Disclaimer: you'd think after so many times of writing these stupid things that you wouldn't have to write them. Anyway I do not own Gundam Wing or anything else copyrighted in this story. So please no suing.
Note: words in italics are meant for emphasis between ''and italics are thoughts.
This is the sequel to "Losing Sight Of My mind." I strongly urge you to read that story first before you read this one or you may be confused this is after all a sequel and you have to know the previous events or you may be able to pick it up from here on in, it depends on how you look at it.
Thank you Ley, Dana, Cruel Destiny, lil' Dreamer and last but never least Jupiter's Light. Thanks so much for reviewing. ^_^
Chapter 4- Some say it's a gift
By Aku Tenshi
April sighed as she leaned back onto the overstuffed pillow; and she turned her head to look out the window at the early morning sun. She had just returned from using the bathroom unassisted, which was odd considering just four days ago she had been in an automobile accident. Her arm felt a hundred times better, but she did not feel any better. Some may call her abilities a gift, but she called them a curse. Because of these abilities she was now under great suspicion of her doctor, and her nurse. Something told April that there was something wrong with the female nurse who was assigned to her, for one she didn't stand like a nurse or even look like one. 'I just know that there's something off with her, but I just can't figure what it is. She seems nice, all smiles but it's just something about her eyes, they're empty like she no longer has a soul. Maybe she's…' The door opened and April stopped her thoughts short, and in came the nurse in question; her graying brown hair was placed in a neat and tight ponytail, her brown eyes, dull and empty as if she were pondering something distant, and she wore her mandatory white nurses outfit. She looked to April and smiled, a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes.
"Oh and how are you to day?" she asked cheerfully as she recorded down April's stats.
April replied with the same curtsey, "Oh I am fine, and you?"
"Ah yes I am good, so what mischief have you been up to?" The nurse asked and looked at her bleached white sneakers and sighed as she saw a small almost undistinguishable scuffmark. She licked her thumb and bent over to rub the small unnoticeable spot from her shoes to make them once again perfect.
"Oh nothing much," April replied as she picked up a glass of water and downed the glass, all the while watching the nurse out of the corner of her eyes.
"I do suppose that you'll be needing your rest. Goodbye April and have a nice day." The nurse said and walked out of the room.
April scrutinized her walk, it was proud, determined and meaningful, the same type of walk April had seen from Heero although his was a bit more relaxed. 'a spy' she finished her previous thought, she reached over to the phone and called Hitomi.
Sally strode out of the office labeled Dr. Edmore, tired but victorious. He'd argued with her over April the whole night and now it was past dawn. She sighed and shook her head as she strode out of the hallway and up the stairs to see if Lucretzia was there. Meanwhile Dr. Edmore was analyzing his latest visitor and her request, it was a simple request really and it shouldn't have mattered it happened all the time in hospitals. But he was disturbed by it, since this particular patient was showing abnormalities such as rapid healing and he wanted the find to be his. He smirked to himself at his ingenuity, Dr. Chang had come in demanding all of Aprils records, and so he had given them to her of course, but what she didn't know was that he had a photocopy of each of the papers and so he had just as much information on her as Dr. Chang. He slid open his desk drawer and took out the shuffle of papers and reviewed over her blood analysis. Oh his patient was special, he just didn't know how much so.
Lucretzia sat in the bustling cafeteria and picked at her food, she wasn't hungry, not really. In fact she felt like curling up in a corner somewhere and go to sleep, to forget about her world, it was then she remembered that she hadn't taken her pills for four days. She frowned and dragged her fork over the yellow and unnatural looking eggs that sat on her plate. The eggs weren't just a yellow as they should be they were unnaturally so, almost a neon yellow, and they didn't smell natural either. She sighed and picked up her tray and stood, she dumped the synthetic looking food into the trash and walked out of the cafeteria only to bump into Milliardo.
"Oh…Milliardo, I didn't watch where I was going I'm sorry." She apologized.
Milliardo chuckled softly, "No need to apologize I wasn't watching where I was going either, I think we're both clumsy." He replied a grin smacked onto his features.
"Right, why are you here?" she asked blatantly, and crossed her arms.
"I think this is a better conversation, in private." He said and led her out to the courtyard.
"So why so secretive?" she asked an eyebrow quirked.
"I should ask the same of you, but really I wanted to talk about us." Milliard said his voice dropping a level.
"Us?" Lucretzia asked and laughed incredulously.
Milliardo frowned at her reply and shook his head, "I deserved that I suppose." He replied.
"You deserve a lot more than just being ridiculed Milliardo." She added curtly as her eyes narrowed at the small pathway they were now walking on.
"I deserved that too," he stated and stopped. "But honestly Lucretzia I do love you, you do know that don't you?" he asked and placed a hand on her shoulder.
Lucretzia shrugged his hand off her shoulder, "You sure showed that when you kicked me out of your house." She muttered bitterly and quickened her pace as the tears threatened to fall. She didn't want to cry here, in front of these strangers, and especially in front of him.
She heard him jog after her and match her pace, "Lucretzia, listen to me I'm sorry." He apologized.
She stopped and turned to look at him "You're sorry?!" she demanded hysterically "Oh you're sorry, I'm so lucky the great Milliardo has apologized to me. I must be special because he apologized to me after 30 years wow! I mean I had to go through hell and then he apologizes, damn that was the least I could do I mean he didn't believe me, didn't trust me and now he apologizes." Noin said sarcasm dripping from her every word. "Milliardo, sorry doesn't do a thing." She muttered harshly and stormed away, leaving Milliardo staring after her, his eyes holding so much pain and regret.
A figure sat alone in the darkness, his fingers repeatedly tapping on the oak wooden table before him. He contemplated over the task at hand; needless to say it was no simple task, not at all. By standing he caused his chair to squeak back a few inches, he clasped his hands behind his back and paced. His task was no simple feat; capturing an ex-soldier was never simple of course, and this one was even more dangerous. The chamber door opened and light spilt into the room, yet somehow his face remained shadowed, all except for his gleaming cat yellow eyes.
Hitomi peeked her head in the hospital room and smiled at her newfound friend.
"Hey April, whatcha been up to?" Hitomi asked her head cocked to the side.
April smiled back at Hitomi, "Oh nothing much, just laying here, wasting my brain away." She said and motioned with the remote in her had to the TV propped up close to the ceiling.
"Ah the invention of the television, so comforting," she mused out loud "You're watching a soap opera, so which character is in acme this week?" Hitomi asked playfully.
"I think they all are," April said with a nod of her head "nothing's happening."
"That's how all soap opera's are." A male voice said from the doorway.
April tensed and turned quickly to see whom the intruder was, a tall boy with brown hair and the most violet eyes April had ever seen. But she was wary of him and to prove her point she narrowed her eyes dangerously at him, when Hitomi lightly touched her shoulder she turned to her.
"This is Tristin remember I told you about him." Hitomi said and smiled.
April truly felt stupid now she sighed, " Honestly sometimes I am so forgetful," she said and stuck out her hand to Tristin. "Hi I'm April."
Tristin gladly accepted the gesture "I'm Tristin Maxwell nice to meet ya, my girlfriend here can't stop talking about you. But it is true you two look so alike that you could be sisters." Tristin replied.
April looked at Hitomi as she released Tristin's hand and shrugged, "I don't think that we look that much alike…do we?" April asked.
Hitomi in turn shrugged, "I think we do, except that my eyes are brown and yours are amber, I mean other than that then we look identical." Hitomi answered.
"Yeah, but I'll always know Hitomi; like she has this little birthmark––" He couldn't say anymore before Hitomi had her hand clamped tight over his mouth.
"You know, you act way too much like your father." She muttered.
Although his mouth was covered April could tell that he was smiling, it was in his eyes. Hitomi released her hold on her boyfriend and smiled. When there was a knock on the doorframe.
"Has anyone ever heard of closing the door?" April asked a tad bit annoyed, she wanted to talk with Hitomi and Tristin. She sighed and looked to the door, and there stood a woman with wheat blonde hair, pulled up into a high ponytail and her aqua eyes were lethargic.
"Mom," Hitomi said in surprise "What are you doing here?"
"Hn," The woman mumbled and made her way over to April, she nodded with a grin "I'm Doctor Sally Chang and you are now under my care." She said, answering April's questioning stare.
"but…recovery isn't your field mom." Hitomi mentioned.
"This was a special request by Lu, April…you are going to be moved to, a friend's house." Sally said as April's nurse walked back into the room carting in a wheelchair, to say the least she looked peeved.
"thank you." Sally said and turned back to April.
April saw the look that the nurse shot to Sally's back, if looks could kill Sally may not have been standing there. And with a huff and a rustle of her white uniform the nurse was gone. April turned her attention back to Sally and tried to pay attention to the words she was saying but that look the nurse gave Sally just kept tugging at her.
"April…we're going to move you now." Sally said.
It was that phrase that snapped April's mind back to the present and she nodded "I can move myself." She said
The three looked at her skeptically, "Bur April, that's just impossible." Sally stated.
April smirked, she was going to prove this doctor wrong, and she was going to enjoy it. "Close the door." April said and her amber eyes danced with mischief.
Tristin shrugged and moved to close the door. The hospital door closed with a whisper and he resumed his position next to Hitomi, while Sally began to move the chair closer to the bed.
"No, don't move the chair, I'll do it myself." April said and a determined look entered her eyes.
Sally stopped and looked at her cynically and released the chair. Grinning like a Cheshire cat April swung her legs over the side of the bed and stood.
TBC
Sorry for the tardiness of this chapter, I just couldn't find a way to continue it and then BAM! It hit me at 3am in the morning. ^_^ Though I had to wait two hours to write it down, and then I went to school (of course) and came back and read over it. Yeah aren't the ideas that hit you in the middle of the night the greatest?
