Chapter 6 Betrayal Of Affections
****"Konichi wa! I have seen all of Gundam Wing except tape 13 and the third OAV! I got it now I need to sit and watch them! Sit, me? I know I don't have the things right, but I'll work in why it's all messed up some day. Just enjoy the plot. Maybe I'll make a prologue or build some today? Something bothering you, call me. highpowerhyperlets@yahoo.com." AWM****
Duo came into his apartment wanting nothing more then to kiss his children good-night and sack it in for a long night off blissful sleep. What he found was bloody hand prints of ranging sizes smeared everywhere, a lamp shattered on the floor, and his baby laying quietly wrapped in a blanket on the ground. He picked up the child hastily making sure it she was unharmed, and pulled out his gun.
The door creaked open to his left and he aimed his gun in that direction as young Hiro Yuy came out of the shadows. He was so startled that he fired. Hiro was slammed back into the wall, dropping three bags, and slumped forward clutching at the hole in his chest. "Mr. Maxwell, what in the heck did you do that for?"
"Who are you?" Duo demanded of the green muscle shirted, badly cut haired, black spat wearer. "What happened here? Where are they?"
"I'm (sniffle) Paul!" He fought back the tears that had begun to roll down his cheeks. Duo put his gun away with a look of horror on his face. "Latessa got cut really bad and Clay called me from the hospital to come get their things and the baby because he had to carry Latessa and couldn't bring Tifashi. I had to get their stuff and I couldn't hold her at the same time."
"Come on, let's get you to the doctor. I'm sorry I shot you."
"I understand." He nodded, handing the baby's bag to Duo. Duo grabbed up the other two before Paul had a chance.
"Can you walk?"
"I will try." He said holding his palm to the hole. Blood poured down his back and Duo grabbed a roll of duct tape and hiked up his shirt and used it to seal the wounds the best he could before taking him down one level to the med. bay. He passed out briefly in the elevator, but managed to stay on his feet. A passing guard in the hall quickly offered support for the boy who was not fairing well. When he was toted into the room where Clay was nearly hysterical he smiled pitifully. "Clay, I found your dad..." Then he lost consciousness completely.
Clay had already been panicked over his sisters now lapsed into hysterics. Duo had to sit down with him for a good ten minutes. Then he took his baby sister so Duo could make a call. "Hey Garret...You might want to come down to OP. I accidentally shot your kid." He said it with the most pathetic face possible. "I'm sorry!"
"Ok...I'll be there in a minute, you don't have to stay."
"My kid is here too, but I'm not really sure why besides she was bleeding a lot." He sighed.
"Hope you didn't shoot her too."
"Haha. You aren't funny." He glowered.
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Zola hissed at Wu Fei as he blocked her path. "Leave it alone!" He seldom spoke to her and she found him highly annoying that he chose then to become involved in her job.
"I want to know how he did it and Fei Wo has got to know. The little jerk is so slick I can't nail him down. I need her testimony." Zola tried to shove him out of the way. "Go screw with someone else!"
"You already made her cry and you won't be permitted to speak to her again!" He plowed her out the door and into the hall. "Go home woman! Leave the kid alone. Even if he did, he did it for a better cause then because it was an order, not that I expect you to understand something so deep. Go home!"
"Take your filthy hands off of me!" She kicked him, aiming for his crotch, but he blocked after years of experience. "They are my children too you bastard."
"No, You have four and I have four as they decided. You are going to start paying child support with no visitation privileges, enjoy witch!" He tossed her a few feet before going back into his new apartment and locking the door.
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Marala frowned as Trowa didn't get in bed and turn out the light. He looked at her for a moment before sitting down next to her. "They recovered Tikikoto this morning." He said softly. "There is a rumor that Yuy is responsible. What do you think?"
"It doesn't matter to me how she got home, just as long as she's safe." She sighed, not sure as to where he was going with the conversation. He was known to pop up with a few sentences occasionally for no reason, but it didn't seem to be the case. "What is it?"
"How much do you know about the boy?" He looked at her seriously.
"Nothing except he has a twin and he is smart. Why?" She rolled onto her side and propped on an elbow. "What's bothering you?"
"Most people are afraid of him. Should we be worried for Tiki's safety?" He blushed ever so slightly at the amount of concern in his voice.
"I'm pretty sure he did save her and we shouldn't worry." She reached up to rub his shoulder. "He might not have, but he cares for her, Zola even noticed." He nodded and gave her one of his rare smiles before standing and pulling off his shirt as he began to prepare for bed. She grabbed him by the front of his pants waistband and pulled him down to her. "And just who said you could go?" She kissed him and he responded by deepening the kiss after a snort of mock annoyance. She unbuttoned his pants and pulled away from him to view a permanent mark of adolescent stupidity. He was tattooed below his navel with the tiger constellation in blue ink. She had put it there after a wild party when he was passed out drunk. It had been one of their subjects of argument for years. Now it was just part of their history. She had been repaid by a little devil perched on the crack of her butt. She hadn't known for several days until she was changing after a mission. He had gotten a professional to do it after drugging her. His artistic ability was limited to stick people and smiley faces. She was pulled back to what she was doing by Trowa threatening to leave.
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"Take it easy." The doctor told her as he released her from the hospital. Tiki was glad to be done with all of their tests. She went to the apartment. There was a smashed vase on the floor, a bouquet of wilted flowers on the counter, and most of the food in the fridge was still as she had left it for him.
The bed was unmade and the laundry was as when she had left. There were several messages on the answering machine and she played them as she cleaned up the apartment.
"Mr Yuy, your request for a rescue mission has been rejected." (Zola said coldly) (beep) "Gariku, please pick up? I know you must be upset, but this isn't going to help anything." (Suragi's voice tried to sound sensible) (beep) "Paul, you wont answer the door and you wont answer the phone. Just let me know you are still alive." (Garret sounded scared) (beep) The messages went on and on, trying to coax him into at least acknowledging them. Some asked if he was sick or needed anything. She had just thought he was being a jerk, but now she started to feel worried.
She called Clay, but nobody answered. Then she tried to call Fei Wo and when Zola answered she promptly hang up. Finally she called Garret who also didn't answer. "What is this?" She sighed in frustration. She phoned her parents and her dad answered, looking like a wreck. "Hi dad." She smiled at him.
He smiled back. "Hi baby, how are you feeling?"
"All right. Do you have any idea where everyone is?"
"What are you talking about?" He stifled a yawn.
"The apartment is a wreck and I have a million messages for Paul, but no sign of him, Clay and Garret aren't answering, and Zola hung up on me!" She threw the flowers in the trash.
"Oh. Paul disappeared after they announced that you were captured and abandoned and then he was staying at his parents. Clay's little sister got cut somehow and Clay rushed her to the hospital and called Paul to get the baby and some cloths for him and somehow Duo shot him so all of them are in IC. Zola lost the divorce battle and Wu Fei moved his four kids up near you. I think they are F and you are M. I have to get ready for work, TTYL." He hung up after one of the longest one-sided conversations of his life.
She went to IC and demanded to see him. They were hesitant until she flashed her wedding ring and then hustled her back to him. They made her put on scrubs to keep the environment sterile. Garret was there with Peter on his way out. Garret stepped out and allowed her privacy. He was paler the she had seen him before and had oxygen tubes in his nose. They were doing a transfusion. His hair was chopped off crudely and she wondered why. She picked up his chart and read it before coming up with tears in her eyes. His heart was on the right because he was a twin and it had been nicked. He had basically bled to death, but they repaired his heart and put more blood in him. He hadn't come out of the coma he had entered when he was brought in and he wasn't expected to wake up.
She sat on the bed carefully and leaned her head lightly on his stomach and took one of his hands in hers. It was cool to the touch and made her cry realizing there was no response from him at all. "I'm so sorry Paul...You tried to warn me and I treated you like a child...I'm sorry...Please wake up!" She collapsed into sobs.
Garret picked her up and held her until she calmed. "Why don't you go and rest for a while. You can come back later." She ushered her to the door.
"It's all my fault!" She moaned into Garret's shoulder.
"It was an accident. It wasn't anyone's fault. Now hush." Garret told her. "Peter is going to take you to stay with Fei Wo. Go on and get some rest."
She came to him and he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and guided her out of the IC. He opened a door for her and gave her a smile that set her to balling again. "Come on Tiks, don't cry. He's to stubborn to let a little thing like that get him down." He gave her a firm hug.
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She slept fitfully, then insisted on going back to his side. Garret let her take a half an hour while she went and got some coffee. Tiki sat next to him and stroked his hair gently. "I hate you, you bastard. How dare you make me fall in love with you?" She began to cry again, resting her forehead against his side, face buried in the mattress.
She felt a soft hand on her shoulder. "Please don't make me leave!" She begged, not moving.
"Don't cry." The voice came like a weak and airy whisper. Her head snapped up to meet his precious blue eyes. He looked pathetic, but she was so excited she could hardly stand herself. Sobbing she covered his face in kisses. "Stop, I hurt too bad." He placed a shaking hand over hers.
"I'll go get your mom." She stood, smiling between her tears.
"Wait...I...I love you Tiki..koto." He whispered. She could tell he was fighting sleep as she went to the door and called Garret.
"I love you more." She whispered as she took his hand in hers.
Garret came in curiously. "Yes?"
"Hi mama..." He picked up a hand and held it out to her. She took it and kissed him on the forehead. "I need sleep." He murmured "love you" before he drifted off.
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Duo stomped down the hall with a stack of papers. He reached the apartment he wanted and ripped the panel off the wall. Then he charged in, grabbing a fat handful of Rini's hair to snatch her away from a startled man that she had been having sex with at the moment. He jerked the wedding band off of her finger roughly and dropped her on the floor. He showered her with legal documents before explaining. "I divorce you. I have custody of my children and you have no visitation rights. You will be docked child support from your pay checks." Then he turned to the man that had crawled into the corner. "You can keep her." Then he walked away, feeling a great sense of satisfaction. It was the only pure satisfaction he had ever gotten out of her in the year they had been married.
He went back to the hospital and picked up the baby and told Clay that they were being moved to eight-three-C. Then he went to a bar and got a club soda. He just felt like a distraction before he freaked out. He held Tifashi in his lap and rocked her absently as the people came and went around him.
Sugs came in and sat next to him and ordered a soda. She smiled at him before peering down at the baby. "She's beautiful." She remarked, tickling Tifashi and making her giggle.
Duo shoved the baby at her. "You can hold her."
She looked startled. "Are you sure?" He nodded and she took her with a shrug. "You're a trusting soul."
"One of my worst flaws. I'm surprised you're here Tou. Haven't you just got off work? I thought you'd have gone to bed by now."
"Everyone has to unwind some how. How did you know that I just got off work?" She looked at him in surprise.
He rolled his eyes. "I'm the one that made you work over time or haven't you heard?"
"No...You did *that*?" She frowned.
"I know it was awful wasn't it? I just hope everything works out." He sighed.
"Problem is fixed, don't worry about it, no body died or anything." She laughed.
He got really angry. "Like hell they didn't! He isn't out of the woods yet."
"He who? No body got hurt badly in that fire."
"Fire? Man do you have your jobs confused. I was talking about Paul. I didn't cause any fire." He frowned at her. "Maybe you need some sleep."
"Wait, I don't know any Paul. What are you talking about?"
"Suragi Tou, sometimes you worry me." Duo shook his head.
"That's not my name. My name is Kimuji Tou..."
"What? Damn you look like your sister!" He gaped at her. "I bet Quatre couldn't tell the difference."
"I don't have a sister."
"Sure you don't, come with me."
"No!" She shrank back from him.
"I just was going to show you at the com booth. Stop looking at me like I want to do something bad to you! I have only hurt one woman and it was because she damn well killed my child. I'm serious about the sister thing. Suragi Tou is a doctor and that's who I thought you were. You think I'd just hand my baby over to anyone?" He took Tifashi from her and picked up the baby's things before walking over to a com. He dialed Tou's office and she answered immediately. "Hi Sugs."
"Hey Duo." She smiled wearily at him.
"My God she does." Kimuji stuck her face close to the screen in fascination. Then she looked back at Duo. "Sorry for treating you like a criminal. I thought it was just a dumb pick up line."
"Who's that?" Sugs asked suddenly.
"Your calm twin? I don't know, she just walked up and I started talking to her thinking she was you." Duo grinned. "At least I didn't ask you to keep Tifashi for a few hours and split." Duo's beeper went off and he had to answer the page. He was told that they had chosen another wife for him and he cringed. "Can't you just give me a week or so to get the bad taste out of my mouth?" He sighed.
"Ah, Dr. Tou, have your husband run an analysis on..."
"She isn't Suragi." Duo interrupted him. "She's probably her sister."
"Oh. You have two days to find someone or you get the one we selected for you." The man said and cut the connection.
"You just got a divorce and they are making you get married again?" She gaped at him.
"Yah. So-o-o, what do you plan on doing to me for the rest of our life?" He asked fiendishly, making her smile. "Now that's a dumb pick-up line."
"I kind of liked it." She smiled.
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Wu Fei looked over the woman for a moment before letting her into the apartment. She was nothing short of the exact opposite of Zola and that satisfied him for the time. She looked about curiously, taking in the sterile room and drab furniture. "My name is Kadachi." She looked kind of nervous but was trying. "This place could use a woman's touch, don't you think?"
Wu Fei had never really used the living room and had never considered it any of his concern. He had his bedroom and it was equipped to meet his needs, Zola had hers and everything else was neutral territory. "If you wish." He nodded, trying to think of what to say to her. "Ping and Adem will share a room so you may have your own."
Her hair was chin length and a honey color and her eyes were green as emeralds as they looked into his eyes searchingly. "I'm not going to be sleeping with you?" She looked at him in surprise and he returned her shocked look with a bewildered one of his own.
"Why would you want to Kadachi?" He eyed her so hard she squirmed beneath his gaze.
"I am your wife. Do you not like me or something? I know I'm not very pretty, but you aren't even going to try and get to know me?" She looked upset by the thought.
"I don't mean to upset you. I am not use to a woman wanting anything from me. Forgive me if I am less then a man of your expectation." He walked across the room and opened his door. "See if it will meet your requirements."
She looked into his room curiously. A moment later she was completely inside. "It's beautiful!" She touched a delicately carved dresser before picking up a fu dog and examining it. She put it back carefully. She wandered around his room, looking at everything with great interest and respectful care. He noticed how tall she was as she reached easily to a high shelf and retrieved a photo. It was of all of the children. "Who are they?" She asked, turning back to him.
"My children." He said, surprised that she didn't know about his crew. He pointed out each of them and named them, then indicated the four that still lived with him. "I have Adem, Ping, Fei Wo, and Fa Lee and they all have their own rooms. I really don't have many rules for them now since they are all old enough to get their own places."
"They all look like you." She smiled at him as she put it back.
"You have not seen their mother. Our two oldest mostly look like her." He frowned. "Will you require anything to make you more comfortable?"
"No." She shook her head. He nodded curtly. She watched him stand there for a moment, looking indecisive before leaving her standing and went back to the door and picked up her bags and brought them into their room. "Oh thank you. I could have done that."
"These three drawers are empty. You can store the rest in the closet. Stay out of my trunk." He motioned to the small chest. Then he looked at his watch. "Do you like Chinese food?"
"Yes."
"Fine. It's my turn to cook. Excuse me." He bowed to her before leaving her alone.
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Clay looked at the woman for a long time before extending his hand. "Nice to meet you." She smiled at him, taking his hand, and echoed the very formal words. She held his sister in her lap and rocked her as he tried to decide what to do. "Excuse me, but I have a lot of homework to do." He went to his room quickly.
Duo stifled a sigh as he perched on the couch back. "Well, he didn't take that too badly." She looked at him with a silly smile as he yawned.
"Sounds like Tifashi isn't the only one that I need to put down for a nap." She teased. He found himself extremely fond of her, after only dating her for a day before having married her. "Go to bed." She urged him as she took the baby to her room.
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Wu Fei lay in bed and stared at the ceiling. Kadachi was beside him, wiggling every now and then. "What is it woman?"
She froze and he could feel unease permeate the room. "Don't you want me?" She asked suddenly. She puzzled him for a moment but then she rolled over and put a hand on his chest, her eyes expectant.
"You want to participate in intercourse?" He looked at her seriously, unsure if he had judged correctly.
"Yes, make love to me." She kissed his chest, leaving him wide eyed. "Please?"
He looked at her for a long moment. "I am...I have not preformed in a long time. I may not please you, but I will try." He said it stiffly, dropping his gaze.
"Like how long?" She asked.
"Fourteen years."
"What??? But? You have eight children..." She gaped at him.
"Three times and every time she got pregnant. That was it. I don't really like it anyway." He blushed slightly, wondering if Garret was right that he just couldn't stand the woman and it had ruined the act.
"Then you're like a virgin! Wow. That's why you aren't friendly."
"I said I would try." He frowned at her.
"You might like it now." She tried to reassure him.
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Gariku had become a doctor after a few weeks of intense studying and was happily working, as Sugar's assistant while Tiki spent most of her time in engineering. He stood next to her as she showed him how to work the transmitter to monitor a particularly nasty virus. He caught onto it quickly and managed to eradicate the bug without much trouble.
They were interrupted by someone coming in with a hostage and putting them in a holding cell. Gariku glanced over casually to check out the person. Relina! He tried to hide his surprise and busy himself so she couldn't see his face. "Hiro!" She called his father's name much the same way she had on the base three months earlier. She was ignored and left there.
"The white coats will be in in an hour or so." One of the guards remarked. Sugar nodded. She was outraged but kept silent as usual. When they left, Gariku asked her how to become a white coat. She had told him that he only had to take a test. He left her quickly, not speaking another word.
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"Hiro!"
"Good day Ms. Relina." Gariku smiled at her. "I am Gariku Yuy. Hiro is my father."
"It was you!" She gasped.
"Please don't talk about things that can only cause trouble for all parties involved. I came here to ask you some questions. Please co-operate Ms. Relina, then you won't be hurt. The others will cause you pain if you refuse to answer me. Believe me, they are good at their work." He hiked up his shirt to revile some of his scars. "I'm practically written in Braille after a few bad sessions. I believe that their timetable is even more pressured in your case. Will you co-operate?"
"I..." She looked at the ground.
"Listen to me. The Preventers have gotten out of control, but the greatest threat at the moment is the colony crusaders. They want to destroy earth and themselves. Do you know how many millions of people will be killed needlessly if you keep quiet? There are innocent people caught on those two worlds and they can't escape. Please help me?" He had gotten a bit over dramatic and teared over as he looked into her face, remembering his own terror at being unable to escape. "I promise they will be saved and the wrong doers punished."
"I want to see Hiro. I'll tell you what I can, please?" She had the most desperate look in her eyes.
"I will allow you to speak with him." He nodded.
"They are on the dark side at earth night and their base is one of the capitols. That's all I know." She said softly, looking worried.
"Very well." He used a com and called his father. He answered and Gariku rattled off in English about his deal with Relina. His father nodded, getting an unreadable expression. Then he turned back to Relina. "I am a man of my word. You have..."
"It's called Beta Condures. The leader is Dorothy." She said with a small smile. "Thank you." Gariku turned back to his father and rattled off in English once more. He nodded and hung up. "What are you doing?!"
"He is coming here to see you. That is what you originally wanted and you gave me what I originally wanted. I can promise an hour but no more." He told her as he waited for his father. When he entered, Gariku retreated to outside the room for their privacy. He busied himself with some random work until his father knocked on the door and he let him out. The other white coats came in and Gariku told them the information. Then he left with his father. When they reached the door a gun fired behind them and she cried out briefly before a heavy object hit the floor. He whirled around, but his father grabbed him and steered him into the hall and to the nearest elevator. "They shot her!!! The bastards shot her!!!" Gariku was livid.
Hiro stood, literally sucking the light out of the small elevator with his dark expression. He remained that way as he pulled his son back to his apartment. Garret appeared as soon as the two were in the apartment. She held out his wedding band and he allowed her to put it on his finger, but didn't really recognize her. "We have a mission. Go get ready Yuy."
He nodded and went to change into his uniform. Gariku realized why his father had taken off his ring and felt angry and sick over the whole idea that he had slept with another woman and that Gariku had been dumb enough not to know. Garret looked at him and seemed to sense his torment. "It was alright. We talked about it."
"But they killed Ms. Relina. You knew and you didn't tell me. I could have..."
"No. She had no way out. She knew it as did everyone who chooses the roll in life she has."
"She had such an awesome mind and it was wasted because of perverted ideals. If this place ever meant something good, it sure as heck doesn't now! I won't let them get away with it!" He vented a little of his anger before turning to go. "Good bye mother. I'm sorry." He left her and swept down the hall to find Tiki had left for the same mission. He hacked and found that all of them were going…Every one of the Gundam men and women. He set his master plan formed on the way from his mother's to his apartment into motion. Soon he was standing on the main deck of the base. Bodies littered the floor around him as he used the intercom to announce a cloaked enemy. He had all personnel report to their battle stations. Civilians were evacuated to the colony and he detached it from the ship. He ordered everyone to set heat seekers on their weapons and fire. Everyone blindly obeyed. Of coarse there was no one in the cold emptiness and the heat seekers turned on their maker. He shut down the weapons so that they couldn't be intercepted and smiled as the first explosion shook the ship. "Time for the senselessness to stop. You all are dying by your own hands!" The next turned his world to fire and he was thrown headfirst into a wall...
****"And the moral to this story is don't piss off a Yuy. Let's see what I can do in chapter 7! Can you believe I did that?" Azusa Wariko Maxwell****
****"Konichi wa! I have seen all of Gundam Wing except tape 13 and the third OAV! I got it now I need to sit and watch them! Sit, me? I know I don't have the things right, but I'll work in why it's all messed up some day. Just enjoy the plot. Maybe I'll make a prologue or build some today? Something bothering you, call me. highpowerhyperlets@yahoo.com." AWM****
Duo came into his apartment wanting nothing more then to kiss his children good-night and sack it in for a long night off blissful sleep. What he found was bloody hand prints of ranging sizes smeared everywhere, a lamp shattered on the floor, and his baby laying quietly wrapped in a blanket on the ground. He picked up the child hastily making sure it she was unharmed, and pulled out his gun.
The door creaked open to his left and he aimed his gun in that direction as young Hiro Yuy came out of the shadows. He was so startled that he fired. Hiro was slammed back into the wall, dropping three bags, and slumped forward clutching at the hole in his chest. "Mr. Maxwell, what in the heck did you do that for?"
"Who are you?" Duo demanded of the green muscle shirted, badly cut haired, black spat wearer. "What happened here? Where are they?"
"I'm (sniffle) Paul!" He fought back the tears that had begun to roll down his cheeks. Duo put his gun away with a look of horror on his face. "Latessa got cut really bad and Clay called me from the hospital to come get their things and the baby because he had to carry Latessa and couldn't bring Tifashi. I had to get their stuff and I couldn't hold her at the same time."
"Come on, let's get you to the doctor. I'm sorry I shot you."
"I understand." He nodded, handing the baby's bag to Duo. Duo grabbed up the other two before Paul had a chance.
"Can you walk?"
"I will try." He said holding his palm to the hole. Blood poured down his back and Duo grabbed a roll of duct tape and hiked up his shirt and used it to seal the wounds the best he could before taking him down one level to the med. bay. He passed out briefly in the elevator, but managed to stay on his feet. A passing guard in the hall quickly offered support for the boy who was not fairing well. When he was toted into the room where Clay was nearly hysterical he smiled pitifully. "Clay, I found your dad..." Then he lost consciousness completely.
Clay had already been panicked over his sisters now lapsed into hysterics. Duo had to sit down with him for a good ten minutes. Then he took his baby sister so Duo could make a call. "Hey Garret...You might want to come down to OP. I accidentally shot your kid." He said it with the most pathetic face possible. "I'm sorry!"
"Ok...I'll be there in a minute, you don't have to stay."
"My kid is here too, but I'm not really sure why besides she was bleeding a lot." He sighed.
"Hope you didn't shoot her too."
"Haha. You aren't funny." He glowered.
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Zola hissed at Wu Fei as he blocked her path. "Leave it alone!" He seldom spoke to her and she found him highly annoying that he chose then to become involved in her job.
"I want to know how he did it and Fei Wo has got to know. The little jerk is so slick I can't nail him down. I need her testimony." Zola tried to shove him out of the way. "Go screw with someone else!"
"You already made her cry and you won't be permitted to speak to her again!" He plowed her out the door and into the hall. "Go home woman! Leave the kid alone. Even if he did, he did it for a better cause then because it was an order, not that I expect you to understand something so deep. Go home!"
"Take your filthy hands off of me!" She kicked him, aiming for his crotch, but he blocked after years of experience. "They are my children too you bastard."
"No, You have four and I have four as they decided. You are going to start paying child support with no visitation privileges, enjoy witch!" He tossed her a few feet before going back into his new apartment and locking the door.
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Marala frowned as Trowa didn't get in bed and turn out the light. He looked at her for a moment before sitting down next to her. "They recovered Tikikoto this morning." He said softly. "There is a rumor that Yuy is responsible. What do you think?"
"It doesn't matter to me how she got home, just as long as she's safe." She sighed, not sure as to where he was going with the conversation. He was known to pop up with a few sentences occasionally for no reason, but it didn't seem to be the case. "What is it?"
"How much do you know about the boy?" He looked at her seriously.
"Nothing except he has a twin and he is smart. Why?" She rolled onto her side and propped on an elbow. "What's bothering you?"
"Most people are afraid of him. Should we be worried for Tiki's safety?" He blushed ever so slightly at the amount of concern in his voice.
"I'm pretty sure he did save her and we shouldn't worry." She reached up to rub his shoulder. "He might not have, but he cares for her, Zola even noticed." He nodded and gave her one of his rare smiles before standing and pulling off his shirt as he began to prepare for bed. She grabbed him by the front of his pants waistband and pulled him down to her. "And just who said you could go?" She kissed him and he responded by deepening the kiss after a snort of mock annoyance. She unbuttoned his pants and pulled away from him to view a permanent mark of adolescent stupidity. He was tattooed below his navel with the tiger constellation in blue ink. She had put it there after a wild party when he was passed out drunk. It had been one of their subjects of argument for years. Now it was just part of their history. She had been repaid by a little devil perched on the crack of her butt. She hadn't known for several days until she was changing after a mission. He had gotten a professional to do it after drugging her. His artistic ability was limited to stick people and smiley faces. She was pulled back to what she was doing by Trowa threatening to leave.
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"Take it easy." The doctor told her as he released her from the hospital. Tiki was glad to be done with all of their tests. She went to the apartment. There was a smashed vase on the floor, a bouquet of wilted flowers on the counter, and most of the food in the fridge was still as she had left it for him.
The bed was unmade and the laundry was as when she had left. There were several messages on the answering machine and she played them as she cleaned up the apartment.
"Mr Yuy, your request for a rescue mission has been rejected." (Zola said coldly) (beep) "Gariku, please pick up? I know you must be upset, but this isn't going to help anything." (Suragi's voice tried to sound sensible) (beep) "Paul, you wont answer the door and you wont answer the phone. Just let me know you are still alive." (Garret sounded scared) (beep) The messages went on and on, trying to coax him into at least acknowledging them. Some asked if he was sick or needed anything. She had just thought he was being a jerk, but now she started to feel worried.
She called Clay, but nobody answered. Then she tried to call Fei Wo and when Zola answered she promptly hang up. Finally she called Garret who also didn't answer. "What is this?" She sighed in frustration. She phoned her parents and her dad answered, looking like a wreck. "Hi dad." She smiled at him.
He smiled back. "Hi baby, how are you feeling?"
"All right. Do you have any idea where everyone is?"
"What are you talking about?" He stifled a yawn.
"The apartment is a wreck and I have a million messages for Paul, but no sign of him, Clay and Garret aren't answering, and Zola hung up on me!" She threw the flowers in the trash.
"Oh. Paul disappeared after they announced that you were captured and abandoned and then he was staying at his parents. Clay's little sister got cut somehow and Clay rushed her to the hospital and called Paul to get the baby and some cloths for him and somehow Duo shot him so all of them are in IC. Zola lost the divorce battle and Wu Fei moved his four kids up near you. I think they are F and you are M. I have to get ready for work, TTYL." He hung up after one of the longest one-sided conversations of his life.
She went to IC and demanded to see him. They were hesitant until she flashed her wedding ring and then hustled her back to him. They made her put on scrubs to keep the environment sterile. Garret was there with Peter on his way out. Garret stepped out and allowed her privacy. He was paler the she had seen him before and had oxygen tubes in his nose. They were doing a transfusion. His hair was chopped off crudely and she wondered why. She picked up his chart and read it before coming up with tears in her eyes. His heart was on the right because he was a twin and it had been nicked. He had basically bled to death, but they repaired his heart and put more blood in him. He hadn't come out of the coma he had entered when he was brought in and he wasn't expected to wake up.
She sat on the bed carefully and leaned her head lightly on his stomach and took one of his hands in hers. It was cool to the touch and made her cry realizing there was no response from him at all. "I'm so sorry Paul...You tried to warn me and I treated you like a child...I'm sorry...Please wake up!" She collapsed into sobs.
Garret picked her up and held her until she calmed. "Why don't you go and rest for a while. You can come back later." She ushered her to the door.
"It's all my fault!" She moaned into Garret's shoulder.
"It was an accident. It wasn't anyone's fault. Now hush." Garret told her. "Peter is going to take you to stay with Fei Wo. Go on and get some rest."
She came to him and he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and guided her out of the IC. He opened a door for her and gave her a smile that set her to balling again. "Come on Tiks, don't cry. He's to stubborn to let a little thing like that get him down." He gave her a firm hug.
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She slept fitfully, then insisted on going back to his side. Garret let her take a half an hour while she went and got some coffee. Tiki sat next to him and stroked his hair gently. "I hate you, you bastard. How dare you make me fall in love with you?" She began to cry again, resting her forehead against his side, face buried in the mattress.
She felt a soft hand on her shoulder. "Please don't make me leave!" She begged, not moving.
"Don't cry." The voice came like a weak and airy whisper. Her head snapped up to meet his precious blue eyes. He looked pathetic, but she was so excited she could hardly stand herself. Sobbing she covered his face in kisses. "Stop, I hurt too bad." He placed a shaking hand over hers.
"I'll go get your mom." She stood, smiling between her tears.
"Wait...I...I love you Tiki..koto." He whispered. She could tell he was fighting sleep as she went to the door and called Garret.
"I love you more." She whispered as she took his hand in hers.
Garret came in curiously. "Yes?"
"Hi mama..." He picked up a hand and held it out to her. She took it and kissed him on the forehead. "I need sleep." He murmured "love you" before he drifted off.
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Duo stomped down the hall with a stack of papers. He reached the apartment he wanted and ripped the panel off the wall. Then he charged in, grabbing a fat handful of Rini's hair to snatch her away from a startled man that she had been having sex with at the moment. He jerked the wedding band off of her finger roughly and dropped her on the floor. He showered her with legal documents before explaining. "I divorce you. I have custody of my children and you have no visitation rights. You will be docked child support from your pay checks." Then he turned to the man that had crawled into the corner. "You can keep her." Then he walked away, feeling a great sense of satisfaction. It was the only pure satisfaction he had ever gotten out of her in the year they had been married.
He went back to the hospital and picked up the baby and told Clay that they were being moved to eight-three-C. Then he went to a bar and got a club soda. He just felt like a distraction before he freaked out. He held Tifashi in his lap and rocked her absently as the people came and went around him.
Sugs came in and sat next to him and ordered a soda. She smiled at him before peering down at the baby. "She's beautiful." She remarked, tickling Tifashi and making her giggle.
Duo shoved the baby at her. "You can hold her."
She looked startled. "Are you sure?" He nodded and she took her with a shrug. "You're a trusting soul."
"One of my worst flaws. I'm surprised you're here Tou. Haven't you just got off work? I thought you'd have gone to bed by now."
"Everyone has to unwind some how. How did you know that I just got off work?" She looked at him in surprise.
He rolled his eyes. "I'm the one that made you work over time or haven't you heard?"
"No...You did *that*?" She frowned.
"I know it was awful wasn't it? I just hope everything works out." He sighed.
"Problem is fixed, don't worry about it, no body died or anything." She laughed.
He got really angry. "Like hell they didn't! He isn't out of the woods yet."
"He who? No body got hurt badly in that fire."
"Fire? Man do you have your jobs confused. I was talking about Paul. I didn't cause any fire." He frowned at her. "Maybe you need some sleep."
"Wait, I don't know any Paul. What are you talking about?"
"Suragi Tou, sometimes you worry me." Duo shook his head.
"That's not my name. My name is Kimuji Tou..."
"What? Damn you look like your sister!" He gaped at her. "I bet Quatre couldn't tell the difference."
"I don't have a sister."
"Sure you don't, come with me."
"No!" She shrank back from him.
"I just was going to show you at the com booth. Stop looking at me like I want to do something bad to you! I have only hurt one woman and it was because she damn well killed my child. I'm serious about the sister thing. Suragi Tou is a doctor and that's who I thought you were. You think I'd just hand my baby over to anyone?" He took Tifashi from her and picked up the baby's things before walking over to a com. He dialed Tou's office and she answered immediately. "Hi Sugs."
"Hey Duo." She smiled wearily at him.
"My God she does." Kimuji stuck her face close to the screen in fascination. Then she looked back at Duo. "Sorry for treating you like a criminal. I thought it was just a dumb pick up line."
"Who's that?" Sugs asked suddenly.
"Your calm twin? I don't know, she just walked up and I started talking to her thinking she was you." Duo grinned. "At least I didn't ask you to keep Tifashi for a few hours and split." Duo's beeper went off and he had to answer the page. He was told that they had chosen another wife for him and he cringed. "Can't you just give me a week or so to get the bad taste out of my mouth?" He sighed.
"Ah, Dr. Tou, have your husband run an analysis on..."
"She isn't Suragi." Duo interrupted him. "She's probably her sister."
"Oh. You have two days to find someone or you get the one we selected for you." The man said and cut the connection.
"You just got a divorce and they are making you get married again?" She gaped at him.
"Yah. So-o-o, what do you plan on doing to me for the rest of our life?" He asked fiendishly, making her smile. "Now that's a dumb pick-up line."
"I kind of liked it." She smiled.
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Wu Fei looked over the woman for a moment before letting her into the apartment. She was nothing short of the exact opposite of Zola and that satisfied him for the time. She looked about curiously, taking in the sterile room and drab furniture. "My name is Kadachi." She looked kind of nervous but was trying. "This place could use a woman's touch, don't you think?"
Wu Fei had never really used the living room and had never considered it any of his concern. He had his bedroom and it was equipped to meet his needs, Zola had hers and everything else was neutral territory. "If you wish." He nodded, trying to think of what to say to her. "Ping and Adem will share a room so you may have your own."
Her hair was chin length and a honey color and her eyes were green as emeralds as they looked into his eyes searchingly. "I'm not going to be sleeping with you?" She looked at him in surprise and he returned her shocked look with a bewildered one of his own.
"Why would you want to Kadachi?" He eyed her so hard she squirmed beneath his gaze.
"I am your wife. Do you not like me or something? I know I'm not very pretty, but you aren't even going to try and get to know me?" She looked upset by the thought.
"I don't mean to upset you. I am not use to a woman wanting anything from me. Forgive me if I am less then a man of your expectation." He walked across the room and opened his door. "See if it will meet your requirements."
She looked into his room curiously. A moment later she was completely inside. "It's beautiful!" She touched a delicately carved dresser before picking up a fu dog and examining it. She put it back carefully. She wandered around his room, looking at everything with great interest and respectful care. He noticed how tall she was as she reached easily to a high shelf and retrieved a photo. It was of all of the children. "Who are they?" She asked, turning back to him.
"My children." He said, surprised that she didn't know about his crew. He pointed out each of them and named them, then indicated the four that still lived with him. "I have Adem, Ping, Fei Wo, and Fa Lee and they all have their own rooms. I really don't have many rules for them now since they are all old enough to get their own places."
"They all look like you." She smiled at him as she put it back.
"You have not seen their mother. Our two oldest mostly look like her." He frowned. "Will you require anything to make you more comfortable?"
"No." She shook her head. He nodded curtly. She watched him stand there for a moment, looking indecisive before leaving her standing and went back to the door and picked up her bags and brought them into their room. "Oh thank you. I could have done that."
"These three drawers are empty. You can store the rest in the closet. Stay out of my trunk." He motioned to the small chest. Then he looked at his watch. "Do you like Chinese food?"
"Yes."
"Fine. It's my turn to cook. Excuse me." He bowed to her before leaving her alone.
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Clay looked at the woman for a long time before extending his hand. "Nice to meet you." She smiled at him, taking his hand, and echoed the very formal words. She held his sister in her lap and rocked her as he tried to decide what to do. "Excuse me, but I have a lot of homework to do." He went to his room quickly.
Duo stifled a sigh as he perched on the couch back. "Well, he didn't take that too badly." She looked at him with a silly smile as he yawned.
"Sounds like Tifashi isn't the only one that I need to put down for a nap." She teased. He found himself extremely fond of her, after only dating her for a day before having married her. "Go to bed." She urged him as she took the baby to her room.
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Wu Fei lay in bed and stared at the ceiling. Kadachi was beside him, wiggling every now and then. "What is it woman?"
She froze and he could feel unease permeate the room. "Don't you want me?" She asked suddenly. She puzzled him for a moment but then she rolled over and put a hand on his chest, her eyes expectant.
"You want to participate in intercourse?" He looked at her seriously, unsure if he had judged correctly.
"Yes, make love to me." She kissed his chest, leaving him wide eyed. "Please?"
He looked at her for a long moment. "I am...I have not preformed in a long time. I may not please you, but I will try." He said it stiffly, dropping his gaze.
"Like how long?" She asked.
"Fourteen years."
"What??? But? You have eight children..." She gaped at him.
"Three times and every time she got pregnant. That was it. I don't really like it anyway." He blushed slightly, wondering if Garret was right that he just couldn't stand the woman and it had ruined the act.
"Then you're like a virgin! Wow. That's why you aren't friendly."
"I said I would try." He frowned at her.
"You might like it now." She tried to reassure him.
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Gariku had become a doctor after a few weeks of intense studying and was happily working, as Sugar's assistant while Tiki spent most of her time in engineering. He stood next to her as she showed him how to work the transmitter to monitor a particularly nasty virus. He caught onto it quickly and managed to eradicate the bug without much trouble.
They were interrupted by someone coming in with a hostage and putting them in a holding cell. Gariku glanced over casually to check out the person. Relina! He tried to hide his surprise and busy himself so she couldn't see his face. "Hiro!" She called his father's name much the same way she had on the base three months earlier. She was ignored and left there.
"The white coats will be in in an hour or so." One of the guards remarked. Sugar nodded. She was outraged but kept silent as usual. When they left, Gariku asked her how to become a white coat. She had told him that he only had to take a test. He left her quickly, not speaking another word.
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"Hiro!"
"Good day Ms. Relina." Gariku smiled at her. "I am Gariku Yuy. Hiro is my father."
"It was you!" She gasped.
"Please don't talk about things that can only cause trouble for all parties involved. I came here to ask you some questions. Please co-operate Ms. Relina, then you won't be hurt. The others will cause you pain if you refuse to answer me. Believe me, they are good at their work." He hiked up his shirt to revile some of his scars. "I'm practically written in Braille after a few bad sessions. I believe that their timetable is even more pressured in your case. Will you co-operate?"
"I..." She looked at the ground.
"Listen to me. The Preventers have gotten out of control, but the greatest threat at the moment is the colony crusaders. They want to destroy earth and themselves. Do you know how many millions of people will be killed needlessly if you keep quiet? There are innocent people caught on those two worlds and they can't escape. Please help me?" He had gotten a bit over dramatic and teared over as he looked into her face, remembering his own terror at being unable to escape. "I promise they will be saved and the wrong doers punished."
"I want to see Hiro. I'll tell you what I can, please?" She had the most desperate look in her eyes.
"I will allow you to speak with him." He nodded.
"They are on the dark side at earth night and their base is one of the capitols. That's all I know." She said softly, looking worried.
"Very well." He used a com and called his father. He answered and Gariku rattled off in English about his deal with Relina. His father nodded, getting an unreadable expression. Then he turned back to Relina. "I am a man of my word. You have..."
"It's called Beta Condures. The leader is Dorothy." She said with a small smile. "Thank you." Gariku turned back to his father and rattled off in English once more. He nodded and hung up. "What are you doing?!"
"He is coming here to see you. That is what you originally wanted and you gave me what I originally wanted. I can promise an hour but no more." He told her as he waited for his father. When he entered, Gariku retreated to outside the room for their privacy. He busied himself with some random work until his father knocked on the door and he let him out. The other white coats came in and Gariku told them the information. Then he left with his father. When they reached the door a gun fired behind them and she cried out briefly before a heavy object hit the floor. He whirled around, but his father grabbed him and steered him into the hall and to the nearest elevator. "They shot her!!! The bastards shot her!!!" Gariku was livid.
Hiro stood, literally sucking the light out of the small elevator with his dark expression. He remained that way as he pulled his son back to his apartment. Garret appeared as soon as the two were in the apartment. She held out his wedding band and he allowed her to put it on his finger, but didn't really recognize her. "We have a mission. Go get ready Yuy."
He nodded and went to change into his uniform. Gariku realized why his father had taken off his ring and felt angry and sick over the whole idea that he had slept with another woman and that Gariku had been dumb enough not to know. Garret looked at him and seemed to sense his torment. "It was alright. We talked about it."
"But they killed Ms. Relina. You knew and you didn't tell me. I could have..."
"No. She had no way out. She knew it as did everyone who chooses the roll in life she has."
"She had such an awesome mind and it was wasted because of perverted ideals. If this place ever meant something good, it sure as heck doesn't now! I won't let them get away with it!" He vented a little of his anger before turning to go. "Good bye mother. I'm sorry." He left her and swept down the hall to find Tiki had left for the same mission. He hacked and found that all of them were going…Every one of the Gundam men and women. He set his master plan formed on the way from his mother's to his apartment into motion. Soon he was standing on the main deck of the base. Bodies littered the floor around him as he used the intercom to announce a cloaked enemy. He had all personnel report to their battle stations. Civilians were evacuated to the colony and he detached it from the ship. He ordered everyone to set heat seekers on their weapons and fire. Everyone blindly obeyed. Of coarse there was no one in the cold emptiness and the heat seekers turned on their maker. He shut down the weapons so that they couldn't be intercepted and smiled as the first explosion shook the ship. "Time for the senselessness to stop. You all are dying by your own hands!" The next turned his world to fire and he was thrown headfirst into a wall...
****"And the moral to this story is don't piss off a Yuy. Let's see what I can do in chapter 7! Can you believe I did that?" Azusa Wariko Maxwell****