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Bunnyx sipped on her tea slowly as she looked at the man sitting across the table from her. Well, man wasn’t quite accurate as he was currently a toddler.
“I know I don’t even need to ask, but are you sure?” Bunnyx said, with a pleading look that she didn’t allow to reach past her eyes. They both knew that it needed to happen. And that it had to happen like this. But she was still human, and so she at least had to try.
The person across from her shook his head as snapped instantaneously into the form of an old man. “You know as well as I do that it’s time.”
A waiter approached their table and refilled their waters. He didn’t even bat an eye. To him, they were just another pair of geeks who went a little too intense for the comic con happening down the block. And they weren’t the only ones dressed up. There were no less than seven Batmans and four Wonder Womans throughout the cafe. Maybe he would’ve reacted if the god of time shifted in front of him, but even then, it had already been a long shift and the waiter wouldn’t have known whether or not it was just his tired eyes playing tricks on him.
“They’re just so young. I can barely remember what I was like when I was that age.”
“You were mostly the same, Alix. With a little bit more energy and a lot less knowledge. Your competitive streak was a much stronger force back then.”
“Kim had it coming,” she said laughing despite herself. She picked up the pastry she had ordered and brought it to her mouth, but stopped when her companion finally spoke up.
“They are. Young, I mean. This should never have been a job for sixteen year olds.” He looked off in the distance. “But it always was.”
“Damn the timestream,” Bunnyx said. She couldn’t have said it to anyone else, except him. Clockwork was the only person in the multiverse who could truly understand. He could never admit it, but she knew he didn’t always appreciate his role.
“Yes.” Bunnyx mouth dropped open at his response. “Damn the timestream.” If she had been drinking water in that moment, she would’ve spit it out. She had never heard him use language like that in all her years of knowing him, let alone say something like that about his job. She was mortal, the rules were different. But him?
“You really care about him, don’t you?” she said.
“I do. So do you, care about her that is.”
She grimaced but nodded. “One of my best friends for the longest time.”
Clockwork sighed. “We’ll do what we can for them. We will make sure that they make it through.”
She nodded, full of the determination she had held onto since youth. “They’ll get through it. It’s just gonna… suck.”
The man sitting across from her was now a teenager, scraggly and scrappy. “Yes. Now, we are both clear on the details of the plan?” Bunnyx sighed but nodded. “Then it’s time to put things in motion.”