#invizzies

who in their right mind would wed such a creature ?

Figuring that wrapped up Visi's side of the story, Blazer could only stare first at the other woman, then to the diamond necklace twinkling in the dying sunset light streaming through her office window.

"You didn't think to tell me...you had in fact...taken the necklace until after I did a tv interview saying it was a frame job?" Granted, Blazer knew she shared some of the blame. She wanted to clear the air, save Invisigal's ass and SDN's reputation in one stroke.

Only to have the raven-haired woman appear with the necklace in hand.

Like a half-tame feral cat bringing a rat or snake carcass to prove it was earning it's keep. Only, Visi has been sent out to stop a robbery in progress, not take a door prize.

Despite not wanting to work with people, the call was only saved by Golem using his bulk to stop the robbers and detain them, Visi blinked in and out and was 'helping' according to the Dispatcher. The problem came when the jewelry store took inventory of what all was missing, only to call SDN corporate.

The thieves were in custody now, already patted down, examined and found they didn't have any ill-gotten jewelry on them.

Only left Golem and Invisigal, one being a known thief.

So, Blazer did what she thought was best, get ahead of the story, say SDN only hired the brightest, best and most upstanding heroes who wanted to protect and serve it's citizens.

Only saving grace was that she didn't name names, but knew her bosses were going to be up her ass any given moment.

"At least you reached me before the surveillance footage could" imagined that was coming next.

“Ha ha- wow, rude.” She doesn’t appear to be taking this especially seriously - giving Visi more than enough time to get back to her feet, some kind of modified crane pose taken after the kick that knocked the villainess ass over teakettle settling back into a more open, ready stance.

Her admonition is answered with a smile. Wide, anticipatory… Xue rolls her neck with a chorus of crackles. “Man, and I thought I wasn’t gonna have any fun tonight… guess what? You’re in Chinatown. And as the Protector of Chinatown, that makes it my business. Besides, Mr. Wuan has to get home from work safe tonight. That means no muggings- not even from invisible ladies.”

What is she, fourteen?

guys. he has a temporarily - adopted - daughter. she won't take that shit out of her nose for the debutante ball tonight. gods fucking save us

　　　“ tch. you  misapprehend  me,  darling .. ”    someone  strong,  blonde,  and  luscious  suggested  they’d  ‘get  on’  but  thus  far  the  lone  commonality  between  these  two  is  the  sticks  between  their  fingers.    his  is  a sleek  dunhil fine cut black ( only faintly diminished by his draughts ) ;  and what’s  that  she’s  been puffing on over there ?    he  snatches  the  battered  pack  from  invisighoul’s  other  hand  for  a quick, de - wrinkled  glimpse.    “ .. this  was purchased from  a  shop ? ”

“Yeah, I took my ex—” Robert starts, but cuts himself off because Courtney's apparently not done talking. It doesn’t even look like she’s actually interested in hearing his answer. So he simply listens, nodding along while he absentmindedly tries to fill out the day's accident report. Really hard to do when someone’s talking your ear off nonstop. “I’ve never seen the Notebook...” he says it under his breath so as not to interrupt her tangent, not that he could anyway.

Robert shakes his head slightly. By the time she’s done, he drops his pen, giving up on that report. He waits for a couple moments, just in case she still had more to say.

Then her words register.

Robert’s brows furrow at her. “Did you just casually ask me on a date?”

Robert sighs. "Neither, actually, it's my stapler." He reaches into his pocket and takes out the object, waving it at her. In case she needed proof. "Sonar lost his stapler again. I was worried he'd accuse me of stealing it. Again. And come steal mine for revenge. Even though he knows I didn't do it the first time."

He really should just give up on expecting her to be normal. The day Visi doesn't make a sexually suggestive joke at his expense is the day he'll know something is seriously fucking wrong with her. Maybe it's a good thing if that day never comes, and it's definitely not because he's warming up to her sense of humor.

Also, he's lying. He's definitely happy to see her.

@invizzies

“I thought Bone Zone was bad enough, but I should have known you could come up with worse.” He grimaces at the image Boner Zoner puts in his mind. Yep. That’s his lunch burrito ruined. Robert eyes her skeptically. “Is this your way of asking me where I’d rank you? Because I’m not gonna do that.”