The Flash: Supergirl's Sacrifice (Crossover Crisis No. 2)

The Flash: Supergirl's Sacrifice (Crossover Crisis No. 2) — page 9
TIME BUREAU HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON D C THE PRESENT In the privacy of her office Ava Sharpe squeezed her eyes shut tight and groaned deep in her throat She was the director of the Time Bureau a beyond top secret government organization devoted to policing the time stream and keeping history on track The pressures that came with that job were almost unimaginable and usually she dealt with them through a combination of rigid authority and no nonsense organization Sometimes though like right now it felt as though she’d been caught in a rainstorm with nothing but an old newspaper for an umbrella A part of her wondered if non-clones ever felt so completely overwhelmed She had been designed and programmed by the original Time Master Rip Hunter to be the pinnacle of human perfection but on days like this she wondered if maybe Rip had dropped a codon here or there in his genetic manipulation if the folks who’d grown her at Advanced Variant Automation Corporation had goofed up and made her slightly more susceptible to deep deep frustration No she figured Everyone felt this way sometimes In fact she reasoned her annoyance was one of the things that proved she was human albeit in convenient duplicate form And if she was the height of human development then maybe her frustration was the apex of all human frustration too Sure that made sense Is it the tuna a voice asked Ava looked up She’d thought she was alone in her office but at some point as she’d been staring fruitlessly at the insides of her eyelids Gary Green had sneaked in Gary was long and lanky his limbs dangling as though they knew they didn’t belong and would run off on their own at the first sign of danger