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Tap tap tap tap tap tap.
“Will you stop with that?” Lois complained.
“Stop with what?” tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
“That incessant tapping.”
“Well Darn Lois, I don’t know what you golly mean” tap tap tap tap tap tap
[----]
“He’s been doing that all week.” Lois said to the camera. “Finding ways to drive me crazy.”
“Is it because you started dating Superman?” The cameraman asked
“No comment.”
[----]
“LOIS.” Perry called them all, interrupting the work “Do you have anything on the damn wormhole that opened above our city yet?”
“Almost”
“Turn that almost into a yes sir and we will talk. I want that at my desk. Pronto. PRONTO. Hear me?”
“Yesir!”
“Good.”
[----]
“She hasn’t even started it” Grant said, looking at the camera. “Ask me what she has been doing instead.”
“What has she-”
“Making out with Superman. Yeah. Ask me how I know.”
“...”
“I saw them. Poor Clark, but the guy can’t compete. Who wouldn’t make out with him ya know? Word on the street is, when people found out the whole Harem story was fake, they were actually disappointed.”
[----]
“Yes, yes. Come on John, you gotta give me something.”
She turned off the phone clearly seething.
“Uh, I might have something” Jimmy said
Her eyes told him to immediately get on it.
He sighed “You’ll owe me, big time”
[----]
“Jimmy always has something” Clark fixed his glass and went on to drink water but accidentally spilled some on himself, right when Lois was passing by.
The camera zoomed in on Grant’s face calling him pathetic and sad and went back to him.
“Yeah, he’s amazing, we can always count on him to have a.. a contact.”
Jimmy patted his back as he passed behind him.
“I’m uh, recording”
“Yeah, I know, but I’m here for you”
“Right”
He went on, Clark looked back at the camera. “I don’t get why they are all acting a bit weird today.”
[----]
“And then sources say that it was a portal. But the question is, if it was a portal, it must have transported something, right? So. What?”
Lois was connecting pictures while Jimmy nodded at everything she was saying.
“We believe this portal is connected with the fissure that Luthor opened last month, and Argos is keeping quiet about it, which leads us to the question, why? What do they have to hide? Our source believes the government took control of Luthor’s portals or opened one up themselves and are risking the safety of everyone for self gain.”
“You’ll need access to their building”
“Thank you”
“And Lois. Take the intern.”
She paused for a few seconds “What intern?”
No one was able to answer that question.
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“You are late” She said, as the intern scrambled his way across the room towards Perry’s to greet him.
“Yeah, sorry I lost my card then the bus stop was like attacked by this tiny eye thing-”
She grabbed his arm and started dragging him back to the door “No time, we have to go, right now, you have your camera-” she took a glimpse at his badge “Parker?”
“Ye-Yes!”
“Good.”
[----]
“It was a bit crazy” Peter fixed his hair and looked at the camera as he fiddled with his badge “Wait uh, why are you recording again?”
“Documentary on how the greatest newspaper in the world operates”
“Gee, I guess I’m lucky they took me as an intern huh?”
“...”
“So uh, as I was saying, it was a bit crazy, we got to uh, Argos headquarters and immediately they scanned us for weapons and they tried taking my camera but Lois was very firm in defending it. So we get inside and a woman was literally kicking someone’s hea-”
“PARKER” Lois yelled behind the glass “ARE YOU TELLING THEM EVERYTHING?”
His face had a severe case of guiltiness.
“THEY’LL READ IT TOMORROW LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, GET BACK HERE.”
“... Do you know If this company has HR?”
[----]
“So…” Peter leaned on Clark’s desk, the man was hunched over himself, extremely focused on writing his interview. “Uh, Cat said that you needed a shoulder to cry today?”
At the side, Cat and Steve were giggling with each other as they watched the scene play.
Clark turned to look at the newbie, so startled that he took half the desk with him, papers, pencil cups, all fell to the ground. Peter awkwardly crouched to help him pick the things up.
“Did she mention why I needed a shoulder?”
“Something about a heartbreak?”
He sighed and fixed his glasses as they finished picking the things up “Don’t listen to them” He turned to the two giggles “I’M FINE”
The two giggled away from view.
“Sorry you got caught up in this”
“It’s fine”
“So.. What are you thinking of yer first day champ?”
“Champ? Pffsh what are you? Some farm boy?”
“Born and raised in smallville.”
“Ah.”
Peter blinked, Clark blinked.
“So, uh, great talking with you, sorry about the whole heartbreak situation” He patted Clark's back once, then regretted it, but patted it again one more time before shuffling away.
Then Perry took his head out of his office and yelled “CLARK, PARK, I’M ASSIGNING YOU BOTH ON A NEW PROJECT TOGETHER.”
“Parker. Not. Park.. Great” Parker complained quietly “Just great”
[----]
“Parker? He seems like a good kid” Clark plays with his tie “Not a lot of people would offer their shoulder for someone they don’t know.” He smiled to himself “He’s a little awkward but I think he’s got a good heart.”
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“Clark?” Peter’s leg bounced up and down “He seems fine, they all do, I just have the first day of work jitters you know?”
“Is that why you look like you'd rather die than work with him?”
“Well, yeah, why else would I have this reaction? Pffshh? It’s not like I have a deep dark secret and… Why are you writing that down?”
[----]
“So, this project..”
“It’s archiving” Clark said, his patience already at zero
“What did the archives do to you?”
“He always picks me” he said, clearly annoyed “Thought my front page would change that, but I reckon this is punishment for vanishin’ during the Luthor thing.”
“I’m just glad to not be dragged to some top secret facility on my first day again, I’m ready to sit all day and not use my brain.”
Kent patted his back “You’ll love the archives then”
Five times Clark vanished and left him alone needing to go to the bathroom while they organized everything.
Poor guy, must have a bad intestine huh?
Peter’s eyes grew with pity every time he got back disheveled and looking a bit pale.
tap tap tap tap tap.
Peter grinned and started to bap bap bap bap.
Soon the two had a symphony of taps and baps.
[----]
“Yeah, I think I’ll have fun working here” Peter said, smiling to the camera “I mean, If this was my first day, Imagine the rest”