Black and White: Chapter 2 ~ Give a Little Bit.
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 12:27 pm
Black and White
By The Engrish Spy
Rating: R (for now)
Author Notes: I would like some reviews. I also don't own Gundam Wing.
He did not why he was there in the first place. Sylvia had told him to forget the past, look to the future. He shook his head and continued down the street. He had come to see if the girl he had met all those years had gotten the remembrance, which she was entitled to. He wanted to find out how the people of this colony remebered her.
He had discovered that the family's last name had been Darlian. There was Richard and Marie who held down jobs at the city hall for their section in the L1 colony. They had both died in the intial blast. There were no records of the girl, accept what was mentioned on the sheet of her mothers information. She probably died in the fire as well, too burned to be identified.
The artificial colony rain began to pour. Cursing, he ran for the cover of a little caf? to his right. Taking a seat near the back, he awaited the arrival of a waitress.
The war had not been kind to him. He had made it out of it alive, with the love of the Vice Foreign Minister Sylvia Noventa, but he was wondering if that love was not true. What was love anyway? It was an emotion. Emotions that he was not likely to emote to anybody not even Sylvia.
"May I take your order sir?" a soft voice asked.
He looked up and was greeted to a pair of clear azure eyes. These were eyes he had seen before. They were like the eyes that haunted his dreams. They were the eyes he had seen this morning at the memorial.
"Coffee, black," he grunted in a mono toned bark.
"Will there be anything else?" she asked quietly.
He shook his head and the waitress left. He watched her go noting that she wore a huge pink turtle necked sweater in the June heat of the colony. He noted the huge scar on the left side of her face and the way the long blond hair hung in her face even though she wore a large white hair band to keep it back. Though it was her eyes that struck him the most.
~*~
She could have been no more then fourteen, his age. She was walking what he suspected as a golden retriever pup but once he asked she just said it was a mutt because it was all she could afford, with the war going on. She had then gave him a cluster of wild flowers she had in her hands.
--These were for my mother but I can pick more, -- she replied and then gave him a smile.
The smile seemed to touch his heart. She was so innocent and ready for the world. Her clear azure eyes never left his Prussian blue ones for a moment. Off in the distance a man calling to her startled the pair. She cast her eyes down.
-- I have to go, -- she said in a soft voice.
He nodded and then watched as she left, never to see him again.
That night when he hoped over the fence and pushed the button, he never expected the gundams to topple onto the apartment complex. Screaming, the first thing to come to his mind was the girl and her pup. As soon as the fire had died down, he began his frantic search for any survivors. He only found the pup, dead. He carried it back to the base where he buried it in hopes of putting the demons of his deeds to bed. It did not work.
~*~
"Here you go sir, enjoy," a voice said jolting him from his daydreams.
She placed his cup down. He did not know what he was doing but he grabbed her wrist startling the girl and his coffee all into his lap. The china skittered to the floor and broke into pieces. The girl's eyes went wide with panic as she noticed the spill.
"Sir I am so sorry. I'll bring you another cup," she stuttered and then took a white rag from her black apron around her waist to mop up the spilt coffee.
"It's ok, it was my fault" he replied in a low sound and then took a few napkins and helped her clean the rest of the mess up.
"Is there any thing I could do for you? Bring you another coffee. Pay for your coffee?" she said slightly still trying to hide her face and hands.
He shook his head; "I'm fine. I'm sorry I startled you."
She blushed, "It's ok I'm easily spooked," she replied.
He just nodded his head and then bent to pick up the white china that had crashed to the floor.
"I can get that," she said and then bent down only to bump her head against his.
She leaned back on her haunches and rubbed the spot. He did the same but then continued his task of picking up the broken china. As he came up he noticed the watery look in her eyes. It was almost like the one Sylvia gave him when she was upset about something. This was different though; she looked as if she was trying to hold back.
"Bad day?" he heard himself asking her.
The girl nodded her head. He handed her the broken china and then looked down at her withered hands. He could not help but ask.
"How did you get the scar?"
She looked down at her feet; "I was in a fire when I was fourteen."
He could feel in his heart sensations that had never been there before. It was as if he felt pity for her.
"I have to go. I have other customers. The coffee is on the house," she said quietly and then scurried back to the counter to throw out the broken cup.
She then began talking to a younger man with red hair to the puddle of coffee still on the floor. He nodded and then returned with a mop and bucket. He left knowing that he would return. He had to come back to pay for the coffee.
~*~
"Hey Relena-boss if you weren't the boss of this place, then you would be in trouble now," the red haired male chide the blond woman.
"Quiet Charlie," she replied softly and then blushed.
Charlie came round to the front of the counter and rested his forearms on it, "So who's the guy?" he asked.
Relena did not listen to him and pulled a credit bill from her pocket. Charlie became annoyed the Relena was not paying attention to him.
"Relena, earth to Relena who was the guy?"
Relena looked up from the register and into the green eyes of her youngest staff member, "Huh, oh I don't know."
Charlie sighed and then picked up the broom and moved out to the patio of the caf? and began to sweep the steeps. Relena sighed and then sniffed the June air in appreciation. She began to wipe down the counters and packed up some of the empty coffee cups into the return bin to be sent back to Joey and Mika for washing. It stuck her as odd that the man had asked her why she was the way she was. Everybody in the neighborhood knew about her and her story.
'He must have been a tourist up for the memorial,' Relena thought as she paused in the task.
'Then why did he look so familiar?' her other inner voice asked.
The phone broke her thoughts and Relena went to answer it.
"Peacecraft Caf?, Relena speaking, how may I help you?"
"Lena tell me you've got some bagels made?" a perky voice at the other end cried.
Relena moved towards the displayed case and pulled out a brown bag and began to fill it with bagels.
"There be ready when you get here," Relena said softly and then placed the phone down.
A curly haired brunette walked from the kitchen into the main part of the restaurant. She gave Relena a questioning look and Relena gave her a small smile. Relena then held up her hand and began to count from three. As if on cue a small fairy like girl crashed through the doors and ran to the counter.
"Duo in town?" The brunette asked.
The other girl nodded her head and then grabbed the bagels and ran. She threw a hurried thank you and a kiss over her shoulder and sprinted off as fast as she had arrived.
"God sometimes I wish I had a guy like Hilde," The brunette sighed and then pulled the coffeepot off the warmer and poured herself a cup.
Relena held out her hand and the brunette rolled her eyes and pulled out a credit paper and gave it to Relena.
"Sometimes I wonder how you keep your employees when you nickel and dime us," The brunette sighed.
" Mika, I have to pay you guys and then the rent?" Relena chimed off.
Mika held up her hands, "I get it, you don't have the money to waste in lost product. I've heard that speech way too many times in being here."
Relena hung her head and Charlie came back into the caf?. He was disheveled and looked dazed. Mika smirked.
"Did you get hit with the Hilde tornado on the way out?" Mika asked.
Charlie nodded and then looked to Relena. Relena sighed and then opened up the cooler to hand Charlie a soda and then took one out for herself. Who said life was not great.
TBC?
By The Engrish Spy
Rating: R (for now)
Author Notes: I would like some reviews. I also don't own Gundam Wing.
He did not why he was there in the first place. Sylvia had told him to forget the past, look to the future. He shook his head and continued down the street. He had come to see if the girl he had met all those years had gotten the remembrance, which she was entitled to. He wanted to find out how the people of this colony remebered her.
He had discovered that the family's last name had been Darlian. There was Richard and Marie who held down jobs at the city hall for their section in the L1 colony. They had both died in the intial blast. There were no records of the girl, accept what was mentioned on the sheet of her mothers information. She probably died in the fire as well, too burned to be identified.
The artificial colony rain began to pour. Cursing, he ran for the cover of a little caf? to his right. Taking a seat near the back, he awaited the arrival of a waitress.
The war had not been kind to him. He had made it out of it alive, with the love of the Vice Foreign Minister Sylvia Noventa, but he was wondering if that love was not true. What was love anyway? It was an emotion. Emotions that he was not likely to emote to anybody not even Sylvia.
"May I take your order sir?" a soft voice asked.
He looked up and was greeted to a pair of clear azure eyes. These were eyes he had seen before. They were like the eyes that haunted his dreams. They were the eyes he had seen this morning at the memorial.
"Coffee, black," he grunted in a mono toned bark.
"Will there be anything else?" she asked quietly.
He shook his head and the waitress left. He watched her go noting that she wore a huge pink turtle necked sweater in the June heat of the colony. He noted the huge scar on the left side of her face and the way the long blond hair hung in her face even though she wore a large white hair band to keep it back. Though it was her eyes that struck him the most.
~*~
She could have been no more then fourteen, his age. She was walking what he suspected as a golden retriever pup but once he asked she just said it was a mutt because it was all she could afford, with the war going on. She had then gave him a cluster of wild flowers she had in her hands.
--These were for my mother but I can pick more, -- she replied and then gave him a smile.
The smile seemed to touch his heart. She was so innocent and ready for the world. Her clear azure eyes never left his Prussian blue ones for a moment. Off in the distance a man calling to her startled the pair. She cast her eyes down.
-- I have to go, -- she said in a soft voice.
He nodded and then watched as she left, never to see him again.
That night when he hoped over the fence and pushed the button, he never expected the gundams to topple onto the apartment complex. Screaming, the first thing to come to his mind was the girl and her pup. As soon as the fire had died down, he began his frantic search for any survivors. He only found the pup, dead. He carried it back to the base where he buried it in hopes of putting the demons of his deeds to bed. It did not work.
~*~
"Here you go sir, enjoy," a voice said jolting him from his daydreams.
She placed his cup down. He did not know what he was doing but he grabbed her wrist startling the girl and his coffee all into his lap. The china skittered to the floor and broke into pieces. The girl's eyes went wide with panic as she noticed the spill.
"Sir I am so sorry. I'll bring you another cup," she stuttered and then took a white rag from her black apron around her waist to mop up the spilt coffee.
"It's ok, it was my fault" he replied in a low sound and then took a few napkins and helped her clean the rest of the mess up.
"Is there any thing I could do for you? Bring you another coffee. Pay for your coffee?" she said slightly still trying to hide her face and hands.
He shook his head; "I'm fine. I'm sorry I startled you."
She blushed, "It's ok I'm easily spooked," she replied.
He just nodded his head and then bent to pick up the white china that had crashed to the floor.
"I can get that," she said and then bent down only to bump her head against his.
She leaned back on her haunches and rubbed the spot. He did the same but then continued his task of picking up the broken china. As he came up he noticed the watery look in her eyes. It was almost like the one Sylvia gave him when she was upset about something. This was different though; she looked as if she was trying to hold back.
"Bad day?" he heard himself asking her.
The girl nodded her head. He handed her the broken china and then looked down at her withered hands. He could not help but ask.
"How did you get the scar?"
She looked down at her feet; "I was in a fire when I was fourteen."
He could feel in his heart sensations that had never been there before. It was as if he felt pity for her.
"I have to go. I have other customers. The coffee is on the house," she said quietly and then scurried back to the counter to throw out the broken cup.
She then began talking to a younger man with red hair to the puddle of coffee still on the floor. He nodded and then returned with a mop and bucket. He left knowing that he would return. He had to come back to pay for the coffee.
~*~
"Hey Relena-boss if you weren't the boss of this place, then you would be in trouble now," the red haired male chide the blond woman.
"Quiet Charlie," she replied softly and then blushed.
Charlie came round to the front of the counter and rested his forearms on it, "So who's the guy?" he asked.
Relena did not listen to him and pulled a credit bill from her pocket. Charlie became annoyed the Relena was not paying attention to him.
"Relena, earth to Relena who was the guy?"
Relena looked up from the register and into the green eyes of her youngest staff member, "Huh, oh I don't know."
Charlie sighed and then picked up the broom and moved out to the patio of the caf? and began to sweep the steeps. Relena sighed and then sniffed the June air in appreciation. She began to wipe down the counters and packed up some of the empty coffee cups into the return bin to be sent back to Joey and Mika for washing. It stuck her as odd that the man had asked her why she was the way she was. Everybody in the neighborhood knew about her and her story.
'He must have been a tourist up for the memorial,' Relena thought as she paused in the task.
'Then why did he look so familiar?' her other inner voice asked.
The phone broke her thoughts and Relena went to answer it.
"Peacecraft Caf?, Relena speaking, how may I help you?"
"Lena tell me you've got some bagels made?" a perky voice at the other end cried.
Relena moved towards the displayed case and pulled out a brown bag and began to fill it with bagels.
"There be ready when you get here," Relena said softly and then placed the phone down.
A curly haired brunette walked from the kitchen into the main part of the restaurant. She gave Relena a questioning look and Relena gave her a small smile. Relena then held up her hand and began to count from three. As if on cue a small fairy like girl crashed through the doors and ran to the counter.
"Duo in town?" The brunette asked.
The other girl nodded her head and then grabbed the bagels and ran. She threw a hurried thank you and a kiss over her shoulder and sprinted off as fast as she had arrived.
"God sometimes I wish I had a guy like Hilde," The brunette sighed and then pulled the coffeepot off the warmer and poured herself a cup.
Relena held out her hand and the brunette rolled her eyes and pulled out a credit paper and gave it to Relena.
"Sometimes I wonder how you keep your employees when you nickel and dime us," The brunette sighed.
" Mika, I have to pay you guys and then the rent?" Relena chimed off.
Mika held up her hands, "I get it, you don't have the money to waste in lost product. I've heard that speech way too many times in being here."
Relena hung her head and Charlie came back into the caf?. He was disheveled and looked dazed. Mika smirked.
"Did you get hit with the Hilde tornado on the way out?" Mika asked.
Charlie nodded and then looked to Relena. Relena sighed and then opened up the cooler to hand Charlie a soda and then took one out for herself. Who said life was not great.
TBC?