If Only I Knew- Ch. 6
By: Emily AKA Linh
Disclaimers: I don't own Gundam Wing.
AN: Well, here's the next chapter. I'm going to try and make this chapter longer than the last one.
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"Hey, wait up, Heero!" Heero continues to walk faster as Duo scream at the top of his lungs for his friend. Duo tries to catch up, but he was drifting farther and farther behind as the perfect soldier increase his speed.
"This isn't a race you know. Man, slow down. Can we rest? We've been running…walking…for like how long now?"
Heero was more than worry about Relena. He didn't want to lose her for she was his strength and a peace symbol of the world. No way was he going to fight again. So there was no way in hell was he going to let anything happen to her. She's too important to him and to other people.
This act of emotions was unlike the act of a perfect soldier, but what's the point of being the perfect soldier when the one person you have to protect, you let slip out of your hands like that? He cursed at himself for letting something like this happened. Maybe that's why he avoided seeing Relena. There were many people out there who wants him dead and knowing his weakness makes the task of killing him so much easier.
Soon they reached a plane that was parked in the middle of a forest clearing. Heero got in and started the engine. He was preparing for lift off when Duo came running, out of breath, and he can barely utter a word.
"Y…You…should…join…a w…walk-a-ton…or something…Man…" Duo said between gasp.
"Get in or get out of the way," was his only reply. If you were someone who didn't know Heero well, you would have no notice the worry look on his face. Some might just say that there's no feeling at all, but Duo knew better. He can see right through him. 'HEH…the bastard! If you're worry, just say so, don't have to try and hide it.' He also knows not to open his mouth at a time like this. If it were some other day, his mouth wouldn't even know the meaning of the word 'close' or 'shut'. That's what Hilde always tells him. 'HM…Hilde…I wonder what she's doing right now. Wait! Snap out of it Duo. There's more important matters at hand.'
"Hey, don't worry, we'll find her in time and we can beat the bastard that took her until they beg for mercy. Well, until we get the information we need anyway." Heero looked over at his friend and in the glimpse of an eye, a small smile flashed on his face and liked it appeared, it vanished just as fast.
As the plane flew through the air, the two comrades sat in silence, both lost in their own thoughts.
The radar on his waist beep and he knows that Relena is close by somewhere. Far ahead, he notices the forest with the high trees and maze-like structure. It's very difficult to fly close to the top of this forest because it's so high and the tree's branch covers the top so you can barely see through it.
"I know that forest," Duo said from his seat, "back in the olden days, the soldiers would use that forest to trap their enemies in. Once the enemies enter it, leaving would be hard. You know how the maze works, right? Entering one is very easy, you can do it in your sleep, but it's the leaving that's the hard part. Only certain people, now, have the directions to get out."
"Is that so?"
"What? You don't believe me?"
"HN…If we come in, you know a way to get out?"
"No, but I can work on it."
"Okay, you stay here and I'll go find Relena. Call my cell phone and this is a tracking device so you know where I am." Heero instructed, once the plane landed on the ground about 1 mile from the forest.
"Be careful."
"HN…don't worry about it. Just find a way to get us out." With that, he turned and ran toward the place Relena is held captive.
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Following Heero's instructions, the three former Gundam pilots travel to outer space to retrieve the Gundam. Normally, they would have comments about this mission, but seeing how Heero was pissed off and worried, they did as they were told. Even Wufei, who never take orders, went along with the plan with only a snarl and muttered something under this breath.
Wufei's mind was on more important things, like what Sally and that creep are doing. They were having dinner in a hotel. GRGR…Wufei knew that she was doing this on purpose to get him jealous, but why would he be jealous? It's not like he likes her or anything. He wasn't in love with such a woman. Too controlling for his taste. All women are too controlling for this taste.
Then why does he feeling like a big wall just fell on his heart? This new feeling got him confused and angry.
Staring out the shuttle's window, he thought back to the events that happened in the last couple of hours.
~Flashback~
It was like any other day. He worked on one side of the room, ignoring Sally and she worked on the opposite side, trying to ignore him, but both were failing miserably. Every movement he made she saw through the corner of her eyes and he was more than aware of hers too.
The first hour, he worked on the stack of papers on his desk, left from the previous day. Then he got up for some coffee and she yelled after him to get her a cup too while he's at it. Wufei growled and gave her his death glare. She totally ignored it and smiled sweetly at him. He returned with two cups, set one on her desk, and looked at her head while she continued working.
She looked up from her paper and was surprised that he was still standing there.
"Yes?" She asked in her fake sweet, innocent voice. Sally knows he's about to yell or scream something about women and starts threatening her again. 'HEH…he always threatened me, but he's all word and no actions. Men.'
Wufei didn't answer her. He just stood there and stared at her, as if he's trying to figure something out. Well, whatever it was it was soon interrupted by a loud, happy voice behind him. Wufei snapped his head back and stared at the man with the long braid.
"Hey Wufei! Why are you staring at Sally like that? Don't tell me that you finally came to your senses and realized that you two are made for each other. Don't deny your…"
Duo's thoughts were cut short when a gun was suddenly pointing at his face. 'Think before you speak, Maxwell.' He thought as fear showed on his handsome face.
"You have exactly 3 seconds to get out of my sight or your head will become Mash Potato," Wufei growled at him, "1…2" and Duo was off. He was already out the door when Wufei shouted two. At the count of three, he fired a shot at the door just to prove his point.
Sally was laughing her head off. It has always been amusing to her to watch the two of them play cat and mouse and Wufei wasn't always the cat, just today. (AN: another story. ^^;)
"What's so funny?" He demanded.
"HAHA…nothing…nothing," she said, trying to hold back laughter, "that's coming out of your paycheck, mister."
"Blum...lum…mum…women! GRGR…IB KAUNT BILEIVE JIS." He wasn't making sense. Just muttered a whole bunch of nonsense. That's what happened when he's seeing red.
Storming back to his desk, he realized that Duo's words really hit him, harder than it should. It puzzles him as to why this is happening, this feeling of anger mixed with a new emotion he's having for the woman sitting in the other side of the room…love? Lust? Respect? Well, whatever it is, he doesn't want to feel it anymore.
'That idiot! If I ever get my hands on him, he's going to die a horrible death. Heero Yuy wouldn't be the only one after him.'
The rest of the morning went by in silence. Once in a while, someone would poke his or her head through the door, see the bullet hole, looked nervously around him, and hurried out, forgetting why they were here in the first place. Never mess with an angry man, especially if that person is Wufei or Heero.
It wasn't until lunchtime when Sally finally gets up and walked over to Wufei's desk. Sitting on the corner of his desk, she handing him the report that she been working on. He took a look at it, impressed at her work, but showing no sign of it, signed it and gave it back to her. The whole process was done without a word.
"Hello? Um…Sally?" A voice came from behind her. She turned around, expecting to see some co-worker with more work, but instead she came face-to-face with a smile bigger than Pacific Ocean. A handsome face that she would realize even if she was up in the air and he was lost in a crowd.
The man was about 6'1, a lot taller than Wufei. His greenish blue eyes were captivating. His smile was so sexy and he moved across the room like he was rolling on ice. He was wearing slacks and a Polo T-Shirt with a sport jacket over it covering his muscular body. A very handsome man that would make any woman fall down on their hands and knees and beg him to take them out.
"Oh My God! Dan! What are you doing here?" She walked up to him and gives him a hug.
"I was in town and thought I would come by and see you. Are you busy? I thought we could talk and catch up. Man, so many years went by since the last time we met," he said, as she slowly released him, but her hands were still on his arms and his were barely touching her waist.
Wufei, who was watching this whole process, looked like he was going to kill someone. The handsome young man looked around the room and spotted Wufei glaring at him. Suddenly, the temperature dropped twenty degrees. Scary!
Sally smiled at him, unaware of the change in atmosphere and totally ignoring Wufei or she just forgot that he was in the room. "Yeah, 3 years is it? I was about to go on my break anyway. Care to join me?"
"Sure, I would love to," Dan replied, accepting her invitation, he followed her to the sofa in the middle of the room, right between hers and Wufei's desk. She motioned for him to sit down.
"So what have you been up to in the last 3 years?" She asked him.
"Well, not much. I traveled a lot."
"The last time I heard from you, you were getting marry."
Wufei, hearing this smiled in his head. 'Good, the bastard's married.' He was about to return to his work, not caring about the couple, when Dan's next statement made him stop and his heart stopped beating for 3 seconds…or was it 10? Who's counting anyway?
"Yeah, that…well, it never happened. I realized that it was a mistake or we both realized that it was and cancelled the wedding. I should have seen it coming, with all the signs, but we both thought it would work out. I guess not." He gave her a small smile.
"So what? You decided to come here and hit on the first woman you see or something? Just to prove you still got to man in you?" Wufei said, sneering.
Dan smiled his charming smile and said, "Well, if that was true, then the last 100 ladies I saw today, before Sally, would be lining up for dinner with me tonight?" He was joking, but Wufei didn't find it very funny and the man was starting to annoy him.
Even though Wufei have no respect for women, he still thinks that a man should only be with one woman, so that joke about 100 of them with one man, makes him infuriated.
"I wouldn't be surprised. What is it like one lady per minute or something?" he said sarcastically.
"HAHA…God, No! You have a good sense of humor," Obviously not sensing the mocking in Wufei's voice, or he did, but did want to show it. Avoiding getting into a fight is always a good thing, that's his motto. Looking back at Sally he said, "I have no plans tonight, no yet anyway," a hint in his voice.
Sally didn't notice because now she was just realizing that Wufei was still in the room.
"Did I sound like I'm making a joke?" Continued Wufei, obviously not letting the subject drop. He wants Sally to see what a creep this guy is, but he's playing it cool like it was just a friendly joke, "I didn't find that very funny."
"So what exactly do you do anyway?" Asked Wufei when he saw the look on Sally's face.
"I do a lot of traveling, you know, from here to there."
"Yeah, yeah, I got that, but what do you do when you travel? Do you actually have a job or do you travel for fun because you don't have one?"
"My job is very complicated to explain and I might how to kill you afterward," he laughed at his own joke and Sally joined in, but Wufei was just looking at him like he's the stupidest shit ever.
"Try me."
He stop laughing, realizing that the Chinese man is not going to drop the subject just like that, "I…um…"
Sally, suddenly aware at what Wufei was doing, turned to Dan and asked him if he wanted to go for a walk.
"Sure, I would love to," he said, relieve to get away from the wary looking pilot.
Once they were outside, Dan felt like he could breathe again.
"Dan about that…he's just that type of person, you know? He's so serious sometimes that it can be intimidating, but he's harmless…UM…most of the time, that is."
"What type is that? The jealousy type?" he asked in a challenging voice, but he was smiling down at her.
"Wufei? Jealous? HA! Yeah, and pigs can fly."
"Actually, some scientist believe that they can genetically…"
Sally put her hands up in surrender. "Okay, okay, I get it…HAHA…you win."
"Want to try and experiments something with me?"
"HM? What do you have in mind?"
"Okay, this is what we're going to do…"
Twenty minutes later they came back inside. Sally's break was over, but she convinced Dan to stay for a little while.
Sally was showing Dan some of the work that she been doing, the non-confidential, of course. They were having such a good time that none of them notice when Wufei left for 2 hours and returned.
Wufei, hate being unnoticed, was about ready to beat the shit out of Dan, but he knew better. Sally would be so pisses off at him if he did, but hey, it never hurts to dream.
~End of Flashback~
"We're here," Trowa's voice, snapped him out of this trance.
"Finally, let's get this damn job over with," replied Wufei.
"Now, remember what Heero said." Quatre said.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Wake me up when Yuy call." With that Wufei, close his eyes and tries to go to sleep.
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'Heero, where are you?'
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AN: Well, what a long-ass chapter. Hoped you guys enjoyed it.
1/25/03