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Roxy couldn't wait to start training with Batman, but there was another person she was dying to see again, even more. Her best friend, and frequent polyamorous lover, Sapphire Song. Right after Batman left, Roxy called her up and demanded she come over. Sapphire eagerly agreed, but said it'd have to be the next day. Roxy reluctantly agreed, even though it meant she had to wait (her least favorite thing to do) until her friend showed up the following day.
The pair had met on the set of Roxy's first movie as a stunt woman. Sapphire was the special effects guru, specifically handling pyrotechnics. Back then, Roxy still had a fetish for thrills, but she hadn't yet see it blossom into the death wish it was today. She was still a bit timid and nervous, being on her first big budget movie. Sapphire showed her the ropes and watched out for her when the director tried to cheat her out of her due wages. From then on, the two were inseparable, and it didn't take long for the relationship to turn sexual. Things got steamy right after Roxy's first stunt, which happened to involve Sapphire's pyrotechnics. For Roxy, being blow out of a building, through the window, was enough to get her heart racing and her juices flowing. For Sapphire, seeing the dark-red-headed bombshell get blown out of a building and nearly engulfed in flames was enough to get her engines roaring too.
She sat by the window waiting anxiously for her friend to arrive. She had so much to tell her about the Bat, both man and woman versions, and the plans the former had for her and the plans she had for the latter (if she were ever lucky enough to run into her again). Roxy waited for the sound of Sapphire's motorcycle pulling up, but instead what she heard was the sound of a timid engine inside of a reasonably sized safety Sedan, that was now pulling up to her front door. Roxy got up, ready to tell the undoubtedly tired-looking, shell of a former person, parent to just turn back around and leave because the Real Ratchet wasn't yet open for business. When she got outside, though, she was greeted by an even greater terror than the face of an office drone.
And yet, what she was looking at did appear to be an office drone, as she had suspected, but it was who it was, specifically, that truly upset her. It was Sapphire, alright, and yet not at all. Same body, she was certain, but everything that made her interesting was stripped away. Roxy studied the suited woman as she approached with a beaming smile, but Roxy could only return the show of joy with one of confusion and slight disgust.
Gone was Sapphire's blue hair, often done up in a style that was unconventional even by unconventional standards. In its stead was her natural hair color, she assumed, grown out and bound into a simple ponytail. Her lips were as plump as ever, but there was no ring pierced through on the left side of her bottom lip, and no unique shade like green or blue or, once a year, rainbow. It was pink. Her normal lip color, and she was just wearing lip gloss, Roxy theorized. The rows of earrings that ran along her ears were gone and only a single gem was studded into each lobe.
Roxy knew she couldn't have gotten rid of all her wonderful tattoos, but she couldn't see them. Sapphire, the one Roxy knew, always wore clothing that did all it could to reveal the artwork that adorned her white skin. Now it was all hidden, tucked behind a beige pantsuit. There was only one ring on her fingers, instead of the many she usually wore, and it looked hauntingly like a wedding ring. She couldn't hide those piercing blue, husky, eyes, though, even if they weren't surrounded by sharp eyeliner and seductive eye shadow. She couldn't change the way her jaw flowed sharply into a cute chin with just the hint of a hidden dimple, only visible if you got close enough. She knew it was Sapphire, but it wasn't her Sapphire.
"Roxanne!" the apparent business woman cried out when she got close enough for a hug. "It's so good to see you, dear!"
Roxy cringed at the name Roxanne. She snarled at the word dear. She wanted her to call her bitch, whore, taint-licker, and fuckbuddy. All the usual things she lovingly referred to her as. She reluctantly wrapped her arms around the woman, and grimaced at feeling the fabric of Sapphire's jacket. It was cheap. Roxy was at least hoping she was a white collar criminal, now, and was at least richer for it.
"Sapphie..." she uttered, hoping that if she called her by her nickname, it would pull her back from this horrible curse that had been placed on her. "You look...different."
"And you look exactly the same, Roxanne!" she said cheerfully, seeming blissfully unaware of Roxy's revulsion growing on her face. "Oh, and I go by Sophie, now. Sapphire, Sapphie? They didn't exactly gel with the atmosphere where I work. But I want to hear about you! Come, let's go inside. I see you still have that jacket. That's fun!" She said it like how a soccer mom would refer to a kitten sweatshirt she got at K-Mart. It made Roxy sick, but still she led her inside rather than demand she go back to whatever warlock conjured up this twisted doppelganger of her friend.
"So tell me, how was...y'know...prison?" She asked, whispering the last word as if it were taboo, not to be spoken in polite company.
"Fine, fine," she lied, not really hearing the question and answering with whatever she felt was appropriate. Roxy wanted to get to her turn to ask a question. "Why don't you tell me what happened to you?" Roxy asked, but realized how accusatory it might sound and might scare her off. "I mean, what have you been up to?"
"Oh, well, as you can tell, I'm done a bit of changing," she said with a giggle.
"To say the least," Roxy replied with a nervous half laugh.
"After you went to prison the second time, I kind of took stock of my life, y'know? Re-evaluated what I was going to do with my life." Roxy felt her stomach twist into knots.
Was this my fault?
she thought.
Did she become this...bizarro Sapphie because I went to prison too many times?
"I couldn't run the Real Ratchet by myself, so I closed 'er up and got a job at a bank!"
"A
bank
?" Roxy asked with disgusted surprise. Had Sapphie said she worked at the post office or library, Roxy might have vomited onto her friend's ugly brown shoes. A bank was only marginally less boring than those, and only because of the money Roxy hoped she was at least pocketing.
"I know, I know," she replied with another giggle. "Why would they let me into a bank, let alone work at one? But their willingness to give me a shot really helped me change, y'know?"
No
, Roxy thought to herself.
I most certainly do not know. I don't know anything anymore
. "I stopped dying my hair, let it grow out, took out all those silly piercings and wore clothes that covered up my offending tattoos," she listed off, sounding embarrassed she had to think back to the time when Roxy found her most attractive. Roxy grew more unnerved to have her acknowledge the changes she made, verbally, to her. Before she only had to look at them, now she had to hear about it. "Eventually I settled into a very comfortable rhythm." Roxy nearly fainted at the word
comfortable
. To her that meant settling and settling was death. "And soon I met my husband, Marcus."
"Your
what
?!" Roxy couldn't believe what she was hearing. Roxy was 95% a lesbian, leaving 5% exclusively for Batman. Sapphie, though, Sapphie she always knew to be 110% lesbian, that extra 10% just for Roxy herself, or so she thought. So to have a husband was absurd to her. Being married at all would have been a shocker, too. That Sapphie could ever tie herself to just one person. Roxy and Sapphie had pretty much been girlfriends, though they both liked to sample other items on the menu when given the chance. Sometimes together, even.
"My husband. Even have a few kids, too!" she boasted. Now Roxy really did feel like fainting. Having a husband was one thing, but a kid? In the few seconds between the revelation of a husband and the revelation of having rugrats, Roxy imagined that Marcus was a front. That Sapphire hadn't turned on her, hadn't gone for the D in the absence of Roxy's V. Having kids, though, well, that squashed that dream.
"H-how? I was only in prison for a year!" Roxy reasoned, hoping to punch a hole in Sapphie's life that would make her realize it was all an illusion put on by the Mad Hatter or something.
"Well, I gave birth to one, but we loved him so much that we decided to adopt a few more! Marcus and I just had to share our love," she beamed. "You should meet them!"
"No...no I really shouldn't," Roxy said tiredly, her polite facade starting to shatter. "So...I guess this means the party-hardy Sapphie I knew hardly parties, now, huh?"
"I'm afraid so," she replied, hearing the disappointment in her friend's voice. "Now I'm hard-working Sophie. Or is it hardly working?" she exploded into laughter at the horrible pun that had been done to death.
"I...I don't believe what I'm hearing..." Roxy uttered, turning her back to her friend and bracing her hand against the dirty wall. Then, from behind her, she heard snorting, like something was being stifled. When she turned, she saw Sapphie, as she refused to think of her as Sophie, pulling her lips inward and trying to hide a smirk. She could no longer contain herself once Roxy's brown eyes met with her azure ones. She exploded into laughter, and it wasn't as the bad pun she had made, but it was at the joke she had played.
"Ahh!" she howled. "I can't believe you bought that, you 'tard!" she openly mocked, holding her stomach and falling back against the wall behind her in continuous laughter.
"Wait...Oh you BITCH!" Roxy yelled, her anger quickly turning into elation, as she knew she not only had her friend back, but she had never lost her for a second. She quickly went over to the laughing woman and punched her playfully in the arm over and over. When they finished, Roxy had to make sure she knew the situation, and wasn't just being hopeful. "So you're not working at the bank, then?"
"Nope," Sapphie said smugly.
"And you're not married to some guy named Marcus?"
"Not married to
any