Authors Notes- This is my 1st Fanfic so please rate and review if like/dislike it tell me what you think.

Set between the 1st and 2nd movie in my own little verse. Mindy is 13 and Dave is 18.

I had a lot of fun writing this and I want to thank Makokam for inspiring me to write. If you haven't checked out his works I strongly suggest you do.

Enjoy

My whole life I've had just about everything I've ever wanted. Everything except a friend, someone to help calm my nerves the first time I met my daddy. Someone to comfort me when i fought with daddy or when I was injured during training. A shoulder I could cry on after I watched my father die. Someone who understood the real me.

The truth is I've never had time for friends, constantly training, moving from city to city taking down drug lords and crime bosses. That all changed when Kick-ass and I took down Frank D'amico, my daddy's final target, the main reason for our vigilante lifestyle." Of course there were still petty crimes and criminals, but with Frank dead, his brother in prison, and no capable heir, all organized crime in the city had all but ceased to a halt.

I finally had a chance at a normal life, sure I had the money and the ability to keep on moving and taking down crime bosses, but truthfully, I feared being alone more than anything. Listen to me, I sound like a whiny little bitch, I've killed hundreds of people, I've been shot at more times than I can count and didn't even flinch, yet here i was afraid of being alone. Deep down inside, I wanted this more than anything in the world, however Hit-Girl was still needed. So made a deal with myself, I would honor my daddy's letter to live with Marcus and attend school, basically do everything that a normal person does. I also wasn't going to break the promise I made to never stop protecting this city, but if living normally even slightly interfered with my duties I would give it up in the blink of an eye.

It wasn't even remotely easy getting Marcus to agree to letting me go out as Hit-Girl, I even came close several times to pulling out my nunchucks and threatening him, but I knew that would get me nowhere. We eventually came to terms, and we were able to come to a peaceable agreement.

A few months passed and I was finally starting to get into a rhythm, 3 days crime fighting, 2 days training, and 2 days off to rest. (Rest days right? One of Marcus's stipulations) I quickly found out that school wasn't all it was made out to be. I spent hours staring at the wall thinking up creative ways I could kill or maim criminals, and I gotta say I was more than eager to try them out. I'd even made a few friends, they were the girly girl types so we didn't have much in common but I loved hanging around with them, it made me feel normal.

Dave...Dave was...special, I was completely and madly in love with him, but I think he only sees me as his best friend so I kept my feelings bottled up inside, but like all bottled up emotions, they eventually come spilling out.

I had started training Dave so that we could team up and go on patrol together. At first he was pathetic, he couldn't even do a pull up by himself, and I floored him with every other hit. He kept getting back up, kept pushing himself harder even when I thought he had reached his limit, he had more heart than anyone I knew. During our training sessions is when I came to realize my feelings for Dave, he was the one person I looked forward to seeing the most.

Then everything changed one night while we were on patrol, we'd been walking for hours and hadn't even seen a mugger, Dave checked his website for leads and surprise his mailbox was empty. So we decided to take a break, we sat on a rooftop eating our burgers when he broke the news, he'd caught Katie having sex with another guy one night when he went to visit her. He didn't seem all that broke up about it so I asked him how he felt and he told me that he was planning to break it off anyways because he just didn't love her the way he thought he did. He said our relationship was closer that they ever were, and that brought a smile to my face.

Just as we were going to call it a night a group of seven guys shoved a woman down our alley way and Kick-ass and I were finally going to see some action. Just as Dave came around the corner, I jumped from the fire escape to cut them off, she was finally going to get to try out some of here new moves.

*Flash Forward*

We took our time making our way back to the safe house, I made it through with out a scratch Dave, however took a few hits and his nose looked pretty nasty, but he was in good spirits. So we talked and joked back and forth.

"I still can't believe you made that guy eat his own beard" Laughed Dave
I could only smile and say that he deserved it, when I really just wanted to slam him against the wall and have my way with him.

We made it back in one piece and we decided we were too tired to go home so we would just crash at the safe house. Lucky for me it only has one bed and I made a big deal of him sleeping on the floor as beat up as he was, so we ended up in the same bed together, and I couldn't be happier.
That's when it happened

Call it a burst of teenage hormones or whatever you want, I rolled over to face him and just as he was about to say something I crashed my lips into his and all of those bottled up emotions came pouring out. For a moment he kissed me back before pushing me away, and before he could speak I covered his mouth and poured all of my feelings out to him, then I moved my hand and sat in silence, waiting for him to reject me, call me a foolish child. My stomach tightened when he began to speak and then he said something I would have never imagined.

"I love you too Mindy more than anything on this planet. You're the first thing I think of when I wake up, and the last thing one my mind when I fall asleep. But we can't act on our feelings now no matter how strong they might be.

My heart sank. "Why not" I began to protest

"Because If we made it official that we were together, to the rest of the world,You're only 13 and it's still against the law, what would make me any different from the people that we have sworn to protect this city from?"

For the first time in a long time, I was speechless, because everything he said was true, and I was heartbroken.

Dave perked up "But that doesn't mean that I don't love you, It just means that we have to wait a little while, and I'll always wait for you."

"Will you hold my hand Dave?"

He smiled at me and I smiled back at him, as we drifted off to sleep, hand in hand.