In The End
Loki Weasley
Part Four: The Shotty Rescue
Summary: War struck Peace with a wrath. Severing families- more particularly the ties of five certain Gundam pilots... Now, thirteen years after they sent their children to 'a better place', they find the very place those kids need to be is where they started in the first place. Funny how things work out...
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Picture your idea of a British person. Polyester clothes and slick hair, right? Well, she wasn't your usual British person. She wore a Mandarin collar dress that looked like patchwork with one end of the skirt ending closer to her feet than the other over a black leather jacket and high heels. Her hair, straight black with red ends, hung down and normally over her blue eyes. She didn't have tattoos, but a good number of earrings and even a nose ring, and her eyes held contacts that looked like cat's gold eyes and even reflected light. It creeped her step-mother out. Good. She didn't like her step-mother. Or her mother, for that matter. Or her father. Or her step-father. Face it, she didn't like her family. And with good reason. They all still had yet to inform her she had been adopted. Well, wait, she knew, yes, but she wanted them to come out with it already and tell her face to face instead of hiding behind 'Oh, honey, you look just like your grandmother!' Oh, by the way, she didn't have a nickname. She was just called JieLan. Her 'parents' said they named her that because it wasn't quite Mulan and it had Jay, like a Blue Jay. Silly liars.
JieLan started her day by sneaking out of her house and going to the town to walk around and wait for something to find. The UK wasn't her home. She knew very well it wasn't. She didn't belong here. She belonged. who knew where.
Silly people started to run around the streets, enjoying their life. Making fools of themselves. JieLan sighed at the silly people and kept going. More people started to run.
Screaming.
What on Earth? JieLan was nearly knocked over by a football player from her school as she fought her way up to where all the commotion was coming from.
Men in silly uniforms. With guns.
Ooooookaaaaaaaay...
JieLan watched as the people ran from the intersection and the men with guns fanned out. She slipped into the shadows of an alley between two stores and waited. Stupid men. She frowned and leaned up against the wall. The first man walked by her alley and JieLan kicked up as he peeked in. Caught his jaw and everything! JieLan, now pleased to see the man fall down some ten feet from where he stood, prepared for the rest of the men in silly uniforms to come running to that one's aid.
The first one went down as easy as the first. The second one put a hole in her jacket with his knife. The third went down and took two others with him. The sixth one was the smart one. He held up his gun at her head. His still standing friends did the same.
Dang.
JieLan glared at the obvious leader Silly Man Number Six and went with them quietly. They packed her off in some black van with a blindfold, apparently going for the stereotypical kidnaps, and drove for a few hours or so. JieLan was about to fall asleep from boredom when they hauled her to her feet and practically dragged her through some hallways and corridors that she couldn't see. She did, though, count all her steps and turns when and where. Right.. Left... Elevator ride for three dings.down.. Right.. Into a room, door slams shut. About five hundred steps. Easy enough. JieLan repeated the numbers in her head a few hundred times, being she had nothing else to do, and took off her blindfold. Not that it made much difference in such a dark room.
Bored again, JieLan waited. Either they would take her out of she would go nuts. Whichever, she didn't care. It wasn't exactly like her parents would miss her or anything.
Three days went by, if they were giving her three meals a day. JieLan finally got too bored and when the next meal came, made her move.
The Silly Men had to open the door to feed her, right? So.. JieLan waited patiently while they fiddled with the door and finally swung it open. Then swung her foot from her place just besides it. The tray went flying into his face and he fell back. JieLan jumped over the Silly Man and ducked out of sight when more Silly Men came running to see what the big crash was. Then she proceeded to retrace her steps.
That was, until the men figured out she wasn't some simpering little weakling and blocked her off just as she was about to turn the second to last corner. Two Silly Men with guns smiled at their triumph. JieLan glared and slowly raised her hands. A metal stick came from around the corner and caught the two men in the backs of their heads. They fell, unconscious. JieLan stepped to the side of the one further from where the pole had originated from and stared down at his face. Yep, he was out for a while. She turned her head to see a Chinese man holding the very pole used to knock out those men. He didn't look too happy.
"Oh, my hero." JieLan smiled in her thick British accent, eyeing his uniform. "What made you think I needed a rescue?"
"Those guns, child. Now stop running your mouth and follow me." He turned around and stalked off.
Two boys no older than her were standing some feet away in similar uniforms to what the Chinese man wore. When the man stalked by they gave him plenty of room and then smiled at her.
"My name's Milo." Said the boy with the blue hair.
"Looks like we were made to come here for no reason." Said the other boy as JieLan started after the Chinese man. He was going her way, so she might as well follow at a distance. "My name's Tristan."
"JieLan."
The Chinese man swore. But there was nothing wrong and he went on muttering something about injustice under his breath as he stalked from the halls and out of the base.
"That's Wufei. He's um.. Rather disappointed." Tristan informed her.
"Hn. What's his problem?"
"He thought you were someone else. See, he didn't want it to be his daughter who got caught by Seraphim."
JieLan stopped walking. "Daughter. That's my father?"
Wufei also stopped; he walked over to JieLan and loomed over her. JieLan studied him a moment. Then shrugged. "Explains a few things. Where to?" she asked.
Wufei smirked. "At least you're not as annoying as Yuy's child. Bouncing around with that stupid grin." He turned and walked this time at the same pace as JieLan.
"Yuy as in Aubrie, right?" Milo asked. "She's suicidal. You know, she taunted those dudes with the really big guns when I fell into that base?" he muttered, putting his hands behind his head.
"You were saved by a girl?" JieLan gathered. Milo nodded. JieLan laughed. "Pansy."
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"You are too, if some deranged child had to keep you alive." Wufei snapped, ending the argument.
"Is it just me, or aren't parents NOT supposed to teach their kids things like that?" Milo whined to Tristan, who seemed to be the only one who cared. But Tristan just smirked and shrugged.
"I have five siblings and I never had problems like this." He said.
"You know what!..." Milo began, sticking his finger at Tristan and looking as though he was going to say something. JieLan watched as Milo couldn't think of anything to say, shut his mouth, and trudged ahead.
"I won't have to spend much time with him, will I?" she asked her father.
"Unfortunetly." Wufei sighed.
"Dang."
"I heard that." Milo called over his shoulder.
Sanc was everything the travel guides made it out to be, JieLan reasoned as she walked into the Preventer half of the castle. And not made to be, thinking about it. JieLan smirked as a woman with her eyes caught sight of her.
"JieLan?" she asked quietly.
JieLan smiled and nodded. "Finally, someone who'll appreciate me!" she said simply and accepted her mother's hug openly.
"Guess your thought that it was Kat was wrong, 'Fei." Her mother said laughingly.
"Shut up, woman." Wufei growled.
Her mother laughed. "I believe you can find Duo in the cafeteria eating. And the money you owe is on the nightstand- don't look at me like that- I know where you sleep." She warned. Wufei, who looked like he was going to yell something mean, shut his mouth and stalked off, again muttering to himself about the injustices of a wife.
JieLan smiled. "I like him. Aside from the whole woman thing we agree."
Her mother's smile twitched. "Yes, I'm still working on that. ahem. detail. Hungry?"
"Terribly! Those Silly Men have only given me gruel the past three days!" JieLan cried. "The injustices of prisoner treatment!"
"Yes, you are like your father." her mother grinned and led JieLan to the cafeteria.
They enter to find an interesting scene.
A man with a braid was lying on the floor of the large room, pleading with her father to not kill him. Her father was leaning over the braided man with a katana to his throat, growling something at him in Chinese, which she didn't know save a few catch phrases.
But 'I'll kill you' popped up so she figured her father was angry. She smirked and her mother sighed. The man with a braid noticed her.
By now the final Preventer had made their way from the room in a hurry.
"Sally! Call him off, please!! Puh-lease!!?" the man with the braid whined.
"What'd you do, Duo?" her mother asked.
"Uhhhh.." Duo hesitated.
Her mother smirked. "Well?"
"All I did was wonder how the Great Shenlong's daughter got captured when Heero's girl couldn't!" he was near tears, this Duo. "Call him off, please!"
"What do you think?" Sally turned to her daughter thoughtfully.
"He was making fun of me, right?" JieLan asked. Sally nodded. JieLan turned back to her father, whose grip had loosened and Duo was scrambling to his feet and for the door. "Have fun." She waved and headed to the line.
Wufei bowed to his daughter before taking off after Duo, who was screaming 'This is an injustice' as he disappeared down the hall and out of sight.
Sally and JieLan laughed.
After lunch picking up lunch, which left no spare tray left, JieLan sat with her mother catching up. "Ooh, pity it wasn't mine, after all. Though I would have been disappointed if she were that much like her father," cooed a voice.
"Hi, Dorothy. JieLan, this is 'the other girl's' mother." Sally said, motioning for the tall, blonde, and weird-eye browed woman to join them.
"Wufei has Duo's braid and is threatening to cut it off. Or so it was when a passed a minute ago. And Duo's screaming about how an injustice Miss JieLan is." Dorothy said.
JieLan smirked through her fruit salad. "Good."
"The only injustice about it is the fact she didn't take his side." Sally giggled. "But Wufei won't hurt him."
"Nah, after he almost killed Duo and Hilde exacted revenge. Well." Dorothy smiled widely. "I still have pictures."
"And I don't?" Sally asked, laughing hysterically.
"What happened?" JieLan asked, now sipping tea.
Sally sighed happily. "Your father did very much what he was doing earlier. And accidentally ran Duo through. He was in the hospital for a while- I would know, I'm the one who put him back together- and Hilde nearly killed Wufei. He still winces at the sight of vases." all three females then started laughing hysterically again.
Wufei stalked into the cafeteria some ten minutes later, looking harassed, and sat down next to JieLan, across from Dorothy. "Hilde caught me." He muttered in explanation.
Even if she had no idea who Hilde was, JieLan started cracking up all over again. Wufei snorted at the women and asked why he bothered coming in the cafeteria in the first place.
Duo, Hilde, and Milo came in some ten minutes later. Milo waved to JieLan and the three sat far from the four currently in the room. And with good reason, because JieLan spotted her father glaring at Duo periodically while he ignored the smirks from the three women and talked Britain over with JieLan.
The next day, JieLan got to take the magical trip to the 'Conference Room' where the object of Aubrie was discussed.
"She's been gone too long." Heero Yuy said.
"Sure it's not separation anxiety?" Duo cooed.
Heero pulled out a gun and pointed it at Duo. "She's the only one with sufficient training- the only one who knows how to properly use a gun." He said, glancing at JieLan. She smirked. He had heard about her half-way escape/rescue!
"So we go get her, then." Milo offered, yanking Heero's arm from the direction of his father's head. "She's just talking this over with her foster father, right?"
"Yes."
Summary: War struck Peace with a wrath. Severing families- more particularly the ties of five certain Gundam pilots... Now, thirteen years after they sent their children to 'a better place', they find the very place those kids need to be is where they started in the first place. Funny how things work out...
Loki: No comments!! YAY!!
Picture your idea of a British person. Polyester clothes and slick hair, right? Well, she wasn't your usual British person. She wore a Mandarin collar dress that looked like patchwork with one end of the skirt ending closer to her feet than the other over a black leather jacket and high heels. Her hair, straight black with red ends, hung down and normally over her blue eyes. She didn't have tattoos, but a good number of earrings and even a nose ring, and her eyes held contacts that looked like cat's gold eyes and even reflected light. It creeped her step-mother out. Good. She didn't like her step-mother. Or her mother, for that matter. Or her father. Or her step-father. Face it, she didn't like her family. And with good reason. They all still had yet to inform her she had been adopted. Well, wait, she knew, yes, but she wanted them to come out with it already and tell her face to face instead of hiding behind 'Oh, honey, you look just like your grandmother!' Oh, by the way, she didn't have a nickname. She was just called JieLan. Her 'parents' said they named her that because it wasn't quite Mulan and it had Jay, like a Blue Jay. Silly liars.
JieLan started her day by sneaking out of her house and going to the town to walk around and wait for something to find. The UK wasn't her home. She knew very well it wasn't. She didn't belong here. She belonged. who knew where.
Silly people started to run around the streets, enjoying their life. Making fools of themselves. JieLan sighed at the silly people and kept going. More people started to run.
Screaming.
What on Earth? JieLan was nearly knocked over by a football player from her school as she fought her way up to where all the commotion was coming from.
Men in silly uniforms. With guns.
Ooooookaaaaaaaay...
JieLan watched as the people ran from the intersection and the men with guns fanned out. She slipped into the shadows of an alley between two stores and waited. Stupid men. She frowned and leaned up against the wall. The first man walked by her alley and JieLan kicked up as he peeked in. Caught his jaw and everything! JieLan, now pleased to see the man fall down some ten feet from where he stood, prepared for the rest of the men in silly uniforms to come running to that one's aid.
The first one went down as easy as the first. The second one put a hole in her jacket with his knife. The third went down and took two others with him. The sixth one was the smart one. He held up his gun at her head. His still standing friends did the same.
Dang.
JieLan glared at the obvious leader Silly Man Number Six and went with them quietly. They packed her off in some black van with a blindfold, apparently going for the stereotypical kidnaps, and drove for a few hours or so. JieLan was about to fall asleep from boredom when they hauled her to her feet and practically dragged her through some hallways and corridors that she couldn't see. She did, though, count all her steps and turns when and where. Right.. Left... Elevator ride for three dings.down.. Right.. Into a room, door slams shut. About five hundred steps. Easy enough. JieLan repeated the numbers in her head a few hundred times, being she had nothing else to do, and took off her blindfold. Not that it made much difference in such a dark room.
Bored again, JieLan waited. Either they would take her out of she would go nuts. Whichever, she didn't care. It wasn't exactly like her parents would miss her or anything.
Three days went by, if they were giving her three meals a day. JieLan finally got too bored and when the next meal came, made her move.
The Silly Men had to open the door to feed her, right? So.. JieLan waited patiently while they fiddled with the door and finally swung it open. Then swung her foot from her place just besides it. The tray went flying into his face and he fell back. JieLan jumped over the Silly Man and ducked out of sight when more Silly Men came running to see what the big crash was. Then she proceeded to retrace her steps.
That was, until the men figured out she wasn't some simpering little weakling and blocked her off just as she was about to turn the second to last corner. Two Silly Men with guns smiled at their triumph. JieLan glared and slowly raised her hands. A metal stick came from around the corner and caught the two men in the backs of their heads. They fell, unconscious. JieLan stepped to the side of the one further from where the pole had originated from and stared down at his face. Yep, he was out for a while. She turned her head to see a Chinese man holding the very pole used to knock out those men. He didn't look too happy.
"Oh, my hero." JieLan smiled in her thick British accent, eyeing his uniform. "What made you think I needed a rescue?"
"Those guns, child. Now stop running your mouth and follow me." He turned around and stalked off.
Two boys no older than her were standing some feet away in similar uniforms to what the Chinese man wore. When the man stalked by they gave him plenty of room and then smiled at her.
"My name's Milo." Said the boy with the blue hair.
"Looks like we were made to come here for no reason." Said the other boy as JieLan started after the Chinese man. He was going her way, so she might as well follow at a distance. "My name's Tristan."
"JieLan."
The Chinese man swore. But there was nothing wrong and he went on muttering something about injustice under his breath as he stalked from the halls and out of the base.
"That's Wufei. He's um.. Rather disappointed." Tristan informed her.
"Hn. What's his problem?"
"He thought you were someone else. See, he didn't want it to be his daughter who got caught by Seraphim."
JieLan stopped walking. "Daughter. That's my father?"
Wufei also stopped; he walked over to JieLan and loomed over her. JieLan studied him a moment. Then shrugged. "Explains a few things. Where to?" she asked.
Wufei smirked. "At least you're not as annoying as Yuy's child. Bouncing around with that stupid grin." He turned and walked this time at the same pace as JieLan.
"Yuy as in Aubrie, right?" Milo asked. "She's suicidal. You know, she taunted those dudes with the really big guns when I fell into that base?" he muttered, putting his hands behind his head.
"You were saved by a girl?" JieLan gathered. Milo nodded. JieLan laughed. "Pansy."
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"You are too, if some deranged child had to keep you alive." Wufei snapped, ending the argument.
"Is it just me, or aren't parents NOT supposed to teach their kids things like that?" Milo whined to Tristan, who seemed to be the only one who cared. But Tristan just smirked and shrugged.
"I have five siblings and I never had problems like this." He said.
"You know what!..." Milo began, sticking his finger at Tristan and looking as though he was going to say something. JieLan watched as Milo couldn't think of anything to say, shut his mouth, and trudged ahead.
"I won't have to spend much time with him, will I?" she asked her father.
"Unfortunetly." Wufei sighed.
"Dang."
"I heard that." Milo called over his shoulder.
Sanc was everything the travel guides made it out to be, JieLan reasoned as she walked into the Preventer half of the castle. And not made to be, thinking about it. JieLan smirked as a woman with her eyes caught sight of her.
"JieLan?" she asked quietly.
JieLan smiled and nodded. "Finally, someone who'll appreciate me!" she said simply and accepted her mother's hug openly.
"Guess your thought that it was Kat was wrong, 'Fei." Her mother said laughingly.
"Shut up, woman." Wufei growled.
Her mother laughed. "I believe you can find Duo in the cafeteria eating. And the money you owe is on the nightstand- don't look at me like that- I know where you sleep." She warned. Wufei, who looked like he was going to yell something mean, shut his mouth and stalked off, again muttering to himself about the injustices of a wife.
JieLan smiled. "I like him. Aside from the whole woman thing we agree."
Her mother's smile twitched. "Yes, I'm still working on that. ahem. detail. Hungry?"
"Terribly! Those Silly Men have only given me gruel the past three days!" JieLan cried. "The injustices of prisoner treatment!"
"Yes, you are like your father." her mother grinned and led JieLan to the cafeteria.
They enter to find an interesting scene.
A man with a braid was lying on the floor of the large room, pleading with her father to not kill him. Her father was leaning over the braided man with a katana to his throat, growling something at him in Chinese, which she didn't know save a few catch phrases.
But 'I'll kill you' popped up so she figured her father was angry. She smirked and her mother sighed. The man with a braid noticed her.
By now the final Preventer had made their way from the room in a hurry.
"Sally! Call him off, please!! Puh-lease!!?" the man with the braid whined.
"What'd you do, Duo?" her mother asked.
"Uhhhh.." Duo hesitated.
Her mother smirked. "Well?"
"All I did was wonder how the Great Shenlong's daughter got captured when Heero's girl couldn't!" he was near tears, this Duo. "Call him off, please!"
"What do you think?" Sally turned to her daughter thoughtfully.
"He was making fun of me, right?" JieLan asked. Sally nodded. JieLan turned back to her father, whose grip had loosened and Duo was scrambling to his feet and for the door. "Have fun." She waved and headed to the line.
Wufei bowed to his daughter before taking off after Duo, who was screaming 'This is an injustice' as he disappeared down the hall and out of sight.
Sally and JieLan laughed.
After lunch picking up lunch, which left no spare tray left, JieLan sat with her mother catching up. "Ooh, pity it wasn't mine, after all. Though I would have been disappointed if she were that much like her father," cooed a voice.
"Hi, Dorothy. JieLan, this is 'the other girl's' mother." Sally said, motioning for the tall, blonde, and weird-eye browed woman to join them.
"Wufei has Duo's braid and is threatening to cut it off. Or so it was when a passed a minute ago. And Duo's screaming about how an injustice Miss JieLan is." Dorothy said.
JieLan smirked through her fruit salad. "Good."
"The only injustice about it is the fact she didn't take his side." Sally giggled. "But Wufei won't hurt him."
"Nah, after he almost killed Duo and Hilde exacted revenge. Well." Dorothy smiled widely. "I still have pictures."
"And I don't?" Sally asked, laughing hysterically.
"What happened?" JieLan asked, now sipping tea.
Sally sighed happily. "Your father did very much what he was doing earlier. And accidentally ran Duo through. He was in the hospital for a while- I would know, I'm the one who put him back together- and Hilde nearly killed Wufei. He still winces at the sight of vases." all three females then started laughing hysterically again.
Wufei stalked into the cafeteria some ten minutes later, looking harassed, and sat down next to JieLan, across from Dorothy. "Hilde caught me." He muttered in explanation.
Even if she had no idea who Hilde was, JieLan started cracking up all over again. Wufei snorted at the women and asked why he bothered coming in the cafeteria in the first place.
Duo, Hilde, and Milo came in some ten minutes later. Milo waved to JieLan and the three sat far from the four currently in the room. And with good reason, because JieLan spotted her father glaring at Duo periodically while he ignored the smirks from the three women and talked Britain over with JieLan.
The next day, JieLan got to take the magical trip to the 'Conference Room' where the object of Aubrie was discussed.
"She's been gone too long." Heero Yuy said.
"Sure it's not separation anxiety?" Duo cooed.
Heero pulled out a gun and pointed it at Duo. "She's the only one with sufficient training- the only one who knows how to properly use a gun." He said, glancing at JieLan. She smirked. He had heard about her half-way escape/rescue!
"So we go get her, then." Milo offered, yanking Heero's arm from the direction of his father's head. "She's just talking this over with her foster father, right?"
"Yes."