“To keep you safe? There isn’t anything safe about the inside of a prison,” Roxanne looked at Harrison like he’d grown a second head, “There had to be a better option than keeping a baby in prison. That’s gross negligence!”
At this point she was on her feet, arms crossed as she paced. Brows creased with deep lines, “I don’t care that you think you turned out alright, people who grow up in abusive homes think that behavior is normal too. Even if someone who survived that upbringing turned into a wonderful person, it does not excuse the abuse they suffered,” in her mind there was no way that growing up in prison didn’t equal mental and potentially physical abuse, “And obviously it wasn’t fine if all the Megaminds turned into super villains,” she rounded on him, a fiery passion growing in her chest, “Warden Woodridge knows about this?”
Harrison’s eyes narrowed and his casual posture disappeared in an in instant. He’s not interested in debating the pros and cons of his upbringing, and he does not appreciate being talked to like he’s a stupid child.
“With all due respect Miss Ritchie, if you’ve never spent time on the inside, then you don’t know anything about it,” Harrison fired back. His posture is ramrod straight and he’s looking at her over his glasses. “My upbringing was many things, but it was not abusive. Now I can’t speak for all of us in that regard, but I can say my husband experienced a hell of a lot more abuse growing up in the lap of luxury than I did on the cellblock. If you want to know why Megamind might have turned into a supervillain, then you need to ask him instead of making baseless generalizations.” He crosses his arms and holds eye contact with a steely green gaze that makes most of his subordinates crumble like wet sand.
Pausing and meeting his eyes, Roxanne slowly raised an eyebrow as Harrison spoke. Shoulders squared, the reporter placed a hand on her hip and gave him the same attitude that she gave the other villains that had tried to face her over the years, or politicians and disgruntled businessmen she’d cornered for interviews. She wasn’t one to be intimidated by angry green eyes. Not after a decade with Megamind being tied to god knew what and having to deal with a horrifically sexist news industry.
“Oh, so it would be an appropriate environment for your son then?” she countered him. There was no reasonable way a man of any intelligence could be defending a child being raised inside a prison, the idea was beyond baffling.
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