For Kon

[thethirdwonder]

Cassie was really beginning to hate the rain. She'd come up the compound for a shower but by the time she'd gotten there, she was drenched as was everything in the bag she'd used to bring her change of clothes. So before going into the bathroom, she'd put her clothes in the dryer and was now searching through the clothes box while she waited. Unfortunately, everything was either Superman or Batman related and neither appealed to her for various reasons.

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Someone or something had stolen Kon's clothes. He wasn't sure where they were, but he couldn't exactly go home in nothing but a towel. So for a few minutes he played secret ninja. He managed to avoid getting spotted leaving the bathroom. Avoid getting spotted on the way from the bathroom to the stairs. And finally, he almost made it home. Except that there was a person standing in front of the box.

"Crap," he muttered softly. Especially because it was a familiar person.

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Kneeling down by the box, a flash of white caught Cassie's attention by the door and she looked up...and started to giggling to hide her shock. "Umm...hi Kon."

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Kon gripped his towel a little more tightly and was acutely aware of how small it really was. "Hi, Cass. I, uh..." He cleared his throat. "I don't suppose that thing has any clothes for me?"

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Cassie looked back at the box and everything had turned frilly and pink. She held up a baby doll style dress and tried really hard not to laugh. Really. "Well...I don't think it's exactly your size but..." And she promptly lost the battle with laughter.

After a few moments, she tried again. "Sorry. I think the box is against you having clothes. Not that I blame it." She paused as what she said hit her, her eyes going wide. "Uh..."

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"Oh, come on. I really don't want to go walk..." It took him a minute to realize exactly what she'd said. "Not that you blame it?" Now that was something interesting that he hadn't considered about her. "Now just what do you mean by that?"

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"Nothing!" Cassie said quickly as she went back to look for something for Kon to wear from the box, hoping something might be hiding under all the pink. "I mean...it's being cruel, like always and standing there in your towel has to be embarrassing right?" She winced, realizing how pathetic that sounded.

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"Right. Because it being cruel is why you don't think it should give me clothes." Kon shook his head. "I might not be a supergenius like Tim, but even I know there's something flawed about that logic."

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"I uh..." This wasn't fair. Kon wasn't supposed to catch her when she says something stupid. Was it her fault that she'd thought Kon was hot before she'd even met him as a fellow junior superhero? "Shut up."

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Kon would never admit that he'd hung around the rec room when someone was watching a chick flick which was why he'd never mention that he got his next line from a Sandra Bullock movie. "You like me, you really like me."

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It was also good that Cassie hated chick flicks so she didn't get the reference. She glared up at him but faltered when she went to deny it. "I...Gods Kon." She leaned her arms on the side of the box and hid her face in them. This sucked.

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Kon pressed a hand to Cassie's back. "Hey. I don't...it's nice to know that you still notice, that's all." He would have bent down to kiss her cheek, but he didn't dare with his precarious hold on the towel.

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"Of course I still notice stupid." Cassie said into her arms, though there was a slight hint of fondness that bled into her eyes as she looked up at him. "You're still Superboy, teen heart throb and all. Even here." And she still wondered how she'd snagged him, even for a little while.

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Kon's heart squeezed painfully. "Yeah, but I thought you would have been immune to be by now. Especially with...you know...everything." The everything that was why she was dating someone else and he was dating no one. Wasn't it usually the other way around?

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Everything. Sometimes she wondered what everything was anymore. Not that she didn't really like Chekov but even she was beginning to notice something wasn't quite right. She just didn't know what. "I guess you never get over your first real ...crush." There was another word that belonged where crush went but she was not about to say that, not with Kon in a towel next to her.

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"Right." Kon cleared his throat, but he wasn't sure what to say. There was one big person between him and Cassie and it wasn't even really Chekov. He just wasn't sure if it was him or her. If it was him and what he'd done or her and what she thought of him.

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Cassie was at a loss for words as well. Though she kept glancing over at him, her face flushing each time she laid eyes on the towel. "So umm..." she swallowed thickly. "What happened to your clothes?"

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"I have no idea." Kon shook his head. "I went in the shower, I had a change of clothes all ready. I get out and all that's there is the towel." The very tiny towel. The very tiny towel she kept looking at. Oh hell.

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Well really, how could she not keep looking at it? It was very...tiny. "So someone stole your clothes and left...that in their places? That's...rude." Or maybe someone else wanted to see Kon in just that tiny towel and Cassie suddenly had to swallow down a thick bit of jealousy.

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"Well, no. I had the towel already. I just wasn't planning on parading my ass around in it. That's why I left my clothes there." It was kind of funny how the one time he was half-naked, Rizzo wasn't around to put her two cents in about how he looked without the clothes.

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And that was a thought Cassie would have been glad Kon hadn't voiced. "And there was no obvious culprit?" She had to keep asking questions to have something else to focus on.

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"Not unless you were the one hiding my clothes," Kon pointed out. He knew she wasn't. Especially not when she could barely stand to look at him.

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That just made her roll her eyes. "Right. Like I don't have better things to do then sneak into the boys bathroom and steal your clothes. Especially since the boys bathroom smells like week old feet."

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"Then no, I don't know who did it or why. I'd just like some clothes." He said that last pointedly, since she was still standing in front of the box. "Even if it's just boxers."

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Cassie frowned at his pointed tone before she realized what he wanted. "Oh...OH!" She got up and moved to the other side of the box. "Sorry." It occurred to her what would happen when he knelt down to look through the box...and she was torn on what to do so she just stared into the box.

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It wasn't until he started to bend down that he realized the trouble. He frowned and adjusted the towel a little so that the crack was on his waist on the side away from Cassie and he held on tightly. "It's…okay." Okay. Right. God. Maybe he should have just walked home in the towel. That would have been less embarrassing than this.

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As she stared into the box to avoid looking at him, Cassie spotted a pair of purple boxers. She grabbed them and stood up so she could hand them to Kon so he didn't have to bend down...and just ran right into his bare chest. "Here Kon I...oh."

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Kon swallowed, grabbed the boxers away from Cassie, and closed his eyes. "I should probably go," he whispered. This...whatever this was...it was a really bad idea. Especially considering how much he wanted it.

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"Yeah..." Cassie said in an identical whisper as she resisted the urge to reach out and touch his chest. Instead, she looked up at him. "Kon...these moments...are they ever going to go away?" Despite asking the question, she really didn't know how she wanted him to answer. Both were equally frightening.

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"Yes," he promised, even if he wasn't entirely sure they would stop. If it kept happening…well, there were ways to stop them. He didn't want to lose his best friend, but she'd already said she'd be happier without him.

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Had she said that? She couldn't remember anymore. "Okay." She closed her eyes and sighed. This had to stop, or how would either of them be happy. Of course, one suggestion nagged at her but they'd already tried that and look where it had gotten them?

Still, she stood on her toes and kissed him lightly, as if she couldn't help herself. "I...I'll see you later Kon." She turned to go quickly, not wanting to face him after that.