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Katie:
I walked into the laundromat cautiously, having never been in one before. The door swung forward and hit my butt as I walked in. I stumbled forward, causing my clothesbasket to fall to the floor, scattering shirts, pants, underwear, and bras.
A man who was coming in the door at the time stopped to help me pick things up. "Thanks," I said gratefully, shoving the last shirt into the basket. I looked at the man and smiled. "I appreciate it."
He looked up, our eyes met, and he quickly looked down. "No problem," he muttered. I smiled at him again and stood up.
"I'm Katie," I said, sticking my hand out to him. He shook it and muttered, "Billy."
"Nice to meet you, Billy," I said, heaving my clothesbasket onto a washing machine. Tossing things into the washers, we were both quiet. Then I started my load and hopped up onto my washer. "You okay?" I asked Billy, who seemed upset.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied, sitting on his washer.
"Okay, you just seem sorta… down. Anything wrong? Sorry," I said, not waiting for an answer. "I'm prying. Bad habit, I hope you'll forgive me."
He smiled for the first time. "It's okay. I don't mind. And really, I'm fine."
I smiled back at him and played with the zipper on my hoodie. We were pretty quiet the rest of the time we were there. The only other things we said were goodbyes.
I was crossing the street to get to my apartment when I heard someone yell, "MOVE!" I looked around and saw a school bus heading towards me at breakneck speed. I was frozen with fear. When the bus was going to hit me, somebody ran at me and pushed me out of its way. I opened my eyes, having closed them at being hit by someone, and found myself staring into the face of a man in a lab coat who looked vaguely familiar.
"You… you saved me," I gasped, getting to my feet. He stood up with me and said, "Are you okay?" Instead of answering him, I hugged him. He seemed a little surprised, but patted my back in an unsure way. I released him and said, "How can I ever repay you? Anything, really."
"It's okay," he began. But before he could say anything else, another man dropped out of nowhere and shoved him against the wall.
"Hey!" I yelled, hitting the man on the shoulder. He turned to me and said, "Don't worry, miss, I, Captain Hammer, have saved you from this villain."
"Yeah, and I, Katie Harbor, was just saved by this man. Let him go."
"Saved? By this man?" Captain Hammer laughed. "No, miss, I think you're mistaken. I saved you from Dr. Horrible, who obviously moved you so he wouldn't have to clean anything up."
"Or," I argued, "he was being nice and didn't want me to die!" A crowd began forming around us.
"You really think this man saved you intentionally?" Captain Hammer asked, adding a small laugh. Some people around us laughed, not because it was funny, but because he had laughed. I brought myself up to full height.
"Yes, I do. And I will thank you to let him go." Captain Hammer looked shocked at my answer, but dropped Dr. Horrible from the wall all the same. Then he walked away, the crowd following him. I turned to Dr. Horrible and smiled.
"Again, thanks for saving me. I wouldn't be here to talk about it if you hadn't."
"Don't mention it," he said, smiling a little.
"Um, listen, are you doing anything for dinner? Would you like to, I don't know, get something to eat with me?" I crossed my fingers inside my pocket.
He looked a little surprised, but said, "Yeah, sure, that would be cool."
I felt like jumping, but instead I said, "Great. Meet you here at six?"
"Sure," he said, smiling. I smiled back. On the outside, I was smiling calmly, but on the inside, this was going on:
Yayayayayayayayayayayay!
Billy:
Why did I agree to that… was the only thing that ran through my mind. How could I agree to that? Surely she would notice who I was.
I walked into my apartment and sat in my chair, covering my eyes with my hands. How could I be such an idiot?
"Okay… calm down, Billy," I told myself. "Don't lose your head. Just… be horrible. Be horrible. She wants Dr. Horrible, she'll get him. And… who am I talking to?" I looked around the empty room and slumped back into my chair.
She seemed to like you, a small voice in the back of my mind. A slow smile spread across my face. No, she liked Dr. Horrible, a different voice argued. I frowned. She seemed to like Billy when she talked to him at the laundromat, the other voice said hopefully. I slumped further into his chair.
"I've gotta stop listening to the voices in my head," I said aloud. Then I laughed. "I've also gotta stop talking to myself." I laughed again.
Then I walked to my computer and started a blog. "Hey," I said. "First, I wanted to say I'm never taking a viewers advice ever again. Thanks to our friend bonjovifan1 for giving me the idea of controlling a kids school bus as a distraction to get what I needed, I nearly killed someone and now I'm going… anyways, emails." I picked up a stack of papers I had printed out. I picked one up and read, "'Hey, Dr. Horrible. I'm Maple and I wanted to know what made you want to be a villain.'" I set down the papers and thought. "Good question, Maple. I'm not sure… I just remember not liking people that were goody-two-shoes at school. They annoyed me. So, I guess I decided to fight them." I answered a few more before shutting off the computer.
Moist, my friend, walked in the door. "Hey, doc. What's up?"
"Not much, you?" I took my mail, which he was holding, and wiped it off on my shirt. Moist had his name because everything he touched immediately was wet. I don't know how he did it, but he did.
"Same, do you wanna order a pizza tonight and discuss evil plans?" Moist asked as I set the soggy bills on the table.
"Oh, no thanks, I've got a date," I said absentmindedly, getting a Dr. Pepper from my fridge.
"A date? With a girl? Oh, do tell," Moist said sitting on a chair.
I sighed and sat on the couch. "Okay, her name is Katie, and I met her today." Moist nodded and made a gesture with his hands, telling me to continue. "Okay, well, I met her as Billy at the laundromat, and then saved her life as Dr. Horrible. The bus thing I told you about was rolling down the hill at her and she didn't see it. So I pushed her out of the way. Then, Captain Retard came up and pushed me against the wall, but Katie told him to go away and she asked me out for dinner."
"Wow… does she know you're Billy?" Moist asked. I shook my head.
"Not unless she guessed," I replied. I wasn't going to tell Moist, and I could hardly admit it to myself, but on the inside, I was kinda looking forward to it.
Katie:
I ran into my and my best friend's apartment and started dancing and singing.
"Why are you so happy?" Tina asked me, idly flipping a page in her magazine. Tina and I grew up as best friends, but then when we got older, she moved to L.A. She lived there for about two years before she called me and asked if I wanted to come out there and live with her.
"Because…" I said, adding the dramatic pause. "I've got… a… date!" I jumped into the air at the last word.
"Oh, really? Who with?"
"Dr. Horrible," I sang.
Tina snorted. "Ha, ha, really, who with?"
"I just told you," I said, annoyed she thought I was kidding. "He saved me from being hit by a bus and we decided to have dinner later."
"Katie!" Tina groaned. "He's evil!"
"He's cute!" I shot at her. She rolled her eyes.
"Alright, go on. But if you get kidnapped by him or something, I'm not coming after you."
"Thanks, pal," I said, sitting next to her. "I feel loved."
"As you should," she replied, smiling slightly as she continued reading her magazine. I grinned at her. We sat there for a few minutes before she asked, "Where's the laundry? Isn't that what you went to town to do in the first place?"
I slapped my hand to my forehead, remembering how I had dropped the clothesbasket when Dr. Horrible pushed me out of the way of the bus.
"Funny you should mention that…"
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