Hello, I'm kind of back from the dead and honestly it's hard to explain how hard it is to keep writing on the same story with ADHD on adults haha... But I'll try to stay constant this time, I promise.

Note: I felt like at the begining of Kidd's and Lilith's encounter I didn't clarify early enough that she was already drunk when she approached him and that's why she was so blunt towards Kidd (plus the hurt ego after breaking up with Roland again) and remember Kidd is already a familiar face around them all, for two years being there with them and what not, so it wasn't so hard for Lilith to decide what she wanted to do with Kidd after he saved her sorry arse.

Also I feel like Moxxi's affections are increasing exponentially fast and I don't know how I feel about that; I'll slow down the relationship bar a little (though Moxxi used to be an all openminded model and I know she's no angel, so maybe the fact that the haven't shagged means its already not rushed at all) just comment me on this one cuz I'm very confused.

Anyhow that is my insight in chapter three and now let's begin with chapter four.

-Even the devil would've thought.-

He did it again, she thought with a frown.

Kidd had, somehow yet again, managed to capture many a bad guy's attention as he cleaned the bar at the busiest hour of the night (which was midnight).

It was no surprise for neither of the bar members, for the young guy always seemed quite distracted with a little someone while cleaning, and that usually meant him bumping into people-uh, peoples. And whilst nobody would usually mind the skinny, middle height guy...

BAAM!

"Uhh, please don't step on the bar's table...?"

This guys certainly would.

Ruffled, white sprayed hair, all wearing heavy yet battered bullet vests, and yes, she wasn't kidding, only red boxers.

They all sported red eyed looks (Kidd's...and also drugs fault) and one had a milkshake she clearly remembered Kidd asking for a client, all splattered on the ground and on one guys shoe, so the problem was evident.

And the killer instinct from those guys were too.

Kidd wasn't that baffled, his mind already seemed gone way before his shift started (she noticed), and this time it ticked her that she wasn't the reason for his mental absence.

As the three huge guys all stood up and surrounded Kidd like Lions to a mouse, Moxxi pondered what could've happened last night as she worked through getting alcohol, that made Kidd not only not visit her that night (which was already making her feel a little weird), but to skip chatting with her in the morning and eating his lunch as he watched her recieve weekly deliveries.

It was the first Monday without a pair of brown eyes oogling her as she inspected the beer barrels and cheep wine bottles (and her usually secretly stashed Jacker's Z1000) and she had to get to the end of that mistery...

"Don't run away you little rat!" Oh right, Kidd.

She tried running to stop the guys from jumping on him and probably dismember him, but as she blinked two things could already be heard:

A shot (Salvador's courtesy, no other gunshot could sound so clean and yet hit nothing inside a bar) and one of the trash-head's yelping as a familiar cyborg executed some painful ninja shit on the guys arm, effectively knocking him out.

"Alright, alright amigos, what's all this bullshit in the middle of the night? Can't you see them folks trynna relax here?" The broad blue haired man asked in cherry laughter even though he seemed ready to bash one of those asshole's head at once.

"This ain't your business, get your ass somewhere else before it becomes yours as well" One of the guys, she'd bet her hat his name is something dumb like Grok, threatened before reaching out for Kidd.

"This is our business/ For he is our friend/ I won't let you hurt him" Zer0, already done with the shortest of the three, stood up in between of the giant blockhead and Kidd, in an attempt to push Kidd out of the way and also push the giant monkey into his friend.

Moxxi clapped when the cyborg pulled off his plan and pushed the giant idiot, effectively making him trip into his friend and making them both hit their heads on the edge of the table.

It would've been even more heroic if the separation hadn't made Kidd stumble and fall face first onto the dropped milkshake, but she only sighed and guessed that would be his punishment for f-ing up at work.

"I am entirely sorry/ This is totally my fault/ at least you didn't get hurt/" Zer0 approached an embarrassed Kidd who was solely focused on checking on whether or not his goddess (Moxxi) had seen what an embarrassing shit he had done.

Moxxi, recognizing this, immediately laughed harder and smiled at him, mischievously smirking as she walking towards the already calmed down scene.

"Do I need to remind you this is all your fault?" She asked and he groaned, ashamed. He was still sitting on the floor, now legs crossed as he sat on top of the milkshake pool, with his hair half pink from the sugarry drink and a bruise on his cheeks (probably something gone wrong in Zer0's execution, or the fall) and he seemed slightly ticked off. A Mordecai in his situation would've already effectively shut her up and rage his way into an alcohol coma, but Kidd seemed calm enough.

She knows now not to play with fire though, so when Kidd only looked up to her and nodded, still evidently raging inside from this idiots trashing him around (Kidd was no let goer, she knew) she sighed and crouched, offering a hand he happily took and she helped him up, mostly keeping him in place so he wouldn't trip on the wet floor, but doing so carefully so he wouldn't stain her clothes with the milkshake.

"I know, and I was gonna pay for the milkshake, but I guess destiny payed for me" He replied as he let his arm hang around her shoulder for support a little longer before letting it drop completely, "Thanks for the help, uh-Zer0" Moxxi blinked twice at the interaction, for Zer0's just showed a quick green smile on display an left immediately as well.

Kidd and Zer0 acting weird around her raised her alarms, for they were always friendly around one another.

So now she knew Zer0 had something to do with today's strange behaviour.

"You're not gonna thank me as well, brother?" Salvador, quite righteously, made himself known to the others.

"Oh yes, I'm sorry, thank you man" Kidd tried fixing as quickly as he could, "Geez, I'm just-uh, out of it tonight, sorry" He laughed nervously and looked around, almost looking as if he needed oxygen at that precise moment.

"Tonight, or more like all day long, sugar" She corrected in a worried whimp and he coughed, she had caught him (obviously).

"S-Sorry..." He looked at the floor, looking apologetic but not quite offering any reasons that she could use.

She was no pusher.

"Look, the night already looks dead from the shots and punches, so why don't you take a walk outside, huh? I'll tell the others to close up for you and we'll make sure this three don't remember your face so they don't come back looking for you" She offered, mostly because she knew Kidd volunteered to midnights shifts solely to keep her company on slow days even though he seemed like the least morning person ever, which meant he enjoyed his sleep.

"Oh I mean, that's not necessary...though keeping this assholes away would be, but I'm peachy Moxx, I wanna stay till we close, like always" He denied her as he removed all the milkshake off him, and smiled as he waved off Salvador and started walking towards the mess, ready to clean it up.

She internally pouted, for she had planned to intercept him on his obligated walk outside to question him (and maybe do some other things to him) about his mind and what has been going on.

"Fine then, I'll let you at it, sugar, but-" She stood next to a crouched down Kidd and, as he rubbed off the stained milk, she whispered to his ear, "I want you in my office, right after you finish this mess" She softly blew some air on his ear, making him twitch and chuckle from the tickleness, before taking a long time to reach the door to the back of the bar, just to see whether or not he would look up to check her out.

She decided he did whether or not she turned, and satisfied, she left, but not before telling him to let the bar lights on, for somebody would come pickup the pile of unconscious idiots that was on the floor.

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Kidd took his time when closing, she knew that much. He always tried leaving everything perfectly clean, but his mind would always give in to some distractions as he closed everything off, so it would amuse her to watch him on the cameras as he finally managed to shut the lights off and call it a day. Usually, this would be endearing behaviour.

This time, she cursed the fly that entered to entertain his eyes before he finished stashing away the glasses.

"He takes so long..." She complained as she spoon on her chair, hat resting at the top edge of it. She had taken the time to re-read her new contracts, and had even contacted someone from another district to bring her this new, cherry flavored cola, and Kidd hadn't actually finished up, "How come it takes him three years to place the cups where they're meant to be...and I don't even care that much about them being in order..." She bit her cheek. It was fine, he always took his time and this time it'd be no different; he had no morning shift tomorrow, so there's not even a reason for him to need to reach bed early tonight and even though she told him she'd be waiting for him, she's told him thousands of times before that if he's gonna do something, he at the very least should do it right and she wasn't about to contradict herself just for some need of attention and curiousity.

She could wait.

But apparently, a cyborg ninja appearing in her camera display, could not.

"What is Zer0 doing at closing hours? He just left the bar an hour ago" her eyebrow ticked when the ninja approached Kidd in a friendly manner, closing the distance in seconds to end up in front of a busy cleaning Kidd.

They seemed friendly, which did not fit today's particular interactions between her boy and the cyborg ninja...when she was present.

"Okay so, Zer0 is definitely here to see Kidd, for there's nobody else since before he left" She concluded, speaking to herself, "But suddenly they're friends again, and isn't Zer0 a little closer than usual?" She didn't need to rethink twice to know they were talking low so she couldn't hear, which only enhanced her curiousity tenfold.

She could see that they both were eager to finish talking about something, but before anything concluded they both left the bar for an immediate second, before it being only Kidd that returned, fast enough for her not to have qualms about skipping work.

She scoffed.

Whatever thing they had discussed, they had done it before and they knew to be quick about it, so it was top secret.

Now she wasn't one to pry but she was sure Kidd held no secrets other than an unknown past (her fault, hasn't asked yet) and maybe some dark desires (?...she wouldn't judge) so this whole ordeal seemed to come from the only secret stash that would be worth a million each secret.

It was Zer0 who had a secret, and he had confined it to the weakest person (depending on who asks) to keep secrets.

To Kidd.

"And look who's coming up..." She muttered cheekily as she watched the old ass elevator make it's way to the top. and from the gate a thoughtful Young Kid appeared, in his hand a weird looking card and a look that told her he wasn't heading straight to her room.

Instead he instantly turned right and into his room, making it evident he was distracted enough to forget about their appointment.

She thched and fummed once before pondering whether or not she should go take down his door and then he himself but as she heard his door opening again and the elevator going down, another thought crossed her.

Is he leaving? Kidd wasn't known to wander around unless he was asked to, so for him to go down only meant Zer0 or somebody else (she doubted it) asked for him in the middle of the night.

As she waited for him to get out of the elevator, she realized it was only her paranoia that had gotten into her. Kidd was steadily and readily walking towards the shower, ready to take the only bath he was allowed daily.

Sighing, she let herself relax on her fancy chair and calmed her mind, not once letting the thought of him invade her until she finally heard the elevator working its way up, then she rushed to the window to see her awaited boy and a worker, Johann, both engrossed in discussion about who knows what as they walked to their respective once.

She snickered when Kidd didn't stop at his door and instead kept on walking, eliciting a question from his friend.

"Where you going man?" He casually asked him as he himself readied to close the door and call it a day, and her ego increased when he smirked proudly and declared he was heading towards her office.

She ignored the look of pity Kidd's friend gave to him- obviously, he thought Kidd was in for a world of pain, and whilst that thought was excusable, he couldn't have been farther away from the truth.

After they said their goodbyes Moxxi turned around, not wanting to let her employee catch her spying on him, and happily listened as Kidd's steps got closer and closer.

"Finally!" She yelled once he knocked shyly on the door and a hearty chuckle could be heard from the other side as she went to open the door and greet him.

"Sorry, I think it's evident that I kept you waiting" He apologized with a smile on his face and she reached to hug him, not wanting to greet him like a usual co-worker and not really willing to kill his courage with a greeting kiss or something.

He willingly returned the hug so she figured that had been the right choice, and smilingly she let him in, this time not guiding him towards her bed but to her main desk (which was in the middle of the room).

"It's quite alright, you're here now, so I don't mind" She hadn't planned on dismissing his late arrival that easily, but well, she could use anything else to mock him into whatever she wanted to do with him anyway, "So, just to let the hairs on your back relax a little, you're not here because of earlier" As he squinted his eyes, she snickered, "And no, you're not here because of what happened this morning either, so calm down" She took a seat on her main chair and he let his body fall down onto the wooden chair in front of her and her desk.

"So it's our usual late night date then" He joked, eyes half lidded as exhaustion kicked and she laughed, this time loud and less slurtly than what she was used to, but that joke had caught her off guard.

"Well, I'm not against it, although I never actually saw you asking me out first?" She mocked him, making him blush before she giggled as she reached his shoulder to pat him, "No problem, I did catch you busy getting asked out first to begin with" He coughed as he remembered the scene and she snickered, it had only been a day since that.

"O-oh yeah, about that-uh..." He started out shy, but she gave him enough time to find his words and continue, "What you...said to Lilith, was that-..." He scratched the back of his head, by this point Kidd's trademark habit for when anxiety kicked in.

"What of it, sugar?" She blinked, faking innocence just to push out more words out his mouth to extend his slight suffering.

"Oh come on, y'know..." She mutedly worded with her mouth Oh but I don't, before it turning into a foxy smile.

He almost looked like a pouting baby.

"Was it...true?" He finally managed, and honestly enough it was a question she did see coming.

The answer, of course, was delivered with her lips on his own.

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"Now that the last thing in my to do list is checked" Moxxi, fixing her slightly out of place hair and skirt, said as she stood in front of a wide eyed, shocked Kidd after they went through what Moxxi would call reassuring kisses, "I had a few questions I wanted some answers to Kidd" She said as she snapped her fingers, fully returning him to mother Pandora, "And I believe you are the only one with those answers" She finished with a hand on his right knee, resting there peacefully as she stared into his tired eyes.

He seemed out of it, distracted, and she swore his eyes were still only looking at her puffy lips, but when she finally removed herself from him, he managed to elaborate.

"What you need, Moxx?" She loved the nickname, it earned him lots of good points, but his tone sounded off.

Mind her, it sounded rather defensive.

"Oh well I was checking on you today, and you seemed slightly off track at cleaning hours; any comments on that?" He munched his cheek and thought about her question for a second.

"Well, I had a few slip offs today with Johann in the kitchen beforehand, so my day started with my left leg anyway" He begun and she panfaced. She hadn't expected him to tell her his daytoday story, "After that I broke a vase but you already scratched me off that punishment" She nodded and winked at him, "And then the milkshake accident..."

"Sugar you do realise I already know all about your day, right? I mean, I was there too, we work at the same bar, honey" He frowned, obviously feeling dumb after not understanding initially what she requested, "I wanted to know the why, Kids" To that, an imaginary light bulb seemed to turn on on top of Kidd's head.

"The why to my fuck ups?" She nodded; apparently he seemed to know what kept him busy all day long, "Obviously because I was distracted but she already knows that..." He muttered and then gasped, "Oh so why am I so distracted?" Slightly endeared, slightly ticked off, Moxxi nodded once again.

"Yes, Kidd" She giggled, "What's been on your mind as of late?" She tried again and stared at him.

He looked calm, as if he had finally figured something out.

As she smiled at her almost victory, he shook his head, breaking her hopes.

"Oh sorry, that's the only thing" He smiled at her, for the first time in a mischievous manner, "I cannot tell you that."

Oh why you little piece off-

Fin

hello, so I'm kind of back kind of not it's weird in my mind this days guys, not many things make sense so it's really hard to put something together for you guys to enjoy but here it is another chapter this time again into Moxxis perspective but I'll see to it that next time it's Kidd again

This chapter is mostly to show how Moxxi acts when she's alone and with only Kidd and serves as a way to help me into writing again so sorry if I didn't advance on the plot at all

The real questioning between moxxi and Kidd begins next chapter but it's not anything special just to let you know

So not really many comments on Zer0 being a girl this chapter mostly because Moxxis don't know yet (and nobody knows except for Kidd) so yeah that's that

I'd love it if you reviewed and please tell me if you find typos or if you think the story is going off track or something is wrong idk but tell me

Love ya- Paw