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WHO: Mindy Macready and OPEN
WHERE: A (comic) book store!
WHEN: Sometime nowish
WARNINGS: Just some spazzing on Mindy's side
SUMMARY: Where are all the comics?
FORMAT: Prose for now whatever you want later.

There were few things in the world that Mindy needed. She didn't care for dolls or toys (unless they had a blade), but she did care for comic books. Maybe not as much as Kick-Ass, but certainly enough that without Daddy, she needed something to do. So she had finally gotten herself to look around town for something that she could read.

It had never occurred to her that when you lived with the super heroes, that you weren't going to find the comics. So when she had gotten to the store, and couldn't find Batman of all comics. She kept looking, There was no X-men, or Superman, or Spider Man, or even Watchmen and Sandman. How was this store even open?

It wasn't a panic that set in, but she frowned. Comics were her entertainment when she wasn't killing people or making pipe bombs or training. And now even most of those were gone.

This place was starting to look a bit more like hell.

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"Careful," Selina replied, raising an eyebrow at the girl's confusion. "You okay?"

The store behind the girl was a riot of color and exaggerated illustrations. Like a whole other world, really. Fitting in a way.

"Yeah," she said, "I'm fine. Just..."

How could there be no Batman comics? She frowned a bit, "I'm really bugged."

Selina glanced into the store, then back at the girl. She looked like she was ten or eleven, perhaps. "Bugged about what?"

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"They don't have my favorite comics," she muttered as she shoved her hands in her pockets.

"Lousy store, maybe." The kid did look pretty down about it. "Never read any comics myself. What are your favorites?"

"Batman," she said like it was asking her favorite color, "Then Iron Man and Deadpool."

She figured that there was a good reason why all the comics were missing, but it was irritating.

"Mm." She wasn't sure if this meant the girl was an imPort or not. "I like Batman too. Iron Man's okay. Not really a fan of Deadpool."

"Batman's awesome," she sighed. Of course, Mindy was being as careful as she could not to give away that she was a hero. Keeping the suspicions low was always the name of the game. Here she just couldn't get up and move every time she showed her face.

"You don't seem like the type to read comics, though." Maybe she was someone she recognized. There was only one way to say get it out there, "I'm Mindy. Mindy Macready."

"Selina," she replied, declining to give a last name. Although the first was probably enough of a giveaway. "I'm guessing that you don't shop here often."

She shook her head, "I just moved here."

There was a pause. Not many people had that name. She had an idea before then, but that had near sealed it: "As in Selina Kyle?"

Although she'd gotten tired of the recognition in this city, it was a little different coming from a young girl. She smiled a bit. "Heard of me, have you?"

She nodded eagerly. Catwoman was pretty cool, actually. She may have been a bad guy, but there was that different justification that made her not so bad. Comics were weird like that. And anyway it was Catwoman. For real. This wasn't a joke, she was actually standing here.

Okay, so some parts of this place were kind of cool.

"Guess that explains why I like Batman, huh?" Her smile faded a bit at that, though. Bruce's death still hurt to think about. She suspected that it always would.

She nodded, but noticed the sad look on her face. A frown crossed her face, "What's wrong?"

Was it her daughter...?

"Nothing." She didn't exactly want to spread word around about Batman's death. Most people from Gotham were aware, but you never knew who would be Ported in.

Although...

"Do you know much about the X-Men?" she asked cautiously.

That was a weird question but she could answer it.

"Lots," she said, "Not as much as Batman but I know the basics of what's going on currently. Like Cyclops took over the X-men recently and they're trying to save a baby."

She hadn't been paying as much attention to the X-men comics as she should have, but between moving around all the time and all the other things Daddy and her took care of, she didn't have a lot of time to be reading comics.

Cyclops was Scott's codename, she remembered. "What about Logan? I mean Wolverine?"

Tony hadn't been able to tell her anything about what had happened with Logan back home, but maybe another source would have more information.

"Hm, Logan..." She put her hand to her chin and thought, "He's part of the new X-force that Cyclops created right now. And they're looking for Cable..."

She nodded, "That sounds about right. I think they were going to Alaska."

"Doesn't sound too bad." Maybe he'd been dreaming of grizzly bears. "He's a... friend of mine," she explained to the girl. "Was just a bit concerned about him."

She tilted her head, "He was here too, then? Did he go away?"

She wondered who else was here.

"He's still here. Just spent some time back home." She tilted her head a bit. "You a fan?"

"Sort of," she said, "Not as much as I like other comics, but Wolverine is cool."

It felt strange and yet kind of cool that she was talking to someone she'd grown up thinking was a comic book character her whole life. It didn't help that they were talking about other comic book characters. It was kind of surreal.

"Yeah, he is pretty cool," she said with a bit of a smile. Granted, she'd never really thought about it in those terms before, but it was true enough.