The next week, dynamics had changed at work. Buddy watched her work more intently, wanting to memorize her movements. She loved doing what she did and he loved watching her. Buddy had to admit, he'd fallen for this girl. She had so much passion and heart. She was incredibly driven. Now, more than ever he wanted her to be apart of the project he was working on. It was nearly finished, and he wanted her to help him execute it. He just had no idea how he could even ask that of her. He didn't know how to even bring it up.
Violet felt so comfortable and at ease while she worked now, more so than she had before. In the beginning this job was just meant to be something to hold her over while she did super work. She couldn't lie, with the lack of decent enemies to fight, this job was becoming much more enjoyable – and her handsome boss made it enjoyable as well. Every now and then Buddy would come over and watch her work, play with her hair a bit, then he'd disappear into the back room. She still had no idea what was going on back there.
One afternoon, when Buddy was coming out of the back room, Violet decided to indulge her curiosity.
"So what do you do in there all day?" Violet asked him.
"Huh?" Buddy asked, taking off his tie.
"In the back room," Violet questioned, reaching for the door knob.
Buddy took hold of her hands, stopping her "I don't know what you mean," he smiled innocently.
Violet smirked, "It's a fair question, you spend a lot of time in there,"
"Hm?" Buddy hummed as he planted gentle kisses on her lips.
Violet blushed, "You're not going to distract me, Buddy Pine," she chuckled.
"But it's so much fun," he hummed as he moved his kisses down to her neck.
Violet giggled and shrugged him off, "Buddy,"
Buddy thought a moment, he looked down at her hands he was holding, "I can't tell you everything yet," he looked at her, "But… I will tell you, that I'm developing something that is going to change everything,"
Violet furrowed her brows, "What kind of something?"
"Just… something," he told her.
Violet looked past him at the door. What was he keeping from her. She looked back at him, "You're doing that cryptic thing again…"
Buddy kissed her on the forehead, "Don't worry about it," he gave her a reassuring smile, "I'll tell you when the time is right. It's not ready yet,"
Violet scowled a bit, "Okay…"
Buddy winked at her, "Let's go get lunch alright?"
Violet cracked a smile, "Alright, let's go,"
They were walking down the street toward the restaurant they were going to for lunch. "So how is it you've gotten so much of my angst-y tragic backstory out of me," Buddy said with a chuckle, "But you haven't told me anything about your family?"
Violet chuckled and curled her hair around her ear, "Uhm… my dad works for an insurance company,"
"Come on, there's got to be something more interesting than that," Buddy chimed in.
"My family's really not that special," Violet lied, shrugging.
Suddenly, Violet stopped right in her tracks.
"What is it?" Buddy asked.
"Do you hear something?" she asked.
There was the faintest beeping. She looked around and then realized it was coming from the pawn shop they were passing.
Violet gasped, "Look out!" She pulled Buddy by the arm past the shop but before they could get away from it there was an explosion. Violet quickly put a force field around them before any flying debris could hit them. She grimaced. There was no going back now.
As soon as he realized they were both still alive – and more importantly, not hurt, Buddy opened his eyes. As the dust around them was settling he gasped.
A force field.
She flashed him an apologetic look, "I… can explain?"
Just then two guys in masks were running from the shop.
"Hang on," she narrowed her eyes at them. She shot force fields in their direction knocking them over. She then set another one around them, holding them in one spot.
Buddy looked at her and looked around at everything that was happening, his mind racing. He blinked.
"Buddy, I can explain, but I can't do it right now," she told him.
He blinked and looked at her, breathing a little quicker.
"Please, get somewhere safe… I'll come find you when it's all over," she told him.
He just stood there for a moment.
Just then Dash ran up beside Violet, "I've got this," running toward the two guys Violet had just taken out.
Buddy was beginning to realize exactly who Violet really was, and who her family was. And it was freaking him out.
"Please, Buddy…" she pleaded, "Go…" she pulled a mask out of her purse and put it on as she ran into an alley to change.
Buddy could hardly catch his breath by the time he got back to the shop. He quickly locked the door and pulled the shades down.
His mind was running at a thousand miles a minute. He clenched his fists as he paced around the room. How could he have not seen this? It all felt so obvious to him now that he felt ridiculously stupid. She's the right age, the right physical type. How had he not have seen it from the very beginning? His mind began flashing back to all those years ago. When he was so close to finishing everything he'd worked on, put his heart into for year's prior, was taken down by a family of supers lead, of course, by his childhood hero, Mr. Incredible.
Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Dash, and Invisigirl.
It wasn't bad enough that she was a super. It wasn't bad enough that she was the daughter of Mr. Incredible. What made it worst was she was powerful enough to have been a critical part in his previous undoing.
And on top of it all, he still cared very deeply for her.
"DAMN IT!" he slammed his fist down on a table, cracking it right down the middle.
He shut his eyes and tried to breath deeply. He had to get his heart rate down. He laughed a bit to himself. All those years and all those medications that had gotten his manias under control and in 2 minutes he was right back where he started.
Well it wouldn't be long now until she found out who he really was. It amazed him she already hadn't.
He breathed.
Everything was going to change.
Part of him kept thinking about his plan. He needed to start moving things into place, and to do that he really needed Violet's help.
But she wasn't just Violet. She was Invisigirl. She was 1/5 of the most powerful family of supers in Metroville. She was good.
He envisioned exactly how he knew it would go down.
She'd discover his identity, discover his plan, and stop him before it even began.
No.
He'd worked too long and hard for it all to fall apart.
He knew falling in love was a mistake.
Love.
Shit.
On the other hand, he knew he'd really fallen for this girl. But there would be no way in hell she'd stick around if she found out he was actually Syndrome.
He had no idea how to proceed at this point.
But he knew he had to do something.
