Disclaimer: I do not own GW. I do own Theresia Stahl and Eliza Alderman.

Of Time

By: Saiya-jin Patricia

A/N: Okay, Trowa and Catherine are brother and sister in this, because I didn't think it'd be right to pair the guy up with someone who calls her his brother.

Last chapter: Resi, a girl from Nazi Germany, saw that her entire family had been murdered and felt the click of the gun on the back of her head. Now Rashid has seen a girl appear in front of him, and Duo and Quatre are giving the girl medical attention.

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Eliza Alderman.

That was the only name he knew her by, anyway.

That was the only name anyone had ever known her by. Anyone alive, that is.

At the moment, previously mentioned person was currently trying to single-handedly tie up the sails on their ship. It wasn't much for a ship, more like an oversized boat. It was fast though, and not as conspicuous as some pirate ships were.

"Would you give me a 'and wit this a'ready?" one Eliza Alderman said to him, finally losing her grip on patience.

He, Peter Goodfellow, was far from what his last name implied. He had been a pirate for years, as had Eliza. She had been a part of the crew longer than he had, however, and that was saying something, since he had been there for twelve years.

"Coming, yer highness," he said with a sarcastic bow. Seeing the glare her dark eyes were shooting his way, he made to help her with the sails. It was then that an enormous wave struck the ship and she lost her grip as her look turned to panic.

She fell into the water with a splash that went unheard as her name was called out by several of her friends and companions and waves rushed over her.

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Trowa Barton, also known as Nanashi, or No-name, to some of his past acquaintances, was currently carrying out the laborious task of... feeding the lions.

Well, he didn't think it was laborious, but some people would. He actually liked the job, as he could relate with being stuck in a cage. His cage was not made of bars. It was the human race itself; the center of it's own problems. If it didn't exist, neither would his only current occupation aside from the circus. Being a Gundam pilot.

He pushed the thought aside, not wanting to think about it at the moment. He had more important things to do, like taking care of that other pilot. He had just self-destructed like that... images flashed across his mind of the incident, and he pushed that thought aside as well.

The lion had finished eating while he was battling with his own thoughts within his mind, so he picked up the dish (which looked similar to a dog bowl) and put it back in it's proper place before setting off for he and his sister's apartment. He wondered if the other pilot would ever wake up.

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As Fate would have it, Eliza would not wake up in a soft, comfy bed with servants ready to await her every want and need. Nope, she awoke to feeling as though the strongest man in the world had just hit her in the gut with a two by four. With that mental image in her mind, she felt as though she had slipped off the two by four and opened her eyes just in time to see the pile of leaves she had just landed face-first in.

Letting out a mumbled grunt of some sort to let the world know how bad of a mood she was currently in, she rolled over and opened her eyes, reaching a hand up to rub her more than a little sore nose. Then she froze. There were not supposed to be trees in the middle of the ocean. Nor was she supposed to fall from an unknown height, hit a tree limb that wasn't supposed to be there, and then fall into a pile of leaves.

She sat up and shivered as a cool breeze let her know that she was still soaked in the water she had fallen into. She wondered what had happened. Maybe she had hit her head too hard, been knocked unconscious, and been dropped out of a hot air balloon by someone she had robbed before. Yeah right, she thought, laughing quietly to herself, and an inter-dimensional portal opened up and took me to another world. Laughing a little harder at the second thought, she quieted suddenly when she had had a look around herself.

Looking at the leaves and trees around her, she noticed that they seemed to be the wrong color... too bright... too colorful... they looked wrong altogether, as though they had been drawn by an artist or something. In fact, that's exactly what they look like... she could feel her heart speed up and the adrenaline racing through her system. That was impossible... she reached for a leaf beside her, feeling it beneath fingers that didn't look normal. Pulling her knees up underneath her, she cupped the leaf in both of her hands and looked at it in wonder, her aching abdomen and nose all but forgotten.

The leaf looked more detailed the closer it was to her eyes. Holding it at her arms length, she looked at it again, but this time it looked just like a drawing. It was at this time that she noticed other things that had been unfocused up to this point in her line of vision. People, going about their daily business. It looked like a painting one of her friends that owned a transport ship had once showed her. What had he called it? A circus? She had never been to one, although she had friends that had been to them before.

Leaning against a certain tree she had been mentally cursing up to about a minute ago, she stood up shakily and started walking in the direction of the people. Objects seemed to jump around and she was feeling very disoriented. Staring at the ground in front of her, trying to focus on it, to make it seem more real, what she didn't see was the boy who happened to be walking nearby.

That is, until she nearly ran into him.

Accursed feet. Accursed trees. Accursed weird worlds!

A/N:

Special Thanks to:

cocowinterdeathangel: Thanks for reviewing and for the pirate idea! I hope you like how I portrayed my pirate character (I had to go online and search for pirate names to pick one out!). You get the "You-Were-The-First-Reviewer-For-This-Story" Award! Please come again!

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I hope everyone is enjoying the fic. Next time, You'll see everyone's reactions to whatever situation I may put them in. (*evil laughter*) *cough* Anyway, you can review if you think this chapter was good enough. If not, you can still review... Flame me even, if you want to... It was kinda chilly over here anyway. So, review (or not, it doesn't matter ;_; {j/k}), tell me what ya think, and I may review for one of your stories or something... Ja ne.