this wasn't how it's supposed to go, really. she got the whole thing planned out: get in, take out the guards, get the thing she came here for, and get out, all done stealthily.
it should have been easy for someone who was raised by midnighter. should being the keyword here; he makes it look so easy to break in anywhere, and technically she could have used her powers to do it but she wants to learn how to be like him, so she did not. (also technically speaking she kind of did because she knows that not only will the security tapes not show her but the security guards themselves wont remember her.)
looking at the bag on the table in front of her, which contains numerous items that she stole from a museum, with her dads wearing a resigned (daddy apollo) and amused (papa m) expressions on their faces, jenny really should have been more quiet when she got back inside the house.
and she really should have not left her door wide open as she struggled to fit everything she stole into the closet.
45 minutes and some seconds earlier.
getting into the building and avoiding whomever is stationed there has proved to be easy so far, and jenny should thank whoever's looking out for her from on high for that.
she looks around the museum to see which items she should take and which ones to leave; she is after all on a tight schedule since the museum will open in approximately 45 minutes so she should hurry if she ever wants to get out without anyone noticing her. 27 minutes later and she already got three items off the list and is now in the process of getting a famous sapphire gem out of its glass container.
unfortunately, whoever had looked out for her earlier had turned their gaze away and thus what little luck she had had, apparently, ran out because she can a guard coming this way. cursing quietly under her breath, jenny unceremoniously breaks the glass and takes the gem, stuffing it inside the bag and making a run for it, ignoring the shouts of the guard behind her.
thankfully, she disabled all of the alarms.
why did she fucking agree to help a woman in black spandex that calls herself catwoman for gods' sakes is beyond her. a moment of relapse in judgement. curse her fucking good heart that wants to help people, she should have let catwoman do this alone.
she can hear more guards coming in behind her and she looks down at her watch just to see that its 42 minutes since the chase has begun, and she lets out a string of swears that daddy apollo will never ever, not in a billion years, approve of.
ah, fuck it. "door!" jenny slides through the open dimensional door only to fall into her bed and from there onto the floor, somehow hitting her forehead with the ps4 controller on the floor. oh man, that was loud. the dimensional door closes and she holds her breath, hoping beyond hope that her dads did not hear any of that.
"jenny?" oh no no no no, she looks at the door of her room and then at the bag in panic, but before she could do anything she hears a knock and papa's voice from behind it. "jenny, everything ok?"
please, god, let the earth swallow her whole right now.
"yeah! everything's just peachy!!" she has never been the most convincing liar and her voices is too high and cracked at the end. "can I come in?" papa asks and jenny watches in resignation as the door knob turns and papa m enters.
he looks at her, then around the room, and then back to her for a little bit then announces, "dinner is ready. clean your oom after you're done."
"okay!" she winces, she gotta get started on her acting skills if she ever wants to fool him into thinking that she wasn't doing anything other than what she usually does in her room.
"and hide that gem before apollo sees it," papa stage whispers to her as he smiles, amused, and leaves her with the dawning horror of the lecture she will no doubt get if she did not hide everything... fast.