Along for the Ride

chapter 4

a/n: uh, we know we said that there was going to be a yaoi in the last chapter, but we kinda forgot about it, so now we have moved it to chapter 4. Gomen!

we don't own jack blah blah blah and all that good stuff.

yaoi(1x2, 3x4, 5xOC)

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Alex was totally exhausted. It was ten o'clock at night, and she had been up for two hours finishing homework. She dropped her pencil, finally done with all of the algebra. Footsteps were heard as Jessie trudged into the living room of their first-class dorm. "You done yet?" she asked, rubbing her eyes. Jessie had finished her work and hour ago.

"Yeah, I just took way too much time on that essay we had to write. I'll go to bed in five minutes." Alex replied, stacking her papers and putting them in their respective folders. She headed for the bathroom.

As midnight approached, both girls slept soundly as their partners, the gundam pilots, were up and wide-awake in the next room, staring at a small lit up screen.

"So, what exactly is our mission objective?" Duo asked, head resting on Heero's shoulder.

"There is an OZ executive that lives nearby. He has major influential authority in the United States Government. Let's say he knows a guy who knows a guy that pretty much owns the U.S. military." Heero replied, typing furiously on his laptop as the others in the room took notes. Quatre looked over at Wufei, who was staring into nothingness.

"Wufei, what's up?" he asked, concern in his bright blue eyes. Wufei looked at him, and he gave a 'nevermind' wave in his direction. 'This is boring, I wish Alex or that Jessie was here.' he thought, eyes immediately going blank.

"Wufei! Pay attention to the mission, this one has the future of America on the line." Heero said, obviously annoyed with his companions' lack of interest. Trowa glanced in the Chinese boy's direction.

"What do you think is the matter with him, Little One?" he asked, arm going around the blonde Arabian's waist, pulling him into a hug.

"I believe he is in love." Quatre answered, grinning at Trowa's shocked expression. "And if my uchuu no kokoro is right, then it's with one of our two new lady friends." the blonde said, smile widening at Wufei. Trowa couldn't stop snickering at that comment, and he laughed harder when Wufei gave him a clueless look.

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after school the next day:

Jessie was alone as she walked through the corridor to her and Alex's dorm. She had had a very harsh day at school, and the only thing she wanted right now, was to plop down on her bed and take a long nap...and a camera. For she had just happened to witness the ever-so justified Chang Wufei singing Lil' Kim's part in Lady Marmalade, while dressed only in boxers in front of his mirror. Taking this as a blackmailing opportunity, she slowly unlocked her door and opened it without making a sound, and grabbed her disposable camera from the table. She crept out of the dorm, and took a picture of him. The noise made him stop, and head towards the door. Wufei opened it to see Jessie holding a camera, looking guilty. She gave a quick smile and a 'buh bye' before running down the hall. Wufei chased her, cursing in Chinese, and clad only in boxers. Jessie turned around several times and snapped shots of him half-naked and running down the dorm hall in a fit of embarrassment and anger. Just as she headed toward the front door, a group of five people sealed her in. Frantic, she hid behind Trowa and Quatre, who had been in the front of the bunch. Then Wufei rounded the corner and stopped dead in his tracks. He turned beet red and ran back up the stairs, faster than he came down.

"What the Hell was that all about?!" Duo said, in between fits of giggles, while Alex clung to Quatre for support as she tried to stop laughing. Heero wiped the smirk off of his face and headed upstairs.

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In the girl's dorm:

"So, what is the plan for our project, guys?" Alex asked, while Jessie pulled out a manila folder. "We got a whole bunch of info on this Carpathia fellow. He is well known in the area. His cover as an OZ pawn is a law enforcement officer. Ironic, huh?" Alex said, passing around pictures and profiles of a man who looked in his mid-60, gray hair, brown eyes, and a rough face. "Here are all of his police records, criminal records, and college portfolio. Anything ya want on him, I got." she finished, sorting through a large stack of papers in front of her.

"What we have to do is infiltrate the man's house, which of course, is heavily guarded. He has a contract with a Nicolas Carey, the man who can do pretty much anything with the U.S. Military, to pay him for weapons for OZ. This contract must be somehow altered. We are waiting for mission reports on when we shall leave." Trowa said, giving the girls printouts with objectives on it.

Jessie sighed. Sometimes, she wished she had a regular life at a regular school with regular friends.

She could see Wufei, who stayed in a corner because of his previous embarrassment, staring at her. She grinned to herself, and collected back the pictures.

(a/n:all of the following conversation between Wufei and Jessie is in Cantonese, so no other person in the room can understand anything, not even Heero^_*)

"It is a dishonor to blackmail me." Wufei muttered in Chinese, loud enough for Jessie to hear. Fortunately, Jessie could speak Chinese.

"You idiot, this is America. No one cares about honor anymore." she replied. Wufei glared. " I notice you looking at my friend, and I can tell that you like her. So here's the deal. I won't show the pictures, if you ask her out on a date."

Wufei's eyes widened, and everyone who was listening to the conversation stared at him. He wiped the surprised expression off of his face. "Now." Jessie warned in Chinese, brandishing the photo package that she had retrieved from her purse. Wufei got up and pulled Alex out of the room. 'Alex should agree, I know she likes him.' Jessie thought, enjoying blackmail.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Were are they goin'?! What did you guys just say in that language? Tell me!" Duo said, getting frustrated.

"What we said is confidential." Jessie said, tugging on his braid.

After five minutes, Alex and Wufei came back in, Alex looking smug, and Wufei looking mock angry. But Jessie could tell that he was satisfied with the big lip gloss kiss on his cheek. 'Enough of this distraction, though. We need to get down to business.'

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that night:

"Wufei asked me on a date! I don't know what you said in whatever language you were talkin', but thanks!" Alex glomped her friend, giving her a bear hug that almost squeezed her comatose. "Aaak! Alex, you're...suffocating...me...!" Jessie gasped, trying to pry her friend off.

"Sorry, Jess! I'm gonna go tell Duo!" and with that, she was out the door and down the hall. But when she knocked on the door, no one answered. She knocked again, and there was no response. Alex jiggled the handle, and found it mysteriously unlocked. She crept through to the living room, and turned on the light. Neither duo nor Heero was there, but noises came out of the other room, so, being a creature of curiosity, Alex went to check it out. She didn't need to turn on the light, because frankly, she didn't want to. The moonlight illuminated the bed, where two bodies were intertwined and moving. Alex, certainly not expecting this, pinched her nose, which had started bleeding. She backed out of the room, turned off the living room light, and closed the door. Jessie was surprised when Alex ran in the room, blood dripping out of her nose. "They were in bed." she said, reaching for the tissues. "Oh, so they were asleep. You didn't wake them up, did you?" Jessie said, "We have a big day tomorrow."

"Oh, no. I didn't wake them up. They were very conscious and active, veery active." Alex whispered, on the verge of busting into giggling fits. Jessie finally got it. "Ooooooooo. So I was right! They WERE gay! Pay up!" Alex shoved a twenty into her friend's hand.

"What's so big about tomorrow?" Alex asked, sitting down with a coke.

"I got a fax from FBI HQ. We leave to carry out the mission tomorrow."

TBC