Saving Zechs
By Tira Yuy
~~~~Chapter four~~~~
Staring out the window where he had just dropped one of Sally's cameras Wufei felt like kicking himself. He had been standing in the windowsill and just gotten a perfect picture of the face of the man from before, when he heard Myrtle's exclaim about some girl being perfect for him and lost his balance. He figured that he could get a good picture of the man from this angle without being spotted due to how little attention the man had been paying to his surroundings but he had not counted on dropping the camera.
'Must have dropped it as I fell onto the bed,' he thought looking at the smashed camera laying near a rock. The film hanging out of the camera left no hope of retrieving the picture.
"Wufei?!" Sally yelled as she entered the room with Mrs. Drake close behind.
Looking at the fold-out army-style bed that was broken and laying in the center of the floor,Sally wondered what had happened.
"I tripped and fell on it," Wufei said noticing what she was looking at. It was partly true. The cot had broken his fall onto the floor.
"I thought you were out," Myrtle said in puzzlement and hoped Wufei had not heard her talking about Violet. Considering how his date with Erma had turned out she did not think he would go on another blind date with out quite a bit of convincing. 'Though I still don't understand what was wrong with Erma,' she thought of the sweet girl who is her pastor's daughter.
Sally tried to think of an explanation, "I called your name when I got in, why didn't you respond?" she asked Wufei knowing he would come up with the rest.
"I must have still been asleep." Wufei yawned, "The bed collapsing woke me up."
"I thought you tripped over it," Myrtle said looking at how Wufei's hair was neatly pulled back in its usual style.
'For being Cupid's worst helper, she does notices things,' Wufei thought grudgingly. "I tripped while trying to put it back up and then it really broke."
Myrtle just nodded at this and Wufei was thankful that she did not ask any more questions.
There was a moment of silence before Sally said, "Do you need anything, Mrs. Drake?"
"Oh, no deary," Myrtle said as she shook her head. "But it looks like you do. I have a spare room that I keep fully furnished for whenever my sister visits. There is a perfectly good bed in there, why don't you and Wufei come by and get it? I sure wish I had known you children didn't even have a decent bed to sleep on, or I would have offered it before now."
"Are you sure?" Sally asked, hoping to get the nosy, but well-meaning, woman out the door. According to their instructions, she or Wufei was supposed to be watching the building across the street at all times. Fifteen minutes had already gone by without either of them watching.
"Yes! My sister won't be visiting any time soon so it's not getting used. With our houses only a few feet apart, no one has to fool with taking it apart to move and then putting it back together."
"How big is the bed?" Wufei asked. The idea of moving a king sized, or even twin sized, bed was not appealing to him.
"It's a day bed." Sticking out her lower lip in thought Myrtle frowned. "Since it's rather narrow I'll let you take the trundle that goes underneath so both you and Sally have a good night's rest."
Smiling once again Myrtle looked at Wufei with admiration, she went on with her prattle, "Wufei is so strong that we shouldn't have any trouble moving it at all. It's such a shame more men aren't taking better care of them selves and getting in shape..." Pausing Myrtle looked over at the computer resting on a desk in the corner of the room. "But with you working at home all day on that machine, it's amazing how you manage."
Not sure how the conversation had gotten to his physical well being, Wufei thought of a quick excuse. "There was a gym down the street from our last place, and I went there every morning."
"Well, we'll just have to find another gym near here for you," Myrtle said sympathetically. She knew it was never easy moving to a new place; trying to make new friends and find your way around could be really hard. Myrtle felt sorry for the young Chinese man, to spend most of your day in a house by yourself was truly lonely, she knew from her own experance.
It was nice that he had a good older sister like Sally, but she could not emigan that being enough for any hot blooded man. 'If Wufei can't go to where the women are I'll just have to breing them to him,' thought, not for the first time since she had met her charming new neighbors.
Glancing over out the window, Sally started to get antsy to be waving good bye to Myrtle.
"Wufei, why don't you get the bed, and I'll start on dinner?"
Thinking about Sally's promised rice balls, Wufei nodded. He might as well go get the bed and try to think of a way to keep Mrs. Drake from siccing Violet on him.
As Wufei walked with Myrtle to her house, he wondered why he and Sally were stuck with the cover of being brother and sister while Noin and Heero had the easy task of playing husband and wife on a honeymoon in one of the best vacationing spots in space.
*L4 hospital*
Walking down the hall to Heero's room, Noin felt a bit relieved and a bit anxious. After twenty-four hours of being in the hospital, he was being discharged.
"Mr. Travoni!" The shout came from a room Noin was passing, as she peeked in she saw a man in his late fifties laughing as a red-headed nurse turned around, blushing with embarrassment.
"That joke was... IS... just uh-," the nurse's face started to look more like her hair as she stuttered to describe what she thought of the older man's joke.
Sensing someone watching her, she looked up. "Oh, Mrs. Lowe." Relieved to have the chance to change the subject, the nurse quickly walked over to Noin. "There are a few forms you need to fill out before your husband can leave."
Recognizing the girl as the one who gave her directions to Heero's room the day before, Noin politely smiled at her. "Hello. where are they?"
"Right this way," she said before leading Noin to the nurses' station.
She leaned over the counter top that encircled some computers and grabbed a handful of paper. "Lets see, you already took care of most of this..." She searched through the pile for the right form.
Feeling a bit talkative Noin asked, "Do you get many patients like Mr. Travoni?"
Flushing at the mere mention of the man with a very perverted since of humor, the nurse shook her head. "Thankfully, I've never had to deal with men like him coming in and out all the time. But I've hear quit a few horror stories during lunch about how some of the male patience can get. You'd think with them being sick they wouldn't have the energy to tell bad jokes and grope at the nurses."
Noin felt sympathy for the younger woman. She looked like a real sweetheart and Noin was gratful for all of the help she had given her.
"It's a miracle he wasn't killed in that car crash, but instead of thanking his lucky stars he's alive and trying to straighten himself out, he just bribes orderlies to smuggle him some beer to celebrate." Pausing to read a sheet of paper she smiled triumphantly. "Here it is!"
"Car crash?" Noin asked as she took the offered paper.
"Mhhm. He ran his taxi cab right into the police station, just a few blocks from the Winner shopping center. He was so drunk that if the man riding in the back had gotten killed he would be up on manslaughter charges."
Trying to keep composed, Noin pulled out a pen from her pocket. 'Winner shopping center, Heero was in the car crash while taking a taxi to meet me there.' Without any doubt that the rude Mr. Travoni was the man driving Heero, Noin wondered what she should do about it, if anything.
The nurse let out a gasp. "Oh, Mrs. Lowe how horrable of me!" She said in a truly repentent tone of voice. "If you wanted to press charges against Mr. Travoni for reckles indangerment a police officer was sappose to let you know that that's an option. But to protect all of the pationts I wasn't sappose to let you know who the man was or where he is."
Noin would have liked to press charges, if nothing else it would be one way to make sure that Mr. Travoni did not cause any more trouble. But it would mean putting the mission on hold for far too long. 'No, it just cann't be done for now.'
"Don't worry," Noin said putting a hand on the young woman's shoulder. "It was a slip up and I won't tell anyone about it."
The Nurse shook her head. " It was just horrable of me to have been complaining about him to you..."
Noin just patted the woman's shoulder and then with drew her hand. "Don't worry about it."
Having been so focused on how she was going to carryout the mission while Heero did not even know he was once a gundam pilot, she had not even considered the event that led to the situation. 'If it's so amazing that the driver is still alive could it have been a well planned out way to kill Heero?'
If that was the case, then the terrorist were already expecting them.
"Excuse me, I'll finish filling these out after I see Odin again," Noin said.
Nodding at Noin, the redhead was then distracted by a fellow nurse and did not notice that Noin was heading for the bathrooms and not Mr. Lowe's room.
"Dorothy pick up," Noin hissed into her phone after hearing the beep of Dorothy's answering machine.
Glancing under the doors of the two stalls for any possible eavesdroppers. An olde article that she had read a week ago crossed her mind as she relized that even only a mere five years ago cell phones had been banned from hospitals due to the fact that they messed with medical equipment. 'Thank you scienctific advancement.'
When no one picked up Noin sighed. "I need you to do me a favor, look up a Mr. Travoni. I don't know his first name, but he lives here on L4 and is a taxi driver. This guy could have tried to kill Heero so be sure to do a thorough job and make sure that all the records aren't really good fakes. I'll contact you again in 16 hours from L3."
Flipping her phone closed, Noin once again headed for Heero's room, this time wondering if she should be calling off the mission for his safety.
*Earth; Dorothy's home*
"Dorothy?" Relena called out as she entered her friend's office. She had been waiting on the patio for Dorothy so they could eat lunch, but when the taller girl took too long finishing up some last minute business, Relena came in looking for her.
Seeing the red light on Dorothy's phone flashing, she came closer to the desk and saw that the light was to signal that a message had been left.
"Hey Dorothy! You have a phone message!" Relena shouted out.
"Check it for me!" Dorothy shouted back, her voice coming from inside the bathroom adjoined to her office.
Sighing Relena hit the right button and listened to Noin's message.
"So, who was it?" Dorothy asked from the bathroom. "Relena?"
But there was no response from the now empty room.
By Tira Yuy
~~~~Chapter four~~~~
Staring out the window where he had just dropped one of Sally's cameras Wufei felt like kicking himself. He had been standing in the windowsill and just gotten a perfect picture of the face of the man from before, when he heard Myrtle's exclaim about some girl being perfect for him and lost his balance. He figured that he could get a good picture of the man from this angle without being spotted due to how little attention the man had been paying to his surroundings but he had not counted on dropping the camera.
'Must have dropped it as I fell onto the bed,' he thought looking at the smashed camera laying near a rock. The film hanging out of the camera left no hope of retrieving the picture.
"Wufei?!" Sally yelled as she entered the room with Mrs. Drake close behind.
Looking at the fold-out army-style bed that was broken and laying in the center of the floor,Sally wondered what had happened.
"I tripped and fell on it," Wufei said noticing what she was looking at. It was partly true. The cot had broken his fall onto the floor.
"I thought you were out," Myrtle said in puzzlement and hoped Wufei had not heard her talking about Violet. Considering how his date with Erma had turned out she did not think he would go on another blind date with out quite a bit of convincing. 'Though I still don't understand what was wrong with Erma,' she thought of the sweet girl who is her pastor's daughter.
Sally tried to think of an explanation, "I called your name when I got in, why didn't you respond?" she asked Wufei knowing he would come up with the rest.
"I must have still been asleep." Wufei yawned, "The bed collapsing woke me up."
"I thought you tripped over it," Myrtle said looking at how Wufei's hair was neatly pulled back in its usual style.
'For being Cupid's worst helper, she does notices things,' Wufei thought grudgingly. "I tripped while trying to put it back up and then it really broke."
Myrtle just nodded at this and Wufei was thankful that she did not ask any more questions.
There was a moment of silence before Sally said, "Do you need anything, Mrs. Drake?"
"Oh, no deary," Myrtle said as she shook her head. "But it looks like you do. I have a spare room that I keep fully furnished for whenever my sister visits. There is a perfectly good bed in there, why don't you and Wufei come by and get it? I sure wish I had known you children didn't even have a decent bed to sleep on, or I would have offered it before now."
"Are you sure?" Sally asked, hoping to get the nosy, but well-meaning, woman out the door. According to their instructions, she or Wufei was supposed to be watching the building across the street at all times. Fifteen minutes had already gone by without either of them watching.
"Yes! My sister won't be visiting any time soon so it's not getting used. With our houses only a few feet apart, no one has to fool with taking it apart to move and then putting it back together."
"How big is the bed?" Wufei asked. The idea of moving a king sized, or even twin sized, bed was not appealing to him.
"It's a day bed." Sticking out her lower lip in thought Myrtle frowned. "Since it's rather narrow I'll let you take the trundle that goes underneath so both you and Sally have a good night's rest."
Smiling once again Myrtle looked at Wufei with admiration, she went on with her prattle, "Wufei is so strong that we shouldn't have any trouble moving it at all. It's such a shame more men aren't taking better care of them selves and getting in shape..." Pausing Myrtle looked over at the computer resting on a desk in the corner of the room. "But with you working at home all day on that machine, it's amazing how you manage."
Not sure how the conversation had gotten to his physical well being, Wufei thought of a quick excuse. "There was a gym down the street from our last place, and I went there every morning."
"Well, we'll just have to find another gym near here for you," Myrtle said sympathetically. She knew it was never easy moving to a new place; trying to make new friends and find your way around could be really hard. Myrtle felt sorry for the young Chinese man, to spend most of your day in a house by yourself was truly lonely, she knew from her own experance.
It was nice that he had a good older sister like Sally, but she could not emigan that being enough for any hot blooded man. 'If Wufei can't go to where the women are I'll just have to breing them to him,' thought, not for the first time since she had met her charming new neighbors.
Glancing over out the window, Sally started to get antsy to be waving good bye to Myrtle.
"Wufei, why don't you get the bed, and I'll start on dinner?"
Thinking about Sally's promised rice balls, Wufei nodded. He might as well go get the bed and try to think of a way to keep Mrs. Drake from siccing Violet on him.
As Wufei walked with Myrtle to her house, he wondered why he and Sally were stuck with the cover of being brother and sister while Noin and Heero had the easy task of playing husband and wife on a honeymoon in one of the best vacationing spots in space.
*L4 hospital*
Walking down the hall to Heero's room, Noin felt a bit relieved and a bit anxious. After twenty-four hours of being in the hospital, he was being discharged.
"Mr. Travoni!" The shout came from a room Noin was passing, as she peeked in she saw a man in his late fifties laughing as a red-headed nurse turned around, blushing with embarrassment.
"That joke was... IS... just uh-," the nurse's face started to look more like her hair as she stuttered to describe what she thought of the older man's joke.
Sensing someone watching her, she looked up. "Oh, Mrs. Lowe." Relieved to have the chance to change the subject, the nurse quickly walked over to Noin. "There are a few forms you need to fill out before your husband can leave."
Recognizing the girl as the one who gave her directions to Heero's room the day before, Noin politely smiled at her. "Hello. where are they?"
"Right this way," she said before leading Noin to the nurses' station.
She leaned over the counter top that encircled some computers and grabbed a handful of paper. "Lets see, you already took care of most of this..." She searched through the pile for the right form.
Feeling a bit talkative Noin asked, "Do you get many patients like Mr. Travoni?"
Flushing at the mere mention of the man with a very perverted since of humor, the nurse shook her head. "Thankfully, I've never had to deal with men like him coming in and out all the time. But I've hear quit a few horror stories during lunch about how some of the male patience can get. You'd think with them being sick they wouldn't have the energy to tell bad jokes and grope at the nurses."
Noin felt sympathy for the younger woman. She looked like a real sweetheart and Noin was gratful for all of the help she had given her.
"It's a miracle he wasn't killed in that car crash, but instead of thanking his lucky stars he's alive and trying to straighten himself out, he just bribes orderlies to smuggle him some beer to celebrate." Pausing to read a sheet of paper she smiled triumphantly. "Here it is!"
"Car crash?" Noin asked as she took the offered paper.
"Mhhm. He ran his taxi cab right into the police station, just a few blocks from the Winner shopping center. He was so drunk that if the man riding in the back had gotten killed he would be up on manslaughter charges."
Trying to keep composed, Noin pulled out a pen from her pocket. 'Winner shopping center, Heero was in the car crash while taking a taxi to meet me there.' Without any doubt that the rude Mr. Travoni was the man driving Heero, Noin wondered what she should do about it, if anything.
The nurse let out a gasp. "Oh, Mrs. Lowe how horrable of me!" She said in a truly repentent tone of voice. "If you wanted to press charges against Mr. Travoni for reckles indangerment a police officer was sappose to let you know that that's an option. But to protect all of the pationts I wasn't sappose to let you know who the man was or where he is."
Noin would have liked to press charges, if nothing else it would be one way to make sure that Mr. Travoni did not cause any more trouble. But it would mean putting the mission on hold for far too long. 'No, it just cann't be done for now.'
"Don't worry," Noin said putting a hand on the young woman's shoulder. "It was a slip up and I won't tell anyone about it."
The Nurse shook her head. " It was just horrable of me to have been complaining about him to you..."
Noin just patted the woman's shoulder and then with drew her hand. "Don't worry about it."
Having been so focused on how she was going to carryout the mission while Heero did not even know he was once a gundam pilot, she had not even considered the event that led to the situation. 'If it's so amazing that the driver is still alive could it have been a well planned out way to kill Heero?'
If that was the case, then the terrorist were already expecting them.
"Excuse me, I'll finish filling these out after I see Odin again," Noin said.
Nodding at Noin, the redhead was then distracted by a fellow nurse and did not notice that Noin was heading for the bathrooms and not Mr. Lowe's room.
"Dorothy pick up," Noin hissed into her phone after hearing the beep of Dorothy's answering machine.
Glancing under the doors of the two stalls for any possible eavesdroppers. An olde article that she had read a week ago crossed her mind as she relized that even only a mere five years ago cell phones had been banned from hospitals due to the fact that they messed with medical equipment. 'Thank you scienctific advancement.'
When no one picked up Noin sighed. "I need you to do me a favor, look up a Mr. Travoni. I don't know his first name, but he lives here on L4 and is a taxi driver. This guy could have tried to kill Heero so be sure to do a thorough job and make sure that all the records aren't really good fakes. I'll contact you again in 16 hours from L3."
Flipping her phone closed, Noin once again headed for Heero's room, this time wondering if she should be calling off the mission for his safety.
*Earth; Dorothy's home*
"Dorothy?" Relena called out as she entered her friend's office. She had been waiting on the patio for Dorothy so they could eat lunch, but when the taller girl took too long finishing up some last minute business, Relena came in looking for her.
Seeing the red light on Dorothy's phone flashing, she came closer to the desk and saw that the light was to signal that a message had been left.
"Hey Dorothy! You have a phone message!" Relena shouted out.
"Check it for me!" Dorothy shouted back, her voice coming from inside the bathroom adjoined to her office.
Sighing Relena hit the right button and listened to Noin's message.
"So, who was it?" Dorothy asked from the bathroom. "Relena?"
But there was no response from the now empty room.