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i_seekthelost Strange Things Are Happening Part 2 [ Open ]
Still confused and more than a little puzzled, Lana stepped through the office doors and found no one there. She turned, looking all around the office in a slow circle until she came face to face with the secretary who was stepping in through the open doors with a cup of coffee in her hands.
She looked surprised too. "But he was just..."
Through the still open doors, Lana caught sight of Bruce Wayne, slipping a hand into his pocket and putting a device up to his ear. A communicator. He got up abruptly, to scribble a note for the secretary and Lana nodded to let the other woman know, but between the tea and trying to play nice to someone who'd just been called Luthor, the secretary had enough on her hands.
"Can I get a car, please ? For the penthouse ?" Going home now seemed like the best idea. She wasn't entirely sure that secretary knew what she was talking about. Lana had left Lex in Superboy's laboratory. He couldn't be in his office in the first place. And his vice-president shouldn't have been spending time in there either.
She would go home, she'd look though Lex's things in his home office, she'd contact him, and charter the next private plane back out.
"I'll wait on the sidewalk outside the downstairs lobby." Lana said, nicely. "Thank you for the coffee." After all, courtesy cost her nothing and was remembered, even if she hadn't so much as taken a single sip.
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She looked surprised too. "But he was just..."
Through the still open doors, Lana caught sight of Bruce Wayne, slipping a hand into his pocket and putting a device up to his ear. A communicator. He got up abruptly, to scribble a note for the secretary and Lana nodded to let the other woman know, but between the tea and trying to play nice to someone who'd just been called Luthor, the secretary had enough on her hands.
"Can I get a car, please ? For the penthouse ?" Going home now seemed like the best idea. She wasn't entirely sure that secretary knew what she was talking about. Lana had left Lex in Superboy's laboratory. He couldn't be in his office in the first place. And his vice-president shouldn't have been spending time in there either.
She would go home, she'd look though Lex's things in his home office, she'd contact him, and charter the next private plane back out.
"I'll wait on the sidewalk outside the downstairs lobby." Lana said, nicely. "Thank you for the coffee." After all, courtesy cost her nothing and was remembered, even if she hadn't so much as taken a single sip.
( Read more... )