I'm back and I'm hoping this doesn't completely suck. What do you guys think of it so far? Please tell me about it in a review. I hope that was cheesy enough because I don't think I could survive getting any cheesier. On with the ficcy!
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"Yum, this is delicious." Duo said as he devoured yet another crêpe with whip cream and strawberries. "Thank you." Lita said putting the remainders in the refrigerator. "I'm going to miss your cooking the most." Duo added licking his fingers. "Thanks, I think." Lita said closing the door.
Raye had left before Lita got started on dessert, she said she wanted to figure out what her dream meant and Wufie went to train after eating a late lunch.
"I wonder where Mina and Ami are, do you think we should go look for them?" Quatre asked and Lita looked over at him. Concern was obvious in his eyes.
"I think they're fine. Actually I feel sorry for anyone who tries anything on them." she said. "Aw, that's so nice of you Lita." Mina said as she and Ami walked in the room.
"Hey, I just finished making dessert, care for any?" she asked and Ami shook her head. "Thank you anyways." she said taking a seat at the table. "Where's everyone else?" Mina asked.
"Marlene's in her room, she wasn't feeling good, Raye's mediating, Wu-man's practicing and Heero's being Heero." Duo said and Mina nodded.
"So, are you really leaving in two days?" Trowa asked. "Yea, thanks to our stupid jobs." Mina said pouting a bit. "Hey why don't you quit and come live with us?" Duo said and Mina laughed. "I wish it was that simple." she added.
"What do you do anyway?" Trowa asked and the girls looked at each other. "Uh, it's hard to explain." Ami said. "You're jobs are hard to explain?" Duo asked skeptically.
"We're involved in the war, uh, look I really don't want to talk about the slave driver right now. Can we talk about happier things?" Mina asked and Duo shrugged.
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Serena walked down one the many halls of the mansion, not really concentrating on where she was walking. 'Alright, I have two days to get one of the biggest secrets out of one of the most clammed up people I know.' she thought.
"This is impossible." she sighed looking out one of the huge windows that lined the hall.
Some gray clouds were moving in and were covering most up the sun. 'Looks like it's going to rain' she thought going back to walking down the hall. A loud thunder crack rolled through the sky interrupting her thoughts then the lights flickered off.
"Uh, why'd the lights choose to go out when I'm in a dark hall, in a huge mansion." she thought out loud. "Well, I guess I get to go exploring." she said pulling a flashlight out of no where. She flicked it on and walked down the eerie hall.
She flashed the light in front of her and saw a door at the end of the hallway. 'Hum, curious.' she thought as she began walking towards it.
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Heero grunted as all the lights went off. He waited a few minutes for the back up generators to kick on but no lights came back on. 'The circuit breaker must have blown.' he thought coming down from the cockpit of Wing. He had been checking the damage on it from the last fight but thanks to the thunderstorm and the damned laws of nature that had been cut short.
He walked up the stairs, not needing light to do just that. He could fix the damage later when the electricity was working properly. He opened the door and came face to face with a blinding light. Quickly he pulled out his gun and pointed it at the person holding it, not being able to see who it was and frankly not caring.
"Whoa, what are you doing in there?" Marlene's voice asked pulling the flashlight out of his face and into the hanger. Heero quickly shut the door behind him and glared at her. "That's none of your business, what are you doing up here?" he said.
Serena looked at him curiously, studying his face. There was something in that room that he didn't want her to see and she had a pretty good idea of what it was.
"I was curious, is that alright with you?" she asked trying not to sound as anxious as she was. "No, it's not." he said simply holding her gaze.
'Alright, just act like you have no idea what's going on.' she told herself. "Gees Yuy, did someone rotate that stick that's lodged up your ass or something?" she said. 'Yea, really smooth Sere......'
"Hn." Heero said as he walked past her. 'Well, here's my chance.' she said turning back towards the door but she felt a hand grab the hand she was using to open the door. "Stay away from that room." Heero commanded glaring at her.
'Gees, if looks could kill...' she thought. "Why, you're not hiding something are you?" she asked raising an eyebrow at him.
'She's asking too many questions, but she looks cute when she's curious.' he thought but quickly erased the last one and pulled her away from the room. "Hn." was his only reply.
"I knew it, you are, and I wanna see." she said, completely forgetting all her training in how to handle herself. 'It's amazing how that seems to happen a lot when I'm around him.' she thought but quickly discarded it.
"Come on." Heero said dragging her down the hall and she whined. "You still don't trust me do you, well I promise I won't tell, what is it?" she said and he glared back at her. "Stay away from that room for your own safety." he said.
"Why, is there a crazy lunatic in there who's got a thing for cute blondes?" she asked smirking and Heero whipped around and looked at her. "No but there's one standing in front of you." he said pointing his gun at her again, then thought about what he had said.
"What was that?" she asked, halfway taken aback by what he said, and halfway nervous about having the barrel of a trigger-happy pilot's gun pointed at her, again.
Heero simply grunted, pulled away his gun and began to pull her along again. "You know, if I don't see it now, I'll just go later." she said and he stopped and glared at her. "Then I guess I'll just stand guard until you leave." he stated.
"Yea, I suppose you could, but a person can only hold it for so long." she challenged and he just glared at her while she glared back. Suddenly a blinding light shined in his eyes and he let go of her hand and shielded his eyes.
He heard the flashlight fall to the ground followed by heavy footsteps away from him. He ignored the white polka dots on everything and took off after the blonde girl as the flashlight flickered out.
He had to admit she was very persistent and a pretty fast runner but in this case, that wasn't a necessarily good thing.
He sprinted until he was right at her tail, her long blonde hair was just within an arms reach, waving back in forth in a slightly teasing manor and he fought the urge to grab it out of his face.
Serena reached the door and came to a sudden stop. She pulled the door open halfway enough for her to get in, when a hand came and slammed the door shut again. 'Damn.' she thought. She knew the prefect soldier was fast but not THAT fast, barely anyone could out run her when she wanted to be fast.
She turned around and looked at Heero who had a dangerous look in his eyes but she matched it with a glare of her own which would have made Heero shiver had he not been the 'perfect soldier.'
"What the hell where you thinking?" he hissed putting his hands on both sides of her head on the door, making it so she couldn't escape without some effort.
"That the flashlight would've defied gravity for a few more seconds. But apparently my plan didn't work." she said sarcastically. Heero fought his urge to smile, or at least smirk at her comment and soon felt all of his anger towards the blonde melt away.
"Ok, ok, I give up, I'll stay away from this door that I'm currently being pinned against." Serena said holding up her hands in defeat. "I bow down to the great one." she said smiling as bowing her head slightly and looked back up to see what looked like a smile.
She did a double take only making Heero's smile broaden. 'Do I have the right perfect soldier?' she thought. "Oh my gosh, is that a smile?" Serena said with a surprised look on her face that made Heero begin to laugh. (AN: AHHHHHH!!!!! Hell's freezing over.)
'What's happening to me, I don't smile and certainly don't laugh. I'm the Perfect Soldier damnit.' he argued with himself but couldn't stop laughing as the dazed look on Serena' face turned into a puzzled one.
"What's so funny, I want to laugh too." Serena said putting her hands on her hips, about the only place she could put them with Heero basically barricading her to the wall.
"It's nothing." he said as he began to sober from his first laughter fit since he could remember. "Why am I getting the impression that I was being laughed at?" Serena asked.
"I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing with you." Heero said. 'Where'd that come from?' he thought. "I wasn't laughing." Serena stated and an evil smirk came over Heero's features. "Yet." he said and he began a tickling attack on Serena making her laugh and squirm, attempting to stop the 'brutal attack'.
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"Well, it looks like we'll be trapped in here for the rest of the day, no more lounging by the pool." Lita said as another clap of thunder went through the sky and heavy raindrops began to fall, thudding, as they came in contact with the roof of the mansion.
"Yea, it's really coming down out there." Ami said as she passed out five cards to everyone who was seated at the kitchen table, being herself, Mina, Trowa, Duo and Quatre. Lita was currently loading the dishwasher on the other side of the kitchen.
"Ok, what are the wilds?" Quatre asked. "Dealer's choice." Mina said looking at her cards. "2's, 3's and 4's." Ami said then picked up her cards and smiled in satisfaction.
"Why the odd choice of numbers?" Trowa asked noticing that that was each of the pilots, who were seated at the table's, numbers. Mina kicked her friend under the table. "Ow, what was that for?" Duo asked rubbing his hurt shin.
"Opps, wrong person." she said looking under the table then over at her friend who shrugged. "I don't know. Just an interesting combination of numbers." Ami said moving her cards around in her hand.
Lita rolled her eyes at the girl and sat down in her seat then suddenly the lights flickered out and the sound of the dishwasher stopped. "Ah man, and I had all wilds." Duo said throwing his cards down on the table.
"Now there's really nothing to do." Lita grumbled crossing her arms over her chest though on one could see. "Hey, let's go outside and play." Mina said. "Yea, I haven't done that in like 10 years and it's a monsoon out there." Lita said.
"Exactly, come on." Mina said standing up and accidentally kicking Duo again. "Ouch." he grumbled. "Sorry Duo, now come on. There's nothing else to do." Mina said.
"What about lightening?" Ami asked and Mina sighed. "Ami, you worry too much." Mina said walking out the kitchen door. "Might as well." Lita said standing and the small group headed out of the door.
Mina was standing in the rain by the pool when they got outside. "Glad you decided to join me." Mina yelled over the storm. "Well, we figured if you got electrocuted we might as well join you." Lita said and Mina rolled her eyes.
"Well that's enough talk, let's shed those clothes boys." Mina said taking off her shirt, she had worn her yellow swim suit under her outfit. "Uh, Miss. Mina.." Quatre started but Mina just jumped into the pool.
"Might as well." Lita said taking off her shirt, to reveal a green swim suit, then running in after her friend who had re-emerged to the surface. "Come on, you're not making this any fun." Mina said. Ami sighed and walked towards the pool taking off her shirt, showing off a blue suit and then diving in.
"Now it's the guys turn." Mina said smirking. "Ok!" Duo said throwing off his shirt then jumping in. "Red Rover Red Rover, send Trowa on over." Mina said as a strike of lightening ripped through the sky.
Trowa looked at Quatre who had an undecided look on his face. "We're already wet anyway." Trowa said looking down at his already rain soaked shirt. "Yes you are, now come on before the water starts to over flow." Mina said getting impatient.
"I guess you're right." Quatre said and everyone smiled. "Come on." Lita said and the two guys took off their shirts and jumped in the pool. (AN: I wanna go!)
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That's it for now, I'll get the next chapter out soon enough I hope. Well, anyways. Peaces until next chapter. MIS.