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Diana hadn't really seen much of Cassie since she'd gotten here and that had to be corrected. Diana had heard of the Sensorums being able to create any place, including a training grounds, which was pretty much her intent. Getting rusty was a bad thing.

From Stacy, Diana learned of where Cassie was staying and she headed towards her room, knocking on the hard door. "Cassie? Are you home?"

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A broad smile crossed the Amazon's lips. It had been some time since she'd seen Cassie. Far too long, it seemed. She peered over Cassie's shoulder for a brief moment, observing some of the clutter on the floor.

"We should train today," Diana replied simply.

Cassie resisted the urge to follow Diana's eyes and see exactly what she was looking at, but she hoped it wasn't something incriminating they'd missed. Based on Diana's reaction, probably not.

"Sure. Sounds good! Uh, I'll put on something better for training and meet you?"

Diana paused for a moment. There sure were some strange articles in her room, strange things stuffed under the bed and about the room.

"Are those Conner's things?" Surely she wouldn't let him use her room for a storage unit.

Her smile barely faded but the general sentiment going through her mind was "kill Kon so he has a merciful death this time." It occurred to her that maybe they were exaggerating, but what was being a teenager if you couldn't grossly exaggerate?

She stepped back just a touch, looking over her shoulder at the room. Oops.

"Yeah... we hang out a lot and he leaves his stuff laying around my room all the time. Guys do that. I'll tell him to pick up his stuff next time I see him."

She sighed. "Men." They could be so incredibly messy, leaving their things all about the place. She gave him a little leeway after Crisis, but that didn't give him any reason to be a jerk about it.

"He's not bad," she said, honestly. "Just messy."

Might as well soften her up to Kon now.

"He's really sweet, Diana."

"He does need to know how to clean up after himself," Diana sighed. "In the room and the shower." Was that wiggling in the shower? That had to have been there a long time. Wait, what was that?

Cassie froze, listening for sounds of Kon in the shower.

Oh no.

She thought fast and put that big smile back on.

"On second thought, I don't mind training in these, let's just go. Where are we going? The Sensoriums?"

If she looks closer, she will see feet through the gap between the sonic shower stall and the floor, with toes wiggling nervously.

Because the owner of those feet can be a bit slow sometimes. (He hadn't thought to float, but then he doesn't realize there's a gap where his feet can be seen).

Diana stared. That sure was something wiggling. "Cassie, I think there's someone peeping on you." She approached the shower cautiously, then threw the door open, not expecting who she found inside. "CONNER! Why are you.... Peeping Tom!"

"Aw, nerts."

Seriously, he is so dead. It's not gonna help that he's barefoot and not wearing a shirt and looks all the world like he just tossed some pants on and hid. (Which is what he did).

"I wasn't peeping! You can't peep on someone if you live there t--uuh I mean, um, yeah, totally peeping. My room is across the hall. As in...not here."

--Oh god. Oh God, she's not stupid. He's dead. He's so dead. She is not gonna buy that. Why does he have to blurt when nervous? Curse his blurting nature!

He just covers his face with his hand.

"Would it be easier if I just...go find a building and toss myself off it this time? Save you the effort?"

Edited 2010-01-15 08:48 (UTC)

"Live here?" She didn't need to use her lasso to get the truth, apparently. He ran over his own words enough as it were. It didn't help that he was not only facing an angry Amazon but also that she still had her strength and he did not. Throwing him off a building would only kill him, which was a bad idea. Diana didn't like the idea of killing anyone, even if she was ragingly angry with him. And on top of that, Conner dying would upset Cassie, which would also be bad. There were other ways to deal with miscreants which only lately had she found to be quite effective.

She peered down at him, quite angry. With a firm hand, she pushed him quite strongly against the wall, easily lifting his feet off the ground. "How long has this been going on? Don't lie, or I'll simply have to tie you up to get my answers."

Actually, he does have powers right now, but that's a very recent development. He only just got them back on the mission, after soaking up some sun, and without exposure to sunlight, before long, he'll lose them again. Diana will feel that he's a bit more durable than she last saw him as she slams him into the wall--be he's still not as durable as he usually is, and even if he were, she's still be able to lift him right off his feet like that and manhandle him.

And yet, even amidst the fear of horrible death, the only thing that Kon can think right now, at 'I'll simply have to tie you up to get my answers,' is:

Don't say "Kinky." Don't say "Kinky." Doooon't say "Kinky"...

Wordlessly, he looks to Cassie with an expression that says HALP, rather clearly. If he says the wrong thing, he dies, so he'd prefer to leave most of the talking to her.

Cassie moved forward fast, putting a hand on Diana's shoulder and hoping to high hell she could smooth this over before Kon got hurt. She got downright defensive.

"Diana, stop! We've only lived together since we got rooms, and I was going to talk to you about it."

Diana was a rather understanding person. She was also an embodiment of compassion, which only seemed to help the explanation. She could accept an explanation or at least a decent answer to this question. "Does he treat you respectfully?" She was pretty certain of the answer but she did want to hear it from Cassie.

"Of course!"

"Good," Diana smiled, releasing him not so gently. She had a strange tendency to throw people around, especially Nemesis, who she'd thrown several times when the Amazons had invaded DC deceived by Circe's plans. But that was another story. At least she wasn't throwing Conner off a building.

"I just want you to be happy." She patted Connor on the head then added to him, "If you ever mistreat her, you can be sure I will throw you off a building."

"Believe me, Diana, I know if I mess up that you'll bring the pain," says Kon, still with the 'Please don't kill me' expression on his face. "We're sorry you had to find out, you know, like this----but this is definitely a long-term thing."

He rubs the back of his neck nervously.

"I love her. And--and with the Crisis, she saw me die. I didn't hit that point yet in my time, but I was right there, about to fight Prime, and I found out from Static that further in the future I come back, but--"

He swallows thickly.

"But having to think about stuff like that kinda makes you realize what's important." Chewing on his lip, he goes on, "I know you worry about her and Donna and are really protective and all, but I love her. I have for like half my whole life. I'd never hurt her."

A wince. "Mind control situations aside, I'd never hurt her. But if that turns out to be a thing, I'm getting myself locked up for good."

Her expression softened. "That's what I wanted to hear." Diana was hyper protective of both Cassie and Donna, but she did have to let them live their lives. She didn't want to turn into her mother, forcing a certain ideal upon them and telling them what they could and couldn't have to do to such an extreme. That is what she told her own mother, that she'd become an individual who thought differently.

She breathed an incredibly relieved sigh through her nose, and resisted the urge to give Kon adoring looks while he monologued himself to safety. Okay, maybe she smiled over Diana's shoulder and gave him a look that said he was being incredibly endearing, and yes, Cassie loved it.

Cassie stepped around Diana to grab Kon's hand and stand by him. She gave Diana a smile, even though she felt a touch nervous, still.

"See? So it's all good, right?"

"'All good' in the no maiming way, preferably?"

Cassie's smile was enough to answer many of Diana's questions. "I want you to be happy, Cassie," she replied, "and if this makes you happy, so be it." The answer was pretty straight forward and sincere. As long as Kon remembered to treat her right, then all would be good and he wouldn't find himself hurled from a building.

Cassie nodded.

"Never been happier," she confirmed.

But maybe keeping the room tidier was a good thing to do, regardless of whether Diana was okay with this or not.

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