Ok very short episode giving insight into Mindy and Penny's relationship. No action, just a bit of girl talk. Next chapter will have action in it! (I hope, I never know how my chapters are gonna turn out.)

Over the next few weeks I trained hard, everything I had learned in my kickboxing lessons seemed to be coming back to me. I also stayed away from any activity involving Red Mist or Chris D'Amico. I was still very much involved with the Red Mist case but it was becoming harder and harder to find any evidence convicting Chris, every piece of camera footage seemed to have disappeared.

One morning, I awoke to find a message on my answering machine from Chris, asking if he could see me. After our explosive last meeting I was tempted, but I couldn't date a suspect, however much I wanted to.

I even started becoming closer to both Dave and Mindy again, I saw them as much as possible while I was training up again and had somehow been appointed leader. Even from the wings I was calling the shots. We'd work out a plan before Kick Ass and Hit Girl left to fight Red Mist, then they'd come back and tell me how it went.

Spending so much time with the two of them I realised Mindy didn't have a lot of clothes, other than her costume. She had a part time job and enough money to buy a store but she couldn't be bothered. She said there were "more important things to do." So, I offered to take her one day when the crime world seemed to be resting.

My arm was almost ready to be out of the sling so I said it would be a sort of celebration, except I hated shopping. I took her not because either of us wanted to go but she needed new clothes, there was not one t-shirt she wore without a hole in it.

After shopping and ending up with a lot of geeky and black clothes I bought us a coffee each. "What's your biggest regret?" Mindy asked me, out of the blue.

"Um, well…" Loosing my virginity to Bud, "I'm not really sure. I guess not being you-know-who for six years. Yours?" I faked thinking deeply about her question.

"Not getting to the warehouse in time to save my daddy." She looked solemn for a while and I felt like shit for asking.

"Why did you ask, Mindy?"

"I don't think I know you very well. I talked to Dave and he said for me to ask you questions like that."

"Did he, now? Come on, you know me well enough. You know my fighting style, what my favourite gun to use is-"

"Machine gun, any type, but you're stuck with a pistol at work."

"Exactly. You know me well, just not the things everyone else knows about me. It's one of the reasons we get on so well." I smiled but Mindy stayed stony faced. I never would understand that girl. "Mindy, what's wrong?" She sighed. "Is it a guy?" I asked, it came out of my mouth before I'd even thought about who I was talking to.

This was Hit Girl she wouldn't be like this over a guy.

"Yeah." She whispered, stirring her black coffee.

Wow. "Ok, do I know him?"

"How do I know?" She snapped.

"Alright, alright. Tell me about it." It was the strangest situation, I was going to give love advice to a crazy eighteen year old superhero. I had noticed as we had walked 'round the shops guys checking her out but it was still strange for me, she was like my slightly sadistic baby sister.

"I've known him for, like, ever. It seems like it anyway, and I've only just started thinking of him like this. It could be nothing but it's getting annoying now and it's making everything really awkward."

"Does he know how you feel?"

"God, no." She snorted staring into her coffee.

"Well maybe you should take steps to tell him. What's the harm?"

"He could turn me down and I could never love anyone again, like you." She hissed. I was not expecting her to turn it around on me but she managed it.

"Hey, I was in love with Chris and he was my boyfriend. I wouldn't say I stopped loving people, exactly. Hell, what am I on about. I couldn't even cope with him…" trying to tell me his feelings. I carried on the sentence in my head and I felt a smile lift my lips.

"Shit." Mindy hissed.

"What?"

"What happened?" She stared at me angrily.

"What?" I laughed exasperatedly.

"I know that look, Penny. What happened between you and Chris?"

"Nothing, nothing…" She stared me down, "Alright... something might have happened… we may have kissed…"

"You are an idiot." She sighed.

"Look, I'm sorry! Try having that much electricity with someone, sit together alone, let it get heated and then tell me off for snogging his face off." I said stubbornly.

There was an awkward silence and we both took a gulp of coffee. "So who is this guy you li-"

"Oh, just drop it."

"Ok."

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