Disclaimer:
Ayanami only owns Gundam in her dreams.

Note: I'm making Mariemaia a few years older. Just be warned.

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Falling Angels: Chapter 2

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"Miss, I'm sorry, we could recover nothing from your apartment." The fire fighter told her gently.

"Nothing?! But, all my money is in there, everything I own, I don't have anything..." her voice trailed off.

"I'm sorry, but there's nothing left. May I have your name, please?" he asked, going back to business. He took out a form.

"Cerena Dorlian." She said. Then she turned around and walked off, ignoring all his other questions.

I have nothing now. I worked there, at the building. I lived there. Now it's all gone, and the owner is dead too. There is no proof anywhere of my employment, so I am left with only the clothes on my back.

She turned off into an alleyway, and punched the wall.

"I can't even get a good job anymore, because I never completed high school. That stupid war got in the way." She kneeled down in the street, and silently began to cry.

"At least there is one up side to this. Now it will be very hard for Heero to find me." she said to herself.

She sat there and cried herself to sleep in the dark alley.

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Heero sat by the hospital bed, holding the sleeping girl's hand. He hadn't left her side since he had brought her here three days ago.

Duo was in the room as he recived the call. He was surprised to get a collect call, and was ready to hang up, but as soon as he heard the word 'Kitty', he demanded it be put through.

---FLASHBACK---

"Put it through. Now!" Heero practically bit the poor operator's head off.

"OK." she said weakly, and connected the lines.

The screen flicked black, and then the word 'Audio Only' appeared in green print.

"Kitty? Kitty, you there?" he asked gently, concerned, the emotions clear in his voice. Duo's eyes bugged out.

Mr. Perfect Soldier showing emotion? God in High Heaven, what the hell in going on? Duo thought to himself. Duo examined the look in Heero's eyes. It was the same look he'd been wearing for the past three weeks. Worry, extreme worry and concern. He'd been worried as hell ever since he came to the conclusion Relena was still alive. But, never had those emotions ever taken more than the man's eyes. Now they claimed his entire face.

"A...Angel?" a voice came from the screen. The green print disappeared as a face, a bloody, bruised, dirty face, replaced it.

"It's me, Kitty. What happened? Where are you?" He smothered her with questions, his worry increased tenfold by her appearance.

"Chris, Earth, Sank Kingdom, capital city, the phone booth on 168th and 3rd." she told him, to the best of her knowledge where she was. Then, confident he would come and get her, she collapsed.

"Angel!" he yelled, standing up. "Angel!" he tried once more, then hung up. He grabbed his Preventers jacket, and look straight at Duo. "Come on."

Thankful he was working in Sank, she drove out to where Kitty said she was.

Stopping the car in the middle of the street, he ran out the phone booth. He opened it up, and collected the bloody, filthy mess in his arms.

He gently shook her, to wake her up, and she slowly came too.

"G'Morning." he said, smiling weakly to mask his feelings. She smiled up at him, and then cried out. "What? What is it?" all traces of his smile gone.

"My ribs...broken." she managed to gasp out. "Probably a concussion, knife would to left thigh, bullet scraped my shoulder." she began listing all of her major wounds.

"Angel, why didn't you go to a hospital?" By this time Duo had parked Heero's car, and came out to join them.

As he came up to them, she passed out once more. "I don't know why she didn't go before, but we'd best take her to a hospital now." Duo remarked, and took the drivers seat as Heero put the girl in the back. "Who is she, anyway?" he asked.

"My sister." Heero replied. Duo was stunned. The rode in silence the rest of the way to the emergency room.

---END FLASHBACK---

The doctor walked in the room with some charts in her hands. "Mr. Yuy, your sister will be fine, although she may remain asleep for a while longer." He nodded to the doctor, and she left, leaving the papers on the table.

Just then, Zechs entered the room. "Yuy, this was the last thing I expected from you. A little sister."

Heero didn't respond, he only looked at the sleeping girl.

"She looks enough like you, I believe you're related. But is her name really Kaily Yuy? And where has she been since the war, while you were out fighting in Gundam?" the tall blonde man pressed.

"She was training to take my place, should I ever fail." he said. Then Heero stood up, and kissed the girl's forehead. "Watch her for a moment please. I need to make a few calls. Our family and friends should know what happened." With that, Heero left the room.

"Family...?" Zechs was unable to do anything but mutter that word. Heero Yuy has a family? Zechs shook his head, and sat next to the strange girl. Her black hair would fall to her chin if it weren't tied back. "And the funny thing is, as soon as my sister leaves, his comes back."

Heero returned a few moments later and said, "You can go now if you want."

Zechs shook his head. "I'll stay a while. She reminds me of Relena." he said, although the girl looked nothing like his sister.

"Ha!" Heero shouted, and Zechs looked up, eyes wide.

"Ha? Who the hell are you and what have you done with Heero?" Zechs demanded.

"She's nothing like Relena. Relena is the Dove of Peace. She wouldn't hurt a fly, even if she would slap Mariemaia. Kitty, well, she would take delight in pulling off the fly's wings, and then making me eat them. Kitty loves to fight, it's what she does best. She's even better than me." His voice softened and he smiled slightly as he made this confession.

"Yuy, how can that girl fight better than you?"

"Long story." he said, and refused to elaborate. "We'll have visitors in about an hour. I bet Marie will tell you. She'll do anything to piss me off."

With that, he sat down and returned to the quiet, brooding Heero Yuy that Zechs knew.

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In an hour, just as Heero had said, there was a knock on the door, then it burst open.

"Mariemaia! I knocked, we should wait for them to open it!" Lady Une followed a speeding wheelchair into the room.

"Mama! Knocking won't work, those two wouldn't answer the door if it fell on top of them. Chr- uhh...I mean, Heero!" she yelled. Heero got up and gave the would-be dictator a hug, leaving Une stunned.

"It's OK, Marie, call me by my name." he said.

"OK Chris!" the redhead chirped, and looked over at the girl on the bed. "Oh, God, what happened to Kitty?!" she demanded. She wheeled over to the side of the bed, and gently brushed aside some stray hair. The girl on the bed stirred, and began to awake.

Kitty's head was spinning as she came to. "Oh, shut up, the angel of bitchiness is trying to sleep." she groaned.

"Kitty!!" Marie yelled, and got whacked by a bandaged hand. "Hey, what was that for? Oh, right." She promptly shut her mouth.

"Hey girl. Long time no see." Heero stood beside her and patted her head. "You get more beautiful every time I see you."

"Don't do that!!" she complained, batting his hand away. "You get uglier too." she replied. "So when can I get outta here?" she asked, her blue eyes fixed on Heero.

"That's the thing, you see. Doctor says you'll be here for two weeks, and Sally agrees. I trust Sally, and her judgement. Add to that, I am the epitome of an overprotective older brother, you ain't going nowhere for two weeks. And then I'm going to take you home, and you'll stay there for a month, to recover. Do you understand?"

Lady Une and Zechs jaws hit the ground. Overprotective older brother?

Mariemaia began laughing. "Ohhh, girl, you been told!" The hand that had whacked her earlier whacked her again.

"I will agree to that on one condition. If-"

"You will agree to it regardless." Heero interrupted.

"Oh, no, once I'm half better, I'll beat your ass and leave. Unless you agree."

Marie began laughing harder. "She's got a point, you know. She could beat you up if she wasn't so hurt."

"I know." he growled. "What'd'ya want, oh angel of hell?"

"I want the two of you to come home with me. It's been a long time." she said, softly.

Heero sighed with relieve. That he could handle. "OK, we'll come, right Marie?"

"Right!" she said, silencing her mother's protest with a Heero Yuy style death glare.

The prussian blue eyes closed, and she said. "Mission Accomplished. Ow! Hey, I can rip anything off I want, I'm your sister." Then, ignoring his protests, she slipped into a deep sleep.

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OK, you like? More coming soon! You see, it's a lot like the old one, but different.

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-Ayanami_Chan
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