For Kon

[first_pink_lady]

It was official.  Rizzo was tired of the rain.  It'd been alright at first, enough of a change from the monotony of constant sunshine for her to want to raid the clothing box for the mackintosh and rain hat it had never made sense to own in Venice, California.  Then she'd ended up looking more like Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot TIn Roof, but not

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[not_the_s]

Each and every time Kon made his way to the Compound, he looked like a drowned rat, no matter if he had an umbrella or not. No matter if he was head to toe in plastic or not. He did actually have an umbrella, but It didn't do much when the rain was going sideways, like it was right now. As he got closer, he noticed someone watching him. He squinted and raised a hand, grinning when he saw the familiar face.

"Hey, Rizzo. You don't have a spare towel, do you?"

As he ducked inside and began shaking the water off, he was definitely in drowned rat territory.

[first_pink_lady]

"Hey," She said, drawing the word out as her lips turned into a smile. Maybe her day wouldn't be so dull after all. She followed him to the door, leaning against the frame with her arms crossed, her cigarette propped between her fingers. "Nope. Guess you'll just have to go and throw your clothes in the drier like the rest of us."

[not_the_s]

He could have gone the safe route. Could have, but he was amused that he had someone who apparently liked flirting with him. "But then what will I wear?" Of course, he was probably throwing himself into the fire for that remark, but he could live with it.

[first_pink_lady]

"Your birthday suit oughta do just fine." Rizzo replied instantly at the opening for it, lips twisted in a smile, cool as a cat.

[not_the_s]

"How did I know you were going to say that?" Kon grinned. "But you know, the birthday suit is the one you were born into and the one I was born into was an actual uniform, so I would have to say it'd be your loss." He neglected to mention that said suit had been made out of spandex.

[first_pink_lady]

She raised an eyebrow, more intrigued than anything else - a hunky guy like Conner Kent was sure to have some dirty little secrets, but that was just odd. "Guess it's just a damn good coincidence that I got a thing for a man in uniform, huh?" Even she knew it was because of some daddy issues shit, because her daddykins was in the war before he knocked up her mama, but that would kinda ruin the whole sexy-banter thing.

[not_the_s]

"Good thing," Kon laughed. He pressed by her as he went inside and looked over his shoulder after he was a few feet in. "Well? Coming?" He was off to get a towel and maybe a change of clothes. Although he wasn't going to do what she was probably hoping and strip in front of her. At least not past his boxers.

[first_pink_lady]

She grinned at him, her laugh held just behind her teasing words. "Already? Oh, honey, even you ain't that good." She followed him anyway, brushing her fingers over a dripping bicep and examining the wetness on her fingers with the vague interest of someone who'd been staring dully at the rain for lack of other entertainment. "Really goin' cats and dogs out there. But if it keeps bringing the likes of you to my doorstep, I won't be complainin'."

[not_the_s]

"It's been going cats and dogs for days, now, and I don't see any sign of it stopping. If it did, I wouldn't be in here." It took Kon a few steps to realize how that sounded and he added, "I mean I'd be down on the beach. I teach swim classes." Even if he only had the one student.

[first_pink_lady]

If he'd been looking at her in that moment, instead of leading her through the compound, he might've seen the way her expression froze at his words, her vulnerability showing through the cracks. She'd only just been able to muster up a smile and a sassy reply when he'd added his second sentance, slightly modifying the first. Thankfully, the moment went unnoticed. "Strappin' fella like you, lifeguard back home?" She guessed.

[not_the_s]

"Superhero," Kon said simply. "I've taken the lifeguarding class here, though, and the water is the second most place I feel comfortable. But with the weather, the water isn't exactly the safest place to be around right now." It didn't mean that he didn't do a run just to check that things were going okay. The last thing they needed was someone drowning in this weather.

[first_pink_lady]

If he'd been anything less than, by all appearances, dead serious as he said it, she would've never believed it. She knew there was a ridiculous assortment of characters on the island, some of them with names she recognized from the comics Sonny, Doody and Putzie had pored over on the rare occasions they weren't peeking up skirts or being general hoods. Still, wasn't exactly a go-to assumption.

"No kiddin'," She said, and her mind flashed over his name, Kent. "You sure your name ain't Clark then, Mr. Superhero?"

She tilted her head, looking at him with her eyebrows raised, not sure what to say to that kinda concern and benefaction. "Awfully respectable of ya. What's in it for you?"

[not_the_s]

"Nah, I'm his cousin." It wasn't the first time that someone had connected him and Clark and Kon knew it wasn't going to be the last time, either. "What's in what? The lifeguarding? I figure someone's got to do it. I mean, here I am getting fed and clothed and everything for free. It's only right to give a little something back, you know?"

[first_pink_lady]

"Bet you have the best Thanksgivings." Was all she could think to say to that, but she was far from complaining.

That was... kind of him. Generous. And she hadn't ever met anyone truly generous, who wasn't in it for some personal benefit or ulterior motive, or who wasn't just naive, like Sandy. "It ain't for free. I spent a whole damn weekend as a p.g. cheerleader - the island doesn't forget to collect, Kent. Tit for tat and all that."

[not_the_s]

"Oh, trust me. I know." Kon flashed her a grin. "I'm very used to the island showing me weird stuff. I even know how you know about Clark. Comics, right? The bookshelf keeps trying to throw them at me and I just as stubbornly refuse to read them." He didn't, after all, want to to see his future. He didn't want to see how he died, either.

[first_pink_lady]

"I haven't read 'em either," She said, and refused to go down the train of thought that wondered if everyone was from a book or a comic, where on earth that left her. "But I'd always liked the idea of Wonder Woman better anyway."

Not to say she wasn't more inclined to go search out the Kent family tree in the bookshelf now, what with the dripping hunk she was following. "So then what are you tryin' to prove with the do-gooder act?"