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“You looked tired, son,” she said simply.

“You know,” she said, nudging him. “Your father always said the strongest thing you could be was kind. He’d be proud.”

She didn’t offer platitudes. She didn’t say you’re doing important work or God gave you this gift for a reason . She just reached over and took his flour-dusted hand in hers. clarkandmartha

And Martha Kent was in the kitchen, humming a tune from the old radio, her hands buried in a mound of dough.

Clark closed his eyes. Above them, a distant star—the one he’d never seen, the one that had sent him away—began to twinkle. But it had nothing on the warm, steady light burning in the kitchen window behind him. “You looked tired, son,” she said simply

He was just Clark. And Martha was just his mom. And that was more than enough.

Martha dusted her hands on her apron. “I know. I was gonna call the Miller boy down the road. But since you’re here, and you can see the microscopic stress fractures in a bolt from a hundred yards…” She looked up at him, her blue eyes sharp and loving. “Maybe you could just tighten it without, you know, turning it into a pretzel.” He’d be proud

He wasn't Superman here. He was just Clark.