Children's Games- Part Five: The Mission
By: Lady Katana and DJ Empress
Disclaimer: I don't own them (damn)
Valearia stood again, her face slightly pink. "Alright." her voice was light, and she looked so frail and fragile as if she was about to break.
She fallowed Rehya into the small kitchenette where Quatre and Duo were sitting.
"Guess what, more bad news, as if you didn't know...would you mind checking up on Geshi and Gaviv in Egypt on your way to your base, Quatre?" Rehya asked. "Vale and I have been asked to partake in a mission, and we can't turn it down."
Valearia stared at Duo. She sat by him with out a word. Staring down into her cup of black coffee she sighed.
Duo wrapped his arm around her "Whats wrong, babe?"
"Come Quatre," Rehya warned. "Let's leave them be. I will explain everything...we need your help for back up."
He knodded and stood up from the table, following Rehya down the MS shaft.
Vale stood and headed for the door. "I need some fresh air, Duo." She squeaked
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"I'm afraid this war will take a toll on Vale, Quatre." Rehya said, as calmly as she could.
"Yes, it must be difficult to be in her situation..."
"Frankly, I don't know is Lady Une is still alive, but you must not tell Valearia that."
"She has to be...the Taliban are using her as bait. But you'll wipe them out no matter what."
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Duo fallowed Valearia. "Babe, are you ok?"
Valearia turned around and sobbed into the mass of muscle that was her lover's chest. "They have my sister." she cried in anguish.
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"Rehya, if you think that I'm going to let you go under cover like, you're crazy!" Quatre said.
"It's not like any of us have a choice. Besides it's personal." She replied.
"But you know how dangerous this will be-"
"Yes, I do know. However I'll go in either way...if you want to help, standby with Sandrock. And try to get a hold of Trowa."
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Valearia stood there feeling the comfort of Duo's arms around her. Duo kissed the top of her head.
"It'll be alright, Vale." he sighed stroking her back.
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"...please don't wear those now."
"I'm sorry, Quatre. But I must be ready...I hate more than you do, believe me," She glanced at ther black silk robes, which was hard to see through the cloth that covered her eyes. "This all represents sexism and tyranny..."
"...Vale?..."
She entered the room with Duo and Vale, followed by Quatre.
Rehya turned toward Quatre. "If anything were to happen..."
"Don't say that-"
"Here," She took off her onkh necklace and gave it to him. "Not that I think I'll die, or anything...but, you know...mustn't get my mother's necklace dirty with Taliban filth..."
"I know," Quatre wearily said.
Vale laughed a bit, giving her silver cross necklace to Duo as well.
"I want you to make sure that stays safe. My sister, Lady Une, gave that to me." she winked
Out of nowhere, the door swung open before Rehya and Vale got a chance to open it.
"Heero?" the girls corused.
Vale stood there, shell shocked. "Heero...what are you doing here?"
"I will be coming along on the mission."
"No!" Rehya immediately retorted. "Absolutely not!"
"The decision is made. I am coming."
Valearia waved it away. "I have somthing to adress, Heero." She held up her pale, German hands, and undid her face coverings.
"Rehya's Egyptian. Thus, she is naturally tan. I being the small German one, am pale, how the hell am I gonna pass?"
"You of all people to identify with this," Rehya said. "It's personal! The two of us has a right to kill Bin Ladden, and now with the American President's consent, nothing with stop us. Don't come with us, just don't..."
"They have Lady Une. She is our ally, that is my only objective." he awnsered. Vale broke down, sobbing.
"You aren't going in a disguise, are you? Will you just wait to destroy his camp?"
Vale stared Heero down with a steely glare to match his own. "You're mocking me, aren't you." then she placed her hands her hips. "I don't give a damn who's going. Lets go."
Rehya was re-stocking her gun. She made sure she had enough bullets, and secured it around her leg.
"Ready Vale? Remember, we're not allowed to speak, though we'll want to, and do not show your gun until we're with the Evil One and your sister is safely secured..."
"Right" She said, nodding. "We need to run over the mission plans. I need to go stock up on self control. Somone fill Heero in, excuse me." she pushed between Duo and Quatre.
"I don't care what you do, Heero. Just don't get in our way while we do this. Destroy the facilities while we go, but leave the Evil One to us."
"Fine." Heero said in his usual monotone.
"We mean it, Heero. Please."
Heero looked Rehya in the eyes. "Mission Accepted." Duo turned to leave the room. "I gotta go see my baby. Heero...go work on wing or somthing, *please*." Heero turned to go to the underground hangar, and Duo to go see Vale.
"Come on Rehya. And take that hood off, your mission isn't until next week.." Quatre pleaded.
Valearia slipped her hood off, letting it lay around her neck. She felt Duo's arms around her waist and his head on her shoulder.
"You know Vale, I love you too much." He closed his eyes in contentment.
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"You'd better get going with those suits," Rehya said, turning to Quatre.
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Vale's mucles flexed only slightly, and Duo was under her, on the bed. Her smile was absoloutly wicked.
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Quatre looked at Rehya. "Knowing Duo and Vale and how we've had them running continueously...we better wait some."
Remember when I took you to Egypt for the first time..."
"Of course."
"I taught you had to ride a camel for the first time and we watched the sun set at Saqqara..."
Quatre looked at her and softly smiled. "You were a good teacher."
"Then you gave me Hyoto..and I kissed you for the first time. You were so red."
He laughed and kissed her. "I should give you mobile suits more often."
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Duo and Valearia sat there for a long time before Duo got a wicked smile of his own.
He knew how they played this game, he played it well.
He rolled them over, kissing Valearia so hard she thought her lips would bruise. He held the kiss until she was about to turn blue then he released, leaving her there, helpless.
Duo leaned against a wall and laughed a bit at the small woman on the bed, her chest heaving up and down rapidly.
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"If you're gone, I'll be gone with you," Quatre decided.
"Don't you dare say that Quatre, Rashid and the others need you here with Sandrock."
"I don't care. If you're not here with me, the hell with it. Nothing will be worth anything."
Rehya stroke his platinum blonde locks. "Don't say it as if it'll happen. Just don't."
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Duo laid beside the girl. He let her reddish brown hair down out of its bun, causing it to fall to her shoulder.
"Vale...." that was the only word that could escape his lips. "*My* Vale. Now and forever." he buried his nose in her hair, inhaling the scent of lavender from her hair. "Your always so warm...even if it's -30 degrees outside, you can still make me warm. You always smell wonderful, even if its just shampoo." She snuggled against him, and Duo wrapped his arms around her. "You fit so perfectly into my arms...Vale your my world." He smiled as he lifted her onto the floor beside the bed, and she stood, still leaning against him. Outside the leaves fell. Valearia nuzzled the nape of Duo's neck.
Vale smirked. "Your a baka, Duo, but your *my* baka." she looked up into his eyes, her dull brown clashing with his radiant purple.
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Rehya and Valearia hustled around the kitchen, getting things ready for the oncoming trick or treaters.
"I didn't know that Germany celebrated Halloween, Vale." Rehya said smiling. Valearia smiled,
"Whudda you mean! Germany has the most legends in this world! Other than Ireland, mind you." Duo and Quatre sat on the couch after getting the movies ready.
"Movie Fest will begin in a few minutes, begining with the Bevis And Butt-head film, 'Butt-O-Ween'." Duo announced. Valearia broke into a giggle fit.
Quatre coughed. "Interesting..name...bet it's American."
"Its certainly not German...." Valearia noted. Duo came into the kitchen threw her over his shoulder and carried her into the living room, placing her on his lap. When she tried to move, he pinned her in place.
"I never really understood Halloween..." Rehya said.
"Me neither," Quatre agreed.
"Too much time under the sand, huh Q?"
They laughed. "I suppose, yes."
Valearia yawned and streach relaxing into Duo's chest, her hair still down. Duo played with a peice as he spoke.
"When your a kid you go trick or treating with your family....your brothers and sisters." he glanced longingly out the window, where children played.
"But Vale's the only family I....ever...had..." his sentance trailed off as Valearia looked up at him sleepily.
Valearia sighed.
"Don't be sad, koi." she looked up into his big eyes almost losing herself in them as she spoke.
"What were you're favorite costumes you wore, you guys?" Quatre prodded.
"Or your worst, rather." Rehya added.
Vale thought a bit. "My favorite was my literal take on 'Angel Of Death.' my worst....uh....I didn't really have a worst..." She smiled
Duo awnsered right after her. "I never had the chance...I had no childhood." Valearia snuggled against his chest.
"My poor baka." she cooed.
Rehya and Quatre laughed. "I want to try dressing up as Cleopatra...my mother always said we looked alike." The Egyptian said.
"Well, you're both Queen of the Nile."
"And Q can be Julius Ceasar!"
"How kawaii..."
Valearia laughed.
"My sister always said I should be Anne Frank one year since we look alike as well..." she smiled.
"You both are in hiding from the athorities..." Duo added.
"Err...were Duo, Anne Frank died in Aschwitz."
"I think the scariest thing to be for Halloween is Bin Ladden."
"Well, I know what he's being for Halloween..."
"What?"
"Dead"
The whole room erupted in laughter.
All was fine until a knock came to the door. Quatre and Rehya tensed up.
Duo and Vale raced for the door. Rehya's hand hovered around the drawer concealing a gun. Vale swung open the door, revealing a girl dressed like a princess and a boy as a superhero.
"Trick or Treat." they chorused. Vale gave them both candy, politley comenting on how cute they looked.
Vale giggled a bit.
"Dun worry about anything. Its Halloween!" Vale broke into an opera from Phantom Of The Opera about masqurade balls.
Duo covered her mouth with his hand.
"Ok, stop it with the opera stuff. Its hurting my head."
They laughed more.
Valearia stopped, walking over to the window and staring out it, as if seeing somthing distant. She put her glasses on again.
She felt Rehya's hand on her shoulder and Rehya talking but every sense focused on what she saw.
Rehya noticed out of the corner of her eye Vale standing silent by the window, not looking away. She came up to her and softly asked with her hand on her shoulder.
"Vale...? You're not blinking...what are you looking at?"
Vale turned around to Rehya, her brown eyes magnified by her glasses.
"Nothing." she waved it away, responding to more costumed children.
Rehya followed her and tried to pry her after they left.
"Of course, that stare told me you weren't looking at something...what is worrying you?"
"Nothing, nothing at all." She waved it away again, flopping down on the couch and curling her knees to her chest.
Quatre motioned at Rehya what was wrong, but she just sat down next to him and shook her head.
Duo went and sat next to Vale, wispering in her ear. Her face remaned slightly depressed. She moved closer to him, but her face never changed
Duo moved his head away from hers. She closed her eyes, and a tear fell from the corner of one. Duo wiped it away.
"Dun cry." he wispered to her.
Rehya, feeling uncomfortable, looked pleadingly to Quatre for some reason to say something...but he had a lost look on his face. Moments later, he stood.
"Can you excuse us for a second?" He asked Vale and Duo. "I need to talk to Rehya."
"Uh, sure, Q-" Duo said, starting to stand up. Vale did the same.
"No, you two stay here, we'll only be gone for a little while," Rehya told them. They sat.
Vale sat back down, memories of her and her sister as little children flooding her mind.
She opened the silver locket that sat under the cross, revealing a picture of a seven year old Lady Une and a four year old Valearia hugging each other.
She closed the locket, standing up, and grabbing the candy bowl, giving out more to a few children.
"Thank you, Miss." a little girl almost indentical to the seven year old inside her locket said, hugging her. Where she'd normally push away, she hugged the little girl back.
"Your welcome." she smiled back at the little girl, and closed the door, once it had clicked she slid down the back, her head in her hands
Rehya was silently walking along under the moon with Quatre, watching the German children scuttling along with their friends in their costumes.
"I feel guilty, Quatre," She said.
"Why?"
"Vale seems so sad about her sister...and I don't know how to reassure her."
"Are you worried about the mission?"
"I was, but now...now being scared doesn't matter to me anymore..."
Valearia looked up at the moon and the stars through teary brown eyes.
"I'm so sorry, sister, I didn't know they wanted you." she said sadly. She heard Duo behind her. Blinking back tears, she looked at him. "Yes, love?" she asked. Duo wrapped his arms around her.
"Nothing. I just want to be here with you."
*The next day...*
"Come on, Vale..." Rehya called down the hall. "Aren't you ready yet?"
Vale tugged on her black sweater until a reddish brown tuft was sticking out of the collar.
Duo laughed, walking over and giving the shirt a firm tug, exposing Valearia's head. "Thanks Duo."
Valearia trotted down the hall.
"Yeah, where are we going again?" she said, pulling her hair back in a low ponytail.
Duo fallowed Valearia down the hall.
"See ya short-stuff." he called affectionatly as she walked out the door.
"Hey its not easy being 17 and four foot one, mind you." she yelled back.
"Ok...got my green tea and afghani clothing...I'm all set," Rehya announced.
"What's the green tea for?"
"Oh," Quatre said. "It calms her nerves...we drank it all the time."
Valearia looked around as the brilliantly colored trees for the seemingly last time.
"So the plan is to go back to Giza for the rest of the week and then to Afgainastan...right?"
"Yeah, what you said."
"It's hard to belive that I may never see Germany ever again. I mean, like Berlin. I was born and raised there. But after this mission....I may never come home." Valearia sighed looking at a group of small children trading candy out on a driveway down the street.
Valearia walked after Rehya. Soon the two boys fallowed them.
*Later*
Valearia laid her head on Duo's shoulder, as they were once again in the carrier.
"Well, Valearia, I belive you've grown." Valearia pointed to her shoes.
"Boots." she replied.
"Well Quatre, see you in two weeks." Rehya confidently said.
"Rehya...," He said with a smile. "I'll be backing you up."
"You always are."
Duo wrapped his arms around Valearia.
"I hate to go." he said sadly. "Exspecially when that *ass* might get near you...." he kissed her to finish it off, and then fallowed a wide eyed Quatre.
"Don't act like you and Rehya haven't ever done that either...as well as *other* things."
"Oh *please*, Duo," Quatre said with an uncomfortable laugh.
Valearia looked at the floor. "Duo...." she whined. He winked at her.
"See you Vale-chan."
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"Come on," Rehya said. She and Vale boarded the carrier, and hours later they were awoken by a peculiar sound.Valearia stood immediatly getting out her gun.
"Rehya." she said, walking across the room.
"We're close to a bombing sight..." Rehya said coming back from the pilot's cockpit. She yawned. "Nothing to worry about, though we'll be landing in a half an hour. Ready?"
"Yeah." Valearia said, still a little over-alert. "Ready." she opened her laptop and called Duo.
The next moment Rehya equiped herself with the two way radio, a few shot guns, a stungun. Then she covered it all with her black berqua. "Are we online Vale?" She asked, fastening the radio ear plugs.
"4-10. The mission says you are to investigate the mountains and i'm supposed to support you on this end."
"Right," She confirmed. "The mountainous area north of Kabul."
"Right-on." Duo suddunly belted in. "Me Vale And Quatre will be waiting for you in the forest just south of Kabul. In sandrock, death angel, and deathscythe hell."
"And the Tallgeese? Will it be covered?"
"Yeah." Vale said, intervening. "Totally. It'll be waiting for you." Valearia's fingers flew across the keyboard on the carrier. "I'm sending the data over to you, Rehya."
"Alright. Give me a second..." Rehya inputted some data from the US military standpoint. "Uh oh. Vale, are you catching this?"
"What?" Vale asked. "I don't really know whats so wrong about it...."
"3 o'clock, look."
"Wow. Trees." Valearia said.
An unfamiliar voice came over the S-System. "Unidentified airship, you are not permitted to enter this zone. Turn back immediatly."
"Who the hell is this!?"
Valearia's brow furrowed. "What I want to know is it an ally or an enemy."
"You are the enemy, you do not fall under the Iranian air code."
"Iran? What the fuck is Iran doing here in Afghanistan?"
"Vale!" Duo came in over the s-system "Get the hell out of there. Rehya too, take the suits. There is only Death Angel and Tallgeese."
"Something...what...what went wrong, Duo?" Rehya demanded.
"JUST GO!" He yelled. Valearia foled up her laptop and ran to the hangar, Rehya close in suit. "Ok, Vale, meet me in Egypt in two days, understand?"
By: Lady Katana and DJ Empress
Disclaimer: I don't own them (damn)
Valearia stood again, her face slightly pink. "Alright." her voice was light, and she looked so frail and fragile as if she was about to break.
She fallowed Rehya into the small kitchenette where Quatre and Duo were sitting.
"Guess what, more bad news, as if you didn't know...would you mind checking up on Geshi and Gaviv in Egypt on your way to your base, Quatre?" Rehya asked. "Vale and I have been asked to partake in a mission, and we can't turn it down."
Valearia stared at Duo. She sat by him with out a word. Staring down into her cup of black coffee she sighed.
Duo wrapped his arm around her "Whats wrong, babe?"
"Come Quatre," Rehya warned. "Let's leave them be. I will explain everything...we need your help for back up."
He knodded and stood up from the table, following Rehya down the MS shaft.
Vale stood and headed for the door. "I need some fresh air, Duo." She squeaked
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"I'm afraid this war will take a toll on Vale, Quatre." Rehya said, as calmly as she could.
"Yes, it must be difficult to be in her situation..."
"Frankly, I don't know is Lady Une is still alive, but you must not tell Valearia that."
"She has to be...the Taliban are using her as bait. But you'll wipe them out no matter what."
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Duo fallowed Valearia. "Babe, are you ok?"
Valearia turned around and sobbed into the mass of muscle that was her lover's chest. "They have my sister." she cried in anguish.
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"Rehya, if you think that I'm going to let you go under cover like, you're crazy!" Quatre said.
"It's not like any of us have a choice. Besides it's personal." She replied.
"But you know how dangerous this will be-"
"Yes, I do know. However I'll go in either way...if you want to help, standby with Sandrock. And try to get a hold of Trowa."
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Valearia stood there feeling the comfort of Duo's arms around her. Duo kissed the top of her head.
"It'll be alright, Vale." he sighed stroking her back.
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"...please don't wear those now."
"I'm sorry, Quatre. But I must be ready...I hate more than you do, believe me," She glanced at ther black silk robes, which was hard to see through the cloth that covered her eyes. "This all represents sexism and tyranny..."
"...Vale?..."
She entered the room with Duo and Vale, followed by Quatre.
Rehya turned toward Quatre. "If anything were to happen..."
"Don't say that-"
"Here," She took off her onkh necklace and gave it to him. "Not that I think I'll die, or anything...but, you know...mustn't get my mother's necklace dirty with Taliban filth..."
"I know," Quatre wearily said.
Vale laughed a bit, giving her silver cross necklace to Duo as well.
"I want you to make sure that stays safe. My sister, Lady Une, gave that to me." she winked
Out of nowhere, the door swung open before Rehya and Vale got a chance to open it.
"Heero?" the girls corused.
Vale stood there, shell shocked. "Heero...what are you doing here?"
"I will be coming along on the mission."
"No!" Rehya immediately retorted. "Absolutely not!"
"The decision is made. I am coming."
Valearia waved it away. "I have somthing to adress, Heero." She held up her pale, German hands, and undid her face coverings.
"Rehya's Egyptian. Thus, she is naturally tan. I being the small German one, am pale, how the hell am I gonna pass?"
"You of all people to identify with this," Rehya said. "It's personal! The two of us has a right to kill Bin Ladden, and now with the American President's consent, nothing with stop us. Don't come with us, just don't..."
"They have Lady Une. She is our ally, that is my only objective." he awnsered. Vale broke down, sobbing.
"You aren't going in a disguise, are you? Will you just wait to destroy his camp?"
Vale stared Heero down with a steely glare to match his own. "You're mocking me, aren't you." then she placed her hands her hips. "I don't give a damn who's going. Lets go."
Rehya was re-stocking her gun. She made sure she had enough bullets, and secured it around her leg.
"Ready Vale? Remember, we're not allowed to speak, though we'll want to, and do not show your gun until we're with the Evil One and your sister is safely secured..."
"Right" She said, nodding. "We need to run over the mission plans. I need to go stock up on self control. Somone fill Heero in, excuse me." she pushed between Duo and Quatre.
"I don't care what you do, Heero. Just don't get in our way while we do this. Destroy the facilities while we go, but leave the Evil One to us."
"Fine." Heero said in his usual monotone.
"We mean it, Heero. Please."
Heero looked Rehya in the eyes. "Mission Accepted." Duo turned to leave the room. "I gotta go see my baby. Heero...go work on wing or somthing, *please*." Heero turned to go to the underground hangar, and Duo to go see Vale.
"Come on Rehya. And take that hood off, your mission isn't until next week.." Quatre pleaded.
Valearia slipped her hood off, letting it lay around her neck. She felt Duo's arms around her waist and his head on her shoulder.
"You know Vale, I love you too much." He closed his eyes in contentment.
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"You'd better get going with those suits," Rehya said, turning to Quatre.
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Vale's mucles flexed only slightly, and Duo was under her, on the bed. Her smile was absoloutly wicked.
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Quatre looked at Rehya. "Knowing Duo and Vale and how we've had them running continueously...we better wait some."
Remember when I took you to Egypt for the first time..."
"Of course."
"I taught you had to ride a camel for the first time and we watched the sun set at Saqqara..."
Quatre looked at her and softly smiled. "You were a good teacher."
"Then you gave me Hyoto..and I kissed you for the first time. You were so red."
He laughed and kissed her. "I should give you mobile suits more often."
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Duo and Valearia sat there for a long time before Duo got a wicked smile of his own.
He knew how they played this game, he played it well.
He rolled them over, kissing Valearia so hard she thought her lips would bruise. He held the kiss until she was about to turn blue then he released, leaving her there, helpless.
Duo leaned against a wall and laughed a bit at the small woman on the bed, her chest heaving up and down rapidly.
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"If you're gone, I'll be gone with you," Quatre decided.
"Don't you dare say that Quatre, Rashid and the others need you here with Sandrock."
"I don't care. If you're not here with me, the hell with it. Nothing will be worth anything."
Rehya stroke his platinum blonde locks. "Don't say it as if it'll happen. Just don't."
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Duo laid beside the girl. He let her reddish brown hair down out of its bun, causing it to fall to her shoulder.
"Vale...." that was the only word that could escape his lips. "*My* Vale. Now and forever." he buried his nose in her hair, inhaling the scent of lavender from her hair. "Your always so warm...even if it's -30 degrees outside, you can still make me warm. You always smell wonderful, even if its just shampoo." She snuggled against him, and Duo wrapped his arms around her. "You fit so perfectly into my arms...Vale your my world." He smiled as he lifted her onto the floor beside the bed, and she stood, still leaning against him. Outside the leaves fell. Valearia nuzzled the nape of Duo's neck.
Vale smirked. "Your a baka, Duo, but your *my* baka." she looked up into his eyes, her dull brown clashing with his radiant purple.
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Rehya and Valearia hustled around the kitchen, getting things ready for the oncoming trick or treaters.
"I didn't know that Germany celebrated Halloween, Vale." Rehya said smiling. Valearia smiled,
"Whudda you mean! Germany has the most legends in this world! Other than Ireland, mind you." Duo and Quatre sat on the couch after getting the movies ready.
"Movie Fest will begin in a few minutes, begining with the Bevis And Butt-head film, 'Butt-O-Ween'." Duo announced. Valearia broke into a giggle fit.
Quatre coughed. "Interesting..name...bet it's American."
"Its certainly not German...." Valearia noted. Duo came into the kitchen threw her over his shoulder and carried her into the living room, placing her on his lap. When she tried to move, he pinned her in place.
"I never really understood Halloween..." Rehya said.
"Me neither," Quatre agreed.
"Too much time under the sand, huh Q?"
They laughed. "I suppose, yes."
Valearia yawned and streach relaxing into Duo's chest, her hair still down. Duo played with a peice as he spoke.
"When your a kid you go trick or treating with your family....your brothers and sisters." he glanced longingly out the window, where children played.
"But Vale's the only family I....ever...had..." his sentance trailed off as Valearia looked up at him sleepily.
Valearia sighed.
"Don't be sad, koi." she looked up into his big eyes almost losing herself in them as she spoke.
"What were you're favorite costumes you wore, you guys?" Quatre prodded.
"Or your worst, rather." Rehya added.
Vale thought a bit. "My favorite was my literal take on 'Angel Of Death.' my worst....uh....I didn't really have a worst..." She smiled
Duo awnsered right after her. "I never had the chance...I had no childhood." Valearia snuggled against his chest.
"My poor baka." she cooed.
Rehya and Quatre laughed. "I want to try dressing up as Cleopatra...my mother always said we looked alike." The Egyptian said.
"Well, you're both Queen of the Nile."
"And Q can be Julius Ceasar!"
"How kawaii..."
Valearia laughed.
"My sister always said I should be Anne Frank one year since we look alike as well..." she smiled.
"You both are in hiding from the athorities..." Duo added.
"Err...were Duo, Anne Frank died in Aschwitz."
"I think the scariest thing to be for Halloween is Bin Ladden."
"Well, I know what he's being for Halloween..."
"What?"
"Dead"
The whole room erupted in laughter.
All was fine until a knock came to the door. Quatre and Rehya tensed up.
Duo and Vale raced for the door. Rehya's hand hovered around the drawer concealing a gun. Vale swung open the door, revealing a girl dressed like a princess and a boy as a superhero.
"Trick or Treat." they chorused. Vale gave them both candy, politley comenting on how cute they looked.
Vale giggled a bit.
"Dun worry about anything. Its Halloween!" Vale broke into an opera from Phantom Of The Opera about masqurade balls.
Duo covered her mouth with his hand.
"Ok, stop it with the opera stuff. Its hurting my head."
They laughed more.
Valearia stopped, walking over to the window and staring out it, as if seeing somthing distant. She put her glasses on again.
She felt Rehya's hand on her shoulder and Rehya talking but every sense focused on what she saw.
Rehya noticed out of the corner of her eye Vale standing silent by the window, not looking away. She came up to her and softly asked with her hand on her shoulder.
"Vale...? You're not blinking...what are you looking at?"
Vale turned around to Rehya, her brown eyes magnified by her glasses.
"Nothing." she waved it away, responding to more costumed children.
Rehya followed her and tried to pry her after they left.
"Of course, that stare told me you weren't looking at something...what is worrying you?"
"Nothing, nothing at all." She waved it away again, flopping down on the couch and curling her knees to her chest.
Quatre motioned at Rehya what was wrong, but she just sat down next to him and shook her head.
Duo went and sat next to Vale, wispering in her ear. Her face remaned slightly depressed. She moved closer to him, but her face never changed
Duo moved his head away from hers. She closed her eyes, and a tear fell from the corner of one. Duo wiped it away.
"Dun cry." he wispered to her.
Rehya, feeling uncomfortable, looked pleadingly to Quatre for some reason to say something...but he had a lost look on his face. Moments later, he stood.
"Can you excuse us for a second?" He asked Vale and Duo. "I need to talk to Rehya."
"Uh, sure, Q-" Duo said, starting to stand up. Vale did the same.
"No, you two stay here, we'll only be gone for a little while," Rehya told them. They sat.
Vale sat back down, memories of her and her sister as little children flooding her mind.
She opened the silver locket that sat under the cross, revealing a picture of a seven year old Lady Une and a four year old Valearia hugging each other.
She closed the locket, standing up, and grabbing the candy bowl, giving out more to a few children.
"Thank you, Miss." a little girl almost indentical to the seven year old inside her locket said, hugging her. Where she'd normally push away, she hugged the little girl back.
"Your welcome." she smiled back at the little girl, and closed the door, once it had clicked she slid down the back, her head in her hands
Rehya was silently walking along under the moon with Quatre, watching the German children scuttling along with their friends in their costumes.
"I feel guilty, Quatre," She said.
"Why?"
"Vale seems so sad about her sister...and I don't know how to reassure her."
"Are you worried about the mission?"
"I was, but now...now being scared doesn't matter to me anymore..."
Valearia looked up at the moon and the stars through teary brown eyes.
"I'm so sorry, sister, I didn't know they wanted you." she said sadly. She heard Duo behind her. Blinking back tears, she looked at him. "Yes, love?" she asked. Duo wrapped his arms around her.
"Nothing. I just want to be here with you."
*The next day...*
"Come on, Vale..." Rehya called down the hall. "Aren't you ready yet?"
Vale tugged on her black sweater until a reddish brown tuft was sticking out of the collar.
Duo laughed, walking over and giving the shirt a firm tug, exposing Valearia's head. "Thanks Duo."
Valearia trotted down the hall.
"Yeah, where are we going again?" she said, pulling her hair back in a low ponytail.
Duo fallowed Valearia down the hall.
"See ya short-stuff." he called affectionatly as she walked out the door.
"Hey its not easy being 17 and four foot one, mind you." she yelled back.
"Ok...got my green tea and afghani clothing...I'm all set," Rehya announced.
"What's the green tea for?"
"Oh," Quatre said. "It calms her nerves...we drank it all the time."
Valearia looked around as the brilliantly colored trees for the seemingly last time.
"So the plan is to go back to Giza for the rest of the week and then to Afgainastan...right?"
"Yeah, what you said."
"It's hard to belive that I may never see Germany ever again. I mean, like Berlin. I was born and raised there. But after this mission....I may never come home." Valearia sighed looking at a group of small children trading candy out on a driveway down the street.
Valearia walked after Rehya. Soon the two boys fallowed them.
*Later*
Valearia laid her head on Duo's shoulder, as they were once again in the carrier.
"Well, Valearia, I belive you've grown." Valearia pointed to her shoes.
"Boots." she replied.
"Well Quatre, see you in two weeks." Rehya confidently said.
"Rehya...," He said with a smile. "I'll be backing you up."
"You always are."
Duo wrapped his arms around Valearia.
"I hate to go." he said sadly. "Exspecially when that *ass* might get near you...." he kissed her to finish it off, and then fallowed a wide eyed Quatre.
"Don't act like you and Rehya haven't ever done that either...as well as *other* things."
"Oh *please*, Duo," Quatre said with an uncomfortable laugh.
Valearia looked at the floor. "Duo...." she whined. He winked at her.
"See you Vale-chan."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Come on," Rehya said. She and Vale boarded the carrier, and hours later they were awoken by a peculiar sound.Valearia stood immediatly getting out her gun.
"Rehya." she said, walking across the room.
"We're close to a bombing sight..." Rehya said coming back from the pilot's cockpit. She yawned. "Nothing to worry about, though we'll be landing in a half an hour. Ready?"
"Yeah." Valearia said, still a little over-alert. "Ready." she opened her laptop and called Duo.
The next moment Rehya equiped herself with the two way radio, a few shot guns, a stungun. Then she covered it all with her black berqua. "Are we online Vale?" She asked, fastening the radio ear plugs.
"4-10. The mission says you are to investigate the mountains and i'm supposed to support you on this end."
"Right," She confirmed. "The mountainous area north of Kabul."
"Right-on." Duo suddunly belted in. "Me Vale And Quatre will be waiting for you in the forest just south of Kabul. In sandrock, death angel, and deathscythe hell."
"And the Tallgeese? Will it be covered?"
"Yeah." Vale said, intervening. "Totally. It'll be waiting for you." Valearia's fingers flew across the keyboard on the carrier. "I'm sending the data over to you, Rehya."
"Alright. Give me a second..." Rehya inputted some data from the US military standpoint. "Uh oh. Vale, are you catching this?"
"What?" Vale asked. "I don't really know whats so wrong about it...."
"3 o'clock, look."
"Wow. Trees." Valearia said.
An unfamiliar voice came over the S-System. "Unidentified airship, you are not permitted to enter this zone. Turn back immediatly."
"Who the hell is this!?"
Valearia's brow furrowed. "What I want to know is it an ally or an enemy."
"You are the enemy, you do not fall under the Iranian air code."
"Iran? What the fuck is Iran doing here in Afghanistan?"
"Vale!" Duo came in over the s-system "Get the hell out of there. Rehya too, take the suits. There is only Death Angel and Tallgeese."
"Something...what...what went wrong, Duo?" Rehya demanded.
"JUST GO!" He yelled. Valearia foled up her laptop and ran to the hangar, Rehya close in suit. "Ok, Vale, meet me in Egypt in two days, understand?"
