Log; ongoing

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

When; Sunday afternoon
Rating; PG
Characters; Dr. Horrible (horrible_phd ), Captain Hammer (horrible_protag ), Penny (horrible_penny )
Summary; Keeping stolen goods at the Laboratory is probably not a good idea.  Panicking and transporting said goods through the city streets in order to hide them better is definitely not a good idea.  Captain Hammer comes to save the day, Dr. Horrible gets knocked around, Penny has to face the facts.  Warning: musical numbers may occur. 
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Today would have been bad enough for Dr. Horrible, even without the black little cloud hovering over his head and drizzling on him.  His assistant had been dispatched with Dr. McCoy's things and a note of apology--what had he been thinking? Sick people might have been depending on that stuff--as well as a sample of mystery goo for forensics because he was probably going to get into tons of trouble anyway, and he at least wanted to see what the kid would make of it.  And even if he didn't get arrested, life as he knew it was probably over, since Penny would probably never speak to him again and anyway how could he face her, even if he wasn't worried about leading the police to their apartment somehow.  Maybe it would be best to disappear.  For a while.  Yeah.  He could take this stuff to his secret lair and stay there and not deal with anything.  Just a few more blocks to the correct manhole.  And if Captain Hammer tried to interfere, well, he did have a gun. 

Not that it was his style to use something like that.  What had he even taken it for?  The tricorder had actually been useful, but Mulder's notes had proved a wash out.  And all this hair--sure he wanted to experiment with DNA extraction, but did he really need all this hair?  No, he was forced to conclude, he did not.  Though maybe the zydrate in his pocket would come in handy if Captain Hammer ever did catch up with him.  Probably much more effective than extra-strength tylenol.  He hunched ineffectually against the rain and hurried down the street.

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[horrible-protag.livejournal.com]

Of course, nearly as soon as he'd realized what was going on with all of the stolen items and who was behind it, Captain Hammer instantly was on the prowl for his nemesis. Who was certainly not his best friend that he had some sort of buddy shirt with. But that was besides the point. The point was-

Horrible! And were those- they were! All of the stolen goods! "Rather brave of you to come out in the open with everything you stole. Except by brave I mean stupid." After all, it's not even like he was that hard to spot. He had a cloud hovering over his head. Must be some sort of new 'invention' of his or somehting.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Not too far away from the beating-about-to-happen, Penny was wandering aimlessly. She had wanted to wander aimlessly with Doris--one of the ducklings, and her favorite out of the bunch even if she didn't want to hurt the other ducks' feelings by saying so--but she hadn't taken well to the leash. That was just as well. The City wasn't a good place for ducklings when there were so many curses.

It may or may not have been a good place for Penny, as well, but she was too preoccupied to concern herself with something silly like personal safety. Dr. Horrible's post... his voice had sounded just like Billy. Penny had tried so hard to chalk all of Billy's eccentricities up to social awkwardness, but the possibility that her laundry buddy was a villain was too strong to ignore. The way he had talked about change, his wariness around Hammer, his weird working hours, that slip-up about Bad Horse...

What upset Penny the most was that Billy had lied to her, and she had been willing to believe him. She'd wanted to believe that all of the slips were happenstance. How stupid could she be?

Maybe she was wrong. Maybe Dr. Horrible and Billy were twins. Maybe she was finally starting to go crazy in the City with its curses and ticking, and with Captain Hammer being so shallow one moment and then sweeping her off her feet--sometimes literally--the next.

Or maybe it was time to stop pretending.

[ooc: Carry on! She'll just... walk around until the lads are ready.]

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Just when Dr. Horrible thought his days couldn't get any worst, they invariably did. When he heard Captain Hammer's smarmy voice (had he even been standing there three seconds ago?), Billy jumped and most of the notes he'd stolen from Mulder spilled out onto the ground.

"Captain Hammer!" Should he bother denying that this stuff was stolen? Nah. It wouldn't make things go any better for him, and besides, his crimes had actually been a little bit more successful than usual this time.

"Well, I had to make it easy for you, considering you missed the actual heists," he said, with false bravado. Still it was a good enough comeback, by his standards, to make the little cloud get a bit lighter and stop raining on him.

[horrible-protag.livejournal.com]

Hah. His mere presence terrified him so much that he couldn't even hold onto the stolen booty. "Doctor Horrible. Back in action, I see." Because yes, he has noticed the decrease in horrible medical villainous activity from his end, and then the thievery had happened. This was a chance for something big.

"It would be hard, indeed, to be there for the heists, considering I am not constantly in other peoples' houses." Plus, he hadn't mentioned anything on the Network, but it's hardly like he would tell him that. "Planning on starting a moving company where you move someone else's things into your possession? . . . Which is- obviously flooded, from the looks of it."

[OoC: kdsjfhas SORRY! Ack.]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

It was difficult for Penny to not notice Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible just down the street. She tried very hard to pretend they weren't there all the same, but wasn't terribly successful.

Penny had no idea what to do. It would be easiest to turn around. Then again, she had an opportunity to see if Dr. Horrible and Billy were really one and the same. Not that she really wanted to know, but it wouldn't be right to let Hammer beat Dr. Horrible to a pulp... especially if Dr. Horrible happened to be Billy.

Acting against her better judgment, Penny began to sneak towards the brewing conflict.

[ooc: Don't worry! We're all baffled. ^^]

[horrible-phd.livejournal.com]

Dr. Horrible's pet cloud darkened in anger. He hadn't really thought about the fact that he hadn't posted his plans on the Network--filtering was so much bother and he hadn't wanted Penny to know...or Rosella. Rosella probably wouldn't like it and be all annoyed at him and play the I-almost-got-eaten-by-a-dragon card. The fact that not publicly talking about his cunning plans helped them be slightly more successful was not the kind of thing that really penetrated Dr. Horrible's consciousness.

His possession was flooded? Wasn't possession an abstract--never mind. Focus, Billy, focus. He couldn't help being rained on any more than he could help the fact that he had been forced to shove his head in a bucket of water for no good reason. "Very funny," he said as sarcastically as possible, like he always said, because he couldn't really think of come backs. "Just what are you going to do about it?"

He immediately regretted the question, and considered, once more going for the gun.