🅳🅴🅽🅾🆄🅴🅼🅴🅽🆃.

no time like the present  .  the cipher’s grinning there  ,  sharp and bright  .  «  glad you agree  .  »  and   --   the children  .  of course  .  «  i’m always around to babysit if you ever need a night to yourself  !  » her legs cross  ,  one atop the other  ,  and she folds forward to rest her chin in her hands  .  «  i’ve been okay  .  super busy  ,  as always  .  but i had to come visit  ,  because it’s been way too long  .  »  a beat there  .  «  you should bring the kids to visit the aquarium where i work sometime soon  .  i can get you guys free passes  !  »

[ text → ✉ → betty boss 💥]: yeah. crap. if you turn onto fourth i’m about a block down. [ text → ✉ → betty boss 💥]: some dudes with spiked bats. i’m not the fighter in our duo. c’mon. [ text → ✉ → betty boss 💥]: just hurry up and get here, would you [ text → ✉ → betty boss 💥]: pretty sure they’ve got a hostage [ text → ✉ → betty boss 💥]: ---- crap. sorry, betty! i wasn’t looking at my phone while i typed. trying to keep focused on this gang i’ve been tailing [ text → ✉ → betty boss 💥]: sorry to bother you

[ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: !!!!! [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: YOU FOUND IT [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: YOU’RE AMAZING [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: i’m sure my mom is going to LOVE it [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: thank you so much! [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: how’s your day going?! we should catch up soon!

[ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: i hate to break it to you, dans, but. no. he’s -- [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: he’s not different. [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: it’s -- definitely something you should know. [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: because it’s about krys. and what he did to her.

[ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: KARA [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: i’m trying to remember this vine i saw a little while back so i can send it to my mom [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: there was a cat on the hood of a car. that’s all i remember LMAO i want to send my mom a cat video [ text → ✉ → kar 🌈 ]: do you know which one i’m talking about? can you help me find it?

[ text → ✉ → loml 💙]: remember that agency we hacked together a little while back [ text → ✉ → loml 💙]: look i found something about one of its agents who resurfaced [ text → ✉ → loml 💙]: can’t divulge over text but it’s pretty juicy [ text → ✉ → loml 💙]: i think we can take them down from the inside now [ text → ✉ → loml 💙]: you up to hack with me tonight?

[ text → ✉ → jessie 🕸]: jessie stop we’re out in public!!!

[ text → ✉ → jayjay 👊]: jay.  [ text → ✉ → jayjay 👊]: j a y . [ text → ✉ → jayjay 👊]: c’mon [ text → ✉ → jayjay 👊]: i’m only going to say it one more time: [ text → ✉ → jayjay 👊]: you need to tell her how you feel!!!

«  isn’t that the truth  ?  »   perhaps she’s one of them  .  a decent person lacking innocence  .  she’s committed her own fair share of crimes  ,  hadn’t she  ?  even jones had noticed  ,  commented upon gemma  ,  aged sixteen with no last name and no legal guardians  .  blackmailing corporate officials and flaunting the law  .  there’s a contrast  ,  she knows  ,  between that criminality compared to sorts of persons she investigates  ,  people of status who pride themselves in taking advantage of their subordinates  .  those who lack remorse  ,  those who commit harm unto others  ,  others in positions of weakness who struggle to defend themselves  .  (   hey  ,  assholes  .  pick on someone your own size    --    she’s bigger than her body  ,  than her bones and flesh  ,  and she’s unafraid of the confrontation  )   «  but innocence isn’t the question when it comes to journalism  ,  at least  ,  not for me  .  »  seafoam hues linger on the kryptonian a moment  .  her lips purse and she drums her pen idly on the metal of her clipboard  .  ponders  .  «  innocence is a big part of it  ,  definitely  .  but it’s the good versus bad that i try to focus on  .  there’s a difference between stealing bread to feed your starving family and laundering money from a charity you’re heading  .  »  

❝  yeah  --  yeah  .  trusting people can mess you up  ,  i get that  .  ❞   god  ,  does she ever  .  isn’t that why gemma’s kept so many secrets  ?  why no one even knew of her true adopted name until samantha crock arrived at paragon  ?  ❝  you just need to know who to trust  .  and us  --  our family  ?  they’re great  .  you never have to worry about them betraying you  .  they’ve never once betrayed me  ,  either  .  and trust isn’t something i give out to just anyone  .  ❞

❝  i know  ,  but   .  .  .   ❞    (  but i would do anything for you   )   ❝   --   but you’re family  .  of course i wanted to  .   ❞   she’s fidgeting with the usb drive in her hand  ,  nothing more than a little black stick of plastic  .  ❝  it’s all in here  .  every bit of video evidence we could find that helps prove your daughter’s innocence  .  jay and i stayed up all night collecting it  .  you should really thank her  ,  too  .  ❞   she moves to tuck a stray brunette curl behind her ear  ,  flashes her porcelain teeth as she deposits the drive into jessica’s hand  .   ❝   sebastian wilson  .  that’s your guy  .  we’re sure of it  .  so make sure she stays far away from him  .  and  ,  jessie  ?  ❞   her eyes flicker over the woman’s frame a moment  ,  smile bittersweet  .  ❝  take care of yourself and your family  ,  alright  ?  ❞ 

❝  never apologize  ,  jayjay .  ❞  seafoam hues find those of her once foster mother  .  of the only woman in whom she’s confided her trust and her secrets  .  the most prevalent of them  .  she doesn’t keep things from jessica jones  ,  save for her search and rescue of samantha crock  ,  for reasons  .  because she’s long since endowed her affection towards the woman  .   has yet to retract it  .  so she’s approaching the jones slowly  ,  carefully  ,  extends a hand outwards for the woman to take  .  she eases a smile on to her features  .  ❝  i know you like holding my hand when it gets like this  .  ❞  she’s speaking softer than usual  ,  with more sincerity  .  ❝  if that’s what you want  ,  then you’re more than welcome to hold it  .  and maybe we can watch some television or something  .  order takeout  .  how’s that sound  ?   ❞

❝  and you’re mine  .  ❞  she sighs it out against samantha’s lips  ,  pressing a soft kiss before curling back onto the bottle brunette’s chest  .  gemma’s twining their hands together  ,  thumb tracing gentle circles along the crock’s  ,  and her gaze finds the ceiling  .  she looses a sigh  .  ❝  she’s going to be okay  ,  sammie  . ❞  the cipher’s referring to her soulmate’s sister  ,  of course  .  ❝  we’re all here  .  you’re here  ,  now  .  i know you won’t let anything happen to her  .  ❞

 ❝  little chameleon  ,  the world doesn’t have to be scary  .  ❞  she’s fumbling with the camera around her neck  ,  thumb running over the straps as she considers  .  gemma walker’s never really experienced fear  .  not since that one  ,  horrible night when she was sixteen  .  the one night she refuses to acknowledge  (  that ended with a ceiling fan spinning around and around and around  )  .  since then she’d absolved herself of it  ,  swallowed it whole as she would a pill  ,  dry and unflinching  .  recreated herself from the waters of the oceans in all its vitality and fluidness  .   ❝  not when you can blend into it  .  not when you’ve got a lens through which you can see how beautiful it is  .  ❞  the cipher’s grinning now  ,  big and wide  ,  leaning forward to place a gentle hand on the adolescent’s knee  .  ❝ whenever you’re afraid  ,  just remember i believe in you  .  remember that you can do anything  .  you’ve got courage in you  ,  rals  .  don’t forget it  .  ❞

« oh man  ,  can i relate to that  .  »  maybe there’s a soft pink to her own cheeks  ,  too  ,  as her heart clenches in reminder of the intimacy she’d just shared with her    --  boyfriend  ?  friend with benefit  ?  crap if she knows  .  «  i’m glad you enjoyed yourself  ,  babes  .  he’s a good guy and i’m so happy you’re happy  !  »

[ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: there’s... something you should know about bash [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: something your mom and i found out [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: it’s... not good, dans [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: but i only want to tell you if you want to hear it [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: otherwise... [ text → ✉ → twinnie 💙 ]: you’re the best, too. just take care of yourself, please.

she’s jessica jones’s prodigy  ,  through and through  .  never one to beat around the bush  .  gemma walker is a walking paradigm  ,  maybe  .  but she’s succinct and steadfast in the pursuit of her goals  .  in the pursuit of truths and knowledge and her investigations  .  «  --  but how would you feel about conducting a DNA analysis with me  ?  see if we can figure out what the heck is going on  ?  »