Lena looks at her, a conspiratorial glint in her eye. “You know,” she confides, leaning in close, “I am your boss’ boss. There’s no end to the strings I could pull for you.”
Kara huffs out a breathy laugh. This kind of work-related banter at last feels like familiar ground, and Kara wants to kneel down and kiss it with relief. “Buying the company to save my job feels a little bigger than ‘pulling strings’,” she retorts. “And, I’m sorry, but weren’t you the one who worried about showing favoritism?”
“Are you saying I shouldn't?” Lena’s voice lilts out of the corner of her mouth, drawing Kara’s eye to one of her glinting cuspids. “Imagine the gossip,” she drawls, “if the editorial staff somehow made the connection between the favors I’ve done you, and me asking you to come to my apartment and take off your clothes.”
Kara feels as if she’s been blindfolded and spun around violently a few times. There’s something unmistakably predatory now in the set of Lena’s jaw, and Kara is getting the distinct impression that Lena is waiting for Kara to do something about it.
But she can’t for the life of her figure out what that something might be.
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In which Kara makes a tiny new enemy, Alex has an actual functioning gaydar, and Lena breaks up with James only to immediately start dating someone else. And Kara is fine! Except for the part where she’s really, really not.
Paul McGann is Doctor Who! Monday, the 27th of May, on BBC1.
Twenty Eight years since Doctor Who (The TV Movie 1996) premiered in the UK!
@silverfoxstole I apologize! I was going to do separate gifsets for the UK airdate, but had a hectic week, and was unable to get around to it, I hope these (and maybe some photosets) will suffice!
easter!!! the shape of soup is so, so good, but i am having a Kara Danvers moment and when i skimmed them no one else asked in the comments, so, um, (extremely sheepish) what DO they say about cellists???? D:
thanks anon! they like to do it in a chair with their legs spread wide