Title: Two Become One 5/?
Author: Rhina
Pairings: 2xS and one more – see if you can find it!
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WARNING: Angst and Language
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Disclaimer: I don't own the GW boys or their female counterparts
otherwise I'd be retiring instead of dealing with the likes of the
school board. I don't own the song "Two Become One" by the
Spice Girls either – thank goodness, who'd want to lay claim to
them?!
lyrics
~~~ scene change ~~~
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Set your
spirit free, it's the only way to be
Silly games that you were playing, empty
Words we both were saying,
Let's work it out boy, let's work it out boy,
~~~ Sally's
Apartment, L2 ~~~
Sally wound her
braid tightly against her skull. Nimble
fingers
jammed in several
pins anchoring the mass to her skull so tightly
it nearly brought
tears to her eyes. Gel combed back the
remaining
stragglers of hair,
making sure not a single blonde strand remained.
Grabbing the can of
spray color, Sally held her breath and sprayed
down her hair,
covering the shining blonde with the matte blackness.
It would have been
easier to simply wear a hat, but the risk of losing
said item was more
than she cared to take at this time.
Making sure that any
remnants of blonde were completely
obliterated, she
checked her pockets for the needed items once
more. Her black pants and turtleneck gave her
lithe form a smooth
sexy look. She caught a glance of herself in the mirror
and turned
back to admire the
form. Her musings concentrated on
whether or
not Duo might like
seeing her as a black haired femme fatale
instead?
She shook away the
thoughts of the sexy man and turned to the
task at hand. Everything seemed to be in order for her
late night
breaking and
entering gig. Taking a deep fortifying
breath, she
prepared to exit the
apartment and head out to find the information
to close this case
that she desperately needed.
Turning off the
light in her bedroom, she headed for the door of the
small
apartment. There she grabbed the keys
to her car and a coat
that concealed the
dark clothing and unusual hair color from those
who saw her every
day. She had decided to take her car
and park
near the scene as
she had a way to go and it seemed a bit safer.
Besides, it made
leaving that much easier. With luck,
leaving would
definitely be the
easiest part and she might even get a little sleep
tonight. She donned the coat and pulled up the hood,
shading her
face and hiding the
fright in her eyes from view.
With a deep breath,
she opened the door and shut it behind her,
heading out into the
unknown where the predators hunt without
rest.
~~~ Preventer HQ,
Shuttle Bay ~~~
"Look you little
Pipsqueak," growled Duo, his hands clenching
the edge of the
counter instead of the collar of the pale soldier like
he really wanted to,
"I don't know or care where your orders came
from, you get me a
God damn shuttle and I want it right now."
"But Commander Une
has to approve all requisitions," said the
trembling
solider. He desperately tried to
remember all the correct
procedures of what
you were to do in such a situation. But
he
didn't think 'angry
God of Death guy ready to snap you in two'
had been covered in
the manual.
"If you don't give
me the fucking shuttle, I am sure that you won't
need to worry about
what Commander Une wants every again,"
snarled Duo. "Now give me access or I'll hijack the
stupid thing
and you can explain
to Commander Une about how you impeded
the rescue mission
of an officer."
Eventually the poor
hapless young recruit, decided that the current
presence of a pissed
off Shinigami out-weighed the possible
chewing out by his
superior the next time he reported for duty. He
handed over the
needed access codes, once he had a somewhat
sketchy flight plan
from the violent eyed avenging angel of death.
Now all he had to do
was figure out how to avoid the haranguing
he was sure to
receive from his superior in the morning….
~~~ Somewhere on L2
~~~
So far so good was
the only thought that crossed Sally's mind as
she eased further
into the building. It had been easy
enough to
enter, as her own
pass allowed her access to a fair amount of
areas. The tough part was just beginning.
Through her routine
work, she had narrowed down the areas
where vital
documents must be stored. She knew
there had to be
traceable evidence,
because of what she was required to enter on
the computer after
each 'operation'. Somewhere was the bit
of
data that tied those
organs to their final destination.
If only she'd been
as talented as Heero in the hacking business,
she could have done
this from the safety of her own home! Of
course those things
never seemed to go her way anyway. Maybe
you just needed to
be a Gundam pilot for computers to respond
to you that way!
Stopping in front of
the restricted access door that Sally had
dubbed 'most likely
to conceal incriminating evidence', she
withdrew a small
micro-computer and slid its key card into the
access port next to
the door. With a bit of scrambling, the
computer decoded the
passkey into something the door recognized.
Looking around,
Sally assured herself that she was alone, and
quietly crept into
the room, pocketing the micro-computer along
the way. The door slid shut behind her on its silent
track and
she let loose a slow
breathe as it closed completely.
The entire room was
built to house a pair of computers. Both
their monitors were
on, giving the room a eerie dim green-grey
glow that computers
do. There were a couple of file
cabinets and
other storage
paraphernalia on her right, but other than the desks
the computers sat on
and a single chair, the room was devoid of
furniture. The room was also very cool. Sally supposed that it
was for the benefit
of the computers but she didn't think about it
other than a brief
instance.
If she had, perhaps
the solid green light on the room's thermostat
turning to a
blinking yellow one would have concerned her. But
then as a woman
focused on a mission, it's probably not likely.
Without concern,
Sally snagged the room's only chair and wheeled
over in front of the
first computer. She let the
micro-computer
help her log in,
stealing an id and a password from the computer's
own memory
banks. Slipping in under the security,
she began to
search for the
information she needed.
"So what can you
give me," she murmured under her breath, eyes
fixed on the screen.
And the yellow light
on the thermostat began to blink even faster.
And then it shifted
to red.
~~~ Heading into
Orbit about Preventer HQ ~~~
Duo cursed again and
pounded on the consol of the ship he had
'commandeered'.
"Can't this piece of
shit go any faster?" he cried out loud, before
pushing ahead and
coaxing maximum engine power out of the
vessel. "Damn it all! Why do I always get stuck with the piece of
junk?!"
Duo finessed a
little more from the machine and skillfully pointed
in the direction
that he needed to travel. Hoping for
the best, he
wove his way through
space to save Sally. He wasn't quite
sure
what kind of muscle
he was up against with this race, but he certainly
decided that some
heavy duty back-up might not hurt.
"Time to call in a
favor," he muttered, calling up the communications
link and punch in a
series of digits.
An electronic
recorded voice came on the line and Duo
responded with the
password which brought him face to face,
via vid screen with
he man he was looking for.
"Nice to see you
again Heero."
~~~ Mainframe room,
Somewhere on L2 ~~~
Sally worked as fast as her fingers could fly across the keyboard.
She coaxed and shouted harsh commands at the terminal screen,
searching through endless files and documents looking for the
information she needed to nail these jerks where it hurt. As fast
as she was having to read, everything seemed like gibberish so
far. The names and numbers meant absolutely nothing to her at
this moment.
"Where is it?" she muttered under her breath, her whole being
focused on what was scrolling across the screen.
~~~ Elsewhere on L2 ~~~
Ty rolled his chair carelessly across the floor to the beeping
monitor on the other side of the room. He idly noted that the
sensors were detecting a major heat increase in the mainframe
room. With bored curiosity, he rolled back to his main terminal
and tapped into the surveillance equipment for that room.
"Well, well well," he smirked to himself. "What have we got
here?"
His fingers skimmed across the keyboard, allowing him to view
what the former blonde bombshell was seeing on the screen.
"Searching for something are we Ms. Schwartz?" he questioned
the image from the security camera. "Let's just make sure that
you find something, shall we?"
Smoothly, Ty flipped back his long red hair and grabbed the
headset from beside his terminal. With a quick motion and a tap
of a key, he was connected with the person he was looking for.
"Hey boss man," he crooned into the phone at the snarling voice
on the other end of the line. "I've caught a nice mouse for you.
Perhaps you'd better take it from the trap before she runs away."
~~~ En route to L2 ~~~
"Look Heero," continued Duo as he reset the course of the shuttle
once more, aiming for a part of L2 that would be a little more
likely to house the characters that Sally was looking for, "I need
some back up here. I'm heading in there blind and I'd like
someone covering my ass that I trust."
Heero sighed. "What makes you think that I would be so willing to
do something like that?"
Duo began to tick the reasons off on his fingers. "Because you're
my best bud, I loaned you pieces for your Gundam during the war…"
"Only because I took them with force," corrected Heero with a small
smirk. "You never would have parted with them willingly."
"How do you know that unless you asked, which you didn't,"
snorted Duo in return, finding one final point to win his case
against the brown haired man across the vid screen from him.
"Besides, if you don't help with this, I'll tell Relena what you
were really doing the night before your wedding."
On the vid screen, Heero sighed and rubbed a long limbered hand
through his ragged brown hair. "You win Duo," he said with some
reluctance. "If anything happens to me, you get to deal with
Relena."
"Done," agreed Duo readily, not about to admit to anything close
to defeat with this case. "I'm going to need those infamous
hacking abilities for this one."
Across the screen, Duo watched as Heero pulled out a battered
pad of paper and a pen and began to take notes as the pair
planned their strategy and where to meet.
Feeling pleased that Heero would be able to aid him, Duo
concentrated on strategy and urging the shuttle toward Sally
faster. There was no chance for a wrong move this time, for he
had to save her.
~~~ Chang Residence, Near Preventer HQ ~~~
Une pounded on Wufei's door, knocking loudly several times
before ringing the doorbell. She gave no thought to the noise
waking the people in the neighboring apartments. She simply
needed Wufei and she needed him right now.
Blearily, Wufei came to realize that the pounding sound that he
heard wasn't in his dreams, but at his front door. Stumbling only
slightly, he rose swiftly and climbed from the bed, pushing his
hair away from his face in a sleepy gesture. He shook his head
to clear away the remnants of sleepy cobwebs that clung and made
his way through the small apartment space to the door.
Checking through the small antique peephole that was provided,
he immediately spied Une and flew through the opening of the
locks. If it was urgent enough to bring Une to his doorstep at
this time of night, he'd better make sure he got to her quickly.
Pulling open the door, he quickly grasped some of the situation.
Une's face was sober and the lines of worry seemed even deeper
etched this evening. But it was her eyes that caught and held his
gaze. They burned with a red hot anger that he had never seen
from her before. The fires behind that gaze no longer simmered
but blazed with their full fury as Wufei urged her to come inside.
He escorted her over to the couch to try and convince her to
sit and speak to him, but the energy within her would have
nothing to do with sitting still. He watched the brunette pace
in front of him as he admired her lithe form. Her slenderness
had aged gracefully, giving way to more of the round feminine
curves her form had held the promise for. Her long legs were
deliciously displayed by the knee length skirt that she was
wearing and he admired the smoothness of that bared skin. Her
tailored jacket was open and her blouse unbuttoned to bare the
creamy expanse of her neck. Wufei smiled secretly to himself.
He loved it when she was passionate about something. She had
a slight wild side then and he loved every moment of it, no
matter the reason that had brought it on. He sensed from her
agitated movements and the tight grasp she had on the paper in
her hand that this time it was something a little more serious
that had brought our her wild side.
Une paused before beginning her tirade. She knew that she
needed to calm down before she absolutely blew a fuse over
this latest development. She stopped her pacing and turned to
face Wufei. The Chinese man was sitting on the edge of the
sofa watching her carefully. His deep brown eyes held the
edges of sleep and his sleek hair tumbled along his cheeks.
Smooth golden skin was bared above silky black pajama
bottoms that begged for Une to touch them.
Reigning in her desire, Une remembered why she had come to
Wufei with this problem rather than anyone else. For as long
as he had been a member of the Preventer organization, Wufei
had been a kind of confidante. She couldn't even remember
how it all started, but she relied on him now more than anyone
else. He understood her need to uphold Treize's beliefs and
urged her to keep those memories. His sense of justice and
honesty, brought them together to forge those dreams into
reality. She knew he would be just as angry at the thought of
some selfish bastard threatening those hopes and dreams.
"We found the bastard Wufei," she said with more calmness
than she felt inside. The heady mixture of the need to cream
this guy into the ground combined with the intensity of her
sudden feelings for Wufei.
Wufei immediately was far more alert, snapping black eyes
became fueled with the same fire hers had. A hand ran threw
his silky hair and brushed it back off his cheeks. His other
hand reached out and dragged Une down onto the couch
beside him. "Who found him?"
"Duo," sighed Une, handing over the papers she had been
tightly clenching. "He figured it out, but only after he let slip
where Sally was."
"Shit," cursed Wufei as he read through the papers. Duo's
findings had been thorough. The bastard had been quite busy
with the time he had worked within the Preventer organization.
The only thing truly missing was a motive, but Wufei could
have cared less about something like that when the entire
Preventer Organization was on the line.
"I don't know why he did all this," whispered Une, leaning
against Wufei as if somehow looking for support that she
desperately needed right now. "I just know I want him dead.
I want him stripped of his rank and privileges and dead. I
don't care how or why."
Wufei laid a hand on Une's shoulder then, wrapping the arm
around her and drawing her close to him. "We'll get him Une.
He won't get away with this shit any more."
"And poor Sally," whispered Une, concern for her friend sparkling
within her eyes, flickering through the fire in them.
"Damn," cursed Wufei again, his own anger at the man who
threatened his friend causing him to crush the papers in his hand
as Une had before him. "What do we do about getting her out of
there?"
Une shook her head, negating the need to do anything. "Duo's
on his way."
Wufei sighed with some relief, a brief smile flitting across his
features. "That's the way it should be. You and I can take care
of this guy," commented Wufei carefully. They shared a
conspirator's smile then, both knowing that the other wanted Duo
and Sally to come together.
Wufei tapped the papers against his chin, dismissing the romantic
entangles of his friends. "I think we'll need some help though,"
he added, thinking quickly.
"Who?" asked Une with curiosity.
"Well," smiled Wufei, "I think the circus is in town, isn't it?"
Une laughed then, leaning against the Chinese man, relief that
he was in charge flowing through her as he gathered her into
his arms.
And together they laid a trap to catch a rat as a ghost stood behind
them and smiled with pleasure.
~~~ Somewhere on L2 ~~~
Without even an ounce of concern that someone might know of
her presence, Sally continued her search deep within the files.
Her scans and brief foray so far had revealed very little that would
aid her case.
"Damn it! Where is it?" she growled under her voice, glowering
at the computer terminal.
"Can I help you find something Ms. Schwartz?" drawled the calm
voice of the director from behind her.
Slowly Sally turned around on the chair and faced the director.
Dressed in a dull matte black silk bathrobe and pajamas, he should
have looked feminine and weak. But his imposing manner, made
his outfit recede into the background. The only thing she could
see was the definite sneer on his face and how menacing those
guards looked in the room's dim greenish light.
"Not that I know of sir," commented Sally with some resignation,
surrendering the portable computer to the men who came over to
collect her.
"Perhaps not, but we shall see in the morning," he said, gesturing
to the men to lead her away. "Maybe the light of day will jog your
memory."
"Where would you like her sir?" asked the commander of his
squad of guards.
"Take her to one of the holding cells," he commanded, meeting the
blue eyes of Sally's gaze. "Regardless of what she was looking for,
'Ms. Schwartz' will have patients tomorrow."
Sally narrowed her gaze and regarded him coolly as his hand
reached out and stroked a rough finger across delicate skin.
"You see, Ms. Schwartz, I can't afford to lose your skills for a day
so you'll either operate as scheduled tomorrow or you'll find yourself
on the table in place of those donors," he said coldly. His eyes were
dark pools of menace and his smirk grew far enough to send shivers
down Sally's back.
Sally drew away her gaze and forced her feet to move as the
guards dragged her out of the room after handing her micro-
computer over to the boss. The large dark clad man then handed
the device over to the red haired man who had been in the shadows
behind him.
"See what it has Ty and use it to nail her," he commanded and
strode from the room.
With a sadistic grin, Ty fondled the device and then slipped from
the room to return to his own lair.
The guards then led her through a maze of corridors and down an
elevator to nearly the basement of the complex. Without ceremony,
they deposited her in a cell and electronically locked the door.
Sally slid down against the wall when she was sure the way out
was completely sealed and leaned her head back and stared at the
ceiling. Her soft sighed echoed in the empty space as she knew
she was in deeper shit than she ever imaged.
Funny thing then that her only thought was why Duo wasn't here
to get her out of this one.
~~~ Nearing L2 ~~~
"Hold on Sally," whispered Duo, maneuvering the shuttle into to
enter orbit of the L2 colony. "I'm coming."
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Thanks for reading and all C&C is appreciated!
^_^
Rhina
