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"Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls of the L4 colony! Traveling Circus presents- 'The Amazing Catherine' in her knife throwing act!" The ring man's voice shouted throughout the tent area, followed by many cheer's from the audience.
A spot light was focused on two people emerging onto the stage. One was wearing a body tight purple dress with flares at the ends. She had redish-brown hair and light blue/violet eyes. As she approached the platform she took a short bow, then held out her hand for her assistant. He was very tall, and handsome. He had long brown bangs that covered one of his two emerald green eyes. He was wearing big puffy white pants and a multicolored vest.
After the young man had positioned himself up against the large wooden board behind him, Catherine took out one of her many knives from her small sash that she kept around her waist.
"Ready Trowa?" Catherine asked the young man.
He simply nodded.
As Catherine slowly brought her hands behind her head she positioned herself to throw the knives. Almost immediately she released the knives from her hand and sent them flying towards Trowa's head. The knives narrowly missed his head by a centimeter at the most. Large cheers and whistles were heard erupting from the audience. Catherine smiled.
"Common Trowa! Give them a little smile..!" Catherine shouted over the audience, her face beaming with joy.
Trowa only slightly smirked.
He had gotten used to Catherine's constant plea's and gestures. It had only been 2 years since he had returned to the circus after the Marimeya incident, and now it seemed more of a home to him then he had ever known before. He had actually grown to like the people there, and Catherine who was supposedly his sister. Of course he knew he had no family. She only insisted on acting as one.
Another dagger flew past his head, the crowd once again erupting into cheers.
It had been a good 2 years since his last rendezvous with his last partners in war, the Gundam Pilots. He could still remember all the most memorable times he had with them. They were his first and only true 'friends'. Though during war he never considered them as friends, only partners and maybe even less than that. Now that the war was past he had seemed to have far too much free time on his hands. It had seemed as though it was all too peaceful.. he thought peace might hold up for a while, but this long? He had a funny feeling about it that just made him uncomftorable.....
'Like calm before a storm...' Trowa thought as the last dagger barely brushed up against his leg.
'Hm. She's off today..that one was far too close' he observed, feeling a small trickle of blood run down his leg.
She had been acting strange ever since that morning... like she was always on the verge of tears. Most of the time he put that aside, but there was something different about her this time. He had decided that he was going to find out what it was.
As Trowa grabbed the rest of the knives off the wooden platform he and Catherine took their bows and slowly made their way off stage.
"I'm sorry Trowa...I- I just.." Catherine stammered.
Trowa brought up his hand to silence her.
"It's fine." he said assuringly.
Catherine slowly nodded her head. She had also gotten used to him.
He was always so quiet and mysterious, and hardly talked.
He was a great mystery to her even after all these years of knowing
him, but she still loved him as if he were her actual brother. The
slightest things about him seemed to amaze her. Whenever he had come close
to revealing something secretive about himself, she always felt honored
that he would trust her with such valuable information.
As she slowly unpacked her lunch from her backpack a familiar voice broke into her thoughts..
"You've been acting strangely lately Catherine." Trowa said " -anything you want to talk about?".
Catherine froze.
That's another thing that amazed her about him. He always seemed to be able to read people incredibly well. She had just figured it as a gift, but this time she wished he never had it.
"Nothing's wrong..whatever made you think that something was?"
"No reason.". he responded.
Catherine cringed. She knew she couldn't keep the secret from him much longer...but she just didn't want him to leave her again. She fumbled around with a particular paper in her backpack, almost deciding weather she should show it to him or not.
"Trowa.." Catherine said, slowly bringing out the paper in her bag.
Trowa turned to face her, giving her his undivided attention.
"The preventors sent a message to you this morning..." she said, slightly trembling as she handed the paper to him.
Trowa slowly unfolded the message. It read:
Mr. Trowa Barton,
Please be informed that we would request a meeting with all former
Gundam pilots.
Please reply to this message as soon as possible.
- Lady Une
Trowa slowly folded up the paper and placed it into his pocket. He could only assume the rest of the gundam pilots had received a message identical to this one and were on their way. He had better hurry.
"Thank you." Trowa said silently, slowly walking over to the videophone.
Catherine stood there, frozen in place. She couldn't bare another separation...not when she had come this close to him. Every time the preventors had sent him a message in the past he was out of there faster than he had gotten the message. She couldn't take it anymore. It seemed so unfair to her that Trowa would just keep coming and leaving without consulting her first...
She heard Trowa's light footsteps coming towards the door as he walked back in. She watched him slowly place all his belongings into a single bag and take off his make-up. Soon he was dressed just like he had always been, long pants with a turtleneck sweater.
Catherine trembled slightly as she asked him:
"Your leaving again. Aren't you?"
Trowa paused momentarily and looked up to her. Then he swung his bag over his shoulders and nodded his head briefly.
Catherine stood there momentarily allowing the information to sink in. Then as soon as she snapped back into reality she saw Trowa lifting up the curtain of the tent, and slowly walking out.
"TROWA!" she screamed, running after him.
He turned around to look at her. Her face was scrunched up in pure anger, while tears flowed down her face. She stomped over to him and slapped him hard across the face, sending his head sideways.
" Why do you keep running off like this Trowa...?! I thought the war was over! You said you would never go again..you promised me.." she said, her voice starting to quiver down by the last part.
A red mark in the shape of a hand slowly formed on Trowa's cheek as he slowly turned his head to her. His eyes were calm as usual, but his voice was incredibly soothing.
"Catherine.." he said gently , putting his hands on her shoulders. "- I promise you, I will come back."
Catherine looked up to him, tears spilling from her face.
"You also promised you wouldn't go..."
"You know I wouldn't go if it wasn't important. Trust me." he said .
Catherine stared into his emerald orbs momentarily, then nodded and closed her eyes. She then slowly backed away, out of his grasp.
"Fine. Go. But I expect you to back, safe!" she said, slightly smiling.
Trowa nodded and slowly turned around, and started walking again. As he started to disappear from sight Catherine clutched her elbows with both hands.
" I do trust you Trowa...I do.."
" So, what happened back there in your driveway Noin?" Sally asked as she reached over to check on Heero.
Noin frowned and looked at her.
"It seems as though an assassination was attempted, plenty of back up as you might have already seen." Noin said, smiling. "That boy is amazing. He took them all down..."
Sally nodded her head in agreement. She had remembered the many times she had come in contact with Heero Yuy. She had seen and been involved with him many times before in war. He really was an amazing soldier. She was fully convinced that there wasn't anything he could not do.
"Hmm..he's banged up pretty badly." Sally stated, re-moistening his wounds with antibiotics.
"I wouldn't be suprised. He did take a pretty bad blow to his lower back though.." Noin said slightly concerned.
"Yeah. He will need to stay off it for a couple of weeks.." Sally said
Suddenly a slight mumbling noise could be heard from across the bed. Thinking it was another enemy Sally jolted up in place, but what greeted her made a smile form across her lips...
Relena was still sitting there, sleeping.
Sally chuckled.
Noin smiled as well and went around the bed, gently picking Relena up. Noin then carefully slipped out the door and went into Relena's room right next door, placing her in her own bed.
After that was done Noin returned back into the room that she was previously in.
"She really has a big heart." Sally said as Noin entered the room.
Noin nodded her head in agreement, smiling.
"I know. She's a very caring person..."
' I only wonder how long it will last..' Noin thought solemnly. ' the duties she has to uphold are really getting to her.. she's been looking more tired every day. Maybe she should take a vacation....'
Checking on Heero one last time before they left, Sally and Noin went down for some coffee. Their voices could be heard as only mumbled sounds as they slowly drifted farther and farther away....
Heero's eyes opened almost automatically.
Pulling the IV out of his arm and all the monitoring devices off his chest, he slowly got out of the bed. He could almost laugh at the poor security they had there. Pulling on his pants and shirt he looked around for something to help him escape...anything! He looked frantically through the drawers and under the bed, but to his disappointment there was nothing there. Quickly he looked through the closet and found...extra lined panty hose?
No. that wouldn't work. Throwing them aside he found a silk vinyl rope.
'Thank god.' Heero thought, relived that he wouldn't have to be riding down his bedroom room window on panty hose.
Throwing the rope out the window he slowly began to climb over the top, when a sudden deep ripping pain scorched through him. Heero clenched his teeth together and braced himself against the window pane, retreating back into the house.
'No good...' he thought as he rubbed his back wound.
Looking around the area he thought of another way to escape..
'Relena's balcony....' Heero thought, slowly opening his door and slipping down the hall to Relena's room.......
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As Heero entered Relena's chambers he could hear her sleeping soundly in her bed...
'Perfect...' he thought, as he stealthily snuck around her bed till he finally reached her balcony door. '-now all I need to figure out is how to-'
"Heero.....?" a voice mumbled into the darkness.
Heero froze.
Slowly turning around he saw Relena lying down faced towards him, still asleep. He relaxed a bit. Then..he looked at her face.
Her brow was furrowed and part of her silky hair draped over her face. The moonlight let its light silver streaks run down opon her smooth, unblemished face as her lips glistened from a natural shine.
She certainly was a vision.
Heero stood there in silence for awhile looking at her until ...
"No..NO...Heero..No....come back...HEERO...!!" Relena screamed as she tossed and turned in the bed.
Heero instantly ran over to her bedside, and grabbed her hand. He started to comfort her as she screamed.....
"Shh..its ok." Heero said soothingly.
Relena automatically seemed to hear his words and stopped moving, though she still kept a hard grip on his hand.
Heero looked down at her...she was so beautiful! He gently folded back one of her many strands of hair and slid his hand across her soft face, placing it behind her ear....
' What are you doing?!' he thought suddenly, and repelled back from her.
Heero started to breathe heavily as he stood up, shaking.
"What's wrong with me...?!" Heero asked himself, wide eyed.
As he took a few steps backwards his foot stumbled into something. Heero looked down. He saw a small teddy bear..the same teddy bear he had given her three years ago! He slowly bent down and picked it up, wincing slightly from pain of his lower back. He slowly walked back over to Relena's bed and placed the bear in the same position his hand had recently been in. Relena snuggled up to the bear slightly and sighed, a slight smile forming on her lips.
Heero stared intently down at the sleeping beauty that lay before him for the final time, a light smile playing on his lips as well.
Walking out the doorway, Heero stole one last glance at Relena's sleeping form and closed the door behind him, leaving only a single steamy hand print on the widow glass to greet her in the morning..........
"WOW! Great day , huh?" A rather tall, long braided young man asked ecstatically.
"Yes it's a lovely day." A slightly shorter, blond, arabian young man said in return. "It was certainly a suprise that we had found each other on the shuttle flight Duo."
"Yeah! I know! What are the odds?!" The braided boy said, seemingly known as Duo. "Common Quatre ol' buddy..we gotta go see Jousan'!!" Duo said, as a large grin escaped from his mouth.
The arabian boy, known as Quatre nodded, and smiled in return.
"Yes. Let's go."
To Be Continued.......
Thank you for reading CHAPTER 3!!!!! :) God I love to write. I only hope it shows.. anyhow. I just wanted to thank all the people who reviewed my story so far!!! All of your wonderful and insightful comments have really inspired me!!! Thank you again, and I hope to get my next chapter in REALLY soon. (I am on vacation after all. NO SCHOOL! Cheers to that! *raises glass*) I mean..common. I did this chapter pretty quick. I have now found out what writers stress is. Though it will really kick in when ...school *involuntarily shudders* comes back. So right now its PURE ENJOYMENT. *sighs* SO. If you have time, Please Review! :) It would be WELL appreciated. Thank you. (stay cool!)
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