Note: I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters.
People, school has started again and I am afraid that my homework may very well disrupt my updations, like it already has. So try to be patient, I will try to update on either Saturdays or Sundays.
"Wufei," sighed Sally as she drove towards the next possible mobile suite factory that could be in production still.
"What?" answered the Chinese man beside her.
"Why do you think Relena e-mailed you rather than someone like Hilde or Duo, people that worked closely to Heero while with her. I mean Relena and you had almost never met except on a few occasions and even than you two didn't converse a lot. So why would she contact you of all people?" wondered Sally.
"Probably for the exact reason you just gave," answered Wufei as his eyes glanced around at the mirrors out of habit of being alert. "I am not working closely with Heero nor did she and I ever converse together, so than I have no emotional attachment to tell her to come back. You on the other hand would want her to come back since you treat her like she's your younger sister."
"She is like a younger sister," sighed Sally. "Besides, I wouldn't force her to come back if she didn't want to."
"That's the exact opposite that Hilde would do," commented Wufei.
"You don't know that," argued the good doctor purposely making a sharp turn but it didn't phase the former gundam pilot.
"Yes, I do."
*****
It hadn't taken Heero long to slam a hole in the wall, it just took a long time to find what these Adem and Seige people-or Taye Chap-were-or was-hiding inside the wall. He found it at the base of the wall.
It was a wooden box, hand carved and worth quite a bit by the looks of the box. It had a lock on the front with a key attached to it.
Whoever put this here was expecting someone to find it and open it, noted Heero taking the key and sticking it into the lock. Giving the key a twist the lock opened after Heero yanked on it. Pulling the lock off Heero lifted the lid of the box. Let's see just what they were hiding inside of this little thing.
There was no need for Heero to take a deep breath before opening the box, he just opened it. Inside, under lots of built up dust, Heero made out a stack of photographs, little knick-knacks, and a few ID bracelets. Taking out the top photograph Heero wiped away the dust to find smiling at him a younger Relena in her St. Gabriel uniform hugging a uniformed dressed Adam.
"Adem and Adam are the same. The Witts were brothers and so are Adam and Sage," muttered Heero. "They helped Relena, they may know where she is exactly." Closing the box Heero grabbed it and made way to the door.
Sylvia couldn't believe the hell that she to suffer through telling her mother all about her personal life. It was truly horrible and was something that she never wanted to relive, also made her pray that Heero wasn't going to make an unexpected visit anytime soon.
Walking down the hallway to her father's old den Sylvia could make out the sound of music coming from the room beside the den. Having a fairly good idea what was causing the music Sylvia was about to decide not to check on the band, until she heard a mellow-almost mystical-sounding music and it was only on the piano. There was someone who was softly 'ohhing' before the vocals came into place.
"Kitto kitto bokutachi wa
ikiru hodo ni shitteyuku
soshite soshite bokutachi wa
ikiru hodo ni wasureteku
Hajimari ga aru mono ni wa
Itsu no hi ka owari mo aru koto
Iki toshi ikeru mono nara
Sono subete ni
Moshimo kono sekai ga shousha to haisha to no
Futatsu kiri ni wakareru nara
Aa boku wa haisha de ii
Itsu datte haisha de itai n da." At this point Sylvia had to have a peek into the room for she noticed that there was no other instrument playing with the piano. Opening the door while the singer still sang, Sylvia sneaked a peek inside and saw Salimar sitting at the piano while Lynn was singing the song and Adam, with Sage, sat in two seats listening intently.
"Kitto kitto bokutachi wa
Kanashii hodo ni utsukushiku
Yue ni yue ni bokutachi wa
Kanashii hodo ni kegareteku
Mamoru beki mono no tame ni
Kyou mo mata nanika o gisei ni
Iki toshi ikeru mono no tachi
Sono subete ga
Moshimo kono sekai ga shousha to haisha to no
Futatsu kiri ni wakareru nara
Aa boku wa haisha de ii
Itsu datte haisha de itai n da
Boku wa kimi ni nani o tsutaerareru darou
Konna chippoke de chisana boku de shika nai
Ima wa kore ijou hanasu no wa yametoku yo
Kotoba wa sou amari ni mo
Toki ni muryoku dakara." Salimar finished with her eyes closed as though in her own little world.
"Whoa!" cheered Sage clapping hysterically.
"Beautiful piano piece as well," complimented Adam with a wide grin as he got up and gave a hug to Lynn, who returned the embrace, and then the man went over to the pianist and hugged her. "This new CDs going to be great. How's your song coming along Salimar?"
"Almost done, I just need to finish coming up with the piano part then we can try and put the entire thing together," smiled Salimar patting Adam's arm that was draped around her neck.
"May I hear what you have so far?" Sylvia inquired catching everybody off guard as she entered the room.
"No, I prefer playing any music with at least the piano part done," Salimar denied as she reclaimed her composure. "What may we do for you Ms. Noventa?"
"Well, that song of yours had caught my attention was all," answered Sylvia about ready to leave before thinking of a question that had been plaguing her mind. "How did you all make money to pay rent here?"
"Easy Sylvia, Adam and I ran the roller rink, Draca worked at the community center with the elderly, Lynn worked at a nursing home, and then Salimar had a job at a residential home for Alzheimer people," Sage answered off-handedly. "When we met up at the university we came up with the idea of forming a band. It's been working so far, we get gigs at bars and hospitals for children. Of course we still got our normal jobs, got to pay rent and college money still."
"Oh…Interesting careers," nodded Sylvia.
"We never like to be the "normal" people," winked Adam.
"Then you beat the rest of us," joked Lynn. All Adam did in return was stick his tongue out at the girl in a very childish manner.
"Meanie," pouted the bass player.
"Well, sorry to have disturbed you," apologized Sylvia as she left the room and closed the door. Once out the door her cell phone rang. "Hello?"
"Heero, why did you send me to my mother's? There's so much trouble going on here with the 'For Rel' group living in my mother's mansion," complained Sylvia warily. "Yeah, they live here. Why?…Wait, why are you coming over here? Why can't I just come to you? …Of course you can't explain right now, you never can. …Fine, I'll pick you up from the airport tomorrow then. Love you, bye." Blowing a kiss through the phone, Sylvia hung up the electronic object.
"Why does he want to come here?" wondered Sylvia putting her cell phone into the back pocket of her dress pants. A thought struck her; her mother wanted to meet Heero, Heero was coming to her mother's house without knowing that her mother was under the impression that they were engaged. "Crap."