In the end the hospital had to call in a HAZMAT crew to come and clean up the mess that Megamind had made of the room he had been treated in. His blood was fairly deadly for human contact so men wearing bright yellow suits, making them impossible to miss, did the cleaning from a safe distance. But by then, Megamind and the rest of his... well, posse, was far from those rooms.

Warden Smith of the Metro City Prison for the Criminally Gifted had even arrived not half an hour after Megamind's recovery. Either way, the alien was being monitored and checked over with Minion, leaving the humans waiting outside since the Warden felt like he needed a good cigarette after hearing about what went down.

"Damn. It wasn't pretty the first time I can hardly imagine it this time," he said, scratching at his fuzzy upper lip with his thumb before biting down on his cigarette.

"So... could you shed any light on what we just... saw?" Roxanne asked, sitting at a chair dragged from inside by Bernard who was lighting a cigarette of his own while leaning against the wall.

"Yes. Please. I want to be able to make sense of the nightmares I know I'm going to have that will be of Megamind throwing up fish." he said dryly before taking a long drag. Normally, Bernard didn't smoke, since Steve hated the stink of it on his clothes and the taste of tar on his tongue but this was a special occasion. Wasn't it?

The Warden chuckled, and shook his head. "I've known Jude-sorry, Megamind, since he first landed in my prison yard. Even I don't really understand how it works but the first time I saw it, the tyke wasn't even six. Some of the inmates were arguing, fists went swinging, and being the little guy he was he caught a real bad slam to the face." he sighed, shutting his eyes at the memory.

Megamind, known as Jude back then, had screamed in fear as his white blood had come from his nose and corner of his mouth. Even more so when it began burning his clothes.

"Minion himself didn't seem capable to comprehend either but he told me to put him into the kids' hands. They touched 'n they glowed. Next thing I know Megamind's throwing up the fish and putting him back in that damn ball. It's like... Minion excretes somethin'. Somethin' capable of fixing what we can't but they have to literally become one being for it to work." the Warden tried his best to explain, but he was a man who ran a prison, and couldn't understand biomechanics of aliens very well at all.

"...Minion said they were two halves of the same being." Roxanne said quietly, "That one of Megamind's hearts is part of Minion's."

Warden Smith nodded before taking another quick drag of his cigarette. "S'what he told me, too. I thought it was bull till I witnessed him healing Megamind that first time. Though from what I can guess it can't happen too often. Don't know how many times they can do it but every time it happened it took longer for Megamind to cough him out. Who knows, maybe one day he'll be unable to cough him out."

"I am both intrigued and disgusted." Bernard announced. "So Minion can fix absolutely anything physically wrong with Megamind but only for a certain number of times?"

"So it seems." Roxanne mumbled.

Bernard just nodded, and remembered just why he had fallen in love with aliens from such a young age. The potential of them having abilities he could only dream of was amazing and he was feeling the same rush now as he had done when he had first seen E.T while over at a friends place. "Here I thought Megamind and Minion were boring." he said to himself.

"They never were." Roxanne said gently, waving a hand to try to keep cigarette smoke from coming too close to her. "Not him. It's impossible for Megamind to be boring... at any time."

Her friend simply smirked.

"Excuse me, are you here with Mr. Jude Doe?" a female nurse hung at the doorway leading into the hospital.

"Yes?" Roxanne got up off her chair.

"He's ready for visitors now. Only two at a time though." she said, glancing at Bernard and quite obviously taking a good look at the man in the tan suit.

"Been meaning to ask, where did the name Jude come from?" Bernard asked the Warden.

The Warden Smith with a shrug, "It's a good song, and was playing on the radio when I first saw the little guy. Percival was my boss' name, and John Doe just worked. Though most of the guys in the prison felt 'John' was homage to Johnny Cash. For all we know it might be."

"Makes sense." Roxanne mumbled as she handed the spare chair to the nurse who thanked her, before carrying it back inside.

"Nnn." Bernard made a face before dropping the cigarette onto the ground and stamping it out. "I think it's better if you talk to him yourself, Roxanne. I mean. That is why you dragged me from the office to his apartment in the first place, am I right?" he asked.

Roxanne blushed brilliantly, unable to get the sudden memory of what lay beneath Megamind's clothes flashing through her mind. "Oh. Yes.." she mumbled.

"Stop thinking about his junk." Bernard teased before patting his own pocket. "I'll give Steve a ring. He'll come by pick me up, I think he might still be at work..." he paused, glancing at his watch. It was getting dark out now.

"Thanks Bernard. For coming with me." Roxanne smiled softly.

"What're gay boyfriends for if not moral support? Eye candy. And I don't want to be just eye candy to anyone. Later Roxanne." he waved, pulled out a cell phone and walked away, already dialing a number dedicated to memory.

It wasn't long until Roxanne was standing outside the door that would lead to Megamind's bedroom. He already had made a full recovery, and could leave the hospital in a few hours only after a few scans of his head and arm had been taken. She stood out there awkwardly, and felt as though what she had just witnessed, Minion healing him, and the aftermath hadn't even happened. It was all back to square one.

The last time she had seen him, he had been emotionally torn in two. He had been so broken and sad, and felt betrayed. Begging, he had chased her from his apartment. How would he respond to seeing her here? Taking a shaky breath, Roxanne lifted her hand and knocked on the door. "Megamind? It... it's Roxanne." she called through.

"Roxanne?" she heard him ask, whisper mostly, to Minion.

"Yes Sir, Roxanne." Minion's voice answered before the door slid open and there stood the gorilla suit, and the small fish inside the head as normal. "Hello Miss Ritchi."

"Hey..!" Roxanne smiled, despite her fears and concerns. "You were... wow. That was, amazing. Back there." she said.

"Oh that? That's nothing. All comes with the territory of being his guardian." Minion replied with a shrug before turning, and putting a hand to her back. "Now you two have a good talk. I'll be leaving you to your own devices." he said calmly.

"You're not-" Roxanne started.

"No. I'm not. I need to go and get Sir some of his own clothes, no way am I letting him leave this place in a flimsy hospital gown that shows his rear to everyone!" and with that the fish was gone, leaving Roxanne and Megamind alone for the first time since the night before.

She turned and finally looked at Megamind who was propped up in a large white bed. There were some machines, with small white suckers, attached to his temples and forearms. A machine that went 'Ping!' did so every now and then, proving he was still alive and healthy. He no longer looked pale, or broken. He looked just as he always did, only not in his nerdy clothing.

Roxanne stared at him, and he stared at her.

"I'm so glad you're all right." Roxanne finally breathed, and took a few steps towards the bed, gauging if he was all right with her being closer. "I was so scared, when. When I learned you were in here."

Megamind made a grunt and looked at his hands, toying with each other in his lap.

"What happened to you?" she asked.

He sat there in his bed, before sighing and looked away from his hands. "I'd like to say I don't remember but that's a lie, and I don't want to lie to your face."

"So tell me the truth." Roxanne coaxed gently. "Was it a car? Or did someone hurt you?" if it was someone, they must have used a metal bat or something seriously dangerous judging by how badly beaten Megamind looked when he was found outside the hospital. "Because they found you outside so somebody must have brought you here..."

"Not a car." Megamind shook his head before scratching at one of his purple ears. "Someone."

"Who?" Roxanne demanded, frowning now. "Who hurt you?"

He sighed and shut his eyes tight before turning his head back to her and opened his clear green eyes and stared at her. "Wayne."

Roxanne felt as if the floor had opened up beneath her and everything she thought went falling down into the darkness. True, Wayne had used some force against her that morning when she had broken it off with him before it got too serious but she never would have seen him as the type to hurt someone. And Megamind? That was a one sided fight if ever she saw one. Wayne was over seven feet, with obvious strength in his body while Megamind was a five foot something and built like a ten year old.

And just how badly beaten Megamind looked, he must have gone all out on the poor guy.

"You need to file a report." she said straight away, "He has to be charged for this, you were.. you could have died!"

"I could have. I didn't. Minion saw to that." Megamind said quietly.

"But what if next time-"

"Wayne won't come near me again." Megamind said quietly, "Because I know what he is, and he doesn't want everyone to know. I know he feels bad for what he did. That's why he at least brought me here, and didn't leave me where it happened."

Roxanne watched him carefully, wondering why he would try to protect someone who had hurt him so badly. "What is he, besides a douche and a hot headed ass?" she asked.

"An alien." sighed Megamind, scratching at his ear again.

"What? No he isn't." Roxanne said, "He's human. All human." she knew this through their somewhat one night stand, what she had felt and saw that night Wayne Scott was every inch a man as any other.

"Amazing isn't it?" Megamind asked shakily, and Roxanne realized she had probably said something very bad. "That there was this other planet out there, where aliens looked just like you homo sapiens. He arrived the same day I did, pink and adorable with perfect hair. But he's an alien. He has strength that exceeds anyone alive, you know all the damage? He only punched me. Once."

Roxanne groped for the chair besides Megamind's bed and sat down in it before her shaking legs gave out beneath her. "Once?" she asked quietly. So that was why she couldn't pull away from him today, he could have snapped her arm if he so wanted to. "Oh my God." she'd had relations with an alien. He had lied, in a way, hadn't he? Not admitting to people what he was. "But... but why hasn't he.. why doesn't he tell people?"

"And risk being labeled a freak like me?" Megamind asked pointedly before giving a scoff of amusement. "Roxanne... Wayne was raised by the richest people in this city. He had everything handed to him on a silver platter, never had to ask for anything. Everyone thinks he's hot stuff, because he is. If people begin to see him for what he is, and he gets locked out of the world he's so used to it would destroy him. No matter how badly I hate the man, I don't want to see him destroyed."

"But you still need to tell the police you were beaten. It's illegal, and he's not above the law." Roxanne urged, trying to push away the memory of the night of the BBQ from her mind. It was an even bigger mistake then she thought but why was she feeling this way now? She had strong feelings for Megamind and he was obviously an alien, was it because he couldn't hide it? Because he embraced who he was, and didn't hide behind a facade of perfection and money? Megamind was so grossly different to men all over the planet, just how much had been made obvious to her today. Him lying on that hospital bed, Minion merging with him and then being re-birthed into the world via the aliens' mouth.

And what was between his legs was definitely not human though there had been some similarities, yet there was also striking differences too.

"...I know." Megamind sighed.

The two entered into awkward silence. Roxanne realized she was playing with her nails, and stopped herself. She had to focus. Despite the importance of Wayne facing justice for what he had done to Megamind they had greater issues at hand. "Megamind, look. I need to talk to you. About what happened." Roxanne said as she gingerly reached out and placed her hand to the bed. "About last night."

Megamind simply looked at her, those highly expressive green eyes of his telling her to continue.

"I made a mistake. A mistake that's even more obvious now then last night." she started quietly. "You see, all my life my mother's told me about how wonderful things will be for me. That, when Mr. Right came along I would know straight away. That he'd be handsome, intelligent, witty, charming, and sweep me off my feet and put me on a pedestal and praise me. I've had my fair few of Mr. Right Now's, but no Mr. Rights." Roxanne explained, keeping her hands to herself despite wanting to reach out and touch his smooth, beautiful hands.

"I saw Wayne and what I thought was finally Mr. Right had come along. He is handsome, and charming. But he was highly lacking in the other aspects... I thought, Hell. Better two out of the rest, am I right?" she asked, glancing at Megamind. He wasn't looking at her, instead he was looking out the window. She mentally scolded herself for going on about Wayne. This wasn't about him. "But I wasn't right." Roxanne continued, "I was wrong. Thinking it through I realized that Wayne wasn't Mr. Right for me last night and right now I know he isn't Mr. Right for me, maybe even anyone if he's hiding behind such a big lie and facade. To be honest, I'm a bit scared."

"What of?" Megamind asked, turning his head to look at her. "Wayne?"

She shook her head. "No. That I've lost my chance with the Mr. Right who was always there but I was too blinded by Wayne to even see past him." Roxanne replied gently, pointedly looking at him. "I know I hurt you and I'm sorry, if there was anything I could do to take it all back you know I'd do it in a heart beat. Because... because you're important. You aren't alone, you can never be alone, not so long as I'm here. You make me laugh, Megamind. You make me feel like I'm the only girl in the world and that I matter to you in no way I've ever felt with any other men in my life. You're intelligent, quick witted, and your only fault is your self-confidence! You're better then you think you are, so, so much better."

"You're just saying that." he said quietly, cheeks turning purple from her words.

"No, I'm not." Roxanne said sternly before bolding reaching out and just gently brushed two of her fingers against the back of his hand. "I mean it. I do. Is there any way for you to forgive me, for making a big mistake?" she asked.

Megamind looked down at her fingers just touching his own hand, and he stared for a good minute. Most would probably take advantage of this kind of proposition. He could very well imagine some men out right asking for some making out, or even sex. But Megamind was not like most men. He was different. He relished in being different. Especially different from Wayne, and other men like him.

Slowly, apprehensively, Megamind closed his hand over hers and gently held it.

"I don't know." he admitted weakly. "First time in my life I don't know the answer to a question. Freaky. But... thank you." Megamind whispered, looking at her and stared into those beautiful blue eyes he had thought of so much in his spare time. They were different from his skin color but reminded him of the sky, clear and perfect. "Thank you so much. For being everything wonderful about the human race."

"I'd hardly call myself wonderful." Roxanne blushed, looking back into those bright green, beautiful eyes. How had she not seen how gorgeous they were? "I've made so many stupid mistakes."

"To error is human. To forgive divine." he said before continuing, "But you are. You're wonderful to me." he insisted, pulling her hand closer so he was now holding it in both of his. "And you came, here, even though you didn't have to."

"Of course I did." Roxanne replied, daring once more to reach out and gently touched his cheek with her free hands thumb and tried to ignore how her heart fluttered when he tilted his head faintly into her touch. "What kind of friend, neighbor, and co-worker would I be if I ignored you? At any point in my life?" she asked.

Megamind chuckled, "Like everyone else?"

"Newsflash, mister. I'm not like everyone else and I'm damn proud of it. Are you?" Roxanne asked, grinning cheekily now, grateful for the fading of the heavy emotion in the air.

He shut his eyes and gave a small laugh. "Damn proud." he admitted, "Not everyone can be healed via fish."

"Okay yeah that? That was freaky." she admitted before she very slowly moved, and ended up sitting next to him on the bed. "How often does that happen?" she asked.

"Only when I'm really hurt." Megamind admitted. "Don't bother asking me how it works. I don't know. Neither does Minion."

"How many times...?" Roxanne asked.

"This is our fifth time. I like to think we're like cats, that we have nine tries at it. But who knows. I could have a million times left but I really don't want to throw Minion up a million times. Yuck. He leaves a horrible after taste." he grinned cheekily, to which Roxanne laughed, and celebrated in the noise coming from the pit of her stomach.

"Oh God, it's so great to laugh with you." Roxanne gushed, unable to stop herself.

"I love laughing with you." Megamind admitted, this time he unable to stop the words falling out of his mouth. His face turned purple, and he stared downwards, before sighing and shutting his eyes entirely. "Sorry."

"No, don't. I was an idiot not seeing how you felt before and a bigger one for not seeing what I felt for you in return." she said quickly, taking his hands into hers and turning so she was facing him more now but still seated besides him on the bed. "Open your eyes. Look at me."

At first he didn't respond, but he slowly cracked one of his eyes open and peered at her.

Roxanne smiled at him, before leaning in and pressed her lips briefly to his forehead. She pulled back, and watched as the alien's face turned to such a brilliant shade of purple it reminded her of blackberry picking when she was a little girl at her grandmothers farm. He smiled at her, despite knowing what he must look like.

"So... what..." he started, but was unable to answer the question.

Were they anything? He had the strong feeling they were friends again but was there anything more to it then that? Should he not try to hope for too much? She had seen him at his worst today, saw just how alien he was and how different. He was amazed she hadn't run screaming or at least threw up from witnessing what he'd done with Minion.

"How about," she said, "we see how we take it one day at a time. I can see you're... pretty new, to this kind of stuff."

"Gee why to bruise a guy's ego, Roxanne." Megamind replied with a hurtful look yet reeked of play and cheek.

"Sorry!" she replied with a laugh. "But am I right?"

"Doesn't matter." Megamind replied, turning his head away and huffed purposely loud.

"Oh stop it." Roxanne prodded his thin chest and he squeaked, turning and batting her hand away. "Oh ho. Are we ticklish?" she asked, a devilish grin crossing her face.

"Oh no, no no no no NO NO!" Megamind ended up letting out a loud, very undignified squeaky, squealy sound when her fingers found his chest and under arms. He burst into pleas of laughter and begged for her to stop while trying to push her off of him. Sadly he was so weak from what had happened and weak in general he was incapable of pushing her off. All he could do was laugh, tears in his eyes, and beg for mercy from the woman.

She, in turn, laughed with him as her fingers tickled against the flimsy hospital gown and he rolled away from her as best he could, kicking his skinny legs against the blanket that covered him as he continued to laugh. She was now bent over him, knees digging against the mattress as she tickled him. Roxanne finally let him go, putting a hand to her chest as she continued her own laughter. It had felt as if she could never really laugh again after what happened yesterday, or what she had witnessed in that hospital room but here she was and it felt fantastic.

Megamind, now flat on his back, breathed deeply with his eyes shut and let out one last weak laugh before it finally stopped. Opening his eyes he stared up at her, watching that content, happy glow that she seemed to give off when she was truly comfortable and pleased, before reaching up and dared to push his right hand through her hair. Roxanne, surprised, jumped a little since she hadn't expected it. "Sorry." Megamind blurted as he began to retrieve his hand, but she snatched it up into hers.

"Stop apologizing." she whispered before bending over him, and kissed him fully on the lips.

His eyes had been opened, so when she had suddenly come in so close he shut them tightly. Then there she was, her mouth against his and he could smell her perfume, the tang of salt in her lips showing she had cried at some point today as well as the taste of her lip gloss. Strawberries. He loved strawberries. But he loved this more, and he hungrily made a pleading noise as his free left hand reached up and grasped at her shoulder, pulling her closer to him as he kissed her back to the best of his ability. He had never kissed a girl before, the closest he'd ever come to doing so was when she had turned him away the night before.

The night before... it felt like a world away now.

Just as Roxanne began to slightly shift herself so she was no longer sitting and bending over him, to lie either against him or even on top of him, both of them heard the room door begin to open. Quick as anything Roxanne threw herself off of Megamind and back into her chair, almost missing entirely and quite possibly could have ended up on her back on the floor while Megamind sat up at the same time, hoping his face wasn't nearly as purple as it felt it was.

The Warden stood there, hand on the door, and raised an eyebrow at the two. He had the sneaking suspicion that he just interrupted something.

"Warden!" Megamind flushed, "You're here?"

"Well I am the soul emergency contact number on your public information." the Warden said as he walked into the room, folding his arms over his chest. "How you doin' kid?"

"Better." replied the alien, casting a glance to Roxanne before looking back at the Warden. "Much better."

Despite having been shuffled from foster home to foster home as a young teenager, Megamind had never really seen anyone but the man standing before him as a father figure. Back when he had been a big eyed innocent he would have spent days making him something for Father's Day, despite knowing they were in no way related. Still, the man had always kept an eye out for him. He kept all the really twisted men away from the young blue boy whilst in the prison, allowed him time to be out on the exercise yard by himself so he wouldn't be intimidated or caught up in any more fights after his first one.

The joke, from the older guards, was when Megamind was out there by himself it was Strawberry Fields mostly since the Warden was known for his fondness of a certain English band but the way the boy would seem so care free and happy out there. It was as if the prison walls didn't even exist to the child, as long as he had his fish with him and some chalk to draw on the floor. That was why on the day he was released on his first parole the Warden had given him the chuck Taylors with red strawberries on them, to remind him that there had been good times within the prison walls.

Said shoes, much older and worn, were neatly tucked beneath the bed even now.

"So, the doctors reckon you were hit by a car." the Warden said, "Was it?"

Megamind and Roxanne exchanged a glance with each other, and she gestured him with a 'go on' kind of way. He swallowed dryly and chewed at his slightly swollen bottom lip before looking back to his father figure.

"It wasn't a car." he admitted.

"Jesus Jude, so someone did this to you? A group of guys?" the Warden asked, unable to help but falling back on the alien's name since it had been what he had been called all throughout his time in the prison. Judging by the severity of the injuries the boy (not really a boy but he couldn't help that either) it must have been a group using weapons of some sort. That's what he had been afraid of, the first time Megamind had stepped out into the wide world; that people would be so challenged by his appearance they would turn to violence.

It had happened, a few times, but they were hardly times he liked thinking back on at the best of times. So he pulled out his phone, "I could get an APB out on them if you remember what they look like. I know it's tough to do it now, but it's always easier to remember directly after the attack once you gain consciousness. Do you remember anything? What the group looked like? Any tattoos or accents?" like any other man in this position of power the Warden had started life as a beat cop patrolling Metro City streets so he knew what to do in cases like this. To get details, make a sketch if a name couldn't be found, and scour the city for them.

"Wayne Scott." Megamind said tiredly. "Only Wayne Scott."

The Warden stood there, shocked for a moment. He knew Wayne Scott, a fair few people did. He was always at his parents' fundraisers and charity galas, such a handsome tall man who oozed appeal and could charm anyone to do anything. "Wayne Scott?" he asked, opening his mobile.

"Yes. But. Wait until he's out of the office before doing anything." Megamind said.

"Megamind, it's eight at night." Roxanne said gently. "It's dark out."

"It is?" Megamind asked, eyes wide as he turned his head to stare at the window. Despite having stared at it during his talk with Roxanne it hadn't even registered that it was dark out.

The Warden excused himself and walked out of the room, already talking into his phone with the police downtown. Putting out an arrest warrant for Wayne Scott, no doubt it would be all over the tabloids by morning. While he couldn't believe it himself, that one man could do all what had been done to Megamind, he believed his surrogate son. He could tell when he was lying, and he wasn't lying about something this serious.

Back in the hospital room Megamind and Roxanne looked at the door, before looking back at one another.

"So what-" Megamind started but stopped when Roxanne reached out and placed her fingers to his lips, silencing him.

"We were somewhere here." she whispered before closing the gap between them.