LIFE,
LOVE AND FAMILY : THE DATING GAME PHASE I – ANALYZING THE SITUATION
AUTHORS NOTE: I must give a special thanks and two big
toes up to Relena Peacecraft for her wonderful ideas that made this chapter possible. ***Hugs and Kisses***.
Thanks to every one
who read and/or reviewed. Your reviews
kept me going when I wanted to throw in the towel on this fic after one bad
review. You guys are great. J
One definition you
might need to understand. An Elephant
Ear is a flat donut the size of an elephant ear that has tons of sugar on it.
This chapter is
broken into two parts: Phase I and Phase II
Legal Stuff: Me
don’t own no Gundam Wing (Suffer English Majors BWAWAWAWA!!!) ^_^
Enough talk---ON TO
CHAPTER 11 – PHASE I
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Relena finished
reading the document and gracefully signed her name on the bottom of it. She placed the document back in its folder
and placed the folder in the huge pile of folders that were already on her
desk. She picked up the folders, walked
out of her office and handed the stack to Mavis.
“Could you see that
these documents get distributed to their rightful owners?” Relena asked Mavis
as she handed the stack to her.
“Of course Ms. Relena.”
“Please Mavis. Don’t
call me Ms. Relena. Just call me
Relena. “Ms. Relena” makes me feel like
I’m 50 years old. How many times do I
have to tell you that?” Relena stated giving Mavis a friendly smile.
“I’m sorry,
Relena. It’s hard not to when your such
an important person.” Mavis replied.
“Mavis, I’m just a
regular person with a hectic job just like you. I’m no different from anyone else. So please stop treating like I am. To be honest, I don’t like when anybody does it. It just puts me on a pedestal I don’t want
to be on. Besides I consider you a
friend and my friends call me Relena.”
Mavis smiled at
Relena, “I didn’t know you felt that way and I’m honored to be considered your
friend.”
The two women shared
a friendly hug.
“Mavis, I’ll be
leaving the office now. Feel free to do
the same as soon as you get those documents distributed. It’s Friday after all and with the nice
weather it’s going to be a wonderful weekend, so why not get an early start.”
“Thanks Relena. Have a good weekend if I don’t get a chance
to see you before I get back.” Mavis
said as she lifted the stack in her arms preparing to leave the office to
deliver the documents.
“You too.” Relena replied as she entered her office and
shut the door behind her.
Relena walked over
to her huge mahogany desk and ran her hand across the smooth wood surface. She hopped up on the desk and laid down on
it. She stretch her arms out to her sides
and moved them back and forth across the desk like she was making angels in the
snow. She stretched her slender legs to
get out the kinks that settled in them. After she stretched hers legs, she bent
her left leg to place her foot flat on the desk while letting the right hang
off the edge of the desk paying no attention to the fact that she was wearing a
mid thigh skirt. She closed her eyes
relishing in the feeling of accomplishment.
“Damn it feels good
to have a completely empty desk.”
“I’d enjoy it if I
were you because it won’t last long.”
“Hilde! What’s up
girlfriend? To what do I owe the
pleasure of this visit?” Relena asked
cheerfully as she sat up on her desk.
Hilde shut the door
and walked over to the desk and sat down in the chair in front of it.
“Relena. Do you think I’m doing the right thing by
giving up on Duo? You’re the only one
out of all of us that is kinda in the same situation that I’m in. I mean we’ve waited 7 years for the men we
love to return our feelings and I’m so tired of waiting. You know I’d like to have children while I’m
still young enough to bare them.”
Relena smiled at
Hilde and cocked her head to the side.
“What’s the real
issue with you? Duo has already told
you that he loves you. He’s been
breaking his neck trying to make up for that nurse incident that even wasn’t
his fault but you know that. He’s sent
you flowers, wrote love letters which is shocking for Duo and you still refuse
to speak to him. Duo loves you. So
what’s the problem?”
“Leave it to Relena
to get to get down to brass tacks.”
Hilde sarcastically replied.
“Well?”
Hilde jumped out of
her seat and began pacing in front of Relena, “Alright! I’m scared!
There I said it. Happy?”
“Why?” Relena inquired.
Hilde sighed, “Do
you have any idea what it feels like to see the man that love and waited for in
the arms of another woman? The pain was
so overwhelming, Relena. I just wanted
to die so I could end my suffering. I
didn’t realize how much control Duo had over me. I don’t like anyone to be able to affect me like that. Now I’m confused on whether or not I should
take the chance with Duo or just stay single and continue to date other guys.”
“Will that make you
happy, Hilde? Will throwing away all
those years of hard work and sacrifice make you happy?”
Hilde sighed, “I…I
just don’t know any more.”
Relena hopped down
off of her desk and placed her hands on Hilde’s shoulders, “Listen. Just follow your heart it will never steer
you wrong. Speaking of date we both
better get a move on so we can be ready on time. You know it takes “Reyna” a while to get ready. So why don’t we go and get started shall
we.”
Relena walked behind
her desk and grabbed her purse. Hilde
and Relena left the office.
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Quatre shut down his
computer, preparing to leave, “Hey guys.
Meet me at Jai’s place. 7 sharp.
There’s something you guys aught to see.”
“I’m not spending my
Friday night with a bunch of Onna’s.”
Wufei stated disgusted.
Quatre stared back
at him really not in the mood to be bothered with the chauvinist pilot, “ You
don’t have to stay. After you see it,
feel free to leave.”
~*~*~*~*~*~7 O’clock pm*~*~*~*~*~*~
Heero opened the
door to Jai’s Loft and entered followed by Quatre, Duo and Wufei. The radio was blaring an old ABBA disco
song. The girls were nowhere in sight. Then they heard singing coming from the open
doors of three bedrooms.
“Gimme Gimme Gimme a
man after midnight.”
Jai came dancing and
singing out of the Kitchen with a Pepsi and a sandwich in her hands oblivious
to the pilots.
“Won’t somebody help
me chase the shadows away?” Jai sang as she danced her way over to her laptop
on the dining room table.
“Gimme Gimme Gimme a
man after midnight.” Came three harmonized voices from the bedrooms.
“Take me through the
darkness to the break of the day.” Jai responded.
The end of the song begins
to fade. Jai pulled out her chair to
sit down.
“I can help you with
problem.”
With lightening fast
reflexes she pulled out her gun and pointed it towards the voice.
“Quatre!” she
shouted as she lowered her gun, “One day you are going to sneak up on me and
I’m gonna shoot you.”
Quatre continued to
grin wickedly at her as she walked over and turned the radio down. Duo began clapping.
“Hey that was a
great concert. If you guys ever find
yourselves out of work, you can always sing.”
Jai smiled, “I’ll
keep that in mind. Thanks Duo.”
Wufei huffed, “Silly
Onna’s.”
Jai shot him the Yuy
Death Glare.
“Hey Heero. Why don’t you sing us a few bars?” Duo asked
smirking.
Before Heero got a chance
to strangle the braided baka the buzzer for the door rang. Jai walked over to the vid display.
“Yes” Jai said.
“Hey Jai. It’s
Calvin. Is Reyna ready?” a man with
short dark brown hair and brown eyes asked.
“Reyna your date’s
here!” Jai shouted towards the bedrooms.
“Who is Reyna?” Duo
asked with a confused look on his face.
“Be right down,
Calvin!” Reyna shouted from down the hallway.
Calvin nodded that
he heard her and Jai cut the vid display.
A woman with long flaming red hair with golden highlights and bright
green eyes came hopping down the hallway on one foot trying to get a black pump
on her bare foot. She was dressed in a long red denim skirt with a thigh high
split on her right leg. She wore a
black silk tank top under a red sheer shirt.
Her lips were painted in flaming red lipstick and a little blush colored
her cheeks. She came to a complete halt
when she saw one pilot in particular.
“Heero. What are you doing here?”
Heero stared at the
woman with a blank expression on his face while fighting the physical reaction
he only got when she was near him.
“Relena?”
“At the moment its
Reyna. This is how I go out and about
in the free world and right now my date is waiting”, she said as she walked
toward the door tossing her red hair over her shoulder.
Quatre, Duo and even
Wufei were too stunned to say anything.
Relena had definitely changed besides learning how to throw knives and
fire a gun. This Relena was a total
knock out and had the attitude to go with it.
Relena reached for the door handle.
“Don’t wait up.” She
said as she bounced out of the door.
Heero walked over to
the window and looked out. Relena
emerged from the building a few minutes later. His heart began to twist when
Calvin kissed Relena on her cheek as he helped her in her car.
“Uh Heero
buddy. I’d say you have been replaced.”
Duo said smirking at Heero.
The buzzer rang
again before Heero knock Duo in the face for his comment.
“Yes?”
“Could you tell Hilde
that Jake is here?” A man with long auburn hair and deep blue eyes asked with a
British accent.
“My name is Brad and
I’m here for Sally.” A man with platinum blond hair and pale blue eyes said
from behind Jake.
Duo’s smirk fell
from his face and Wufei stiffened at the mention of Sally’s name.
“We’re ready” Hilde
called as she and Sally walked down the hallway from their respective bedrooms.
Hilde was wearing
sapphire colored silk shorts with a matching button down shirt. The soft fabric flowed back and forth with
every step she took. The laces of matching color sandals she wore criss-crossed
half way up her muscular calves. Duo looked Hilde up and down frowning.
“Where do you think
your going and who the hell is Jake?”
"Well excuse me
for being a mere mortal but I've been waiting around for 7 long years for you
Duo and you missed out. One man’s lose is another man’s gain.” Hilde replied as
she approached the door.
“Who said I lost
anything?”
“Well if you didn’t
notice, what you THINK you had is on its way OUT the door.” She said as she
opened the door and walked out to the elevator.
Sally was wearing a
form fitting black mini slip dress with spaghetti straps. Shear black stockings caressed her nicely
toned long legs. Black three-inch heels
completed the ensemble. Wufei’s breath
caught in his throat as he looked over Sally’s new look. He’d never seen her in a dress before.
‘Sally is
gorgeous, ravishing, exquisite...MINE!’
Duo smacked Wufei on
the back to get him to breathe again. Sally
smiled at Wufei as the color returned to his face.
"Are you gonna
wear that dishonorable dress in public Onna? You'll only shame yourself."
Wufei said slipping on his mask of arrogance.
"Wufei, just
because you find women like me disgusting to look at doesn't mean every man
does. REAL men aren't afraid of REAL
women."
Wufei was indignant,
"I'm only looking out for your best interest Onna. Somebody has too."
A sly grin crossed
Sally’s face, "I didn't know you cared so much Wufei, but yes I am going
to wear this dishonorable dress as you call it and turn other men on just like
I turned you on."
"What makes you
think a strong warrior like me would fall for the charms of a week Onna?"
an incensed Wufei spat.
"The bulge in
your pants gave you away." She shot back as she strolled out of the door
and quietly closed it behind her.
The Dragon Warrior’s
face turned red as a fire engine and his body trembled in anger.
Jai and Quatre
looked at one another and hollered "INJUSTICE!!" before collapsing on
the floor in a fit of laughter knowing that that was the next word to come from
the Justice Pilot’s lips.
When Jai and Quatre
finally stopped laughing they found themselves surrounded by three very pissed
off Gundam Pilots.
“Well it looks like
you ALL got replaced tonight.” Jai said smiling up at the angry pilots.
“Damn it! It’s too
late to follow them now. They have one hell of a head start.” Duo stated
dejectedly.
“I don’t think
so.” Heero said turning towards his
sister, “Where are they?”
“How in the hell am
I supposed to know”, She replied as she and Quatre got up from the floor.
“Don’t give me that
bull shit. There’s no way you’re going let “Reyna” go anywhere and not know
where she is. You’re just like a mother
hen who knows where all of her chicks are.” Heero quipped.
Heero walked over to
the dining room table where Jai’s laptop was sitting and pulled out the chair
in front of it. Jai huffed, stomped
over to the chair and plopped down in it. She slowly began typing on the keyboard
causing Heero to give her the Yuy Death Glare.
“You can’t
intimidate me with that glare. I got
one that looks just like it.” Jai said as she slowed down her typing to a
crawl.
“Damn it Onna. Type faster I know you can.”
“Jai could you
please hurry it along?” Duo whined giving her his famous puppy dog eyes.
Quatre snickered as
he watched Jai make he fellow comrades sweat it out.
***WHAM***
Heero slammed both
his hands on the table causing it to shake.
Jai caught her glass of Pepsi before it spilled all over the files she
had on the table. She stopped typing altogether and turned to stare at Heero,
her eyes flickering with amusement.
“Is there a problem,
Heero?
“Don’t be coy,
Jai. I’m not in the mood.” Heero
seethed through his teeth.
Jai crossed her arms
and leaned back in her chair, “Don’t get mad at me. You did this to yourself. All you have to do is tell her how you
feel, Heero. Simple as that but no, all that Gundam pride keeps getting in the
way. Baka.”
Jai turned from
Heero and began typing on the keyboard once again. A few moments later, the tracking program loaded and a map
appeared on the screen. All the guys
gathered around Jai.
Jai looked at the
map, “Ok. Let’s see. Catherine, Kellee and Jase are at the Circus. Hilde is at Sanc Cineplex, Sally is at Chet`
Pierre and Reyna’s at the pier.”
Heero, Duo and Wufei
took off out of the door, slamming it in their wake.
“That went
well.” Quatre said as he took the seat
next to Jai, “So what do you want to do tonight.”
“You are one naughty
boy, Quatre Raberba Winner.” Jai said as she leaned back in her chair crossing
her arms.
“How so, Janai
Jamenson Yuy?” Quatre asked leaning towards Jai.
“I thought your were
going to tell them about the dates?”
“I was but I thought
we both would enjoy it more if we could see their reactions first hand. You didn’t tell me that Sally had a date
too.”
Jai began laughing
again, “That was even news to me.”
Quatre began
laughing too, “So I’ll ask you again, what do you want to do tonight?”
“I don’t know what
you’re going to do tonight but I’m going to catch up on ComCor business. I am so behind. Redesigning the Preventer Computer System took a lot longer than
I thought it would. So I won’t be much company tonight.” Jai said putting on
her glasses.
“That’s OK. I’m sure
I can find something to keep myself entertained.” He responded as he got up
from the table and left the Loft.
‘Whew. If I had to smell his cologne all night, I just might not be able to resist getting a little closer to him. I would have succumbed by now if it weren’t for my training’
Jai picked up the
first file and began flipping through the documents when her door reopened and
Quatre entered with his laptop and briefcase. He walked over to the opposite
end of the table and began setting up his laptop.
Jai looked over her
the top of her glasses. “Uh Quatre? What the hell are you doing? I thought you
said you were leaving?”
Quatre looked up
from what he was doing and smiled at her, “I never said I was leaving. I said “I can find something to keep myself
entertained.” Since your working on ComCor business I might as well keep you
company and work on Winner business.”
He stared at her
waiting for some type of reaction. When
he didn’t get one he smirked and asked, “My presence doesn’t bother you does
it?”
Jai’s mind screamed,
‘Hell yeah!!! Your so damn
distracting I won’t be able to concentrate on anything but the sound of your
breathing and the smell of your cologne.
Damn you!!!’
“No. Did you think
that it would?” she replied indifferent and resumed looking over the documents
in her hands.
Quatre smiled and
returned to setting up his workstation, ‘Your mouth says “no” but your vibes
says “yes”’.
Jai sighed, ‘This
is going to be one long fucking night.’
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jase and Kellee sat
in the bleachers watching the high wire act.
Jase was munching on his fifth elephant ear. Kellee watched in horror as the acrobat let go of the trapeze,
flipped though the air and was caught by his partner. The crowd oohed and ahhed. Kellee turned an unhealthy shade of green. Jase looked over at Kellee and chuckled.
“Are you still
afraid of heights?” Jase asked her as he began licking the sugar off of his
fingers.
“Yes. Did you bother to chew that elephant ear or
did you just swallow it whole?”
Jase continued to
lick his fingers, ignoring her question and smiling, “How can you fly a mobile
suit and be afraid of heights?”
“Floating in space
is one thing. Plummeting to the earth
is another.”
The audience clapped
as the Trapeze act concluded. The
Ringmaster walked to the center of the ring.
“Ladies, Gentlemen
and Children of all ages introducing the knife throwing stars’ of the circus
Catherine Bloom and Trowa Barton.”
The crowd clapped
and cheered, as Catherine and Trowa became the center attraction of the
circus. Trowa and Catherine bowed and
waved to the audience as they made their way to the center of the ring. Jase
whopped, whistled and shouted, “That’s my baby!” over and over again. Kellee
was blown away. All she could do was stare at Trowa. It wasn’t the funny oversized green pants with multi colored
suspenders or the big floppy red shoes.
It was the well-defined chest, the broad shoulders and the muscled arms
that held her attention. Her mind
instantly went back to the night Trowa had her pinned to the wall. Her hands began to tingle as she remembered
how it felt caressing his body and his lips on hers. Looking at his shirtless
chest, she knew why his body felt so good.
His was built like the finest Arabian stallion. Kellee licked her lips
as Trowa walked gracefully over to take his place on the target. Kellee was brought out of her trance by a
nudge in her side.
“If you keep
drooling like that, the people in front of us are going to need an umbrella.”
Kellee turned her
head and was met by violet eyes that twinkled with amusement.
“I wasn’t
drooling. There isn’t anything to drool
over”, Kellee replied indifferent.
Jase looked at Trowa
and then back to Kellee, “That’s not what it looked like to me. You were licking
your lips like you were about to feast on something real good.”
“Looks can be
deceiving.”
Jase grinned at
Kellee, “Not in this case.”
Kellee smacked Jase
up side his head and turned her attention back to the show. Trowa stood in front of the target with a
stone expression on his face as the first knife landed with a “THWACK” right by
his arm. The crowd was completely
silent as Catherine continued to throw her knives at Trowa. By the time she threw the last knife, Trowa
was nearly fastened to the target. The
crowd clapped and cheered as Catherine bowed to them. Then Catherine took out anther set of knives. The target began to spin around and around
like a spinning wheel. Catherine took
aim at her target.
“Are they nuts!”
Kellee shouted as she watched Catherine throw a knife at a moving Trowa.
“ Whatcha worried
about? Catherine wouldn’t harm hair on your man. I’m not worried.” Jase replied as he watched Catherine launch
another knife at Trowa.
“That’s because
Catherine isn’t the target! And Trowa’s
not my man!” Kellee shot back.
“He will be.” Jase
answered.
Kellee crossed her
arms and continued to watch the rest of the act. She stared intently at a spinning Trowa.
‘He must be
really brave or crazy as fuck.’
Kellee thought as another knife “THWACK” the target.
‘Crazy as fuck.’
The circus concluded
with the elephant parade. Jase and
Kellee made they’re through the crowd to find Trowa and Catherine. When they reached the animal cages they saw
Trowa making balloon animals for a group of little children. Each child squealed in delight when they
received their balloon back from Trowa.
Trowa had a small smile on his face as he talked to the children while
making the animals. Kellee was amazed
how relaxed Trowa seemed to be around the children and how well they seemed to
respond to him.
‘He’ll make a
great father someday.’
Kellee thought to herself.
All of a sudden
Kellee winced, ‘What the hell am I thinking? All I need to do is fulfill my
end of the bet. There is no need to get
attached to Trowa Barton’
‘Yeah? If you
keep telling yourself that you just may believe but I doubt it.’ That little annoying voice said.
‘Shut Up!!!’
Kellee snapped back
to reality to see that the children had all dissipated and Trowa was making his
way to his trailer. Kellee was about to
catch with him when he was intercepted by what could vaguely be called
women. The two women sauntered up to
Trowa. The first girl wore a short black leather mini skirt with a red backless
spaghetti strap top, red fishnet stockings and black scuffed ankle boots. The blue-eyed girl wore silver lipstick,
blue eye shadow, clumpy mascara and pink blush. Her hair was done in a spiky hairstyle. One side was silver and
the other side was black. The other
girl was dressed just as bad. She wore
a purple spaghetti strap dress with thigh high splits up both sides and silver
platform three-inch heel shoes with laces that criss crossed around her
ankles. Her hair was ebony black cut
into a very short shag style. She had
green eyes and no eyebrows. They were
drawn on with an eye pencil. She wore
dark purple lipstick on her lips, silver eye shadow, the same clumpy mascara
and pink blush. Kellee just
stared. Jase broke out laughing.
“Cruella DeVil.
Cruella DeVil. If she doesn’t scare you no evil thing will.” Jase sang as he
came to stand beside Kellee.
“That other girl’s
hair, remind me of a great big black powder puff.” Kellee said as double over with laughter.
“Hey what’s so
funny?” Catherine asked as she walked up to the two laughing maniacs.
They both managed to
point to the source of their glee.
Catherine looked
toward where they were pointing and her eyes got as saucers. “Oh my god. One
girl looks like the side of head got hit by a lighting bolt, the bolt bounced off
and sheared the hair off the head of the other one.”
Catherine soon
joined in the merriment.
All of his years as
a soldier hadn’t trained him for the creatures he faced now. Trowa could only watch in horror as the
creatures approached him.
“Hello my name is
like Carrissa.” Cruella said in a high-pitched valley girl voice as she draped
her arm around his shoulders.
“And I’m Katrina.”
The powder puff head said in a deep husky voice as she ran her fingers up and
down his chest.
All Trowa did was
***BLINK, BLINK***. His skin began to
crawl as the girls touched him. He was
going to take as fast shower before his date with Kellee but now his was
considering a longer one.
“We’re like totally
big fans of yours” Carrissa stated.
“Really big fans.”
Katrina emphasized as she continued to draw lazy circles on his chest.
Trowa heard the
laughter behind him and turned his head to the laughing trio. Catherine saw her brother’s pleading look in
his eyes ‘Save me!’
Kellee wiped the mirth
from her eyes. When she finally finished she saw the powder puff head girl
drawing circles on Trowa’s chest and Cruella DeVil snuggle closer to
Trowa. Kellee experienced an emotion
she never experienced before…Jealousy.
Kellee fists clinched at her sides and her brow furrowed.
‘I thought he
didn’t mean anything to you?’
That little voice said.
‘He doesn’t’
‘Then why are you
so jealous?’ The voice
asked.
‘I’m not jealous’
‘Yes you
are. That’s why you’re going to storm
over their and beat some fashion sense into them’ The voice taunted.
Kellee’s
conversation with herself ended abruptly when Catherine tugged on her denim
jacket.
“Come on. We have to
save my little brother.”
Carrissa snuggled
closer to Trowa, “So like why don’t we like go back to your place and like
totally have some fun.”
Katrina purred, “Or
we could go back to our place.”
Trowa was about to
puke.
“I don’t think so
girls. That clown belongs to me. I
would appreciate it if you would extract yourselves from him, have Scotty beam
you back up and go back to the dimension you can from.”
Carrissa and Katrina
looked Kellee up and down and frowned at her attire. Kellee was wearing a mint green denim jacket and matching jeans
with a dark green tank top underneath and dark green Keds.
“Like I don’t think
so. He’s like our date for tonight.”
Carrissa said pulling Trowa closer to her.
“Ain’t that right,
sweetie?” Katrina asked wrapping her arms around Trowa’s waist.
***BLINK, BLINK***
Trowa looked
pleadingly into Kellee eyes, ‘Shoot me now!’
Kellee blood ran
cold through her veins as pure rage took over her senses. In a flash she whipped out her gun a fired a
shot right through the trio. Carrissa
and Katrina jumped away from Trowa, while Trowa remained as stoic as ever.
“The next time I
won’t miss.” Kellee said through her
clenched teeth.
Carrissa and Katrina
ran as fast as they could, crying bloody murder. Kellee put her gun away and walked over to Trowa who was still
not moving.
“Trowa are you OK?”
Catherine asked.
***BLINK, BLINK***
“Trowa?” Kellee said
waving her hand in front of his face.
***BLINK, BLINK***
“Thus the life of a
circus star. Right Trowa?” Jase asked.
“I feel so
VIOLATED!!” Trowa shouted and he ran to his trailer.
Trowa swung open the
door and launched himself inside not bothering to close it.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The crystal clear
blue waves lapped at the beach and quietly returned to the sea for destinations
unknown. Jealousy coursed through his veins as Heero watched "Reyna" and
Calvin holding hands while walking along the shoreline. He knew it should have been him caressing
her fingers, enjoying the melody of her laughter. But as Jai so eloquently put it “his Gundam Pride got in the
way”. He watched the couple as they
went beneath the pier where a picnic was waiting for them. He continued to watch the couple as they
talked, ate and laughed. Raw all out
jealousy slowly consumed him as the minutes passed by. It took all of his will power not to go down
there and break the guy in half.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Duo arrived at the
Sanc Cineplex just in time to see which theatre Hilde and Jake entered, thus
saving the expense of having to buy a ticket to each of the 10 movies that were
currently running. He bought his ticket and slipped into the theatre
unnoticed. He quickly scanned the
theatre and located Hilde and Jake.
They were seated in the middle of the theatre. Duo took a seat in the darkest corner in the back of the
theatre. Duo slumped in his chair as he
watched the pair. The more he watched
the more furious he became. The dam
broke as soon as he saw Jake put his arm around Hilde and Hilde snuggle closer. He was just about to go and shove his fist
down the Jake’s throat when a group of five rowdy teenagers entered the
theatre. A sly grinned crossed his
face. After the boisterous group was
seated, Duo went over to them.
“Hey!” Duo said low
enough to get their attention.
Three boys and two
girls turned around, “What the hell do you want?” One of the boys asked.
“How would you like
to make $50 each?”
The group grinned at
Duo, “What do we have to do?” one girl asked.
“What can we get in
place of the $50?” the other girl asked looking Duo up and down.
Duo turned to the
girl “I got two words for you…Jail Bait.”
The group laughed at
the girl and she slid lower in chair thoroughly embarrassed.
Duo continue, “Look
this is what I want you to do…”
Duo explained who
the target was and what he wanted them to do.
Duo paid them each $50 and got up to return to his seat in the back of
the theatre when one of the boys stopped him.
“Hey mister if they
ask us why we did it what should we say?”
Duo smiled and said,
“Tell ‘em the Devil made me do it.”
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Wufei sat in the parking
lot across the street watching Sally and Brad through the picture window of
Chet’ Pierre. He gripped the handle
bars of his bike when he saw Brad caress Sally’s cheek with the back of his
hand. Outraged, Wufei began to get off
of his bike and storm the restaurant when a beat up Chevy pulled into the
parking lot and a young man dressed as a waiter hurriedly got out of the
car. Wufei ran over to the young man
and stopped him.
“I’ll give you
double of what you’d make tonight if you give me your uniform.”
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
“So what do you say
Jai?” the man on the other end of the vidphone asked.
“Mr. Rainey, I do
not conduct business over dinner. If
you really need to talk to me, that’s what business hours are for.” Jai calmly
replied.
“But Jai…” Mr.
Rainey began again trying to convince Jai to go out with him.
Jai tuned him out
slightly and continued to type on her laptop when an instant message appeared.
WINNERQR:
Does that happen a lot?
Jai looked across
the table to see Quatre’s piercing aquamarine eyes staring intently at her over
his glasses.
JJAMENSON: Does it bother you?
WINNERQR: Should it?
JJAMENSON: No.
WINNERQR: Well it does.
JJAMENSON: J Are you jealous?
WINNERQR: Maybe.
JJAMENSON: Why?
WINNERQR: I don’t like to share.
“So what do you
think, Jai”, Mr. Rainey asked for a second time.
Jai was so caught up
in the conversation with Quatre that she lost track of the one with Mr. Rainey.
“I think you should
make an appointment to see me, in my office, during NORMAL business hours and
take your WIFE out to dinner.”
Mr. Rainey laughed
nervously, “Well you see Jai…” and he started his rant again.
WINNERQR: You want me to beat him up?
JJAMENSON: I thought you were a Pacifist?
WINNERQR: Only when I feel like it.
JJAMENSON: And I take it you don’t fell like
it right now.
WINNERQR: Not in the least.
JJAMENSON:
You shouldn’t get so worked up over something that is not yours.
WINNERQR: Not yet anyways.
JJAMENSON: I won’t go down without a fight.
WINNERQR: I wouldn’t have it any other way
~_^.
JJAMENSON: This means war!!!
WINNERQR: I survived two already. I can
survive this one. Besides I’m ahead one
to zip. J
JJAMENSON: Sadist!
WINNERQR: Bitch!!
JJAMENSON: Thank You ~_^
“Jai? Jai?! Are you
still there?” Mr. Rainey shouted.
“Yes. I’m still
here.”
“So, will you meet
me for dinner?”
“The answer is still
no. Goodnight Mr. Rainey.” Jai said and cut the transmission.
Jai looked toward
the last known location of her nemesis only to find him gone.
“Now where did he
get to?”
“Did you miss me?”
Quatre asked as he placed his hands on the back of Jai’s chair.
Jai tilted her head
back so she was looking at him upside down, “What are you up too?”
Quatre looked down
at her and smiled mischievously, “I’m tired of doing paperwork and I bet you
are too, so I thought that we might play a little game.”
“What kind of game?”
“A game of
strategy.”
“And if you win?”
“I get you all to
myself for one evening.”
“And if you lose.”
“I’m pretty sure
you’ll think of something.”
“Your on.”
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