Okay, here you go, as a promised. It took longer for me to do this chapter because one, I kept rethinking the action I wanted to take on it and two, because school started again so I have to write a lot more. Go figure. Remember to check our Watcher of Hearts material. She's a great writer.

Chapter 4

Roxanne and Mykael sat at the table with their tea in hand. Minion, after making tea, went to take a cup up to Anya who hadn't come down from the observatory.

"So, tell me about this guy you met in the lobby." Mykael sipped his tea slowly, trying to keep a semi-serious tone even in the presence of his lovely reporter.

"According to Reena, his name is Samuel Williamson. Apparently, he is a very rich businessman that moved here not too long ago. Not only that, but apparently he has a thing for technology. He has his hands in all the major technological development facilities. Today, he was trying to get one of our reporters to investigate you for a story." Roxanne had her dear Pinky in her lap, listening to her 'Mommy' talk.

"Oh? What kind of story?" He didn't really have to ask, he already knew that whatever it was, it wasn't good.

"The slander kind." She felt tension in the air slowly increase as he places his tea on the table and his hand flat against the wood surface. He had plenty of people try to make his new reputation seem like an act, but not in a long time. Guess he thought that they had all finally accepted him as their hero, but now he had to deal with one more that was probably going to get others to follow. Would the vicious cycle never end?

"Did you find anything else out?" He felt her hand come over his, her warm flesh soothing him.

"Yeah, he's had a lot of criminal investigations made on him, but all turning up dead ends." She watched as his head perked up as they shared the same look. If he holds a criminal record, even ones that showed no leads, this guy was someone to keep an eye on. "I also talked to David today."

Mykael pulled his hand back just enough so that he could intertwine his blue fingers with her peach ones. "About?"

"Anya."

"What did you ask him about Anya for?" His face seemed confused, but at least they were getting off the topic of the professional businessman. Though, Megamind was no fool, and by the time she gave him that goofy smile, he already knew what for. "A story."

"I tried to convince my boss that it was a bad idea, but he insisted that people will want to know the reason for the jail alert." Shaking her head and drawing her other hand to her face, "I'm trying to find a way to do this without drawing out first impressions from my audience." He knew too well about first impressions. He knew that if she did this story the wrong way, people will think Anya of somewhat of a criminal and totally shun her from society. Then the whole purpose of her living with us would be for nothing.

"Try to prolong it as long as you can." He pulled their interlocked hands towards him. Pinky, who had roused from the movement, floated off Roxanne's lap to join the other brain bots. Her chair came closer to Mykael until their knees were touching.

"You know how pushy my boss can be. I might only be able to hold it off for a day or so." She felt his face come closer to hers which caused a keep blush across her face.

"I know you'll try your best my evil queen." He brushed his lips up her chin before meeting her own. Too dazed by the sudden display of affection, she almost forgot to kiss back. Almost. He took her other arm and pulled her out of her chair into his lap, deepening the kiss as he did so. Their other hands still interlocked, Megamind traced her hips with his free one.

"A little off topic don't you think?" She said, breaking away for a breath while barely parting his lips. He chuckled a bit as his traced his hips down to her jaw.

"Are you saying that you want to keep talking?" He pulled away from her only for her to come back to meet his lips.

"I never said that." She brought both her hands up to his neck as he brushed her spine with his fingers. Minion came in with two empty cups and, since it seemed to be such a common occurrence, tried to maneuver around them.

"At least go into your room so I don't have to see it." He dropped the two cups into the sink. Megamind stopped and raised his eyebrow at Roxanne, thinking it was a good suggestion. She was just about to take him up on his silent offer before she remembered Anya, who had stormed off not moments before. She whipped her head around to look at Minion.

"How is she?" She watched Minion shrug which suggested that Anya had not talked to him the whole time he was up there. Megamind stood up, forcing Roxanne to get to her feet as well.

"Maybe you should go talk to her." He kissed her on her forehead which she returned by kissing him on the lips. She whined in disappointment finding that she would have to do just that and leave her evil genius again. This time though, she was the one extremely frustrated. She nodded at him then went to go to the observatory. When Roxanne was clear out of hearing distance, Megamind turned to his fish friend.

"You sense of timing will never cease to amaze me." He rolled his eyes then went to playfully punch his friend's simian shoulder. Minion laughed back at him and put his arm around Megamind.

"Someone has to keep you two in line."

Anya drew on her blue prints, trying to finish them up before nightfall. Lying on her stomach on the floor made for the perfect time to concentrate. The sun's glare against the telescope made everything bright and reflected off the copper so beautifully that it was like sitting in a dome of gold. She smiled at the dog sitting in front of her, observing her as if it understood what she was doing. Patting its head gently, she expressed her gratitude for the company.

"Good dog." She placed her pencil on the floor and sighed. The ideas were good and the intentions were in the right place, but she had no idea where she was going to get the equipment needed to build it. The gun was extremely high tech and also extremely time consuming. There is no telling how long it would take. It took her three weeks just to finish building her dog, though that wasn't planned out as well as this was.

"Hello?" Anya could hear Roxanne's steps and voice coming up to the observatory. She lowered her head into her plans, trying to ignore the woman. She had nothing against Roxanne personally, not yet, only a bad history with people. The only reason she seems to get along with Megamind and Minion, somewhat, is because they were not human. "Hello?"

"I heard you the first time." Anya flipped the blue prints over as Roxanne came into her sight.

"What are you doing?" Roxanne sat next to her on the floor, the dog cuddling into her side to show its obvious affection towards her. At least someone likes me in this room.

"Working." She tried her best to not make eye contact.

"Working on?" Roxi looked down at the paper and found it blank.

"Something." She looked up finally to find Roxanne desperately trying to figure her out. "A necessitates gun; I guess you could call it." Roxi smirked at the progress and lay down on her stomach.

"Can I see it?" She inched her finger to the paper, but Anya blocked her hand with her arm. She frowned and tried to find another opening. "It's nice up here, right?"

"Yeah." Anya looked around and found the golden coloring refreshing. "I'd die to see it at night. When the night sky lets the stars shine so brightly it is breath taking." Roxanne couldn't help, but look down at her ring. "Big M give that to you?"

"Yes." She barely had been able to mutter. So caught up in her memories of Megamind's proposal consuming her. "This is actually where he proposed to me."

"You seem happy together." Anya pulled out her blue prints and handed them to her. Roxanne smiled before taking it and looking it over.

"These are great. You figured all these out yourself." She traced her finger over the white scribbled that were small jots of notes here and there.

"Some of it. Megamind helped me out with some of the math. Some technical stuff that I didn't even know about." Anya folded her arms and rested her head upon them. Remembering some other things she learned with her quality time with the blue hero.

"He's a smart guy, funny too, and-" Roxanne stopped when Anya gave her a funny look. "What?"

"You're not going to start listening all the things you like about him, are you?" They both began to laugh.

"So, why were you avoiding me before?"

"I don't do well with other people."

"School?"

"Not just school, everyone I have ever encountered in my life." Anya hid her head in her arms.

"Does that come with a story?"

"Pick one, I got thousands. It's just, whenever I try to help people. It back fires on me and I come off as an 'evil' child." She leans up until she can cross her legs, sitting Indian style. "I just, I just wanted a place to belong." Roxanne stopped to stare at her for a second. She remembered the look on her face. It was the same look that she had found across Megamind's face time and time again. A longing for not only love, but for acceptance.

"Then." She says Anya lift her head up slowly. "You are definitely in the right place." Getting caught up in the moment, she brought Anya into a hug. Anya was so stunned that she hung in Roxanne's arms like a ragged doll. "You're in the right place."

After Roxanne and Anya shared their hug fest in the observatory, they joined Minion and Megamind down in the kitchen. They were discussing some plans for the remodeling of an apartment complex destroyed by negligence.

"Oh Minion, that reminds me." She pointed to him with a clever smirk on her face. "Guess who's coming to visit later?"

"You're kidding me. Reena? And you didn't tell me earlier." He began to panic as he ran into the table.

"You have a crush on her or something?" Anya tilted her head as she went to sit at the table.

"He would never admit it, but yes. He does." Megamind took his coffee and the apartment plans then whistled. "Spee-ider bot! Come here boy."

"Going on patrol?" Roxanne asked as she followed him toward the garage.

"Only for a little so I can swing the plans by the Mayor. I'll be back before Minion brings out lunch for everyone." He kissed the top of her forehead before mounting his spider robot.

"Hey, when you come home, can we go over the plans for the gun?" Anya called after him. He turned only briefly before smiling and nodding then continued out to his patrol. She smiled and asked Minion for some juice. "So tell me about this girl Minion."

"Well, she's smart." Minion pours juice into a cup and placed it on the table for her. "Sweet, beautiful, and, and, and." He sighed lovingly at his loss of words.

"That good huh? Why don't you ask her out?" She took the cup and put it to her lips. "I mean a nice guy like you, I'm sure she wouldn't mind going out with a fish."

"Yeah, Minion, why don't you ask her out?" Roxanne teased as she sat next to Anya.

"Well, because…just because." He went to go do laundry, leaving them alone.

"Hey you were working on modifications to that disguise generator watch, right?" She took a big sip of her juice.

"Yeah I was, but it's kinda of stumping me right now." Roxanne sighed.

"Can I help?"

"You know what, why not?"

Megamind left his spider bot out on the curb as he entered the Mayors home. The mayor was talking to a gentleman in a white suit that had a very convincing smile on his face, although, Megamind could tell he was no good. The man turned his head only a little to see him standing in the door war.

"Why, if it isn't our Glorious Hero, come to greet the Mayor in the flesh." The man extended his arms out word as if to show off his exaggeration.

"Hello, Megamind." The mayor stood up and smiled. "I'm glad to see you, what is it my boy? Do you need something?"

"Actually, I came to review the plans for the set of apartments." He held up his plans to show proof of why he was there then looked at the rude man. "Have we met before?"

"No, no. My name is Samuel Williamson." Samuel gestured toward the Mayor who smiled at him. "I was just talking to the Mayor about some reconstruction plans myself. Tell me, how long has the down town buildings been in shambles?" Megamind remembered Hal's apartment in which he had been procrastinating to fix. It brought back bad memories, so whenever he went to brainstorm what to do with it the only thing that came to mind was bulldozing it to the ground.

"Awhile." He deflected and moved closer to the Mayor's desk.

"Well, I believe it has been long enough. The Mayor had just agreed to let me be in charge of all down town reconstruction." Samuel smiled then tilted his head a little to the left.

"You are very busy Megamind." The mayor began, attempting to give a reason for doing so though mainly to convince his own self. "I figure, this way you won't be as busy and more work can get done faster." Megamind smiled weakly.

"Of course, that makes sense." He tried to hide the feeling in his heart that ached and screamed. He knew he could handle it himself and that perhaps they just didn't trust him to get the job done. Perhaps they just didn't trust him like he thought they did. "I guess that means we will be working together?"

"Actually, I'm hoping that I will see as little of you as possible." Samuel gave the Mayor a handshake. "Pleasure talking with you Mr. Mayor, I hope we can talk more later." Just as quickly as Megamind came in, Samuel left.

"So that's Samuel." Megamind stroked the hair on his chin before hearing the Mayor attempt a conversation with him.

"Now, how about we go over those plans?"

Anya and Roxanne were working on the holo-watch plans when Reena came in, her car giving a slight pucker of the engine.

"This piece of junk." Reena slammed her fist on the hood. "Always making funny noises when I want to go somewhere important."

"Hey Reena." Roxanne went to hug her friend while Anya chuckled at Minion, who was stumbling to get himself together.

"Why hello Ms. Reena." Minion steamrolled passed the chairs placed at the table right to Reena to greet her. Roxanne and Reena shared giggles. Anya took her cup of juice and went to greet her as well.

"So you're Reena, I've heard a lot about you." Anya smiled as friendly as she possibly could.

"Oh, like what?" Reena raised her eyebrow at her.

"Minion has only nice things to say about you, I assure you." She smiled looked at Minion coyly who was silently screaming at her to shut her mouth.

"Aw, that's sweet." Reena patted Anya's head. "Luckily, I've only heard nice things about you too."

"Really?" Anya looked at her surprised which Reena ignored thinking it was sarcasm. She went to go give Minion a hug, but Anya interrupted her. "You're a hacker right?"

"Uh, who wants to know?" Reena gave a sneaky grin which made Anya feel more comfortable.

"Ms. Pearce told me. Can you do more things with a computer?"

"Of course I can." Reena began to explain her skills with the computer. Minion was somewhat relieved to get some time to compose himself before he made a fool out of himself again. He quickly shuffled to the kitchen to begin making lunch. Roxanne felt left out as Reena began to go more into detail about how she can forge programs, make viruses, and hack into any computer.

"Can you show me?" Anya looked very excited.

"Anya! You just got out of jail and now you looking for someone to teach you something criminal?" Roxanne rubbed the space between her eyes.

"I told you! It's not criminal, its harmless ease dropping." Reena insisted. Anya shook her head at them both.

"Not as much the hacking, more than the programing." Anya watched both Reena and Roxanne's mouths form the shape of an O. At that moment, Mykael drove into the garage, keeping his promise to be home before lunch came.

"Welcome home." Roxanne found a sorrowful expression on her husband's face and embraced him gladly. She whispered into his ear, making sure not to disturb Anya and Reena who were heading towards the sitting room to work with a laptop. "What happened?" Mykael grabbed her hands and rest his head on her shoulder, a sure sign that something had happened.

"I'll tell you later." He lifted his head slowly into her cheek and gave it a long, loving kiss. "Right now, let us relax with our friends and family while we can." She knew he was referring to her work. She did have to start writing up her story on Anya and the now approved plans for the apartment complex that was destroyed by Adam's bombs.

"Okay, but I'm going to hold you to it."

The group ate sandwiches and chips until they felt their stomachs might explode. Reena made a point into telling Minion how amazing his food was and that any restaurant would pale into comparison to it. Of course, this made him very shy and noticeably goofy. Which Reena took as a sign that the comment was greatly valued. She and Anya then continued their conversation on computers.

Mykael and Roxanne found a way to sneak away from the group to talk. "I ran into Samuel at the Mayor's office."

"Oh, then what happened?"

"He convinced the Mayor to make him in charge of down town construction projects." At first, she thought it might be helpful to have someone helping him. She hardly gets alone time with her Megamind anymore that rarely gets interrupted. Perhaps this would be an opportunity. But then she saw his face. It looked defeated and lonely, as if he were fighting for acceptance all over again.

"You don't think that the Mayor is losing trust in you, do you?" She touched his cheek, causing him to look up at her.

"I can't say for sure, but it is obvious that that Samuel Williamson doesn't like me." He reached up to touch the warm hand on his cheek. "I have a feeling he is purposely trying to turn the people of Metrocity against me."

"Then we'll keep a close eye on him." She kissed him between his eyes then down on his nose. "We'll make sure Metro City remembers that you are their hero." He smiled and brought his lips to kiss hers' gently.

"Show me that step one more time." Roxanne overheard Anya fussing with Reena. It was obvious that Anya had some plans that required her learning these programing skills.

That took so long. I finally had to cut it off, it was getting so long and I believed continuing would get off topic. What will Anya do with her programing skills? Will Minion finally gather his courage to ask Reena out on a date? Will Samuel pose as a new threat in Megamind's life? And will Anya finally trust the Pearce family?