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The Reunion
-Chapter One
The notice went out about a month before the occasion. For this, there was a highly important purpose. It gave the guests plenty of time to cancel business trips, appointments, and take care of every other house hold things that needed to be tended to for the time that the guests would be away. Of course, such people that were invited weren't everyday ordinary people. They would have much more matters to tend to than simple household jobs. Nevertheless, the occasion, at least to the Preventers known as Une, Noin, and Sally Po, was one to be remembered, and they were determined to everyone make it.
The reunion had been Une's idea, although she wouldn't be paid for her work at the Preventers for a couple of weeks, she was sure it would all be worth it to be able to meet up with some of her favorite people. People that she had once hated and betrayed in ways more than one. However, these people had come to be her allies as well as personal and close friends, and she didn't know if she'd ever have another chance to see them again. In a couple of years, these people would be making a living, supporting families, and moving from place to place, never finding to time to go to some silly reunion. Une didn't want them to remember her as the cold hearted killer who would sacrifice anything and everything just for rule or power. No, she didn't want to be remembered as someone like that. She wanted a good last impression, and was prepared to go to any limits to achieve this.
Since Une was the head of the Preventer group, her job was to get the time off, which would probably be the most difficult part of all. To her surprise, the time was granted the time of three weeks. It wasn't as much as she'd been hoping for, but it would have to due. Une sent a notice in e-mail to all of the Preventers that were invited. Zechs and Noin were the first ones that received the notice. The two had bought a place on a colony, and lived happily there for the time that they weren't working for the Preventers. They were also engaged, which Une suspected would be a surprise for everyone. She was happy for them though, and she was almost sure that wouldn't be the most shocking news at the reunion. She was positive that everyone at the reunion would have surprise or two of their own.
Ever since the end of the war she had been dying to get to know the people she had been watching and getting to know a bit, but they had all gone their separate ways, except for Noin, Zechs, and Sally, who Une frequently kept in contact with. Sally shared an apartment with Wufei sporting the "Our relationship is clearly out of friendship" excuse that no one believed. They were very close despite their age differences, and Sally had managed to soften Wufei up a bit, so he wasn't always so grumpy. They had a nice apartment too. It was well furnished and decorated, most likely at Sally's accord. There weren't any words of engagement from that couple, though.
Wufei was invited to the reunion as well, along with the other four *former* gundam pilots, who Une had been lucky enough to contact. She did need some help from Noin, who knew of Quatre's whereabouts and where he was most likely to be. Noin had mentioned to her that she and Quatre were good friends during the war. Quatre had been the easiest to connect, because of his overwhelming popularity in the colonies. He was now running the Winner Corporation with his sisters, and traveling with the Maguanac to repair and rebuild colonies that had been lost in the war. It would be hard for him to make it to reunion, but he had said he'd work extra hard and try to get one of his sister's in charge for the three weeks that he would be gone.
Trowa was the second one that Une contacted. She had gotten information about him through Quatre who recalled Trowa mentioning going back to traveling circus. It didn't long for Une to locate the circus and get in contact with Trowa. He was doing great, a lot more cheerful than Une remembered him. She still felt odd talking to Trowa, because he had once been a solider for OZ, and he heard Une say many bad things about the colonies and the gundam pilots, and was afraid he had some sort of grudge against her now. Still, it was nice for he to talk to him again, and good to see he was doing so well. He was even in a relationship, which would much to everyone's surprise; with a woman he had met at the circus, who's husband had died in the war and left her alone with her son, Kai. Now Trowa stood as a fatherly figure for the boy, and his heart too, began to loosen up. Une was so happy for him, she invited his girlfriend and her son to come to reunion as well, and of course Catherine, if she wanted to.
Duo and Heero had been the most difficult to find, since their were records of them in the colonies anywhere. As far as anyone else knew, they were just plain ole civilians living in a colony. Une had once again found them through Quatre, who had talked to Duo recently, and was running some sort of junk yard in L2 with Heero and his girlfriend, Hilde. Une had been surprised that Duo had found a girlfriend as well, and even more surprised that Heero was living with them. Well, that had sure made things easier for her. She had talked to the boys, who had agreed to com to reunion. Or rather, Duo agreed for both of them, since Heero didn't say much. He didn't seem to like the idea of going to the reunion either. He had snorted a couple of times while Une was explaining it to them; but the important thing was that they both were coming. Une had even agreed to letting Hilde come along as well, at Duo's request.
There were only two more people that Une had to get to come to the reunion. Relena and Dorothy. She had heard that Dorothy had started her life over as a civilian, trying to forget all she had done and the way she had acted in the flames of war. Those flames had affected everybody, and some, such as Dorothy, just wanted to forget them. However, she had agreed to come to the reunion, but Une had to convince her thoroughly. What had finally got her come was the mention of Quatre's name, in which her face had flushed and her eyes had gotten wide? The rest of her words were stuttered but she agreed reluctantly, and Une then began to search for Relena. That hadn't been difficult at all, since she kept in complete contact with the Preventers. At first she had said that she would much to busy, and she certainly couldn't get three weeks off at work, so Une could only persuade her to stay for two weeks, and then she would go back early. Une had also mentioned to her that Heero would be there, and Relena seemed surprised but happy, and said she'd see what she could do to make it three weeks instead of two.
Much to Une's relief, she was finished with the invitations and sending them out with the place, time, date, and what to bring printed on them, quickly so she had just enough to time to get ready herself. She had really outdone herself this time. She had pulled money out of her savings to rent a beautiful, enormous beach house at a private island, where they would have nearly a quarter of the island to themselves, with complete and total privacy and luxury. The beach house came complete with a pool, Jacuzzi tubs in every bathroom, ten bedrooms, royal living room, huge kitchen and three barbecues in the back. She had flown there on a private jet with Noin, Zechs, Sally, Wufei, and Marimeia whom which she had adopted. Marimeia was doing a lot better, gradually recovering from her gunshot wound. She was bale to walk without a wheel chair or crutches, and best of all, was now a normal yet *intellgent* girl.
The red head's bright blue eyes were gleaming with excitement as they reached the island. She stood up, pressing her hands against the glass window of the jet to get a better look.
"Mother, I can see the house from here!" She yelled cheerfully, smile widening. Une smiled at her daughter before looking out the window herself. 'Oh it's perfect.' She thought as they came nearer and nearer to the large home on the island. The jet was so small and advanced, it could land anywhere, even on the sands of a beach, which was where it was headed for landing. The pilot deliberately flew the jet to the lower parts of the shore, near the water where the sand was more solid, preventing the jet from getting stuck in the sand. After he dropped them off the pilot would go back to the Preventer airport, and pick up the guests that were waiting there. All guests had been told to arrive there where the jet would pick them up and take them to island.
Une glanced over at Wufei and Sally, who were sitting side by side, Sally leaning over Wufei's lap to get a better look out the window. Une giggled as she heard Wufei say something remarkable close to "Get off of me you weak onna." and Sally slapping his shoulder playfully. Sally's eyes caught Une looking at her.
"This a beautiful area." She said, pulling herself away from Wufei and walking over to sit by Une, much to Wufei's relief. He mumbled something incoherent and slouched against the window, running a hand through his hair (which he now left loose) in exasperation.
"Yes, it is. The price of it isn't nearly as lovely though. But I think it will be worth it to get to see everyone having a good time." Une explained to Sally, peering out the window at the beach as she spoke. A slight vision came to her of all of them out on that beach, in their little ridiculous bathing suits and sandals, building sand castles and throwing Frisbees, not to mention major flirting going on. 'Especially with Sally and Wufei.' A smile spread across Une's lips as the vision faded, and she turned back to Sally.
"I just hope your right. But sometimes I wonder if those boys really know how to have fun." She lowered her voice just enough so Wufei wouldn't overhear what she was saying. "They've been in war all their lives you know. Their still new to the concept of fun." Sally said, glancing at Wufei.
"I'll take that bet. I highly doubt *Duo* is just going to sit around doing nothing. Especially when he's bringing his girlfriend and all. They'll be running around on the beach, splashing in the water.." Une's voice trailed off as the jet jerked downwards. She looked out the window and saw that they were landing.
"We're landing! *Finally*!" Marimeia shouted, running over and climbing on her mother's lap. Une wrapped her arms around the girl's waist, holding her there until the turbulence had ended, and they were safely landed on the beautiful white sands of the beach. Once she loosened her grip, Marimeia took off towards the door, practically jumping up and down, waiting for the pilot to open it. Une peered behind her at Zechs, and Noin who had fallen asleep on his shoulder. Zechs had been exceptionally quiet during the flight. Une had a hunch that he really didn't want to be here at all. Zechs was never one to socialize, especially with people he fought with *and* against during the war. It would all seem odd to him, but Une was convinced it was for his own good.
"Well, we're here you two. You should feel lucky that we got here first." Her eyes rested on Zechs as she continued, "Otherwise we wouldn't have gotten first dibs on bedrooms." A coy smile spread across her face as she pulled herself out of her seat and proceeded outside. Wufei and Sally followed and then Zechs and Noin, after he had woken her up. Noin had trouble getting up. She was just glad they had finally got there. She was all ready for the beach, in a long, summer dress and a beach hat, sunglasses perched on her head and sandals on her feet. She had even got Zechs to dress for the occasion. He was in a nice, light blue T-shirt and short tan kakis, although he objected to wearing sandals. Even his hair was pulled back in allow ponytail, which was an odd sight but at least kept the wind from blowing it in his face.
As the first six to arrive stepped out onto the stand, the pilot of the jet wasted no time and took off to pick up the rest of the guests. Marimeia took off running towards the beach house, eager to see if it was as beautiful inside as it was on the outside. The ladies, and Zechs and Wufei walked at a leisurely pace, Une and Sally discussing bedroom arrangements, since they weren't enough bedrooms for everyone to have their own. They had paired a couple obvious couples together; such as Noin and Zechs, Duo and Hilde, and Trowa, his girlfriend and Kai. Still, a couple more people would have to pair up unless they wanted to sleep out the couches and floors.
"Mother, can I go swimming?" Marimeia asked, toying with the buttons of her beach shirt. She was staring at the water with a somewhat awed expression on her face. Une guessed that her new daughter had probably not seen much oceans in her life, except from looking down at Earth from above it.
"We should really wait for the other guests to get here. Miss Relena is coming, and I know she's dying to see how you're doing." Une said. Marimeia and sighed and looked back at her mother, and suddenly a coy smile spread across her tiny lips.
"A bet I'm not the only one Miss Relena is *dying* to see." She giggled. Une smirked and gave her a playful slap on the shoulder, although the young girl had given her an idea. Perhaps Heero and Relena wouldn't mind being paired together for bedrooms. She'd just give them a room with two beds, and if Heero objected, then she'd just switch him with someone else who was willing. Well, it was worth a shot, and they had to get the bedroom situation organized. Une sighed stressfully and her eyes caught site of Zechs and Noin, walking along the beach which their arms around eachother. She smiled for a moment, but the smile faded when she thought of Treize. She wished he could come to this reunion as well.
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"Wow, Zechs, isn't it peaceful here?" Noin asked, enjoying the way the cool beach wind blew her hair back. Zechs only grunted in response, taking his arm away from Noin's shoulder. Noin looked at him in confusion.
"I don't think it was a good idea coming here, Noin. Who knows what could happen while we're all here...alone. It's not like we're the best of friends, all of us." He sighed, "And there's going to be so much tension between us."
"Between who?" Noin asked, wrapping her arm around her fiance's waist. Zechs sighed again.
"Heero and I." He said bluntly. Noin chuckled.
"I don't understand why you two have such strong grudges against each other. In fact, you have never really been enemies. You were both fighting OZ all along, even if you didn't know it. That goes the same for myself." She paused, trying to ignore the horrid memories that were all coming back to her. "Plus, you two have so much in common. Especially your fondness for Relena." Noin just laughed as Zechs turned to glare at her.
Noin shifted her gaze back to the beach house. She found Marimeia playing in the sand, Wufei and Sally sitting on a rock, talking, but Une was nowhere in sight. 'Hm, she must have gone inside. I should go and help her with bedroom arrangements.'
"Come on Zechs, let's go pick our bedroom." She said playfully, tugging on his arm. With yet another sigh from the blond man, he followed Noin to the porch of beach house. The door was opened about half way, and Noin could hear Une mumbling to herself inside. She pushed the door all the way open and stepped inside, followed by Zechs. Une was standing near the beautiful, green, blue, and white marble counter of the kitchen, looking around the house appreciably. She spotted Zechs and Noin and smiled.
"Wonderful, isn't it?" she asked, pushing a strand of brown hair back behind her ear.
"Yes, the whole place is gorgeous. I just hope the kids won't be bored." Noin said, referring to Marimeia and Kai. Une shook her head.
"No, there will be plenty of things the kids can do. They can swim and make sand castles and boogie board all they want. By the way, do you how old Kai is?" She asked, remembering about Trowa's girlfriend's son. Noin nodded.
"He's six. Turning seven in a month or so I believe."
"Well, that's good, he and Marimeia and close in age. Well, at least I don't have to worry about her being bored." Une sighed. Zechs grunted to get the ladies attention.
"And what about the rest of us? What are we supposed to be doing during this whole reunion?" Noin slapped him on the arm for his rudeness, but the question seemed to catch Une's attention. A reunion should have been self-explanatory. She was sure everyone would have much to talk about, and who knew when they ever were going to see each other again after the occasion. She also had a few pair-ups in mind; and by the way Dorothy and Relena looked at the mention of Heero and Quatre's names, she was sure there was likely to be at least one.
"Just think of it as a vacation, if not a reunion, Zechs. It can be whatever you want it to be, even just simple time off of work. You should be grateful." Une said. 'That should answer your question, soldier boy. There isn't going to be any fighting going on at this reunion, even if it kills me. But..that would, sort of defeat the purpose.' Zechs's voice snapped her out of her thoughts.
"Well I'm actually planning the three weeks up in my room. I hope you don't mind." He practically snarled. At that he began to march up the stairs leading to the upstairs bedrooms. "Come on Noin, or I'm picking one myself." He ordered. Noin and sighed and gave Une an apologetic look before following Zechs up the stairs. Une heard them discussing something upstairs. 'Uh oh, Noin sounds upset. I hope they don't get into a fight during their vacation.' She bit her lower lip gently then walked outside to check on Marimeia.
"Anybody want snacks?" Une called as she walked outside. She found Sally and Marimeia kneeled down in sand digging what appeared to be a giant hole. Wufei was still sitting on the rock, watching them with utmost interest..well, sort of. Marimeia turned her head in the direction of her mother's voice, or rather, where the word "snacks," came from.
"I want to show Kai this hole we're digging. We're going to make it so big that I can sit inside of it!" The red head exclaimed. Then she looked at her mother thoughtfully, "But I suppose I can take a short break to have a snack." Une smiled.
"Good, because Kai won't be here for a couple more hours, dear. He's coming with the rest of the guests." She went inside to fix some sandwiches and Marimeia followed her, brushing sand off her blue jeans. That left Sally and Wufei alone out on the beach. Sally picked herself up out of the sand, brushing it off her knee length skirt and went to sit next to Wufei on the rock.
"Looking forward to seeing the gundam pilots again?" Sally asked, resting a hand against his shoulder. Wufei grunted and shrugged her hand off.
"We're not gundam pilots anymore. And yes, I am eager to see how former pilots one through four are doing." Wufei said formally. Sally chuckled.
"Could you possibly sound any more militaristic?" She asked, shoving him playfully, but just hard enough to knock him off of the rock. She was rewarded with the hilarious sight of Wufei falling on his butt in the sand. Unfortunately for her, Wufei didn't think it was quite so hilarious.
"Onna!" He yelled, standing up immediately causing sand to fly everywhere in his rage. Sally could do nothing but laugh, and her laughter got even harder as Wufei turned his back to her and crossed his arms.
"Wufei, you've got sand on your butt." She managed to say in between laughter. Wufei's eyes widened and his cheeks got suspiciously red. He began to hastily try and brush all of the sand off of his near.
"Is it gone, onna?!" He shouted, snarling at the mere thought of being covered in sand. Sally had seen the death glare he had given the sand when they first stepped out on to the beach, and figured he had some sort of sand phobia. She even remembered his words right before they felt for the trip. 'I hate the beach. You get sun burned and your hair sticks up and you all disgusting and sandy!'
"No, it's still there." Sally said, laughter gone but a huge smile still plastered on her face. Wufei growled and tried to look over his shoulder to see where the sand was still sticking. Sally sighed and got up, grabbed Wufei's shoulder's and spun him around, then began brushing the extra sand that was still stuck on Wufei's rear.
"Ahhh!! How dare you touch a man's behind without his permission you weak unjust onna!!" Sally's eyes widened as Wufei ran into the house in visible rage.
"You're the weak and unjust one! Won't even let a *perfectly strong* woman help get some sand off your behind that may I say is *still* sandy!" She shouted back. She snorted and sat back down on the rock, eyeing the hole that she and Marimeia had dug. 'I should have buried him.'
Wufei rushed into the house, hands still on his butt working on getting every grain of sand off of it, and bumped right into Une with a plate of sandwiches. The tray was flung on to the floor, landing upside-down so the sandwiches were sprawled out on the tile. Une looked up from the sandwiches on the floor to Wufei, who was beet red.
"S-sorry." He brushed by her and headed upstairs to drop off his suitcase in his room.
"Wait, Wufei! Sally and I figured out an arrangement for bedrooms. I'll show you to yours." Une called up to him. She stepped over the sandwiches to clean up later and followed Wufei up the stairs. It was standing in the hallway. Une could hear Noin and Zechs talking in their room, the first one to the right. She remembered it was one of biggest ones in whole house, but she didn't mind. As long as they were happy and weren't arguing.
"Wufei, we have you for a downstairs bedroom. All the one's up here are for two or more people. We have to save them for the couples." Une explained, placing her hand on his back and leading him back down the stairs. The Chinese man snorted.
"And what couples do you mean?" He asked. Although Une thought he was just trying to be rude, when she looked at his face there was some confusion there, along with anger.
"Well, Noin and Zechs of course. Then there's Duo and his girlfriend Hilde, Marimeia and I, Trowa and his girlfriend as well as her son, and then...maybe Heero and Relena." Wufei's eyes widened at that last part. He did not approve of Relena at all. As he saw it, Relena wanted to do away with soldiers all together, saying they were a disgrace to mankind, and what they were doing to entirely wrong. She just wanted to confine them, and build a peaceful world for everyone else. What she saw in Heero was merely attraction, for a good looking boy. Simply teenager rubbish. That's how he saw it.
"Heero is too good for her.." He muttered absently, not even realizing he was saying it. Une didn't say anything though. She had a feeling Wufei looked up to Heero now, since Heero *had* proven to Wufei that he wasn't *weak*. Anybody that wasn't weak certainly could compare to Wufei, sense in his eyes, everyone was weak.
"Maybe so, but I think Heero has something for her too." Une said quietly, not wanting Zechs to overhear what she had to say. Wufei shrugged and looked up when they came to the bedroom Une and Sally had chosen for him. Une opened the door and they stepped inside, and were surprised to see Sally in there unpacking her suitcase. She looked up and quickly hid all undergarments from Wufei's sight.
"Sally, what are you doing here? I thought we agreed this would be Wufei's room." Une asked. Sally shrugged.
"I compared this room to my own and decided this one was much nicer." She narrowed her eyes at Wufei. "I hope that's OK with you, Wufei. If not then I suppose I can move, since I'm *strong* enough." Une gulped when she felt the strong tension between the two.
"No, it's fine, Onna." Wufei sneered, his teeth clenched. Sally smiled smugly.
"Good then. Now if you don't mind I'd like to finish unpacking in privacy." Wufei snorted and walked out of the room before Une could lead him. Une raised her eyebrow, looking from Wufei, back at Sally. When Wufei had left Une closed the door behind her.
"What's going on with you two?" She asked Sally, who was opening a few dresser drawers and dusted them off with an old rag. She dropped the rag and sighed, sitting on the bed.
"We got into a little fight earlier. It's nothing big. Wufei's always like this, you kind of have to get used to it." She said. Une took a seat beside her on the bed.
"Well, you know, boys always tease the girls they have crushes on." She said, smiling a sly smile. Sally's brow furrowed and she looked at Une oddly.
"You don't mean....oh no, Une! Of course not. There's nothing going on between Wufei and I. As you can see, we're practically enemies." She objected. Une shook her head.
"You know he likes you, Sally. Maybe you should just try being nice to him and see what happens." Sally gave an exasperated sigh.
"You think I haven't tried that? I'm nice to Wufei as often as I can be, but he's always his grumpy old self, walking around the apartment fully clothed all of time, even his shoes, calling me an onna. It drives me crazy sometimes but I need someone to split the rent with, even if it is Wufei. I mean, at least he's modest. I'd much rather be living with a guy who walks around fully clothed than a guy who walks around in his underwear." Sally realized she had been blabbing and flushed.
"Ah, now I see you have something for him as well." Une said. Sally flushed even redder.
"Well, maybe I *have* felt something from time to time, but nothing is going to happen between us. It would be...too weird." Sally sighed and folded her hands in her lap. 'Well, great. My secret is out and it's only the first day of the reunion.'
"You never know, Sally." Une said, "Anyway, I better go help Wufei find his room so he doesn't pick the wrong one and start unpacking." Sally laughed.
"All right. I'm going to finish packing and then do some tanning. Something I haven't been able to do for years." She sighed happily and closed her eyes, imagining being under that bright run, sending rays of warmth down on her body." Une got up off the bed.
"Hm, that's sounds good. I'll meet you out there just as soon as I get Wufei settled. Oh, and I'll see if h wants to come down to the beach as well." There was a hint of mischief in her voice and Sally frowned.
"Good luck." Une laughed as she walked out the room, closing the door behind her. Sally sighed and lied down on her bed, stretching out luxuriously. She closed her eyes for a brief moment before hearing talking coming from her bathroom door. 'Is someone in my bathroom?' She thought, getting up and walking to the door. She pushed it open and gasped when she saw Une and Wufei standing on the other side of the door, but not in the bathroom. The bathroom had another door leading to Wufei's room! Wufei jerked his head towards her at the sound and his eyes got even wider than hers. Une just stood there, smiling.
"We *share* a bathroom?!" Sally yelled in astonishment and disbelief. Wufei's jaw dropped and his expression turned from surprised to angry. He turned to Une.
"You put us in connected rooms? You have got to be crazy. That onna will take her sweet time in that bathroom and I'll never be able to have *my* time in there!" Wufei yelled, eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets. Sally crossed her arms her arms cover her chest.
"Well, at least women are more concerned about looking their best." She said. Wufei snorted.
"I resent that!" He walked through the bathroom to Sally so that they were practically nose to nose. "Men just don't need to work as hard to make themselves look good." That sent Sally over the edge. Before Une or Wufei had time to react her hand came up and slapped Wufei across the face, leaving a reddish hand print shape on his Wufei's left cheek. Une gasped and took a step backwards, not wanting to be involved in *this* quarrel. Wufei expression was pure shock, not even anger, as he brought his hand up to his face and brushed the tender skin there. His mouth was slightly open as he gazed at Sally in total disbelief. Sally simply snorted and spun around, her golden hair slapping Wufei in the face and walked back into her room, *slamming* the door behind her.
As Wufei's hand dropped back down to his side his eyebrow's curved downward, yet did nothing to express his anger. He walked back through the bathroom to his own room and closed the bathroom room. He brushed past Une and sat on his bed, then proceeded to open his suitcase in preparation of unpacking.
"That will be all, Une. Thank you." He said for Une's dismissal. She didn't object, simply nodded, her face still in shock, and exited Wufei's bedroom. The sudden realization hit her that she still hadn't made those sandwiches. Passing Sally's room quickly, not bothering to stop and ask her about her actions in the bathroom, Une half-jogged to kitchen to fix some spare sandwiches. When she got there Noin was leaning on the counter placing the second slice of bread over ten complete new sandwiches.
"Oh thank you, Noin." Une sighed, leaning up against the counter. She peered down and saw that Marimeia was standing by Noin's side, looking eagerly up at the sandwiches being prepared. Noin smirked.
"No problem. By all that yelling coming from the downstairs bedrooms I figured you were caught in another one of Wufei and Sally's arguments. Oh, and I cleaned up the sandwiches on the floor as well." The violet haired woman explained. Une let out another sigh and ran her hands through her bangs as a stressful gesture, then remembered what Sally had mentioned earlier.
"Noin, would you and Zechs be interested in going down to beach after lunch? Sally and I are going down to work on our tanning." Marimeia frowned at her mother.
"You told me we had to wait until the others arrived." The youth objected. Une looked at her apologetically.
"Yes, but it's been a very stressful evening for most of us. I'm sure the others won't mind if we start tanning without them." Une said. Noin nodded.
"I'll except your offer but I'm not sure Zechs will be up to it. He's so pale he'll probably be burnt to a crisp in no time. And I don't think he'll be a pleasant person to be around when he's sunburned." Une laughed slightly, agreeing.
When Noin finished up the sandwiches Une helped her put them on a tray to bring outside and they went out, led by Marimeia. Zechs was seated on the rock that Sally and Wufei had been sitting on before. Noin took the tray over the rock and set them down next to Zechs, who just stared at them as though they were his worst enemy.
"What? You love turkey!" Noin said when she saw her fiance's expression. The blond man shrugged and picked up a sandwich, and begun to nibble on it while Marimeia dug in. Just when she was finished with her first and reached out to grab another, Une grabbed the girl's shoulder.
"Marimeia, will you please do your mother a huge favor and go ask Wufei and Sally if they would like to come out and have some lunch with us?" Marimeia simply nodded and started walking towards the house. "They're in the downstairs bedrooms! And be sure to knock, don't just barge in!" Une called after her. The red head nodded again and entered the house. Une sat next to Zechs and Noin on the rock, and Noin passed her a sandwich.
It was only a couple minutes after they had started eating when they had to cover their eyes *and* their lunch as a shield from the sand as a helicopter approached the sand from the sky.
"Well, they're here!" Noin shouted over the loud sound the helicopter's propellers. Une nodded wordlessly and they got up and started walking down to the beach to great the new guests. Zechs however, with a worried expression on his face, headed towards the house. For some reason, he didn't want to be there when Heero Yuy and his sister stepped out of that helicopter.
He knew the worst was yet to come.
~TBC
AN-So, what do you think? Is it good? Is it not worth continuing?
Should it be burned? ^_^;;