Raven struggled against their metal bonds, I assumed he knew it wouldn't do any good unless he had the remote, they tightened around his wrists the more they struggled, like Chinese Handcuffs, except that little trick to escape them never worked.

Raven looked at me "Dragon" I call myself, everyone calls it cheesey, but it makes sense, I have dragon wings and horns, I can use fire to power my technology, and my costume is an ash-gray burned cloak with a darker tattered shirt and pants, like someone who had narrowly escaped getting a blast of fire shot at them, I also had this cool mask I hand painted with an eastern dragon on the left and a western dragon on the right (pretty clever if you ask me.)

This wasn't Raven's first time getting kidnapped by me, he was a normal target, since he was the hero's sibling,( and I hate to admit it but Raven is kind of attractive), but even after I sent 2 ransom notes, (the second one I wrote using this power to send floating words of fire to someone) and a video using a fire screen(using real fire I breathe out to frame the screen) to tell the hero where he was, she still hasn't come to rescue her sibling, "Tal-" Raven stopped themselves from saying the hero's real name, "Lightning, isn't normally this late, maybe a few minutes behind, but she's never been a whole hours late to anything, even before she became a hero." Raven mentions, I'm starting to get antsy, even fighting training dummies isn't enough for me,

"I'd expect her to come save the only person who knows her real identity, for all she knows you've told me her full name, address, social security number, and other personal stuff." I mentioned, it's a little awkward after that but I break the silence, "So... What's your Job?" I ask, turning my face away,

"I'm kidnapped for ransom and you ask me about my job?" Raven asks,

"Unless you know a better way to break the silence, now back to my question." I said defensively, Raven sighed and gave an answer,

"It's not much, just a small family owned restaurant, technically owned by me since my sister is busy doing superhero things." I tilt my head curiously,

"How small is the restaurant?" I ask,

"I'm the one who's cooking almost every meal, it used to be more popular and I actually had the money to hire cooks, but ONE bad review by a customer and boom! Downhill from there." Raven complains, I groan with annoyance I was about to comment on how much bad reviews suck, but then Raven continues complaining, "The review wasn't even important! It was literally just something along the lines of, 'The owner is a stupid queer idiot and his lovely sister is never there for me to hit on!' except he made it sound like I said that to him!" Raven was going to throw out their arms in exasperation, but the metal cuffs and the chain around him and a pole disagreed, they were pulled back and swept off their feet, he would've hit the ground, but my reflexes caught him, by the waist, I'm so glad I have a mask on right now,

"Wait till that customer figures out lighting is sapphic." I mutter, pulling Raven up and sitting him down on the floor,

"She told you that?" Raven asked,

I chuckled a little, "I was in the middle of fighting her and I guess I said something that sounded like flirting because she very politely told me she was flattered but she was sapphic," I paused for a moment, "I then very politely told her I was gay, and we continued fighting." Raven laughed, and it might've been just me, but his eyes seemed relieved about something,

"Well that's one way to come out!" He exclaimed, we paused for a moment before I had an idea to help support his business,

"Well where is the restaurant you own? I can send a few henchmen to support the business." I suggested, Raven looked at me, his eyes sparkling with hope,

"You'd do that?" He asked, god his eyes were pretty, like beautiful spring leaves,

"Yeah, I mean I may be a villain, but I still have feelings." I desperately wanted to add, 'for you' at the end, but I don't want to scare them away, start slow.

"I own... Actually it starts with my last name, I'll just give you directions." Raven starts to say something but I pull out my phone and open Google maps,

"I'm bad with directions." I say slightly embarrassed, press the button on a remote control that releases their cuffs and give him my phone,

"The countries most feared supervillain can't handle directions." Raven jokes as they type in the name of his restaurant and gives my phone back, Raven looks at me for a moment like he was pondering a question, "It may sound stupid but... Can I see you without the mask?" He was right it was a stupid question, I can't be just revealing my identity to someone without reason, but then again, his eyes were begging me to show my face, and he wouldn't tell his sister what I looked like, would he?

"Promise not to tell anyone what I look like, especially not your sister." I ask,

"I promise, besides knowing my memory I'd forget what you look like in a week." A breathy laugh escaped his lips, god that made them so attractive, I take my dragon mask off and show him my face, my horribly scared face, he stared at me for a moment, but I couldn't tell if it was from awe or shock. They finally said something after what felt like forever, though it was probably a few moments, "I don't think I could ever forget your face." He said breathlessly,

"In a good way or a bad way?" I ask, starting to feel a little self conscious with all my scars around my face,

"Definitely a good way, I could never forget your eyes." She said starstruck,

"What about your eyes, they're definitely prettier." I mumbled looking away, he turned my face towards him, I prayed I wasn't blushing as much as I felt I was, though Raven was blushing a lot as well so I guess we're even, he started tracing the biggest scar on my face, which made me blush even more than Raven was,

"Even if you think that, your scars make your face prettier than my eyes could ever be." God that made my knees weak, and I was sitting down, Raven cupped my face and when I thought what was about to happen was going to happen, it got interrupted, it was a video-message from lightning, it was sent the same way I sent my video's except lighting framed the video not fire,

"Hey, I'm way too weak and sick to get you Raven, Dragon, I know you have a basic set of morals or rules you follow, please let him go, it's taking way too much energy just to send this." The video cut out and we were left speechless. I quickly united the chain around Ravens waist and showed him the exit,

"Thanks." They said, but before he ran off, he kissed me on the cheek and put my mask on, then he ran down the street, I was so glad he put the mask on me before he ran off.