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Since living in the new castle with Ruffnut, Mindy had done her best to maintain upkeep, even "borrowing" a few things from the wreckage of Grand Central to spruce up the place. It helped, especially since the events of the homecoming, to keep her head busy. On the one hand, yes, dad had appeared: he wasn't dead, he was proud to know they won, and for just a little bit? She got to be a little girl again, to crack wise with her dad, to show him how far she'd gotten.

But then he was gone again, and the new pod pop didn't bring him out. She shouldn't have hoped for it, but she had, a little. Once that was a no go though, she was either training or helping Ruffnut patch up some of the frayed tapestries or fix up carpeting or overall making sure there were no holes for them to fall through anywhere. It had been good, but even Ruffnut had sort of side stepped asking her about dad. It was something she appreciated: Mindy wasn't known for easily delving into her feelings.

This naturally led to another thing on her mind: what had happened on the mission, where the Castle gun shootout had almost taken her out- SHOULD have, if it was anyone else. She had severely underestimated what she could do: the way she;d moved, the accuracy in each shot, the sheer carnage: that was akin to a limit break.

And now, she wanted to control it.

She emptied herself of all thought: that was how a fight in the dark was, if you had no edge. There were only a few precious seconds to gather your mind, and then you opened your eyes and all hell broke loose. Your eyes and your hands had to work in tandem then, and you pulled back and took out people one by one until you got the job done or you were dead.

Like now: it was those gun slingers from the castle, and she started with ten at first, taking them out easily. The background was the saloon again, only she made it bigger to accomdate the increase in shooters.She cursed to herself (it was too quick!) then brought the number to fifteen, then twenty.

Each took less time, and Hit Girl nodded: she HAD gotten better. She wasn't even using Zetta's gun or her artifact, and she was still taking these bastards down.

"All right: switch it to forty, and place them all over the bar."

Ok. GO.

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The noise and chaos of the bar melted away in that minute. Even if Ruff had thrown caution to the winds she wasn't particularly keen on everyone staring at them lip locked, so instead they were on a cliff back in Berk. The moon was high and full and stars were their only audience now as Ruff felt the eager lips of her friend, her partner in arms, her sister on the battlefield. She was small in her arms but so muscular for her age and Ruffnut knew that she could easily punch out anyone in her own age group given the chance.

But other then physical sensations associated with the kiss, The feeling of a pair of soft lips on her cracked dry ones, the smell of sweaty Mindy, the taste of skin and beer creeping through her mouth now, the sound of their clothes rubbing together and Mindy's breath through her nose and sight...well Ruffnut had her eyes closed.

But beyond her physical senses Ruffnut wasn't thinking, wasn't questioning. Not at this moment anyway. She was barely able to comprehend what Mindy's kiss meant. It just felt nice.

And God, Ruffnut could sometimes be dense, but she picked this moment, with the two of them together to take her HERE, to Berk, her homeland. She even had them at night, like some perfect little Disney movie where the boy and girl finally show how much they care. But this wasn't anything stupid like that, this was real, the kiss something she had been lying about to herself all along. It was how she was, keeping things at just an arms distance, not getting involved in too much over her head. But it had never made sense with Ruffnut, because she kept her eye on her, never thought to herself Ruffnut could do this alone. No, she interfered to a point and now, now she was knowing why.

And everything just seemed to have color: the bond of Ruffnut's hair, the way the moon was reflected on the ocean, the way Ruffnut's chin quivered very slightly as she didn't, couldn't let go. Even that stale order, which Mindy had gotten used to on Ruff, was a new smell, sweeter than it had been.

She let go, but her hands were still on her shoulders, and she admitted t, knowing it could possible make things bad, but she wouldn't lie, not to her.

"I wanted it to be you."

THAT actually sounded heavy. Heavy enough to make Ruff's cheeks go from pink to full red.

She was surprised to see she didn't have a voice right away and made a funny sort of coughing noise before she found words again. "How long have you uh...felt...like that?" She mumbled suddenly feeling horribly awkward. Emotions were one thing, but "Feeling" was entirely different. It was one thing to do whatever she felt like and live as she pleased but to explain those pesky urges and drives was harder.

That question was a good one. It was one she had been thinking about herself, wondering how long it had taken. Had it really just been this night, this day, where she thought of Ruffnut as anything but a friend? Consciously, maybe, she had kept her at an arm;s length: those feelings were dangerous. Mindy had allowed herself to love only one person, and he had died: why risk that emotion all over again, that anguish that came with keeping a straight face?

"Since that day with the beer and the ageing," Mindy finally said. "A part of me knew then, but when you were weirded out, I had to recover. When I figured you told Hiccup I knew I had to bury it further. The worse thing is anyone thinking you pushed, or that I manipulated you. I wanted...I wanted you not to deal with these idiots gossiping and laughing about you because I won't fucking let them. If...if you just want us to forget, I'll do it."

No. That sucks, I don't want that. Damn it. These sacrifices blow.

Ruffnut had that puzzled look on her face again as she took a moment to pick through Mindy's words and sort them out. It was hard enough processing that Mindy liked her in a way that Ruffnut had only recently begun to consider as a valid relationship.

"Who's stupid enough to laugh at me?" Ruff asked curious and then added, "And over kissing and stuff? That's dumb. Anyone wants to laugh because someone wants to kiss me is probably just jealous." She cracked her knuckles in a sort of a warning as if there were people around them just waiting to fulfill Mindy's fears.

Mindy stared. Didn't she the whole underage...no, of course she didn't, duh. She was a viking. What the hell did she know about any of that crap? She wasn't look at their age differences or even their sex, was she? She was just looking at them as they were, Mindy and Ruffnut, viking and Hit Girl. What the hell else did they need.

"Ground rules then," Mindy said, knowing she had to do this, because it was needed and because Ruffnut needed to know. "We don't tell anyone except maybe Zetta and Lash. Nobody needs to know our business or say crap until WE say so. Next, we still fight as a team, but as Overlords we compete. Let's face it, we are bad ass, we know it. One last thing, for both of us...no fucking lying. I'll tell you straight out what I mean, what I'm about, and you do the same. What we can't solve with words, we fight out."

She couldn't help but smile. "Deal, Ruffnut?"

There was a pause, boy suddenly things sounded complicated. They had to have rules now?

She held a finger as if pausing the proceedings. "What about Hiccup and Astrid?" After all they were the last connection she had to her world. And they were the two most likely to understand where her own special brand of logic came from even if Mindy had learned enough of it she might as well be from their world.

She felt compelled to add Hana to the list too but at the same time felt like just mentioning her viking friends was pushing her luck. "Not like I'm gonna run right over and tell them just...if it comes up or something...I'm not that good with secrets." At least she was honest.

Mindy watch the girl's reaction, sighing to herself. It would be more complicated for Ruffnut, having her friends and wanting to ask them stuff. She couldn't just tell Ruffnut to leave them in the dark, even if she wondered what they would think, Ruffnut being with a girl...wait, what was she, like, two, three years older? That wasn't so huge.

It was still weird though, and likely Hiccup would freak a little. She DID stupidly flirt with him (just because it was fun at the time) and now she hoped he didn't think she was just fucking around with Ruffnut. But who knew what would happen? Maybe the viking would pray to his gods they get disinterested or something.

"Yeah, ok," she said. "I mean, they are your friends from Berk, right? I guess I can't say no. Whatever happens, happens. Right now I just feel a lot happier we said it, and I don't have to pretend I'd like someone else on the ship thath awsn't you."

That made Ruffnut's cheeks glow crimson again. "I won't go telling everyone right away I mean...about whatever this is." She looked a little nervous correcting herself, "I mean, I think...I don't know, it feels good...hanging out with you always feels good I mean...I mean not just good great." It was really something to see her fumbling for words as the rush of simple minded confidence was thrown off by sudden concern over the semantics of whatever it was they were entering into. Was it love? Dating? More? Less?

Mindy chuckled. "Calm down Ruff. You don't have to call it anything but is being around each other, like always. It's what we are, it's what we do, and no matter what happens, I'll always call you my partner. I just can clarify, if anyone asks, that partner can also mean awesome fucking viking girlfriend, ok?"

And with that, she gave her "friend" another passionate kiss, before whispering into her ear, "That's three."

This time Ruffnut was left breathless and thoughtless. A combination of Mindy giving her permission not to think too hard about it, calling her her "Girlfriend" and not with the emphasis on "friend" and the kiss.

All she could do was grin sheepishly and feel a rush of adrenaline. Whatever this was...it felt dangerous and exciting. Like there was so much more on the line then just breaking some bones or being sent to the big battle in the sky.

There as something freeing and good about this: a part of her knew this had been something she wanted, and now that it was here, she couldn't help smiling. She idly played with the girl's blond lock a moment.

"You know, I gotta say: I'm really surprised you didn't figure it out when I went all ape shit on those guys in the saloon. I thought you would know for sure once you saw that. You can be totally dense sometimes, Ruff."

Ruff pouted a little and give Mindy a playful shove "Yeah yeah you're the smart one who just was too much of a wuss to tell me sooner!" She teased right back. The levity was welcome and made the barrel rolling gut feelings easier to swallow.

Mindy rolled her eyes. "Dude, I'm younger than you, I have no figure and I'm a GIRL. The odds weren't really stacked in my favor if you get my drift.Let's not forget the only person I ever loved got burned alive. I don't exactly have a sparkling track record. What if you hadn't liked me back?"

"Well I do so you were worried for nothing stupid." She took Mindy into a headlock, but somewhere along the way it ended in a one armed hug pulling the smaller girl to her.

"I know that now you as-hey!" Mindy was pulled into the headlock, but once it turned into a hug, Mindy was totally caught off guard, and relaxed into the hug a moment before moving out of it, her skin slightly pink.

"I think you're starting to get the hang of this girlfriend part already."

"S-shut up." She mumbled sheepishly. She was already feeling incredibly self conscious. Suddenly everything was different, Mindy wasn't just her best friend but something different and more and she wasn't entirely sure how to handle that.

So as usual...she was planning on blundering along head first and making it up as she went along.

It was as if Mindy getting an idea what Ruffnut was thinking, and sh just shook her head and kicked the girl half heartedly in the shins.

"Dude, come on. You don't have to go and over-think everything. We're how we were before, except with hand holding and kissing and stuff. There's nothing that much different from a girl being with a girl than a boy with a girl...not that it matters, since we both have no idea what we're doing."

And she squeezed her hand. "But back in that bar? You were perfect."

Ruffnut was going to respond to Mindy explaining that not much was changing for them when the other girl went and called her perfect.

No one had ever said anything about the lanky, pug nosed, clumsy, short tempered, thrill seeking teen had been perfect. And hearing it from someone she respected as much as Mindy made her face tomato red, all the way to her ears.

"S-shut up." she fumbled unused to the sudden sensation of being flattered.

"You're going to make it too easy to tease you man," Hit Girl said, shaking her head, but giving her girlfriend a smile. "I'm still surprised this is even happening. I was expecting you to go screaming into the night when I kissed you, or at least punch me in the face. This is...way beyond my expectations."

She grinned, and wrapped an arm around Ruffnut. "Just don't expect me to go easy on you just because of that. If you do, I'm gonna kick your ass quickly, and that'll just be boring. We're teammates, foes when they make us, best friends and girlfriends now."

Mindy snickered. "Wait until the Overlord finds out. I gotta see his face."

Edited 2011-10-10 16:23 (UTC)

Ruff raised an eyebrow making...what for her amounted to an astute observation, "I'll bet he acts like he knew all along. He's that kinda guy...book...thing."

"He better not," Hit Girl said. "I didn't even know about it until I saw you with my at the bar: like, the light hit you just right, the way you moved, I was all 'damn it, who am I fooling?'"

She DID say she would be honest.

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