Chapter 23: Lets get together
Hey!! Hope you liked my last chapter. Well, this one is going to be a bit funnier. Well, read and weep! (So to speak, I don't really want anyone to cry over this.)
Trowa P.O.V.
"Thank you very much, Quatre. I really appreciate this." Trowa said quietly, as the plane started up its engine over in the hanger.
"Really, its nothing. You need a ride up to the colonies, and I am happy to help." Quatre smiled at him.
Trowa smiled faintly back, mind suddenly drifting to Laytha. (I must admit, she did take this very well.) He remembered she had not shed a single tear, although, Laytha did ask him several times if he would reconsider staying on the Earth for a few more days until she and the Scouts left. Trowa sighed inwardly, remembering his firm 'no's.
Tossing a final wave over his shoulder at Quatre, Trowa walked toward the now prepared plane. Trowa had insisted everyone who wasn't needed for security check stay behind. It was easier that way.
Half an hour later, Trowa was staring silently out the jet's windows at the Earth. Laytha's colony wasn't too far away. (No, not Laytha, Katherine. Katherine's colony.) Another half hour later, Trowa was on the loading dock watching Quatre's jet fly off. Trowa sighed again. (Why do I feel sad? I am going to see Katherine again.) But the feeling did not diminish.
Catching a taxi, he was soon outside the circus tent he knew so well. There was no line, so there wouldn't be a show. Katherine would be in the back. Making his way to the back, Trowa waved off the guard whose eyes seemed to accuse Trowa, though the guard knew him well.
Katherine was just where Trowa knew she would be, in the back, caring for the animals. Trowa stood behind her for a time, before she turned and nearly jumped back into the lions' cage. Katherine stared for a few minutes before she finally broke into a smile. "It's really you!" She leapt up and embraced him. Suddenly, as if catching herself, she stepped down and looked away. But she could not stop for long.
"Trowa where have you been? When you disappeared, we though you had run away or something! Where did you go?"
Trowa smiled his usual distant smile. "I was...in the country. I needed a break and found this nice little place and stayed for a while. I would have called, but...they didn't like people using the phones. Too much noise."
Katherine took his hand. "Oh, father will be so happy to see you! Wait... is something wrong?"
Trowa looked at her. (She is Laytha. It can't be real. Why do I feel so strange? They look the exact same, but I don't feel the same around Katherine. What happened?)
"Hello? Katherine to Trowa... Come in... Are you okay?" Katherine dropped his hand. "No you aren't. Hmmm. I guess I was right. You met someone, didn't you?" She looked away and smiled. "Don't even bother lying." She looked up into his speechless face and seemed to brighten instantly. "Oh, tell me what she's like! She had better be pretty, because I can't have you marrying someone who looks like a cow." She laughed.
"She...how...she looks just like you." Trowa said as he was slowly led off, as though he were a child and Katherine were his mother taking him to his room for naptime. "Exactly like you."
Katherine stopped. "No one is exactly the same, Trowa. Even people who look identical can be completely different." She sighed. "I can tell the way you look at me that you are already thinking of all the differences."
(Come to think of it, Laytha did have hair a bit longer than Katherine, and her eyes did have something hard in them, not like Katherine. Her eyes are quiet and soft. Why didn't I see this before?) Trowa stopped.
"What are you doing back here?" Katherine whispered.
"I don't know..."
"Go to her. Tell her you love her."
"I love her..." Trowa said slowly and looked over at Katherine. "How could you know?"
Katherine smiled sarcastically. "I'm a woman. Call it woman's intuition."
An hour later, Trowa found himself getting off an express flight back to Earth. Through the people, he saw the others. Laytha was with them. He held himself from running towards them. But just a few feet from them, he felt himself reach out for Laytha and the universe stopped as their lips met. He held her shoulders as though she would tear away from him, though she did no such thing. If anything, she responded by pulling closer. Shocks pulsed around him and for a moment, for that one moment, everything seemed perfect in the world. Absolutely perfect.
Time resumed finally when they pulled away, needing to breathe. Laytha reached up and brushed the hair out of his face, but it fell back into place and she smiled. "I...I..." Trowa felt his voice shaking with the words.
Laytha leaned forward and kissed him softly. "You don't need to say it."
"I was totally wondering when you two were going to get together." Venus laughed.
Everyone looked over at her and saw a few people getting off the plane staring. After a few glares from Heero, they left. Quickly.
"You could tell?" Laytha asked quietly.
Venus laughed. "Well, duh. I am the Goddess of Love after all." Even Heero smiled at that. "Don't you even smile, Heero. Don't think I can't tell."
"What are you talking about?" Heero frowned, but his unstable lie was even caught by Quatre.
"So, even the Perfect Soldier can fall in love." He smiled and glanced at Jupiter.
Jupiter smiled back and looked at the slightly uncomfortable boy next to her. "Well, you gonna kiss me or what?"
Heero looked at the floor and issued a small sound. "Hn."
Without another word, Jupiter and dropped a firm kiss over Heero's lips. The boy was too shocked to even blink. "It's rude to stare." Jupiter said when they separated with a slight suction sound.
"If we are done now?" Wufei said loudly, with slight irritation.
"Sometime today?" Zechs seconded.
"Just had to spoil it..." Mercury murmured as they loaded onto the, once again, very empty bus.
Quatre looked at her, surprised. "You like that romantic stuff? I would have thought you were more realistic." He smiled.
"For your information, I have read a few romance novels. Love is a powerful thing, and a lovely one at that." Mercury smiled back and looked out the window.
After everyone got home, the air brimmed with anticipation. After all, neither Mars and Wufei, nor Mercury and Quatre, nor even Pluto and Zechs had kissed yet. While both Mars and Wufei insisted stubbornly that they were not that close, Venus dropped not so subtle hints that she felt a chain between them. But Mercury and Quatre simply looked away and mumbled. There was a chain there too. Pluto and Zechs refused to comment on the matter.
The next few days happened without event, except for the attempts of some, mainly Venus and Duo to keep Mars and Wufei alone together. No one yet knew that they already spent several hours together almost every night, simply sitting and staring into a fire.
Mercury and Quatre, on the other hand, were doing the exact opposite. Both seemed to be afraid to be caught together. They would occasionally read together in the library, but whenever left alone, one would realize everyone was gone and run off. This, however, was only a front, as Jupiter and Heero found out one day.
Once again, Mercury and Quatre had been left alone in the library. But strangely, they did not part this time and when Jupiter pulled Heero back with her to see why they didn't come out; they were a bit more than surprised to see the pair locked together behind the fiction bookcase.
Jupiter sputtered a laugh, and Mercury jumped away. "Um, you are, um... Hi Jupiter."
Jupiter laughed. "This is so cute! I guess even the Ice Goddess can't resist the call of love..."
"I guess not..." Mercury blushed and looked at Quatre. He smiled gently and squeezed her hand.
"Let's leave them alone." Heero said, pulling Jupiter towards the door.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do..." Jupiter said as the door closed.
"Is there anything you wouldn't do?" Heero asked once they were outside.
"Probably not." Jupiter smiled slyly as she pulled closer to him.
Heero, Jupiter, Mercury and Quatre were missing for the rest of the day. But their absence didn't fool Venus.
"One down, two to go." She whispered to Duo that evening.
"Two to go?" Duo whispered back through a mouthful of the pear he was eating at the time.
"Yep. There's Mars and Wufei..."
Duo swallowed. "Yeah, I know about them, but who are the other two?"
Venus smiled and looked over at him. "Pluto and Zechs."
"There's a chain between them too?"
"Definitely. Now-" Venus was interrupted by swift tap on the shoulder. She looked up. Pluto stood above her. Zechs was beside her, with the same smug smile and Pluto.
"You don't need to worry about us, Venus."
Venus smiled widely. "You kissed didn't you?"
Pluto crossed her arms, but retained her smug smirk. "I really don't think that's any of your business."
"Whatever you say..." Duo said as her turned back around and took another bite of his pear.
"And by the way..." Pluto continued.
Venus whipped around. "Is it about Mars?"
Pluto smiled knowingly. "Try following her tonight. You'll see." With that, she walked off, Zechs's arm around her shoulders and her around his waist.
"What happens tonight?" Venus wondered aloud.
"We'll have to see." Duo said in between bites of the pear.
Later that night, Venus followed Pluto's advice and kept her door open, waiting for Mars. Sure enough, Mars and Wufei came up the stairs together, as always, but this time, looked up and down the hall before both entered Wufei's room. Together.
"Whoa, I would have never guessed it..." Duo murmured.
"Come on; let's see how they're doing..." Venus whispered as she crept out into the empty hallway.
"But, that's spying!" Duo hissed as loud as he dared. "Isn't this supposed to be their private time?"
Venus looked back at him. "Please, you know very well they probably aren't even doing anything..." As they peeked under the door, Venus grinned at Duo. "Told you so..." She whispered, her voice barely audible. "Listen..."
Two voices drifted to their ears. "Just never mind Venus. She's gets like that sometimes."
"She makes me feel...uncomfortable, talking about how there is a chain between us, and how we should..." Wufei looked away, but did not take his hand from Mars's waist.
"Just ignore her. She's trying to give you ideas."
"Maybe she already has..." Wufei's blush was visible even in the low firelight.
Mars leaned closer to him. "You are so handsome when you blush like that." She sighed and put her hand on his as it pulled further around her waist. A faint scent drifted through the room. Mars smiled. "I think we're not alone."
Wufei stiffened. "We're not?"
Mars lowered her voice and leaned up to his ear. "It's just Venus, she's pushing her power into the room, just play it cool."
Wufei nodded slightly. "Is that what that is?"
"Yeah."
Wufei stared at nothing. He could feel what Mars called 'Venus's power' around him, but suddenly, Mars felt so close and even warmer than the fire.
Mars grabbed his ankle. "You're letting it get to you..." She looked up at him and smirked. "I guess I'm not anyone to talk; I think it's getting to me too." A small line of fire suddenly rimmed the door and short shriek emitted from the other side. "That should take care of prying eyes, for the moment."
So, how was that? Did you like the love? I know it's a little short, but I think a mini-writer's block is starting to creep up on me. It took me TWO DAYS to write this! It normally only takes me a few hours to get one into the computer! I think I'm losing my touch... Anyway, it may be a few days before I get another one out, but I'll try again tomorrow. Review me and tell me how you like my stuff!
Hey!! Hope you liked my last chapter. Well, this one is going to be a bit funnier. Well, read and weep! (So to speak, I don't really want anyone to cry over this.)
Trowa P.O.V.
"Thank you very much, Quatre. I really appreciate this." Trowa said quietly, as the plane started up its engine over in the hanger.
"Really, its nothing. You need a ride up to the colonies, and I am happy to help." Quatre smiled at him.
Trowa smiled faintly back, mind suddenly drifting to Laytha. (I must admit, she did take this very well.) He remembered she had not shed a single tear, although, Laytha did ask him several times if he would reconsider staying on the Earth for a few more days until she and the Scouts left. Trowa sighed inwardly, remembering his firm 'no's.
Tossing a final wave over his shoulder at Quatre, Trowa walked toward the now prepared plane. Trowa had insisted everyone who wasn't needed for security check stay behind. It was easier that way.
Half an hour later, Trowa was staring silently out the jet's windows at the Earth. Laytha's colony wasn't too far away. (No, not Laytha, Katherine. Katherine's colony.) Another half hour later, Trowa was on the loading dock watching Quatre's jet fly off. Trowa sighed again. (Why do I feel sad? I am going to see Katherine again.) But the feeling did not diminish.
Catching a taxi, he was soon outside the circus tent he knew so well. There was no line, so there wouldn't be a show. Katherine would be in the back. Making his way to the back, Trowa waved off the guard whose eyes seemed to accuse Trowa, though the guard knew him well.
Katherine was just where Trowa knew she would be, in the back, caring for the animals. Trowa stood behind her for a time, before she turned and nearly jumped back into the lions' cage. Katherine stared for a few minutes before she finally broke into a smile. "It's really you!" She leapt up and embraced him. Suddenly, as if catching herself, she stepped down and looked away. But she could not stop for long.
"Trowa where have you been? When you disappeared, we though you had run away or something! Where did you go?"
Trowa smiled his usual distant smile. "I was...in the country. I needed a break and found this nice little place and stayed for a while. I would have called, but...they didn't like people using the phones. Too much noise."
Katherine took his hand. "Oh, father will be so happy to see you! Wait... is something wrong?"
Trowa looked at her. (She is Laytha. It can't be real. Why do I feel so strange? They look the exact same, but I don't feel the same around Katherine. What happened?)
"Hello? Katherine to Trowa... Come in... Are you okay?" Katherine dropped his hand. "No you aren't. Hmmm. I guess I was right. You met someone, didn't you?" She looked away and smiled. "Don't even bother lying." She looked up into his speechless face and seemed to brighten instantly. "Oh, tell me what she's like! She had better be pretty, because I can't have you marrying someone who looks like a cow." She laughed.
"She...how...she looks just like you." Trowa said as he was slowly led off, as though he were a child and Katherine were his mother taking him to his room for naptime. "Exactly like you."
Katherine stopped. "No one is exactly the same, Trowa. Even people who look identical can be completely different." She sighed. "I can tell the way you look at me that you are already thinking of all the differences."
(Come to think of it, Laytha did have hair a bit longer than Katherine, and her eyes did have something hard in them, not like Katherine. Her eyes are quiet and soft. Why didn't I see this before?) Trowa stopped.
"What are you doing back here?" Katherine whispered.
"I don't know..."
"Go to her. Tell her you love her."
"I love her..." Trowa said slowly and looked over at Katherine. "How could you know?"
Katherine smiled sarcastically. "I'm a woman. Call it woman's intuition."
An hour later, Trowa found himself getting off an express flight back to Earth. Through the people, he saw the others. Laytha was with them. He held himself from running towards them. But just a few feet from them, he felt himself reach out for Laytha and the universe stopped as their lips met. He held her shoulders as though she would tear away from him, though she did no such thing. If anything, she responded by pulling closer. Shocks pulsed around him and for a moment, for that one moment, everything seemed perfect in the world. Absolutely perfect.
Time resumed finally when they pulled away, needing to breathe. Laytha reached up and brushed the hair out of his face, but it fell back into place and she smiled. "I...I..." Trowa felt his voice shaking with the words.
Laytha leaned forward and kissed him softly. "You don't need to say it."
"I was totally wondering when you two were going to get together." Venus laughed.
Everyone looked over at her and saw a few people getting off the plane staring. After a few glares from Heero, they left. Quickly.
"You could tell?" Laytha asked quietly.
Venus laughed. "Well, duh. I am the Goddess of Love after all." Even Heero smiled at that. "Don't you even smile, Heero. Don't think I can't tell."
"What are you talking about?" Heero frowned, but his unstable lie was even caught by Quatre.
"So, even the Perfect Soldier can fall in love." He smiled and glanced at Jupiter.
Jupiter smiled back and looked at the slightly uncomfortable boy next to her. "Well, you gonna kiss me or what?"
Heero looked at the floor and issued a small sound. "Hn."
Without another word, Jupiter and dropped a firm kiss over Heero's lips. The boy was too shocked to even blink. "It's rude to stare." Jupiter said when they separated with a slight suction sound.
"If we are done now?" Wufei said loudly, with slight irritation.
"Sometime today?" Zechs seconded.
"Just had to spoil it..." Mercury murmured as they loaded onto the, once again, very empty bus.
Quatre looked at her, surprised. "You like that romantic stuff? I would have thought you were more realistic." He smiled.
"For your information, I have read a few romance novels. Love is a powerful thing, and a lovely one at that." Mercury smiled back and looked out the window.
After everyone got home, the air brimmed with anticipation. After all, neither Mars and Wufei, nor Mercury and Quatre, nor even Pluto and Zechs had kissed yet. While both Mars and Wufei insisted stubbornly that they were not that close, Venus dropped not so subtle hints that she felt a chain between them. But Mercury and Quatre simply looked away and mumbled. There was a chain there too. Pluto and Zechs refused to comment on the matter.
The next few days happened without event, except for the attempts of some, mainly Venus and Duo to keep Mars and Wufei alone together. No one yet knew that they already spent several hours together almost every night, simply sitting and staring into a fire.
Mercury and Quatre, on the other hand, were doing the exact opposite. Both seemed to be afraid to be caught together. They would occasionally read together in the library, but whenever left alone, one would realize everyone was gone and run off. This, however, was only a front, as Jupiter and Heero found out one day.
Once again, Mercury and Quatre had been left alone in the library. But strangely, they did not part this time and when Jupiter pulled Heero back with her to see why they didn't come out; they were a bit more than surprised to see the pair locked together behind the fiction bookcase.
Jupiter sputtered a laugh, and Mercury jumped away. "Um, you are, um... Hi Jupiter."
Jupiter laughed. "This is so cute! I guess even the Ice Goddess can't resist the call of love..."
"I guess not..." Mercury blushed and looked at Quatre. He smiled gently and squeezed her hand.
"Let's leave them alone." Heero said, pulling Jupiter towards the door.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do..." Jupiter said as the door closed.
"Is there anything you wouldn't do?" Heero asked once they were outside.
"Probably not." Jupiter smiled slyly as she pulled closer to him.
Heero, Jupiter, Mercury and Quatre were missing for the rest of the day. But their absence didn't fool Venus.
"One down, two to go." She whispered to Duo that evening.
"Two to go?" Duo whispered back through a mouthful of the pear he was eating at the time.
"Yep. There's Mars and Wufei..."
Duo swallowed. "Yeah, I know about them, but who are the other two?"
Venus smiled and looked over at him. "Pluto and Zechs."
"There's a chain between them too?"
"Definitely. Now-" Venus was interrupted by swift tap on the shoulder. She looked up. Pluto stood above her. Zechs was beside her, with the same smug smile and Pluto.
"You don't need to worry about us, Venus."
Venus smiled widely. "You kissed didn't you?"
Pluto crossed her arms, but retained her smug smirk. "I really don't think that's any of your business."
"Whatever you say..." Duo said as her turned back around and took another bite of his pear.
"And by the way..." Pluto continued.
Venus whipped around. "Is it about Mars?"
Pluto smiled knowingly. "Try following her tonight. You'll see." With that, she walked off, Zechs's arm around her shoulders and her around his waist.
"What happens tonight?" Venus wondered aloud.
"We'll have to see." Duo said in between bites of the pear.
Later that night, Venus followed Pluto's advice and kept her door open, waiting for Mars. Sure enough, Mars and Wufei came up the stairs together, as always, but this time, looked up and down the hall before both entered Wufei's room. Together.
"Whoa, I would have never guessed it..." Duo murmured.
"Come on; let's see how they're doing..." Venus whispered as she crept out into the empty hallway.
"But, that's spying!" Duo hissed as loud as he dared. "Isn't this supposed to be their private time?"
Venus looked back at him. "Please, you know very well they probably aren't even doing anything..." As they peeked under the door, Venus grinned at Duo. "Told you so..." She whispered, her voice barely audible. "Listen..."
Two voices drifted to their ears. "Just never mind Venus. She's gets like that sometimes."
"She makes me feel...uncomfortable, talking about how there is a chain between us, and how we should..." Wufei looked away, but did not take his hand from Mars's waist.
"Just ignore her. She's trying to give you ideas."
"Maybe she already has..." Wufei's blush was visible even in the low firelight.
Mars leaned closer to him. "You are so handsome when you blush like that." She sighed and put her hand on his as it pulled further around her waist. A faint scent drifted through the room. Mars smiled. "I think we're not alone."
Wufei stiffened. "We're not?"
Mars lowered her voice and leaned up to his ear. "It's just Venus, she's pushing her power into the room, just play it cool."
Wufei nodded slightly. "Is that what that is?"
"Yeah."
Wufei stared at nothing. He could feel what Mars called 'Venus's power' around him, but suddenly, Mars felt so close and even warmer than the fire.
Mars grabbed his ankle. "You're letting it get to you..." She looked up at him and smirked. "I guess I'm not anyone to talk; I think it's getting to me too." A small line of fire suddenly rimmed the door and short shriek emitted from the other side. "That should take care of prying eyes, for the moment."
So, how was that? Did you like the love? I know it's a little short, but I think a mini-writer's block is starting to creep up on me. It took me TWO DAYS to write this! It normally only takes me a few hours to get one into the computer! I think I'm losing my touch... Anyway, it may be a few days before I get another one out, but I'll try again tomorrow. Review me and tell me how you like my stuff!