Baltimore, Monday Night

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Dante and Kathy's evening out in Baltimore--she was a little hesitant to call it a date, per se--couldn't have come at a better time. A night out not thinking about the weekend was pretty much exactly what the doctor ordered. And if not thinking about the weekend happened to include a long motorcycle ride through Baltimore at speeds other people might consider 'unsafe' ('insane' might not have been entirely incorrect, either), a stop at the bar for some drinks, and the promise of much more excitement to come, well, then who was Kathy to argue?

"So, where to after this?" Kathy asked, feeling flushed and warm from the drinks and company in about equal measure. "I could show you some of my favorite places around Baltimore, but most of them are just, like, places that it's fun to ambush drug dealers and stuff."

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Well, this had been building up for awhile. There had been a fair bit of tension thrumming between them even before lips and teeth and nails had gotten involved.


Kathy slid onto the bike behind him, though her hands slid up to his chest rather than wrapping around his waist. "Drive fast," she suggested and bit his ear.

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Dante brought two fingers up to his forehead to throw her a mock salute. He ran the engine, and they were out of there in a flash.

Didn't need to tell him twice.

Hit the street west and let the throttle go to work. They could stop in a minute. Maybe two. Work up some adrenaline, first.

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Kathy's shout of glee could be heard over the growl of the engine and the whipping of the wind in their ears. This was even better than free running over rooftops; just the feeling of freedom singing through her veins and pounding at her pulse points.

The steady thrum between her thighs wasn't hurting anything either.

"You can go faster!" she urged. "Faster!"

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"I'm gonna max out on this thing," Dante warned her. He was grinning broadly, though. Fuck, yeah, this was nice.

He took a sharp turn, barely scraping past a car-- close, but not too close. "We gotta find an empty tarmac or something sometime!"

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"Hell yeah!" Kathy said. "There's the old Baltimore Municipal airport! Part of it got turned into the marine terminal, but there are still a few old runways around. We should go there!" She slid her hands down his abs until they were brushing against the waistband of his pants. "Another time, I mean."

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"Sounds like a good time."

But then most things involving adrenaline did to him. Funny, that.

Something neon and gleaming caught his eye, and he nodded towards a street coming up ahead. "Looks like there's a club or something!" he called.

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And, oddly enough, many of them did to Kathy as well. Being an adrenaline junkie was something that had kind of crept up on her, but she wouldn't change it now for the world.

"We gonna check it out, then?" she asked. "A little more public than I was anticipating, but I can make it work."

She had, as she'd once told Ezra, an underdeveloped 'don't get caught' kink and a standing fantasy about getting seduced in the dark corners of a club.

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Dante shot her an amused look over his shoulder - though only briefly, because he was going pretty fast. Even supernatural reflexes could only do so much. "I'm sure we can find an alleyway if we really try," he said, swerving in that direction.

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"Make it a rooftop," Kathy suggested, their speed the only reason her hands were still at his waistband and not checking to see if he was as devoid of underwear tonight as he had been the last time they'd been to Baltimore. "These alleys are likely to be a lot more crowded than the one Ezra found."

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He was about as devoid of underwear, yep. Dante slowed the bike, approaching a side-street, then stopped it entirely, his foot hitting the ground.

"Hey, roofs," he said, "Good one."

He nodded at the stairs. "Boring way or the fun way?"

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"You know, I can see arguments for both," Kathy said, tapping her finger against her cheek. "Fun way is fun. Boring way means you can carry me while I focus on making it hard for you to think. Normally I wouldn't even consider the stairs, but..." Her hand strayed to the front of his pants and she cupped him through the fabric. "I can see the appeal."

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Ah, nice. Dante smirked, nice and slow, and his hand moved back to touch her thigh. "You're actually tempting me about the slow way," he said. "That's new."

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"Sometimes it's fun to do things the slow way," Kathy said. "Builds up the antici--"

She leaned in to nip at his throat, just hard enough to sting for a moment.

"--pation."

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Dante's eyes slid shut for just a second. Mm. Sting.

Then he swung his leg over the side of the bike. "Well, c'mon, then."

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Kathy hopped off the bike, landing in her heels as easily as anyone else would in flats. "So, am I bouncing up ahead of you so you can enjoy the view? Or should I be wrapping my legs around your waist?" She gave him a smile, even as her hands came up to unfasten the first few buttons of her shirt. "I suppose we could always go fast at first and then slow down later."

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"You're the master of the slow tease," Dante said, more amused than anything else. And... maybe distracted, because hey look, he was pretty sure he hadn't seen most of that skin since the picnic.

"I'm just happy to get up the stairs."

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"I like it," Kathy admitted. "I like being driven to a fever pitch. I like the idea of getting you so keyed up, there's no finesse, just driving need. We both know what's going to happen once we get up there, the real question is how much we're going to want it once we're there. And I like the idea of you wanting it very, very much."

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Well, damn. It was kinda hard not to smirk through that.

"Then go on ahead," Dante drawled slowly. "Never had time to watch your ass move while you did your thing."

He liked to be direct.

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Dante found it kinda hard not to smirk while breathing, come on now.

"If you say so." She grinned up at him, then suddenly spun around and raced for the building, ignoring the stairs entirely. "Can you catch me, you think?" she called, before starting to bounce her way up.

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"Oh, that's gonna happen one way or another," Dante called.

He took a leap up, feet touching on thin air, then somersaulted, covering a great deal of ground before his feet found a balcony to touch on briefly.

He was looking up, yep.

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There was a lot to see. A lot of skin, anyway, not much fabric. Kathy had a gymnast's legs, all smooth skin and flexing muscle as she swiftly moved from one section to another. She didn't just jump--there were handsprings and flips, backbends and somersaults. She wasn't just doing it to show-off for Dante. It was times like this that she really felt alive.

"Almost to the top!" she called, laughing.

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A couple of years from now, Dante'd be able to cheat: tear into the fabric of reality and let it do the work for him.

But right now, he was just some kid who could jump high and fast-- just not as fast as her. And since the point was to keep the view, well, he wasn't putting in that much of an effort.

"Your speed is fucking nuts!" he yelled, following right behind. "Legs too!"

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Hey, let Kathy enjoy being able to beat a Nephilim in a footrace while she still could. It was pretty much the only thing she could win.

"Just wait till you see my flexibility!" she called as she vaulted onto the roof. "I have a feeling you'll appreciate that just as much!"

Ezra certainly seemed to!

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Dante's foot found an air conditioning unit, and then he went flipping onto the roof himself, landing feet first and right behind her.

"Probably," he agreed.

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"Well then," Kathy said, looking over her shoulder to smile at him. "Here we are. What do you think--is more slow teasing in order?"