Day One: Morning

[Android-18]

It was now time for the sun to arise, and it came gloriously across the sky. The clouds that had once fought against the brilliant rays were now transformed into beautiful colored strokes on the pallet that was the horizon. The sunrise was beautiful, and the air was becoming less crisp and warmer against the skin. The girl was just now taking a break, having trekked far from where she had begun. The hills were becoming sloping fields around her, whilst purple and yellow meadow flowers tickled the surface of the waving long stemmed grass. It was in a small copse that she stood, her lips to the canteen and a small bit of bread in her delicate fingers. She tossed it into her mouth before taking another brief swing and stood silent in her small camp. It wasn’t much of a camp, just a shady place to rest her feet.

A twig snapped and her senses perked attentively. She stared ahead, and then turned slightly from side to side. There was a presence here, and she was not sure whether it was friend or foe. She left her sack upon the single rotten log in the small thicket and gracefully fled the scene. She moved through the bush and treaded lightly against the wild growth. She could see the shadow of a man, and she could smell him…and he smelt barbaric. She crept up on him, and as she got closer his appearance became recognizable. Eighteen smiled lightly, it would be him.

Their meeting was as casual as usual, she pointed him out, gave a teasing response and he was nothing but dumbfounded. He held out his deck of cards, and she stared at them as if they were foreign things. “Well, um, sure.” She took one of the laminated items from his grip and looked at it. He took it back, without looking, and shuffled the deck. “I didn’t know you could do magic tricks.” She commented before taking a seat on the mossy log. A butterfly took flight from a small gathering of flowers and fluttered across their path.

“Neither did I,” Raditzu replied and his eyes followed the insect, its bright white pattern with blue specks was rather attractive. “Is this your card?” It shot at her as he flicked it so cleverly with his fingers. She caught it and looked at it, then at him, and then back at the card.

“Impressive! This is the card.” She lied, and handed it back. “You’re cute when you’re being an entertainer. You could quit your job as a superhero and join the circus.” She teased him and then smiled genuinely.

“No such luck, babe, I don’t think wearing tights would suit me…plus, they ride up…and that just won’t fly.” He shuffled the deck again and looked to the sky. “So, anything familiar here?” he suddenly asked and she looked at him with a mouth full of water. She had taken another sip from her water bottle.

“No, I’m afraid not.” The android responded upon swallowing and set her things into her pack. “You know…we haven’t actually been alone in a long time.” She stood up and took a step closer to the Saiya-Jin. “Did we used to be very intimate?” she asked, looking into his eyes.

“Well, we used to…and then things got complicated.” He looked back at her, but quickly added. “It wasn’t you, babe, it was me. Besides, we never had the time.” He reached out for her, but she dodged aside, to his surprise.

“I think I’ll make you work this time, from what I’ve been gathering you weren’t exactly a model boyfriend, were you?” she stepped back now, but playfully.

“Well, no, not exactly.” His eyes showed a slight hurt, but he reached for her again regardless.

”We’ll just have to work on that, won’t we? I’m a new woman after all; I think you could turn over a new leaf for me. I don’t remember the past, so we’ll say all the nasty stuff didn’t happen.” She dodged again as she spoke, but he moved quicker than she could anticipate and he had her in his grasp, her back to his chest. He held her tight, but lovingly.

“Nasty bad stuff, not nasty good stuff, right?” He asked in her ear.

“Ew, what the hell did we do? Wait…I don’t think I want to know.” The android made a face, thinking of kinky naughty things that she may have done.

Raditzu burst out laughing. “It was a joke, hun. I get what you mean, and trust me; I don’t want to repeat the mistakes of the past. Now, how about we do something productive?” he let her go, but she turned around just as quickly and took him into a hug.

“Yeah, I could go for something productive.” They laughed together before breaking apart once more so that the android could lightheartedly run away.