And here I thought it's just a 20 miles down the road...
Um... in
Smallville it's roughly 180 miles. In L&C canon and in this story, it's a two day drive.
Um... No, it's not. (Maybe the timing of her death, which I put during Clark's high school era in this story, but not her death itself).
From GGGoH:
Clark: "His name's Wayne Irig."
LOIS: "Oh, that's right, you know him."
CLARK: "He's a friend of my dad's. I remember that before his wife died, they used to give out these great caramel apples at Halloween."
Yeah, Clark, because the Halloween apples she gave
after she died, well, those were just creepy. (Oopps,

sorry, I couldn't resist.)
Did she and Clark have a Mrs. Robinson/Benjamin Braddock situation going and Martha found out? And then Martha bear protected her cub from the cougar.
RaFO
Are you saying he preferred Lois fully clothed? But why are you even implying that it was *that* freezing scene?
Clark's a modest fellow. He prefers Lois completely clothed while at work, unclothed while alone with him. Oh, was there *another* freezing scene that you were thinking of?
/imagines Lois now getting all hot and bothered/
No, sorry, I had to cut that scene to keep story within Gfic board rating.
Poor Lois. Won't know what to do with a Za.
Well, technically, she's familiar with all the working parts...