Jealousy II

Summary: The sequel to Jealousy. Brad is disappearing and missing important battles. So the group follows him one day to see what's going on.

Chapter 1: A Mystery

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Bit and Leena were walking towards the meeting room. Bit eating one of Leena's cookies with her permission of course. Now that they were going out, she let him do that. Since that they were going out Bit has been suffering less blows to the head than he had before. Leena hasn't seen much of Harry now although he does come in once in a while to try to get her back, to no avail.

The door opened and the couple walked in. Jamie was sitting reading a Zoids magazine waiting for everyone to show up. The Doc wasn't there yet either, nor Brad. The door opened behind Leena and Bit and made them jump. They turned and Doc was smiling behind them, glad that Leena and Bit were together. He walked past them and sat down. Leena and bit followed. Now they just had to wait for Brad. They waited ten minutes but to no result. Brad still wasn't there.

"Did he go out?" Bit asked biting into his large chocolate chip cookie.

"What would he go out for?" Leena asked breaking off a small piece and popping it into her mouth.

Jamie put the magazine down and looked at group. "We could just have the meeting and inform him later."

"Good idea Jamie." Doc said wit his happy-go-lucky attitude. Doc stood up, "Well team Harry has challenged us to a fight. He's offering five times the normal amount of prize money. So do we accept?"

"I'm sure Brad would want that." Bit said his mouth full of cookie.

"Yeah you know how much Brad likes money" Leena agreed also, with a cookie in her mouth.

"Aright! Jamie, you come up with another great battle plan and Bit I'll leave you to inform Brad when he returns." Doc said turning and leaving.

"You got it Doc!" Bit said gulping down the last of the cookie.

Later that day Bit was in the hanger getting the jeep out for his date with Leena. He heard foot steps. /Oh great here comes Harry to annoy me again./ Bit turned and was surprised to see Brad walk in. "Oh Hey Brad! Where were you today? We had a meeting! We're up against Harry's team tomorrow." Bit realized Brad's hair was trimmed a little and was straighter that it had been. His clothes were different from what he usually wore and his appearance all together seemed a little different.

Brad looked over to his friend when he heard his voice. "Okay thanks for the update." Brad turned and continued walking.

"Weirdo." Bit said to himself as he watched Brad walk inside. He walked past Leena and gave a nod of acknowledgement. Leena walked towards Bit wearing a black dress that was knee length, her hair was curled a little and she wore her favorite lip stick. It was Bit's favorite lipstick too. It didn't come off easy and stain his lips. Leena liked it for the color.

"What's up with Brad?" she said as she approached him still looking back at their mysterious friend.

"Who knows?" Bit said putting his arm around her shoulders. He opened the car door and helped her inside like a true gentlemen. He hopped inside also and they drove off into town.

Bit was taking Leena to another romantic dinner in a fancy restaurant. It was odd that Bit was able to afford such an expensive meal. But in all his travels he had made tons of friends and was able to get many connections to big organizations and small businesses. It turns out Bit was more than a junk dealer. He's had many jobs that helped different people. One of his mottos was to make friends, not enemies. Leena figured that was why he was even nice to that Backdraft when they challenged him. She liked this trait about him, even if he could be cocky sometimes.

When they arrived Bit helped Leena out of the car and they walked inside. Leena was holding Bit's arm. They were seated immediately and placed by a large window that over looked a garden. Although it was fairly dark out by now, they could still make out certain vegetations.

They didn't have to wait long before a waiter came to their table. He had the funny accent and the mustache that all those fancy waiters had. After placing their orders the waiter left and Bit and Leena were left alone. Leena seemed more quiet than usual.

"Is there something wrong?" Bit asked taking her hand.

"I'm just curious about what Brad has been up to. He's been acting weird lately. Leena said trying to figure out a reason.

"Yeah, I've noticed it too. I think he's up to something. Dunno what though." Bit said admiring Leena's frail hands.

Leena took back her hand and opened her purse. She pulled out a pad of paper and a pen. "Let's see what do thing he's up to? You don't think he's working for the Backdraft again do you?" Leena said almost too loud.

Bit shushed her and thought. "I don't think so I mean Brad wouldn't do that." Doubt suddenly engulfed him. "Would he?" Bit said leaning forward.

"Maybe, I dunno." Leena wrote it down. The gasped, "What if he's a drug dealer! You know how he loved money so much! Maybe he's selling drugs on the side. You know he doesn't care he makes his money."

Bit knew this had to be preposterous. He gave her a 'you've got to be kidding look.' Then he thought more. "You think?"

Leena put the pad of paper away as their food was brought to them. "Let's talk later."

The couple ate their meal when they had finished Bit paid the bill and they left for home. On the ride back they commented on their meal and how it could have been better or worse. They talked of other trivial things, but they didn't mention Brad. They waited for the other to mention it but they didn't. When they got back to the base, they changed into their casual clothes and met in the meeting room. How original.

Leena made sure the cost was clear and they pulled out the note pad again. Leena sat back against Bit's chest as he put his arm around her shoulders and went through the suspicions. "Okay so we have Drug dealer, Backdraft, what else?" Leena asked as she studied her notes.

"Maybe it's something personal." Bit said shrugging.

"But what?" Leena asked tapping her head with the pink pen.

"Dunno. Have you noticed how he changed his appearance a little?" Bit asked pointing out the small detail.

Leena realized bit was right. "Yeah your right. Why would he do that though? That doesn't seem like Brad." Leena said taking more notes.

/I bet she does well in school/ Bit thought to himself. "Maybe he's depressed or something. Or maybe he's going to change his appearance so much that not one will recognize him and he'll change him name!" Bit was joking about the last part, but Leena must have taken him seriously because she started taking more notes. Bit looked at the clock. It was Eleven thirty. "It's getting late. Why don't we take this up tomorrow." Bit said brushing some of Leena's bangs out of her face. She was concentrating a little too hard on her notes. Concentrating more so than bit could ever. He admired her intelligence.

Leena looked up at him and smiled. "Fine, you win." Bit walked Leena to her room. Once they were outside they stopped. "Thanks Bit, for tonight, it was nice." Leena said leaning up to give him a smack on the lips.

Bit smiled, "Sure thing." She leaned down and met her half way. He kissed her good night and waited until she was in her room and the door was closed before he left. He turned and saw Brad enter his room. Bit found that weird that brad was going to bed now. He usually stayed up very late. He thought maybe he ought to take notes, then thought about how much he hated taking notes and decided to just try and remember it for morning. Right now he was tired he walked into his room, jumped on the bed, put on his head phones, cranked the tunes up high and fell asleep.

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[AN This sequel was brought to you with an idea from Requim17. I hope you liked the first chapter. You can give thanks to Requim17. 