[DC fanfiction: Jon Kent (Superboy / the new Superman) x original heroine]
When she was ten, Rory Ellis spent the price of a breakfast to buy a transfer student who had fallen from the third floor, brushed off his pants, and walked away.
After that, she had a new desk mate, a troublemaking friend, and a secret she decided to pretend she didn’t know.
Later, he disappeared after leaving her just eight words: “I’ll come back. Wait for me.”
She waited seven years.
In the summer she turned seventeen, the new Superman descended on Metropolis, and the whole city looked up. Out of hundreds of thousands of people, only she recognized the way he tilted his head to listen.
The night before their reunion, a black car stopped outside her apartment building. LexCorp had a hold over her mother dating back twenty years. They wanted her to get close to the new Superman and serve as their eyes on the board.
She agreed. If someone was going to keep an eye on him, she would rather it be her than anyone else.
By day, she was his desk mate. Late at night, she brought him hot cocoa at his window. And every Thursday, she was an informant in the underground. Every report she handed in was truthful, credible, and flawless, and every word helped keep him safe.
Getting close to him was the mission. Falling for him was real.
Until a dossier arrived one day before she could confess.
(The complete manuscript is finished, so feel free to dive in.)
Theme: Ordinary people looking out for one another is a form of heroism.
