Melting Faith

Chapter Three: Lunch date


"Hey James, Edward."

Siler smiled at Roxanne;

"Blue suits you better than red Miss Ritchi."

She turned a little red at the comment but the waitress interrupted anything she would have said by leading us to a table.

"How are the hospital designs doing?"

Siler sighed and gave her a look that said don't ask;

"Horribly- I have an idea of how it should look and the others are just saying no no no, it's rather annoying."

"We wanted to stay as close to how…how he wanted them."

Siler froze, we both knew what she meant-she meant when he was MegaMind;

"And yet I'm keeping to the design idea-they keep saying no anyway."

Roxanne's frown was an answer all it's own;

"So you are trying to stay true to the design, I'll have a talk with some of my connections."

Siler nodded;

"I've already started with mine, some agree with me and others agree with the rest of the group- MegaMind may have done at least one good-but that doesn't mean he need's to be remembered as anything than what he was, a villain."

Roxanne sighed;

"Do you think he shouldn't be remembered?"

Siler shrugged and took a sip of water-what did he think of his old self?

"Should he? They are right he did play the villain, he really didn't do any good to my knowledge."

Roxanne laughed causing us both to look closely at her, was she mad?

"The orphanage of saint Bernard? That place was funded by him- a shell corporation of his provided the funds but he visited-the nun there admitted to it when he died. I've looked into other places funded by the same corporation- dozens of orphanages and hospitals- getting the funding they needed."

We were quite for a bit as the waitress took our orders and walked off with them. Roxanne took a sip of water before continuing;

"He had feelers through the whole city that no one knew about. Plenty of back door deals, he made this city better without us even knowing it. Hell any damaged done was fixed with funding from a construction company in the name of one of the shareholders of the derider corporation- his shell corporation."

She knew too much- would she be able to find out that he was well himself?

"How far have you gotten into his funds?"

She blinked;

"Far enough, his funds are still in use…but to think he might be alive is inconceivable- MetroMan said he was gone."

I regret that some what, but I was also happy for him. He wanted to die, to be reborn.

"What if he was wrong?"

What was Siler doing? Did he want to out himself? Roxanne gave him a hard look;

"I found your name among the companies using his funds."

He smiled;

"I knew him."

She froze, hell I did too. Alright so he wasn't outing himself-only that he knew himself. Hm, I wondered how well that would work and how spectacular it would blow up in his face.

"You knew him?"

Siler smiled;

"Yes, plenty of people did. Mind he asked all of them to keep quite about that little fact, actually all of us still do except for Miss Hudson and now me. But he said in case of his death to continue doing what he'd asked us to do. His funds being used for the good of the city, he trusted all of us to do that."

So he knew which nun, and he was alright with that apparently otherwise he'd be mad right?

"How well did you know him?"

He waited for the waitress who'd just came to the table to give us our food and for her to leave;

"As well as most could expect. Mind a certain rumor came around that one of us knew him far better then the rest of us."

Roxanne nodded;

"He was in a relationship?"

Siler laughed;

"No, he wasn't- apparently it was just sex."

Roxannes face morphed almost instantly;

"You?"

He shuttered;

"Oh no, not me. I was his frenemy actually."

What word was that?

"Frenemy? You mean friend enemy?"

He nodded;

"I didn't like him sometimes and other times he was in my good books."

A smile made its way to her lips;

"It's good to know not all of us were stupid about him."

I twitched at the comment, sure we had been except for those who became his business partners and friends…or lover in one case. So was it a woman or a man? Straight or gay?

"I was glad to know that he hadn't lost all hope in humanity…honestly with the hand he was dealt I'm surprised he was actually deep down a good guy."

Okay now that caught both our attentions;

"What hand? What are you talking about?"

He gave me a long hard look, oh! Oh he meant;

"Prison."

He nodded;

"Being raised in a prison for so long…It was hard for him and not all the inmates liked him. Some actually tried to kill him."

Roxanne looked rather upset by that news. Honestly we had all known he was raised by the inmates for a little bit and then the warden and his wife.

"It wasn't all bad though- lonely as one might suspect. No other children there for him to play with and with that mind of his-well it was easy for the inmates to warp him…warp his sense of justice."

He took a breath;

"But the warden's wife Milly loved him, gave him the hope that one day some one would realize that even if he was different he could live among humans."