"Talk!"

"Thumb wrestle to see who's right?"

"Jolly good idea!"

Both men extended their arms and Locked fingers. But before the thumb -war could start, Mindy grabbed both their wrists and turned them, causing a sharp pain and making both men repeat the word "Ow!" over and over again in rapid succession.

“What... I... want... is to be left alone," she grumbled, but now striving not to smile.

"Ha! Mope! I win!" Robbie crowed triumphantly, then Mindy twisted his wrist a little more.

Arthur just flashed Mindy a wry smile.

“If we leave you alone, you'll just get more and more depressed. And we still need you."

Mindy sighed. The things she loved about Arthur were the same things she hated about him. He was just so. . . so damn right most of the time.

"I was such an idiot," she said, accepting that these two clowns weren't going away until she talked things through.

"I couldn't handle playing second string, and I took it out on someone who didn't deserve it, is emotionally unstable and has already proven how valuable she can be."

“And that was stupid and thoughtless," Arthur said calmly.

"Just Like a lot of people down here tend to be, every now and then. You apologized. She forgave you."

“She's a sweetheart," Mindy said.

“She'd probably forgive Hitler if someone told her he was just misunderstood."

"Probably. But she's got a fire in her too. We saw that when the Hellspawn attacked. And she's going to need to get her emotional problems under control, because we won't always be able to coddle her along. But we need to get her there first. You know that in your heart, and I think we all trust you to be more careful." Arthur took her hand in his own and squeezed it.

“We're all on edge right now.

You're no more perfect than the rest of us . . . well, maybe you're more perfect than Robbie a “Hey I and you're a lot closer to perfect than me."

Mindy blushed.

"I doubt that. I guess I should check in on her,"

Mindy said, looking towards the lost and found room.

"See if she needs anything."

Arthur looked amused.

"Uhm, I don't think she's over there right now."