A/N: Reminder, Raven is Rachel Roth/Knight, Kyd Wykkyd is Eliot Knight. Their daughter, Shadow is now a year old, and Kole watches her while Rachel and Eliot go to work. Rachel and Eliot had gotten married while she was preggers with shadow. Again, this was just to clarify.
Chapter eight: How Old Are You?
Ravens Pov.
"Your tie is wrong" I point out. Eliot stood perplexed with his tie in a knot.
'How do you work this thing?' He asks, very close to giving up.
"Here," I fix the tie and tighten it. He had his uniform on, A brown button down long sleeve shirt and tan khakis, and black shoes.
Kole was in the kitchen cooking eggs for Shadow, the smell drifted throughout the house as if it were searching for something in our small two bedroom appartement. I walk in to see Kole making funny faces to try to get Shadow to open her mouth. Shadow laughed as Kole stretches her features with her hand then shoved a spoonful of egg in while she could. The little girl chewed with distaste then swallowed in defeat. The process repeated. Shadow had an aditute, and I couldn't tell if she got that from me or Eliot. She loved Kole, they had become like sisters yet Shadow was only one.
"Hey Kole, I have to go, Eliot will probably stay another twenty minutes. If he doesn't leave you have my permission to kick him out for me." I said with a wink, Kole giggles in response.
'I heard that!' Eliot sends telapathicaly from the other room, causing Kole and I to bust into laughter while Shadow giggles at us.
"Bye," Kole says.
"Bye, Bye baby girl," I wave to shadow, she stretches her hand up and beckoned me to pick her up."I'm sorry, I have to go to work sweety. You'll have lots of fun with Aunty, I'll be back before you know it."
I turn to leave, grabbing my satchel and putting my coat on after I exited the door, I wouldn't even need it, its May. I hopped down two flights of stairs and through the main door that revealed a busiling city. horns blarred and profanity was thrown between drivers as there vehicles trudged along.
Talk about a city that never sleeps, Its only seven a.m. even at night such noises could be heard in my apartement. The newspaper I work for, as of today, was just six blocks to the North. I glanced to my left about to head off, There sat two bums passed out, the stench of alcohol reeked from them. I quickly walked past them and on with my trek to work.
Three blocks in I noticed the stop lights were out and two cars had just had an accident. A dark auburn haired lady steps swiftly the back of her car to check for damage, while a short, bald man looked angry.
"I have work in ten minutes and this is gonna make me late!" The short man shouted.
"If you don't recall, you hit me." The woman says calm and cooly, still observing her bumper. Her stature and voice seems oddly familiar.
"You're just lucky this car ain't damaged any!" The short man looks at her and ignores the stares from the crowd gathering.
"I'm lucky? I should sue you for the damage you caused me!" She lost her patients. She stood up straight and widens her shoulders as if to intimidate. And it works, the man turns a bright read color and looks nervous, she was almost a foot taller than him after all. The lady sighs and looks away from the man and her eyes sweep the crowd.
When our eyes locked I knew emediantly who it was.
"Rachel, right?" She asks, and I step forward.
"Yes, you're Lois lane. I'm your new assistant." I smile and she returns one back.
"Yeah," She stops," Are you walking?" Lois suddenly realized I had no car. I nod. "Oh nonsense! I'll give you a ride, just let me deal with this" She points to the bald man who was glaring at her at the mention of the fender-bender.
"Okay, thanks." glad I don't have to walk now.
Lois and the short man exchanged insurance information then she gets in her car and waves me over. I get into the passenger side of the well-kept inside seats.
"Again, thank you for the ride."
"Oh it's no problem, It's not like we work on different continents." She laughs. We pull out into the bustle of the cars, luckily, traffic had died down and we made our way to "The Daily Planet." She pulls in to the parking garage just acrossed from the newspaper. Finaly, she found and parked in the third level, every other level had been filled with cars. She shut the car off and we got out.
"The elevator is right over here," I follow her down the rows of cars and trucks to the elevator doors that held a bright yellow "out of order" sign taped to it. "Damn, well there is stairs right next to it. Sorry."
"Dont worry about me, I'm fine." I say, glad I had put on tennis shoes this morning instead of my heels.
We walk down the two flights of stairs in silence, then as we were crossing the road she spoke, "You have a desk waiting next to mine. I'll introduce you to everyone. Their all nice, and there are a few single young men who will work with us if you're interested." She glances over her shoulder at me with a smirk.
"I'm married." I tell her. She would have never guess that coming from a nine-teen year old.
She stops right at the door with a hand on the door and turns her whole body to face me. A questioned appearance lit her features. "how old are you?"
"Nine-teen," Wonder what she'll think.
"Oh honey you're still young, why'd you settle down? Is he special to you?" She recovers from the shock and continues through the main door.
"Yeah, I defiantly love him, and we have a kid together." A receptionist from the desk murmurs a "Hello" in our direction, we both return the formal greeting.
"You're only nine-teen and you got married and had a kid?" She asks as she made her way through to the elevator, this one was working, thankfully.
"yes, or the other way around, had a kid then got married. My baby is the best thing that ever happened to me." I tell her and I couldn't help but smile.
"Boy or Girl?" We step into the elevator and she hits a button and the doors close and the inclosed box begins to move with a jerk.
"Girl, her name is Shadow. She just turned a year old last week."
"How cute! Most girls who have their first baby don't want them, I'm glad you're not that way." The doors open and show a hopping news room. It was filled with chatter, phones ringing, and the sound of typing. There were several rows of cubicles and Lois led me to our spot. She sat down at her desk and mine was next to hers, like she'd said. I sat down and pushed the strands of black shoulder length hair from my eyes. I open my satchel and pull ou the picture frame of Eliot and Shadow at the park from last month. I had taken the picture without them knowing when they Eliot was pushing Shadow on the baby swings, they both looked so happy. I set the picture on my desk next to the computer monitor.
"Hey Lois, I got this great picture for your article!" I look up to see a tall light brown man walks over to Lois holder a camera. He looks up and see's me."Who's the new girl?" He walks to me and holds out his hand to shake, leaving Lois without another word."Hi. I'm Jimmy Olsen. I'm the photographer for the newspaper. And you are?"
I shook his hand."Rachel Knight. I'm Lois' assistant."
"Thats great, so I'll be seeing your pretty face around then?" oh Azar, he did not just-
"Sorry to burst your bubble Jim, but she's married" Lois chimes in. Jimmy turns to face Lois with disappointment.
"Thank you" I mouth to her behind his back, she smiles in response.
"Man, oh well. Sorry for flirting with you, uh, Rachel." He smiles nervously and shrugs his shoulders.
"It's fine." I say and wave a hand dismissably.
"Anyways," He turns back to Lois,"Here's that picture for you." I notice him glance at me again.
This is going to be a long day...
"Thats perfect Jim, email it to me." Lois says.
"Were's Clark?" He asks curiously.
"He's covering a story about the flu epidemic this year, So he's out-of-town for a few days in New York City." he nods and walks off.
"Sorry about my coligue, he's a bit lonely." She rolls her eyes.
"It's fine. Who is Clark?" I ask her.
"He's my husband and a journalist here." She wakes up her computer and types in a password.
"Oh," I say.
"That's your Husband and kid I'm guessing." She says pointing a finger at the photograph I just set on my desk.
"Yep, that's them."I say, smiling at the memory.
"She's so adorable."
"Thanks. it was worth the nine months of treacherous nausea and weight gain." I say, Lois just laughs.
"Yeah, hey I have an errand for you." She says out of the blue.
Well when I was right in the middle of writting this, being the retard I am, I exited out of the page without saving so I lost the majority of what I had written. But alas! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun, just kidding! it's just me. As always, read and review!