Nighthawk: A Superhero Story (closed for Siobhancan99)

[Halcyon638]

Monica caught the woman’s legs with her attack. Somehow, Gray managed to brace herself a bit, throwing her palms down behind her, but still, her back connected with the hard ground and she let out a groan of pain. Eyes ablaze with fury, she launched a flurry of attacks at Monica. Though nowhere near as fluid as a Battle Caste, she was not untrained, and though the younger woman managed to deflect the first few blows, a desperate, high-arcing punch nearly connected with her.

 

[siobhancan99]

Monica focused. She needed to knock her out long enough to use her phone before she ended her, and it was apparent she had to end her. she stepped in and launched a hard punch for the woman's face, hoping to ring her bell.

 

[Halcyon638]

The punch slipped past the Centauri woman’s defenses. A moment later, it connected, hard, with her chin, nose, and mouth, a gush of blood accompanying Gray’s cry as she fell limply to the ground, rolling down the incline toward the pond a bit before stopping. She was unconscious now.

 

[siobhancan99]

Monica searched the woman and her car for her phone, then used her thumb to unlock it. She was after a few things, 1) texts or emails that indicated she told someone where she was going, and 2) her ring app so she could delete her presence at the house and most importantly the conversation between the two women in Centauri.

 

[Halcyon638]

Unlocking the phone, Monica saw a photo of Gray's daughter and son beaming and sitting on a sled together. She found no texts or emails sent past around 7:00, when she had texted someone thanking them for picking up her daughter from some kind of practice. It only took Monica another few minutes to delete the most recent data from Gray’s Ring app.

 

[siobhancan99]

Monica tied up the woman, then deposited her in the back seat of the car. She opened up the woman's facebook and wrote "Here is the truth about the vaccine! I am a chemist and I know! It has secret mind control chemicals in it the same as the government puts in aircraft fuel! I refuse to be silenced! I am not suicidal!" She sighed and looked at the car. This wasn't going to be easy, but it had to be done. She got in the car and headed west towards the border. Her plan was to find a spot along the Ohio to push the car into. The woman had seen her face, but more important she was a religious fanatic terrorist who worked as a chemist at a large chemical plant. The potential for her to be a terrorist was too great to ignore and she didn't seem open to reason.

She also assumed the woman had probably been indoctrinating her children, and so when CPS came for them and interviewed them they might let it slip that their mother believed she was an alien. That coupled with the insane facebook post would probably lead everyone to believe she just snapped.

 

[Halcyon638]

With a final ominous series of burbles, the dark river swallowed up what remained of the car, submerging it into its icy depths. It was eerily quiet, with even the distant road noise seeming to have stopped. It was well past midnight now.

 

[siobhancan99]

Monica took the sliver home, showered and curled up next to Gabi. She was more alright with the death than she thought, which is to say she wasn't an absolute mess. Her mother had once told her that Centauri believed that dying for a cause was too easy, that killing for the cause was the hard part. Still, sleep eluded her for hours as she lay there, listening to Gabi breathe. She was quiet the next day, partly contemplative and partly worried the cops were going to kick her door down, or worse the press. Still, as the axe didn't seem to fall she relaxed enough to go out with Kendra and Graham and Gabi. She slipped into a little black dress, braless, thong, and black heels. She paired it with a black jacket, and left her hair down, finishing the ensemble off with a simple silver chain.

 

[Halcyon638]

“Wowww,” Gabi said with a smile as Monica emerged from her bedroom. “Tempted to just cancel and have you all to myself.” She pulled the blonde girl toward her, brushing their noses together and teasing Monica’s lips with her own. The younger girl was dressed in a lacy, dark purple top and form-fitting black pants. “Later….”

With sleet in the forecast, Kendra and Graham had asked if they wouldn’t mind foregoing the Afghani restaurant to hit a place that was a bit closer for them all, and the couple had offered to drive Monica and Gabi, but Gabi had politely declined. They settled on a Japanese place that was quite crowded, not unsurprisingly for a Friday night in the city.

Kendra and Graham had reserved a table, though, so when the two girls arrived, they were waived over by a smiling blonde-haired woman. “Hello,” she said as Gabi and Monica approached. The nursing grad student was in her mid to late twenties, with long, wavy hair, flawless skin, and a bright smile. She was dressed in a forest green knit tunic and jeans, both of which accentuated a curvy body underneath. “Kendra,” she said, extending a hand to Monica.

“Hi,” Graham said, standing up to reach his big hand out to Gabi. The impressively solid, auburn-haired man in his mid-20s was dressed in a flannel-button down shirt and dark jeans, and had grown a neatly trimmed beard over the last few months. “Graham.”

“Nice to finally meet you,” Gabi smiled.

“Hey there,” Graham said to Monica, a slight twang to his voice.

“I’ve heard so much about you,” Kendra said to Monica, sitting down again.

“Probably too much,” the Latina said with a smile.

“Yeah. God, you’re always going on and on about her,” Kendra teased as they all sat. “To be honest, I wasn’t sure if you were real.”

 

[siobhancan99]

"you know graham. You know. he came with Hads that time." MOnica nodded to Graham and then turned to Kendra "I am not real. I'm a hallucination of Gabi's so powerful that I've manifested" she winked at the woman, then settled in to look at the menu. She was never full after sushi but she loved it, so she settled on a mix. She got a bowl of Tankatsu ramen, and a few pieces of eel and some shumai for her to split with gabi though she knew she'd eat more than half. She was starving after last night, and the thought of it for a moment made her stop. Thinking about those kids growing up without a mother, like she had. She put on a brave face and disappeared into the bathroom for a moment, getting her breath, pretending to touch up her makeup, then headed back out to the table.

 

[Halcyon638]

Kendra laughed at Monica’s reply as they settled down to order some food. “So, do you miss the exciting and glamorous life of hauling big-ass sets around?” Graham asked Monica when she had returned to the table from the bathroom. “ ‘Cause if you do, there’s an opening again.”

“The yakitori here are amazing,” Kendra gushed. Looking at Monica she said, “How are you finding living in the city?”

 

[siobhancan99]

"Not even a little. My dad gave me a bunch of money. I'm an only child and he has a high paying job and lives in the hinterlands so the house is like, totally paid off and whatnot. She squeezed Gabi's hand, unconsciously needy tonight, feeling still like everything could slip away. Still she smiled over at Kendra "I mean, its exciting." that was her own little joke for herself and for Gabi "Always something going on. I'm curious if we're the only town with weird metal guys and shit though. Might be something in the water?"

 

[Halcyon638]

“Good for you,” Graham said, his tone good-natured. “Though I gotta say, you did a better job in those few weeks than dudes twice your size.” He took a sip of beer.

“Yeah, she’s definitely going to be in charge of like, hanging drywall and stuff,” Gabi said, smiling. “I’ll make the place look pretty, and you make sure stuff actually works, okay?” She leaned her head against Monica’s shoulder.

“You two are adorable together,” Kendra said. Gabi softly caressed the palm of Monica’s hand with her thumb as they talked and ate.

“I know. It’s crazy,” Kendra said about the town. “If I didn’t have a full scholarship here…I don’t know that I would have picked Prospect City. But it’s cool. There are some great restaurants and clubs that I absolutely don’t have time to go to with school and work.” She sighed. Monica felt Gabi place a warm, soft hand just above her bare knee.

“Yeah, our social life lately’s mainly centered on falling asleep on each other while watching an episode of Breaking Bad,” Graham noted as Kendra leaned against his broad shoulders. “What about y’all?”

 

[siobhancan99]

"largely sapphic orgies" grinning she covered her girl's hand with her own against her knee. "I kid. Mostly we used to have Austin get us booze but then he clumsily tried to wrangle a threesome and well. yeah. that ship sailed. So we hang out with a small group of people Gabi met, play games stuff like that. We go see our old friend Ian's band now and again. They have a great singer and he's actually a good drummer now that he doesn't do screamy hardcore bullshit."

 

[Halcyon638]

Graham let out a brief laugh and Kendra blushed, grinning. “Sorry. Now I feel like a jerk for drinking in front of y’all,” Graham replied, holding up his glass. Gabi’s hand migrated a little ways up Monica’s thigh. “If it’s any consolation, it’s some microbrew crap that tastes like cough syrup. And like, store-brand cough syrup.”

Kendra smiled knowingly at the mention of Austin. “The ex, huh? Yeah, that sounds like undergrad to me.” As Monica referred to the aborted threesome, the grad student stroked the side of Graham’s face, nestling against him a bit more. “Cool,” Kendra said regarding Ian’s band, “we haven’t been to a show in so long. It was—what, October? Soccer Mommy?”

“Sounds about right,” the stagehand acknowledged. After dinner, Gabi and Graham both excused themselves to go to the bathroom. Kendra draped her arm over the back of her seat.

“That dress looks great on you,” she said to Monica. “It was definitely a battle between ‘do I look hot tonight or do I actually stay warm,’ and staying warm won.” Gabi returned a moment later. “So, I gotta ask,” she continued, “is it true that she seduced you with Dungeons & Dragons?”

 

[siobhancan99]

"Ha. Sort of." Monica sipped at her water "What happened was I was sort of in my own head all summer, and when I came out of it I was able to see some things that you miss out on. And one of those things was that at some point in the last year Gabi got super hot." She rested her hand on Gabi's arm "but then it was like. Oh god. So awkward. We've known each other since she was six and I was seven. Suddenly there's me with this big bisexual self realization lusting after my oldest friend and roommate. Like, just a terrible idea all around you know?" She threaded her fingers through Gabi's hair "and all the while I was thinking. Don't say anything. Don't make it weird. Support her whole thing with Shaun." She smiled over at Gabi.

"but then she used a DND adventure to come out to me and tell me she was into me and yeah it was the sweetest dorkiest thing in the world and I just had to give in and be like, yeah I love you too."

 

[Halcyon638]

“Oh my god. The best friend thing,” Kendra said, drinking some coffee and smiling while Graham put his arms on her shoulder and stroked her upper arm. “Been there, sister. Only my friend wasn’t even slightly bi, despite me sorta kinda trying to convince it her to give it a go. I was like, ‘give it a free 10-day trial, and if it doesn’t do it for you, you can always cancel your subscription.’ Yeah, didn’t work.”

“Lucky for this guy,” Graham said, pointing a thumb at himself.

“That is so cute,” Kendra noted. “That’ll be a great story to tell your kids.”

“How did you guys meet again?” Gabi asked.

“There was this bar near campus that all the Wilmington kids went to,” Kendra started. “I went to UNC-Wilmington for undergrad. So, this guy here is tending bar and I go over to get a cosmo, and he cards me and he’s like, ‘sorry, I can’t serve you alcohol.’ I was 21 at this point. I’m like, ‘uh, why?’ and he goes, ‘this ID is fake.’ This was a real ID. I’m like, ‘why do you think it’s fake?’, and he goes, ‘because you like nothing like the picture.’ I’m getting super annoyed at this point, so I bring up, like, 20 pics on my phone and put them alongside the ID photo.”

“To be fair, it wasn’t a great photo,” Graham said with a smile.

“So, from that point on, I took pity on this big, dumb townie with his crippling case of face blindness, and we’ve been together ever since. For some reason.” Graham kissed the side of her neck.

The server came with the check. “It’s legit awful out there,” Kendra observed. “Let us give you two a ride home.” The restaurant was only a single subway stop away from campus, though a wintry mix continued to fall outside.

 

[siobhancan99]

"It's only a block, besides if you drive us to campus you could get stuck there if it gets worse. I'd hate to put you guys out. It's only a block to the subway and we don't live that far off the route." Monica didn't outright say no, to be rude, just made her case. She figured Gabi could speak up for her own self and they could take it or leave it as they chose. Her fingers laced in Gabi's and she squeezed her girl's hand, looking out at the miserable wet snow. Good night to be stuck inside, maybe some cocoa and snuggles to round out the night. Or you know, hardcore sex. Either way.

 

[Halcyon638]

“Are you sure?” Kendra said. Gabi’s hand gently rubbed where Monica’s thigh met the hem of her black dress.

“It’s no problem,” Graham chimed in. “Got studded tires on.”

“Thank you guys,” Gabi said, “but we’re good!” The two couples said their goodnights and were on their way.

It was a miserable wait even at the partly sheltered subway station, but eventually, Monica and Gabi arrived at their apartment a little past 11. “So. Did you have a good time?” Gabi asked, unbuttoning her wet coat, a few flecks of snow still visible in her black hair.

 

[siobhancan99]

"Of course. Food was good, your friends are nice. I already Graham." She turned and lifted her girl and pressed her against the wall playfully "Did you have a good time?" she sucked on Gabi's lower lip, closing her eyes as she didn't give her a chance to respond. She kissed along her jaw then, letting her talk as her lips found her girl's neck. She pulled tenderly, careful of her own strength, keeping Gabi lifted and pinned "I want you to have fun too." Her tongue flicked along Gabi's ear, and her hands kneaded Gabi's ass as she kept her lifted "Want some hot chocolate or something? I know we had that big meal but its perfect weather for it."

 

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“I did!” Gabi said cheerily. “It’s neat to have another couple to hang out with and do, like, couply things with.” As Monica pinned her, the brunette pressed her fingers into her lover’s back. “Hmm, hot chocolate sounds nice. Maybe a little later? I’ve got something sweet for you to taste in the meantime, though.”

The Latina’s full lips met Monica’s. “You look so hot in that dress, carino. I want to do bad things to you.”

 

[siobhancan99]

"well those things are gonna have to wait till I'm done doing bad things to you" she kneaded her girl's ass, then hoisted her over her shoulder playfully and carried her into Gabi's room, where she tossed her on the bed "get undressed for me."

Monica slipped out of her dress, leaving herself in just her thong. She crawled up onto the bed, watching Gabi wriggle out of her clothes, then gently pushed her down again and held her down with a hand on her chest "mmmm what a fucking sexy thing you turned out to be. I could look at you all day."

 

[Halcyon638]

“Oh my god. If I had known you were just wearing that underneath, I would have kept going up your thigh.”

As Monica pinned her, Gabi smiled teasingly, twirling a dark lock around one of her fingers. The sweet, honeyed scent of her moisturizer lingered in the air. “Well, you could just look at me.” She cupped one of her own full breasts, fingers brushing the light brown nipple. “Or you could make me cum so hard I forget where I am. Up to you…”

 

[siobhancan99]

Monica let her hair drift along Gabi's skin, then leaned down and kissed her, one hand cupping her breast, she toyed with the nipple, plucking, teasing. Her lips tugged at Gabi's plump lower lip and she brushed her lips along Gabi's cheek after, finding her ear "well I wanted to leave you a little surprise" Her fingers got a little more urgent, not quite rough as she played. Her mouth slipped along the line of Gabi's pulse, then she sucked hard enough to mark her "mine" she purred into Gabi's ear "I'm gonna eat your pussy and maybe your ass and then I'm going to fuck you with a nice big toy." she raked her teeth softly along Gabi's skin, then slipped down to suck a thick dark nipple into her mouth. She pulled, looking up into Gabi's eyes, watching her as she touched her.

 

[Halcyon638]

Gabi sighed girlishly as Monica played with her breast. As the older girl detailed what she was going to do to her, she pleaded, “Yes, pleeease. Yes.” As Monica slid Gabi’s breast into her mouth and sucked, the dark-haired girl dug two of her white teeth into her own lower lip, eyes closing. “Mmm, yeah.” She cupped the back of Monica’s head with both hands, pulling her tight against her chest.

“That’s it, baby. Suck my tits. Love seeing you sucking on my nipples.” She locked eyes with Monica. “Your lips are so soft.”