Disclaimer: Same as Chapter One!


Chapter Six

"Reflections"

By Magic


Trinity got inside the room, looked at Hannah, and quickly closed the door behind herself. She glanced over to the blonde who was getting ready to hop into bed. Curiosity over took her normal senses as she inquired of the blonde, "What did you and Trowa talk about?"

"Stuff. "Hannah replied as she flung her kitty PJ top over her head and threw off her shoes. Interrogation was one thing that she wanted to escape so she hopped into the bathroom and locked the door.

"What stuff?" Trinity asked again. Obviously, the brunette didn't actually get that she didn't, or rather wasn't, going to talk about it at the moment.

Hannah flung herself out of the bathroom, fully clothed now in kitty. Pet me kitty. (The fabric.) The bed looked so comfortable after the long night that she leapt onto it without giving Trinity a second look; plus she new if she did, she was going to just get questioned some more. She rolled over in her bed and picked up her chain sock. "I'm tired. Leave me alone."

"You guys just seemed to be able to talk about a lot of stuff tonight, so I was just wondering..." Trinity picked up her blue valux blanket and lay down on the couch, forgetting to put on her pajamas as well. The white plaster ceiling dots peered down at her from the ceiling; after getting annoyed with their stares, she rolled over onto her side and faced Hannah over in the single bed.

"All men are pigs," Hanna mumbled as she rolled over so her back was to Trinity.

"Well, I agree, but that doesn't mean that you.."

"Do you have a death wish!?! I told you, I'm tired!"

"I was just wondering if you found out anything about him," Trinity turned over onto her other side and ended up facing the ugly brown pleather couch. She ran her finger up and down the plastic material as she pondered about the guys. They had just shown up out of nowhere, much like bats out of hell, only without that whole flying side of it. A few minutes later she was staring up at the ceiling when she finally got an answer from Hannah.

"You mean you don't know them?" There was the sound of shifting blankets as Trinity guessed Hannah was sitting up in her water bed.

"No, not really anyway. I just met them a couple days ago," Her voice faded out and became one with the silence of the room.

The blankets on Hannah's bed as if she was pondering whether or not to say something, but that was about the only sound besides the cars out on the street. Lights from around the campus slunk in through the blinds as the two sat there in silence.

Trinity wasn't sure whether or not Hannah was awake when she inquired, "Hannah?"

Grunt.

"Don't you think it's weird that we are such good friends already, yet we don't know a thing about either one of each other?" She felt somehow compelled to tell her about everything, including who she really was.

"Not at all. What does it matter anyway? Good night..."

"Yeah, but what about your..." Trinity's sentence was stopped by the simple fact that she had been knocked unconscious by Hannah's infamous change sock.

"Good night, Trinity," Hannah said with a sigh. There would be no more questions from Trinity that night; thank the chain sock. She wrapped herself deeply into her covers and covered her blonde head, wishing her train of thought would stop.

***

Duo and Trowa were the only guys that were left to enter the guys dorms. The room's seemed to already been divided up. Quatre was with Wufei, so Trowa groaned as he and Duo entered the last room.

"So, do you want to watch some TV?" Duo asked the emotionless boy. Trowa's bangs slowly turned towards Duo and gave him the 'you're crazy' look a la Trowa (AKA, he got the eyebrow).

Trowa shook his head no and walked over to one of the beds; there was no way that he was going to stay up that late. Not like the last time he and Duo had roomed together. The idiot had rented ten different anime videos and just had to watch them all in one night. Trowa had almost gotten the urge to get out his throwing knife collection given to him for his birthday, but luckily for Duo the power had gone out because of a squirrel shorting out the lines.

Trowa's half of the room was sparsely decorated and looked rather nice; the bed was made, his clothes were in his suitcase, and a small picture of Catherine and the whole circus troop sat on his night stand by his brush. Duo's side though, was another story. It looked like someone had tried to kill him and had planted a bomb that only seemed to affect his side; you couldn't see his bed or the floor for that matter, he had flung some of his clothes over his half of the fan, and there seemed to be something that looked like a petrified piece of pizza laying on his chair. There used to be a picture of Hilde sitting on top of his dresser, but as far as Trowa could tell, it had been removed after 'the incident'. If you looked at both of the beds from a distance, or even up close, you could see which side was his, because there was a definite line between the two, not just because it was separated by a line of duct tape (Trowa's idea).

"Don't you want to do anything, Trowa?" Duo asked as he climbed into the pile that best resembled a bed, still wearing his clothing as he was too lazy to try to find his boxers.

"Sleep," Trowa said, emotionlessly as he pulled the covers over his head. Only the outline of bangs stuck up like a mountain from under the covers. Trowa reached for the Silence Glaive that Hannah had lent him, just in case as they had conversed about Duo and his weird sleeping habits. 'This is going to come in handy', Trowa thought. He stuck it under Duo's chin. " I want to sleep," he said.

"Okay... I'll just shut up now," Duo said, frightened. His cobalt eyes grew large as he glanced at the sharp pointy object directly bellow his chin. Trowa with anything when he didn't have his caffeine wasn't a very good thing for the other person in the room. Trowa dropped the glaive onto the floor and again pulled the blanket up over his head.

The banged one slowly drifted off to sleep, until he was roused by the sound of a body flopping all over the floor. He slowly pulled the blanket off his head, only showing his one eye as he glanced over to the other side of the room. Green eyes narrowed as he realized it was nothing but pilot 02 switching what side he was attempting to sleep on every ten seconds; it looked as if he was having some sort of spasm-not that anyone could say differently. "Having problems?" Trowa inquired simply, the blanket still covering his nose and mouth.

Duo's outline stopped moving in the darkness of the room. "Nope, not a problem at all."

"You can't sleep can you?"

The only thing that answered that question was the crickets chirping outside the window.

Trowa sat up and let the blanket fall off his face as he stiffly turned around to face Duo. The bangs under his eyes stretched to his chin and this was the last thing he wanted to deal with at this time of night, but he supposed Duo couldn't really help it.

"This is about Hilde, isn't it? Admit it." Trowa wasn't going to stop being persistent. The air in the room was heavy with tension as the two prepared for a stare down in the complete darkness of the room. It was common knowledge that Trowa was defiantly going to win it, no questions asked, but Duo was in a very stubborn mood. Plus, in the black surrounding the two at the moment, no one could really be called the winner at all.

"I'm not in the mood to talk about this right now, Trowa." The braided one's voice was abnormally serious and stable as his eyes bore into Trowa's green ones (or so he thought-we must remember it's pitch black so for all we know; he could be glaring straight at Trowa's pie throwing trophey). (H:My dear friend is on crack. But don't worry. We have the closet of doom.)

"Would you rather tell Heero or Wufei about all of this?" Trowa inquired. "Because, if you wish it, I can go get them."

Dark blue eyes closed as he sighed. His shoulders shook slightly as he did so, and when he opened them his eyes were slightly clouded. The once clown was slightly taken back by Duo's rare emotion he was sharing, but he didn't let it show at all as he dived back into his covers.

"Yes. It's about her." His black outline moved as he glided out of the pile of clothes he used for a bed. "I'm going to go out for a walk." A slit of light cut through the room as he slipped out of the door and into the hallway, closing the door quietly behind him, his braid nearly getting caught as he did so.

***

Trinity shot straight up and flung her blue blanket off herself. Not having balanced it right as she had been in such a panic, she ended up flying off the couch and onto the shag carpeted floor below. Mumbling incoherent curses as she unraveled herself from the blanket and got into a standing position, she attempted to erase the nightmare from her head.

Her hand gingerly moved over to the bump on her head to where the chain sock had connected just a few seconds ago; a smile enveloped her face as she thought about Hannah's way of making her shut up. Slowly, she moved over towards the mirror in the bathroom and took a long look at her shoulder. It was getting better; the bruise didn't cover all of it anymore and it wasn't that nasty black color it had been for awhile. Her brown head hung over the sink as she thought about everything that had happened recently.

It wasn't something she wanted to think about she realized as she started to feel sick. Pushing it into the back recesses of her mind, she exited from the bathroom and decided to get dressed and go for a walk. She quickly realized that she was already fully clothed, and so she skipped the first part and quietly as possible, snuck out the door and into the hallway.

Buzzzzzz.

The annoying flourescent lights that lined the hallway seemed to yell at her as her bare feet padded lightly on the green and pink floral carpet. As she reached the end of the hall, she wondered where exactly she was going and decided that it was better not to know at the moment. She hadn't been around the whole school yet and now seemed as good as any time to get out and see everything, as well as clear her mind.

After exiting through the automatic doors of the girl's dormitory, Trinity found herself standing outside in the humid night time air of the colony. "What the hell am I doing out here?" She grumbled to herself as she debated whether or not to return to the air condition goodness that was the dorm hallway. Again, she decided that she should just keep walking where ever she ended up. Smooth stones paved her way around towards the garden where she hoped she could finally find a little bit of peace.

A little ways up she found a small creek that ran along the interior of the gardens, more for decoration that anything else she mused. Following it along it's course, she ended up facing a long, looking pound that stretched out through the middle of the school yard. Lily pads and white floors littered the surface that shivered ever so slightly whenever a fish came up to say hello.

She kneeled on the concrete that surrounded the pool and slowly leaned over the side of the pound. Her frowning reflection glared back at her as the street lights glittered around it. Her throat started to tighten as she pushed whatever emotion her mind was thinking of throwing at her back.

Water splashed up on her face as something flew into the pond right next to her, shattering her reflection in the pond and almost startling her into falling in herself. About to scream at who ever had done that, she whirled around to spot someone standing at the top of the balcony that overhang the pound a bit to her left and behind her. Her hand moved up to wipe off her face, but she kept her eyes on the figure leaning down on the concrete railing, gazing off over to who knows where, randomly chucking rocks into the pond.



She realized that he hadn't tried to hit her, and he probably didn't have any knowledge that she was standing right below him. Her brunette head moved to get a better view of him; his clothing seemed a bit rumpled, like he had been sleeping in them. His usually perfect braid was coming out of its tie and some random pieces where falling out of it all over the place. Not only that, but his expression wasn't the light, giddy one she had seen him have ever since she had meet him.

"Man, he looks like shit," Trinity mused quietly under her breath as she kept watching him.

Suddenly he roughly pushed himself away from the balcony's edge as if he got extremely angry at something. After a second more of looking over it's edge, he rammed his hands in his pockets and ambled off until she couldn't see him anymore.

Her brown eyes turned from the balcony baring a deep look of confusion; even though she had met him, it didn't seem like this was the way he usually was. She sat down on her behind and pulled her knees close to her as she wrapped her arms around them. Chin resting on her knees, she sat there and just starred out across the pond and into the city lights of colony L10.

"What the hell am I doing here?"

She would receive no answer but that of the sprinkler system engaging and soaking her from head to toe.

***

The rest of the night went fast without much more of a bother. Then at the breakfast table, both Duo and Trinity didn't look all that great. Both of them hung their heads over their trays as if they were going to fall asleep in the mushy substance at any given time. It was even worse than when the two were in algebra class.

"Does anyone have an aspirin?" Trinity and Duo asked at the same time. Trinity was busy making a tower out of the dark red mush on her plate, while Duo was attempting to figure out how exactly he could get his fork unstuck from the guck on his plate.

"You didn't wake me up with caffeine, so I'm not giving you any aspirin," Hannah growled at the two. She still hadn't had time to take her shower or anything like that as she slept in after getting to bed late.

Trowa held out two, but only for Trinity, which she took. He really didn't want Duo to get over that head ache. Teaches him a lesson for talking to me when I'm trying to sleep, Trowa mused happily to himself. Then Quatre held out some for the both of them,"Here you go my friends." Duo took them, along with Trinity as they each attempted to get the most out of their blonde haired friend's hand.

"So, what happened to you?" Trinity asked Duo. He didn't seem to meet her gaze right on, but his eyes showed no sign of anger about last night or anything.

"Couldn't sleep."

"Hannah."

"Makes sense.What with?"

" I got the change sock to the temple," Trinity grumbled, rubbing a large bump on the side of her head. She really didn't even remember what had gone on just before that, or even how she had gotten home. Realizing that she had a history test that day, she prayed that she could even remember what chapter they had started.

"Yeah so what? You've got to admit that I have pretty good aim when I'm tired!" Hannah noted in response to Trinity's wining. "Don't tick me off when I'm tired." She seemed as if she suddenly remembered something. "Can I have my Silence Glaive back?" Hannah asked the silent Trowa.

"Here," he said as he handed her the glaive, much to the surprise of all of the others in the room.

"Hey! Aurora carries her sword around in her backpack!" Hannah yelled way too loud in her attempt at defense for her weapon of choice.

"WHAT?!?" Was the response Trinity got from the whole table except for Trowa, who just raised an eyebrow. They didn't think that she would actually carry the thing around with her at all times, though it could be some sort of odd obsessive, compulsive behavior that none knew about. Or maybe she was just anal. Trinity did have some quirks to her that the others hadn't quite come to understand yet. The breakfast went quite uneventful until Heero decided to make a statement.

"Did you know they found out who killed Mr. and Mrs. Renada?"

Hannah commented said she hadn't as she continued eating her breakfast. The other pilots on the other hand, all stopped eating and just gazed at Heero, who didn't seem to notice, or at least pretended he didn't. They were all asking themselves the same thing: why the hell is he bringing up this now?

His Persian blue eyes glanced around the table and landed on Trinity for a second before he crossed his arms and looked to the ceiling. "Well, it was an inside job. Obviously, Nadir had or has, they don't know if she succeeded in committing suicide, but he had a sister and they say that she was the one that killed her mother and step-father."

Trinity spit out her food onto Duo's plate. "Who said that?" She managed to squeak out. Duo just looked down at his plate and frowned deeply; even though he couldn't get his fork unstuck from the food, he had planned on doing something like licking it up off his plate. He looked over across at Trinity who seemed to be having trouble keeping her emotions in check.

"Nadir himself. It was in the paper this morning," Heero said, unemotionally. He went back to his cereal.

Trowa again raised his eyebrow at Trinity as she went from red, to green, to white in point two seconds flat. The others were also staring at her now, including Hannah. Relena shot Heero a glare across the table as Trinity looked as if she was about to pass out.

Relena decided to talk about something that didn't 'disturb' Trinity so much. "So, Hannah and Aurora, I heard that you guys want to help us fight?"

"Death?!" asked Hannah.

"Oh God, Hannah," Trinity said.

"Just don't wake me up early in the morning or you might become the enemy."

"She's right. . . don't. The headmaster and I would know," Trinity mumbled as she put her head in her arms.

"Oh, many other people know! Why do you think I don't share a dorm with anyone?" Hannah said as the famous anime sweat drops appeared on the back of everyone's heads.

She sighed long and hard as the conversation continued. Just don't think about it, Trin...It doesn't matter what he says about you anymore because you're no longer Trinity, you're Aurora now, Trinity assured herself. And...you're also talking to yourself...

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