Timewarp: Whoops, I didn't mean to {Lani}

[Cassidy Mitro]

Wild nights and even wilder parties were what university was all about right? It didn't help that she was with a group of friends who thought a pop quiz involved asking questions with the consequences of a wrong answer being a shot of tequila or vodka. Cassie stumbled up the walkway of her and Lani's home trying to work out which of the blurry keys in her hand would open their font door. Cassidy stumbled up the stairs to their appartment and giggled when she nearly face planted before putting a finger to her lips.

"Shhhh we have to be really quiet..."
Cassie told herself barely making it to the front door without falling. The first key didn't work so she tried the next. That failed too and then the next. Cassidy sighed and lay her forehead against the door. Her keys fell from her hand and she slumped down to the floor knocking softly.

There was a chance that Lani would still be up right?
"Lani...."
Cassidy whispered then for some random reason she was giggling, her back against the door. The world in front of her was spinning and she felt immensely happy. She loved being drunk for just this reason and it was just the right kind of drunk as well. She didn't feel the need to throw up which was part of why she liked having not gone overboard with her drinking. She knew what she could and couldn't take.

Cassidy knocked again harder this time and spread her knee high booted legs in front of her, the mini skirt she was wearing hitching up higher then it was supposed to. Oh God she was in so much trouble.
"Lani...."
Cassidy pouted.
"Help me..."
She sighed and lifted her eyes to the front door bell. The neighbours would be so pissed off if she rang the front doorbell and woke the whole floor up. It must have been past 3 am in the morning.

A decent time considering she normally made it to 6 am.

[Lani Hunter]

"Wo-Oh livin' on a prayer!" Lani sang along enthusiastically and badly off key. He tapped his pen on his desk to the beat effectively ignoring the paperwork on his desk. He definitely had a lot more sympathy for the security staff at Hammel. He almost regretted giving them so much grief now that he had to file and write up so much paper work as well. Almost... Lani grinned at the thought, if someone nearly ten years ago had told Lani that he would be working law enforcement he would have laughed in their faces. Yet here he was. The floater, he wasn't really sure what he was doing. He worked undercover a lot and was a unofficial swat team member, a telekinetic, he found, could be very flexible. He was beginning to feel old. With a semi-steady job and control over his power his mother had begun nagging him about grandchildren. He cringed a little at the thought.

Dismayed by his lack of future Lani had decided he had two choices. Prison or a life of crime. Lucky for law enforcement he didn't chose a life of crime. It was rather interesting. With Cassie's help and support he helped shut down his old mob boss, who he realized was not as kind a man as Lani had thought. Even luckier the judge assigned to his case declared all of Lani's previous offenses (known or unknown) expunged. Then to his further shock they started recruiting him. Well the rest isn't important. Lani is living the dream... well if that dream is a small two bedroom apartment shared with his adopted sister. Speaking of which... He glanced at the clock and shook his head. Cassie was probably out drinking again. That girl worried him sometimes. She can take care of herself, he reminded himself. He signed a paper and figuring Cassie wouldn't be back til later he changed into sweat pants and took off his shirt and flopped down on the couch. He was at least glad she was out with friends. He had made her get drunk with him the first time so that he could be there if anything happened but after that he felt rather unneeded.

He flickered his eyes open a few minutes later... or was it hours? He shook it off and started to roll over when he heard a banging on the door. He sat up when it continued. He peeked out the window and shook his head chuckling seeing Cassie hitting the door. He shook his head and grabbing his key trotted down the stairs to the main floor. He pushed the door opened and felt a little shock at the cold concrete under his bare feet. He smiled down at her shaking his head in mock exasperation. She was a drunken mess, but she was his drunken mess. "Back so soon, Cass?" He teased with a raised brow. He smiled at her. "Come on, lets get you upstairs." He put one arm under her arm and let her lean on him. He absently marveled at how tall she had gotten. He half carried her into the hall and then with a second thought he kicked the door back open and reached his hand out catching her keys as they flew to him.

[Cassidy Mitro]

The moment the door was opened Cassidy looked up into the face of the man she would forever and always see as her hero. Her lazy smiled curled around half glossed lips and as Lani bent down, her arm fell around his shoulder. It had become natural for her to nuzzle her face into the crook of his neck. Her free hand moved to his chest and her fingers curled against it.
"I lost my geographics pop quiz again. I got sssssseeeeveeen answers wrooooong."
Cassidy tried to get the arm around his shoulder closer to her other hand which held up five digits in front of Lani's face as he aided her into the house.

Her face nuzzled into his neck again. He always had smelled so good. He was so strong too. She didn't need to do anything around Lani. He provided whatever she needed all the time. Her eyes trailed up his neck to examine his face which was blurred around the edges but her main focus was him in the end. His face in the blur. His strong set jaw. That one beauty spot on the right side of his jaw. Then about four fingers from there was another one, on his neck. Cassidy was oblivious to where she was being taken.

Or what was going on around her. All she saw was Lani. Her finger traced from his chin, the beauty mark there, down to the one on his neck. he always smelled so good. Cassidy leaned in and placed butterfly kisses from the one on his neck back up to the one on his chin.
"You always smell so good, my Lani, My Hero Lani..."
Cassidy purred against his skin tightening her arm around his shoulder.

[Lani Hunter]

He smiled as Cassie folded into his arms. How many times had they been sitting on the couch curled up like this? The memories were all pleasant ones, Lani had never minded their closeness, she was his sister. It was really funny when Caroline came to visit. He became the object of a tug of war in a sense, he didn't mind. What he did mind was when they decided to rent a scary movie and sit on either side of him. It was really hard to hide behind a pillow when you're trying to be brave. Lani just wasn't good with horror movies, never had been and probably never would be. Sure he enjoyed them, but with the lights on and a chair up against the door. He helped her inside and couldn't help but laugh at her explanation.

"Again?" He asked with mock exasperation. "You could always try studying like a normal person," he teased. He contemplated the stairs. This was going to be interesting. Her hands moved around his shoulder and face. He gave her a curious look when she touched his face and neck. He laughed as she gave him kisses, she was an affectionate drunk. "Alright," he said. "Let's get you upstairs." He helped her to the base of the stairs and then looked at them hopelessly. "How are you with stairs?" He asked, he could and probably would carry her up the stairs. He didn't trust her feet when she was drunk.

He blinked in shock when she complimented his smell. He raised a brow at her and shook his head. "You're drunk," he informed her, just in case she had forgotten. He blushed when she called him her hero. He always felt self-conscious when she said that. He felt like it put him on a pedestal he didn't deserve. He hugged her close to his body and his skin twitched a little in reaction to her cold hands. "Okay, hold tight," he said and bent a little to grab her behind the knees and hold her close to his chest. He started up the stairs breathing a sigh of relief when they reached the landing. He set her feet down and helped her the rest of the way to the door. He noticed their neighbor's door opening and he ushered Cassie inside not wanting to deal with their very judgmental old neighbor.

[Cassidy Mitro]

Cassidy missed his wramth and his body. She really did feel unstoppable in his arms. Safe and warm and like she belonged more then anywhere else in the world. Life with Lani was amazing and the fact that both her parents thought she was safer with him then anywhere else in the world was a relieve and a very good thing since it meant that she could go out and be a young student rather then living under the rules of adults. Lani understood that she needed her litttle tastes of freedom.

He understood because he was still young and they were cut from the same cloth. They lived on the edge and never backed down from a dare or a challenge. Cassidy was helped up the stairs and his laughter brought a lazy sort of smile to her face. She was too drunk to be bothered with feeling insulted by the word 'again' asked in such a questioning tone of voice.
"I do study but I'm not normal... neither are you. You're amazing and special and soooo cool."

Her words were incredibly slurred as she spurted her compliments and curled easily against him. She needed this now. The warmth and strength of her Lani. He laughed again at her kisses not really realizing what Cassidy had in mind for her carefully placed kisses. Once asked how she was with stairs Cassidy smirked and let her eyes travel up those stairs to the very top then she slumped against him faining her drunkeness a notch, not that she needed to really.

"When did they become so many...."
Cassidy moaned. It was so adorable when Lani blushed. How come she'd never noticed how adorable he was until now. He mentioned that she was drunk and a grin settled on her lips.
"Maybe you should be too. It would make you a whole lot more fun Lani."
Her slurred tone had a bit of a flirtatious twinge in it now. She was suddenly swept off her feet and into his strong arms.

He'd done this before. He was always so good at being sweet and protective. Disappointment only caught Cassidy when they reached the top of the stairs and she was put on her feet again before being ushered into the appartment. Cassidy looked up at Lani when they were safely in the appartment.
"Lani? Will you stay with me tonight?"
Cassidy half purred at him, big blue eyes locked on his.

[Lani Hunter]

Lani had to admit that when Cassie asked to move in with him he had been a little skeptical and worried. For one, he didn’t want her father to flatten him, but apparently he liked the idea. It had all around been a good idea and besides these lapses were one of them came home too drunk to think straight. His days of that had slipped to the low numbers when Cassie moved in. He wanted to set a good example for Cassie, however… He smiled absently, he was glad Cassie had moved in. He couldn’t imagine life without her now. It was different with her than with Caroline. He had saved Caroline’s life but Cassie had saved his. He had been rocketing down the abyss and she had somehow made him see sense.

What had made their relationship special was that she didn’t freak out when she found out about his secrets. She hadn’t shunned him. He didn’t know what he would have done if she had. Honestly, she was as much his rock as he was hers. He laughed a little at her slurred words. She had a point, they weren’t too different. Sometimes that was what worried Lani. It was more of a feeling that he knew what he would do in a situation and he was terrified she would do what he was thinking. “Ok, ok, you’ve got me there. Normal is certainly not something you and I are good at. But, be careful, I still need to fit through doors,” he teased making a jab at himself. He was terribly arrogant, maybe that was why he couldn’t back down from a challenge. "Did you walk back on your own?" He asked his face suddenly hard and no nonsense. If her friends had let her walk home alone he was going to throttle them.

He shifted so he could support her better. Cassie had grown quite a bit, he reflected looking at her in her miniskirt. He might have had a heart attack if he hadn’t seen her grow up. Someone had once scolded him for being reckless and making them worry, well now he knew how they felt. She was young and God knew when he was her age he had been scaling buildings in the middle of the night. Not to mention drinking and just plain losing control. Lani looked at her again and smiled as the realization that she wasn’t the same little girl who he had knocked Thyme out for. Now his protective instincts hadn’t faded and he definitely played the intimidating older brother part very well for her past boyfriends. However, over the years he had grown to rely on her as well. He counted on her.

He smiled a little resisting the urge to mess with her. What she needed was to get somewhere safe and get some sleep. Chances were she would have a killer hangover tomorrow. He snorted out a little laugh as she suggested he get drunk. Part of him said, why the hell not? And the other told him not to do it. “I’m always fun,” Lani protested then added, “We’ll see, Cassie.” He wasn’t even sure what kind of alcohol they had in the apartment. He would really like to piss off their neighbor. That judgmental old crow. She made it clear to Lani and Cassie what she thought of them living together whenever she was able to trap one of them. No matter how many times he tried to explain that they didn’t have that kind of relationship she wouldn’t listen. It was really better to leave crazy people to their delusions.

He locked the door and put the keys on the little table. As he turned he jumped a little not realizing she was still so close behind him. His green eyes met her blues and he smiled. He patted her head and smoothed her long hair. He was a little startled by her question and pulled her tight against his chest. “Of course, you know I’m always here for you.” He released her and helped her to the couch.

[Cassidy Mitro]

{BTW I'm sooooo sorry! I'm trying to keep up. Things went boom}

Big head? Lani? It didn't make sense for Lani to be egotistical. Lani wasn't. Even in her drunken state, Cassidy could simply not see that happening ... ever. Lani was like prince charming and even though he might have strayed from the path a little bit he was cut from the same cloth as her dad. Maybe that was why Lani was so special to her. He reminded her of her dad. She knew he wanted to protect her and didn't want her to get hurt but she was young still and she needed to get hurt some times.

Cassidy was asked if she walked back on her own and she frowned, suddenly a bit perplexed at the question before her mind started working through what had happened barely an hour before. Soon the girl gave up and shrugged. How had she gotten home anyway? She'd possibly find out from Adam at some point. Right now she didn't care and she didn't even want to answer it. Cassidy saw his serious face and giggled. Her protective Lani, so sweet and good. Cassidy's suggestion was not really dismissed.

But Cassidy knew better then to expect Lani to get drunk with her. What was he so afraid of anyway? It wasn't like they weren't just great together. They were super great together.
"You are fun... but you could be a whole lot more fun if you were drunk...."
Cassidy insisted hopefully. It was all in vain though. Lani was in protective big bro mode right now. Cassidy was pulled against his chest and she smiled contentedly, wrapped into his big strong arms.

She needed this. If only he knew how much. Cassidy leaned into him as he lead her to the couch and she took that opportunity to drop a bomb on her 'brother'. Her hand slipped in around his neck and she pulled herself up against him to press her lips to his. She sorta had to stop them from moving any further toward the couch. He was far taller then she was, far broader and stronger and now that she had him close enough, and he'd given in to spending the night with her, she could make her move.

Her lips parted against his in a welcome desire to deepen the kiss. Her eyes fluttered shut. So this was what it felt like to kiss her hero? Her Lani? All those times she'd kinda wondered what is was like to have someone like Lani as a boyfriend. Sure he was great as a brother. He wasn't refined and sensative like Sage. Lani was awkward and rather spontaneous. Something that Cassidy had come to feel comforted by. Cassidy also wasn't thinking about any sorts of difficult situations she might be putting Lani in. She just wanted his closeness right then.

[Lani Hunter]

[[Don't worry about it, it happens lol]]

Lani gave her a hard look when she didn't answer immediately. He knew what that meant. She probably didn't remember, or she had walked home on her own and didn't want him to know. He had gotten pretty good at telling when she was lying to him and visa versa. He sometimes relapsed and Cassie seemed to always know when he was lying to her. Lani wasn't at all happy to discover that Cassie didn't know how she had gotten home. If he had told her once he had told her a million times... He sighed and shook his head at her. "Why didn't you call me? Who were you with?" He asked going through a mental list of the friends of hers that he knew. "Adam?" He practically growled. "I'm going to kill him." He flexed his hands in emphasis. Apparently his fury fell on empty ears as Cassie stole his thunder by giggling. He sighed heavily and shook his head and smiled at her.

She was really drunk, it had been a while since it had been this bad. He was really going to have to figure out how to convince her that getting drunk didn't count as studying. He ruled out drinking, if he got wasted too what good was he going to do. No she needed to sober up or go to bed. He didn't trust himself to take care of her if he was drunk as well. He knew himself when he was drunk. He was the one that was more likely just be really chill and never believe that anything could be wrong. Also given the right situation he became very flirty and well....

"Yeah, maybe some other time," he lied. "Right now you need to sit down." He tried to sooth her feathers and get her to the couch. She wasn't being very cooperative tonight, usually he could get her to lay down and relax, then they would talk, usually about mundane things. Cassie was certainly an interesting drunk, she was bold and daring and it terrified him. He stumbled a little as his legs tangled with hers. "Cassie, come on," he said gently trying to get her to cooperate. He would stay with her all night if need be. He didn't have to go into the office tomorrow and Cassie was far more important in his eyes. However apparently the two of them had different meanings to the same phrase.

Lani stopped going rigid with shock as she pressed her lips against his. He was too stunned to moved and he just stared with wide eyes at her as his mind went racing a million different directions. What was going on? Was she serious or just drunk? What was he going to do? Had he ever considered dating Cassie? Of course he had, she was his best friend and she had grown into a strong, beautiful woman, but she was also his little sister and he hadn't allowed himself to think of her in a romantic sense. He loved her more than life but not in the way a lover would, but the way a brother would. He was her protector and her brother, she wasn't a little girl anymore but in his eyes she would always be his little sister. He would be too afraid to hurt her or that he would take advantage of her. He hated having to break this to her but this was just opening a can of worms and he should end it before it began.

He grabbed her arms gently and pushed her away. He blinked a few times waiting for his mind to catch up with the situation. "What are you doing, Cassidy?" He pushed her gently back until he was able to push her down onto the couch. He sat next to her. This needed to be handled gently, he had never even imagined that Cassie might have those kinds of thoughts about him. "Cassie, I'm sorry, please understand, I love you too much." He brushed her hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear so he could see her face better. This was a rather uncomfortable and unanticipated situation. "And I won't take advantage of you while you're like this."

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