That same week
Friday evening
West Ridge
Mindy, refused to allow me in the bedroom while she was getting ready, so I had to use the spare room!
Marty and I, naturally, were ready fairly quickly. We both wore suits; mine was a dark blue and Marty's was more of a lighter blue and we both wore vivid ties, Marty's was a royal blue and mine was green.
We waited for almost thirty minutes before Mindy finally came downstairs.
"Oh for fuck's sake, you two!" I exclaimed. "It's only a dress, for God's sake!"
Both Dave and Marty were, apparently, speechless and Marty's eyes were bugging out and Dave seemed to be drooling!
"Fuck me!" Dave said.
"Not right now, Dave," I replied dryly and blushed!
"Wow! You look fucking awesome, Mindy!" Marty said, in apparent astonishment.
"Thank you Marty; always the gentleman!" I replied, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
I had to admit, I had knocked them both for six!
I was completely astounded.
Mindy was wearing an ankle length dress, with a single shoulder strap over her right shoulder and a slit up the left leg, almost to the top of her thigh. She also wore gloves that went over her elbows, thus covering the bandage on her left arm.
The dress was, of course, purple! Mindy's hair was tied up and she looked lovelier than I could ever remember.
"I'll take Dave's drooling as a sign he approves, too!" Mindy said, somewhat sarcastically.
I grabbed my cell and took a few pictures, to remind me of the night. Plus, I thought Marcus would be very impressed! I did notice though that Mindy was not wearing high heels, as I knew that she hated the things. The shoes she wore were simple, but still very nice looking shoes.
Right now, every part of me yearned for Mindy!
..._...
We pulled up outside Chloe's house and I went to knock on the door.
It was opened by Dr Bennett.
"Hi Dave. Wow, very smart!" Dr Bennett said. "Chloe is almost ready."
I waited a couple of minutes, before a very smart young girl came down the stairs looking a little shy. I had to admit that I had never seen Chloe wearing even a skirt before. She always wore trousers or shorts. This time though, she was wearing a very nice blue dress that came down to just below her knees.
"Very nice, Chloe," I commented approvingly.
"Thank you, Dave," Chloe replied, blushing deeply.
"It's very good to see Chloe in a dress, for a change!" Dr Bennett said, smiling. "Have a good evening!"
I drove south, into Chicago and pulled up outside the restaurant, where a valet parked the SUV.
Chloe was very impressed by Mindy's dress and Mindy approved of Chloe's choice, too. Considering both girls hated wearing dresses, they both turned out looking perfect and Mindy was attracting quite a lot of attention from other diners, mainly of the male variety.
We sat and ate a full three course meal. It was really good to finally be able to relax and enjoy each other's company and have fun! Chloe really enjoyed herself and got a couple of approving looks from other younger diners, which made her blush. Marty kept telling jokes, which caused us all to laugh and he often timed the punchlines for when we had our mouths full, or were taking a drink!
At one stage the Maitre'd inquired as to what we were celebrating.
"Being alive and being together!" I replied, simply and that what was what we all raised our glasses to. We had all risked death and been shot at, not to mention that Mindy had been injured.
Mindy, Marty and I, all had good reasons to be happy, as Chris D'Amico was dead and gone. Chloe understood our happiness and so she was able to join in to.
"Dave, when you put him down, you said those words, the exact same as that last time. That meant a lot to me and ever since that day, so long ago, I have always known that you care about me, deeply. I thought that those words, said by his father, would be the last words that I ever heard. You repeating those words closed off that whole affair and I can now forget about it!" Mindy said, emotion flooding across her face. "Although I'll never forget the sight of you with a damn bazooka!"
We all laughed. We could; a whole sordid chapter of our short lives was closed!
"I meant every word, Mindy. I enjoyed saying them again," I admitted.
"If you hadn't been so caring and the only link to my purple side that I had left at that time, I probably would not have revealed my true identity to you," Mindy said, wiping away her tears.
"I'm forever grateful that you did, Mindy!" I said, leaning over to give her a kiss.
We left the restaurant before ten and took Chloe home, before we all headed home ourselves.
We would see Chloe and Abby, he following morning.
The following morning
Saturday
West Ridge
"What is that cool music?" Mindy asked curiously, coming into the living room.
"This? You don't know?" Dave asked, incredulously. "It's a classic!"
"You've never watched 'Battle of the Planets'?" Marty demanded, just as incredulously.
"No, never," I responded.
I had to admit the intro theme was very cool.
Battle of the Planets! G-Force!
Five incredible young people with super powers!
And watching over them from Centre Neptune, 7-Zark-7!
Watching, warning against surprise attack by alien galaxies from beyond space!
G-Force! Fearless young orphans, protecting Earth's entire galaxy!
Always five, acting as one! Dedicated, inseparable, invincible!
"Sounds a bit like Fusion... 'Always five, acting as one! Dedicated, inseparable, invincible'!" I admitted. "I suppose I am a 'fearless young orphan'!"
"You'd make a good 'Princess' and I'd be 'Mark',' Dave said, laughing.
"Don't even think of calling me '7-Zark-7', asshole!" Marty growled.
"I have to admit; I did consider 'G-Force' before I thought of 'Fusion'!" Dave admitted.
"You're a complete dork!" Marty said, laughing.
"Coming from you, that's a compliment!" Dave laughed.
"You two watching these cartoons, all day!" I asked.
"Yeah! 80's Cartoon Marathon! 'Battle of the Planets', 'Terrahawks', 'ThunderCats', 'M.A.S.K.' and more!" Dave replied.
"You are a real pair of geeks!" I groaned.
"And you aren't? I've seen you glued to Star Trek Voyager and don't try to deny it! We had to put up with you and Chloe quoting Family Guy all week! I have had enough of hearing that the 'Bird is the Word' or anything about the 'Freaking FCC'!" Dave retorted.
"Okay! I'll join you!" I said, sitting down and cuddling into Dave.
..._...
"Hey, cool! Battle of the Planets, I love it," Chloe said, sitting down beside Mindy.
"Can I join in?" Abby asked.
"Yeah, sit down," I said.
The next afternoon
Sunday
West Ridge
We all enjoyed a peaceful weekend, with no Fusion activities.
Now that Chris D'Amico had met his demise, the city of Chicago was going back to normal. Kyle was over for his training, which he had missed out on, over the past few weeks, with only a little training.
"Okay, Kyle!" I said. "Hit me!"
"You're a thirteen-year-old girl!" Kyle complained, receiving a slap across the face.
"What the..." Kyle started, before receiving another slap.
"Act like a bitch, get slapped like a bitch!" I said, with a giggle.
"Hey, that's my line! Did Dave tell you about that?" Mindy asked.
"Yeah!" I replied.
"That hurt, Chloe!" Kyle moaned, rubbing his cheeks.
"Well, man up then will you, just take a minute and dig deep for a bigger set of balls, 'cause you're gonna need 'em before we're through!" I said and saw Mindy roll her eyes in exasperation.
"My balls are fine, thanks!" Kyle replied indignantly. "You wanna check?"
Mindy burst out laughing and I felt my face burning. I span around and kicked Kyle to the floor.
"Thanks, Chloe!" Kyle said, standing up and rubbing his chest.
"No problem!" I said, throwing an evil smirk at Kyle, before the fucker kicked my legs out from under me and I crashed to the mat, letting out a surprised scream.
The bitch just laughed even harder!
I had to admit Kyle impressed me there, but all's fair in love and war! I sprang up and tried to kick Kyle's legs out from under him, but he dodged and span me around and back onto the mat, this time face down. The fucker was getting good!
I thought Mindy might piss herself, if she did not fucking stop laughing.
I walked over to Mindy.
"You think this is funny, bitch?" I asked, seething with rage.
Mindy looked up at me, she was very red in the face and looked to be in pain!
"I'm sorry!" Mindy giggled. "Kyle's line was just brilliant!"
"It was, wasn't it," Kyle said, laughing.
"Okay, enough is enough! Do I need to break both of you, to get respect?"
Both of the fuckers just burst out laughing and ignored me completely!