The Park, Slightly Later Wednesday Night

[glacial_witch]

All right, it was pretty hard to run in the catsuit. Karla had foreseen the difficulty of wearing heels and had opted for a pair of comfy black flats, but she hadn't thought far enough ahead to realize that running in leather that tight was harder than it looked. Funny, she didn't remember any problems with doing random backbends in this thing

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[solesofmyfeet]

--have her revenge, no doubt. It's what they all said, after all. Probably with a bit about the heroes ruing the day they were born or some other nonsense.

Only worked in books, you know.

But there Vimes was, watching this with a sort of horrified fascination. "You're kidding me, right?"

[blondecanary]

Dinah let go of Karla very fast, eyes huge. "Uhhh-- Karla?" She gave the guy in the armor a weak smile. "Nothing to see here!"

[solesofmyfeet]

"Well, I'm terribly glad for that," Vimes replied earnestly. "For a moment I thought I might have stumbled across something nefarious."

[heromaniac]

Blossom recognized Mr Vimes from class. From Professor Gibbs' class. The one where they learned to 'walk a beat' from a police officer. Mr Vimes was that police officer. Eeep!

Blushing furiously, she pocketed her yo-yo and floated down to offer a hand to Karla and Dinah each. "No, nothing like that!"

[glacial_witch]

Karla took it, trying not to blush like an idiot. It was one thing to burgle an art gallery in a leather catsuit when she thought the only people who'd see her were Dinah and Momoko. It was something else entirely when other people were involved.

She didn't recognize Vimes, but he definitely had an aura of authority about him.

That was Not Good.

So she gave him her best unsure-but-game smile and said, "We, uhh, fell into the pond. But we;re fine now."

[solesofmyfeet]

"Wonderful," Vimes replied with the sort of cheer that implied he was either on some sort of drugs or not all there in the head.

Or Carrot.

"Then none of you would mind coming to the station to chat, right?"

[blondecanary]

"Meep."

... Oh, God, Helena was never going to let her live this down....

[glacial_witch]

Karla didn't meep. Meeping was undignified. She gulped loudly instead.

"For falling into the pond?" She was going to spin this as well as she could. "We're even still wearing our clothes?"

Hmmm...considering what she was wearing, perhaps it would be best not to point that out.

[heromaniac]

Uh oh. Blossom was trying not to panic as she got a firm grip on Karla's hand and then patted Dinah's shoulder with her other. "Psst, TK? Your hand?" they needed to get out of the pond at any rate.

[solesofmyfeet]

"For loitering about suspiciously," Vimes replied. If that wasn't a law here, it ought to be. "I'm sure we'll find more to talk about."

Like, oh, say that bag over there.

[glacial_witch]

Blast! Karla knew she should have hidden that better. She'd decided not to vanish it so Hyper and TK could have a chance to find it.

"Ummm! That's mine. It's very, very boring. And filled with...ummm...underthings?"

Okay, she'd had better excuses.

"I HAD PERMISSION!"

[blondecanary]

"Karla?" Dinah grabbed Momoko's hand, and grimly said, "Stop talking. Hi, Mr. Vimes." Ohhh, man did she feel stupid. "We'd like to exercise our right to remain silent now. And to call a lawyer?"

Please?

[heromaniac]

Blossom lifted them both from the pond and set them on dry land, nearer the backpack than Mr Vimes, then landed herself. Sure she could fly them all away, but this was a police officer! And they'd done nothing wrong! Right?

Right.

Oh boy. She muttered a small prayer that this would be over quick and Professor Gibbs no one would ever hear about it.