Villainous

"Do you love me?" He asked quietly as they sat at the poolside, their legs dipped into the cool blue water.

They'd only been dating for a few months including the time they had been broken up but when she looked at him startled that he would even ask that, he wasn't even looking at her, he was looking at the ripples in the water he was creating, biting his lip, chest dead still, he was holding his breath and he looked so fragile and amazing and it grabbed a hold of her lungs.

It might not have been an eternal, unconditional forever kind of love, but it was this huge thing inside her that just kept expanding. She belonged with him, when she didn't belong anywhere else.

She swallowed hard and without taking her eyes off him answered the only way she could, "yes."

The small quiet word ripped his gaze from the water. Wide broken blue eyes, and flushed skin his body lurched toward her and she was suddenly enveloped in his arms held closer and tighter than ever before. She could feel the soft warmth of his mouth against her neck and she was just melting into him.

He pulled away from her, "I love you too." he's looking at her like he's looking right into the soul of her, as if he knows all of her, secrets and all, "I didn't think I was capable." he tells her in a whisper that's almost missed in her elation of his admittance.

He loves her.

The boy she loves, loves her in return and it's the most beautiful feeling she's ever experienced. She feels like she's going to explode, the smile that breaks across her face is mirrored in him and for once his dark blue eyes don't look broken or sad at all, and everything in her wants to keep them that way.

She graduates tomorrow, and in the fall she'll be starting an almost free ride at Hearst and be dating a boy that loves her, she can't think of anything better than this.

"What are you doing this summer?" he asks laying down and waiting for her to match him. She lays down next to him on the cool stone of the poolside and can't stop smiling at him. His smile pulls up at one side and one of his hands reaches out to her and starts to pull her smile back down. A laugh burst from her chest and she slaps his hand lightly away.

"What are you doing?"

With that oddly self satisfied smirk that is all Casablancas he tells her, "I was worried your face was going to break in two."

They've broken into laughter by the time that Dick makes his appearance. A dark shadow thrown over the both of them and she's surprised at how fitting that is, "So you're back with Ghost World then." he doesn't sound impressed or particularly unhappy about it, it's kinda just a fact that he seems bored with like he knew they were going to get back together all along. She wishes he would have let her know.

"Cindy." Cassidy tells him harshly.

"Mac." she tells Dick pushing herself up into a sitting position so she won't feel so submissive, "If you call me Cindy I'll end you." there's a darkness in her voice that she's never heard before, she feel's oddly powerful with Cassidy's fingers twined in hers. His thumb runs across her palm at the dark tone in her voice and she has the distinct feeling that he likes her being rough with Dick. The silent double entendre makes a confident smile flash across her face.

"What are you going do Ghost World?" Dick's mouth twists and an eyebrow rises. Cassidy lifts himself into a sitting position and she can see in his shoulders that he's about to spring on his brother.

"Did you know that banking is all electronic now?" Dick looks confused, "I'm very good with electronics Dick..." she replies a hand on Cassidy's shoulder, she can feel him calm under her touch. It's the most amazing feeling the uncoiling of his muscles under her fingers, "Would you prefer I have you make a generous donation to the SPCA or Green Peace?" Mac thinks that all the time she spends with Veronica is really paying off because there's a dark steadfast quality to her voice that makes her believe that she could do what she says right now, with the flick of a switch and Dick must think so too.

He steps away from them his hands up in surrender. He disappears into the pool house muttering about how none of his friends can like normal girls.

Cassidy turns to her and grabs her face with his hands, his lips crashing into hers with a passion she's never felt on his end before. He's all hot hands and wet mouth and she's grabbing onto him, chest heaving, he bites her bottom lip and uses her gasp to deepen the kiss, his hands drop from her face, and there at the edge of her shirt, his fingers disappearing under the hem and finally.

Second base how nice it is to see you.

His fingers on her skin are magic and she wonders if this new found heat has to do with her threatening Dick's future, or that she's confirmed that she loves him, she's sure she doesn't care because if this is the reward she'll siphon off money from anyone and put it anywhere because he's finally alight with passion and it feels like the best kind of fire.

He pulls away from her to take deep breaths, "I got a room." he tells her breathlessly.

"I know you live here."

"No, at the Grand." he tells her, his voice once again nervous, like he thinks she's going to rebuke him. She just nods in response and pulls him back to her.

She has her hands on his belt and he has a hand on her breast and the other on the clasp of her bra when her cell phone goes off.

He pulls away from her her and rests his forehead against hers as her fingers pull away from him and grab her phone.

"Someone better be on fire." she tells the phone with a ragged breath, "Ryan what the...what do you mean no ones home yet..." and it comes to her that her mother had told her she was in charge tonight because they were going out with a newly divorced and thoroughly depressed Aunt Beth, "yeah I'll be home in ten, play a video game or something...yes you can play GTA just don't tell mom." She hangs up and looks up a Cassidy whose still wonderfully close, "I have to go."

"I'll see you tomorrow." he pulls away from her and it finally doesn't feel like he's actually pulling away, it feels like he's still there, that he's for this relationship, that he's not only finally in the same book as her but on the same page.

He stands up and offers her his hand which she gladly takes, he pulls her up with ease. He's so much stronger than she ever remembers, he's all lean tight muscle. He leads her through the backyard, and house all the way to her car in the front drive.

"Still love me?" he asks like she could have changed her mind by now.

"Yeah..." she points at him and then herself and he nods vigorously and she gets into her car with a bright smile.

"Oh hey," his hands come down on her door and she looks up at him surprised, "do you have a passport?"

"Yeah, I've never used it before...why?"

"During the summers Dick and I usually end up in mexico, just wanted to make sure that you could come bail me out." his voice is surprisingly loose and causal and she has no problem imagining Dick getting them thrown in jail.

"If Dick gets you thrown into jail I'll come bail you out." She holds up her fingers, "Scout's honour."

With a laugh Cassidy grabs her fingers and pushes her pinky down and pulls up her ring finger, "See you tomorrow." he puts her fingers to his mouth before allowing her her hand back.

She drives away from the Casablancas house feeling absolutely fantastic. Things were finally going to work out with her and Cass.

A/N: I just really loved Cassidy and I really wanted a little something where Mac and the Casablancas brothers end up being super villains. Like James Bond man with the golden gun sort of villains. This is obviously going to go crazy A/U at some point during not pictured