Mako's Message: ...why is this only 998 words? That's bullshit. But whatever.

I've had this idea for Dave and Mindy to get Chinese food together for months so I'm just happy I not only finally wrote it, but got more than a page out of it. Debatably.

Anyway.

More Dave and Mindy interaction and actualy relationship building. Fuck yeah.

I guess.

Enjoy.


Dave can make me happy so easily. I hate it.

I've been feeling so shitty lately and tonight it all went away.

I think I hate it because it's the only times when I start to think I'd enjoy giving up being a hero and just living a normal life. I honestly have no idea what I'd do if I did though. It feels like I'd just have this massive whole in my life. I'd have to give up all my memories of being Hit-Girl, but that'd mean I'd also lose all my skills and I think I'd hate that worse than missing out on being a hero. Not that I'd know.

But even if I was given a magic button that said, "Dave will date you and love you forever BUT you'll both lose all memory of being heroes." I don't think I'd push it. Because if we weren't Kick-Ass and Hit Girl us dating would be really really weird. Wouldn't it? Like, why would we be dating? Why would we even know each other?

Ugh. I don't want to think about magically becoming Dave's girlfriend anymore.

But tonight we had a great time together. Just the two of us. And I wish every night...or at least more nights when we aren't out doing hero work, was like it.

We had wrapped up our training for the day and we were headed home but hadn't split up yet, when Marcus called me to say he was going to be working late on a case. Tonight was going to be our "family night", and I was going to bring home chinese so he didn't want me to rush home or waste my time getting the food since he wouldn't be able to make it. Except I'd been craving chinese for the last two days so there was no way I wasn't stopping for food. And since Dave was still with me I asked if he wanted to come over for dinner. It wasn't "family night" anymore after all.

Dave accepted without even thinking about it.

So we went to Red Dragon, and yeah, I know, it's a generic ass name and it's pretty generic food, but it's still the best chinese food I've had. For under $20 an order at least. We still spent like $60. We were hungry, it smelled amazing, and we couldn't make up our minds.

Dave asked if I was paying or if we were splitting, and I said, "Aww, you aren't going to buy me dinner?"

Dave smirked and said, "Why should I? You don't have rent to pay and you have more money than me anyway."

I bumped him and said, "You know I shouldn't spend my money carelessly. It's not like I have as much as I used to anyway." Seriously. It's weird remembering how I'd just grab a few hundreds out of the emergency suitcase every few months for just whatever, but now I have less than a hundred thousand. It's been so long since we busted up anything that had more than a couple thousand. I don't want to have to start skimping on our supplies…

Anyway, Dave said I could order whatever I wanted and he'd pay for it, as long as I did the same for him. I didn't have any problem with it. Our orders were almost the same amount, but then Dave ordered some more appetizers while he was paying for my stuff.

I sat down at one of the tables to wait while he ordered, and when he was done I pushed the seat next to me out and patted it to get him to sit there, but he deliberately ignored me and sat on the other side of the table. So I glared at him for a second then got up, grabbed some napkins and straws, then came back and threw myself into the chair next to him hard enough to slide it right up against him and just started talking again like nothing interesting just happened.

I tilted my head back to look up at him and he had his eyes narrowed at me, but I just grinned back at him. He shook his head and moved his arm behind his chair so that it wasn't trapped between us. It let me get a little closer to him even if he wasn't putting his arm around me, but it was fine. I liked it. And we just sat there and talked about what were doing in school, about cheerleading and work, and comics.

I got a little too enthusiastic talking about the latest Risky Chix comic. I hate that I still read it since I only picked it up back then because whatever I needed something to read. It's not even good really...I just like it. And for some reason it's one of the only comics I pick up ever month. Dave seemed amused by it though.

So we were there for maybe a half hour before our food was ready since there were a bunch of people ahead of us.

Then we went back to my place and we put a random movie on while we ate. And when I say random I mean we literally picked it without looking. I don't know what it was and we didn't like it so like ten minutes after we finished eating I asked if he wanted to play more of the "not-pikmin" game.

He said, "Yeah, kinda. But how about you show me the game you wanted play?"

So we did that for the next...I don't know how many hours. I just know we didn't stop until Marcus called to make sure I didn't stay up all night or something. Which we honestly might have. It just honestly felt really good running around blowing up robots while Dave watched my back from the air.

Just makes me wish we could do stuff like that more.

…

I do need to go to sleep though.