"So maybe you and I can hang out sometime?" a busty brunette was cozying up to Pietro at the bar.

"weell...." Pietro seemed to be searching for what to say.

She took his hand and wrote down her number with a pen, then kissed him, "call me." she turned and did her best sexy walk away. Pietro couldn't help it, he stared at her ass.

Ciara spotted him. It wasn't hard to spot those silver locks. A smile on her face but that smile disappeared when she spotted the girl. Ok. He just met someone no big deal, it's not like. She stopped dead in her tracks as she saw the girl write her number on his hand and kissed him.

Her eye lid twitched and several of the sprinklers on the dance floor broke instantly, shooting water everywhere. Everyone on the dance floor paused and then cheered, continuing to dance away.

She turned on her heel, pushed past the dancers, out the door to the balanoy and jumped. Several people let out a scream from her jumping but she soon flew back up to a roof top near by, on a sting ray made of water.

"OMG. That was the Sting Ray!"
"No way..."

Pietro jumped a little when the sprinklers went off and he turned to see Ciara storm off, "... awww crap" he groaned, taking off after her, "Ci!"

Ciara didn't stop, nor did she slow down. Pietro didn't know this city like she did and it didn't take long to loose him. She found herself in the center of the botanical gardens. A place she had spent a good deal of time there. Delivering water to Poison Ivy during the Gotham Earthquake event.

There was a large hollowed out tree near a small pond. She slipped inside, covered her mouth with her hand and broke down. He kissed another woman... He didn't even try to stop her. He willingly let another woman kiss him.

Pietro searched helplessly. He ran around the city, looking down every street, every alley, every inch of Gotham he could find. Got lost more than once to.

She was balling her eyes out. How could he... 2 years and then this? She felt her heart ripping in two as a hard down pour fell over the city.

tiiime skip

It was in the late afternoon the next day by the time Sting Ray came back to the temporary base. She passed the gang who asked her questions like, "Rough night?" "Where have you been?" and flopped down on one of the cots and pulled the blanket over her head.

Robin approached Ciara after a little while, "um... Sting Ray?" he questioned a little tentively, "are you alright?"

She sniffed, "No.. No I'm not. He kissed another woman!" She blurted out from underneath the covers, "2 and a half years and he... he..."

Robin looked a little confused, "... Pietro?" he guessed, "geeze... no wonder he's not back yet." he added with a frown,looked at her again a little uncertainly, "um... do you... need anything?"

"3 pitchers of water please..."She said sticking her hand out of the covers to hold 3 fingers up. "And a straw..." She said softly.

"on it" Robin replied and hastily moved away. He so did not know how to deal with this, but hey, water, he could do that. Soon he came back with several pitchers of water and a straw for her.

The blankets inhaled pitcher after pitcher, leaving them empty on the floor. Once all of them were drained, she spoke, "Thank you. Robin... Someone should text the jerk so he doesn't get into a situation he's not prepared for." She mumbled.

"I'll get right on that" Robin promised, "... need anything else?"

She sat up with a very pouty face, arms opened wide. "Hug me."

"......." Robin paused, scratched the back of his head awkwardly then moved in and hugged her.

Ciara latched on and held onto him tightly for a moment before pulling away. "Sorry. Hugs usually lighten the pain for me is all..." She flopped back down, "I'm gonna try to get some sleep... Thank you for checking up on me, I'll be ok now."

"....ooooookay then. No uh, problem" Robin waved, "Call if you need anything else?" he shrugged and walked away.

It's true. It's something Hank figured out. Whenever she was really upset, a pitcher of water and cuddles made it all better.

Ciara set her sunglasses on the floor and closed her eyes and fell into a restless sleep.

"How's she doing?" Megan asked, hovering over Robin.

"Uhh... hard to tell" Robin replied uncertainly, "Can't say I know much about girls and hard breakups..."

By the next morning Robin had to wake Ciara up with a frown on his face, "Sting Ray... Sting Ray" he shook her.

"Mmmmm!" She moaned, covering her eyes with her arm and reaching to grab her glasses, "Robin, stop shaking me."

"Sorry" he apologized, "but this is kind of important. I know you probably don't want to hear about this right now, but it's about Pietro. I can't find him. Even his cell phone GPS is down and it goes straight to voicemail."

She sat up, a very unimpressed face on, "Let me get dressed. Can you pin point where his cell phone was last before it dropped?" She asked going behind a changing screen they'd set up.

"Already done... sort of. There's a few places in Gotham where it last pinged but they're all too close together on the timestamp to tell which was actually last. We need to check out three different locations" he explained.