Author's Notes: Merian's A-L-I-V-E in this ficcie!! …ya heard? This is a little bit AU…just another What If…with a twist.
!! A whole lotta couples !! pretty much all non-yaoi/yuri…but I did add a couple of OC's that are homosexual (what can I say? One of my best guy-friends who happens to be gay and the nicest male on earth, happens to love G-Wing)
Relena, Hilde, Catherine, Dorothy, and Merian have all runaway for their own personal reasons. To try to get away from their past. The Gundam pilots. And all their pain. But it's not as easy as it seems; they knew it wouldn't be. And now things have gotten even more complicated—after three years of running, the girls find themselves reunited with the five Gundam pilots…and it's not pretty…
R/R!!!!! (although I honestly doubt I wont get any reviews for this one—it's not my best)
Disclaimer: I don't own anythingL—except for my own made-up characters…so don't sue!!!
On with the story!!
One Sweet Day
-Chapter One: The Runaway Angels & Their Stories-
!! Buzz Buzz !!
Relena groaned inwardly at the sound that always managed to jerk her awake from a divine dream.
Lazily, the blonde 20-year old reached over and smacked the snooze button, then snuggled into her bed, once more.
But something, or rather someone, wouldn't let her go back to sleep.
"C'mon Lena…get up, it's already 7 o'clock…" Relena heard her Chinese friend, Merian say, shaking her awake.
Reluctantly, Relena obliged to her friend's light command, sitting up on her bed, trying to rub the sleep out of her eyes.
Hilde groaned aloud, dragging herself out of bed, grumbling something like, "Morning's are such bitches."
Dorothy laughed bitterly at that, remarking, "Life is a bitch, my dear…all five of us know that all too well."
"Too true…" Merian agreed, quietly.
"But we have to deal with it…" Catherine said.
"Yeah, we know, and that's an even bigger bitch. Dealing with it…" Hilde repeated, as she began to help make the beds.
"Easier said than done," Relena murmured with a sigh.
"Hey…let's not get into our semi-depressions right now, okay? It's Friday remember? TGIF!! Whaddya want for breakfast?" Catherine exclaimed, trying to compress the tension in the air.
It worked.
Hilde's face brightened and she practically yelled, "Ooh! I want! I want!!" The young Spanish descendent dashed after Catherine, who was exiting their room, planning on to make breakfast. Merian trailed behind, but at a much slower pace than Hilde.
Dorothy didn't follow. The blonde, mischievous, vixen held her towel in one hand, and her clothes were laid out, already. "I'm going to take a shower, Lena…tell the others if they finish making breakfast before I end my shower, that they can start to eat without me."
Relena nodded. "I will…and please don't use up all the warm water, Dorothy."
Dorothy laughed. Last time she had done that, War World III almost broke out—Merian and Hilde were furious, and Catherine and Relena were dragged in when they tried to calm them down. Merian and Hilde had accused Relena and Catherine of "taking Dorothy's side" which nearly blew over to a huge fight amongst the five. All five them then realized soon afterward that they were acting like fools, fighting over something silly. In the end, they all reconciled and exchanged hugs.
"I won't, Rel," Dorothy promised, she too, exiting the room.
Relena sighed.
She looked around the room, and smiled reflectively.
This was their home.
For the past three years it was their home to every one of the girls.
They had so many memories in their beloved apartment and shared so many secrets between each other.
Relena was so grateful to meet have Hilde, Merian, Catherine, and Dorothy in her life—without them, she wouldn't have stayed sane for the past few years.
Their apartment was significantly larger than the others in the building, since the girls could afford it. But to five stubborn girls, it wasn't large enough.
It was a simple apartment; there was a large kitchen (for an apartment room, at least), living room, and small workroom off to the far side of their home, and one bathroom—which they often fought for.
The friends slept in the same room every night. Catherine and Dorothy slept in bunk beds, Hilde and Relena and slept together in a queen size bed, and Merian slept solitary in her separate twin-sized bed. (Hilde and Merian could never sleep in the same bed; for sure they'd kill each other for bed space and the covers.)
The apartment had only one master bedroom, and so all the girls were able to sleep together in that one room.
But they didn't really mind much, even if they annoyed the hell out of each other every so often. All five them were like sisters, like a big family—no one could deny that.
When they first started "working", The Council dubbed them with the given name, The Destined Angels (T.D.A for short, or more simply, just The Angels).
The Council was a highly confidential society that the girls worked for.
They were spies.
They didn't really know how it happened, though…
It just did.
They had received a message saying to arrive at a certain area at a particular date for "special meeting." Of course, the group of friends were skeptical at first, but their curiosity and adventurous sides got the better of them and they went.
They arrived right on time, and the next thing they knew, bullets were flying at them.
Dodging every one of them, the girls managed to jump the 5 guys who were shooting at them and demanded why the hell they were shooting at them.
It was a test.
They found this particular information out, minutes after they captured the assassins.
And they had passed.
Somehow, that was their initiation to work for The Council as some of the top best spies in the league.
When they found out, they were befuddled and confused, and they went home after the "Messengers" left. Life went by as usual, almost as if that night never happened, but then one not so special day, they got another anonymous letter giving them their first "mission." And that was the start of it.
That all happened two and a half years ago.
Relena sighed at the thought, thinking how the past three years seemed to be long ago.
It was three years ago that that they all left.
Three years.
Hilde abruptly left Duo and their small business without explanation. But the other Angels knew that it was because she was afraid.
Afraid to fall in love. And she felt guilty for not keeping her promise to her first love, who had died in battle during a battle for the sake of the ESUN. And her. She promised to Gary Dominguez that she'd never forget him…never…
Gary had just turned 17 when he was killed.
Hilde decided to join OZ a year afterwards, in memory of her Gary. She never thought she could ever fall in love again, not with Gary dead.
But she did.
She fell for the braided baka and she felt so ashamed. Not only did she fall in love with Duo Maxwell…but she had also made with him.
Guilt washed over Hilde, and two days later, she ran away.
Catherine, Relena, and Dorothy tried to assure countless number of times that she had nothing to be ashamed of, and that Gary, from what they've heard about him, wouldn't have wanted her to live her life all alone, without love.
Merian, on the other hand, wasn't as understanding. She, herself, died in battle, or was thought to have died, but had survived. She didn't know how, she just woke up in a field of flowers [A/N yea, I changed the fact she was buried], and was completely alone and confused.
And then she remembered the battle.
Wufei…She came to the assumption later on that she was probably in just deep coma during that time when everyone thought she was "dead." At first, Merian had no idea how long she was in coma, but she then came to conclusion that it was 2 months since her "death."
Merian decided to remain "dead" for some time, so not to bring any attention to her.
She was always the independent type. She trained for nearly more than 2 years by herself when she finally decided to reunite with her husband.
She found out that Wufei was one of the commanding officers in the Preventers HQ, when she got there, what she saw nearly destroyed her whole being.
Merian caught sight Wufei, no doubt about it, and he was working with Sally Po; [A/N sorry peeps, but I'm not a very big fan of dear old Sally] an old-looking bitch that kept on touching her Wufei, quite intimately. She was touching her damn husband!!
And Wufei didn't even push her away.
The Chinese beauty was, to say the least, shocked.
Angered.
And hurt.
Normally, she would've stalked over, not bothering to hide her rage, and demand the woman to fuck off, but then Merian remembered:
I'm supposed to be dead…
Merian had fought back tears and swiftly left the Preventers HQ, one distinct line from her wedding lingering in her mind: Till death do us part…
And in Wufei's mind, she was dead. Never to come back. To be gone forever.
So what was the point of coming back to life if he doesn't want me to come back to life? Merian had thought as she jumped into a car, the tears she forced down, finally dropping from her eyes.
That was the reason why she couldn't relate to Hilde in her situation…how could she with all the pain she felt towards her situation with Wufei? It was even more painful than if were to Wufei slowly killing her by his own hands.
Merian never thought she could feel such pain. She never thought there was such sorrow and hurt so unbearable.
Catherine ran away too, when Trowa had chosen Midii as his own.
She knew it was rather cowardly and selfish, but she just couldn't stand seeing their damn relationship unfold.
It had annoyed and hurt the hell out of her.
It was strange, during the past 2 years that she knew Trowa, Catherine had never really questioned her love for Trowa. She felt something whenever she was close to him and she assumed it was just a type of love for a brother—she reminded her so much of her Nick: young and quiet.
But then, Midii showed up, and Catherine watched as Trowa fell for the girl right before her eyes.
And she suddenly found herself in pain at the thought of Trowa never looking at her in that light. He only looked at Catherine as a friend, a sister. And Catherine, unpredictably, found that that just wasn't enough.
It was during those times, that Catherine finally realized she loved Trowa Barton.
And it was not just brotherly love. It was one of those, can't eat, can't sleep, can't live, over the hill. type-of-love. [A/N I doubt that's how the line goes, but it's 6:30 in da morning, don't feel like checking it]
So she left.
She packed up her things, and left a note to everyone saying she was off to follow her life-long dream to perform and become a huge star in Hollywood. She also added at the end, after signing her name, to keep the letter safe because her signature might be worth something in the future, for a humorous effect, so that they wouldn't suspect she left for other reasons.
She hoped that they didn't.
Especially Trowa.
Relena and Dorothy left together.
They were close friends then, and still to this day, they're close as ever. They had conversed numerous times of their sorrows and pains, and admitted they both thought of running away to pursue a more carefree life.
And one night, they decided to act upon those dreams.
It was a more of a last-minute thing. They had packed everything of importance to them, a few clothes, all their money, and the next hour, they were on a plane to England.
They too, had left a note. It simply said:
We've left. We doubt we shall ever come back, so don't bother waiting. Don't go looking for us.
~R&D
Both blondes knew they would try to search for them, but they had obtained a lot of the Gundam pilots' skills and learned how to make a new identity for themselves.
They were now known as Dora Corona and Rena Diamond to passerbyers and people that didn't know them as well as the other T.D.A.s did.
Ironically, it was in England that all five of them met.
In a quaint restaurant, they had met up with each other, unexpectedly, and they all soon learned their various connections to a particular Gundam pilot.
It was there that they had first exchanged stories in together.
It was there that they decided to stay in others' company.
And it was there that they became friends, and eventually a family.
Hilde, Catherine, and Merian, like Relena and Dorothy, also changed their names in due time.
Hilde changed her name to Hillary Schlitz.
Catherine was now called Katie Blossom.
And Merian was known as Mae Chung.
These five were The Destined Angels—average bitches by day, elusive spies by night.
Hilde always described herself and the T.D.A.s by that one line.
Aside from The Council, only one other person knew of their true identities.
Oscar (nickname: Ozzie) Wright.
He was a suave, smooth talking, and hot son-of-a-bitch, who always knew somehow, how cheered up the girls.
He too was a part-time worker for The Council. That's how the girls met him. He had led them to a separate room to meet their director, whom the girls called Sensei. Ozzie's other job was at this club called Insomnia—his older brothers owned it.
Ozzie was also the one who helped them find jobs. It was a difficult task for the girls because either the pay or work hours were unsuitable, or people often thought they were "suspicious looking" and there was no way in hell any of them would work in a whorehouse.
Insomnia was a place that was open during the day and night hours. So it was convenience for the girls, especially with their new job as spies. The cool thing about the club was that regardless if it was light out or not, inside it was always night.
There was an upper level that was somewhat of a lounge/waiting room, with a small bar. The lower level was a different story. Stairs on the first floor led to a large room, almost as big as a baseball field. It was always very dim in that room, for some celestial theme. There were only the occasional lights and of course, glow-in-the-dark glue stick and such that provided light. It had a very exciting air throughout the whole room.
It was called the Boom Box—many, including the girls, called the room. Because it always played loud, but good music, and there was lots and lots of dancing throughout the whole night/day.
Oh, and I forgot to mention…
Ozzie?
He was gay.
But the girls loved him to bits.
Merian, especially.
It could be seen that Ozzie and Merian had a definite bond. Merian 95% of the time avoided the male population whenever possible, but she never cared about it whenever it came to Ozzie. Ozzie could walk into the bathroom, with her naked in it, she wouldn't care.
Ozzie was like an older brother that none of the girls ever had.
One thing about Ozzie that probably made all five of the girls admire him so, was his knowledge of a lot of things.
Most would've never thought Ozzie was very "deep" person, but he had an incredible insightful side to him.
He once told the T.D.A.s, "The Council may call you The Destined Angels, but to me, you five are better off called The Runaway Angels."
A/N yeah, I know I changed Hilde's nationality—but I dunno…Hilde just strikes me as someone that came from Spain. She reminds me of a gypsy…but how I'd explain her last name? (which is obviously German) She's ¼ German—her mom from Spain, and her dad part German and part Spanish, making her ¾ Spanish and ¼ German. Simple, no? ^^
Catherine and Trowa are not brother and sister in this thing…but she does have a brother—it's not Trowa, though. The brother will be introduced in later chapters, I promise you.
I'm SORRY!! I know this is a pretty crappy chapter, but the following chapters will be better…R/R!!!!!!!
