Maggie loved community outreach. Granted, she usually worked within the confines of alien outreach, but today she had the chance to reach kids before they became bigoted assholes like her parents. It was a career day of sorts, a favor for an ex’s current girlfriend, a science teacher at T.H. Maiman High. Come in, talk about the Science Division and how they (admittedly mostly just Maggie) were working to be better than the cops the kids saw on tv.
Tag: tw: guns
jlaw:
I think maybe sometimes I’m just holding onto this idea of perfection so tight, that something has to give. And I can’t explain it, and I won’t excuse it.
Big Little Lies: You Get What You Need
This is prompt taken from an old Lois&Clark episode (That Old Gang of Mine) that I can’t stop imagining as SuperCat: Catco building is under siege while Kara is stuck with Cat and other hostages. One of the gunmen try to rough Cat up and Kara steps between them. Gunman shoots her in front of everyone and she has to pretend to be dead. Cue emotional Cat, revealed feelings, and Supersquad trying to find a way to save Kara’s secret identity. Please, oh please, please
if she hadn’t been so distracted, if she hadn’t gone to that fire downtown, they wouldn’t be in this position. there wasn’t even anyone in that fire! they totally could have handled it without her. but no, she had to go and be a hero and now catco is on lock down and there is no way that she can emerge as supergirl without giving away everything.
worse, now she has twenty employees on this floor potentially in harms way.
worse still, cat grant has been haranguing her gunman—to be clear, the man holding a gun to her head—for the last three and a half minutes.
Question of Smoke 