Soul of Outer Space
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(Except story line and all the characters that aren't from GW that is for all that careJ)
The Decision
Chapter 2: Always Make a Good First Impression
Duo woke the next morning and stretched his arms high over his head. Since Quatre, Trowa and Wufia were gone; Duo camped out in the game room and took over Trowa's bed. And if he said so himself it was a very comfortable bed he could see why Trowa wouldn't switch with anyone. Alexia's demonstration of her, shall we say sex, had not gone unnoticed by Duo's body nor his mind for that matter. Her little number on him the previous night had taken its toll. Her face and body had haunted his dreams all night long. Duo rolled over and took a look at the clock, the red letters blinked 2:30 meaning the power had gone out two and half hours ago. Groaning Duo pulled the covers back off of his nice warm bed and opened the door. The smell of bacon and pancakes filled his nostrils and Duo sighed happily. It would be a nice change to wake up every morning to a nice homemade meal and a beautiful women lying next to him. Unfortunately he only had the homemade meal right now maybe the beautiful women could come soon. Pulling a t-shirt from the floor Duo headed down the hallway and into Alexia's kitchen where she sat in a robe reading the morning newspaper, a cup of coffee sitting right in front of her.
"Morning" she said as he entered.
"What time is it?" Duo asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
"Around ten, I reset all the other clocks but I couldn't do the one in your room. I didn't want to wake you up." She said turning the page of her newspaper.
"Appreciated" Duo said taking a sip of his coffee. He nearly spit it out, "What is this stuff?"
"Coffee" Alexia said taking another sip of her coffee.
"No you see this isn't coffee this is the stuff that keeps Heero up for days on end with no sleep…" Alexia turned around slowly in her chair. "You both grew up with this type of coffee huh?" Alexia nodded her head, shaking his head Duo set his cup down, "All right where do you keep the cream and sugar?"
Smiling to herself Alexia said, "Frig and pantry." Duo opened the refrigerator and began looking for the cream.
"So do you have class today?" he asked. Alexia shook her head,
"No…I think I'm just going to hang out around here all day in my pjs catch up on homework and sleep."
"O okay." He sat down next to her and took a long sip of his coffee. "I think I'm going to hit the gym for a couple of hours." He looked up and saw Alexia nod her head.
"Have fun." She said turning the page of her newspaper. Duo shifted his feet, he felt very awkward just standing there. He looked down at her, in truth even in the morning she looked beautiful her hair was pulled back into a low ponytail and her feet folded up under her and he could see her puppy slippers poking their heads out from underneath. Shaking his head he headed back down the hall to put on some clothes and head down to the gym.
Duo had spent three hours down at the gym. He punched and jabbed, swam and ran. He needed to get all that sexual tension out of his system. Unfortunately every time he thought of the words sexual tension Alexia popped right back into his head. Eventually after three hours he just gave up and decided to head back upstairs. As he climbed into the elevator he looked at himself in the mirror, thinking out loud he spoke,
"Maybe by calling my attraction to Alexia by another name will help me control it. Now what is name that would repulse me? Wufia…Heero…?" Duo shivered at those ideas, "How about Bob…yes Bob is a good name." Duo nodded his head in enthusiasm. Yes Bob was an excellent name, no strings attached name. Duo exited the elevator and headed down the hall towards Alexia's apartment, upon entering he saw Alexia checking herself in the mirror. She looked up and saw him. They both just stared at each other. Alexia couldn't believe her eyes, she new that he was very muscular but nothing compared to what she was seeing now. His muscles were absolutely bulging. Duo on the other hand was seeing stars. Alexia was wearing a tight lavender dress the complimented her skin and black hair and making her eyes seem very blue. Showing off her curves she turned to look at him, the black heels she wore made her closer to his height. At the sight of her Duo's "Bob" went into overdrive.
"Hello Duo." Alexia said. Duo shook his head,
"Wow." Alexia giggled, "I mean Wow. You look amazing." He said not taking his eyes off her. "Where are you going?"
"One of my friends wanted me to go to a club with her tonight. I just wanted to make sure the dress fit right. And who knows maybe I'll want to go and get something to eat before hand." She said turning back to the mirror and running her hands over her dress.
"You mind if I come along?" he asked leaning against the wall. Alexia looked a bit startled and then looked him in the eye,
"Um sure I guess if you want…that is if you don't already have plans."
"Not a one, babe." He said winking at her.
She smiled at him, "All right let me go change and I'll start lunch." Dou nodded and went into his room to change out of his sweaty clothes. When he came out a couple of minutes later he heard Alexia in the kitchen. He headed over there and saw her mixing something in a small bowl.
"What's in there?" he asked leaning against the counter next to her.
"Chocolate. I'm going to make a cake."
"Hum."
"You bet it is." She said sticking her finger in a licking the chocolate off it. "Hey Duo can I ask you a question?" she asked looking up at him. Duo nodded his head, "What's your life like back home?"
"Well we just recently got off from protecting Relena Peacecraft and that's when all my free time came in."
"So it's not like you have a girlfriend or anything?"
"Uh no." said Duo, Alexia let out the small breathe she had been holding.
"No girlfriend…what are the girls back home stupid or something." Alexia almost dropped her bowl, had she just really said that?
"No I just haven't found one that was worth it." Not like you are, Duo thought.
"I see."
"So what about you, I haven't seen any of your friends popping in."
Alexia smiled, "you'll see them tonight."
At about 20 minutes till 7 o'clock, Alexia and Duo left the apartment. Duo was dressed in black pants and shirt, and Alexia was wearing her lavender dress. Both walked down the street towards the club. A couple of minutes later they both stepped into the club a little wind blown. Duo noticed a sign on the door,
"Singing night?" he looked at Alexia, whose eyes got really big.
"O no." she whispered. Just then a girl with dirty blond hair and green eyes, wearing a tight green dress bounced up to them. "WEASEL!" Alexia yelled almost lunging at the girl.
She giggled, "Relax Lexy you don't have to sing if you don't want to." She said her eyes twinkling with mischief.
"You probably already entered me!"
"You know me so well. So who is your cute friend?"
Sighing Alexia turned to Duo, "Duo Maxwell meet my best friend Nicole Kash."
"Pleasure to meet you Nicole." He said shaking her hand. Nicole giggled,
"Please call me Nikki." She said smiling warmly.
"Lexy where did you pick up the hottie?" she whispered as she began leading Alexia and Duo to there table.
"He's Heero's friend, Duo and three others are staying with me for a while."
"Are they all as hot as him?' Alexia nodded once, "O my god Lex I will be living at your house. And by the way," Nikki stopped at their table and motioned for them to sit down, "You're on in twenty." And with that she vanished.
"Nikki…you learn to love her…anyway I guess I'll see you in twenty-five minutes. I have to sing." Alexia said sighing, then sending a forced smile to Duo she turned and left. Duo sat down, and sighed, "Well this is defiantly interesting." He noticed many young women moving around him taking drink orders; he ordered a beer for himself and looked around. It was a different type of club then he was used to seeing. Through the center of the club was a cat walk that connected with the stage at the very back, there was a twenty foot bar that extended along the right side of the dance floor that was on each side of the catwalk. There were cages randomly placed around and on the left wall was a DJ table and the rest of the club was covered with tables.
Just then Nikki sat down at the table, "So are you another one of Alexia's suitors?" she asked crossing her legs.
"What?" Duo asked taking a sip of his beer that had just arrived.
"Are you interested in Alexia?"
"Is that a trick question?"
"Maybe" Nikki said smiling. She uncrossed her legs and stood up, "You are after her…I can't tell by that look in your eyes…your in for a big treat tonight. She's singing first." Nikki smirked, "Enjoy the show." She said giving him a wink and then flaunting away. After about another ten minutes the DJ came on the microphone,
"Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!" he yelled, the crowd yelled back, "You ready to party?" he yelled the microphone towards them and the crowd yelled yes. "Good, our first contestant in tonight's show is AZUL!" the crowed roared into applause. The curtain rose and Duo almost dropped his beer. Every one on stage was dressed in black. The background was in blue. He saw Alexia in the front wearing tight black pants with a matching top that looked suspiciously like a sports bra with her hair down. They were in a form of a V Alexia dead center alternating boy girl on each side, the music started and it was like a trance that Duo couldn't break. They were all moving in a flowing motion the stage was dark and all you could see was the shadowed form of all of them.
I need time, love, joy
I need space, love
I need... me
Action!
As soon as someone yelled action the lights went on and they all began to dance.
Say hello to the girl that I am
You're gonna have to see through my perspective
I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am
And I don't wanna be so damn protected
There must be another way
'Cause I believe in taking chances
But who am I to say
What a girl is to do
God I need some answers...
Duo couldn't take his eyes off her…and it seemed that the rest of the male population of the club was having the same problem. He had no idea that she could sing and so well too.
What am I to do with my life?
(You will find it out don't worry)
How am I supposed to know what's right?
(You just gotta do it your way)
I can't help the way I feel
But my life has been so overprotected
All the men on stage began carrying her down the catwalk then, Alexia looking seductively at the audience.
I tell them what I like, what I want and what I don't
But everytime I do, I stand corrected
Things that I've been told, I can't believe what I hear about the world
I realize I'm overprotected
There must be another way
'Cause I believe in taking chances
But who am I to say
What a girl is to do
God I need some answers...
What am I to do with my life?
(You will find it out don't worry)
How am I supposed to know what's right?
(You just gotta do it your way)
I can't help the way I feel
But my life has been so overprotected
The lights went out again and all there was, was the blue background shadowing their bodies.
I need time... love... I need space
I don't need nobody telling me just what I wanna
What I what what what I'm gonna do about my destiny
I say no, no... nobody's telling me just what I
wanna... do do
I'm so fed up with people telling me to be someone else but me...
Action!
The lights flashed on again, and they once again and they began to dance.
What am I to do with my life?
(You will find it out don't worry)
How am I supposed to know what's right?
(You just gotta do it your way)
I can't help the way I feel
But my life has been so overprotected
I don't need nobody telling me just what I wanna
What I what, what, what I'm gonna do about my destiny
I say no no... nobody's telling me just what I
wanna... do do
I'm so fed up with people telling me to be someone else but me
What am I to do with my life?
(You will find it out don't worry)
How am I supposed to know what's right?
(You just gotta do it your way)
I can't help the way I feel
But my life has been so
overprotected
They all hit a pose and the entire club jumped to their feet in applause. "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! AZUL!" the crowd screamed louder and the dancers and Alexia or rather Azul took a bow. The curtain went down and she was gone. Nikki came flaunting over to Duo's table she took one look at him and smirked, with one hand she closed his mouth.
"Leaves you kinda speech less…don't it?"
About ten minutes later Alexia sat down next to him back in her lavender dress, "Lex you were great you were absolutely amazing."
"Thank you." She said smiling shyly at him.
"But what does Azul mean?" Alexia giggled.
"It was a nickname that I got when I was on a mission in Spain. They didn't understand anything that I was saying." Duo looked at her questioning, "They called me Azul because it means blue eyes." She said smiling. "I use it when I sing to protect my real identity…for shall we say the future." She took a sip of her margarita and smiled at him. She then turned back to watch the rest of the performers. At 8 everyone was done and the floor opened up for anyone to dance. Duo and Alexia were one of the first couples on the floor, and together as partners they danced the night away.
At one o'clock Duo and Alexia made their way back up towards her apartment, both almost drunk. They were holding hands and giggling madly at the stupidest things. When they got up to Alexia's apartment she pulled out her keys and began attempting to open her door. Unfortunately the key was not going in the hole.
"Here let me try." Duo said from behind her. Alexia turned to give him the keys, only to find that he was right behind her, very close. Alexia's breaths were coming in short gasps as she looked into his eyes. It seemed that all the alcohol that she thought was in her system was gone. Without meaning to Duo had pinned Alexia against her door. Duo's intoxication seemed to have flown out the window as well. He suddenly became very aware of her body pressed up against his, her lips, her eyes, and her perfume…they were replacing the alcohol that was in his body. His mouth was slowly moving towards hers,
"Are you going to kiss me?" he heard her whisper; he could feel her lips brushing against his as she spoke those words. He glanced up into her eyes for a moment,
"Maybe…would you stop me if I did?" he asked looking down at her lips again, Alexia's hands slowly moved up his chest.
"Maybe" she whispered as his lips closed down on hers.
Just then Alexia's front door flew open and both she and Duo fell backwards, Duo twisted just in time so that Alexia would land on top of him.
"What the hell?" Duo yelled looking at the room upside down. A pair of black boots came into view. "O shit." Duo whispered, he quickly got up and helped Alexia, to come face to face with a very angry Heero Yuy with a frowning Wufia Chang right behind him.
"Where the hell have you two been?"
"Heero not so loud." Alexia whispered as she closed her front door.
"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Heero asked bringing his voice down a little.
"One o'clock." Duo said looking at his watch; he looked up to see Heero's death eyes looking at him. "Sir" Duo added gulping.
"Heero it doesn't matter, we're adults we're allowed to do stuff like this sometimes." Alexia said looking at Heero, "Why are you so tense?"
"Duo kissed you." He growled.
"And I kissed him back."
"You were intoxicated you didn't know what you were doing."
"Stop talking about this like it happened three weeks ago it happened less then a minute ago."
"You were still drunk."
"So I was drunk enough to kiss Duo, but I'm sober enough to have a decent conversation with you?" Heero glared at her.
"STOP IT!" Duo and Wufia both jumped, "Stop trying to be Nels, Odin!" she walked up to Heero and began to shake him, "He's dead Odin, DEAD! He may have asked you to look out of me, but that doesn't mean that you need to control my life…maybe for some sick and twisted reason I like hanging out with Duo. Maybe I like the way he makes me feel."
"Hi I'm still here." Duo said.
"Alexia you don't know what your saying…guys like us don't disserve girls like you."
"HEY!" Duo and Wufia yelled.
"This isn't about Duo and I…is it?" she said looking sadly at Heero. "This is about you and Relena. God I'm sick of this…just because your sad doesn't mean I should be too!"
"Lex…"
"No don't even go there Odin, you know I was so happy when I saw you. You make me feel safe again, and Odin when I'm with Duo I feel safe too. I've never felt safe with any other guy…but I guess that isn't enough for you…I thought you would want to see me happy." With that Alexia ran down the hall and slammed her bedroom door. Duo glared at Heero.
"I don't know what your problem is man." Duo said shoving Heero, "I thought you cared enough about her to see her happy…and in case you didn't know since you didn't bother to ask if she had fun…she has an amazing voice and can dance pretty darn well too." Duo turned to go, "O and one more thing." He turned back to Heero, he pulled his fist back and slugged Heero in the eye, "I can damn well take care of her just as good as you can." Duo walked down the hall shaking his head and walked into the game room and also slammed his door. There was silence in the living room as Heero sat down on the sofa clutching his eye. There was a shuffle of feet and Heero turned to see Wufia holding a bag of ice out to him. Heero took it gratefully and looked up to Wufia's expectant face.
"What?" Heero asked sounding annoyed.
"Who's Odin?"
Alexia woke early the next morning and began to get dressed. When she walked through the living room a couple of minutes later with her gym bag slung over one arm and her books on her other; she saw Heero sleeping on the couch his right eye an ugly purple.
Sighing sadly Alexia left her apartment.
A couple of hours later Duo awoke, he felt horrible. He felt as if someone had hit him over the head with a bag of bricks. He heard voices in the hall and decided to go and make himself a cup of coffee or see if any of the rocket fuel that Alexia drank was left. He opened the door and almost collided with Quatre who was holding a cup of coffee.
"I figured you would need something strong to drink." He said smiling. Duo nodded and took the cup.
"Thanks" he took a sip and closed his eyes as it slid down his throat. "When did you and Trowa get back?"
"About a half an hour ago." He said leading Duo down to the living room where two people were arguing. Duo looked up to see Trowa and Heero arguing about something, and then smirked evilly at the shiner the he had given Heero the night before. Duo tried to listen to what they were arguing about; he had never heard either one speak so much at once before. At the current moment the two of them were glaring at each other.
"What are they arguing about?" Duo whispered to Quatre as the two passed into the kitchen.
"There was an attack on Relena last night…Heero wants to take her into protective custody and Trowa is trying to convince him that it's not a good idea."
"Do you think Une would even approve of it even if we all thought it was a good idea."
"I don't know…Trowa and I are against it though…it's not our place…she disserves to have her own life."
"Um Quatre as touching as that is…someone just made an attempt on her life. She's either free dead or not free alive…what would you choose."
"Point seen and recognized…even so what would we do anyway we've been given time off."
"I bet Alexia would go for it." Heero said entering the kitchen, Duo glared at him.
"Doubt it; you're in the dog house when it comes to her."
"Shut up Duo."
"You would have to grovel in order for her to agree." Just then Heero's eyes lit up,
"Duo you're brilliant."
"I know…what did I do?" Heero made a mad dash for his jacket and ran out of the apartment. Duo jumped up and grabbed his own jacket and Quatre followed.
"You two stay here," Quatre yelled, "Just in case Une calls about what happened last night." With that he and Duo were gone following Heero at full speed.
Quatre was sure that he had never seen a college campus this big. It seemed that the buildings just kept going and going. Finding Alexia was going to be hard.
"So were so we start looking?" Duo asked.
"I know she has history of combat first." Heero said.
"So the history building?" the other two nodded. The three headed off towards the building. The three were walking across the lawn when they heard someone yell,
"Heads up!" The three turned around just in time for Heero to catch the football that came flying towards them. A group of boys came running over.
"Nice catch dude, sorry about that." Heero rudely shoved them the ball and glared.
"Sorry." One of the said removing his gaze from Heero.
"Ignore him, he had a ruff night." Duo said giving a friendly smile to them.
"I can tell he's got a nice shiner." Duo snickered.
"Hey by chance do any of you know Alexia Shale." The majority of the boys cringed at her name.
"More like who doesn't, she's just about beaten everyone of us up before," Heero snickered "Well that is except-"
"Me" Tall tan young man pushed his way from the back of the group, he had shaggy blond hair and bright blue eyes, which was unusually because he was obviously from Chinese descent. "Why do you want to find Alexia?"
"That is none of your business; do you know where she is?" Heero said.
"You answer my question and I'll answer yours." He glared at Heero.
"What is going on here?" Heero was about to turn around and tell whatever teacher was there to shove off or flash his Preventers badge, only to find Alexia glaring at them.
"I'll ask you two again. What is going on here?" Jason smiled down at her.
"Hey Lex, this guy was just asking for you and was getting mad that I wouldn't tell him." Alexia smiled and shook her head.
"Jason…"
"Hey old habits die hard." He kissed her forehead, "I'll talk to you later Kido. All right?"
"All right." She smiled watching him go. "Now on to business, first things first." She hugged Quatre tightly, "Welcome back Quatre. Now you two what are you doing here?"
"Well you see-"they both said at once. Alexia held up her hand,
"Duo you first." Dou leaned down and placed a gentle kiss on Alexia's lips. Heero growled in the background.
"I've wanted to do that since last night." Alexia blushed and tucked her hair behind her ear, she took a deep breath squared her shoulders and turned to Heero.
"Now what do you want?" Heero's eyes lost the coldness and was replaced by pain, and Alexia felt her will to say no drop. "What is it?" Heero's voice dropped.
"There was an attack on Relena last night." Alexia's will went into overdrive.
"And this concerns me how?"
"Lex…"
"No Heero! Whatever it is, it's no times ten."
"Lex…"
"NO! NO! NO!" she started to turn to walk away but Heero grabbed her arm.
"Lex will you just listen to me for a
second?"
"NO! I will not let that home wrecker into my apartment. She gave up the
right to protection…let her figure it out like the rest of the normal people of
this world."
"You just don't want her near you because you haven't realized that she isn't the one that killed Nels."
"Yes she is!"
"NO LEX! She didn't, Nels was there to do a job and he did it, he did get killed along the way but he still had a job to do and there is nothing you can do to change that." Alexia's face paled and then she turned and made a run in the other direction.
"Nice going genius." Duo said giving Heero a shove, "You've got a great way with women; did you know that?" Duo took off after Lex with Quatre at his heals. Heero sank down to the grass, with his hands clutching his forehead.
"What am I going to do?"
Quatre and Duo had long ago split up in search of Alexia. Neither had any idea how large the campus was so the only solution was to ask people, preferably girls, Quatre had long ago since discovered that when women see one women crying they all flock to here for comfort. If there was anybody who would be able to tell them where Alexia was it would be a woman. Quatre crossed into a deck portion of the University in the next hall over he say Alexia run through and then burst through another door. He vaulted over the railing and darted to the other side of the hall. "Alexia! Thank god I found you we've-" A hand out of no where came flying into his vision, followed by a flash of yellow and then Quatre found himself on the floor, with a blond women sitting on his chest. He took a couple of deep breaths so he could get the air back into his lungs before he saw Alexia's head in his eye vision.
"Quatre you do realize this is the girls bathroom?" Quatre looked around and noticed where he was and turned very red. The girl on his chest giggled.
"Come on Nikki get off him." Sighing the one called Nikki got up off of Quatre. Taking a deep breath Quatre sat up and looked around.
"So this is what the inside of a girls bathroom looks like…interesting," he let his eyes roam over the room "HEY! You guys get a couch?" Alexia sat down on it,
"It's where we sit and wonder why God put men on this earth- no offense."
"None taken." Quatre said sitting up and rubbing the back of his head. "Heero's looking for you." He said getting up and sitting down next to her on the couch.
"I bet he is."
"So is Duo." Alexia smiled,
"I know."
"Speaking of Duo maybe I'll go and find him and bring him here, okay Lex?" Nikki asked, Alexia nodded her head and Nikki left the girls bathroom. Alexia laced her fingers and looked down at the floor.
"Alexia what is going on? Why are you so against Relena?"
"She killed my brother."
"But Heero said-"
"Heero doesn't know the whole story…" Alexia stared off into space, Quatre thought it was best not to interrupt her she seemed to have a lot on her mind. Several minutes passed before the door opened again. A group of girls walked in took one look at Quatre and smiled. They all turned to each other and started giggling before looking at Quatre again and starting to giggle again. Quatre felt his face turn bright red. At that exact moment Nikki burst into the bathroom.
"All right come on you guys nothing to see here be on your way." She ushered the girls out as the stared at Duo and a glaring Heero.
"Look what I found." Nikki said as she walked into the bathroom with the boys following her. Duo rushed forward and knelt down in front of Lexy.
"Are you alright?" he asked tucking a strain of hair behind her ear. She nodded her head and gave him a small smile.
"I'm fine." She got up and looked at Heero. "I think it would be best if we were to continue this conversation at home?" Heero nodded his head and the group headed off towards Alexia's apartment.
