The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this, would I?
Author's note: THIRD CHAPTER! This is slightly shorter than the rest have been, tell me what length you all like, k? Thanks to those who give me such nice reviews, I'm glad you like this humble author's fanfiction. Enjoy the new chapter!
The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Chapter 3 - First Impressions
Angel looked back and forth from Destiny, who held Faith to her car with two seats. "Um... problem."
Destiny rolled her eyes. "You think? How are we going to do this?"
"How are we going to do what?"
Both girls tensed instinctively and jerked their heads towards the voice. The voice --Trowa-- leaned against the side of Duo's car, arms crossed and visibly waiting for their reply.
Angel sighed as she gestured to the occupant of Destiny's arms. "We're going to take her somewhere and see about what's been going on, but we don't know how to work getting her there."
"She could take my seat." Trowa said quietly.
Destiny thought for a second, hiding a smile behind bland eyes. "It could work, she could take up half of the back of Duo's car and I could sit next to her, make sure she isn't jostled by anything."
"Yes, but Duo would need to know where he was driving to, and why." Duo said, leaning against his car.
"Hearing you talk in third person is strange, you know. And you can do it like we did here, since you've proven yourself so good at following me," Angel said mischievously.
"I hate to interrupt, but where exactly are we going?" Wufei asked irritably.
Destiny had previously taken the time to settle Faith in the back seat the way she wanted her, and came back to the conversation. "We're going to see a friend of ours named Fiona. She's an oracle so she can tell us exactly what's going on and what we can do to stop it."
"Another experiment?" Trowa queried.
"Sort of, her mother was. Fiona's the only second generation experiment, and she's very powerful." Angel replied.
"Can we go, then? I don't want to stand around here and wait for the soldiers to search for us." Destiny said acidly.
Angel rolled her eyes and hopped inside of her convertible, Trowa following suit.
Destiny jumped into Duo's back seat and closed the door with an audible snap, showing her displeasure at not leaving right then. Wufei wordlessly climbed into the front seat and Duo slid behind the steering wheel, waiting for Angel to start off.
Her mint green eyes gleamed as she turned the key in the ignition and heard her baby start purring like a kitten. Smoothly she pulled back onto the road and set off towards a home away from home for her.
Destiny had a moment to check that Faith hadn't been jostled as Duo carefully pulled behind Angel before Wufei spoke up.
"Fiona isn't just an oracle is she?"
Destiny developed a small smile. "You're correct. Fiona is a great number of things. She mothers us all the time, yet never really takes care of herself. Fiona was the best infiltrator that we had because she didn't give the impression that she would hurt or betray anybody. Of course, that's what she ended up doing most of the time. She has every guy on Earth chasing her that's not in love with someone else or about to fall in love and I mean real love." Destiny looked pensive for a moment. "She has flings but never lets any guy close enough to care about her."
"Including your brother, I heard." Duo's voice came from the front.
Destiny glared, "Angel shouldn't be talking about Blade. Though she's right enough about his situation with Fiona. She wont let him be anything but a friend to her. He's not giving up though, we're just that way." Destiny smiled out the window, thinking about her brother could do that to her. She loved him with all of her heart, he was the only man that she could trust in this world.
They rode in silence the rest of the way, each of them in thought. Including Angel and Trowa.
Angel soon pulled off onto a dirt road, apparently a private drive and followed it to a large-ish Victorian styled house surrounded by trees and, Trowa saw, a nondescript black car parked out front with a license plate that said "Wench".
Angel smirked as she traced Trowa's line of vision. "That's typical Fiona, for you. She has an interesting personality." After stopping the red- haired woman almost dove out of her car and ran to the front door. Trowa, exiting the car with much more grace and decorum, greeted the site of Duo's car pulling up to the house.
Gently, Destiny opened her door and rose, Faith still cradled in her arms like a beloved child, and walked slowly to the door. Angel hurried in front of her to open the door, but a look from Destiny made her stand back. The next second, the door to the house slammed wide open, meeting the wall with a dull thud.
Standing on the threshold, Destiny peered around and called out questioningly, "Fiona?"
"I'm upstairs, readying the invalid's room. I'll be down in a sec." The voice was warm, and mature sounding; coming from the upstairs.
Nodding, Destiny shuffled into the house and took a hallway to the left, heading out of sight, everyone else following. They wandered into a comfortable looking sitting room, with big fluffy couches and huge armchairs by a fireplace. Destiny placed Faith on a couch, her friend's head in Destiny's lap.
Angel curled herself in an over-large armchair with Duo sitting down by her feet, his back resting against the bottom of the chair.
Trowa claimed another large armchair, stretching his long limbs out with a sigh. If I'm going to be here for a while, I might as well be comfortable.
Wufei watched all this with a slight smile, It's rather nice to see harmony and peace in a group of soldiers like this, even though we just had a mission. I wonder if this is what it was always like for the onnas...
Wufei was interrupted from further musings by the presence of a small woman around their age, with dark brown hair tied back in a bun and bright blue-green eyes. She was wearing a black long sleeved shirt with the sleeves pushed up her arm and dark blue jeans. When she reached up a hand to push stray locks of hair out of her face, he realized that she wore black gloves with silver designs on the back that he couldn't quite make out.
This is the strongest of them? Someone so... unassuming and non- threatening looking? Wufei thought incredulously, At least Destiny LOOKS as if she should be powerful.
The woman smiled, blue-green eyes glowing, "It's an honor to meet all of you. My name is Fiona, probably the only person of our group that will use their real name. Enjoy the novelty while it lasts." Turning to Destiny, she asked "She hasn't awoken yet?"
The raven haired woman just shook her head negatively, throat constricted.
Fiona's eyes softened, "It'll be alright, Faith's too stubborn to be permanently harmed by anything. Even ghosts from the past." Then she walked over to crouch down next to the unconscious young woman.
"Faith... I need you to wake up. C'mon Faith, come back to us." Her eyes glowing softly, Fiona stroked Faith's bangs back from her forehead.
Eyes fluttering slowly open, Faith slammed them shut again, when light hit her sensitive pupils. She let out a low moan as her body began to register complaints that had not been her problem while unconscious.
Fiona smiled softly and using a low soothing tone, tried to bleed some of the tension from her friend's body. "That's good. You weren't too far under that I couldn't bring you back. Listen - you don't have to open your eyes, just send me what I need by telepathy. It'll be easier on you."
Faith sighed in relief and delicately formed a link between her own mind and Fiona's to ease the process of sending memories. The black haired girl scrunched her nose in displeasure as she handled her power more crudely than she liked, but after being drugged she couldn't handle anything requiring more finesse.
Relaxing to help ease the transfer, Fiona closed her eyes and remembered. She lived Faith's memories as if they were her own and touched the strands of those lives. Visions filled her mind and changed in patterns, a part of the web of life showed itself to her, strand by strand. When she had gathered enough information, the brunette tried to stand, only to have her mostly asleep legs give out on her. She hit the ground with a thump, and rubbed her legs to get the feeling back into them.
"Do you know you glow when you do that?" Duo asked.
Fiona smiled ruefully, "Yes, I know. It means I can't do that unless I care that people see me. My shields can stand up against anything, but they're perfectly clear."
Wufei leaned forward, interested "How much power can your shields stand up against, anyway?"
Fiona crossed her now-awake legs and tilted her head in thought. "How can I explain it to you?... Alright, say you had all 5 custom Gundams; you could hit a shield of mine for days with everything in your gundams and my shield wouldn't even be scratched."
"In other words, a whole shitload of power." Duo supplied.
Fiona grinned at him, blue-green eyes sparkling "You could put it that way, yes."
Trowa sighed slightly "And that's why someone kidnapped Faith. They want your powers to help them take over."
She sighed and rubbed her temples "Of course. Because we're women they think they can use us, but they should know by now that we wont agree- Wait!" Fiona turned to her injured friend, panic in her eyes. "Faith! C'mon, I need you to tell me. Did they give you anything more than just a knockout drug?"
The injured girl groaned and opened her eyes, revealing them to be a jade green color. She put a hand to her head, thinking "They just gave me about enough of a sedative to knock out a draft horse, but that's it. They didn't have enough time to prick me with anything else. So don't worry." And with that, she promptly let her eyes fall closed and went back to the land of dreamless sleep.
Destiny shifted, "I'm going to regret this later aren't I?" She asked, motioning towards her legs, where Faith was sleeping comfortably.
Angel's eyes fairly twinkled with mischief, "But the vision of maternal-ness coming from you is so sweet."
Destiny's purple eyes snapped together in a glare that could rival Heero's at its coldest. "Do you have a death wish?" She asked menacingly.
Angel smirked back at her, unscathed. You could only be affected by someone's glare so many times before it lost it's usefulness. "I'm an assassin slash witch slash Preventer's officer that hangs out with you guys. What do you think?"
Duo looked over his shoulder at Angel, "I think the moment that Faith gets off her lap, Destiny's going to kill you."
Fiona sighed dramatically, "Alas, it's been tried. And as you can see, it wasn't successful."
"Is this the way you act all the time? I'm surprised that the enemy doesn't pay the preventers to take you back, instead of us trying to rescue you." Wufei muttered.
Fiona studied him, and instead of the blow-up that Wufei expected, he got something entirely different. "If you meant that, I might have gotten upset. Probably not though, you'll have to work harder than that."
Wufei just blinked at her but Duo broke out in fits of laughter. "The look on your face, Wu" he said between hysterics "is priceless, just priceless."
He gave Duo a withering look and studied Fiona with growing respect.
Siren Alecto: I have no idea where I want to go for the next two or three chapters, so anyone with ideas just tell me what you would like to happen, and I'll see if it fits.
Eiryn: Do you have ANY idea of what you want to happen?
Siren Alecto: Some, but the characters mostly decide on what they want to do.
Eiryn: ...You are so borderline schizophrenic...
Siren Alecto: Hey, my favorite writer, Tamora Pierce is the same way! Her characters decide what they want to happen.
Eiryn: ...Her muse worries about her sanity too...
Siren Alecto: Are you saying that all great writers are crazy?
Eiryn: Mustn't be only great writers it applies to, after all you're crazy as well.
Siren Alecto: ::chases her muse around and tries to throttle her::
Eiryn: ::runs quickly, voice floating over her shoulder:: Don't forget to review and make suggestions!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this, would I?
Author's note: THIRD CHAPTER! This is slightly shorter than the rest have been, tell me what length you all like, k? Thanks to those who give me such nice reviews, I'm glad you like this humble author's fanfiction. Enjoy the new chapter!
The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Chapter 3 - First Impressions
Angel looked back and forth from Destiny, who held Faith to her car with two seats. "Um... problem."
Destiny rolled her eyes. "You think? How are we going to do this?"
"How are we going to do what?"
Both girls tensed instinctively and jerked their heads towards the voice. The voice --Trowa-- leaned against the side of Duo's car, arms crossed and visibly waiting for their reply.
Angel sighed as she gestured to the occupant of Destiny's arms. "We're going to take her somewhere and see about what's been going on, but we don't know how to work getting her there."
"She could take my seat." Trowa said quietly.
Destiny thought for a second, hiding a smile behind bland eyes. "It could work, she could take up half of the back of Duo's car and I could sit next to her, make sure she isn't jostled by anything."
"Yes, but Duo would need to know where he was driving to, and why." Duo said, leaning against his car.
"Hearing you talk in third person is strange, you know. And you can do it like we did here, since you've proven yourself so good at following me," Angel said mischievously.
"I hate to interrupt, but where exactly are we going?" Wufei asked irritably.
Destiny had previously taken the time to settle Faith in the back seat the way she wanted her, and came back to the conversation. "We're going to see a friend of ours named Fiona. She's an oracle so she can tell us exactly what's going on and what we can do to stop it."
"Another experiment?" Trowa queried.
"Sort of, her mother was. Fiona's the only second generation experiment, and she's very powerful." Angel replied.
"Can we go, then? I don't want to stand around here and wait for the soldiers to search for us." Destiny said acidly.
Angel rolled her eyes and hopped inside of her convertible, Trowa following suit.
Destiny jumped into Duo's back seat and closed the door with an audible snap, showing her displeasure at not leaving right then. Wufei wordlessly climbed into the front seat and Duo slid behind the steering wheel, waiting for Angel to start off.
Her mint green eyes gleamed as she turned the key in the ignition and heard her baby start purring like a kitten. Smoothly she pulled back onto the road and set off towards a home away from home for her.
Destiny had a moment to check that Faith hadn't been jostled as Duo carefully pulled behind Angel before Wufei spoke up.
"Fiona isn't just an oracle is she?"
Destiny developed a small smile. "You're correct. Fiona is a great number of things. She mothers us all the time, yet never really takes care of herself. Fiona was the best infiltrator that we had because she didn't give the impression that she would hurt or betray anybody. Of course, that's what she ended up doing most of the time. She has every guy on Earth chasing her that's not in love with someone else or about to fall in love and I mean real love." Destiny looked pensive for a moment. "She has flings but never lets any guy close enough to care about her."
"Including your brother, I heard." Duo's voice came from the front.
Destiny glared, "Angel shouldn't be talking about Blade. Though she's right enough about his situation with Fiona. She wont let him be anything but a friend to her. He's not giving up though, we're just that way." Destiny smiled out the window, thinking about her brother could do that to her. She loved him with all of her heart, he was the only man that she could trust in this world.
They rode in silence the rest of the way, each of them in thought. Including Angel and Trowa.
Angel soon pulled off onto a dirt road, apparently a private drive and followed it to a large-ish Victorian styled house surrounded by trees and, Trowa saw, a nondescript black car parked out front with a license plate that said "Wench".
Angel smirked as she traced Trowa's line of vision. "That's typical Fiona, for you. She has an interesting personality." After stopping the red- haired woman almost dove out of her car and ran to the front door. Trowa, exiting the car with much more grace and decorum, greeted the site of Duo's car pulling up to the house.
Gently, Destiny opened her door and rose, Faith still cradled in her arms like a beloved child, and walked slowly to the door. Angel hurried in front of her to open the door, but a look from Destiny made her stand back. The next second, the door to the house slammed wide open, meeting the wall with a dull thud.
Standing on the threshold, Destiny peered around and called out questioningly, "Fiona?"
"I'm upstairs, readying the invalid's room. I'll be down in a sec." The voice was warm, and mature sounding; coming from the upstairs.
Nodding, Destiny shuffled into the house and took a hallway to the left, heading out of sight, everyone else following. They wandered into a comfortable looking sitting room, with big fluffy couches and huge armchairs by a fireplace. Destiny placed Faith on a couch, her friend's head in Destiny's lap.
Angel curled herself in an over-large armchair with Duo sitting down by her feet, his back resting against the bottom of the chair.
Trowa claimed another large armchair, stretching his long limbs out with a sigh. If I'm going to be here for a while, I might as well be comfortable.
Wufei watched all this with a slight smile, It's rather nice to see harmony and peace in a group of soldiers like this, even though we just had a mission. I wonder if this is what it was always like for the onnas...
Wufei was interrupted from further musings by the presence of a small woman around their age, with dark brown hair tied back in a bun and bright blue-green eyes. She was wearing a black long sleeved shirt with the sleeves pushed up her arm and dark blue jeans. When she reached up a hand to push stray locks of hair out of her face, he realized that she wore black gloves with silver designs on the back that he couldn't quite make out.
This is the strongest of them? Someone so... unassuming and non- threatening looking? Wufei thought incredulously, At least Destiny LOOKS as if she should be powerful.
The woman smiled, blue-green eyes glowing, "It's an honor to meet all of you. My name is Fiona, probably the only person of our group that will use their real name. Enjoy the novelty while it lasts." Turning to Destiny, she asked "She hasn't awoken yet?"
The raven haired woman just shook her head negatively, throat constricted.
Fiona's eyes softened, "It'll be alright, Faith's too stubborn to be permanently harmed by anything. Even ghosts from the past." Then she walked over to crouch down next to the unconscious young woman.
"Faith... I need you to wake up. C'mon Faith, come back to us." Her eyes glowing softly, Fiona stroked Faith's bangs back from her forehead.
Eyes fluttering slowly open, Faith slammed them shut again, when light hit her sensitive pupils. She let out a low moan as her body began to register complaints that had not been her problem while unconscious.
Fiona smiled softly and using a low soothing tone, tried to bleed some of the tension from her friend's body. "That's good. You weren't too far under that I couldn't bring you back. Listen - you don't have to open your eyes, just send me what I need by telepathy. It'll be easier on you."
Faith sighed in relief and delicately formed a link between her own mind and Fiona's to ease the process of sending memories. The black haired girl scrunched her nose in displeasure as she handled her power more crudely than she liked, but after being drugged she couldn't handle anything requiring more finesse.
Relaxing to help ease the transfer, Fiona closed her eyes and remembered. She lived Faith's memories as if they were her own and touched the strands of those lives. Visions filled her mind and changed in patterns, a part of the web of life showed itself to her, strand by strand. When she had gathered enough information, the brunette tried to stand, only to have her mostly asleep legs give out on her. She hit the ground with a thump, and rubbed her legs to get the feeling back into them.
"Do you know you glow when you do that?" Duo asked.
Fiona smiled ruefully, "Yes, I know. It means I can't do that unless I care that people see me. My shields can stand up against anything, but they're perfectly clear."
Wufei leaned forward, interested "How much power can your shields stand up against, anyway?"
Fiona crossed her now-awake legs and tilted her head in thought. "How can I explain it to you?... Alright, say you had all 5 custom Gundams; you could hit a shield of mine for days with everything in your gundams and my shield wouldn't even be scratched."
"In other words, a whole shitload of power." Duo supplied.
Fiona grinned at him, blue-green eyes sparkling "You could put it that way, yes."
Trowa sighed slightly "And that's why someone kidnapped Faith. They want your powers to help them take over."
She sighed and rubbed her temples "Of course. Because we're women they think they can use us, but they should know by now that we wont agree- Wait!" Fiona turned to her injured friend, panic in her eyes. "Faith! C'mon, I need you to tell me. Did they give you anything more than just a knockout drug?"
The injured girl groaned and opened her eyes, revealing them to be a jade green color. She put a hand to her head, thinking "They just gave me about enough of a sedative to knock out a draft horse, but that's it. They didn't have enough time to prick me with anything else. So don't worry." And with that, she promptly let her eyes fall closed and went back to the land of dreamless sleep.
Destiny shifted, "I'm going to regret this later aren't I?" She asked, motioning towards her legs, where Faith was sleeping comfortably.
Angel's eyes fairly twinkled with mischief, "But the vision of maternal-ness coming from you is so sweet."
Destiny's purple eyes snapped together in a glare that could rival Heero's at its coldest. "Do you have a death wish?" She asked menacingly.
Angel smirked back at her, unscathed. You could only be affected by someone's glare so many times before it lost it's usefulness. "I'm an assassin slash witch slash Preventer's officer that hangs out with you guys. What do you think?"
Duo looked over his shoulder at Angel, "I think the moment that Faith gets off her lap, Destiny's going to kill you."
Fiona sighed dramatically, "Alas, it's been tried. And as you can see, it wasn't successful."
"Is this the way you act all the time? I'm surprised that the enemy doesn't pay the preventers to take you back, instead of us trying to rescue you." Wufei muttered.
Fiona studied him, and instead of the blow-up that Wufei expected, he got something entirely different. "If you meant that, I might have gotten upset. Probably not though, you'll have to work harder than that."
Wufei just blinked at her but Duo broke out in fits of laughter. "The look on your face, Wu" he said between hysterics "is priceless, just priceless."
He gave Duo a withering look and studied Fiona with growing respect.
Siren Alecto: I have no idea where I want to go for the next two or three chapters, so anyone with ideas just tell me what you would like to happen, and I'll see if it fits.
Eiryn: Do you have ANY idea of what you want to happen?
Siren Alecto: Some, but the characters mostly decide on what they want to do.
Eiryn: ...You are so borderline schizophrenic...
Siren Alecto: Hey, my favorite writer, Tamora Pierce is the same way! Her characters decide what they want to happen.
Eiryn: ...Her muse worries about her sanity too...
Siren Alecto: Are you saying that all great writers are crazy?
Eiryn: Mustn't be only great writers it applies to, after all you're crazy as well.
Siren Alecto: ::chases her muse around and tries to throttle her::
Eiryn: ::runs quickly, voice floating over her shoulder:: Don't forget to review and make suggestions!