spontaneous starter for @apathywrites
it was an exciting day for juliette-- really, any day that she got to fuck around as bat and do what she loved to do was exciting, but today was extra special. it didn’t happen that often; the last time the syndicate had gotten a new member, it was andi, basically a year prior. so when duke said that he’d found someone new to add to the fold, it was only natural for juliette to spend the day imagining who it could be and what they were like.
watching the lair from her monitor, as per usual, everything seemed normal. andi and renzei were sparring while lorelei watched apathetically. duke wasn’t there-- probably bringing the new member in. juliette reclined, playing loud sound effects over the system whenever andi or renzei landed a hit.
and then the door slid open, revealing duke and the new member.
the woman juliette had been seeing for the past month.
juliette dropped her phone into her lap, choking on her energy drink in surprise as her eyes went wide. duke had recruited her girlfriend? what a small fucking world-- the hacker was absolutely speechless, for the first time ever. quickly scrambling to play some sort of celebratory playlist over the speakers, juliette stared at her screen intently, trying to figure out if this was some sort of elaborate joke-- there was no way duke could have known who piper was to her, so how did this even happen?