knife_bender | Baltimore

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Baltimore | Tuesday Night

Since everyone's powers had been restored (not that Diego lost his), it seemed that a trip to Baltimore was called for to make sure everything was in working order. It also had the added benefit of seeing Annie in her Starlight outfit which was something Diego was never going to complain about. They didn't even have to stick to the shadows since the city seemed to have collectively agreed that this whole week was Halloween and they were actually some of the more normal looking people around.

"There's an awful lot of drunk people around for a Tuesday night." It was the Halloween spirit, Diego!

[For the aforementioned shiny superhero]

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Diego let out a little noise when his back hit the wall, but judging by the smile on his face it wasn't out of protest. "Clearly you are."

He moved to cover the hand on his chest with his own. "And look at that, I haven't been scared off."

"Yeah." She was still kind of adjusting to the novelty of that. "Do you know how many times I've had to pretend a bowling ball is heavy just so I don't hurt some guy's feelings?"

It was mostly a rhetorical question, since she was pretty occupied with stepping just a touch closer - not quite pressed against him, but very much in his space - and using her free hand to carefully push his mask up. "Better. I like your mask, but this is better."

"You've been hanging around some insecure guys," Diego said, letting her push up his mask without protest. "Thank you."

It wasn't often he was complimented on his looks. Probably because he didn't listen to radio and couldn't hear Tahani thirsting over him.

"If I kiss you right now are you going to punch me in the face?" Hey, consent was important!

Asking her something like that made Starlight wish she was the one pressed against the wall, since her knees were a little embarrassingly weak in response.

"I'm not going to punch you," she replied softly, stepping just that little bit closer and drawing her fingertip down along his jaw. And if the verbal confirmation hadn't been enough, she was helpfully tilting her head and leaning into him.

Diego smiled softly, happy they were both on the same page here. He closed the distance between the two of them, leaning in to give her a fairly chaste kiss.

Because someone here was a hidden romantic, even if he was pinned against a wall.

She smiled into the kiss, cupping his face gently with her hand. Her other hand rested where she'd left it on his chest, though she wasn't even really pinning him anymore. (She suspected he also wasn't interested in going anywhere at the moment, anyway.)

If someone came down this alley to commit a crime right now, so help her, they were going to be blinded. This was the reward for being an ultra-vigilant superhero ninety-nine percent of the time.

Blinded and stabbed, most likely. Baltimore criminals can go bother Danny and Steve who likely weren't kissing right now.

Though they probably should be.

Diego pulled away after a few moments, but stayed close. "Just for the record you can pin me any time you want if it leads to you kissing me."

Starlight - who was really feeling more Annie at the moment, but whatever, she still had the cape on - let out a little laugh. "Is it a prerequisite for kissing you?" she wondered, crooking a little smile at him and not moving away just yet, herself.

"Oh there are no prerequisites," Diego said. He pointed at his face. "This is an anytime kissing zone."

"You're such a flirt." She could say that now that they'd done something about it, instead of just blushing constantly.

And, really, Diego - did you want to get kissed again? Because that was how you got kissed again, and now she was going to just lightly thread her arms up around his neck since she got to be all normal about it, this time.

Being a flirt clearly paid off! He slid his hands down to Starlight's waist, only briefly thinking about how he was kissing someone wearing a cape before focusing on the task at hand.

This really was terrible patrolling protocol but, whatever, they were two powered badasses they could multi-task.

This was actually not Starlight's first time kissing someone while on patrol, though it had been a very long time since she'd violated that particular section of the Vought handbook. (So maybe it was more like ninety-eight percent of the time.) She'd also probably feel more conflicted about it if they'd seen doing anything more dangerous than jägerbombs all night.

All the same, she pulled back after a moment, drawing her hands down to his shoulders and smiling. "I really hope no one's quietly robbing a bank."

Diego smiled, biting down on his lower lip. "Yeah that would definitely be a black mark on our superhero records if we missed that 'cause of kissing in an alley."

Okay, that lower lip-biting was not a thing she was going to be able to look at for long if she wanted to stop kissing him.

Starlight took a half-step back, sighing out a little breath. "I mean, there are worse reasons to miss a robbery." Not...really many, but she was trying here.

"Oh there are way worse reasons," he agreed. "Kissing doesn't even make the top ten list of worse reasons."

"We could be committing a robbery," she offered, tracing her hands down his arms as she stepped back a teeny bit more (just in the name of thinking clearly.) "That's gotta be in the top ten."

"Oh that's gotta be number one," he said, letting his hands slide back from Starlight's waist so he could lean against the wall. Because, yes, thinking clearly was important. "Just standing there watching them rob the place? Also top ten."

"Asking if they need help with carrying stuff," Starlight offered, idly starting to play with her hair before she realized what she was doing and cut it out. Focus, girl. "Giving their getaway car an oil change. These are all a lot worse, you're right."

Diego caught the hair twirling and tried not to smile too overtly at it. "You wanna go check to see if any bank robberies are happening?"

No, she wanted to stay right here and keep kissing him, and was not doing nearly as good a job of hiding that as she would like.

However, superheroing duty prevailed. "It would be the responsible thing to do," she acknowledged, clearing her throat.

Diego smiled, having a pretty good idea what she was thinking at the moment. The feeling was definitely mutual.

He pulled his mask back down and reached for her hand. "We can continue the kissing once we get back to the island."

"Where there almost certainly aren't any robberies in progress." Not that there were any here, either - a kidnapping, sure, but no robberies - but at least on the island she could be more confident about kissing without potential crime-related interference.

She took his hand, smiling. "It would totally serve us right if there's like twenty bad guys around the corner." But at least that would be a great distraction!

"I'm not too worried about it; I have a lot of confidence in my reflexes," he said. "And I know from experience yours are pretty good too."

"You can throw around corners, anyway, right?" Which was one of the cooler aspects of his powers, she thought. "And I still owe you a beer, speaking of that."

"And I will be making good on that beer," he said with a smile. "And, yeah, I can make them go anywhere I want."

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