You do.

“What would you do with that?” you ask.

She gives you a small smile “That’s kind of personal. ” before adding in a more serious tone “But if you need to know: On the list of people who crossed me, Toby doesn’t even make the top three. ”

“Why don’t you just tell me who they are and I use my power directly?”

“Because “ she says, with a glint in her eyes you usually see after Kate lost an argument and is mentally gearing up for round two ” That wouldn’t be as fun. Look, I won’t give you shit for your little eccentricities, so it would be nice if you’d left me mine. “

Welp, in for a penny…

“Would you rather that the next time you tell someone - aside from me - ‘Let me offer you a deal….’ they will be honour bound to fulfil the deal to the letter and spirit orrrrrr …” What was a fitting alternative? Oh what the hell, you decide as you see the giddy glint in Kates eyes “ …. Or have the next three times “you continue slowly, trying to put the pieces together in your mind ” you offer someone a deal and get them to shake on it count as if I had asked the two of you if you would rather fullfill the contract to the fullest or not ….. and you both said ‘Yes’ ….and make sure I won’t regret this?” Yep. That works.

It isn’t often you see Kate flabbergasted “I’d rather take the three deals.” She says after staring at you with her mouth open for several long moments. “Is that it? I was expecting a dramatic thunderclap or something. ”

“That was it. ” you assure her.

“Wow.” She still looks a bit stunned “I thought it would be way harder to get you to trust me with your power after that bit of loophole abuse with Toby. ”

“Yeah. Well.” You shrug “Take it as an apology for trying to wipe your mind. I thought our relationship was better than that, too. ”

Kate gets off your deskchair where she had spent the past hour, and gives you a hug “Seems we both have a lot to think about. Good night, little brother.”

“G’Night.”

----------Later-----------

When you get up the next morning, Kate is already gone. As you stand at the bus-stop you think about driving uptown to see how Elizabeth is doing, but in the end you decide against it. She will come to you sooner or later. And you have no idea if she is home, anyway.

Instead you make good on some of the things you Terra and Kate suggested yesterday to ensure the campus would be a suitable base of operations for VIPER. A few choices have already established Terra as the admin of the hidden site you told Elizabeth about – and with that conjured up the site itself - so now you just need to ‘remind’ suitable recruits they were card carrying members of the VIPER-site just like you did Toby. And just like your sisters ex they will put any changes you make to them down to some magical artifact or spell someone from the site gave them.

Terra and Kate will be the only ones who know the true extent of your powers. Or that you are not just another random VIPER member, but in fact it’s … Comander? President? Grandmaster? Whatever you will end up calling the post. Partly to confuse potential enemies about the true nature of your power, but mostly because it is more fun that way.

You are just on your way to professor Nakamura when your phone rings. It’s Terra “Hey boss.” And she sounds pissed.

“Uh..is everything ok?”

“Yeah. Just wanted to let you know your sister came by and asked me for a favour. I don’t think she wants you to know the details but as your loyal retainer I’ll tell you if you ask. I don’t think I should though. It is hella personal. ”

“You sound pretty upset. Did Kate do anything stupid…” you trail off

“No. No. She isn’t the one I’m pissed at. Just …. got reminded that there are some real assholes out there. I mean Toby was a selfish prick but at least I could see where he was coming from, but … I am starting to runt again. Fuck it! “ you hear her take a calming breath ” I’ll calm down in a few minutes, but I still felt it better to call you as soon as she left. Sooo we good?”

You think about it. On the one hand you are dying to know what this is about on the other hand you should give Kate and Terra the benefit of the doubt.

“Yeah we are good.” You finally decide “Thanks for calling.”

“Just doing my job, boss.” Terra says and ends the call.

On another note: You like the ‘boss’ a lot better than the ‘sir’, it meshes better with Terras personality and leaves less confusion whether it is a sex-thing or not. And Terra probably thought so too when you gave her the choice of honorifics this morning as a harmless test to see if your power works over the phone (it does). A subsequent test with talking on her voice-box showed that recordings don’t do the trick however.

That discovery aside, you are still on the fence about making a move on Terra. She is beautiful, smart and you like her style. On the other hand you don’t feel like repaying the kindness she showed you before you got powers by toying with her heart.

If your relationship became more than professional the power dynamics might get pretty interesting. You are not to proud to admit she is probably smarter than you – which was one reason you choose to make her the hyper-competent right-hand-man to your supervillain.

You spend most of your first classes idly musing about which of the dozens of the fictional overlords and their skilled adjutants falling for each other would most closely match you and Terras potential relationship. And what it would mean for Toby. Which leads to memories of the Oni-girl naked and looking at you with unbridled lust in her eyes. Which leads to you sitting a bit awkwardly for most of these classes.

You still feel a bit bad about abusing your privilege of getting a free pass from all faculty members, buuut on the other hand it would be just as weird to go back to studying after being handed the power to fundamentally change the lives of people around you , becoming a supervillain, being the head of a shadowy organization and loosing your virginity (sorta) over the last 48 hours.

And then there is whatever scheme Kate is cooking up. Despite what you told Terra you are sorely tempted to call up your right-hand-woman and tell her to spill the beans after all.