Summary: Umm it's a year after Usagi graduated highschool and one night she has continuous dreams about an old friend that used to be really close to her. (Any questions or confusin's then just ask.)

Enjoy. (the A/N and the Diclaimer's at the bottom for spoilers)

Dream Catch Me - Chapter 02: Else I Won't Come Back At All

Last night Duo had dropped me off back at my apartment after the party, and I was sure the reason he hadn't walked me to the door was because I looked so eager to go.

I felt kind of bad for him, but I needed to be alone.

Even though I had worn my fanciest dress, a spaghetti strapped pink prom-ish style gown, everyone there at the party had looked better than me.

Even Duo had, I mean no offense, but he was like poor.

I'd heard that Relena and my hero used to date, and I'd felt a strange aura coming from her every time she so much as looked at me.

I guessed she didn't like that I was visiting him in the hospital practically every day.

Everyone else was nice, but it was the kind of nice that you show when you want to look polite in front of everyone else.

It could've been my fault, maybe they'd realized how unhappy I actually was to be there. Like he had.

Speaking of him, I had no idea what I was going to do.

It felt like he'd seen right through my lie.

I didn't know how to face him, or if I should go see him at all anymore.

Visiting hours started in an hour, I still needed to shower and get dressed for the day.

I decided to skip the shower and just threw a pink Tee and some jeans on, pulled my hair up into it's classic style, and walked out of my tiny apartment.

It only took about fifteen minutes to walk to the hospital, but I felt like wandering before I went to see him.

I walked past the large building with the giant red cross on it, taking in the warm sun. I was glad it was summer, and summer break for life. I'd finished high school just two months ago.

It pissed me off that all of my 'friends' were so surprised I'd actually graduated. I'm not as stupid as they all think I am.

We'd gone about a year since they started blowing me off all the time.

And it's been almost half a year since I'd stopped trying to get through to them.

The same amount of time since I'd given up on Mamo-chan..

Ever since he moved to America, I'd tried to write him as much as possible.

After about a year he had stopped writing back, and everyone told me I should just give him space if he didn't want to talk to me.

Of course I didn't listen to them, I loved him!

I still do.

If he came back, (and still wanted me to) then I'd willingly get together with him again.

But with the past couple of years of no response from him, I doubted that would ever happen.

I realized I'd been walking for almost half an hour, and decided I should probably turn around and go back to the hospital.

I walked slowly though.

I still wasn't sure if I really wanted to see him.

While I walked I saw a cake stand I hadn't noticed before, and felt my stomach grumble for something to eat.

I dug into my pocket and yanked out enough money for a strawberry one, and sat down on a nearby bench and took my time eating.

I glanced at my watch, it was 1:06.

I decided to go see him again, I'd been fired from my last job a week or so ago for skipping all the time.

I had nothing better to do.

The nurse nodded to me as I walked past, like she always did when I came to visit, and I walked down the familiar halls till I got to room 302.

I walked past that door to the room I knew was 303, his room.

Not bothering to check the number, incase I saw his nameplate, I walked through the door.

But he wasn't there.

His bed was made up and the vase Duo always put flowers in was gone, even the chair I always sat in was gone.

No one told me he was being released today.

Not even the nurse who knew where I was headed.

I rested my hand on the bed and looked around dejectedly.

"What are you doing?"

I spun around and saw him standing in front of me with the vase in his hand and a few of his other things.

"I-.. I'm not doing anything."

I needed to learn to stop stuttering around him.

"Didn't anyone tell you that I'm released today?"

I shook my head, I was pretty sad that I realized HE could've told me that. And didn't.

"Sorry. It's a good thing I hadn't left yet then."

He didn't smile, though I'd heard one in his voice.

"I guess it is."

He stretched his arm out through the doorway, in gesture for me to go ahead of him.

"Why, thank you."

We walked down the halls to the front desk, and he checked out of the hospital while I waited for him by the door.

"So, do you want to get something to eat?"

I turned when I heard him walk toward me, and even though I'd just eaten, I said yes.

We walked out the doors and he waved for a taxi.

First we went to his place, so he could drop off his things and grab some things while I waited in the cab.

He walked back out of his house, in some blue jeans and a light green button up shirt, and sat back into the cab.

He leaned toward the front seat to talk to the driver, "Take us to Zahl Eine."

He leaned back in his seat next to me and turned to me, "Do you like German cuisine?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "I've never had it."

"Oh, well I think you'll like it."

I just nodded my head, I didn't care either way.

I was just happy that I got to hang out with him.

We rode in silence till we stopped outside a cute styled restaurant with a big sign saying "Zahl Eine."

He payed the driver and we walked inside waited for the hostess to appear.

She had short, blonde pixie cut hair, and nicely tanned skin. She smiled widely, "Table for two?"

We nodded and she led the way to a booth in the middle of the restaurant.

She told us someone would be here soon to take our orders and practically danced off back to her station.

I looked down at the menu she handed me and looked back up at him incredulously.

"What? Is something the matter?"

I pointed to the menu, "What is all of this stuff?"

"German cuisine." He stated quite matter-of-factly.

"Mhmm. Any recommendations?"

He flipped through the menu for a moment and looked back up at me, "I usually order the Bratkartoffeln but the Currywurst is good too."

I flipped through the menu trying to find those two items, "What's in the first one?"

"Bratkartoffeln is fried potatoes, and you can choose to have diced bacon and/or onions."

I 'hmmed.' It sounded pretty normal.

"I'll get that then."

He nodded and said he'd get the Currywurst.

"So what kind of drinks are there? Any that I'd know of?"

He flipped to the back of the menu and looked at the bottom, I copied him.

I didn't recognize a single beverage on there.

"You should just get the Spezi, it's like a type of soda."

I nodded and closed my menu when the waitress showed up, "Hi, my name's Adalia and I'll be your waitress for this afternoon. So what can I get you?"

He ordered off our choices for us, I probably couldn't pronounce the names as good as him anyways.

She took our menus and said she'd be back with our drinks shortly.

I watched her back as she walked away, her long brown hair pulled into a high ponytail reminded me of Makoto.

I wondered if I'd ever bother to come here again after this, it'd be just my luck to get the same waitress twice.

Pushing those thoughts away I turned back to face him. He was staring at me again, and I just stared back.

Once again we didn't say anything, and for once I wondered why.

"Why do you always do that?"

He blinked, "Why do I always do what?"

"You always stare at me. But you never say anything."

He just shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't know the reason, or care for that matter.

"I don't have all that much to say."

Neither did I.

The waitress came back with our drinks, both Spezi. Whatever that was.

It was a dark orange and it was fizzing, I took a sip. It tasted like cola and orange soda.

I guessed that was all it was.

"Duo told me something interesting."

I looked up at him with a raised questioning eyebrow, "And that would be?"

"He said you didn't want him to tell you my name. And you purposely never looked at my nameplate at the hospital. He said you wanted me to introduce myself."

I blushed probably every shade of red imaginable and cursed Duo internally.

"Oh. Yeah. I .. Said that, didn't I?"

I tried to laugh it off, but of course he would think I'm weird no matter how I tried to cover it up.

"Heero Yuy."

He held his hand out for me to shake, I reached out my own hand and took his.

"Usagi Tsukino."

He gave my hand two light shakes and then let go, and the waitress appeared with our food.

I grabbed my drink and took a few more sips.

The food was good. And for the rest of the afternoon neither of us said a word.

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I woke up, again, this time because of my annoying ring tone.

I grabbed the phone off my nightstand and looked to see who was calling.

It was my boss.

Of course it was, nobody else ever called me anymore.

I don't know why she called me, I knew I was fired.

"Hello?"

"MISS Tsukino! This is the LAST straw, I told you what would happen if you missed another day-"

I cut her off, "Yes, I know I'm fired. Bye then."

I hung up, her screaming was giving me a headache.

I looked at the clock to my left, it was 12:49.

Normally after getting fired, I'd go job hunting again. It was a miracle on my part that I always seemed to make enough money for rent.

Just a year ago I had graduated; and before I met Heero, I was always on time to work.

I had to be, since I had gotten my own place.

Mama, of course, had said I could move back in if I ever needed to, but that was out of the question.

I needed to be on my own.

I was sure job hunting could wait till later, and I was still tired anyways.

The next memory was another good one, most of the earlier ones were.

I smiled again and dropped my phone somewhere on the side of my bed and closed my eyes.

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It had been a week since I'd last seen Heero.

We'd said goodbye and promised to meet up sometime soon.

We'd settled for this afternoon.

I had less than an hour till he was going to pick me up, and I still couldn't pick what to wear.

I was currently stuck between a light yellow baby-T and a sky blue spaghetti strap.

Over ten minutes passed and I still hadn't decided, so I went catch a tiger by his toe and landed on the baby-T.

I threw it on, and went to the bathroom to check my hair and make-up.

Both were perfect, for I'd spent all morning making sure I didn't have a single hair out of place.

I had about ten minutes to kill before he showed up. Lost for something to do I grabbed my tooth brush for an extra clean.

Just to make sure my breath didn't stink or anything like that.

I heard his car pull up to the curb through my open window when I walked out of the bathroom.

Through the window I watched him get out of his car, he was wearing a really dark navy blue t-shirt with some store name on the front in white, his dark brown hair was in it's usual almost messy style.

He walked up the few short steps and went inside the bottom of the building.

I waited while he was probably asking the landlord which room I was in.

Through the thin walls I heard him walk up the stairs and knock on my door.

I closed the window and turned out the lights and headed to open the door.

"Hey! I hope you didn't have any trouble finding the place."

He shook his head, "Not at all."

We walked back down the stairs and got into his car, "So, where are we going this afternoon?"

"The park."

I remembered going to the park when I first moved here.

I wanted to explore and the park was the first place I ended up at.

"It was nice out, so I figured we could grab ice cream or something and go for a walk."

I nodded and smiled at him, "That sounds nice."

The car ride was no more than five minutes, Heero pulled into a parking spot nearest the sidewalk that went around the whole of the park.

We walked a ways until the ice cream cart came into view, and it wasn't until then that I realized I didn't bring my wallet.

"What flavor do you want?"

He pulled out his wallet and grabbed enough money for two.

"Umm, I'll have chocolate. What kind are you getting?"

"Vanilla."

We walked up to the cart and he asked for two cones.

I waited while he payed and handed me mine.

I thanked him and we started walking down the sidewalk again.

Licking my ice cream, I tried to think of something to talk about.

He beat me to it, "How was your week?"

"Fine. I've been looking for a job."

He took a bite of his own cone, "You don't have one?"

"No, I got fired for skipping too much."

He gave me a shocked look, "You skipped work to visit me?"

I just nodded my head.

It was weird how he knew right away.

But maybe it wasn't that weird.

"You shouldn't have visited me so much then."

I shook my head this time and smiled, "I didn't like my job that much, and.. I wanted to anyways. So don't worry about it."

The past week had been more than boring.

I was so used to going to the hospital every day, or hanging out with Duo, who now had taken the whole week to hang out with Heero.

I had thought of looking for a job, but I wasn't in the mood, and I didn't want a job to take up time when Heero might be free.

"Ok, just don't go into debt or something because of me."

I nodded my head, I had to agree with him on that one.

I wasn't in debt, but I wasn't as far from it as I probably would want to be.

"Yeah, I'm going to go job hunting this week."

He nodded in approval after finishing his ice cream.

I waited to speak again after I finished my own cone.

"So, what do you do for a living?"

He shrugged his shoulders, "I do a little bit of Preventer work."

"So you're like a protector of the weak, a defender of the little people?"

I saw the small smile on his lips in my prephiral vision, "I guess you could say I'm something like that. How did you come to that specific conclusion?"

"Well, you did jump in front of an eighteen wheeler to save a little boy. Who, I'm sure, is would be classified as a little person and a weak one at that."

"Yes, I did do that, didn't I?"

We walked in silence for a little bit more, while he was looking at the trees and the scenery around us, and I was looking ahead down the path to make sure I didn't fall on my face.

I was thinking of all that had happened since I'd met Heero when a sudden thought came to my mind.

"Heero, I was just wondering, how old are you?"

He turned his attention away from the trees and back to me, "I'm 21. How old are you?"

"Don't you know it's rude to ask a lady her age? I'm 20."

He smiled, "You asked first."

"Yes, I did do that, didn't I?"

Walking in a comfortable silence again, I noticed we'd walked all the way around the park already.

"I have another question."

He inclined his head towards me, "What would you like to know now?"

"Do you like to read? If so, what types of books do you like best?"

After reading The Phantom Tollbooth a couple months ago, I'd picked up a new interest in books.

Mostly fantasy, but some others were high in my top favorites.

"I like reading now and then, mostly historical books or historical fiction."

I nodded my head, "So books like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?"

"Yes, that was a pretty good book."

"Yeah, I liked that one too."

We long since passed the ice cream cart and slipped into a few more minutes of silent walking.

The sun was sending down just the right kind of warm rays of light, and the wind blew perfectly.

Even though we weren't talking, I was having a great time.

The best I'd had in a long while.

"Is it my turn to ask a question?"

I nodded my head, "I guess it is. What do you want to know?"

"What I want to know is... Why did you even bother to come visit me all the time while I was in the hospital? I know I never said anything, but you could've started a conversation yourself if you wanted. It must have been boring to come see me all the time."

I shook my head and took a moment to get my thoughts and choice of words straight, I didn't want to lie to him again.

"It wasn't boring. I guess you could say it was .. interesting. I was glad you didn't talk to me, but at the same time I wanted you to."

He looked at me contemplatively, "How's that?"

"I felt that the silence was a good thing. I first visited you because I wanted to make sure you were ok, since I'd seen what happened. After a while it became routine, and I liked being able to be in someone elses company without being asked questions and things like that."

He nodded his head once at me, taking it all in, "But at the same time you wanted me to talk to you? Light conversation like right now?"

Even though I hardly considered our current topic of converse 'light conversation' I said," Yes, like right now."

The rest of the afternoon went on with casual conversation and a few random questions here and there to get to know eachother.

Too soon in my mind were we pulling up to my apartment complex and saying goodbye.

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Waking up again, I looked at the clock.

It was 2:25 now.

I figured it was about time to get out of bed.

I grabbed the newspaper outside my door and the ones from the past few days off of my table flipped to the pages with joblistings on them.

I thought I might as well get a few hours of job hunting in before I went back to sleep.

Right now, I was willing to work any job.

So I circled a the ones I thought I might actually get and pulled out my phone.

Before long I'd set up six interviews half with no promises of getting any one of those jobs.

I glanced at the clock again.

It was nearing eight o'clock.

Still trying to kill some time I grabbed a TV dinner and popped it in the microwave and flipped through the channels.

By the time my food was done, I'd settled on watching re-runs of some martial arts anime.

Halfway through the fifth episode I hadn't noticed I was slipping away into another memory.

I hadn't noticed either, that I was soon fast asleep.

A/N: Ok, first off, just to get a few things straight if anyone is confused, because I'm even confusing myself here. So I need to write it down. XP The first memory, when Usagi calls Minako and Makoto was summer break before senior year. Then the next memory when she met Heero was a year later, or a month after she graduated. And I didn't put it in the story but he was in the hospital for a month. So she visited him everyday for about a month. And the other parts, the present ones, take place a year after graduation or 11 months after she met Heero.

Second off, Zahl Eine means "Number one" in german. Sort of.. I just messed around on Babel Fish, so I could be wrong. And obviously that was just a play off Heero and his gundam.

Thirdly, I know that the Preventers isn't really a job.. type thing. And I know that Heero isn't really a part of it, but I needed to think of a job for him. And that just sort of worked. Sooo yeah.

And lastly, since I'm going with the Gundam Wing side of the story, then everything would take place in the future, so the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn would be a really historical fiction book. But I figured that since people still read books like .. the Iliad and the Odyssey then that would make some sense.. and it just sort of worked too. XP

So, if you have any questions then feel free to ask.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing. I don't own the song Dream Catch Me by Newton Faulkner either, even if I do listen to it like 100 times a day XP. Jk.. umm I also don't own The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.