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[purplehazegirl]

Who: Mindy Walker-Hayes
What: Self-exploration
When: A few days after talking with Midnighter
Where: Jason's apartment
Interactions: Jason Todd
Warnings: Language.



The three girls sat cross-legged in a circle, staring at one another. They all looked vaguely similar, with long brown hair and big eyes and noses with a strong bridge, but their eyes were different colours, their hair different styles, one of them wore a hat in the likeness of a panda.

"We knew this was going to happen as soon as Strangefate was defeated," Said Molly Walker, the most timid of the three. "...I knew."

"So what? We just keep on doin' what we do." Said Mindy McReady, Hit-girl. "Together, the three of us kick the fuckin' asses of any shit suckin' gangster that comes our way."

"Swears," Molly Hayes, the girl in the hat, said. "And I don't know that we have a choice."

Walker said "If we split apart, our life as we know it as Purple Haze will be gone. Our memories of our parents...our friends."

"We don't have friends," Hit-Girl said.

"Power Girl!" Molly Hayes said loudly. "And the Midnighter! And Jason!"

At that last name, they all fell silent, each girl feeling her cheeks redden but hoping the other girls wouldn't notice.

"So, we're trading three realities for one," Molly Walker said. "And none of these realities are particularly good ones."

"Fuck it," Announced Hit-Girl. "I'll be the first to say it. I like having the powers. I think we can do a lot of good this way."

The other two girls squirmed, but it was pretty obvious they agreed with her, but were too pussy to admit it.

"We do make an awesome team," Molly Hayes said reluctantly. "And I like the name Purple Haze. Kinda ready to grow up now, though."

"Being a kid has it's advantages but...now that I'm super strong I kinda have to agree with you, kid." Hit-girl said. Molly Walker just nodded.

There was a moment of silence, unannounced but it was known that it was for their respective histories.

Molly Hayes was the first to break the silence. "Sooooo...how do we do this?"

"I think we all have to choose to do it." Walker said. "So do we?"

"Yep!" Chirped Molly Hayes.

"Fuck yeah!" cried Hit-Girl.

Walker nodded and the three girls stacked hands, one over the other.


Mindy Walker-Hayes was curled up in a ball, the couch felt more narrow than she was used to, her feet kept kicking the arm rest and she couldn't stretch out properly. She grimaced and tried to tuck her hands under her chin but her boobs were in the way.
...wait, what?

Mindy's eyes snapped open and she sat up, her toes stubbing against the floor as it came up way sooner than she expected. She felt gangling and weird and boy was her sleeping t-shirt tight.
She looked down at herself, seeing shapely, bare thighs and elegant hands. She ran to the bathroom and stared at the woman staring back.

"OH FUCKSHIT!"

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[purplehazegirl]

She shrugged again, scraping off the dry cereal from the edges of her bowel. "Same as they ever were I guess. And on the plus side, Power Girl is still lookin' for a kid. On the down side, I no longer fit into my costume. FUCK!"

[voted_dead]

"You'll need a new one, yeah." To say nothing of new clothes, period.

"Guess we'll need to go shopping today."

[purplehazegirl]

"...Yaknow, I never thought about it before but how exactly do you buy groceries? With what money, I mean? I have my own personal stash but I've never thought about how you keep up appearances."

[voted_dead]

"I've got half the city's drug lords paying me protection money. They keep their business to those who come looking for them, stay away from kids, and I don't kill them, plus I keep some of the city's less practical heroes off their backs." There was no shame in what he said. He'd long since come to the realization that control was as necessary as fear, and that killing should be an option always on the table.

[purplehazegirl]

Mindy blinked and opened her mouth to objected, but then seemed to be rolling it around in her head. "...they stay away from kids?"

[voted_dead]

"Or I gut them."

[purplehazegirl]

Mindy narrowed her eyes. "What about when they sell to welfare moms who spend all their government cheese on crack instead of groceries? Or dads who are on a bunch of speed who rape and beat their wives? Is that still "away from kids"?"

That...came out rather acidic.

[voted_dead]

"You think I haven't kept track of that shit? That's when CPS and the police get 'anonymous tips'. I also do my own part of keeping them in line. They deal with the gangbangers, they deal with the streetwalkers, and they leave families and kids alone. If I kill the drug dealers, someone else just picks up the trade. So I do what's necessary: I control what I can and kill what I can't."

[purplehazegirl]

Mindy smirked. "Just keepin' you on your toes. Making sure you accounted for every reasonable outcome. You passed the quiz."

[voted_dead]

"Sheesh, getting the runaround from my new kid roommate." At least he sounded amused by it.

[purplehazegirl]

"Daddy didn't raise an idiot." She said, drinking the last of her juice and standing up, spinning toward the sink to clean her bowl and glass. "There are things..." She turned off the water and looked out the window, to the skyline. "...there are things that the normal capes don't consider...collateral damage. Shit like that."

She turned to face him, her hands still on the rim of the sink. "Sure you put away some thief boosting a car stereo, but fuck, for all we know, without that stereo his kid might starve."

[voted_dead]

"I don't think I was ever a normal cape, Mindy," Jason replied. True as it was, the young man wasn't really one to sit around recounting the old cape-and-mask days, either.

"Any ideas for a new look now that we need to get you a new outfit?"

[purplehazegirl]

"Hmmm..." Mindy pushed from the kitchen counter and went to the bedroom to look at herself in the full length mirror. "...Dunno. I mean, I could completely re-invent myself. But I like Purple Haze. And it's not like I went around going "I'm Purple Haze, and ...get ready for a hazing...or something stupid like that."

[voted_dead]

Jason found it impossible to resist the urge to troll. "Well, you have superpowers. You could probably afford to do the whole 'exposed cleavage' thing."

[purplehazegirl]

She smirked and looked back at him. "You'd like that, wouldn't you?"

[voted_dead]

"Maybe a little."