A/N: Anne's escape.
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"…family don't gonna like that. I think that…" Trowa said.
"Hé, Anne!" Cried Quatre.
Anne opened her eyes. She don't saw anything -Oh yeah, I am blind. -
"Am I death?" She asked.
"No. You are blind, your legs are broken and your intestinal canal is a real disaster, but you are still alive. You are a living miracle!" Complimented Heero.
"Thanks, but this living miracle wants to die…"
"You are already half-death. Is that not enough for you?" Asked Trowa.
"No." Answered Anne.
"Well, Anne. As you don't tell us who your boss is, then we make you ¾-death." Said Wu Fei, "Isn't that nice?"
"What ever you want! Kill me!"
"No, I haven't said that I would kill you. I just torture you until you say who your boss is," Explained Wu Fei, "Then I drop you in some wood…"
"Were I drown in some lake …"
"That's your problem. I have some lovely toys: A nail-squeezer from WOII …"
"What you use, is your problem. Just hurt me so much as you can." She grinned, "Then I do the rest. But no one get information from me! That is my promise to the earth." -The earth will not explore because of me! I am useless -
"Okay, I bring you to the cellar. Then you can scream so much as you want."
"I won't scream. I am not a baby. You are. Only weaklings use such a dirty methods."
"Hey, YOU are the spy here."
"You don't get it at all. That's okay, I don't get it either," she laughed, "Why are you a enemy? We should be friends."
"That's your fault. You are a spy. Not me!" Cried Wu Fei.
"It's not my fault! I never wanted to be a spy."
"So why are you a spy?"
"You really want to now? Really? Well, find it out YOURSELF. I don't want to be a masse-killer! As you want to be, well, go ahead and try to get information from me. I won't tell. I won't let you make mistakes. You are so stupid!"
"So I am stupid? I just want to now who your boss is. Is that so hard?"
"Yes, Wu Fei. It is." Said Anne.
"Who is your boss, Anne?" Asked Wu Fei, "Tell me!"
"I don't tell you anything."
"Okay, then I must to try it a little bit harder. Give me your hand."
Anne gave her hand to Wu Fei. He fastened a tang on her fingernail.
"Now I gonna PULL a bit…"
"NO! DON'T HURT HER!" Cried Quatre.
"Okay, I won't hurt HER. Hé, Quatre, give me your hand …"
"Wu Fei, are you nuts?" Cried Quatre, "I am your friend!"
"I have no friends. Now, give me that damned hand."
"NO!" Cried Quatre.
"Heero, Trowa help me a bit." Asked Wu Fei.
"Okay." With a bit help from Heero and Trowa, Wu Fei finally had the hand of Quatre.
"HAHAHAHEEEHEEE! How would Quatre look with 9 nails?" Laughed Trowa.
"There is only one way to find out!" Said Heero.
"LET'S TRY IT OUT!" Cried Wu Fei.
"NO! STOP IT! I WILL TELL YOU WHO MY BOSS IS!" Cried Anne, "BUT STOP HURTING QUATRE!"
"Oh, but I don't want to know it anymore. I just have a need to HURT someone." Laughed Wu Fei nuts.
"AAAAAAAUUUUUUWWWWWWW!" Cried Quatre.
"SSTTOOOOOOOOPP!" Cried Anne, "Hurt me, kill me, do with me what ever you want, but leave Quatre alone!"
"Oh, look at her. She don't need any eyes anymore, hé? Let's remove them…" Proposed Heero.
"You are nuts! Nuts I tell you. HEEEEEELLLP!" Anne cried. -Duo! -, "DUUUUUOOOOOO HEEEEEEELPPP US!"
"Oh, to bad. Duo is sleeping." Laughed Trowa.
"What's going on here?" Asked a sleepy Duo-voice.
"THEY TRY TO KILL QUATRE! THEY ARE NUTSSSSS!"
"How would Duo look with one hand?" Wondered Heero.
"Maybe we should let him eat Anne's eyes. And we let Anne eat Quatre's nails. Oh, and Quatre would LOVE Duo's hand." Laughed Wu Fei.
"Joke?" Asked Duo a bit scared.
"Give me your hand, please." Said Trowa.
"Euh, I must go sleep…" Tried Duo.
"Not before giving your hand to us." Said Heero and he held Duo in a wrestle-grip. Wu Fei picked up a knife …
"AAAAAAA!" Cried Wu Fei when a Quatre-knee hit his belly. Duo gave Heero a big slap on the head. Then they both hit Trowa.
"LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Cried Duo and he ran to the door.
"Hé, and ME?" Asked Anne.
"Oh, right. You can't walk." Noticed Duo.
"I will carry her." Proposed Quatre.
"HURRY UP!" Cried Duo.
"Okay, Anne. Here we go!" Said Quatre and he carried Anne to the door and opened it.
"DUO! WATCH OUT!" He cried when he saw Heero standing up.
Duo turn round. To late for dodge Heero's hit.
"DUO!" Cried Quatre.
"What's happening?" Asked Anne scared.
"Duo…Duo is hit by Heero." Explained Quatre, "We must go before Heero hits us to!"
"But we can't leave Duo!" Protest Anne.
"We have no choice."
"Now it's your turn to go sleep a wile…" Laughed Heero and he came closer.
"Hold on to me, Anne!" Cried Quatre and he quickly ran away.
Anne was crying. "They are nuts, nuts. And we leave Duo with them!"
"We gonna save him."
"God knows what they are doing to them…" Said Anne and she felt in a deep sleep in Quatre's arms.
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Anne woke up. "Were … were am I ?" She asked.
She heard Quatre groaning. "Anne? Are you awake?"
"Were am I ?" Anne asked.
"Well, I don't now. I remember that I ran away. I must have felt in a sleep when I was running. I really don't now where we are."
"What you see?"
"Huh?" Asked Quatre surprised. That was really a stupid question -Forgotten, She is blind. -, "We are in some wood, I think. It is night and there is no moon. There are much trees, I think oaks. Grass too."
"WE ARE LOST!" Cried Anne, "We will die in some forgotten wood. Normally I should LOVE the idea to die with you, but we MUST save Duo! Have you a compass with you?"
"Euh, I don't think so."
"Oh, nice. We are stuck in some wood while Duo probably is dying. I should be the one who's dying!"
"Why are you planning to die? Is the keep silence of your boss more important then your LIFE?"
"NO! Of course not! I don't want anything so much as telling it to you, but I can't. Don't you think that milliards of lives are more important then me."
"Milliards of lives? Where are you talking about?" -Wait a second! Her boss is blackmailing her. That's why she have tried to kill herself! But with what he have threaten with? Hé! The puzzle start to get form! She said that if she died, the earth would be safe … her promise to the earth … A masse-killer … Milliards of lives … HER BOSS SAID THAT HE WOULD LET THE EARTH EXPLODE! Now I understand her. She could not tell it, she have still family on the earth. All those people. She could not tell it…And I was so mean to her… -,
"Sorry Anne," Said Quatre.
"What do you mean by that?" Asked Anne surprised, "You haven't done anything wrong."
"He said that he would let the earth explode, did he?"
"What?" Asked Anne surprised.
"That's why you couldn't tell anything."
"How…How do you know that?"
"Now I understand why you have tried to kill yourself. You wanted to risk others lives for some stupid information." Said Quatre, "But barking dogs seldom bite. You can tell it to me. The earth will not explode."
"What…What if he finds out. What if the earth DO explode?"
"How could he find out? You don't have any eavesdrop-machines anymore. Or have you?"
"How I am supposed to know that?"
"You should know what the people put in your body, no?"
"NO!"
"Okay, okay." Said Quatre, "But if you tell me, I can help you to save the earth."
"As the earth isn't explored jet." She sighed, "I can't keep run away," She laughed, "I can't run anymore at all. Look what happened to my body, my life. And that's all there fault! And no matter how much I wane pay then for that, I can't risk millions of lives, just because mine is a total disaster."
"But else, the earth will be in danger for ever. You don't think that he waits until you have told it to us to let the earth explode? As he wants to let it explode, then he will do it, if you tell it or not."
"Hey Quatre, I think that I heard something." Remarked Anne. And it was true. Two spots bring light in the darkness. A truck was driving in their direction.
"We must make him stop!" Said Quatre, "Then it can bring us back to the living world." He ran to the direction of the car and jumped on the street.
"WATCH OUT!" Cried the one who was driving the truck, "ARE YOU NUTS, KID? YOU COULD BE DEATH!"
"Excuse me, sir." Asked Quatre, "Can we get a lift?"
"You are lucky, kid. We are driving to the village 'Iepinski'. Step in!"
"Thank you sir" Said Quatre.
"Hé, and me?" asked Anne out the wood.
"Will you wait a minute for me, sir? She has broken legs." Explained Quatre.
"She? A girl?" Asked the driver.
"Yes…That's not a problem, right?"
The man laughed, "I am just wondering what you are doing on this time of the day with a girl in the wood…"
Quatre blushed, "She… She is my sister."
"Hé, are you planning to leave me here?" Asked Anne impatient.
Quatre quickly ran to the wood and carry her to the truck.
"You may sit on the tonnage." Said the truck-driver.
"Thanks sir!" Said Anne nice. Quatre laid her on a sit in the tonnage.
"What we gonna do in a village?" Asked Anne.
"We must to rent a room, find out were we are and were Duo is…"
"Were was the house?"
"I don't now. Heero have paid it." Explained Quatre.
"You don't know were the house is? How we must to find Duo back?"
"Euh…"
"Oh, GREAT. Smart, VERY smart. Normally, people now their address."
"S…Sorry. I have never asked it to Heero. I thought that it was not important."
"NOT IMPORTANT? THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL DUO, AND MISTER SMARTASS DON'T NOW THE ADRESS. HOW WE EVER MUST FIND DUO BACK? IN LITTLE PIECES?" Cried Anne mad.
"HEY, CAN IT A LITTLE BIT QUIETER, PLEASE?" cried the truck-driver.
"Sorry, sir." Said Anne and to Quatre, "Now it's to late." She sighed, "We never had to leave Duo with them!"
"With a bit luck, we find him. Maybe he can escape!"
"Yes, maybe…" She sighed, "As I hadn't called Duo, then he was still sleeping."
"But then you and I were death, and Duo probably to. They don't had let him sleep for long."
"I guess you are right." Said Anne.
"I still can't believe what happened to Heero, Trowa and Wu Fei."
"Maybe …"
"We are here, kids. 'Iepinski' is waiting for you!" Warned the driver.
"Come, Anne." Said Quatre.
"I can't walk. You have to carry me!"
"The people gonna look at us …"
"And?"
"Well, the police is looking for us, and if they notice us…"
"What you propose?"
"I leave you on this bank. Then I go find a bath chair for you."
"I am scared! What if somebody kidnaps me?"
"Have you a other plan?"
"Okay. But don't stay away to long!"
"Okay, Anne. Bye!"
"Bye Quatre!"
Anne sat on a bank. It was boring. She felt in a sleep.
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"Anne!" Somebody was waking Anne up.
"Q…Quatre?" Asked Anne sleepy.
"Her is a letter from the boss. Read it, but don't let anybody read the letter. You must to accomplice the mission that is in the letter. As you do anything wrong, the boss do 'it'." A not-Quatre voice said.
"But…" Anne said, "I am blind, can't read!" But the man was already away.
-What I must to do now? I can't let Quatre read it for me, and I must do the mission that is in the letter! That's impossible! -
Anne opened the letter. -Cockles! It's Braille! I can't read Braille! -
"Hey, Anne. I have found a nice bath chair for you …" Quatre saw the letter, "What's that?"
"Euh…Can't tell it," she said.
"I understand," Said Quatre, "A letter from your boss, hé."
"Yes, but I can't read it!"
"Well give it to me, I will read it for you."
"It's Braille!"
"Then you can read it.".
"I can't read Braille! I never learned how I can read Braille!"
"Well, don't read it! Your boss will understand it."
"No, he don't understand me. There is a mission in the letter!" She swallowed, "I am not supposed to tell that to you!"
"I am already forgotten it," said Quatre, "Come on, Anne. We must find a apartment to sleep!"
Anne swallowed -I am so stupid! I have told it to Quatre! As the boss find out, the earth will explode. But I haven't told who the boss is, so why would he let the earth explode? I must be more careful! -
Quatre carried Anne to her bath chair. He pushed her bath chair.
"Hey, here is a apartment we can hire!" Quatre said when he saw a apartment with 'For rent' on. He pushed Anne to the door and ringed the bell.
"What do you want on this time of the day?" Asked a woman-voice.
"Euh…we want to hire a apartment." Explained Quatre.
"You are lucky, boy. We haven't find a hirer jet. Come in." Said the woman and she let Quatre and Anne in, "What's happened with the girl?" Asked the woman worried.
"She is blind and she have broken her legs," Explained Quatre.
"Oh, the poor little doll!" Said the woman, "We have a stair in our apartment… That's not very good for her…"
"Quatre will carry me!" Smiled Anne.
"That's good then!" Laughed the woman, "The bedroom and the bath-room are upstairs. The kitchen, the living-room and the toilet are downstairs."
"And how much this cost?" Asked Anne.
"Well, normally … € 1200 for a month…"
"So many," asked Anne, "We can't pay that."
"But for you I make a exception. You only have to pay €200 for one month," Smiled the woman.
"But…Why?" Asked Anne.
"Because I feel sorry for you, I think you deserve it." Explained the woman.
"Well, Anne. We take this apartment?" Asked Quatre.
"Yes, of course!" Smiled Anne.
"Great," Smiled the woman, "You can move in right now! I go to my mom. You will pay me over a month, okay?"
"Okay!" Said Quatre, "Bye … what's your name?"
"Oh, my name? Janice Gemert."
"Bye Janice!" Cried Anne.
"Bye Anne!" Said Janice and she left.
"We have a new HOME!" Cried Anne and she hugged Quatre.
"Yes, Anne. A new home!" Said Quatre and he pushed Anne's bath chair to the living room, "Oh, wow! A colour-television!" he cried happy.
"What's a colour-television?" Asked Anne curious.
"A television with colours." Explained Quatre.
"And a television is…?" Asked Anne.
Quatre sighed, "Don't you now what a television is?"
"Nope."
"Jesus! She don't now what a television is…" Yammered Quatre.
"Come on! What's a television? Explain!" Begged Anne.
"Well … you know what a movie is?" Asked Quatre.
"My mom told me that a movie is a lot of pictures mixed in a story …"
"Have you ever SEEN a movie?"
"No, I never had the money for it."
"Alright. A television is … well in a television you see … Aha! A television is a box with sounds and pictures, and moving images. In a television, you can see movies, you can watch soaps, you can watch the news … Do you get that?"
"Not really …"
"I will show you," Said Quatre and he set the television on.
Lot of sounds went in Anne's ears. Screaming peoples, music, cars. Suddenly all sounds stopped. A voice speak. – We must to interrupt 'At home' for a announcement. A big explosion on the earth have burned away whole country's. The explosion have hit the next country's: Theehr, Belegi, Thailske.–"
-Not Woadees, not Woadees … -Toughed Anne..
"And Woadees. –" the voice said.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Anne screamed and start to cry, Quatre was trying to comfort her. Anne laughed, "Someone gonna pay for this. I will not rust before I have killed you, no matter how long it takes, no matter or I die, I will kill you! That's the last thing that I will ever do! … Baer Maugham !" Anne closed her eyes and felt in a deep sleep. And in her sleep, she was still laughing.
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