Brave New World: Flash

Chapter 21

"So, what exactly are you working on?" Kamila asked Iris as she entered her office.

"Well, thanks to the deal I worked out with Kara." Iris said.

"You mean the deal where you sold the Citizen to her?" Kamila asked.

"Yeah, you have a problem with that? She's an old friend and she's already making a name for herself as the only media outlet that gets exclusives with Supergirl and she's already bought newspapers in Smallville and Calvintown, so I didn't see any harm in letting her buy the Citizen. Especially since it means that she and her rich boyfriend pay the bills around here and we still get to report the news." Iris said.

"Okay, I can see why you'd make that deal now." Kamila said and Iris nodded.

"Anyways, like I was saying, I think I now have a way to bring Allegra on board." Iris said.

"Really. I thought we were still looking for her?" Kamila asked.

"We were, but I finally found her in, guess where." Iris said.

"Don't tell me Iron Heights." Kamila said and Iris nodded.

"Yeah, it looks like she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but since she's a meta." Iris said.

"The court was already against her." Kamila said.

"Pretty much. But we both know she's a good kid who just needs someone to give her a chance. That's why I'm planning on starting a work release program here at the Citizen. It'll give her a chance to work off her time here and allow her to pursue her passion in journalism." Iris said.

"How are you gonna pull that off? Don't you need to have approval from the police and the government?" Kamila asked and Iris smirked.

"Well, it helps when your dad is a police detective and your fiance is the Flash." Iris said.

"So Barry knows about this?" Kamila asked.

"Yep and he's honestly thinking about doing something similar once he gets Star Labs reopened." Iris said.

"How's that going by the way, since Barry probably tells you more than Cisco tells me." Kamila said.

"It's going well. Actually, the only reason why they haven't reopened it yet is because Barry's looking for a new building to turn into the Star Labs headquarters." Iris said.

"Wait, what?" Kamila asked.

"We've already turned too much of Star Labs into a Team Flash headquarters, between the cortex, Cisco's workshop, Caitlin's medbay, the speed lab, the time vault, the pipeline." Iris said.

"Not to mention the breach room, along with that armory we know Cisco built." Kamila said and Iris nodded.

"Okay, I can understand now why they'd be relocating the actual company to a different building." Kamila said.

"Yeah, plus, the official story Barry came up with is that they're showing a new start for the company with a new location." Iris said.

"How did they get all the government restrictions lifted?" Kamila asked.

"You do remember that Barry is on a first name basis with the heads of two government organizations that can easily get those restrictions lifted." Iris said.

"It pays to be well connected I guess." Kamila said.

"Pretty much. Anyways, thanks to Barry and my dad pulling some strings, I was able to get this work release program approved with the city and Kara approved it. She said she wanted to give it a trial run here in Central City and then depending on how that goes, she might expand it to her other offices." Iris said.