This is my first fic so be nice! Hope all ya'll enjoy the first chapter. Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the g-boys.
Authors note: I have some made up characters in this story but only one shows up in this chapter. After reading please review! It would really make me happy^^. And please tell me if I need to work on something. I really would appreciate it! Anyway here's chapter 1!
-Callie^^
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Chapter: 1
Duo was seated inside his gundam. A few drops of sweat ran down his face. A determined look was also on his face. "Damn there's too many of em." He whispered to himself as Deathscythe's scythe sliced through another Mobile doll. Deathscythe quickly jumped away from the now sliced mobile doll before it exploded, brought its scythe up and sliced through another one as it landed. Duo's hands where all sweaty and he was all battered up from being slung around like a rag doll. Duo looked at the camera screen and looked around. He was in some kind of muddy plain. Dust was everywhere and it was hard to see anything. A little bit of wind blew towards the east, taking the dust with it. "Some help..." Duo muttered as he continued to look around. "I guess I should sit here till one of em comes out." Duo said. "But I'm gonna be sooooo bored!" He sighed and sat back, letting his hands drop from the controls. "It's better than being caught off guard." After ten minutes of waiting, all the dust that had been stirred up had blown eastward. As the last bit of dust was blown away his radar went off immediately. Beep beep beep. Duo gasped at what he saw. He was surrounded. "Uggggggh I'm sooooo fucking stupid!" Duo exclaimed as he quickly grabbed the controls and pushed his gundam forward. Deathscythe jerked awake, lunged forward and was on top one of the doll before it knew what was going on. Deathscythe lifted up its scythe and sliced right through it. Suddenly the screen flashed red and the gundam was hit in the back by a couple of shots. Deathscythe went flying forwards and hit the ground with a loud thud. Duo was slung forward. "I'm done for." He thought as several shots hit the unmoving gundam, making some of the metal fly off of it and making it jerk upward from the impact. The firing suddenly came to a stop. "H-huh?" Duo said as he looked up at the computer screen. He took notice that his right camera was out and his left one was barely showing anything. The mobile dolls had their backs turned and where looking at something else but he couldn't tell what it was. "What the hell is causing all that dust to stir up?" he thought as he caught site of some dust rising into the air. "Hey you. Ya alright?" Someone said through the comlink. Duo let out a sigh of relief as he flipped the switch on to the comlink. "Yeah I'm fine now thanks to you." He said. "Can ya move your gundam?" Duo could barely hear the person through the static but he made out what the person was saying. He slowly sat up and grabbed the controls and pushed them forward, but to his luck Deathscythe was only able to turn around before it gave out. "Grea-ttttt." Duo muttered. He let his hands drop from the controls. "No it won't move anymore." He muttered. The person tried to say something but all Duo got was static. The only thing that worked was the camera and the cockpit was still able to open. He found that Deathscythe's scythe was also missing. "Well at least I can se..Is that a gundam?!" Duo exclaimed. "B-but how?" He wondered as he looked at the gundam as it flew towards the mobile dolls. The gundam had long white wings sporting from it's back, all of it's middle was painted silver while the rest was painted an icy blue. It had a green gem in its center, where the cockpit was. It had a silver shield attached to its right arm and held a saber in its left hand. The beam was green and the shield was shaped like a diamond. The shield's center was painted silver and the rest was painted a light blue. The gundam landed infront of one doll, quickly brought its saber up and sliced right threw it and pulled the saber out of the mobile doll and quickly jumped back as two shots hit the ground where the gundam had last been standing. It landed a few feet away and jumped at the mobile doll that had shot at it, raising its saber into the air. The doll fired its gun as the saber sliced through it. The gundam flew back, landing on its back. The gundam got up slowly and jumped to the side, dodging another shot. "Dammit come on work!" Duo said in rage as he pushed the controls forward several times before giving up. He let out a sigh and watched the gundam fight. "It's quick." He thought. The gundam's saber sliced through the last mobile doll. The gundam was barely damaged. It lowered its saber, de-activated it, and sheathed it before it turned in Duo's direction. Duo pressed the button to his right and the cockpit's door swung open. Duo un-buckled his shoulder straps and climbed out of Deathscythe slowly. The wind blew his braid towards the east, along with a lot of dust. Duo coughed a little. He heard the gundam approach him. After a few more seconds passed, the gundam was almost infront of him. It came to a stop and the cockpit to the gundam swung open and a girl stepped out of it. Duo blinked a couple of times just to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him. She brushed her bangs out of her eyes "Hey." she said as a smile appeared on her face. "You ok?" Duo nodded. She had short brown hair that was shoulder length. She had emerald green eyes and was wearing a light blue T-shirt that had Abercrombie written in white bold letters that formed into an upside down u across the front. It had a white dragon in the center and had the number 27 written below the dragon. Three Japanese letters that where written in red went down from the O and ended right besides the seven. Right besides the last letter where the letters AF. She wore faded out blue jeans and was wearing some white sneakers. "Thanks for the help." Duo said returning the smile. "So what's your name?" "Paige." she replied. "And what's yours?" "Duo." He said. "Duo Maxwell." Paige sighed. "Wish I could remember my last name anyways nice ta meet ya!" She said. "Nice to meet you too." Duo said, waving a little wondering why she couldn't remember her last name. "So uhhh you have a gundam too?" Duo asked. "Uh-huh sure do." Paige said, turning around to look at it. "Her names Ice Wing." "Ice Wing huh?" Duo thought. "Well this is Deathscythe." "Wow I can tell." Paige said as she turned around. "Stop talking so much!" Paige thought, giving herself a mental kick. "Looks like Deathscythe needs some repairs." "Yeah..." Duo said, rubbing the back of his head as he smiled innocently. "I kindda screwed up, but hell I couldn't see a damn thing!" Paige nodded. "I have a truck but it'll only hold one Gundam..." She said almost to herself. "Hey don't worry about me." Duo said. "Well...we did put on quite a show and I wouldn't be surprised if OZ sent in some dolls to check it out." "Right.." "Hey how about this I let you "borrow" the truck while I use my gundam." "Sounds good but I live in the city of Arits." Duo protested. "I live there too so there's no problem." After Paige went and got the truck they loaded the damaged gundam onto it, tying it down with some ropes. "That'll do." Paige said after tying the last bit of rope into a knot. Duo whipped some sweat from his face, leaving a streak of mud across his forehead. She looked over at him and laughed. "Here use this you look like you've been playing out there in the dust." She said tossing him a clean towel. Duo caught the towel and whipped his face. He looked down at the now dirty towel. "Hey you where right." Paige smiled and stood up, wiping her hands on her jeans. "Well everything's ready. We better get out of her right now just in case they do send more dolls out." Duo nodded, tossing the towel to the far side of the truck. Paige was already walking back to her gundam when Duo jumped out of the truck. She turned around and shouted. "Follow me okay?!" "Ok!" Duo yelled back as he turned around and walked to the driver's side of the truck, opened the door and hopped in, closing the door after he was buckled up. He started up the engine and waited for Paige's gundam to take off. After another minute had passed Ice Wing un-folded its wings and flapped them up and down, making it float higher in the air. It lifted up its wings once more but this time Ice Wing lurched forward and took off towards the south, flying right past Duo. Duo immediately pushed the gas pedal and took off after it at seventy-nine miles per hour. Dust flew out from behind the truck. Duo rolled the window down and put his elbow on the side of the truck. Some wind ruffled his hair. He could barely keep up with Paige's gundam. "She calls that slow??" Duo said, speeding up a little. The ride was a bumpy one and Duo hated it because of the bruises he'd earned when he had fought the mobile dolls. After an hour and thirty minutes of driving on a very bumpy road, Duo came to a screeching halt. A forest stood a couple of inches infront of the truck and on the other side of the forest was the city of Arits. "Whew what a ride." Duo said, letting out a huge sigh. Paige's gundam had disappeared somewhere into the forest. Dusk was settling in quickly. Duo watched as the sun set in the horizon.
After the sun had set night settled in, Paige walked out of the forest and over to the truck just to find Duo sleeping. Duo's arm was hanging out the truck window while the other one was laid on the steering wheel and served as a pillow for his head. She smiled. "He must be tired...but he's gonna have to drive about three miles to get back to the city." Paige took one of her hands and lightly shook Duo. "Hey sleepy head wakey wakey." Duo muttered something but Paige couldn't make out what he had said. She shook him a little harder. Duo's eyes suddenly snapped open and he sat up like a lighting bolt. Paige drew her hand back in surprise. Duo looked over at her, the surprised look on his face faded as soon as he saw her. "Where were you?" He asked. "Had to walk." Paige replied, walking to the passengers' side of the truck. "I assume you know your way around this forest?" She asked as she opened the door and hopped in. "Sure do." Paige scooted a little closer to Duo as she shut the door. Duo seemed to notice this. "S-so where's your gundam at?" Duo asked. "She's hidden somewhere in the forest silly and where taking Deathscyte to Howey's Hanger in the morning so I guess you can stay at my place till then." She answered. "Awww lemme guess I have to sleep on the couch?" Paige nodded "It changes into a bed so don't worry. Now lets get to town." She ordered. "Why don't you drive Paige?" "Because I can't drive through a forest without hitting something." She answered. Duo laughed at this and started the truck and drove off into the forest. They drove in silence. Paige had a lot on her mind. "He's cute....but why didn't Dr.Ennimite tell me about this pilot? Does he know about me and the others?" Paige sighed and brushed all the questions to the side, knowing that they'd only bring more un-answerable questions to her mind. She looked over at Duo and then looked out the window when he glanced over at her. Paige yawned and looked down at her wristwatch. It was 11:00 P.M. "Sleepy." She thought as she closed her eyes. Paige soon dozed off and fell onto Duo's shoulder when Duo turned a corner and drove onto a dirt road that lead into the city. "Poor girl." Duo thought. "She's been through a lot today all because of you and now you have to wake her up because you don't know where her apartment is!" Duo sighed and took one hand from the steering wheel and shook her. Paige came awake as soon as he touched her. "Huh? Oh sorry." she said when she figured out that she was leaning against Duo. "It's ok I just need to know where your apartment is." "Oh." Paige said through a yawn. "Go down Burkin Street and take a left at the first stop sign then drive into the first apartment building you see to your right.." "Gotcha." Duo said, knowing exactly where Burkins street was. "Oh here take this." Paige said, placing a key in his lap. "Your gonna...need it to get in and out of the apartment." She yawned again and went back to looking out the window. "Thanks." Duo said as he picked the key up and put it in his pocket. By the time he got to her apartment, parked the truck in the nearby woods and had taken the key out Paige was already asleep again. He shook his head and shook her. She opened her eyes "What...." she said as she climbed out of the truck and closed the door behind her. "Uhhh we're at your place." he muttered. A minuet later they walked out into the deserted parking lot of the Guish Apartment. He had read the sign when he had drove in. The apartment had five floors in all with ten rooms on each floor. It was made from wood and was painted white. There was no siding and a lot of the paint was peeling off. In the front was a porch with a swing and six rocking chairs with an ashtray or two. There where a couple of trees planted in the front but that was it. It was a decent place to live. Duo had looked at the key before he woke Paige up. She lived on the fifth floor and was in the tenth room. "Lucky her." He thought sarcastically. When they stepped into the lobby no one was there. Duo walked up to the elevator and pushed the up arrow several times. The button to the up arrow lit up and the metal doors opened. Duo stepped inside and pushed the fifth floor button after Paige had stepped in as well. With a lurch the elevator started up. When the elevator came to a stop and the metal doors opened he pressed the 3rd, 2nd, 4th then 5th buttons. "Just had to do that." He thought as he hurried out of the elevator to catch up with Paige, who was already at the end of the hall, waiting at her apartment door. "Taking your time?" She asked. "Yep..." Duo replied as she opened the door and stepped inside, taking the key out as she did so. He walked in behind her and closed the door. "Wow no wonder they only have ten rooms to each floor. This is really big!" Duo thought as he took in his surroundings. The room he was in looked to be the living room. Its walls where painted blue and the carpet was a creamy color. There was a door at the other end of the room. There wasn't much furniture in the room either. A couple of lamps. One set in the corner of the room and one by the door. A ceiling fan hung in the center of the room. By the window there was a table with a laptop and a bed lamp. The laptop reminded Duo of Heero. How he always was typing on one. In the center of the room was a white couch with a wooden coffee table set infront of it. A couple of blankets where folded on top of the couch. Across from the couch there was a ceader wood cabnit with a color TV on top of it. On one of its shelves was a VCR and some tapes. There where a couple of pictures hanging on the wall and two pictures set besides the lap top. Duo didn't bother looking at them. He was too tired "We need to get some sleep and when we wake up we can go to Howey's and get your gundam fixed and then I guess you can go back to your own place....." She said as she pushed the coffee table to the side. "Yeah...." Duo said thinking about what the guys would do if they found out a girl was piloting a Gundam. His first thought was Wufei. "A woman piloting a Gundam? What where the doctors thinking, letting a woman do a mans job. Injustice!" Duo shook his head and sighed. "What's wrong?" Paige asked curiously. "Nothing, just thinking.." he replied as Paige threw the blankets down on the pullout bed. "I guess your going to sleep in those." She said pointing at Duo's cloths. "Yeah I guess I have to." He said rubbing the back of his head. "Okay well anyway goodnight." Paige said as she opened the door and walked to her room. Duo walked over to the bed and laid down. He stared up at the ceiling and then sat back up. He liked Paige a lot. She was cool for a girl but what would the guys say? He shook his head and switched off the light and laid back down. The only light in the room now was the pale moonlight and a street lamp that shown through the curtained window. He closed his eyes and fell asleep immediately.
Paige didn't go to bed. Instead she changed into he PJ's. She wore a light blue T-shirt and some silk pants that where purple and had Japanese letters all over them. She walked out onto the small balcony and walked over to the railings. She placed her elbows on the railing and looked up at the moon and the stars. Duo reminded her of Callie. She hadn't seen her in a long time though. She sighed and wondered what the girls would say if they found out. "They'd probably yell at me." she said, looking at the road as a truck like the one Duo and Paige had ridden in drove into the parking lot. On the green tarp there was an OZ symbol printed on either side. The truck turned the corner that lead into the back lot. "What are they doing here?!" She thought as she heard the truck doors open and close. She waited for five minuets when she heard some OZ troop break the silence. "We didn't find a truck out here....not even a gundam." Another OZ solider spoke. " I don't think another troop would lie to us! They say they saw a brown-headed boy driving a truck into this parking lot! He was nearly hanging out the window." Paige nearly fell over as she thought. "Shit...I didn't tell him to take the back roads...uhhh stupid stupid stupid!" She sighed, shook her head and said. "Guess it goes to show you how dumb you can be when you're tired." She had done this a couple of times herself. Like deleting her report for the doctors and leaving the hood up on the truck on a rainy day. "We'll come back tomorrow and search...any questions?" the person who spoke sounded like the commander. "Good now lets go." "Sir!" Two people said at once. But for some reason Paige didn't hear the truck start up. "Hm...." She said. Suddenly someone was banging on the door and someone said. "Hey you answer!" As soon as the person had said this she rushed to the door, opening it as Duo sat up. " Hello miss I wanted to know why you where up so late...we saw you standing on the balcony." He said. "Because I felt like it...got a problem?" She thought as she said. "I couldn't sleep." The OZ troop nodded and asked. "Is there anyone else in there?" "This guy is obviously new....." She thought. "Can't my boyfriend come over and sleep with me?" She asked, arching a brow. He could tell that she was getting somewhat pissed. "Sorry miss." He said as Duo walked up to the door and looked at the guy. Paige smiled and thought. "Well here goes my little act.." She wrapped her arms around Duo's waist and said. "Now if you'll excuse us." She pulled Duo back in, closed the door with her foot and let go of Duo. Duo was turning red. "Whew that was close." Paige said as she sighed. "Y-yeah." Duo said, stuttering a little. " Well looks like we won't be going to Howey's anytime soon....." She said, dropping her voice to a whisper. Duo nodded and said, dropping his voice to a whisper too. "What was that all about?" "I had to put on an act silly." She replied. "Yeah well your pretty good at it." "Thanks..." She said looking at him. "Well we better get some sleep....." She said, stretching. "Yeah.." Duo said as he thought about this "acting" thing. "Well goodnight..." Paige said as she opened the door that lead to her room and stepped in and closed it behind her. She walked to her room, laid down on the bed and heard the truck drive off. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Sooooo how'd ya like the first chapter? Hope you enjoyed it. Please take the time to review if you liked it because if you don't I won't post the next chapter up if I don't get enough reviews. Well cya!
-Callie
Authors note: I have some made up characters in this story but only one shows up in this chapter. After reading please review! It would really make me happy^^. And please tell me if I need to work on something. I really would appreciate it! Anyway here's chapter 1!
-Callie^^
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Chapter: 1
Duo was seated inside his gundam. A few drops of sweat ran down his face. A determined look was also on his face. "Damn there's too many of em." He whispered to himself as Deathscythe's scythe sliced through another Mobile doll. Deathscythe quickly jumped away from the now sliced mobile doll before it exploded, brought its scythe up and sliced through another one as it landed. Duo's hands where all sweaty and he was all battered up from being slung around like a rag doll. Duo looked at the camera screen and looked around. He was in some kind of muddy plain. Dust was everywhere and it was hard to see anything. A little bit of wind blew towards the east, taking the dust with it. "Some help..." Duo muttered as he continued to look around. "I guess I should sit here till one of em comes out." Duo said. "But I'm gonna be sooooo bored!" He sighed and sat back, letting his hands drop from the controls. "It's better than being caught off guard." After ten minutes of waiting, all the dust that had been stirred up had blown eastward. As the last bit of dust was blown away his radar went off immediately. Beep beep beep. Duo gasped at what he saw. He was surrounded. "Uggggggh I'm sooooo fucking stupid!" Duo exclaimed as he quickly grabbed the controls and pushed his gundam forward. Deathscythe jerked awake, lunged forward and was on top one of the doll before it knew what was going on. Deathscythe lifted up its scythe and sliced right through it. Suddenly the screen flashed red and the gundam was hit in the back by a couple of shots. Deathscythe went flying forwards and hit the ground with a loud thud. Duo was slung forward. "I'm done for." He thought as several shots hit the unmoving gundam, making some of the metal fly off of it and making it jerk upward from the impact. The firing suddenly came to a stop. "H-huh?" Duo said as he looked up at the computer screen. He took notice that his right camera was out and his left one was barely showing anything. The mobile dolls had their backs turned and where looking at something else but he couldn't tell what it was. "What the hell is causing all that dust to stir up?" he thought as he caught site of some dust rising into the air. "Hey you. Ya alright?" Someone said through the comlink. Duo let out a sigh of relief as he flipped the switch on to the comlink. "Yeah I'm fine now thanks to you." He said. "Can ya move your gundam?" Duo could barely hear the person through the static but he made out what the person was saying. He slowly sat up and grabbed the controls and pushed them forward, but to his luck Deathscythe was only able to turn around before it gave out. "Grea-ttttt." Duo muttered. He let his hands drop from the controls. "No it won't move anymore." He muttered. The person tried to say something but all Duo got was static. The only thing that worked was the camera and the cockpit was still able to open. He found that Deathscythe's scythe was also missing. "Well at least I can se..Is that a gundam?!" Duo exclaimed. "B-but how?" He wondered as he looked at the gundam as it flew towards the mobile dolls. The gundam had long white wings sporting from it's back, all of it's middle was painted silver while the rest was painted an icy blue. It had a green gem in its center, where the cockpit was. It had a silver shield attached to its right arm and held a saber in its left hand. The beam was green and the shield was shaped like a diamond. The shield's center was painted silver and the rest was painted a light blue. The gundam landed infront of one doll, quickly brought its saber up and sliced right threw it and pulled the saber out of the mobile doll and quickly jumped back as two shots hit the ground where the gundam had last been standing. It landed a few feet away and jumped at the mobile doll that had shot at it, raising its saber into the air. The doll fired its gun as the saber sliced through it. The gundam flew back, landing on its back. The gundam got up slowly and jumped to the side, dodging another shot. "Dammit come on work!" Duo said in rage as he pushed the controls forward several times before giving up. He let out a sigh and watched the gundam fight. "It's quick." He thought. The gundam's saber sliced through the last mobile doll. The gundam was barely damaged. It lowered its saber, de-activated it, and sheathed it before it turned in Duo's direction. Duo pressed the button to his right and the cockpit's door swung open. Duo un-buckled his shoulder straps and climbed out of Deathscythe slowly. The wind blew his braid towards the east, along with a lot of dust. Duo coughed a little. He heard the gundam approach him. After a few more seconds passed, the gundam was almost infront of him. It came to a stop and the cockpit to the gundam swung open and a girl stepped out of it. Duo blinked a couple of times just to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him. She brushed her bangs out of her eyes "Hey." she said as a smile appeared on her face. "You ok?" Duo nodded. She had short brown hair that was shoulder length. She had emerald green eyes and was wearing a light blue T-shirt that had Abercrombie written in white bold letters that formed into an upside down u across the front. It had a white dragon in the center and had the number 27 written below the dragon. Three Japanese letters that where written in red went down from the O and ended right besides the seven. Right besides the last letter where the letters AF. She wore faded out blue jeans and was wearing some white sneakers. "Thanks for the help." Duo said returning the smile. "So what's your name?" "Paige." she replied. "And what's yours?" "Duo." He said. "Duo Maxwell." Paige sighed. "Wish I could remember my last name anyways nice ta meet ya!" She said. "Nice to meet you too." Duo said, waving a little wondering why she couldn't remember her last name. "So uhhh you have a gundam too?" Duo asked. "Uh-huh sure do." Paige said, turning around to look at it. "Her names Ice Wing." "Ice Wing huh?" Duo thought. "Well this is Deathscythe." "Wow I can tell." Paige said as she turned around. "Stop talking so much!" Paige thought, giving herself a mental kick. "Looks like Deathscythe needs some repairs." "Yeah..." Duo said, rubbing the back of his head as he smiled innocently. "I kindda screwed up, but hell I couldn't see a damn thing!" Paige nodded. "I have a truck but it'll only hold one Gundam..." She said almost to herself. "Hey don't worry about me." Duo said. "Well...we did put on quite a show and I wouldn't be surprised if OZ sent in some dolls to check it out." "Right.." "Hey how about this I let you "borrow" the truck while I use my gundam." "Sounds good but I live in the city of Arits." Duo protested. "I live there too so there's no problem." After Paige went and got the truck they loaded the damaged gundam onto it, tying it down with some ropes. "That'll do." Paige said after tying the last bit of rope into a knot. Duo whipped some sweat from his face, leaving a streak of mud across his forehead. She looked over at him and laughed. "Here use this you look like you've been playing out there in the dust." She said tossing him a clean towel. Duo caught the towel and whipped his face. He looked down at the now dirty towel. "Hey you where right." Paige smiled and stood up, wiping her hands on her jeans. "Well everything's ready. We better get out of her right now just in case they do send more dolls out." Duo nodded, tossing the towel to the far side of the truck. Paige was already walking back to her gundam when Duo jumped out of the truck. She turned around and shouted. "Follow me okay?!" "Ok!" Duo yelled back as he turned around and walked to the driver's side of the truck, opened the door and hopped in, closing the door after he was buckled up. He started up the engine and waited for Paige's gundam to take off. After another minute had passed Ice Wing un-folded its wings and flapped them up and down, making it float higher in the air. It lifted up its wings once more but this time Ice Wing lurched forward and took off towards the south, flying right past Duo. Duo immediately pushed the gas pedal and took off after it at seventy-nine miles per hour. Dust flew out from behind the truck. Duo rolled the window down and put his elbow on the side of the truck. Some wind ruffled his hair. He could barely keep up with Paige's gundam. "She calls that slow??" Duo said, speeding up a little. The ride was a bumpy one and Duo hated it because of the bruises he'd earned when he had fought the mobile dolls. After an hour and thirty minutes of driving on a very bumpy road, Duo came to a screeching halt. A forest stood a couple of inches infront of the truck and on the other side of the forest was the city of Arits. "Whew what a ride." Duo said, letting out a huge sigh. Paige's gundam had disappeared somewhere into the forest. Dusk was settling in quickly. Duo watched as the sun set in the horizon.
After the sun had set night settled in, Paige walked out of the forest and over to the truck just to find Duo sleeping. Duo's arm was hanging out the truck window while the other one was laid on the steering wheel and served as a pillow for his head. She smiled. "He must be tired...but he's gonna have to drive about three miles to get back to the city." Paige took one of her hands and lightly shook Duo. "Hey sleepy head wakey wakey." Duo muttered something but Paige couldn't make out what he had said. She shook him a little harder. Duo's eyes suddenly snapped open and he sat up like a lighting bolt. Paige drew her hand back in surprise. Duo looked over at her, the surprised look on his face faded as soon as he saw her. "Where were you?" He asked. "Had to walk." Paige replied, walking to the passengers' side of the truck. "I assume you know your way around this forest?" She asked as she opened the door and hopped in. "Sure do." Paige scooted a little closer to Duo as she shut the door. Duo seemed to notice this. "S-so where's your gundam at?" Duo asked. "She's hidden somewhere in the forest silly and where taking Deathscyte to Howey's Hanger in the morning so I guess you can stay at my place till then." She answered. "Awww lemme guess I have to sleep on the couch?" Paige nodded "It changes into a bed so don't worry. Now lets get to town." She ordered. "Why don't you drive Paige?" "Because I can't drive through a forest without hitting something." She answered. Duo laughed at this and started the truck and drove off into the forest. They drove in silence. Paige had a lot on her mind. "He's cute....but why didn't Dr.Ennimite tell me about this pilot? Does he know about me and the others?" Paige sighed and brushed all the questions to the side, knowing that they'd only bring more un-answerable questions to her mind. She looked over at Duo and then looked out the window when he glanced over at her. Paige yawned and looked down at her wristwatch. It was 11:00 P.M. "Sleepy." She thought as she closed her eyes. Paige soon dozed off and fell onto Duo's shoulder when Duo turned a corner and drove onto a dirt road that lead into the city. "Poor girl." Duo thought. "She's been through a lot today all because of you and now you have to wake her up because you don't know where her apartment is!" Duo sighed and took one hand from the steering wheel and shook her. Paige came awake as soon as he touched her. "Huh? Oh sorry." she said when she figured out that she was leaning against Duo. "It's ok I just need to know where your apartment is." "Oh." Paige said through a yawn. "Go down Burkin Street and take a left at the first stop sign then drive into the first apartment building you see to your right.." "Gotcha." Duo said, knowing exactly where Burkins street was. "Oh here take this." Paige said, placing a key in his lap. "Your gonna...need it to get in and out of the apartment." She yawned again and went back to looking out the window. "Thanks." Duo said as he picked the key up and put it in his pocket. By the time he got to her apartment, parked the truck in the nearby woods and had taken the key out Paige was already asleep again. He shook his head and shook her. She opened her eyes "What...." she said as she climbed out of the truck and closed the door behind her. "Uhhh we're at your place." he muttered. A minuet later they walked out into the deserted parking lot of the Guish Apartment. He had read the sign when he had drove in. The apartment had five floors in all with ten rooms on each floor. It was made from wood and was painted white. There was no siding and a lot of the paint was peeling off. In the front was a porch with a swing and six rocking chairs with an ashtray or two. There where a couple of trees planted in the front but that was it. It was a decent place to live. Duo had looked at the key before he woke Paige up. She lived on the fifth floor and was in the tenth room. "Lucky her." He thought sarcastically. When they stepped into the lobby no one was there. Duo walked up to the elevator and pushed the up arrow several times. The button to the up arrow lit up and the metal doors opened. Duo stepped inside and pushed the fifth floor button after Paige had stepped in as well. With a lurch the elevator started up. When the elevator came to a stop and the metal doors opened he pressed the 3rd, 2nd, 4th then 5th buttons. "Just had to do that." He thought as he hurried out of the elevator to catch up with Paige, who was already at the end of the hall, waiting at her apartment door. "Taking your time?" She asked. "Yep..." Duo replied as she opened the door and stepped inside, taking the key out as she did so. He walked in behind her and closed the door. "Wow no wonder they only have ten rooms to each floor. This is really big!" Duo thought as he took in his surroundings. The room he was in looked to be the living room. Its walls where painted blue and the carpet was a creamy color. There was a door at the other end of the room. There wasn't much furniture in the room either. A couple of lamps. One set in the corner of the room and one by the door. A ceiling fan hung in the center of the room. By the window there was a table with a laptop and a bed lamp. The laptop reminded Duo of Heero. How he always was typing on one. In the center of the room was a white couch with a wooden coffee table set infront of it. A couple of blankets where folded on top of the couch. Across from the couch there was a ceader wood cabnit with a color TV on top of it. On one of its shelves was a VCR and some tapes. There where a couple of pictures hanging on the wall and two pictures set besides the lap top. Duo didn't bother looking at them. He was too tired "We need to get some sleep and when we wake up we can go to Howey's and get your gundam fixed and then I guess you can go back to your own place....." She said as she pushed the coffee table to the side. "Yeah...." Duo said thinking about what the guys would do if they found out a girl was piloting a Gundam. His first thought was Wufei. "A woman piloting a Gundam? What where the doctors thinking, letting a woman do a mans job. Injustice!" Duo shook his head and sighed. "What's wrong?" Paige asked curiously. "Nothing, just thinking.." he replied as Paige threw the blankets down on the pullout bed. "I guess your going to sleep in those." She said pointing at Duo's cloths. "Yeah I guess I have to." He said rubbing the back of his head. "Okay well anyway goodnight." Paige said as she opened the door and walked to her room. Duo walked over to the bed and laid down. He stared up at the ceiling and then sat back up. He liked Paige a lot. She was cool for a girl but what would the guys say? He shook his head and switched off the light and laid back down. The only light in the room now was the pale moonlight and a street lamp that shown through the curtained window. He closed his eyes and fell asleep immediately.
Paige didn't go to bed. Instead she changed into he PJ's. She wore a light blue T-shirt and some silk pants that where purple and had Japanese letters all over them. She walked out onto the small balcony and walked over to the railings. She placed her elbows on the railing and looked up at the moon and the stars. Duo reminded her of Callie. She hadn't seen her in a long time though. She sighed and wondered what the girls would say if they found out. "They'd probably yell at me." she said, looking at the road as a truck like the one Duo and Paige had ridden in drove into the parking lot. On the green tarp there was an OZ symbol printed on either side. The truck turned the corner that lead into the back lot. "What are they doing here?!" She thought as she heard the truck doors open and close. She waited for five minuets when she heard some OZ troop break the silence. "We didn't find a truck out here....not even a gundam." Another OZ solider spoke. " I don't think another troop would lie to us! They say they saw a brown-headed boy driving a truck into this parking lot! He was nearly hanging out the window." Paige nearly fell over as she thought. "Shit...I didn't tell him to take the back roads...uhhh stupid stupid stupid!" She sighed, shook her head and said. "Guess it goes to show you how dumb you can be when you're tired." She had done this a couple of times herself. Like deleting her report for the doctors and leaving the hood up on the truck on a rainy day. "We'll come back tomorrow and search...any questions?" the person who spoke sounded like the commander. "Good now lets go." "Sir!" Two people said at once. But for some reason Paige didn't hear the truck start up. "Hm...." She said. Suddenly someone was banging on the door and someone said. "Hey you answer!" As soon as the person had said this she rushed to the door, opening it as Duo sat up. " Hello miss I wanted to know why you where up so late...we saw you standing on the balcony." He said. "Because I felt like it...got a problem?" She thought as she said. "I couldn't sleep." The OZ troop nodded and asked. "Is there anyone else in there?" "This guy is obviously new....." She thought. "Can't my boyfriend come over and sleep with me?" She asked, arching a brow. He could tell that she was getting somewhat pissed. "Sorry miss." He said as Duo walked up to the door and looked at the guy. Paige smiled and thought. "Well here goes my little act.." She wrapped her arms around Duo's waist and said. "Now if you'll excuse us." She pulled Duo back in, closed the door with her foot and let go of Duo. Duo was turning red. "Whew that was close." Paige said as she sighed. "Y-yeah." Duo said, stuttering a little. " Well looks like we won't be going to Howey's anytime soon....." She said, dropping her voice to a whisper. Duo nodded and said, dropping his voice to a whisper too. "What was that all about?" "I had to put on an act silly." She replied. "Yeah well your pretty good at it." "Thanks..." She said looking at him. "Well we better get some sleep....." She said, stretching. "Yeah.." Duo said as he thought about this "acting" thing. "Well goodnight..." Paige said as she opened the door that lead to her room and stepped in and closed it behind her. She walked to her room, laid down on the bed and heard the truck drive off. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Sooooo how'd ya like the first chapter? Hope you enjoyed it. Please take the time to review if you liked it because if you don't I won't post the next chapter up if I don't get enough reviews. Well cya!
-Callie