Baltimore | Tuesday Night

[knife_bender]

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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[defenderofdesmoines]

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.

[knife_bender]

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

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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.

[knife_bender]

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.

[defenderofdesmoines]

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."

[knife_bender]

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."

[defenderofdesmoines]

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.

[knife_bender]

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

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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."

[knife_bender]

"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."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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."

[knife_bender]

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?"

[defenderofdesmoines]

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.

[knife_bender]

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."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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!

[knife_bender]

"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."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"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."

[knife_bender]

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

[defenderofdesmoines]

"What about like, far away?" she checked. And for fun, she angled her free hand up towards the wall, casting a little spotlight about four or five stories up and craning her neck to see. "Like what about...there?"

[knife_bender]

Diego looked at the spot she was pointing out briefly, pulling one of the knives he had on him out of a pocket. "I think I can manage it."

He could pretend to be humble, at least. Emphasis on pretend.

He was looking at Starlight rather than his target when he whipped the knife directly ahead of him. It took a sharp turn to the side and then up before sticking in the wall.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Starlight let out a low whistle, tracking the knife's path with her hand's beam of light before looking back over to him with (literally) glowing eyes. "Show-off."

She had no room to talk, but it also wasn't like she didn't like seeing him show off, either.

[knife_bender]

Diego smiled and shrugged. "Maybe I'm trying to impress you."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Maybe it's working." Starlight's eyes and hand faded in the dark, and she smiled over at him. "I think you're gonna have to let that knife go, though. I'm not climbing up there."

[knife_bender]

"It won't be the first knife I've lost," he said. "...or the last, probably."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Could you throw something a lot heavier than a knife?" Starlight wondered. "Like, have you ever thrown a person?"

Look, if they were going to be superheroing together - on nights when crimes actually occurred - this would be useful to know.