Everything I Do; 4
Relena reached the back stairway without seeing friend or foe. She started to climb the old narrow stairway that had been designed for the use of servants in an era passed. She cautiously started the climb up a flight of stairs that would bring her another step closer to the roof. A thumping sound came from ahead on the dark stairway just as something crashed into her and knocked her back down the stairs. Another person and she bounced down the stairs and came to a stop in a tangle at the bottom.
Relena massaged her head where it had smacked against the wall and woozily got to her feet. Catherine was knocked unconscious a few meters away. Someone started to clamber down the stairs as Relena flattened herself against the wall beside the stairs for support as much as self- preservation. Catherine was safely out of view to the side, and Relena braced herself against the pain.
The man noticed Catherine's shoe when he reached the bottom of the stairs. He turned to face the unconscious girl and made the mistake of not looking the other way. He had a hand up to his cheek in an effort to stop the flow of blood inflicted by one of Catherine's knives. "There you are, you sneaky little bitch. I'll have fun making you pay for marring my perfect face." He raised his gun.
Catherine awoke to the sound of a gun going off. She blinked in the dark hallway as the gun landed a few inches from her braced hand. She squinted to see the man lunge at a quick-footed girl. The unknown girl's foot struck him back against a wall. The man reached into his jacket just as a shot sounded from nearby. Catherine looked at her hands in astonishment as she realized it was her who had killed.
Relena searched the man for identification and weapons. She found a small laser-gun in his pocket and wondered why man was so sadistic he would come up with new killing implements that would slay on contact, without pain or bloodshed, yet he still opted to use the violent gun. She placed the laser in her pocket and continued to look for weapons. She pulled a self-detonator out next. She was familiar with these miniature bombs that Heero so frequently used. They were made for a soldier to take the easy way out, and if one was really fast, they could use it as a hand- grenade, but not many could do that successfully.
Last but not least she hauled a knife out of his boot and went to slide it into her shoe. It was then that she noticed she was wearing slippers, now covered in blood. She shrugged and slid the knife into her sleeve. Catherine watched while the fierce little woman gracefully got to her feet and walked over to her.
Relena extended her hand to Catherine to help her off the ground. Catherine looked up at her with surprise shown on her face. They grasped hands and Catherine stumbled to her feet.
The knife-throwing girl gasped as she looked into the eyes of the woman who helped her. A shiver went down her spine. "Relena!?" The woman just turned on her heels and headed back up the stairs. Catherine knew she would never forget the chill Relena's hard eyes caused, nor did she think her friend's life would ever be the same again.
It took Catherine longer than she thought to catch up with Relena's self- assured, quick strides. When she did, Relena was just yanking a deeply imbedded knife out of the wooded wall paneling. The girl flicked it towards her and grinned when it was easily caught by the professional knife- handler.
"I believe this is yours."
"I can't believe you just went through the pockets of a dead man looking for weapons and didn't even blink." When she was looked at with that fazing, unreadable expression of Heero's she continued on. "It's just so un-Relena like. Are you possessed?"
Relena just continued striding up the stairs. She turned around so suddenly Catherine almost lost her balance. "Do you need medical attention?"
"No."
"Will you be able to shoot the weapon again without hesitation?" She nodded to the gun Catherine still had clutched in her hand.
"Yes."
Relena nodded and continued up the stairs.
"Why."
"If I didn't think you could do it, I'd send you down to the infirmary to help Sally. As it is, I'd rather have you here to watch my back." Relena reached the next floor and opened the door instead of continuing on her way up the stairs.
Catherine pinched herself to make sure she wasn't still knocked out and followed Relena's skilled movements. The other girl wasn't the least bit hesitant, scared, or distracted. This wasn't the peaceful girl she knew, and that frightened Catherine more than anything.
She never thought she'd be praying for death. It had always been a wish for life she added in her prayers. She drifted back into a comatose state again and listened to a scream of horror. Was it her own?
Duo wiped sweat off his forehead and hung his head. "I thought we had her for a moment." Hilde held back tears as Noin's pulse died. Sally ripped off an arm of the Preventor uniform and cleansed the elbow joint. She held a needle up to her own arm and was about to pierce the skin when Wufei stopped her.
"I'll do it."
"But you have to guard the door."
"All these people are counting on YOU. You just can't sacrifice them for one dead woman, no matter how much you care. Let me do it." He yanked off his shirt and across the room an injured girl swooned. Duo muttered to Wufei and left the room to stand guard.
Sally's hand shook as she pressed the needle into Wufei's flesh. The other side of the tubing was forced into Noin's vein. Hilde took up the CPR again as the blood transfusion began. Wufei looked down at the needle in his arm. It wasn't so bad, even if needles terrified him. He muttered a silent curse to Duo and thought 'it is not love that made me do this you braided baka' a bit too viciously. What else could it be?
Quatre wasn't sure why Heero had commanded him to protect the library at all costs. The man had a reason for everything, and there was probably something extremely precious in the room. Trowa and he had de-activated the bomb within seconds of detonation. Both of them had been extremely worried about the princess and Quatre had volunteered to look for her. He just hoped he wouldn't be finding pieces. Quatre was yearning for a bit of action. He adored the rush, the violence, and the superiority when he came out victorious; and that scared him. No matter how much the battle appealed to him, peace was the most preciously delicate thing in the world, and he would make sure it would live on.
Relena had made up her mind to move out of the castle after this was over. No matter how much these walls were scrubbed the stench of death would remain. She would never be able to cleanse the memories and horrors. She came to a halt at a corner and Catherine tiptoed after her.
"What is it? Is there someone there?"
Relena ignored her and reached around the corner. She yanked a man by his hair until he was in front of her. She held the knife to his throat and let it prick the skin. "What side are you on?"
Relena pressed her knee into the back of his leg. It should have caused him to loose his balance, but instead he flung his head back and cracked his skull against hers. The knife flew from her hand as she was knocked against the wall. She reached for her gun; he reached for his. They both shot at exactly the same moment as they mirrored each other's movements of lunging to the ground.
Catherine watched with open mouth at the perfect synchronies of their movements. She rushed over to Relena and helped her up.
"Did you kill him?"
"No. Thank God." She walked over to the man and extended her hand. "I'm sorry Quatre. I didn't recognize you until it was too late."
"Quatre! Oh God. Are you ok honey?" Catherine flung herself into his arms.
"No. He's shot."
Quatre looked at the girl with the expressionless voice. "And here we were worried about your safety. We should be sorry for the enemy." He grimaced as he looked at his slightly grazed arm. "How did you know?"
"I always know where I hit." She ran a finger along her arm. "I can feel it." She bent to retrieve her knife. "You guys wait here." She walked towards a door.
"Is there someone in there?"
"I don't know. I have to use the bathroom."
"In the middle of a battle?"
"Nature calls." She shrugged.
Quatre started to mutter about having to hold it for days during the war, or going in a bottle. Then his rant picked up when he started to complain about Heero's Gundam having a built in toilet-tube. Quatre was just getting into his rant when a thudding noise came from the bathroom. He and Catherine exchanged panicked looks as they ran in, afraid for Relena's life. Relena scowled at them from her position kneeling beside an unconscious girl on the bloody tile floor. A few feet away was the mangled body of a Preventor soldier.
"What happened?"
Relena examined the gun lying lax in the girl's hand. "She fell."
"After you pushed her? Right? The little b*tch obviously killed one of our men"
Relena looked at Catherine and left the gun where it was. "Not everything is as black and white as it appears. When I walked in she was straddling him, still plummeting her fist into his face. I'd say he's been dead for half an hour. What do you think Quatre?"
Quatre looked at the young girl lying in blood that wasn't her own. His voice cracked when he looked at her small figure and delicate features. "I think he raped her, and by some twist of fate she managed to kill him before he killed her."
Relena walked into a stall in the bathroom. Quatre turned away embarrassed as the tinkling sound came from the stall. "I think we should bring her to Sally."
"But she's still the enemy, isn't she?"
"No, she's one of ours." Relena replied as she unrolled some toilet paper. "She's a Preventor's daughter." Relena didn't mention that she was pretty sure her father was the man lying dead a few feet away. With the flush of the toilet, she emerged from the stall and knelt beside the girl. Again, as if not knowing what to do with it she twirled the gun around in her hands.
"Can you carry her Quatre?"
He easily hefted the girl into his arms as Relena discretely tucked the gun into the hollow of her lower back. Catherine huffed out of the bathroom and held the door open for Quatre, before letting it go in Relena's face. Instead of being annoyed, or pissed off, Relena was quite amused at this little show of pettiness.
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Relena reached the back stairway without seeing friend or foe. She started to climb the old narrow stairway that had been designed for the use of servants in an era passed. She cautiously started the climb up a flight of stairs that would bring her another step closer to the roof. A thumping sound came from ahead on the dark stairway just as something crashed into her and knocked her back down the stairs. Another person and she bounced down the stairs and came to a stop in a tangle at the bottom.
Relena massaged her head where it had smacked against the wall and woozily got to her feet. Catherine was knocked unconscious a few meters away. Someone started to clamber down the stairs as Relena flattened herself against the wall beside the stairs for support as much as self- preservation. Catherine was safely out of view to the side, and Relena braced herself against the pain.
The man noticed Catherine's shoe when he reached the bottom of the stairs. He turned to face the unconscious girl and made the mistake of not looking the other way. He had a hand up to his cheek in an effort to stop the flow of blood inflicted by one of Catherine's knives. "There you are, you sneaky little bitch. I'll have fun making you pay for marring my perfect face." He raised his gun.
Catherine awoke to the sound of a gun going off. She blinked in the dark hallway as the gun landed a few inches from her braced hand. She squinted to see the man lunge at a quick-footed girl. The unknown girl's foot struck him back against a wall. The man reached into his jacket just as a shot sounded from nearby. Catherine looked at her hands in astonishment as she realized it was her who had killed.
Relena searched the man for identification and weapons. She found a small laser-gun in his pocket and wondered why man was so sadistic he would come up with new killing implements that would slay on contact, without pain or bloodshed, yet he still opted to use the violent gun. She placed the laser in her pocket and continued to look for weapons. She pulled a self-detonator out next. She was familiar with these miniature bombs that Heero so frequently used. They were made for a soldier to take the easy way out, and if one was really fast, they could use it as a hand- grenade, but not many could do that successfully.
Last but not least she hauled a knife out of his boot and went to slide it into her shoe. It was then that she noticed she was wearing slippers, now covered in blood. She shrugged and slid the knife into her sleeve. Catherine watched while the fierce little woman gracefully got to her feet and walked over to her.
Relena extended her hand to Catherine to help her off the ground. Catherine looked up at her with surprise shown on her face. They grasped hands and Catherine stumbled to her feet.
The knife-throwing girl gasped as she looked into the eyes of the woman who helped her. A shiver went down her spine. "Relena!?" The woman just turned on her heels and headed back up the stairs. Catherine knew she would never forget the chill Relena's hard eyes caused, nor did she think her friend's life would ever be the same again.
It took Catherine longer than she thought to catch up with Relena's self- assured, quick strides. When she did, Relena was just yanking a deeply imbedded knife out of the wooded wall paneling. The girl flicked it towards her and grinned when it was easily caught by the professional knife- handler.
"I believe this is yours."
"I can't believe you just went through the pockets of a dead man looking for weapons and didn't even blink." When she was looked at with that fazing, unreadable expression of Heero's she continued on. "It's just so un-Relena like. Are you possessed?"
Relena just continued striding up the stairs. She turned around so suddenly Catherine almost lost her balance. "Do you need medical attention?"
"No."
"Will you be able to shoot the weapon again without hesitation?" She nodded to the gun Catherine still had clutched in her hand.
"Yes."
Relena nodded and continued up the stairs.
"Why."
"If I didn't think you could do it, I'd send you down to the infirmary to help Sally. As it is, I'd rather have you here to watch my back." Relena reached the next floor and opened the door instead of continuing on her way up the stairs.
Catherine pinched herself to make sure she wasn't still knocked out and followed Relena's skilled movements. The other girl wasn't the least bit hesitant, scared, or distracted. This wasn't the peaceful girl she knew, and that frightened Catherine more than anything.
She never thought she'd be praying for death. It had always been a wish for life she added in her prayers. She drifted back into a comatose state again and listened to a scream of horror. Was it her own?
Duo wiped sweat off his forehead and hung his head. "I thought we had her for a moment." Hilde held back tears as Noin's pulse died. Sally ripped off an arm of the Preventor uniform and cleansed the elbow joint. She held a needle up to her own arm and was about to pierce the skin when Wufei stopped her.
"I'll do it."
"But you have to guard the door."
"All these people are counting on YOU. You just can't sacrifice them for one dead woman, no matter how much you care. Let me do it." He yanked off his shirt and across the room an injured girl swooned. Duo muttered to Wufei and left the room to stand guard.
Sally's hand shook as she pressed the needle into Wufei's flesh. The other side of the tubing was forced into Noin's vein. Hilde took up the CPR again as the blood transfusion began. Wufei looked down at the needle in his arm. It wasn't so bad, even if needles terrified him. He muttered a silent curse to Duo and thought 'it is not love that made me do this you braided baka' a bit too viciously. What else could it be?
Quatre wasn't sure why Heero had commanded him to protect the library at all costs. The man had a reason for everything, and there was probably something extremely precious in the room. Trowa and he had de-activated the bomb within seconds of detonation. Both of them had been extremely worried about the princess and Quatre had volunteered to look for her. He just hoped he wouldn't be finding pieces. Quatre was yearning for a bit of action. He adored the rush, the violence, and the superiority when he came out victorious; and that scared him. No matter how much the battle appealed to him, peace was the most preciously delicate thing in the world, and he would make sure it would live on.
Relena had made up her mind to move out of the castle after this was over. No matter how much these walls were scrubbed the stench of death would remain. She would never be able to cleanse the memories and horrors. She came to a halt at a corner and Catherine tiptoed after her.
"What is it? Is there someone there?"
Relena ignored her and reached around the corner. She yanked a man by his hair until he was in front of her. She held the knife to his throat and let it prick the skin. "What side are you on?"
Relena pressed her knee into the back of his leg. It should have caused him to loose his balance, but instead he flung his head back and cracked his skull against hers. The knife flew from her hand as she was knocked against the wall. She reached for her gun; he reached for his. They both shot at exactly the same moment as they mirrored each other's movements of lunging to the ground.
Catherine watched with open mouth at the perfect synchronies of their movements. She rushed over to Relena and helped her up.
"Did you kill him?"
"No. Thank God." She walked over to the man and extended her hand. "I'm sorry Quatre. I didn't recognize you until it was too late."
"Quatre! Oh God. Are you ok honey?" Catherine flung herself into his arms.
"No. He's shot."
Quatre looked at the girl with the expressionless voice. "And here we were worried about your safety. We should be sorry for the enemy." He grimaced as he looked at his slightly grazed arm. "How did you know?"
"I always know where I hit." She ran a finger along her arm. "I can feel it." She bent to retrieve her knife. "You guys wait here." She walked towards a door.
"Is there someone in there?"
"I don't know. I have to use the bathroom."
"In the middle of a battle?"
"Nature calls." She shrugged.
Quatre started to mutter about having to hold it for days during the war, or going in a bottle. Then his rant picked up when he started to complain about Heero's Gundam having a built in toilet-tube. Quatre was just getting into his rant when a thudding noise came from the bathroom. He and Catherine exchanged panicked looks as they ran in, afraid for Relena's life. Relena scowled at them from her position kneeling beside an unconscious girl on the bloody tile floor. A few feet away was the mangled body of a Preventor soldier.
"What happened?"
Relena examined the gun lying lax in the girl's hand. "She fell."
"After you pushed her? Right? The little b*tch obviously killed one of our men"
Relena looked at Catherine and left the gun where it was. "Not everything is as black and white as it appears. When I walked in she was straddling him, still plummeting her fist into his face. I'd say he's been dead for half an hour. What do you think Quatre?"
Quatre looked at the young girl lying in blood that wasn't her own. His voice cracked when he looked at her small figure and delicate features. "I think he raped her, and by some twist of fate she managed to kill him before he killed her."
Relena walked into a stall in the bathroom. Quatre turned away embarrassed as the tinkling sound came from the stall. "I think we should bring her to Sally."
"But she's still the enemy, isn't she?"
"No, she's one of ours." Relena replied as she unrolled some toilet paper. "She's a Preventor's daughter." Relena didn't mention that she was pretty sure her father was the man lying dead a few feet away. With the flush of the toilet, she emerged from the stall and knelt beside the girl. Again, as if not knowing what to do with it she twirled the gun around in her hands.
"Can you carry her Quatre?"
He easily hefted the girl into his arms as Relena discretely tucked the gun into the hollow of her lower back. Catherine huffed out of the bathroom and held the door open for Quatre, before letting it go in Relena's face. Instead of being annoyed, or pissed off, Relena was quite amused at this little show of pettiness.
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End of chapter four! I hope you're all enjoying this immensely. Please review.
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If you have a Gundam Wing story you wouldn't mind if I put on my site please sent it to relenafanel@hotmail.com Please visit just for the sake of going also, it specializes in hilarious Gundam Wing fanfictions.
Read my other stories:
This Is Not My Day Preventor's Grapevine Clinic's Therapy Must I Kill You!? I'm Not In Love With Heero Yuy!! Valentine's Day Showdown
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