Title: Together Forever

Subject: Romance

Pairings: Donna & Alex

Ratings: PG-13

Author's Notes: I… (sighs…) absolutely don't own Totally Spies so please don't sue me, I really wish that I do but I know I don't. This is just something I thought what might've happened after Alex and Donna had their first encounter when Donna almost killed (I mean in a punchin' kinda way) her because of some incidents.

Chapter 1: Angel in Disguise

PE Class 8:30 am

"Next!" their Gym Teacher shouted as he records the time of the previous student who went through the obstacles and hurdles, he sighed sadly as he looked at half the class's marks.

"Oh Come on girls! These marks are so pathetic please at least make it shorten to three minutes." He said half-heartedly as he looked at the next name on the list.

"Haven't I said next! Donna! You lazy brat go!" he yelled angrily as a short red head stood up from the class' group and walked towards the starting line quite confidently then smirked at their teacher.

"You really wanna shorten it to at least 3 minutes? If you'd stop calling me a lazy brat then I might make it in a minute." She bragged as her classmates whistled and cheered her for her frankness. Meanwhile on the other side of the gym, Alex, Clover and Sam is currently resting after their gymnastics lesson and is (as usual) talking about shopping and boys (especially Clover).

"And so as I was saying girls, there's a great sale in the mall later so what do you say?" Clover whispered as Sam and Alex just smiled at her. Then Clover's eyes moved towards Donna's class as they heard the loud cheering and commotion.

"Hey, what's going on there? And isn't that Donna? Alex?" she said pointed curiously as Alex' eyes quickly shifted to Donna's direction.

"If you two are so curious about what's happening there we might as well go over there and watched what they're doing, it's our break after all." Sam simply stood up and notion the two to follow her.

"SO, have we made a deal sir?" Donna jokingly grinned as the furious teacher fumed and cursed then smirked. The trio finally reached their class and asked one of the girls of what's going on.

"Donna challenged the strict Mr. Geysler in going through the obstacles in one minute. If she'd done that he'd have to stop being strict on her. No one has ever done that to him before." She said excitedly as the rest of the class continued to watch Donna.

"No wonder…" Clover said under her breath as Alex felt her heart beating a little too fast as she thought of Donna.

She don't know why but she's pretty sure she don't want Donna to be in trouble, even though she don't know why she even cared when Donna was the one who almost tried to beat her up, the hot headed girl whom she always made angry on some occasions because of her clumsiness. Like when she damaged Donna's favorite motorcycle, or when she accidentally made Donna's motorcycling suit dirty in front of the whole school. And she is the first one who survived after Donna said she'll be beating you.

"I'm waiting…" Donna said impatiently as Geysler grinned evilly.

"Sure, I'll respect you and will keep my word but, you'll have to quit school." He challengingly remarked as the people around them gasped. Donna just grimaced and looked around her surroundings, then she saw Sam, Clover and… Alex. She grinned and waved at them and concentrated on the obstacles. Then she turned to Geysler….

"Start it. If you dare." She said annoyingly as Geysler looked at his stop watch then gave his signal.

Donna took off quite amazingly; she jumped over the hurdles and avoided the obstacles as if it was nothing. She went through the others like it were just cinches and they watched in amazement at how fast Donna is.

"Heh, that brat have no chance now she only have 20 seconds left and the last obstacle is the three consecutive vaulting horse. Then she'll still have to run back here." He laughed; they all looked at him hatefully as they turned their head to Donna worriedly as they continued to watch.

"Yeah! And so what?" she exclaimed as she executed a power jump over the last obstacles quickly and ran towards them.

"7, 6, 5, 4, 3…" he stupidly counted expecting her to fail but, his jaws dropped as Donna stopped abruptly in front of him and grinned at him.

"So, how about stopping that stupid name calling old man, after all…" she turned and pointed her right thumb to the obstacles,

"… I've done my part of the deal," she said coolly and turned around as she greeted the cheering crowd, amongst them is the trio.

After the crowd clamed down a bit she finally had a chance to talk to them.

Donna walked towards them in such a cool manner someone would think she's a boy. And also her eye contact with Alex is so impossible to break; in fact Clover is currently waving her hand in front of Alex's eyes.

"Hiyah, long time no see." She smiled as she looked at Alex. Alex blushed a bit as Clover raised an eyebrow.

"She's not the only person around here you know." She coldly remarked as Sam pinch her.

"Sorry about that, she just don't want being left out and all you know. If you forgot, we're Alex's friends, I'm Sam and she's…" Donna reached her hand towards Clover who shook it lightly.

"I'm Clover, sorry about that," she said as Donna just shook her head.

"Nah, it's alright, so Alex," she turned to Alex and walked a little bit closer to her and whispered to her ear.

"Can we talk for a minute outside…? 'Privately'," Alex nodded and explained it to the girls.

"I'll just be out for a minute, guys, just wait for me in the cafeteria ok?" she promised as they smiled in agreement while Alex walked out the gym door.

Behind the Gymnasium 8:57 am

Donna was waiting for her while leaning on the wall and wiping her sweat, Alex blushed lightly as she watched Donna's sweat glittered as the sun's rays go through them. Then Donna noticed her and greeted her invitingly.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" she asked as Donna's rough attitude is suddenly replaced by a shy cute look, then a faint blush showed on Donna's face for the first time Alex seen since she met her.

"Look, about the incidents last week, I really didn't want to fight you because you looked so frail but because my head was hot last week. I poured my anger on your clumsiness, really sorry about the threats and stuff." She said shyly as her blush deepened while Alex also begun to blush as she watched the Donna she never knew before.

"It's just alright, so you really don't need to apologize to me, besides, I'm just another unpopular girl in this school anyway…" she said as Donna's eyebrow rose a bit.

"What do you mean 'unpopular'? Don't you think your friends are popular, I always hear about them around the campus, aren't they your friends? Aren't people like them, helps others like you to be popular?"

"NO, not really, they haven't noticed it yet, actually they're the only friends I had in this school… so whenever I won't see them I'll just be another loner and freak." She sadly sighed as Donna looked at her pitifully then she mustered enough courage to raise her hand and touched Alex's soft face then she blushed as she felt it burn on her palms. Alex looked at her questioningly and used the other hand to stop Alex from saying anything by putting her finger on top of the latter's lips.

"Stop it Alex, If you're alone, make new friends, because… I assure you that you'd just be lonely and miserable, what if there came a time when they're not there for you, you should meet more people. It's for your own good. And first you're not a freak ok? Remember that. I think you're great and don't have second thoughts about meeting people, go right ahead and be socially brave not just when someone stupid like me just suddenly picked a fight with you." She smiled kindly as Alex felt her cheeks burning furiously again. Donna looked at her watched and cursed, and then she sighed sadly as she took Alex's hand.

"Sorry Alex, I've gotta go now, I'm gonna be late for my class after lunch and I also need to hit the showers, I stunk, so see you later then." She said as she let go of her hand and ran off.

Alex stared at the wall for a bit and smiled. Is that really the Donna who tried to kill me in front of the whole school? The tomboyish girl whom I always get into incidents because of my clumsiness; she thought as she touched the part of her face where Donna touched it. Her touch is so gentle and soft, at first I thought that everything she'd touch would crumble to pieces. She must have been the first person in the whole school who has been nice to me since Sam and Clover, and what is the concern I felt in her voice? Is it … No she can't possibly have a crush on me, not only that we're totally different, we're both girls. She made a false laugh and walked towards the locker room to change and went to the cafeteria afterwards.

Cafeteria 9:08

Alex looked around the canteen for her friends' faces and saw them at a table. A cute jock passed by their table and winked at Clover, while Clover sighed as she followed the Jock with her eyes lovingly; Sam just smiled and watched her friend drool over the guy. Then she noticed Alex and waved at her.

"Alex we're over here!" she grins as Alex walked over to them.

"So, was Clover attacked by a Jock wink again?" she jokingly asked as Sam grinned again.

"Yup, and anyways, what did Donna and you talked about? It seems very suspicious, isn't she the one who you know, wanted to break your neck?" she whispered as Alex quickly shook her head.

"NO! In fact I was also surprised; Donna has actually been nice to me. I never thought someone like her could be that kind, gentle, sweet, caring…" she started as she blushed a bit and dreamily looked at the other side of the cafeteria. Sam raised her eyebrow and wondered why Alex is acting like Clover when she's thinking of a cute guy. But she shook it off thinking that Alex having a crush on a girl is rather impossible since Alex acts like a straight.

When Clover finally got over with the wink, they continued to their class and talked about more stuffs such as malls, and guys when they all fell under the floor and entered a bumpy slide going under the ground.

They yelled frantically while they slid down the pipe and cursed it when they finally got out the slide.

"JERRY!" they all shouted as they saw the old bald guy with a gray mustache.

"Like the new slide girls?" he asked jokingly as they straightened up and dust off the little dirt off their clothes.

"No but let's get to the point Jerry, what's the new mission?" Sam asked intriguingly as the two nodded in agreement.

Jerry's WHOOP underground office 9:35

"Girls your new mission is to capture a currently suspect in robbing the multi-million worth laser cannon from the National Undercover Research Laboratory or NURL. That laser cannon is a very effective war weapon that was just currently finished by NURL last week after 8 long years." He seriously commented as he turned to his computer and showed the girls the current data on the laser cannon. The girls looked over interestedly.

"The laser cannon or rather called Project 109, has been developed by WHOOP to stop a war just in case it does happened, but after what happened, this creation is more likely to start it than to stop it." He continued but paused as Clover raised her hand to question him.

"But it's just been finished? So if it's only one how could it be such a threat? The files on how to produce it is still in the NURL… right?"

"But what if the robber is clever enough to break it down and see how it works just like a young child disassembling its toy to pieces to see how it works and make another one to use?" he replied and finally turned to them… they never saw Jerry this serious before.

"And what if this person tried to make a mass production of the Laser Cannon and sell it in the black market to the world leaders who want to have control in nearby countries? To stop a Global war, we should catch the culprit and return the project 109. So you'll need more advance equipments girls." He then explained their new equipments and after that the girls proceed to change into their WHOOP uniforms.

"Wow, this must be some serious assignment girls, seeing Jerry like that and that tone of his voice." Clover said as she zipped up her uniform.

"Yeah, I wonder who'd be on the vent of obsession to destroy the world that he/she stole the 109. That person must be very intelligent and desperate if he's able to get pass the tight security of WHOOP and NURL all together making it look like it's just a cinch." Alex wonderingly replied. But Sam have other things on her mind as the two talked about the situation.

"Girls, why is it that Jerry didn't told us who did it? And he said suspect right? Does that meant that the person we're gonna be after might not be the real one who stole it and this might be a set up to get that person in trouble?" Sam whispered as the two nodded and understood what she meant. Not only that they didn't knew who did this. But the person they might be targeting is the wrong one.

"Well we'll just have to wait who the suspect is." Alex said as she walked in front of the door.

"Yeah, I suppose Alex got a point, let's just focus on how he did it and where he's hiding." Clover got up and followed Alex and Sam walk out the door.

They returned to Jerry's office as Jerry stood up with his jaws off his face as he read the computer monitor.

Sir they had reported that another item in NURL has been stolen and it seems that it's the twin engine of project 109. THE information told us. That it's the project 160 that is designed to double the effect of project 109, when the two has been combined. They still hasn't confirmed who did it but a special request had been made to call the WHOOP spies to action.

"Jerry, we're going!" was all that they said as they ran through the door to the special WHOOP jet they usually use to these kinds of situations.

On their way to the NURL headquarters Alex received a special report from the NURL on her monitor.

WHOOP:

NURL has been already robbed and the robber had gotten away again but thanks to one of the special guards he had been able to attach a transmitter on the robber's motorbike, the robber is currently holding the project 160 in a red packaging box. The transmitter had been able to track down and it showed that the rider is heading eastwards towards the sea, in fact it's in the nearest road in the seaside at the side of the mountain in fact near the cliffs, and we will send you the tracking system of the transmitter.

They all looked at the monitor…

"Hey Sam, what's our current location?" Clover asked as she sat back on the driver's seat. Sam looked at their navigational system and replied.

"We're 54 degrees to the east and 5 miles to the road the robber is currently on." She paused for a bit and calculated how fast the transmitter is going and their vehicle's speed to where they'd be able to meet somewhere on the road "So, we'll be able to catch up with it in 10 minutes, to catch it's rider, we should take the car in the back." Clover just nodded and smiled as she stomped on the gas pedal. After about 5 minutes they landed on a tree crowded area near the road and got on the special pink convertible Jerry gave them.

"Hey that's strange, the transmitter stopped for a sec and moved again but this time it's a bit slower." Sam observed as Clover just grinned.

"He must have thought that no one would be able to track him down so he let his guard down for a bit. Then it'll be a great chance for us to surprise him in the back." Sam and Alex smiled at her. They know just how much Clover loved chases.

"Hey its' signal is getting clearer! We must be very close!" Alex excitedly said as Clover turned sharply at the corner and they finally saw the rider and his motorbike.

"There he is!" Sam shouted a bit as they can't almost hear each other because Clover is going a little bit too fast.

"Alex, when I got the chance to catch up with it you jump up on him and get the red package ok? Then be sure to land safely after you capture him and retrieve the box." Clover reminded as Alex readied her new type of zipline bracelet that is much more advance and tougher than the previous one. Then at the next corner Clover finally did caught up with it. Sam gave her a thumb up as Alex smiled and breathed deeply as she prepared to jump.

"Alex when I said jump you jump… one two three JUMP!" Clover yelled as she swerved the car to the motorbike as Alex jumped and flowed with Clover's timing and successfully landed on the rider's bike

"Hey you stop this bike right now!" Alex barked as she tried to grasp the box from the rider. She was so serious that she just ignored the questioning look the rider gave her behind the helmet's glass. But as they neared another sharp corner Alex accidentally nudged the rider's arm so he lost his control as he tried to catch the box which almost flew off. But…the corner that's just meters from them …

"ALEX! NOOO!" Sam and Clover yelled as the motorbike slammed on the metal near the cliff and its current passengers literally flew over and sank towards the cliff.

Alex yelled but she still managed to get the box as they fall… she closed her eyes thinking she'd die… but an arm suddenly embraced her tightly as she fall…

She opened her eyes and was surprised by what she saw… the helmet wearing rider which they were following is… protecting her from the fall even if he'd be damaged more than her… the helmet the rider is wearing had been broken in the glassy part which revealed the reddish-brown eyes that seems so familiar to her… these weren't the kind of eyes that her enemies would usually have… these eyes would only be from one person and that would be…

"Alex… put this on quick… I'll break your fall don't worry about me…" the rider said as he took off the helmet and pushed it on Alex… then …

"Donna…?" was all that Alex muttered as Donna embraced her protectively then seconds later they fell onto the birch trees around the cliff and finally to the grass covered ground…

After some time Alex woke up and she found herself underneath Donna's now injured arm which she used to protect Alex from their fall without second thoughts of saving her. As soon as she realized what just happened she quickly stood up and looked at Donnas' blood covered body. She panicked and checked if Donna is still alive she sighed relief as Donna breathed but it's barely she tried to cover up Donna's blooded wounds with torn pieces from her uniform and tried to carry her on her back.

"I don't understand it… if you were the one we're really after, how come you still saved me? You could've just abandoned me and run away with the package… you risked your life for me and I'm not even your friend…" she sighed sadly then she felt Donna moved a bit and stir…

"Donna are you awake? Are you alright now? What do you feel?" Alex asked worriedly as she laid Donna near a tree and wiped a trickle of blood escaping Donna's wound in the face. Donna's eyes finally opened and looked around her then when she saw Alex she tried to stand up but to no avail she fell back and just gave her more pain in her body.

"Please Donna don't move much, your body received so much injuries, moving just makes them worse…" Alex concernedly told Donna as her face had a questioning yet caring look.

"…Alex… the questions you asked me a while ago just made no sense to me or whatsoever. Can't you see the reason why I tried to save you instead of leaving you behind? I… you…" she suddenly stammered and blush under her numerous injuries. Making Alex blush too (POV: what is she trying to say? Oh my god! she can't possibly be going to tell me she likes me… does she!)

Donna resumed her thoughts and tried once again…

"You're a very important friend to me that's why I saved you." She said as she looked away then she felt dizzy and fainted again. She slumped on a disappointed Alex who embraced her and tried to walk again with her.

It took Alex a whole night to move out of the forest and to finally saw a cottage nearby and luckily an old woman is living there who willingly helped them in their trouble.

The old woman quickly cleanse Donna's wound and covered it with real bandages and cotton buds. After she left Donna sleeping in a guestroom she walked towards the worried Alex who ignored her own wounds because of her worry that Donna's injuries are very serious. The old woman smiled and sat on her arm chair Alex looked at her and she nodded gently.

"Don't worry much about your friend my dear, falling from that cliff and even protecting you at the same time, she must be very used in situations like these but a bit stupid too. She must have cared so much about you that she broke her arm and had a deep wound on her head." She chucking as she observed that Alex blushed a bit.

"That's good… I thought she'd be … because she lost a lot of blood… OUCH!" She looked at her own arms which is covered with bruises. The old woman walked to the medicine cabinet and covered Alex's injuries as well and even gave her a dress that once used by the woman's daughter who now lived in the city. The light pink blouse and white shorts made Alex real cute besides the visible bandages in her body.

After they talked with each other, the old woman was about to leave when Alex remembered to ask her name.

"…. its Rona Franks…" she smiled and pointed to Donna's current room. She nodded and walked silently.

Alex closed the door lightly and sat besides Donna who is now wearing a loose black shirt and long brown shorts while her left arm is in a white cast and the rest of her body is covered with more bandages than Alex.

She sighed and touched Donna's hand which is amazingly soft besides her training each day in the school gym. Alex tried to remember everything she thought Donna was … she was stubborn, mischievous, war freak, tough and cold. Alex shook her head and looked at Donna's peaceful face…

"She looks so much like an angel when she sleeps…" she mumbled, yes Donna…

she finally saw the true Donna who tried to kill her; she's reliable, honest, sweet, caring, protective, loyal, patient, yes… Donna…

"… Donna my sweet 'Angel in Disguise'… how I wish you weren't the one I'm supposed to arrest and captivate." She whispered lovingly as she embraced the warm yet unconscious body of Donna.