WHO: Selina, Jaime
WHERE: Out, about
WHEN: Tack it on for a super late night one of these days!
WARNINGS: Idk yet gosh
SUMMARY: Seriously this is the one time he's NOT looking for burglars to bust he just wants to get his paper done on time
FORMAT: No
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it's gonna be one of THOSE weeks )
It was just a stupid idea, though, and Jaime had practically forgotten about it when Scarab relayed a heat signature inside the nearest repair shop. That's...not normal. Even he knew his wishful thinking was no doubt just that.
He landed on a building two spaces away and a stack of stories higher and squinted, getting the full range of Scarab scanners to scope out the situation.
Managers don't rifle and bag stuff like that. He's pretty sure. Not decent managers, anyway. And they certainly don't head up to leave...
He grew his wings again and stepped off the ledge, drifting up before starting to do a fly around and land before there was a good chance to get out of sight.
Closer, Scarab offered one more helpful clip of information: meowingcat.wav.
Jaime thought it was more disruptive than helpful at the time, but in hindsight, it was very clever. Distant hindsight. Swapping vision channels to actually see the outfit the lady was sporting was the real kicker--
Oh.
OH, WAIT.
"Catwoman," he blurted, low enough in altitude to be heard. "Really?"
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"Yyyeah, hi," Jaime drags out, tilting his head and squinting. "What exactly are you doing here? At this particular place and time?"
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"And yourself?"
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It doesn't really work around someone like Selina, however. It just doesn't. But he carried on anyway.
"Is there a story behind this store or something? Because..."
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"It's not like I can just turn off my common sense when I see someone jacking in and out of some place like this, you know." Of course, even rambling like that was proof of the benefit of doubt; she helped Abby, after all. He landed, a little heavily by losing the wings a couple feet up. "What was it that needs pilfering?"
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"You know," he said, his head tilting, "I kind of am in the possession of info-crunching tech right here. If whatever you need out of there can be peeled off, transcribed, and put back..."
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He held out his hand. "Can I see?"
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She only hesitate a moment before passing off the bag. There's a couple dozen flash drives inside.
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"Oh, here--" To free up his other hand, he held the bag back out for Selina, as simply as if he were just exchanging grocery bags or something. "I bet I can just..." Two of his fingers melded together and flattened out, the tip altering. "Oh, cool. That'll work. So let's see..."
He plugged the drive in...into his fingers, which was weird only if he stopped to think about it. Squinting, he let the suit feed in the data and send it out, expanding a hologram screen for the both of them to see.
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"You're...positive this is bad guy stuff, right?" he asked. "Because if it's not, and we're just kind of nosing around in other people's business..."
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