SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Lady: I know it's been like nine months since I updated this story
Heero: Which monstrosity are you working on now?
Lady: Guess
Rowen: The untitled one?
Lady: No
Seto: Royal Pains
Lady: Exact-a-Mundo
Heero: Does that mean we have to let Relena out of the tape?
Lady: Unfortunately...
Seto: Damn. There goes my only source of amusement
Lady: We could always tie Tea/Anzu up.
Seto: Nah. Then I'd have to listen to all her dumb speeches
Tea/Anzu fans: Hey!
Lady: Anyway. I don't own Gundam Wing, though I wished I at least owned Trowa or Heero
Heero: O_o
Trowa: ///_O
Lady: I love doing that to them... RECAP!
Rowen: In chapter 3, Trowa and Quatre were turned into girls, and Zechs and Treize got hit my women. Am I forgetting something?
Lady: Not that I know of.
Relena: *whimpers*
Lady Oh yeah...(takes tape off Relena's mouth)
Relena: *whining* HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Lady: (re-tapes Relena's mouth) We'll just leave that on until you have to speak.
Relena: *pouts*
Everyone else: And now for something completely different... A man with three buttocks.
Quatre: He tried to sit and fell though a hole in the floor.
Lady: (shrugs) Anyway, and now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks.
Everyone else: We already did that!
Lady: Oops.
Royal Pains
Ch. 4: Test one-Compassion
Heero walked through the hall quickly. He had finally gotten out of his cast, and was putting that to good use. He had had it. He was fed up with women, everywhere he looked he saw women. Women to the left of him, women to the right of him, women in front of him, women behind him! Any normal man would have thought it was heaven, but not Heero. It was enough to drive him insane. What made things worse was that the ones he wanted to be around, Wufei, Trowa, Quatre, and Duo, were no where to be found, and the most annoying one of the lot, Relena, was like his shadow. This brought Heero into his present situation.
He looked though doors and windows, looking for any sign of his way ward friends/ possible fiancé's. He'd already checked the library, kitchen, garden, their rooms, and various rooms around the palace. He sighed. He had pretty much given up hope, when he felt a slim hand on his shoulder. He jumped and instinctively twisted the wrist of the person only to turn and find Quatre holding her wrist and crying. Mortified with himself he held Quatre and tried to soothe the ache in her wrist.
"I'm sorry," he whispered gently. "I didn't mean to hurt you." Quatre had stopped crying and the other had come out of hiding to see what had happened.
"Are you okay, Quatre?" Trowa asked looking into Quatre's face. Quatre shook her head. Trowa looked up and glared at Heero. "I think you've done enough, Monsieur Yuy." She said coldly pulling Quatre away. She and the other turned to leave, but Heero wasn't having it. He had spent three days looking for them, and was not about to let them go back into hiding just like that. Walking up behind Trowa, he turned her around, plucked Quatre from her and cared Quatre toward that infirmary. Quatre was shocked and wasn't sure what was going on. She looked to Trowa, Wufei, and Duo behind her and Heero. Trowa smiled and nodded. Quatre was reassured by this and put her arms around Heero's neck. She leaned on him and closed her eyes.
"Are you sure it's okay to leave her and Heero alone?" Wufei ask
"He passed the first test," Trowa nodded. "Barely anyway."
"What are the odds of him passing the rest?" Duo asked peering over Trowa's shoulder at Heero and Quatre.
"I'd say pretty good."
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Heero sat Quatre down on the bed and began to examine her wrist. "It's only sprained, nothing too serious," Heero dug though the draw next to the bed. "Is this the hand you write with?" he asked, bandaging the wrist slowly and gently. Quatre nodded. "Just don't use it too much, or else you'll make it worse. They're all done." He finished pulling back to look at the raps. Quatre held her wrist and looked at it, than up at Heero.
"Thank you," Quatre smiled sweetly. Heero couldn't tell what it was, but there was something that the four girls, he had befriended, weren't telling him. Quatre closed her leaned close to Heero. Heero unconsciously leaned closer as well. They continue to get closer to each other until they were millimeters apart. It was then that Heero realized what was going to happen. He turned to his head just as they were about to kiss. "What's wrong?" Quatre asked obviously hurt by this.
"Please, don't take this as rejection," Heero pushed Quatre way by her shoulders. "But I can't.... kiss you...just yet. I'm-I'm still trying to sort out my feelings for you and your friends. Please, I really like you, so please don't disappear again. I've been miserable without you and the others." Instead of the slap across the cheek he was expecting, he felt lips press against his cheek. He blinked and looked at Quatre who had a smile on her face. "You're not angry?" he asked, confusion thick in his voice.
"My-mm," She stands and starts to exit the room.
"Wait!" he yells before she can leave the room.
"What? I'm waiting for you," she asked. Heero blinked again. Getting up, he followed Quatre back to the hall where she had scared him. Once there, Quatre pressed her ear to the wall and rapped on it lightly, than step forward a little. She repeated that until she was a good way from where she started. She started to push again the wall as if trying to move it. Being the gentleman that he was, he scooted Quatre a side, and pushed the wall himself. He wasn't quite sure what the purpose of it was but he did it anyway. And his hard work was not in vane, for after a few minutes of pushing; the wall gave way with a reverberating whoosh. Unfortunately this move left Heero flat on his face at someone's feet. Looking up, he peered into sparkling emerald eyes. It was Trowa
"I know I'm pretty, Heero," the girl taunted. "But you don't half to worship the ground I walk on." Heero decided it was safer not to reply to that, and bit his tongue. "Oh, come now. Don't be a spoiled sport." She grinned extending her hand to him. He took it and stood. Looking around, he realized that Quatre was behind Trowa and that the walled had closed up.
"Where are we?" he asked studying the old cobble stonewalls.
"This is one of the hidden passages in the palace," stated Wufei, emerging from the shadows, into the torchlight. "They were used in times of emergency, when the royal family had to escape." Wufei touch the wall affectionately. "I used to play in here looking for rats, or something to play with."
"That's gross Fei!" Screeched Duo in disgust, a few feet away. "Rat's are filthy creatures."
"Bats are it no better," Heero snorted, "they're rats with wings!" He could almost see the scowl on Duo's face. Once his laughter subsided, Heero looked around again. "So this is where you four have been hiding?"
"Yes and no," Trowa shrugged. "Let's go." Trowa started down the dimly light tunnel toward a bright shimmering light at the other end.
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Unbeknownst to the people in the tunnel, they had been watched. Not only had Heero been looking for the girls, but Treize and Zechs as well. Relena had been with them, since there was a good chance that, where the girls were, so was Heero. They had seen every thing; Heero wandering the halls, him twisting Quatre's arm and him taking her to bandage it, the wall opening, the whole thing. Treize sneered.
"Do you think that, that's where they've been hiding?"
"I can believe he did that!" Relena was fuming. "I almost break my ankle and he doesn't care or even notice, while she sprains her wrist and get cared, lovingly I might add, into the infirmary! It makes me sick!"
"It's no wonder he doesn't like you!" Zechs shouted. "If you stopped whining so much and hanging all over him, he'd give you the time of day!" his face fell when he realized at his sister wasn't listening to him. She was too absorbed in her only little world to hear a thing he'd said. Zechs threw his hands up in defeat. "I give up."
By this time Treize was at the wall, tapping it lightly, repeating Quatre's actions exactly. He tapped until he heard a hollow sound on the other side. He began to push in the door until it gave way. "So that's how it's done," he spoke analytically.
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Heero, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, and Duo turned to the loud groan of the stonewall. "What was that?" Duo cringed. She shivered, and hugged herself tightly. "It's sounded like a monster..." She whimpered.
"Damn it, Duo" Wufei cursed. "We've been going up and down this tunnel for three weeks! You know damn well that there are no monsters in here."
"Then what was that noise?!" she scolds. Trowa shushed them and turned an ear toward the other end of the fall. She heard three voices
"Ewww! It's so dingy in here!" screeched a female voice
"Oh, get over it, Relena, "called a male voice
"Yes, quite being such an infant about every thing," called a second, deeper male voice. Trowa cursed under her breath.
"Shit! We've got to hurry! Zechs, Treize, and Relena have found the entrance!" She hurried Heero, Quatre and Duo down the hall.
"What about you two?" Duo asked halting in her exit.
"We'll keep them busy," Wufei smiled cruelly. "Besides, we're the only ones, other than you and Quatre, that can open the gate. Now, go!" And with that Quatre and Heero ran down the hall, but Duo stayed.
"Trowa," glared darkly at the other end of the tunnel. "You go in my place. You know more about the crystals then any of us, and Quatre and Heero need you to guide them." Trowa nodded her understanding. She didn't like it, but she knew she had to do it. Taking one last look at Wufei and Duo, she sprinted down the hall to catch up with Heero and Quatre. With a sigh Duo turned to Wufei "You and I, both know we are going to get in so much trouble for this, right?"
"Yeah," Wufei huffed, "but it will be worth it in the end." The two watched at Treize, Zechs and Relena approached them.
BC...
Lady: That was-
Quatre: Painful. (holds wrist) Did you have to do that so hard?
Heero: Gomen (kisses Quatre's wrist)
Quatre: (beams)
Relena: Heero, you don't love that little blonde fruitcake more than me, do you?
Trowa: Relena, Heero loves anything more that he loves you. (hits her with baseball bat)
Relena: @.@
Heero: o_o
Quatre: o.o
Trowa: And that's for calling Quatre a fruitcake.
Lady: (((.~ (pokes Relena with stick) WOOT! She's out.
Duo: Now lets hope she stays that way.
Wufei: (to Seto) How long do you think she'll stay out?
Seto: I give her three weeks at the least.
Lady: I have no idea how to classify this story now...
Seto: Try disturbed authoresses
Lady: Don't get smart.
Seto: Too late, I'm already a genius.
Lady: Just ask.
Seto: Review please. Thought I don't know why she bothers, no body reads this crap anyway.
Lady: ANYWAY!!! What kind of plans does do Treize and Zechs have in store for our girl? What will happen to Wufei and Duo? Why have the girls been hiding in a tunnel? What are the crystals Duo's talking about? And will Relena ever stop whining? (Probably not) I don't even know what's going to happen next, and it's my story!! Be sure and Stay tuned for chapter 5: Test Two-______
Heero: Can't get any worse...