A Week Later

Katrina's POV

"So you can see, I have absolutely no clue what the fuck to do" I sighed looking between my friends.

All my friends.

I would never get tired of getting the luxury to say that.

After the hell we had battled and outwitted, these bitches would be some of my most prized fucking possessions til the end of time.

Aria, Sasha, Trina, Bonnie, Cha, and even Diane and Ana now sat at a huge circular table in Trina's huge ass house drinking tea and eating cake- thanks to Trina.

They all blinked over at me in shock.

"You mean to tell me that its been a full week since you've seen Doom or Rhett? And you've given neither one of them an answer?" Diane said looking at me like I was crazy.

I blinked back over at her, "did you not hear my in depth story of how I have been avoiding both of them continuously for the past week? After we walked through that portal and came home Rhett immediately went into you need to make a decision mode! Spewing all this stuff about starting lives and shit, and you all saw Blue try to crush him with that car! Either way I do this! Someones getting hurt and ... well ... I don't know how to deal with that!" I finished looking back over at them again.

"Listen, I'm not exactly sure what happened on the other side of that portal, because ... well it seemed like a bad idea to step through it" Ana started, earning lot of grunts of approval from around the table, "but from what you all have told me, Kat it seems to me that Doom and you are a packaged deal. He loves you, thats not even a question. What about Rhett is making you hold back?" Ana asked.

Yes, even Ana had officially been brought into the cool girls table.

After we had all made it back alive she had come down from her 'vantage point' and welcomed us back with huge hugs and tears, thinking that none of us had made it out alive, especially when she had seen the Firsts step through and none of us.

I sighed, "Yes, but technically he and I aren't suppose to be together in a romantic way in the first place. Plus ... he and I ... I just don't know" I sighed, shoving another piece of cake down my throat.

I couldn't place what exactly it was holding me back.

I just knew it was there.

"Kat you can't keep both of them in limbo like this" she sighed, her hand resting on her huge baby bump.

I pouted, "I know, Rhett's come to my parents house like twenty times in the past week. Blue keeps leave these weird doodles of different weapons on sticky notes on my windows" I sighed, unconsciously smiling a little.

He was so fucking weird.

"Katrina, what do you think your two options are in this situation?" Bonnie asked my suspiciously.

I sighed, "be with Blue or not" I shrug, looking down at my plate. "But what if ... what if he's just like Raymond, what if our love is warped like his was for you Cha?" I ask looking up at my friends again, "I'm just so afraid that what if none of this is right? Or ... healthy? Am I just setting myself up for something worse in the end?" I sighed.

I was terrified of it.

Terrified that Blue and I's relationship wasn't what it really was suppose to be, what if ... what if he loved me wrong?

Cha leaned forward her eyes looking at me sadly, "I see the way he looks at you, Kat, thats not the problem here, I know its scary to think that, but you have to realize you know that man like the back of your hand. He only really truly cares about your happiness" Cha sighed.

I sighed, I knew that, but then why was I so terrified?

"So how are the guys doing?" I asked looking around the table.

Only Trina really smiled.

"Glare and SJ are amazing, they're taking a stroll as we speak. We are ... a little worried though, SJ is showing some ... interesting developments with his powers" Trina continued.

"Told you he was weird" Sasha muttered into her tea cup, "and Snake's fucking fantastic. His arm is still healing, but he's having the time of his life ordering baby shit, and reading baby books all day. He then rips out the important pages and reads them to me when I get home. Have I mentioned how much I don't want to go home?" she hissed glaring down at her cup.

I rolled my eyes, "please, you know your just as excited as him to see this baby! Your first appointment is in a few days right?" I ask her watching her nod slowly.

"How's Klaus holding up, Ari?" Sasha asked looking over at Aria.

She smiled, "he's okay, his leg is bandaged and healing and his Mom flies in in a few days to help us get the house ready for the baby. He's down to one panic attack a day though, so that all good news" Aria rolled her eyes, "how about you Bonnie, hows Herc?"

Bonnie rolled her eyes, "complaining about his back, like a baby, but he's good. I think he's a little worried about the remaining Council and everything, plus Doom gave him the contract for his building so he's busy, we are actually thinking of moving closer to the city" she smiled.

Cha pouted, "if you move then I'll have no friend where we live!"

I looked over at Cha, "hows everything going between the two of you anyway?"

She winced, "still fights here and there. He's sending his wife some divorce papers, but eventually they'll have to come face to face. He knows that, he was just pissed when I said I was coming to meet her with him. But besides that he's fine, he was a little banged up from the fight but he's fine now" she shrugged.

"He's still acting shady with the details?" Aria asked.

Cha nodded, "I guess she's ... whatever she is, and he's worried about her getting to me, or hurting me I'm not sure".

Ana nodded, "she is a crazy bitch, if you want her information, I'll give it to you. Maybe if you two met face to face and talked out the details like women without Vapor it might all work out" Ana shrugged.

Cha looked unsure, "he'd be so angry ... but definitely send me her information. I need to know what this woman looks like, for starters. Its bothering me so bad, plus if Vap had his way, I'd never even know she existed" she rolled her eyes. "So has anyone seen or spoken to the litter patrol?"

Diane shrugged, "they're all fine. Daniel was pretty beat up but he should be on his feet pretty soon, plus he has Carson and Riley helping with all Cirron's followers, that stayed behind. They're still in Daniel's building" she finished sipping her tea.

We all stared at her, opened mouthed.

"You've been keeping up with Daniel Strap?" I asked baffled.

She looked up and paused, "yea why?" she asked slowly.

"Oh ew" Sasha sneered looking away.

"What?" Diane asked again.

"You and Daniel?" I questioned baffled, as a huge smile pulled across my lips.

I liked it.

I really, really, liked it.

Diane smirked, before shrugging again.

"No bitch, details. How far have you gotten with Mr. Hero?" Bonnie coughed out a laugh as we all stared at Diane in fascination.

She shrugged again, a coy smile on her face, "far enough" she shrugged.

I choked on my fucking cake.

"No!" I screamed looking over at her, dying with laughter my hand over my mouth, and cake smeared all over my face as everyone stared at her with their mouths opened. "How many times!" I screamed still shocked, but loving every second of this.

She laughed again, like bells, before trying to clamp her lips together to hide her smile, "enough times" she smirked.

To say that we all fell out of our fucking seats would be the most true statement.

I was howling.

Sasha was full on gagging.

And the rest were dying of laughter as Diane looked around at us smiling brightly.

The fucking bitch had game, "no wonder I haven't heard from him" I mocked her.

She shrugged again, "I don't know, I kind of like the whole obsessive good-boy vibe he's got. Its creepy, but hot at the same time" she finished.

I couldn't stop fucking laughing.

Sasha pushed her cake fully away from her.

"You're sick" Sasha announced.

A huge smile was shooting across my face.

I loved these bitches.

My friends.

With them, I knew everything was going to be alright.

Now I just needed to decide what I wanted.



Blue's POV

I sat across from the kitchen table in Rhett's small home.

It was regular, in every aspect.

Nice, but nothing special.

I could be mean and say like him.

But I am mean.

Nice and nothing special, like him.

I looked over at his face, looking at the bruising that was slowly fading from his jaw.

I didn't really want to be here, but I felt like he and I should talk.

That and I desperately want to get out of my house.

Raymond had been staying with me since the fight, and I was completely ready to stick his head down the garbage disposal and watching that silver haired freak get diced.

As you can tell, it was time for me to get some air.

Pony had practically cried to come with me, but I had all but shoved his ass back in the house and told him to entertain Raymond's annoying ass.

Rhett looked around the room, before sighing and turning to stare at me head on, "so what did you end up doing with Corey?" he asked.

"Gave him to the liter patrol, had them drop him off at the local penitentiary. He's currently dropping soap with Lee as a cellmate" I shrugged.

"Any word from the Council or Cirron?" he asked.

I shook my head, "no word, no location, but I've been searching for them. I'll find them eventually, way before they decide to come looking for us" I sighed.

I had an extremely long list of important shit to get on top of, but ... I'd been pretty much waiting on Katrina's indecisive ass.

I missed her.

Sure I stood outside her window every night and watched her sleep, sometimes even sneaking inside her room.

But it wasn't the same.

I wanted her to come choose me, like I would choose her.

And the indecisive little bitch had been playing dodge the two lovers all week.

So I had given her, her space, letting her think things through.

But I felt it was necessary to come talk to mega mind here, not to just threaten him and show him I'm the better man, but to make sure he knew if by some miracle she did choose him, he knew exactly what was going to happen.

"I wanted to talk to you about Katrina" I started, my face hard as I stared back at him.

He twitched a little in his seat, before nodding slowly.

"I know you think you're in love with her-" I started.

He shook his head, "I am in love with her" he corrected me.

I scoffed, before sighing deeply. It was what none of these imbeciles would ever understand. They didn't love Katrina Justice.

They loved the thought of her.

The amazing part of her that was brave, strong headed, and maybe even on occasion kind. They completely bypassed all the things that really made her Katrina Justice.

The things that had drawn my dark soul to hers in the first place.

"Name what you love about her most" I smirked over the table at him.

"I love her open heart, her strong nature, the way she fights for those around her. I love her" he replied back strongly.

"What about how hard headed she is, or the fact that she can hardly listen to directions, her blatant a hilarious disrespect for authority. Do you love how much damage and chaos she can create with only a car and a quarter tank of fuel? Do you love her explosive anger? How sometimes she can't fully come to terms with her emotions so she screams and eggs on fights, how about how defensive she can be? Or how absolutely immature she is? Do you love all of that about her?" I asked him.

He shook his head, "those are her flaws. She isn't her flaws" he replied back to me.

I choked down the immediate reaction of yelling at him.

"Rhett, thats a lot of who she is. And its cute, and hell even endearing sometimes when she does it, but those flaws, those things that you are so willing to brush under the rug, they are real and they are apart of her. Those flaws make her brave and open hearted, and fucking annoying all at the same time. I know that, trust me. Listen, I'm not here to talk you out of loving her, because fuck it. I love her too, thats not what I am here to do" I state looking at him.

"Are you here to tell me I'll fall to an early death if she picks me instead of you?" he chuckled without any real amusement.

I smirked back at him, "as much as I would love to do that, I'm not. I'm here to tell you that if she does in fact choose you, for some misguided and stupid reason, I'm not going to gut you ... no matter how much I'll want to. I-I just want her to be happy, and if she decides that you make her happy" it was getting increasingly harder to speak without want to crush someones skull, "... then I want you to understand exactly who she is, so that you can make her happy to the best of your ability. She isn't easy, Rhett, she really fucking isn't. And I just want you to understand that" I finished.

Rhett looked absolutely fucking shocked.

As he should be.

Every instinct told me to kill him, but ... I couldn't do that to her.

Fucking love.

Its really for the fucking birds.

"I'm really speechless, Blake, seriously" Rhett said looking up at me lost.

"But if at any time she comes to me, telling me you've hurt her. I will burn this house to the ground with you and all you love inside of it" I finished quickly, watching his face drop.

"Just when I thought we were getting somewhere" he sighed.

"This is a miracle not a magic trick, mega mind" I sighed back, still looking around his house.

I could see Katrina here.

I could see her walking around, normal, with two half cute kids, her regular life in this regular house, with a man that desperately wanted to be regular.

She wouldn't be part of the dangers of a Super world anymore, she could just be plain Kat.

No worries, no Council, nothing that could ever hurt her.

Maybe she did belong here?

Maybe the only thing I could bring her was danger. A dangerous life.

Maybe she belonged with Rhett.

His door bell rang, cutting off his next statement.

He stood up from his seat, before walking to his front door and opening it.

The second he did, I knew it was her.

I could hear the way her heart beat in her chest, smell her conditioner from here.

She should be here, maybe she belonged here.

"I made a decision, Rhett, I know what I want. Thats why I'm here, I finally know what I want" I heard her voice, her slightly breathless and nervous voice.

It really fucking hurt.

And I didn't need Super hearing to hear the sound of their lips crashing against each other.

I stood slowly, my eyes sweeping over the room again.

She'd be happy here.

She'll be happy here.

I walked past the kitchen and out through the back door.

Every step felt like swallowing nails.

Every part of me was begging for me to go back, to murder Rhett, and take her.

Because she belong with me.

I knew it in my soul.

But even though it felt like a white hot iron was burning the insides of my chest, I kept walking, and walking and walking, before taking off into the sky.

The air rushing around me.

But even so far above everyone else, and so far away, I still felt the pain in my chest, the lonely hollowness, because my body may have been up in the sky, but my heart was currently bleeding back on the ground.

Back where she was.

Back where I belonged.

But I kept flying.