Ch 3.: What the Future May Hold pt. 1

Catherine Bloom loved her brother dearly, she also cared for his friends and it made her very sad thinking of the future of the young men that now sat around the camp fire in the circus camp. As she watched them simply sit there, talking quietly amongst them, she couldn't help but wonder – who would take care of them. Surely she couldn't – she wanted to, but she couldn't. She couldn't be there forever, one day she'd have a family of her own and then who would take care of her little brother? Surely not Heero, she narrowed her eyes at him, he was the reason Trowa almost killed himself, and not that weird American kid, Duo, he was just….weird. Quatre was okay, a nice young man, but then he did have god knows how many sisters and Wufei; she was surprised he was even there considering he kept to himself a majority of the time.

She couldn't trust them to look after each other. She had simply sent three earlier in the day to get milk, only to get a call from the local store manager that she needed to come pick them up because they were creeping customers out and kept referring to each other as Zero One, Two and Three. Somehow Zero Three, as he liked to be referred too, had been working there for the last hour and a half and already became employee of the week and was up for a manager position. Sometimes, they really did amaze her and other times she wondered how they could be completely moronic.

Now, they had adjusted fairly well for being child soldiers, Catherine did give them that, but she just didn't feel right that the five of them really had no one to care for them. As she walked away from them, it struck her like a Mack truck backing up, Speed Dating! A devilishly evil grin spread over her ruby lips, there was bound to be someone that each one hit it off with and as hard as Catherine tried, she couldn't help but let a small evil snicker escape. It was the perfect plan. She glanced back and saw five sets of eyes looking at her, a little creeped out. She straightened up and smiled at them, bid goodnight and made her way to her trailer.

Duo turned and looked at Trowa as he reached for the coffee on top of the grate, pouring another cup for himself. "I hope you know man, your sisters kind of scary." Heero and Quatre nodded in unison, both having run into Catherine's bad side. "But it's hot." Heero nodded his agreement, he refused to make eye contact with the clown but he could feel the deep emerald gaze boring a hole into him. If Trowa glared any harder Heero may have actually died, but looks don't kill. Idly, Heero wondered why Duo wasn't getting a death glare, but something's where expected of the braided man and hitting on girls was commonplace. Heero sipped the coffee and turned his full attention to a rock beside his foot.

Catherine couldn't help but look out her window at the campfire. It was fool proof! She flopped into the couch, laptop on her lap, a small smirk gracing her face. The lights flickered with each page change. The smirk turned into a full out grin which looked menacingly as the computer screen illuminated her face. No longer would she have to worry about the five young men's future and what may come. She only had to worry about getting them all in the same area and it hadn't been hard to give their boss a call. Lady Une was reasonable and both had very much in common, so it didn't surprise Catherine that Lady Une readily accepted her plan and had already drafted orders for a very special top secret assignment. And like that, the plan was in motion, now all she had to do was to wait.


Much shorter than the other two, but this is will be in the story several times. Each chapter is essentially different one shots. This one just happened to be broken up. I love Catherine, she is by far my favorite and I love her 1950s style, she'd be a pin up girl for sure... I have also fallen in love with the HeeroxCatherine ship! Im on that love boat and I love these weird couples. I also love a little DuoxCatherine. So yea,there won't be any yaoi, I know I just eliminated like everyone, oh well.