[ so, two important things: slower updates I think because I'm going through some health issues. maybe every few days instead of each day like I usually do with new fics. I touched on my issues on my announcements thingy on my page but don't really want to go into details.
second, same thing I said in my ted lasso fic — I'm not black like the talented gorgeous brandy, the face claim, or any form of poc, so there are things that I can't relate to or haven't experienced. but if there are things that you personally hate OR love to see in fics that represent you, please let me know so that I can avoid or include those details. your input is important to me! ]
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ARE YOU FLIRTING WITH ME, MARK?
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ELEVEN — that was the age that Imani Robinson knew she wanted to be a journalist. It was fifteen when she first discovered Gale Weathers, a fairly young reporter that was trying to make a name for herself during the public trial of the brutal murder of Maureen Prescott in California. And it was at nineteen that she discovered her mother knew Gale freaking Weathers, author of three best selling books.
Dr. Alina Robinson had been one of Gale's favorite professors in college when she was getting her own degree at the same school Imani was going to now — it wasn't her dream school, but she got free tuition because her mother worked there.
And that wasn't the only way Imani benefited from her mother's position. Because when Imani turned twenty and started her junior year of college, it was announced that the journalism students should start looking for internships and summer programs to help build their résumés up and get them more experience in the field.
And that was how Imani secured a job as Gale Weather's assistant — though she liked to use the term 'junior journalist.' And it was all because Gale favored Imani's mother so much and felt like she owed her a bit of gratitude for how helpful and inspiring she'd been to Gale, who learned all her cut-throat methods from her.
Imani would never complain about nepotism so long as she was the one benefiting from it.
Admittedly, Gale didn't let Imani do much. The famed reporter and anchor of Total Entertainment preferred to do things herself. Imani got to do fact checking and interviews for fluff pieces. But the work wasn't always glamorous, hard-hitting journalism work.
Take now for instance.
Imani was in line at a sushi restaurant with instructions to pick up dinner for Gale, which wasn't exactly exciting. But at least Gale was buying her dinner as well, and Imani loved sushi just as much as the older woman did, so she'd never complain.
Really, Imani never would complain period. She idolized Gale Weathers. In a field that was still so male-dominated and hard to be taken seriously as a woman, Gale was known all over the country for her work during the Woodsboro and Windsor College murders. She had gone up against Ghostface killers twice and lived to tell the tales in books that followed the one she wrote about Maureen Prescott's murder the year before it all started. And that had earned her a well-deserved job at Total Entertainment — Sixty Minutes Two hadn't worked out for her, but that was okay.
