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Archie Andrews	New York City is bustling this time of year. Tourists and locals keep the sidewalks and businesses packed. Lights are strung up and snow is piled here and there, while cleared off the streets and sidewalks. It is an amazing sight, and it is something you tend to either love...or hate. It is such a massive city compared to what Archie is used to, and it is all a bit boggling to him. He came down to New York with some friends to do some shopping for the Holiday, but ended up losing them in one of the massive department stores, and his phone is super dead. So, he leans back against a lamp post outside one of the stores, craning his neck to peer through the crowds. He has a few bags of purchased stuff at his feet. Jeans, a t-shirt and a nice, comfy jacket makes up his outfit.
April O'Neil	April O'Neil was out doing some shopping for her friends and family also... what a joyously difficult thing to do... she knew such a wide variety of people and it lead to the most hectic shopping trip of her life! Dressed in her yellow leather jack, with a white wool knit beanie cup ontop of her head over her thick and long red hair, a white scarf wrapped around her neck and some blue jeans / black boots on her lower half... the young reporter emerged from the shopping center with a few bags of her own and she was bumped into by a large man with a beard who nearly knocked her CLEAN OVER! April spun around. "Oh yeah, sure, don't even apologize!" She said back to the man who looked back at her and flipped her off! April gasped! "Rude!" She shouted back at him, while taking two steps back right into a slick part of the sidewalk! Her blue eyes went wide and April fell right down onto the sidewalk with her bags going everywhere around her! She even released a loud and sudden shriek!
Archie Andrews	He glances over at the flash of red hair, as redheads are magically connected on some kind of instinctual level. His eyes widen as he watches her, admiring before he frowns as the big man bumps her. Archie steps away from the pole and is about to go shout at the man...when April spills! He acks and makes his way over, barely managing not to slip as well, though he seems a bit more graceful on the ice. "Whoa, miss! You okay?" He crouches beside her and moves to try and help her up, or at least help her pick her things up. "That was one hell of a fall."
April O'Neil	April was setting up onto her butt by the time Archie reached her and she accepted his help. "Geeze." She said... annoyance still thick in her voice cause falling tended to arouse emotions like that. "Th-thanks." She stammered out to the teenager as he helped her while she tried to pick up some of her bags/belongings on the way back up. "Damn jerk just thinks he owns the sidewalk." She added before looking up to Archie finally and offering him a sweet smile. "Its nice to know there's some good people still left in this world." She'd tell Arch before glaring down the sidewalk in the direction that the man had gone.
Archie Andrews	"Well, it's because I'm Canadian," he teases. "If I don't do something nice they exile me to Quebec." He brushes his fingers back through his red hair and glances down at the icy sidewalk under his feet. "Reminds me of home." He slips his hands into the pockets of his jacket to keep them warm, once her bags are collected. "Do I know you from somewhere?," the youth asks curiously. He furrows his brow and peers at her, as if trying to place her face.
April O'Neil	April gathered up her shopping bags and she hooked them onto her forearms over the sleeves of her brightly colored leather jacket. She smiled at Archie's words then. "I really need to move to Canada... Thats what everyone says, and that means it has to be true right?" She asked him. "I'm not sure how much longer I can handle... New Yorkers..." She grumbled that last part out and glanced down at herself to fuss with her clothing some so she wasn't as messy looking after the fall. April looked back up at the young man then and smiled at him. "I'm on the morning broadcast at Channel Six here in Manhattan... And I do a lot online as well. Podcasts and video uploads." Her right hand extended toward him. "April O'Neil."
Archie Andrews	"Heh. It's true. It's pretty great, but...different, I guess." He nods a bit and chuckles. "Must be that. I think I saw you on youtube. Somebody uploaded some of your reports or something.." He ponders for a moment and then nods. "Yeah, must be it." He reaches out to take her hand in his and he shakes it, smiling. "Archie! Archie Andrews. So, you're a local, then? Born and bred New Yorker?," he asks, curiously.
April O'Neil	April would show a smile at his first words and she'd shake his hand before releasing it and then exhaling and shaking her head. "Well... Brooklyn." She'd further elaborate on her origins. "I mean, I was actually born just outside of Boston, but I was raised here in Brooklyn." She grinned then. "Probably more information than you really cared to have..." She exhaled then, still coming down from the anxiety of that previous encounter. A nod of her head was given then. "I have a lot of... exciteable fans. They leave a lot of strange and hilarious... and disturbing... commentary on my uploads, while creating a wide variety of their own videos that also match those descriptors." She'd grin lightly then. "Are you visiting someone for the holidays?" She'd ask him then.
Archie Andrews	"Brooklyn is New York, right?," he asks with the confusion of a non-local. He ahs and nods slowly. "Oh, Boston. Cool. Like, uh...Good WIll Hunting, right? That was Boston? That old movie? I love classics." He shifts his weight from one foot to the other a bit awkwardly, and glances about the crowded sidewalk before turning his full attention back to her. "Oh, I bet. It comes with fame, right? I'm sorry about that. Also, not really. Came down with some buddies to shop for the Holiday, but I lost them in that huge Lego Store." He scans the crowd briefly for a tell-tale crown beanie or cute blonde. Nada. He turns back.
April O'Neil	April nodded her head quickly tow times at the younger man. "Brooklyn is in New York, yeah... but most people say 'New York' and they specifically mean... the island... Manhattan--" She cut herself off and waved a hand. "It doesn't matter." She grinned then at him. She then grinned and nodded once again. "Yes, uh huh. Like Good Will Hunting." She laughed softly. "I love that movie also. Ahhh, Matt Damon was so wonderful back then..." Girlhood crush? April's blue eyes then went to the Lego Store in question and she winced. "There's about a billion places to get lost in there... Its quite the wonderland..." She looked back at him. "Do they not have phones, or...?"
Archie Andrews	"Oooooh, sorry. I didn't know that." He looks a bit sheepish, before he scans the crowd again. He returns his bright eyes to her, watching her as they chat. "He was! One of the best, really." He shifts his weight from one Converse to the other and then chuckles, nodding. "Yeah. Oh, we have phones, but they aren't picking up. Probably can't hear them over whatever shenanigans they are involved in. It's fine, I can wait. No rush, really."
April O'Neil	"Ahhh... yeah. Kids." April showed a grin then and shook her head side to side. "Well I hope they don't leave you out here in the cold for too long. I mean, you're way too nice to be out here... helping pick clumsey women up off of the sidwealk when they go out of their way to try to break their bones." She grinned some more. "Don't let this jaded New Yorker get to you though, there really is a lot of great people in this city... I was just... ya know, getting a little overly emotional at that one a-hole. They're not as common as, well, you might think."
Archie Andrews	"Aw, it's fine. Helping beautiful reporters is like...it's something heroes do, right?" His tone is partially teasing, but entirely friendly. He pauses to breath, and watch his breathe coalesce in a cloud due to the cold. He chuckles. "And nah, it's warm here compared to Riverdale." "And don't worry about it. This town is full of superheroes. So, there -must- be good people, right? Riverdale doesn't have any superheroes...not that we're big enough to need them. Next town over is the hometown of the Power Rangers, though." He shrugs.
April O'Neil	April would grin at his compliment and she'd brighten up a bit more after having eceiving it, afterall... who didn't love a good compliment. "Thanks." She replied. "Thats sweet of you to say." When he said the rest she glanced out to the busy Manhattan street and the clog-up of traffic and no few shortages of angry horn honkings... She just grinned and looked back at him. "We probably have the most super heroes in the world because we have the most jerks and troublemakers... Though that might not be a truly scientific way of coming up with a reason." She figured Donny would lay into her for such an amateur attempt at a scientific theory. "Riverdale?" She asked. "That sounds like a nice place... and yeah, I've heard of the Rangers. They're a pretty impressive group, doing a lot of good to help protect us little folk. So at least they're nearby to you, right? Incase any of the craziness from here spills up that far north?"
Archie Andrews	"Oh, totally. They're close. We're all suburbs of Starling." He shrugs and glances about the street again, before turning his attention to a nearby hot dog cart, and he perks up. "Ooh! A legit New York hot dog! Want one? It's on me, really." Before she can really answer he is hurrying over to jump into line, and the youth glances over at her with a grin. "Jughead is going to be -pissed- that he missed out on one of these. He's more stomach then he is teen. Really. I'd love to meet a superhero one day, though. Nothing exciting ever happens back home."
April O'Neil	April watched the younger one rush over to the Hot Dog car and it made her grin at the eagerness... She followed after him then, since she could tell she wasn't going to be getting a Cab ride home any time soon. "Sure." She softly said then. "I mean... who turns down free food, right?" She did a little nerdy laugh then but cut herself off, cause her jokes were--well--bad and she knows it! A clearing of her throat and April tilted her head at him. "Your friend's name is Jughead?" She asked. "Thats an interesting name to get given to yourself... I'm assuming its an affectionate nickname and not that, ya know... his parents are that cruel?"
Archie Andrews	"Well, it's not his real name, but...he prefers to go by it. Says his real name is 'pompous'." He turns to stage-whisper it to her, though. "Forsythe Pendleton Jones the third." He grins then and turns his attention back to the line for the hot dog cart. "And nah, his parents aren't that cruel. Troubled, maybe, but not that cruel. His little sister goes by 'Jellybean'." He leaves it at that as the line moves forward a bit, and he advances.
April O'Neil	April flashed a grin then. "Pompus is just as bad as Jughead." She made another bad joke and then listened to the 'actual' name which got a soft. "Wow..." out of her mouth... she stared off for a moment and then laughed a little. "I don't know... I think that name is kind of amazing. I think he should wear it proudly. But hey, I'm a girl named after April Fools Day, so what do I know, right?" Another little grin. The reporter moves forward with him in line then. "You don't want 'action' to come up to Riverdale though. Trust me, its been bad here this past year. Its pretty, ya know, awful... seeing your city get torn up by evil and powerful monsters. I'd much prefer the safety of a smaller town."
Archie Andrews	"Hehe. Well, tell that to -him-." His tone makes it sound as if he is not convinced his buddy will agree. Soon enough he steps up in line, and he fishes out his wallet. "Um. One with the works, and whatever she wants." He pays for them both and watches with fascination as all the toppings are scooped onto his hot dog. He steps aside with her once the food is provided. "Yeah, I know. I get that, really. But it kind of sucks watching all thse interesting things happening everywhere...except where you are."
April O'Neil	April would look to the vendor when it was her turn up to the plate and she just glanced at the menu and then nodded at it. "The, uh... barbecue one?" She said then to the guy in the Santa Costume that looked waaaay too old and worn out to still be worn, but hey, it was his hotdog cart and his dress rules! April looked back at Arch and she gently nodded her head at his words. "I hear ya." She told him. "Yeah, you know, I get a lot of callers in on my show that say similar things. That they just really want to 'be here' to help out with it all. They watch the events unfold in cities like this around the world... and they get upset that they can't be here to 'kick some ass and save some lives, wooo!'." She did a mocking voice there on tha tlast part and then grinned. April's head shook side to side and she reached out to accept the hotdog that was given to her. "I don't know... I mean, I don't want people to get hurt. Ever. And a lot of people do get hurt around here... and worse!"