Marimeia's Engagement Marimeia's Engagement
By West Wind
Chapter 6 ~ The Trap

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters

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Heero and Duo entered the establishment and sat at a table after getting something to drink. The lighting was dim and smoke wafted through the air. The band had not started yet. Heero glanced around the place while Duo chattered away. Heero spotted their target across the room talking to a man. He motioned to Duo and he glanced in Lynn's direction. They opted to act like they did not see her and waited for her to approach them. The band began to set up when Trowa took a seat beside Heero.

"May, I join you?" he inquired.

"Of course," chirped Duo. "Glad you could make it."

The three settled in and listened to the first set the band played They were good, and Heero found himself enjoying it, even if he would not admit it to Duo. The first set ended and Trowa went to get them all refills.

"Fancy meeting you here," came a voice from behind them.

They turned to find Lynn with a beer in hand. She sat in the seat recently occupied by Trowa.

"Hey, Lynn," said Duo and Heero nodded.

"What did you think of the band?" asked Duo.

"They're great," she responded. "What do you think Heero?" she asked while batting her eyes at him.

Heero only grunted and stared at her coldly. She seemed unfazed as she turned to talk to Duo.

Trowa returned with drinks for all.

"I noticed you had joined us, so I brought you another drink," Trowa said to Lynn.

"Thanks," she responded before taking a long pull at the mug with three sets of eyes carefully watching her.

Lynn and Duo continued to chat until the band started up again. By the time they were done with their second set Lynn was finished off the drink Trowa had brought.

"Anyone else like another drink?" Duo asked as he started to get up from the table.

Trowa motioned he would take one and Heero declined.

"Would you get me a Cherry Coke?" Lynn asked.

"Sure thing," Duo cheerfully answered before going to get the drinks.

Duo quickly returned and distributed the beverages. They talked a bit more before Lynn noted she was not feeling to good. She stood to go to the bathroom and swayed as she was hit with a wave of vertigo. Heero and Trowa each grabbed an arm to steady her.

"Whoa!" she exclaimed. "That is not good."

"Maybe fresh air will help," offered Duo.

She had passed out by the time they got her outside and they loaded her into Heero's car.

"Right on schedule," said Trowa as they loaded her in the backseat.

"She should sleep like a baby for a while," Duo added.

They hauled her up to Heero's apartment and laid her on the couch. Sally was there waiting for them. She gave Lynn enough of the counteragent to the drug the pilots had slipped into her drink so she would be slightly lucid. She also hit her system with a shot of truth serum.

"Give the drugs time to take affect, then you can start asking her questions," stated Sally as she finished working on the girl.

The three ex-pilots began their questioning….

"What is your name?"

"Sara Greer."

"Are you pretending to be Lynn?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"To get close to Heero Yuy."

"Why do you want to get close to him?"

"To carry out my plan, revenge."

"What did he do to you?"

"He killed my father!"

The three looked at each other and shrugged. They all were responsible for killing people in the war and most of the time they did not know the name's of those they had taken life from.

The questioning continued for a couple hours until the guys had enough info to peace her story together. It turned out that Sara's father had been on the escaping shuttle containing those who supported peace that Heero had been tricked by OZ into blowing up. [author's note: I don't remember how many people were on the shuttle, and might be a bit off from the series. It has been a while since I saw that part, but for this story, pretend there were several and one of them was Sara's father. Thanks.] Sara was young when the event occurred and Heero came around asking forgiveness and offering his life. A few years later Sara's mother remarried Mr. Greer who adopted her, giving her his name. He was a good man, but he was not her father. Her father had been torn out of her life unexpectedly and she wanted the man responsible to pay.

She remembered the day the dark brown haired teen came to her home asking to see her mother. Sara had spied through the cracked door to the connecting room and listened as the boy told of his dead and offered her mother a gun to take his life with. Her mother declined the offer and the boy left. That day, Sara promised herself she would remember the boy's name and make him feel what she was feeling right then. She did not want to kill Heero. She wanted to make his life miserable. Let him know what it was like to loose a person who meant the world to you. Make him know what it was to loose those you care about, to know he/she would never come back. She wanted revenge ~ An eye for an eye. It was something she did not tell anyone about, but all she did in her life was to achieve her goal. She pushed herself to be the best in everything. She developed a variety of skills since she did not know what she would need to extract her revenge. If nothing else she was patient. She learned what she could about Heero and devised a plan.

Her initial plan was to get Heero to fall madly in love with Lynn and then watch him crumble when the real Lynn turned up dead. When she found out that he was already engaged, she altered her plan a bit. She was still going to try to seduce Heero and then kill both his fiancée and Lynn. Make it look like they killed each other over Heero. The only hindrances to the plan was Heero not falling for her and not being able to find out who his betrothed was. It turned out that the real Lynn was alive and locked away at Sara's place.

Once they had finished questioning her, Heero contacted Lady Une and informed her what they had learned.

"So, she is not associated with any terrorist organization?" asked Une.

"No," answered Heero. "While Trowa and Duo questioned her, I did some background checking on her real name and turned up enough evidence to support what she told us."

"I will send Sally, Wufei and a group of Preventers to Sara's place to find the true Lynn Scott," said Lady Une. "Bring her to HQ until we can turn her over to the appropriate authorities."

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The group of Preventers stood outside Sara's house door. They forced their way in and fanned out through the house. They cautiously searched the house. They found Lynn locked in one of the rooms that Sara had made escape proof. Lynn was grateful to have been rescued. Sally gave her a once over to make sure everything was fine with Lynn. Lynn gave them a thorough account of what had happened to her.

When she received her transfer papers, she packed up her belongings and headed to her new location. She had an flat acquired before she left. When she arrived at her new home, there was a woman waiting for her. At first Lynn thought it was the landlady there to welcome her, but knew her mistake when she felt a prick of a dart in her arm and began to feel woozy. After that she woke up in the room they found her in. While she had been a prisoner, no one else ever entered the house to her knowledge and Sara never mentioned anyone else helping her. Sara did go on and on about her revenge in great detail to Lynn in the evenings. Lynn was sure the other woman was a few bricks shy of a load.

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When Sara found that her cover and chance at revenge was blown, it pushed her over the edge. All she had worked for her entire life was for naught. Sara drifted off into her own little world where her father was still alive and Heero was in lover with her. Sara was placed in a high security institution where she could live out her fantasies without harming anyone else.