Ahh I'm so sorry! Classes have gotten so hectic and I changed the plot for this chapter at least three times. But it's done! And I have two more already partially written!

I spent forever trying to decide what to call Lady Redundant Woman while writing, because that's way too lengthy to type out every time, LRW doesn't feel right in a fic, Lady would probably only be used as a nickname from certain people… so I just stuck with Beatrice. Sorry if it's confusing, if anyone has any better ideas let me know :/

Sorry it's shorter than usual...

Disclaimer: I do not own the show Wordgirl

A Romano Evening

It was a late October afternoon when Doctor Two Brains was released from jail. Since his cheese ray hadn't turned the entire city into cheese (Mr. Big's skyscraper was villain business, not the city's) and he hadn't stolen any money (that was Chuck, the Butcher, and Granny May's doing), he technically hadn't done anything wrong before being arrested. So his sentence was decreased to a few weeks, and he'd decided to wait it out and use the time to plan his next evil scheme.

Which, now that he was heading back to his lair, he didn't really feel like carrying out yet. He still had a pretty large collection of cheeses to tie him over, and he wasn't in the mood for going right back to jail. So when he was finally dropped off at his lair, his first action wasn't to call the henchmen and begin writing up the long, complicated schemes he'd worked out perfectly in his cell. Instead, he picked up his phone and dialed a number as familiar to him as his own.

Buzz. Buzz. Buz- "Hello?"

"Hey, Lady Redundant Woman?"

"Two Brains! You're out of jail already?"

"Yeah, got out early this time…" he said as he twirled the phone cord around his index finger. "I'd like to celebrate – how about just the two of us?"

"Sounds good, nice, and quite lovely. Have anything in mind?"

"There's a Fancy Cheese Convention downtown tonight. Whaddya say we go out to dinner, seven pm?"

"Works for me. Are we stealing anything tonight?"

"Nah, I'd like to stay out of jail for now – I have a huge evil scheme I'm working on."

"All right. See you at seven, then."

Two Brains hung up the phone with a smile. Finding a day when neither of them were in jail was rare, and he had really missed her during the past few weeks.

A few hours later, he switched his lab coat for a slightly better-looking suit coat, and tucked a small cheese ray in its inside pocket – he didn't intend to use it, of course, but who knows when a cheese ray will prove useful?

"Henchmen!"

"Yeah?" The shorter one replied from the couch.

"I'm going out. Don't break anything while I'm gone, and be in bed by nine. I don't want any repeats of last time," the doctor said sternly.

"You got it, boss."

Becky stepped behind a tree and took off, Bob in tow. She spiraled through the sky a few times before landing at Violet's front door and knocking a few times. The door swung open almost immediately. "Becky!" Violet exclaimed happily. They embraced, then went inside.

"Violet! Ready for our sleepover?"

"Of course! Becky, do you mind that I invited Scoops?"

"You what?" Becky said, confused. "But sleepovers are our thing. I mean, it's okay, he's our friend, but…"

"Thanks!" Violet squealed and pulled her towards the kitchen.

Becky looked at her friend's joyous face and mustered a smile. "No problem. Best friends."

Scoops was already there, munching on some cookies. He waved at Becky, who returned the gesture halfheartedly.

Violet motioned to the living room. "Come on, you guys! Let's play some games. Becky, you can choose which one."

"Sure! Let's play…" she trailed off as her super-hearing picked up the sinister laugh of Doctor Two Brains. "Ugh. I'll be right back. Wordgirl stuff." Her friends nodded sympathetically, and she waved quickly at them before grabbing Bob's hand and dashing back out the door.

"You look lovely tonight, Lady," Two Brains said as they joined the line of people waiting to enter the convention.

"You always say that," she protested.

"That's because it's always true!"

"Oh, stop," she replied with a grin. "You're looking good too - I never get to see you in a suit coat."

"Hey, don't forget this little guy," Two Brains pointed to his mouse brain, which had a mini bowtie around it. They both laughed, enjoying the moment until Beatrice ended it with a sigh.

"Why is the line so long, lengthy and seemingly endless?" she complained. "I could clear everyone out quickly if I just… " She moved her hand up towards her nose, but Two Brains put his hand on hers and lowered it.

"NO, no, we should wait our turn - otherwise they might kick us out and we won't get any cheese."

"Not if we stole the cheese."

Two Brains groaned. "Don't tempt me…"

Suddenly Wordgirl landed in front of them in her fighting stance. "Two Brains! Lady Redundant Woman! Teaming up again, I see?"

Two Brains crossed his arms. "Can't two villains spend some time together in peace?"

"Not when they're about to commit a crime!"

"We're not committing a crime. We're just going to this cheese convention, okay?"

"You're… not stealing the cheese?"

"If we were, we would've done it already."

Wordgirl shrugged. "I guess so… well, see you around, then." She zoomed back to Violet's house and into their living room, where her two friends were playing cards. Becky stood there for a moment awkwardly, waiting for her friends to notice her arrival. When they didn't, she cleared her throat and sat down next to them.

"Oh hey, Becky!" Violet said. "We're playing Go Fish, but we can start over for you!"

"Thanks, you guys, you're the best."

Scoops stacked up all the cards and shuffled the deck, then dealt out cards and spread the rest on the floor. "Becky, you want to go first?"

"Sure. Violet, do you have any…" Her super-hearing picked up on Two Brains's voice saying cheese ray followed by Lady Redundant Woman's cackle, and she sighed. "Be right back. Bob, you want to take my place for now?" The monkey gave her a thumbs-up as she zoomed away.

"Two Brains! Lady Redundant Woman! You won't get away with… what are you doing?" She had expected the villains to be battle ready, but instead they were seated at a nice table with different kinds of cheeses on their plates and a candle between them. They leaned back from the table at Wordgirl's arrival.

Two Brains and Beatrice glared up at her. "Will you stop interrupting, intruding, and barging in on us?"

"You're… still not stealing cheese?"

"No," Two Brains replied. "Will you just scram? We're trying to have a conversation here."

"About crime?"

"Wordgirl, do you know what a date is?"

"Yeah, of course, it's a day of the month or year, specified by a number, or it can refer to… oh. Sorry." Wordgirl's face turned slightly red, and she took off in a burst of light. The two villains resumed eating.

"Does she do that to you much? Just barge in while you're trying to relax?" Two Brains asked.

"All the time! If there aren't any villains committing crimes that day, sometimes she'll enter, arrive, and show up when I press a button on a regular copy machine – and I work at a copy shop! It's my job, my occupation… my livelihood!"

"One time she actually tried to convince me to commit a crime because she wanted an excuse to not give a speech. Of course, I did it in the end because why not, but - ooh, mmm," he paused to munch on one of the cheeses on his plate. "Which of these hard cheeses do you like best? The Asiago, Caprotto, or Romano?"

Beatrice laughed. "I love them all."

Becky returned to Violet's living room once again. "Hey! You still... I guess not." Violet and Scoops had put the card deck away and were laughing about something. "Hey, um, hi! I'm back!" she said, louder.

"Oh, hi Becky!" Violet said. Her face was a little pink. "We were just talking about the upcoming school dance, since I'm on the decorating committee."

"Okay... so um, do you know what the theme will be yet?"

"No, we were trying to come up with ideas," Scoops replied. "It's a casual dance, so nothing too fancy…"

"We thought maybe Under the Sea would be neat!" Violet continued. "But that would take a lot of work, so then we were thinking –"

"Glow in the dark! But that's similar to the Space theme we had a while ago –" Violet and Scoops tossed ideas back and forth faster than Becky could keep up with. She opened her mouth to reply a few times, but they had already moved on to another topic before she could get her thoughts out. She sighed and leaned back, letting them converse without interruption. When had they become such good friends?

While she was off saving the city. Of course.

As she stopped paying attention to what they were talking about, a different voice came into focus.

"We want, desire, and covet this cheese, and you can't stop us!"

She looked at her friends, who were still engrossed in their conversation between the just the two of them, and got up to leave without a word. Bob got up from where he had begun playing solitaire and followed her.

"What do you mean, 'no more samples'?! There are samples right there!" Doctor Two Brains said, irritated. He pointed at the long tables in front of them, still with a good amount of cheese samples on the serving platters.

The waiter fidgeted. "I'm sorry sir, but we only have a limited amount of cheese and not everyone has –"

"You listen here!" Beatrice said angrily. "We want, desire, and covet this cheese, and you can't stop us!" The two villains shared a look, then Two Brains reached inside his suit coat to pull out the cheese ray he'd brought.

"Ready, Lady?"

"Of course," she replied with a sinister grin. The waiter's eyes widened at the weapon being pointed at him, and hurriedly moved away from the table. Lady Redundant Woman tapped her nose a few times, creating duplicates which appeared out of nowhere and approached the cheese platters.

"Step away from the cheese!" Wordgirl declared, landing in front of the two villains.

"All right," Two Brains said with a grin. He took a step backwards as two duplicates tackled Wordgirl from behind. Huggy jumped out of the way before getting caught, and then leapt back at the duplicates. He pressed their noses and they disintegrated into papers.

"Thanks, Huggy!" she said. But although they were free of the first two, a much bigger wave of duplicates approached and blocked the villains from their sight. By the time the two of them had managed to get rid of all the duplicates, Lady Redundant Woman and Two Brains had vanished.

"Ugh!" Wordgirl grabbed Huggyface and flew out the doors and up into the night sky. "See them anywhere, Huggy? They couldn't have gotten too far…"

After a moment, Huggy chattered and pointed to a dimly-lit street, where she could make out the familiar olive-green van speeding away. "Good work! We need to apprehend them – let's go!"

"That was fun," Two Brains said between pieces of cheese. "Which way is your house again? I'm having trouble seeing the street signs."

"Take a left up ahead, right here." Two Brains did as she directed. As soon as he'd finished taking the turn, the van's headlights lit up a familiar figure in front of their path. He let out a cry of surprise as he slammed on the brakes and tried to swerve around Wordgirl, but she flew under the vehicle and lifted it up in the air.

"What happened? I thought you guys weren't going to steal anything," she asked from below the van.

Two Brains stuck his head out the window and looked down at her. "They wouldn't let us go back for seconds."

"Seriously? You ruined your night for that?"

"It wasn't ruined, spoiled, or even sabotaged - I haven't had this much fun in a while," Beatrice answered cheerily.

Not knowing how to answer, Wordgirl sped up, dropped the van off in front of the police station, returned the stolen cheeses back to the convention, and finally arrived back at Violet's house. She opened the door and almost ran into Scoops, who had his hand reaching towards where the doorknob had been a moment before.

"You're leaving?" Becky said, confused.

"Yeah. My parents wanted me home by nine," Scoops said. "Did you think I was staying overnight? Sleepovers are your thing."

Becky smiled at his remark. "Well, see you later, Scoops," she said, letting him pass by. She found Violet in the kitchen, staring out the window.

"Hey, Violet, I'm back…" Violet spun around and gave her friend a huge smile.

"Becky! Are you done with your Wordgirl stuff?"

"Yeah, finally. You want to hear about it?"

"Sure!"

I was originally going to make this just a Two Brains episode, but then I was looking up cheeses and I saw Romano and I couldn't help making the pun.

I don't think they would be seriously dating because they're always in jail – a day when both of them aren't busy is pretty rare. But they would definitely enjoy each other's company and want to spend time together when they can. I also think they'd be both good and bad influences on each other. They both sometimes seem reluctant to commit crimes (LRW usually only does when something makes her super upset, DTB wouldn't even steal cheese if he had a big enough supply…) so they could talk each other out of committing crimes, but then once one of them decides 'heck, I'm doing it' the other one goes 'well, might as well join you'.

I don't think I'm going to make an episode for the seventh grade school dance, so that whole thing wasn't foreshadowing – just letting you know.