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Only a moment...
Chapter 1
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Mission # 1
Blinding light was the welcome he got when trying to open his eyes. The sun was starting to set, and a few of the brighter stars had appeared A soft trickling of water somewhere close. A steadfast drip, drip, drip . . . Maybe it was starting, drag but couldn't be sure. Other then that, and the odd sound of a song bird overhead there was no sound. No traffic off in the distance, no planes, nothing. So peaceful and serine, I don't want to move, but I need to find out what happened, and Sally.. Where is she?
A warm breeze washed over him but it only made him colder. Pain rocked through him at the thought of moving. How had he got there? Where was there? Why was he in so much pain?
'Open your eyes and see where you are'. His mind told him. 'See if you can get help, or something'.
Light blinded his eyes at first, before they were shielded by something. He tried again to look around, and saw that the thing that had shaded him was a tree branch. It swayed back and forth in the wind.
'Where am I?' Slowly he stretched his fingers, then hands, trying to see what hurt most. As he stretched, he noticed the warm form draped across him. Tilting his head up he found a mound of sickly honey-colored hair.
"Sally?" Wufei moaned as his vison came back into focuses. From what he could tell, her hair was unbound and flowing everywhere. Her arm was rapped around his torso, and her head was resting on his chest. Her face was mostly covered by her hair. She was resting peacefully. Her breath on his neck gave him shivers. But it felt so . . . so.. Wufei mentally shook himself.
`No we're just partners . . . I would probably end up hurting her anyway I don't want to do that.` Wufei tried to remember what had happened to get him in this situation.
Flash back
"Will you keep it down already onna!" Wufei hissed at Sally as they moved through the forest, "You're going to give us away."
"Oh hush up yourself!" Sally shot back at him, "I should lead for a while. Then I wouldn't have to look at your ass all the time!" They had been traveling through the woods for about two days now, and were approaching the base that they had been assigned to investigate. It was an old White Fang base that manufactured mobile suits during the Eve War, but rumor had it that there was still activity so Lady Une had sent Preventer Water, and Ice to see if the hear-say was true. There were no direct roads that lead to the base, so they decided to go through the woods following the edge of a river. The tops of the trees swayed back and forth in the wind, but on the ground it was hot and humid. The noon sun was high in the sky as they approached the base. Shadows of the factory could be seen thought the thick trees.
"There it is, now be quite, and stay low."Wufei ordered. Sally rolled her eyes.
"I know already baka. I've done this before remember?"He ignored this and moved forward. As they approached the buildings, they could see that the grass was quite long, and some of the lower windows of the factory had been broken. Once shiny metal structures now rusty and shabby. Still, they approached with caution. On the last mission the appearance was almost the same, and being careless almost cost them their lives.
"We have to find our way to the main building. There should be something there." The high grass was hard to move through so they stayed mostly in the shadows to avoid being seen, for it would be too hard to run. The largest building stood in the middle of the abandoned buildings. Sally tried the nobs.
"It's locked."
"Only to you onna, stand aside"
"Wufei don't.." With one swift movement Wufei kicked in the door. A cloud of dust rushed at them..
"See. Simple." He said coughing because of the dust.
"Too much testosterone I think . . . " Sally mumbled more to herself then to anyone in particular.
"Huh."Was Wufei's only response before entering the building gun drawn. Inside was dark and even more dusty. A few dark shapes could be made out from what little light that came through the broken windows, and holes in the wall's and ceiling. The first room was empty, and the windows were covered in a thick layer of dust. Sally wiped off some of the dust. Light washed into all the empty room. Reflecting off the dust already in the air giving the appearance of a gold snow storm.
"Looks like there's nothing here . . . "Sally observed."You mean we went through all this for nothing?"
"We still might be able to find some clues that might help us onna. Don't be stupid." Suddenly a crashing sound came from deeper in the building.
"Shhhh.." Wufei raised his gun again and moved further into the room. A dark hall way with a few doors was at the end of the first room. Slowly they moved trying to avoid the more noisy boards. The doors to the next four rooms were already open and held nothing. The door to the stair well hung off its hinges. The steel stair cast twisted up and out of site into the darkness above.
"Wufei, it was probably just an animal. No one could be here. It's been abandoned for years, anyone can tell by the state of this place."
"Be quite onna. I'm not taking any chances.. We are going to check it out and that's final."He answered not even looking at her. This didn't go over well with Sally.
"Wufei what is your problem?"
"Shhhh"
"Argh!" She marched ahead and up the stairs. The past few weeks Wufei had been getting on her nerves more then usual. She was used to putting up with his narrow sited ness, and his chauvinist bull shit, but he hadn't call her by her name in a long while. She'd heard him say it before, so he should still be able to right? So why hasn't he?
`Cause he's Wufei that's why, duh!` Her mind told her. `He was raised to treat women like that it's not his fault.`
`But its still aggravating`
`Ya, but just be patient. You're good at that, and it won't matter what he says to you soon anyway`
"Sally don't!" Sally froze in mid stride. Not really because he had said her name, but because of the fact that the stair in front of her had just given out. It clanged loudly as it continued to bounce off of other stairs as it fell. She slowly stepped back down to the floor.
"Don't be so headstrong women. " Wufei put a hand on her arm and pulled her back.
"The stairs won't hold a person. It was probable just an animal or something. This is pointless there is no reason for us to be here. Its empty. Come on lets get a hold of Une and get a ride out of this place before this storm hits." He released her arm and walked back down the hall. Sally nodded.
"Right." But a movement up in the darkness caught her eye. She stared up trying to force her eyes to focus on the point where she had thought she saw the movement. There was something up there. Something alive, and with little shinny eyes.
Wufei was half way down the hall when Sally let out an ear piercing scream. He was half turned around when Sally flew by and started to drag him down the hall.
"W..What are you doing??"
"Run!"
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He watches Sally sleep there. She was so peaceful, and quite. She looked like an angel. With golden hair, soft and silky, with the faint hint of roses in it. He looked around him. They were in a shelter of trees a few meters away from the river. The two sleeping bags that they had brought with them were both open and made into a bed which was where he was laying with Sally. A small fire was burning to the right, and hanging up on the surrounding trees were their clothes. Well most of them anyway still dripping wet. The last thing he remembered was falling. Then darkness. And then waking up here.
"Welcome back Wufei. I didn't think you were going to wake up so soon." Sally looked up into his dark eyes. Wufei just watched her wide eyed as she sat up and turned around hurriedly to buttoned her open shirt. She had on a pair of shorts, and a white short sleeve blouse. Her bra was off-white, and lacy. Wufei found himself staring slack jawed at her, and mentally slapped himself.
"Women, you have no honor. "
"Wufei, no I don't. This was the only was I could warm you up. Now lie still, I have to see if you have broken anything."
Wufei watched her for a moment, before he realized what was happening. Sally had gone into doctor mode.
'Oh great now there's no reasoning with her! It is almost as bad as Heero's perfect solider mode'. Wufei almost screamed when Sally ripped back the top sleeping bag without warning, to see him only in his boxers.
"Ahhh!! Women!!!!" He grabbed it back from her and wrapped it around his waist. "How dare you!? Injustice!"
"Oh Wufei grow up, I'm a doctor remember? I've seen men before . . . " she tried to control the smirk on her face. The great dragon was embarrassed, and was he ever! He was redder then she ever thought was even possible to blush. Sally knew that, that was a mean thing to do but the look on his face was worth it.
"Not me you won't be onna! I'm fine all right I don't need, or want your help got that!" He snapped back at her, but swayed a bit however when he sat up. "I'm fine.."
"Stay still right now Wufei. Lay back down. I know your head hurts, you have a small concision from that wack you got, but you should be all right in a little time. Now stay right here, I'm going to see if I can find the communicator I dropped it in the river. It might have washed down like most of the rest." Sally stood and began to walk back to the river. "There are some dry clothes there." She gestured to the small pile of fabric laying next to him as she moved away. As Wufei watched her disappear into the forest, he noticed that she had a slight limp and both her legs had been bandaged almost completely. He watched her disappear out of site. Taking this opportunity he quickly got dressed.
`She must have gotten hurt really badly, if she never said anything about that last remark. Sally usually will snap back after I say something like that. But she didn't . . . I should go check on her`
Wufei finished getting dresses and followed Sally back to the river. When he arrived, he found her wading. The water was almost up to her mid thigh, and for the first time Wufei noticed how short Sally's shorts actually were. They were nothing more then a cut off pair of jeans, slightly unraveled and the fabric seemed to be almost like her skin it was so tight. Once again he found it hard to get control of himself. What was happening to him? Why was he looking at Sally like that, he never before. She was the same person she was four days ago, even four years ago. She had always been pretty, but then again so were half the other female workers at HQ, but then he never payed any attention to them. They were all typical annoying, stupid, whiney, gossip loving onna's. Sally on the other hand could use a weapon better them most men he knew, and a lot smarter in battle operations and strategies too. He admired her for this.
"Damn.."
"What was that Wufei?" Sally asked looking over to him. Wufei was stunned.. He had said that out loud?
"Errr . . . I said. Have you found the damn thing yet onna? What's keeping you?"
"It's hard to see the bottom, and I don't want to step on anything sharp ok?" She looked back at the water as she keeps searching. Wufei just watched her for what seemed like hours, walking back and forth in the water. The sun was just above the horizon now making it too hard to see anything in the river. Wufei realized that they should go back and get some more wood for the fire before it ran out. They were going to end up staying there in the woods over night even if they found the communicator, the search party wouldn't be able to go get them till morning anyway. That is if they could at all.
Sally looked up at the sky as a cold wind started to pick up. It was getting dark and much colder quite fast now. A rumbling sound came from the distance. And a faint flash of light to go with it. The Hurricane that had been downgraded to a tropical storm had been heading in this direction last time Sally had heard the weather report, and it was supposed to disappear as it crossed the Atlantic, and be nothing when it hit the main land but that had been four days ago. These were not usual storm clouds. They had formed too fast for that. It was the storm and it was going to hit them.
"Onna! Come on. Get out of there. You'll never find it now. It's too late."
Flash Back
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He glared at her with a look that would have made Heero back away. But she didn't stop. She just keeps getting louder and louder. Tears ran down her face as she cried. She fell over holding her sides in pain. She wanted to stop. She really wanted to tell him that she was sorry, but she couldn't. It's not that she didn't try to it was that every time she went to look at his face she had to look away. It was just too much. It was too painful to look at that face. The tears that had started on her cheeks were now running off her chin and onto the grass. He stood there watching her. The frown on his face fading shortly as his mouth opened to speak one word. The one word that he could say at that moment.
"Weak . . . "
TBC . .
Only a moment...
Chapter 1
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Mission # 1
Blinding light was the welcome he got when trying to open his eyes. The sun was starting to set, and a few of the brighter stars had appeared A soft trickling of water somewhere close. A steadfast drip, drip, drip . . . Maybe it was starting, drag but couldn't be sure. Other then that, and the odd sound of a song bird overhead there was no sound. No traffic off in the distance, no planes, nothing. So peaceful and serine, I don't want to move, but I need to find out what happened, and Sally.. Where is she?
A warm breeze washed over him but it only made him colder. Pain rocked through him at the thought of moving. How had he got there? Where was there? Why was he in so much pain?
'Open your eyes and see where you are'. His mind told him. 'See if you can get help, or something'.
Light blinded his eyes at first, before they were shielded by something. He tried again to look around, and saw that the thing that had shaded him was a tree branch. It swayed back and forth in the wind.
'Where am I?' Slowly he stretched his fingers, then hands, trying to see what hurt most. As he stretched, he noticed the warm form draped across him. Tilting his head up he found a mound of sickly honey-colored hair.
"Sally?" Wufei moaned as his vison came back into focuses. From what he could tell, her hair was unbound and flowing everywhere. Her arm was rapped around his torso, and her head was resting on his chest. Her face was mostly covered by her hair. She was resting peacefully. Her breath on his neck gave him shivers. But it felt so . . . so.. Wufei mentally shook himself.
`No we're just partners . . . I would probably end up hurting her anyway I don't want to do that.` Wufei tried to remember what had happened to get him in this situation.
Flash back
"Will you keep it down already onna!" Wufei hissed at Sally as they moved through the forest, "You're going to give us away."
"Oh hush up yourself!" Sally shot back at him, "I should lead for a while. Then I wouldn't have to look at your ass all the time!" They had been traveling through the woods for about two days now, and were approaching the base that they had been assigned to investigate. It was an old White Fang base that manufactured mobile suits during the Eve War, but rumor had it that there was still activity so Lady Une had sent Preventer Water, and Ice to see if the hear-say was true. There were no direct roads that lead to the base, so they decided to go through the woods following the edge of a river. The tops of the trees swayed back and forth in the wind, but on the ground it was hot and humid. The noon sun was high in the sky as they approached the base. Shadows of the factory could be seen thought the thick trees.
"There it is, now be quite, and stay low."Wufei ordered. Sally rolled her eyes.
"I know already baka. I've done this before remember?"He ignored this and moved forward. As they approached the buildings, they could see that the grass was quite long, and some of the lower windows of the factory had been broken. Once shiny metal structures now rusty and shabby. Still, they approached with caution. On the last mission the appearance was almost the same, and being careless almost cost them their lives.
"We have to find our way to the main building. There should be something there." The high grass was hard to move through so they stayed mostly in the shadows to avoid being seen, for it would be too hard to run. The largest building stood in the middle of the abandoned buildings. Sally tried the nobs.
"It's locked."
"Only to you onna, stand aside"
"Wufei don't.." With one swift movement Wufei kicked in the door. A cloud of dust rushed at them..
"See. Simple." He said coughing because of the dust.
"Too much testosterone I think . . . " Sally mumbled more to herself then to anyone in particular.
"Huh."Was Wufei's only response before entering the building gun drawn. Inside was dark and even more dusty. A few dark shapes could be made out from what little light that came through the broken windows, and holes in the wall's and ceiling. The first room was empty, and the windows were covered in a thick layer of dust. Sally wiped off some of the dust. Light washed into all the empty room. Reflecting off the dust already in the air giving the appearance of a gold snow storm.
"Looks like there's nothing here . . . "Sally observed."You mean we went through all this for nothing?"
"We still might be able to find some clues that might help us onna. Don't be stupid." Suddenly a crashing sound came from deeper in the building.
"Shhhh.." Wufei raised his gun again and moved further into the room. A dark hall way with a few doors was at the end of the first room. Slowly they moved trying to avoid the more noisy boards. The doors to the next four rooms were already open and held nothing. The door to the stair well hung off its hinges. The steel stair cast twisted up and out of site into the darkness above.
"Wufei, it was probably just an animal. No one could be here. It's been abandoned for years, anyone can tell by the state of this place."
"Be quite onna. I'm not taking any chances.. We are going to check it out and that's final."He answered not even looking at her. This didn't go over well with Sally.
"Wufei what is your problem?"
"Shhhh"
"Argh!" She marched ahead and up the stairs. The past few weeks Wufei had been getting on her nerves more then usual. She was used to putting up with his narrow sited ness, and his chauvinist bull shit, but he hadn't call her by her name in a long while. She'd heard him say it before, so he should still be able to right? So why hasn't he?
`Cause he's Wufei that's why, duh!` Her mind told her. `He was raised to treat women like that it's not his fault.`
`But its still aggravating`
`Ya, but just be patient. You're good at that, and it won't matter what he says to you soon anyway`
"Sally don't!" Sally froze in mid stride. Not really because he had said her name, but because of the fact that the stair in front of her had just given out. It clanged loudly as it continued to bounce off of other stairs as it fell. She slowly stepped back down to the floor.
"Don't be so headstrong women. " Wufei put a hand on her arm and pulled her back.
"The stairs won't hold a person. It was probable just an animal or something. This is pointless there is no reason for us to be here. Its empty. Come on lets get a hold of Une and get a ride out of this place before this storm hits." He released her arm and walked back down the hall. Sally nodded.
"Right." But a movement up in the darkness caught her eye. She stared up trying to force her eyes to focus on the point where she had thought she saw the movement. There was something up there. Something alive, and with little shinny eyes.
Wufei was half way down the hall when Sally let out an ear piercing scream. He was half turned around when Sally flew by and started to drag him down the hall.
"W..What are you doing??"
"Run!"
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He watches Sally sleep there. She was so peaceful, and quite. She looked like an angel. With golden hair, soft and silky, with the faint hint of roses in it. He looked around him. They were in a shelter of trees a few meters away from the river. The two sleeping bags that they had brought with them were both open and made into a bed which was where he was laying with Sally. A small fire was burning to the right, and hanging up on the surrounding trees were their clothes. Well most of them anyway still dripping wet. The last thing he remembered was falling. Then darkness. And then waking up here.
"Welcome back Wufei. I didn't think you were going to wake up so soon." Sally looked up into his dark eyes. Wufei just watched her wide eyed as she sat up and turned around hurriedly to buttoned her open shirt. She had on a pair of shorts, and a white short sleeve blouse. Her bra was off-white, and lacy. Wufei found himself staring slack jawed at her, and mentally slapped himself.
"Women, you have no honor. "
"Wufei, no I don't. This was the only was I could warm you up. Now lie still, I have to see if you have broken anything."
Wufei watched her for a moment, before he realized what was happening. Sally had gone into doctor mode.
'Oh great now there's no reasoning with her! It is almost as bad as Heero's perfect solider mode'. Wufei almost screamed when Sally ripped back the top sleeping bag without warning, to see him only in his boxers.
"Ahhh!! Women!!!!" He grabbed it back from her and wrapped it around his waist. "How dare you!? Injustice!"
"Oh Wufei grow up, I'm a doctor remember? I've seen men before . . . " she tried to control the smirk on her face. The great dragon was embarrassed, and was he ever! He was redder then she ever thought was even possible to blush. Sally knew that, that was a mean thing to do but the look on his face was worth it.
"Not me you won't be onna! I'm fine all right I don't need, or want your help got that!" He snapped back at her, but swayed a bit however when he sat up. "I'm fine.."
"Stay still right now Wufei. Lay back down. I know your head hurts, you have a small concision from that wack you got, but you should be all right in a little time. Now stay right here, I'm going to see if I can find the communicator I dropped it in the river. It might have washed down like most of the rest." Sally stood and began to walk back to the river. "There are some dry clothes there." She gestured to the small pile of fabric laying next to him as she moved away. As Wufei watched her disappear into the forest, he noticed that she had a slight limp and both her legs had been bandaged almost completely. He watched her disappear out of site. Taking this opportunity he quickly got dressed.
`She must have gotten hurt really badly, if she never said anything about that last remark. Sally usually will snap back after I say something like that. But she didn't . . . I should go check on her`
Wufei finished getting dresses and followed Sally back to the river. When he arrived, he found her wading. The water was almost up to her mid thigh, and for the first time Wufei noticed how short Sally's shorts actually were. They were nothing more then a cut off pair of jeans, slightly unraveled and the fabric seemed to be almost like her skin it was so tight. Once again he found it hard to get control of himself. What was happening to him? Why was he looking at Sally like that, he never before. She was the same person she was four days ago, even four years ago. She had always been pretty, but then again so were half the other female workers at HQ, but then he never payed any attention to them. They were all typical annoying, stupid, whiney, gossip loving onna's. Sally on the other hand could use a weapon better them most men he knew, and a lot smarter in battle operations and strategies too. He admired her for this.
"Damn.."
"What was that Wufei?" Sally asked looking over to him. Wufei was stunned.. He had said that out loud?
"Errr . . . I said. Have you found the damn thing yet onna? What's keeping you?"
"It's hard to see the bottom, and I don't want to step on anything sharp ok?" She looked back at the water as she keeps searching. Wufei just watched her for what seemed like hours, walking back and forth in the water. The sun was just above the horizon now making it too hard to see anything in the river. Wufei realized that they should go back and get some more wood for the fire before it ran out. They were going to end up staying there in the woods over night even if they found the communicator, the search party wouldn't be able to go get them till morning anyway. That is if they could at all.
Sally looked up at the sky as a cold wind started to pick up. It was getting dark and much colder quite fast now. A rumbling sound came from the distance. And a faint flash of light to go with it. The Hurricane that had been downgraded to a tropical storm had been heading in this direction last time Sally had heard the weather report, and it was supposed to disappear as it crossed the Atlantic, and be nothing when it hit the main land but that had been four days ago. These were not usual storm clouds. They had formed too fast for that. It was the storm and it was going to hit them.
"Onna! Come on. Get out of there. You'll never find it now. It's too late."
Flash Back
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He glared at her with a look that would have made Heero back away. But she didn't stop. She just keeps getting louder and louder. Tears ran down her face as she cried. She fell over holding her sides in pain. She wanted to stop. She really wanted to tell him that she was sorry, but she couldn't. It's not that she didn't try to it was that every time she went to look at his face she had to look away. It was just too much. It was too painful to look at that face. The tears that had started on her cheeks were now running off her chin and onto the grass. He stood there watching her. The frown on his face fading shortly as his mouth opened to speak one word. The one word that he could say at that moment.
"Weak . . . "
TBC . .