Chapter 23: Super Heroes?

"Warhead, right on time to see greatness in the making,” Draco said, stepping over the queen’s remains and approaching me. “But not so on time to save this bitch from her inevitable defeat.”

“Who killed her?” I asked Draco. “Because I have a feeling it wasn’t you.”

“Why the fuck does that matter?”

“I did,” Siren said. “Draco and Porco served as a distraction while I used my banshee scream to make her explode. You ask so we can be on the same page for the debrief, correct?”

“Yeah…”

“Well then, now that we are on the same page, I’d like to get the hell on out of here,” Draco said. “Come on, slimy. Pull yourself together already.”

“Hush you!” she spit back in a pitched and perky voice. “The climate is screwing up with the process!”

“It was hot a minute ago, but that ice spear helped.”

“Yeah, the same ice that Warhead got rid of. So give me a flippin’ minute, would ya?”

“Keep talkin’ to me like that, squid girl, and I’ll heat up the place and leave you stranded.”

We won, but it didn’t really feel like a victory in my book. Until I reached the main floor of the bank, where the flames were put out, and I noticed that my team had contained three of the super villains.

“Ah, Warhead!” Dessi cheered, flying over to me with the Draco team not too far behind. “You’re okay!”

“Of course,” I said with a smile. “And I’m glad to see that you all are too. Good work.”

“It really was mostly Aster and Rynn. You missed it, they actually worked together this time! Um, barely, heh!”

“That’s great to hear.” The three goons were knocked out by the cop cruisers that stayed, a bunch of civilians coming out to give Draco’s team praise. He absorbed the spotlight like he was born in it, vans, cameras, and cellphones surrounding his glory.

“You guys are the true MVPs!” he shouted. “We pledge to give our hearts out to you, the people! And we won’t stop until every last scumbag is snuffed out!”

They were eating his shit up. Even Dessi flew over to his side to congratulate him, but he capitalized, and took advantage of her kindness. I couldn’t hear what she said from a distance, though I could see Draco handling her, roping her in by her waist, showing the crowd that they were a couple.

Slick bastard had it coming to him. I got ready to make my way over there and put him in his place, noticing Dessi feeling incredibly uncomfortable, until I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned back to see Rynn narrowing her eyes on me, warning me not to.

“Don’t. You’ll have plenty of time to punch his face in once we get back to campus.”

 

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When we all went back to HQ, we gathered for our debrief. It was an hour long, and I was already exhausted from the mission. After that, my team headed to our ward with the rest of our schedule free. Tomorrow would be another day, one filled with more training and more detonation control. I’d decided to make that my side mission, for not only me but for my team.

Two hours in, the apartment went quiet. Rynn had locked herself in her room again, and I was getting tired from her avoiding me outside of missions because of that balcony kiss she had given me. I wanted to give her time to come around, but I was starting to feel impatient. Regardless, I had no idea how to approach her. I mean, I wasn’t offended any. I’d kissed her back. I only assumed she felt vulnerable by it, but I wanted to be sure by talking it out with her. 

As for Aster, she had stepped out for fresh blood packs. Which left Dessi and I somewhat alone. She finished cooking dinner, baked salmon with vegetable melody and potatoes, something quick and simple but delicious. Our dinner together started out quiet, and I could tell that Dessi felt embarrassed after letting Draco handle her like that in front of a crowd. I wanted her to feel like she could talk to me about it, so after I washed my dinner down with a glass of white wine, I took a seat by her from across the nook table.

My innocent gesture seemed to have made her even more nervous. She took a napkin to her lips, her face growing red as she fought to not stare at me. “Thanks for dinner, Dessi,” I started, watching her chew her last bit.

“Oh! Um, you’re very welcome!”

“It was great, just like you were when Draco

had—”

“I’m so sorry, Liam!” she apologized loudly, clasping her hands together, almost like she was begging for my forgiveness.

“Why are you apologizing to me? You didn’t do anything wrong.”

“Then why does it feel like I did?” she turned her head away and whispered to herself. Dessi looked back to me with her huge sanguine eyes, furrowing her eyebrows. “I couldn’t peel away. I didn’t want to embarrass him. This is all part of the contract, isn’t it? So that the public could see us as friendly heroes?”

“Yeah, and I think Draco was abusing that by forcing this idea that the two of you are together. He had a crowd, and cameras, the world his stage. He put on a great show. I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone started calling you the undefeatable super duo.”

“I just want you to know, Liam, that I am in no way, shape, or form attracted to Eugene.”

I laughed. “Heh, that name for that ego still gets to me.”

She giggled. “It is unusual, but adorable. Maybe he is soft inside.”

“I doubt it.” I turned to her, looking down at her charmingly. “Dessi, I don’t know what it is about you, but I feel like I know you. Like, I can be myself around you more than anyone I’d ever met.”

She blushed. “I feel… the same way, Liam…”

“We haven’t had much time alone together to catch up.”

“Catch up?”

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“I only say that because I still feel like I’ve known you for years.”

“Um, well, this is the first time I’ve seen you, and the first time you’ve seen me!” she said flustering up. “I don’t even live anywhere near Roe City.”

I raised a brow at her. “I never told you that I lived in Roe City.”

She gasped. “Y-you did!” she stuttered. “I mean, Aster did! It’s common knowledge by now, of course! Heh.”

Shit, she was starting to sweat. I couldn’t help but feel like Dessi was hiding something from me.

“Here, let me get your plate. You’re done, yes?”

“Yeah, thanks.”

“O-okay! Mhmm!” She bowed down to me for some reason, like she was my subordinate. Maybe it was out of respect but Dessi was pushing it. I might have been a captain, but we were all equals. So I approached her on the kitchen island in between the stools, and thought that I’d informally break the ice with her for the first time.

“Dessi, what if I told you it felt like we were lost lovers?” A bit direct and maybe a little crass, but I was curious to see how she’d react. And how she responded caught me off guard, my plate suddenly flinging off the stack and flying across the kitchen. Telekinetic powers? That wasn’t on her SESB.

Could Dessi be developing another power?

The porcelain plate shattered in twelve different pieces, Dessi gasping at her spontaneous response to my question. She was just about to run over and clean up the mess but I grabbed her wrist and looked over to her with an easy smile. “Don’t worry about that.”

“I’m sorry! It’s rare, but when I get really nervous, I start moving things with my mind.”

“Do I honestly make you that nervous?” I gave her a witty smirk. “I could have sworn you said that you feel like you can be yourself around me too.”

She gave me a sweet and shy smile. “I suppose you’re right. You’re absolutely right, Liam.”

“Then relax. We’ve done this before, haven’t we? Talk like friends?”

“No, we haven’t!” she bellowed in her defense.

“Then, we should do it more often.”

Her eyes softened, Dessi drawing closer to me as I leaned on the counter between the barstools. “I am afraid, Liam. I don’t want to mess up again.”

“Again? What are you talking about?”

She answered me with daunting silence.

“Dessi, you’ve never done me wrong. You know that, right?”

“I’m glad that you see it that way.” She brushed her fingertips over my folded hands, looking down at them solemnly. “In the end, I really did it for myself, didn’t I?”

I narrowed my eyes on her confused. “Did what for yourself?” I started. “Dessi, you aren’t making any sense.”

“Liam, I’m sorry…”

“For what?”

“For everything…”

My chest went tight, while my mind tried connecting the dots. The longer I looked at her beautiful face, the more something in the back of my head wanted to come out and scream at me. I knew her, but I couldn’t remember from where. And with the way she was talking, Dessi knew this too.

I pulled away from the counter just enough to face her, Dessi suddenly pressing herself up against me.

“We promised each other,” she started in a quiet whisper, stroking her hands up my chest, “that we would come out of it alive. So that we could start over outside, in the real world, and build a family together…”

“What?”

“It kills me that we can’t talk about the dreams we had together, the ones we shared in that darkness. And how we’d been confined, restricted to talk about those dreams. We found ways though, didn’t we? We always did.”

“Dessi…”

“But I didn’t want to be associated with that hell! I didn’t want you to remember the torment every time you looked at me! I wanted the both of us to start over. It was all I’d ever wanted!”

I grabbed her arms and looked at her dead center. She did something to make me forget, didn’t she? She made me forget who she was!

“You’re D-ENK-7, aren’t you?”

She shed a single tear, Dessi’s heart beating right out of her chest.

Yeah, it was her. Those erased memories… It was like she unlocked the flood gates and everything started hitting me at once. But she wouldn’t let me enjoy it, Dessi leaning over my lips, kissing me deeply.

Shit, I fell for it again, didn’t I? I realized it too late, Dessi already crawling into my mind to erase our history together again…

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