Chapter 5
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"So, you're a scientist?" Diana questioned Peter as they sat down in the small dining area of their quarters.
Peter had kept his mask off while Diana returned her weapons and helmet to her closet before joining Peter at the table. The chairs were made of some kind of stone, but they were oddly comfortable and warm while the table itself seemed to be made of obsidian and looked like it had small galaxies floating inside it.
Peter had sent a command ahead and had their dinner prepared for them and set by the time they arrived. The food, which she was told imported from a long since conquered agricultural world smelled and looked delicious but Diana was hesitant to try any of it. For all she knew it was drugged with something that could allow Peter to take advantage of her, though the thought didn't carry much weight considering that he didn't strike her as the type.
Grayven perhaps and maybe Kalibak.
Peter shrugged as he held a glass with some sort of purple liquid that she guessed was some kind of alcohol "Ehh to a point. My fields are mostly in biology but I occasionally dabble into other areas like physics, and chemistry. I'm also a pretty good engineer."
"Interesting fields." Diana mused as she grabbed her glass and smelled the odd purple drink within. It had a rather strong sweet aroma to it.
"So I'm told." Peter said before taking a rather long and large sip of his drink "Not to boast, but I am one of Apokolips's top scientist and its foremost expert in bio-chemistry. The only people here that could rival me are En Sabah Nur and Dr. Bedlam."
"I'm sure your father is proud." Diana said before finally taking a sip of the drink, it was good and had a rather strong kick to it.
"My research has helped in advancing our military's effectiveness. Most bioweapons used by a few other civilizations are now next to useless against our legions." Peter said with a bit of pride "But, I still think he would prefer that I acted more like the rest of my brothers."
Diana took another sip of her drink before she gave him a perplexed look "How so?"
"I'm not really what you would call a fighter, I mean I can, wouldn't have lasted long here if I couldn't defend myself but…" Peter trailed off with a shrug.
"You prefer your research and experiments in a lab to combat on a battlefield." Diana guessed as she finished off her drink. She started to feel a little tipsy and off balance but not too much. The drink was far stronger than she thought, she'd have to be careful now.
According to Clark, she could be a mean drunk if someone got her going.
Peter chuckled "Imagine that, a son of Darkseid would rather be a scholar or a scientist then a conquering warrior."
"I take it that the rest of your siblings don't approve?" Diana guessed as she against her better judgment refilled her own glass and took another large sip from it.
"Some don't mind, mainly because it means they won't have to worry about competing with me for father's throne. Others think it's embarrassing or shameful." Peter said.
"Do you seek Darkseid's throne?" Diana probed in curiosity.
"Not particularly, but hey who knows I may have to take it one day." Peter said with a thoughtful look on his face before he chugged the rest of his beverage "But I doubt it'll ever happen. I have over a dozen brothers between me and it. And that's not taking into account the other members of father's court."
Diana nodded at the answer and the two settled into quietly eating their meal and emptying their glasses even further.
"So, you're a hero will you come from right?" Peter asked nonchalantly after a few minutes of silence.
"Yes." Diana answered feeling the world shift on her. She placed her drink down, realizing that she may have had a bit too much to drink.
"Interesting." Peter said with a nod before adding "Any memorable moments?"
Diana leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms "A few."
Peter rested his elbows on the table and stared at Diana "Care to share?"
Diana looked at Peter for a moment and shook her head "Not really."
"Heh, why embarrassed?" Peter probed as he reached for the bottle that contained more of his beverage.
Diana noted that his movements were sluggish and his voice was beginning to slur ever so slightly.
'Looks like I'm not the only one who's had a bit too much drink tonight.' Diana mused.
"Thanks for the help with Kunla earlier by the way." Peter said before he took another sip of his now refilled glass.
"Your welcome." Diana said with a shrug as she looked out the window of the dining room to Apokolips's landscape. She was a bit relieved to see that Peter's side of the citadel overlooked a vast dessert with distant solar pits along the dark horizon instead of dozens of hellish looking towers and factories mass producing weapons and other horrors of war to plague the universe with.
"Yeah, not gonna lie, but it's nice for someone to have your back here every once in a while." Peter said with a shrug.
"Warbird doesn't do it enough?" Diana asked with a raised brow.
"No she does, but she's only a Fury to Darkseid and while that gains her more favor and grant her a greater standing in his military she's still far below any of his children or members of his court. If she tried that thing with Kunla and she wasn't married to me… it wouldn't have ended well for her." Peter said.
"What about the rest of your siblings?" Diana questioned as the interactions between Kalibak and Peter flashed through her mind.
"Kalibak and me get along fine, believe it or not he has a soft spot for quite a few of his siblings. Grayven not obviously, as for En Sabah Nur and Grail on other hand, that's complicated." Peter said as he took another swig from his glass, some of it spilling on to his spider emblem on his suit.
"How so?" Diana leaned on the table with her elbows as she took her glass and took a very small sip of it.
"Grail's… very dominating. And well, she tends to look down on most, but she's willing to be civil with me considering I helped design and create that axe she loves so much. En Sabah Nur is easier to interact with because he used to be a lesser son like me, so kindred spirits and all of that." Peter revealed.
"He used to be a lesser son?" Diana said with surprise as she took another sip of her drink.
Peter chuckled "Yeah, he used to be smaller and weaker than me if you can believe it, but he disappeared for a few years and we all thought he was dead then suddenly he shows up bigger, stronger and more powerful than ever. After father saw this he raised En Sabah Nur's status to a true son of Darkseid and well…"
"So your status could change? If you grew more… powerful?" Diana inquired, her voice beginning to slur ever so. Her mind was beginning to grow cloudy as well.
"Sort of. It's more complicated than that but getting more powerful is admittedly a good portion of it." Peter said before he downed the rest of his half full glass "Why hoping to raise your status from a lesser daughter or princess to Grail's level?"
Diana's eyes narrowed "No, I was just curious is all."
"Suuuure you were." Peter said with a sarcastic tone, the drink was really starting to affect him more than it was Diana "Can't blame you though, Darkseid's throne is appealing, along with the perks that come with it."
"I don't want it." Diana said with her voice taking an edge "I'm more then happy to let you and your brothers fight over it."
"I'm sure you would, that way you'd have best pick of the winner." Peter said with a slightly annoyed glare directed at his wife "Let me guess, it's Kalibak that's got you all hot and bothered, isn't it? Imagining curling up to that oversized brute when it's all said and done, hmm?"
"Fuck you!" Diana said in outrage the alcohol she's been drinking for dinner acting as a fuel source for her growing inferno of anger.
"Well you are my wife now so you might as well get to fulfilling that part of your duties." Peter said with a drunken sneer "Heh who knows you might prefer me in between your legs than that Kryptonian of yours!"
Diana's response was taking her half full glass and throwing it at Peter's head with a bit more force than she intended. Peter leaned his head to the side as the glass went flying past his skull and shattered against the wall behind him.
Peter looked back at the destroyed glass and split drink behind him before his gaze returned to her furious glare. He held her stare for a long time in silence before he sighed and took a gulp from the bottle of the drink he's had for dinner. Diana took a deep breath and exhaled through her nose before she pushed the bottle that contained the rest of the alcoholic beverage away. The two resumed eating in a tense silence for the next half hour. Afterwards Diana left to remove her armor and shower while Peter stayed in the dining room and began to finish off the bottle of the purple liquid that he's been drinking.
It was several hours later when Diana clad in a rather revealing nightgown that showed of her legs and the top of her breasts laid awake in bed staring at the ceiling, lost in thought. She felt a little guilty about her slightly drunken outburst earlier but not enough to apologize, Peter was way out of line with his comments even if he was intoxicated. She heard the door open and out of the corner of her eye she could see Peter stumble in slightly.
Diana tiredly watched Peter slowly approach his own closet and disappear inside for several moments. He returned clad in only a pair of pants and his chest bare. Even in the low lighting Diana could see that while Peter wasn't built like Clark or Bruce he was still muscular. She could also make out a few faded scars on his side and a large burn mark on his shoulder. Wheatear it was from growing up here or a lab experiment gone wrong she didn't know nor care.
Peter walked to his side of the bed and slowly slid under the covers. He made sure not to touch Diana's form as he settled himself. Several minutes of silence passed before Peter spoke with a slur in his voice.
"This, feels awkward."
Diana rolled her eyes and felt some of the anger from earlier slip into her slightly slurred voice "You don't say."
Peter then, with some difficulty, turned on his side so he was facing her and gave her a thoughtful look. Diana returned his gaze with a raised brow, wondering what he was going to do or say. The two continued their staring contest for several minutes before Peter's eyes slowly closed and he fell asleep. He began to emanate soft almost inaudible snores.
Diana watched the man for a moment before she sighed and turned over on her side, her back facing him, and proceeded to fall asleep herself.
'Here's to surviving my first day on Apokolips…' Diana thought tiredly before she slipped into a deep slumber.
…
Diana suddenly found herself standing in the heart of a destroyed Metropolis. Numerous buildings were burning and or collapsing and Diana looked up into the pale ash filled sky to see the moon closer than it should be to earth broken and in several pieces with a field of debris surrounding it. A horrid smell hit her nose and she looked to see all around Diana were members of the Justice League and even the Teen Titans.
Dead.
She looked around her with wide eyes as she made out the forms of many of her friends. Bruce and his wards Dick, Jason, Tim, the speedsters Barry and Wally, Arthur, Hal, Jonn, Zatanna, and Billy in his child form. Those were the bodies she could recognize; the rest were horribly burned or torn to bloodied pieces.
KAKROOOM!
Diana looked to see Clark's form come flying through what was once the Daily Planet and impacted against the asphalt creating a small earthquake from the force at which he struck it.
"Clark!" Diana shouted and tried to rush to him only to feel her body stay rooted to the spot.
Clark his suit in tatters turned to Diana and her eyes widened at the sight of his face. His right eye looked to have been torn out and part of his forehead was torn away exposing a part of his skull with a crack in it. His face was covered in bruises and bleeding scars. The symbol of his family was burned and his cape was nowhere to be seen.
"Diana?" Clark said weekly before a large armored being landed behind him with a heavy thud.
The figure was a little taller than Darkseid and approached with heavy strides, crackles of black electricity shooting across their form. They were dressed in pale green armor with the shoulders having curved spikes on it. They wore a helmet that had two large curved horns on it that gave them a sort of demonic look. His eyes were red and filled with a sort of dark evil that Diana saw even Darkseid didn't possess. His armor had a few scratches on it but nothing too serious. His clawed gauntlets were dripping with blood with a few splotches painfully clear on his armored torso. Diana didn't need to be a genius to know that the blood belonged to her now dead friends and likely soon to be dead lover, Clark.
The figure chuckled darkly as they approached Clark "I must say Kryptonian, you've proved an interesting challenge. Even my own son and his children haven't lasted as long as you have. Well some of them did, but in the end they joined the rest of their family in oblivion…"
Clark tried to rise but the figure raised his hand and shot out a beam of black and white energy and blasted him away, right towards Diana's feet. She tried to move but found herself stuck.
A bloodied and beaten Clark weakly looked up to Diana and whispered "Diana… run…"
Before she could say anything the man was standing before Diana, his boot on Clark's head and driving it into the ground. He grabbed Diana's face with his large bloodied clawed hand and forced her to look directly into his eyes.
He smiled darkly at Diana "…Hello my beauty."
…
Diana's eyes shot open and she found herself in her and Peter's room on Apokolips. She slowly sat up and turned to see that Peter was still asleep, a hand resting under his head while the other laid on his chest.
Diana sighed 'It was just a nightmare.'
She slowly rose from the bed, careful to not disturb Peter, and made her way to the balcony. She stared out over the barren plain as she let her mind wander. The dream she had felt odd, like some sort of warning. The mysterious being she saw, was unlike anything Diana had seen before. The power of him was great considering the state he left Clark and the world in and if what he said was true Darkseid and his children.
'Just who was that being? Who could have the power to cause so much destruction like that?' Diana thought before Peter's voice spoke up.
"Now this is a sight I can get used to seeing."
Diana mentally groaned as she turned to see Peter leaning against the doorway of the balcony and staring at her form with a still drunken, hungry gaze "Really love the nightgown."
"So glad that you approve." Diana said dryly as she crossed her arms under her partially exposed chest and leaned back against the balcony's railing. A small breeze floated by, catching her hair in the wind.
Peter kept eyeing his wife, the way the distant glow of the solar pits hit her, her locks of soft looking raven hair flowing in the wind and the sight of her long toned legs exposed by her nightgown nearly had his drunken self drooling in desire. He was still sober enough however not to act on his impulses, tempting as it was.
He then looked back up to her face to see a slightly annoyed expression on it "What? Can a New God not admire his wife's Goddess like body?"
"He could, but someone else is far more deserving of seeing my body than you." Diana said with a little bit of ice in her tone. She was not in the mood to be ogled by her drunken husband.
"Ah yes the Kryptonian!" Peter said with a slight roll of his eyes "You know that the chances of ever getting out of this marriage are next to nothing right? You'd have a better chance at convincing my half-brother Zunn that mass genocide isn't something for him to get off on!"
Diana's annoyed expression turned to one of determination "Not the first time I've accomplished the impossible."
"Heh, that I can tell is true but who knows Diana..." Peter said as he slowly approached Diana's tense form and cupped her cheek and leaned in close "You might come to like it here."
Diana stared into Peter's eyes. She expected to see rage, cruelty and sheer malevolence flowing through his glowing eyes. Instead she saw something she'd never expect for a son of Darkseid to have…
Loneliness.
Peter pulled back from and returned to their bed with a slight stumble, leaving Diana alone to her thoughts.
…
It was three days later that Diana clad in her white armor was assigned to guard Darkseid himself along with another Fury that was clad in a black robe that concealed her features. Her face was covered by a mass of shadows inside her hood leaving only two glowing white eyes to be seen.
Granny Goodness said that her name was Obb-Eve'na and her abilities revolved around manipulating the molecular structure of non-organic beings. She wasn't given any more information other than not to annoy her. A woman that could turn the very air that Diana breathes into lava if she wanted to or worse was a pretty good reason for Diana to keep as civil and as polite around the woman as possible.
Thankfully Obb was a reserved and quite woman.
Currently Diana and Obb-Eve'na were following Darkseid as he made his way through the halls of his citadel. Diana for the life of her couldn't understand why he of all beings would need bodyguards, but she wasn't going to argue since this gave her an opportunity to avoid Warbird and Grail.
Warbird because she was still upset that Diana had been married to the man she loved and Grail because of their rather violent past. Big Barda tended to side with Warbird or Carol as she's come to find out more often than naught while Lemenus could care less what in the name of Hades was going on. Her sights from what Diana could discover was on Kalibak, what she saw in that man Diana couldn't begin to imagine nor want to.
"Oh beloved!" the voice of Mortalla echoed through the hall causing Darkseid to halt in his tracks and turn to the source.
Mortalla clad in something that resembled a rather revealing black and purple bikini and knee high heels was slowly approaching the lord of Apokolips with a sort of lustful look on her face and a sway in her hips that caused even the dread lords gaze to linger. Her breasts were barely covered and the bottom of the bikini looked more like a thong if anything. Her hair was done in a sort of top knot that framed her face. She may have a personality that Diana finds less than pleasant but she couldn't deny the beauty of the future queen of Apokolips.
"Mortalla." Darkseid addressed his soon to be future wife with a bored expression "What do I owe the pleasure?"
Mortalla slinked up to Darkseid's towering frame and pressed her body against his in way that caused Diana to advert her eyes in embarrassment while Obb lowered her head so her eyes were blocked by the edge of her hood.
"It's been so many days since you've had my body my love." Mortalla said as she rubbed against Darkseid and spoke in a tone filled with longing and lust "I'm beginning to think you've forgotten meeeee!"
"I've been busy." Darkseid said narrowing his eyes slightly at his consort's actions. It'd take more than a bit of dry humping to get him going. Well that and he was aware of her liaisons with some of his children. If she thought he wasn't aware then well it's her eventual mistake for being so ignorant "Once more, I was on my way to witness my sons and daughters train. I'm curious to see where they all stand currently, particularly En Sabah Nur and our son Grayven."
Mortalla's face darkened at the mention of Darkseid's other son but lessen at the name of her own "Must you? Would you not prefer to have me under or above you withering in pleasure? To have me screaming your name to the point that the Highfather of New Genesis can here our love making?"
Darkseid stared at her for a moment in silence before turning to a red face Diana and a fidgeting Obb-Eve'na "Report back to me on my children's performances, after that you are free to do as you wish."
Diana gave a slight bow with her fist over her chest while Obb-Eve'na bowed. They both quickly resumed their trek to the training arena while much to Diana's surprise Darkseid shrunk his body's size slightly and pressed Mortalla up against the wall and immediately began to take her right then and there.
'And here I thought Olympus was the only place whose inhabitants didn't care where they were when they decided to be intimate.' Diana thought as she did her best to ignore the moans coming from Mortalla.
After several minutes the two furies of Darkseid had arrived at his and his children's personnel training arena. Upon entering Diana could make out Peter's form standing between the towering forms Kalibak who was leaning against his club with a tired expression on his face and En Sabah Nur who had his arms folded across his chest as he watched his sisters Grail and Kunla spar below them in a lowered area with a blank expression.
Grayven was currently speaking to several of Darkseid's generals that Diana could recognize. The first one was Steppenwolf and his wife Justeen, a former member of Darkseid's furies before she married his uncle and became leader of Steppenwolf's elite canine unit.
The other figure was someone that Diana has never seen before.
They were tall, near Kalibak's height and clad in silver armor with a glowing orb at his center and had several cables and wires traveling up and down his arm. His eyes glowed a reddish orange color and small clouds of steam and heat emanated from his frame.
"Hakkuo." Obb said in an echoing tone.
Diana looked to her fellow Fury in confusion "Hakkuo… who is he?"
"He was once a member of En Sabah Nur's horsemen unit until he was promoted by En Sabah himself to be part of Darkseid's court. He absorbs and manipulates vast amounts of nuclear and heat energy. That core of his is a miniature red star that he uses to feed off of. Under the right conditions he could level a planet three times over before tiring." the matter manipulator gestured to the large armored man.
Diana nodded at the information and turned to briefly see the spar between Grail and Kunla who was dressed in a sort of chrome version of Grail's outfit with a helmet that Diana thought looked similar to her own. She was also surprised to see that Grail was not tossing the smaller woman around. In fact, Kunla seemed to some degree holding her own against the powerhouse. It didn't take long for Diana to see why however…
'Based off the look Grail has, Kunla has lasted this long because she's being toyed with.' Diana thought as she saw Kunla try to encase her sister in some sort of ice only for it to be smashed or blown away by Grail's Omega Beams.
Grail rolled out of the way of an incoming wave of ice and threw her ax towards her wide eyed sister. Kunla barely ducked under the blade before she found Grail's knee slamming into her face. The force of the blow sent the small woman flying back with her face bleeding. Grail adopted a look of savage glee as she summoned her ax back with built in magnetic clamps in her arm's grieves and made to follow before Grayven appeared in front of Kunla in a flash of light with an unhappy expression on his face.
"That is enough Grail! You've already beaten her, there is no reason to continue this fight!"
Grail's eyes narrowed and raised her ax at the taller man "The fight is over when I say it is!"
Grayven's eyes glowed red for a moment before to Diana's surprise Omega beams erupt from them and fly towards Grail's form.
VZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
Grail fired off her own Omega beams to halt the approaching energy beams of her older half-brother. The two powerful beams of energy collided in a shockwave of energy and casting the room in a dark orange light. Diana adverted her eyes as she could feel the power of the two colliding blasts even though she was almost a hundred feet away.
The two halted their attack and made to move into more close quarter combat when suddenly two long arms with clamps at the ends of them grabbed both Grail and Grayven by the neck and lifted both up and slammed them into the wall with enough force to create small craters in the wall.
Diana looked to see that it was En Sabah Nur that did it, his arms stretched and morphed into some kind of mechanical clamps that were pinning his two half-siblings to the wall. He had a calm expression on his face as he watched Grayven struggle to break out while Grail, to Diana's surprise, merely glared at Grayven's form. Peter looked to his taller brother with his lenses widening in slight surprise while Kalibak just looked on with a bored expression, though his grip on his club tightened slightly.
Finally, En Sabah Nur spoke in a calm tone yet it was laced with annoyance underneath "The fighting is over, now stop or I myself will put you both in your place… am I understood?"
Grail turned to face her restrainer and her glare softened "Yes…"
Grayven on the other hand glared at his brother before shooting his Omega Beams at the other man. The orange energy zig zagged towards En Sabah Nur's form before the large being simply vanished. Grail and Grayven were by proxy freed by the disappearance of the clamps. Peter and Kalibak immediately backed away as the omega beams impacted against the ground and sent a shower of debris at the two.
Grayven landed on his feet with a heavy thud and frowned at the disappearance of his brother's form. Before he could blink En Sabah Nur appeared before him and rammed his fist into the surprised man's face.
KAAAAKOOOOM!
Grayven's head impacted into the wall and created a multitude of cracks in the surface before En Sabah Nur grabbed his brother and threw him across the training ground. Grayven righted himself in midair and used his ability to fly to halt his momentum in the air. He turned to stare at his brother's form with a small tickle of blood dripping from his mouth. His eyes began to glow as he readied his Omega beams while En Sabah Nur's hand transformed into a advance looking canon that began to hum and glow with blue energy.
Diana looked to Obb-Eve'an "Should we stop them?"
"Don't have to." the molecule manipulator said before Kalibak's voice broke through the tense atmosphere.
"Stop!"
The two immediately obeyed or En Sabah Nur did, Grayven turned to glare at his other half-brother instead "WHY SHOULD I!?"
Kalibak's gaze hardened at the sight of one of his younger half-brothers disobeying him "Grayven, I will not tell you again! Stop!"
He raised his club and pointed at Grayven who tensed before he growled and slowly lowered himself to the ground, cutting of the buildup of his Omega beams while he was at it. Kalibak grunted before looking towards En Sabah Nur "Count yourself lucky."
"I did not require your aid Kalibak." En Sabah Nur said in a calm tone as he stared at his older half-brother with an even look, there was no hostility in each other's gaze, they just happened to be both tense at the moment.
"Really Sabah, you were willing to put up with Mortalla's bitching at the death of her son? Even father would be clawing his ears out if it meant blissful silence." Peter said while he shook his head in mock disappointment.
Grayven turned his glare on Peter who tensed up slightly. Kalibak then slowly got in between the two and stared down his least favorite sibling "Try it Grayven, but know this, if you kill him my wrath and that of even Warbird's will pale in comparison to Father's…"
Grayven stared at his brother with his eyes narrowing before he let out a huff of acceptance. Kunla suddenly appeared by his side and started to tend to some of his wounds which while unnecessary dragged his focus from the rest of his siblings.
Kalibak looked towards his smaller brother and quietly growled out "Your welcome you little snarky shit."
"I didn't ask for your help." Peter bit back before he turned his attention to En Sabah Nur's approaching form and Grail's "One of these days you're going to kill each other."
En Sabah Nur folded his arms across his chest "Wrong, only the strongest will survive such a battle and Grayven… is far from the strongest."
"Few years ago I'd say bullshit, I could beat you, but now..." Peter trailed off because in his opinion En Sabah Nur may actually be more powerful than Grayven, perhaps even Kalibak himself. And his power was still growing! Peter already concluded that he may very well become stronger than even their father one day.
"If you say so." Kalibak said with a shrug before he hoisted his club on his shoulder and looked down at Peter "Our turn."
"Hurray" Peter said in a dry tone as he followed his half-brother into the arena. He looked to see Diana at the far end along with the Fury that was called Obb-Eve'an watching. 'Guess father didn't want to be here today…'
…
Grail watched the two go before turning her attention to En Sabah Nur "I didn't need you interfering with my battle, I could have handled Grayven…"
"Perhaps…" En Sabah Nur said before running his hand through Grail's hair and giving it a light tug that earned a quiet moan from her "But he should know better than to threaten what is mine"
Grail looked up towards her half-brother with a lustful look on her face "Perhaps we should return to my quarters so you can remind me why I will always be yours…my love."
En Sabah Nur stared at his half-sister for a moment before responding "I'm afraid I cannot do that, me and Peter are leaving in a few hours."
Grail frowned before crossing her arms under her chest and pushed them up slightly to capture her half-brother's attention a bit more "Where to?"
"To Aegis Seven, one of our mining ships has gone silent." En Sabah Nur revealed.
"Then why not send a platoon of Parademons to investigate? Even the Furies would be overkill for such a trivial thing as that." Grail said in confusion.
"Because there is something on the ship that has garnered mine and Peter's interest. Something we don't want others to know about at this time" En Sabah Nur said in a hush tone as he turned to see his half-brothers get into position in the arena.
Grail narrowed her eyes at him for a moment before she adopted a smirk on her face and leaned against him "Have I mentioned how much I love watching you play cloak and dagger?"
"Yes… many times."
And done.
Next chapter, Less then idea training...