I don't know what you're going to do, but I have work to do.

[hit_girl_mindy]

People dealt with things in different ways. In Mindy's case, she had continued severing people in the cafe. The hours were rough, her sleep patterns shifted, and she had told herself to take it easy after the ejecting from the Sensoriums by Overlord Zetta. Much like a bartender though, working in the kitchens meant hearing people's conversations, and that led to the topic most people were talking about: the Daligig, the former crew and the inevitable fight for the ship. This wasn't just gossip: it was legit information, and while she could skim over Howard's really long summary, it was Allenby's that hit home. Sure, she had that dumb phobia about tech that was irritating, but she was truthful.

And that meant training time had to happen. NOW.

She didn't waste any time either. Quick to the Sensoriums, Hit Girl costume on and the simulation began ten minutes after intense push ups, stretching and a little running.

She learned something in the past few weeks: the only way to really train yourself was to push, and that push had to keep going and going and make you better. So now she was back again against the Daleks, testing her ability to dodge and run and make things fall on them. Then came that duel with Aqua, where she got much, MUCH better with a blade. Then she was back to attacking SAINTS and the hark robots, making sure there were twice as many.

But the grand finale? Shadow Zetta, unstoppable, merciless, and constantly coming at her. Even in the aftermath of broken robots and a beaten Aqua, she couldn't come close to landing a hit on shadow Zetta that mattered. Yet here she was, going at it again and again, and somehow, the audience were smug looking members of the Daligig, looking like Ceasars at a lion feeding.

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[hit_girl_mindy]

Hit Girl laughed. "Oh, I can get Ruffnut to blush! She did pretty badly when she saw me naked, but that was when that stupid thing on the ship made people share the same bodies."

[moms_temperment]

"Was that before or after I told you she thought about that stuff?" Hana grinned, remembering the strange conversation they'd had over the channel.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Nah, we knew at that point. It was a pretty bad dream I had, and she saw it all, so I went to the shower or whatever, and it was the first time she saw me naked. It was kind of a shock, but I could feel she liked it too."

Not that she would ever tell Ruff she knew. That would probably embarrass her.

[moms_temperment]

"Man, you're both such perverts." Hana gave her a thump on the shoulder. "You're only the same age as me... I think."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Shut up dude!" Mindy left, hitting him. "Nah, it was a more complicated situation than that, and I took a shower to calm myself down. She suggested it, actually."

She looked thoughtful. "Wait, how old are you again?"

[moms_temperment]

"Yeh." There was a cheeky grin on his face. "I bet she did."

"Thirteen." But Hana was tall and well built for his age, easily passing as a 15 or 16 year old. "You?" He patted the shorter girl on the head.

[hit_girl_mindy]

"It was a pretty crappy situation, and I wouldn't have done it otherwise," Hit Girl said. "She's my girlfriend, but I'm going to go nude with her right from the get go! I doubt I even have hormones yet!"

That. Was such. A LIE.

"Dude, I will bite your hand off," she said, grinning. "I'm the same age as you! It's 's Ruff who's a bit older. I never really asked though."

[moms_temperment]

"Suuuuure."

"Seriously? But you're so tiny!" Now he deliberately patted her some more, as if pushing her towards the ground.

"You don't know how old your girlfriend is but you let her see you naked?" Hana looked so amused right now.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Ok, now he was definitely getting into "I will hit you so hard" territory, but after that whole thing with him and Ruff from before, she was trying to be understanding.

"I'm getting bigger," she muttered, and didn't seem all too happy about it. "It's the other reason I gotta keep training. Anyway, it wasn't about letting her see me be anything. I had more important things on my mind at the time."

[moms_temperment]

Hana just seemed to find her growing irritation funny. "Shortie~" He teased. "It's funnier because Ruff's so tall."

[hit_girl_mindy]

Hit girl stared. "You know, if you wanna keep going down this road, making you shorter can be done. No one said me and Ruff didn't look funny together. Not that I care what people think."

[moms_temperment]

Hana blinked in shock at the defensiveness of her comment and took a step back.

"I didn't mean that. I was just--"

He didn't finished his eplanation, instead he just looked at the floor, feeling stupid, worried he'd overstepped somewhere he shouldn't.

It seemed like he was walking on eggshells around Hit Girl, he tried hard to make her like him, but when things started relaxing and going natural, she seemed to get mad at him.

"Sorry." He managed to mumble, glad his hair fell far enough over his face to mask how pathetically dumb he felt.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Hit Girl laughed, bumping in the hip. "Dude, calm down! Threatening people is how I kid too! Trust me, when I'm actually serious you'll know. I just felt like punching you. I think I'm supposed to, though. Girls and guys tease each other like that...so i'm told. Just keep in mind that I wasn't as social as you guys, ok? You can pretty much call me home schooled."

That was actually most accurate.

"And you know, that was exactly why I got my ass kicked by the Overlord the other day: stumbling in on his date."

[moms_temperment]

Hana barely rubbed where he'd been hit, though, considering he and Ruffnut greeted each other with a full body tackle and a smack to the cranium their threshold for affectionate pain was rather high.

He gave a small smile. "Threatening I can live with, even if you are scary."

"It's the thinking you're mad at me I don't like." He pouted and looked away, embarrassed. "I want you to like me."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"I DO like you!" she said, grinning. "If I didn't, trust me, I wouldn't waste the words or the time. I'm not friends with a whole lot of people, in case you haven't noticed, and there's a reason for that. Trust me, if I care about anyone, its you."

Oh, he didn't want Mindy and him to greet the same way. Mindy had a tendency to be pretty hard all over.

[moms_temperment]

Hana stared at her for a moment, then a smile broke out on his face. It grew. And grew. Until his head was effectively split in two by a massive grin. "You do?"

Quick reflexes or not, Hana had suddenly wrapped his arms around the smaller girl to give her what could only be called 'a bear hug', lifting her off the ground. "Haha! Awesome!"

[hit_girl_mindy]

Heh. She couldn't help but like Hana. Taller or not, he was a pretty big kid a lot of the time, but really likable. It was hard not to like him.

The bear hug was unexpected, but of course it didn't hurt her in the slightest. "Yeah, its pretty awesome."

[moms_temperment]

Hana gently put her down, still grinning at her. "Coz you're awesome!"

Hana's fierce loyalty to his friends often manifested itself in him being quick to defend them and being very happy to praise and please them. Hit Girl was no exception.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Hit girl laughed. "Well I am, but come on. You're pretty cool too."

All Hana needed to do was be in trouble a little bit, and Mindy would have been there in a moment. And if you pissed off Hit Girl, you better be a demon or something, or you would have your ass handed to you.

[moms_temperment]

"So long as I'm cool enough to be your friend, that's fine with me!"

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Trust me, you're fine," she said. "I can't believe I was jealous at first."

[moms_temperment]

"Jealous?" Hana seemed to be on a roll with looking confused today. "What do you mean?"

[hit_girl_mindy]

"You two were close," she said. "And even though Ruffnut and I shared being trained by the Overlord, I was pretty sure you both would end up together. I didn't know why, but it pissed me off. It wasn't you, it was me not seeing what was right in front of me."

[moms_temperment]

"You thought me and Ruff were gonna be like that?" Hana just shook his head, unable to comprehend it. "I mean, Ruff's pretty and all but she's just... Ruff."

While Hana could certainly admit Ruff's good qualities and even mark her as good dating material for others, he'd never view her as such himself. They just... Didn't look at each other like that.

"Besides, it was obvious she liked you, she talked about you all the time when we hung out."

[hit_girl_mindy]

"Well I know that now!" Hit Girl said. "But all the time I watch over her, got all excited when we were around each other, even got drunk with her one day when I was aged up, and it still never occurred to me we might be good like that. I can't say I was ONLY into guys: I was never really into anything at all except flirting with guys to mess with them. THAT was fun."

She shrugged, smiling a little to herself. "Heh. I should have known."