#IM LAUGHING ARCH NEMESIS IS SO DRAMATIC BUT I LOVE IT

[hymnoire]

From spying on @velvetineblue to @goldenheirs

Gaya : Oh no, am I getting in the way of my best friend and my best enemy uniting in business? Little did I know threatening to send his psychopath of a girlfriend to a mental institute has made me an arch nemesis. Guess I have no choice but to do just that. As for writing my name in a burn book, good luck with that, the bitch can't die.

[lucindarobinsonvevo]

here’s how im envisioning elle/summer journalist conflict - 

Summer applies for the cadetship at the paper based on her experience with the school paper. Elle is back being the editor of the paper, Paul is ‘hands off’. She thinks she has no chance because of the history of conflict between their families, and also because she’s Andrew’s ex girlfriend. To her shock, Elle gives her the cadetship over hundreds of other applicants. She’s excited to work. 

To her shock and disappointment, Elle has her working on shit like cutest baby competitions, and model ship club meet-ups. Summer is used to being the top of her class, and the smartest person in the room. She doesn’t like being at the bottom of the ladder and she doesn’t like the caliber of stories she’s reporting on. Yes, there are a lot of very intentional parallels drawn between Elle’s first year at the paper and her. She begins to ‘realize’ that Elle has only hired her only to give her crap jobs as a way to cut at her father, or get payback for Tash and Andrew SOMETHING, ANYTHING. 

Summer, disappointed, decides to get journalism tips from ex-journo current school teacher and Elle’s arch nemesis Libby Kennedy. Not having the full story and always happy to think the worst of Elle, Libby agrees that Summer’s stories should be given more credit and Elle is behaving unfairly. Libby encourages Summer to chase the big story, and then defect to another paper or some such. Elle is completely clueless to this - She thinks of Summer as a more mature version of her younger self and is genuinely enjoying working with her. She tells Tash as much, and tells Karl she thinks Summer has the potential to be running the paper one day. Summer doesn’t know any of this. 

Summer chases the Big Story of the year, which Elle is already investigating,  some kind of bad business thing ig it doesn’t really matter. She decides to do something dramatic and breaks into the building or something and promptly gets into some serious trouble. Elle becomes worried when Summer won’t answer her messages about the paper the following day, and asks Chris, Andrew and Tash where she is. They don’t know and by this point Libby is gone. Eventually, Chris spills the beans that Summer said she’s chasing the big story and Elle rushes off to go and stop her from being injured. 

After saving Summer (albeit at the expense of the story) Elle is furious with her. Summer thinks it’s about losing the story but Elle is actually angry because Summer could have been seriously hurt, OR WORSE. Summer asks why Elle wouldn’t just let that happen so she would have an excuse to fire her. Elle is like? Why would I fire you? And Summer is like because you’re still mad about Cameron and you’re using me to get back at my family. This makes Elle mad as Hell because she would never let anyone take Cameron’s name in vain like that and she’s like that has nothing to do with why i hired you! I hired you to do a job! and Summer is like but you said I had potential! and you won’t let me do the job! so Elle can say back yes you have potential, Summer but so did the 150 other applicants I turned down so I could hire you. You have potential, but ONLY potential. You don’t have skill, you don’t have instincts and you don’t have a firm knowledge base. You just have potential and the only way you can get any of those thing is to WORK! to do lots and lots of little stories before I let you do bigger ones, i cannot put the work of an 18 year old highschool drop out on the front of my paper, we’d be a laughing stock. You have potential but you need to learn how to use it and I promise you, I promise you, that chasing the big story before your ready will just end up with you getting a crushed lung and losing the love of your life. She finally talks to Summer about the roof collapse, and losing Riley and how her career nearly ended before it even started -- Before Paul basically gave her the keys to the kingdom before she was ready. And they have a long talk about developing skills, and Elle apologies that Summer thought she wasn’t good enough because that wasn’t what she wanted and promises to be more clear in the future about why she does what she does. Sumer apologies for thinking the worst of her, and for costing them the story. Elle is like, I’d rather lose the story then you. 

Then we fade to ‘next week, on neighbours’