Thanks for posting again. Also thanks for the synopsis. I do best with a "previously on" when I read WIPs (since I read so many at a time) even when the last part was posted yesterday.
I'm not sure where are going with this and with our past hx I don't want to sound negative but I can't find anyway to ask this without seeming negative.
It seems like you are arranging things so that this Clark is sheltered from character developing events turning him into a fragile hothouse plant.