
[Vivienne]
Everybody scream.
Vivienne always visited her brother before she carried out a robbery. She felt it was lucky. Sort of sick and twisted, sure, but lucky all the same. Besides, if she did it after the robbery there was a chance that someone could follow her there. Not that anyone had ever followed. Every time she did something, Batman blamed Scarecrow. Since Scarecrow was in hiding, he was obviously never caught.
And she was left to go on her merry way.
Astor was staying with a family called the ‘Robinsons’. Most of the places they sent him were close to each others, so it wasn’t too hard to find the house. She knocked twice.
The door was answered by a teenage boy, probably eighteen or nineteen. He paused.
“Hello…” He said.
It probably wasn’t every day that a bleach-blonde six foot tall French woman appeared in his doorway.
A woman she assumed was his mother all but pushed him out of the way.
“You have to excuse him. You must be Vivienne?”
She nodded.
“Can I come in…?” She asked tentatively. Her accent was still very prominent. Losing it seemed like a lost cause.
She entered in as quietly as possible while Mrs. Robinson gestured to a group of three children playing cards. Well, two were playing and one was watching. There was a boy with dark hair a freckles, a very young girl with red pigtails, and a thinner boy with the same white blonde color hair as Vivienne. The last was the one watching, or at least anyone else would have said he was watching. She knew otherwise, seeing as her brother was blind.
He didn’t look it. His eyes weren’t white or anything. The blindness had been brought on by a whack to the head back in France. There was a surgery for it, but not one she could afford. It was probably beyond repair now.
The other children didn’t catch on quickly enough to warn him of her approach. She snuck up behind him and wrapped him in a huge hug, giggling all the while.
“Vivienne!” He exclaimed, deciding immediately who it was based on the tone of her laughter alone.
“I told you I would come, didn’t I?” She continued, this time in French. He wasn’t so good at English anyway, and responded in the same way.
“Can I come back with you now?”
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson watched with their son. The son knew a bit of French from school, but not enough to decipher what they were saying. So they just stood there, pretending they knew more than they did.
“Not yet.” She responded sadly.
“But very soon. I promise. And then we’ll move into a big house, just like the Wayne Manor, and we’ll live like Americans for he rest of our lives.”
“Like Americans.?”
“Just like Americans! We’ll buy fattening foods, and watch too much TV, and maybe even waste water!”
He laughed at the last comment. The Robinsons did as well, though none of them knew why they were laughing. Only the other children didn’t. They were still trying to figure out why their friend and his sister were speaking in gibberish.
The visit ended a short while later. She waved goodbye, kissed Astor on the cheek, and headed back onto the dark streets.
Now to choose the bank.