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? Not beta-read yet, will be reposted when it's fixed...I hope it's understandable…ARGH!!! Thank you Reviewers!! Please, more more more reviews!! I hope people are still reading at this point...*groan*!

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Unsure Feelings
Part 9: Powers? That's Absurd!


Within the next two days, it was quiet all around. Katryna's wounds were healing up quickly, quicker than any of them thought would happen. By the third day, although she was easily tired, her wounds were nothing but the scar and a bruise.

Surprisingly, there was no action from OZ, so they didn't have many missions, only simple ones that were to look out for OZ.

Today, they were heading back to Boston. Finally! Katryna washed her face, brushing her hair back into a ponytail. Duo had gone out, despite the OZ patrols, to get her a light blue sweatshirt and a pair of dark denim jeans, as her clothes had been soaked with blood. It was her favorite sweatshirt, a dark navy one that was plain, with a hood. Despite the dark color, she didn't want to wear anything stained with blood, though she didn't throw the shirt out either. Her dark pants had been stained by blood as well, and those she threw out. She had another two pairs back at Quatre's, their temporary home.

Katryna studied herself in the mirror. She was still pale from being injured, and thin, not that it showed very much. Raising her shirt slightly, she could see that the scar from the shot wound, both front and back, were just darker shades of skin, barely visible to anyone who just glimpsed at it. She looked back at herself. It wasn't normal to heal so quickly.

"Katy? You all right?" Duo called. Katryna shook her head. She'd think about that later, on the way back to Boston. She did, after all, have a couple of hours. She put on a smile, and left the bathroom.

"Yea, I'm fine." She answered. Doing a quick scan around the room to see if she left anything, Katryna headed down the stairs after Duo.

"You feeling all right Katy?" Quatre asked as they gathered at the door. Katryna nodded.

"Great. Haven't seen Angelwing in a while either. I'm dying to see my old friend."

"Katy, you can't say I haven't been a good friend. You owe me." Duo said, crossing his arms. "I fixed up your Gundam."

"Thanks Duo." Katryna gave Duo a hug.

"Ready to go yet?" Wufei asked. "It's about time, it's dark now."

"Anything you say." Duo answered. "Let's head home."

As soon as they were in air on their way, Katryna booted up a link to Heero. He answered with a passive face, but the emotion of his eyes softened slightly when he saw her.

"Hey Heero." She smiled.

"Something wrong?" He asked. Katryna made a face.

"Does something have to be wrong for me to talk to you? If there is, I don't know if I'll survive long."

"Baka." Heero remarked. "How do you feel?"

"I'm fine, don't worry. Nothing hurts at all. I'm dying to get home."

"Why?"

"I want my toast, muffin and juice back for breakfast."

"Hn."

"What? There was nothing but canned soup and bread!"

"It was all we had."

"Exactly!" Katryna smiled. "We'll be there in an hour and a half ne?"

Heero nodded. "Hai."

"I wonder if the doctors will have any missions for us when we get back…"

"Maybe. But you aren't taking any for at least another four days. Any mission of yours I'll take, and if I'm in, Duo will fill in for you."

"What? Heero-"

"Final. Katryna, you're not at your best yet."

"Yea, and I'll just jeopardize the mission." She sighed. "I didn't mean to become invalid like this. What if a mission comes for all of us? What will we do then?"

"Don't worry about it." Heero smiled just slightly. "Just get back to your best as soon as you can."

"All right. I'll talk to you when we get back?"

"Roger that." Heero's face vanished with a nod. With her Gundam on autopilot, Katryna sat back and closed her eyes in thought. Immediately, thoughts on her fast recovery invaded her. Then, Katryna remembered something.

On the night of the mission, when she had been running for her Gundam, she had fallen, twisting and injuring her ankle. But when she stood to run again, she felt no pain. She knew that being injured like that, the pain could possibly be numb due to the injury right at that moment. But she had felt no pain afterwards, no one spoke of her ankle injury, and there was no swelling. Unbuckling the safety restraints that held her, Katryna pulled her ankle up and lifted the long pants to observe her ankle. It was completely fine. Same with her other ankle; no sign of injury. Puzzled, she pulled the safety restraint back on and reviewed what she had done. When she fell, she got up to run again after the security guard had left. She had paused to rub her ankle. Her eyes widened in surprise.

There had been a feeling of warmth, and then the pain was gone. She looked at her hands. There didn't seem to be anything different about them. So…why exactly did that happen-

"Earth to Katryna! Are you all right?" Duo's voice cut into her thoughts. She looked up.

"Sorry?" She answered almost dumbly. Heero was also in the connection.

"Katryna. Something wrong?" He asked. She shook her head.

"I'm fine. Just got lost in thought."

"Thinking about Heero again eh?" Duo asked absently. "We're almost there, 5 minutes. Get ready for landing."

"O.k Duo. And I'll get you back for exposing my thoughts!" She mock-threatened. Duo's eyes widened.

"What were you thinking? Spandex?"

"DUO!" She blushed, glaring at him. "Just his eyes…"

"Hn. I'm still here." Heero quietly intercepted. Duo vanished, cutting the connection with a final 'see you on land'.

"Sorry Heero." She mumbled, switching back to manual piloting. Her eyes darted across the screens as she worked; pushing the proper buttons and turning the screen back to see her destination. Boston was just coming into view.

"Hn. Leave it to Duo."

"I wasn't thinking like that Heero!" She protested, glaring at him. Heero shook his head with a quiet chuckle.

"Of course. Like I said, leave it to Duo. You can prank him back later."

"Wow. You're giving me permission to prank? Yes!" Katryna grinned. "Hey, Heero?"

"Hm?" Heero raised an eyebrow.

"I need to talk to you later, in private."

"All right." Heero's face almost expressed concern before he severed the connection to concentrate on his landing. Katryna turned back to her own work as well, pushing all other thoughts out of her mind.

As soon as they had landed, Katryna had been pushed to the medical ward on the third floor of Quatre's mansion under the blonde's insistence of her getting professionally checked.

"I'm all right." She grumbled as she trekked upstairs. "Not like they aren't professional enough." She knocked on the door and opened it.

"Miss Katryna!" It was Iria, Quatre's sister.

"Hi Doctor Iria." Katryna replied in greeting as the older woman ushered her to lie down on the clinic bed. "Really, I'm fine, Quatre's just overly worried."

"It's always better to get checked properly. Better safe than sorry right?"

"I guess so." She shrugged, holding still as Iria checked her over. "And please Doctor Iria, just call me Katryna if not Katy or Ryna."

"And just call me Iria." The woman replied. "How long have you been injured Katryna?"

"Around 4 days or so."

"And you're already this much recovered? I'd say you're at full recovery, save the excess strength that you'll need to gain." She motioned for Katryna to sit up.

"I've been wondering about that too." Katryna confessed. "Can you take a look at my ankle?"

"You were injured there too?" Iria examined the ankle. "No, it's perfectly fine."

"The night of the mission, I tripped and fell. It was bad, I know I twisted it, and it hurt a lot. But then, it's not injured. I know I wasn't hallucinating; it was definitely injured."

Iria was silent for a while. "I know you'd know when you were injured. But…how?"

"I held my hand to it temporarily before I started running again. When there wasn't any pain, I thought that it was just because I had numbed myself to the pain, or the injury itself had numbed from shock."

"I know what you mean. But there hasn't been injury…" Iria frowned. "I don't know. Maybe just once you made a mistake."

"Maybe." Katryna replied softly. "So, I'm free to go?"

"Yea. You're perfectly fine." Iria sounded completely baffled.

"Thank you." Katryna nodded to Iria before walking to the door. She turned, hand resting on the doorknob. "Iria?" She walked back to the doctor at her desk, writing a report.

"Hm?" Iria looked up.

"I was wondering, could you do a DNA test of me?"

"Sure." Iria rummaged around for a syringe and all necessary materials. She paused in the middle of lifting an empty bottle for storing the blood. "Wait. Why?"

"I've had amnesia before. I don't know my past. But there is one identity that I could possibly be. I want to compare DNA results, but I have to have my own, as well as find the other's."

"I won't question Katryna. I know you don't want to talk about it." Iria nodded. "All right. You know how this works."

Katryna nodded, watching the blood well up in the little tube. The blood that let her live, would tell her who she was. She pressed a cotton ball to her wound, and hopped off the clinic bed again.

"I'll have the results back to you by tomorrow afternoon."

"Thanks a lot Iria."

"No problem."

Katryna left the clinic, turning to go to the stairs. As she turned the corner, she saw Heero, standing against the wall, waiting. She smiled at him, slipping her hand into his.

"Everything all right?" He asked. Katryna nodded. "You wanted to talk to me?"

"Yes." She answered. She pulled up his wrist, glancing at the time. "Come outside with me?"

"It's getting late. You should rest." Heero answered. "I want you to be well soon."

"Heero, it won't be long. Just come watch the stars with me."

Heero snorted. "Last time you said it wouldn't be long, I ended up staying the whole night."

"And the night after." She nudged him with a smile. "Don't tell me listening to be talk was a bad pastime."

"You're almost as bad as Duo."

"WHAT!"

"Except you talk about more interesting things." Heero continued. Katryna smiled again.

"All right. Forgiven."

Hand in hand, the two walked out into the night and settled on the grass in the backyard. Heero put an arm around Katryna's shoulders, as she stared up into the sky. They were silent for a while before Heero gave Katryna a quick squeeze around the shoulders.

"So what did you want to talk about?" His voice was soft now, without the presence of the others.

"Heero, do you remember the night of the mission?"

Heero nodded, leaning his cheek against her head. "Yes."

"I fell, remember?"

"And?"

"I'm sure I was injured then, I twisted my ankle, I swear I did."

Heero tilted Katryna to look at him. "I didn't detect any injury. Let me check?"

Katryna shook her head. "I got Iria to check."

"And?"

"There was nothing. Nothing was wrong. Not even a bruise."

"And…?"

"I know when I'm injured Heero. But there was no injury. But at one point, in the pain, I rubbed my ankle, then the pain was gone." Katryna looked at her hands. "But why?"

"That's crazy." Heero muttered.

"I'm not insane Heero." Katryna said defensively. "There really is something wrong. I know there is."

"Why do you insist on this?"

"Look at the situation Heero. I got shot. That's a major wound. And I healed in four days with nothing left but a scar."

Heero nodded. "I noticed."

"I mean, when you get shot, you don't heal that fast. Maybe you can move around like me, but your wound will still be there. My scar is like I've been shot a few years ago."

"Where's this leading to?" Heero's hold tightened around Katryna. She squirmed slightly.

"I want to test something."

"Like?"

"As crazy as this sounds…I think I am capable of healing myself, somehow. But then again, you've already named me insane Heero." She chuckled to herself.

"Yes. Maybe Iria should really check your head."

"I'm serious Heero. I know I won't do something as stupid as shooting myself again to test this theory, but…I don't know. And…"

"And?"

"Something about Zechs unnerved me."

"How so? Did he say something?"

"He kept going on about marriage. It isn't about money, I mean, he's rich enough, isn't he? He mentioned a family gathering in front of Relena also, and there seems to be more to that. He wants something from me."

"He wants something from Kataryna McKnowan. We have yet to confirm your identity."

Katryna nodded. "It's a batty idea, having healing powers. What am I talking about? But that doesn't explain my quick recovery."

Heero sighed. "You aren't letting this go right?"

"You think I'm insane."

"I'm afraid I'll have to admit that."

"Fine." Katryna pushed up from Heero's grip to stand. Heero stood as well.

"Katy, I don't mean to doubt you, but it's out of the world." Heero said quietly.

"So are colonies Heero. I know I was injured. I'm very sure of that. I'm not insane. I know that too." She turned. "I'm going in. It's getting cold, I'm tired, and I have work to do tomorrow."

"Wait, Katryna, please, don't be upset."

"I'm not Heero." She murmured, turning back to him. "It's just that…it sounds absurd to me, and your telling me that I'm insane as well isn't making me feel any better. I'm calling it a day, or night, whatever. I know you meant it to be a joke Heero, but I'm confused."

"So am I." Heero sighed. "You aren't insane Katryna. But having healing powers is a crazy theory."

"I'm retiring for the night anyway." Katryna turned back to the mansion.

"Wait. What work do you have to do? You need to rest." Heero caught Katryna's wrist.

"I'm not doing anything physical, just some searching on my laptop. I won't wear myself out with a laptop Heero."

"Hn. Never know if you'll work too hard."

"Speak for yourself Perfect Soldier."

"Both of us then." Heero compromised. Katryna smiled and stepped back into Heero's arms for a long hug.

"Stay with me?" She murmured. Heero hugged her tighter.

"You go on to bed. I'll be in after I shower."

"All right then."

Together, they turned to head back to the mansion, once again, hand in hand.

















Saori: HERE IS CHAPTER 9!! YAY!!!

Heero: Hn. Ridiculous.

Saori: What? That you are paired with Katryna? I could always change her to pair with Duo...

Heero: O.o NO!

Katryna: *giggling*

Saori: Anyway, please, do review. I know it was requested by Sailor Sakura that I put Relena in to let her know that Heero is 'taken'. I assure you Sailor Sakura, it will happen as soon as I clear up the mess on these 'absurd-powers-that-will-not-be-so-absurd-later-on' All right? Any specific reactions requested? Just keep Reviewing!!!!! ^_^