18:54. You packed your stuff, checked if you forgot anything… Nope, everything’s cool. You let out a sigh of relief and stretched your arms above your head. This shift was pretty good. Thankfully, you were getting a grip of all these… dispatch duties.
ALERT [ HERO OUT OF COVERAGE AREA ]
It seemed your shift was far from being over.
You plopped back on your seat and clicked a couple of cameras around the area, trying to find the one that will show you what the fuck─
“─are you doing, Invisigal?”
The woman on the screen looked up and smirked, gracefully showing a middle finger to an invisible camera.
“Spying on me?” she drawled, puffing out smoke.
“The shift isn’t over yet─”
“It’s five─ No, four minutes until seven. So it’s over. Or are you one of those freaks who sit on their stinky office chair until clock strikes seven-zero-zero?”
You groaned and leaned back in your seat. The shift was great, you didn’t feel that tired, but you haven’t had any will to bicker with Invisigal. So you took a pencil to roll around in your hand and murmured:
“Mind telling me why are you sulking on the children’s playground?”
The line grew silent to the point you could hear a soft electric hiss. Then, a long inhale and exhale. On the screen, a small cloud of smoke dispersed into the night air.
“Can’t a woman be sulky once in a while?”
“Sure she can. But doesn’t a said woman want to share her troubles with someone?”
Invisigal scoffed, “You’re such a nosy fucker.”
“I don’t think fuckers can be noisy. Oh, no, they can, if they─” you were interrupted by Invisigal’s husky laughter.
You found yourself smiling, too.
“Who taught you that?” she asked when the laughter quietened to a soft chuckle.
“Gee, I wonder,” you murmured, tapping the pencil against your thigh, “You haven’t answered my question.”
Invisigal sighed and leaned back, then forth, making a swing move slowly. She made you wait for a solid minute until her voice reached you through the comms:
“Do you know these girls superheroes who wear tight-as-fuck suits? They fly around, saving the world, only to have their ass in full HD on the front page of every website.”
You nodded, though she couldn’t see it. Your silence made her continue.
“Found a forum the other day,” she took a drag, “Not my damn business what they write about me or anyone, but holy shit.”
“Was it bad?”
“I mean─” Invisigal gestured, “I know I’m hot, and sexy, and make guys brick up with a single smile,” for some reason, she didn’t sound like she was joking; on the opposite, it was as if she was pissed. “But these guys were so fucking disgusting. They posted a screenshot of a news report─when I saved that fat cat the other day, y’know─which is cute, right? Oh nah, oh hell nah! ’Damn guys, look at her butt!’, ’Oh, when she groaned at 3:04 I got so hard!’, ’I replayed it so many times I came all over my fucking phone!”
Your eyes widened at the sudden outburst and you looked at the screen, watching Invisigal lean forward and hold her head in her hands.
“I knew superheroines were sex-symbols. Hell, I liked some of them myself,” she let out a long sigh, “But is this everything I am good for? Having a great ass and make men come when they watch me save the damn cat?”