I arrived at the address Leo had given me and my eyes nearly popped out. How did he get a mansion this big from one game?
"Hey Maura, how are you?" Leo came out and greeted me cheerfully.
"I'm doing great. I'm kinda surprised about the size of this place. How are you."
"I'm also good, yeah, this place is giant. Steve bought this place and now it's mine. I was surprised at first when I saw it but I knew it was possible, the only thing I have questions about is the amount of money in my bank account. It doesn't matter now though, I want to ask you out."
Leo looked smug, like he'd done something that was super rare for him.
"Yes, I would like to go out with you but where would we go? Now that you are licensed most restaurants won't let you enter the door."
This was something the government had decided was allowed after a massive amount of attacks on heroes while they were eating in restaurants.
"I checked something and found out that I have access to the perfect place. for a date, somewhere safe if for whatever reason someone wants to attack me."
He motioned me to follow him to a room.
"This was previously Steve storage for blowup dolls but I sold them and had this installed."
Inside the room was a teleport. I stood next to him and it activated.
I had never teleported before but I found that it was extremely unpleasant.
It felt like being thrown through the air while you were nauseous.
After reappearing I was stunned. We were standing before a big tower-like structure that seemed to be made of a black stone, gold-rimmed some of its edges accentuating certain aspects of its design.
From the teleporter, one path was leading towards the tower while another path lead to a ... torch?
"Leo, what's with the torch put on a pedestal?" He looked at the torch, then to me, then back to me.
"Nothing important. Follow me, you're going to love this." With that, we entered the tower.
He was right, I loved it. At first it seemed to be the lobby for a normal high-end hotel but when you walked towards the counter you passed through some kind of wall showing you the wonderous inside.
"This is what we like to call 'The Lobby'. Here, you can eat, take on missions, chill out, fight other heroes and alot more. I don't think anyone has ever seen the full contents of this place."
"This is awesome but why are we here?" He had asked me on a date and was now leading me around his workplace.
"Well, like I said, you can eat here, before you say anything, follow me a little."
I followed him to a door that was made from marble and had drawings of Dionysus on it in gold.
When we passed through the same feeling I had had when passing into the lobby came over me again and now we where in a big shopping street with a mall and other stuff.
"I looked around and found us the best place for a date, not to classy but also not MacDonald's."
I would be fine with MacDonald's but well, he's taking me out and I'm not complaining. turns out that this street was seemingly endless and while we walked down it we talked.
When we arrived I saw that it was a teahouse, it was nestled between an obscure magic store and a weird weapon shop.
A tiny placque reading, The White Lotus told me it's name.
We sat down and I saw that they had alot of food for a teahouse and when I saw sushi I immediately went for it.
Leo bought Karage and then we talked for several hours.
I had never had such a pleasant date before, one extra positive thing was that when I talked about something that might require more than a few brain cells Leo could perfectly follow and give a detailed opinion, I didn't know I found that attractive untill that night.
Afterwards we went to his mansion and I *cough* stayed over.
I woke up the next morning next to Leo, my phone going into alarm.
"You have to get up? Wow, that's early. I should get up to, I need to check in on Nora, it was her first day yesterday and I want to make sure she settles in."
"You're really taking this whole being her legal guardian thing seriously aren't you?"
Our conversation yesterday had gotten to the point were he told me all about his first mission.
"I feel responsible for her getting powers in the first place since, you know, I am."
"Don't worry, I think it's good that you're like that, she just lost her parents, she should be taken care of." I planted a kiss on his lips.
I didn't even know why I went so fast, normally I pushed people away when they got even a kilometer near my feelings but I was drawn to Leo like a moth to flame.
I drove of to work after seeing Leo teleport away.