Sort of wrote this in one swoop after posting chapter 8. It's rather short so apologies for that.

Jimmy smiled down at the photograph in his hands with pride. It was hard not to. "Hey Perry," he said as soon as he opened the door to the editor-in-chief's office. "I've got…" Standing in Perry White's office was Cat Grant, Lois Lane, and one of the new producers for PGN. "Am I interrupting something?"

"Yes, James. You are." Jimmy ignored Cat and asked the question again to Perry.

Perry answered him. "No, actually I'm glad you're here, Jimmy. I heard you have one of the first images of this new Supergirl."

Jimmy smiled and approached Perry's desk with an outstretched arm. "Here she is." Perry slid his reading glasses on and gave a short grunt when he viewed the image, evidence of his acceptance of it. "Good. Good. We'll print it tomorrow morning."

"Why not tonight?"

"That's why I'm here," said Cat. "One of PGN's cameramen captured some footage of this Supergirl. Perry's agreed to wait to publish your photo so we can get this footage out."

Jimmy opened his mouth to argue against this when Lois raised her hand and shook her head. He took a deliberate breath and crossed his arms. "Fine, Cat. First you get to smear Supergirl's name and now you get your exclusive. Congratulations. Looks like Supergirl has done more for your career dead than alive."

Cat stretched out her fingers before curling them into fists. She stood up slowly, looked at her producer, and then spoke to Perry. "Have a good day, Perry. You too, Lois." She gave Jimmy a nasty scowl then left with her producer in tow.

"Jimmy, that was cruel. Cat may not have been as close to Supergirl as you were, but she's always had a soft spot for her."

"Lois, you've seen what she's done to Supergirl since she died. First, it was that broadcast that was nothing but 'highlights' of Supergirl during her darkest hours. And now she wants to claim that PGN was the first to get footage of this new hero. It's ridiculous."

"Relax, Jimmy," Perry said as he set Jimmy's photograph on a pile of unread resumes. "Nobody else has a clear image of this woman. Tomorrow morning your picture will be on the front page of the Daily Planet. You can even say how you were the first capture an image of her." Jimmy crossed his arms and let out a breath through his nose.

"It's not about credit," said Lois who was a few steps mentally ahead of Perry in that moment. "He's afraid of how Cat will spin this. Make this woman out to maybe be some copycat, some second-rate version of Supergirl instead of taking the time to get to know her." Lois faced Jimmy as she leaned against Perry's desk. "Am I right?"

Jimmy slid his hands out of his pocket and crossed his arms. "Maybe."

Lois smiled and pushed off Perry's desk. "Don't worry about Cat. Whatever happens next, I'll handle it. Okay?"

"Okay," he said after a beat. Lois reached up and ruffled his hair.

He pulled away and quickly tried to fix it. "Stop that. I'm not a teenager anymore."

Lois laughed. "Right. I'll talk to you later, Perry. We still have to discuss what to do about you know what."

After Lois left, Jimmy asked Perry, "What was that about?"

Perry smiled and slipped his reading glasses on as he picked up what was most likely an article. "Don't worry about it. Just go get me more pictures of this new heroine." When Jimmy didn't move immediately, Perry barked at him. "Now!"

X

Jason repeatedly spun his phone in his right hand as Cassandra and Connor spoke in hushed tones in front of him. They were in line for food at the museum's café. Cassandra still had her arms wrapped around Connor's right one. Jason couldn't help but notice that the minute they stepped in the café they had become inseparable. He didn't know much about their history but enough from Kara to know this sort of interaction was a little strange.

"What's going on with the two of you?"

Connor turned his head and raised an eyebrow at Jason while Cassandra just seemed annoyed. "Excuse you?" she said as she faced him.

"Nothing to excuse. I wanna know what happened up there. What did I miss?"

Connor and Cassandra glanced at the other before Connor spoke. "We just reached an understanding, that's all."

Jason narrowed eyes at Connor then said to Cassandra, "You told him, didn't you?"

Cassandra sighed. "I had to, Jay." Connor's eyebrows as soon as Jason's nickname left her lips.

"Since when do you call him Jay?"

Jason smirked and puffed out his chest. "We've reached understanding, that's all."

Before Connor's temper got the better of him, Cassandra rolled her eyes and stepped partly between him and Jason. "Before anymore feathers are ruffled, maybe we should get some lunch in our stomachs." The boys exchanged scowls before nodding. "Good, because both of you are buying."

X

That afternoon's conversation was still eating at Jimmy as he and Lucy watched Cat do her broadcast on the arrival of the new superheroine. "Twitter is abuzz with the arrival of this new hero who has taken it upon herself to dawn the role Supergirl. But is that what she is? A replacement for Supergirl? Or is she something else entirely? Here we have a clip of her speaking to one of our cameramen about who she really is."

The footage showed a shaking camera as the cameraman ran up to the woman. "Hey! Hey! What's your name? Are you the new Supergirl? Did you know the old one? Why are you here? Are you here to help?" The heroine set a hurt woman, whose car had been t-boned by truck that ran a red light, on a gurney then faced the camera. Jimmy couldn't help but smirk when he saw that a glare from the sun kept the woman's face from being clearly seen.

"In respect to Supergirl, I've decided to go by the name of Superwoman. Thank you." The footage finished with this Superwoman flying away.

"As you can see," stated Cat, "this new hero is no Supergirl, but she is here to help. We'll see how long that lasts."

Jimmy rolled his eyes at Cat's skepticism, a trait he hadn't seen in a while. Not since Supergirl's death at least. That was one thing Jimmy realized as the day drew to an end, Cat had reverted to her old ways in some respects. He didn't know why and was a tad curious about the reasoning behind the change. As Cat continued with her broadcast, Veronica came up behind Jimmy and Lucy with half-eaten chocolate muffin in her hand. "I guess there's no such thing as a slow day in Metropolis," she said before taking a bite of the muffin.

Jimmy and Lucy looked at her then back at Cat. "No, not really," they said in unison.

"Hm, thought so." Veronica reached behind her and pulled her phone out of her pocket. "It's my cousin. Be right back." She stepped away to a corner of the room to talk. The conversation only took a few minutes. "Hey guys, we need to go see Linda."

Jimmy turned to Veronica and frowned. "Why?"

She shrugged in reply. "Not sure. She just said she has some news about this Superwoman." Jimmy eyes Lucy before the brunette also shrugged.

"Wouldn't hurt to see what she has to say."

Jimmy gave Cat some side-eye before nodding. "Okay."

X

Kate, Stephanie, Damien, and The Question stood behind Barbara while she finished writing an algorithm on the Batcave's main computer monitor. "Oracle, I'm going to ask again. What are we going here?" said Kate. Barbara unlocked her wheelchair and spun to face the Bat Family, or those of it who were present. Nightwing was busy in Blüdhaven and Red Robin was still on mission with the Teen Titans.

"As you all have seen on the news, there's this new Supergirl running around. And though she's been doing a rather good job of filling Kara's shoes, there's still much we don't know about her.

"Except that she goes by the name Superwoman and doesn't seem to be Kryptonian," interjected Damien.

"Yes, well. Her powers, though similar to a Kryptonian's, is not quite a match. Because of that, Batman doesn't believe her origins are the same as Kara's. There's not much, though, we can say about her except that."

"She's African-American," said Stephanie.

"So we think," exclaimed Kate. "I mean, if she's not human then that might not be the best way to describe her."

"Thank you, Kate. You're right. But that's not why I called you all here. There's-" A metallic crash sounded from around the corner of a cave wall.

Kate shifted her stance and uncrossed her arms. "Barbara, who else is here?"

Barbara sighed and took off her glasses to clean them. "You can come out now." There was a moment of nothing before a young blonde girl gingerly stepped from her hiding place. Kate sucked in a quick breath. She was the spitting image of Kara, right down to the uniform. Damien and Stephanie were also surprised and intrigued by this look-a-like. Only The Question seemed unfazed by the girl's presence. To be honest though, it is rather difficult to tell what's going on in the head of a person who wears a featureless mask. Barbara reached out to the girl and took ahold of her hand. "I want you all to meet, Kara In-Ze. She's Kara Zor-El's cousin on her mother's side. And," Barbara adjusted her glasses, "our new Supergirl."

Just some notes. First, I'm not sure if anyone is thinking it but there will be no romance between Jason and Cassandra. A bromance really (if you can call it that since Cassandra is a girl). But, yeah, nothing more than friendship, which will grow over time. Also, didn't expect Veronica to be in this story as much as she is.

Also, kind of finished this while listening to True Love by Dove Cameron and One-Eyed Cat by Jenny & Tyler. Give them a listen if you want.