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Supervillainess (Part One)

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by Lizzy Ford


  Speechless, Kimber moved closer, unable to believe what he saw.

  “This is who I am, Doc,” Keladry said quietly. She met his gaze. Hers was cold, as if her anger had frozen into white rage. “I’m not going with you, and I sure as hell am not about to change. I’m the next Sand City supervillainess, and I don’t give a fuck what you think about it.”

  Kimber’s heart sank to his feet.

  “Don’t come back here, Doc. That goes for you too, Igor,” Keladry added, motioning her nanny away from the car. “You’re both officially expelled from the city.”

  “Reader –” Igor objected.

  “This isn’t a request, Igor! If you disobey me, I’ll throw you in the dungeon!”

  Her nanny fell silent.

  “Reader!” Kimber found his voice.

  She faced him, and he saw the flicker of agony in her gaze as what she’d done sank in, before her gaze hardened again. He understood the kind of pain that came with losing everything he’d loved.

  “Leave, Doc,” she ordered in an unsteady voice.

  I don’t want it to end this way. Confused by his own thoughts and feelings, as well as the sense that his destiny was somehow intertwined with the city’s, Kimber was silent.

  Keladry turned away.

  “Wait,” Kimber said. He approached her with caution and licked his lips, struggling to sort through the myriad of emotions and thoughts flashing through his mind. “I’m sorry.”

  “For what?” She lifted her gaze to his.

  “I’m standing by the corpse of someone you executed, and all I can think about is how I want to take away your pain right now,” he said, baffled by his own indifference to the body beside his feet.

  “Are you sure you’re not a superhero?” she retorted with no heat.

  “A superhero would’ve stopped you.”

  “Or tried to save his supervillain arch-nemesis from crossing the gray.”

  “That’s what that means,” he said softly. “That was your point of no return.”

  “It was. I’ll do the same to you and Igor, if you return.”

  “Is that what we are? Arch-nemeses?” he asked in a hushed tone.

  “It’s the only way this … we can ever be,” she replied. “I can’t be good. You can’t be evil. But we can co-exist in the same city.”

  “I’m not all-good,” he countered. “I’m deeply flawed.”

  “So am I. Those pieces of goodness you’ve seen – those are my flaws.”

  “They seem to occur often around me.”

  “Maybe one day you’ll stoop to my level to try to stop me,” she said.

  Kimber started to smile, not caring how inappropriate it was. “It could’ve been different.”

  “No, it couldn’t have,” she persisted. “Now, get the fuck out of my city, Doc, unless you’re ready to don a cape.”

  Is she serious?

  “Take care of Igor,” she added in a hasty whisper. Reader spun away and walked to the idling car. She got in and slammed the door.

  Kimber watched her drive away, overwhelmed by the whirlwind evening and the fact he had nowhere to go.

  He wasn’t a superhero – he never would be. But as Reader’s car raced towards the city, he couldn’t help wishing he could be.

  “We got a long walk through the forest to the neighboring city, Doc,” Igor said from behind him.

  If she truly crossed the gray, she wouldn’t care what happened to Igor, Kimber thought. Reader wasn’t sending them away because she was a supervillainess. She was sending them away because she cared.

  Hope unfurled within him. He didn’t know what to do with it anymore than he did where to go.

  Turning away from the city and its supervillainess, Kimber glanced up into Igor’s face. The large nanny’s eyes were sorrowful.

  “We’ll get through this, Igor,” Kimber said, sensitive to the man’s suffering. “I can sell my phone for enough money to get us through a few days in a hotel. We’ll brainstorm where to go from there.”

  “We might need a phone. I can kill people with one punch,” Igor held up his massive fist. “Then you can grab their wallets.”

  “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

  Igor nodded.

  Together, they began walking into the darkness.

  I can still save her. Somehow.

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  Part Two: It’s not easy being good

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