Heres chapter two! Thanks you everyone who reviewed my fic! One day i had eight reviews, and the next I had sixteen O_o I really appreciate it and it really made my day! ^^ Sorry for the long wait, by the way.
Stop: Part 2
"Where are you taking me?" young Hallie asked, as she looked at the man with fear in her wide eyes.
The man simply started straight ahead at the road, paying no attention to the young girl beside her. He still had on his sunglasses so Hallie couldn't tell exactly what he looked like. She noticed how his pale hands gripped the steering wheel with such force, his hands were slightly shaking. Hallie began to wonder, quietly, if the man was sane or not.
"Do you have a name...?" she asked again, and she thought she saw his eye twitch from behind the sunglasses.
It had been at least a half an hour since the stranger had taken Hallie from her school, promising he would take her home. She was so stupid to actually believe him. All Hallie wanted right now, was to be wrapped in her mother's warm embrace. She'd always been told not to go with strangers, but somehow, something drew her to this man...as if she's known him all her life.
Hallie fought back the tears that sprung to her eyes suddenly, and she stared out the window as the man drove on down the empty road.
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"Quatre...what am I going to do? What if we never find her?" Hilde said, her voice barely above a whisper as she sobbed quietly.
Quatre put a comforting arm around her shaking shoulders, letting her cry into his shirt. He looked down at the sobbing woman with sympathy blazing in his eyes.
"It'll all be okay. We'll find her, and Duo will be put in jail...I promise."
His thoughts traveled to the braided man Quatre had once called a friend. They had fought side by side, and Quatre wondered if the war had made Duo go insane. The two were sitting on the front steps of Hilde's house, Hilde clinging to Quatre's sleeve. The sun was starting to set, and a few police cars circled the
Hilde looked up at Quatre, her eyes overflowing with tears. She managed a small smile, before wiping her eyes with the tissue in her hand. She stood quietly, and began to walk up the worn stairs onto the porch, Quatre following behind her.
"I'm sorry for being such a downer, Quatre. You can go home if you want. I'm alright," Hilde said softly, as she poured a cup of coffee from the coffee maker.
"No, I want to stay. There's nothing but paperwork waiting for me back at the house anyway," Quatre responded, giving a small, reassuring smile. He made himself a cup of coffee and sat on a stool beside the kitchen island, just as the doorbell rang.
Hilde set down her steaming mug, and walked to the front door, opening it a crack, and peeking through it. A man stood there, wearing the familiar Preventers uniform. The man's raven black hair was pulled back into a ponytail at the base of his neck, and his dark onyx eyes eyed her.
"Are you going to let me in, Onna?"
"Oh...sure, Wufei...sorry," she said, taking the chain off of the door and opening it wide enough for Wufei to step in.
The Chinese man stepped into the living room, and nodded respectfully to Quatre who still sat in the kitchen. He turned to Hilde, who was nervously wringing her hands, and led her to the couch.
"Wufei, I need your help. Duo kidnapped my daughter..." Hilde suddenly became bery interested in the small tear in the couch cushion.
Wufei raised an eyebrow.
"Last I heard, Duo was in jail...how could he possibly steal Hallie?"
"I heard about a prison break on L2...only one man escaped, but I'm positive it's him! Who else could it be?!" Hilde cried, her eyes flooding with tears again. "I just want my daughter back."
Wufei cast Hilde a slight sympathetic look, before standing up again. "The Preventers will try and trace Duo's tracks, and eventually get your daughter back," he nodded to her respectfully before turning for the door. "We'll keep you posted on what's going on."
Hilde nodded, still staring down at the couch. "Thanks, Wufei."
He didn't say a word, as he opened the front door, and closed it behind him. The roar of a car engine was heard, as he sped off back to the Preventers Headquarters, probably to try and find Duo.
Hilde sighed, and stood up also, causing Quatre to stand up and appear at her side in a flash. Hilde looked to Quatre and smiled at him. "Quatre...I'm just going to bed, it's not like I'm going to kill myself!"
Quatre gave her an aprehensive look, before nodding. "I'll just sleep here in the couch, I guess."
Hilde nodded also, and walked down the hallway into her bedroom. She looked up when she came to the closed door right beside her own. The door had a small sign on it, decorated with pink and yellow flowers, saying "Hallie's Room" in the middle. The moonlight from outside made the sign look darker than usual. Hilde stood, just staring at the sign for a few moments before quietly slipping into her bedroom and closing the door.
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"Please...tell me where you're taking me? ...I'm scared..." came Hallie's voice, and she looked out the window at the dark landscape rolling by the window.
"Good."
Hallie looked up at the man, suprised that he'd finally talked after hours of silence. He still had his eyes on the road, but at least he had taken his sunglasses off. Hallie had discovered that the man's eyes were the same dark shade of indigo as her own eyes were.
She had to grip the seat as the man suddenly jerked the steering wheel to the side, and the car turned onto a dirt road, and drove on. Hallie looked anxiously around and the flat plane of land all around her, a dead tree spotted ocasionally.
After about half an hour of traveling down the deserted road, the car finally came to a stop outside of a dirty, one-story house. The man quietly opened his car door and stepped out, pausing a moment to stretch. He then walked around the car, and opened her door for her to step out.
Hallie just sat in her seat quietly, playing with the hem of her skirt.
"You've been complaining all this way, now you don't want out of the car?" he said, looking down upon her.
"I don't like the way that place looks," Hallie replied.
The man didn't say anything. He just stood beside the car, holding the door open. Hallie slowly looked up at him, before undoing her seatbelt, and sliding out of the car. He shut the door closed behind her, and slowly walked up the worn porch steps, Hallie close behind him. The man didn't force her, she just felt as if she should follow him.
Hallie looked inside as he opened the worn, wooden door and saw a small living room, all the furniture covered in dusty white drapes. The man put his hand on the back of her head and slowly pushed her inside of the dank little house. Hallie began to wonder why he was acting so nice to her.
"Please...can you tell me your name?"
The man glanced down at her as he closed the door, and Hallie thought she saw a glint of what looked like admiration flash across his eyes.
"Duo. My name's Duo. And you're Hallie."
"How...how do you know my name?"
Hallie was actually starting to feel a little comfortable with Duo as he sat on one of the old, worn sofas. She walked over, and sat on the same sofa also, but on the other side of it.
She didn't trust him just yet.
"I can't tell you that yet. All you need to know, is I'm not going to hurt you, alright?"
Hallie nodded quietly.
"Good."
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Sunlight poured into the small bedroom, falling across Hilde's face. She opened her eyes, and looked around quietly before resting on the mirror beside her bed. Her eyes were slightly red, and lines were visible under her eyes. She sat up slowly and swung her legs over the side of the bed. The smell of eggs cooking in the kitchen made her smile as she pulled on a robe.
"Quatre babies me way too much..." she muttered, opening her door and walking down the hallway.
Quatre stood in the kitchen, wearing a pink frilly apron. He was flipping eggs over in a frying pan, and humming a small tune as he worked. The scrape of Hilde's chair against the floor caused Quatre to turn around, causing him to miss the egg as he flipped it onto the air.
"Morning! I thought I'd make breakfast," he announced cheerfully, watching her worn face aprehensively.
She looked up at him and smiled as he slipped a plate of bacon, eggs, and sausage onto the table infront of her.
"Thanks. Nice apron."
"Err...I couldn't find anything else."
Hilde looked down to her plate of food, then to the empty chair beside her. She could almost see her daughter sitting there, laughing and chewing on her bacon. Quatre must have noticed this, because he set a steaming mug of coffee infront of her to divert her attention.
"Eat. You look terrible."
Hilde simply nodded and picked up her fork. Just as she was about to take the first bite of sausage, the sound of the living room phone reached her ears and she turned around.
"Don't get up, I'll get it," Quatre said, setting down his spatula, and walking through the doorway and into the living room. Hilde craned her neck to hear what the person on the vid-phone was saying.
"We think we know where Duo is hiding out," came Wufei's voice. "A pedestrian said he saw a man driving by in a black car who matched the description on TV. He also said he had a little girl with him in the passenger's seat."
"Right. Where do you think they are?" asked Quatre, looking back at Hilde's lit up face for a moment before turning back to the screen.
"They were last spotted driving down a dirt road somewhere in San Diego. We think you and Hilde had better come down to Headquarters, and we'll go out looking for them."
Hilde smiled widely and began to eat her breakfast as Quatre and Wufei said their goodbyes. Quatre came back into the kitchen, a smile on his face.
He didn't say anything.
He just smiled, and continued making breakfast.
*End Part 2*
The ending kinda sucks...@@
Stop: Part 2
"Where are you taking me?" young Hallie asked, as she looked at the man with fear in her wide eyes.
The man simply started straight ahead at the road, paying no attention to the young girl beside her. He still had on his sunglasses so Hallie couldn't tell exactly what he looked like. She noticed how his pale hands gripped the steering wheel with such force, his hands were slightly shaking. Hallie began to wonder, quietly, if the man was sane or not.
"Do you have a name...?" she asked again, and she thought she saw his eye twitch from behind the sunglasses.
It had been at least a half an hour since the stranger had taken Hallie from her school, promising he would take her home. She was so stupid to actually believe him. All Hallie wanted right now, was to be wrapped in her mother's warm embrace. She'd always been told not to go with strangers, but somehow, something drew her to this man...as if she's known him all her life.
Hallie fought back the tears that sprung to her eyes suddenly, and she stared out the window as the man drove on down the empty road.
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"Quatre...what am I going to do? What if we never find her?" Hilde said, her voice barely above a whisper as she sobbed quietly.
Quatre put a comforting arm around her shaking shoulders, letting her cry into his shirt. He looked down at the sobbing woman with sympathy blazing in his eyes.
"It'll all be okay. We'll find her, and Duo will be put in jail...I promise."
His thoughts traveled to the braided man Quatre had once called a friend. They had fought side by side, and Quatre wondered if the war had made Duo go insane. The two were sitting on the front steps of Hilde's house, Hilde clinging to Quatre's sleeve. The sun was starting to set, and a few police cars circled the
Hilde looked up at Quatre, her eyes overflowing with tears. She managed a small smile, before wiping her eyes with the tissue in her hand. She stood quietly, and began to walk up the worn stairs onto the porch, Quatre following behind her.
"I'm sorry for being such a downer, Quatre. You can go home if you want. I'm alright," Hilde said softly, as she poured a cup of coffee from the coffee maker.
"No, I want to stay. There's nothing but paperwork waiting for me back at the house anyway," Quatre responded, giving a small, reassuring smile. He made himself a cup of coffee and sat on a stool beside the kitchen island, just as the doorbell rang.
Hilde set down her steaming mug, and walked to the front door, opening it a crack, and peeking through it. A man stood there, wearing the familiar Preventers uniform. The man's raven black hair was pulled back into a ponytail at the base of his neck, and his dark onyx eyes eyed her.
"Are you going to let me in, Onna?"
"Oh...sure, Wufei...sorry," she said, taking the chain off of the door and opening it wide enough for Wufei to step in.
The Chinese man stepped into the living room, and nodded respectfully to Quatre who still sat in the kitchen. He turned to Hilde, who was nervously wringing her hands, and led her to the couch.
"Wufei, I need your help. Duo kidnapped my daughter..." Hilde suddenly became bery interested in the small tear in the couch cushion.
Wufei raised an eyebrow.
"Last I heard, Duo was in jail...how could he possibly steal Hallie?"
"I heard about a prison break on L2...only one man escaped, but I'm positive it's him! Who else could it be?!" Hilde cried, her eyes flooding with tears again. "I just want my daughter back."
Wufei cast Hilde a slight sympathetic look, before standing up again. "The Preventers will try and trace Duo's tracks, and eventually get your daughter back," he nodded to her respectfully before turning for the door. "We'll keep you posted on what's going on."
Hilde nodded, still staring down at the couch. "Thanks, Wufei."
He didn't say a word, as he opened the front door, and closed it behind him. The roar of a car engine was heard, as he sped off back to the Preventers Headquarters, probably to try and find Duo.
Hilde sighed, and stood up also, causing Quatre to stand up and appear at her side in a flash. Hilde looked to Quatre and smiled at him. "Quatre...I'm just going to bed, it's not like I'm going to kill myself!"
Quatre gave her an aprehensive look, before nodding. "I'll just sleep here in the couch, I guess."
Hilde nodded also, and walked down the hallway into her bedroom. She looked up when she came to the closed door right beside her own. The door had a small sign on it, decorated with pink and yellow flowers, saying "Hallie's Room" in the middle. The moonlight from outside made the sign look darker than usual. Hilde stood, just staring at the sign for a few moments before quietly slipping into her bedroom and closing the door.
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"Please...tell me where you're taking me? ...I'm scared..." came Hallie's voice, and she looked out the window at the dark landscape rolling by the window.
"Good."
Hallie looked up at the man, suprised that he'd finally talked after hours of silence. He still had his eyes on the road, but at least he had taken his sunglasses off. Hallie had discovered that the man's eyes were the same dark shade of indigo as her own eyes were.
She had to grip the seat as the man suddenly jerked the steering wheel to the side, and the car turned onto a dirt road, and drove on. Hallie looked anxiously around and the flat plane of land all around her, a dead tree spotted ocasionally.
After about half an hour of traveling down the deserted road, the car finally came to a stop outside of a dirty, one-story house. The man quietly opened his car door and stepped out, pausing a moment to stretch. He then walked around the car, and opened her door for her to step out.
Hallie just sat in her seat quietly, playing with the hem of her skirt.
"You've been complaining all this way, now you don't want out of the car?" he said, looking down upon her.
"I don't like the way that place looks," Hallie replied.
The man didn't say anything. He just stood beside the car, holding the door open. Hallie slowly looked up at him, before undoing her seatbelt, and sliding out of the car. He shut the door closed behind her, and slowly walked up the worn porch steps, Hallie close behind him. The man didn't force her, she just felt as if she should follow him.
Hallie looked inside as he opened the worn, wooden door and saw a small living room, all the furniture covered in dusty white drapes. The man put his hand on the back of her head and slowly pushed her inside of the dank little house. Hallie began to wonder why he was acting so nice to her.
"Please...can you tell me your name?"
The man glanced down at her as he closed the door, and Hallie thought she saw a glint of what looked like admiration flash across his eyes.
"Duo. My name's Duo. And you're Hallie."
"How...how do you know my name?"
Hallie was actually starting to feel a little comfortable with Duo as he sat on one of the old, worn sofas. She walked over, and sat on the same sofa also, but on the other side of it.
She didn't trust him just yet.
"I can't tell you that yet. All you need to know, is I'm not going to hurt you, alright?"
Hallie nodded quietly.
"Good."
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Sunlight poured into the small bedroom, falling across Hilde's face. She opened her eyes, and looked around quietly before resting on the mirror beside her bed. Her eyes were slightly red, and lines were visible under her eyes. She sat up slowly and swung her legs over the side of the bed. The smell of eggs cooking in the kitchen made her smile as she pulled on a robe.
"Quatre babies me way too much..." she muttered, opening her door and walking down the hallway.
Quatre stood in the kitchen, wearing a pink frilly apron. He was flipping eggs over in a frying pan, and humming a small tune as he worked. The scrape of Hilde's chair against the floor caused Quatre to turn around, causing him to miss the egg as he flipped it onto the air.
"Morning! I thought I'd make breakfast," he announced cheerfully, watching her worn face aprehensively.
She looked up at him and smiled as he slipped a plate of bacon, eggs, and sausage onto the table infront of her.
"Thanks. Nice apron."
"Err...I couldn't find anything else."
Hilde looked down to her plate of food, then to the empty chair beside her. She could almost see her daughter sitting there, laughing and chewing on her bacon. Quatre must have noticed this, because he set a steaming mug of coffee infront of her to divert her attention.
"Eat. You look terrible."
Hilde simply nodded and picked up her fork. Just as she was about to take the first bite of sausage, the sound of the living room phone reached her ears and she turned around.
"Don't get up, I'll get it," Quatre said, setting down his spatula, and walking through the doorway and into the living room. Hilde craned her neck to hear what the person on the vid-phone was saying.
"We think we know where Duo is hiding out," came Wufei's voice. "A pedestrian said he saw a man driving by in a black car who matched the description on TV. He also said he had a little girl with him in the passenger's seat."
"Right. Where do you think they are?" asked Quatre, looking back at Hilde's lit up face for a moment before turning back to the screen.
"They were last spotted driving down a dirt road somewhere in San Diego. We think you and Hilde had better come down to Headquarters, and we'll go out looking for them."
Hilde smiled widely and began to eat her breakfast as Quatre and Wufei said their goodbyes. Quatre came back into the kitchen, a smile on his face.
He didn't say anything.
He just smiled, and continued making breakfast.
*End Part 2*
The ending kinda sucks...@@
