After Road Trip

Will slowly walks to Cassie's room in Titans Tower. In his mind he was a little frustrated, he'd been to Hell before, been face to face with Satan himself, why was this making him nervous? He's simply repaying her for still trusting him after he tried to kill her when they were in Hell. Will knocks on her door.

Cassie threw her pen down in frustration.
The work at Elias high was harder than at previous schools, not that she didn't understand it. There was just so much.
What she needed was a fun day out...someone she wanted to just be with.
A knock at the door caused her to leave the desk.
".....Will!?"

Will seemed a little shy. "Well, remember back when we were in Hell, I said I'd make you all the clothes you wanted. Well...I just wanted to take up on that offer." Will said as he smiled.

"You do?" Cassie blushed slightly. "I have to...i mean, i should really...."
She looked to the pile of books.
Turning back to Will she smiled.
"So where do you want to go?"

"Well..." Will slightly looked away knowing what this would sound like. And the horror stories he's heard about shopping with girls. "There's a mall not to far from here. I could take you there." Will then looks at the books. "Unless you're busy, I could come back later." He said slightly backing up, it was really obvious he was nervous.

Cassie laughed grabbing her coat "oooohhh nooo, your not getting out of this now!
As fun as a whole day studying sounds i bet i'd have more fun with you....." Realising how she'd phrased it she blushed again.
"um....So this mall...lead on."

Will smirks as he look at Cassie. "So, do you want to go the old fashioned way, or the fast way?" He says looking at the shadow on the wall, with another smirk.

"The fast way sounds like an...experience" Cassie looked at the walls shadows nervously.
Looking at him again she smiled "I trust you"

Will smiles. "Hold on tight." He says as he holds Cassie and shadowports them to a corner of the mall where they can't be seen. "That wasn't too bad was it?" Will says as he sees the most dreaded place he can see first...a shoe store.

Cassie opened her eyes
"That was....nice" she smiled then got distracted by....
"oooohhh, SHOES!! Come on Will!"
Cass grabbed his hand and dragged him to the store.

"What have I gotten myself into?" Will thought as he let himself be dragged into the shoe store. "It's all on me, pick whatever you want." Will said with a smile. At least Cassie seemed really happy.

"Are you sure?" Cassie asked..half her attention on him, half on some black pumps.
After thinking for a second she faced him"So what do you get up to while your not at the tower?"

Will smiles. "Knock yourself out. Hm, well actually I mostly meditate. But believe it or not I do just go out and relax sometimes. Play the guitar a little." Will was suprised all this was coming out, he'd never opened up to anyone. "I used to be in a band when I was younger."

They casually walked throught the store, stopping now and then for random admiration of the shoes from Cassie.
"What kind of music did you play?" She was interested to know about Wills past, about the small things and the big things, the good and the bad too.

Will sits down as Cassie tries some of the shoes on. "Heavy Metal, nothing better as far as I was concerned. That's how I met Buzz actually. He came to one of our performances." Will had no idea what it was about Cassie that was making him be so honest. For some reason he just didn't want to lie to her and he felt comfortable telling her everything.

"Buzz...I've heard a little about him from..." Casie trailed off, not sure about the subject of Greta.
Perking up she put the subject back on track
"So you played on stage then. Did your band have a name? Will you play for me sometime??" Cassie asked as she stood up, testing the shoes. It was nice, that Will was opening up, he was more...'Will' than 'Harm' right now and she liked it.
"What do you think of these?" She wobbled on the killer heels.

Will smiles wide. "My band's name was Harm...sure, I can play for you anytime you want." Will said blushing a little. He then almost yells at himself in his head. "Blushing? I'm blushing?" He shakes the thought off as he looks at Cassie in the heels. He had to admit they looked great on her, his first instinct was to act like they were just ok, but he'd already opened up this much, what's a little more? Will grins. "It's like those heels were made for you."

"Really! You think!" Cassie bounded back to him smiling.
He's a nice guy when he lets himself be. I like that.
"For some reason Harm's always struck me as the name of a band" Sha said sitting next to him to undo the shoes.
"So this guy Buzz...How'd you get to know him so well?

"Basically he came to my band's rehearsal a couple of times. He always seemed kind of weird to me. But I thought that was pretty cool. He used to say how much potential we had. Heh, little did I know that he wasn't really talking about our musical talent. Well...not completely musical talent. He kinda saw the darkness in us, me mostly. We began talking more, and he showed me some pretty freaky stuff. Then he said he'd teach me how to do it. Once you open that door a little, you get addicted." He was getting lost in the story, but he was consciously staying sort of quiet so the other customers couldn't hear. He then smiled a little, even Greta didn't know this much about that part of his life and this they'd only been there for about a half hour.

They had now paid for the shoes and were walking around the mall to the next store.
"So how did you get from being a ....normal human to being able to shadowport and stuff. And who decided your sponsers?"
Cassie was impressed.
Even though Will had been sucked in he'd managed to beat his addiction, although she knew though from Cissies moms alcoholism that something like that always stays with you.

Will walked with Cassie into a clothing store. 'That wasn't too bad.' He thought about shopping with Cassie, getting all this off his chest actually felt good for once. "Here's what happened. It started innoscently enough, you know, making things float, hitting people with trash cans. All fun, right?" Will felt a little embarrased, he was getting into stuff that wasn't so nice, he didn't know if he wanted Cassie to hear about this part of him, but she's already seen him at his worst...or at least pretty close.

"I started getting more and more into the dark arts, finally it started disturbing my other band members. They got out, we split. I thought they were just jealous. Now I see they could tell that I was changing. After that, I met some of Buzz's 'friends'. They said they could make me immortal. Who can turn down that offer, all I had to do was make a sacrifice to any demons I wanted to and I'd have as much power as I could stand. I chose the most powerful ones...including Satan himself. I...just had to make a separate sacrifice for each demon..." Will's voice started to trail off until he saw a pair of jeans. "Hey, these would probably look great on you."

Cassie laughed......it was just the difference of situation.
Here was Will, pouring out his dark soul to her, then he suddenly notices good jeans. She picked out her size to try on.
"I'm sorry, i wasn't laughing at you...just the change of pace."
She smiled as they continued down the racks, picking out clothes as they went. "So these sacrafices, one for each of the 5 right? What was the other 4?"
Cassie held up a blue-star top against her, she wondered if she should mention Greta, The younger girl had been a little off with her since Cassie had mentioned she'd been hanging out with Will more.

"Y'know, I REALLY wanna get you out of that suit and tie...." Connor Kent remarked as Johnny Angel came downstairs. Johnny was getting himself re-settled into his Grams' old manor house in San Francisco, and Kon had offered to help clean the place out. To that end, the Boy of Steel was dressed in work clothes and had just finished getting the old grandfather clock working again when Johnny had come down to the landing. Kon shook his head at his friend's choice of civilian attire.

Johnny blinked, at the comment. "Huh?"

"What I mean is, you remind me of my COUSIN. HE wears suits and ties, too." Connor explained, dusting himself off and closing the clock door.

"And what's wrong with a suit and tie?" Johnny asked, adjusting his glasses.

"Uh... well, nothing. If you're Lex Luthor maybe. You DO need a little variety in your wardrobe, man." Connor joked.

Johnny shook his head. "When do I ever have time? Getting this old place cleaned up to be LIVEABLE again, is almost a full-time job. The chandelier needs fixing... the house needs re-siding, the electricity is from the THIRTIES..... and that's just the immediate jobs. Nevermind, the fact that I need a dishwasher in the kitchen.... and considering the job WE do? All of those house repairs kind of come second, to saving lives. I just... well, clothes shopping isn't my strong point, Connor."

"Well, Metallo isn't threatening San Francisco... and I've already asked my cousin to come over and help fix things for us. Which MEANS... you and I, are going SHOPPING. No excuses!!!" Connor grinned, mischieviously.

Will stopped for a second, then kept going. "It's not a problem. Well the other four sacrifices were my other band members. I felt like they were all jealous and that was my way of making them pay. But Greta's was special, because the forces of good wanted her too, and because she was the last sacrifice." He actually thought about them all the time, but this is the first time he actually told someone about it. "That jacket would go with it too." Harm didn't know what was disturbing him more, that he was bearing so much of himself to Cassie...or his great fashion sense.

"I should bring you shopping with me more oftern, your good!" Cassie joked trying on the jacket.
"ok, so you killed the 'sacrafices', What made you decide to become a supervillian? And why Young Justice?"
Cassie still remembered the first fight between them, it was because of that she joined the team, became who shewas today really.
Without Harm, she's have never been rescued by Superboy......He was such a jerk.

Will admired Cassie in the new clothes, she actually really did look great in them. "Well, if you couldn't tell by the fact that I killed my band and my sister without as much as a blink, I had totally embraced the evil by then. But it might suprise you to know that I have a bit of an ego." Will smirked at Cassie as they kept walking through the store. "I wanted to be the best. And I knew it'd be smart to start out small. I went out searching and the first junior hero I saw was Arrowette. I knew that she was connected to Impulse, so she was the perfect option. And then it turned out that you were a team. I couldn't have planned it better. After that it was simply a grudge for you guys always defeating me." Will said looking at Cassie with a smile.

"You have an ego? Remind me to get you an ego alarm or something." Cassie laughed
"oooo, wait till Cissie knows she was a two for one special. That would get her steamed.....no, i wouldn't tell her actually" Cassie didn't think she'd tell anyone about what Will had just told her in confidence.
"WAit, so the rest of the team was a bonus?" She smirked "We kicked your ass though.....eventually......several times"
They got to the changing room and Cassie left Will outside the door with a half smile.
"so hows things between you and Greta now?
Whats it like, knowing you get a second chance at it all?"

Will leaned against the dressing room. "It's nice, but thing's are still kinda sketchy between us. You know when I first talked to her after coming back she stabbed me. Then she almost killed me on Apokalips. All honesty, at first I felt like...I dunno...killing her was the only bad thing I'd done. The only thing I felt bad about. She was my consciense for the longest time. I was with you guys and everything, but I never felt like a good guy. I felt like I was just doing what she would have wanted me to do."
Will glanced warily at the lingerie section as he looked away and continued.
"Then that other Warder version of her kidnapped her to get at me. When I thought something happened to her, I was willing to do anything, kill anybody to make sure she was safe. Heh, the same thing happened when Shinigami killed you. That's also when I found out that...I might not even be capable of killing anyone anymore."

"Is that such a bad thing though? Being more warey of how important life is?"
Cassie mumbled from inside a sweater.
"I mean...the fact that you can restore life is proof your power isn't from all bad people...some good guys must have given you some freebies"
Cassie sneaked a look out of the cubicle...Will was such a good guy really, he wasn't even trying to look in.........awww, he was blushing at the sight of lingerie!
Previously, on the very few shopping trips she'd been on with Kon he's tried to be in the changing room with her...trying to peak in...it just made the whole thing so difficult.

"It's funny you mention that. One of my sponsors is actually an extremely powerful fallen angel. So while it's corrupted, the original power is good. But it's corrupted to the point that I only use the smallest fraction of it. Even when I was evil.." Will smirked when he realized he used in in past tense. "..I didn't use it. I'm only as strong as my control over my power. But you have no idea how glad I was that my little control over it was able to bring you back. I don't know what I would have done if something had happened to you." Will's eyes went wide as he realized what he said. "How does everything fit?"

Was Evil
Past tense can be good.

Cassie stuck her head out to look directly at Will.
"I know. Believe me when i say i was suprised to even open my eyes again that day. And to see you......" She blushed as she pulled back into the changing room.

I don't know what I would have done if something had happened to you

What did he mean by that? Would he have killed Shinigami? Or been so crushed by it that he'd cr......but that would mean he'd have to really care for her.
She smiled to herself, remembering the time since she'd been brought back by him.
He'd hugged her...the only thing he could think of doing.
Offered his soul in place of hers to Shinigami.
Even allowed himself to return to evil by going to hell to protect her.
She could relate.....when he'd returned from 'the dark' she'd been so...happy.
She felt the same.

She stepped out in the new outfit.
"What do you think?"

Will looked Cassie up and down. "I knew it, that looks great on you." He smiled. In the back of his mind, he knew, while he might be incapable of killing right now. He knew beyond a shadow of a doubt if anything happened to Cassie or Greta, he'd totally flip out.

"What's the next store you want to go to?"

He really enjoyed hanging out with Cassie. "This is pretty fun, we should hang out more often." He said smiling at Cassie, it was nice to have a friend who he could open up to.

"Its just because you like to shop!....All these years Will! Denial!! She laughed
"In truth this has been the most fun i've had in a long time." she looked away with a small smile.
"oooo, what about that store there?" Cassie pointed to a small, obscure kinda shop.
When they got in she asked him to look through a rack of tops for her.
"Look for size.....J" She grinned at the look on his face. "Size J comes after the numbers....really"
While Will was busy she went to the other side of the store and picked up a black T-Shirt with the words
I'M NOT EVIL.
I Just Don't Like You!
After paying for it she came up behind him and covered his eyes.....
"Guess who!!"

Will smiles as he feels the hand over his eyes. "The Easter Bunny maybe?" Will says jokingly as he turns to Cassie.
He picks up one of the tops he was looking through to show her. "How's this?"
He shows her a shirt with:
I'M WONDERFUL AND I KNOW IT.
Will grins while showing her the shirt.
"After we're through with this store want to get a bite to eat?"

"oooooo, i guess you are wonderful....your with me right? gives you the Wondy seal of approval." She joked "I don't think pink is your colour though" She smiled with a wink in his direction.

"Yeah sure...What kid of food do you like?"
She pulled through the rail of tops.
So she's bought him a gift ...after all the things Will had bought her today she felt she owed him something. Just to say thankyou.
She felt her cheeks burn up, could she get up the courage to give it to him?

"I like a lot of different types of food. I think chinese is my favorite though. But I'm flexible, this is your day, what's your favorite?"

Will could tell that something was on Cassie's mind. And it looked like she was blushing.

Will smiled at her, trying to make her more comfortable as they walked into the food court. "Your choice."

"I love Chinese!" Cassie could only think of one word for the day.....Awesome.

"What about over there?" Cassie pointed to a place called 'The GoodLuck' She grabbed his hand and walked towards the place.

"You know what i love about chinese?" She realised they were holding hands in silence... "Fortune cookies"

Will laughed. "Oddly enough, fortune cookies are my favorite part too. Don't tell anyone though, it'd ruin my badboy image." He smiled, he could tell Cass was really enjoying herself, that made everything worth it.

Will keeps holding Cassie's hand as they order. While he joked about ruining his badboy image, he honestly didn't care about it at the moment. He ordered shrimp fried rice, his favorite, and made sure that they both got fortune cookies.

"And don't forget the soy sauce."

Cassie laughed "Your badboy image?! I think it would take a lot to tarnish that...."
She became quiet for a moment while she really looked at his face.
"huh...Looks like ....A Smudge!!" She marked his cheek with soy sauce "Nnooo, Your badboy image is destroyed!!" \She sid with a big smile

She cracked open her cookie over her Chow mein.
"hmmm" Cassie hid it from Wills sight
"Says here....'young wonderful and highly cute grasshopper...' What? It does say that!'" She laughed at his disbeliving face
" '....You will be taken out by a mysterious good-bad-boy and have a great time'
See, they are right!"

Will laughs as he wipes the soy sauce off his cheek. "Ooooh, you're gonna pay for that." He says playfully as he grabs one of the packs, he points it at Cassie, but opens the other part and puts it on his food. "You're lucky you're so cute." He paused for a second before eating...he didn't mean to say that...outloud at least.

He laughed again as he heard her fortune. "Hm, let's see what mine says. It says..." His eyes go wide as he reads it. Will then notices a lot of commotion in one of the clothes stores.

"Lets see what all the fuss is about." He puts the fortune in his pocket as, he takes Cassie's hand and leads her to the store.