A/N: Chapter Three! Jimmy. I must say, I had a little more difficulty with this one than the other two chapters…I hope you like it! Please review and let me know!
This May Call for a Proper Introduction
Swear to shake it up, and you swear to listen
Oh, we're still so young, desperate for attention
I aim to be, your eyes
He was overlooked, ignored, stepped on, and patronized. He was the one no one noticed. No one but Clark, that is. To the rest of the Planet's staff, he was nothing but a glorified errand boy. He'd dreamed of being a great photographer. When a job had opened for an assistant at the Planet, he'd jumped, thinking that he'd learn from the best, watch them work. But he'd been wrong. Instead of loading film into a camera, he loaded paper into printers, made coffee, copied, faxed, and mailed millions of sheets of paper and never once touched a camera. No one thanked him for his diligence, in fact, Perry White threatened to fire him at least twice a week. Until Clark.
Clark Kent had made him feel human again and not like gum on the bottom of a shoe. In return he defended the shy, clumsy man from the vicious, cruel, and often demeaning office gossip that circulated. He studied Clark, noting that, while he was shy and clumsy, he was more competent than half the other writers on the staff. While they struggled to rise above mediocrity, he was partnered with Lois Lane—absorbing the headstrong woman's temper with a quiet, steady acceptance. It probably helped that he had a crush on her, but Jimmy was still impressed despite himself. Lois Lane worked alone. No partner or assistant lasted more than a week. But Clark lasted. And Jimmy learned.
He learned to wait. He wanted the attention, the glory and fame desperately. He wanted to jump right in and turn the mundane, everyday world on its head with his pictures. But from Clark he learned instead to watch. Observation was, at least in the older man's arsenal, a far more powerful tool than constantly locking horns with those around him. And slowly, Jimmy's perspective changed. Soon, instead of wanting to be brash and bold and scream statements with every shot, he simply wanted to observe the unobserved, shed light on the overlooked. To be the eyes of those who hadn't seen or wouldn't see.
The day Jimmy Olsen realized his new mindset, he was handed a camera and his only regret was that Clark wasn't there so Jimmy could thank him for what he'd learned.
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