#kazimieras

You had only been dating for a few months when Mighty Med was destroyed and you, and many other superheroes were still missing, presumed to be dead. At first Kaz had tried to be optimistic, then it became denial until finally he was forced to accept that you were gone.

Joining forces with the Davenports to find those responsible gave him something to focus on, but there was always a pit in his stomach that left him feeling like he'd swallowed battery acid. Time went by, and there were more superheroes confirmed to be dead and it became more likely that you hadn't survived the destruction of the hospital.

Throughout your relationship, Kaz taught you about normos as you hadn't interacted with them aside from saving them, and it included the holidays. You were intrigued by Christmas and despite it being September, took a photograph with your boyfriend wearing matching sweaters. Kaz found the sweater as itchy as he did ugly, but he was always happy to oblige you and now the photograph was one of the few he kept on his phone. One of the few he would ever have now that you were presumed dead.

When Halloween rolled around Kaz introduced you to pranks and costumes, and you had attended the dance at his school although you never went there like Skylar did, too busy travelling the universe fighting supervillains. But when it came to Kaz, you always carved out time and even when it seemed like you wouldn't make it, after rushing off to save normos from one of your enemies, you practically ran into the decorated gym hall wearing the costume you had spent an afternoon shopping for and surprising your delighted boyfriend.

Oliver could only observe as you danced with his best friend, whispering as you swayed side to side, arms around his neck loosely as you smiled contently.

"I have to admit, I had my doubts when Kaz asked her on a date, but they actually make a really good couple. They seem really happy." Skylar commented.

Oliver knew Kaz would struggle most around Halloween so when he started pulling pranks on the days leading up to the holiday, he had pulled everyone aside and encouraged them to pretend to fall for it. Bree crossed her arms as she asked why and Oliver explained how much it meant to his best friend, who was struggling with the loss of you.

Chase was running tests and jotting down notes on the results from the test tubes when Kaz entered with a table on his shoulders, a bowl glued onto it with a hole for his head, popcorn swishing inside the bowl with each step he took.

"I told you, I'm not pouring butter on you."

"It's not that. I need your help. I'm stuck."

Chase lifted his head, raising an eyebrow, and trying not to smirk too much at the predicament he'd found himself in. He set his pen down before walking over to help him.

"Oh! You're going over the head that actually makes way more sense."

Kaz dusted kernels off his hoodie as Chase set the table down. "Thanks. Man, I can't prank you, I can't prank Bree - I know she's faking her shock. The only one's left are Oliver and Skylar, but they know all my tricks. Halloween is ruined."

Chase knew Oliver was right. Kaz didn't speak of you often, unless someone else brought your name up first, and everyone always hesitated as they didn't want to upset him further. But on a day that you had only celebrated once, pulling pranks with your boyfriend who taught you everything you needed to know about the holiday, and normos like him, Kaz was unable to escape the space at his side where you used to be.

"Well, you can hang down here with me." Chase suggested.

Kaz adjusted his hoodie so that the hood wasn't pulling at his neck. "I'm not that desperate." He jested half-heartedly before looking at the bionic hero. "But thanks. I know I haven't been easy to be around lately." He patted his shoulder as he headed to the door and as Chase turned to watch him leave with his tilted low, he decided that it was time to find some definite answers. Were you alive and in hiding? Or were you one of the many victims caught in the destruction of Mighty Med?

After working secretly for weeks, Chase left the penthouse and followed up any leads he found, but they never led him anywhere. So, when he suspected that your archnemesis was operating in the city, he went to check it out, and when he was discovered, was saved by a cloaked figure. Your archnemesis fled while you helped Chase to his feet, your hood falling in the process.

"Y-You're alive!"

You smiled at the bionic hero who you had been following closely since Kaz, Oliver and Skylar formed a team with the two Davenport siblings. You had successfully watched from the shadows as they grew stronger as a team, but when Chase began snooping around and drew the attention of your archnemesis, you knew you couldn't stay hidden anymore.

"Hello, Chase."

"And you know my name." He tilted his head curiously. "Have you been watching us?" You glanced away briefly, appearing guilty, and he knew he was right. "B-But why didn't you tell Kaz you were alive?"

"There is a small group of us, trying to rebuild without drawing any attention. But when you started looking for me, my archnemesis followed you believing it would lead to me so he could destroy me once and for all."

Chase shifted awkwardly, rubbing the nape of his neck, "Sorry."

You merely smiled. "How is he?"

"Horrible." Chase said, and noted that you were surprised by the revelation. "Well, you are still presumed dead."

You tilted your head, as if confused, but before Chase could read too much into it, you told him to focus on Roman and Riker and took off before he could say anything else.

He was making his way back to the penthouse when Bree called, and told him to meet the team and he knew Roman and Riker had decided to show themselves again. In the midst of the mayhem, there was no time to reveal everything he'd found out, including telling Kaz that you were alive.

He grappled with how to broach the subject, especially since you hadn't wanted to be discovered. However, when the team returned to the penthouse Skylar noticed a figure on the balcony and everyone prepared for another confrontation but his steps slowed when he recognised the cloak.

You floated off the railing and Chase stopped his sister before she could strike. The speedster looked at him in surprise, but she realized why when you lowered the hood. She had only seen brief glimpses at Kaz's phone when he was flicking through photographs, but she recognised you instantly.

"Y/N." Skylar's fighting stance faltered.

"Y-You're alive?" Oliver stuttered.

You looked at the superhero, then at Oliver, before your teary gaze drifted to your boyfriend who had shut down. "Hi."

"But how? We thought you were -" Oliver continued.

"Dead." You nodded at your friend gravelly, glancing at Chase and causing Kaz to look at him before he turned to you. "I heard that."

Kaz stepped forward and you closed your eyes when he brought you into his arms, tightening his hold when you buried your head in his neck like you used to, placing your arms around his back as you returned the embrace.

You pulled back when you remembered you had company and Skylar reached you before Oliver could, hugging you tightly. You rubbed her back before finally hugging Oliver.

"How did you find her? And why didn't you tell me you knew she was alive?" Kaz directed at Chase, his tone heavy with emotion but not accusatory.

"I didn't until a few hours ago." Chase explained. "Before I could say anything, Roman and Riker showed up. I didn't tell you I was looking for her, because I didn't want to get your hopes up just to crush them again."

You turned to your boyfriend, "I can explain everything."

You followed the group to the living room when Bree suggested it was a conversation best not had on the balcony and stood while they filled the sofa. You took a breath, crossing your arms as you braced yourself for all their questions before beginning your story.

Kaz, you noticed, was abnormally silent, and you were worried that he was upset with you for not revealing you were alive sooner. After answering everyone else's questions, he stood up and asked to talk to you alone for a minute.

Skylar stood as you prepared to leave, and gave you one last hug. "I'm glad you made it out."

You smiled softly, nodding at the group before following Kaz up the stairs to his bedroom. You lingered in the doorway hesitantly, biting the inside of your cheek when he still didn't speak.

"I'm sorry I didn't contact you." You pulled away to meet his gaze. "But it was safer if they thought I was gone. If they know, they will hunt us down." You said, referring to the other superheroes who were building their strength whilst searching for more survivors.

He sighed as he took your hand, looking at the way it looked in his, running his thumb along your fingers. "I get it. I don't like it, but I-I understand why it was necessary."

"I wrote you letters." You said softly.

"You did?"

You nodded, sending him a small smile. "I missed you."

Kaz lifted the hand he held to rest it on his chest, swallowing the lump in his throat. "I missed you too."

You closed your eyes when he placed a hand on your cheek, leaning in to kiss you. It was tentative at first, but once he felt the warmth of your touch, he realized he wasn't dreaming this time. You were really here, and he held back the tears causing his eyes to burn.

After you pulled away, he didn't allow for silence to fill the room - as he had spent too long sitting in it, trying to turn his pain into determination. To master his new abilities, and to take down Roman and RIker.

"Halloween sucked without you."

Your smile grew fond as you recalled your last Halloween together. "Really?"

He nodded, "But everything did."

You placed your hands on the nape of his neck and he rested his hands on your waist as you stepped closer, until your chests brushed with each breath. "I'm here now. And I'm not going anywhere."

"Promise?"

You nodded gently. "I promise."

You closed your eyes as he kissed your forehead, letting his lips linger for a few moments before pulling away.

"I'm going to hold you to that."

That night, you had dinner with the team, and Donald who stopped by after learning you were alive, but your meal was abandoned when you were needed elsewhere and Kaz got deja vu as you rushed to the balcony as you explained the situation.

"I can help." Skylar said, both a suggestion and a plea, but you shook your head.

"I'll be fine." You turned to your boyfriend as you shrugged on your cloak and sighed as you stepped forward to hug him tightly, an embrace he returned.

"Be careful." he murmured in your ear. "I just got you back."

"I will. I promise." You placed a hand on his chest as you kissed him goodbye, clutching his shirt for a moment before you stepped back.

You jumped effortlessly onto the railing and looked at the team over your shoulder, sending them a smirk before flying off. Kaz sighed, shoving his hands in his pockets as he watched you disappear from view with a loud boom followed by a strong gust of wind that forced them to take a step back to avoid stumbling.

Oliver moved closer to pat his shoulder and Kaz flashed a brief smile before turning to thank Chase for tracking you down, or trying to and accidentally succeeding.

You returned to the penthouse over an hour later, landing on the balcony and lowering the hood of your cloak as you entered the living room. Kaz was waiting up, beginning to grow restless until you appeared.

"Hi," He sighed in relief at the sight of you removing the heavy cloak. You draped it over the back of the sofa as he approached you. "For a second there, I was beginning to think I'd imagined the whole thing."

You smiled as you wrapped your arms around his neck, planting a long kiss on his lips that had his eyebrows shooting up to his hairline for a moment before he drew you closer.

"Not a dream. Got it."

A giggle left your lips as you placed a peck on his lips and slipped your right hand into his left, picking up your cloak as you followed him to his bedroom while filling him in on the emergency.

After changing into clothes he'd given you to sleep in, you retrieved a bundle of letters from your cloak and set them on his dresser to be read later. For now, you both wearily climbed into bed and he placed his arms around you when you snuggled into him, resting your head on his chest.

And whether it was because you were both so exhausted, or determined not to be parted even in your sleep, you stayed like that all night. Kaz knew you couldn't stay at the penthouse all the time, and it was dangerous for you, his team and the other superheroes in hiding if Roman and Riker saw you and decided to follow you or exploit the biggest weakness you or he had. Each other.

But he knew he wasn't the only one savouring every second as you lingered the next morning before eventually dragging yourself away. And when you kissed his cheek and took off like a bullet from the balcony, flying to a hideout to regroup with Tecton, or Captain Atomic, he took the stack of letters from his pocket and started to read them. You hadn't went into as much detail as you had when you had answered his and his team's questions, but rather it was more private. Your thoughts, how you struggled to keep your distance and how much you missed him.

As time passed, you did sneak away to visit the penthouse, getting to know the Davenports better as you reconnected with your boyfriend and your friends. Sometimes it was too soon, therefore too dangerous, but Kaz found a way to make it work, and left the penthouse to meet you alone.

When Roman and Riker mentioned Mighty Med's destruction, he no longer resembled a kicked puppy and tried his hardest not to smirk at the fact they hadn't sussed you were alive.

And when it was all over, when the shapeshifters and Roddisius were defeated and you finally came out of hiding along with many other superheroes who had been hunted, you were rarely seen away from his side unless you were battling supervillains on another planet not suitable for a normo.

Kaz and Oliver had adapted and learned to control their powers. Since the team had done what it had set out to do, defeat those responsible for destroying Mighty Med and killing many of the superheroes inside, it disbanded, but they were only one call away if the need arose. Oliver followed. Then Skylar. And you found yourself fighting alongside your boyfriend and your friends, saving those in need and rebuilding what was lost in the attack of Mighty Med.

-

You and Kaz were best friends. And definitely just friends. Despite what the rest of the team insisted.

The team was always stupid, yeah you and Kaz would play flirt all the time, but that's all it was; play flirting. I mean, friends do that all the time, right?

The others would always nudge each other or raise their eyebrows at us when we did it. That is so dumb, like they're so blind, obviously there was nothing there.

Okay, you had mayyybeee caught yourself looking at his chest too long in his mission suit, but could anyone blame you? The guy was muscular, you could respect that. Okay and maybe you had had a hard time breathing that one time you were on a mission and he pushed you out of the way of some debris and ended up on top of you, but you had gotten the wind knocked out of you, the shortness of breath didn't mean anything!

But you were surely looking too much into it, I mean you play flirted with the rest of the team too and that didn't mean anything! When you told Chase he had a nice ass and kissed Skylar on the cheek during Truth or Dare, that was completely platonic!

It didn't matter anyways, even if you did admit to your self you had a small crush on the boy with fire powers, there's no way he thought of it the same way. His play flirting really was play flirting.

This train of thought was brought about after a mission where you had had another one of those snap-out-of-it moments. The mission had just ended extremely successful and in celebration Kaz had picked you up in a hug and spun you around laughing.

This shouldn't have been jarring, you were his childhood best friend and he was a touchy guy, he hugged you all the time. But for some reason you just found your brain had completely shut off. You awkwardly laughed with him but you had already forgotten the mission and all that was left in your mind was radio static. Luckily Kaz hadn't noticed and had already turned to Chase to make a dumb joke, at which the bionic boy scoffed.

It was all you could think about on the way home. Bree gave you a confused look once, so apparantly your feelings were evident on your face, but thankfully didn't mention anything, likely just thinking it was mission fatigue.

After you had gone through this thought process, you officially decided that there was nothing between you and Kaz romantically, and you would just drop it. No matter what you felt, you did love Kaz and you didn't want to mess up your relationship.

Wanting to prove to yourself that you could drop it, you wandered to the game room where Kaz spent most of his time, especially after missions when he needed to cool down.

Sure enough, when you walked in the top of his spiky hair was visible above the large beanbag in front of the TV, an impressive feat considering just how far down he was slumped in it.

"Hey Kaz," You greeted casually, moving forward with your hands stuffed in your pockets.

He shuffled around in his chair and grinned when he saw it was you.

"Hey man! Wanna play?"

It was a 1v1 game the two of you loved to play.

"Of course," You laughed. You plopped down in the beanbag, which was large enough to hold like three people, next to him and grabbed the other controller.

You were a master at this game, you two had been playing since you were kids so you knew each other's favorite plays but you still usually won.

You soon found out that you could not, in fact, prove to yourself that you could drop it. As hard as you tried to stay focused, Kaz was still worn out from the mission and sometimes his eyes would droop, and he was so warm next to you, and sometimes his arm would touch yours when he moved and you would get goosebumps, and his laugh when he would get a hit on you was so cute, and once he stretched out and his leg ended up crossing yours and-

"YES I WON, IN YOUR FACE!" Kaz giggled and pointed at you with a wide grin.

"I like never win, you doing okay bro? Haha." It was a joke, but it still sent you into a small panic internally.

"Don't get too cocky about it, I'm still tired from the mission." You rolled your eyes at him endearingly.

He laughed and flopped back into his side of the beanbag. He then immediately leaned forward again, in that can-never-stay-still Kaz style.

"I was so cool that round, I think I deserve a kiss for that."

Considering your thoughts just earlier that evening, you should've been very flustered, but it was so easy to fall back into that flirty back and forth you guys did all the time. (Plus hey, it couldn't hurt to test the waters a little.)

You laughed and pushed his face back. "In your dreams, pretty boy."

He gasped, putting a hand to his chest. "Did you just call me 'pretty'?"

You did a little falsetto voice and shoulder movement. "You'll always be my pretty boy."

"You're so in love with me it's embarrassing."

"Kind of the pot calling the kettle black, ain't it dear?"

Neither of you could contain your laughter anymore, both bursting into giggles and falling over each other.

When he contained himself, Kaz threw your controller at you. You wouldn't have caught it if he hadn't been throwing controllers at your for a good part of both of your lives, you were used to it now.

"Okay okay, come on, best two out of three." He challenged.

Pushing your feelings out of your mind, you turned on your controller.

"You're on."

You were more focused that time, and ended up beating him by a long shot. He dropped his controller and pouted.

"HA! See, told you I didn't lose it, now wheres my kiss, huh?"

He crossed his arms like a child.

"No way! I said best two out of three. I won one, you won one, that's not two out of three. I say we go again."

"You're impossible Kaz," You laughed.

Kaz grabbed his controller. "Yep, but you love me anyways."

Another round started up. You won easily.

"There," You smiled, "That's two out of three."

"Okay fiinneeee," Kaz whined.

Part of you thought about the promise of a kiss to the winner, but that was obviously a joke. And it didn't bother you that it was, of course not.

Kaz smirked at you. "Maybe I just let you win cause you're so cute."

"I'm flattered," you joked. But the thoughts were getting to you again.

You sighed and let your head fall back into the chair.

Kaz sat up further and eaised an eyebrow. "Hey what's up?"

"Ah nothing," You said dismissively, "I love when we joke around like this, I just wish sometimes... some of them weren't jokes, maybe..."

Kaz looked at you like he was trying to figure you out. "You mean, you want them to be real flirting?"

You covered your face in embarrassment of what you had just admitted, but there was no going back now. "Yeah, I guess so."

"You know... not everything is a joke," Kaz said.

You lifted your head to meet his gaze. "Really?"

"Yeah," He shrugged, "I like you a lot, y/n, and as much as we joke around I don't want to lose you, and, I dunno, I never thought you would like me back cause you're all... you and I'm all... me. So I did the only thing I could, play flirting."

You were all the way sat up now, shocked as you looked at him, trying to find some indication that it was a joke.

"Seriously? So some of those weren't jokes?!"

Kaz huffed out a laugh. "Yeah I guess, they weren't."

You stayed silent a moment, processing that, and then you gave him a playful look.

"Does that mean I can't take you up on that kiss, since I did win best two out of three?"

Kaz gave you a lopsided grin and turned red. "I guess it means you can, if you want of course."

You laughed and nodded.

Slowly, as if unsure of himself, Kaz reached out his hand and gently slid it behind your head. He slightly pulled you towards him as he leaned forward himself and your lips met.

It wasn't just a peck, like would probably be appropriate for just winning a video game match, but instead it was slow and passionate, and perfect.

Kaz's free hand went to your waist to pull to pull himself closer to you, and your hands migrated from his chest to his hair where they tangled themselves.

When you pulled apart, neither of you knew what to say. The air was filled with tension.

And then you both burst out laughing. You fell against Kaz's chest with laughter and he buryed his face in your shoulder, muffling his giggles.

"So, can I still be your pretty boy?"