Issue 8 - Left behind?

[Deirdre Quinn]

Dee walked up to Cal's impromptu outside workshop, in the shadow of the converted sentinel.

"You know, I would have thought you wanted to be on this mission," she said to him.

[Calvin Strong]

"Yeah, well, we can't send all the big hitters away. And someone's got to keep an eye on this guy while he's on guard, or people tend to get jumpy about a former Sentinel walking around unsupervised," he said, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at Titan.

"Besides, I'm really in no hurry to find out what I turn out like in a world where everything's some twisted evil version of itself."

[Deirdre Quinn]

She chuckled.

"Is that what the briefings are saying? Wisdom always did have a flair for the dramatic."

[Calvin Strong]

Cal smirked. "Too bad I'm not British, I'd see if I could be a superspy, too. That guy's awesome. Did you see him in the halls after the meeting? He clocked one of the Accolytes that was getting mouthy with him."

[Deirdre Quinn]

"That's what he gets to do after having that much seniority in MI13. Wasn't always that way. Years ago, nobody would give him the time of day."

[Calvin Strong]

"Yeah, but from what I hear, he still got to make time with barely legal superheroines. If that isn't living the superspy dream, what is?"

[Deirdre Quinn]

"It's not quite the superspy dream if you're a girl fresh out of university and trying to get taken seriously," she said with a rueful chuckle.

[Calvin Strong]

"Well she isn't supposed to get taken seriously, right? She's supposed to be hard done by, so that later she pops up as an unwitting villian seeking revenge, only to fall back in with him and end up getting an advancement that only serves to show how awesome he is."

[Deirdre Quinn]

"Is that how it's done, now? To think, I'd been going about it all wrong."

[Calvin Strong]

"Am I detecting a past with the good agent that no one knows about?" Cal joked.

[Deirdre Quinn]

"Nothing too scandalous. I'm just... familiar with him."

"Easier to laugh about it when he's had a few shots of whiskey in him, I'll admit."