Here is the next chapter, and yes as promised, there is a stranger appearance in this one.
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Anna arrives at the cafe where she was going to meet Kitty. She looks for Kitty among the many customers, and spots her reading a menu at the same table where they had breakfast earlier that day. Anna takes a deep breath, and walks up the table.
Kitty sits, intently perusing the many selections on the menu when Anna arrives at the table.
"So, I take it that we are going to make this a regular thing?"
Kitty looks up from her menu. "Anna! I thought that you were going to be late?"
"Yeah, it turns out that the thing I had to take care of wasn't that important. I had a friend take care of it."
"Great! I'm glad that you made it."
"Wow, it's kind of ironic that we got the same table as this morning." Anna observes, "Especially since it's this busy."
"Yeah well, I called ahead, and reserved this table."
"R-Really?"
"Of course, this is our table."
Anna blushes slightly at the thought that in a mere two short days, Kitty and her friendship has progressed to the point where they have their own table. She hides behind her menu to block her flushed face.
"Errr, so I guess this will become a regular thing."
"Of course, we're friends, why shouldn't we have a meeting place at our favorite restaurant."
As much as Anna doesn't want to talk about the guy that Kitty just met, she changes the subject. Anna resolves that if she and Kitty can't have an intimate relationship, she would be satisfied to have her as a best friend. Better to have her in her life as a friend, then not at all.
"S-Soooo, Who is this guy that you were telling me about over the phone?"
"Oh My God Anna, He is so cute, and he's an actor too."
Anna rolls her eyes. "Great another actor……Wonder who it is? Cane Markham is the only other metal clad actor on the lot who hasn't asked her out yet." Anna thinks to herself. "Really, do I know him?"
"You should, it's Robin"
Anna turns as pale as the table cloth. "R-Robin?!?!?!?"
Kitty sees the expression on Anna's face. "Don't tell me that you've gone out with him and that he's an Asshole too?????"
"Errr well….."
"Wow, you really get around." Kitty says half jokingly, but still a little disappointed.
"D-Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy, it's just that…..Well….."
"What?"
"He doesn't seem like the type of guy you were into before. From what I know about you, you've always gone out with tall athletic types, and they were all older than you. Also, Robin's kind of short, even compared to you.
"What are you talking about?" Kitty says slightly miffed that Anna, whom she has only been friends with for two days now, would think that. Even though it was true. "He's three years older, and almost a foot taller than me?"
Anna sits very confused. She is about to say something when her cell phone starts to ring. Anna pulls out her phone, and looks at the caller ID. She rolls her eyes, and answers the call.
"I'm sorry Kitty, I have to take this call." Anna puts the phone to her ear. "Yes, what is it!"
Ummm, sorry to disturb you at lunch Squid." Says the grip on the other end of the line, "I'm here with James at his house, but can't find his house keys on him, and I can't get in."
"That's probably because you left the keys at the office." Anna says slightly aggravated "There is a spare key to the door under the potted plant to the right of the door."
"Ummm, there is no potted plant on the right."
"Your other right!" Anna rolls her eyes which causes Kitty to giggle.
"Oh! Yeah right." The grip is silent for a few seconds. "Ummm, there is no key under the plant."
"Are you sure?" Anna says as she begins to get more irritated.
"Yeah, I pulled the plant out of the pot, and there was nothing under it."
"No you Jackass! It's under the pot that the plant is in, not under the plant!"
Kitty laughs out loud, imagining what is going on at the other end of the line.
"Oh, Uh I got it."
"Good, now open the door, deliver it, and lock up." Anna almost ends the call when she quickly returns the phone to her ear. "Oh and don't forget to put the plant back in the pot." Anna says before hanging up.
From down the street, the same dark figure is watching Anna talking on the phone while sitting at a table with Kitty.
"That Bitch! First Jean and that punk Tim Drake. Then again with Jean and Cy. Now she's doing who knows what with that damn brunette! How can she do this to me?!?!?!" The stranger continues walking down the street never taking their eyes off of Anna. "We WILL be together one day Anna. This I promise."
"Sorry about that."
"No problem, what was it about?"
"Oh nothing, just some movers…..So I still don't get it. I never would have imagined that you and Drake would get together……"
"Drake!!!!! You mean Bobby?????"
"No, Tim Drake. You know Robin? Teen Titans? You're going out on a date with him? Ring a bell?????"
"Ewww, I would never go out with that hair gel helmet headed dwarf…..He spends more time on his hair that I do……Oh, Sorry Anna." Kitty says sheepishly.
Anna blushes. "So, then who are you going out with?"
"Dick Grayson. Y'know, he played Robin on Batman, and now he's going to be on that new show, Justice League United".
Anna's stalker watches intently as the two women look at each other in silence for a few seconds then break out into laughter. The stranger ponders what they are laughing at, and doesn't realize that they are too close. The figure notices his proximity to the object of his obsession, and decides to back off. The stranger slowly backs into a nearby ally where he decides to wait until they leave the restaurant.
"I can't believe that you thought that I was going to go out with that little grease ball?" Kitty says between fits of laughter.
"Well how am I supposed to know, all you said was Robin….. "
"Have you met him before?"
"Well yeah, he would have had to come in to meet with James about his jobs on the show. He's nice. We hung out a bit, but that was a long time ago. And then when he was passed over for the Teen Titans job, he hasn't been around much. I didn't even know he was still in town."
"Hey, here he comes." Kitty sits up in her chair and waves.
"Where?" Anna turns around in her seat to see where Kitty is looking. "I'm going to have to have a talk with the girl in show development. She should have told me that he was back in town." Anna thinks to herself.
"Hey Dick, over here!" Kitty shouts as she waves to Dick.
A tall Dick Grayson with shoulder length jet black hair walks up to the table which is on the edge of out side café closest to the side walk. He leans on the barrier which separated the café dining area from the street.
Anna looks him over, and even as a lesbian, her stomach flutters at the good looking actor.
"Hey beautiful." Dick says to Kitty.
"What are you doing here?" Kitty asks.
"Well you said that you were meeting Anna here for lunch. I was in the area, and thought that I just had to meet this new friend of yours that you keep talking about."
Anna blushes at the fact that Kitty thinks of her as such a good friend that the actually talks about her to other people. "What do you mean meet? I've known you longer than I've known her." Uses her thumb to point to Kitty. "What happened to you anyway?"
"Well, after the whole Teen Titans thing, I kinda took a break from acting for a while."
"You never said why you didn't get the part. I would think that you would have been perfect for it."
"Yeah well they said that I was too old. They wanted to target younger audiences." Dick shrugs. "No biggie, it sucked for awhile, but now I have this better gig. So, far, the show looks great."
"Care to join us?" Kitty says.
"Yeah, we can catch up a bit." Anna adds
"Well, I already ate lunch, but I'll hang out for a bit."
"Great!" Giggles Kitty as if she were a giddy school girl.
The stranger watches the events before him. To the delight of the stranger, it is apparent that Kitty Pryde is more interested in Dick Grayson than the object of his obsession. It is clearly obvious however, that for Anna, the feeling is not mutual. It becomes clear to the stranger that the best way to get close to Anna is though Kitty. The stranger watches as Kitty, oblivious to Anna's visible attraction, continues her rampant flirting.
"So Dick, what is up with this new show? Will you be wearing that Nightwing costume that you look so cute in?"
"No, I'll be on the show as Robin." Visibly disappointed that he'll be playing a sidekick again.
"Yeah, and besides, Nightwing was a member of the Titans, not the Justice League….." Anna blurts out, "Errr sorry Dick."
"N-No problem. Even though that punk, Tim Drake stole that role from me. That role was mine until some damn executive decided to make all the characters younger to appeal to a younger audience."
Anna and Kitty begin to get uncomfortable. Anna sits and stares at Dick while Kitty begins to get fidgety.
"It was my chance to shed my sidekick status, and venture out on my own. In case you haven't noticed, I've been sorta typecasted. Hell, even on the New Adventures of Batman when they re-casted my character as Nightwing, I was still relegated to sidekick status. What kind of over pretentious, egotistical, self-centered, arrogant, narcissistic superhero has three sidekicks?????" Dick leans in close to the two women sitting at the table. "In my opinion, Batman was overcompensating for something. You have no idea how much Bruce works out so that he'll look better on camera than Clark."
Kitty and Anna sit staring at Dick dumbfounded by his rant.
"Uhh, Sorry, I guess I still have a few issues."
"Soooo, when do you start shooting on the new show?"
"We already started filming the movie that will kick off the new series."
"Yeah, I heard about it. They hope to have it done before the other shows start filming for the new season." Ponders for a second. "As a matter of fact, should we be talking about this in public?" Anna thinks inwardly. "And besides, if anyone is going to leak this, it's going to be me!" Anna's lips form into a devilish grin, and dollar signs roll in her eyes.
Kitty notices that Anna's mind has begun to wonder, and that she has a strange devilish grin on her face. "A-Anna?????"
"Oh…..Uh sorry, I was daydreaming a bit there."
"About what? Or perhaps I should say who?" Kitty insinuates.
"What do you mean who?????"
"Oh come on Anna, you're a young and might I add a very attractive woman. I'm surprised that there aren't guys falling all over you."
Anna glushes deeply. "Well uh,"
"There has to be someone….."
"Yes do tell." Dick inquires.
"Well, there is someone, but they don't know how I feel about them." Anna stares down at the table as she twists her napkin in her hands. She is afraid to look at Kitty, terrified that her eyes will give away her secret infatuation with her.
"Well, what are you waiting for, just tell him how you feel."
Anna's head snaps up in reaction to Kitty's assumption that it is a "him". "Well, you see Kitty, it's not exactly that easy." Bites her lower lip. "I mean I haven't been on a date in months, and the last person to ask me out was that slime ball Kurt."
Kitty starts laughing wildly. "Let me guess, his "Come on, what's your phone number? You and I would have a blast!"
Anna stares in amazement. "Well at least now I know that I'm not the only one that he does this too." Anna thinks to herself, "Although, it doesn't help to know that Kurt isn't really that discriminate when it comes to women."
"Or how about his, "Hey hot stuff, So when are you going to call me." line?" Dick begins to laugh then he notices that no one else is laughing with him.
Anna and Kitty are sitting giving Dick a confused look. Kitty raises an eyebrow at Dick's mysterious insight into Kurt's pick up lines.
"What?!?!?! He used that line on Batgirl."
Anna pretends to mope. "And here I though that I was special….." Anna pouts her lips, then the three of them break out into laughter.
Kitty gasps for air. "So…..Who is this mystery man who you can't tell how you feel?"
"I'd rather not say. You see, it's complicated."
"How so?" Dick inqures further.
"He isn't married or anything is he?"
"No of course not!" Anna exclaims defensivly, "It's just, well, complicated."
"So, what do you look for in a guy?" Dick asks.
"E-hem, last time I checked, you were going out on a date with me?" Kitty quips
"Retract those claws Kitty, I'm just making conversation."
"Yeah, well then stop flirting."
"Who me? Flirt?????" Dick tries to look innocent.
"And you" Kitty turns to Anna. "stay away from my man." Kitty jokes, and pretends to claw at Anna.
Anna claws back at Kitty. "Hiss"
The two friends begin to laugh.
"Oh, You know what?" Kitty perks up in her seat. "This would be a great opportunity for you to and this mystery man of yours to get together. You can ask him out, and we can double date."
"Kitty, I don't think that….."
"Oh come on, what is so hard? You just pick up the phone, and ask him out."
"No, I can't do that Kitty…..This person is kinda seeing someone else."
"Are they serious?"
"Well, actually, they just met."
"If they're not seriously dating, then I say that he's free game."
"Well, under other circumstances, I would, but this person already has a date tonight."
"Oh….. Well….. You could still come out and hang out, or maybe Dick might know someone that he can fix you up with."
"A Blind Date!?!?!" Anna giggles, and acts offended, "Hell No!"
"Well….."
"I don't think that would work out Kitty…..A-And besides, I wouldn't want to intrude on your first date." Looks at the clock on her cell phone, and gets up from her seat. "You know, I had a great time, but I really should get back to the office."
"But we haven't even had lunch yet."
"No biggie, I can grab something on my way back. You two have fun."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, now stay and have fun." Anna reassures her friend.
"Come to think of it, I should be going soon too. I have to be at the Bravo Studios."
"Bravo?" Anna ponders, "Oh you mean that Actor's Studio thing."
"Yeah, I was really excited because I thought that we were going to New York to film it, but it turns out that we are just filming it here in town." Kitty sighs "Dick and I are going out after the shoot. Call me if you change your mind about tonight."
"Will do. See ya later Kitty. Bye Dick, nice to see you again, and good luck with your new show."
"Thanks Anna, I'll see you around."
Anna gathers her things and leaves the table.
The stranger watches as Anna leaves the café. As much as the stranger would like to follow her, it will be more beneficial to learn as much as possible about Kitty and her new interest in Dick Grayson. The stranger watches silently as Anna walks down the street until she disappears into a crowd of pedestrians.
For those of you not familiar with the Batman Comics, here is the breakdown on the Robins'. Dick Grayson was the first Robin, then as he got older, he went away to college, and spent less and less time patrolling with Batman. Eventually, they went their separate ways, and Robin became Nightwing. Tim Drake was the third Robin to team up with Batman after Grayson left. So, you can see how Kitty and Anna got confused.
I'm sure that it probably didn't help you all figure out who the stranger is, and you're all pretty confused again. Don't worry, all will be revealed soon.
Hope you liked the chapter, and please don't forget to review.