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Cute, Ann!!


Naughty, naughty daughter…


Not on ‘this side’ anyway…


That woman just keeps popping up, doesn’t she?


Oh, man, poor Lois was pregnant a loonngg time. No wait.. Those little critters could live a loonggg time with that drug, couldn’t they?


Bet she can, too - fly to Smallville that is.


K… No, no… J… You sure her name's not Priscilla?


Awww…. She’s afraid her mom will be that mad? Isn’t this just like a kid?


Yep, gonna be mad, Clara.


What’s a ghettobird? A helicopter?

Hope that girl knows a lot about geography.

This is good Classicalla, even though Lois is going to strangle her when she catches up. Sounds like she needs superman!

doublel

I'd suggest flying, but I'm thinking someone would notice her doing that for sure...

Hilarious!!!!

Love the part where they go in the diner. Very nice! I'd have to quote it all, so I won't - but really, very nice and sweet and.. awww! poor lil Clara.

Ah, see - I couldn't get my eyes off the rest of the story long enough to quote from it again. I loved it, Ann!! I can't wait to read more of it! Yay!

This is just so cute. I've read the other two prequels and have enjoyed them. I cannot wait for Clara to get to Smallville. Maybe Clark is back!

Was this a slip up of accidentally on purpose?

Hi,

Great start!

I love your Super-Santa Series. It's so original. And funny. Did I mention hilarious? No? Well, that, too.

This totally freaked me out. Lois would have a hard time killing that girl, even if she tried.

This is so sweet. Bobby liking Lois' little girl so much.



Great writing, Ann! Can't wait for the next part!

Slip up... Fixing it.

Fixed the TOC, too.

Thanks a billion for the feedback, everyone!

Nancy, I really like that you spotted this:

They sure could!!!

Ehh, hmmm... I wouldn't necessarily bet on this...



Yep!

Yes, and I'm entirely with Clara here: it's sweet that he couldn't resist her.

I think so too. And anyway, the flying bit isn't going to come at all easily to Clara.

So glad you liked it, Lara! I thought it was funny, too.

Sheila, I'm so glad you like this story!

Yes, Maria, I think Lois has figured out that Clara has her diary. When Lois came home, taking the elevator up to her apartment, she could hear that Clara was running down the stairs as is the devil was after her. Maybe Lois tried to catch up with Clara, but she would soon notice that she had no chance of doing so. So I'm sure she went back up to her apartment to try to figure out why Clara had become so upset. And then she would have found out that her secret drawer had been broken into, and that her diary was missing.

Also, no, Clara doesn't know where Smallville is. She has a general idea of where Kansas is, of course, but I'm not absolutely sure that she knows exactly how to get from Metropolis to Kansas, if she has to go there by flying or running there herself.

Thanks a billion, Mellie!

Well, I don't think Lois is all that angry - I think that right now, she's more a concerned and remorseful mother, blaming herself for making her little girl run away. Even so, seeing what you wrote here, I couldn't help picturing Lois unsuccessfully trying to strangle Clara!

I'll try to be back with the next part as soon as possible, but I have to admit I haven't even started writing it yet. (Bad Ann, get your act together, or Lois may try her stranglehold on you instead of on Clara.... )

Ann

Oh, Ann, please do bring us the next part soon! I'd like to see Martha and Jonathan apply some of that Kansas common sense to her situation.

But this whole situation implies that Clara has never met her father's parents! Are you telling us that Lois never told Jonathan and Martha about their grandchild? Or that they refused contact? I find both of those scenarios a little hard to swallow, especially since Lois had surely met the Kents during the Bureau 39 fisaco in Smallville. Or did that not happen in this universe? I'm confused. Please enlighten me.

And I'd like to wash that twelve-year-old mouth out with some anti-bacterial soap. She's got a mouth on her, that one does. Of course, having been raised by the dynamic and single-minded Lois Lane would do that to an impressionable young girl.

This really is good stuff, Ann. Keep it up.

Hi Ann,

Happy New Year!

I've just read this story and this is BRILLIANT.
Stuart

Jippie! Someone who knows how to spell 'Angst' correctly! Doing the happy dance.

Terry and Stuart, thank you so much for your feedback!

Stuart, a Happy New Year to you, too! I'm so glad that you like my story and that you like my version of Bobby Bigmouth. Actually, it really was Bobby who contacted Lois and told her where Clara was - I'm not going to elaborate on it, but yes, it was Bobby who "snitched", and that's why Clara called him a traitor. But honestly, what could he do? In time, Clara will understand.

Terry, thanks for reading! Actually, this is a story where Clark's daughter has indeed never met her paternal grandparents. This is an Elseworlds story, where Clark left for Krypton before he ever made his debut as Superman, even if he did have the suit ready (presumably made for him by Martha). But while this Clark was never Superman, he was - once - a flying Santa Claus, which is why Clara thinks of herself as Santa's daughter. Because Clark never called attention to himself as Superman, Bureau 39 may never have existed and has certainly never tried to kill him.

Not only that. Clark's relationship with Lois is radically different in my story from what it was in the TV show. While it is true that this Clark and this Lois both worked at the Daily Planet for a short time, Perry never partnered them, and Lois never paid any attention to Clark until she started to track down "Santa Claus". (Clark may have fallen in love with Lois pretty much right away, but he never did anything to try to make her fall in love with him.) By the time Lois cornered him and told him that she knew he was the flying Santa Claus, Clark had already made up his mind that he was going back to Krypton. All the necessary preparations had been made, and his ship was waiting for him. But when he meets Lois to talk to her shortly before leaving sparks fly, and they practically fall into bed together. To Lois, their lovemaking is beyond anything she could ever have imagined, and her shock at being told that her lover is leaving for Krypton in a few hours is absolutely devastating. In my story, Lois is desperate to have Clark's child, so that she will have something left of her lover. At the same time, however, she feels absolutely unable to tell Clark's parents that she is expecting their son's child.

So the long and short of it is that Clara has never met Jonathan and Martha, and in fact she had never heard about their existence until she stole Lois's diary. (She also didn't know anything at all about her father before she read what Lois had written in her diary.) This is an important reason for why Clara is feeling so betrayed, and it is an important reason for why she is so determined to go to Smallville to meet her grandparents.

Ann

Ann wrote back to me:

I can see her being desperate to have Clark's child, but to cut Clark's family out of his child's life is not a good thing, and on the surface looks to be incredibly selfish and hard-hearted. If a girl or young woman showed up on my doorstep claiming to be my unknown grandchild, I would not feel very charitable to her mother. I'd consider it the minimum of politeness to be notified of her existence.

Oh, my. This is truly out of character for "our" Lois, but apparently not for "your" Lois. Does this mean that she has been less than completely honest with other people in her life? Has she cut professional corners and maybe lowered her ethical standards more than once to get a story?

Seen in this light, Clara's decision to flee to Smallville may have some far-reaching consequences for Lois, too. This will certainly shock Jonathan and Martha, and Clara will surely not treat this witholding of information lightly. Lois's credibility as a mother is at stake here, and unless she comes up with an absolutely dynamite explanation for her lack of action, it's going to cost her dearly, maybe for the rest of her life.

And what if Clark has had intermittent contact with his parents over the years? What will the news that he had a child with Lois do to him? How will it affect his position on New Krypton (assuming he has an exalted position at all)? What might it do to any relationship he might have established there (like with Zara and any children they might have had)? And even if he hasn't had any contact with Earth during that time, might he not return some day? There's trouble coming.

This may necessitate a couple of additional chapters from you, Ann, while you hammer out this seeming act of selfishness. Unless Lois has a really, really good reason for keeping the Kents in the dark, she's going to lose a great deal of her future.

So keep up the good work! I definitely want to read about Clara's first meeting with her grandparents, and I want to see how they react. This could be more than just explosive. It could go pear-shaped and nuclear in a hurry.

(Got that one from another author on this site. Means "go really, really bad." Or so I was told.)