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"What do you mean it's a true love spell?"
"Wizard said so," Cass explained. "Hiccups will go away after true love's kiss."
Steph looked up from Cass's toes, which she was in the middle of painting purple, to level a disbelieving look at her. "There's gotta be another way to get rid of them, right? I mean, that wizard was probably just fucking with you. Well, he was definitely fucking you, because he gave you incurable hiccups instead of trying to punch you or something like a normal person, but he was lying on top of that."
Cass shook her head, hiccuping miserably. "Nothing works. Tried holding breath. Tried drinking water. Tried sugar. Tried lemon wedge. Still hiccups. It's been hours."
"Have you tried having someone scare you?" Steph asked. She set down the nail polish to raise her hands in a threatening "I'm gonna get you" gesture.
Cass grinned like a shark. "Won't work. Nothing scares me!"
So they'd have to find her true love, then? That was going to be a problem. For as long as Steph had known her, Cass had never really dated. Steph was pretty sure she'd been on a date or two with Kon, maybe, but no way was Kon her true love. Was there really no one else? Who did she even spend time with?
Steph picked the nail polish back up and focused hard on painting Cass's pinky toe so she didn't have to look her in the eye. "I could try kissing you," she said, a faux casualness to her words that of course Cass could see right through.
"You could," Cass said, slowly, carefully.
Steph set the polish aside again and stared at her. Before she could psych herself out of it, she leaned up and pressed her lips against Cass's, one firm, solid kiss. Chaste, of course, because boundaries, but lingering long enough to make sure the spell registered it. Cass's breath tasted like sweat and lemon and the vegan Batburger she'd eaten on patrol. Her skin was soft against Steph's hand.
Steph told herself it was time to pull away now. When she sat back, Cass was staring straight at her, something hungry and open in her dark eyes. Like she hadn't just tolerated it. Like she had liked it, like maybe she was hoping--
Cass let out the loudest hiccup she'd had yet, and the two of them burst out laughing.