Chapter 5 (Post 'The Test')
"Miss me?" She asked him, sitting on a pier in the Lantern District, feet skimming the cold water. He smiled.
"Ugh? How could I? Augustine's all the woman I need!" Laughing, he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close.
"Should've known you like 'em old." She laid her head on his shoulder. "But I knew you could beat her, D."
"Technically, I didn't. Something carried me away. I just beat her lackey. Gonna' need some more powers than this." Delsin shook his head. A group of Chinese tourists went by, talking in hushed voices and taking pictures of him. Stuck in the city on account of the DUPs, probably.
"What, neon not good enough for you?" She stood up and drained a sign, he raised an eyebrow at her and she shrugged before sitting back down. "I was feeling a little low on power."
"I just want to be able to catch her off guard when it comes time. The more advantages I can get, the better. She has an army at her back. I have a neurotic cop and a cute psychopath who can control billboards, ya know?" He chuckled and kissed her on the head.
"You also have half the city of Seattle, D." She nodded thoughtfully.
"Yeah, but they don't have guns. Or powers. Or battle armor. Nevermind that the news isn't showing my public relations victories." He scowled. "Ah well, don't need 'em. I'll take out that bitch as it stands. Or, well, as it stands plus that other Conduit. Speaking of which, you were on the transport, do you know who it was?"
Fetch tilted her head and bit her lip, running her hand through her hair. "Not really. We split up not long after getting away from your brother, at the road block. Or, well, I split up. Super speed, ya know? I don't even know if it's him they're looking for here."
Delsin looked up at the sky. Actually sunny, or, well, it had been. Sunset now. Still, it made him smile. "It's cool. Doubt we Conduits could stay incognito if wanted."
"You can't, at least. Is there anything in this city you haven't tagged?" She asked.
"God, probably. There's still so much work to do!" He flailed his hands about.
"Relax, Smokes, you just gotta wait on this other Conduit, now." Drawing her knees up onto the pier, she picked at a hole in her leggings.
"Yeah, I know, Laser-show. I'm just impatient."
"Well, you'll have to be impatient on your own, D, I've been tracking a dealer back in Queen Anne, and now's the perfect time to hit him." She stood and stretched her arms.
Delsin leapt up, grabbed her, and kissed her. "Stay safe, all right?"
"Not a chance." She said, smiling, and took off in a beam of neon light.
"Give 'em hell!" He yelled after her. He couldn't help but think that girl would be the death of him.