Wish I owned GW, but *big sigh*... I don't. :*( My parents won't get it for me, but I did get a Gundam Wing calendar, and proud to say that I own *something* Gundam Wing!
You're Under the Mistletoe
Chapter 3
It was December the 16th, already two days into the search of F.H.F.C. or Find Heero For Christmas, and there was still nothing. When Heero left, it was as if he erased any traces of him ever being on earth, at all. Noin had been right in saying that they needed to think like him, but no one could do that. If they could, he would have been found, and there by then.
"Duo, do you know where he came from?"
Duo wearily looked up, trying to sleep. He was awake the full 48 hours, and seeing that nothing was happening, decided it was time for him to rest. "Huh?"
Noin shook her head. It was very nice for Duo to come up with the idea, but it didn't look like it was working. "Do you know where Heero came from?"
He scratched him head slowly, pondering the question. "Um... I think L1... Can I sleep now?"
"Sure." He didn't wait for any answer, he was snoring, and loudly right after finishing talking.
Both Milliardo and Noin shook their heads this time. "Maybe we should stop too." 'Maybe we should stop this whole thing...' "No, I'll keep looking." Noin commented. "I'll search L1, if I don't find anything, we can just stop it." He nodded and exited the room. 'Now there are 6 clusters in L1, each with an average of 5 colonies in them. I'll start with this cluster and work my way through.'
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Three hours later, Noin had looked through 2 clusters, and although there was still a possibility of Heero being in one of the four remaining clusters, her hopes were waning slowly.
There were a couple reasons for this, the first being if he was there, would they be able to find him? Maybe he was in one of the clusters she already checked, but had good cover. Another being, what if he was in another colony? There were many to choose from, and there was a higher possibility that he could be in one of those. 'Duo meant well, but this is impossible... we don't know where he went, and none of us know how he thinks...What we need is help, and lots of it.'
Noin knew exactly who to call, that was Quatre.
A groggy voice answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Quatre? You sound terrible."
"Miss Noin? It's 4 in the morning, why are you calling?"
She gasped quickly. She had been in the secluded room where the large communication and search units were, she had completely lost track of time. "Quatre, I'm sorry! I didn't realize it was so late... or early. I'll let you go back to sleep."
"That's all right, Miss Noin, you already woke me up. What is it?"
"Well, we're searching for Heero, and we need help."
So you started it already? Sure I'll be glad to help."
"Can you get in touch with Trowa... maybe even Wufei?"
"I think so, but in the morning."
Noin chuckled dryly. "Of course." 'With some help, this might just go somewhere... they know Heero better than I do... maybe they'll know what he meant...'
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Third day into F.H.F.C., now with the team consisting of Noin, Duo, Trowa, and Quatre with Milliardo deciding he didn't want to do it. Four of the six clusters were searched, and still no trace of Heero Yuy. Each person had there own station, checking each colony in the fifth cluster.
"Hey guys, what if Heero took up another identity?"
Noin, Quatre and Trowa looked at Duo strangely. "Duo, I don't think he would do that."
"Well, why not? All he would have to do is change some stats and no one would know it's him."
"Say he did," Noin started," how could we tell it's him?"
Duo scratched his head, a sheepish look on his face. "Um... I didn't think about that." They all sweatdropped, and went back to their own work.
Meanwhile another hour passed, and the team was on the last cluster, no hopes at all in finding him there. "I found something!" The three other temamates rushed to Quatre's station.
"What'd you find?"
"The stats match his. Brown hair, blue eyes, the height and weight should be around there, but we can't be too sure. He might have had a growth spurt this past year, but we can try it."
Duo nodded. "I found something too. These stats have a taller person."
"Ok, we try both of them. It's possible he could be one." Noin's face showed some excitment. Her mind disagreed with the emotion she was showing. It's also very possible that he's neither one, but I sure hope not...'
"Ok, Quatre you search out your guy, I search out mine. Hopefully he's one of them. We'll get in touch once we find out someting. Agreed?" They all nodded, and went their separate ways, Duo and Quatre to a shuttle, Trowa and Noin to sleep ( no, not together!).
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Just like the last few nights, Relena lay awake on her bed, shadows of exotic figures on her sheets and body. Her hair was pulled up into a bun, but the bangs still fell over her face, clouding her vision. However, they weren't the only things clouding her vision, her emotions were as well.
She was truly torn. She loved Heero, at the same time she felt used. She wanted to move on, but at the same time it was too painful to try to forget him. 'What am I supposed to do? Do you want this to happen, Heero?'
The migraine still attacked her head even though she took enough pain-killers to stop 5 migraines. Her throat was still dry even though she drank at least 3 gallons of water in three days. 'I would feel better if I didn't think about him so much, but I can't help it...'
Once again, Relena fell into a fitful sleep, the kind of sleep that you have when you have a bad cold. She dreamed of Heero, like every night, but this time not of the day when she would meet him again, but of how the day would be if it were ever to happen.
Did Duo and Quatre find Heero? OR are both of these people someone else (which is very possible)?
"To accomplish great things, one must not only act, but dream." -can you guess where I got this from?