This might sound strange but just read it, the explanation is coming soon, this is a brighter chapter, a bit angry but not much, I thought this could do some good to show another side of the Gundam team's friendship, this does have something to do with the first three chapters as you'll see later, don't worry, the next chapter will have Heero as the main character again, this is just something to help lighten the mood, I couldn't resist writing this, sorry! .; don't own Gundam wing! (please don't sue me!)
Enjoy!
The lone soldier part 4
"Wake up! Wake up! God you are the laziest person I ever met! Duo! Open your eyes, look everyone's awake, Trowa already started breakfast, you are so lazy!" As Hilde shouted at the braided pilot, Relena finally woke up, she had been having nightmares the entire night and had finally gotten over the last one when her best friend's angry shouts woke her up, for that she was grateful, the last dream had been the worse she had that night, it involved Heero and some people with guns, and death… "Duo! Look what you made me do! Sorry, Relena, go back to sleep." Hilde smiled and kicked Duo, who grumbled and finally opened his eyes, looking as if he had been run over by a truck, "Hilde! I didn't have any sleep either, and you almost broke my ribs!" as the couple argued Relena got up and walked to her duffle bag, picking out a t shirt and jeans, she walked to the small bathroom to change, only to find it locked and Wufie's angry voice telling her to get lost, as murmurs of "weakling," and "stupid women," were heard from behind the bathroom door, Relena stuffed the clothes back into her pack, rolled up her sleeping bag, and sleepily stalked to the kitchen where Cathy and Trowa were quietly cooking breakfast, and Sally sitting at the table, sipping hot chocolate and shrugging as Quatre asked some question Relena couldn't quit hear. "Morning Relena, don't you want to change?" was sally's greeting, "Wufie's in the bathroom," she said as she greeted Quatre and Catherine, going over o the counter and getting herself a cup for tea, "Oh, don't worry, I'll be right back…" sally grinned and was about to walk out of the kitchen, when Relena's hand stopped her, "Don't, leave him alone, the pajamas are comfortable, and Wufei needs a shower anyway." Relena tried to smile, forgetting for now last night's dream, "if you're sure, but yeh, Wufei does need a shower, he's beginning to stink…" Sally laughed and sat back down, inviting Relena to join her,
"Good morning, how was your sleep?"
"Fine thanks, how about you Quatre? still having dreams?" Quatre blushed; he hadn't realized that people knew about his dreams, Trowa finally turned around and was greeted by Relena's smile, "Quatre, you've been talking in your sleep." He said, and turned back to the stove, where about a dozen eggs were sizzling, emitting small 'pop' noises once in a while,
"I was talking?" Quatre asked, avoiding eye contact and blushing harder,
"Yes, but so was I, Hilde told me, it's stress, or nightmares in my case." Relena said, hoping it would make Quatre feel less imberesed knowing he wasn't the only one with dreams, "you two need a sleeping pill, or a vacation, or both, but I can't blame you, I've been having nightmares of my own. You're right Relena, its stress. I have some before big performances." Catharine said, smiling and shaking her head in sympathy, Quatre blushed more, if such a thing was possible. "The water's boiling."
Trowa said as he put the teapot on the table, Relena reached for it and poured some into her cup, waiting for Quatre to give her his to fill up as well.
"Thanks Trowa, tea's what I need right now." She said as she put the teapot back down and sipping the steaming hot drink, her body relaxing and forgetting about the nightmares. Catherine finally finished helping Trowa with breakfast and sat down, Relena took a cup from her hands and poured the hot water into it, filling the cup up three quarters of the way. Cathy thanked her and signed, relaxing in the chair, and smiling to herself for reasons unknown. Just then a swear was heard and Duo's head popped into the kitchen, his nose catching the smell of eggs and his braid, now combed and tied up neatly, bouncing around, "Morning guys, where's the food?" as he said this, his head was pulled back by the braid and Hilde's voice was heard "Duo! You pig! Is food all you ever think about?" then Duo was dragged back in to the kitchen by an angry Hilde, who quickly greeted everyone and sat down, leaving Duo in the middle of the room. Hilde sat down next to Sally and whispered something into the older women's ear; pretty soon giggling was heard in the kitchen and as Catherine gave them a look that said 'what the hell are people talking about?' she was quickly dragged into the conversation and soon grinned and sneaked a peak at her younger brother, still at the stove, mindlessly turning the already cooked eggs. "You are wrong! That is not how things happen! Well…maybe…sure, no not that way…" was all Relena could make out, which by itself told her plenty about what the girls were thinking…I wish I could do that, just forget about everything and have some fun, but it's been so long…I hope this will pass soon, I'd rather work or attend meetings 24/7 then do this, then be forced to do this. Wonder what it feels like to have a normal relationship? Bet I'll never know, not if this fails, I don't think I'll stand it if this fails…Cathy's lucky, I'd give anything to have Milliardo here…but I don't think it would work out anyway, it's safer to keep Heero and Milliardo separated, for safety, but if it fails…then it wouldn't matter. I wish Milli was here with me, but oh well, should be thankful I got to go at all, with all that work it's a vacation even if I'm here to most likely break my heart…
"Relena? Relena? Ok…guess she's in happy-pappy mood…Hilde? Do you see her face? Looks like she fell asleep with her eyes open…" Catherine laughed and nudged Hilde, nodding her head towards Relena, who was smiling to fin air, "Think we should wake her up?" Hilde laughed and waved a hand over Relena's eyes, getting no response she gave up and went on talking to Duo about their plans for the day. Sitting down next to his sister, Trowa nudged Relena in the ribs, finally getting a reaction, "Huh? Sorry, must have dosed off…" Relena said sleepily, taking a gulp of her tea and looking at Cathy who was currently laughing and trying not to chock.
"So…what do we do? We're finally here, except Dorothy, do we wait for her, or go on and leave a note for her to find when she gets here?" Quatre said, trying to turn the subject to serious matters, "when will she get here?" asked Trowa, ignoring his sister,
"Not sure, in a few days, or later then that, she said not to wait for her." Quatre answered, happy that one person in the group heard him, "Then I think we should go, just to see what's out there, then we'll come back and stay here for the night." Trowa answered, taking up his usual emotionless voice, "I don't understand why these weaklings should hinder us, our best move would be to split up and search the grounds alone, Barton and me winner and Maxwell, we'll find Yuy and be back by sun set, next day we'll have Yuy show us exactly why he's two weeks late and correct his mistakes. Mission accomplished and no stupid weaklings to get into trouble." said Wufei, walking in and dragging up a stool to sit next to Duo. "If you call me a weakling one more time," said Hilde, "I'll personally make sure you never walk again." After giving him a death stare, which would make Heero proud, she turned around and stared at Duo, expecting him to say something,
"I think we could use more then four people, if you remember the entire city is in ruins, and Heero could be anywhere, it will take much more then a day to find him." Said Quatre " provided that he's alive that is," Wufei said as he looked up from his coffee.
"You can be sure he is." Relena answered, giving Wufei a cold glance, as if daring him to say otherwise. "Stupid unna, do you think that unless something was very wrong, Yuy would fail in reporting in after a mission? As small as it might be?" asked Wufei,
"No, but it is possible that his mission is not complete, or that he has other business to attend, one should never underestimate a teammate Wufei, Heero might just be working, or on his way back." Said Trowa, breaking the tension of the room, "Neither should you over estimate the abilities of a single soldier against large numbers, as disorganized as they are, OZ can still do damage." Wufei answered coldly, looking at Trowa as if he was nothing but a child, meddling in business over his head. "His mission was not to kill them in combat, but to destroy the base and as much of the soldiers as possible, there is no point in thinking that Heero would disregard orders." Said Trowa, equally cold eyes staring back. As Wufei was not about to argue with some weakling, Catherine quickly got up and put down breakfast on the table, drawing both boys attention away from each other. The tension eased a bit and the girls continued their conversation, while Wufei, apparently not hungry, sat and stared at his food, not paying attention to Trowa, who was quietly talking to Quatre and Duo. After breakfast, Relena finally changed out of her pajamas and walked outside, saying she'd be back in two hours, because she needed to think.
Fresh air, I can't stand it anymore, even breakfast was horrible, I felt like killing both Trowa and Wufei if they didn't shut up! This is really controlling me, what am I thinking; just an argument and I go crazy, I need to relax, both Wufei and Trowa are my friends right, just 'cause I don't really know them doesn't mean I can think these things about them, what kind of a friend am I? But they were arguing over something stupid and pointless, whether Heero is wounded and can't report back, or not finished with his mission, we still need to find him. Great, now I get involved, this is worse then 24/7 of stupid peace conferences, they might be useful, but they're still boring this is much worse, and it's getting on everyone's nerves, Trowa always seemed so calm, and now he totally blew up on Wufei, wow, it must be really getting to him too, but then Wufei gets to everyone, some times he's just plain annoying and I really want to slap him, oh well, he probably won't even feel it if I did…walking down the path leading away from the small house, Relena looked happily to the sky, whispering something to the gentle breeze going through the trees, she walked on and soon disappeared out of sight, forgetting about breakfast and her troubles, she walked on. Not noticing a familiar voice shouting her name…
AN: Ok, a bit pointless? I think so, but now you know what's going on you'll see a bit more of an explanation later, Wu-man got attitude! And so did Trowa, OOC? Yes or no, you tell me, can Trowa even do that? Oh well, I'll see the reviews, and there will be reviews, right? *Crosses fingers* ok, I'm not trying to make Wu-man the bad guy, he's just worried and doesn't know how to show it without looking weak, this is a 1/R, but that might change, all couples straight, sorry, no 3/4 or 2/1, and Wufei and Sally are a very small couple, its mostly HY and RP and maybe HS and DM, TB and CB are brother and sister, no romance there, Milli and the older characters don't really show up except Sally, maybe in the end, but not so far, it's too much people, just the five pilots and girls is enough, if someone really wants one of the older ones in there then I'll consider, but other wise they'll be in only at the end. other stuff…ok, soon it'll be one chapter on Heero and one on the others, in order, but for now it's what I think of sooner, this will be a pretty long fic, maybe about ten chpts. I'm still thinking of the ending, so if you have suggestions, or a couple you really want, or anything, send me a message at GW_girl17@hotmail.com, or drop a review! But I need all suggestions due next chapter, or I'll do whatever I come up with. This is a change for me, I haven't done a "happy" fic yet, I have some drafts but I'll never post 'em and this is a nervous stage for me, I hope this gave you some info, if it didn't, well, write it down, I need to know, I could take this chapter off and change it…