Mako's Message: I...Hmm... Well, here's a chapter... I...should get to work on the next one...
Dave kicked me in the face today.
He was horrified, of course, but despite the fact that it hurt like a motherfucker and I had blood pouring out my nose I couldn't help smiling. Dave had never been able to land a solid blow like that before. He knew that, and he never expected to actually manage to land a spinning back kick, so he didn't hold back at all.
And that's how I learned that Dave hits really, really hard.
But it wasn't just pride in my trainee that made me smile, it was how he freaked out after he felt his foot connect with my face, and how he doted on me, trying to clean up the blood, and getting me ice, and spewing a constant stream of apologies.
When he finally sat down on the couch next to me after running out of things to do for me, he'd finally shut up and just kept looking at me with this guilty and worried expression, and then he asked, "Is there anything else I can do for you?"
I could think of a few things he could do for me, but my head hurt too much to do most of them, but if I could have justified asking for a full body massage I would have. Instead I pulled the ice pack off and said, "Kiss it and make it better".
Which may have been a mistake from the way Dave cringed. I looked at him and said, "Is it that bad?"
He was still trying to not look at it when he nodded a little and said, "Yeah."
So after that I decided I had to go see this myself and when I looked at myself in the mirror... I was kinda pissed, because it was bad. I'm probably going to have to take off school tomorrow because I don't think I'll be able to cover this up. Angela might be able to, or Jessi, they're both really good with makeup, but I couldn't exactly call either of them up to help with this. And if I have to take school off because I can't hide it, that means Marcus is going to see it, and he's going to be SUPER pissed and I'm gonna have to listen to him lecture me on shit I already know and he'll probably try and say I should put the costume away again and blah blah fucking blah. God tomorrow is going to suck.
Anyway, Dave came up and stood behind me while I was looking at it, and he cringed again, said he was sorry again, and then leaned over and kissed me just under my eye. I tried to enjoy it despite it making me wince. He laughed a little at that, which was good, because I was proud of him for managing to land the kick. I don't know if it was dumb luck, or if he's just getting better at predicting where I was going to be, but he pulled it off with spectacular results.
And solid evidence of Dave gaining levels in ass-kickery wasn't the only good thing to happen tonight. Just the most painfully vivid.
We stopped into that cafe again tonight. I love when we get to go there. They have this banana's fosters french toast, that's just amazing, and it's just the pick me up I need to get me through rest of the night. I wish we could go there every night. But is if we did, I'd probably get sick of it, and I sure as shit don't want that to happen. I want it taste like sex every time I have it.
Not like I'm ever going to find out what sex is really like at this rate anyway.
Anyway, so we're sitting there and we're working on a map of The Factory for when we make our attack proposal at the next Justice Forever meeting while we ate, and then Biker Knight walks in.
Dave pointed him out to me, since I had my back to him, and I turned to see him standing at the counter, and the woman asked, "Your usual?"
And he just nodded and she called back the order, and I just sat there wondering how to approach this. Yelling out and waving him over would just be totally uncool, but how else was I supposed to get his attention?
Then he looks over at us and Dave nods at him and he nods back, and then he just starts walking over.
I make space for him and he sits down next to me and pulls out a note pad and starts writing on it. He holds it up for us and it says, "Nice place huh?"
And Dave says, "Uh. Yeah."
Then he starts writing again and holds up, "Busy night?" and points at the map I was working on.
And then I asked, "Can't you talk?"
Then he starts writing again, "You wouldn't be able to hear me through my helmet and I'm not taking it off."
And Dave says, "Oh. That makes sense."
And he writes, "So what're you working on?"
And I said, "We're working on a map of The Rainbow Factory. You know that place?"
And he wrote, "I know of it."
So I told him about how we were working on a plan to show the rest of Justice Forever about how to take it down.
He looked over the map for a second then wrote, "When are you doing this?"
Dave shrugged and said, "We dunno yet. We're still working on it."
And then one of the waitresses brought a bag over and Biker Knight handed over some cash then wrote, "Let me know when you're doing it. You're going to need all the help you can get." and left.
So, even if we can't sell this idea to the team, at least we've got one more hero with us.
