To A Hottub

Old buildings in this part of Metropolis were like the shells of hermit crabs. Every one had been repurposed dozens of times, only the brick and concrete shells the same. So it wasn't much of a surprise for Lois Lane to follow Harmonia from the vibrant, hot club down a short hallway and into the cool, dark, open space of what had once been a gym. Iron weights rusted in one corner, but not all of the benches were dusty. Someone was still using this place.

"We use the locker room, the showers," Harmonia said, by way of explanation. "And the hot tub."

The hot tub was a free-standing, wood-framed affair with little steps that led up into it. Harmonia tapped something on the controls, and pumps began to hum. Lois Lane licked her lips and looked around as the temperature and humidity in the room began to climb. There was no one else here.

Which means there was no one else to see the beautifully-sculpted muscles of Harmonia's back, the freckles across her shoulders. Or the little tattoo revealed on the muscle-woman's right asscheek as Harmonia pulled down her black jeans, reavling no thong or underwear.

The tattoo was a spear set at an angle against a round shield, in a stylized ancient Greek manor, the outline of which made the symbol of Mars (♂).

"Ares," Lois Lane said aloud.

Harmonia turned, a smile on her lips, her mismatched eyes sparkling.

"Yes. You recognize it?"

"My father is in the army," Lois said. "He has an interest in ancient history. Ancient Greece, their ways of war, he studied them while at the war college. I had to proofread his papers."

"So, you are the daughter of a warrior," Harmonia said, and the naked woman stepped up to Lois...right into the reporter's personal space, those sizable breasts pushed right up under Lois Lane's chin. "So am I. Now get naked."

Lois Lane's spine stiffened. She stared up into those mismatched eyes, not budging an inch.

"Excuse me?" The reporter said.

Harmonia grinned, her eyes narrowed.

"Take off your clothes. Or do you wish me to throw you into the hot tub naked?"