the feeling that Lois will not be going back to Metropolis.
Well done Shayne! Absolutely fabulous! Loved it!
~Sheila
