Yami: Enjoy the last chappie?
Heero: Hn.
Yami: C'mon, Hee-chan, if you're gonna be my muse you've got to a least talk a little.
Heero: Hn.
Yami: *shrug* You're a wet blanket, you know that?
Kai: Miss me?
Yami: Kai!!!! *smothers with hugs*
Heero: Now that he's here, I can leave.
Yami & Kai: No you don't!
Kai: Now she can torture someone else.
Yami: You don't get to leave until you do the disclaimer!
Heero: Yami doesn't own anything. Period.
Yami: *ties Heero to a chair* ha! Now you gotta stay!
Heero: Help!
Chapter 2
Sally couldn't believe it. She stared, opened mouth, at the teen that had caused so much pain for everyone.
Duo nudged her sharply. She shut her mouth but continued to stare.
"Nice to meet you," Heero said. He looked at her questioningly.
She snapped out of it. "Sally Po," she said, extending her hand. Heero shook it, then turned to Garrett.
"Shall we be off, then?" he asked. Garrett revved the engine, then sped down the road.
Heero shot sideways glances at Sally often throughout the half-hour drive. She'd reacted strangely when she'd heard his name, and he wanted to know why. He didn't want to seem rude, though. The girl would probably say something about it soon enough.
They pulled up outside one of the malls in Baton Rouge. James and Jill were waiting for them.
Duo seemed a little surprised about where they went to next. The arcade in the mall. After a minute, he grinned happily and proceeded to play Heero at a shooting game.
Heero studied Duo out of the corner of his eye as they played. Duo was a rather good shot, almost better than Heero himself.
The kid seemed normal enough, but this little voice inside his brain told him that Duo wasn't someone to be trusted.
They ran through their supply of quarters quickly. Garrett and James went off somewhere and came back with a fistful of five-dollar bills.
Heero stared at them with his usual disapproval, but accepted his share of the quarters without complaint.
'They stole those, didn't they?" Duo asked him as they played. Heero nodded, which made Duo grin. "These are my kind of people!" He died in the game, cursed, and went over to race Jill. Sally took his spot.
"Sorry I stared at you this morning," she said. "You looked like someone I knew a while ago."
"It's okay," Heero said, concentrating on the game. He was surprised with Sally's skill. She was as good as Duo, maybe better.
"So how long have you known Garrett?" Sally asked.
"Almost seven years," Heero replied. "I don't know what I would have done without him."
"You sound like something bad happened," Sally said.
"The only problem is that I can't remember what happened," Heero said. "But there's this weird dream I always keep having, and I can't help but think that it's relevant somehow."
He explained the dream to her. She didn't say anything for a few minutes, just concentrated on shooting the virtual bad guys. After a while she said, "And you have no idea what it means?"
"Nada," Heero said. "But it doesn't really matter. All that matters is that I'm here right now, instead of dead in whatever accident happened to me ages ago." He shot the last alien monster, beating the game. He went off to find another game to beat.
Sally stared after him, carefully considering her options.
Garrett pulled up outside the house Duo pointed to, screeching to a halt. Sally and Duo jumped out.
"Thanks," Duo said. "I don't know we can to thank you."
"It was nothing," Garrett said. "Did you guys just move here?"
Sally nodded quickly. "Duo'll be going to your school this year." She poked him. "Right?"
"Yeah." Duo grabbed their stuff out of the trunk. He waved as Garrett pulled out.
"Duo, we have a problem," Sally said.
Heero got out of Jill's convertible. By the looks of it, his foster parents had come home.
"See you at school," he said. They waved and pulled out.
Heero said hi to his foster parents and went into his room. He opened the blinds and stared up at the sky.
It was night now, and the stars were shining brighter than ever. He continued to watch them, wishing, like always, that he could be among them.
A dark shape passed over the crescent moon. Heero watched it curiously. It didn't have any blinking light, so it couldn't have been an airplane. And it was large, which meant that it couldn't even be human.
Heero grabbed his camera and snapped a few photos. "Wait'll I show Garrett," he said.
Duo sat outside, ignoring the mosquitoes and waiting for the transport that Quatre had sent to pick them up. Sally was inside the house, doing some odd thing or other that Duo could care less about.
The transport landed swiftly, kicking up a hot breeze. Duo stood and waited for the pilot to come out.
Trowa Barton stepped out of the undoubtedly hot cockpit and removed his flight helmet. "You two all right?" he asked.
Duo nodded. "But you'd better sit down for this." Trowa just stood, waiting patiently. "We found Heero."
Trowa's eyes widened visibly and he fell into a chair that was right behind him. He remained in shocked silence for a minute before snapping out of it and asking, "How?"
"A chance encounter," Duo said. "Sally was able to talk to him. According to her, Heero said he's been here for several years."
"Impossible," Trowa said. "He went missing just last year."
"We have to find out more about it," Duo said. "Sally already said I'd be going to the school here."
"Then I guess that matter's settled," Trowa said. "So, shall I leave you here?"
"You crazy?" Duo asked. "I think you'd enjoy it too much."
Heero: Help! I'm OOC!
Yami: Duh.
Kai: This is actually fun *pokes Heero in the ribs*
Heero: *is tied up and can't move* review and tell her to let me go please!
