3rd Person POV
"Willow, open up!" James' voice calls through the apartment door
"Mr Olsen?" Willow asks, opening her door
"James." James corrects
"James." Willow corrects. "What do you want?"
"I got you something." James says. "A gift."
"Why?" Willow asks
"Just because." James says, turning his head slightly. "I don't know, I saw it and I wanted to get it for you."
"That's very sweet." Willow says
"Ta-da!" James exclaims, presenting a skateboard from behind his back
Willow gasps, staring at the board. James hands it to her and she accepts it with wide green eyes. "Oh, my god...thank you so much." She breathes. She looks at James. "How can I repay you?"
"You can take it out for a test ride." James says with a smile
"I will." Willow says. "Soon. Promise."
"You okay?" James asks
"Yeah." Willow says. "It's just...well, I haven't ridden on a board since I lost mine. And in between losing it and right now, I really injured myself when I pretended to die so...even though my back is okay now, I don't know, I guess I'm nervous." She whispers
"Hey, it's okay to be nervous." James tells her. "How about you leave the board inside and we make our way to work?"
"Sounds good." Willow says with a smile
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"All right, what's next on the docket?" Andrea questions the resporters. "Any celebrity divorces? Disgraced influencers? Show me the clicks."
"I've got this week's medical examiner's report, and I thought we could run a story on recent deaths." A reporter, Franklin, says
"People love to read about death." Andrea says. "It reminds them that they're alive, and it gives them the pleasure of schadenfreude. I like it."
"Twenty-year-old Uber driver, hit by a car." Franklin says, showing a picture
"If the person is boring, then the cause of death is boring." Andrea says to which Nia and Willow share a surprised look. "Wow me. Show me some sparkly death."
"Um Oh! Dr. Niles Jarrod, a health tech billionaire, recently discovered deceased in a night club bathroom." Franklins says
"My God! Dr. Jarrod died?" Kara questions. "I I interviewed him last year–"
"For your piece on the moral implications of gene manipulation." Nia says
"Knowing the dead person does not make their death interesting." Andrea says. "Next."
"Wait, wait." Kara says. "A 33-year-old genius doing significant work in the field of extending life dies young, unexpectedly? It's tragic. And certainly worth a story."
"There's hard news, legitimate feature, or brain candy." William says. "Sentimental tripe you just pitched us is a category of its own... Trash."
"How dare you." Kara says
"William's right." Andrea says. "A dead scientist is not sparkly."
"And there's no substantive story." William says. "So stop wasting our time."
"How do you know there's no substantive story when we haven't even looked into it yet?" Kara questions
"I've looked into it. Thoroughly. Nothing there." William tells her
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Willow Greene // Supergirl //
FanfictionWillow Greene was the last to escape to Earth from her planet as it was destroyed. The neighboring planet, Krypton, was destroyed 25 years earlier on the exact day at the exact time Willow was born and that destruction caused...side effects. Now, 25...
