Genre: Humor/ Fourth Wall
Character(s): Dave Mindy

At about seven in the evening in late August, Dave Lizewski padded through his house, dressed in only a t-shirt, sweatpants, and a pair of socks, preparing himself for a night free of crime-frighting, work, or girlfriends. The last one being as he didn't have one anymore. He set a bag of chips and a bowl of salsa on the coffee table, and was heading back to the kitchen for the two liter bottle of soda when the door bell rang.

Curious as to who would be coming by at this time that would ring the bell, he left the soda to wait and went to answer the door.

When he opened the door, he was surprised to see Mindy Maccready standing there. She was a fair bit back from the door, as if she stepped back on purpose so that the person who opened the door could get a good look at her. The first thing he noticed was that it looked as if she'd curled her hair, it'd always had a slight curl to it, mostly at the ends, but now it was definite. The second was that she was wearing a dress, which was unusual but not unheard of, and a light jacket. And third that she was wearing flats, not her usual sneakers. He looked back up to her eyes and she smiled at him and said, "Hey."

"Hey," he said, slightly perplexed about the whole thing, "What brings you here? And all dolled up."

She blushed slightly, "I thought we could go out and celebrate."

Now he was just confused, "Celebrate what?"

She smiled and her eyes lit up, "Our anniversary."

Dave's brow knit together as he tried to figure that out. Their anniversary? Anniversary of what? He'd known her for more than a year, and they hadn't been a team for a year yet... he stopped and counted the months, wondering if she really meant a semi-anniversary, but no, it'd only been five months, "Anniversary of what?"

"Of Precocious Crush."

Dave blinked, "Precocious.. what?"

"Precocious Crush. It's a romance fanfic about us, though it doesn't have nearly enough romance in it for my liking," she sad with a devilish grin.

He stared at her wondering if she'd finally gone completely nuts, "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Really?" She sounded genuinely confused, and maybe even a bit disappointed, "It's quite popular. Over two-hundred and forty-seven people are subscribed to it, and over two-hundred and sixteen people have marked it as a favorite of theirs and it's received over twelve-hundred reviews," She paused and amended, "The guy who writes it does kind of bribe people to review though, so that's not a very reliable measure of it's popularity." She perked up though, "But it has been recommended on websites like TvTropes and DarkLordPotter. And it's convinced people who hadn't even thought of us as a couple that we should be together and even spawned other stories based on it." She said the last bit with quite a bit of pride.

Dave stared at her, concerned for his friend's well being, "Mindy... what the fuck are you talking about?"

Mindy's face suddenly went blank and her eyes lost their focus. She blinked a few times and looked around confused as if she just realized where she was, "I...uh... what was I saying?"

"I have no idea. You were going on about some fanfic thing."

"I..what? You meant those stories people post on The Registry?"

Dave shrugged, "I guess."

"I... stopped looking at those a long time ago. There were way to many that looked to be thinly veiled pedo fantasies about me. Fucking freaks. If I ever find the guy who wrote about me taking it from Chris he's gonna be taking it up the ass from his own dick."

Oddly, this brought a smile to Dave's face, as she suddenly seemed back to her usual self. He paused for a moment as it occurred to him how fucked up that was.

"So..uh, anyway," she continued, plucking at her dress, "I seem to be all dressed up and have nowhere to go, so, uh... you want to...go out or something?"

Dave shook his head, this night had just been too weird, "Yeah, sure, why not? Just lemme go change"

Mako's Message: So, this was...not much of a chapter... well it's a chapter, it's just not much of a story so i won't be expecting any reviews. I hope it amused you all though, and if it sounded like I was tooting my own horn, well, I usually try to avoid doing so, but I think I can be allowed a little horn tooting on the one year anniversary of my most successful fic.