#redcladnerd

Amelia didn’t have any classes for the rest of the day and decided to stop by at a familiar coffee shop on her way back home. The queue was longer than she would have liked, but her craving for caffeine was higher than he need to just leave so she joined the queue and began to wait just as impatiently as the rest of them. Brushing her long, blonde hair over her shoulder Amelia noticed something familiar about the man waiting in front of her and with a smile she tapped him on the shoulder. 

The sisters had put some time into this approach. Finding the right superhero,  lay the groundwork. Ensuring they could not be found, keeping a very low profile, with Dorcas staying in the shadows around Gotham. They were dealing with dangerous and paranoid people, luckily they’d grown up among dangerous and paranoid people.

Running into each other went well, over coffee. They’d exchanged a few words, she’d introduced herself as an animal breeder. Rabbits, mostly. It was even mostly true, even if they were familiars rather than ordinary animals. She’d been expanding to birds lately, too. But didn’t mention that part, it might come off a bit more apropos with him than others.  

The date had gone beautifully as well, and she’d let herself get a bit tipsy, before leading him back to the apartment she’d been living in. “So, this is my place,” she grinned, gesturing to the decently sized place as she stepped in, closing the door behind him and taking his arm, pressing herself to it.

“Now that you’ve been so sweet and chivalrous, seeing me home. Stay for one more drink with me?” she asked, tone light, flirtatious. “I have coffee, some energy drinks, if you wanna make sure to be all sobered up before you go home. If you uh, if you want to head home, tonight, that is,” she blushed a little, as if she felt she was being a bit too bold. It was easy to stay in character, fun too.

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“Barbie, hey i uh– I knocked at the door and nobody answered, wasn’t sure if you were in trouble since you asked me to come over so I let myself in.” The room is dimly lit, he doesn’t bother to turn on any more light, just leaning against the door-frame and looking on as the sound of water against tile fills the room when her singing stops. “You alright?”

She weaved through the trees on the edge of town. There were still plenty of people there were out and walking but she didn’t pay attention to them. Her focus was on getting away from the tail. If she could lose him then she could turn around and stalk him. He had no right to be following her. She didn’t know why he had chosen to but she wasn’t going to play the role of prey. She was a wolf damn it.

“Heads up!”