Fic-a-Day #24: Final Preparations
Title: Final Preparations
Author: JoeHundredaire (joehundredaire@tthfanfic.com)
Rating: R/FR18.
Pairings: Kit Holburn/Nico Minoru
Disclaimer: Brian K. Vaughn is the mastermind behind Runaways (which is a better comic than, if not as funny as, Young Avengers) and someone who's not me (but may be Joss Whedon) owns Buffy.
Joe's Note: My romantic action tends to get away from me and I have a 3000 word cap for these chapters (go blame lisaroquin for that one), so here's the setup. Kit/Nico/Karolina is up next, then one more chapter to finish this story. Then you can go read The Verdict is Vengeance.
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Kit ran the brush through Karolina’s hair one last time, working the last tangles out of the silky blonde locks. “You sure you’re not going to freak out?” she asked. “About the invisibility spell? Or the girl kissing part of the plan?”
Shaking her head slightly, Karolina stopped when Kit took a firm grip of her hair. “No,” she said. “Well, no to the invisible part. We’ve practiced that a few times. The girl kissing? Still might freak out there…”
“We’ve been practicing that too,” Kit teased, delighting in the blush that washed over Karolina’s features. Really, she hadn’t had any problem with the blonde until the girl had made problems with her over Nico. Hell, if Karolina asked her to dance first, she’d probably be sharing the alien’s bed instead of Nico’s. “How are you going to manage if this goes past the sixth grade level if you can’t even think about kissing without blushing?”
Karolina scowled, her hand sliding back to pinch a bare spot on Kit’s thigh. She smirked when Kit jumped and let out a squeak. “Not all of us have done things that’d make a porn star blush,” she reminded the slightly older girl.
Laughing, Kit wiggled off the edge of the bed and stood up, smoothing down her miniskirt. “Well, if all goes according to plan you’ll have caught up with me a little by the end of tonight.” She turned to look in the mirror. Black silk corset with a cherry pattern printed on it? Check. Sexy black miniskirt slit way up both sides? Check. The fishnet stockings and heels that Nico loved on her? Check. Running her hand through her hair, she separated the dyed streaks in her bangs so the red framed the left side of her face and the green ran along the right. ’God I clean up well,’ she thought.
Karolina cleaned up well too, come to think of it. Her outfit wasn’t all that different from what Kit was wearing… mostly because they’d snuck out a secret back door in the Hostel and gone shopping together. The blonde had the same black skirt, fishnets, and high heels that Kit did, except she had a corset that was almost the same blue as her eyes. Kit had done a little make-up for the girl, normal stuff instead of the dark colors she and Nico tended to go for, but Karolina… just couldn’t manage to look comfortable outside of her normal clothes. She looked like a girl playing dress-up, who was expecting to be yelled at any second now and told to go change.
It was pretty ironic, in Kit’s opinion, that if not for her assistance Karolina would have never had a chance with Nico anyways. Karolina was the perfect darling daughter of two Hollywood stars… and had no idea how to deal with real people. She’d been home-schooled by private tutors , gone flitting around the world with one or both parents while they did movies, and dealt with only a handful of people her own age before she ran away from home. She had no idea how to make friends with people her parents did set up meetings with, much less how to attract a girlfriend. Well, except for one time behind a trailer with the daughter of one of her father’s friends…
Thanks to Kit, Karolina was no longer quite so hopeless. Oh, she was nowhere near being a Casanova (or whatever you’d call a lesbian version of one) but she could talk to girls she found attractive without spazzing out and even flirt without getting creepy. They’d also gone over some of the things Karolina would need for the physical side of a relationship… which she still needed a lot practice with. But she no longer had to worry about embarrassing herself, at least until things started heating up. Which was something Karolina wasn’t willing to practice with her, but she’d get to try tonight.
“You sure you’re going to be able to handle this?” Karolina asked, startling Kit from her thoughts. The brunette raised an eyebrow, and Karolina elaborated, “Sharing Nico. I mean, it sounds fine on paper… we’re both magically recognized as her loved one, we’re getting along now that I’m not trying to glare a hole in you, etc. etc. But it’s still sharing your girlfriend with me… and Nico and I have a bond that means if we do this, you might get pushed out a little. Or replaced entirely. Not that I’m planning that,” she said rapidly, “but I want to make sure you’re going into this with your eyes wide open.”
Kit sighed and ran her fingers over the white bracelet she wore, returning her Gemini Staff to its natural state. “I gave Nico an out when I let her know you could use this,” she told Karolina. The blonde’s eyes widened and she gaped. “Yes, she could feel the difference when you used it two weeks ago and I told her everything that night. And she hasn’t run from our relationship yet. If it happens? It happens. I think you’re overestimating yourself and underestimating what Nico and I share. I really don’t know if it is love or not, but I do know it’s something special.”
Opening her mouth to offer Kit… something… Karolina was cut off as Kit pointed the staff at her. “Get out of my sight,” she incanted. The blonde shimmered and disappeared from sight. “Let’s go.” Without waiting to see if Karolina was following her (which, obviously, she couldn’t), Kit stepped out of Karolina’s room and began trekking back towards the room she shared with Nico.