Supercorp: Unexpected Feelings

Chapter 104

It is now two more weeks later, meaning that Andrea has been in a coma for just over a month now, which has both been a bad thing, and a good thing. It has been a bad thing because Andrea is still in a coma, which means she isn't awake and able to talk to Natalie and Ashley and everything, which has been the major thing that has upset the girls. Then, on top of that, both Lena and Kara, as adults, know that the longer someone is in a coma, even a medically induced one, the higher the likelihood is that they won't be able to come out of that coma, or will just have some more severe long term health complications. Obviously Kara and Lena have not expressed these concerns to Natalie and Ashley, as they just don't want the girls to be even more worried about Andrea than they already are. Lena and Kara just hope that Natalie and Ashley don't start doing their own research, online, about medical comas and everything, as while they might find out some upsetting truths about the risks of continuing to be in a coma, they will also likely just read some inaccurate medical theories about everything, which upset them a lot, as after all, the internet is not an ideal place to really do any medical research or anything. That is clearly shown by how regular it is for someone to google any small aliment they might have, and then for the results to suggest that they have cancer, which is just ridiculous. However, not everything has been all negative, despite the fact that Andrea is still in her coma. The big positive, which Lena has really thought about, is that even though Andrea is actually still in her coma, she is still alive, which has been what they have wanted to happen at the end of the day. Then, now that over a month and a half has past since Andrea first went into the medical facility to actually begin treatment, it means that Andrea has officially outlived her terminal life expectancy that her other doctors gave her. So, because of that, Lena is really taking optimism from it, and hoping that while Andrea may still remain in a coma, this treatment is actually working, and is helping to keep Andrea alive.

Outside of everything in regards to Andrea, Kara and Lena have both tried to just return to somewhat of a normalcy in their lives. Making a big effort for it not to be entirely focused on the grief of Andrea being in a coma, which is felt by Natalie and Ashley. Kara and Lena personally have each just got on with their respective jobs, with Kara working as a reporter on a few articles at CatCo, while Lena has been continuing to work at L-Corp. Both Kara and Lena have each been making sure to try and get home from work as soon as possible each day, even taking some half days on some occasions or just working from home in the afternoon. Neither Kara or Lena like the idea of Natalie and Ashley getting home from school and just being alone with each other. Kara and Lena think that's a good way for the girls to just be stuck in a spiral of misery, and that's just not good.

In regards to CatCo specifically, over the last month things have been moving forward so that the sale of CatCo to Lena will be complete, and the L-Corp CEO will be able to take control of the company, and thereby ensure her fiances job. However, obviously at the moment there is literally no risk whatsoever about Andrea buying out CatCo and firing Kara from her dream job. Obviously this issue was basically resolved in court prior to Andrea being taken to the medical facility, but still, now there can be no nasty little last minute surprises that Andrea throws at her in regards to CatCo. That said, that doesn't mean Lena buying CatCo has been all smooth sailing or anything, as a few issues have cropped up here and there. The first issue actually came up about 3 weeks ago when the news started to officially break that Lena Luthor, of L-Corp, was acquiring CatCo. Upon hearing this, some people at CatCo were no thrilled about the idea of a Luthor running CatCo, as even though it's been almost 20 years since Lena's brother, Lex, was put in prison for his crimes while running L-Corp, still to this day there is a bad taste in people's mouths when the Luthor name is brought up. However, this was to be expected from Lena, and wasn't even the main issue. The main issue was that a lot of people, both inside CatCo, and out were worried that as CatCo's owner would now also be the owner of one of the major tech companies in the US, and the world that CatCo's reporting on L-Corp and other companies would be influenced to give a more positive impact to L-Corp. To tackle this, Lena has simply put out a brief public statement saying that she wants CatCo to continue to be a fair and balanced reporting organisation, even on topics related to L-Corp and its competitors. This statement did help quell some of the worries but not most of them. Lena knows she won't be able to do that until she actually gets to speak to all the employees of CatCo directly, along with the CatCo board in a few days time.