D.E.B.S (Chaelisa)

20| Epiphany

New Evil Lair, Same Time

"She thinks I'm bad news?" Lisa gritted out in between gulps of her whiskey as she furiously stabbed out numeric codes and sequences into the Satellite Enabled Laser Blaster keypad. "Oh, I'll give her bad news. I'll give all of them bad news!"

She continued grunting and huffing and muttering angrily to herself until Kook walked up, looking around him non-plussed.

"What are you doing?" he asked mildly.

"Australia is toast," Lisa snarled, pushing forward the lever to start generating a big enough surge of energy that would annihilate the land mass in question.

"What's your beef with the Australians?"

"I don't like their attitude!"

"Okay, that's enough."

He switched everything off with the pull of the plug from the socket. "Come on."

He nodded at the Cadillac Coupe de Ville sofa behind them and flopped on it.

In the midst of the sudden move to the new safehouse, they didn't have time to arrange things around much so Lisa's bed was just a few paces away from the Laser Blaster, and everything was piled around in a very disorderly manner. 

Kook tried to ignore it all but he disliked having all their belongings in disarray.

Lisa rolled her eyes but grabbed her bottle and sulkily joined him, putting her feet up on the seat even though she knew he nagged her for that.

Kook didn't berate her. He simply looked at her, waiting for his friend to open up.

It had been a rough week, setting up their new lair at such short notice and going after Tzuyu before she left the country to escape Lisa's wrath.

Between dealing with that and Chaeyoung leaving, Kook knew Lisa hadn't had time to process grief properly.

And tonight, all he knew was that Lisa had gone to speak with Chaeyoung again. From the looks of it, things hadn't gone too smoothly.

"She...refused me Kook," Lisa said blankly. "She just stood there and told me to get out, and then her friends came in and shot me."

"When you say refused you, did she say it in a mean way or in a you're-hurting-me-by-showing-up way?"

Lisa stared at him. He sighed heavily.

"Lisa, you can be so smart, but you can also be kinda dense," he said bluntly.

"How?" Her lips trembled. "Please Kook, I'm trying to understand. I...I thought I did everything right. I treated her right, I swear I did, like I never treated anyone before. But I still hurt her somehow..."

"It's true you treated her like a queen. But I think you also took her for granted as well," he pointed out. "Lisa, have you considered her situation? It can't have been easy, jumping up and leaving everything without notice. She has other people to answer to, an actual life on track, friends and family and obligations, unlike you and me. She had to leave all that behind...to be with you."

Lisa chewed her lip. "You're saying she had second thoughts?"

"I'm saying, did you try to understand where she was coming from?" Kook asked gently. "Or did you assume that she would get over that part of her life and she is now going to settle being with you, on the run with a criminal, hiding forever and damn the consequences? 

Her past is part of who she is, you can't erase that, and she clearly had much to come to terms with before she could truly be with you. Not everybody will move at your pace, Lisa. You got to slow down and take a good look around you sometimes."