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✉️ — 💐.

[sensive]

[ a week or so after she sends the card, amy will receive a bouquet of obviously hand-picked, not-at-all professionally arranged flowers, and a folded letter. ]

Hey Amy,

I wanted to write you back since you took the time to do a real card, and you’re the one who had to go through all that.

I know Giles has his super teen army, but if you ever want your own super army, I can show up and get a nice card for it, while people like you are actually being brave. (Happy to help anytime, though, seriously.)

Get well soon.

PS — Your handwriting is crazy neat. Printer quality stuff.

Rob—
Bob

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[ Later in the day, a text pops up on Bob's phone, accompanied by a photo of the flowers put into a vase — kept, very carefully and purposefully, in the arrangement in which they'd arrived. ]

if a card's the going rate for a super army, then you're getting lowballed. 😱
lucky for you, i'm happy to provide both cards and help negotiating.

but, genuinely, thanks again.
hopefully the next time i see you isn't under such dire circumstances.

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[ amy they were not cute ]

oh man
you wanna be my agent? i feel like i really haven’t been thinking this through

[ on account of agreeing to be someone’s super guard dog for a crumb of attention.

(anyway, she’s funnier than he thought someone who writes cards after almost dying would be.) ]

yeah, you should get to opt out of whatever the next bullshit is for sure. i’ll say hi at breakfast so you can save on cardstock, anyway.

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do superheroes typically have agents?

[ Maybe it'd be inevitable, considering the way Ava had described her line of work, but it does feel like a sort of equivalent to finding out that Santa isn't real. ]

i'd like that. (not that i'm worried about running out of cardstock.)
i'll save you some bacon since you helped save mine.

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oh uh i don’t know
i don’t think so unless you’re tony stark?
but i’m kinda the new kid

[ unsure if her question was sincere, but his answer is. ]

are you from a mostly normal place?

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well, if that changes, you know who to call.

[ joking — mostly — even if the question was in earnest. ]

yes. or at least i think so.
i'd say i can't think of anything that strange about it, but i'm sure that's what everyone thinks about where they're from.