Look, my parents were mad scientists who pumped me full of spider-juice just to see what would happen. I went to Hail Hydra high school and Nick Fury university. I've been extraordinary my entire life. After all these years of insanity... a little ordinary sounds pretty #$%^ great. You have your normal... and I have mine.
“You were supposed to say everything’s great, and nothing else will ever go wrong again.” Cindy teased with a half smile before she sighed and shook her head slightly. Leaving her bunker was something she knew was going to be hard, but this hard? Trying to figure out where her family was, juggling a new job and being a superhero at night? It just made Cindy want to retreat to comfort, which unfortunately was still the bunker. None of her friends really knew about that yet, so when Jess asked if she wanted to go pick up her kid, Cindy couldn’t even hide her smile at the chance to not go home to an empty bunker for once. “Not unless yours bites. Then I’m gonna have to pass.”
“Everything’s great and nothing will go wrong again.” Jessica tried out the words but they felt disingenuous. She preferred to be blunter and did her best to avoid being unkind. She grabbed her coat off the chair and slipped the leather jacket on, feeling glad to be in this uniform instead of the full body spandex. “Well, he – he bites sometimes? We always tell him no. He’s more into energy bursts.” Holding up a hand, Jessica let green energy begin to glow. “Like mother, like son. Anyway, I can’t swing because I don’t do the webbing thing so I have to take my bike. Feel free to follow any way you like.”
Cindy still wasn’t quite used to the whole adult thing, and it was ten times harder now that she was out in the real world without her parents by her side and fresh off of seven years in isolation. Honestly, the whole being a human person thing felt like a weird concept at this point. It took a lot of courage for her to let herself out of the bunker, and even more courage to put herself out there enough to even meet anyone. She was trying, but conversations were still pretty hard. “Are things getting bad again? I was kind of hoping that I sat most of the crazy stuff out in the bunker.”
Playing the unofficial babysitter to Cindy Moon wasn’t in Jessica’s original plans for the evening. Not that Cindy needed a babysitter – she was a competent semi adult, after all. Maybe it was that Jess felt bad. When she had stumbled from her stasis pod back to reality after decades of being locked away she had been aimless. So aimless she had joined HYDRA, but that was beside the point. Cindy had more going for her than Jessica ever had and she wanted to keep it that way. “It’s a cycle. Good, bad, good, bad. It’s not something you can wait out.” Checking her phone, Jessica ran a hand through her hair. “Gwen’s late and Roger’s got to pick his own kid up which means I have to be home to get mine. What do you say, Moon?” She pocketed the phone. “You’re not afraid of toddlers, are you?”
