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Chapter Seven: Lie
The reporters had finished with the note, then all of them but one left the prison entrance in the hunt of fresher news. Since Minion offered to ride her home in the invisible car, Roxanne had stayed. However Megamind seemed a little off.
"Megz? Is there something wrong?" She approached to her boyfriend and placed her hand on his shoulder, being careful to do not touch the spikes on his costume. The hero just sighted as he placed himself on the back seat of the invisible car, not feeling like driving. Roxanne sat next to him. Minion sat in front of the wheel and started the engine in silence. He knew exactly what had happened, but he kept it as a secret until his boss would decide to say it out loud. He simply didn't want to look like a meddling fish.
"Roxanne, have you ever feel bad for having done something good?"
The question took the reporter way off, but seeing how he was relying so much on her answer she carefully said.
"Honestly I haven't. Sometimes I have regretted my actions, but after thinking it a while these were clearly selfish or bad intentioned. However I know that not everything in life is black or white, sometimes there's bad in the good, too."
He stared at her when she pressed his hand softly. Roxanne's best quality was to find the good even in the bad so, maybe it was possible to do so in the opposite way.
"Does this have something to do with this morning capture?" She arched her eyebrow, noisy reporter skills activated.
Megamind glassy eyes made her regret her question, she felt his boyfriend was about to confess a murder
"Gru is my friend."
How could he do not call Gru his friend? It was because of him that Megamind realized what a true villain was, and with that he had given the blue boy one of the most valuable lessons for his life. Megamind started narrating his girlfriend what had happened with Gru fifteen years ago; the first week they had met each other. That guy seemed to get along with everybody, even if he was the silent type of person. But specially, he had developed a good relationship with the young Megamind, the one who shared the most time with.
"How come you can move freely in prison at this hour?" Gru wondered one night lying on his bed while Syx slid in his cell at almost midnight, it was several hours after the lights out.
"I told you. I've been living here all my life. There's no way they can keep me inside my cell."
"All your life? You'd must have done something really nasty?"
In the darkness Syx could see Gru smirking, the young boy blushed by the compliment. Then he decided to tell him how he had arrived to planet Earth, and with that Gru's smile disappeared. That night the boy felt confident enough to tell him about his life long grudge against Wayne Scott.
"Can I tell you something, Syx?" Gru stopped the blue boy's monologue when he was about to explain another of his 'almost' victories against the local hero. "You are doing eeverything wrong."
"Wrong!" For Syx, and maybe for Megamind at any age, that was an utter offence.
"Yeeez, wrong. You can't expect to vee a good villain if you continue attacking the ceity where you have grown. Move out, expand your territory"
"This is the sity where Wayne lives, and it's my aim to destroy him" Syx answered between gridded teeth.
"Eexactly. Heroes defend the ceity where they have grown, but villains don't have anything to protect. They can move on when something ees not going smooth somewhere. And I can zee you aren't going smooth in Metro ceity."
"Not, in this sity..." Mumbled Syx in an inner struggle. "I... should take this... in consideration..."
But he never did.
Back to the present, the by the moment not-invisible car was turning the corner towards the Great Hotel of Metro City. No one had told Minion to drive there, but since his boss narration's was almost over, the fish was sure of which would be his next command.
"And you're telling me he came here for vacations, and out of the blue decided to steal the museum?" Roxanne simply couldn't believe it. She hadn't known Gru yet, and he had already won the neglectful parent of the year award. Speaking of evil.
"Yes, even when this season is better for going to the beach."
"That's not the point Megz! Minion, we must go talk with these kids. Even if their father is evil, they have to know what had happened to him."
"I'm already on my way, Ms. Ritchie."
"No, Minion!" Megamind didn't want to face the three girls; he hated the idea of saying them he had sent their dad to prison. That was beyond any evil thing he had done when he was... well... evil!
But no plea could convince Roxanne of changing her mind, it was the correct thing to do and the hero knew it. Then, in the hotel room, while the girls struggled about what to do next, a knock came at their door. The three froze immediately, wondering which kind of person could be Gru's friend.
Some voices could be heard vaguely coming from outside the hall. That made them feel nervous, Gru had said only one person could come to pick them up. In any situation they weren't supposed to open the door to strangers, that's something they had learned recently in the school. Anyway, with their hearts beating hard with curiosity and excitement, they decide Margo was the chosen to check the peephole.
They arranged a chair leaned to the door, she stood up on it. But some seconds after seeing through she went down the chair completely pale. Their sisters noticed how she was trembling, and feel fear of what that meant. Was there something horrible the other side of the door?
"Margo, who's there?" Edit split in a whisper, she was afraid that the person outside could realize they were there. It took several minutes for the older sister to recover her composure; exactly at that moment another knock hit the door.
"He's that-Megamind-dude." Margo accomplished to say before the knot in her throat didn't let her finish the phrase. Margo's glassy eyes looked at her sisters. Edith mouth was open wide Agnes thought that they were going to be sent to prison just like they had done with their daddy, she started pulling in Margo's leg pleading her to convince the hero they were on vacations and nothing more.
"Ollo?"
"It's hello, sir"
"Oh, yes. Hello? Is anybody there?"
The girls heard from the other side of the door and started arguing about what to do next.
Margo was already devising an escape plan, she was sure they were after her for being the intellectual mind behind the painting's robbery. Edith was more action oriented; she decided to hit the hero with the chair as soon as they'd open the door. Agnes had sat on the floor next to Gru's bed, tugging her stuffed unicorn. She watched silently how her sisters stood their ground, and suddenly she got an idea.
"Light bulb!" The little girl screamed and both elder sisters turned their heads for looking at her in awe. Agnes had learnt an expression their tutor liked to use a lot. She seemed proud; it had to be an amazing idea.
"Do you have an idea?" Snapped Edith in an almost mean way.
"Yes."
"Then, what is it Agnes?" Margo was desperate for any idea.
"Well, it the guy behind the door is a hero." Agnes hesitated, making the seconds last like hours. She pointed at the door "The he's a good guy and we're villains, we can defeat him. He would never hurt children like us".
Unable to explain exactly what she wanted, she felt frustrated by Edith's expression of that-sounds-so-stupid, that she hid her face on the stuffed unicorn one more time. But Margo was beyond smart when was about understanding her sisters, she smiled widely and gave the little Agnes a great hug.
"Great idea Agnes. If we defeat Megamind, we can obligate him to release Gr-dad. And we'll get back home together" Stated Margo, mentally adding that they could get their revenge to Megamind for ruining their vacations, and it was a way also a way of apologizing Gru for the bad designed plan. "But we won't come out just like that. We need a more concrete plan"
And the three of them team leaned over their father's bed for speaking as low as they could.
"It seems nobody's home" Roxanne sighed as Megamind knocked for the fifth time.
"I heard voices in there" The hero pushed his ear as much as he could against the door's surface. A sudden kick from behind it made him fall backwards.
"What do you want?" Edith knew how to scare bullies with her mean voice, and that was working with the three strangers in the hall. Minion helped his boss to stand up, as Roxanne tried this time with nice play.
"Sorry I we scared you. It is Roxanne, Megamind and Minion. We have something important to tell you about your father".
"How can we know you know our dad?" Mean Margo was playing her role perfectly.
Megamind had to gulp some saliva before deciding himself to talk, this was going to be hard to face.
"Gru told me he's having a meeting with old partners. And he asked me to take care of you for today".
Nothing but silence came from the room. Roxanne couldn't simply believe how his boyfriend just had lied out of the blue. She was about to scold him when the door wide opened. Behind it there were three cute girls, with shy expressions, staring at them.
"Is he really ok?" Asked the smallest of the three, a little black haired girl, no more than six years old. Megamind shocked when seeing Gru's daughters were indeed cute, it wasn't just their father bragging.
"Ye-yes, why shouldn't he be?" Minion and Roxanne couldn't simply believe their ears. The fish tugged of his boss cape trying to get his attention. When he managed to, the three adults teamed back in the hall leaving the girls behind.
"What are you doing? We're supposed to tell them what happened to their father!" Roxanne side eyed the girls standing there with confused looks, and then she bent down back to whisper more complaints to his boyfriend.
The three adults seemed to be having a big trouble to speak with the sisters; Edith sent a complicit wink to Agnes when they weren't looking.
"Ms. Ritchi is right, sir. We can't lie to them like that. Mr. Gru is going to be in prison for a long time, he won't be back with them by tomorrow." This time Minion gave a quick look to the sisters. They were quieter that ever, with sad expressions. Agnes was holding hard Margo's hand, and Edith was kicking the rug annoyed. Minion felt some pity for them, without realizing everything was a plan of theirs.
"I know! It's just...why it must be me the one to tell them Gru is in prison?"
"Hum, excuse me." Margo decided it was just enough prattle. "At last, who are you people?"
"Well, haven't we spoken our names out of the door?" Roxanne had just decided she didn't want to be next to the girls when they'd get the bad news. This wasn't her business anyway; she didn't want to be an accomplice for Megamind lies. "I'm Roxanne Ritchi, and there you have Megamind and Minion" She gestured with the hand to her pensive blue boyfriend and to a similar confused gorilla bodied fish.
"Oh then, I'm Margo, she's Edith and this is Agnes" Said the brunette politely.
"It's been a pleasure to meet you but..." Roxanne took a look at her watch with haste "I have to go prepare myself for the late afternoon news. I'm a reporter, see?"
She then pated Agnes thinking she was such a cutie, like the sister she always wanted to have; concerned that their future was about to collapse. She arranged Edith's pink hat and shook hands with Margo.
Roxanne thought about the girl's horrible father that had let them alone. Maybe they'd be sent to an orphanage, with the doubtful opportunity to be adopted. The she turned around to say Minion good bye, and sent a last scolding look to her boyfriend. She approached the hero to give him a kiss on the forehead.
"Megz, I know you'll do the right with these girls. I'll let them at your guard." Roxanne left wishing the best for those three brave girls.
Temptress, Megamind though.
Author Note: Sorry for the delay, one more time. Real life sucks me and sometimes simply don't find the energy to write. Thank you so much for the reviews, alerts, favorites and so, but specially for reading it :D
No worries, I'm not planning to drop this project. Actually, it's going to my favorite part of the story. Next chapter is filled with sugar, you can be sure of that!
