Disclaimers: I don't own Gundam Wing, as much as I want to. I'm just borrowing them. I'm not making money.

AN: Another new idea. How's this one? Note beta-read, will be reposted when it's fixed...I hope it's understandable..

Oh, and 'blah blah' denotes thoughts

Unsure Feelings
Part 1: One Solo Mission


Katryna awoke early in the morning, rubbing sleep from her hazel eyes. She sat down on the ground by her bed, engaging in her morning stretches for 15 minutes before heading for the bathroom to wash up. Brushing her teeth and washing her face, the 14-year-old gazed at her reflection. Katryna never considered herself a beauty. Standing at 5 feet 3 inches, she had wavy, light brown hair that went about three inches past her shoulders, the aforementioned hazel eyes, and a light dusting of freckles across her white skin. She shrugged at her own reflection before exiting the bathroom to her own room again. Heading for the closet, she picked out a yellow fleece sweater and pulled on a pair of dark blue jeans. She stepped back into the bathroom to do her hair. Glancing at the school schedule on the counter before the mirror, she saw that she had dance class second period. Pulling her hair back, she tugged it into a bun, leaving a few wavy strands framing her face. Tucking the right side strands behind her ear, she headed out of her room after tugging a pair of white socks on.

Stepping into the hallway, she glanced at the watch she had grabbed as she left the room. 7:28am. Two minutes before she was due down for breakfast, for she had to leave at 8:00am for her mission at the school she had signed up in. Across her own room was Heero's room. He was supposed to be doing the mission with her, but for some reason his room was dark. Knocking quietly, she eased the door open enough for her to stick her head inside.

"Heero?" She called softly. She caught sight of the figure in the blankets on the bed in the room, and shook her head in wonder. Heero never slept in for missions. She padded silently over to the bed; gazing at the innocent face of the teen she had a HUGE crush on. She shook her head to clear the thoughts.

'Heero doesn't like me and missions come first. He has to protect Relena from all the kidnappers and people, and the first priority for us all is peace. Snap out of this Katryna…

"Hey Heero?" She said quietly. The Japanese youth was sleeping on his side, curled, his blankets at his waist. He wasn't wearing a shirt, despite the cold November weather of Boston. There was about a meter of snow outside already. Katryna observed the muscles of Heero's upper body before she mentally smacked herself. She reached out hesitantly, and then firmly put her hand down on his shoulder, shaking him.

"Heero. Get up. Work time." She said softly. Heero mumbled incoherently and curled tighter. With a small smile, Katryna tried one last time.

"Heero, are you coming?"

There was no answer, as she expected. Katryna knew that Heero had mission over mission the past week, and hardly slept.

He needs rest…I can manage downloading files myself… She carefully tugged the blanket up higher to Heero's shoulders before she turned to the door. She paused, hand on the doorknob, and sighed.

"I really like you Heero. I wish you knew. I wish you cared, even just a little." She whispered. She turned the doorknob to exit when she heard a whisper that made her want to cry.

"Relena…" Heero said in his sleep.

Without another word or look, Katryna exited the room, closing it silently behind her. She took a moment to take a deep breath before heading toward the kitchen. Unaware of watching eyes, she walked on. As soon as she turned the corner, the figure emerged, brushing his hand through his hair.

"Damn you Heero." The person said under his breath.



"Good morning Quatre, Trowa." Katryna nodded as she sat down at her place at the dining table.

"Good morning Katryna." Quatre said with a smile. Trowa nodded to her. They sat in silence for a few minutes as Katryna thanked the cook for the slice of buttered toast and carrot muffin that she had for breakfast every morning.

"Quatre, Trowa?" Katryna broke the silence after a bit. Quatre looked up from his own breakfast, Trowa from his newspaper. "Could one of you two please drive me to school?"

"Where's Heero? I thought he was doing this with you?" Quatre asked.

"He's out like a light. He's had so many missions, and this one is a simple one with just about no risk, and even with risk, it's low. I can manage on my own, so I let him sleep. Couldn't wake him up."

"You didn't say the M word did you."

"No. It's all right. I can manage. Could I get a ride?"

"Sure. I'll give you a lift." Quatre smiled, drinking the last of his coffee. "Just give me a moment to get dressed for outside and grab the keys.

"Great." Katryna drank the last of her milk and stood.

"Don't worry Q, I'll give Katy a lift." Duo appeared at the door, already dressed, twirling the keys to Quatre's Acura.

"Duo! You went into my room again?"

"Yea. Nothing special. I only grabbed the keys." Duo grinned, and Quatre smiled, shaking his head.

"Well, do you need breakfast Duo? Or can we go now?" Katryna asked, tugging her coat on.

"We can go now. I'll grab breakfast outside."

"All right. Thanks. I'll see you guys later then." Katryna waved, fingers splayed in her usual parting signal, her thumb, index and middle fingers out, the other two fingers closed, her palm facing the friends she was leaving.

"Bye, careful Katryna!" Quatre said. Trowa nodded again.

"I will." Katryna followed Duo out to the front door. Tugging on her running shoes, she shouldered her bag with a grunt. Duo raised an eyebrow.

"What have you got in there?" He asked, nodding to the servant who opened the door, waiting for them to exit so she could close the door after them.

"Half my locker of books. Grade nine is hard. They just pile everything onto you. I had science homework, math homework and geography homework all piled in yesterday, not to mention English homework." Katryna tugged her open jacket tighter around herself, following Duo along the 50 meters to the garage to the right of the large house/mansion. (A.N. As usual, Quatre doesn't admit it is a mansion…*rolls eyes*)

Duo pulled her bag from her. "I'll take this for you. Take off your jacket."

"What?" Katryna stopped walking, her hand still on her bag, the bag dangling between both pairs of hands. "Why?"

"That coat isn't warm enough for you. Take mine for now, you can give it back to me when you get home today." Duo tugged the bag from Katryna's hands. It slipped easily into his grip, as Katryna wasn't paying attention to it. He held the bag with his left hand, shrugging off the right sleeve of his jacket before taking the bag to his right hand, taking off the jacket completely.

"What about you?"

"Don't worry, I'm only in the car. I'm warm enough here anyway." He tugged at her jacket. "If you don't hurry, you'll be late! Are you afraid that the jacket isn't fashionable for you?" Duo asked with a grin.

Katryna snapped out of her little debate of whether or not to accept Duo's offer. "Of course not! You know I love your clothes apart from the priest garb, that's too long for me! Otherwise, why did you lock your door to keep me from taking your other clothes?" Katryna asked with a grin herself.

"Oh yea. Almost forgot. Like that stopped you at all. You get in anyway. I swear I locked everything and you still came downstairs a couple days ago with MY navy sweatshirt!" Duo said with mock exasperation. He knew as well as Katryna that all her lock picking skills came from him. "Come on. You'll really be late."

"Thanks Duo!" Katryna shrugged off her jacket, shivering as the chilled air kissed her, and gratefully wrapped Duo's jacket around her. It was light, black, and not too puffy, and fit almost snuggly except it was a bit too long. The two climbed into the car, after Duo put Katryna's backpack into the trunk. Then, they started the 20-minute drive to the school.

Duo glanced at the quiet Katryna, who was looking out the window on her side. The sun shone on her light hair, making it seem almost golden, and the rays bathed her light skin. He noticed that she was deep in thought. Katryna was usually quiet, but she wasn't as reserved as Heero and Trowa. She wasn't the talkative kind of girl, like a lot of teenagers usually were.

"Something on your mind Ryna?" He asked, switching off the quiet radio that neither of them was listening to. It took a moment for her to answer.

"Just going over the mission in my head."

"Why didn't you wake Heero today?"

"He was really tired from all his other missions, I don't know why he has so many! He wouldn't wake up."

"You didn't say 'Mission' did you."

"No, I didn't say the M word, he would have woken right away."

"That's the point."

"Nah. I'll be fine. It's an easy mission."

By now, because Duo had taken so long to observe Katryna before he spoke, he was already nearing the school.

"Need me to pick you up?"

"That's fine Duo. I'll take the bus. I have a few errands to run later."

"Are you sure?" Duo raised an eyebrow. "Meeting a boyfriend?" He teased, knowing full well that Katryna didn't have a boyfriend. She turned, blushing.

"Of course not! I'm just going to get a computer program to update my laptop so it'll work better when it receives missions and when I write reports."

"Sure, and I'm the King of L1."

"You wish Duo!" Katryna tugged lightly on Duo's braid. "Thanks for the ride! I'll see you later! Promise I'll get you something before I return! I'll be back by, say, around 6? Yea. See you!" She leaned over, pecking Duo on the check. "Love ya lots Duo!" She hopped out of the car, pulled her bag from the trunk. Crossing the street to the school, she turned, winking and splaying her goodbye sign to Duo before she entered the school. Duo waited until she was out of sight before sighing and starting the car again. Unconsciously, he rubbed his cheek where Katryna had kissed him. Then, he headed to a café for breakfast. His stomach was calling him.



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Katryna entered the house at 5:45, rubbing her cold, red nose and ears. Dropping her bag by the stairs, she tugged Duo's jacket collar higher to cover her ears until they warmed up, heading with a package over to the den. She passed Wufei in the hallway, and nodded in greeting to him. He returned the nod, walking up the stairs.

In the den, Katryna found Quatre and Trowa reading books, and Duo watching T.V

"I'm back."

"Successful mission?" Quatre asked, lowering his book.

"Yep. Got the transferred data in a pocket somewhere here, but I'm too cold to take it out right now. Br…it's freezing out there!" Katryna knelt down by the fireplace, warming her fingers in front of the glowing warmth before standing and sitting down on the couch beside Duo. She dropped the package into his lap. Duo looked up in surprise.

"What's this?"

"I promised to get you something, didn't I?" Katryna smiled.

'Gods, she has a beautiful smile. Duo thought. "Oh, right! I almost forgot! I didn't think you actually would!" Duo opened the package, and his face lit up.

"All right! The only manga I'm missing to Ranma ½! I couldn't find it! Thanks Katy!"

"You're welcome! Glad you liked it! I was unsure if it was the right one, stood in the store for like, 20 minutes in front of all the Ranma books, holding this one. The other customer complained he wanted it, and the store manager told me either to buy or git. So I just bought it."

"Excellent! Thanks!"

"Good. Now, I really must do my homework. Duo, thanks for you jacket! I would've become an icicle if I was wearing my own coat!"

"No problem. Keep it. I have more coats, not like your only coat."

"Really?"

"In exchange for the manga, unless you mind that it's second hand?"

"Of course not! Thank you!" With a bright smile, Katryna left the den, picking up her bag and moving upstairs.

She entered her room, placing the bag on the floor by her desk before tugging off Duo's, or her new coat, and stretching. She pulled out the discs, and the computer program, setting it to load itself before walking into her bathroom to wash her face. When she came out, Heero was at standing inside her room, by the door, leaning against the wall.

"Hey Heero."

"You left without me." Heero said. His cobalt eyes flashed angrily.

"You had so many missions and I couldn't wake you up. I didn't want to be late, so I had to go."

"You did the mission solo." Heero deadpanned.

"Yea, it was easy and I finished it alone. It didn't take that long, and the security was way low. Easy to break in, it was a piece of cake." Katryna smiled as she sat down in front of her computer.

Heero moved so quickly Katryna didn't even notice he had moved. In moments, she was off her chair, the chair tipping over, and she was slammed against the wall roughly.

"Kat? Are you all right?" Quatre called up the stairs. Heero tilted his head toward his voice, glaring at Katryna.

"I'm fine Quatre! The chair just tipped over!" Katryna called, staring Heero in the eye.

"All right!"

"I'm only going to say this once. You will not do my part in missions, easy or not. You will not do your missions solo. No one will come after you if you get captured."

"Duo would. Anyone would."

"I wouldn't. You'd just be a war casualty. Don't ruin it for us because you were careless." With another warning glare, Heero let her go and walked out of her room.

"I was only doing you a favor. You were worn out." Katryna called after Heero, still leaning against the wall, fighting her tears. A slamming door answered her. She eased her door close, and righted her chair. The program was still downloading, but she pushed the laptop away, dropping her head into her hands.

"He's just cranky, only cranky." She told herself. "It's nothing…" But her tears flowed anyway.



And in his room, Heero leaned against his door. He knew he had treated Katryna badly. He knew he was hard to awaken. He knew that if Katryna had gotten caught, it would have been his fault, and he would have been the first one to go rescue her. He knew that it wasn't an obligation; he would have done it anyway. He knew he felt for the girl. But these feelings were completely alien to him. For once in his life, Heero Yuy was unsure if he had acted the right way.







Saori: How is THIS one???? I dunno..not beta read..as mentioned above..no time...hope u like...PLEASE review.....^.^ PLEASE!!!! WHO SAID "DAMN YOU HEERO."?!?!*hm..I wonder...any ideas?? Give it a go..tell me in a review..who do u think it is???*