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Yay! Yes! Yay! Okay, so I'm realising that a lot of my humour is more situational than 'here's a funny line' :'D So I might have to give some context ...
This is a deleted scene actually, but: Original fic. Lots of POVs, all colliding in the one space.
POV atm is Li Hua, who is Normal but witnessed Superpowers and has been red-string conspiracy about things for just about the whole story.
She's neighbours with Simon, and has just found out he knows the invisible girl (Penny). From the small bits she's pieced together, Li Hua thinks they're hooking up.
And now she's inside the invisible girl's house with Simon, trying to help a semi-aggressive injured guy (Phillip) who has beef with the invisible girl and her friends (John), and also eavesdropping as hard as a person can to try to understand It All.
Penny called out from the counter, where John had just slid something to her. “Simon! Simon, my phone - it’s - oh.” She faded off, staring at a slip of paper.
Simon dropped the antiseptic, abandoning Phillip’s arguments and leaving Li Hua with a pile of bandages and creams she couldn’t tell from one another.
“That definitely wasn’t there last night,” he asserted as he joined Penny and John at the counter.
The benefit of fighting so hard against rolling her eyes was that Li Hua caught the weight of John’s regard as he turned his angled cheekbones on Simon, the attention of someone drawing their own conclusions hidden behind a light smile. Simon had crossed a boundary somewhere. Thin and a few inches shorter than Simon’s average, broad-shouldered build, John would probably lose in a fair fight, but Li Hua wasn’t sure what a fair fight looked like in a universe with magic.
Explaining a joke is the most funny thing in the world (ahaha oh noo), so let me point out the things I find hilarious here:
Simon wanted so much to be a paramedic, is the only one with any first aid knowledge, and he'd still choose to run over and listen to Penny instead of helping Phillip because Phillip is just that annoying
Simon "last night": Li Hua "hookup confirmed" (it was not a hookup)
John locking on to Simon: Li Hua: "uh oh. Simon's hooking up with someone else's girlfriend, and that guy might have dangerous superpowers too." John: ace for people. (non-romantically) horny for superpowers
So. You know. As the person threading all of this together, I think it's hilarious :'D Unfortunately, it's part of a deleted timeline, but it was still a lot of fun to shove them all together for things like this!