everylittlegirl

Characters: Hayley & Kon
Summary: After Kon leaves the turtle, but doesn't realize it.
Warnings: None

Hayley didn't really have any plans for the day. She was walking around, taking in the sights and getting some fresh air, trying not to think about the people who had left and the people who still remained. It was the kind of day where she didn't want to think at all. Except then she saw something she didn't expect at all. It looked like Kon. It couldn't have been, of course, because he was gone. And he would have said hello if he had come back.. He wouldn't just show up and not say anything. Would he?

She followed the guy down the block toward the suite that used to be his. Her fingers lifted without thinking about it, running along the edge of the glasses on her head. Kon had given them to her before he left and, although she didn't use them often, she wore them nearly every day. It was a much needed reminder to her that it wasn't too late for her to be the hero they believed her to be.

The guy who looked like Kon disappeared behind the door of his suite. Not a moment later, Hayley found herself standing on the doorstep, knocking at the door. She dropped her hand, realizing that maybe it wasn't Kon at all. Maybe it was someone else entirely, someone who just sort of looked like the guy from behind. But what if it was him and he'd simply forgotten her? It was still better to see him, if that was the case.

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Everytime he felt Hayley tense up it was like what they had between them took a small step back. They both weren't out right affectionate people, heck there had only been two people he'd been affectionate with in his life. Well...four, but two of them didn't count and one of those had been drug induced.

Kon didn't stop her from moving back, he gave a smile and a small squeeze to her shoulder before he let his hand slowly drop away.

That smile had the same reaction as her tensing up and it made his own one fall until only the corners of his mouth looked like they were more upturned. Kon stepped back and gestured for Hayley to come in. Was this still his place even though he had apparently been gone? Or was what he thought was his room, actually someone elses? Sometimes he missed having his treehouse back in the Wood sector.

"If everything's still in the same place in the kitchen, I can brew up some coffee if you want?"

"Yeah, that would be cool," she replied lightly as she slipped past him and into the apartment of sorts.

Now that Hayley had had some time to get over the initial shock, the memories began to set in. She was struck again with how he looked now, how much older and more attractive. He looked strong, less like a friend and more like.. well, Clark. Who kind of reminded her of a weird mentor. It was weird to find herself thinking of Kon as both a brother and a hot close friend.

"I'm sorry," she added, following him into the kitchen. "You know I'm glad to see you. I'm just not good at.. you know, hugging and all of that. The only reason Bart and I were even a thing is because he kissed me first."

It was meant to be reassuring, but the reminder that Bart was gone almost made her flinch. Not to mention that talking about she and Bart in general was kind of awkward, since she still wasn't entirely sure what had happened between them. She wondered if Kon knew that Bart was gone or if he'd somehow slept through that whole everyone leaving thing.

He showed her a smile as she spoke. Kon knew, he'd know Hayley long enough to know what she could, and often was, like. He also knew that there was a lot there that he didn't know that had come up since he'd changed. With Bart, he had guessed he was gone, but then Hayley could have holed herself up for some length of time again, so it was more of an educated guess rather than outright knowing.

Once he was in the kitchen, things were straight on to autopilot and he wasn't surprised to find things were still in there place, Kon would have been more surprised if he found things to have actually been moved. He grabbed two mugs and got the water boiling along with the coffee.

"Don't be sorry about any of that stuff. Temporary forgetfulness."

The smile he had was a little stronger than it had been before and he set about making their drinks once the water and everything was ready. Holding out a mug for her to take.

"So...I was gone? Like genuinely gone?"

Hayley leaned on a nearby counter, watching him work. The familiar movements of a friend, the unfamiliar body of a stranger. She had witnessed profound transformations of some actors back home, those before and after pictures where people credited 'puberty' as being responsible for transforming an awkward kid into a sexy young man or woman. Usually woman. It was kind of like that with Kon, only without seeing any of the middle and without him being that gangly or awkward before.

She smiled at his reply and his immediate forgiveness of her actions. That was the familiarity that she missed more than anything, someone who understood her at levels she sometimes wasn't even sure she understood herself. Not in some deeply philosophical way. Just in that it had become intuitive at some level.

"Yeah. It felt like forever." She straightened and accepted the mug from him, holding it between her hands to warm them. "And trust me? You guys were the only ones who thought I was super hero material. It sucked without you."

PSL

Finally free enough to taaaag!

Wooooooo!

And then the shit hit the faaaaan!

sorry rp has been hard <3