#Shannon Kenny

[docgold13]

Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Inque

Not much is known of the origins of the shapeshifting mercenary and saboteur known as Inque.  How she came to possess her metahuman abilities remains unknown.  Her form is composed of a dark, ink-like substance that is entirely malleable.  This allowed her to alter her shape at will, forms her limbs into sharpened weapons, slip easily through cracks and slide across surfaces at great speeds.  Her one vulnerability appeared to be water, which caused her to become defuse and lose her ability to maintain structural integrity.  Although water was not lethal for Inque and she has been able to re-manifest her form once dried.

Inque was hired by Derrick Powers during a time in which Wayne/Powers was competing with Foxteca over a highly lucrative governmental contract.  Powers tasked Inque with sabotaging Foxteca facilities so to ensure his company landed the contract.  Bruce Wayne investigated the matter and assigned Batman (Terry McGinnis) to stand guard over the additional Foxteca plants in the case that the saboteur were to strike again.  This indeed occurred yet Batman was unprepared for an altercation with someone as formidable as Inque and she easily evaded capture in their initial altercation.   

Learning that Batman was once more meddling in his affairs, Derrick Powers tasked Inque with assassinating him and any accomplice he might be working with.  Sneaking into the Batmobile, Inque accompanied Batman back to the Batcave before attacking him.  Transforming into a torrent of ink, she nearly succeeded in suffocating Batman but was stopped by Bruce Wayne (who used an old Gray Ghost costume to hide his identity).  Bruce ultimately utilized Mr. Freeze’s freeze gun to incapacitate Inque whereupon she was delivered to the authorities.  Without the services of his saboteur, Powers lost out on the contract to Foxteca.  

Inque would return on subsequent occasions to battle Batman.  Some time thereafter, the mutagenic substance that bestowed Inque her abilities began to break down making it difficult to maintain a physical form.  She turned to her estranged daughter, Deanna Clay, for aid.  She had Deanna steal a mutagenic compound from Gotham Genetics that could stabilize her condition.  Deanna went through with this, but cut the compound with a solvent as part of a plan to kill her mother and pilfer her savings.  Inque discovered her daughter’s betrayal too late. Starting to dissolve, she attacked Deanna yet Batman arrived in time to save her. Together they watched Inque seemingly melt into nothingness. 

Actress Shannon Kenny provided the voice for the villain with Inque first appearing in the third episode of the first season of Batman Beyond, ‘Black Out.’ 

[scifipinups]

Shannon Kenny The Invisible Man (2000)

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The Aftermath gang 🥰

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WRESTLING VIDEOS MASTERLIST (AEW)

SINGLE WRESTLERS

Bryan Danielson - Monty Python's Life Of Bryan

Chris Jericho - The 13 Stages Of Grief With Y2J

CM Punk - ATOMIC CM PUNK

Danhausen - Danhausen In Exactly As Much Context As He Requires

Danhausen - Feed My Evilhausen

“Hangman” Adam Page -  Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself

"Hangman" Adam Page - Country Girl 🤠

"Hangman" Adam Page - La Folie Temporaire

Jack Perry - Jungle Boy - I Wanna Be Evil

Jon Moxley - Livewire

Marko Stunt - The Very Best

Marq Lynch - Hurt

MJF - Everybody Loves Me ;3

MJF - blah blah blah...

MJF - The Biggest Balls Of Them All

MJF - Long Island V Connecticut

MJF - MJF Being Completely Insufferable Part 1: Jul-Nov 2019

MJF - MJF Being Completely Insufferable Part 2: Nov 2019-Jan 2020

MJF - MJF Being Completely Insufferable Part 3: Jan-March 2020

MJF - MJF Being Completely Insufferable Part 4: April - August 2020

MJF - S&M(JF)

Nick Jackson - Magic Girl

Orange Cassidy -  BASIC 🍊🕶️NOMICS

Pac - If Weird Al Did Pac's Theme

Sting - What Goes On In Surfer Sting's Head

Wheeler Yuta - Yu Make My Dreams Come True 💕

William Regal - Sharp Dressed Man’s Man

William Regal - Ra Ra Regal

William Regal - What A Lucky Man (He Was)

GANGS/MORE THAN ONE

Gunn Club Assboys - Billy Ass And The Assboys

Blackpool Combat Club - BCC Golden Girls

Dustin Rhodes VS Willie Mack - Kissin Willie

Eddie Kingston & CM Punk - WRESTLING SILENT FILMS: Was The Truth Too Much For CM Punk To Handle When Kingston Put Him On Blast?

The Elite - When I See You Dance With Another

The Elite - Best 15 Seconds Of Each BTE (1-23)

The Elite - Runnin On Empty

The Elite - What If Carly Rae Jepsen Sang Like 4 Middle Aged Men Having A Sexually Charged Karaoke Battle On A Japanese Train?

"Hangman" Adam Page VS Lance Archer - Blood In The Texas Death Match

The Hardys - The Hardy Show: Rednecks On The Loose

House Of Black - Du Rieschst So Gut~

Jurassic Express - KINGS OF THE JUNGLE

Jurassic Express - Happier Days

Pinnacle & Inner Circle - Pinnacle VS. Inner Circle: Ballroom Fucking Blitz

The Hardys VS Private Party - Poor Bones

Young Bucks VS Lucha Bros - The Match, But As Clowns

AEW Moments That Have Probably Changed Me As A Person

Ranking Hey!(EW) Guests Based On How Angry They Get Being There

Once In A Lifetime: An AEW Retrospective

Oh, You Missed The First 3 Years Of AEW? Let Me Catch You Up Real Quick

SHIPS

Hookhausen (Hook X Danhausen) - curses~

William Regal X Tony Schiavone - Out Of Touch Thursday

Hangmox (Hangman X Mox) - ⛓️HANGMOX: THE CHAIN⛓️

AdaMJF (Adam Cole X MJF) - You're My Best Friend

Chuck Taylor X Orange Cassidy - I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

AEW OPENINGS REDONE

What if Dynamite was 2004 Raw?

What if Collision was 2009 Hockey Night In Canada?

[pengillys]

the hsm movies are legit some of my fave from childhood

[deluweil]

Is this a Kenny subtle way to say that blonde Shannon is ridiculous? 🤣

[randomkposts]

I watched Buffmaisters ObsCure movies. Yep. A 2004-5 PS2 game!

And I'm kind of reminded of Until Dawn, and not just because Josh and Ashley are characters here.

I'll talk more about that a little later, first I want to write a short shot about it. Or two.Though the everyone lived ending offered a msore satisfying conclusion, the ending of at least one party member death had a detail that stood out to me.

It shows one or more dug gravein front of a memorial for students who died in this school, implied to be for the party members who died on this journey. Then it pans down into one of them, and shows spores rising from the coffin.

Its not a super exciting ending. Except in the next game, character Shannon is capable of controling the spores in her body. She claims its from her willpower, but none of the remaining characters are capable of doing what she did.

So alternative theory, Shannon did die. However, it didn't stick. The spores brought her back, and she got lucky in how her dossage interacted with her biology.

So here goes. Spoiler alert for the second game, if you care to avoid.

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A truth that goes unspoken between all of them, is that Shannon isn't like the rest of them. She died that night. While the rest of them got their “cure” that night, her body lay in there cold and still. 

They had mourned her. They had buried her. They had put her name on the memorial. And three days later, she had shown back up at school like some sort of blue haired goth Jesus, smiling and acting like she hadn't been a corpse the last time they saw her. 

Why are you all staring at me?” She had asked. “Is it the blue hair?”

Behind her, Kenny slashes a line across his throat while staring them dead in the eye. 

“You look nice with blue hair” Josh offers nervously.

Later, Kenny gathers them in a group. 

“We can't tell her!” He demands. 

“We have to!” Ashley insists. 

“We don't have to do anything! She's back, and we already failed her once. We left her there, like all the other students we left there! I promised him I wouldn't leave him behind. I promised him, and yet-” Kenny trails off crying. 

He's been crying a lot since Shannon died. They all have. Between the death of Shannon and the limitations of the “cure” they have all been feeling emotional. 

Who was he?” Stan asks. 

“Dan. We tried to escape. I have nightmares about it, some nights. Other nights, I dream about hers.”

“What should we tell your parents?” Ashley asks. 

“We can tell them Jack Shit! They don't actually care!!”

“We can tell them Jack Shit! They don't actually care!!”

The rest of them wince. They know the Mathews have problems with their parents, but it's never been put into words so bluntly. 

“ I have her back! We have her back. I'm not going to fail her again!”

In the end, none of them say anything. It's easy to almost forget. It's another secret buried between them, like Ashleys body wasn't, like the drugs they take, and the nightmares they share. It's part of what breaks up Ashley and Kenny, even as she keeps her walkie-talkie charged when not on her person. 

It's not something they can forget, no matter how much they would like to. 

Shannon and Kenny go to collage. Stan goes to jail. Josh goes off chasing leads in this story.

Ashley gets into a fight with Shannon about the drugs. Shannon believes that willpower is enough to keep her herself. Ashley rants to Stan about it later in tears. 

“She says she's accepted it as part of her biology, but I can't do that! I'm alive! I want to be alive! She's dead, and she doesn't understand it's not the same for the rest of us!”

Kenny's in the worst position. Stan watches his old best friend spiral. Shannon probably doesn't help, in retrospect, with her talks of willpower. She doesn't get it. 

 They don't know what Friedman did to him during the time he was captured,but Kenny gets hit with the worst of the effects even with their drugs. They never found records of what happened to Kenny.

Stan looks at the transformed Kenny, and wonders if that will be him one day. Wonders if it will be all of them one day. 

He looks at the woman beside him. At least if he stays with her, he can be assured of someone who can and will put a bullet into him, should it come to that. 

After all, she could kill her brother. 

He should be easy in comparison.

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Alright, with that down, lets talk about similarities to UD. Not only do both games take place at night, they take place against an enemy with a weakness to light. Albight, Until Dawns monsters were never weak to flashlights the way ObsCures Mortifilia are, but thats largly due to diffrences in genre, Survival horror is a part resource management, and so involves deciding when to use what, where stalking horror tends to be more combat avoident. So Until Dawns guns are not used to meaningfully kill any monsters, although it can hold them off.

Both games end at dawn. I will say the ObsCure cast should have taken a leaf from the book of the Until Dawn characters and burned down the school. That might have prevented the second game.

Third, one character in both cast's transforms into a monster. You can not save him from it.

Four, both Josh's are really into film. ObsCures Josh is much more into doccumentry, in contrast to UD Josh's horror fan angle, but I thought the similarity was neat.

In contrast, the Ashleys are very diffrent, with ObsCure Ashley being the best at combat in the game.

I liked that in the first game, you could play any character and they all had a same pool of general skills, and something one of them can do a bit better that the others can't.

Josh as the observer noticed items of significance.

Ashley, was the best at combat, the only one capable of double attacking.

Stan as the delinquent was better at lockpicking, and finding the pickable locks. Though theres plently of places where you can just be practical and break the window.

Shannon as the smart one, will give you tips for the puzzles. She also is better at healing both herself and other characters, and her bio says she has first aid knowledge. She's probably not your prefered character to bring on the field, but hey, play how you like.

Kenny, is Shannons brother, Ashleys boyfriend, and Stans bestie. He kicks off the game playing basketball, and stays too long, leading to a series of events that result in him being captured. His fitness is best in the game, leading to him being good at sprinting.

Things change in the second game, so now Stan is the only character who can lockpick, and so on. Boys are now for pusing objects and girls have the smarts. Meh.

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Soo, how well would they survive eachothers games?

Overall ,I think it would go pretty well.

Josh is willing to put his friends through mental tramua in the name of vengance, but I don't really think he has to be an antagonist in this one, or his family. I don't really feel a need to change anything about the Leafmore School background, so nothing contrived has to happen to Josh for this plotswap.

Just an aftergame drinking that has everyone get stupid drunk, the prank goes down, and Hannah investegates a strange noise after she runs away from Mike crying. When Beth finds her, they both get gassed and captured by Herbert Friedman.

Meanwhile, the next day Josh shows up and picks a fight with Mike, cause his sisters didn't come home last night, what did you do to them you monsters. Everyone talks and realises the twins may have disapered inside the school. Half the party guilts the other half into staying to look for them.

I'm going to swap in the Stranger (Jack Fiddler) for the Biology teacher Danny Walden. In this plotswap Jack is a teacher, who is dedicated to finding what happened to the missing students, and is very good at fighting the creatures that roam the halls in the dark.

(Given Jacks canon badassary, I'm just going to assume the investigation stage as an outsider took longer. )

I'd conisder swapping him with the janitor, but the Janitor is aware of the school bullshit, and may possibly be infected himself. That or paid a lot of money not only as hush money, but to kill and clean up the monsters that get out from beneeth the school. Mr. Garrison, we didn't know you enough.

I'd leave the rest of the game mostly the same, exploration- with the UD casts drama exploding all over the place as they explore.

Not decided on what I would give who, as theres a lot more cast members. Hmmm. Maybe?

Sam has better climbing, Chris is Observation of items, Ashely is the only one who can read healing from first aid, Emily is tips for Puzzle (in the most condencending way possible of course), Matt is better at moving heavy objects and breaking things, Mike is lockpicking, Jessica has a luck based chance of getting double items when gathering resources, and for now I'll give the Washington siblings gun skills from Mom taking them on her hobby, hunting.

Maybe I'll vary it by gun type or something, Idk. I'm not decided that everyone lives, but the buddy system is in play.

For the ObsCure cast on Rude Blackwood Mountain, Lets have Kenny get lost on a hiking trip, and everyone going back to finding him, only to have the worst night of their lives. In contrast to the UD cast, everyone seems to like eachother fairly well, so less drama, and more hiding once Denny Walden (playing the part of the stranger) tells them how.

I guess I didnt need to swap Denny and Jack, I just felt like It.

Or maybe I should add more drama to that one, and have one of them get posessed and the rest are trying to cure them.

I don't know. I'm probably not going to write the whole thing out. Just plan it. That's usually the fun part. Might write some more shorts though.

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And one night, Shannon woke up. 

She panics. 

She doesn't remember what comes next, too lost in the mania of panic, but when she does pay attention again, she is in the yard. 

Her clothes are bloodied, her fingers have splinters, and she is covered in dirt. 

So she goes to find a change of clothes. 

Maybe once, stealing would have bothered her, but she just spent a night picking locks, breaking windows, and killing things. Stealing is the least of her worries now. 

She finds someones clothes in a locker, and a pair of shoes and a box of dye in another, and a towel in a third. 

She takes her shower and looks at the dye box in consideration. 

Why not, she decides. She doesn't really feel like a blond anymore. 

She looks over the instructions and opens the box. 

[strawberryonfire]

My Favorite Orange Themed Characters

10. Kenny (South Park)

9. Daisy (she's more yellow themed, but she's still gonna be here) (Mario Bros)

8. Shannon (OK K.O! Let's Be Heroes)

7. CatDog (CatDog)

6. Wander (Wander Over Yonder)

5. Puss In Boots (Shrek/Puss In Boots)

4. Fire Princess (Adventure Time)

3. AppleJack (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

2. Vector (Despicable Me)

1. Darwin (The Amazing World Of Gumball)

[texasbama]

So we got

Shannon (in some form) back

The Diaz family back

Buck there with the Diaz family

Episodes titled “Ghost of a second chance” and “unfinished business”

And Kenny praising Ryan’s performance.

WE ARE ABOUT TO EAT!!!!!!

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[momowoah]

Kenny and JLH saying Ryan will have good acting moments this season... Shannon coming back... Eddie having important scenes/storylines towards the end of the season... Christopher, Buck and the Diaz family all on set together in what could very well be a hospital... will reveal, near death coma dream spec... recent catholic guilt arc............. what if what if what if

[filmscrave]

Shannon’s ghost making an appearance…scenes with the entire Diaz family and Buck…Kenny praising Eddie’s upcoming storyline and Ryan’s acting in it…WHAT IS GOING ON???

[shaunashipman]

The way buddie stans have been crashing out since April is truly astonishing. They will never convince me that they think buddie will actually go canon and that Tommy is irrelevant and a plot device with the way they have been acting. You don’t act like that when you’re confident in what you believe in, you act like that when you’re threatened.

It’s not lost on me that the insider who they have been holding over all of our heads hasn’t been active since early June when they went on that weird rant about Ryan and Eddie. They are crashing out in levels I didn’t think possible.

I have seen multiple posts to the effect of "we're gonna look so stupid if buddie doesn't happen" so yeah, they're not as sure as they act. and yeah, some of them even replied to lou's pinned comment that they were disappointed the apple sticker hadn't killed him. but we're the assholes for semi-jokingly wondering if RG is leaving

honestly, was that "insider" ever actually an insider? I didn't even know they existed until they went on that rant, so I don't know what they'd "leaked" before, but so much of that rant was just like

I mean claiming that eddie has been written as a gay man from the very start? when it is extremely public knowledge that he was supposed to get with maddie in s2, and that only changed because jlh wanted kenny instead. do they think that he was gonna get with maddie in s2 and still be revealed as gay a few seasons later? would jlh asking for kenny instead not make it more likely that we would have gotten the gay storyline? but instead tim went the shannon route.

even if eddie does come out as gay, I can't believe it was the intention from the off, it makes absolutely no sense

[sheigarche]

Obscure gang 🥰

[wexhappyxfew]

SHANNON!! You know how much I love the Silver Bullets girls, so I freaked when I saw you posted this!! You also know I love angst (who doesn't, right?). So, could I possibly get Bucky x Kennedy with the prompt, "Hands off!" OR "You'll back off if you know what's good for you."

I couldn't choose which one I liked more lol!! Protective Bucky is my absolute FAV! I know it is going to be amazing!! Thank youuuu!💕🫶

MADS!!!!! HELLO MY FRIEND!!!! so lovely to see you both in the inbox and sending in this duo and prompt! :D i saw it and was immediately like - mads you are a GEM - because protective bucky IS the absolute best!!!! THANK YOU FOR THE SILVER BULLETS LOVE!!! they're my girls and are a joy to write so truly thank you :) your love and support has meant so so much!! i DO know you are an angst lover too hehe, so i decided to take a look at the earlier days of kennedy x bucky knowing one another (with extended cameos from judy and paulina - paulina who i wanted to work with more since i have written a lot of her yet), and dealing with...a rather precarious moment in which bucky is VERY MUCH being protective over the SB girls (with hints of kennedy x bucky of course because that's what makes the world go 'round). i went with the second prompt because i just couldn't help myself with that prompt - it's just too good!!! so please enjoy!!! <333333

far less losses

(a/n): you remember when judy mentioned that john egan has an 'awful soft spot for the Silver Bullets crew'? well....here we are, with bucky showing off that soft spot (which also equates to his soft spot for a certain kennedy farley) all on display. SO -- please enjoy kennedy, judy and paulina, with a bit of bucky being well....bucky haha! please enjoy and thank you again! <3

"I think it's cute!" Judy exclaimed with a smile from beside Kennedy in the mirror in the bunk room the Silver Bullets girls were camped out in, "Truly, Kenny, just even taking those few extra minutes to pull a few pieces of hair away from your beautiful face always makes you feel better."

Judy was right - and she usually was.

After a rather depleting mission that morning, Kennedy had been feeling like laying down and staring at the ceiling for the rest of the evening was her ultimate goal, but Judy Rybinski had found her and convinced her to pull on her Class-A's and take an hour or two to destress in the local pub.

Kennedy shifted herself side to side in the mirror, her thick ginger hair that was usually pulled back from her face in a poor-looking ponytail or hastily put-together braids, appreciating the extra minute Judy had taken in telling her to leave her hair down and clip up some stray pieces behind the lower part of the crown of her head.

"This looks nice." Kennedy said, her voice sounding strange at the sight of seeing herself actually looking quite pretty. Usually covered in grease, dirt and other substances that she didn't even want to know of, seeing her face so bright and clean, her brown eyes light and alive, made her smile a bit.

"You look so pretty, Kenny," Judy said from beside her in the mirror, glancing up at her with the most genuine look on her face, "seriously, you could walk in any pub in England and they'd think that it's Rita Hayworth." Kennedy couldn't help but grin at Judy's words as she took in all angles she could.

"Oh, c'mon, Judy," Kennedy said, glancing down at the ball gunner, "you could do much of the same and they'd think it's Ingrid Bergman."

"That's mighty kind of you Kenny," Judy said with a chuckle, her face glowing, "Ingrid is quite the star, isn't she? Top compliments from Kenny Farley herself."

"What can I say? I'm a miracle worker at the best of times." Kennedy said and Judy laughed again, before looking up to Kennedy softly.

"Let's go get some drinks." Judy said, "Forget about whatever the hell today was, right?"

The walk across base with the sun nearly set was quite peaceful, especially in the summer months - it almost felt like home in some weird way.

Growing up with both older and younger siblings - all brothers - she'd spent enough of her summer days outside from dawn to dusk, drinking her mother's fresh-made lemonade, peeling oranges and eating cheese sandwiches, catching frogs, playing in the streets, making a fair attempt at a ball game where she was usually one of the only girls (having brothers made you automatically a part of the line-up, even if you struck out 90% of the time, she got better though).

She'd come inside, sweating, covered in dirt and grass, with her freckles on full display and her mother would tell her to go and get herself cleaned up for dinner. And everything would smell like fresh lavender soap and soft linen, and dinner would be roasted chicken, carrots, potatoes, asparagus, all the fixings, more lemonade, cookies for desert. Her mother would have to make multiple batches just to feed all her hungry kids.

And her dad would come back from work and be cracking jokes, telling them stories from work, what he had done that day. Something about summer, at home, in Boston.

My how the times had changed from then to now.

The local town pub was a place she'd been a few times, but each time it was much of the same when she got in. It was in fact like entering a whole different world that was separated from both summer and Thorpe Abbotts.

Everything smelled like beer and smoke, there was also music playing, people dancing and without a doubt, every corner you turned, you were shaking hands with someone, introducing yourself and saying your hellos. A home away from home. And it was quite the eclectic mix - USAAF and RAF pilots and crew members all together, local town people, Land Girls. Enough of a comfort though so you could enjoy your drink and meet a new face or two.

"Pretty crowded." Judy said from beside her as they stepped inside and took their ganders around, "Never seen so many people shoved in one place."

"One too many bad missions seems to send everybody here, I won't lie, Judy." Kennedy said, reaching up to tuck some hair back over her shoulder, and letting her eyes glance around again.

"Look who decided to show up." Judy and Kennedy looked up to see Paulina, resident radio op, coming towards them, her long, dark hair elegantly curled, her red lipstick making an appearance again that reminded Kennedy starkly of their training days where Paulina was always going on about the importance of always carrying a tube of lipstick where she went. She always said that you'd never know who'd you see - Christ, Cary Grant could show up and you'll be thanking yourself for that damn tube of lipstick!

"Thought you were staying in?" Kennedy shrugged.

"Judy dragged me out. Promised to pay for a drink."

"Hey!" Judy said looking to Kennedy and teasingly shoving at her shoulder, "I didn't say a thing about paying! I told ya that you needed to get out. Destress. Ya know?" Paulina snickered and glanced to Kennedy who smirked.

"And…I didn't drag you out. I was just convincing enough to get you outta that bunk room." Judy said, "It's a good trait to have, isn't it, Pauli?"

"That's right," Paulina said, stepping forward to wrap an arm around Judy's shoulders, "let's get you two some drinks, alright? And….just so you know, Lieutenant Bradshaw offered to open a tab, so….go crazy, I don't know….I guess she could see plenty of the looks on our faces."

"She's a sweetheart." Judy said with a smile.

"She always knows," Kennedy said quietly as they moved towards the bar, "she's good like that. Reminds me of Birdie."

"She always reminds me of Birdie." Paulina said with a sad smile, "Maybe it's a sign from Birdie up above. Letting us get ourselves Annie Bradshaw as our pilot. You know?"

"I take any sorta stuff like that as a sign," Judy said as they approached the bar and called for three beers, "there's no one like Birdie, but there sure as hell isn't a soul like Annie Bradshaw."

"You ever think about what might've happened if Birdie hadn't gotten hit?" Paulina asked as the tender brought their beers and gave them a smile - Paulina took a long, hard sip before sighing, "Just….things would be so different, but we woulda never met Annie. I don't fucking know, it's weird to think about sometimes."

Kennedy and Judy exchanged quiet glances, but it wasn't like Paulina was lying. Sometimes it was weird to ponder a thing like that - if Birdie had never died and they had never met Annie. And then in moments like this, Kennedy always though that life worked to do things in ways that were always meant to be and clearly what had happened was meant to be, despite the circumstances.

And Annie Bradshaw was always meant to be Silver Bullets' command pilot in place of Birdie Faulkner.

That was one thing for sure.

"Good evening." All three of their heads turned to find one of the RAF pilots they'd seen hanging around in the weeks previous coming towards them, his eyes catching Kennedy's in a way that made her slowly shift her gaze away and sip at her drink again. She sighed. Paulina rolled her eyes.

"Evening." Paulina said slowly, lifting her mug of beer towards him before sipping it and growing quiet. Judy glanced at Kennedy, who gave her a quiet look.

Many of the men that were outside the 100th were usually nice and cordial to them. There'd been some off-handed, unneeded comments before about women in aviation, but they'd heard enough of it to ignore any sort of comment like that. They'd heard it all. For months. Some for years. Ignorance was bliss.

"You three wouldn't happen to be part of the lady crew in the 100th would you?" he asked them, sipping his beer slowly and meeting all their gazes, "I've just had quite the conversation with your Annie Bradshaw if you are. Sweet girl."

"It's Lieutenant." Kennedy offered his way, meeting his gaze again, "She's our pilot."

"Ah," the RAF - Kennedy thought he was a pilot it seemed - pilot said, with a nod, "very sweet girl." Paulina shifted beside Kennedy and sighed.

"Command pilot." Paulina muttered under her breath.

"Anything else?" Judy asked, almost sweetly, but slightly like she were undercutting his words in a way where she wanted to try and disperse the interaction as quickly as possible, "We've had a long day." The RAF pilot glanced at her and smiled, before glancing at Kennedy and Paulina.

"Long day? What ever was the matter?" he asked them and then chuckled slightly and sipped his beer again, "Right - you fly during the day, am I correct?"

"Here we fucking go," Paulina said, pushing back from the bar table, looking ready to start swinging, but Kennedy held her arm and looked to the RAF pilot again, "I swear to God, Kenny."

"We do." Kennedy said, "Why? Is there a problem with that?" The RAF pilot chuckled.

"No, no, not at all. Just curious." Kennedy leaned forward and raised a brow.

"Curious. Curious, curious, curious - what are we curious about it. We've been doing it ever since we came across the fucking pond-"

"What we're trying to say," Judy said interrupting her and giving both Kennedy and Paulina a look, "that's just what we do. We do days, you do nights. Either way, we're pounding the Germans day and night and you should be really thankful for that. You do what you all do, and we do what we do. And it works."

"You'd have far less losses." he offered, in a way that sounded condescending - it made Kennedy's skin crawl.

Far less losses.

Birdie.

Birdie invaded her mind like she always did.

"Listen, we just finished a really crappy mission," Kennedy said, leaning forward and gently wrapping an arm over Judy's shoulders and pulling her closer back from the RAF pilot, "we can pick up this conversation another time."

"Apologies, apologies," the RAF pilot said, holding up his hands in a pitiful, mock-defense, "I'm only commenting on such happenings. Nothing more."

"Commenting-" Kennedy started, but another voice entered her ears.

"Evening."

"Major." the RAF pilot said, suddenly straightening up, sticking out his hand to shake, and his eyes turning glossy, that earlier determination and confidence dwindling.

Kennedy slowly looked back over her shoulder and watched as Major Egan, the smell of beer and cologne wafting off of him, came to a stop beside the three of them there, looking towards the RAF pilot with a face that was the closest to stone-cold that there could be. And Major Egan was not the best at schooling his emotions and concealing what he was actually feeling, but he was doing a pretty damn good job right now.

"What are we talking about?" Major Egan asked, his voice deeper than Kennedy had heard it before, as he crossed his arms and straightened his back, looking directly at the RAF pilot, "Go on, don't mind me."

"Uh, well-"

"Just about our missions," Judy butted in sweetly, looking up at Major Egan, "sir, we were just discussing our….rather interesting differences. But that we bomb the Germans all the same."

"Really?" Major Egan said, almost sarcastically, his smile wide on his cheeks, his voice a crack higher, his tone one that he always had when he was trying to hide his annoyance, "Thank you for that Rybinski, really valuable information." Major Egan looked at the RAF pilot. "You should've just come and talked right with me. These ladies have had a long day. Up at 0300 and still making it out here. They don't wanna have to discuss anything with missions and all. You should know." The group fell quiet as the RAF pilot rather loudly and quite nervously slurped at his beer.

"I just knew they were apart of the lady crew. With Annie Bradshaw-"

"Lieutenant Bradshaw-" Major Egan offered.

"-and I just figured I'd have a chat with them. Never did do much talking about missions with a lady crew before."

"Oh and it's bound to be your last-" Major Egan commented.

"Sir-" Kennedy said looking to him and giving him a look as he met her gaze. Something in his eye told her that he was going to stop until this RAF pilot walked away and she was almost too tired to care if he did say something more or not.

"What's all this about a lady crew, too?" Major Egan said, "They're another one of our crews in the 100th. Did all the same training we did, same shit." Major Egan chuckled. "You wouldn't know that because you were here, what? Drinking warm beer and complaining about the sun-shining, huh? Upset it wasn't nighttime-"

"Major." Paulina said looking up at him, "Just ignore him, we were going to go find Lieutenant Bradshaw anyway."

"Nah, nah," Major Egan said, stepping forward, closer to the RAF pilot this time - the height difference was palpable, with the RAF pilot looking upwards and Major Egan looking downwards, like some sort of quiet conversation being exchanging between the two, "gotta name?"

"Uh, Langley, sir-"

"Langley." Major Egan said, with a funny tone to his voice that was clearly making fun of the way the RAF pilot had said it, "Where the hell you from, Langley?"

"Birmingham. Sir."

"Oh, you're gonna start calling me sir, now, huh?" Major Egan said glancing back at the group of the three of them and grinning that sarcastic, shit-eating grin and pointing over his shoulder, "He called me sir, what a fucking character." Major Egan turned back to the RAF pilot and let his face grow cold.

"The crew is Silver Bullets and they're apart of the 100th just like myself," Major Egan said, "and they've had a long day. All of us have, got it? So, you'll back off if you know what's good for you. And leave these ladies alone and run along to you and your British friends, alright? Get yourself some warm beer, too."

"It's not really super warm-"

"You drink warm fucking beer." Major Egan said with a look, hands on his hips this time, "Go on."

Slowly Kennedy glanced back at the RAF pilot and watched as his brain seemed to rewire, licking his lips quickly as he did so, before retreating like a dog with its tail between its legs. The three of them watched as Major Egan watched the RAF pilot turn to leave, ducking out of the pub with the beer in his hand. Major Egan turned to them, a grin on his face, clearly satisfied with the words that had left his lips and then met her gaze.

"What a guy," Major Egan said, as Kennedy held his gaze, her cheeks heating slightly as she looked back to her beer sat, the glass practically melting on the beer and sighed, "these RAF pilots got a set to be saying stuff like that to you all."

"He said he talked to Lieutenant Bradshaw, sir," Judy said looking up to Major Egan who leaned up the bar beside her, "called her a sweet girl and all. He couldn't even seem to fathom the idea of Annie flying planes." Judy chuckled and looked to Major Egan again. "He probably would've fainted on the spot to hear that we actually are pretty efficient as an all-female bombing crew." Major Egan chuckled at her words and raised a hand for a beer.

"Got that right, Rybinski." Major Egan said with a smile Judy's way before looking to Kennedy and Paulina, "Everyone doing okay after today?"

One thing Kennedy always appreciated with their leaders was that they recognized the toll missions like that took on people - whether if they showed it on their faces or not, their eyes always spoke in ways they couldn't. And he could see that, that much was true.

"I have a cold beer in my hand, sir," Paulina said with a smile, "that's enough to be thankful for after today I must admit." Major Egan let the corner of his lip poke upwards and glanced at Kennedy.

"Farley." Major Egan said, his voice a drip softer than it had been when he'd first come over, "You're quiet."

"And when Kenny Farley's quiet," Judy said with a small smile, "you know the mission today was beating us more than helping us, sir." Major Egan looked to Judy with a saddened smile on his face before looking back at Kennedy.

"Just thinking about something that pilot said, sir," Kennedy said, looking to Paulina and Judy before looking back to him again, lacing and unlacing her fingers over and over again in a nervous way, "reminded me of Birdie." The group of four grew quiet at her words.

"Just when he was going on, sir, about flying night missions," Kennedy said with a nod, "something like we'd have far less losses than if we flew at night. And it just….I don't know, shit like that bothers me. Because he clearly knew about our crew sir, which meant he oughta have heard about Birdie." Major Egan's eyes shifted to hers again, before he glanced back over his shoulder towards the doorway, shuddering his shoulders and letting out a disgruntled groan. He reached forward to take a long sip of his beer and then stood up from the bar and looked to them.

"Come find me if another one of these smucks has another fucking comment," Major Egan said, reaching up to run a hand through his dark curls on his head, before offering a smile, "no one makes comments about the Silver Bullets crew without me hearing about it, alright?" Then he turned and Kennedy couldn't help but step forward and wrap her hand around his upper arm and look up at him.

"Don't do anything stupid, sir," Kennedy said, looking up at him knowingly, "you can have your thoughts about Silver Bullets and our crew, but other people don't like the looks of a woman in the service, nor a whole bombing crew. Don't go getting yourself into more trouble than is needed, sir, alright?"

"Farley," Major Egan said, reaching up to rest a hand on her shoulder, "I've already made enough comments towards them, about them, for them to build a bridge to the States and back. Defending you all ain't much trouble." Kennedy stared at him and fell quiet. "Look, I just got a few choice words for him. That's all."

"Those choice words better involve, don't say that sorta shit like that again and then a firm goodbye and no more, sir," Kennedy said looking at him, "you don't need that face sporting anymore black eyes."

"You think I got a pretty face, Farley?" Major Egan said, looking sideways at her with that award-winning grin again, pearly whites shiny and bright, his eyes squinty, his gaze on her. Kennedy stared at him, the tops of her cheeks turning red as she suddenly felt herself stand quite still, "Go back and enjoy a drink with Stagliano and Rybinski without someone like him hanging over you. Don't worry about me." Kennedy watched him and then slowly nodded.

"Thanks for that back there by the way, sir," she said, quicker than she wanted, her eyes holding his, "it was a long day, with the mission and all. We just wanted a night out without thinking about it, sir, ya know?" Major Egan smiled and bumped her shoulder.

"Think of it as free entertainment." Major Egan said with a grin, before nodding towards the door, "Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to head out for a bit. Enjoy your beer." He quirked out a grin. "You should wear your hair like that more often." And with that, he was stepping away, running his hand through his own hair and stepping outside the pub again. Kennedy watched him go, her cheeks flaming red - the fact he had noticed her hair was enough for her to swallow it down and forget about it. She turned and slid back to the bar, in between Paulina and Judy.

"What'd he say?" Paulina asked, bumping her shoulder, "Looked pretty damn happy about telling that guy off."

"I think he's probably gonna take a punch to the face, but he's going to go send the message home it seems." Kennedy said quietly as Judy giggled, "What?"

"The look on his face when he saw you weren't the happiest camper, oh Kennedy, it was real sweet." Judy said as Kennedy sipped her beer and ignored the swirl in her stomach and crimson on her cheeks, "He's just sweet on us, you know that. They all are. They'd defend us tooth and nail any day."

"See," Paulina said, leaning towards Kennedy and dropping her voice so only Kennedy and Judy could here, "could've put on that tube of red lipstick even just for him."

"Pauli!" Kennedy admonished and Judy giggled.

"You ain't ever gonna forget it, Kenny, never!"