I know this is short, but at least tomorrow there'll be more :D

/-^l^-\ Same Week. Saturday. /-^l^-\

Jonathan paced up and down relentlessly, unsure what to do with himself. He should have never gone to check if she was okay yesterday. He looked at it as a perfect excuse to see in her house a little so he wasn't stabbing in the dark but he realised, with the way she had looked so ... embarrassed ... that maybe he was taking her taunts a little too much to heart.

No. You are not. She purposely did it to purposely yield a reaction from you because she knew she could. And if you do not do something about her, and put her in her place then she will walk all over you. This is no time to get smitten with her just because you have a little bit of sympathy.

Ah. But it wasn't sympathy. It was honour. Honour she had been so desperate and needy of help and the one man on Earth at that time who could swoop in to save the day was him.

No, Johnny. You do not feel honour towards her. You must feel anger towards her. Look at the way she teased you; mocked you. The way she sauntered in and the first thing she did was pick on you. Standing you up-

Standing him up? She didn't exactly stand him up. It was crazy to regard it that way. No... she never stood him up because it wasn't like that.

-Made a fool out of you and drove you to have to spend the evening with a group of people who you intensely dislike and didn't even apologise. All that teasing about looking like easy money and wearing a onesie for heaven's sake!

But if she pissed him off so much, why had he spared her? No, why had he defended her? He didn't have to come and help her out when she was in pain and trying to steal the Vicodin.

Why smile at her bizarre quips? Why be fascinated with the various possessions she bought in large quantities such as Rubik's cubes, or another thing he noted she would collect - leaves (of all things).

And the very first thing that had made him want to pay attention, before her lament on the bay. Her little outburst about eccentricity and societies repression and indoctrination of eccentrics. She herself was pretty eccentric. She had the air of a mad scientist.

That doesn't matter. It is miscellaneous for now. She's not exactly the prime example of sane. If it helps, tell yourself you're getting rid of a potential problem and a danger to society.

No. Not getting rid. That was pretty harsh. He wasn't.

Dealing with and subduing a risk. You know yourself, Jonathan, she has the air of madness which frightens even yourself. Plus, the longer you put off dealing with her the more she'll have a chance to be sweet. And remember what she said about her plans and she was just buttering everything up until she'd come up with it. Don't assume she was kidding, she's made remarks on more than one occasion where she's not been joking - she's really meant what she has said.

Where was the big, over the top, grand plan with blimps and banners and balloons and confetti? Where was the massive overkill of theatrics? Where was the plotting of the demise of Batman? Something more histrionic or theatrics!

Gone. He just wanted to get Alison MacLeod.

I don't know if I can do this. I don't want to. What if-

I'll leave, if you do it.

Who can see this being a GOOD thing? Hmm.