Chapter 28: Chapter 28
She decides that ignoring it until it becomes a problem is the way to go. Luckily, New York is nearby, so she can go there and help some to clear her mind. Though she quickly becomes guilty at the thought.
Is she subconsciously hoping for something awful to take place, just to take her mind off of her worries? She shakes her head. No, that's not true. She's not hoping for anything to happen. She's just a realist. A place like New York is full of criminals. Wanting to help others and distract herself is simply like killing two birds with one stone.
With that thought in mind, she flies faster, stretching her senses as much as she can. She's not searching for anything specific, nor is she completely concentrating on all the surrounding thoughts. She's mostly surveying the area for any distressed feeling.
She has to set a higher standard slightly because there are a lot of distressed people, mostly sad. She wants to help them all, but her priority should be those whose cries are tinged with fear and panic.
With November coming to a close and Christmas just around the corner, the streets are filled with people looking to take advantage of the holiday season, and of course, robbers lurking in the shadows.
She moves from place to place swiftly, her teleportation power allowing her to travel the city with ease and prioritize places of urgency. As she helps, she feels a sense of accomplishment, and the thrill of the wind in her hair as she soars through the sky fills her with freedom. She's happy to help even if she wished it wasn't necessary at all.
But once again, she repeats that she's a realist. The bustling city streets were a reminder that robberies were a frequent occurrence, and she could feel the tension in the air, hinting at the unseen dangers that lurked around the corner.
She spotted a couple of robberies happening, and some guys who were trying to take advantage of girls in shadowy alleys. She also noticed a woman, who seemed distressed, banging on the car of what she later learned was an ex-lover.
And all in a four hours.
It's already late, but helping people made her be calmer because she can't just go all gun-ho to the bad people and then leave. She needs to be composed when she helps others, in order to manage the victims' distress after dealing with the problem.
Most people freaked out at seeing a mind-talking, floating cat-like creature, but her cuteness gained her some brownie points because after a while, they relaxed. It made her easier comforting them while they waited for the police. Though it wasn't always the case, she had to rush away on many occasions because she could feel the distress of another person in danger.
She started by taking the criminal and the victim to several police stations she had already identified, giving the victim the opportunity to provide their statement if they were willing. Well, she didn't let the woman who damaged her ex's car get away with it; she confronted her and made sure to make her pay for the damage.
She could feel she didn't do it out of malice but of a sense of betrayal. Apparently, her husband cheated her with the babysitter and she only found because of the baby monitor, which she was supposed to throw out a couple of days ago, but then forgot.
After she gave her some moral support, she left her with a warning.
She really wanted to rescue a cat but did not see one. Probably because it's late. She soared around the city one last time, taking in the sights of the destitute places side-by-side with the more vibrant tourist destinations.
It wasn't until two of the morning that she decided to return to Tony's, hoping the inventor was asleep because even if she felt more centered after flying and helping others, she still hasn't got much time to actually think of the situation.
While making the flight back, she decides to stop procrastinating and start thinking about the problem. It's not that she doesn't find Tony attractive, because she does and she genuinely likes him as a person, even he can be a bit of jerk some times. So the problem isn't with him, but with her. Which is such a cliché thing to say, but it's the truth.
It's not the fact she's another species as she's always considered herself human first and Mew second, even if she finds her Mew form as comfortable, if not more so than her human form. Her mentality was the issue, as she had always seen Tony and Pepper as her favorite canon couple, and it was hard for her to accept them not being together.
Is it NTR if they aren't together? Or just together in her head?
After giving it some more thought, she concludes that allowing it to take its natural course is the best option. She will be friendly and not change anything of their interactions, or at least try to. Maybe she'll try to play matchmaker. If that doesn't work, maybe she will give the relationship a try, but for the moment she's not searching for romance. Though she admits to being curious about it and sex in general.
She was an asexual in her past life, after all. She had a strange chemical imbalance that kept her from experiencing any type of sexual pleasure. It probably was because she was depressed in her formative years and just numb most of her teenage life. It wasn't until she was an adult that she got 'better'. She found herself drawn to the idea of romance despite her lack of sex drive, though it wasn't something she felt was important either. In her last life, her inability to feel a full range of emotions, combined with her lack of interest in sex, resulted in her inability to maintain long-term relationships.
Now though? Now, the way she feels emotions is a huge contrast with how it was. Also, she can feel other's people's emotions, which is overwhelming but nice.
She doesn't know why she's here or if she really died, but some part of her, which she attributes to her Jolly nature, doesn't care much. It's not that she's not sad, but at least she's not depressed. And she knows depression.
New life and new body mean new opportunities, and she wishes to enjoy everything she can.
For more than ten years, she's gone without romance and sex, and while it's not something she's actively pursuing, she's willing to give it a go if it comes her way. Mostly out of sheer curiosity.
Also, she needs an apartment or at least somewhere to live that's not wired with cameras all around as she wants to know if she can really feel pleasure with her human form or not via masturbation. Maybe she will finally feel what's so special about orgasms.
Never had one, after all.
So, with that happy thought, she goes to Tony's house.
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