Okay, Carol, 'fess up! Who is Grandma Davis????
Yes, I know, she is Clark's grandmother. The one million dollar question, however, is
whose mother she is!!! This is what you told us about Grandma Davis:
one of the quilts Great Grandma Davis had made knowing she'd never see her grandson marry my mom.
And you also said this:
"Don't you *dare* call me that, Clark Jerome Davis Kent. I am *not* your baby. Not anymore."
I winced. She didn't just middle name me; she whole named me. Even Mom didn't 'Davis' me very often. How had I screwed this up so badly?
So who is Grandma Davis? Whose mother is she? At first I thought she was Jonathan's mother. The fact that she had made a quilt - had made several quilts, in fact - made her sound 'rural' to me, and I once read somewhere that Martha was originally a Boston girl. I always liked that, and I just don't think of Martha's Boston mother as a person who would make a lot of quilts.
So that would make Grandma Davis Jonathan's mother. Except that surely doesn't explain why mother and son would have different last names! How can Jonathan
Kent be the son of Mrs Davis? That doesn't make sense.
Wait, don't tell me! Surely you don't mean that your Jonathan's last name is in fact not Kent, but Davis? He's Jonathan Davis? No, that can't be right either.
Clark is Clark Kent, so how can his father be Jonathan Davis?
So Grandma Davis is Martha's mother, then? I don't know if I believe that either. Consider the quote above:
one of the quilts Great Grandma Davis had made knowing she'd never see her grandson marry my mom.
Grandma Davis knew that
her grandson - Clark - would not marry
his mother - Grandma Davis' own daughter? Wouldn't she just say that she knew that her grandson wouldn't marry her daughter? Thinking of your own daughter as 'his mother' just doesn't sound right to me. Besides, Martha is the person who is calling Clark 'Davis' most often, and apparently she does it when she is angry at him. Would you use your own maiden name to show your son that you are angry at him?
So is it possible that Grandma Davis is not Jonathan's mother and not Martha's mother, but she is still Clark's grandmother? And if so, how can that be?
Okay, let me present a wild and crazy theory. Remember that even though Sam and Ellen were in love, Ellen became pregnant with another man's child, and she gave her son up for adoption. What if Martha and Jonathan did the same thing? And what if they gave Clark up to Grandma Davis?
For this to work, I think that Clark would actually have to be Martha's biological child. Imagine that! She would have had to be unfaithful to Jonathan, or else she was raped, or else she was tricked somehow, or... well, I don't know. She must have had sex, voluntarily or not, with another man. And guess what? This man would have had to be Kryptonian!!!! (I know, I know, I know....)
Okay, so Martha became pregnant with a half-Kryptonian child, but she gave the child up to Grandma Davis. (Make that Mrs Davis.) Clark stayed with Mrs (and Mr) Davis for a few years, but then Martha and Jonathan brought him back home. But Mrs Davis, who was considerably older than Martha, was able to remain in Clark's life as Grandma Davis. Okay, Carol, how am I doing?
Of course, if I'm right another person may still be at large... Clark's biological, Kryptonian father!!! Where is he now? Does he know about Clark? Is he looking for him? And, by any chance, is he looking for Lois and Clark's baby?
Well, that was a wild and crazy theory, but you must have given us Grandma Davis for a reason, Carol!
Ann
