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Clark sat down with his mother-in-law, who was reading a magazine. Lois was in the bathroom giving Lara a bath. He wasn’t quite sure how to broach the subject, but he had to say what he had to say while Lois was out of earshot.

“Lois needs to go back to work, Ellen,” he started, looking at his hands clasped together over his knees. “Staying home isn’t working out for Lois. She’s not herself.”

“Yes. Motherhood isn’t for everyone,” agreed Ellen.

“Lois is a wonderful mother,” Clark rebutted.

“She loves Lara. No doubt about that, but I loved my children, too, Clark. Some of us weren’t hardwired for women’s work: cooking, cleaning, Mommy-and-me classes, for the isolation of motherhood. She takes after me in that way.”

This conversation was not heading in the direction he hoped. He would never compare Lois to her mother in or out of her hearing. Clark cleared his throat. “She needs something to wrap her brain around.”

Ellen looked him directly in the eyes. “And you want me to stay here and watch Lara while you’re both at work?”

Lois’s mother must have expected they would come to her.

Clark swallowed. “Lara isn’t like other children…”

“Sure, she is.”

Lois came out of the Smoothie Hut a few minutes later to see a couple of women cooing to Lara. A growl escaped from her throat.

Clark glanced up and grinned, sheepishly. “There’s Mommy, now.”

Lois didn’t know if he was speaking to the women or Lara. Through pinched lips she handed over his smoothie. “Leave you alone for two minutes…”

“Can I help it if women find Lara adorable?” Clark said, sipping his drink.

Superman’s love child, actually.

/points to fresh earth mounds in backyard, now covered in vegetable sprouts.

Aaaaaaahhh… /points to big fat scar.

/is suddenly more scared of Lois than Superman.

Is she telling her? Or him?

Wow. That’s…wow. She’s quite verbal!

Is he discovering the scar?

Oh great. He broke her. Again.

Maybe Henderson knows and didn't bring it up on purpose in front of Lois.

Flowers! Not veggies. EW! Would you want to eat those veggies?

No c-section. And shoulder scar is little tiny.

Lois telling Clark. Get your mind out of the gutter.

What scar do you think she has on her stomach?