capeandcowllogs | you have a way of moving me

WHO: ELECTRO, MAX GIBSON, and APRIL LUDGATE
WHERE: Outside/around City Hall ➟ maybe April & Max's place? WE'LL SEE.
WHEN: Thursday afternoon/evening let's say.
WARNINGS: Massive amounts of awkward.
SUMMARY: The boyfriend meets the roommate. They are both named Max.
FORMAT: Whatever!

Adjusting to the whole thing took was taking him a little while, but one good thing about Electro's age was that he had enough experience with relationships -- however short-lived most of them had been -- to remember what differently to do than with more casual affairs. April so far hadn't been exactly high-maintenance, so that helped matters some. Still, waiting around outside City Hall for her to get off work some days still felt weird and unsettling to him, in part because he was so out of routine of having someone to wait for and in part because usually when he was at City Hall, he was smashing things or shorting them out.

But then, it wasn't as if he'd hadn't gotten used to playing nicer lately anyway. At least he was getting good use out of his new motorcycle.

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At City Hall.

[ Another smirk; he shrugs mildly, thinking about it. ]

It just sort of happened, I don't know. We're still kind of messing around.

Huh. [ it is April, and really this is the sort of thing she should have expected. ]

Well, I think traditional well wishes are like, I hope you make her very happy, but this is April.

And I hope we don't ever keep you up at night. Can't really make no promises.

[ Welp. Charming fellow. ]

You don't need a ride too, do you?

[ Checking her phone again and rolling her eyes just a little bit, whether at the text or him unsure. Or just both. It's both, really. ]

You don't.

And April says she'll be about an hour and to wait for her at the house, so if you don't mind that would be great.

An hour? [ Squints. He sighs, standing up straight and putting his hands on the handlebars of the bike. ]

Sure, I can go. What's there to mind? She has raccoon business to attend to.

[ Well, suddenly she just realized that if she actually takes him up on getting a lift home this is going to be slightly awkward. Still. Well. ]

Yeah, of course. [ She'll just - get on behind him on the motorcycle, then, right. ] Thanks.

No problem. As long as I'm headed in that direction, doesn't matter whose chauffeur I'm being.

[ Er. Yes, this is slightly awkward. But not devastatingly so (for him, at least). ]

Just hold on, this thing goes pretty fast.

[ Because he can supe it up with his powers. 8| ]

[ At least April's not the type to be bothered by this at all. Still. Yeahh. ]

I can handle fast. I like it, actually.

[ The faster the better, really. ]

So do I.

[ He smirks; sorry, Max, he doesn't have a helmet for you or anything but he's a decent driver. And they're off! ]

What do you do at City Hall anyway?

[ she really hopes nobody pulls them over, because that would be a little bit awkward. and she's not going to lean closer into him to be heard, so shouting it is. ]

I work on import native relations! Try to keep them liking us.

[ He would laugh if laughing while driving wasn't kind of awkward and impossible to hear anyway unless he went nuts with it, and hey, he's making... an impression. So he just shouts back: ]

How's that working for you?

Oh, you know!

[ This long pause, because there is literally nothing she can say here that isn't either a really really obvious lie or not so great. ]

Kind of shitty!

[ Another laugh, probably still inaudible except for the shaking of his shoulders. ]

Talk about gruntwork. You could be doing that job for years and still make no progress, they're always going to hate us here!

Well I think that's bullshit too.

[ Or she wouldn't have this job, really. She has to think it's bullshit. ]

There's progress being made.

Not the right kind of progress.

[ He turns sharply. ]

They're not going to like us until we play nice just the way they want us.

You mean like not killing people?

[ Her voice heavy with sarcasm where the wind doesn't catch it away, and she does her best to keep her balance without holding on to him any closer. ]

Or using our powers in any way that doesn't directly benefit their lives.

[ The disdain is heavy in his voice, but it's not particularly vehement. By now he's pretty tired of it all. ]

[ She just kind of shrugs, as well as she can on a motorcycle. ]

I think that's exaggerating.

I don't exaggerate. Okay? I call it as I see it, and given the world I'm from it's pretty obvious here.

[ They're about 7-10 minutes away from April's now. I guess. HOW DO TIME/DISTANCE whatever!! Yeahhh. ]

[ yeah me and time/distance is just a history of me Making Shit Up. sounds good! ]

Things are getting better here, though.

For some kinds of people, it is. [ His voice drops a little, more grumbly and probably harder to hear. ] I'll believe it when I see it.

What kinds? [ Because the second part was a little hard to decipher, and with the wind still in their ears she's not sure she can. ]

You know, the kind that are okay with sitting on their hands and saving all the poor powerless natives while they go right back to hating us the second things are fine again.

[ And I guess they're there now! So he pulls up and kills the motor. ]

[ She hops off, trying to decide between being irritated at him for that statement or just thanking him for the ride. Taking out her key, she decides to go for both. ]

People like people who help them more, it's pretty common. Thanks for the ride. I'm going to start coffee, if you want some?

Doesn't mean they got to be the measuring sticks for the rest of us -- it's not like all the natives have to be firefighters or doctors to get any respect. Some of us ain't the hero types.

[ He makes sure his bike is parked all right, before he follows Max toward the door. ]

Sure. Coffee sounds fine. How long you'd say she'd be? An hour?

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