"That can't have been easy for you," Roxie said softly. Sure, she'd long been in a relationship with the son of two well-known villains, but her romance had been fantastical. Joe's was more grounded in reality - visceral, terrifying in how much closer to mundane this tragedy was than any Roxie had ever experienced. She let out a low, soft breath. Suddenly, everything she'd ever been through - with the exception of the Kreenapping - paled in comparison to this very real thing that Joe had been forced to live through.

"Do you think you'll ever be able to tell Steve why you didn't come forward?" That was Roxie. Never with the Uncle this or Aunt that, or the Mr.-and-Mrs. Insert-Last-Name-Here.