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: CHAPTER NUMBER 5! I'm on a roll, you don't understand, I'm usually horrible about updating or working on my stories. Bad language in this chapter; be forewarned. Hope you like the story and this chapter, you should; it has plenty of things happening to keep you occupied.
The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Chapter 5 - Pranks and Siblings
June
AC 200
Preventer Headquarters
17:00
Fiona glanced at her grandfather clock again, and cursed herself in all the languages that she knew. If I keep looking this many times and they haven't even left yet, then what am I going to be like while they're gone? Fiona banged her head on her desk that held her computer, shaking the whole thing. Maybe that wasn't the best idea, she thought, holding it steady so it wouldn't tip and break her entire computer system.
She sighed when she heard the doorbell, now at least she could keep herself busy readying drinks for people, waiting for everyone to arrive. For only after all of them were here, could they begin, and they must crush this new faction.
Lifting her arms high overhead to crack her back, Fiona left the work- related room that she was in to collect whoever it was at the door. The door itself was beautifully carved cherry wood, with Celtic designs in it, a theme carried throughout the house. Turning the silver knob, she greeted the familiar faces of Angel, Faith and Destiny, who hadn't bothered to change out of their Preventer uniforms of black pants, dark cream colored shirt, and the green and brown Preventer's jacket.
She was about to step back from the doorway to let them in when the sound of another car heading down her drive made itself known. Angel and Destiny turned to see who it was, making themselves comfortable leaning against the side of her house, Faith against the door; waiting for the car to reach the house.
First to exit the car was a blur of energy, made familiar by the braid swinging along behind it and the loud voice attached. Duo walked around to the other side of the car and ceremoniously opened the passenger side door.
The first thing that Fiona or any of the girls saw of Hilde was her black hair, still cut short in the style the girl had when she worked for OZ. The next thing they noticed was the carefree laugh at Duo's extremely dramatized actions as he bowed to her, when she stepped out of the car.
Hilde was wearing faded denim jeans, combat boots and blue-black shirt, wear that you could tell was normal for her because of the way that it just fit; Angel noticed as she went down the steps to greet her. "You must be Hilde," Angel said, extending a hand. "It's nice to meet you."
Hilde grinned, her blue eyes sparkling, "And you must be Angel, I've heard a lot about you." Hilde shook Angel's hand warmly, then her gaze drifted to where the other girls stood in the doorway. "I've heard a lot about you, too."
Fiona grinned, "I hope SOME of it was nice."
Duo grabbed his heart and gasped melodramatically. "I'm wounded by your distrust in me."
Angel shook her fiery tresses and rolled her eyes, "Yeah, yeah. Keep your day job."
"C'mon in." Fiona gestured into the house with one gloved hand.
Hilde laughed and grabbed the end of Duo's braid, pulling him into the house behind her, pouting all the way.
Once they reached to doorway, Duo grabbed his braid back from his girlfriend, gently stroking the end of it and murmuring to himself.
Angel smacked her forehead and groaned, letting her mint-green eyes fall closed in mock agony. "My brother is a total baka."
Grinning, the 'baka' reached over to place an arm around Angel's shoulders. "But you love me anyways."
Fiona watched smiling as everyone bickered themselves into the living room, the comfortable one where Duo had been sitting just the day before. Clapping her hands for their attention, "Does anyone want something to drink? Soda, water, juice, tea.... I've got pretty much anything you like. Just no alcohol allowed before a mission." She said, winking.
"If you get everyone on a sugar or caffeine high.... I will hurt you." Destiny said, half-heartedly glaring at the brunette.
Batting her eyes Fiona gave Destiny an innocent look, "Whatever are you talking about. It would be pure coincidence if they got so hyped up on sugar that Angel and Duo bounced off walls."
Faith smothered a laugh with a hand then quickly put on the mask of indifference she usually wore.
"Keep it up and I'll bounce you off walls." Destiny replied, mock angrily.
Angel was about to cut in with a smart comment, when they all heard another car come up the drive.
"I'll be right back." Fiona said, and pivoted to walk back towards her front door. This time when she opened said door, she was greeted by Wufei's habitual scowl. Blinking a couple of times in surprise, she turned to Trowa who was standing behind him on the porch "Didn't anyone tell him that his face might freeze that way?"
"I think it already has." Was the deadpanned reply.
Wufei stalked into the house, Fiona following him and trying hard not to giggle. Trowa brought up the rear, no trace of laughter on his face but if you looked in his eyes you could see it.
When Fiona reached the living room, Duo looked back and forth between her and Wufei like he knew something. "Ok, something happened and I missed it. Didn't it?"
"I'm afraid so, Duo. You see, you missed me proposing to Wufei and him telling me that although I'm the sexiest woman in the world, he was deeply in love with you so he couldn't marry me." Fiona said, expression one of deepest sympathy.
Duo gawked in surprise, "What?!"
Fiona couldn't help it, he looked so comically confused, and when she turned to Wufei she really started to loose her composure. He had this look on his face like he couldn't decide whether to throttle her or laugh.
Angel looked at Fiona, laughter in her eyes and Fiona decided she couldn't take anymore. Collapsing to the floor in a fit of giggles, she hugged her sides and laughed so hard that tears fell down her face.
Duo looked between the laughing girl on the floor and Angel who was almost as hysterical. "I've been had." He muttered under his breath.
Hilde patted his shoulder soothingly, laugher glittering in her blue eyes. "I'm sure you'll find a way to get back at her."
The group was interrupted when the doorbell rang again. Looking at the still slightly hysterical girl on the floor, Destiny decided that she better answer the door.
As she made her way to said door, the raven-haired woman indulged herself in a little smile over the slight prank that Fiona had just pulled on Duo. Somehow, Destiny had the feeling that this was going to be the start of the biggest prank war in history.
She reverted back to the blank face and eyes she normally showed, as she pulled open the door. The man standing there sported an expression much the same as hers, but the blonde man behind him had an almost unbearably cheerful look on his face.
"And you would be...?" She asked in a voice devoid of emotion.
"Heero Yuy." The man with chocolate hair a shade or two lighter than Fiona's replied in monotone.
"Quatre Rababa Winner." The blonde man said, smiling almost gaily, eyes a changing blue color. "And who are you?"
"Destiny. Come." Destiny said and marched back into the house. When she made it back to the living room, she found that Fiona and Angel had recovered from their laughing fit, though Duo still looked a little piqued. I guess he's not used to the tables being turned on him. She had a feeling that he'd get used to it a little too quickly for anyone else though.
Heero nodded a greeting to those he knew. Duo grinned and waved like normal but Wufei nodded back, noticeably angry about something. Heero moved over to sit next to Trowa on a couch. "What happened?" He asked quietly.
"I'll tell you later." Trowa promised, whispering back.
Nodding, Heero let the subject drop and turned his energy to studying the people in the room.
Quatre had entered the room right behind him, and thought he saw someone who was vaguely familiar. He looked at the girl with dark brown hair and those familiar green-blue eyes that he knew changed color, and the memory clicked. "Fiona Morrigan!" He exclaimed.
"Quatre?" Fiona turned around uncertainly and looked at him. Running over she jumped up to hug him. "I haven't seen you in a long time. How is Salina? Your 40 thieves?" As excited as she was, she left no room for Quatre to answer her as she threw question after question at him. Laughing he placed a finger on her lips, silencing her.
"Salina's fine, though she misses you terribly, and my '40 thieves' moon over the loss of you constantly."
Fiona raised an eyebrow, "I think Salina'll understand that I can't go back to visit her for awhile."
Quatre grunted and looked at the rather large group of people in Fiona's living room. "Mind introducing me?"
"The red-head goes by Angel, the purpled eyed girl goes by Destiny, and green-eyes is Faith." her gloved hand waved to each person, "I think they get your name by now. And your friend's name...." Fiona prompted.
"Heero Yuy." Duo answered for his friend. "Pilot of Wing Zero and bodyguard of Relena Dorlain."
"So who else are we waiting for?" Quatre asked, perching himself on the arm of a chair.
"You'll see." Fiona said, giving an evil grin just as the doorbell rang. "That'll be them." Running down the hall to fling open the door, Fiona was knocked backwards by a black blur. Rolling around, wresting in the hallway, Fiona and what could only be a wolf knocked over chairs and vases, not really caring.
Trowa being the first to reach them because of the noises, pulled a gun and was about to fire, but was interrupted by a voice from the open doorway.
"Aniki (1), tell your friend that if he shoots Sheila, I'll shoot him back."
Heero's voice came from behind him, "Trowa... better put the gun down."
Trowa's eyes flew to where the voice came from and met a figure in faded clothes, who had medium brown hair with blond streaks and a familiar pair of prussian blue eyes. Traveling down, his eyes saw that he was being sighted down the barrel of a very real gun, and lowered his own weapon, keeping his hands in her sight.
"Aniki?" He inquired, looking over his shoulder at Heero. Trowa wasn't stupid, he knew what the woman had called Heero. He wanted to know who this woman was who called him that.
Fiona, meanwhile was still wrestling with the wolf -Sheila-, and crowed triumphantly as she managed to pin the wolf on it's side.
Getting to her feet, Fiona smiled down at the wolf who was climbing to her feet. "I win again! You're getting old, friend for me to be able to beat you so quickly."
"Sheila says that if she is old, then we should all start calling you Grandmother." Hope called, still in the doorway.
For the first time, Fiona saw what was going on around her and sighed exasperatedly. "Hope, put down the gun, everyone, this is Hope and Sheila. Hope is Heero's twin sister and her power is to talk to animals. Got it? Good." Fiona then marched down the hallway towards the kitchen, Sheila following close behind her. "Are you hungry? I'll get you something, I'm hungry too."
Hope rolled her eyes and put her gun back in its place at the small of her back. "She would abandon us right after she said something like that." Finding Duo staring at her, she glared at him. "What?"
"You're Heero's twin?" Duo asked incredulously.
"Yeah. He's my aniki." Hope said grinning, and going over to give Heero a hug. Her brother allowed himself to indulge in holding her tightly, closing his eyes and hugging her close. Then he held her away from himself and reverted back to his soldier attitude.
"What are you doing here?"
"What do you think? I'm going to give you information; that's what. And if you tell me it's too dangerous, I'll punch you." Hope warned her brother, entirely serious. "All I have to do is talk to the animals inside the base, there's bound to be mice or cats or something in there that I can reach. That way you won't have to guess where the mobile suits are or when the enemy is coming."
Heero sighed, the soldier in him knew it was a good plan, it would keep injury and mortality rates low. He just didn't want his sister in danger.
Hope rolled her prussian blue eyes and sighed. "If it makes you feel better, I'll stay here. I suppose my Gift can reach from here."
"Sounds like a good idea," Fiona interrupted, back from her food excursion with Sheila sitting by her feet. Suddenly the girl got a strange look in her green-blue eyes. "That's it, the scientists were pedophiles." Fiona said.
Everyone looked at her blankly.
"Just look at all the guys. They have girls following them around everywhere, I've seen it. And us girls? Destiny and Faith are exotic, Angel's flashy, Mercy is elegantly beautiful and Hope always has a new boyfriend..." Fiona let the sentence hang, letting everyone digest what she was thinking.
"And you're just you." Destiny said.
"Correct." Fiona grinned. "They couldn't have picked better if they tried, which convinces me that they did."
Faith gave an inelegant snort. "If you try to remember that far back, our looks gave us more trouble than we needed. You might remember a couple years worth of lessons in all forms of seduction."
"Well I was the only one who had to mix that with lessons of deportment and ballroom dancing. There's a bit of difference between a waltz and harem dancing!" Fiona exclaimed.
"You had to learn... what?" Heero asked quietly, giving a killer death glare.
"Um... would it make you feel better if I told you I never used it?" Hope asked hesitantly.
"I can't believe those old geezers..." Duo growled angrily, it wasn't fair to make the girls do things like that....
"How unjust!" Wufei exclaimed, angry at the thought of such a thing.
"It was good planning but ineffective. We never used it except for me, because I had the most contact with the enemy." Fiona said, shrugging. "And that was only flirting."
"Still..." Duo protested.
"It's a girl's lot in life." Fiona said, shaking her head at him.
"You'll have to forgive her. With her 'curse' Fiona's become rather jaded to the world..." Hope explained.
"Especially males." Faith added.
"Well you're not really ones to talk are you?" Fiona said angrily then developed a guilty expression. "Sorry."
At Quatre's questioning look, Angel clarified. "With their pasts, the girls are a bit... biased on the subject of the male gender."
"Or just the human species in general." Faith muttered under her breath.
"You know...We could use Blade here." Angel said, looking at Fiona to see how she reacted to the mention of his name.
"He's too far away." The other woman said curtly, as she stroked Sheila's slightly rough coat.
"That's an excuse and you know it." Destiny argued
"...We don't have time to wait for him to get here before we attack." Fiona said, her voice indicating that the discussion had better be over or there would be dire consequences.
Duo was about to cut in curiously but Angel gave him a look and shook her head minutely. Now wasn't the time to talk of such things, Angel seemed to be saying and Duo listened.
Looking at Fiona's eyes, and they way they were guarded, Destiny let it go. For now. Now I know something happened between you and my brother. It will only be a matter of time before I find out what.
'Be careful with this, it might just come back and burn you.' Faith's mind voice warned.
They both deserve to be happy and I'm not going to stop matchmaking them until they're together. Destiny replied, obstinately. Her purple eyes met Faith's and held until the jade-eyed woman was certain of her conviction.
'Just go gently. Fiona's very stubborn about remaining just friends with Blade. And he won't go against her wishes, she's too important to him for him to even think about that.' Faith said and then her presence was gone.
(1) Aniki - What someone would call their twin or someone very close to their heart. --Japanese.
Siren Alecto: Well that was fast.
Eiryn: Yes, I know I'm good. All mistakes and bad parts are your fault.
Siren Alecto: Did your boyfriend dump you or something?
Eiryn: NANI?!
Siren Alecto: I just posted the 4th chapter and today I finished this one. He must have dumped you or you wouldn't be here working on this with me.
Eiryn: You... you... ARG! I don't BELIEVE you, saying that!
Siren Alecto: But it's true.
Eiryn: ::screams in rage and chases Siren Alecto around in circles, trying to get close enough to kill her::
Siren Alecto: Remember to review!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this, would I?
Author's note: CHAPTER NUMBER 5! I'm on a roll, you don't understand, I'm usually horrible about updating or working on my stories. Bad language in this chapter; be forewarned. Hope you like the story and this chapter, you should; it has plenty of things happening to keep you occupied.
The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Chapter 5 - Pranks and Siblings
June
AC 200
Preventer Headquarters
17:00
Fiona glanced at her grandfather clock again, and cursed herself in all the languages that she knew. If I keep looking this many times and they haven't even left yet, then what am I going to be like while they're gone? Fiona banged her head on her desk that held her computer, shaking the whole thing. Maybe that wasn't the best idea, she thought, holding it steady so it wouldn't tip and break her entire computer system.
She sighed when she heard the doorbell, now at least she could keep herself busy readying drinks for people, waiting for everyone to arrive. For only after all of them were here, could they begin, and they must crush this new faction.
Lifting her arms high overhead to crack her back, Fiona left the work- related room that she was in to collect whoever it was at the door. The door itself was beautifully carved cherry wood, with Celtic designs in it, a theme carried throughout the house. Turning the silver knob, she greeted the familiar faces of Angel, Faith and Destiny, who hadn't bothered to change out of their Preventer uniforms of black pants, dark cream colored shirt, and the green and brown Preventer's jacket.
She was about to step back from the doorway to let them in when the sound of another car heading down her drive made itself known. Angel and Destiny turned to see who it was, making themselves comfortable leaning against the side of her house, Faith against the door; waiting for the car to reach the house.
First to exit the car was a blur of energy, made familiar by the braid swinging along behind it and the loud voice attached. Duo walked around to the other side of the car and ceremoniously opened the passenger side door.
The first thing that Fiona or any of the girls saw of Hilde was her black hair, still cut short in the style the girl had when she worked for OZ. The next thing they noticed was the carefree laugh at Duo's extremely dramatized actions as he bowed to her, when she stepped out of the car.
Hilde was wearing faded denim jeans, combat boots and blue-black shirt, wear that you could tell was normal for her because of the way that it just fit; Angel noticed as she went down the steps to greet her. "You must be Hilde," Angel said, extending a hand. "It's nice to meet you."
Hilde grinned, her blue eyes sparkling, "And you must be Angel, I've heard a lot about you." Hilde shook Angel's hand warmly, then her gaze drifted to where the other girls stood in the doorway. "I've heard a lot about you, too."
Fiona grinned, "I hope SOME of it was nice."
Duo grabbed his heart and gasped melodramatically. "I'm wounded by your distrust in me."
Angel shook her fiery tresses and rolled her eyes, "Yeah, yeah. Keep your day job."
"C'mon in." Fiona gestured into the house with one gloved hand.
Hilde laughed and grabbed the end of Duo's braid, pulling him into the house behind her, pouting all the way.
Once they reached to doorway, Duo grabbed his braid back from his girlfriend, gently stroking the end of it and murmuring to himself.
Angel smacked her forehead and groaned, letting her mint-green eyes fall closed in mock agony. "My brother is a total baka."
Grinning, the 'baka' reached over to place an arm around Angel's shoulders. "But you love me anyways."
Fiona watched smiling as everyone bickered themselves into the living room, the comfortable one where Duo had been sitting just the day before. Clapping her hands for their attention, "Does anyone want something to drink? Soda, water, juice, tea.... I've got pretty much anything you like. Just no alcohol allowed before a mission." She said, winking.
"If you get everyone on a sugar or caffeine high.... I will hurt you." Destiny said, half-heartedly glaring at the brunette.
Batting her eyes Fiona gave Destiny an innocent look, "Whatever are you talking about. It would be pure coincidence if they got so hyped up on sugar that Angel and Duo bounced off walls."
Faith smothered a laugh with a hand then quickly put on the mask of indifference she usually wore.
"Keep it up and I'll bounce you off walls." Destiny replied, mock angrily.
Angel was about to cut in with a smart comment, when they all heard another car come up the drive.
"I'll be right back." Fiona said, and pivoted to walk back towards her front door. This time when she opened said door, she was greeted by Wufei's habitual scowl. Blinking a couple of times in surprise, she turned to Trowa who was standing behind him on the porch "Didn't anyone tell him that his face might freeze that way?"
"I think it already has." Was the deadpanned reply.
Wufei stalked into the house, Fiona following him and trying hard not to giggle. Trowa brought up the rear, no trace of laughter on his face but if you looked in his eyes you could see it.
When Fiona reached the living room, Duo looked back and forth between her and Wufei like he knew something. "Ok, something happened and I missed it. Didn't it?"
"I'm afraid so, Duo. You see, you missed me proposing to Wufei and him telling me that although I'm the sexiest woman in the world, he was deeply in love with you so he couldn't marry me." Fiona said, expression one of deepest sympathy.
Duo gawked in surprise, "What?!"
Fiona couldn't help it, he looked so comically confused, and when she turned to Wufei she really started to loose her composure. He had this look on his face like he couldn't decide whether to throttle her or laugh.
Angel looked at Fiona, laughter in her eyes and Fiona decided she couldn't take anymore. Collapsing to the floor in a fit of giggles, she hugged her sides and laughed so hard that tears fell down her face.
Duo looked between the laughing girl on the floor and Angel who was almost as hysterical. "I've been had." He muttered under his breath.
Hilde patted his shoulder soothingly, laugher glittering in her blue eyes. "I'm sure you'll find a way to get back at her."
The group was interrupted when the doorbell rang again. Looking at the still slightly hysterical girl on the floor, Destiny decided that she better answer the door.
As she made her way to said door, the raven-haired woman indulged herself in a little smile over the slight prank that Fiona had just pulled on Duo. Somehow, Destiny had the feeling that this was going to be the start of the biggest prank war in history.
She reverted back to the blank face and eyes she normally showed, as she pulled open the door. The man standing there sported an expression much the same as hers, but the blonde man behind him had an almost unbearably cheerful look on his face.
"And you would be...?" She asked in a voice devoid of emotion.
"Heero Yuy." The man with chocolate hair a shade or two lighter than Fiona's replied in monotone.
"Quatre Rababa Winner." The blonde man said, smiling almost gaily, eyes a changing blue color. "And who are you?"
"Destiny. Come." Destiny said and marched back into the house. When she made it back to the living room, she found that Fiona and Angel had recovered from their laughing fit, though Duo still looked a little piqued. I guess he's not used to the tables being turned on him. She had a feeling that he'd get used to it a little too quickly for anyone else though.
Heero nodded a greeting to those he knew. Duo grinned and waved like normal but Wufei nodded back, noticeably angry about something. Heero moved over to sit next to Trowa on a couch. "What happened?" He asked quietly.
"I'll tell you later." Trowa promised, whispering back.
Nodding, Heero let the subject drop and turned his energy to studying the people in the room.
Quatre had entered the room right behind him, and thought he saw someone who was vaguely familiar. He looked at the girl with dark brown hair and those familiar green-blue eyes that he knew changed color, and the memory clicked. "Fiona Morrigan!" He exclaimed.
"Quatre?" Fiona turned around uncertainly and looked at him. Running over she jumped up to hug him. "I haven't seen you in a long time. How is Salina? Your 40 thieves?" As excited as she was, she left no room for Quatre to answer her as she threw question after question at him. Laughing he placed a finger on her lips, silencing her.
"Salina's fine, though she misses you terribly, and my '40 thieves' moon over the loss of you constantly."
Fiona raised an eyebrow, "I think Salina'll understand that I can't go back to visit her for awhile."
Quatre grunted and looked at the rather large group of people in Fiona's living room. "Mind introducing me?"
"The red-head goes by Angel, the purpled eyed girl goes by Destiny, and green-eyes is Faith." her gloved hand waved to each person, "I think they get your name by now. And your friend's name...." Fiona prompted.
"Heero Yuy." Duo answered for his friend. "Pilot of Wing Zero and bodyguard of Relena Dorlain."
"So who else are we waiting for?" Quatre asked, perching himself on the arm of a chair.
"You'll see." Fiona said, giving an evil grin just as the doorbell rang. "That'll be them." Running down the hall to fling open the door, Fiona was knocked backwards by a black blur. Rolling around, wresting in the hallway, Fiona and what could only be a wolf knocked over chairs and vases, not really caring.
Trowa being the first to reach them because of the noises, pulled a gun and was about to fire, but was interrupted by a voice from the open doorway.
"Aniki (1), tell your friend that if he shoots Sheila, I'll shoot him back."
Heero's voice came from behind him, "Trowa... better put the gun down."
Trowa's eyes flew to where the voice came from and met a figure in faded clothes, who had medium brown hair with blond streaks and a familiar pair of prussian blue eyes. Traveling down, his eyes saw that he was being sighted down the barrel of a very real gun, and lowered his own weapon, keeping his hands in her sight.
"Aniki?" He inquired, looking over his shoulder at Heero. Trowa wasn't stupid, he knew what the woman had called Heero. He wanted to know who this woman was who called him that.
Fiona, meanwhile was still wrestling with the wolf -Sheila-, and crowed triumphantly as she managed to pin the wolf on it's side.
Getting to her feet, Fiona smiled down at the wolf who was climbing to her feet. "I win again! You're getting old, friend for me to be able to beat you so quickly."
"Sheila says that if she is old, then we should all start calling you Grandmother." Hope called, still in the doorway.
For the first time, Fiona saw what was going on around her and sighed exasperatedly. "Hope, put down the gun, everyone, this is Hope and Sheila. Hope is Heero's twin sister and her power is to talk to animals. Got it? Good." Fiona then marched down the hallway towards the kitchen, Sheila following close behind her. "Are you hungry? I'll get you something, I'm hungry too."
Hope rolled her eyes and put her gun back in its place at the small of her back. "She would abandon us right after she said something like that." Finding Duo staring at her, she glared at him. "What?"
"You're Heero's twin?" Duo asked incredulously.
"Yeah. He's my aniki." Hope said grinning, and going over to give Heero a hug. Her brother allowed himself to indulge in holding her tightly, closing his eyes and hugging her close. Then he held her away from himself and reverted back to his soldier attitude.
"What are you doing here?"
"What do you think? I'm going to give you information; that's what. And if you tell me it's too dangerous, I'll punch you." Hope warned her brother, entirely serious. "All I have to do is talk to the animals inside the base, there's bound to be mice or cats or something in there that I can reach. That way you won't have to guess where the mobile suits are or when the enemy is coming."
Heero sighed, the soldier in him knew it was a good plan, it would keep injury and mortality rates low. He just didn't want his sister in danger.
Hope rolled her prussian blue eyes and sighed. "If it makes you feel better, I'll stay here. I suppose my Gift can reach from here."
"Sounds like a good idea," Fiona interrupted, back from her food excursion with Sheila sitting by her feet. Suddenly the girl got a strange look in her green-blue eyes. "That's it, the scientists were pedophiles." Fiona said.
Everyone looked at her blankly.
"Just look at all the guys. They have girls following them around everywhere, I've seen it. And us girls? Destiny and Faith are exotic, Angel's flashy, Mercy is elegantly beautiful and Hope always has a new boyfriend..." Fiona let the sentence hang, letting everyone digest what she was thinking.
"And you're just you." Destiny said.
"Correct." Fiona grinned. "They couldn't have picked better if they tried, which convinces me that they did."
Faith gave an inelegant snort. "If you try to remember that far back, our looks gave us more trouble than we needed. You might remember a couple years worth of lessons in all forms of seduction."
"Well I was the only one who had to mix that with lessons of deportment and ballroom dancing. There's a bit of difference between a waltz and harem dancing!" Fiona exclaimed.
"You had to learn... what?" Heero asked quietly, giving a killer death glare.
"Um... would it make you feel better if I told you I never used it?" Hope asked hesitantly.
"I can't believe those old geezers..." Duo growled angrily, it wasn't fair to make the girls do things like that....
"How unjust!" Wufei exclaimed, angry at the thought of such a thing.
"It was good planning but ineffective. We never used it except for me, because I had the most contact with the enemy." Fiona said, shrugging. "And that was only flirting."
"Still..." Duo protested.
"It's a girl's lot in life." Fiona said, shaking her head at him.
"You'll have to forgive her. With her 'curse' Fiona's become rather jaded to the world..." Hope explained.
"Especially males." Faith added.
"Well you're not really ones to talk are you?" Fiona said angrily then developed a guilty expression. "Sorry."
At Quatre's questioning look, Angel clarified. "With their pasts, the girls are a bit... biased on the subject of the male gender."
"Or just the human species in general." Faith muttered under her breath.
"You know...We could use Blade here." Angel said, looking at Fiona to see how she reacted to the mention of his name.
"He's too far away." The other woman said curtly, as she stroked Sheila's slightly rough coat.
"That's an excuse and you know it." Destiny argued
"...We don't have time to wait for him to get here before we attack." Fiona said, her voice indicating that the discussion had better be over or there would be dire consequences.
Duo was about to cut in curiously but Angel gave him a look and shook her head minutely. Now wasn't the time to talk of such things, Angel seemed to be saying and Duo listened.
Looking at Fiona's eyes, and they way they were guarded, Destiny let it go. For now. Now I know something happened between you and my brother. It will only be a matter of time before I find out what.
'Be careful with this, it might just come back and burn you.' Faith's mind voice warned.
They both deserve to be happy and I'm not going to stop matchmaking them until they're together. Destiny replied, obstinately. Her purple eyes met Faith's and held until the jade-eyed woman was certain of her conviction.
'Just go gently. Fiona's very stubborn about remaining just friends with Blade. And he won't go against her wishes, she's too important to him for him to even think about that.' Faith said and then her presence was gone.
(1) Aniki - What someone would call their twin or someone very close to their heart. --Japanese.
Siren Alecto: Well that was fast.
Eiryn: Yes, I know I'm good. All mistakes and bad parts are your fault.
Siren Alecto: Did your boyfriend dump you or something?
Eiryn: NANI?!
Siren Alecto: I just posted the 4th chapter and today I finished this one. He must have dumped you or you wouldn't be here working on this with me.
Eiryn: You... you... ARG! I don't BELIEVE you, saying that!
Siren Alecto: But it's true.
Eiryn: ::screams in rage and chases Siren Alecto around in circles, trying to get close enough to kill her::
Siren Alecto: Remember to review!