first off, let me say, soaringphoenix86, u ROCK MY SOCKS. thanks so much for not losing faith with me. yes, im still writing Goddess of Death. Yes, this story is not dead. neither am I. My other computer is, sadly to say. the damn thing crashed with my story on it. the only thing i can be most faithful for is that i had most all of my poems on paper or somewhere else. and i had Goddess of Death and stowaway on i would have died, literally and figuratively if i had lost absolutely everything. so, in march, after my comp had crashed in like november, i got a new computer. i still have problems with a lot of things bc i dont have a printer and this laptop doesnt take floppys.But, i was able to salvage part of Goddess of death off cuz the paragraphs are screwed up when u go from here to soemthing like microsoft works word processor, at least enough to start writing on that one, and all of Stowawta cuz i hadnt written that much to begin with. I'm a happy lil duck now. :)

anyways, enjoy chap 3 if ur reading this.

Stowaway chapter 3. (PS its short.)

They rode in silence until the sun could no longer be seen on the base of the horizon. They flew into the night, silent as the wind, until Duo began to slowly descend into the woods. Flicking many switches, he lowered the gundam onto the ground until it was once again kneeling the way Louisa had found it.

"We have a mile to hike through the woods until we get where we're going." he unbuckled himself and opened the hatch allowing the harsh night winds of May to blow on their faces.

"Where are we going?" Louisa asked. It was pitch black outside under the cover of darkness and trees.

Duo turned around. "You'll find out once we get there. Come on. Keep up. We have a ways to go." And with that, he began to walk away into the darkness.

They walked for probably about an hour in the darkness. It wasn't until Louisa was literally just about right next to the house, that she actually knew where they were going. Duo lead the two of them around the house to a door where he carefully picked the lock. " Safe house. Sweet Safe house." He walked in, and turned around. "Sit on the couch while I check the house. Ok?"

"Why do you need to check the house?"

"Bugs."

"Bugs??" she looked at him with a strange look, "Like cockroach bugs?"

"No….like bomb bugs."

"Oh. Well, why the hell would there be bugs in a fricken abandoned house?!"

He stopped at the entrance to the hallway where the rooms were and he stared at her with a look that clearly was telling her to shut up and let him do his work, "Do you want to die?!?!"

"No…"

"Then stop asking questions and let me do what I have to do."

She sat there and watched him go from room to room, running his hands over the walls. Nothing was left to scrutinize. Every part of the wall was scanned. As he bent and turned, Louisa inclined her head. He wasn't bad looking. He was dangerous, that she knew from personal experience and being near him. She'd just met him though, and she'd only seen a small portion of his attitude.

"Heads up."

A blanket came hurtling through the air towards her head and in a split second she reacted. The blanket itself was a blue comforter. She looked up at Duo with a question in her eyes.

"You're sleeping down here on the couch. The other rooms will be occupied by my friends."

"Friends? There's more of you?"

"Yes, go to sleep and don't do anything weird. I'm watching you."

With that, he turned away and walked down the hall. She heard a door open down the hall and not close again. She was left sitting on the couch, going over in her head what had happened to her today. She'd gone to school, she'd done her work, she'd gone to her normal homework spot, and had been chased by a bobcat. Now, due to the bobcat, she was in a strange house with a strange boy, holding a strange blanket and about to go to sleep on a strange couch. Wow, things moved fast in her life. So many changes had taken place throughout her lifetime, and it was extremely disconcerting. She wished that she could just stay in one spot and be normal, but her life had never been normal and until she was dead and gone, her life would never be normal.

She sighed and stood up to drape the blanket onto the couch and position one of the couch pillows for her head to rest on comfortably and lied down. She dreamed of her roommate, of their apartment, of her friends, as well as various other things. Suddenly, she heard whispering in her dream and it seemed like her dream became darkened as if an eclipse had come and darkened everything. She eased herself out of her dream, opening her eyes to see four shadows in front of her. What else was she to do except scream bloody murder.

"OH MY GOD!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!" This went on in varying degrees of swears, oaths, and curses until one of the four shadows clamped a hand over her mouth to shut her up. In the time that her hysterics had started, Duo had come bolting down the hall. He stood trying to reason with the four boys who had come into focus since Louisa had woken up. They didn't look pleased, and truth be told, she really had to pee now.

"Dude man, calm down. She's harmless. I've checked her out." Duo continued to reason with his friends until the one clamping her mouth shut decided to release his grip.

She sat back, wrapping the blanket around herself, hoping that the morning would come or that she'd be able to go back to sleep. It didn't look like she would though; not if this went on the way it was going.

They had left her on the couch, wrapped in her blue comforter, as they discussed what to do with her. Finally they came back, if not just as stern looking, then even more stern looking.

"You can stay….alive….and unharmed. BUT!! You are staying under constant supervision." Duo answered, his eyebrows never moving from their position in a slight V between his eyes.

"what about peeing…?" she asked, holding the blanket closer to her body. "I can't pee with someone watching me. Not only would it be creepy as all hell, but it'd be extremely rude and disgusting."

The small boy in a green tank top didn't move, none of them did at that, but his eyebrow did twitch. "you'll have someone watching you-"

"-from outside the room." the small blonde cut in. He seemed like the more docile of the quintet. "She might not be comfortably suited to stay with us. But, she will be treated with kindness due to the fact that she kindly asked what would happen. She will be watched from outside the door, closely and clearly, so that she may have the privacy to relieve herself."

Louisa looked at the small blonde, a smile blooming on her face. "thank you. If anything, that's just one thing that could help me to live with a group of guys. I'm no stranger to roughing it, trust me on that, but I do need just a tad bit of privacy while I pee. Thank you, whoever you are." She knew it was cheesy to say, but she also knew that she needed to say it if she was to get treated with just a little kindness from these boys. They needed to see that she was no threat to them.

-end-

i think i ended it weirdly. ...not in a good spot. but then when i re-read it, it seems ok. oh well. thats life. comments would be like seeing God after a sea of hell. Plz. yes, and ill try to get another chapter out...if not a long one, then a small one soon. i have finals next week...and graduation a week from this tuesday. dont expect something anytime soon...in this month, yes hopefully...in the next 2 weeks.. no. Comment. Comment and let me see u still enjoy the story.Until we meet again. ciao bella.