Author: Tira Yuy
Edited by: Scarlot Diablo and Bryony
Genres: Comedy, Romance, and Sap-Fluff
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~chapter three~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jumping up and to the left to avoid the charging dog Relena slipped
on the tile floor in her bare feet. "Ahh!" escaped her lips before
she landed right into unknown arms. Eyes wide in shock Relena glanced
up to find herself looking into emerald green eyes that seemed to be
trying to hide behind brown bangs. He smiled, well almost, before
setting her upright.
"Miss Darlian!" Letting go of her completely he gave her a full bow.
"Daddy! Get him before he hurts the cat!" a little black-haired boy
shouted before chasing after the dog.
A little girl who had been running with the boy stopped. Looking from
Relena to Trowa a small smile spread across her face.
"Don't listen to Trev, I can handle it." The girl resumed her quest
of getting the dog and protecting the cat.
Relena assumed the black-haired boy to be Trev.
"Excuse me," Trowa said directly to Relena then started after the
children.
Standing there Relena blurted out,"Romance."
Stopping in his tracks to stare at her again the man did not say
anything; the look on his face was one of confusion.
"I...Uh, this reminded me of something… nothing," she stammered. 'Now
isn't the time to remember the last part of Noin's speech,' she
scolded herself as she felt heat making its way across her cheeks.
Just sort of nodding he went up the stairs, hot on pursuit of the
runaways.
Standing there looking to where the cat, dog, two children, and good
looking man had gone down the hall Relena sighed. 'Get a grip, he's
probably married.'
Spotting the pop machine,Relena dug for quarters in her pocket.
Putting a few in,she tried to decide which kind she wanted.
"Yes I'm sure they came in here!" a very angry, booming man's voice
cut through the room. "The dog they were chasing left mud prints
leading right in here!" he shouted.
Having no doubt that "they" were the children and their father,Relena
paid close attention to what the hotel manager said back.
"Please sir, calm yourself. If the people who skipped out on paying
you are here I'll see to it they are found."
Forgetting her pop, Relena looked to where she had last seen the dog
going up the steps leading to bedrooms. Sure enough there was a more
than obvious trail of mud.
Trying to look inconspicuous Relena headed back up the steps.
Following the paw prints, she saw where the muddy trail veered off on
floor three.
Glancing down she saw that the manager had sent a bellhop to follow
the dog's trail, she also noticed he was a very old man who was
rather slow.
Seeing nothing else handy Relena took off her green vest. Wincing,she
hoped Zechs would not be too mad if she ruined it, he had given it to
her last spring. Getting on her knees she began scrubbing the mud up
with the silk vest.
"It's for a good cause, just because even I don't know what that
cause is doesn't detract from its importance," she muttered, once
again speaking to herself.
After two feet of scrubbing she did not see any more mud to tell
where the dog had gone so she stood back up.
"Let's just hope he ran out of mud." Looking down at her vest,she
sighed.
"Excuse me, miss?" Startled by the husky voice Relena quickly turned
around, hiding the vest behind her back.
"Yes, sir, can I help you?" she said, smiling what she could only
hope to be an innocent one, as she recognized the elderly bellhop
sent on the dog chase.
"Did you see a dog pass through on this floor?" he asked,smiling
politely. Relena noticed he was a little out of breath.
Feeling a twinge of guilt Relena shook her head no. 'Well it's not
really a lie,' she told her conscience. 'I didn't see the mutt
actually on this floor.'
"Well thank you." The bellhop went on to the next set of steps to go
to floor four.
When he was finally out of sight,Relena turned to where she knew the
trail had once led.
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Sitting down in the hall,Trev tried to get his breath back. "Go...
on.with out me," he told his sister.
Ona stood there, torn between not wanting to leave her brother alone
and catching the dog before he hurt Ally, as she had already named
the cat. Finally making her decision she shook her head.
"You stay I stay, I go you go," she said sitting down next to him.
Glancing up at the sound of footsteps the man she was pinning her
hopes on came. And he was not looking happy. He did not say a word,
just stood there towering over them with that "you're in so much
trouble" look.
Unable to stand the silence any longer she began to explain. "Well
you see there was this reeeeallly cute and sweet kitty, and I named
her Ally, but there was this dog too and he was trying to hurt the
cat because that's what dogs do. But I didn't want him to so I tried
to stop him. But I was also trying to feed Ally 'cause she was just
so thin. But as soon as I had touched her she got all upset and
jumped down to get away, and the dog-"
"Enough," Trowa demanded, his voice was not raised but she knew she
was in for it, big time. "You left the restaurant by yourself-"
"I was with her," Trev spoke up in little voice.
Glancing down at Trev he nodded. "You left the restaurant with out an
adult, crossed three streets, without looking both ways, and then
came running into a respectable establishment where you knocked down
one fake tree, nearly ran over a lady's foot and..." He stopped, took
a deep breath and finished, "What am I going to do with you?"
'He doesn't just mean about this,' Ona thought as she looked in to
his eyes and studied his face. 'He's wanting to know what to do with
us because we're abandoned.'
"You could spank us, and we'll never do it again." Trev, once again,
spoke up.
Trowa only blinked in shock.
'Does he not believe in hitting children?' Ona wondered. It only made
her like him all the more. Ona shuffled her feet trying to think of a
way to get his mind onto another topic. "I heard someone shouting, it
sounded like the waiter."
He nodded. "After we get Ally we have to go back and pay him for the
meal."
Eyes going wide Ona smiled, but before she could thank him for
letting them get Ally another voice spoke.
"So that was it?"
Trowa turned to see Miss Relena standing behind him, while he had
seen her on TVmany times, and even spoken to her over Wing Gundam's
loud speacker, he'd never seen her face to face before today. Taking
note of something muddy in her hands, her bare feet, and now messed
up hair, he had to admit this was the last way he had ever thought
they would meet.
With his breath back Trev was antsy and began jumping from one foot
to the next.
Trev watched the three people around him, his Daddy, Ona, and the
blonde woman he'd seen in the lobby.
Ona was looking at the lady, she was planning something. 'Please
don't let it be something we'll get in trouble for,' he pleaded
silently in his mind.
"You can help!" Trev heard Ona say, her tone of voice told him that
the plan would definitely have them in trouble. 'Well at least it not
a spankin' he thought with little hope.
He loved his sister dearly, and sometimes Ona's plans worked out for
both their good, but they always had some glitch in them somewhere.
"Alright, how do I do that?" the lady asked Ona, bending so they
would be at eye level.
"I'm not sure if Ally went that way" she pointed with her right hands
towards the right, an open door led to a staircase, "or this way."
She now used her left hand to indicate a left turn that looked as if
it led to more rooms. "If you and Daddy looked in the staircase, then
Trev and I could look down the hall."
Ona had her Cheshire cat smile. 'Big trouble,' Trev thought with a
gut sinking feeling. Whatever was up her sleeve she would ask for his
help, and he knew he would not be able to tell her no.
"No." Trev was startled by Trowa's voice. "Miss Relena has better
things to do than chase after a cat, and I'm not letting you two out
of my sight."
The lady, who Trev now noticed was holding something muddy, shook her
head. "I don't have anything to do for three hours except sit in a
boring room. I'd love to help." She smiled down at Ona.
Trevsighed, he had only seen one other lady smile so pretty and sweet
before. She had been a very beautiful woman at the circus. She had
given him and Ona cotton candy while they waited for their mother and
her newest boyfriend to finish a ride on the Love Boat.
'Maybe this lady has cotton candy too?' Momentarily forgetting about
the trouble Ona would be getting them into he studied the blonde
woman standing in front of him better than he had before.
She was pretty, but not the long legged beauty of the woman from the
circus. She had large blue eyes that were as kind as her words were
spoken.
Trev felt an instant liking of her and moved closer to her, despite
the fact that he saw she did not have any candy in her hands and no
pockets in her outfit to hide any sweet treats.
"I'm still not letting them out of my sight." Trowa's words brought
Trev out of his thoughts.
Ona had lost her smile and was biting her lower lip. "If we don't
hurry we wont get to Ally in time," she said, pouting a bit.
Trowa pushed her lower lip in, Trev could tell that the action was
done softly, but the scowl on his face also told him Trowa was
putting up with no nonsense.
"Then I'll go one way and you three can go the other." Trev looked up
at the woman speaking, he did not want her to leave him just
yet. "Let me go with you," he whispered.
Ona gave him a strange look, then she was smiling again. "Yes, you
don't know Ally and she may not come to you. Take Trev, she'll come
to him."
Frowning,it was on the tip of Trev's tongue to say that Ally did not
know him either.
"Fine." Looking down at him Relena smiled. "Are you Trev?"
Nodding, Trev smiled up at the sweet blonde-haired lady, she looked
like an angel to him. Well she had a bit of mud on her knees and she
was missing wings and a halo.
"Miss Relena-" Trowa started to intervene.
"I told you, I have nothing better to do," Relena
interrupted "Besides, you can't go in two directions at once."
Looking up to see how Trowa would respond Trev saw that the man had a
poker face on. "If you're sure it won't be an inconvenience..."
Trowa's voice trailed off.
"Great!" Ona said quickly as though everything was settled. Taking
Trowa by the hand she led him down the hall, as she passed Trev she
whispered into his ear, "talk about how wonderful Daddy is to her."
Before Trev could question his sister she was already running,
pulling Trowa further down the hall with her.
With a shrug Trev took Relena's hand into his, her hand was smooth
with perfectly pale pink painted fingernails. He thought it added to
her charm.
Edited by: Scarlot Diablo and Bryony
Genres: Comedy, Romance, and Sap-Fluff
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~chapter three~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jumping up and to the left to avoid the charging dog Relena slipped
on the tile floor in her bare feet. "Ahh!" escaped her lips before
she landed right into unknown arms. Eyes wide in shock Relena glanced
up to find herself looking into emerald green eyes that seemed to be
trying to hide behind brown bangs. He smiled, well almost, before
setting her upright.
"Miss Darlian!" Letting go of her completely he gave her a full bow.
"Daddy! Get him before he hurts the cat!" a little black-haired boy
shouted before chasing after the dog.
A little girl who had been running with the boy stopped. Looking from
Relena to Trowa a small smile spread across her face.
"Don't listen to Trev, I can handle it." The girl resumed her quest
of getting the dog and protecting the cat.
Relena assumed the black-haired boy to be Trev.
"Excuse me," Trowa said directly to Relena then started after the
children.
Standing there Relena blurted out,"Romance."
Stopping in his tracks to stare at her again the man did not say
anything; the look on his face was one of confusion.
"I...Uh, this reminded me of something… nothing," she stammered. 'Now
isn't the time to remember the last part of Noin's speech,' she
scolded herself as she felt heat making its way across her cheeks.
Just sort of nodding he went up the stairs, hot on pursuit of the
runaways.
Standing there looking to where the cat, dog, two children, and good
looking man had gone down the hall Relena sighed. 'Get a grip, he's
probably married.'
Spotting the pop machine,Relena dug for quarters in her pocket.
Putting a few in,she tried to decide which kind she wanted.
"Yes I'm sure they came in here!" a very angry, booming man's voice
cut through the room. "The dog they were chasing left mud prints
leading right in here!" he shouted.
Having no doubt that "they" were the children and their father,Relena
paid close attention to what the hotel manager said back.
"Please sir, calm yourself. If the people who skipped out on paying
you are here I'll see to it they are found."
Forgetting her pop, Relena looked to where she had last seen the dog
going up the steps leading to bedrooms. Sure enough there was a more
than obvious trail of mud.
Trying to look inconspicuous Relena headed back up the steps.
Following the paw prints, she saw where the muddy trail veered off on
floor three.
Glancing down she saw that the manager had sent a bellhop to follow
the dog's trail, she also noticed he was a very old man who was
rather slow.
Seeing nothing else handy Relena took off her green vest. Wincing,she
hoped Zechs would not be too mad if she ruined it, he had given it to
her last spring. Getting on her knees she began scrubbing the mud up
with the silk vest.
"It's for a good cause, just because even I don't know what that
cause is doesn't detract from its importance," she muttered, once
again speaking to herself.
After two feet of scrubbing she did not see any more mud to tell
where the dog had gone so she stood back up.
"Let's just hope he ran out of mud." Looking down at her vest,she
sighed.
"Excuse me, miss?" Startled by the husky voice Relena quickly turned
around, hiding the vest behind her back.
"Yes, sir, can I help you?" she said, smiling what she could only
hope to be an innocent one, as she recognized the elderly bellhop
sent on the dog chase.
"Did you see a dog pass through on this floor?" he asked,smiling
politely. Relena noticed he was a little out of breath.
Feeling a twinge of guilt Relena shook her head no. 'Well it's not
really a lie,' she told her conscience. 'I didn't see the mutt
actually on this floor.'
"Well thank you." The bellhop went on to the next set of steps to go
to floor four.
When he was finally out of sight,Relena turned to where she knew the
trail had once led.
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----------
Sitting down in the hall,Trev tried to get his breath back. "Go...
on.with out me," he told his sister.
Ona stood there, torn between not wanting to leave her brother alone
and catching the dog before he hurt Ally, as she had already named
the cat. Finally making her decision she shook her head.
"You stay I stay, I go you go," she said sitting down next to him.
Glancing up at the sound of footsteps the man she was pinning her
hopes on came. And he was not looking happy. He did not say a word,
just stood there towering over them with that "you're in so much
trouble" look.
Unable to stand the silence any longer she began to explain. "Well
you see there was this reeeeallly cute and sweet kitty, and I named
her Ally, but there was this dog too and he was trying to hurt the
cat because that's what dogs do. But I didn't want him to so I tried
to stop him. But I was also trying to feed Ally 'cause she was just
so thin. But as soon as I had touched her she got all upset and
jumped down to get away, and the dog-"
"Enough," Trowa demanded, his voice was not raised but she knew she
was in for it, big time. "You left the restaurant by yourself-"
"I was with her," Trev spoke up in little voice.
Glancing down at Trev he nodded. "You left the restaurant with out an
adult, crossed three streets, without looking both ways, and then
came running into a respectable establishment where you knocked down
one fake tree, nearly ran over a lady's foot and..." He stopped, took
a deep breath and finished, "What am I going to do with you?"
'He doesn't just mean about this,' Ona thought as she looked in to
his eyes and studied his face. 'He's wanting to know what to do with
us because we're abandoned.'
"You could spank us, and we'll never do it again." Trev, once again,
spoke up.
Trowa only blinked in shock.
'Does he not believe in hitting children?' Ona wondered. It only made
her like him all the more. Ona shuffled her feet trying to think of a
way to get his mind onto another topic. "I heard someone shouting, it
sounded like the waiter."
He nodded. "After we get Ally we have to go back and pay him for the
meal."
Eyes going wide Ona smiled, but before she could thank him for
letting them get Ally another voice spoke.
"So that was it?"
Trowa turned to see Miss Relena standing behind him, while he had
seen her on TVmany times, and even spoken to her over Wing Gundam's
loud speacker, he'd never seen her face to face before today. Taking
note of something muddy in her hands, her bare feet, and now messed
up hair, he had to admit this was the last way he had ever thought
they would meet.
With his breath back Trev was antsy and began jumping from one foot
to the next.
Trev watched the three people around him, his Daddy, Ona, and the
blonde woman he'd seen in the lobby.
Ona was looking at the lady, she was planning something. 'Please
don't let it be something we'll get in trouble for,' he pleaded
silently in his mind.
"You can help!" Trev heard Ona say, her tone of voice told him that
the plan would definitely have them in trouble. 'Well at least it not
a spankin' he thought with little hope.
He loved his sister dearly, and sometimes Ona's plans worked out for
both their good, but they always had some glitch in them somewhere.
"Alright, how do I do that?" the lady asked Ona, bending so they
would be at eye level.
"I'm not sure if Ally went that way" she pointed with her right hands
towards the right, an open door led to a staircase, "or this way."
She now used her left hand to indicate a left turn that looked as if
it led to more rooms. "If you and Daddy looked in the staircase, then
Trev and I could look down the hall."
Ona had her Cheshire cat smile. 'Big trouble,' Trev thought with a
gut sinking feeling. Whatever was up her sleeve she would ask for his
help, and he knew he would not be able to tell her no.
"No." Trev was startled by Trowa's voice. "Miss Relena has better
things to do than chase after a cat, and I'm not letting you two out
of my sight."
The lady, who Trev now noticed was holding something muddy, shook her
head. "I don't have anything to do for three hours except sit in a
boring room. I'd love to help." She smiled down at Ona.
Trevsighed, he had only seen one other lady smile so pretty and sweet
before. She had been a very beautiful woman at the circus. She had
given him and Ona cotton candy while they waited for their mother and
her newest boyfriend to finish a ride on the Love Boat.
'Maybe this lady has cotton candy too?' Momentarily forgetting about
the trouble Ona would be getting them into he studied the blonde
woman standing in front of him better than he had before.
She was pretty, but not the long legged beauty of the woman from the
circus. She had large blue eyes that were as kind as her words were
spoken.
Trev felt an instant liking of her and moved closer to her, despite
the fact that he saw she did not have any candy in her hands and no
pockets in her outfit to hide any sweet treats.
"I'm still not letting them out of my sight." Trowa's words brought
Trev out of his thoughts.
Ona had lost her smile and was biting her lower lip. "If we don't
hurry we wont get to Ally in time," she said, pouting a bit.
Trowa pushed her lower lip in, Trev could tell that the action was
done softly, but the scowl on his face also told him Trowa was
putting up with no nonsense.
"Then I'll go one way and you three can go the other." Trev looked up
at the woman speaking, he did not want her to leave him just
yet. "Let me go with you," he whispered.
Ona gave him a strange look, then she was smiling again. "Yes, you
don't know Ally and she may not come to you. Take Trev, she'll come
to him."
Frowning,it was on the tip of Trev's tongue to say that Ally did not
know him either.
"Fine." Looking down at him Relena smiled. "Are you Trev?"
Nodding, Trev smiled up at the sweet blonde-haired lady, she looked
like an angel to him. Well she had a bit of mud on her knees and she
was missing wings and a halo.
"Miss Relena-" Trowa started to intervene.
"I told you, I have nothing better to do," Relena
interrupted "Besides, you can't go in two directions at once."
Looking up to see how Trowa would respond Trev saw that the man had a
poker face on. "If you're sure it won't be an inconvenience..."
Trowa's voice trailed off.
"Great!" Ona said quickly as though everything was settled. Taking
Trowa by the hand she led him down the hall, as she passed Trev she
whispered into his ear, "talk about how wonderful Daddy is to her."
Before Trev could question his sister she was already running,
pulling Trowa further down the hall with her.
With a shrug Trev took Relena's hand into his, her hand was smooth
with perfectly pale pink painted fingernails. He thought it added to
her charm.