Slam the newspaper down on the desk.

Shaking off her surprise at Fonzie’s greeting, having been nothing like what she was expecting, Starslip marched over and slammed the crumpled-up newspaper in her hand down onto her desk. She then watched as the Malicious Mobster read the front page headline. It was regarding photos that had been circulating over the past few days of the two having sex in her office.

"You wanna explain this?" Starslip demanded, arms crossed.

Fonzie's eye twitched at this. "E-Excuse me? You think I had something to do with this?"

"I dunno, gimme one reason I shouldn't think that you leaked it to the media that you managed to seduce me," the young blonde argued.

"Alright, how about the fact that I just had a VERY uncomfortable meeting about this exact same thing?!" Alfonso revealed, slamming a fist down over the paper. "That I had to take it in the ass from the other crime lords in town about this?!"

Starslip blinked in surprise, absolutely gobsmacked. “Y…wha???”

Fonzie groaned, her eyes cast down on the paper as she seemingly tried her best to calm herself. “...I got called into an emergency meeting of the four biggest crime lords in Star Lake this afternoon, myself included of course.”

“I didn’t even know you guys HAD meetings!” the Violet Vision admitted, still a bit stunned. “I thought you just had shoot-outs with each other!”

“Well, most of the time, we try to maintain civilness for our own benefit,” Tammy growled. “...But it wasn’t like that today, no matter how much they wanted to pretend. They called me in to talk about this. At first, I tried bragging, thinking they might congratulate me or some stupid shit like that. Then, outta nowhere, they decide to question my integrity and my commitment to organized crime!”

Cassie blinked, completely baffled. "...Wait, so the rest of the mob bosses are on your ass for getting me in the sack?"

"They think YOU seduced ME," Alfonso went on. "Their argument was that, if I had really seduced you, wouldn't I have told them? Wouldn't I have been proud of my accomplishment, that I managed to take Star Lake's little girl scout superheroine and make her my bitch?"

Hearing this explanation, Starslip couldn't help but scoff, a hand on her forehead. “So, what, you’re gonna sit there and tell me you weren’t proud of getting me in the sack and dragging me down to your level?”

"Of course I was!" Tammy admitted. "But it also wasn't any of their Goddamn business! But now, they're acting like I'm the enemy!"

"Yeah, well, I'm sorry if I don't feel very bad for you, okay?!" the younger woman hissed, practically spewing venom on her hated nemesis. "I'm so sorry that the criminals in this city don't trust you! Meanwhile, I'M the one who is having what few people who still believed in me turn away! I'M the one being called 'Starslut' by folks in town! I fly around town, I see pictures of my face posted up in alleys with 'Starslut' spray-painted over them! Nobody trusts me anymore! My own father kicked me out!"

Realizing what she'd said, Starslip froze up slightly. She hadn't intended on letting that last piece of information out. However, in her rant, it had slipped past her lips. She blushed hard, embarrassed at such a fact now being out in the open. But what turned her embarrassment into rage was what Fonzie's reaction was, as slowly but surely, the mob boss' face twisted into a sickening grin.

"...Oh, so THAT'S why you came up here, huh?" Alfonso asked, getting up out of her chair with a hand on her hip. "Daddy threw you out on the street and you have nowhere to go? So, what? Did you come here hoping to sleep on my couch?"

"Fuck you," Cassie growled, turning away.

"Musta been quite the shock, to see someone you love willing to toss you aside so easily," Fonzie went on, digging deeper. "But that's just how people are. Tell me, did he even ask questions, or did he just chuck your stuff on the side of the street?"

"He didn't even believe it!" Starslip yelled in admission, turning back to show the tears starting to well up in her eyes, all the while the events that had happened less than an hour ago replayed in her head.