"So this is what normal people do?" Lissa asks Billy with a laugh as they walk out of a movie theater, they had just seen a comedy that was advertised as a box office hit. They both laughed throughout the movie and enjoy it. A couple other movies had gotten out around the same time so there's a crowd of people heading for the exit.
"Why yes, I believe so." Billy tells her, wrapping an arm around her waist to avoid them being separated in the crowd. Once outside the crowd dies down but still lingers, "There's a burger place down the street if you're hungry."
"Starving, who knew going to Expendables School could make you so hungry." She tells him with a laugh.
Billy leads the way down the street, keeping his arm around her, "You're a bit of a natural. Sure some of your skills are unpolished, but you hold a lot of potential." He tells her, "Everyone's impressed. Especially when word gets out about how you can charge the Ma Duece with no problem."
"It wasn't so hard." Lissa says to him with a shrug, "Maybe you boys just have weak hands."
"I'm just saying a girl who spends hours on end on a computer shouldn't have hand muscles that strong." Billy teases.
Lissa pulls away from him, faking to be offended, "It isn't all sitting around fun and games hacking. Sometimes you're hanging suspended from a ceiling as you crack an internal vault code while avoiding floor lasers. Not that I've done that. But tell you what; let's not plan to go to the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, like ever."
"Lissa Hollis, you surprise me every day, multiple times actually." Billy says with a laugh and opens the door to Hal and Son's Burgers.
With a basket of fries, a couple drinks in front of them and burgers in hand, Lissa and Billy sit at an outdoor table eating their meal.
"So hacking how'd you get into it?" Billy asks.
Lissa shrugs, "The first foster home I was in, I had a foster brother, Derek. He was a few years older and didn't seem happy at his parent's house like me, so instantly that made him cooler. For a while he got sick of me being around but one day caved and showed me what he was doing on his computer. He then realized he could pretend to be playing educational games with me or going over homework and his parents wouldn't harp on him for being on the computer for hours. It all just clicked." Lissa shares, "I realized I was really good on my own when Derek was brought in for questioning by the police because they believed he hacked into the principal's computer. While they were about to search his computer I managed to hack in and delete all the files. After that Derek taught me everything he knew and I just kept improving."
"Does Church know you're this much of a criminal?" Billy asks her in a joking tone. "Because I think the CIA has a policy against criminals."
Lissa can't help but laugh, "Church has a long list of alleged crimes. They can't prove any of them were me." She grabs a fry from the basket, "What about you? Always wanted to be a military sniper?"
"Veterinary, actually." Billy tells her, "As a kid I loved animals. If I found a bird with a broken wing I brought it home or a chipmunk wounded by a cat. I brought them home and tried my hardest to get them back good as new. So becoming a vet was kind of always the plan, but the my parents had money problems so going to college wasn't an option. I joined the army figuring I'd do my duty then have the army pay for my schooling. Then I found out I was good at being a sniper. It was just kind of something I fell into and it stuck."
"Ever think of walking away and becoming a vet?" Lissa asks.
Billy takes a sip of his soda, "I did a couple of times when things got messy and when I got stabbed. But doing my job now just seems to matter more to me. How about you? If you weren't a hacker extraordinaire what would you be?"
"I like books." Lissa says, "I'd spend hours with my Mom taking turns reading chapters out loud. So maybe I would have ended up a book reviewer or working at a publishing company. A boring desk job." She tells him, "I'd of course have to own a dog, a German Shepard, so I'd have an excuse to talk to the cute Vet in my town, Dr. Billy Timmons."
"You wouldn't need an excuse." Billy says.
Billy pulls his pick-up truck up to Barney's farm house and looks to Lissa, "I had a really good time."
"Me too." Lissa tells him, "It was nice to feel normal for once."
"You up for one more normal thing?" Billy asks, but before she can answer he leans over and kisses her. Lissa kisses him back; being normal does feel rather nice.
The kiss ends after about a minute and she reaches for the truck door with a smile on her face, "You ought to be careful, Billy The Kid, my Dad's inside and he owes a lot more than a shot gun." She teases with a laugh.
"You think I'm going to have to do that whole awkward meet the dad kind of thing?" Billy asks her.
Lissa bites her lower lip and thinks about it. She didn't have much experience in the boyfriend meeting the parent's thing. She kept to herself in the foster homes and made a habit not to bring boys around. She was at the prime dating age of 16 when she hacked her way out of the foster care system by changing her birthday, so she's never had a boy she likes meet a parent. Let alone a parent like Barney. "I'm going to have to get back to you on that one." She tells him, "We really haven't had the whole what-parental-rights-do-you-want conversation yet."
"I'll hold you to it. Or else I may just have to go to veterinary school and get you a dog." Billy tells her. Lissa smiles to him as she shuts the truck door and heads up the stairs to the farmhouse.