[Have a Roxanne, City; she's not nearly so chipper -- the morning makeup isn't entirely hiding the marks sleepless nights have left, and she's a little pale beneath her concealer. She's not smiling, either. Her expression might best be called 'neutral', the type that people take on when they really don't want to let whatever it is they're feeling
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So, aside from the obligatory getting smashed that we are going to be doing soon enough -- I have both a strong-backed cousin, and the ability to send you to a beautiful tropical paradise so you can miss whatever unspeakable horrors are going to be going on here this weekend.
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Normally.
But right now I -- don't really know what to do. Been a rough week. This just tops it off before the end of the world, I guess.
[A beat.]
Least he's safe.
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You could probably use a vacation, anyway. Am I right?
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Right now I just want to make it through this weekend without losing my mind or dying.
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Do you really think this thing is going to be that bad?
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[She learned from the best to cover up stressful kidnapping, superhero antics, and long nights with no sleep. Her face is swallow, her eyes puffy and bruised looking, and her expression grim.]
If what I'm -- picking up -- [Not wanting to specify to the attorney she helped hire her empathic abilities] is a fragment of what's coming....
Yes.
Yes, I think it will be that bad. The City is a powerkeg. Even if it's half that bad, the fear and anxiety alone will lead to a panic that'll cost lives.
[Lucky Megamind got out in the nick of time.]
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Your boyfriend's left town?
[ He looks away from the camera, already regretting saying that. He turns back. ]
I can have heavy lifting covered.
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That makes it sound like he dumped me and left me with his crap. But-- yes, looks like he's been Ported out. All his things are here. Even his watch, and I don't think I've ever seen him without that on.
[She nods once.]
Right. Good thing, because... man I don't know how someone so skinny hauled all this stuff up here. Must've been the bots.
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I got your back. [ He's looking around from what he can see through the video ] Got a lot of weird junk, huh?
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[only if something killed him; let's not think too hard on that]
--probably not the right time frame.
If he's not back in three days, he's probably not coming back in a predictable time frame. [tiny, if bitter, smile] Finally got me there. No way to predict that...
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Roxanne? Are you alright?
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Yeah. I'll live.
[She's no real stranger to heart ache -- hell, it was just a month ago, by her perception, that she'd dumped him.... and shortly thereafter, took him back.]
..what's with the... costume?
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( donna looks kind of surprised, as if she hand't anticipated the question. it seems almost incidental to her now. )
Oh! Well, I don't want to be caught unawares when the fighting starts, and since I was already helping with evacuations...
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[She considers Donna's answer, and then nods]
Just a look I've never seen on you. Hard to know who is active in the scene and who is just a pumped up bystander. You did the superhero gig back home, then?
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