The Road I Can No Longer See
Chapter 2
By: SilverRose82
Enter GW People or at least some of them.
Enjoy!
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Rin glared un-forgivingly at the dark haired man that would lead her to the shuttle that she needed to get onto, her calf length blonde locks were pulled back into a quick ponytail. She could see the uneasiness in the posture as he continued to gaze behind him. Grinning maliciously at the man she shook her head, she was not tailing a regular loader, having done so many times before, he was either an undercover soldier or a very paranoid man. Fingering the small silver and gold throwing knife, a present from the boss, she continued to follow from within the shadows of the poorly lit docking bay. Azure eyes darkened as the man jogged up the plank of a nearby shuttle, glaring she began to make her way slowly towards the hull of the shuttle. Studying the docking list on the side of a nearby package she grinned, so the idiot had taken her to the right shuttle, now all she had to do was wait for the right moment to board.
Shaking her head she melded back into the shadows as best she could while still being able to have quick access to the shuttle plank. Crouching low Rin was content to wait as long as she needed, shuttle loaders were idiots when it came to most things, everything really, at that she grinned. Most men were idiots, and half of the time the money they paid was more than enough for the sheer fact that they could not do a thing for her. The soft clunking of boots hitting metal could be hear as five men appeared in the opening. Smirking she named off three of the five, she moved farther into the shadows as they began to walk down the plank and towards the main control center. Watching them leave she shook her head, nothing could change her mind men were truly idiotic, even the paranoid one was with them and still acting as paranoid as ever. God she hoped he was going to be on this shuttle, the fun she could have patronizing him.
Standing up apprehensively Rin slowly made her way towards the shuttle, ducking under the plank she peered around before shuffling over to the other side. Looking around the other side of the shuttle, she made sure that she was alone, turning around she gazed towards the central control center before smiling. Not a soul in sight, listening for any movement inside of the shuttle she nodded to herself before silently placing the briefcase on the plank and with effortless ease and skill lifted herself up onto the plank. Grabbing the now dusty briefcase she moved quickly and silently into the shadows of the cargo hold. Standing up Rin allowed her eyes to become use to the even darker dimness within the cargo hold. Once she was certain that she would be able to move around without running into something or someone she began to search for a place to wait out the ride. Not even within a minute of finding her hiding place she could hear the footsteps of the pilots returning to their ship for take off.
Sadly from her position she could not see the paranoid one, however, it did not mean that he was not there. Listening to the mechanical hum of the shuttle plank shutting made her smile as she became comfortable in her small crevice of a hiding spot. Curling her legs up to her chest, she hid the briefcase behind her back, before clasping her hands around her legs. Making sure that her hair was well hidden she pulled a black ski cap to hid the top of her head from view, blonde hair was easy to spot in dark places if the person searching knew what to look for. Muttering to herself she lowered her head before allowing her thoughts to travel from the present to her harrowing past.
Her past, not that she remembered much of it, she knew she had not always lived on the streets but she could never distinguish the time period of which she had become a street urchin. All she knew was that she was about five or six when she first recollected having to steal to survive, having to fight for the best places to sleep. Shaking her head she thought back to all the times she had been brought to orphanages only to run away from them days later not enjoying the feeling of being confined. She was surprised that this did not bother her, or having taken to living with the boss in his home, but those times were different, this time was different. It was not like she was being forced to be in either place, both were of her free will, maybe that was why the colonies themselves bothered her, she was trapped in a place that she knew she would never escape. Thinking back to the months prior to her coming to live with the boss, she thought of the one boy who had dared to change her. As she thought of him, she thought of his promise to her and of his kiss. It was a broken promise, who was to say that he really was going to war, and Serena no longer believed in his words, in anyone's words.
Serena, it was a peculiar name having been the only thing that she had to call her own and even then she hated it with a passion. Serena was a weak name, a name that she no longer deserved to carry as her own. She had not been the one to choose Rin to be her name, it had come from one of the girls and the name just stuck. It was a name that she also was not proud to carry but it was the name that she had been carrying for almost four years, a name that she would probably be called and known as for the rest of her miserably life.
The dull roar of the shuttle motors reached her ears as the metal below her began to vibrate as the boosters pushed the shuttle off the docking bay floor. Her eyes darting around, Rin made sure that it would be impossibly for one of the crew to sneak up on her. She could hear the men laughing and joking with one another as the pilot read off instructions to the central control. Pilot gibberish floated down to her as she shrank farther into the wall crevice she had discovered, gazing at the large box crate that sandwiched her between the wall and itself she suddenly felt claustrophobic and very alone. What if Duo had not been lying to her, his motto in life was "I may run, I may hide, but I'll never tell a lie." Shaking her head at the nonsense that she was bringing back up in her mind, things that she never really needed to think about. Closing her eyes for a moment she let her mind clear so she could hear the mindless chatter of the men in the cargo hold with her, and with that she lost track of time.
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"Josh, c'mon we gotta go talk to the controllers!" the shrill voice of a female rang through the air as Rin shook her head, squinting she glared hatefully in the direction of the young woman. It had been one thing she had not expected, a woman co-pilot, at least from the L2 cluster.
Grabbing the leather briefcase she crawled out of her hiding place as silently as she possibly could. Flexing her arms she smirked before walked slowly towards the plank, her eyes gazed out at the navy coloured sky, the sun would rise soon and she had to be out of the shuttle port before that happened. Looking around the surrounding area Rin leaped from the shuttle plank and landed soundlessly on her feet, crouching down she gazed out at the open runway. Sanc Kingdom was much to laid back for her taste, no patrollers, no cameras, no nothing. Muttering under her breath she readied herself before taking off in a dead sprint, knowing that once she got to the fence line it would be no problem in sneaking out and making her way to where Relena Peacecraft resided.
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"Hello Miss, can I help you?" a grey haired woman asked as she glanced up at the blonde standing in the doorway of Relena Peacecraft's office. The girl was dressed simply in black jeans and a blue button-up men's dress shirt, her azure eyes flashed as she glanced around the room suddenly before letting her gaze land on the woman sitting behind the secretarial desk.
"I need Miss Peacecraft." The girl told her with a small nod, her eyes still darted around in fear as she grasped the handle of the briefcase with both hands. The old woman smiled at the sweet vision the blonde made before nodding to herself while busying herself with getting Relena on the phone. Keeping an eye on the girl she typed in the extension to Relena's office before humming to herself as she waited for Relena to pick up the call.
"Ah, Miss Relena there is a young lady here to see you." The woman greeted joyfully as she began to make notes on a scrap of paper of things she needed to get done in the office. Turning to eye the girl fully she described her in hushed detail, while Relena would never question a soul that entered her office her head bodyguard would and did. "Miss Relena shall be with you shortly dear."
Rin nodded as she glared at the woman once her back was turned, placing the briefcase on the floor with her feet resting beside it she gazed at one of the paintings in the office waiting room. A pure blue sky met and clashed beautifully against the snow capped mountains. Shaking her head Rin realized that she could not afford to have her mind wonder away from her.
"Hello, I'm Relena Peacecraft." Rin turned to gaze at the girl who had just introduced herself, standing up she smiled gently at the once Queen of the World before shaking her hand. "Was there anything that you needed to speak with my about?"
"Yes, but not here I need to speak with you first before you relay the information to your guards." Rin spoke softly as she gazed into the shadows of Relena's office. Turning to stare at the Vice Foreign Minister she inclined her head allow Relena to know that she knew her little secret and she knew that there was someone watching them from the shadows. Relena nodded as she led the way out of the office and down the hallway. The silence between the two was not uncomfortable as Rin followed Relena without complaint as the woman before her lead her into the garden, out in the open. What a sad thing, no one trusted anyone anymore.
"Is this alright?" Relena asked as she turned to gaze at the girl before her, no, Relena sighed, woman. She could see the pain that lurked in the blonde's eyes, the loneliness. Rin nodded before taking a deep breath, giving Relena her full attention she knew speaking of what had perspired not even a day before.
"I'm from the Colony L2, I'm here because my boss wanted whatever was in this briefcase to be giving to the Gundam Pilots. I do not know what's in it, but I do know that he did not want them to have it. But they were.. are the lesser of the two evils, Oz wants this information, they attacked my work to try and get the information. I got out before they could get it and got it down here hear as quickly as I could." Rin told her as she closed her eyes before looking away, she would not cry, no tears would be shed in vain. Turning to gaze evenly at Relena, she slightly cocked her head to the side as she waited for Relena's answer.
"Alright, I'll get it to them. Is there anything else you need, want?" Relena asked as she took the briefcase from Rin's outstretched arm. She could see the woman tense up at her words and thinking about the colony L2 she realized her mistake, most teenagers on the colony were poor and some homeless judging by the girl's reaction she fell into one of those two categories.
"Make sure your pilots get that briefcase Miss Relena, they shouldn't have it but they can protect it." Rin told Relena as she began to leave, she was calculating the time it would take her to get back to the colony L2, turning to stare back at Relena for a moment she shook her head. "I must go, I have to get back to the girls."
"You can always stay here." Relena offered as she gazed at the blonde haired woman before her, dark eyes gazed at her, Relena had never feared the dead look that appeared in Heero Yui's eyes when he studied something, but the blonde before her, Rin, frightened her. Relena could tell that the girl was not a soldier, she appeared strong in mind, body, and soul but the same hardness of seeing to much, that the gundam pilots carried with them, did not reflect in the girl's eyes.
"The Sanc kingdom is not for me Miss Relena. I wouldn't find solace in such a peaceful place." Rin scoffed at the offer before turning to leave the garden she had met Relena in to hand over the briefcase. Rin may have never met the pilots, but she had heard about them and while she was not a woman who believed in rumors even she did not want to have a run in with five of the most deadly boys her age, the most deadly boys anyone's age. "I'll be seeing you around Miss Peacecraft, without doubt."
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"Who are you and who do you work for." Rin spun around to find herself facing a dark haired boy of around her age maybe a year or two her senior. Gazing up she shivered as the emotionless gaze he pitted her with before taking a step back. Shaking her head she gathered her thoughts together before gathering the courage to return his unwavering gaze.
"I'm Rin, as for who I work for no one now. Oz killed him." Shaking her head she realized who she was speaking to, who else would follow her and then ask such questions than one of Relena's bodyguards, one of the gundam pilots. Standing up straighter she could hear the hum of chatter that surrounded them, but did nothing to fill the silence that had surrounded the two of them. Swallowing she took another deep breath before snapping to attention when her flight was called. "I'm not a threat, I'm a nobody from L2, a nobody that lives with falsehoods that would send the people of this kingdom to an early grave."
And with that she turned and disappeared through the crowd, thought not from the eyes of the pilot that had followed her. Showing her ticket to an attendant she turned to gaze at him before jogging into the shuttle gate. Muttering something under his breath he turned to leave, he would get his information it would only be a matter of time before he either went after her or stored her image and information away for whatever purpose they might hold in the future. After all Heero Yui was not one to forget a face.
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A.N.
Silver want to know if anyone has an idea about what Rin does. I want to know what you think she does, want to see if I'm doing a good enough job of hinting at it.
About three/four pages. I'm getting better at writing longer chapters. Now I have another story out As You I've Felt the Same, which IS a Yui/Moon coupling, something that I'm completely new at writing. And as I said there, make me want to continue.
I have a lot of things on my plate and if people don't want me to continue I probably will taper away and update will come far and long between.
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AngelDust159 : I will continue to write but my time is constricting with the hard truthful facts that College is only a year away for me. A Wufei/Serena fic, that would be a challenge, something I like to take, but I wouldn't really know where to start because of all the pilots Wufei's personality is the one I know almost nothing about. Look for it, I don't know when but it'll probably be churning in my head for a while before something happens, I've got a few stories that would go with that couple.
Silver Ash : Don't worry there is a reason that her name was changed, it'll come up at some point when she and Duo meet up again.
Damia - Queen of the Gypsi's : I've given up on a lot of fics, but I'm also coming back into this section with a lot of new ideas and a better writing style than I first started out with.
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