"Minion!" Megamind yelled.
"Coming!" Minion cried racing to his master and best friend. He found his master loitering above his work table with a pencil in hand and paper on the table. "What can I do for you, Sir?" the fish asked cheerfully.
"Tell me what you think?" Megamind said as he raised his design so that Minion could see it. "It's my new design for the city's firefighters!" he said happily.
"That's great, Sir!" Minion said back just as happy, although he had know idea what it was or how it worked. He was happy because Megamind was happy.
"Boys?" Both males turned toward the direction where the sound had come from. "Where are you?" Roxanne Richie called as she walked father into the lab.
Megamind's smile grew wider as he dropped his pencil and hurried to meet his reporter girlfriend. "Roxanne!" he said happily once he saw her. He was so happy to see her he picked her up and twirled her through the air. Roxanne was surprised at first, but then smiled at the sweet gesture. "I'm so happy to see you!" he told her once he put her down. "Minion and I were just working on something! Want to see it?" he asked, his excitement as plain as the sky, and him, were blue.
She giggled "I'd love to."
"Yay!" he cried then led her over to the table.
Minion was there waiting patiently for his master to return. "Good afternoon, Ms. Richie!" he greeted her cheerfully, like always. "Would you care for something to drink?"
"Good afternoon Minion, and water would be great thank you." she said back smiling.
He nodded and went on his way while Megamind showed Roxanne his designs for the firemen. After about an hour they had retired to the kitchen and were talking about different things while Minion made cookies, when Roxanne's phone rang. "Oh, sorry, I've got to take this." she said with an apologetic smile towards her boyfriend.
She had just interrupted him, but he simply waved it off with a smile "No worries, my dear!"
She smiled, kissed him on the cheek then walked away from them a few steps. "Hello?" she asked. "Mom? . . . Mom. . ." Megamind and Minion both looked up at Roxanne as her tone of voice changed to worry. "Mom, are you okay?. . . what?" she whispered. Megamind and Minion shared a look then jumped in surprise when they heard something crash. They looked over to see Roxanne's phone on the ground and her on her knees. "iRoxanne? Roxanne?/i" came Roxanne's mother's voice on the other end. Minion quickly raced over picked up the phone and her mother that Roxanne was safe and that she would call her back.
Megamind got up and walked toward his girlfriend "Roxanne?" he said hesitantly. He moved in front of her to see her staring off into the distance, tears on the brink of falling. He knelt down next to her and placed a hand on her shoulder "Roxanne," he said again, she looked at him "are you alright?"
Suddenly she burst into tears and started crying uncontrollably. She lunched for him enveloping him in a hug and throwing him off balance, making them both fall to the ground. "Megamind!" she cried. "My dad is dead! He died a few minutes ago! That's why my mom called me!" Megamind looked toward Minion, but the fish had left to give them privacy. As she cried onto his shoulder he threw his arms around her pulling her to him, tightly.
"Shh," he soothed rubbing her back comfortingly. "I'm here." she continued to sob so he picked her up, swinging her legs over his arms so she could cry into his chest, and brought her to the couch where he sat down and set her next to him. He had never seen her cry before. He wanted so desperately to make her hurt go away, but he knew there was nothing he could do, but sit there and hold her. He loved her so much, he would do anything she needed him to do even if it meant become her tissue.