Thanks for all the comments.
Laura, RKN, scfiJoan - While writing this story, I kind-of fell for Alt. Clark. He has a sweetness (yet an ineptitude of women) that's all his own... He's Clark, but not.
I liked the Mayson character on the show, except for the whole part of her coming between Lois and Clark. So, I wanted to give her a chance to let her and Clark's relationship run it's course.
As I warned Lynn, the calm of character introductions has played it's course, time to put the story in storm hyperdrive. (I apologize for my metaphor).