Goddesses Of The Elements
Part: 3/?
Warnings: A little angst I guess. Death, violence, cussing, and Drama. And Relena bashing.
Disclaimer: ::sigh:: As usual I don't own GW or most of the characters. But Gemini is mine and only mine.. SO BACK OFF e_e. ::coughs:: Anyway, why would I be writing this fic if I owned GW.. I'd be putting my character ideas into the show, kuso!
Quatre: Um.. No Kid Rock in this I hope x_x!
Gem: Nah, I'm already dead for sure from Kes, dun want you to be pissed at meh too x_X!
Quatre: I won't ^_^.. But err.. That was bad.
Gem: I know ^_^! ::acks::
Kes: ::cleaver in hand and bad venge fic ideas filling her head:: YOU BAKA!!!! HOW COULD YOU?! YOU ARE SOOO GOING DOWN GIRL! :: chases Gem with the cleaver and web addy::
Gem: AHH!! :: Hides behind Quatre:: On with part three _!!
Quatre awoke with a severe hangover from the night before and staggered into the kitchen. Gem sat at the table in the dim kitchen light, the extra large bottle of 800 mgs of Ibuprofen sitting on the table. She downed another glass of water and laid her head on the table oblivious of the hung over Quatre sitting across from her. He downed one of the large 'horse' pills and half of the pitcher of water as Duo and Nikki staggered in, both lighting up at the sight of the aspirin. They both immediately downed the rest of the water to go along with the pills. "Oh.. my.. god.. My head hurts so fucking bad.. I can't believe Kes actually resorted to the Truth or Dare game." Gem moaned as she sat up more upright, well at least her head cleared the table. Quatre sighed as the aspirin started to kick in," Does she do this often?" "About once a month or so.." Nikki replied as she flopped onto Duo's shoulder. Trowa walked in with a much suffering Ariana and handed her a pill of Ibuprofen and a glass of water which she immediately drank and sat in a chair next to Trowa, but since she couldn't easily stay up she flopped over onto his lap. Trowa snickered softly and stopped once he saw Kes and Wufei walk in noting they must have gotten to the aspirin a lot earlier than the rest of them.. Or not. Heero walked in after them seeming un-phased by the liquor; which was just like him. Rane was the last one in who also seemed fine, only needing sleep to knock the headache out of her. Kes looked at everyone and realized that she was going to be dead after they improved their conditions so she got up and grabbed a plate and started making dry toast. A few minutes later she sat at the table with a patter of dry toast and an extra large pitcher of water. A few weak "Thanks" was heard and Kes sat back with a sigh of relief. Gem picked at her toast and sipped at her water a little realizing she had some work to do for Dr. A. The toast and water was eaten in what pretty much was silence in about ten minutes. Gem rose from the table slowly and cleared her plate after dusting the spare crumbs from her shirt and jeans," I better get to work. Dr. A. wanted me to files some reports in the system." At that everyone sighed because they remembered the hour or so of work ahead of them as well. Gem headed into the large office and to the desk where her laptop lay. She booted it up and was welcomed with some not-so-exciting offline IM (instant message) s about how she had to get the work done today or else. Quatre came in about ten minutes after followed by Heero, Rane, Ari, and Trowa. Quatre sat at his laptop across from Gem, Heero across from Rane, and Trowa across from Ari. Gem typed quickly making a soft clattering noise on the keys, she wanted to get this done, and fast. Quatre typed more slowly, occasionally shifting through a stack of papers. Nikki and Duo had just come in and set to work on challenging each other at a random game on the Dream cast in the corner of the office. Trowa had already finished his work and played solitaire occasionally looking up from his game to Ari who was working intently on some random program. Rane was working on a venge fic to get back at Kes while Heero tried to reply to Relena's e-mail with a more violent one to get his point across to the blonde bitch ( ::dodges sharp objects thrown by Relena fans:: ).
Suddenly a vid window appeared on her screen from a co-worker whom she absolutely hated named Brad. "Hey Gem! I need to discuss some of the reports.. How about over dinner?" Brad said in his quite jerk-ish tone. "You can discuss the reports with me during BUISNESS hours only." Brad just kept persisting," Come on! A pretty girl like you deserves a handsome guy like me ne?" Gem glared at Brad with sever annoyance," No you have it wrong, a jerk like you doesn't deserve a girl like me." Quatre looked up from his work at this and opened an IM window. Gem blinked as an IM appeared on her screen from Quatre: ' Need some help?' Gem smiled a bit and replied that it might help. While Gem was lost in the convo with Quatre Brad almost screamed, "GEM!!!!" Gem shook her head and glared at Brad, "The answer is NO!" Quatre smirked and got up, having the perfect plan to shut Brad up at least for a little while. He walked around the desk and to Gem and kissed her cheek, " Done yet?" Gem blinked and realized his plan and smiled, "Almost, honey". Brad's jaw fell literally to the floor at this and regained his pride, " Err.. YOUR LOSS!" he screamed and signed off. Gem laughed, it felt good to see Brad's ego drop twenty points, she smiled up at Quatre, "Thanks, I needed that. It ought to keep him off for awhile!" Quatre smiled saying he was glad to help and returned to his work.
Another half hour passed and soon everyone left but Gem and Quatre who were just about done. Another IM popped up from Quatre. "So, done yet?" Gem smirked and replied, " Yea, finally!" A few seconds after a few shots rang out, one crashing through the window and barely missed Gem. Gem ducked and grabbed Quatre, dragging him under the desk as her cell phone rang. Gem answered it, it was Ari, "Gem! Oz has found out the house, Dr. A. wants us to keep them off the base for our next mission, your guns are in the left desk drawer!" "Thanks Ari but YOU COULD HAVE TOLD US THAT SOONER!" Gem hung up and peered out from under the desk; several Oz soldiers were searching the room. She quietly opened the left desk drawer with one hand, careful not to give Quatre or herself away. She felt around with her left hand and grabbed both guns. She carefully shut the drawer after she handed Quatre his gun, successful in not letting the baka soldiers on. "Shit, there has to be five of them out there. On three we jump out from here and shoot 'em, we have to get down to the beach and head them off." Quatre nodded not exactly knowing what the hell was going on but went along with it. "1.. 2.. 3.." Gem whispered. They both snuck out from under the desk and with a few barely missing bullets to them they rid the room of the officers. Gem sighed and hopped out of the broken window with Quatre not far behind as she landed on her feet near the dunes and took of for the shore, silently padding through the sand. Ducking in the dune grass the motioned Quatre to stay close and snuck out onto the beach, giving the first shot to a soldier posted directly in front of them. The soldier fell with a soft thud as a group of about ten ran across the beach towards the direction of the base. Gemini guessed the other pilots took out the rest of them as she took off behind the group shooting randomly at them. A few fell while the rest that were injured retreated. Quatre followed also shooting at the rest; taking out the other uninjured four. "Get down!" Gem commanded as a shower of bullets came flying at them. All of them but one barely missed, the one that didn't hitting Quatre in his right shoulder. He doubled over on the impact and grimaced in pain, gritting his teeth. Gem growled softly as she turned to the two back up officers that fired the shots. She stood up slowly, her leg cut by bullet grazes, and aimed for one of the officers and fired. The officer fell and the other ran for his life as a warning shot was fired at him. "YOU BETTER RUN YOU BAKA!" She dropped her gun and kneeled beside Quatre and carefully set him against a large rock. She sighed as she looked at the wound, "Off with the shirt, I have to bandage your shoulder so you won't bleed to death before Sally can take care of you properly." He nodded a little and slowly slipped off his shirt, which caused him more pain, but he didn't completely show it. She ripped a wide strip of cloth from the bottom of her shirt and another small one. She shuffled over to the waterside and soaked the smaller piece of cloth and went back over to her patient. She studied the wound once more with caring eyes and finally spoke, "Ok, this is going to sting a little but not as bad as it already hurts." Quatre continued with gritted teeth and watched her clean out the wound to keep it from infection, the slat to help clot the bleeding, and take the wider strip as she wrapped his shoulder tightly and tied it at the ends with extreme care not to cause anymore pain to him. //Why would she do this for me?// She inspected her work and sighed, she hated seeing the people she was close to hurt. "It'll be ok, just sit back and rest, I'll get someone to pick us up. No way am I walking another two miles." He smirked a bit as she pulled out her cell phone. "Ari? Gem here. We took care of the soldiers but Quatre was shot in process, I need to get him back so Sally can take care of him properly. And don't bring that damn pink limo of Relena's it'll scare him to death." "How did you know she was over here?" "By the screams from Heero and the screeches of Relena. Just get over here, we're abut two miles from the house, near the pier." Gem hung up and moved herself to the right side of Quatre and rested her head on the rock.
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Ari hung up and replaced the phone on the charger. "Trowa! I need a ride! Quatre's been shot and Gem wants to get him back here A.S.A.P. so Sally can take care of him properly." Trowa nodded and rushed out to the hunter green SUV type car with Ari following close behind. Trowa stepped into the drivers seat with Ari in the passenger's side and barked out directions. Trowa nodded and sped down the sandy street and headed towards the pier by Ari's directions.
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Gem looked up at the stars and then out to the peaceful yet chaotic waves and sighed, she did not want today to go like this. Quatre looked over at her, he sensed she was troubled but decided not to ask at the present moment. Then another shot of pain shot up his arm. He winced and held his shoulder. Gem snapped out of her trance-like state sat on her knees closer by his side, "Shh come on, you'll cause yourself more pain. Relax, Ari and Trowa should be here soon." She soothed as she placed a hand on his free shoulder. Then remembering she had an extra Ibuprofen wrapped tablet she pulled it out of the pocket on her jeans on the side of her knee and unwrapped it. "Here, this should help a little." She held the white pill out to him and smiled slightly as he took it and swallowed it dry. "Thanks.." He managed to get out. She smiled more sweetly at him and rested her back against the rock again. He looked at her calm for once more with kind eyes as a few strands of her light brown hair blew across her face from the sea winds. Then a bright light came into view, which made them both shade their eyes. Gem smiled and helped Quatre up as Ari and Trowa ran out of the stopped but still running car. "Oh my god! You weren't kidding, Gem." Ari blinked. "Why would I kid about this?" Gem questioned in a more serious manner as she put Quatre's free arm around her neck and helped him into the back of the SUV. "I'm just glad that you two are ok." Trowa said once everyone was in and headed towards home.
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Gem helped Quatre out as they stopped in the driveway and once more put his free arm around her neck and doing her best to hide her limp, helped him into his room and onto his bed where Sally waited with her needed supplies. Quatre noticed her limp as Gem pulled a chair to the side of the bed, " You're limping, Gem!" "I know, I'll be fine." She replied coolly. Sally unwrapped the rough bandage Gem made, "Well well well! It looks as if you've done a better job than I could've done in that situation! Just change his bandage every hour and a half, he isn't bleeding much and it isn't completely broken. Lots of R&R will do him good. And watch out, he might develop a fever." Gem smiled relived to know he'd be ok and thanked Sally as she left them alone. "Gem.." Quatre said softly. She looked up at him with soft eyes, "Yea?" "Thanks." He smiled weakly. "No problem." She whispered to him as she covered him with a light blanket as he dozed off. She smiled softly as she watched the blonde sleep and brushed a few of his bangs back in place and felt his forehead. Sally was right, he was a little warm, so she took a soft cloth and dipped it in the basin of cool water beside the bed and squeezed out the excess water and gently laid it on his fore head. Ari, Trowa, Rane, Heero, Nikki, and Duo walked in pair by pair a few minutes later. "So how is he?" Duo asked as he peered over Quatre. "He'll be fine." Gem said looking up. "Good. That was some shot. I don't think Heero has had one that bad." Trowa said flopping down in the last chair and blinking as Ari flopped into his lap since no more chairs were left. "Hn." Was Heero's only reply as he stayed in the doorway; Rane glomped onto him. Just then Dorothy bounded in through the door screeching "QQQUUAATREEEEE" just as Relena screeches Heero's name. " Be QUIET!" Gem barked to Dorothy, Quatre's had it bad enough as is; she figured he didn't need Dorothy to make it worse. "Oh Quatre!! What did SHE do to you?!" Dorothy screeched as she kneeled over him. Gem narrowed her eyes, "What do you mean what I did to him?! I was trying to protect him!" Dorothy shook her head as she started attempting to wake Quatre up who was having a rather good dream so he refused to open his eyes. "Go away Dorothy!" was all he muttered and went back to his dream. Dorothy scowled as she stormed out of the room. "Bitch.." Gem muttered. Everyone left one by one. "Hey Ari, could you watch him for me? I want to take a walk to clear my head." Ari nodded and took her position in the chair beside the bed, Trowa coming back to wait with her.
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Gem walked silently a good ways down the beach until she found the perfect spot by some rocks that formed a small cove. She sat against a large flat rock and watched the stars and the waves lap upon the shore. Sighing softly she returned to her thoughts.
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Quatre turned his head in his bed. In his dream he was running after something. What he didn't know, or decide to think of. He kept running until what he was chasing stopped and a loud shot rang though his dream, the figure falling in front of him. That's when he woke up. He sat straight up in bed in a cold sweat and looked to his side where Ari and Trowa sat. Realizing it was a dream he sighed and slumped back scanning the room with blurry eyes that were slowly clearing. He shook his head and straitened out his bangs and realized Gem wasn't in the room, "Where's Gem?" "She went to take a walk. She's sitting in the small cove of rocks about a fourth of a mile down the beach most likely." He nodded and hopped out of bed, ignoring the pain in his shoulder and slipped on a random shirt and dashed out of the room through the glass double doors leading to the beach from his room. Trowa and Ari just blinked and headed out of the room to see what everyone else was up to.
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She sat enjoying her actual moments of peace, something she hadn't experienced in a long time. Admiring the stars for their freedom she smiled slightly. Then wincing in a small shot of pain up her leg she rubbed it slightly knowing it wouldn't help much. Her gaze now shifting to the sea admiring how carefree it was.
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Not seeing Gem anywhere close by Quatre picked up the pace. The small cove of rocks finally into view he picked up a light run. Gem heard the soft padding of someone and stayed on guard and looked to her right relived to see Quatre but still curious as to why he came out this far. He smiled lightly and sat down to her right ignoring his pain and leaned against the solid rock. "You're supposed to be resting.." She said softly not taking her eyes off the beautiful view of stars and sea. "I know.." He said looking at her with soft sapphire eyes. A few minutes of silence passed but neither of the minded," They're so free and peaceful.." Gem said out of nowhere. She looked over to him and into his questioning blue eyes. Returning her gaze to the sea she continued, "The stars and the ocean. Always peaceful, carefree, not having to see what I've seen and what I've been through. I've never really known much peace. The only few moments I've had spent here at the beach but always interrupted by something or someone." At this Quatre thought twice about being here and wondered if he should leave her be. Returning her gaze back to his kind eyes she smiled softly at him and turned her gaze to the stars. Smiling softly, knowing the pain she's felt, he wrapped his free arm around her shoulders and gazed up at the stars as well. She smiled warmly as she felt his arm around her and laid her head gently on is shoulder, forgetting everything in the past, the pain in her leg, and closed her eyes taking in everything with her other senses. Just a little shocked by this he blinked once but smiled softly once more and pulled her a little closer as a swift chill came around and closed his eyes resting his head softly on hers.
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Trowa and Ari sat boredly on the couch listening to Wufei and Kes blab about justice. Duo and Nikki already dozed off for about ten minutes and were back into the office playing on the Dream cast again. "Hey Ari, um want to take a walk with me?" Trowa said, trying anything to get out of the lecture. Ari nodded swiftly and they both bolted out the back door and down to beach. At the same time Relena ran after Heero some more with Rane trailing behind Relena attempting to hit her with a baseball bat.
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Ari and Trowa finally got out onto the beach and walked slowly on the soft sand looking at the stars. "Beautiful night ne?" Ari commented. "Yea.. beautiful." Was Trowa's reply who was obviously not looking at the stars. Little did they know that this was the time the crabs come back to their burrows to sleep; all at once fifty or so tiny crabs scuttled out of the ocean and over their feet. Ari acked and ran up to drier sand thinking that they were gerbils. Trowa followed her and before they knew it they were to the small cove of rocks. Since the rocks were low enough they could see Gem and Quatre sitting peacefully against them. "Aww, they're so cute ^_^!" Ari commented again. Trowa just nodded. "Don't worry he's in good hands, and she's in good hands with him. You don't want to be too protective now do you?" Ari said softly in an attempt to comfort Trowa while she put her right arm around his waste. Trowa smiled down to her and nodded both of their gazes turning to the ocean. A lone crab scuttled over Ari's foot that just happened to look like a gerbil. A shrill squeak erupted from her throat. This completely interrupted the scene between Quatre and Gem and the startled pair looked up over the rocks to see what exactly that was. Gem sweatdropped as she saw the gerbil looking crab and Ari ontop of Trowa's shoulders to get away from it. The crab was thoroughly freaked out and scuttled into his little burrow. Quatre sweatdropped as well as Gem spoke up," Arrriiiii!" Ari sweatdropped but not as bad as Trowa who was about to fall over, "Err sorry guys." Ari replied as she clambered down from Trowa's shoulders. Gem sighed and stood up and began to brush herself off when Quatre pulled her back down for a second. Gem just blinked, not really knowing what to think about the mischievous look in his eyes. Quatre smiled and pulled her a bit closer and kissed her lightly but quickly, Trowa doing the same with Ari, almost like clockwork. Gem and Ari blinked simultaneously, totally not expecting that. Quatre blushed slightly and pulled Gem to her feet as the both brushed the extra sand off themselves. All four started walking back to the house taking in the ocean once more in the silence. Quatre made up the extra strides Gem had over him and look down at the sand for a second and picked up her hand quickly, thinking to himself 'Why did I do that?' Gem snickered a bit sensing his thought and side stepped a little closer to him. He smiled blushing even more but settled into it but sweatdropped as he saw Trowa and Ari come up beside them, Ari on Trowa's back like a piggy back ride. Both of them snickered at Ari and Trowa and walked back up the stairs they finally reached and walked into the house through the back door.
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Duo and Nikki had migrated from the Dream cast and into the living room and decided to force Wufei and Kes to play monopoly with them. Duo laughed as he took Wufei out of the game for having a hotel on Boardwalk and realized that everyone was back. "Hey guys!!" Duo and Nikki chimed as with one move they won the game. Wufei muttered his usual injustices along with Kes. Both of them walked out of the room and to the fencing room to fight over the meaning of justice. Heero and Rane walked in from beating Relena senseless and plopped onto the couch. Trowa and Ari took the armchair so Gem and Quatre flopped onto the oversized clashing beanbag chair. "So what happened to you guys?" Heero asked inquisitively. Gem looked to Quatre then Ari and Trowa, "Eh, nothing much. Looking at the stars, etc." Heero shrugged. "Anybody want some tea?" Nikki persuaded. "I'll make it." Gem chimed. She hopped up and walked into the kitchen, putting some water onto boil and taking out the tea bags. Quatre got up and walked after her..
Gem: MWHA! Part cliff hanger D
Quatre: ... That was GOOD ^_^!!!!
Nikki: Yea! Can you put Duo and me together in tha next fic e_e?
Gem: Sure.
Ari: WRITE MORE!! What happens next? ::sniffles::
Gem: You have to wait for the next part ^_^! And REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!! ::large SD eyes:: Pppllleeeeaaaasssseeeeee! I won't continue it |.. Well I will you just won't get to enjoy it as much. So =P? Er.. Constructive criticism welcome ^_^!
Part: 3/?
Warnings: A little angst I guess. Death, violence, cussing, and Drama. And Relena bashing.
Disclaimer: ::sigh:: As usual I don't own GW or most of the characters. But Gemini is mine and only mine.. SO BACK OFF e_e. ::coughs:: Anyway, why would I be writing this fic if I owned GW.. I'd be putting my character ideas into the show, kuso!
Quatre: Um.. No Kid Rock in this I hope x_x!
Gem: Nah, I'm already dead for sure from Kes, dun want you to be pissed at meh too x_X!
Quatre: I won't ^_^.. But err.. That was bad.
Gem: I know ^_^! ::acks::
Kes: ::cleaver in hand and bad venge fic ideas filling her head:: YOU BAKA!!!! HOW COULD YOU?! YOU ARE SOOO GOING DOWN GIRL! :: chases Gem with the cleaver and web addy::
Gem: AHH!! :: Hides behind Quatre:: On with part three _!!
Quatre awoke with a severe hangover from the night before and staggered into the kitchen. Gem sat at the table in the dim kitchen light, the extra large bottle of 800 mgs of Ibuprofen sitting on the table. She downed another glass of water and laid her head on the table oblivious of the hung over Quatre sitting across from her. He downed one of the large 'horse' pills and half of the pitcher of water as Duo and Nikki staggered in, both lighting up at the sight of the aspirin. They both immediately downed the rest of the water to go along with the pills. "Oh.. my.. god.. My head hurts so fucking bad.. I can't believe Kes actually resorted to the Truth or Dare game." Gem moaned as she sat up more upright, well at least her head cleared the table. Quatre sighed as the aspirin started to kick in," Does she do this often?" "About once a month or so.." Nikki replied as she flopped onto Duo's shoulder. Trowa walked in with a much suffering Ariana and handed her a pill of Ibuprofen and a glass of water which she immediately drank and sat in a chair next to Trowa, but since she couldn't easily stay up she flopped over onto his lap. Trowa snickered softly and stopped once he saw Kes and Wufei walk in noting they must have gotten to the aspirin a lot earlier than the rest of them.. Or not. Heero walked in after them seeming un-phased by the liquor; which was just like him. Rane was the last one in who also seemed fine, only needing sleep to knock the headache out of her. Kes looked at everyone and realized that she was going to be dead after they improved their conditions so she got up and grabbed a plate and started making dry toast. A few minutes later she sat at the table with a patter of dry toast and an extra large pitcher of water. A few weak "Thanks" was heard and Kes sat back with a sigh of relief. Gem picked at her toast and sipped at her water a little realizing she had some work to do for Dr. A. The toast and water was eaten in what pretty much was silence in about ten minutes. Gem rose from the table slowly and cleared her plate after dusting the spare crumbs from her shirt and jeans," I better get to work. Dr. A. wanted me to files some reports in the system." At that everyone sighed because they remembered the hour or so of work ahead of them as well. Gem headed into the large office and to the desk where her laptop lay. She booted it up and was welcomed with some not-so-exciting offline IM (instant message) s about how she had to get the work done today or else. Quatre came in about ten minutes after followed by Heero, Rane, Ari, and Trowa. Quatre sat at his laptop across from Gem, Heero across from Rane, and Trowa across from Ari. Gem typed quickly making a soft clattering noise on the keys, she wanted to get this done, and fast. Quatre typed more slowly, occasionally shifting through a stack of papers. Nikki and Duo had just come in and set to work on challenging each other at a random game on the Dream cast in the corner of the office. Trowa had already finished his work and played solitaire occasionally looking up from his game to Ari who was working intently on some random program. Rane was working on a venge fic to get back at Kes while Heero tried to reply to Relena's e-mail with a more violent one to get his point across to the blonde bitch ( ::dodges sharp objects thrown by Relena fans:: ).
Suddenly a vid window appeared on her screen from a co-worker whom she absolutely hated named Brad. "Hey Gem! I need to discuss some of the reports.. How about over dinner?" Brad said in his quite jerk-ish tone. "You can discuss the reports with me during BUISNESS hours only." Brad just kept persisting," Come on! A pretty girl like you deserves a handsome guy like me ne?" Gem glared at Brad with sever annoyance," No you have it wrong, a jerk like you doesn't deserve a girl like me." Quatre looked up from his work at this and opened an IM window. Gem blinked as an IM appeared on her screen from Quatre: ' Need some help?' Gem smiled a bit and replied that it might help. While Gem was lost in the convo with Quatre Brad almost screamed, "GEM!!!!" Gem shook her head and glared at Brad, "The answer is NO!" Quatre smirked and got up, having the perfect plan to shut Brad up at least for a little while. He walked around the desk and to Gem and kissed her cheek, " Done yet?" Gem blinked and realized his plan and smiled, "Almost, honey". Brad's jaw fell literally to the floor at this and regained his pride, " Err.. YOUR LOSS!" he screamed and signed off. Gem laughed, it felt good to see Brad's ego drop twenty points, she smiled up at Quatre, "Thanks, I needed that. It ought to keep him off for awhile!" Quatre smiled saying he was glad to help and returned to his work.
Another half hour passed and soon everyone left but Gem and Quatre who were just about done. Another IM popped up from Quatre. "So, done yet?" Gem smirked and replied, " Yea, finally!" A few seconds after a few shots rang out, one crashing through the window and barely missed Gem. Gem ducked and grabbed Quatre, dragging him under the desk as her cell phone rang. Gem answered it, it was Ari, "Gem! Oz has found out the house, Dr. A. wants us to keep them off the base for our next mission, your guns are in the left desk drawer!" "Thanks Ari but YOU COULD HAVE TOLD US THAT SOONER!" Gem hung up and peered out from under the desk; several Oz soldiers were searching the room. She quietly opened the left desk drawer with one hand, careful not to give Quatre or herself away. She felt around with her left hand and grabbed both guns. She carefully shut the drawer after she handed Quatre his gun, successful in not letting the baka soldiers on. "Shit, there has to be five of them out there. On three we jump out from here and shoot 'em, we have to get down to the beach and head them off." Quatre nodded not exactly knowing what the hell was going on but went along with it. "1.. 2.. 3.." Gem whispered. They both snuck out from under the desk and with a few barely missing bullets to them they rid the room of the officers. Gem sighed and hopped out of the broken window with Quatre not far behind as she landed on her feet near the dunes and took of for the shore, silently padding through the sand. Ducking in the dune grass the motioned Quatre to stay close and snuck out onto the beach, giving the first shot to a soldier posted directly in front of them. The soldier fell with a soft thud as a group of about ten ran across the beach towards the direction of the base. Gemini guessed the other pilots took out the rest of them as she took off behind the group shooting randomly at them. A few fell while the rest that were injured retreated. Quatre followed also shooting at the rest; taking out the other uninjured four. "Get down!" Gem commanded as a shower of bullets came flying at them. All of them but one barely missed, the one that didn't hitting Quatre in his right shoulder. He doubled over on the impact and grimaced in pain, gritting his teeth. Gem growled softly as she turned to the two back up officers that fired the shots. She stood up slowly, her leg cut by bullet grazes, and aimed for one of the officers and fired. The officer fell and the other ran for his life as a warning shot was fired at him. "YOU BETTER RUN YOU BAKA!" She dropped her gun and kneeled beside Quatre and carefully set him against a large rock. She sighed as she looked at the wound, "Off with the shirt, I have to bandage your shoulder so you won't bleed to death before Sally can take care of you properly." He nodded a little and slowly slipped off his shirt, which caused him more pain, but he didn't completely show it. She ripped a wide strip of cloth from the bottom of her shirt and another small one. She shuffled over to the waterside and soaked the smaller piece of cloth and went back over to her patient. She studied the wound once more with caring eyes and finally spoke, "Ok, this is going to sting a little but not as bad as it already hurts." Quatre continued with gritted teeth and watched her clean out the wound to keep it from infection, the slat to help clot the bleeding, and take the wider strip as she wrapped his shoulder tightly and tied it at the ends with extreme care not to cause anymore pain to him. //Why would she do this for me?// She inspected her work and sighed, she hated seeing the people she was close to hurt. "It'll be ok, just sit back and rest, I'll get someone to pick us up. No way am I walking another two miles." He smirked a bit as she pulled out her cell phone. "Ari? Gem here. We took care of the soldiers but Quatre was shot in process, I need to get him back so Sally can take care of him properly. And don't bring that damn pink limo of Relena's it'll scare him to death." "How did you know she was over here?" "By the screams from Heero and the screeches of Relena. Just get over here, we're abut two miles from the house, near the pier." Gem hung up and moved herself to the right side of Quatre and rested her head on the rock.
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Ari hung up and replaced the phone on the charger. "Trowa! I need a ride! Quatre's been shot and Gem wants to get him back here A.S.A.P. so Sally can take care of him properly." Trowa nodded and rushed out to the hunter green SUV type car with Ari following close behind. Trowa stepped into the drivers seat with Ari in the passenger's side and barked out directions. Trowa nodded and sped down the sandy street and headed towards the pier by Ari's directions.
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Gem looked up at the stars and then out to the peaceful yet chaotic waves and sighed, she did not want today to go like this. Quatre looked over at her, he sensed she was troubled but decided not to ask at the present moment. Then another shot of pain shot up his arm. He winced and held his shoulder. Gem snapped out of her trance-like state sat on her knees closer by his side, "Shh come on, you'll cause yourself more pain. Relax, Ari and Trowa should be here soon." She soothed as she placed a hand on his free shoulder. Then remembering she had an extra Ibuprofen wrapped tablet she pulled it out of the pocket on her jeans on the side of her knee and unwrapped it. "Here, this should help a little." She held the white pill out to him and smiled slightly as he took it and swallowed it dry. "Thanks.." He managed to get out. She smiled more sweetly at him and rested her back against the rock again. He looked at her calm for once more with kind eyes as a few strands of her light brown hair blew across her face from the sea winds. Then a bright light came into view, which made them both shade their eyes. Gem smiled and helped Quatre up as Ari and Trowa ran out of the stopped but still running car. "Oh my god! You weren't kidding, Gem." Ari blinked. "Why would I kid about this?" Gem questioned in a more serious manner as she put Quatre's free arm around her neck and helped him into the back of the SUV. "I'm just glad that you two are ok." Trowa said once everyone was in and headed towards home.
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Gem helped Quatre out as they stopped in the driveway and once more put his free arm around her neck and doing her best to hide her limp, helped him into his room and onto his bed where Sally waited with her needed supplies. Quatre noticed her limp as Gem pulled a chair to the side of the bed, " You're limping, Gem!" "I know, I'll be fine." She replied coolly. Sally unwrapped the rough bandage Gem made, "Well well well! It looks as if you've done a better job than I could've done in that situation! Just change his bandage every hour and a half, he isn't bleeding much and it isn't completely broken. Lots of R&R will do him good. And watch out, he might develop a fever." Gem smiled relived to know he'd be ok and thanked Sally as she left them alone. "Gem.." Quatre said softly. She looked up at him with soft eyes, "Yea?" "Thanks." He smiled weakly. "No problem." She whispered to him as she covered him with a light blanket as he dozed off. She smiled softly as she watched the blonde sleep and brushed a few of his bangs back in place and felt his forehead. Sally was right, he was a little warm, so she took a soft cloth and dipped it in the basin of cool water beside the bed and squeezed out the excess water and gently laid it on his fore head. Ari, Trowa, Rane, Heero, Nikki, and Duo walked in pair by pair a few minutes later. "So how is he?" Duo asked as he peered over Quatre. "He'll be fine." Gem said looking up. "Good. That was some shot. I don't think Heero has had one that bad." Trowa said flopping down in the last chair and blinking as Ari flopped into his lap since no more chairs were left. "Hn." Was Heero's only reply as he stayed in the doorway; Rane glomped onto him. Just then Dorothy bounded in through the door screeching "QQQUUAATREEEEE" just as Relena screeches Heero's name. " Be QUIET!" Gem barked to Dorothy, Quatre's had it bad enough as is; she figured he didn't need Dorothy to make it worse. "Oh Quatre!! What did SHE do to you?!" Dorothy screeched as she kneeled over him. Gem narrowed her eyes, "What do you mean what I did to him?! I was trying to protect him!" Dorothy shook her head as she started attempting to wake Quatre up who was having a rather good dream so he refused to open his eyes. "Go away Dorothy!" was all he muttered and went back to his dream. Dorothy scowled as she stormed out of the room. "Bitch.." Gem muttered. Everyone left one by one. "Hey Ari, could you watch him for me? I want to take a walk to clear my head." Ari nodded and took her position in the chair beside the bed, Trowa coming back to wait with her.
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Gem walked silently a good ways down the beach until she found the perfect spot by some rocks that formed a small cove. She sat against a large flat rock and watched the stars and the waves lap upon the shore. Sighing softly she returned to her thoughts.
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Quatre turned his head in his bed. In his dream he was running after something. What he didn't know, or decide to think of. He kept running until what he was chasing stopped and a loud shot rang though his dream, the figure falling in front of him. That's when he woke up. He sat straight up in bed in a cold sweat and looked to his side where Ari and Trowa sat. Realizing it was a dream he sighed and slumped back scanning the room with blurry eyes that were slowly clearing. He shook his head and straitened out his bangs and realized Gem wasn't in the room, "Where's Gem?" "She went to take a walk. She's sitting in the small cove of rocks about a fourth of a mile down the beach most likely." He nodded and hopped out of bed, ignoring the pain in his shoulder and slipped on a random shirt and dashed out of the room through the glass double doors leading to the beach from his room. Trowa and Ari just blinked and headed out of the room to see what everyone else was up to.
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She sat enjoying her actual moments of peace, something she hadn't experienced in a long time. Admiring the stars for their freedom she smiled slightly. Then wincing in a small shot of pain up her leg she rubbed it slightly knowing it wouldn't help much. Her gaze now shifting to the sea admiring how carefree it was.
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Not seeing Gem anywhere close by Quatre picked up the pace. The small cove of rocks finally into view he picked up a light run. Gem heard the soft padding of someone and stayed on guard and looked to her right relived to see Quatre but still curious as to why he came out this far. He smiled lightly and sat down to her right ignoring his pain and leaned against the solid rock. "You're supposed to be resting.." She said softly not taking her eyes off the beautiful view of stars and sea. "I know.." He said looking at her with soft sapphire eyes. A few minutes of silence passed but neither of the minded," They're so free and peaceful.." Gem said out of nowhere. She looked over to him and into his questioning blue eyes. Returning her gaze to the sea she continued, "The stars and the ocean. Always peaceful, carefree, not having to see what I've seen and what I've been through. I've never really known much peace. The only few moments I've had spent here at the beach but always interrupted by something or someone." At this Quatre thought twice about being here and wondered if he should leave her be. Returning her gaze back to his kind eyes she smiled softly at him and turned her gaze to the stars. Smiling softly, knowing the pain she's felt, he wrapped his free arm around her shoulders and gazed up at the stars as well. She smiled warmly as she felt his arm around her and laid her head gently on is shoulder, forgetting everything in the past, the pain in her leg, and closed her eyes taking in everything with her other senses. Just a little shocked by this he blinked once but smiled softly once more and pulled her a little closer as a swift chill came around and closed his eyes resting his head softly on hers.
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Trowa and Ari sat boredly on the couch listening to Wufei and Kes blab about justice. Duo and Nikki already dozed off for about ten minutes and were back into the office playing on the Dream cast again. "Hey Ari, um want to take a walk with me?" Trowa said, trying anything to get out of the lecture. Ari nodded swiftly and they both bolted out the back door and down to beach. At the same time Relena ran after Heero some more with Rane trailing behind Relena attempting to hit her with a baseball bat.
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Ari and Trowa finally got out onto the beach and walked slowly on the soft sand looking at the stars. "Beautiful night ne?" Ari commented. "Yea.. beautiful." Was Trowa's reply who was obviously not looking at the stars. Little did they know that this was the time the crabs come back to their burrows to sleep; all at once fifty or so tiny crabs scuttled out of the ocean and over their feet. Ari acked and ran up to drier sand thinking that they were gerbils. Trowa followed her and before they knew it they were to the small cove of rocks. Since the rocks were low enough they could see Gem and Quatre sitting peacefully against them. "Aww, they're so cute ^_^!" Ari commented again. Trowa just nodded. "Don't worry he's in good hands, and she's in good hands with him. You don't want to be too protective now do you?" Ari said softly in an attempt to comfort Trowa while she put her right arm around his waste. Trowa smiled down to her and nodded both of their gazes turning to the ocean. A lone crab scuttled over Ari's foot that just happened to look like a gerbil. A shrill squeak erupted from her throat. This completely interrupted the scene between Quatre and Gem and the startled pair looked up over the rocks to see what exactly that was. Gem sweatdropped as she saw the gerbil looking crab and Ari ontop of Trowa's shoulders to get away from it. The crab was thoroughly freaked out and scuttled into his little burrow. Quatre sweatdropped as well as Gem spoke up," Arrriiiii!" Ari sweatdropped but not as bad as Trowa who was about to fall over, "Err sorry guys." Ari replied as she clambered down from Trowa's shoulders. Gem sighed and stood up and began to brush herself off when Quatre pulled her back down for a second. Gem just blinked, not really knowing what to think about the mischievous look in his eyes. Quatre smiled and pulled her a bit closer and kissed her lightly but quickly, Trowa doing the same with Ari, almost like clockwork. Gem and Ari blinked simultaneously, totally not expecting that. Quatre blushed slightly and pulled Gem to her feet as the both brushed the extra sand off themselves. All four started walking back to the house taking in the ocean once more in the silence. Quatre made up the extra strides Gem had over him and look down at the sand for a second and picked up her hand quickly, thinking to himself 'Why did I do that?' Gem snickered a bit sensing his thought and side stepped a little closer to him. He smiled blushing even more but settled into it but sweatdropped as he saw Trowa and Ari come up beside them, Ari on Trowa's back like a piggy back ride. Both of them snickered at Ari and Trowa and walked back up the stairs they finally reached and walked into the house through the back door.
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Duo and Nikki had migrated from the Dream cast and into the living room and decided to force Wufei and Kes to play monopoly with them. Duo laughed as he took Wufei out of the game for having a hotel on Boardwalk and realized that everyone was back. "Hey guys!!" Duo and Nikki chimed as with one move they won the game. Wufei muttered his usual injustices along with Kes. Both of them walked out of the room and to the fencing room to fight over the meaning of justice. Heero and Rane walked in from beating Relena senseless and plopped onto the couch. Trowa and Ari took the armchair so Gem and Quatre flopped onto the oversized clashing beanbag chair. "So what happened to you guys?" Heero asked inquisitively. Gem looked to Quatre then Ari and Trowa, "Eh, nothing much. Looking at the stars, etc." Heero shrugged. "Anybody want some tea?" Nikki persuaded. "I'll make it." Gem chimed. She hopped up and walked into the kitchen, putting some water onto boil and taking out the tea bags. Quatre got up and walked after her..
Gem: MWHA! Part cliff hanger D
Quatre: ... That was GOOD ^_^!!!!
Nikki: Yea! Can you put Duo and me together in tha next fic e_e?
Gem: Sure.
Ari: WRITE MORE!! What happens next? ::sniffles::
Gem: You have to wait for the next part ^_^! And REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!! ::large SD eyes:: Pppllleeeeaaaasssseeeeee! I won't continue it |.. Well I will you just won't get to enjoy it as much. So =P? Er.. Constructive criticism welcome ^_^!