Shadows of war chapter 3: Run and gun, hack queens

A/N: I still don't own gunslinger girl even though I wish I did

Slowly as the sun rose symbolizing another victory in the fight to survive another day Richard slowly rose to find Taylor already her usually hyper self.

"Morning sleepy head" she chirped while trying and failing to hide her smirk as she saw his drunk looks and black eye before bursting out laughing at the training had hurt her big brother. Mumbling in German he said

"Oh fuck off Damnit" right before Katy walked in with her shoulder length brown hair wet holding a hot cup of coffee passing it to Richard as Chris was already chugging coffee like there was no tomorrow. As he greedily sucked down the warm liquid and running down to a large breakfast of bacon ham eggs and pancakes he bumped into rico and Triela before blushing like someone had burned him and just making eye contact with Henrietta who was walking with them before apologizing to them in German and English for his klutziness and then started eating talking to Katy as Taylor was trying to talk Henrietta into going out with her brother.

"Umm sis I have a question for you" was all Richard could say before seeing if she was sneaking up behind him semi smiling which gave it away so Katy said

"Let me guess you have a crush on etta or Triela eh little brother?" As he got his wits back he said a little to defensively that no it was rico even though he thought Triela and etta were like family before sitting through Hillshire's lectures and wanting to resist the urge to overdo it in hand-to-hand with the "blonde haired asshole" as jean was known too rich for his treatment of rico and Katy wasn't thrilled with it either. Watching Chris and Petra sparring out of the corner of his eye in the room next door Richard couldn't concentrate and the trapid tapping on the keyboard of Senka and Alexia After classes he asked Taylor and Katy what to do and was told to nicely ask rico if she wanted to go for a run not knowing that rico had the same conversation with Etta who turned a bright shade of red.

"Let's get you ready for your date" was all she would say on the issue as triela and claes came in and said that they had an idea and wished her the best. During a warm up that was mostly awkward silence for neither knew the others feelings rich said stammering hearing Chris' smooth Russian with Petra about 50 yards away in the brush,

"umm rico I have something to tell you" as he aimed and fired after the run to the range leaving him sweaty which only added to ricos feelings and Henrietta's because she was watching trying to be to jealous and praying that her sisters didn't catch on. Sure what is it was all rico said as she felt her temperature rising just like the Elvis song she had listened to earlier on and Richard then said that he liked he and wished he could go on a date with her but wonder in fear what would happen if jean found out so he told her

"Let's do an active assault drill" as she said she felt the same. As he went to sleep listening to Scarborough fair wishing he had kissed her after walking her to her room he was told by Katy and tay

"oh don't worry you'll get your chance as we have a mission with her tomorrow" which got him unable to sleep as he got his m110 rifle and 417 and glock .40 and knife ready before sneaking over to ricos room finding her and etta along with Triela talking about it and then when they saw him in all black tactical gear and his brother in similar clothes walking toward a certain Russians room, he said

"we have a mission in a couple hours and I thought id visit some people that mean the world for me" getting all three glowing a bright shade of red as etta and Triela squeezed him tight before making room for rico who blushing planted a kiss on his cheek to which Richard responded with kissing her lips. As the mission started with him getting out of an all-black mustang cobra 500 as he also had a suv that was armed as he could mount guns as needed he took stock of the raid teams and asking if he could help with sniping as over watch and finding out that was the plan and then he would help assault the next building as it would be a day of raids that kicked off with a bang as Taylor relished in making her brother proud during a raid as team leader as her other brother led an assault team as well to overwhelm the forces hopefully before anyone fired a shot. As the group all readied up two girls in regular military fatigues stood around watching the events and Senka looked at her sister and pulled out a laptop smirking saying cockily

"I honestly thought you soldier types were saying it would be a hard challenge but this is clockwork for me" causing Alexia to spit out

"I think the challenge aspect was for me having to hack into their surveillance and even the weapons they have rigged to computers and play old footage. It's a challenge but not impossible" and Chris and Richard both yelled to Taylor

"Hey sis if you see any FRF or uncles RDF you know what to do" and Chris was happily smiling at Petra as Taylor replied "hell yes paybacks a bitch" as she broke down the doors and hearing the blasts of two sniper rifles she knew it was party time and that her life would be in her big brothers hands and she said a silent prayer for them after yelling "clear" after breaching one room and finding a weapons stash and an intel dump in the room next door as she dumped a RDF member on his now blood stained black shirt as she cut his throat ear to ear not knowing that the fight wasn't over as she heard a loud bang and their cousin run away as her aunt blew herself up and a voice yelled happily with a trace of smugness

"told you not to cross the wires!" although Richard told her that later and matt came to the agency asking to be allowed to help as he was just like his cousins even though they almost shot him during the raid and was sent to the Italian special ops working with his family and he ended up losing a few pounds and would perform raids outside Italy to help his family.

A/N: hope y'all enjoy it and I'm going to write black lagoon and strike witches. Also I apologize for the length and the love scene.