Wednesday, March 19

[sayshazam]

Billy had figured that if he was going to get serious about this hero thing they he should probably start patrolling more. At least, that's what the other heroes seemed to do. He was pretty sure that just fighting magical attacks was the only thing in his job description but there were pretty much zero of those.

So tonight he went patrolling, which meant flying around. Just... flying around the sky, looking for crimes being committed. It was really, really ineffective. It was kind of hard to spot crimes while just zooming through the air, even if he you didn't go fast. It's not like criminals carried signs stating what they were doing.

That and a lot of people just sort of ducked inside when they saw him up above. He didn't blame them, even if they weren't doing anything wrong it was still weird to get spied on by someone. Hopefully criminals were deterred just knowing he was around.

It was super boring though. After a few hours he flew to the top of the tallest building and just sat on the edge. Yup, being a hero was boring if nothing crazy was going on. Sighing, he propped his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands and just waited for something interesting to happen.

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[cest_la_v]

Venus shook her head, arms crossed over her chest as she regarded the other hero. "You don't understand."

[sayshazam]

"So explain it," he said, mirroring her pose. Really, no matter what she said she couldn't deny that her friends weren't here, that here she couldn't rely on them.

[cest_la_v]

"Because I died without them and I survived a second death with them." She would never have done it by herself, with each of them ruling their own distant planets.

"And even if they aren't here. They are still my life."

She looked at him with pity now. How could someone so distrustful understand?

[sayshazam]

Okay, even Billy had to admit that being brought back from the dead was a pretty good reason to want to rely on your friends. That didn't change the fact that people left though.

"So... if they're your whole life and they're not here... how does that work?"

[cest_la_v]

"Have faith," Sailor Venus said simply. "That's all I can do."

[sayshazam]

That sounded pretty stupid. Not only was she relying on people who weren't here but she was just waiting for them to come. Some people were ridiculous.

"Wellllll, then I hope for your sake they come?"