Still lounging on the couch, Vicki simply turned her head to look into her waiter’s eyes. She didn’t even bother looking through the menu, knowing that she was here just for a cup of hot chocolate. She tilted her head slightly to the side and raised one of her eyebrows. “
Yeesh, bad day, huh? I’ll keep it easy for ya then: one hot chocolate will do it for me.”
Vicki lifted up the menu he just slapped onto the table and handed it back to the waiter. She caught a glance of his nametag: Garrett. Garrett looked to be about Vicki’s own age. He may have been in a bad mood just in that instance, but Vicki surmised that may be his natural disposition.
Perma-bad mood guy, huh? Vicki flashed one of her world-famous smirks. “
So…Garrett. Listen, this place is pretty barren right now, why don’t you take a seat here, huh? From one bad-day haver to another,” she offered, motioning with her chin.
Raze was starting to get anxious and irritable. He ran out of food a few hours prior, and the hunger combined with terrible sleep were starting to eat at his disposition. Since the two women from the cafe had entered, Raze hadn’t spotted any one that he recognized enter the building. Going in after them would be useless, he had no idea which apartment they were all meeting at.
So what if you find where everyone is? What happens then, we all get together and form the Power Pack? In his exhilaration and desperation to meet others with the same plight as he, Raze completely neglected to think that far ahead. Now that he had quieted the post-murder blues, Raze was able to think a bit more clearly. Looking back now, most of the people in the cafe looked exceptionally young, as if they were just barely out of high school or college. What was he supposed to do, parent them? The whole wisened-mentor thing probably wouldn’t work out either, Raze couldn’t even help his patients cope with their own lives. After years of schooling and a paper declaring “Hey, I’m certified to help you,” and even with powers, Raze still felt useless.
At that thought, Raze looked back down over the ledge, back at the dumpster hiding the ex-criminal’s corpse.
No...I’m not useless. Not any more. This was the first time Raze had ever seriously considered killing someone, let alone actually acted on it. It certainly wouldn’t be the last time though.