KC & Switch, bonus Scene

This scene takes place between Wishing on a Supervillain and Her Fake Superhero Boyfriend

We did it. We really did it. I can’t believe we did it.

KC sat in the corner of the empty coffee shop, refreshing the newsfeed on his phone every few minutes. So far the stories were all vague, with a few sparse details. DOSA had raided a warehouse associated with wealthy businessman Anthony Deal. Deal himself was rumored to be in custody. No formal charges yet …

After almost a decade of obsessing over Deal, of putting everything into the fight to bring him down, KC’s whole being rejected the hope, the possibility, that it was finally over, that they’d finally succeeded … and yet everything he was seeing, everything he’d witnessed, seemed to suggest they had.

He let out a long breath and picked up his coffee cup. A small trickle made it to his mouth, but apparently he’d mostly emptied it with his absent-minded sipping. He glanced up at the board. Did they offer free refills on drip here? He had managed to bank one paycheck at his current job under his most recent identity, but it had already been eaten up by that month’s rent. Also, since that job had been taken specifically to get close to Deal, he’d probably need to drop it.

While Deal was in custody, there was a chance some of his lieutenants would attempt to fill the power vacuum. The first thing they’d do would be to try to find out how Deal had gotten taken down, which might lead them looking into the doorman who had showed up and poked his nose into Deal’s business … Yeah, better to disappear. It wasn’t like he lacked identities to slip into.

The door to the coffee shop opened. KC cut his gaze to the front, and immediately shifted from his natural face to that of an older man with salt and pepper hair and a wrinkled visage.

The police officer didn’t even look in his direction, striding right up to the counter and ordering a café mocha. Obviously there for his caffeine fix, not for KC, but KC still didn’t like law enforcement officers clocking his real face.

Maybe that’s a habit I can get out of now, though … or maybe Switch and I can skip town. Start over somewhere where we’re both unknowns and …