Kattyena leaned back, snuggling further into the warmth and comfort that Quatre's encircling arms provided readily

SWORD AND SHEATH

PART 3 A.U.: WHERE THERE'S ONE….

A/n: can't write any more after this…dun think…I'm not depressed enough ^.^ besides my friend's obsessed with Dilly-sama now (Dilandau ß -from Escaflowne) so I sort of finished off the fic with a bit of silliness…If you can't guess, I'm T'Chebbi …and my friend Draven is a writer on ff.net called Draven Diabella I think…^.^ sou…I put this up for the sake of history ^^ enjoy

Kattyena leaned back, snuggling further into the warmth and comfort that Quatre's encircling arms provided readily. "So it wasn't a dream?" she tipped her head back to look at his face. "All of that actually happened to you?"

"Yes koi, this just proves how special our Link is." He nuzzled her ear. She blushed. When Quatre had been relating his tale of what happened after he self-destructed Sandrock, Kattyena had gotten an odd look on her face. When he had asked her what the look was for, she had replied haltingly.

"And then Trowa showed up…What's the funny look for Kattyena?"

"I just…I…all that was in my dreams…"

"Hmm…perhaps her uccho no kokkoro is even more perceptive than mine…"

"Hm?"

"I'll explain later koi."

"What is that koko thing you were talking about?" Kattyena asked again.

"Well it's kind of hard to explain, but I'll try. Sometimes I can sense the people that I know, like how they're feeling, even if they aren't anywhere near me. Other times it acts kind of like intuition, I can figure out what a person is thinking. I t wouldn't be right to call them psychic powers really…but that's kind of what they are. An ability to sense other's feelings and sometimes their general train of thought. But you saw exactly what was happening to me, almost the whole sequence of events. And I remember hearing your voice and thinking I was talking to you while I was sick. Come to think of it, perhaps I had dreams like yours but I don't remember them as well." Quatre squinted. "Do…you have a friend who twitches her ears…even though she's human?"

"Yeah! Yeah I do!" Kattyena burst out laughing.

"And a girl with big black wings?" Quatre frowned.

"Yeah! Well, we don't think she really does…it's sort of something we made up."

"What about a guy who shoots electricity out of his cheeks? Is that possible?" Kattyena had to double over, she was laughing so hard.

"No, no he doesn't actually do it, it's a joke…you'll understand soon, you'll meet them all won't you?" Kattyena turned to look at Quatre again. Quatre looked thoughtful, then nodded.

"I discerned that the pilots of the Mobile Suits that attacked your school were acting alone, and since I…I destroyed them, my cover is intact." Kattyena hugged Quatre, although it was an odd embrace since she was leaning against his chest, a backwards hug is better than no hug. She knew how Quatre felt about killing, but it had been necessary. After all, he had been protecting her. Kattyena blinked. Perhaps this koko thing was stronger than either of them thought. Sometimes it seemed that one or two of her thoughts weren't hers…

"Quatre were you just thinking that you had to kill those pilots because you were protecting me?" Kattyena asked suddenly.

"Well yeah, I was actually, how did you know?" Quatre looked mildly surprised.

"I was thinking the same thing, sort of." Kattyena smiled and leaned back again. "So does this mean I can tell my friends that I have a koibito?" Kattyena grinned at Quatre. He blinked.

"Yeah, I guess that's the best word for it." He smiled. "But will any of them understand?"

"Some, and if they don't, I'll just settle for boyfriend." She continued to grin at him. Then something occurred to her. "Hmm, will you come back to school with me?"

"I suppose it is part of my cover isn't it?" He laughed. "Why?"

"Well, then when will you be well enough to come back?"

"I'm pretty sure I'm well enough to go right away, I'm pretty well rested and most of my injuries aren't serious. The only thing that might have been a problem was my concussion and it's already been discerned that there's no permanent damage resulting from that. My arm is safe in it's cast and the rest are all bruises and cuts." Quatre raised an eyebrow. "Besides, I feel fine."

"Are you sure you don't need a little more rest?" Kattyena frowned at him.

"Are you sure you don't?" Quatre replied after glancing at the clock. "We both have school tomorrow, and it's 2 a.m. perhaps we should get some sleep."

"Yeah," Kattyena agreed. "But I'm too tired to move."

"Me too."

"Hmm."

"Kattyena, Quatre, it's time to get up." Rashid's voice echoed in their ears as the two got up from where they had been sleeping on the ratty couch in the street-side entrance of the undercover base. Kattyena yawned and stretched. She was lucky she had already done today's homework, since there hadn't really been time last night. Suddenly she was struck by an awful thought, what about her family? Oh yeah, they had all been somewhere else…her parents off to see that show, they wouldn't be back 'till later in the week, and her brother had that school thing…Well wasn't she lucky. Kattyena grinned. Everything seemed to be going her way these days. Quatre was already herding her towards the mess facilities in the base, so she straightened her clothes and walked forwards with a bounce in her step. They ate breakfast quickly, there was no one to compete with, since it wasn't the regular breakfast time for the soldiers. Then they dropped by Kattyena's house to pick up her bag and finally arrived at the school. Rashid had already explained to the school that although Quatre had supposedly transferred out, the arrangements had fallen through, so he was back. They went to their respective lockers and on their way down the stairs from Kattyena's locker, they met up with the ear-twitcher.

"Hiya Kattyena!" The girl noticed Quatre and twitched her ears. "Hiii…."

"T'Chebbi this is Quatre, he's a transfer student from Japan, but he isn't really Japanese and he speaks perfect English." Kattyena introduced Quatre to her strange friend. Her friend blinked in surprise for a second, before shaking her head slightly as if to clear it, then her eyes widened.

"Wooow really? Suugoiiiii- I mean cool! Pleased to meet ya!" She inclined her head in a small bow.

"Pleased to meet you too." Quatre grinned and also bowed. The girl bounced up and down.

"Waiii oh yeah! Kattyena! I Forgot to tell ya! I wrote more on my story, see?" She handed Kattyena a paper then withdrew it. "Nevermind, read it later. Hey there's Draven!" The little psycho-neko bounded over to another girl, with her ebony hair drawn up into two tufted loops (. what else can I call them?) on either side of her head.

"Draven…hmm" Quatre frowned.

"What?" Kattyena asked.

"Nothing, it's just I know someone named Draven. Is that the winged one?" Quatre asked.

"Yeah that's her." Kattyena laughed and led him over to meet Draven.

"Hi Kattyena! Hey who's this?" Draven looked skeptically at Quatre.

"His name's Quatre, he's a transfer student from Japan, but he isn't really Japanese and speaks perfect English." Kattyena grinned. Draven blinked a moment.

"Hmm…blonde eh?" Draven grinned at Kattyena, who blushed. Then she turned to Quatre. "Hi Quatre."

"Hi." Quatre smiled one of his friendly smiles. They proceeded to meet all of Kattyena's other friends, and had worked their way through to lunch, when Quatre was called down to the office. Kattyena wanted to go with him but he assured her it wasn't anything like that. It most likely had to do with his double-transfer. So she finished up her lunch, and walked outside with T'Chebbi. On their way to the soccer field, they passed the wrecked wall of the science lab. Kattyena paused for a moment.

"Hey T'Chebbi, have you ever heard of a Mobile Suit?" Kattyena asked spontaneously. She was very surprised by her friend's reaction. T'Chebbi stood stock still and looked kind of stricken for a moment, before exploding into high speed babble.

"Ahhh I'm so sorry, I was gonna tell you earlier, but I thought you would think I was crazy and besides I probably shouldn't tell you, I mean…" she trailed off. Kattyena blinked at her, the girl looked embarrassed. "I met these two really nice guys the other day…wait how do you know about Mobile Suits?" The girl blinked.

"What? How do you know?" Kattyena looked confused.

"You mean you know too?" T'Chebbi blinked.

"Yeah…umm Quatre…"

"Aha! So I was right! Lemme guess he's a pilot!" The girl looked excited.

"Yeah…how did you know?" Kattyena was lost.

"Haha!" The girl looked momentarily triumphant. "That's so cool!" Then her eyes began to shift from side to side "Ohh uhh how did I know?"

"Yeah…T'Cheeeebbbiiiiii." Kattyena glared.

"Uhh well…you see I met these two guys the other day named Heero and Duo…."

"What? You guys too?"

"What do you mean us too Draven?"

"Ohh so he is that Quatre…Trowa told me about him…"

"Trowa? I know him!"

"Hey Heero and Duo talked about a Trowa!"

"Oh my…"

-OWARI…?-

(End?) Part 3 Alternate Universe