Why do we keep going over this? Oh, well. As you know, I don't own anyone. Poor me. I'm sorry it's taking me so long to write this. I've been listening to Cartman sing "Kiss from a Rose," by Seal. It's pretty funny. I downloaded it from this website. Well, I'm going to get on with this story!
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Mina sat down for breakfast the next morning very sluggishly. She was still feeling kinda sick and her body hurt from her lungs down. She put her face in her hands and sighed.
"What's for breakfast," she asked whoever who was sitting at the bar with her.
"It's lunch time," said a masculian voice. "I don't know about you, but I'm having something quick."
Mina's head snapped up as she saw who was talking to her. She wasn't ready to face him just yet. Not after what had happened.
"Heero," Mina said after a long silence. "How have you been lately?"
"Hnn," he grunted. {Translated: "I've been alright. Uh,how have you been?"}
"Um," she said, thinking. "I guess I've been alright. I'm just feeling a little sick. But nothing really major. So, anything on OZ yet?"
"We've got to fight," Heero said, turning to leave.
"Great," MIna muttered, pulling some crackers towards her. "Now we have to fight....Man, I feel like I'm going to hurl...."
As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Mina threw up once more. Thankfully, since she was sitting beside the trashcan, which was by the bar, she didn't have to clean anything up. Rei and Lita came in at that moment.
"Mina," they both said. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," croaked Mina. "I'm fine."
"No, you're not," Lita said, putting a hand on Mina's forehead. "You're as pale as a sheet! What's wrong with you?"
"Well, I've just been feeling kinda sick lately. My knees and back are stiff and I can't stop throwing up," Mina said, wiping sweat off of her cheeks.
"Mina," Rei said in a grim whisper. "Those are symptoms of morning sickness. Are you.... Have you....?"
Mina didn't answer, but her silence said it all. Rei and Lita gasped. They couldn't believe it!
"Who," Rei asked.
"I can't say," Mina said.
"You can tell us,Mina," Lita assured. "We're your friends."
"But you guys aren't friends," Mina said weakly.
"That's our problem," Rei half shouted. "Now tell us who it is."
"Heero," Mina whispered.
Again, Lita and Rei gasped. This was unbelieveable. Mina then spilled her whole story. Lita felt that this was all her fault, and Rei, for once, thought that no one was to blame. Lita decided to go get Mina one of those pregancy tests and Rei would watch over Mina until Lita got back.
"I'm gonna have someone drive me," Lita called over her shoulder as she went to get her light jacket.
(Five minutes later at a drug store........)
For the fifth time in twenty seconds, Lita checked to see if Duo was looking her way. Thankfully, he was in the "Hair Care" isle. Lita grabbed a pregancy tests and, hiding it from Duo's prying eyes, strolled up to the counter. With a blush on her face from the way the cashier was looking at her, Lita paid for the test.
"Ready to go," Duo asked, coming up behind Lita suddenly. "What did ya buy?"
"Nothing," Lita squeaked, trying to manuver the bag behind her back without seeming suspicious.
"Okay, well, if you're done, I'm ready to go," he replied.
"Yeah, I'm done. Let's go home," Lita said, stuffing the bag into her jacket pocket.
(The library at Quatre's mansion...........................)
"We have a very important matter on our hands here," Duo said from his armchair behind the desk.
"What is it, Maxwell, that's so important that you have to interrupt my training session," asked an angry Wufei.
"I think that Lita is gonna have a baby," Duo said in a grim tone. Everyone looked at Trowa, who couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"What are you talking about," Trowa asked in disbelief.
"I saw Lita buying a pregancy test today when we went to the drug store," Duo said. "We all know that you two are going out and Lita doesn't seem like the type that would sleep around. So, it has to be your's."
"We aren't sleeping together," Trowa said.
"What about the night in the library," Duo questioned.
"We didn't....Nothing happened....I'm telling you the truth," Trowa protested.
"I could see Maxwell living in sin," Wufei said. "But you, Barton? I would have never guessed!"
"We are not sleeping together," Trowa shouted.
"What about what happened with you and Serena the other day, Duo," Heero asked suddenly.
"Wha--well, I---we--," Duo suttered.
"My point exactly," Wufei declaired.
"What about you and Ami," Duo countered.
"What about her," Wufei asked defensively.
"You spend like.....all day with her," Duo said, rising from his seat. "What are you two doing together?"
"Katana lessons," Wufei answered truthfully.
"Katana my eye," Duo snorted. "You two are 'living in sin', as you like to put it."
"Okay, you two," Quatre said. "We don't need to get violent about this. We'll just wait and see what happenes. The truth will come out in time."
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Carefully, Lita opened the huge window of the computer room. She looked down and gulped. Twelve stories high....... Thank goodness for ropes and circus life. If she hadn't been doing this for most of her life, she'd be scared to death of heights. Footsteps were running towards the door. The door busted open and in rushed Treeze Khushrenada, Lady Une, Czechs Merquise, and Lucrezia Noin. *I'm outnumbered. Hopefully, they're ready for me now,* Lita thought.
"Who are you," shouted Lady Une.
"Just an ordinary girl," Lita replied with a secretive smile.
"What do have in that bag," Noin shouted, pointing a gun at Lita.
"Just a few things that we need.....for drastic measures," Lita said with a chuckle.
"Who's 'we'," questioned Treeze calmly.
"Ah-ah," Lita said, shaking her finger, as if to a disobedioent child. "Don't want to give away our secrets, now do we, Mr.Khushrenada? You'll find out. All in due time."
Lita stepped onto the window ledge then turned to look back at the four who were still staring from the doorway. She patted the bag of supplies that was slung over her shoulder then smiled at her enemies once more.
"Hey," Noin said, stepping foward. "No need to get sucidial,ok?"
"See ya later," Lita said, winking at Treeze. Then she pushed off of the window ledge. At first, she fell backwards, then she got turned to where she was falling headfirst. As she reached a tree branch, she reached out and grabbed it. Her fall immedatly stopped.
From the shower of bullets that was raining down from the window she'd jumped out of, one hit her in the right shoulder and three hit her leg. Trying to ignore the searing pain that was now shooting through her body, Lita whistled. First a long high note then a sudden low note.
Right on cue, Mina's convertable car sped around the corner. Mina slammed on the breaks then sped off when Lita jumped in. Strangely, Mina said nothing about the blood that Lita was dripping on the floorboard.
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"Did you get the parts," Ami questioned quickly as Lita and Mina came in the door.
"Yeah, and three bullets in my leg and one in the arm for all of my trouble," Lita said, handing the bag over to Ami. "How long will it take you to get these done?"
"Well, the crescent moon bombs won't take long. In fact, if you'd like to go ahead and start on them, Lita, you can take the parts and start on them. But the explosives are a different matter. I'll be working on this for a few days," Ami related with a sigh.
"Okay, just give me my parts and I'll start on the CMB," Lita said. "Right after I dig the frickin bullets out of my leg"
Lita walked to her room and threw the bag with some of the stolen parts in it on her bed. She walked over to the corner with her medical bag and dug out a scapul, some tweezers, rubbing alcohol, cotton balls, and some sterile cloths.
"I'm going to hate myself for this in the morning," Lita sighed.
Closing her eyes, Lita poured the alcohol onto the bullet holes in her leg. It stung, but only a little. *I've done this countless times, but it still burns like heck,* Lita marveled. With practiced ease, Lita dug out the three bullets in her leg.
After she removed the bullet from her arm also, Lita turned to the task at hand. She opened her trunk that was at the foot of her bed and looked into it's shallow depths. *That's pretty obvious,* she thought as she pulled out the fake bottom. Carefully, she dumped out the little bombs.
Sorting through them quickly, she counted them. All 3,456,765,163,234,697,000 crescent moon shaped bombs, that were about the size of a dime, were right where they were supposed to be. Even thought they were small in size, they could set off an explosion that destoryed three or four planets at a time.
"What are you doing," asked a quiet voice from the corner.
"Just......going through the plans once more and checking on supplies," Lita replied, starting to seperate the explosives into five different bags.
"Sounds intresting," Trowa said, coming to sit on the edge of her bed. "Mind if I watch?"
"If you want to be bored out of your mind," Lita said, walking to her closet, "go right ahead."
Lita dragged a huge suitcase out of her closet. When she reached the middle of her room, she let go of the handle and wiped her forehead off with the back of her hand. She then kicked the suitcase, and as it flung open, Lita slightly flinched with pain, (*Stupid leg,* she thought.) and Trowa gave a chuckle.
"You should talk to Heero sometime," he said quietly. "You two could compare weapons."
Lita smiled at him, then bent to rummage in the suitcase. It was full of all kinds of weapons. From handguns to machine guns. From detination devices to clubs. There was even a small sword strapped to the bottom. She quickly loaded a few handguns and put them in their thigh-holsters, which she laid on her dresser. Beside that, she placed what looked like the padded hilt of a sword.
"What's that," Trowa asked, pointing at this object.
"Oh, this," Lita said, picking it up. She placed the fingers of her left hand on the grips and pressed the button there. What appeared from the hilt (where the blade would be located if this were a sword) was something that appeared to be the first half of a sickle, blade and all. Then, from the bottom, appeared the rest of the handle. All in all, the sickle was a few inches taller than Lita. "This is my weapon of choice. I'll need it when we break into the base. We're gonna run diverson for awhile so you guys can start the battle."
"Lita, I....," Trowa's voice trailed off. *How can I tell her this,* he asked himself mentally. *I feel so akward. I've never asked a girl this before........*
"Yes, Trowa," Lita asked sweetly.
"Hey, your sickle's glowing," he pointed out.
Lita gasped. She'd pressed the button on the handle that turns the blade into a laser instead of metal. Thankfully, Trowa had pointed this out. If he hadn't, Lita would have cut herself on it, since she was leaning against it. She pulled it away from her face, pressed the first button, and watched as it went back to looking like the hilt of a sword. Gently, she placed it back on the dresser.
"Now, what did you want to ask me," Lita questioned. She saw the blush creep up Trowa's neck and smiled gently.
"Nothing," he muttured.
"Can I ask you for a favor," Lita asked hopefully. Trowa looked up and nodded. "Thanks. I wanted to know if you'd sleep in here tonight. I tend to have nightmares before a battle. Will you do that for me please?"
Trowa gulped but then nodded. Lita smiled and went to change into her pajamas. Sitting on the edge of Lita's bed, Trowa was unsure of what to do. What was there to do?
"You look as if you're trying to figure out all of Earth's problems," Lita commented from the doorway of her bathroom. Trowa looked up. All she was wearing, that he could tell, was an old button-up shirt that was mid-thigh length and a pair of socks. She smiled and walk towards her small vanity. Calmly, she let down her hair and ran the bristles through her choclate-colored hair. Trowa's fingers itched to tangle in it. Then she stood and walked towards the bed. Trowa stood up so she could climb in.
Trowa watched as she climbed into her bed. She snuggled into the blankets and sighed. Slowly, he climbed in beside her, unsure of what to do now.
"Good night, Trowa," she said on a yawn. "Tomorrow is an important day and we'll need to be rested for it. Sweet dreams."
"Sweet dreams, love," he said.
She sighed again, tunred over to face him and snuggled against his chest. For one of the first times in his life, Trowa actually felt comfortable with his surroundings and at peace with the world. And for the very first time, he knew the full extent of how much love a man could feel for a woman.
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well, that's it. Wow, it seemed so much longer when I was typing it! ^_^; I'm sorry this took so long. You have my apologies. I still have to do a report for keyboarding. It's gotta be 2 pages long. How gay is that? Man, sometimes, I wish that you could get a good job without having to go to school. But I would have to go anyway. So, there would really be no point in not having to go to school. Okay, I've been rambling again......I'm sorry about that. Review, Loyal Readers. Later Days.
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Mina sat down for breakfast the next morning very sluggishly. She was still feeling kinda sick and her body hurt from her lungs down. She put her face in her hands and sighed.
"What's for breakfast," she asked whoever who was sitting at the bar with her.
"It's lunch time," said a masculian voice. "I don't know about you, but I'm having something quick."
Mina's head snapped up as she saw who was talking to her. She wasn't ready to face him just yet. Not after what had happened.
"Heero," Mina said after a long silence. "How have you been lately?"
"Hnn," he grunted. {Translated: "I've been alright. Uh,how have you been?"}
"Um," she said, thinking. "I guess I've been alright. I'm just feeling a little sick. But nothing really major. So, anything on OZ yet?"
"We've got to fight," Heero said, turning to leave.
"Great," MIna muttered, pulling some crackers towards her. "Now we have to fight....Man, I feel like I'm going to hurl...."
As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Mina threw up once more. Thankfully, since she was sitting beside the trashcan, which was by the bar, she didn't have to clean anything up. Rei and Lita came in at that moment.
"Mina," they both said. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," croaked Mina. "I'm fine."
"No, you're not," Lita said, putting a hand on Mina's forehead. "You're as pale as a sheet! What's wrong with you?"
"Well, I've just been feeling kinda sick lately. My knees and back are stiff and I can't stop throwing up," Mina said, wiping sweat off of her cheeks.
"Mina," Rei said in a grim whisper. "Those are symptoms of morning sickness. Are you.... Have you....?"
Mina didn't answer, but her silence said it all. Rei and Lita gasped. They couldn't believe it!
"Who," Rei asked.
"I can't say," Mina said.
"You can tell us,Mina," Lita assured. "We're your friends."
"But you guys aren't friends," Mina said weakly.
"That's our problem," Rei half shouted. "Now tell us who it is."
"Heero," Mina whispered.
Again, Lita and Rei gasped. This was unbelieveable. Mina then spilled her whole story. Lita felt that this was all her fault, and Rei, for once, thought that no one was to blame. Lita decided to go get Mina one of those pregancy tests and Rei would watch over Mina until Lita got back.
"I'm gonna have someone drive me," Lita called over her shoulder as she went to get her light jacket.
(Five minutes later at a drug store........)
For the fifth time in twenty seconds, Lita checked to see if Duo was looking her way. Thankfully, he was in the "Hair Care" isle. Lita grabbed a pregancy tests and, hiding it from Duo's prying eyes, strolled up to the counter. With a blush on her face from the way the cashier was looking at her, Lita paid for the test.
"Ready to go," Duo asked, coming up behind Lita suddenly. "What did ya buy?"
"Nothing," Lita squeaked, trying to manuver the bag behind her back without seeming suspicious.
"Okay, well, if you're done, I'm ready to go," he replied.
"Yeah, I'm done. Let's go home," Lita said, stuffing the bag into her jacket pocket.
(The library at Quatre's mansion...........................)
"We have a very important matter on our hands here," Duo said from his armchair behind the desk.
"What is it, Maxwell, that's so important that you have to interrupt my training session," asked an angry Wufei.
"I think that Lita is gonna have a baby," Duo said in a grim tone. Everyone looked at Trowa, who couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"What are you talking about," Trowa asked in disbelief.
"I saw Lita buying a pregancy test today when we went to the drug store," Duo said. "We all know that you two are going out and Lita doesn't seem like the type that would sleep around. So, it has to be your's."
"We aren't sleeping together," Trowa said.
"What about the night in the library," Duo questioned.
"We didn't....Nothing happened....I'm telling you the truth," Trowa protested.
"I could see Maxwell living in sin," Wufei said. "But you, Barton? I would have never guessed!"
"We are not sleeping together," Trowa shouted.
"What about what happened with you and Serena the other day, Duo," Heero asked suddenly.
"Wha--well, I---we--," Duo suttered.
"My point exactly," Wufei declaired.
"What about you and Ami," Duo countered.
"What about her," Wufei asked defensively.
"You spend like.....all day with her," Duo said, rising from his seat. "What are you two doing together?"
"Katana lessons," Wufei answered truthfully.
"Katana my eye," Duo snorted. "You two are 'living in sin', as you like to put it."
"Okay, you two," Quatre said. "We don't need to get violent about this. We'll just wait and see what happenes. The truth will come out in time."
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Carefully, Lita opened the huge window of the computer room. She looked down and gulped. Twelve stories high....... Thank goodness for ropes and circus life. If she hadn't been doing this for most of her life, she'd be scared to death of heights. Footsteps were running towards the door. The door busted open and in rushed Treeze Khushrenada, Lady Une, Czechs Merquise, and Lucrezia Noin. *I'm outnumbered. Hopefully, they're ready for me now,* Lita thought.
"Who are you," shouted Lady Une.
"Just an ordinary girl," Lita replied with a secretive smile.
"What do have in that bag," Noin shouted, pointing a gun at Lita.
"Just a few things that we need.....for drastic measures," Lita said with a chuckle.
"Who's 'we'," questioned Treeze calmly.
"Ah-ah," Lita said, shaking her finger, as if to a disobedioent child. "Don't want to give away our secrets, now do we, Mr.Khushrenada? You'll find out. All in due time."
Lita stepped onto the window ledge then turned to look back at the four who were still staring from the doorway. She patted the bag of supplies that was slung over her shoulder then smiled at her enemies once more.
"Hey," Noin said, stepping foward. "No need to get sucidial,ok?"
"See ya later," Lita said, winking at Treeze. Then she pushed off of the window ledge. At first, she fell backwards, then she got turned to where she was falling headfirst. As she reached a tree branch, she reached out and grabbed it. Her fall immedatly stopped.
From the shower of bullets that was raining down from the window she'd jumped out of, one hit her in the right shoulder and three hit her leg. Trying to ignore the searing pain that was now shooting through her body, Lita whistled. First a long high note then a sudden low note.
Right on cue, Mina's convertable car sped around the corner. Mina slammed on the breaks then sped off when Lita jumped in. Strangely, Mina said nothing about the blood that Lita was dripping on the floorboard.
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"Did you get the parts," Ami questioned quickly as Lita and Mina came in the door.
"Yeah, and three bullets in my leg and one in the arm for all of my trouble," Lita said, handing the bag over to Ami. "How long will it take you to get these done?"
"Well, the crescent moon bombs won't take long. In fact, if you'd like to go ahead and start on them, Lita, you can take the parts and start on them. But the explosives are a different matter. I'll be working on this for a few days," Ami related with a sigh.
"Okay, just give me my parts and I'll start on the CMB," Lita said. "Right after I dig the frickin bullets out of my leg"
Lita walked to her room and threw the bag with some of the stolen parts in it on her bed. She walked over to the corner with her medical bag and dug out a scapul, some tweezers, rubbing alcohol, cotton balls, and some sterile cloths.
"I'm going to hate myself for this in the morning," Lita sighed.
Closing her eyes, Lita poured the alcohol onto the bullet holes in her leg. It stung, but only a little. *I've done this countless times, but it still burns like heck,* Lita marveled. With practiced ease, Lita dug out the three bullets in her leg.
After she removed the bullet from her arm also, Lita turned to the task at hand. She opened her trunk that was at the foot of her bed and looked into it's shallow depths. *That's pretty obvious,* she thought as she pulled out the fake bottom. Carefully, she dumped out the little bombs.
Sorting through them quickly, she counted them. All 3,456,765,163,234,697,000 crescent moon shaped bombs, that were about the size of a dime, were right where they were supposed to be. Even thought they were small in size, they could set off an explosion that destoryed three or four planets at a time.
"What are you doing," asked a quiet voice from the corner.
"Just......going through the plans once more and checking on supplies," Lita replied, starting to seperate the explosives into five different bags.
"Sounds intresting," Trowa said, coming to sit on the edge of her bed. "Mind if I watch?"
"If you want to be bored out of your mind," Lita said, walking to her closet, "go right ahead."
Lita dragged a huge suitcase out of her closet. When she reached the middle of her room, she let go of the handle and wiped her forehead off with the back of her hand. She then kicked the suitcase, and as it flung open, Lita slightly flinched with pain, (*Stupid leg,* she thought.) and Trowa gave a chuckle.
"You should talk to Heero sometime," he said quietly. "You two could compare weapons."
Lita smiled at him, then bent to rummage in the suitcase. It was full of all kinds of weapons. From handguns to machine guns. From detination devices to clubs. There was even a small sword strapped to the bottom. She quickly loaded a few handguns and put them in their thigh-holsters, which she laid on her dresser. Beside that, she placed what looked like the padded hilt of a sword.
"What's that," Trowa asked, pointing at this object.
"Oh, this," Lita said, picking it up. She placed the fingers of her left hand on the grips and pressed the button there. What appeared from the hilt (where the blade would be located if this were a sword) was something that appeared to be the first half of a sickle, blade and all. Then, from the bottom, appeared the rest of the handle. All in all, the sickle was a few inches taller than Lita. "This is my weapon of choice. I'll need it when we break into the base. We're gonna run diverson for awhile so you guys can start the battle."
"Lita, I....," Trowa's voice trailed off. *How can I tell her this,* he asked himself mentally. *I feel so akward. I've never asked a girl this before........*
"Yes, Trowa," Lita asked sweetly.
"Hey, your sickle's glowing," he pointed out.
Lita gasped. She'd pressed the button on the handle that turns the blade into a laser instead of metal. Thankfully, Trowa had pointed this out. If he hadn't, Lita would have cut herself on it, since she was leaning against it. She pulled it away from her face, pressed the first button, and watched as it went back to looking like the hilt of a sword. Gently, she placed it back on the dresser.
"Now, what did you want to ask me," Lita questioned. She saw the blush creep up Trowa's neck and smiled gently.
"Nothing," he muttured.
"Can I ask you for a favor," Lita asked hopefully. Trowa looked up and nodded. "Thanks. I wanted to know if you'd sleep in here tonight. I tend to have nightmares before a battle. Will you do that for me please?"
Trowa gulped but then nodded. Lita smiled and went to change into her pajamas. Sitting on the edge of Lita's bed, Trowa was unsure of what to do. What was there to do?
"You look as if you're trying to figure out all of Earth's problems," Lita commented from the doorway of her bathroom. Trowa looked up. All she was wearing, that he could tell, was an old button-up shirt that was mid-thigh length and a pair of socks. She smiled and walk towards her small vanity. Calmly, she let down her hair and ran the bristles through her choclate-colored hair. Trowa's fingers itched to tangle in it. Then she stood and walked towards the bed. Trowa stood up so she could climb in.
Trowa watched as she climbed into her bed. She snuggled into the blankets and sighed. Slowly, he climbed in beside her, unsure of what to do now.
"Good night, Trowa," she said on a yawn. "Tomorrow is an important day and we'll need to be rested for it. Sweet dreams."
"Sweet dreams, love," he said.
She sighed again, tunred over to face him and snuggled against his chest. For one of the first times in his life, Trowa actually felt comfortable with his surroundings and at peace with the world. And for the very first time, he knew the full extent of how much love a man could feel for a woman.
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well, that's it. Wow, it seemed so much longer when I was typing it! ^_^; I'm sorry this took so long. You have my apologies. I still have to do a report for keyboarding. It's gotta be 2 pages long. How gay is that? Man, sometimes, I wish that you could get a good job without having to go to school. But I would have to go anyway. So, there would really be no point in not having to go to school. Okay, I've been rambling again......I'm sorry about that. Review, Loyal Readers. Later Days.