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who kissed who???? its just confusing...
first i thought arnav kissed khushi but comments made me confusing about rajeev and v...
but ankle sprain and kiss is associated with arhi...
u have left us hanging with kiss.. pls update soon

First off, you had me at Rajest Koothrapali (oh wait, that was 19 chapters after you had me) FREAKING LOVED THE SMART ASS COMMENTS BY KHUSHI! Seriously! I was freaking peeing my pants with V's political satire shirt thinking that I should go and buy myself one of them or just have it printed! Secondly, you pulled a nice move with Wolverine and Catwoman! YES! You definitely had me at "are you auditioning for po*n?!?! BAHAHAHAHA

Chapter 22: Nightwing

[This Chapter dedicated to –Sookie-. Thanks for the DC/Marvel lessons!]

He picked up Nikhil and tossed him in the air and the boy squealed in excitement and he found himself laughing.

"This is a lot of green, Mister." He told him, ribbing on his costume, after he put him down and bent eye-level to the boy.

"I am the Hulk." Nikhil said in return and he raised his eyebrows mile high as if that never occurred to him.

"I don't know, Nikhil. I am not buyin' it. The Hulk is pretty strong. And you don't look so strong, my man."

"I am too strong." Nikhil said in indignation, putting out his arm to show him his tiny muscles. He laughed and pretended to squeeze the tiny arm and shook his head. "I don't know man, this is going way down when I press on it."

"It is not!" Nikhil said, focusing on his arm as if that would lift the little muscle up into stiffness.

He put his arm up and flexed, making his muscle pop up and Nikhil pressed down on the bump and looked at him in awe as he said, "Whoa…"

He laughed at the "Whoaa…" and bumped his head with Nikhil's, making the boy laugh.

He got up from where he was crouching and winked at Nikhil before turning to walk away, but suddenly a tall laced up black boot and a leather clad leg extended out of nowhere into his path, not giving him time to back off, and he tripped cleanly over.

He fell at a weird angle and just as he started to get up, he felt her boot at his shoulder pushing him back down to the floor. He was too stunned to react and ended up plopping backwards.

He looked up and saw that the boots itself was about 6 or 7 inches in height. He followed the line of the black leather all the way up a very trim body to a face with deep red lips. Her eyes were flashing at him as she looked down and he thought that he had accidentally fallen into a DC Universe that no one had warned him about. This must have been what Batman felt like when he first saw her.

He didn't realize that he was immobile until she placed the tip of a boot on his chest and picked up Nikhil in her arms and whispered to the boy, "Definitely stronger."

He saw Nikhil smile before she gave him a big kiss right on top of his green mask leaving a red imprint of her lips. When she set the boy down, she shot one last look at him on the floor before walking away.

He hadn't realized that he still hadn't moved until Nikhil extended a hand in his direction, laughing and saying, "Come on, Rajeev chaacha."

"You know who that was?" he asked as he watched the woman disappear into the crowd. He could see the trail of the black though. She had a peculiar walk, as if she owned the world. He wondered if that was really her walk or just the power of her suit.

"Don't you know her? That's Bee Maasi. I mean, Khushi Maasi."

His head whipped around to look at Nikhil. "That's Khushi?"

Nikhil nodded. "I saw her earlier. Maasi is the only one who is dressed as Catwoman."

He stared at the form that had all but disappeared from view now. "Hold tight, Hulk. I will catch you in a bit. Gotta take care of a small matter."

Now that he knew who it was, he felt in control once again. It wasn't some alternative DC Universe and it wasn't a true manifestation of Catwoman come to blow mere mortals out of the water. It was just his aggravating co-worker playing dress-up. Did she really think that he would not find out that it was her?

He found her after a few minutes when she was away from the crowd and rounding a corner into a semi-lit hallway. He followed her and turned her around to face him just as he rounded the corner after her.

She reacted to the surprise by elbowing him in his gut and his breath whooshed out, more in shock than in actual injury. He had always had a mean-streak where she was concerned, but she had never behaved this way with him before, and it pushed the usual meanness into something else entirely that he hadn't realized had been underneath. Acting on an instinct, just as she started to walk away, he pulled her back against the wall and kissed her haughty crimson-tipped lips. It was her moment of stunned surprise then as he felt her go limp for just a moment as his lips pressed deeply against hers. It only lasted a split second before she opened those lips. The yielding was unexpected and it made him ease his lips automatically, but he only realized his folly an instant later when she bit down hard on his lower lip.

"f**k!" it came out as a whisper as pain shot up from where she bit down.

"f**k you!" she whispered in return.

Something didn't sound right… her voice. Her accent. He hadn't heard it properly before when she had spoken to Nikhil.

He reached over to lift her mask, but before he could, she knocked his hand off.

"You have always been a poor substitute for Batman, Nightwing." She said, the syllables rolling into each other in the way Americans spoke. It was a moment before what she said registered. Aside from Sohan and his friends, most people at the party hadn't really guessed his costume. You needed to have more than a passing interest in comics to know the parallel track of Dick Grayson's Robin abandoning Batman to go solo as Nightwing.

Before he could think of a suitable response to her insult, she was gone.

"Vaibhavi!"

He heard from his left and turned to see… Shit! ASR.

He looked to his right but noticed that the girl was already too far to hear him.

When he looked to the left again, ASR has disappeared as well.

Vaibhavi. Who the hell was that?

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Moi first! ...there's something enthralling about taking the first box in your thread :P

Be back in the morning...

Couldn't wait till the morning lol ...the cat women have (un)intentionally caused quiet a riot didn't they!

Each being mistaken for the other but ended up kissing the right man ...so its all good ha ha ha alls wells that ends well (or something like that)...though the night just started ...let's see what else these two feisty cats get upto

upps I thought m 1st...😔😆
anyways...hmmm rajeev-vaibhavi angle...wohaaa...
hmmm its getting interesting day by day...love it...

I love masquerades. Or costume parties where the faces are masked up, and it leads to some encounters such as the one described in this part, because of the confusion.

omg secrets out ...i think thell make an amazing pair ...continue soon

Rajeev n V seem to be an interesting pair! Clearly there's a bit of a MU situation going on here as well! 😆 Can't wait to read more! Can't figure out whether Rajeev's feelings for K have resurfaced or whether he'll forget em as soon as he finds out more about V?

boldness in the characters is a welcome change from the soap.. love reading it even when I normally keep off from registering certain words which i've sworn never to use...he...