Vixen
Preset time.
Roxanne straightens her dress once more, before going through the secret entrance to the not-so-evil-anymore liar. It was a bit over a year since Megamind became the hero of Metro City (though he still could not pronounce it right). She had a day off and naturally she wanted to spend some quality time with her blue boyfriend. Soon she could hear the deafening rock music, which clearly stated: Megamind's at work. Suddenly the music got quieter and a loud rumor could be heard alongside the high pitched scream of the blue alien. Then there was silence. Roxanne knocked on the door. Instantly they were opened and the reporter met with… another girl. The unfamiliar person was slightly shorter then her, had smoky grey eyes with tinge of blue and grey blond, short, messy hair. What's worse she wore only a grey sports bra and man's grey boxers.
"Sooo, you're the 'kidnap-me' girl, 'aye?"
Roxanne was left speech less, well until Megamind showed up. He quickly showed back the stranger and stood in front of the brunette smiling widely.
"Roxanne" his voice was warm with happiness, but…
"WHO THE HELL IS SHE?"
"Roxanne, please, calm down, I… I can explain."
"Oh, you better will, or else…" she snorted angrily.
"Missy you're jumping to the wrong conclusion" the grey girl said sleepily and yawned. "I'm here not because I wanted to."
"Exactly" Megamind agreed. "She's like an uninvited guest, here, really."
"More like unwilling guest," the shortie scratched her head. "Remember the 'fight' between present here blue cretin and the ex-hero ? The one when you were tied to the chair on the harbor?"
Roxanne nodded not so certain about it, but she did remembered something like that. "What about it?"
"Then the lighting hit and explosion occurred, right?" the blond folded her arms and looked seriously at her.
"Yes. And…?"
"The lighting hit the machine in blue head's workplace, the machinery explode causing a massive energy outburst and created for two seconds a collision between worlds, thus creating a passage way between them. I got here from different dimension." Roxanne didn't like the tone the girl was speaking in. Like she was a child, needing explaining even the simplest thing in the world. Even Megamind didn't talk like that to her, when she asked him on what he's been working on. But the stranger continued. "The moment I got here I first kicked the idiot's ass, then…"
"She fell asleep." Ex-villain finished for her. "She's been sleeping until, five minutes before you got here."
"That freakingly loud music of yours woke me up completely" the short girl barked.
"Wait" Miss Ritchie could not understand one thing. "Are you telling me that, you've been sleeping for… almost three years? That's not humanly possible!"
"Who said I was human?" the blond stated as a matter of fact. "By the way, my name's Margot. Nice to meet you." She finally introduced herself, but instead of shaking hands with Roxanne, she put her left hand's pinky inside her ear and yawned again covering her mouth with her right hand. That was the moment the brunette woman noticed another characteristic of hers. Scars. Her whole body was completely covered in scars, starting from her neck, ending at her toes. Margot looked like a living zombie. Roxanne could see few of her ribs, part of the lung and a bit of her liver behind few straps of flesh on her belly, left leg missed a part of a thigh, showing a bone. Same with her left feet, showing few bones in the middle of it. Her right hand didn't have a pinky and her thumb was a lone bone. The white lines of scars were like roads on a map, while the red ones were like the valley, sharp and deep. The blond girl, oblivious to the emotion she had caused for the reporter, turned around and stared walking away from Roxanne and Megamind, causing the woman to gasp. She could see the shorter woman spine.
"My God, what… what happened to you?"
Margot stopped and looked at her from under hers half-asleep eyes. "Not your business."
A little bit later Roxanne sat in Megamind's spinning chair, and he stood next to her holding a box of doughnuts, probably his breakfast, despite the fact it was around noon, and coffee.
"I'm sorry" Megamind placed a warm cup of coffee in Roxanne's hands.
"Nothing happened, really" she sighed taking a sip of the brown liquid. "Actually it should be me, who should apologize. I was… Shocked, to see her… in her underwear there…"
Her answer caused the blue man to smirk. "You were jealous."
The brunette woman blushed. "I… wasn't."
"Yes, you were." His smile got even wider.
"No, I wasn't!"
"Roxi…" he purred lowering his head to her, so he could look in her eyes, "You were jellyous of meeehh." His lips brushed her cheek, his hot breath over her neck… Roxanne bit her lips.
"Maybe… a little… and it's jealous."
"Mhmm." He finally found her lips and were about to kiss her, when Minion decided to show up.
"Sir?"
Megamind jumped away from Roxanne. "Yes, Minion?" he said quickly. "What is it?"
"Well… I don't really think I should repeat it, but… Miss Margot said that when you and Miss Ritchie stop being all lovey-dovey , should you return to your task?"
"Who the heck, does she think she is? Tell her, that if she wants this done, the she shall come here and ask nicely! And that's final!" the ex-villain burst
"She also said, in case you would said something like that, you should remember, that she can kick your ass before you'll start pronouncing 'a' in the word 'apple'…"
That was too much. The blue alien shouted what he thought of the little annoying witch, and what she should do with her 'demands'.
After he calmed down a bit, Roxanne asked him, what did Margot wanted from him.
"She wants me to rebuild the machine which made her come here." He grumbled. "Actually I was already working on it, since I coughed some free time, but… she's such an annoying bitch, that I seriously think on not repairing it…"
"Then you would have me on your head for the whole eternity, kid." Margot showed up behind Minion, her hairs were slightly damp, she must have had a shower also she had finally got dressed. Now her hands were hidden in black, long gloves, she wore green Chinese shirt with silver floral design, blue jeans and black sneakers.
"She has a point there, sir." Minion agreed. Megamind looked for help in Roxanne.
"I'm with them on it." She replied.
"Fine!"
The once-evil genius took a wrench and got back to work.
"Sooo, you're like a year together, right?" the grey blond sat at the floor next to the spinning chair.
"Yes, how do you know? Weren't you…?" Roxanne wanted to ask her something but Margot was faster in her replay.
"Even in my sleep I know what's going on around me. It's how I survive most of the time."
"Why did you sleep so long?"
"It takes a certain amount of energy, to get from one dimension to another, especially since I got here summoned… How's your relationship with the blue head?" this quick change of topic surprised the brunette a bit.
"Well, why do you ask?"
"You look like you wanted to talk about it, and since his busy…" she pointed at working alien.
"… It's been a year since we're together, but…"
"You never got pretty much far with it, am I right?"
"Yes, it's like the world is trying to keep us at safe distance from each other. During Christmas, anniversaries or our birthdays… There's always something happening… I didn't know, that dating a hero would be so…" Roxanne tried to find a good word.
"Frustrating?"
"Yeah. I mean, I realized it won't be easy for us. Since, well, he's from completely different race, and all but I thought we'll figure It out somehow…" the reporter dropped her head and looked at her hands, her coffee was getting cold.
"Do you love him?"
That got the full attention from the brunette woman. She gave Margot a confused look. "What do you mean?"
Margot looked back scanning. "Exactly what I said."
"… Then… yes, I think yes. Yes."
"You think, or you know? Love or just fascination? You know, the emotions caused by a critical situation, may fade quiet quickly, when the excitement disappears and everyday routine will happen."
That got Roxanne thinking, she shot one more look at the younger looking woman and got up.
"I'll be going now. Say goodbye from me to Megamind, ok?"
"Sure. See ya'".
Roxanne walked down the street munching on a doughnut, thinking on her conversation with Margot. She reflected a bit on her relationship with Megamind. After defeating Hal everything speeded up. Growing popularity of Megamind, removing the damage in the city, building the Museum of Megamind and making sure he won't get charged with the death of Metroman. Big blue head got tons of ideas of how to help Metro City and most of his day he spent on building new inventions. Not forgetting, that somehow Roxanne's career also took on a faster pace. They hardly got time to be together, but thanks to Megamind's big brain they could steal some time for each other. Short dates, sweet stolen kisses, cuddling against each other, talking about everything and nothing, their past, learning more about each other… Oh, yeah, and there was the whole 'Bernard accident' too… She just needed a bit of time to process the fact, that THAT Bernard was THIS Megamind. And when she managed to do it, it was much better.
Then again, their three months anniversary, well, somehow they both managed to forget about it during the whole ruckus with the Museum, his birthdays - a new villain attacked (dressed up as a Turkey or something…), Christmas, which weren't too far from his birthdays, she spend with her sick mother (Megamind decided that maybe it wasn't the best time for him to meet her..). New Year? They almost, almost got to her bedroom, but then Brainbots arrived with information from Minion about another new bad guy. When ex-villain got back to her apartment she was soundly asleep. And the smaller dates? Those were always romantic and well, sweet, but they were always too tired for anything. Roxanne sighted and stopped before walking on the pedestrian crossing. In two months she would have birthdays and then their anniversary. She was an all-grown up woman, dammit! To make things worse, she didn't even asked him if they were, well, compatible in that way… She was just too… embarrassed to do it. If anything more heated starts to happen between them, she simply hopes, he knows what he's doing…
She finally arrived at the city park and sat on a bench. But what Margot said got her thinking… What if she's not in love with him? What if this is just a thrill? Getting an alien blue boyfriend, and checking how far could she go with him? What if HE wasn't in love in her, rather in love with the idea she loves him? Yes, they have been together for about half a year, but… just… The brunette woman stood up, brushing her hairs away from her face. Suddenly the doughnut lost its taste, so she throws it away and goes home.
In the lair things were going as smoothly as with Roxanne.
"She doesn't pick up her phone" Megamind said in a worried voice.
"Maybe she's busy?" Margot turned a page in her book.
"For a whole week?" he turned to her irritation literally radiating from him "I called her like hundreds of times and she's just not picking up! Margot, what did you told her?" blue hero glared angrily at his 'guest', while she tried to give the 'I-don't-give-a-shit-about-it-pal' look from her couch.
"Why do you think I said something to her?"
"Because you were the last person Roxanne talked to last week in the lair, remember? 'Sides Minion saw that."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Minion, did you saw me talking to the 'kidnap-me' girl?" Margot asked the fish curiously.
"Of course. Would you like a cake, Miss Margot?" Minion stretched his arm, holding a platter of sweets.
"Why, thank you, Minion." She accepted his offer and took a bite of his cooking. "Wow, fiz iz amasin' Mifion!" she said with her mouth full.
"Minion, stop being nice to her, the little vixen is ruining my reeelationshup with Miss Ritchi!"
"She is?" his sidekick frowned at this statement and sends the blond a worried look.
"Oh, so you do have a relationship with herrrr." Margot smiled like a Cheshire cat. "I didn't know that, since you know, your interaction with her is reduced to such a low degree."
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, come on. Tell me do you really love her? I mean her, not the idea of her being with you?"
For a moment he stood silent, before he answered, with a really dangerously low tone. "Listen, you little bug, me and Roxanne is none of your business, understood? If you try to do anything fishy, sorry Minion, I assure you, you won't live long." His eyes crossed with hers and all he got was a smirk.
" Oh, I soo can't wait, Hee-roow, because you see I already did something fishy, what will you do now with me?"
"What. Did you. Do?"
"Well, nothing much. Just something similar to what I said to you. I suppose she's having a second though on the both of you."
He moved back from her clenching his fists. "I will. Personally. KILL YOU!" and started chasing her around liar, since she kind of predicted he would do something like that.
"Listen buddy, it's all for your own good! It's like a payback for the hospitality you gave me!"
"Well, thank you very much! If I wanted your help I would ask for it. Now wait until I'll get you in my hands!"
"Then what happens?" Megamind and Margot stopped running.
"Roxanne?" the alien couldn't believe his eyes. "You came…"
"Hey, what's with that tone? You thought I wouldn't visit my favorite boyfriend?" Miss Ritchi asked with a small smile.
"Well I… I…" he cleaned his throat. "You didn't answer my calls, so I thought…"
"My cellphone got broken, would you forgive me?"
She stepped closer to him and threw her arms around his neck.
"Always."
"And that's the answer…"
Margot and Minion observed the couple kiss for a brief moment.
"I really don't know" muttered Margot to herself, slightly put out "which has more sugar the cake, or them?"
When the reporter and ex-villain parted for some air, Roxanne said to Margot. "Thanks."
"What for?" the blond got a bit confused.
"For your questions. I think I finally know where I'm going. Where we're going." She gave a tender smile to her boyfriend.
"Bedroom?" Margot asked, causing the trio to blush furiously.
I swear to God this is MegamindxRoxanne.
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