My Super Secret Life…Scarlet 14.

Chapter 14

*Previously………

“Nikki?”

“Yes?”

“I want to take you out on a date.”

“Me?”

“Yeah you.”

“Really?”

“Yes, I really, really like you. Heck more than anyone I’ve really met before and…”

Nikki steps forward and kisses me.

I mean really kisses me and it’s that pinning me to her door jam kiss with her soft lips on mine, the flavor of here peach lip gloss and the rush of her scent into my brain because I have to breathe through my nose and her hands just rest on my hips and my girlness tightens like I’ve never felt before and at the same time there’s this excited burst of adrenaline getting all mixed up with the feelings.

Feelings…

Sexually my body is just on…wired…

But the way she’s kissing me, the way she’s touching and holding me all the soft romantic sexuality is melting me too.

I feel…this…

“Yes.” Nikki says as she breaks the kiss, kisses? I think there was more than one.

“Yes.”

“Yes, I’ll go out with you Darcy, I’m free all day Saturday and Sunday.”

“Saturday night?”

“Sure.”

“I’ve uhm got tickets; we can see a show or a movie?”

“A show, I don’t get to see them that much.”

“Okay…” I’m not able to stop smiling or blushing, I feel like I did yeas ago when I first started dating but totally different at the same time.

“Okay…” She smiles this even sweeter smile, that smile she has talking about me to Dale but this one’s for me.

I feel all happy, yay, smiley-melty.

“G’nite Darcy.”

“Goodnight Nikki.”

I step back and she closes her door and I’m leaning on the wall in the hallway and can just feel her there leaning on the other side of her wall.

I take a deep full of life breath and head downstairs and drive my car home pretty quickly for me and I’m inside and locking up and make a beeline for the sky light and pop it open and shift heading as fast as I can into the night sky throwing in an upward corkscrew and grinning like an idiot.

“Whoo-hoo she said yes!”

*And Now…………………….

I don’t know what my life is going to be like with this whole super heroine thing but right now I’m on top of the world literally.

I love flying, I mean in an air vehicle would have been cool to me before but this is just me and my powers and nothing else as I wind myself up and up and up into the sky.

Happy just doesn’t really match this the way that it used to for me and I stop once I’m well above the city and even the air car traffic just up here with the only thing close to this height is the airplanes and the traffic from the shuttle port.

Ark City at night so many people so many lives and lights and it’s all shining down there below me and it’s stunning.

I’m so blown away by being able to do this and at the same time I’m feeling humbled by this too.

I’m flying.

I’m up here doing this and I’ve been granted that privilege. It’s way more than my birthright you know?

I sit there for a few minutes taking it all in before heading north banking eastward until I hit the city coastline and fly over along the harbour and over all these boats and ships and stuff.

I’m oddly smiling at the tankers and the loading docks just because we live in an age of space travel and yet we still have ocean tankers and cargo ships and we still use those shipping containers and there’s still the fact we have trains and stuff for all of that too.

I mean in an age like this some things just are still as they were hundreds of years ago. Oh there’s like little improvements to all of the stuff but there just something…I don’t know right about it?

Maybe it’s this sort of sense that this was the right choice and this is my place in the world.

Then again I just have to figure out my life as Dale and my life as Darcy and how I’m going to still go about keeping this secret if I’m looking at a relationship. I’d love to tell Nikki but I have to protect her from what might come at me down the road.

It doesn’t take too long for me to hit the edge of the city at its northern most point and it’s kind of neat since I’ve never been here. It’s kind of old and it’s kind of poor. The city goes really close to the mountains and the mountain chain or a large part of it rings the city. It’s actually they say the crater from the alien ship underneath everything.

You have the foothills that are all these old industry places still as the first colonists did a large amount of mining way back when and it was just easier to be that close then as you get more towards the city proper you have the old neighbourhoods that were where all the workers and their families live.

There’s this whole odd mixture of slums and these really old places here. Parks and places with statues there’s a lot of old churches here too and just really well built classic old buildings. They build stuff to last in the colonial days especially for like important buildings.

Hey if you’re mining then you have a lot of stone right? Modern cutting tools like lasers were still there back then so there really is a whole lot of it around. Lennox it’s this sort of Amerifrican place…well it was settled by a lot of them has a ton of this even some of the main streets are still stone paved.

It’s kind of marred and messed up though because its home to a lot of gangs and all that nice old stuff is tagged and stuff.

Hannigan is the same sort of thing but it’s that whole Celtic/Irish/UK thing and they border each other too so there is a lot of gang stuff up here on the news. Heck I even heard about this stuff home. I mean there’s just a whole bunch of racial bullshit here…You’d think after so long we’d get a damned clue.

I’m being careful right now and sort of keeping my eyes open looking for trouble but looking after myself too. There’s a lot of anti-meta support here and these gangs well…I just don’t like the ideal of being shot down with some thing like a mini surface to air missile.

It could be worse, it could be L’l Sarajevo, the Slavic and eastern European gangs down there are filled with so much hate for each other and all these crime families that are almost like clans the place was walled off and a police force is there to keep stuff in.

It was actually a military operation at first but after like thirty years of them only stopping every so often the NHDF actually turned over the responsibility to the ACPD.

The place is that bad it’s a no fly zone.

I’ll have to ask why they haven’t been able to stop it with the Ark Angels or the military? I mean there has to be a reason right?

It’s been fun but just thinking of this has me feeling in that heroinics sort of mood. No nothing crazy but I concentrate for a minute and bring all that sort of heads up display stuff again in from of me and I think a call to headquarters.

“Hello Scarlet this is Angie how can I help you tonight?”

“I’m just out for a fly and was wondering if there’s something I should be doing? Like to make this like official?”

“One moment, there I’ve set your status to on-call and patrolling.”

“Cool…just like that?”

“Just like that.”

“I thought that I’d need like signed off on.”

“I did.”

“Oh…can I be nosey.”

“If you’d like.”

“Who are you exactly I’ve never heard of you like in the rosters and stuff.”

“I’m Angie. I’m the network admin for the Ark Angels.”

“Oh…wait the blue haired skinny girl on TV sometimes doing press scrums?”

“The one and only.”

“Okay very cool and really pleased to meat you.”

TY! Actually appears on one of my windows in the heads up display thing I have going. Then her face. “Okay this is beyond bizarre Scarlet I’m actually interfacing with magic energy.”

“Well I was thinking it was me using my powers to adapt to the stuff that worked in the world but hey if you thing it’s cool then it’s cool by me.”

She’s cute, no not in that Nikki way but like she looks fifteen and skinny and she’s got blue shoulder length hair and she’s wearing some kind of body suit.

“Okay, well I’ll leave you to it and I’ll send you feeds Scarlet so you can pick up and respond to calls.”

“That would be awesome.”

…………………………..Wow…If I had an idea then I might have stayed home.

Actually not on your life, or theirs.

Super heroine?

Tonight it was actually first responder. I’m fast and I’m available at least to take first responder calls and all my first aid training comes in handy call after call as I’m there before some of the EMT’s and that’s no judgement on them.

Ark City is a mega city it’s huge…close to four hundred million people live and work here and with that are all the things that come with any, any major city. And there’s only so much that the people hired to help can do at any given time and spread thin.

None of it is anything huge…accidents at home two were burns, a lift assist for a senior, putting out a dumpster blaze, helping people that were in a car accident and using my scarlet energy to make like a shield bandage on a bad bleed for one persons leg until the right guys came and took over and I even got to beam/laser cut the door off of the car for them.

It’s about three AM when I sign off from HQ and I head home.

I try things a little different this time…I pull the power inside but I don’t turn it off and I concentrate on floating myself down.

It’s harder, it’s a lot harder and new…I can feel this is new to both of us me and the Scarlet Angel Energy. It’s a heck of a lot slower too. But I’m out as in not glowing and I’m flying…not fast but I’m still flying and that means I’m less visible.

That’ll be good to know and good to use coming and going from home and in the field…you never know when I’m going to need to sneak up on someone.

I hit my shower feeling like I actually accomplished a huge amount of stuff today and I hit the bed a happy girl.

I even wake up happy because it’s Friday.

Not even that whole TGIF thing either but Friday…after Friday is Saturday and Saturday is my date with Nikki.

I don’t have classes until just after lunch so I take the time to actually sleep in until eight and then I sit after some tea and I focus my powers shifting to Scarlet and then in deeply on myself until I’m there.

That place with grams…inside the Scarlet zone.

“Grams?”

I get moved…that visual whoosh as I’m brought to her.

I think…I mean I’m not sure how this works if it’s Grams or a bit of her or if this is a real place or real to just me or real and made for her.

It’s a yard of this sort of temple place with grass and a low brick wall on either side and grass and she’s repairing a motorcycle?’

“Grams?”

“Hi Sweety what can I help you with?”

“Uhm….I need some help?”

“Oh, I can advise but I can’t help with much other that that you know.”

“I know but I was wondering if you could teach me?’

“Teach you?”

“How to be a girl. The tomboy thing sort of works for Darcy but Scarlet not so much.”

“Oh…you had what in mind actually?”

“Sitting, posture, walking and stuff handwriting I still can’t write like a girl does even a messy one.”

“That, that we can help you with.”

“We?”

“The others, we’re family honey and I’m a farm girl there’s other Scarlet Angels that can teach that stuff better than I can.”

“Oh…are any of them performers?’

“Yes, there’s a few one was even in the theatre scene in Ark City.”

“I’d love to know… (Blush)…I sort of made out that Darcy was a theatre student.”

“Well…we have some work to do don’t we?”

“Yeah….and Grams?”

“Yes honey?”

“Can I work on your bike with you?”

She gives me this warm grandma smile and she’s beautiful y’know. She’s still my Grandma but here she looks just like she turned greying…not as old as she was.

I step over and I hug here and we do that close woman hug walk hip to hip thing as we leave her area and head off so I can learn more…

Being able to do this with her, with them…it’s likely my greatest power.

It’s already my greatest gift.