Author: Supurrkitty
Disclaimer: I do not own any GW characters. That is all.
Damn me! Writing so many fan-fictions at once! Please read and review.
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More than Rejects
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" Where's Trowa?" Quatre asked upon entering Relena's room.
" Gone," she replied, sitting up.
" Gone? Where?"
" He said he was going to get his daughter back," Relena smiled.
" What? By himself?" Quatre turned and looked down the hall.
" He also said you should stay here with me," Relena said before he could leave.
" Well," Quatre turned back around and looked at her, " I suppose that makes sense, there being an inside voice in Preventers now."
" Inside voice?" Relena looked alert, " He never said anything about that."
" Yeah, there was a security breach when you were getting the blood," Quatre said, sitting down, " There were only two, they were taken to Preventers for questioning."
" Oh," Relena looked down, thinking, and then realization struck and she gasped.
" What?" Quatre looked over at her, worried.
" I know what he's going to do." Relena said, excited.
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Trowa stepped inside the Preventers office and looked warily around. It was pretty empty at this time of night, aside from the guards roaming all the floors. But, Trowa had access to some places in the building, so he felt he could easily accomplish his task. He made his way over to where he new officer Asahara's office was. He safely entered and went to the computer on the desk. He turned it on and was asked for a password. Luckily, there wasn't any voice recognition, just text.
Trowa flipped over the keyboard and looked all over the desk to try and find the password written somewhere. Then he saw some pictures posted to the board next to the desk. One was a picture of a city that he couldn't quite pinpoint in his mind. The other was of a black cat with round, yellow eyes. He sat and thought for minutes to figure out what their significance was. Then, it hit him as he found a connection between the two.
Bombay.
The password was accepted and he was in. The screen popped up and he was soon networked into all the other systems in the building. He found the holding cell system and scheduled a security shut down for twenty minute from then. He printed out the layout of all the holding cells and was about to shut it down when a folder caught his eye.
Operation Comet Tail. He opened up the folder and found that there were no files left inside of it. Slightly disappointed, he shut it. But then, a screen popped up. It was the layout of a floor on a building very similar to the Preventers. It had blinking and moving dots on it. Trowa studied it, then noticed more windows and clicked them open. There were plans for another space station as well as some for giant weapons and mobile dolls. Trowa was shocked. Maybe they were getting into something bigger than they had planned.
" 'Run by President Asahara'?" Trowa whispered to himself, " Is Tomi the leek in all of this?"
Trowa was interrupted by a sound from outside. He quickly shut down the system and stuffed the papers into his pocket. Casually, he walked out of the office and was relieved to see it was only a janitor. He walked past and made his way to the holding cells in the basement. On the elevator, he kept his eye on the watch to pinpoint the exact time when his work would come into affect. After stepping off of the elevator, he leaned against the wall, watching all of the cameras with their eyes on the cells. He counted down on his watch until everything shut down.
Satisfied with himself, he began looking in all of the cells in the gray room until he found one with people inside of it. It was the woman who he saw at the hospital and another man.
" Hey," He whispered harshly and both the prisoners looked up.
" I knew it!" The woman said and jumped up, " You came to break us out? You believe me?"
" Not necessarily," Trowa growled, " But you will be of use to me."
" We aren't who you guys think we are," The man in the cell stood up next to the woman, "My name's Gunner and this is Cassidy. And we only want to help."
" I don't believe you, but..." Trowa spoke as he broke some glass to find a fire distinguisher and a crow bar. He grabbed the crow bar and pried open the door to the cell, " I suppose I could just kill you if I find out you're lying."
" Wow, you turned off the security system," Cassidy said as she stepped out of the cell.
" C'mon, I don't know where we're going to go, but it's going to be safer than here." Trowa said and led them away.
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" So," Trowa said, pulling his gun out and checking it when they were behind the building and the guards were after them, " suppose I did believe you. How would you help me get my daughter back?"
" The same way you would help us take down Project Comet Tail," Cassidy said, watching Trowa.
" What do you know about that?" Trowa asked, interested.
" I'm surprised that you know about that Mr. Barton," Cassidy said, " I didn't give you enough credit..."
" Just tell me what it's about..." Trowa demanded, watching the guards edge closer, " If you guys aren't in on it, then who is?"
" You don't know?" Cassidy blinked, then looked over towards some screeching, " Gunner's back."
Trowa rounded the corner quickly and used three shots to disable the guards while they got away in the stolen truck. Once inside the Truck, they sped off away from the building.
" Where are we going?" Trowa asked from the passenger side.
" You'll see," Gunner replied.
Then he heard a click and felt the sting of cold metal against his temple.
" Tell me where we're going."
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" You used to be Preventers," Trowa said while they were on a long, empty road, " What happened."
" We quit," Gunner replied, Cassidy was sleeping in the back, " Didn't much like the direction they were going."
" Why are you in hiding?" Trowa asked.
" 'Cause we don't like to die," Gunner chuckled, " You'll see, there are more of us."
" Who leads you?"
" Leads us? Well...I suppose that'd be Miss Une..."
" Une? You mean she doesn't still run the head of Preventers?"
" Oh, Heaven's no! Une's a good woman, you should know..."
" I'm afraid I don't know anything anymore..."
" Well, I'm sure she can clear things up for you," Gunner pulled over and parked, " Here we are."
" We're in the middle of nowhere," Trowa said as he got out.
" Indeed we are," Gunner smiled, waking Cassidy up.
They got out and walked into the desert until they were far from the truck. Gunner pressed a button in his jacket and the truck blew up.
" Always come prepared," He said, pressing his watch a few times. Soon, a Helicopter appeared from behind the mountains and flew over to them, not landing, but throwing down a ladder.
Though Trowa was still completely baffled at the situation, he fallowed them and soon they were flying low in the maze of the mountain system. Trowa found himself suddenly becoming sleepy. And then, with one last thought to his missing child, he lost consciousness.
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" I'm afraid your friend's gone awol on us," Tomi sighed, flipping down some papers in front of them, " But I have some good news for you."
" That's new," Wufei said, they were all in Relena's room. It was the day after Trowa left and already she was getting better. Everyone found it very confusing since she had been doing so badly up until then.
" That friend of yours that was on the other side," Tomi looked down at his papers, " Duo Maxwell. Well, he recently came to us and asked for protection on our side. We granted it, considering he can help us."
" What?" Wufei stood up, " Where do you have him?"
" Don't worry, Mr. Chang, he's under surveillance constantly," Tomi said, looking through the papers, " He's here, and he's going to help us."
" He's here?" Quatre inquired from beside Relena. But before anyone could say anything else, the room was crowded with more people. In the middle stood Duo, looking much older than they had ever seen him. He stood silent, almost ashamed. His eyes stayed on Relena in disbelief and sadness, ignoring the glares from around the room.
" I didn't mean for this to happen..." Duo whispered, barely audible, and then was shoved by one of the men keeping an eye on him.
" Why'd you do it, Duo?" Relena asked.
" I..." Duo looked around at the guards and shook his head, " I had to..."
" Excuse me," Quatre said, standing up, " But could you leave us alone for a bit?"
" What?" One of the guards blinked at him, " I'm afraid that's a little too dangerous."
" I've got it covered," Quatre said, pulling out a gun and securing the chamber.
" Uh," The guard looked over at Tomi, who nodded and then headed out with them.
Duo watched them leave, and then looked back over at his war buddies.
" Are they alive, Duo?" Quatre asked and Duo looked up at the security camera nervously.
" Yes, they're fine," Duo said, looking down.
" Good," Quatre said, " where are they?"
Again, Duo looked over at the camera. Wufei noticed and noted this while Quatre kept questioning Duo.
" They're..." Duo took in a breath as if it were hard for him to say, " They're close..."
" Why won't you just tell us, Duo?" Relena asked.
Duo walked closer, Quatre kept his eye on him. Duo stopped and looked at Quatre pleadingly and Quatre finally backed down and let Duo approach Relena. Duo bent over and hugged Relena.
" I can't tell a lie..." Duo whispered barely audible to even Relena.
He moved away and went to a wall to lean against.
" Why did you have to do it, Duo?" Quatre asked.
" They took her from me," Duo said, starting to tap on the wall, " They made me do it. They took Hilde."
" How'd you get out, then?" Wufei asked, " Did you abandon Hilde?"
" Of course not!" Duo protested, clearly upset, but kept tapping methodically against the wall.
" Fine," Wufei said after a while of catching onto what Duo was doing.
" I'm not...sure what they're planning," Duo said, looking to the side, " It's not good, though."
After a little while of silence and a couple more taps, Duo pushed himself off the wall and looked towards the door.
" Are you guys done with me now?" He seemed to ask no one.
" I suppose," Quatre said and waved for the others to come back in.
They came in and took Duo back out, Duo just looked hopefully over at his three friends and then left.
" Guys, I talked to the head of Preventers and they're on the leek," Tomi said, " We have a lead and they should be caught soon. That'll bring us closer to our goal,"
" Officer Asahara?" Relena asked and they all looked over at her, " Duo seemed...shook up. What happened when he came to you guys?"
" Uh," Tomi blinked down at her, then smiled, " I'm not sure, but he's probably still recovering from the shock of his wife dying."
" Duo's married?" Relena asked.
" Duo never said anything about Hilde dying," Quatre said.
" Well," Tomi smiled slightly, " I'm sure it's hard for him to talk about. Well, I'm going to have to go. I'll see you guys later"
Tomi left and the three looked at each other.
" Quatre, Relena," Wufei looked at both of them and tapped his fingers, " Did you notice anything...odd about Duo?"
" Yeah," Quatre said, realizing what Wufei was saying.
" There's a park down the road, isn't there?" Wufei asked, " I bet you'd like some fresh air, Relena. Do you feel well enough?"
" I don't know," Relena said, playing along, " But you should bring Sally and Noin just in case."
" I'll go check with security first."
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The air was so warm and thick that day. One almost expected Cicadas to annoy the company by their humming. But they were on the colonies and that wasn't a problem. Birds, on the other hand...
" Daddy!" Rae cried, running around trying to find Trowa, " Daaaadddddyyyyy!"
" Whoa, whoa," Trowa stopped her when he stepped away from feeding the Lions, " What's wrong?"
Rae looked up with tear-filled eyes. She was four and seemed very emotional for her age, so Trowa didn't think much of the situation. But then she held up her hand, producing a small, featherless baby bird.
" It's mommy pushed it out of the nest!" She sobbed.
" Oh," Trowa looked down at the ugly, obviously shook up bird and sighed. He knew why the bird had pushed it out. It was a very large bird that didn't belong in it's own nest, it was an imposter that it's real mother laid in the other bird's nest. The other bird must have not fallen for the trick.
" Show me where the nest is," Trowa requested of her, taking the little bird out of her hand for safe travel.
Rae nodded and grabbed his sleeve and led him over to a large oak tree. She pointed out a small nest that looked like it could barely fit the baby bird. There was a mother sitting in it, with only one baby left. It was a robin of some kind.
" We can't put him back in there," Rae cried. Trowa looked over at he and then smiled.
" Of course not," Trowa said, " But he needs a mommy, we can't take care of him."
" What about another nest, then?" Rae asked, sniffling.
" Rae..." Trowa looked down at her. He knew that if an odd bird was put into another nest, it would be kicked out again, " Rae, he's too big to fit in with the other mommy's babies."
" What about the nest those boys stole the eggs from?" Rae asked. Trowa remembered the incident from a few days back. It was another cause of endless crying, for a day at least. Trowa tried to think of what to do. The bird had probably left for good, so at least Rae wouldn't have to see the bird kicked out again. But it would probably die. Trowa decided he would just keep her away from the nest and provide a painless death for the bird and inform Rae that it flew off with it's new mother. As ridiculous as it was, he felt it would work. And it was prevent Rae from shedding another gallon of tears for these insignificant birds.
" All right, we'll give him to her," Trowa agreed and they made their way to the tree with the nest. Trowa climbed up and put the poor bird in. Him and Rae stood at the bottom for a while.
" You want to say goodbye?" Trowa asked.
" No, I'll see him everyday now," Rae said, cheerfully, " I think I'll call him...Victor..."
" Victor?" Trowa looked at the little girl, 'Oh great, she named him. This is gonna be a bit harder.' " Rae, his new mommy might not accept him, you know. We should leave them alone for a couple of days to adapt to each other."
" All right," Rae pouted and retreated from the spot.
The next day Trowa got ready to help the bird along in it's death, but as he neared the tree, he saw a little form sitting at the trunk, looking up.
" Rae, I thought I told you not to bug Victor," Trowa scolded lightly.
" I know," Rae apologized, and then pointed to the tree, " But look how happy Victor is now."
Trowa looked up at the nest and, sure enough, the giant bird was snuggled up to the dove that had resided there before. The dove cleaned off some of Victor's newly grown fuzz as they watched the two.
" Wow," Trowa gaped, " I didn't think Victor's new mommy would actually accept him..."
" Me neither," Rae said truthfully, " But I really hoped that he'd have some family to love him. I didn't want him to feel rejected."
Trowa looked over, surprised at his little girl and still unbelieving of the situation.
" But you know what?" Rae looked up at Trowa from the ground, " I don't think a mommy would have accepted him, like you said. I think Victor got a new daddy!"
Rae latched on to Trowa's leg until he picked her up and they both watched the new family together, smiling.
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" Mr. Barton!" Claudia greeted Trowa as he groggily woke up.
" Wh-where am I?" Trowa asked.
" Sorry we had to drug you, but it's only for the safety of our cause, you know." Claudia explained standing up from the side of the mattress Trowa was on.
" What?" Trowa asked, still half asleep.
" It'll all be explained," A voice came as a door opened.
" Mr. Barton," Claudia smiled over at the person at the door, and then over at him, " I believe you already know Ms. Une?"
Trowa looked over at the door and met Lady Une's eyes with his. She smiled at him.
" Nice to see you again, Trowa. It's been a while."
A/N- Mwahahaha! My story is going somewhere! Are you...intrigued? Curious? Good! The next one'll be gooood! You'll like it...I hope...
Please review!
~Supurrkitty
Disclaimer: I do not own any GW characters. That is all.
Damn me! Writing so many fan-fictions at once! Please read and review.
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More than Rejects
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" Where's Trowa?" Quatre asked upon entering Relena's room.
" Gone," she replied, sitting up.
" Gone? Where?"
" He said he was going to get his daughter back," Relena smiled.
" What? By himself?" Quatre turned and looked down the hall.
" He also said you should stay here with me," Relena said before he could leave.
" Well," Quatre turned back around and looked at her, " I suppose that makes sense, there being an inside voice in Preventers now."
" Inside voice?" Relena looked alert, " He never said anything about that."
" Yeah, there was a security breach when you were getting the blood," Quatre said, sitting down, " There were only two, they were taken to Preventers for questioning."
" Oh," Relena looked down, thinking, and then realization struck and she gasped.
" What?" Quatre looked over at her, worried.
" I know what he's going to do." Relena said, excited.
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Trowa stepped inside the Preventers office and looked warily around. It was pretty empty at this time of night, aside from the guards roaming all the floors. But, Trowa had access to some places in the building, so he felt he could easily accomplish his task. He made his way over to where he new officer Asahara's office was. He safely entered and went to the computer on the desk. He turned it on and was asked for a password. Luckily, there wasn't any voice recognition, just text.
Trowa flipped over the keyboard and looked all over the desk to try and find the password written somewhere. Then he saw some pictures posted to the board next to the desk. One was a picture of a city that he couldn't quite pinpoint in his mind. The other was of a black cat with round, yellow eyes. He sat and thought for minutes to figure out what their significance was. Then, it hit him as he found a connection between the two.
Bombay.
The password was accepted and he was in. The screen popped up and he was soon networked into all the other systems in the building. He found the holding cell system and scheduled a security shut down for twenty minute from then. He printed out the layout of all the holding cells and was about to shut it down when a folder caught his eye.
Operation Comet Tail. He opened up the folder and found that there were no files left inside of it. Slightly disappointed, he shut it. But then, a screen popped up. It was the layout of a floor on a building very similar to the Preventers. It had blinking and moving dots on it. Trowa studied it, then noticed more windows and clicked them open. There were plans for another space station as well as some for giant weapons and mobile dolls. Trowa was shocked. Maybe they were getting into something bigger than they had planned.
" 'Run by President Asahara'?" Trowa whispered to himself, " Is Tomi the leek in all of this?"
Trowa was interrupted by a sound from outside. He quickly shut down the system and stuffed the papers into his pocket. Casually, he walked out of the office and was relieved to see it was only a janitor. He walked past and made his way to the holding cells in the basement. On the elevator, he kept his eye on the watch to pinpoint the exact time when his work would come into affect. After stepping off of the elevator, he leaned against the wall, watching all of the cameras with their eyes on the cells. He counted down on his watch until everything shut down.
Satisfied with himself, he began looking in all of the cells in the gray room until he found one with people inside of it. It was the woman who he saw at the hospital and another man.
" Hey," He whispered harshly and both the prisoners looked up.
" I knew it!" The woman said and jumped up, " You came to break us out? You believe me?"
" Not necessarily," Trowa growled, " But you will be of use to me."
" We aren't who you guys think we are," The man in the cell stood up next to the woman, "My name's Gunner and this is Cassidy. And we only want to help."
" I don't believe you, but..." Trowa spoke as he broke some glass to find a fire distinguisher and a crow bar. He grabbed the crow bar and pried open the door to the cell, " I suppose I could just kill you if I find out you're lying."
" Wow, you turned off the security system," Cassidy said as she stepped out of the cell.
" C'mon, I don't know where we're going to go, but it's going to be safer than here." Trowa said and led them away.
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" So," Trowa said, pulling his gun out and checking it when they were behind the building and the guards were after them, " suppose I did believe you. How would you help me get my daughter back?"
" The same way you would help us take down Project Comet Tail," Cassidy said, watching Trowa.
" What do you know about that?" Trowa asked, interested.
" I'm surprised that you know about that Mr. Barton," Cassidy said, " I didn't give you enough credit..."
" Just tell me what it's about..." Trowa demanded, watching the guards edge closer, " If you guys aren't in on it, then who is?"
" You don't know?" Cassidy blinked, then looked over towards some screeching, " Gunner's back."
Trowa rounded the corner quickly and used three shots to disable the guards while they got away in the stolen truck. Once inside the Truck, they sped off away from the building.
" Where are we going?" Trowa asked from the passenger side.
" You'll see," Gunner replied.
Then he heard a click and felt the sting of cold metal against his temple.
" Tell me where we're going."
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" You used to be Preventers," Trowa said while they were on a long, empty road, " What happened."
" We quit," Gunner replied, Cassidy was sleeping in the back, " Didn't much like the direction they were going."
" Why are you in hiding?" Trowa asked.
" 'Cause we don't like to die," Gunner chuckled, " You'll see, there are more of us."
" Who leads you?"
" Leads us? Well...I suppose that'd be Miss Une..."
" Une? You mean she doesn't still run the head of Preventers?"
" Oh, Heaven's no! Une's a good woman, you should know..."
" I'm afraid I don't know anything anymore..."
" Well, I'm sure she can clear things up for you," Gunner pulled over and parked, " Here we are."
" We're in the middle of nowhere," Trowa said as he got out.
" Indeed we are," Gunner smiled, waking Cassidy up.
They got out and walked into the desert until they were far from the truck. Gunner pressed a button in his jacket and the truck blew up.
" Always come prepared," He said, pressing his watch a few times. Soon, a Helicopter appeared from behind the mountains and flew over to them, not landing, but throwing down a ladder.
Though Trowa was still completely baffled at the situation, he fallowed them and soon they were flying low in the maze of the mountain system. Trowa found himself suddenly becoming sleepy. And then, with one last thought to his missing child, he lost consciousness.
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" I'm afraid your friend's gone awol on us," Tomi sighed, flipping down some papers in front of them, " But I have some good news for you."
" That's new," Wufei said, they were all in Relena's room. It was the day after Trowa left and already she was getting better. Everyone found it very confusing since she had been doing so badly up until then.
" That friend of yours that was on the other side," Tomi looked down at his papers, " Duo Maxwell. Well, he recently came to us and asked for protection on our side. We granted it, considering he can help us."
" What?" Wufei stood up, " Where do you have him?"
" Don't worry, Mr. Chang, he's under surveillance constantly," Tomi said, looking through the papers, " He's here, and he's going to help us."
" He's here?" Quatre inquired from beside Relena. But before anyone could say anything else, the room was crowded with more people. In the middle stood Duo, looking much older than they had ever seen him. He stood silent, almost ashamed. His eyes stayed on Relena in disbelief and sadness, ignoring the glares from around the room.
" I didn't mean for this to happen..." Duo whispered, barely audible, and then was shoved by one of the men keeping an eye on him.
" Why'd you do it, Duo?" Relena asked.
" I..." Duo looked around at the guards and shook his head, " I had to..."
" Excuse me," Quatre said, standing up, " But could you leave us alone for a bit?"
" What?" One of the guards blinked at him, " I'm afraid that's a little too dangerous."
" I've got it covered," Quatre said, pulling out a gun and securing the chamber.
" Uh," The guard looked over at Tomi, who nodded and then headed out with them.
Duo watched them leave, and then looked back over at his war buddies.
" Are they alive, Duo?" Quatre asked and Duo looked up at the security camera nervously.
" Yes, they're fine," Duo said, looking down.
" Good," Quatre said, " where are they?"
Again, Duo looked over at the camera. Wufei noticed and noted this while Quatre kept questioning Duo.
" They're..." Duo took in a breath as if it were hard for him to say, " They're close..."
" Why won't you just tell us, Duo?" Relena asked.
Duo walked closer, Quatre kept his eye on him. Duo stopped and looked at Quatre pleadingly and Quatre finally backed down and let Duo approach Relena. Duo bent over and hugged Relena.
" I can't tell a lie..." Duo whispered barely audible to even Relena.
He moved away and went to a wall to lean against.
" Why did you have to do it, Duo?" Quatre asked.
" They took her from me," Duo said, starting to tap on the wall, " They made me do it. They took Hilde."
" How'd you get out, then?" Wufei asked, " Did you abandon Hilde?"
" Of course not!" Duo protested, clearly upset, but kept tapping methodically against the wall.
" Fine," Wufei said after a while of catching onto what Duo was doing.
" I'm not...sure what they're planning," Duo said, looking to the side, " It's not good, though."
After a little while of silence and a couple more taps, Duo pushed himself off the wall and looked towards the door.
" Are you guys done with me now?" He seemed to ask no one.
" I suppose," Quatre said and waved for the others to come back in.
They came in and took Duo back out, Duo just looked hopefully over at his three friends and then left.
" Guys, I talked to the head of Preventers and they're on the leek," Tomi said, " We have a lead and they should be caught soon. That'll bring us closer to our goal,"
" Officer Asahara?" Relena asked and they all looked over at her, " Duo seemed...shook up. What happened when he came to you guys?"
" Uh," Tomi blinked down at her, then smiled, " I'm not sure, but he's probably still recovering from the shock of his wife dying."
" Duo's married?" Relena asked.
" Duo never said anything about Hilde dying," Quatre said.
" Well," Tomi smiled slightly, " I'm sure it's hard for him to talk about. Well, I'm going to have to go. I'll see you guys later"
Tomi left and the three looked at each other.
" Quatre, Relena," Wufei looked at both of them and tapped his fingers, " Did you notice anything...odd about Duo?"
" Yeah," Quatre said, realizing what Wufei was saying.
" There's a park down the road, isn't there?" Wufei asked, " I bet you'd like some fresh air, Relena. Do you feel well enough?"
" I don't know," Relena said, playing along, " But you should bring Sally and Noin just in case."
" I'll go check with security first."
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The air was so warm and thick that day. One almost expected Cicadas to annoy the company by their humming. But they were on the colonies and that wasn't a problem. Birds, on the other hand...
" Daddy!" Rae cried, running around trying to find Trowa, " Daaaadddddyyyyy!"
" Whoa, whoa," Trowa stopped her when he stepped away from feeding the Lions, " What's wrong?"
Rae looked up with tear-filled eyes. She was four and seemed very emotional for her age, so Trowa didn't think much of the situation. But then she held up her hand, producing a small, featherless baby bird.
" It's mommy pushed it out of the nest!" She sobbed.
" Oh," Trowa looked down at the ugly, obviously shook up bird and sighed. He knew why the bird had pushed it out. It was a very large bird that didn't belong in it's own nest, it was an imposter that it's real mother laid in the other bird's nest. The other bird must have not fallen for the trick.
" Show me where the nest is," Trowa requested of her, taking the little bird out of her hand for safe travel.
Rae nodded and grabbed his sleeve and led him over to a large oak tree. She pointed out a small nest that looked like it could barely fit the baby bird. There was a mother sitting in it, with only one baby left. It was a robin of some kind.
" We can't put him back in there," Rae cried. Trowa looked over at he and then smiled.
" Of course not," Trowa said, " But he needs a mommy, we can't take care of him."
" What about another nest, then?" Rae asked, sniffling.
" Rae..." Trowa looked down at her. He knew that if an odd bird was put into another nest, it would be kicked out again, " Rae, he's too big to fit in with the other mommy's babies."
" What about the nest those boys stole the eggs from?" Rae asked. Trowa remembered the incident from a few days back. It was another cause of endless crying, for a day at least. Trowa tried to think of what to do. The bird had probably left for good, so at least Rae wouldn't have to see the bird kicked out again. But it would probably die. Trowa decided he would just keep her away from the nest and provide a painless death for the bird and inform Rae that it flew off with it's new mother. As ridiculous as it was, he felt it would work. And it was prevent Rae from shedding another gallon of tears for these insignificant birds.
" All right, we'll give him to her," Trowa agreed and they made their way to the tree with the nest. Trowa climbed up and put the poor bird in. Him and Rae stood at the bottom for a while.
" You want to say goodbye?" Trowa asked.
" No, I'll see him everyday now," Rae said, cheerfully, " I think I'll call him...Victor..."
" Victor?" Trowa looked at the little girl, 'Oh great, she named him. This is gonna be a bit harder.' " Rae, his new mommy might not accept him, you know. We should leave them alone for a couple of days to adapt to each other."
" All right," Rae pouted and retreated from the spot.
The next day Trowa got ready to help the bird along in it's death, but as he neared the tree, he saw a little form sitting at the trunk, looking up.
" Rae, I thought I told you not to bug Victor," Trowa scolded lightly.
" I know," Rae apologized, and then pointed to the tree, " But look how happy Victor is now."
Trowa looked up at the nest and, sure enough, the giant bird was snuggled up to the dove that had resided there before. The dove cleaned off some of Victor's newly grown fuzz as they watched the two.
" Wow," Trowa gaped, " I didn't think Victor's new mommy would actually accept him..."
" Me neither," Rae said truthfully, " But I really hoped that he'd have some family to love him. I didn't want him to feel rejected."
Trowa looked over, surprised at his little girl and still unbelieving of the situation.
" But you know what?" Rae looked up at Trowa from the ground, " I don't think a mommy would have accepted him, like you said. I think Victor got a new daddy!"
Rae latched on to Trowa's leg until he picked her up and they both watched the new family together, smiling.
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" Mr. Barton!" Claudia greeted Trowa as he groggily woke up.
" Wh-where am I?" Trowa asked.
" Sorry we had to drug you, but it's only for the safety of our cause, you know." Claudia explained standing up from the side of the mattress Trowa was on.
" What?" Trowa asked, still half asleep.
" It'll all be explained," A voice came as a door opened.
" Mr. Barton," Claudia smiled over at the person at the door, and then over at him, " I believe you already know Ms. Une?"
Trowa looked over at the door and met Lady Une's eyes with his. She smiled at him.
" Nice to see you again, Trowa. It's been a while."
A/N- Mwahahaha! My story is going somewhere! Are you...intrigued? Curious? Good! The next one'll be gooood! You'll like it...I hope...
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~Supurrkitty