Dark World, chapter 11
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:34 pm
It's short, but here's the next chapter. It might be the middle of next week before I can post again - I work Sat., then have company Sunday, then work Monday and Tuesday. *shrugs* We'll see what happens.
LS
PS -Relena seems to have quite the temper, doesn't she?
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Dark World
Chapter 11
by:Lady Saffir
Rating:PG/PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Any character associated with Gundam Wing is not owned by me.
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I woke the next day feeling like I had been run over by a semi.
I groaned and rolled over, opening one eye to peer at Heero, who lay motionless next to me.
I slowly pulled myself into a sitting position, turning bleary eyes down to Heero's chest.
Heero's unmarked chest.
Heero's unmarked and unmoving chest.
I blinked, sure I was missing the rise and fall that gave evidence to Heero breathing. I
reached out a tenative hand, placing it on his sternum and waiting to feel movement.
"Heero?" I whispered, afraid that last night had been a dream, and that Heero wasn't alive
and well, but actually dead.
/Relax, Relena/ Duo's calm voice had my head snapping up and looking around. /He isn't dead,
he's just...well, sleeping like the dead. It's how they heal/
/Oh. Where are you?/
/Kitchen. I knew we'd both need to eat, so I'm cooking. Going to join me?/
The thought of food had my mouth watering. Climbing out of bed, I stretched, enjoying the
feeling of joints popping and muscles pulling. I started for the door, wondering how many
days I had slept away this time. It was strange - I had met Heero on Friday, and in the
span of six days I had grown accustomed to walking about this house as if I lived here, and
had lived here for some time. It was so easy to talk with all of them - when one or more of
us wasn't hurt and bleeding, I amended. Then we all threw a fit.
I walked into the kitchen to sunlight streaming through the windows and heavenly smells
wafting through the air. The island was lost under the multiple plates laden down with
everything from breakfast items to sandwiches. "Duo," I sighed, thinking there was no way
the two of us could eat all of this in one sitting.
"Hey, Princess! Load up your plate and have a seat," Duo waved his fork in the general
direction of the buffet, returning to his own food.
Smiling to myself, I piled my plate high with food, taking a seat across from Duo. We ate
in companionable silence for a few minutes, before I couldn't take the silence any longer.
"What's it like, Duo?" I asked, looking up to meet Duo's gaze. He tipped his chair back,
balancing on the back legs with ease.
"Honestly, it's pretty boring, most of the time." At my skeptical look, Duo nodded. "It's
true. For the most part everyone behaves themselves and we go about our daily lives. We go
to work, pay the bills, hang out with friends. It's usually pretty normal around here."
"Go to work? What do you do?" I asked, privately snorting at the 'normal' part.
"I'm an engineer. I work for a division of Pilot Corporation. The R&D deptartment, of
course. Man, you should see some of the stuff I've come up with. I amaze even myself
sometimes," Duo whistled, winking at me.
"R&D?" I questioned.
"Research and Development. You would be amazed at some of the crazy stuff the government
wants."
"Er...doesn't Heero own Pilot Corporation?" I asked.
"Yup, sure does. That makes it really easy when I have to take several days off because of
him. How did you know Heero owns the company - you a gold digger, princess?" Duo teased,
breaking a roll in half and handing it to me.
"Hardly," I replied dryly. "Quatre," I took a deep breath. "Quatre told me when I told him
I had met Heero."
Duo's hand covered my own, giving it a quick squeeze.
"You and the Q-man need to have a good talk, clear the air, all that jazz."
I couldn't help but laugh, the sound dying as the front door was slammed open, then shut.
"And speaking of talking, there's someone I want you to meet."
Duo jumped out of his chair, heading to the doorway. I rose to follow, noting that he still
had a slight limp in the leg I had injured. I was barely around the table when a petite
dark haired woman burst into the room, launching herself at Duo, her mouth running a mile a
minute.
"Duo! You're alright - right? Sally said you'd be hurt. How badly did that bitch hurt
you? When I see her I'm going to give her a piece of my mind. In fact - "
Duo swung the ranting woman into his arms, laying a kiss on her that had me blushing and
averting my eyes. Wait - did she just call me a bitch? Who was this woman?
When Duo finally surfaced for air, he laughed, swinging the woman in his arms around to face
me.
"Relena, I'd like you to meet Hilde, the love of my life, and Sally's Companion. She - "
Hilde leapt at me, slamming me into the fridge, my head bouncing against the handle.
"Ow...."
"You! I don't know what your problem is, bitch," Hilde spat, her eyes dark with fury. "But
if you think - "
"Hilde! That's enough. Let Relena go - now."
Both of us ignored Duo, glaring at each other. I brought my arms up to Hilde's shoulders
and shoved, hard enough to have her falling back a few steps. Hilde's eyes narrowed, and
she moved to step forward, abruptly stopping when Duo wrapped his arms around her and hauled
her back a few feet.
"Stop it, Hilde. Don't touch Relena again. If I don't blame her for what she did the other
day, neither should you."
Shooting me one more glare, Hilde sighed, then settled back against Duo.
"Fine. But I don't have to like you," she added.
With a shrug I returned to the table, picking at my food, no longer hungry. Duo and Hilde
joined me, the tense silence making me hunch my shoulders. Duo tried to carry on a
conversation, but I refused to answer in anything more than one syllable, and Hilde kept
trying to throw little barbs and insults at me.
Unable to take the silence, I stood, taking my plate to the dishwasher. I could feel Duo's
gaze on my back, but I ignored him, skirting around the table and making sure to stay well
out of Hilde's reach. I'm sure my breathing would piss her off and she'd attack me again,
and it wasn't a scene I felt like repeating. I was at the threshold when Duo finally spoke.
"Relena, you're going to have to start eating more," he admonished. "Why don't you go back
to bed, get some more rest?"
The two thoughts seemed disjointed, and I turned, puzzlement clearly written on my features.
"What is it with you and Wufei constantly trying to feed me?" I asked. "And why should I go
back to bed - I feel fine."
Hilde beat Duo to answering.
"What, are you slow? Have you not been listening to anything they've told you? You have to
eat about twice the normal amount just to stay healthy - or are you worried about losing
your girlish figure," she scoffed, the disdain for me evident in her voice.
My temper was quickly reaching the boiling point.
"I don't give a rat's ass what anyone thinks of my appearance - I'm content to be myself.
Clearly you have issues, though," I sneered, enjoying the flush that crossed the other
woman's features.
Hilde stood, shoving her chair back in a loud scrape.
"Is there something you want to say to me?" she growled, hands balling into fists.
"Ladies, ladies, er...." Duo trailed off as we both turned to glare at him.
"Shut up, Duo," we both snarled, turning back to glare at each other.
"Don't talk to him like that," Hilde snapped, causing me to snort.
"I"ll talk to him however I wish. What are you going to do to stop me?" I taunted, moving
clear of the doorway.
"Alright, little girl," was as far as Hilde got before I howled in rage, leaping across the
room to tackle the smaller woman to the ground.
"I am sick and tired of people calling me 'little girl'!" I screamed, landing a punch on
Hilde's chin. She retaliated, flipping me over and pinning me to the ground.
Duo was there, trying to separate the two of us, and incidentally getting scratched and
bitten in the process. Hilde and I were still grappling on the floor, neither one able to
gain any real ground. Duo was yelling ineffectually for us to stop, or at least change into
bikini's, when all movement stopped.
Straining to move, I could see Hilde doing the same, each of us breathing heavily and
bearing multiple scratches and red marks on our skin. Duo slumped to the side, flopping
onto his back and giving a short bark of laughter.
"Ah, Heero, why'd you have to go and stop them? They were just about to start ripping each
other's clothes off," he wheezed.
My eyes shot over to where Heero stood in the doorway, well back from the sun's reach. One
hand was up to shield his eyes from the bright light, but I could still make out the steady
gaze that seemed to bore into my own.
"That's enough."
Duo, still chuckling, gathered me up, handing me off to Heero like a sack of poatoes. Once
in his arms I found that I could move again, and watching, the same seemed true of Hilde
once she was in Duo's grasp. The string of curses that issued forth from her mouth would
have had a sailor blushing, but Duo simply laughed, changing his grip to swing the angry
woman over his shoulder.
"Come on, babe, I have the perfect way for you to work out all that aggression," Duo said
cheerfully, tossing a wave over his shoulder as he passed out of the kitchen.
"Put me down, Heero," I commanded.
"Hn. Duo has the right idea," Heero remarked, slinging me over his shoulder so that my
world consisted of an upside down view of Heero's legs.
"Damnit, Heero, I'm not going to have sex with you," I protested, taking aim and landing a
solid kidney shot. Heero simply continued walking, my blows doing nothing to faze him. He
continued up the stairs, coming to a halt about halfway up.
"Catherine," he acknowledged, causing me to twist around and see a woman with short
reddish-brown hair stopped on the stairs.
"Heero," she greeted, tilting her head to the side to take me in. "And you must be Relena.
I can't wait to get to know you," she smiled, making me groan and let my head flop back
down. Great, one person that seems nice and I meet her like this.
"We'll see you at dinner. I'd stay away from Duo's room," Heero warned, continuing up the
stairs as if this were an everyday occurrance.
"Thanks for the warning!" floated up the stairs after us.
"Heero," I sighed, not struggling anymore as he continued to carry me down the hall. We
reached his room, and I was deposited gently on the bed, Heero crawling in after me. The
smirk on his face had me holding out a hand in warning.
"Heero, I meant it. I am not going to have sex with you right now," I reiterated.
Heero wrapped me in his arms, rolling over and tucking me against him. The covers were
pulled up and tucked under my chin, and I felt Heero settle behind me with a sigh.
"Heero?" I twisted my head around to look over my shoulder.
No answer.
"Heero...."
Was he snoring?
/HEERO!/
One blue eye cracked open to glare at me.
/Relena, it's noon. The sun is up, I'm exhausted, and while I may look healed, I'm still
not at full strength. The only thing I plan on doing until sunset is sleeping, and I had
planned on you being here beside me./
/Go to sleep, Relena/
I felt myself being dragged under, the darkness swirling up to wrap around my brain.
/You're bossy/ I murmured.
/It's good to be the king/ Heero replied solemnly.
I managed a snort of laughter, then sleep claimed me.
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LS
PS -Relena seems to have quite the temper, doesn't she?
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Dark World
Chapter 11
by:Lady Saffir
Rating:PG/PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Any character associated with Gundam Wing is not owned by me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
I woke the next day feeling like I had been run over by a semi.
I groaned and rolled over, opening one eye to peer at Heero, who lay motionless next to me.
I slowly pulled myself into a sitting position, turning bleary eyes down to Heero's chest.
Heero's unmarked chest.
Heero's unmarked and unmoving chest.
I blinked, sure I was missing the rise and fall that gave evidence to Heero breathing. I
reached out a tenative hand, placing it on his sternum and waiting to feel movement.
"Heero?" I whispered, afraid that last night had been a dream, and that Heero wasn't alive
and well, but actually dead.
/Relax, Relena/ Duo's calm voice had my head snapping up and looking around. /He isn't dead,
he's just...well, sleeping like the dead. It's how they heal/
/Oh. Where are you?/
/Kitchen. I knew we'd both need to eat, so I'm cooking. Going to join me?/
The thought of food had my mouth watering. Climbing out of bed, I stretched, enjoying the
feeling of joints popping and muscles pulling. I started for the door, wondering how many
days I had slept away this time. It was strange - I had met Heero on Friday, and in the
span of six days I had grown accustomed to walking about this house as if I lived here, and
had lived here for some time. It was so easy to talk with all of them - when one or more of
us wasn't hurt and bleeding, I amended. Then we all threw a fit.
I walked into the kitchen to sunlight streaming through the windows and heavenly smells
wafting through the air. The island was lost under the multiple plates laden down with
everything from breakfast items to sandwiches. "Duo," I sighed, thinking there was no way
the two of us could eat all of this in one sitting.
"Hey, Princess! Load up your plate and have a seat," Duo waved his fork in the general
direction of the buffet, returning to his own food.
Smiling to myself, I piled my plate high with food, taking a seat across from Duo. We ate
in companionable silence for a few minutes, before I couldn't take the silence any longer.
"What's it like, Duo?" I asked, looking up to meet Duo's gaze. He tipped his chair back,
balancing on the back legs with ease.
"Honestly, it's pretty boring, most of the time." At my skeptical look, Duo nodded. "It's
true. For the most part everyone behaves themselves and we go about our daily lives. We go
to work, pay the bills, hang out with friends. It's usually pretty normal around here."
"Go to work? What do you do?" I asked, privately snorting at the 'normal' part.
"I'm an engineer. I work for a division of Pilot Corporation. The R&D deptartment, of
course. Man, you should see some of the stuff I've come up with. I amaze even myself
sometimes," Duo whistled, winking at me.
"R&D?" I questioned.
"Research and Development. You would be amazed at some of the crazy stuff the government
wants."
"Er...doesn't Heero own Pilot Corporation?" I asked.
"Yup, sure does. That makes it really easy when I have to take several days off because of
him. How did you know Heero owns the company - you a gold digger, princess?" Duo teased,
breaking a roll in half and handing it to me.
"Hardly," I replied dryly. "Quatre," I took a deep breath. "Quatre told me when I told him
I had met Heero."
Duo's hand covered my own, giving it a quick squeeze.
"You and the Q-man need to have a good talk, clear the air, all that jazz."
I couldn't help but laugh, the sound dying as the front door was slammed open, then shut.
"And speaking of talking, there's someone I want you to meet."
Duo jumped out of his chair, heading to the doorway. I rose to follow, noting that he still
had a slight limp in the leg I had injured. I was barely around the table when a petite
dark haired woman burst into the room, launching herself at Duo, her mouth running a mile a
minute.
"Duo! You're alright - right? Sally said you'd be hurt. How badly did that bitch hurt
you? When I see her I'm going to give her a piece of my mind. In fact - "
Duo swung the ranting woman into his arms, laying a kiss on her that had me blushing and
averting my eyes. Wait - did she just call me a bitch? Who was this woman?
When Duo finally surfaced for air, he laughed, swinging the woman in his arms around to face
me.
"Relena, I'd like you to meet Hilde, the love of my life, and Sally's Companion. She - "
Hilde leapt at me, slamming me into the fridge, my head bouncing against the handle.
"Ow...."
"You! I don't know what your problem is, bitch," Hilde spat, her eyes dark with fury. "But
if you think - "
"Hilde! That's enough. Let Relena go - now."
Both of us ignored Duo, glaring at each other. I brought my arms up to Hilde's shoulders
and shoved, hard enough to have her falling back a few steps. Hilde's eyes narrowed, and
she moved to step forward, abruptly stopping when Duo wrapped his arms around her and hauled
her back a few feet.
"Stop it, Hilde. Don't touch Relena again. If I don't blame her for what she did the other
day, neither should you."
Shooting me one more glare, Hilde sighed, then settled back against Duo.
"Fine. But I don't have to like you," she added.
With a shrug I returned to the table, picking at my food, no longer hungry. Duo and Hilde
joined me, the tense silence making me hunch my shoulders. Duo tried to carry on a
conversation, but I refused to answer in anything more than one syllable, and Hilde kept
trying to throw little barbs and insults at me.
Unable to take the silence, I stood, taking my plate to the dishwasher. I could feel Duo's
gaze on my back, but I ignored him, skirting around the table and making sure to stay well
out of Hilde's reach. I'm sure my breathing would piss her off and she'd attack me again,
and it wasn't a scene I felt like repeating. I was at the threshold when Duo finally spoke.
"Relena, you're going to have to start eating more," he admonished. "Why don't you go back
to bed, get some more rest?"
The two thoughts seemed disjointed, and I turned, puzzlement clearly written on my features.
"What is it with you and Wufei constantly trying to feed me?" I asked. "And why should I go
back to bed - I feel fine."
Hilde beat Duo to answering.
"What, are you slow? Have you not been listening to anything they've told you? You have to
eat about twice the normal amount just to stay healthy - or are you worried about losing
your girlish figure," she scoffed, the disdain for me evident in her voice.
My temper was quickly reaching the boiling point.
"I don't give a rat's ass what anyone thinks of my appearance - I'm content to be myself.
Clearly you have issues, though," I sneered, enjoying the flush that crossed the other
woman's features.
Hilde stood, shoving her chair back in a loud scrape.
"Is there something you want to say to me?" she growled, hands balling into fists.
"Ladies, ladies, er...." Duo trailed off as we both turned to glare at him.
"Shut up, Duo," we both snarled, turning back to glare at each other.
"Don't talk to him like that," Hilde snapped, causing me to snort.
"I"ll talk to him however I wish. What are you going to do to stop me?" I taunted, moving
clear of the doorway.
"Alright, little girl," was as far as Hilde got before I howled in rage, leaping across the
room to tackle the smaller woman to the ground.
"I am sick and tired of people calling me 'little girl'!" I screamed, landing a punch on
Hilde's chin. She retaliated, flipping me over and pinning me to the ground.
Duo was there, trying to separate the two of us, and incidentally getting scratched and
bitten in the process. Hilde and I were still grappling on the floor, neither one able to
gain any real ground. Duo was yelling ineffectually for us to stop, or at least change into
bikini's, when all movement stopped.
Straining to move, I could see Hilde doing the same, each of us breathing heavily and
bearing multiple scratches and red marks on our skin. Duo slumped to the side, flopping
onto his back and giving a short bark of laughter.
"Ah, Heero, why'd you have to go and stop them? They were just about to start ripping each
other's clothes off," he wheezed.
My eyes shot over to where Heero stood in the doorway, well back from the sun's reach. One
hand was up to shield his eyes from the bright light, but I could still make out the steady
gaze that seemed to bore into my own.
"That's enough."
Duo, still chuckling, gathered me up, handing me off to Heero like a sack of poatoes. Once
in his arms I found that I could move again, and watching, the same seemed true of Hilde
once she was in Duo's grasp. The string of curses that issued forth from her mouth would
have had a sailor blushing, but Duo simply laughed, changing his grip to swing the angry
woman over his shoulder.
"Come on, babe, I have the perfect way for you to work out all that aggression," Duo said
cheerfully, tossing a wave over his shoulder as he passed out of the kitchen.
"Put me down, Heero," I commanded.
"Hn. Duo has the right idea," Heero remarked, slinging me over his shoulder so that my
world consisted of an upside down view of Heero's legs.
"Damnit, Heero, I'm not going to have sex with you," I protested, taking aim and landing a
solid kidney shot. Heero simply continued walking, my blows doing nothing to faze him. He
continued up the stairs, coming to a halt about halfway up.
"Catherine," he acknowledged, causing me to twist around and see a woman with short
reddish-brown hair stopped on the stairs.
"Heero," she greeted, tilting her head to the side to take me in. "And you must be Relena.
I can't wait to get to know you," she smiled, making me groan and let my head flop back
down. Great, one person that seems nice and I meet her like this.
"We'll see you at dinner. I'd stay away from Duo's room," Heero warned, continuing up the
stairs as if this were an everyday occurrance.
"Thanks for the warning!" floated up the stairs after us.
"Heero," I sighed, not struggling anymore as he continued to carry me down the hall. We
reached his room, and I was deposited gently on the bed, Heero crawling in after me. The
smirk on his face had me holding out a hand in warning.
"Heero, I meant it. I am not going to have sex with you right now," I reiterated.
Heero wrapped me in his arms, rolling over and tucking me against him. The covers were
pulled up and tucked under my chin, and I felt Heero settle behind me with a sigh.
"Heero?" I twisted my head around to look over my shoulder.
No answer.
"Heero...."
Was he snoring?
/HEERO!/
One blue eye cracked open to glare at me.
/Relena, it's noon. The sun is up, I'm exhausted, and while I may look healed, I'm still
not at full strength. The only thing I plan on doing until sunset is sleeping, and I had
planned on you being here beside me./
/Go to sleep, Relena/
I felt myself being dragged under, the darkness swirling up to wrap around my brain.
/You're bossy/ I murmured.
/It's good to be the king/ Heero replied solemnly.
I managed a snort of laughter, then sleep claimed me.
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It was also priceless having Duo and Heero carry them away thrown over their shoulders ^^
, and thanks for being wonderful in updating all the time! I'll be waiting for the next chapter sometime next week!! 
*dances*
And that just redefined the meaning of "cat fight." XD I loved that last part with Heero. Just cracked me up. XD
... but I agree....