The Beach, late Sunday afternoon

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette spread a huge beach towel on the sand, plugged in her ipod, and laid down. She wanted a nap and she was going to take one in the sun. She could use a little color. Plus the sun made her gift from Dick sparkle and shine and she was so very proud of it.

Not that she was going to lay there and stare down at it; she was taking a nap, letting Chopin's Romantic Piano Concerto Volume 1 lure her to sleep. Or try. Her eyes were closed at least.

(the beach and post are both open for beach needs and stuff, yo.)

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy decided that the pool was not gonna do it for a swim today, so he headed down to the beach, where he stripped off his shoes, shirt, and leg, laid them on a towel, and began to hop towards the ocean.

He noticed Annette, and waved, just in case she was awake enough to notice him.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette cracked her eyelids open just barely to look down at her necklace again and she noticed hopping out of the corner of her eye. Too big to be Robin and definitely not green. Turning her head, she saw Billy and his wave and she waved back, smiling.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Ah, she had noticed. He smiled back at her, then when he reached the water, he was able to stop hopping. "Water's great if you decide to come in!" he called to her.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Thankfully Annette could hear him since her music was so very low. She waved again and used her elbows to brace herself up a little. "Thanks, Billy! I'll think about it. Is it cold?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Not really! Just cool, and then it gets even better once your body adjusts!"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"I might need convincing Billy since this sun feel so good!" She laughed lightly.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Well you might need relief from the sun at some point! Like if it gets way too hot!"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

She laughed. "Think it will get too hot for me, Billy?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Well I don't know what too hot is for you, but it's been getting up into the 90's lately."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"90's is pretty hot," Annette agreed. "Maybe when I get sweaty enough."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Always a good reason." he agreed, trying not to think too much of her getting sweaty.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette rolled over onto her tummy so she could get some sun on her back.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"You remembered sunscreen right?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Hmm? Sunscreen?" Annette frowned, her cheek pressed to her towel. "No, I guess I forgot it."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Okay you're gonna get sunburn, and I promise I will only laugh behind your back. And only after making sure you're okay."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette murmured, her eyes closed. "But this sun feels so good, I don't want to move."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy came out of the water, hopped as quickly as he could to his towel, and put on his prosthetic. "Sure, it feels good now. C'mon I have some sunscreen right here."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Will you put it on my back for me?" She asked sweetly. "Please? I'm just too lazy."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy hesitated, just a moment, before agreeing. "Yeah I can do that." He sat down beside her, uncapping the bottle and started drawing a smiley face on her back with the sunscreen.

"So, are you still learning the spying?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette giggled. "Oooh, that's cold."

She pondered his question for a minute, her eyes still closed. "I haven't done anything lately. Actually, I haven't even thought about it. Not much to spy on around here, you know?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Honestly that's one of the things I like about it. Even with the occasional invasion, this place is a lot more peaceful than back home."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"And I was thinking it was a lot more adventurous from where I am from. But even at that, I've sort of lost my spy power. You know? I just don't have any energy to spy on people because I have no reason."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Hmm, well what if I told you there was more to me than met the eye?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Then I would be terribly curious, Billy, and might wish to learn more about you," Annette said softly.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Well I'm a lot less paranoid than I was the last time you spied on me, though that also means I'm a lot less clandestine. I could just tell you, but that might take the fun out of it."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette chuckled. "I had to spy on you - I was in Spy Tech you know."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Hey I understand. Well now I do. Back then...well there might have been some folks looking for me. And I couldn't be sure you weren't working for them."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"I'm just a little girl, Billy," she grinned. "What could I possibly have gotten myself into to be looking for you?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I got myself into all sorts of things before I came here. Well that's not true, other people got me into it. He finished with the sunscreen and tried to pretend to himself that he hadn't just enjoyed that a lot.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"I think we all got ourselves into things before we came here. I know I did. And not necessarily other people either - I sort of got my own self in trouble." She made a soft purring noise in her throat. "Thank you, that felt nice."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Oh, purring noise, no fair. "Anytime. I guess I have to admit to getting myself into a fair amount of it. But some of the biggest parts..."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Uh-huh..." she said, encouring him to continue while she adjusted her bathing suit top. She really didn't want a line on her back, but didn't know if she should untie it or not.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Well Billy wouldn't object if she did. "What have I told you about my past?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

That would be a hard one for her to remember. "That you were in an explosion?" Okay, she just did it, she reached back and untied the string at her back so she wouldn't have a tan line. She might have been blushing slightly but she was sure he wouldn't notice.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

No he didn't notice her blush, he was pointedly not looking. Also he was boggling at how few people he'd even told his cover story too.

"Wow that's not much is it."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

That was nice of him, to not look. Was she ugly from behind? Great. Just great.

"No. Not very much but considering, I didn't want to push you for information - I figured you'd tell me what it was you wanted me to know."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy nodded, surreptitiously sneaking a peek.

"Well I've been telling a few people certain things, cause I figured it'd be safer to do so."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"You can tell me a few things if you want. I'm a great secret keeper." And she was too, seriously.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Well, there a good chance that the explosion wasn't an accident."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette started to turn over to look at him fully but remembered that ooops! top was untied. She stayed where she was. "How's that?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I was in a car that swerved off the road to avoid an out of control police car, and it smashed into a phone pole. I woke up in a hospital a year later. They told me the car blew up. But last year M showed me some evidence that the car didn't blow up cause it'd hit the pole. There was evidence of a deliberate attack."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"A deliberate attack by whom?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Someone who worked for my father most likely."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"I don't think I like your father, Billy. Tell me about him, oh, and could you do me a big favor and tie my strings back together for me?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I'm not too fond him myself." Billy said, tying her bikini strings like she'd asked.

"He's the leader of the largest, most dangerous terrorist group in my world. Cobra."