He knew she wouldn't risk kicking him, not with those super jumps. And he planned on making this quick enough that she wouldn't get a chance to try to push away from him with superstrength.
Nick turned towards the ocean and sprinted towards it. Back before he'd gone to the academy, he'd been a pretty quick runner. Sometimes you had to be quick to escape a con gone bad. But after the academy, and all those miserable goes at the ice wall, he was pretty damn fleet-footed. It was all part of the job.
So he sprinted to the edge of the water in just a few seconds and jumped out into the surf, until the water was about waist deep for the both of them. Then he dumped her into the water and held both arms out.
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Just not yet.
He knew she wouldn't risk kicking him, not with those super jumps. And he planned on making this quick enough that she wouldn't get a chance to try to push away from him with superstrength.
Nick turned towards the ocean and sprinted towards it. Back before he'd gone to the academy, he'd been a pretty quick runner. Sometimes you had to be quick to escape a con gone bad. But after the academy, and all those miserable goes at the ice wall, he was pretty damn fleet-footed. It was all part of the job.
So he sprinted to the edge of the water in just a few seconds and jumped out into the surf, until the water was about waist deep for the both of them. Then he dumped her into the water and held both arms out.
"You said to put you down. You never said whe--"