"Are you okay?" Luna asks the moment the Extra is subdued. In the face of two Martean warriors - granted one of them was only half-Martean - the Extra didn't stand a chance of winning. He sure tried his best though. His fight is over now, but he landed good hits.
"I could be better. It hurts where he punched me in the ribs." Narda replies. She rubs at the aforementioned spot. They were watching the Extra be escorted from afar.
"Oh. I can go get ice for you." Luna offers, already moving to take off in flight.
"No need. I can do it myself, like I always do." Narda shrugs. Lune glances her way. A question sits at the tip of the Martean's tongue, but she lets it go.
"Okay. Are we going to patrol more?" Luna asks.
"No. I have to go back to my actual job or else we all lose our only source of income." Narda pats Luna on the back. She slings her bag over her shoulder and hails a pedicab driver to take her to the foundation. Luna watches her leave with a frown on her face.
Narda doesn't notice how easy words fall out of her mouth, nor the ease by which thoughts flow - uncensored and uncaring. She doesn't notice until she's talking to Andre.
"So," Andre grins, mischievous and ready to cause mayhem, "have you and Brian finally talked again?"
"No." She snaps back quietly. Her hands busy with filing the paperwork she hadn't finished yet.
"When then?" Andre insists.
"Never." She rolls her eyes. "If you haven't noticed, I don't have time between my day job as an EMT, my night job as Darna, and my everyday job of raising a teen boy."
"Come on! You've made the guy wait long enough." Andre walks closer, one hand on the table.
"So? It's not like I'm forcing him to wait. He's a free citizen of this country, so he has the choice to move on." Narda looks up with a slight glare, "I don't understand how his choices in life suddenly became my problem."
Andre leans back. Despite the lack of her armor, Narda looked just as fierce as her superhero counterpart.
"Right, sorry." He sheepishly replies. He's about to say more when he notices a certain lawyer walking their way - fierce staccato steps leading her to them. "Uh, Narda..."
Narda looks up about to snap at him for pushing the issue when she notices Regina. Instantly, her whole body loses tension. She doesn't notice Andre stepping away, focus squarely on the gentle blue of Regina's blazer.
"Narda, you're here." Regina exclaims.
Narda tilts her head, "What do you mean? I'm here every day."
Regina stops short, briefly confused, but soldiers on.
"Yeah, I guess you are. I was just wondering if you wanted to eat lunch together?" Regina says with a laugh.
"Oh. I can't." Narda eyes gain sudden clarity, "It hurts too much to move since I got punched in the ribs an hour ago."
What. The. Fuck. Did she just say that?
The gasps ripped from a delicate throat is proof she did, in fact, just say that. Regina's hand flutter over Narda's torso, closing the small distance between them.
"What?! Oh gosh. Who punched you? What happened? Narda are you okay?" Regina is understandably worried. Narda got punched by some unknown assailant. She feels the first embers of rage light up - her snakes hiss in discontent.
Narda bites her tongue but unbidden and uncontrolled the words spill out of her mouth. "Luna and I were fighting an Extra. He was more powerful than we expected so he gained the upper hand on me but look, see? I'm fine." She grins although her eyes are twitching because why can't she control her words.
"Fighting an Extra." Regina repeats slowly. "WHY are you and your cousin fighting an Extra? Narda! That's so dangerous. Please tell me Luna is okay? Oh my god, where did he punch you? We need to go to the hospital." Regina wraps a hand around Narda's biceps, gently, trying to drag her towards the exit.
"No need!" Narda says, she grits her teeth trying to stop the words but it's so hard. "I'll be healed in maybe an hour, two hour tops. Oh Luna? Well, she isn't my cousin, funny right? She's actually an alien from this planet called Marte." Tears fill her eyes because no, stop.
Regina stops, staring at her in confusion then in shock the in slowly dawning realization.
"Narda?" Regina whispers.
The words do not stop. "And why? Luna and I were hunting that Extra down. Y'know, all in a day's work when you're Darna."
When you're Darna
The words echo between them.
"What?" Regina asks.
Narda opens her mouth.