This has been set after the last series and the endless Waltz when peace is once again.
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Chapter 1 - Children of the tunnel
Relena walked across the alley. Finally there was peace in the world, and now all she had to
do was find those homeless children which were reported to have been seen somewhere around
that alley.
Heero walked slowly behind her looking around him all the time. The spirit inside him
which belonged to war still hadn't settled down and he was still grim and cautious wherever he
went. Relena didn't care that he wasn't standing next to her. As long as he was with her she was
content, and it was too much to ask from Heero to actually take her hand.
Heero stopped in his tracks and looked to his left. He was sure he heard a rustling noise
from the underway coming from the alley. Relena walked up to him making sure she was
keeping a fair distance from Heero. He didn't like people being too close to him.
Heero silently pointed towards the direction of the crying sound and the pair turned to go
down the alley. Relena needed to find them before the police would or else who knows what
would happen to the poor kids.
Suddenly they heard a loud bang behind a little door which was followed by a hush and a
few more strange sounds. Heero put his hand to the gun which he had with him all the time but
Relena shook her head.
"They are only children," whispered Relena.
Heero nodded but still kept his hand on his gun in case. Relena carefully opened the door so
that it only made a small squeek. Suddenly the room was quiet and Heero knew it was too quiet.
Relena looked around desperately. She didn't want to scare the kids but she needed to hurry and
get them out of there.
Heero gestured for her to go stand at the door and make sure no one opens it. He knew
Relena didn't like what he was going to do but they had no choice.
"I know you kids are there, and the Queen is here, and she demands for you to come out,"
said Heero loudly.
Relena looked around carefully for any sign of movement but there was none. Suddenly a
figure jumped out with a gun. He looked scared and pale. He was only about 12 years old.
Heero realised what he was going to do and jumped in front of Relena as the bullet shot out
hitting Heero in the back. He gasped and fell to the ground while the boy took his next aim at
Relena. He couldn't let anyone hurt her!
"Stop! We don't mean any harm, we came here to help you before the police come,"
exclaimed Relena.
She dropped on her knees and looked at Heero's wound. He opened his eyes and took a
look at the boy who seemed even more scared that Heero was still alive. The boy pressed the
triger again aiming at Heero this time. A burst of blood gushed out of his arm. Heero grabbed his
arm and slowly jerked himself into an upright position. He grabbed his gun and pointed it at the
boy.
"Heero," cried Relena.
"I have a much better aim than you, boy. Put down the gun and I won't hurt you!" said
Heero firmly.
Suddenly a girl of about 5 years old jumped up and hugged the boy. She had tears in her
eyes and she looked so scared and ruddy.
"Don't hurt my brother you mean person!" she screamed.
The boy pushed the girl away and threw his gun down at Heero's feet. His face was pale
with fright as Heero kept the gun aimed at the boy.
"All right, all five of you come out right now. We mean no harm at all and I am sorry we
gave such a horrible introduction, but you kids need to hurry before the police come," said
Relena with an urged voice.
"How do we know you aren't the real police?" asked another girl as old as the boy.
She emerged from behind the wardrobe and came to stand by her brother. As she saw the
blood coming out of Heero she shuddered and smiled at the boy.
A wail could be heard from far away and the kids suddenly all jumped out in fright.
"Now do you believe us?" asked Relena.
The kids nodded and followed Relena to the truck they had prepared for them. Heero
staggered behind them and closed the door of the truck. Relena looked at him concerningly. He
had a bullet in his back and in his arm and he was badly hurt. Heero took the wheel firmly and
turned on the truck.
"You can't drive! You are hurt, go back with the kids and I will drive," exclaimed Relena.
Heero saw the determination in her eyes and nodded jumping out of the truck and to the
back where the kids were. As he walked in the kids scrambled back in fright. The door was shut
and the truck went off.
The kids stared at Heero in amazement as he bandaged up his arm without wincing once.
The boy that shot Heero was breathing fast and heavily, not taking his eyes of Heero in fright. He
could see the gun that Heero had.
A girl with blue eyes and blonde hair stared at him in as he bandaged up his wounds. He
glanced at her and then went back to healing his wounds.
"Doesn't that hurt?" she asked with curiousity.
The girl next to her hushed her quickly wondering what Heero would do next.
Heero looked at the annoying girl in the eyes. She shuddered and turned away scared of
what would happen now.
"It hurts like hell," said Heero calmly.
Surprised that he answered, the girl opened her mouth to ask another question and it slipped
out before she even realised what she was doing.
"Then why aren't you crying? Aren't you scared that you might die?"
Heero shook his head.
"Little girl, I haven't shed a tear since I was 3 and my will to live has been lost for a long
time now. I do not care if I die or if I live," answered Heero in a monotone voice.
The boy evened his breathing and said, "Um, sir… I am really sorry about what happened. I
don't know what came over me."
Heero glanced at him and then went to work.
"It was an accident! I was scared that you were going to take us apart! I was scared! Don't
you know what I mean?" asked the boy with a tremble in his voice.
"No. I don't know what you mean. I have fallen from 24 storey building, tried to commit
suicide at least 4 times, self destructed my gundam when I was in it, have so many broken bones,
and have been shot so many time. I don't feel fear anymore. I don't think I ever knew fear," said
Heero.
The truck jolted to a stop and the door was opened. They had arrived at Quatre's house as
they had planned. It was a huge building with more than 30 storeys. The children stared at it in
amazement.
"This way," said Relena helping Heero get up the stairs.
She knew he wouldn't want a doctor and would rather if he took care of himself but she
was very worried because his condition was getting any better.
"You are a gundam pilot?" asked the boy in astonishment as he walked past Relena.
Quatre opened the door violently and ran to Relena. He looked at Heero in shock and took
Relena's place in helping Heero. Relena went off to lead the children to another room.
Quatre slowly helped Heero get to one of the spare rooms and gently let go of him. Heero
collapsed on the couch and breathed heavily as he shuddered in pain.
"What happened Heero?" asked Quatre worryingly.
"I got shot by one of those bastards!" exclaimed Heero.
Quatre pulled off Heero's bloody shirt and looked at the wound in his back. The bullet
wasn't that strong and it could easily be taken out. Quatre got his equipment and started attending
the wounds on Heero's back.
Relena let all the children have some water and food before she began speaking to them.
"I am the Queen of the Earth as you all know, but I prefer that you call me Relena," Relena
cleared her voice so everyone would pay attention to what she was saying.
"Since there are five of you and five gundam pilots, I thought I would let my best friends
take care of you. The best things are, they won't be your parents! If you don't like them you tell
me and I'll let you go, but I want you to give it a try and stay with them," explained Relena.
"Wait a minute! Are you going to split us up?" asked the boy.
"No! Well… kind of, but you could always see eachother and you would be at the same
school and you could go over to eachother's house all the time. I will do this until I find a family
which will take in all of you."
"Who's going to be with that guy I shot?" asked the boy quivering already.
"Well, whoever wants to I guess. Can I just give you some advice? We all still do to high
school, and you will be going to the same school as us, so don't interupt Heero too much while
he is studying ok?"
The children nodded silently. The door opened and a cute looking American walked
through the door. Relena took one look at him and screamed across the whole room making the
children jump up in fright.
"Relena!" whined Duo. "I told you not to do that! Just because I cut off the platt, doesn't
mean I am any different," exclaimed Duo as he plopped down in an arm chair looking upset.
Relena looked at Duo once again and took in the new image into her head. It was so hard to
see Duo with short hair. It just didn't seem right.
Duo suddenly jumped up realising the kids all staring at him.
"Ok! I am out of my slump. At least these kids have never seen me with a platt so they have
nothing to compare me with," laughed Duo.
Wufei and Trowa walked through the door and sat on the couch nodding a little greeting.
Unlike Duo, who thought this whole child rescue was going to be a lot of fun, it took a lot of
persuasion to get these two to agree. Heero agreed only because Relena asked him to.
Relena sighed and sat down waiting for Quatre and Heero to come back. It didn't take them
long and after sitting in absolute silence they finally came back in. Heero was walking properly
again and looked strong. Relena wondered if he was putting on that brave face or if it was real.
"Ok, now that we are all settled, I am starting to wonder who will get who. I think I'll let
you children decide," said Relena crawling back in her chair in anxiety. She could almost guess
what would happen.
The four girls rushed to Duo pushing eachother to get to him first. Relena almost giggled as
Duo ran back to the wall.
"Well, Duo, I think the mighty Death is getting conquered by a few little children," teased
Quatre.
"I got him first!" screamed the girl who was about 8 years old.
The other girls put their heads down and sat back on the couches. Duo looked at the girl
who was gripping onto his arm.
"Um… you could let go now you know… I mean, you've got me!" laughed Duo sighing as
she let go and went red in the face from embarassment.
Suddenly the other girls jumped up realising that Quatre was a gundam pilot too and ran at
him like bulls. Quatre screamed as they all rushed to him. Finally after 3 fights another girl got
him which left only 2 girls and a boy.
The boy looked at the grim Wufei and walked up to him. Wufei widened his eyes in
amazement. At least he got a boy. What luck! He didn't want a girl at all.
The two remaining girls looked at eachother angrily and sped off at different directions.
Realising that they were going to different directions, the sighed and slowly walked up to the
boys.
"I can't believe that this is actually happening!" screamed Duo.
Relena giggled and left the room for her 2 o'clock meeting.
"What is this a kindergarden school or something?" exclaimed Wufei taking the boy out of
the door. The boy seemed to have so much respect for Wufei it almost made Duo fall down
laughing.
Heero sighed and walked out of the room leaving the girl to run after him like a little
puppy. This was going to be a long week.
Heero walked along the pathway back to his house. The girl was prancing behind him
happily. She was annoying him so much.
"Will you keep up?" growled Heero stopping and looking at the girl.
"I can't! You walk to fast," exclaimed the girl.
"What's your name?"
"It's Linda."
"Well Linda, stop prancing and walk! You will be able to go much faster!"
"I am tired! Can you carry me?"
"NO!"
Heero grabbed his head in annoyance and turned the street to get to his house.
"Wait up!" screamed the girl running after Heero who was "slowly" walking across the
street.
Suddenly he heard a shriek and realised a car was racing at the girl. He quickly raced and
pushed her out of the way. The car hit him in the leg and he rolled onto the concrete. The driver
made a shrill noise with his breaks and ran out of his car to help. The girl breathed heavily as she
looked at Heero.
"I'll go call the ambulance. His leg seems dislocated," said the man nervously.
Heero growled and dragged himself up to a sitting position. He stared at the petrified driver
coldly.
"I don't think that would be necessary," said Heero through gritted teeth.
"But you can't Heero! You are hurt and you need urgent medical attention!" cried the girl.
Heero ignored the girl and turned back to the driver.
"I'd like to thank you sir, for making my day so pleasant! I have been thumped on the head
in the morning by an american friend. In the afternoon I got shot in the back and arm and now
you have just run over my leg. Well thankyou for making my day! I suggest you get out of here
before I take out my gun and shoot you," said Heero smirking.
The driver stared blankly at the 17 year old boy. The was such a strange boy. Suddenly it
hit him that Heero was pointing a gun at him. He shrieked running to his car and driving off.
Heero aimed his gun at the tyres of the car and fired making the car skid across the road. He
griffed angrily looking at his dislocated leg. Linda shuddered at the bone which was sticking out
of place very obviously.
Heero took in a deep breath and grabbed his leg jerking it around. The girl shrieked and
turned from the horror as he started adjusting the bone with his own bare hands. Finally with a
loud click the bone went back into place and Heero rolled back on the grass catching his breath.
"Heero, thank you for saving my life," said Linda hesitantly.
Heero eyes her and got up carefully not pushing any weight against his knee. It felt strange
being called Heero by a little girl. Usually he was called by "you" or some rude name people
could think of for him. Barely any people called him by Heero.
A car drove past Heero and it seemed very farmliair. It was all black and shiny and the
windows were tinted. Suddenly it screeched to a stop and reversed. The window opened and Duo
stuck his head out.
"Can't you for one day, not get yourself shot or broken?" asked Duo opening the door for
Heero to get it.
Heero glared at him angrily but staggered into the car. Linda jumped into the back of the
car with the girl Duo was taking care of. In only a moment she forgot all about Heero and started
happily chatting away to the girl next to her.
"How are you going with your kid?" asked Heero with a monotone voice.
He was obviously trying to not concentrate on his leg. His arm was gripping hard on the
leg.
"Oh, she is really cute, but she won't leave me alone. I hope she doesn't attach to me at
school tomorrow! There is no way I could show off to the girls with that thing hanging on my
arm," laughed Duo.
Heero rolled his eyes and crossed his arms watching the long black road in front of him. He
wasn't far from home and it wasn't a long time before they arrived at his house. Duo got out to
gelp Heero but he insisted on getting out himself. He could see the neighbours watching him
carefully. His next door neighbour was a young woman of about 20 years old and she kept on
insisting that he was some private investigator of the OZ team. Heero didn't even bother
explaining to her who he really was. She would never believe him.
The girl ran to the house and looked very disappointed. The house was a plain, 2 storey
house and had no special decorations that Quatre had in his mansion.
Heero opened the door and waved goodbye to Duo casually. His neighbour eyed him
carefully and looked at him and the girl.
"What? Ever heard of baby sitting for a friend?" asked Heero angrily.
The woman gruffed and walked back into her house. Heero slammed the door beside him
and fell down on the first couch he saw.
"That's your room," said Heero pointing to a nice room on the left. "Don't bother me for
the next to hours ok? You can explore anywhere around the house except the basement. I don't
want you playing around with my guns. You might explode yourself with one of those…" Heero
looked at the petrified girl. He had scared her enough and he knew she wouldn't go there.
Linda nodded and ran out of sight to her room.
"Why don't you get changed!" screamed Heero as she ran past him. She smelled like a pig.
She turned around and came back crying.
"What happened?" asked Heero annoyingly.
"I don't have any other clothes," she sniffed looking at her raggy clothes.
Heero pulled out 50 dollars from his pocket and handed it to Linda. Her eyes widened in
amazement as she looked at the 50 dollars resting in her hands.
"Go buy yourself some clothes from that shop over there. Don't buy anything girlish or else
I will never give you money again. Got it?" said Heero.
She nodded with tears in her eyes. She was so happy! She could actually buy her own
clothes. She ran out the door thanking Heero.
"I guess I'll have to get her registered in my school… and buy her uniform. What a drag,"
though Heero as he switched the TV onto the news.
"The kids reported to have been in the alley way were not there and we suggest you do not
make prank calls like that again. We apologise for making a headline out of it. Thankyou," said
the reporter switching to the next subject.
Heero turned off the TV in bewilderment. If only they knew…
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Chapter 1 - Children of the tunnel
Relena walked across the alley. Finally there was peace in the world, and now all she had to
do was find those homeless children which were reported to have been seen somewhere around
that alley.
Heero walked slowly behind her looking around him all the time. The spirit inside him
which belonged to war still hadn't settled down and he was still grim and cautious wherever he
went. Relena didn't care that he wasn't standing next to her. As long as he was with her she was
content, and it was too much to ask from Heero to actually take her hand.
Heero stopped in his tracks and looked to his left. He was sure he heard a rustling noise
from the underway coming from the alley. Relena walked up to him making sure she was
keeping a fair distance from Heero. He didn't like people being too close to him.
Heero silently pointed towards the direction of the crying sound and the pair turned to go
down the alley. Relena needed to find them before the police would or else who knows what
would happen to the poor kids.
Suddenly they heard a loud bang behind a little door which was followed by a hush and a
few more strange sounds. Heero put his hand to the gun which he had with him all the time but
Relena shook her head.
"They are only children," whispered Relena.
Heero nodded but still kept his hand on his gun in case. Relena carefully opened the door so
that it only made a small squeek. Suddenly the room was quiet and Heero knew it was too quiet.
Relena looked around desperately. She didn't want to scare the kids but she needed to hurry and
get them out of there.
Heero gestured for her to go stand at the door and make sure no one opens it. He knew
Relena didn't like what he was going to do but they had no choice.
"I know you kids are there, and the Queen is here, and she demands for you to come out,"
said Heero loudly.
Relena looked around carefully for any sign of movement but there was none. Suddenly a
figure jumped out with a gun. He looked scared and pale. He was only about 12 years old.
Heero realised what he was going to do and jumped in front of Relena as the bullet shot out
hitting Heero in the back. He gasped and fell to the ground while the boy took his next aim at
Relena. He couldn't let anyone hurt her!
"Stop! We don't mean any harm, we came here to help you before the police come,"
exclaimed Relena.
She dropped on her knees and looked at Heero's wound. He opened his eyes and took a
look at the boy who seemed even more scared that Heero was still alive. The boy pressed the
triger again aiming at Heero this time. A burst of blood gushed out of his arm. Heero grabbed his
arm and slowly jerked himself into an upright position. He grabbed his gun and pointed it at the
boy.
"Heero," cried Relena.
"I have a much better aim than you, boy. Put down the gun and I won't hurt you!" said
Heero firmly.
Suddenly a girl of about 5 years old jumped up and hugged the boy. She had tears in her
eyes and she looked so scared and ruddy.
"Don't hurt my brother you mean person!" she screamed.
The boy pushed the girl away and threw his gun down at Heero's feet. His face was pale
with fright as Heero kept the gun aimed at the boy.
"All right, all five of you come out right now. We mean no harm at all and I am sorry we
gave such a horrible introduction, but you kids need to hurry before the police come," said
Relena with an urged voice.
"How do we know you aren't the real police?" asked another girl as old as the boy.
She emerged from behind the wardrobe and came to stand by her brother. As she saw the
blood coming out of Heero she shuddered and smiled at the boy.
A wail could be heard from far away and the kids suddenly all jumped out in fright.
"Now do you believe us?" asked Relena.
The kids nodded and followed Relena to the truck they had prepared for them. Heero
staggered behind them and closed the door of the truck. Relena looked at him concerningly. He
had a bullet in his back and in his arm and he was badly hurt. Heero took the wheel firmly and
turned on the truck.
"You can't drive! You are hurt, go back with the kids and I will drive," exclaimed Relena.
Heero saw the determination in her eyes and nodded jumping out of the truck and to the
back where the kids were. As he walked in the kids scrambled back in fright. The door was shut
and the truck went off.
The kids stared at Heero in amazement as he bandaged up his arm without wincing once.
The boy that shot Heero was breathing fast and heavily, not taking his eyes of Heero in fright. He
could see the gun that Heero had.
A girl with blue eyes and blonde hair stared at him in as he bandaged up his wounds. He
glanced at her and then went back to healing his wounds.
"Doesn't that hurt?" she asked with curiousity.
The girl next to her hushed her quickly wondering what Heero would do next.
Heero looked at the annoying girl in the eyes. She shuddered and turned away scared of
what would happen now.
"It hurts like hell," said Heero calmly.
Surprised that he answered, the girl opened her mouth to ask another question and it slipped
out before she even realised what she was doing.
"Then why aren't you crying? Aren't you scared that you might die?"
Heero shook his head.
"Little girl, I haven't shed a tear since I was 3 and my will to live has been lost for a long
time now. I do not care if I die or if I live," answered Heero in a monotone voice.
The boy evened his breathing and said, "Um, sir… I am really sorry about what happened. I
don't know what came over me."
Heero glanced at him and then went to work.
"It was an accident! I was scared that you were going to take us apart! I was scared! Don't
you know what I mean?" asked the boy with a tremble in his voice.
"No. I don't know what you mean. I have fallen from 24 storey building, tried to commit
suicide at least 4 times, self destructed my gundam when I was in it, have so many broken bones,
and have been shot so many time. I don't feel fear anymore. I don't think I ever knew fear," said
Heero.
The truck jolted to a stop and the door was opened. They had arrived at Quatre's house as
they had planned. It was a huge building with more than 30 storeys. The children stared at it in
amazement.
"This way," said Relena helping Heero get up the stairs.
She knew he wouldn't want a doctor and would rather if he took care of himself but she
was very worried because his condition was getting any better.
"You are a gundam pilot?" asked the boy in astonishment as he walked past Relena.
Quatre opened the door violently and ran to Relena. He looked at Heero in shock and took
Relena's place in helping Heero. Relena went off to lead the children to another room.
Quatre slowly helped Heero get to one of the spare rooms and gently let go of him. Heero
collapsed on the couch and breathed heavily as he shuddered in pain.
"What happened Heero?" asked Quatre worryingly.
"I got shot by one of those bastards!" exclaimed Heero.
Quatre pulled off Heero's bloody shirt and looked at the wound in his back. The bullet
wasn't that strong and it could easily be taken out. Quatre got his equipment and started attending
the wounds on Heero's back.
Relena let all the children have some water and food before she began speaking to them.
"I am the Queen of the Earth as you all know, but I prefer that you call me Relena," Relena
cleared her voice so everyone would pay attention to what she was saying.
"Since there are five of you and five gundam pilots, I thought I would let my best friends
take care of you. The best things are, they won't be your parents! If you don't like them you tell
me and I'll let you go, but I want you to give it a try and stay with them," explained Relena.
"Wait a minute! Are you going to split us up?" asked the boy.
"No! Well… kind of, but you could always see eachother and you would be at the same
school and you could go over to eachother's house all the time. I will do this until I find a family
which will take in all of you."
"Who's going to be with that guy I shot?" asked the boy quivering already.
"Well, whoever wants to I guess. Can I just give you some advice? We all still do to high
school, and you will be going to the same school as us, so don't interupt Heero too much while
he is studying ok?"
The children nodded silently. The door opened and a cute looking American walked
through the door. Relena took one look at him and screamed across the whole room making the
children jump up in fright.
"Relena!" whined Duo. "I told you not to do that! Just because I cut off the platt, doesn't
mean I am any different," exclaimed Duo as he plopped down in an arm chair looking upset.
Relena looked at Duo once again and took in the new image into her head. It was so hard to
see Duo with short hair. It just didn't seem right.
Duo suddenly jumped up realising the kids all staring at him.
"Ok! I am out of my slump. At least these kids have never seen me with a platt so they have
nothing to compare me with," laughed Duo.
Wufei and Trowa walked through the door and sat on the couch nodding a little greeting.
Unlike Duo, who thought this whole child rescue was going to be a lot of fun, it took a lot of
persuasion to get these two to agree. Heero agreed only because Relena asked him to.
Relena sighed and sat down waiting for Quatre and Heero to come back. It didn't take them
long and after sitting in absolute silence they finally came back in. Heero was walking properly
again and looked strong. Relena wondered if he was putting on that brave face or if it was real.
"Ok, now that we are all settled, I am starting to wonder who will get who. I think I'll let
you children decide," said Relena crawling back in her chair in anxiety. She could almost guess
what would happen.
The four girls rushed to Duo pushing eachother to get to him first. Relena almost giggled as
Duo ran back to the wall.
"Well, Duo, I think the mighty Death is getting conquered by a few little children," teased
Quatre.
"I got him first!" screamed the girl who was about 8 years old.
The other girls put their heads down and sat back on the couches. Duo looked at the girl
who was gripping onto his arm.
"Um… you could let go now you know… I mean, you've got me!" laughed Duo sighing as
she let go and went red in the face from embarassment.
Suddenly the other girls jumped up realising that Quatre was a gundam pilot too and ran at
him like bulls. Quatre screamed as they all rushed to him. Finally after 3 fights another girl got
him which left only 2 girls and a boy.
The boy looked at the grim Wufei and walked up to him. Wufei widened his eyes in
amazement. At least he got a boy. What luck! He didn't want a girl at all.
The two remaining girls looked at eachother angrily and sped off at different directions.
Realising that they were going to different directions, the sighed and slowly walked up to the
boys.
"I can't believe that this is actually happening!" screamed Duo.
Relena giggled and left the room for her 2 o'clock meeting.
"What is this a kindergarden school or something?" exclaimed Wufei taking the boy out of
the door. The boy seemed to have so much respect for Wufei it almost made Duo fall down
laughing.
Heero sighed and walked out of the room leaving the girl to run after him like a little
puppy. This was going to be a long week.
Heero walked along the pathway back to his house. The girl was prancing behind him
happily. She was annoying him so much.
"Will you keep up?" growled Heero stopping and looking at the girl.
"I can't! You walk to fast," exclaimed the girl.
"What's your name?"
"It's Linda."
"Well Linda, stop prancing and walk! You will be able to go much faster!"
"I am tired! Can you carry me?"
"NO!"
Heero grabbed his head in annoyance and turned the street to get to his house.
"Wait up!" screamed the girl running after Heero who was "slowly" walking across the
street.
Suddenly he heard a shriek and realised a car was racing at the girl. He quickly raced and
pushed her out of the way. The car hit him in the leg and he rolled onto the concrete. The driver
made a shrill noise with his breaks and ran out of his car to help. The girl breathed heavily as she
looked at Heero.
"I'll go call the ambulance. His leg seems dislocated," said the man nervously.
Heero growled and dragged himself up to a sitting position. He stared at the petrified driver
coldly.
"I don't think that would be necessary," said Heero through gritted teeth.
"But you can't Heero! You are hurt and you need urgent medical attention!" cried the girl.
Heero ignored the girl and turned back to the driver.
"I'd like to thank you sir, for making my day so pleasant! I have been thumped on the head
in the morning by an american friend. In the afternoon I got shot in the back and arm and now
you have just run over my leg. Well thankyou for making my day! I suggest you get out of here
before I take out my gun and shoot you," said Heero smirking.
The driver stared blankly at the 17 year old boy. The was such a strange boy. Suddenly it
hit him that Heero was pointing a gun at him. He shrieked running to his car and driving off.
Heero aimed his gun at the tyres of the car and fired making the car skid across the road. He
griffed angrily looking at his dislocated leg. Linda shuddered at the bone which was sticking out
of place very obviously.
Heero took in a deep breath and grabbed his leg jerking it around. The girl shrieked and
turned from the horror as he started adjusting the bone with his own bare hands. Finally with a
loud click the bone went back into place and Heero rolled back on the grass catching his breath.
"Heero, thank you for saving my life," said Linda hesitantly.
Heero eyes her and got up carefully not pushing any weight against his knee. It felt strange
being called Heero by a little girl. Usually he was called by "you" or some rude name people
could think of for him. Barely any people called him by Heero.
A car drove past Heero and it seemed very farmliair. It was all black and shiny and the
windows were tinted. Suddenly it screeched to a stop and reversed. The window opened and Duo
stuck his head out.
"Can't you for one day, not get yourself shot or broken?" asked Duo opening the door for
Heero to get it.
Heero glared at him angrily but staggered into the car. Linda jumped into the back of the
car with the girl Duo was taking care of. In only a moment she forgot all about Heero and started
happily chatting away to the girl next to her.
"How are you going with your kid?" asked Heero with a monotone voice.
He was obviously trying to not concentrate on his leg. His arm was gripping hard on the
leg.
"Oh, she is really cute, but she won't leave me alone. I hope she doesn't attach to me at
school tomorrow! There is no way I could show off to the girls with that thing hanging on my
arm," laughed Duo.
Heero rolled his eyes and crossed his arms watching the long black road in front of him. He
wasn't far from home and it wasn't a long time before they arrived at his house. Duo got out to
gelp Heero but he insisted on getting out himself. He could see the neighbours watching him
carefully. His next door neighbour was a young woman of about 20 years old and she kept on
insisting that he was some private investigator of the OZ team. Heero didn't even bother
explaining to her who he really was. She would never believe him.
The girl ran to the house and looked very disappointed. The house was a plain, 2 storey
house and had no special decorations that Quatre had in his mansion.
Heero opened the door and waved goodbye to Duo casually. His neighbour eyed him
carefully and looked at him and the girl.
"What? Ever heard of baby sitting for a friend?" asked Heero angrily.
The woman gruffed and walked back into her house. Heero slammed the door beside him
and fell down on the first couch he saw.
"That's your room," said Heero pointing to a nice room on the left. "Don't bother me for
the next to hours ok? You can explore anywhere around the house except the basement. I don't
want you playing around with my guns. You might explode yourself with one of those…" Heero
looked at the petrified girl. He had scared her enough and he knew she wouldn't go there.
Linda nodded and ran out of sight to her room.
"Why don't you get changed!" screamed Heero as she ran past him. She smelled like a pig.
She turned around and came back crying.
"What happened?" asked Heero annoyingly.
"I don't have any other clothes," she sniffed looking at her raggy clothes.
Heero pulled out 50 dollars from his pocket and handed it to Linda. Her eyes widened in
amazement as she looked at the 50 dollars resting in her hands.
"Go buy yourself some clothes from that shop over there. Don't buy anything girlish or else
I will never give you money again. Got it?" said Heero.
She nodded with tears in her eyes. She was so happy! She could actually buy her own
clothes. She ran out the door thanking Heero.
"I guess I'll have to get her registered in my school… and buy her uniform. What a drag,"
though Heero as he switched the TV onto the news.
"The kids reported to have been in the alley way were not there and we suggest you do not
make prank calls like that again. We apologise for making a headline out of it. Thankyou," said
the reporter switching to the next subject.
Heero turned off the TV in bewilderment. If only they knew…