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Molly slipped inside after him, the duffel bag still slung over her shoulder. "What happened to cause burns like that, anyway?" She asked casually, only sounding slightly interested about what happened to this villain, as she gazed around the room.
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Molly drew in a small gasp, drawing a hand over her mouth.
Moist was the only villain she considered to be anything close to a friend. She remembered his powers all too well, thanks to the incident with the photo album. But she hadn't held a grudge for long. He taught her to move on and not mope around over the past.
And she had been moving along quite nicely, since she got her Schizophrenia mostly under control. Molly hadn't picked up Stanley's last photo in weeks, well, if you don't count putting the photo in her bag just this evening. She became good friends with several of her co-workers at the museum, and even some of the single dads that brought their children to the museum would talk to Molly after a tour. Molly was growing to be really good around children, too. She would spicen up a lesson she had remembered for a certain exhibit just for the kids, and when the smaller children were playing make-believe at a kid-friendly exhibit, Molly would happily play along with them. Heck, some schools would even request specifically for Molly to be their tour guide when the students visited. Molly was a better person since she stopped moping about Stanley, and she owed it all to Moist. Molly didn't want anything too bad to happen to that villain.
"W-What did you do to him?" she asked cautiously.
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Molly frowned, noticing that he was avoiding fully answering her question. There was a pause, as she glanced to the kit on the desk then back up to Malo, not moving an inch.
"Not until I know what happened," she finally said.
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Molly silently set her duffel bag down on the floor, walking up to the desk and rummaging through the kit. "Truthfully, no. I'm not 'happy'. Not while I'm in the custody of you or Redd or any other f*cking villain," she said quietly, finally finding what she was looking for: burn dressing and a small tube of ointment. "Now, this would be a whole lot easier if you were sitting."
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"This may sting, but..." Molly cut herself off. She wasn't fixing up a kid who scraped his knee on the playground. This was a grown man, a villain, who had experienced pain far worse than whatever pain this medicine could produce. She began to gently apply the medicine to the burns.
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Molly turned to see the little girl entering the room. She furrowed her eyebrows a little in bewilderment, and her expression was one of shock. "Watch the language! It's a child," she snapped to Malo, before standing up fully and facing the child. "Um...H-Hey there, sweetie," Molly stuttered, wondering why on Earth a child was at the ELE headquarters.
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The ginger glanced at Malo, a little surprised at how gentle he was around the child. She didn't comment on it, at least at that moment. Molly looked over Malo's shoulder at the picture. "Hey, Malo, isn't that the lady who kissed you in the hallway?"
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The secretary was trying to calm things down as well. Though, she didn't try to intervene with Malo and Bethenny. The woman just ushered away the small crowd of villains that formed in the hallway to watch the scene, and she would snap at villains who were peeking at the scene from the doorway of the room they were in, saying that there was "Nothing for them to see" and to "Get back to their own business".
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Molly merely stayed in the office, leaning against the door to the hallway and pressing her ear against the door. However, she didn't have to put her ear up to the door to hear Malo and the child's cries, and get a general idea of what was going on. She cringed when the child wailed, wishing that she could get the girl away from the scene. But Molly didn't dare leave the office and go against what Malo said.
Not when he was this mad.
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It might be because he just found out you're a father, Moist.
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You know how to read!
Why are you acting so shocked? The child looked like she was quite a few years old, obviously you've known about this for a while.
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Huh, okay. I wonder who that girl's dad really was, then.
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Well, short hair is becoming pretty popular. A lot of famous women have their hair cut short now.
Oh, I hear you, Penny. Jokes about redheads are the worst.
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Molly wanted to protest; She did not want the "siblings" to be too intimatated or feel threatened by the two leaders. The boy seemed uncomfortable enough already. As much as she wanted to say something against what Redd had suggested, the red-head knew better and held her tongue. Her trying to argue with Redd would be like a deer confronting a wolf. The wolf would obviously be the victor, leaving the deer shredded by his teeth and claws, either already dead or close to death. Similar was how Molly figured things would go down if she stepped out of line or went against what Redd said.
And really, what was the problem with letting a young teenager and his older sister try to get some advice from a couple of villains, besides the fact they were knowingly headed for a life of crime. The League would not be threatened in any way by just letting them speak to some villains. And further more--
Oh...oh dear. Molly knew she shouldn't have made the deer and wolf analogy in her thoughts! The office-building scene began to morph, through her eyes anyway. The ceiling was replaced by a clear blue sky, the walls with tall pine trees, the floor with grass and undergrowth, and doors with bushes and flowers. Stupid Shizophrenia! And stupid Mirage, taking away her medication! Molly reluctantly gave Redd an obedient nod. She didn't want to have to leave the group, though. Normally her hallucinations would progressively get more scary and sometimes even gorey. She didn't want to have to go through it alone.
Still, with the skill of someone who had seen hallucinations frequently, Molly remained as calm as ever. At least Redd and the siblings hadn't changed their form yet. "Whatever you want, Redd," she replied, turning around to leave them, flashing a small, sober smile at John and Phoebe as she passed, as if to say 'I tried. Good luck.'
(Tap do you want a small Timeskip for Johnny and Shelly at the hospital? It would just be mundane medical stuff until she's awake.)
Molly stood in front of a door in a hallway of the office-ish building. Mirage had just left for home, wherever that was for her. But before she left, Molly asked her to direct her to where a certain other villainess was in the building. The redhead wanted to speak with the supposed-to-be mother of the young girl she and Malo spoke with a couple of nights ago, the evening Molly first came to the ELE building. Molly had heard a muffled version of what went on in the hallway between Malo and the mother of the child, and was scared to the point of trembling. The red-haired woman had wanted to check on the woman, who she assumed to be Malo's girlfriend or love interest or something like that, and see how she was doing, whether she was just another batsh*t-crazy bloodthirsty villain or not, but was too wary and scared to do so at first.
She finally gathered up her nerve, however, and decided to have a one-on-one chat with this villainess, whose name she had learned was Bethenny. Not only did Molly want to talk with Beth to see how she was, she also wanted to know a few things about the blonde woman and maybe even befriend her. They were both kind of in the same boat, at least it seemed that way; they were both in some sort of intimate relationship with one of the ELE leaders, however unrequited Molly's was. Maybe they could help each other somehow.
Besides, Molly needed another woman to talk to besides Mirage, and Beth seemed to be one of the most not totally-creepy-and-scary-at-first-sight villains Molly had seen running around the building. And, at any rate, she figured that she attempting to befriend Malo's 'girlfriend' would make Redd a little less bitter, around Molly at least. Redd seemed kind of frustrated at Molly, and she didn't really know why. She decided to also get up the nerve to speak with him about that, but she would do that after her talk with Beth.
So the red-head, standing outside of Beth's office-room-thing, tentatively raised a hand and knocked softly on the door.
(Nudges thread)
Slowly, Molly opened the door and stepped in the room. "Hey...uh, Beth, is it? I was wondering if I could chat with you a bit?" The redhead said the words mostly before she opened the door all the way and could see in the room, revealing herself only just after she had spoken.
Molly, seeing the disheveled appearance of the blonde, took in a small, sharp breath and didn't step further into the room for a moment. This woman looked like she belonged here even less than Molly! Beth, at the moment anyway, didn't look anything like how the ginger would expect a villainess to look. But mixed in with the shock, Molly did feel something close to hopefulness, which was a feeling she hadn't felt in a while. This woman looked rough and extremely stressed, which was bad, but the redhead also figured that seeing Beth in such a bad state helped affirm her assumption that the two women were in the same boat. And if Beth was in a state like this, Molly figured that it would be easier to convince her that creating a friendship, or an alliance of sorts, could be mutually beneficial.
After a second or two, the red haired woman realized she was gawking a little at Beth, and snapped away from her thoughts. "Are you--Are you okay?" The young woman asked, beginning to take a few more steps into the room.
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Molly frowned at the villain's harsh response. The brief feeling of hope fled from her as quickly as it came. It was a stupid idea to come here. Of course Beth belonged here. She must have been a pretty top-of-the-line villain or had some good connections to be in a relationship with one of the ELE leaders. Whatever Molly heard in the hall, and however rough the woman looked at the moment, Beth was a villain and just because she was in an abusive relationship didn't change that.
One word flashed through Molly's mind over and over and over again: Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid! Still, she decided to at least attempt what she came here for. "I figured since I'm probably going to be stuck here for a while, I should at least try and get to know some of the villains here. And, well, you seemed like a good person to start with."
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