She was able to get a grip on the whole Internship (eventually) just within a couple of days and after quite the few fumbles and the literal tumbles that she had accidentally somehow done on the road to success in the path career to Journalism.
One of them was including breaking the old coffee machine when she saw Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen there again the Daily Planet, this time going on a double date. She had accidentally walked into it and hit it with her hand, smashing it to pieces because she somehow karate chopped it into oblivion and not even all the kings horse and all the kings men couldn't put it together again. There was also a small fire that was caused with the electric wires of the machine that was messed up to begin with and was quickly put out, sadly when the sprinklers came on.
And she in the end was soaking wet that day and was sent home that day dripping wet and embarrassed. She was so convinced that this was karma for her accidentally soaking Bruce Wayne with a bottle of water and the mess that she had made still made her cringe thinking about it.
But what was most mortifying of all was the fact that she was wearing a white shirt that day and it was very see through by the time the water had stopped running and a lot of people had seen all this happen.
She really wondered why she was not let go or fired after that but apparently they were short staffed and it was mostly because she was the fastest to typing they had that also made no mistakes and that was something that was her to find. They also thought she knew the dictionary by heart when they were looking for another word to use and she would automatically supply a word that they might have never even heard of.
So back to broken coffee machine, everyone hated and despised her for that because they would have to use the expensive one bought as a bribery to make the Billionaire look good in the article that was written.
And you guessed it correctly he was made to look the best out of all three of The three Boy Billionaires.
Nothing but good things was said about him, his business and most of the article was written about his looks and his winning personality that it was almost sickening to read. It was one big love-sick teen drama of a love story if she had ever read of one and even the word bunny was used.
And there was no mention of Batman but there was a small part of it in very little detail and no comment was made on his behave just the Journalist and it was about overcoming his parents murder and then there was an article published the next day on how to cope with a death in the family. There was a lot on the different situations and kinds of deaths and even how people were affected by them and what people were driven to do and how it affected people mentally. It would have been a well written article as well if more thought of the research
Oliver Queen was writing as a Bad Boy gone Good or rather pathetic alcoholic drunk that was having a major meltdown and needed a hell a lot of hell and more of a miracle. He needed lady luck and he needed to see a therapist after everything he had gone through.
And what was written about Lex Luthor ? The Billionaire that she was yet to meet because she had the feeling that they would meet one day because she did believe in chance meetings and coincidences because there was science to it and they even did it in. Coincidence it all to do with probability and statics it was rather simple when you thought about it and gathered the information you would get.
But running into two Billionaires and having a nice little chat with the was highly unlikely and was highly unlikely to ever happen to anyone or ever happen again. So, it was more than likely to happen to her again because these things always happened to her and usually in most awkward, embarrassing and worst ways possible. So, it would be only a matter of time before she met the richest and most publically powerful out of three most of all and in all of America. And thought soon to be possibly most on the world down the street in a couple of decades that it would happen.
Lex Luthor was written to be well mannered and well-dressed business man. There was one part where if there was one word that would describe him and that word used is" Lawyer "and in other words that would be calling him a shark, a well-dressed shark was what he was being called in the article. If you read the article carefully and if you knew the Journalist well enough you would know exactly what she was saying in the cleverest of ways that she was insulting without actually doing it. He was pure evil and he was just like his Father.
So, one out of three only looked good in the article.
But then again, the Journalist that had written the article had also gone on a date with the exact same Billionaire on the exact same day that she had interviewed all three of the Billionaires. This was no way there was any coincidences in this and she had met the man for more than five minutes and she had seen people fall under his spell and his charm.
He even had the whole office hanging onto his every word and they all had forgiven him for buying the expensive Italian Coffee Machine that they were all now using, countless times a day.
Oh, the coffee was really good and she hated herself for it.
Within a week he made his daily scheduled visits and at the exact same time that it was just plain annoying and harder to avoid him at the same time. You would think it would be easier to avoid hi but no if she knew his schedule then he would know hers.
There was also the fact that she was forced to go and fetch the coffee every single time that he was there and had little choice but to act dumb and just smile as if she knew nothing and that she did not nothing. She did nothing wrong and she was being punished for it and she even saved lives for fuck sake and this was how she was being punished with the hell of the stress this was causing her she could not see herself lasting much longer.
She hated him.
But there was one thing that was good, well sort of was because she was far less nervous and less clumsy not causing a lot of stupid mistakes and accidents. It was as if she had gotten comfortable around him and that was so not the case because this man gave her Goosebumps.
Everyone was happy so she was happy with them. No harm no foul, right ?
But within a fortnight he had vanished into thin air from the place, along with the Reporters good mood expect for the one Report who had been officially " dumped " and she was not happy with that. And she had shown her anger through the article that she had written the very next day labelling him as " A Lost Boy with No Soul ".
Let's just say Hell has No Fury like a Journalist been scorned and boy was she scorned alright.
After accidentally over hearing the phone calls that someone other also happened to hear but they were the ones that wanted to hear it, while she grudgingly could not stop but hear all of it. All because she had forgotten her headphones that day and you know how it just happens to work out like this all of the time.
In no time at Catherine Grant changed who she was and also her writing style started to become ore fierce than ever. The people that she started to hang around with were completely the different celebrities that she would usually interview. These connections that she had hat allowed these interviews were made through people that she had met while dating a certain someone for a while and was still in connection with them.
She had dirt on them all and was not above using it to blackmail to get what she needed as a favour to her and to them. This was clearly just the start that everyone could see after a bad break up some people change but Clark, she really did not think the changes would be this big and this fast.
The woman had a new hairstyle and new wardrobe to go with it. A new burning passion inside of her for a change in her life that she had to admire because she was not going to let a man bring her down.
" Girl. There is nothing like a bad break up to help a Woman to bring her to the top and nothing get in her way. Not even a man will get in her way "
She was told this piece of advice when she was just bringing her daily rounds of coffee and Miss Grant was seeing her wave to the other High Schooler Photographer, well he was looking at her.
But she was also told that she should ditch the glasses and get some contacts instead for a much better look.
That woman definitely did a 180 and she was not sure if she wanted to stick around or not to see what would happen next but for the next couple of weeks she was going to have to and just enjoy the bumpy ride.
Well things were much smoother and calmer after she was told that by Miss Grant, who she was more than convinced had really hated her and had it in for her for a while but not anymore that was for sure.
Very scary woman, when needed to be.
She was happy and enjoying her new environment. It was all starting to feel like she had been born for this sort of thing and it was all just natural her. She knew that she had a good thing and that she wanted to keep it running but she also knew when she had something good in her something had to jinx it. But thinking that would be like jinxing it and she did so not want to jinx it and that was what she was most scared of but then again there is probability. And there is also her unfortunate luck, never call it bad luc because if you do then something bad usually does happen.
" If something can go wrong, it will."- Murphy's Law.
That could also be a key factor.
But then again there is also another saying.
" Break a leg ! " She had no idea where the saying actually came from and neither did Chloe who basically knew everything. Lana did say that it came from the Theatre but then again everyone already knew that because it is something you say for good luck when someone is a about to go on stage.
Like you should never say " Macbeth " when you are doing the play and just refer to it as the " Scottish Play " instead. So, she was a little superstitious about a couple of things and a little panicky as well about things and well things play out weird because of that as well.
So, when her Grandfather showed up at the Daily Planet she could not be more than surprised to see him. Seeing how she did not get a warning at all from her parents but then again, he did show up unexpectedly to the Farm to visits them so she was assuming that he was doing the same thing to her.
She just wished that he did not do it when she was still in the middle of her shift and thinking that she had a shift just made her smile happily at the thought of it.
The first thing she heard was a healthy and elderly heart beat coming from the lift and she saw him step out.
Oh !
She did not know how to feel but she was happy to see him.
And she did not know if she should go over and see him right now because she was working and did not have a break for at least three more hours the way that they had worked her it would be a lot later.
He saw her and gently nodded at her so she smiled back and waved at him as he walked by and going into the office of another Journalist as he presented him carefully and dignified as he could, pressing his suit to chest.
She pressed her glasses against her face using her X-ray vision to see what was going on and who he was talking to because she wanted to know exactly what was going on. It was obvious he was not here to see her and that he was here for some other reason and she wanted to know exactly what that reason was.
" KENT ! " shouted someone.
She jumped and dropped the papers in her hands as she was not paying attention to her surrounding or what was going on.
She quickly picked them up gathering them together and putting them in the right order because she was supposed to hand all of this to the person that had called her name.
" Yeah, right here coming " she muttered.
She handed them over in no time at all and it appeared that they were actually a lot heavier than they appeared to seem, a hell a lot of heavier than they seemed because the guy was struggling and she had to help before he dropped them all over the floor.
And she just did before there was a mess all over the floor.
Her clumsiness walked right back in the door.
" Kent how do you know Clark The Shark ? " he said.
She was easy to read apparently as she was an open book and her emotions could be read all over her face, hence the saying.
" What Clarktheshark ? Why is he called Clark the Shark ? or it The ? " said Clark confused.
He looked at her as if she was a complete idiot and she then realized that she did not actually answer the question in the first place.
" Oh. He is my Grandfather " said Clark humbly.
And the guy dropped all of the papers that she had handed to him right onto the ground in shock creating a gigantic mess and potential disaster just waiting to happen. And he then looked at her as if she was supposed to pick them up and this was not a fight that she did not want to have.
So she quickly picked them up without realizing until the final piece of paper that she was using her powers again. She was so hoping that he did not see anything and it was looking good because his attention was not on her but focusing on her Grandfather instead.
So maybe a little eavesdropping would not be so bad, right now and just a little X-ray vision as well with more focus so she could see a lot closer to watch it all to find out exactly what was happening.
But right now she had to get everyone their coffees again.
" I have to get everyone their coffees " said Clark.
Too bad she was going to have to go out and get them so she could not watch the conversation that was going on behind those doors because she was really noisy and wanted to know what was happening. It was clear that it was business and that he was not there to visit her, not that she was disappointed in this or a little sad that he had not told her he was coming or had talked to her at all.
She quickly ran away from him because she did not want to answer anymore question from this guy, who's name that she still could not remember.
" KENT ! Remember three sugars in mine "
And then she heard the other orders being told to her again, even though she already knew them and never once had forgotten them.
Something was wrong and she could see that others knew it as well.
She was going to have to leave and act casual as she was about to see how far her Super Hearing could actually go and how well she would be able to work with it while multitasking.