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Clark knew as soon as the information hit the newsroom that it was going to be a bad day. Lois looked up from her desk and met Clark's eyes and the both of them picked up their coffee and their coats and headed for the door. The way the world was, the way the news worked now, they knew they couldn't beat the television or the radio, but maybe they could beat Jim finding out about what'd happened, given his tendency to shut out the world while he was at work.
Unfortunately, one of the guys working interiors with Jim had his radio on and, having forgotten his headphones, he'd been sharing his music with the rest of the crew. It was an oldies station, a mix of the forties, the fifties, and the sixties, and it was pretty much music except on the hour mark, when they read out the news.
"-op story of the moment, just came through: a plane containing Captain America of all people went down somewhere off the coast Florida, right smack dab in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Would you believe that? Officials are saying it happened a couple of days ago but search crews have had no luck finding any trace of the Captain or the small aircraft he was traveling in and are requesting any and all assistance in looking for our missing hero--"
Clark knew as soon as the information hit the newsroom that it was going to be a bad day. Lois looked up from her desk and met Clark's eyes and the both of them picked up their coffee and their coats and headed for the door. The way the world was, the way the news worked now, they knew they couldn't beat the television or the radio, but maybe they could beat Jim finding out about what'd happened, given his tendency to shut out the world while he was at work.
Unfortunately, one of the guys working interiors with Jim had his radio on and, having forgotten his headphones, he'd been sharing his music with the rest of the crew. It was an oldies station, a mix of the forties, the fifties, and the sixties, and it was pretty much music except on the hour mark, when they read out the news.
"-op story of the moment, just came through: a plane containing Captain America of all people went down somewhere off the coast Florida, right smack dab in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Would you believe that? Officials are saying it happened a couple of days ago but search crews have had no luck finding any trace of the Captain or the small aircraft he was traveling in and are requesting any and all assistance in looking for our missing hero--"
