Duo found Serena sitting in their room just stareing out into the night sky. A softer rock station was playing in the background. He still couldn't get over the fact that she could be standing with all the wounds she had. But Duo knew that pride was powerful, and Serena had enough of that to keep her going. Watching her silently, as she pushed bangs out of her eyes and hugged the stuffed bunny of Rini's that had been left behind, he approched her.
If Serena knew he was there she didn't show it as he wrapped his arms around her shoulders much like he had this morning. Only this time Serena didn't break away from him. Lowering his head so that it was resting lightly on her shoulder he studied her profile. She continued to gaze out at the stars as the song I'm Alive came onto the air.
"I've always been running." Serena whispered as she closed her eyes. "I just never got anywhere."
"What do you mean?"
"I've been running and hiding from my problems ever since I could remember. It's just that there is only so far that a person can run in their mind before there's no safe haven left." Serena muttered as she glanced down at the rabbit in her arms. It's beaded black eyes glared up at her from beneath silvery fur. Closing her eyes, she took one last glance at the moon, before pulling away from Duo and walking back over to her bed.
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"I don't think I want to know what Heero's defintion of minor repairs are." Lita told Hotaru as she cleared some drinks off of the kitchen table. "I've never seen Serena in action before but from the mess she shows up in afterwards, I think that Scythe is going to have to be pretty beaten up."
"I'm tempted to asked him to take a picture of the gundam. Because Hades knows he'll never take us where the hanger is." Hotaru laughed as she placed cups in the dishwasher. "Where's Mina?"
"The word cleaning was said in her presence where do you think she is?" Lita laughed as she watched Hotaru narrow her eyes before turning to turn the washer on.
"I really hate it when she does that, you know?" Hotaru asked as she grabbed a water bottle and hopped up on the counter.
"I think that it's better than having everything broken and destroyed." Lita told her as she glared at the new stove and microwave she had to go buy a few months earlier.
"I guess you're right about that." Hotaru smiled as she remembered the day that Serena, Lita and Raye had Mina running from her death.
"We never found out what Serena told Duo after she found out that he had a small part in the demise of her beloved CD collection." Lita told her as she wrapped her fingers around her coffee cup.
"I've never seen Serena so mad." Hotaru exclaimed quietly. "I've heard stories of her anger from Raye, but…"
"It's completely different when you see it first hand. I was shocked when I first saw her anger too. You just learn that when she's mad to get the hell out of her way, run as far away as possible."
"Then I feel sorry for Duo, he has to sleep in the same room, you know one day he's going to make her snap." Hotaru told her as she smiled.
"No, he alone wouldn't be able to make her snap, she's increadably patience with people. It would take a day of his babble, a few fights between him and Wufei, Relena, and maybe a dash of Mina to ignite her anger." Lita told her as she leaned back in the chair she was sitting in.
"I just don't see Serena being patient around Duo." Hotaru smirked as she studied Lita for a while. "Do you think anythings going on between the two?"
"I don't know, I think Duo would have told some one if there was." Lita answered as she glanced out the window.
"Well, then what's going on between you and Trowa?" Hotaru laughed as she watched Lita blush a light pink.
"Nothing really. It's not like you and Heero or anything. We're just getting to know each other and everything." Lita told her as she pushed some of her chestnut hair behind her back.
"Well, are you going to as him to the dance that's coming up this weekend?" Hotaru asked as she watched Lita smiled at her before standing up.
"That my friend has already been taken care of." Lita told her with a wink as she turned serious. "But what are you going to do when Relena asks Heero to the dance and then finds out that you're with him?"
"Heero won't let her touch me and Serena's just itching to kill her after Relena's comment in class this afternoon." Hotaru smiled as she looked up at Lita amethyst eyes shinning.
"What did she call Serena?" Lita asked as she washed her cup out.
"Some zipped up, corner whore because of the catsuit Serena wears to minimize skin contact." Hotaru answered as she started to head for her room. "The thing was, when she realized that Heero had heard her talk in an unlady like fashion she started crying and ran away."
"I always miss the funny things." Lita muttered as she went into her bedroom. "Well night."
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"Woman you are weak." Wufei huffed as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Who was it who beat who, yesterday?" Raye asked with her refound glare and smirk. Wufei muttered something under his breath as he marched into his room, without so much of another word. Raye laughed as she grabbed a water bottle before going into her own room to get some sleep.
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Thank the Gummy Bears for giving me a sugar high. You know the front of the bag says sugar free, but there's 20g of sugar in these. Oh and thank the popcorn bowl, and Leftridge my adopted neopet and thank Eru that I found a humorous LotR story that lightened my spirits after having a horrorable day babysitting last Friday, that made me question why I even do it. Go check out Treehugger's stories, In the Hall of the Wood Elf King funny funny funny, poor Legolas, Tavor, and Brethil.
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