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[rockabillyboy]

He might have joked about it being a date but, mostly, Jack thinks Valkyrie is pretty cool and he's stoked to get a chance to hang out. He'd worked at the Zen Center bookstore that day and he texts her to suggest she meet him there so that he can buy her dinner. He's even got a rose in water in the breakroom, mainly to amuse himself.

"Poison meeting you, dude?" says the girl he's on with. "Or Kavinsky?"
"Neither," says Jack, enjoying the look on her face as he grabs his rose and his backpack and goes to wait for Val out on the sidewalk.

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[scion_of_ancients]

"I'll keep the offer in mind," she replies, heading in and looking around for a table to sit at. "Maybe you'll have competition one day. Is that a thing? Competing graffiti artists? Do you have epic spray-can duels with strobe lights going off?"

Spotting a clean and comfy-looking seat, she sits down and sheds her coat. "I never did tell you about my day job, though, did I?"

[rockabillyboy]

Jack huffs a laugh as he shrugs out of his jacket, draping it over the back of his chair before he sits down. He shakes his head, reaching for a menu. "No, you never did."

[scion_of_ancients]

"Anything you'd recommend here? Or should I just order a smorgasbord?" She's got her menu open, but her eyes aren't entirely focused on it, and she's taking her time looking through.

"I, uh. I fight crime?" she says, searching for better ways to explain it, and then gives up. "All right, time to level. I'm a detective. Investigation and arresting. The partner I mentioned, I didn't mean romantic partner. Detective partner. Like the Morgan Freeman to my Brad Pitt."

[rockabillyboy]

"Seven is a great movie," says Jack, flashing a grin as he pages through the menu. He glances up at her. "So, should I be regretting talking to you about my habitual vandalism?"

[scion_of_ancients]

"Agreed. They should make more films like that." She shakes her head, smiling in return, and scoffs lightly. "No, no regrets needed. It's not like this city employs me. And I was more concerned with errant sorcery, not street art. Magical community has enough of its own issues."

[rockabillyboy]

"I bet it did," he says, laughing. "But we're not talking about that today, right? You're Clark Kent and that's the story that we're sticking to."

[scion_of_ancients]

"Now all I need is a pair of glasses. And that makes you, what, Lois Lane? I might have some trouble carrying you to safety though." She closed her menu and set it aside. "I'll have something simple. Chicken and noodles, I think."