"Big weapons… Big weapons, he says. Well, how the hell am I gonna hide them in this?" Lady mumbled, holding up a blue tube dress.
Sighing, the huntress tossed it back into the sales bin. She couldn't afford a new dress, not with the repairs that needed to be made to the apartment, and none of the sales items met the 'look the part whilst hiding the weapons' criteria.
Lady didn't actually have too many clothes, just some identical white blouses, a couple of pairs of jeans, some tank tops and the odd skirt and pair of shorts. Certainly nothing she could wear to the ridiculous masked ball.
That's why they were digging through the sales bin of a rather sketchy women's clothing store. Most of the stuff they stocked made it seem more like a fetish shop to Lady.
"Hey babe! What about this one?" Dante said, holding up a frightening black lace maid's outfit.
Gothic Lolita + Lady = Very Bad mix.
"Hey Dante! How about no?" She growled, tossing aside vinyl corsets, lace dresses and other somewhat worrying garments.
It wasn't fair; Dante could just go in one of his random flashy outfits. Lady began to consider herself unlucky "Argh! I give up! I'll just buy something expensive and not eat for a month!" She cried.
"Hey Lady… Take a look at this one." Dante said gently, trying not to piss her off, especially since she was standing next to a display cabinet of what looked horrifyingly like whips.
Lady turned to Dante, her mouth already open to say no but stopped when she saw the dress.
The floor-length skirt was white silk covered by a black mesh-like material embroidered with lilies. Two slits in the skirt meant it would be ideal if she had to fun and fight and the top half of the dress was ribbed made of black silk and did up with corset lacing at the back.
It may have been a little gothic for her tastes, but with a little work Lady would be able to hide her weapons under the skirt. Really, it was quite beautiful.
The only problem was…
"The price. Oh my god, Dante. I can't afford that! Even when we get the money I won't be making a profit." Lady tried to hide her disappointment.
Dante thought for a moment, his expression looking as if he was trying to make an incredibly hard decision. After a while he sighed.
"Okay." He took the dress up to the counter, Lady following. A man wearing a vinyl shirt, pink eye shadow and black eye liner was serving at the counter and as Dante approached, the man looked up and actually blushed. Dante smiled at him flirtatiously "Hi there… How are you today?" Dante asked the man, casually leaning against the counter.
The man's eyes swept over Dante "Not bad, handsome. And how are you?"
Lady's mouth gaped open. Not believing what Dante was doing dear god… Can he sink any lower?
Dante sighed, pouting slightly "Well… It's funny you should ask, because I wanted to buy my, err, sister this dress here, but there's no way I can afford it, and she so wanted to wear it to her school ball…" Dante managed to look forlorn, nudging Lady to do the same.
The vinyl-clad shop assistant smiled at Dante "Oh, that's just terrible! Say, how about I rent you the dress? And in return…" The man leaned in and whispered something in Dante's ear, causing the hybrid to blush a fantastic shade of scarlet.
"Oh… Err, okay… How's next Saturday for you?" Dante mumbled, blush not fading.
The man's eyes glittered "Can't wait darling… See you on Saturday!"
Lady couldn't seem to get her head around the situation and stared wide-eyed at Dante as he lead her towards one of the changing rooms.
"You're gonna go out with that guy just so I can wear that dress?" Lady asked quietly, trying not to laugh. Dante just glared at her and shoved the dress into her arms "Just go try it on." It occurred to Dante just then that if the dress didn't fit Lady, he had just been suckered into a date with a particularly swishy sales clerk for nothing.
Fuck, huh?
Lady shrugged and entered the changing room, closing the curtain. She had it in mind not to move around too much, or Dante would probably be dragged in with her and most likely at an inconvenient time.
As she began to unbutton her blouse, Lady double checked to make sure the curtain was properly closed, as she didn't quite trust Dante not to peek.
Unzipping her jeans, Lady began pulling them down her slender legs. She frowned when she couldn't seem to pull her shoes through the jeans.
Now, perhaps by some lapse of judgement, Lady tried to yank her foot out rather than taking off her shoes first.
She overbalanced.
She fell.
And Dante was pulled through the curtain, smacking into her and sending them flying against the back of the changing room.
It took Lady a while to access her situation I'm trapped up against a wall by a half-demon, my jeans are around my feet, I'm only in my bra and panties, and he's not moving… Why isn't he moving? Lady was stunned when the side of her that usually told her to shove him off and put an entire ammo clip into his head didn't speak up. Instead, the curious, adventurous side of her told her to wait and see what was going to happen…
Dante was shocked as he stared into her face. Her eyes were wide, her cheeks flushed, and her pink lips parted slightly.
He had been sexually attracted to Lady as soon as he had first met her. Hell, what kind of a sighted man wouldn't be attracted to a chick with a hot body that carries big guns around? Especially when they just randomly fall out of the sky…
But now, it wasn't just that he felt something aside from lust for her, it was also that he was so pent-up after wanting her for so long.
He'd be a damn fool if he didn't take this opportunity to do something, especially since the curtain had fluttered closed behind them…
Dante saw her move to speak, but before she could he crushed his lips to hers.
Lady gasped into his mouth when one of Dante's hands slid up her thighs and to her hips. He pulled back from her mouth and lifted her, moving between her legs and bracing her back against the mirrored wall. Feeling as if she might slip suddenly, Lady instinctively clutched Dante's shoulders.
Dante's free hand cupped her breast as he kissed her neck and she bit back a gasp. Lady wasn't really sure what to do. Even though it felt pretty damn good, she couldn't get over the suddenness of what he was doing in such a public place...
It turned out Lady didn't have to do anything as the curtain was flung open and the shop assistant stared at them in horror "Either she's not really your sister or you're one sick son of a bitch!" He cried, reeling back.
As Dante struggled to find an explanation, the shop manager turned away "You can forget our date!" He said sounding disgusted.
"And… The, ah, dress?" Dante enquired weakly.
"Keep it!' the man said "I don't think I want it back after you've touched it!"
And poor Lady just stood there, trying to hide her semi-naked body behind Dante as curious or just plain perverted shoppers stared at them.
Things are getting spicy! Yay!
Wow, that sounded stupid…