Rocks in Sand
© Lady Pax
A/N- Second chapter, UP! ^_^ Thank you, wonderful reviewers:
(C. L) – You want to read the rest? KEEP REVIEWING!!
(Shibby Raquel) – I continue! I continue! Aye, aye!
(Duop) (brother Tony, who told me his review on the phone) – Don't call me sissy-poo. Thanks for your review. I ...think... ^_^
( ) (e-mail didn't give the name... sorry if you do have one – I mean, I know you have one but...aw, never mind!) – aww, thanks for the review! Hehe... ZECHS IS MY FAVORITE TOO!!! Fwee! *xoxo @ Zechs*
If you guys like this fic, or broken family fics, you will DEFINITELY love my other broken-family fic "The Story of a Family". Non-yaoi (made when I was a scared, homophobic little girl). Duo abandons his daughter, but she finds him – and she's been abused. Read – after you review Part Two, of course! ^_~
And say, does anybody here watch Weiss Kreuz, or know most about it? I want to get the VHSes, or DVDs, but they don't sell them in the U.S. yet (only fan-subs, which I am a little too paranoid to get), so I was just planning on reading up on it, and reading info about it from numerous sites – so I can write fics about it, and understand the storyline and everything... Sounds like a stupid idea, and you don't want to do it – even if you know good info sites? Well listen to this:
If you like my Gundam Wing fics, let me tell you... I've never seen the Gundam Wing series. Just Endless Waltz – and even then, that was dubbed crappily, and some images were messed. Then how do I know so much – more than people that have seen the series, even?
Because there are some pretty darn good websites out there, with plenty of info – and a few scripts. And sound wavs, and mp3s to let me listen to a few episodes.
So yeah... Anyway – send in Weiss Kreuz info sites, PLEASE!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, but Shae (Yuy-)Merquise, and Riana (Yuy-)Merquise are original characters, and they are copyrighted (©) to me! So no using them without telling me or asking for permission first! I'll say yes, even if they're murdered or tortured! I JUST WANT TO KNOW! Yeah... anyway...
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part | two
Location: Fredworth International Commuter Airport in Paris, New France
The thin, ivory-blonde haired young woman stepped out of the terminal, and into the large lobby of people waiting to get on the plane she had just stepped off of. She wore a simple outfit of slender-fitting jeans that belled out at the feet; a blue, button down, long-sleeved shirt that was un-tucked; and black and white sneakers; and her hair was in a ponytail that reached the eye of her back – one could see when the light shone on her beautiful locks that she had put some sort of dye in it, so her hair shone an icy-blue. Her striking, silver-blue eyes scanned the area, looking for a man of similar attributes.
He wasn't there, and neither was the younger child he was supposed to be carrying – a child with chocolate brown hair, and a laughing face. Two people closest to her she hadn't seen in over a year.
So where were they, if they weren't waiting for her at the airport?
Riana wasn't scared, nor anxious. It was probably the jet-lag that prevented it. But then all her senses came on end when she heard a familiar voice. A voice that made her spirits rise, then plummet when memories-turned-instincts automatically told her to keep her guard up – and the hostility of a fierce teenager.
"It's been a while, Riana."
She turned, slowly, and she shifted her backpack and laptop case so they were on one shoulder. "Hello, Father," she said quietly – a hint of daughterly-love in her voice, but also a bit of hostility. Her eyes wandered to the man that was next to Heero. Her eye twitched slightly. "...Duo," she said, continuing the greetings. But the last statement she might as well have growled for what it sounded like. The word was full of malice, and she spoke it as if it pained her to say it.
Duo grinned – the boyish grin he had attained from somewhere long ago, and still kept – but the shadow of his somewhat-daughter never loving him flickered in his eyes. "Hey, how's it goin', Ri? Everything good? How was the plane ride?"
"Everything's fine, Father," she growled, staring at Heero. "My name is RIANA. And the plane ride was as good as they come. This is New-France, after all. They have one of the best commuter airports in the ESUN." She looked around again. "Speaking of which, where's my dad?"
"He—" Duo began, but Heero cut him off.
"He got stuck in traffic. He called Relena to contact someone to get you – seeing as he wasn't able to, and she's busy. She called me, and since Duo and I were going to be passing by here while going to Relena's manor anyway, we decided to pick you up. Hope you don't mind."
"I was hoping to see, them first, seeing as they are my immediate family," she said, "but I suppose if this was the only way to get me to see them, I won't complain, Father. So let's go. Please."
Heero nodded, and the trio began walking down the hallway to the exit. "Do you have any luggage?" Heero asked her, looking over his shoulder at her.
"No. My things that I needed were already sent to Aunt Relena's manor," Riana replied, and she glared at the back of Duo's head as she saw him put take her 'former-father''s hand in his, and Heero squeeze back. She lowered her eyes when she saw Heero look at her disapprovingly, though she didn't know how he could still control her like that, and walked silently the rest of the way until they got to Heero and Duo's dark green Honda Accord – where a surprise waited for her as it was leaning against the hood.
"Noin!" she exclaimed, dropping her backpack and laptop case quickly yet carefully and hugged the dark-haired woman. "Did you bring Sally or Lady Une with you?"
Noin laughed. "Une was busy, I'm afraid," she said, and Riana sighed.
"That's too bad. But she does have a lot of work at the station, I suppose."
"Yes, but Sally wouldn't let me leave without her...." As if on cue, a woman came from the inside of the car, holding a cell phone to her ear and listening to a voice that sounded amazingly like Lady "Anne" Une's. Riana smiled, and hugged the woman as well.
Sally laughed, and patted her back. The two parted, and Noin joined her, putting an arm around her koi's waist. Riana smiled at them. It had taken some getting used to when Sally and Noin had announced they were an item, but now, people could hardly remember ever seeing them apart – and out of an affectionate range. Noin whispered something in, and Sally nodded.
The blonde-haired woman stepped up, and held the cell-phone out to Riana. "It's Anne," she said. "She wants to speak to you." Riana nodded.
"Hello? Ms. Riana Yu—Ah, Merquise, speaking," she said, stumbling over her last name; Heero frowned. She had been given two last names at one point – a short one. Her full name had once been Riana Hikari Yuy-Merquise. But since her father and Heero had separated, the Yuy- had been taking out. She still had a few problems remembering that. Heero was disappointed for a reason acceptable. He love his daughters – and he still loved Zechs... But Duo seemed to be a bigger part of his life than the ivory-haired man. Not more than his daughters though. They meant the world to him... But too bad the same couldn't be said about they and him...
Riana could hear Une sigh in sympathy, but then her mood change. "I'm glad to see you're alive, Riana," she said.
"Why is that?" Riana asked.
She could hear another voice join Une's, though soft. He was speaking at Une – not to Riana, she soon realized when she heard them talk about getting files 285 filled out and sent to L3's representative...
"Lady Une? Are you busy?" Riana asked.
"Uh, sorry, Riana, I'm going to have to let you go... Duty calls."
Riana nodded, though the woman on the other line couldn't see the motion. "That's fine. I'll talk to you later. Umm...will you be at Aunt Relena's manor here in Paris?"
Lady Une spoke to her employee, then answered, "Yes, I will. But in about three days – so I won't be there when you arrive. I'll talk to you later, Riana. Goodbye."
"Bye." Riana was about to hang up as she eased herself into the backseat of Noin and Sally's convertible, when Lady Une stopped her.
"Oh yes, and Riana?"
"Yes?"
"Don't give Heero and Duo a hard time...they both love you." Zechs' oldest daughter went ridged. She hated it when people talked about Heero and Duo. She knew enough about them as she needed.
"Could've fooled me," she said coldly and hung up and the woman before she could say any more. The adults looked at her.
"Everything okay, Riana?" Sally asked as she and Noin opened the car door for her. She nodded, and entered. She buckled her safety belt, and looked at the concrete beam that was right out the car window. "You sure?" Riana nodded again.
She looked at the mirror above the dash, and her throat tightened. She saw Heero and Duo share a quick kiss, which burned her enough, but when Duo's hand lingered a bit lower than Heero's waist, her already frosty eyes became colder. Her expression hardened, and she glared at the two men when they entered. She had distinctively seen Heero catch Duo's wrist, and say the words "tonight".
"I have my own room, right?" she asked when the car began moving – partly to break the silence, and to burn the two men...
"Yes, of course," said Noin, looking at her with an arched eyebrow. "Why do you ask, Riana?"
"I'd like the opportunity to shut the door and muffle out the sounds of two certain people making out," she says. "I already know that they can make a terrible noise when they do." A smirk lifted the corner of her lips as Heero and Duo froze, and looked at each other, then her in awe and disbelief. iHild
"I certainly hope one of the man's braid is okay, especially when his lover almost pulled it off its roots when they were at it – or so the screams say."
Noin and Sally's eyebrows arched, and their gazes turned to the two men in the front seats. Heero had turned back to the road, his knuckles white from grasping the steering wheel so tightly, and Duo was looking at his hands – a blush staining his cheeks. Sally and Noin's expressions turned from surprise to scolding, but Riana pretended not to notice and said, "But at least I have a private room to myself this time." She made a small giggling noise in her throat.
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A/N- Well, that was interesting, ne? Hee! *g*
But I don't really like making poor Hee-chan and Du-kun the bad guys... *sniff* Oh well – all's fair in a story of love and war... ^_~
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