Note: I don't know if any of y'all noticed, but I went through the first two updates and made some revisions. Nothing too major. Heh, it disappointed me to discover that replacing chapters does not count as an update xD Not surprising, though. But! That's all beside the point. If you all take the time to look back and to glance at my author profile, you'll find the answer as to why I haven't updated this thing in ages. Though there is still some glimmer of hope! My older brother is working on my computer shit right now so I might just have a computer soon. Again! Ooh, how nice that would be. Typing this up on my phone's gonna be a trip. More the html than anything.
Just one last thing -- thank you for your patience, feedback, and reviews. To those who came back to this ''dead'' fic, thank you so much for sticking around! And those first-timers -- thank you for taking the time to read this. It really does mean a lot to me.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. If wishes really did come true, I would, but...well, it's just another cruel injustice to add to the list of many! However, I did write this fan fiction and I would be most upset if someone else were to take it apart and use for their own satisfaction without my prior knowledge... -cocks gun- If anyone should find evidence of such acts, do allow me the privilege of taking care of it!
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As we travelled, I brought up some mild conversation, trying to catch up with everything he had been doing since I saw him last. Though Wufei was never much of a conversationalist, he still told me enough to see he was doing perfectly fine. I also made an interesting discovery -- Hiiro was already working for the Preventers, for a good while now. Last I had heard of him, he was working as Relena's body guard.
With this in mind, I had to wonder...what had happened? I thought Hiiro would be content with that, working where he could be close to Relena, the woman we had all thought he loved. Wufei wouldn't tell me much, only that if I really wanted to know I should ask Hiiro himself. I suppose it's only fair...but a part of me was too impatient. Curious, surely, and partly concerned. Admittedly, more curious than the other, however. I mean, Hiiro was Hiiro, after all -- he was fully capable of taking care of himself...So I always have to tell myself not to worry too much about him. It wasn't that I didn't care about him -- like the other pilots, he was like a brother to me whether he liked it or not.
Once Wufei turned into the large employee parking lot and parked, all I could do even while I exited the Jeep was stare at the building structure -- never in a million years would I have expected the Preventer building to be so...so...big...It was huge! A skyscraper! And it wasn't just tall, it was fairly wide as well with an attached garage for all their space and aircraft vehicles. Well...it wasn't as though I hadn't seen larger buildings...just...Oh, never mind, at this rate I'll be ranting about it forever.
"Hey, are you just going to stand there?"
"Huh!?" Startled, I turned to look over at Wufei, tearing my gaze from the large complex. "O-oh, no, ah, of course not!" I stammered trying to save face. It was rather embarrassing to be caught so blatantly gawking at a building like that. It must have looked rather ridiculous...
"Then let's head inside," Wufei said casually gesturing towards the building. Trust Wufei to always be so direct. I wondered if he ever wasted time doing anything sometimes.
"Right...so, where's the entrance?" I asked as he started to move towards the building. I paused a moment before I realized that he was already walking then, sheepishly, picked up my feet and hurried after him.
"Just follow me. I'll show you where everything is," he replied without so much as a glance back to see if I was following.
"...R...right..." I murmured quietly, half to myself as I suppressed a sigh.
As I followed Wufei inside the building and he gave me a grand tour of the place (he really only showed me where my office, the break room, cafeteria, and Lady Une's office were and he wasn't particularly descriptive about it either), I felt my mind wandering occasionally to Trowa and the mission I was assigned...And so soon after being hired...I couldn't help myself. I kept wondering how he was doing, where he could possibly be...what he's been doing after all this time...Was he okay? Would he be willing to join the Preventers as my partner? ...And...has he thought of me?
As that last question passed through my mind, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to try and clear my mind. However, as I did so, I hadn't even realized that Wufei had stopped walking to ask me a question and I rammed right into him as he turned to face me.
"Ahh! Oh, I'm sorry, Wufei!" I exclaimed in embarrassment quickly backing up a couple steps and trying to gather my composure.
"...It's fine. You seem a little distracted. Something on your mind?" he asked quirking an eyebrow.
Blinking in confusion a moment before his words fully registered in my mind, I stared blankly. "Ah...oh. I-I was just thinking. I mean...about my mission. When am I supposed to start?" I asked in a poor attempt to save face.
"Two days. Lady Une wanted to give you at least a couple days to settle in. But she also wants you to find Trowa as soon as possible," Wufei stated.
"Alright..." I stood there and thought about that a moment. A couple days wasn't a whole lot of time...But, then again...Shaking my head just slightly to rid myself of all those excess thoughts, I nodded and thanked Wufei before I turned to face down the hallway we had come down.
"Lady Une did want to see you before you did too much of anything," Wufei reminded me as my back was turned to him. "She has a few things to give you."
"Um...Oh, right, of course." I turned my head to gaze over my shoulder at him and gave a light nod of acknowledgement. He had told me this before, on the ride here. "I'll go see her in a little while. I just want to wander a bit, get to know the place a bit more."
"I'll let her know." With that, Wufei gave me a small, courteous nod before he swiftly turned on his heel and left. I never knew how he could turn so fast...you would think he'd get a head rush. Then again, it was more than likely just another part of the training he had gone through throughout his entire life.
I watched him for only a moment before I turned my head back around and started at a slow pace down the hallway, trying to take in as much of the place as possible. It really was a large building; if I wandered too much, I could get lost in a place like this. That was one of the reasons why I wanted to look around, though...So that I wouldn't get too lost in the future. After all, Wufei was pretty vague when he showed me around...It would be even better once I had a map of the place. I already had half a mind to get one.
But even as I wandered around, my mind kept floating back to Trowa. This assignment was something...special. And I didn't want to blow this. Not in a million years.
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Ending note: Well, that's it for now. I promise to do my best at getting the next update up as soon as POSSIBLE. Really. I mean it. I did manage to type most of this up on a library computer though (yay! xD) Anyway, before I run out of time to actually post this thing.......
(Edited at last xD Didn't take me long to get around to it, now did it? x3 --Jan 15, 2009)
