Hollow patted Jake on the shoulder and smiled at him. "You did good today, Jake, I'm sorry I questioned you," he said and took a step back, I guess we're all freaking out." He smiled at Jake again and held something out for him, a single signed batman card from the man himself. "I was saving it for your birthday but now seems like a good time too." He smiled at Jake and left the bar, seeing Alexei pacing outside he stopped and watched him for a moment. "Hey, Alexei," he said and crossed his arms, "I just wanted to say you did a good job in there, I would have preferred it if you hadn't pulled a gun on Jake but giving it to him and being nice to him made up for it I think."

Hollow turned and sat on a bench next to the door of the bar and continued speaking. "I know you're going to mock me for coming to talk to you like this, but you should know that nobody on the team hates you, as far as I know anyway. You just make it difficult to approach you and people find it hard to try when they keep getting pushed so for god's sake stop trying to act so cool and just let people get to know you. We all respect you and, for what its worth, I think you'll make a good leader." Hollow stood up and pushed the door of the bar open and stepped inside.

((I know GG asked to slow down on the posting so he could get in but I wanted to throw that in before you and him went off on an adventure and things started getting all actiony again and I wouldn't have the chance for a heart-to-frozen-wasteland with our de facto leader))