Duo paces back and forth in StarGate's lounge. He holds in his hands
a ruby red apple. As if the apple were alive Duo talks to it. His anger
has made him delirious.
"Why? Why damn you! Why did he have to say THAT?! Of all the things
he could have said he had to say "I love you." A simple "Are you ok?" would
have been sufficient. But nooo! He had to open his BIG mouth and say "I
love you"!" His grip on the apple becomes more fierce. Duo twists his hands
on the apple, pretending it is Ajack's head. He puts more pressure and
twists more and more and more . . .
Smash
Instead of an apple, Duo now holds fresh homemade applesauce in his
hands. He grabs a towel and cleans off the poor remains of one very unlucky
apple.
"Hey Duo. We're all packed and ready to storm the camp. Is Hilde ready?"
Say Lark oblivious to Duo's sudden anger when he hears Hilde's name. Since
they got to StarGate, Duo and Hilde have not said a word to each other.
Hilde hasn't even said anything to Ajack as well.
"I haven't checked on her yet."
"What? What have you been doing this whole time? We could have used
your help loading the weapons and stuff into the car. That stuff was heavy
. . . " Now Lark sees that Duo is aggravated.
"Uh . . . what happened when we came out of the motel? You three have
been pretty quite since we left. Is Hilde ok?"
"Yes . . . " Lark looks at him and smiles. He knows. He can see it in
Duo's eyes. Duo loves Hilde. He grabs an apple from the bowl that is on
the table next to him and laughs a little.
"You know. He doesn't really love her." Says Lark as he polishes the
apple with his sleeve.
"Who?"
"Ajack. He doesn't love Hilde like I can tell you do. He loves her more
like I do; like she is family. You must have made him feel threaten to
make him tell her he loves her. But I think you can over power his words.
He just blurted it out! You . . . you mean more to her than Hilde is willing
to let on. I mean, the whole time we were fighting all she would do is
talk about you, never Ajack. In fact I think she forgot about him . . .
when encountered you." Lark takes a bite from his apple. Duo's whole attitude
changed with what Lark had said. A small smile is seen now.
"Besides, I don't know you all that well but I think you are a whole
lot better than Ajack. I don't know what it is . . . I get this strange
feeling with him." He takes another bite of apple before leaving.
"Oh well. It's probably nothing."
Trowa stands outside of a phone booth waiting for his friend to finish
giving Sally their report and booking them a flight back to the colonies.
Trowa looks at the ground ahead of him and thinks back to the events that
took place earlier today.
"We are a business for the people. We fight so you don't have too. We put pride in making sure . . . "
"Stop the with the commercial. We know who you really are." Said
Trowa. The girl smiled like a mother would to her child. She takes a step
closer to Trowa telling him she is not intimidated by his unkind voice.
"Yes, we know you do."
"We?" Said Quatre. He moved from his spot in front of the president's
desk to stand next to Trowa. The president stood up and walked over to
the girl. He faced the two Gundam pilots and placed a hand on the blond's
shoulder.
"Gentlemen. You see everything is under control. There is no reason
to worry. We are in good hands."
"What? We just told you that Brisk is trying to take over the world!
You are giving it to them if you side with them! Are you mad?" Said Quatre.
It was the first time in a long time that Quatre has gotten so mad that
he would yell. However, his anger is in vain; the president and girl are
unmoved.
"We are in no trouble. Now please leave."
Slam. Trowa is awakened by the sudden shift in the phone booth. Quatre
moves out and crosses his arms.
"We have a new problem."
Hilde is in the main computer room for StarGate, where their security
system is. It is the most powerful computer in all the colonies. A computer
that has help shape Hilde into an excellent hacker. With this computer
she can get into any computer she wants.
[Access Denied]
"Damn." Well, almost any computer. The room is large and the walls are
lined with monitors, flashing lights and wires. Control panels wrap around
the room except one wall. This wall is all glass and overlooks the main
workroom. Hilde can see the rebuilding of the Gundams take place. Sally
had sent all the parts to StarGate yesterday and since all the workers
are the same as the ones who help repair them, they knew what to do and
went to work. It is very impressive. The Gundams look like they will need
a week before they are done. There are more than a hundred people working
on all five Gundams and they are the best engineers in the colony. Hilde
sighs and returns to her screen. Her computer is in front of the window
so she can look out and see what is going on. It is a small desk with a
computer and a file cabinet on both sides of the desk.
[Access Denied]
"DAMN!" Hilde has been working nonstop since she got here. She wants
to do anything to keep her mind off what had just happened.
"Hilde, I love you."
"Du . . . Ajack?" She wanted to believe it was Duo who had said that
but his lips did not move. So it had to be Ajack. Don't get her wrong,
she loves Ajack but . . . "Duo . . . " She looks up at him but he looks
away. Her heart broke at his cold jester. A soft cold hand touched her
face. Ajack. She looked up at him not knowing what to say.
"Hey! Hilde, are you ok? You look like shit." Said Tailliea as she
kneeled down next to Ajack.
"I feel like it. Ohh . . . My head. Man, they cloned her?" She got
up with the help of Duo and Ajack.
"They didn't. That woman just really hated you." Said Lark when he
came over to them.
"What do you mean? How can you tell she wasn't?" Ajack, Lark and
Tailliea looked at her in disbelief.
"Didn't you see? It was hot in there. I thought I was going to melt."
Said Tailliea as she fanned herself with her hand.
"And?" Said Hilde. She did recall it to be rather hot in there but
she did not see how that told them that Mrs. Greenberg wasn't a clone.
"She was sweating. None of the NM's, new models, or the clones
sweat. Not even the disposables. That is how you can tell." Said Lark.
"Why did Brisk make them like that?" Said Duo.
"Maybe Brisk hated people who sweat?" Said Tailliea.
"Lets go. We have to destroy that camp that is here." Said
Ajack out of the blue. He turns and looks at Hilde and Duo and then leaves.
[Access Denied]
"Damn." She sighs and places her head on the desk. She loves Ajack but
Duo as well. Whom does she love the most?
"Duo . . . "
"Yes babe?" Hilde lifts her head to see Duo seating next to her. He
could always sneak up on her. She smiles and returns to her work.
[Access Denied]
"Damn! I give up. Lets just blow the whole place up and go from there!"
She says as she flies her hands in the air as a sign of defeat. Duo takes
hold of her hand. She can't help but blushes at his sudden action. The
warmth and the touch of his skin made her heart skip and beat or two.
"I can help."
"How?" Their voices are soft and they come closer to the point that
if they were too more a little more, they would be kissing.
"By telling you a story." Hilde about fell over. She was not expecting
that response. As dishearten as that was, she said nothing.
"Before man, there were these perfect beings. They lived in peace and
harmony and were very happy. Until one day when they displeased the gods.
They made the gods so enraged that they were punished. Their punishment
was to be split in two. So one by one every perfect being was split and
they were told that if they wanted to be happy again that had to find their
other half. Years went by and none of them could find their other half.
The gods were cruel for sent each of the two halves far away from each
other. So as time went on the beings became what we are now. Unhappy and
lost humans . . . "
"Duo? How is this helping me?" Duo takes her hand and kisses it. Looking
at her he pulls her hand away from his kiss, never leaving her eyes.
"Because . . . Hilde . . . you're my other half." Just then the lights
in the room shut off. Hilde looks out the window and sees that they are
the only ones having a power outage. Then her screen comes on, illuminating
the room with a soft glow. Soon the curser starts to move . . .
"HELLO . . . "
It is Genesis.
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Oooooh! Who is a bad kitty? Hee Hee! I had to stop it there because I am evil and I love to play with your mind! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA! I got a request to finish "Coming Shawdows" so I will be returning to that for some time. However, if your reviews are many and/or you request (email) that I finish this before I go back to "Coming Shawdows" I will then stay here. I really don't like writting my other story. It's fun in all but....I feel this is better! But anyway, thank you all SOOO much for reviewing! I really do love to read them, they bring me such happness. Well see you soon! R & R ^.^
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