"Roxxane! Roxxane wait…" Megamind raced out of the restaurant after her. This date was NOT going in the right direction.

"I can't believe you! You! It was you the whole time!" she raved, "You lied to me! This is the lowest you've ever gone!"

"Look," he panted when he caught up to her, "I can explain…" It was pouring rain, soaking the two of them to the bone.

Roxanne's voice cracked, as did a bolt of lightning in the distance, "How could you do this to me? I thought I could trust him…you… whoever you were!" she cried "Why did you make me care about you?"

He paused, remorse beginning to flood his mind, "I'm sorry Roxxanne… I didn't plan this, I swear! It was all of a sudden…at the museum, when you almost caught me - I had to do it Roxanne. I never expected," his green irises fell from her to his wet leather boots, "I never expected any of this. Falling in lo-"

"If you love somebody you don't lie to them like this!" Roxi couldn't believe she'd said it as soon as the 'L' word came out.

Megamind? Love? Her? Could he?

Did he?

"Not that I would know that. No one's ever loved me before, in case you haven't noticed." there was a cheerless tone in his voice, not the sarcastic one she'd been expecting like usual, "I've been alone all my life, except for Minion…I've never had the chance to be afflectionate…"

"Affectionate." she corrected him, purely out of habit.

He went on, "…with anybody before you…You're the only one I've ever kissed, or gotten close to, or anything like that." tears began to slip from his eyes, mixing with raindrops as they fell.

Her anger had subsided a little, but it was still there, "Well I wonder why!" she snapped, "You've been the villain around here since we were teenagers. What did you expect?"

Megamind cut her off heatedly, "Being a villain doesn't make you a bad person Roxxane. You know how all the money and the paintings were returned? And the park cleaned up? That was me. I did all that for you, so maybe you'd be happy."

Roxi looked out across the street, and noticed for the first time the dehydrated garbage reappearing with the pelting shower of rain. It was him. Onlyhe could've done that.

That still didn't change anything to her.

"On, so now you think fixing all that is gonna erase what you did in the past?" Roxi put her hands on her hips defiantly, "You couldn't have actually thought I'd ever be with you just because of that!"

That was the end of it, the below-the-belt knockout blow. Megamind was almost too stunned by the brutal truth to reply. He should've known better than to even hope for her heart to become his. She didn't have to judge his book by its cover; she knew its contents word for word.

"No," he said, barely audible over the drizzle and thunder, "I didn't."

Roxi realized how harsh her words came out; she didn't mean it like that. Of course, she wouldn't want to at first just because of what he'd done to the city… but if she'd stuck around long enough to really get to know him, she would've seen that he wasn't all that evil. He was actually very sweet and considerate: kind of shy and nervous around her, but that was one of the things she loved most about him.

She loves him. Roxi loves Megamind. And after all this time, she just realized it!

She watched as he trudged away, his black boots dragging along the concrete sidewalk. He was sobbing under his breath so that she wouldn't hear him. "Villains" weren't supposed to cry because they didn't get the girl and the hero did, even if there wasn't a hero anymore. But maybe he didn't want to be the bad guy anymore…

Maybe he wanted to be the good guy…for her.

Heartbroken and without even Minion to comfort him, he continued his soggy trek home to his lair. What he didn't foresee was Roxi coming up behind him and spinning him around.

"Look, Megamind I…" she grabbed his scrawny arms, holding him so that he was facing her, "I didn't mean it like that. If I'd known it would've been like these past few weeks…I-I would've…"

"You would've what?"

Her sapphire eyes filled with tears, "I would've stayed. I would've been with you… I'm sorry…" she whispered, her head hung low, hair dripping water onto her face, hands dangling limply by her sides.

Now it was her turn to be surprised. His bony finger brushed her short auburn bangs out of her eyes and lifted her chin so she was face to face with him. "You don't have to be sorry. You were honest, and I wasn't. I don't deserve you…"

"Yes you do." her stern reporter voice stopped him dead in his tracks. He didn't dare argue with her; he wanted to be with her, and if she was going to let him, so be it!

"Y-you mean it?"

She nodded.

"So," he gazed at her skeptical, but hopeful, "you'd still go out with me if I asked you right now? Even though I'm the most evil super-genius in the universe?" Megamind teased.

Roxi laughed, like she had much earlier in the evening, the sound sending shivers up his spine (or maybe that was from the cold rain…anyway) "Yeah, even though you're the 'most evil' super-genius in the universe; you're my evil super-genius, so it's okay." her arms laced around his neck and their lips met once again.

But this time when she pulled away, she was smiling… and so was he.