3rd Job - VOICE

[someonetoscold]

[ Oh boy. Flint read Roxanne’s Interview With A Spider-Man, and is Kind Of Irritated. ]

Say there’s this punk and he wears a mask. And you’ve fought this guy a few times. Okay, a lot. He never seems to just leave you alone. He’s a real pain in the butt, you get me?

And then it turns out he’s a teenager. Was a teenager. Whatever.

[ Beat. ]

High

Comments

[incywincyhero]

Oh, uh. I thought you knew.

[Awwwwwkward.]

[acrossyourpath]

It never exactly came up. [ DID I REALLY KISS A TEENAGER. ]

[incywincyhero]

Well, by the time I met my you I was already in college, so I ... couldn't really comment ...

[acrossyourpath]

Not with you. The other you.

[incywincyhero]

I know that! I'm just saying.

[acrossyourpath]

Well.

It's weird.

[incywincyhero]

I'm trying to calculate the exact odds of both of us existing in the two same universes as more or less the same people, but with, what, five, seven years' age disparity in one and not the other.

It's one in a pretty big number, I can tell you that much.

[acrossyourpath]

[ Pause. ] Unless you just shifted the numbers down.

[incywincyhero]

[Genuinely confused.] Say what?

[acrossyourpath]

[ With annoyance: ] It could still be the same age difference if all people involved were just younger. I mean, how old am I to you? Where you come from.

[incywincyhero]

Sorry, Cat. We're the same age back home -- or at least, that's what you always claimed. [Hmm.]

[acrossyourpath]

Hm. Can't exactly confirm or deny.

[incywincyhero]

But would you if you could-you?

[acrossyourpath]

I haven't lied about my age here. [ Pause. ] To anyone important.