Night On The Town

[mari_mccabe]

The last time that Mari Jiwe McCabe and Ben Turner had gotten together, it had been by coincidence, simple and pure.

This time, it was no accident that the two former lovers were meeting again for another date.

If I really want to be honest and call it that, Mari mused to herself as she waited outside a nightclub called Lapis Lounge

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[bronze_tiger]

Waller had been running him ragged of late but he'd managed to beg, borrow, and steal 48 hours off to himself.

And since the leg had finally healed to the point where he could move with something approximating his usual grace, it was time to go out.

New threads, a few hundred dollars in the wallet, and he was ready to _go_. The cab had to fight New York's worst traffic to get him to the Lapis Lounge but he finally made it, just squeaking under her imposed deadline.

Finding her wasn't difficult - as she so often was, she was the most stunning thing in this crowd. "Mari!" he said, waving to get her attention.

[mari_mccabe]

She had better damn well be the most stunning thing in the crowd.

She was dressed that night in a form-fitting, bronze sequined minidress and a pair of bronze stiletto heels. Her Totem was, as always, around her neck, and she held a small clutch in her right hand. She looked good, and she knew it. It was the bronze. It was the one metallic shade that really set her dark skin aglow with a golden fire.

"Hey," she says, turning around to give him a full view of her plunging neckline and bright, flirty smile. "Here I was thinking that you weren't going to make it."

[bronze_tiger]

Once his brain rebooted he shot her his most winning smile. He was in white tonight and ... oh God, she was in bronze.

She looked _stunning_ in bronze. And the legs that went all the way up to _there_ ... yeah.

"Wouldn't have missed it if the world was ending. Which, according to Amanda, it won't. Or at least it shouldn't." he said with a grin.

[mari_mccabe]

"Because she's such a beacon of bright, bubbling honesty," Mari said lightly. You could tell by her tone, though, that there was something else underneath her tone. A barb. A bit of sarcasm. She's not the biggest Amanda Waller fan.

Mari slinked up to Ben and wrapped her arms around him, letting him inhale the spicy, oriental scent she was wearing that night as she kissed him quite very dangerously close to his lips.

"Let's hope you'd come see me even if the world were ending," she teased.

[mari_mccabe]

Mari sat up in her bed early the next morning with a start. She turned to her right and saw Ben laying in bed next to her.

He seemed to be asleep.

A small smile crept to her lips.

Definitely not what I expected, she mused as she gingerly stepped out of bed. There were no clothes anywhere around her at the moment.

She shrugged. Not like he hadn't seen all of her last night again anyway.

Softly, she padded to the bathroom to shower.

[bronze_tiger]

Ben was in one of his rare states where his guard was completely down. He looked years younger while asleep, almost peaceful, really.

At least he'd managed to kick his snoring habit.