Akina's notes: Wow, it's been a long time! It's almost time for report cards to come out, and I'm looking at getting ungrounded now! I can't wait! Well, hope you enjoy this chapter! Please review!
You Remind Me
Chapter 6:
Rei sat at a small table stuffing her face with food. It had been so long since she had eaten such good food! She was still in pain, but was feeling better now that she was able to eat something. 'Ah food, glorious food!' Rei cringed. She was beginning to scare herself.
"How are you feeling?" asked the tall girl with the brown hair in a ponytail, Rei had learned her name was Makoto. Concern crossed her face.
"Much better actually. I can't thank you enough for getting me out of there!"
"Yeah well, we don't like Dr. J and his army much anyway. Besides, we need your help."
Rei gave a start, "My help? How could I end up helping you? Don't get me wrong, I would do anything for you right now since you helped me out so much, but I don't have any training or anything for this type of stuff. I don't even know what's going on."
Makoto waved absently at Rei's objections. "Those can be remedied easily. I can't tell you much here, we have to go into private to talk. I don't really think you'll want all these ear able to listen to us. Besides, I think you need to have a few days of rest before you get too involved," Makoto grinned ironically. "Once you start this sort of thing, you get so drawn in, you can't stop even when you want too."
Rei gave Makoto a quizzical look, but she just shook her head. "Once your finished eating, I'll take you to the room where you'll be staying. You need some sleep and then maybe we can get a healer to fix that ankle for you." The rest of the meal was eaten in silence.
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Rei sat in a small room. It was a day after she had arrived and she was already feeling much better. Her ankle was finally feeling better. She wondered if it had been drugs they had given her, or if it was something else. It didn't really matter to her one way or the other.
The brown door opened and Makoto appeared in the doorway. Rei had been shown this room earlier by someone she didn't recognize. She had been instructed to sit in a chair and wait for "the others" to come shortly. Whoever the others were, Rei had no idea. She smiled at Makoto, which was received by a quick grin. Rei wondered what was so serious. Next entered a girl with unnatural short blue hair followed by the blonde girl that had been at Rei's rescue. Each entered in silence wearing a serious face. Last to enter was another blonde girl with the oddest hairstyle Rei had ever seen. Her face was red from running and she was the only one without the same grave expression on her face. Rei frowned; she got the impression form the others' looks that this girl came in late often. How annoying.
Makoto started what seemed to be a meeting. "Rei, we all know your name, but you would probably like to know all of ours so lets see, that's Ami, Minako, and Usagi." Makoto indicated to each girl in turn who gave a small greeting, except for Usagi who gave an overenthusiastic hello. Rei cringed; she didn't really like this Usagi girl. Hopefully she won't end up being to involved with her too much. Rei gave every girl a small nod, trying to seem cool. Once the introductions were finished, Makoto continued. "This is probably going to sound very unreal to you. It did for each of us too when we first got hear. The reason you fell prisoner to Dr. J's hands was not an accident. There is a war going on between him and us. It is a very dangerous one that involves certain powers that normal humans have no idea about. These powers are extremely powerful and can be dangerous to people who don't know they have them. You, happen to be one of these people. This is the reason Dr. J had you captured, even though Heero had no idea what he was doing, Dr. J had planned your capture for a long time and he did so very meticulously.
"Each side, Dr. J's and ours, has numerous people with these powers. Heero was one of Dr. J's most powerful soldiers. Unfortunately, Dr. J doesn't see it necessary to inform his soldiers what is going on because that would take some of his control away. See, Dr. J finds people who have these powers and beats them into submission while at the same time training them. This is why we must fight him. People should not be forced into slavery and used in the way he seems to want to. If we allowed him to do what he is without check, the entire world would be at his disposal.
"Rei, this is why we need you. We are hoping that you will be willing to train the powers you posses and help us out. You know what Dr. J will do to people if he wins this war we are fighting."
Rei sat in a stunned silence. Her mind was spinning from the thoughts that ran in circles in her head and her stomach was trying to do jumping jacks. She swallowed hard. What she had just been told seemed so unreal. Yet, from the expressions on the other girls' faces, it was true. How could she have such a strong force inside her, and fail to be able to feel it? How could she not know? Another thing that bothered her was this war thing. How did she not find out about this? Wars weren't exactly easy to keep secret.
"Please, we need your help Rei." Makoto's voice was distant. Rei thought of what Dr. J had done to her, what he had tried to do. She felt determined to not allow him to achieve a victory of any kind. Slowly, she nodded her head and then averted her eyes to look at everyone in the room. Her eyes shone with a fiery light of determination.
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Heero lay in his own prison. Not only was he strapped down to a hospital bed in a locked room; he was trapped inside his own mind. His mind was hammered with nightmare after nightmare. Rei watched him with a concerned face. There was something in this boy that had struck the depths of her soul. It seemed every action of his contradicted itself. He blew up her apartment complex, yet had risked his life to save a little girls and in a sense, her own. His eyes would shine with an unknown emotion, yet he would act so cold and cruel. It bothered Rei that she couldn't puzzle him out. The pieces just didn't seem to fit.
Soundlessly, Rei walked over to the bed. She laid her hand across Heero's forehead and tried to sooth him a bit. His forehead was burning with heat. "It's ok Heero, I will make sure nothing happens to you." Rei whispered so soft she could barely hear herself. He quieted almost immediately. A few seconds later, his eyes shot open.
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A.N.: Do not worry non-Usagi fans! I won't give Usagi a very big part and I refuse to let her be "Superwoman savior of us all." She's just going to be Usagi, slightly annoying (ok maybe more than slightly…) and more like the manga version than anime. Well, as always please review! I need to feel wanted… lol J
