Gundam Wing
Falling Raindrops
Chapter 3
Trowa sat in his chair, silent, staring at the ground. After what happened the day of the performance, he had not uttered a single word. All he did was stare into space, completely unaware of the things or people around him.
He fed the lions, but right after, he would always go to his room. The only times he would ever look like he paid attention to anything, was whenever Kana would pass by. Trowa would look at her with pain in his eyes, then quickly look away.
"I wonder what's wrong with him," Catherine said to herself. Then she saw Kana walk by. "Maybe she knows. Hey Kana!"
Kana turned and waved. She walked over to Catherine and cheerfully said, "What's up?"
"Do you know what's been bothering Trowa lately?" she said, concerned, "He's been acting really depressed."
Kana looked down. "No, I don't know why he's been acting this way," she said guiltily.
"Oh, okay. Just wondering." Catherine walked away.
Kana continued to stare at the ground, her cheeks beginning to get hot. "Trowa, why?" she asked herself, "Why are you acting like this?"
Catherine entered Trowa's room. He was now lying on his bed, staring up into the canvas ceiling.
"Trowa, are you all right?" Catherine asked.
"Yeah," he said dreamily. He didn't even look at Catherine.
"Are you sure?" she sat on his bed beside him, "You can tell me, baby brother."
"Well," a light came back in Trowa's blank eyes. He sat up and started explaining what had happened. By the time he was finished, tears started forming, making his eyes glossy.
"I see," Catherine said. "She was lying to me," she thought in her head. "Or maybe.maybe she really didn't know. She didn't know that she would hurt him this much."
A tear rolled down Trowa's cheek, leaving a wet trail behind it. Catherine wiped it from his face.
"It's okay. This happens a lot. If you want, I can go talk to her."
"No," Trowa said firmly, "I'll talk to her myself."
He got out of his bed and walked outside. Catherine sat there, looking through the doorway. "Trowa, I hope you don't drive her away from you."
A shadow quickly passed by Trowa, making him look around.
"What was that?" he asked himself. He ignored it and kept walking.
Kana was feeding the lions big slabs of meat when Trowa approached her.
"Kana, can I talk to you?" he asked her, with a surprise confidence in his voice.
"Trowa!" she said, astonished that he came to her. "Yeah, sure. Actually, I've been meaning to talk to you, too."
"You have?" he asked, optimistically.
"Yeah, but you go first," she stood up, "What was it you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Well," he looked down again. "I was just wondering, the day of the performance," tears started forming again, "why, if you didn't like me, did you let me kiss you? You could have just stopped me before this all happened."
"Oh, that." Kana looked away from him, concentrating on some squirrels that were happily playing around by a near-by tree. "Well, I don't know why I didn't stop you. I.I just wasn't thinking." Her heart pounded in her chest.
"Well, I wish that you did," he said angrily, gripping his hands tightly. Kana looked up at him and saw the pain in his sad eyes. "I wish that you did, instead of making me suffer like this."
"Trowa, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-"
"Stop," he interrupted her. "It's too late for apologies. I need you to tell me, if you love me or not."
Her eyes grew wide, and her heart pounded heavier and heavier as the seconds passed.
"I.I."
Suddenly, someone jumped from behind the bushes, grabbing Kana.
Trowa watched in horror as he saw Kana being carried away.
"Kana!" He ran after the man carrying her.
She struggled in the large man's arm as she was thrown onto a truck sitting in the center of a dirt road in the middle of the forest.
"Trowa!" she called after him. The man held up a cloth to her face, causing her to fall unconscious. Chloroform.
Trowa ran after the truck, which was speeding down the road.
"Let her go!"
The man yelled, "If you want to see this girl again, bring the last of your Gundam Data to L2X28193. She will be waiting for you there!"
The truck sped off, leaving Trowa in the dust. Huffing, he walked back to the tent, his head down, solemn.
"Trowa!"
He looked up to see Catherine running to him.
"So how did it go? Wait, where's Kana?"
"I need to go, Catherine."
"Where? Wait, your not going on another mission, are you?"
He nodded.
She grabbed his sleeve tightly.
"No! I won't allow it! You're not getting yourself killed!"
"I have no choice. They took Kana."
Catherine's eyes widened.
"They.took.Kana? But.but why?"
"To get to me. Now I have to go."
She let go of his sleeve as he started to walk away.
"Wait Trowa." He turned around. "Promise me you'll come back safely and that you'll bring Kana with you."
"I promise, Catherine."
He walked away into the forest, leaving Catherine behind once again.
~*~*~*~
"You what?!" were the angry words of Duo.
He gripped Trowa's shirt tightly, holding him up. Trowa couldn't meet his eyes.
The rest of the Gundam pilots were sitting at a table in a room in Quatre's mansion. They sat calmly and Duo continued to grasp Trowa's shirt.
"How could you have let this happen? Civilians aren't supposed to be involved with affairs having to do with the Gundams!" Duo shouted angrily.
"She didn't know anything about it," Trowa said quietly.
"That's enough, Duo. He feels worse than us all right now," Quatre stated.
Duo let go of his Trowa's shirt and took a seat by Heero.
"We need to find out where in that colony they've taken her," Heero said calmly.
Trowa gripped his hands tightly.
"And who the captors are. They want his data, after all," Wufei added.
Trowa looked at the floor.
"So," Duo asked, "who was this girl, anyway?"
Quatre looked at Trowa distressingly, knowing that sooner or later, he would have to tell them.
Trowa continued to stand there, looking at the ground. He raised his head slowly, and said, "She's the girl I fell in love with." Then he walked out of the room, silent tears streaming down his face.
The rest of the boys looked at each other with concern.
Outside of the room, after Trowa closed the door behind him, he put his back against the wall and looked out of the tall window in front of him. The sunshine hit his face and made the tears on his cheeks glisten.
He didn't realize it before, but Kana had opened up feelings inside him he didn't even know he had. She reawakened the feelings of love, longing, fear, sorrow, and happiness.
He loved her with all of his heart.
He longed for her to be with him.
He feared that she might be hurt because of him.
He's sad because it's entirely his fault she was taken away.
And he was the happiest he had ever been with a person when he was around her.
Those thought ran through his mind as he slid down to the floor, hugging his knees, crying softly.
Inside the room, the rest of the Gundam Pilots were silent, thinking about what Trowa just said.
Quatre broke the soundless atmosphere. "I'm sorry, guys. I was going to tell you earlier. Trowa really likes the girl they took. I found this out the last time I went to visit him."
"I just can't imagine," Duo started, "Trowa opening up to anyone other than Catherine."
"We all think it's strange, Duo," Heero stated, "The thing is, is this going to effect the mission?"
"It probably is," Wufei replied, "But maybe we can incorporate that into the plan."
"How so?" Quatre asked.
Wufei took out a blueprint of colony L2X28193 from the bag he was holding.
"Wufei, where did you get that?"
"I borrowed it from the Preventer headquarters."
"Or rather stole it," Duo said to himself and smiled.
"See, if we let Trowa, along with a disk that supposedly has his Gundam Data, go through the route that they would expect him to take, here," he pointed to a part on the paper, "we can all go different routes while still keeping an eye on him. They're not expecting all of us to go."
"Oh, I understand. So we let Trowa act as kind of a decoy, so that we can ambush the guy who's responsible for this, I guess."
"Exactly."
"Great, now all we need to do is tell Trowa," Duo said.
"I'll go get him," Quatre said.
"No, let me," Heero spoke out of the blue.
He got up from his chair and walked out of the room while the others looked on in surprise.
"Trowa?"
Trowa looked up and saw Heero standing above him. He wiped his tears and stood up.
"Hey Heero," he said bleakly.
"Listen, we think we know of a way to get her back. We just need to tell you the plan."
"All right."
They both walked in the room together, and Quatre told him of their plan.
"Okay, I'll do it."
"Right, so we'll all take different paths to the colony, each going into a separate area, and we'll meet in the control room. Agreed?"
They all nodded their heads.
"All right, let's go."
They all stepped out, and as Trowa walked down the empty hall, he thought to himself, "Just wait Kana. I'll come for you."
Falling Raindrops
Chapter 3
Trowa sat in his chair, silent, staring at the ground. After what happened the day of the performance, he had not uttered a single word. All he did was stare into space, completely unaware of the things or people around him.
He fed the lions, but right after, he would always go to his room. The only times he would ever look like he paid attention to anything, was whenever Kana would pass by. Trowa would look at her with pain in his eyes, then quickly look away.
"I wonder what's wrong with him," Catherine said to herself. Then she saw Kana walk by. "Maybe she knows. Hey Kana!"
Kana turned and waved. She walked over to Catherine and cheerfully said, "What's up?"
"Do you know what's been bothering Trowa lately?" she said, concerned, "He's been acting really depressed."
Kana looked down. "No, I don't know why he's been acting this way," she said guiltily.
"Oh, okay. Just wondering." Catherine walked away.
Kana continued to stare at the ground, her cheeks beginning to get hot. "Trowa, why?" she asked herself, "Why are you acting like this?"
Catherine entered Trowa's room. He was now lying on his bed, staring up into the canvas ceiling.
"Trowa, are you all right?" Catherine asked.
"Yeah," he said dreamily. He didn't even look at Catherine.
"Are you sure?" she sat on his bed beside him, "You can tell me, baby brother."
"Well," a light came back in Trowa's blank eyes. He sat up and started explaining what had happened. By the time he was finished, tears started forming, making his eyes glossy.
"I see," Catherine said. "She was lying to me," she thought in her head. "Or maybe.maybe she really didn't know. She didn't know that she would hurt him this much."
A tear rolled down Trowa's cheek, leaving a wet trail behind it. Catherine wiped it from his face.
"It's okay. This happens a lot. If you want, I can go talk to her."
"No," Trowa said firmly, "I'll talk to her myself."
He got out of his bed and walked outside. Catherine sat there, looking through the doorway. "Trowa, I hope you don't drive her away from you."
A shadow quickly passed by Trowa, making him look around.
"What was that?" he asked himself. He ignored it and kept walking.
Kana was feeding the lions big slabs of meat when Trowa approached her.
"Kana, can I talk to you?" he asked her, with a surprise confidence in his voice.
"Trowa!" she said, astonished that he came to her. "Yeah, sure. Actually, I've been meaning to talk to you, too."
"You have?" he asked, optimistically.
"Yeah, but you go first," she stood up, "What was it you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Well," he looked down again. "I was just wondering, the day of the performance," tears started forming again, "why, if you didn't like me, did you let me kiss you? You could have just stopped me before this all happened."
"Oh, that." Kana looked away from him, concentrating on some squirrels that were happily playing around by a near-by tree. "Well, I don't know why I didn't stop you. I.I just wasn't thinking." Her heart pounded in her chest.
"Well, I wish that you did," he said angrily, gripping his hands tightly. Kana looked up at him and saw the pain in his sad eyes. "I wish that you did, instead of making me suffer like this."
"Trowa, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-"
"Stop," he interrupted her. "It's too late for apologies. I need you to tell me, if you love me or not."
Her eyes grew wide, and her heart pounded heavier and heavier as the seconds passed.
"I.I."
Suddenly, someone jumped from behind the bushes, grabbing Kana.
Trowa watched in horror as he saw Kana being carried away.
"Kana!" He ran after the man carrying her.
She struggled in the large man's arm as she was thrown onto a truck sitting in the center of a dirt road in the middle of the forest.
"Trowa!" she called after him. The man held up a cloth to her face, causing her to fall unconscious. Chloroform.
Trowa ran after the truck, which was speeding down the road.
"Let her go!"
The man yelled, "If you want to see this girl again, bring the last of your Gundam Data to L2X28193. She will be waiting for you there!"
The truck sped off, leaving Trowa in the dust. Huffing, he walked back to the tent, his head down, solemn.
"Trowa!"
He looked up to see Catherine running to him.
"So how did it go? Wait, where's Kana?"
"I need to go, Catherine."
"Where? Wait, your not going on another mission, are you?"
He nodded.
She grabbed his sleeve tightly.
"No! I won't allow it! You're not getting yourself killed!"
"I have no choice. They took Kana."
Catherine's eyes widened.
"They.took.Kana? But.but why?"
"To get to me. Now I have to go."
She let go of his sleeve as he started to walk away.
"Wait Trowa." He turned around. "Promise me you'll come back safely and that you'll bring Kana with you."
"I promise, Catherine."
He walked away into the forest, leaving Catherine behind once again.
~*~*~*~
"You what?!" were the angry words of Duo.
He gripped Trowa's shirt tightly, holding him up. Trowa couldn't meet his eyes.
The rest of the Gundam pilots were sitting at a table in a room in Quatre's mansion. They sat calmly and Duo continued to grasp Trowa's shirt.
"How could you have let this happen? Civilians aren't supposed to be involved with affairs having to do with the Gundams!" Duo shouted angrily.
"She didn't know anything about it," Trowa said quietly.
"That's enough, Duo. He feels worse than us all right now," Quatre stated.
Duo let go of his Trowa's shirt and took a seat by Heero.
"We need to find out where in that colony they've taken her," Heero said calmly.
Trowa gripped his hands tightly.
"And who the captors are. They want his data, after all," Wufei added.
Trowa looked at the floor.
"So," Duo asked, "who was this girl, anyway?"
Quatre looked at Trowa distressingly, knowing that sooner or later, he would have to tell them.
Trowa continued to stand there, looking at the ground. He raised his head slowly, and said, "She's the girl I fell in love with." Then he walked out of the room, silent tears streaming down his face.
The rest of the boys looked at each other with concern.
Outside of the room, after Trowa closed the door behind him, he put his back against the wall and looked out of the tall window in front of him. The sunshine hit his face and made the tears on his cheeks glisten.
He didn't realize it before, but Kana had opened up feelings inside him he didn't even know he had. She reawakened the feelings of love, longing, fear, sorrow, and happiness.
He loved her with all of his heart.
He longed for her to be with him.
He feared that she might be hurt because of him.
He's sad because it's entirely his fault she was taken away.
And he was the happiest he had ever been with a person when he was around her.
Those thought ran through his mind as he slid down to the floor, hugging his knees, crying softly.
Inside the room, the rest of the Gundam Pilots were silent, thinking about what Trowa just said.
Quatre broke the soundless atmosphere. "I'm sorry, guys. I was going to tell you earlier. Trowa really likes the girl they took. I found this out the last time I went to visit him."
"I just can't imagine," Duo started, "Trowa opening up to anyone other than Catherine."
"We all think it's strange, Duo," Heero stated, "The thing is, is this going to effect the mission?"
"It probably is," Wufei replied, "But maybe we can incorporate that into the plan."
"How so?" Quatre asked.
Wufei took out a blueprint of colony L2X28193 from the bag he was holding.
"Wufei, where did you get that?"
"I borrowed it from the Preventer headquarters."
"Or rather stole it," Duo said to himself and smiled.
"See, if we let Trowa, along with a disk that supposedly has his Gundam Data, go through the route that they would expect him to take, here," he pointed to a part on the paper, "we can all go different routes while still keeping an eye on him. They're not expecting all of us to go."
"Oh, I understand. So we let Trowa act as kind of a decoy, so that we can ambush the guy who's responsible for this, I guess."
"Exactly."
"Great, now all we need to do is tell Trowa," Duo said.
"I'll go get him," Quatre said.
"No, let me," Heero spoke out of the blue.
He got up from his chair and walked out of the room while the others looked on in surprise.
"Trowa?"
Trowa looked up and saw Heero standing above him. He wiped his tears and stood up.
"Hey Heero," he said bleakly.
"Listen, we think we know of a way to get her back. We just need to tell you the plan."
"All right."
They both walked in the room together, and Quatre told him of their plan.
"Okay, I'll do it."
"Right, so we'll all take different paths to the colony, each going into a separate area, and we'll meet in the control room. Agreed?"
They all nodded their heads.
"All right, let's go."
They all stepped out, and as Trowa walked down the empty hall, he thought to himself, "Just wait Kana. I'll come for you."