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[grabber_fray]

Mel is a woman with a mission. A very important mission

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[twiceahero]

Barbara has somehow managed to get herself into the kitchen since her arrival. She is sitting there drinking a cup of coffee and wondering if it would make sense to relocate the team out to the farm. On the one hand, there are quite a few people here, but no one to really get into her business. On the other hand, there is an airport in Metropolis.

Decisions, decisions.

This coffee is good.

[grabber_fray]

Mel is stamping into the kitchen at just this point, armed with two babies and covered in mud from surveying the fields.

Where 'surveying' means tramping about and admitting all plants look the same to her.

"Hey, Babs," she says, almost idly, on her way to the kitchen table.

- wait.

She turns around, and smiles sheepishly.

[twiceahero]

Barbara's eyes snap up, coffee momentarily forgotten. "Do I know you?"

[grabber_fray]

"Uh... no?" Mel offers, turning her attention back to unburdening herself from fussy babies, head turned back slightly so she can talk in Babs' direction.

"I'm friends with Steph."

[twiceahero]

"And," Barbara sounds doubtful, "She just happened to give out a highly detailed description of me."

[grabber_fray]

"You doubt Steph's powers of description?" Mel asks easily, leaving Hana playing happily with Dino on the table as she and Loo investigate the fruit bsket and the blender.

"Did she tell you about Eden?"

[twiceahero]

"I doubt Steph's ability to stay focused enough to provide one," Barbara laughs slightly.

"She mentioned it."

[grabber_fray]

"Then I can either say I knew you from there, or... no, Loo!"

Loo apparently thinks baby fingers go in blenders along with fruit.

"...or I could point out there aren't that many redheads with glasses around the farm."

[twiceahero]

With a sigh Barbara nods, "I'm guessing the former. And that means you know way more about me than I know about you. And you probably know how great I feel about that."

[grabber_fray]

"I'm Mel Fray,"Mel volunteers happily, pulling Loo away from the blender to press the button. "This is Loo, and that over there is Hana. They're my daughters, and both Firebenders, like their Dad, who didn't make it to this world. I've got superstrength, but I don't know how exactly 'cause it's not genetic. My older sister from a slightly different continuity it around here somewhere - she's a cop. I had a twin brother, but he died when we were fifteen, then he came back, turned evil, beat me into a coma and tortured Zuko to death.

"He got better. We had Jesus on our side.

"Uh - literally. Not in a creepy religious sense."

[twiceahero]

After blinking a few times at Mel's explanation Barbara decides, "I'm not sure I ever want all of that to make sense, actually." She leans back and sips her coffee, "So what did you do before Eden?"

[grabber_fray]

"Before Eden was another skitzed up world we decided to call Apocalyptica," Mel said, juggling Loo to spoon mushed up fruit into a bowl.

"Before that, though, I was a thief."

[twiceahero]

"With super strength?" Barbara asks with a small smile.

[grabber_fray]

"Yeah," says Mel, returning to the table with a baby already covered in smoothie without the Mom seeming to give any to her.

"Does that make me a supervillian?"

[twiceahero]

Babs' lip quirks up slightly. "You know, it might at that."

[grabber_fray]

Mel beams, as if Babs has just played her the highest compliment imaginable.

"Here that, Hana? Mom's a supervillian."

"Sssssssssssss!" Hana objects, and spits out her food.