Duo-ble trouble part 2
Duo opened his eyes and tried to stop his head from spinning, he suddenly realised he was lying on a cold hard floor and he was suspicious he had a spanner sticking in his back. Sitting up and rubbing the huge lump he had rapidly growing on the back of his head, he tried to focus on the worried faces of his friends who were now crouched round him.
" Duo oh my gosh are you all right you gave us quite a scare then" asked Quatre leaning in towards the spaced looking American placing a steadying hand on his shoulder. Duo shook his head trying to clear it and gave Quatre his famous grin.
"Yeah I'm fine q-man but I really gotta stop eating stuff that's at the back of the fridge that is two months out of date, it's doing funny things to me" duo was sure he then heard the sounds of Trowa throwing up at the thought of eating food that old but he shrugged his shoulder and ignored it. Quatre looked very relived and sat back on his heels smiling at the very pale duo.
" Thank goodness we we're all worried when you just blacked out" Heero helped duo get shakily to his feet (this involved picking duo up by the back of his shirt and hauling him of the ground). Duo dusted himself down and gave an embarrassed grin at the other pilots before he heard a female voice.
" Oh jeez duo are you ok....um I didn't mean to freak ya like that" duo found himself looking into a pair of violet eyes identical to his own
"Agghhhh!!!" duo screamed falling backwards onto the floor and scrabbling on his bum across the hanger to get away from the girl. Quatre gave Trowa a confused look, Trowa just shrugged as if to say "don't ask me duo always confuses the hell out of me" Heero just smirked at the girl who was looking very shocked by duo's reaction. Trowa walked over to duo who was now huddled in the featal position against wing zero cowering. He crouched down next to the whimpering pilot and shook him
"Duo what on earths the matter Quatre thought you'd be happy to see your sister again" duo removed his arms from over his head and looked at Trowa wide eyed, before turning to the other pilots an astonished look on his face
" Ya... Ya mean you all can see her?" he stammered, " I'm not having a mould induced hallucination..She's not a ghost??" Heero snorted and rolled his eyes
" No baka she's real, we can all see her" growled Heero giving lese an evil look. Duo turned to the shaken looking girl who was chewing her lip and wondering if she'd done the right thing in coming here.
" But you're dead!?!" said duo in utter disbelief.
The girl looked stricken and her eyes were shiny with tears, this wasn't what she'd imagined duo didn't seem happy to see her at all. In fact he'd freaked she'd been expecting a happy reunion instead she'd nearly given him a heart attack.
" Um no I'm very much alive….um... I think..... Look this was a bad idea...ah.. I'm sorry du-cha…eh duo um ...I'll be going now" the girl turned to leave with a distressed Quatre ready to run after her while glaring at duo.
Duo frowned and got to his feet.
" If you really are lese babe then …um jeez think of a personnel question…. ah what's my favourite food?" oh god that was lame he thought but it was the best he could manage, the girl turned and looked over her shoulder giving him a faint smile
" Hey that ones easy duo!! "Anything that can be chewed is edible, anything edible is food, anything food is good this is the law of duo Maxwell" she quoted to him. Duo looked stunned
" Hey it is you!!" he gasped his eyebrows nearly reaching his hair line in surprise the girl carried on walking out the hanger
" Hey where do you think your going missy?" he yelled running down the hanger after her. Lese turned and got hit with the full force of a duo Maxwell hug that knocked her to the floor
" Eh duo?" she asked stunned and a little concussed she knew she was going to have a bruise on her butt from this, duo grinned at her
" Ah jeez lese I missed you why did ya never tell me you were ok?….I thought you were dead!! And you were just gonna leave again?" he yelled at her, the girl blushed and gave him a Maxwell grin back
"So you don't mind me coming to see ya.. Um ya not mad?" she asked shyly. Duo gave her an exasperated look and blew air up into his bangs
" Mind…eh…are you nuts? Jeez lese!! You are an idiot!!" he hit her with his hat "why didn't ya come sooner? Where've you been? What the heck happened? I thought you were dead you made me worry?!! you ..you cow!! " He continued glaring at her through his bangs.
" I missed you to duo ya big idiot" she laughed hugging him back duo helped his sister up as the others came over
" Oh this is wonderful duo!! Celeste will you be staying long? Oh you must stay here with us "gushed Quatre but he was interrupted by a loud yelling coming from the top of shenlong
" Kissima what the hell is all the damn noise!! Can't you people be quiet for two seconds?!!!" the others turned to the source of the voice Quatre jumped a bit too.
Wufei was stood on top of shenlong ranting at the other pilots below while waving his sword around and looking like a mad wind up toy. He slid down the front of his beloved Nataku and came striding over to duo his dark eyes flashing
"Maxwell I should have known!! Yui can't you shut him up for once in a while" he snapped crossing his arms and glaring at the American
"What do I look like a miracle worker?" growled Heero
"Hey!!"Protested duo pouting at his koi to which he just received another amused smirk
Celeste stood on her tiptoes to look over her brother's shoulder at the stressing new arrival. He looked interesting she thought but she couldn't get a good look from behind duo, sadly her brother made a better door than a window
"Du-chan who's that? She whispered into duo's ear, still craning her neck to see the Chinese pilot, duo smirked at his sister staring wide eyed at wufei and stepped to one side so that Celeste was now visible
" Wuffie I'd like you to meet my twin sis Celeste Maxwell she's gonna be sticking around for a while" if it was at all possible Wufei's face went even redder much to duo's glee he was enjoying this.
" For the hundredth time Maxwell it's wufei!! GOT IT WU.... wait a minute your sister?!!!" Wuffie had just noticed the girl stood next to duo he had been beginning to think he was seeing double, his jaw fell open before he realised how ridiculous he looked and shut it
" Kissima dear great Nataku no!!!! Not two of them this is an injustice!!" he yelled, " What the heck is the matter with you people?!!! Asides from myself and Yui you all seem to produce relations like rabbits, especially winner!" Quatre opened his mouth to protest at that, then remembering he had enough sisters to fill two foot ball teams and then some he shut his mouth again and remained quiet
" Go say hello lese" whispered duo pushing his sister towards the fuming pilot lese shot her brother a "i'm gonna kill you for this duo!!" look before turning to wufei
" Um hi i'm Celeste um please to meet you Wuffie" she watched as wufei hit boiling point as his grip tightened on his sword
" My name is !!" he sighed what was the use Maxwell only did it to wind him up, he seemed to take great delight in provoking him maybe if he ignored him he'd stop it ,so he let the comment about his name pass
" Celeste? Weird name sounds like celestial body isn't that a little egotistical onna" he sneered at the girl. Good god did she look like Maxwell!! A little shorter, a bit prettier..nani? prettier? Where the hell had that come from? What the hell was he thinking?!! This was Maxwell's sister for god's sake!! A weak onna!! He felt the urge to go bang his head off something till he was sure that that thought had totally been destroyed . He came back to earth when he realised the girl was talking again she was smiling and playing with the end of her braid
" Oh no my name is um like Celeste the Greek goddess of death" the others looked at duo who had gone bright red, Trowa raised his eyes brows (well one eyebrow as that was the only visible one)
" Goddess of death?" he asked amused looking at the now tomato coloured duo who was desperately trying to indicate to his oblivious sister to shut up
" Oh yeah " she replied brightly
" When we were kids duo and me used to pretend we were like gods and goddesses he was shinigami lord of the underworld and I was Celeste goddess of death um the name kinda stuck I don't remember my real one. We used to play it all the time duo would run around Maxwell church with a big pole yelling " I am shinigami anyone touches my pie has got a date with his maker" it was sooo funny but I guess he's grown out of that now huh?" all the pilots except wufei burst out laughing
" I wouldn't be too sure of that" sniggered Heero in stitches, duo looked like he wanted to find somewhere to crawl off and die and Celeste just stood there looking very bewildered
" What did I say?" she asked looking at the 3 heaps of hysterical pilots rolling round on the floor
" So your Childs games were to pretend to be gods of death?" asked an astonished wufei. Lese turned back to the Chinese guy, as he was the only non-hysterical one in the room
" Um yeah" she said looking a little embarrassed, wufei sweat dropped and turned to duo
" Maxwell I used to consider you a freak now I realise it was not entirely your fault...it appears your whole family is screwed up!!" the pilots finished their laughing fits on the floor and were looking at Fei. Quatre went to say something about being nice to each other but Trowa stopped him.
" Let duo handle this little one it's his sister, I think he feels he needs to get back into the role of her brother" Quatre blinked and looked at Trowa and then at the dark look on duo's face and smiled nodding to Trowa that he agreed
Duo scowled at wufei no one was nasty to lese when he was around yeah sure he hadn't been around for most of her life but now she was back he had lots of brotherly protectiveness to use and Fei was about to get
" Lay off her wu i'm warning you, go worship shenlong or something!" he snapped then getting in between Fei and lese he grinned looking at his watch " hey Wuffie it's getting late maybe ya wanna tuck it in with a bed time story too" it took a split second for wufei to get his sword and have it pressed against duo's throat.
" One word Maxwell just one word and it'll give me the excuse I need," he hissed duo just smirked back at him. Then lese yelled
" Get the hell away from my brother!" wufei didn't even turn to see her he just continued to glare at duo for insulting his darling Nataku
"Stay out of this onna before you get yourself hurt" he snapped, next thing he knew his sword had been kicked out of his hand and Celeste had it pointed at him her eyes were blazing and every muscle in her body was tensed. Wufei was in shock..that..That onna, Maxwell's sister had disarmed him!! He looked at his hand as if it had somehow betrayed him, he could have easily hung onto the sword had he been prepared for an attack but..but..HE WAS DISARMED BY A WEAK ONNA !!
" Back away from duo now!! i..I can't believe you'd try and kill him!!" she growled still in shock wufei backed of duo while the other pilots just stared in stunned silence. Duo looked at his sister, ok since when did lese know how to fight? That was his job!! He was supposed to protect her not vice versa he was the oldest ok only by an hour but still"!!!
" Um lese babe it's ok really Fei threatens to kill me lots of times daily he'd never really do it he likes me too much dontcha Wuffie?" wufei just sneered at duo while keeping his eyes fixed on Celeste. Lese looked doubtful
" Really?" she asked the other guys they all nodded
" Not just wufei either " added Quatre reassuringly " Heero says it at least 30 times a day " Heero nodded, lese blushed and looked at her feet feeling very awkward
" Ahhhh um jeez wuff...eh wufei i'm sorry really um here ya go" she handed him back his sword which he snatched back making her flinch " um no hard feeling right?" she asked hopefully giving him her best smile, wufei just glared
" Hey sis come on I wanna show you death scythe it's soooooo cool, stop making puppy eyes at Wuffie" lese jumped and went even redder before running after the disappearing gundams.
"Coming um nice to meet you Wuffie see you around" she yelled waving at the still stunned wufei, he watched her walk off through narrowed eyes her braid swinging like a tail behind her .he continued to stare at her till she disappeared from view. Before walking back to Nataku his mind in turmoil
" Oh cool so ya really a gundam pilot duo?" she yelled catching up with duo and the others
" Yep wanna see my gundam? It rocks?" duo added proudly grinning like an idiot
" Sure can I drive it?" she asked innocently. Duo's eyes went wide and he turned his shocked face to Lese's grinning one
" What!?! My gundam!! Mine lese get ya own!!" duo whined possessively shoving his sister as they walked back to Quatre's to clean himself up
" Gee I missed that whine" she grinned shoving her brother back as if they'd never been apart. Duo just stuck his tongue out and tried to trip her over. Lese avoided it before turning to Quatre
" Um Quatre?" she asked as they walked up the white steps to the house
" Yes Celeste?"
" Do you have food i'm starving!!" she asked as her tummy let loose a loud growl making it's owner go several shades of crimson.
" Hn I take it back with that stomach she has to be duo's sister," muttered Heero heading up the large marble staircase to the bathroom.
Duo gave Heero a grin before grabbing Lese's hand and hauling her off to the massive kitchen to have a food raid
" This way sis follow me i'll show you how to make the biggest and best 3 foot sub sandwich, that'll do for starters and we got tons of cookies and then there's ice cream and....." Quatre turned to Trowa who was still laughing in the hall way
" It's nice to see duo so happy I wish he'd told us about her before though" he sighed "but then again he never talks about his past much" Trowa grabbed Quatre's coat and threw it at him
" None of us talk about our past much koi, he did say he thought she was dead, maybe he wanted to bury he memory. Come on let's go" Quatre looked at his coat and gave Trowa a confused look
" Trowa? Where are we going? " He asked, Trowa picked up the car keys and smiled at Quatre's confused expression
" If Celeste eats half as much as duo we're going to need more food" the pair left leaving duo to destroy the kitchen and leave it like a bomb site
"Um duo are you sure you bake cookies with a blow torch?" Celeste voice came from the kitchen
" Sure it's quicker this way. Eh ooppss!! .um.. Lese hand me the fire extinguisher will ya"
"DUO!!"
Meanwhile wufei was sat hunched on the shoulder of Nataku still staring at his hand as if he had never truly seen it before, he picked up his sword and studied that too before sighing and laying it down next to him again and resting his chin on his knees.
" Nataku what is going on? Why can I see that girl bringing trouble for all of us...for me?" his question remained unanswered as he sat there in the darkened hanger, wufei was left with only his own thoughts, ones of a girl with long chestnut hair and violet eyes...a girl who had challenged him and won..A girl named Celeste Maxwell.
elspeth chang http://wwww.kjkemp.co,uk