Back at the lodge

Upon reaching the lodge, you return to your room immediately wanting to grab a new set of clothes. You dig a new set of clothes out of your bag. Then you grab the pair of thermal pants still giving off heat, you’re worried about them being a fire hazard if you can’t turn them off. Looking over the leggings you run your fingers along the hem line until you find a small pad that turns off the heating element when pressed. With Ragdoll’s pants safely folded on the dresser and you’re no longer naked you go to check your phone, certain that your parents have blown it up.

And your phone was in your coat pocket. Which means it is now buried on the mountain side. Someone knocks on your door. “Hey, Ren mom and dad are worried about us and you’re not answering the phone,” you recognize Akasuki’s voice.

You make your way to the door opening it to find your sister with a lockpick for a finger. “I lost my phone in the avalanche,” you tell her not telling her that you were going to burn it on accident but instead lost it during Pixie-Bob’s rescue.

“Yowch, didn’t you just buy that?”

“It’s fine. Where are mom and dad? Let’s show them we’re okay.”

“They got us a table down in the restaurant, they sent me to find you since you weren’t answering.”

When the two of you enter the lobby, you find the place packed and everyone is cheering for the group of 4 heroes standing next to the fireplace. You take a second to join the crowd clapping for the heroes. You recognize Ragdoll and Pixie-Bob, and assume the other two must be the Mandalay and Tiger that Ragdoll was talking too when she dug you out of the snow. The group is still wearing their thermal gear under their costumes, except for Ragdoll’s bare legs.

After the quick stop, Akasuki drags you past the crowd and into the restaurant. The meal was filled with Akasuki recounting her brilliant escape once again. The variety of tools and techniques she used to tunnel out of the snow.

“Well, I’m glad these Wild, Wild Pussycats were there to save you Ren,” your mom dotes on her poor quirkless baby. Wild, Wild Pussycats, you didn’t know the groups name before now, but it makes sense especially thinking of their feline costumes.

You scarf down your meal. After a full day of skiing followed by being caught up in a natural disaster, you were starving. The whole time your mom kept hugging you, and mentioning how worried she was. Your dad goes over Akasuki’s escape several times during the meal, asking if she thought about using this or that to get out. They eventually landed on the idea that Akasuki’s escape was flawless, the perfect escape from the perfect daughter.

When everyone was done eating you were ready to get some much needed sleep. Your family gave out their goodbyes and I love you’s. You thought your mom was never going to let you go from her hug. But eventually she broke the embrace, and you could see the tears in her eyes. This day was hard on all of you, well maybe not Akasuki she seems to be handling it well.

You shower before bed and change into a pair of pajama bottoms. When you curl up in bed you stare at the hero’s leggings still folded on the dresser. You grab the blanket Ragdoll had wrapped you in and use it instead of the lodge’s own bedding. Sleep came easy from just sheer exhaustion.

The knocking at the door wakes you up. You look at the alarm clock, and it says it’s 2:42. Who is knocking on your door this late? Maybe it’s your mom, coming to check on you. Make sure you haven’t succumbed to any latent trauma left over from the avalanche. You take a peek through the peephole but you only see the opposite wall of the hall. That’s strange, was it just some kid playing a joke on random people?

Suddenly a flash of green blurs past the peephole, followed by a loud “Boo!” and a pounding on the door. You fall over backwards in shock at the jump scare. You can now make out the sounds of laughter coming from the other side of the door. After standing back up, you can now see Ragdoll laughing in the hallway. All of your nerves wash away at the sight of the hero. You open the door, and she just keeps laughing slapping her knees in a dramatic fashion.

She’s not in her hero costume now. Instead dressed in a loose tank top, with a kitten on the front, and a pair of pajama bottoms also patterned in cats and balls of yarn. The pink whiskers and circle around her eye are gone. But her long green hair still hangs loose, bouncing with her non-stop movements.

“Oh, boy that was great. You were so scared,” she wipes a tear away from her eye. “Boo!” she mocks you by jumping back. “Oh, so anyway, Mandalay says I have to get those thermals back they’re evidently fairly expensive,” she manages to get out between her fits of laughter.

“Yea, I figured they were. I was trying to figure out how to get them back to you. I have them right in here,” you turn to go fetch them from the dresser. You can hear the door shut behind you, and when you look back you can see Ragdoll following you. “Um and thanks for everything,” you say handing the leggings back to her.

“Hey, I enjoyed it just as much as you,” she laughs taking hold of the pants.

“Oh, um I,” you start to blush thinking of your sexual encounter with the hero, “I was actually talking about the rescue.”

“Ah, well that’s all just part of the job,” she laughs striking a heroic pose, standing still for just a split second. “The rest was just for fun,” she purrs, stepping closer to you her hand on your bare chest. You stare into her big yellow eyes. She’s standing so close to you, your heart races with the proximity to the beautiful hero. Then your body reacts all on its own and you lean in kissing her once again.