Dave and I are headline news.
Well, on the registry at least.
After the fight in times square all but six of us, not counting myself and Dave, hung up their capes. The rest of the people, who were pretty much just fan's, wannabes, or general supporters are still there. Everybody is talking about how we'd been seen working as a team. Someone even posted a topic in the forum titled. "What the hell Kick-Ass?" Calling Dave out on saying he didn't know me after the fight, and then being seen working with me less than a week later. Dave responded with, "I don't know her personally. That day was the third time I'd met her. Our team-up formed later that week."
Someone took a bunch of the pictures of me, drawings and photos (a lot of the photos's sucked, except for two, which is good.), and made a video about me. It started with a voice yelling, "Holy fucking shit you've gotta love Hit-Girl!" and going on to talk up how much of a baddass I am, before ending it with a cartoon of me smiling and leaning on a spear stuck into some guy on the ground and yelling, "And she's so, fucking, CUTE!" It was awesome.
Anyway, we visited Marty today. No real change. But we sat and talked to him. His father was there, but he was asleep. We read a couple of the new comics to him. Didn't get any response from him, but I don't really think that was the point. I think Dave still feels guilty for getting him hurt, or at least for not talking him out of it. But it was his decision to become a hero and I think he would have done it with or without Dave's approval.
When we left Marty's room Dave stopped in the hall and asked me, "Do you want too..." and left it hanging.
I knew what he was talking about though, I'd been thinking about it myself, so I said, "Yeah, let's go see Uncle John."
He was surprised to see us. But happy. He said he didn't have any family who'd visit him. They'd all either stopped talking to him years ago because of his past or had ended up dead. He was pissed that they'd kept him in there, but with his age they wanted to keep him under observation for as long as possible. He said the fact that he had really good health insurance probably didn't hurt either.
He showed us a newspaper article about us. Said it looked like "they" were already making an impression and asked us what we thought about "them". I said it'd be nice if they could do something more "permanent" about the criminals. Dave rolled his eyes. John laughed.
Then I yawned.
"Late nights getting to you?"
I said, "The nights I can handle. It's the mornings that suck."
He laughed and slapped his knee and said to Dave, "I like this girl."
Dave smiled and said, "I like her too."
It was kind of retarded how much I liked hearing him say that.
Then he says, "So, I'm going to be getting out of here soon, and I was thinking of, uh, getting the club back together. I think we're gonna be needed more than ever after that freakshow. You two want in?"
Did I want to be on a team of superheroes? Fuck yes I wanted to be on a team of superheroes! It was a struggle to contain my excitement at the idea! John, well, guess I should call him Colonel Stars, smiled and said it'd be great to have us on the team. We talked shop for a bit longer, as discretely as possibly, before heading home.
And ya know what? I completely forgot about this until Marcus just asked me what I wanted to for it, but my birthday is coming up. I'm going to have to think about that.
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As for the chapter, yeah, it was short. But that's nothing new. And, honestly, Mindy's birthday I actually figured as being February or March. But for plot purposes it's going to be about mid May. ... I suddenly have the feeling I'm going to be booting up the old Time Compressor again... Anyway, hope you enjoyed, and I'll try get back to a semiweekly schedule for this story.
