Sell you a Bridge chapter 58

Metropolis July 24th 2010 6:00 PM EDT

I  checked my watch again. It was the third time. I didn't even know why.  She wasn't late, we weren't supposed to meet for another ten minutes,  but I was just so damn nervous. This was my first date with Zee. I  didn't count our little make out session or our day out when we were  just friends. I'd even considered wearing one of my good suits but I  thought it was a bit formal. I checked my watch again. It was literally  the exact minute it had been the last time I checked and I winced and  forced myself to calm down.

I  hadn't been this nervous with Annabel (though I probably should have  been obviously) but something about Zee was just intimidating. She was  just so gorgeous and fun and together and dear god I needed to calm down  or I was going to give myself a fucking panic attack. I distracted  myself thinking about what today was. The full moon. The Labyrinth would  arrive tonight. Jim and the other heavy hitters were scouring the city  still but it looked like we were going to be reacting instead of acting  this time.

I  was glad Zee was out of the city today. Reggie and Artemis were in the  tower and safe, but Zee was the one I was most worried about since she  was name checked in my stalker ex's yandere love letter. But Annabel had  to be in Gotham to pull off the ritual so she couldn't be here to  bother us and by the time I got Zee home it would be moonrise and time  for her to make with the magic. Once she was in the Labyrinth all we had  to do was go get her. It was a simple plan but simple worked.

I  felt a minor disturbance in my senses just out of sight and smiled.  Clearly Zee had teleported in. She stepped out from behind the building  just as I expected and I just kind of...gaped. Zee was beautiful.  Always. Every second I was around her I was mentally marveling at how  gorgeous she was, but what I hadn't known before was that Zee didn't  TRY. I could say this for certain, because if this was what trying  looked like I had definitely never seen it before.

As  a guy I knew literally nothing about makeup. I didn't know what eye  shadow was supposed to look like when applied properly, didn't know  about lip lines or any of the other shit I'd seen girls mention in  movies or tv shows. But looking at my girlfriend standing there in front  of me it became obvious that the breathtaking beauty in front of me  hadn't been wearing any makeup before, because this took her previous  level of perfect to a whole new level.

Whatever  she did with her eye makeup made those piercing blue eyes blaze, her  generous mouth looked perfect with that lipstick on, and her hair fell  in soft waves around shoulder bared by the black off the shoulder top  she was wearing over a jean skirt and a pair of thigh high boots, that  made her already shapely thighs look even more amazing. I was pretty  grateful we hadn't started walking yet, because this was the level of  awe that made movie character accidentally walk into open manhole  covers.

She  tucked a strand of hair shyly behind and ear and gave me that brain  melting smile of hers and I swallowed hard. She bit her bottom lip  lightly "So I guess you like it? This is my first date so I wanted to  try dressing up. How do I look." The faint blush dusting her pale cheeks  made her look even more gorgeous if that was possible and I had to  reboot my brain a little to get my head to a sp0t where I could actually  respond.

It  was crazy how your perception could change based on the place someone  had in your life. When I'd been with Annabel Zee had been a good friend  and her objectively god level sexiness had just kind of gone right over  my head. Once I...well broke up with was an incredibly polite term for  how things ended with Annabel, but once that ended I'd started to notice  how gorgeous she was immediately.

Now  though...now she was MY girl. I'd felt her against me, tasted her lips,  something about a gorgeous girl being your gorgeous girl takes her  beauty up to the next level, and Zee's level was pretty high to start  with. I cleared my throat "You look..." I honestly couldn't form  coherent words strong enough for how much she was effecting me, so I  tried to undersell "Absolutely breathtaking." She flushed prettily again  and I almost fell into another daze.

I  was incredibly happy Zee was a hero, because with how infatuated I was  already if she'd been plotting some murder-y shit like Annabel had I'd  have missed all of it. Come to think of it that was probably how I  missed all the signs with Annabel too. Despite not being quite as  jittery or nervous around her I'd still gotten plenty stupid around the  pretty blonde. Apparently I was just really susceptible to acting like a  moron in front of beautiful women.

I  offered Zee my arm like I did last time but she pushed it down. I shot  her a puzzled frown, but she just gave me a shy smile and reached down  to twine her fingers in mine. Handholding on the first date. How lewd.  In all seriousness though my heart was pounding so hard I felt like she  could hear it from where she was walking, every thing we did seemed to  have so much more meaning now, every gesture was more intense and I  couldn't stop fucking smelling the air because she smelled amazing.

I  was so wrapped up in how out of my element I was I almost jumped out of  my skin when she actually spoke. "So, did you have anything you wanted  to do today? I mean we could come up with something together if you want  but if you had any ideas I don't mind doing whatever you want." I tried  incredibly hard not to think about how I could take that last statement  if I wanted to, focusing instead on what she'd actually meant. I had  done some research on things to do in Metropolis, though most of it flew  right out of my head the second I saw her.

I  tried to sound cool and confident when I spoke "I thought we might go  to the Ace of Clubs. It should just be opening up. Unless that's too  much for a first date, we could just do dinner and a movie or  something." The thought of dancing with or even near her was pretty  intoxicating but honestly I would agree with her if she said it would be  fun to amputate our legs together.

She  brightened "No way! That sounds like so much fun, I've never been to a  club before. I can use my magic to get us in." She blushed a bit "I've  never really been dancing though, so if I'm not any good at it don't  laugh ok?" Looking at her long legs in those thigh high boots and  extremely generous amount of booty straining at that skirt I literally  could not think of an action she could perform physically that would  look silly to me, but I kept my mouth shut and nodded.

The  ease with which Zatanna manipulated two pieces of cardboard into  perfect fake IDs for us to get us into the club was honestly scary, and  even I had to admit her magic was damn convenient. My power was broken  but Zee was no slouch in terms of versatility. I wasn't sure what her  limits were but I honestly wasn't in the mood to ask about powers. I  just kind of trailed behind her in a daze as she led me out onto the  dance floor my the hand.

Annabel  and I had kissed. We'd cuddled. There had even been a bit of groping.  I'd kissed Zee before too, so I thought I had a bit of a resistance to  physical interaction with pretty girls. I was wrong. Zee led me out onto  that dance floor with her bright happy smile and in the dim light, the  music started and I was just...blown away. She'd made me promise not to  laugh at her dancing, and I had assumed she was being ridiculous and I'd  love anything she did. I'd dramatically underestimated the amount I  would love it.

It  started with her hips. First a sway. Side to side and then in a circle.  One of her feet slid to the side spreading her legs about shoulder  length apart. Then she started to move. It was hard to describe how she  twisted her body. There was some grinding in there, a bit of rolling,  but none of those words captured it. Her body twisted and curved like a  snake to the music hair flinging back and forth as she lost herself in  it.

I'd seen  Zee fucking teleport, but what she did on that dance floor was more  magical than any spell any of my mentors had ever cast. Because it  wasn't just something I watched, I was a part of it. She moved against  me, with me, and I was so absolutely besotted with how perfect she was  that I almost forgot to be turned on by how fucking sexy she was moving  for me. Almost.

I  put my hands on her hips as she rolled them and pulled her against me  and I felt her brush back against me and then slide away. I wasn't sure  how long we'd been out here but the song had changed at least five times  by now, but it didn't matter. Her body made every note perfect no  matter what song it was a part of. She looked over her shoulder at me as  we danced and her pupils were huge, dilated with arousal and  excitement. I leaned forward and kissed her and she wrapped her hands in  my hair again.

My  hands moved up her body, running over every inch I could touch. My  fingers skating over the taught skin of her stomach as I trailed them  under her shirt and then up her ribs. I expected her to stop me, but  when I ran them over one of her pebbled nipples she just gasped into my  mouth and pulled me tighter against her. It was an act of pure torture  to stop, but I did it. This was too fast. Just like last time.

She  blushed bright red and gave me an embarrassed smile as she tried to  wipe off the copious amounts of lipstick smeared on my face and then her  own before we both started laughing. We went to separate bathrooms and  cleaned up and then out to dinner after out night dancing so we could  cool down a bit, and I spent the rest of the night smiling and laughing  and trying not to fixate on how tightly she'd fisted her hand in my hair  when I rolled her nipple between my fingers.

Finally  the night was over, and we took a bus back to Gotham so she could  teleport home once we got to my place. I smiled sheepishly "So, our  first date huh. Sorry I maybe got a bit pushy there for a second. I  tried not to lose it but you looked so damn gorgeous and I kind of  screwed up. Did you have fun?" I knew Zee was kind of religous, and  groping her tits on the first date seemed like a bridge too far. I  really didn't want to ruin this. I'd been perfectly well behaved at  dinner but you can't exactly unring a bell.

She  giggled and leaned against me as we came up over the bridge into Gotham  and the rising moon illuminated her gorgeous face. "It's fine. Dancing  got me a bit excited too. Maybe we should keep to less physical  activities for our next date." I smiled at her dumbly. She wanted  another date. We were going to go out again. She leaned forward to  whisper in my ear "But I did have fun. I wouldn't mind if you did that  again. You have soft hands." She kissed my ear and giggled again  snuggling back into me.

My  pulse pounded a little faster and my smile got even stupider. I liked  the sound of that. I was about to ask a follow up question or two and  maybe try for a repeat performance when i felt a strange sensation  settle over my mind. Zee sat bolt upright, looking at me with worry and  confusion. Suddenly a voice flooded my mind. A female voice I hadn't  heard in weeks and dreaded ever hearing again.Annabel's cheerful manic  tone rang through my mind.

[Ladies  and gentlemen of Gotham rejoice! Your adventure has come! Venture down  below the city into mighty Labyrinth to seek treasure and fortune! Find  magical artifacts and face deadly monsters to become more powerful! Your  destiny awaits!] Huh. Well that was definitely one way to get sacrifices. I hadn't been expecting that.