Author's Note: Um...sorry for the uh, long wait.
bg: I wrote this! I wrote this!
DAY: Yes...yes you did Trin *pats Trin on the head*
bg: *smiles dumbly*
DAY: Uh...on with the fic!
bg: I just looked at the first couple of chappies and um...we didn't write a disclaimer...so uh here it is.
DAY: Oooh...oops
Disclaimer: We don't own the Gundam guys...but we own the idea of the fic I think...Um now on with the show!
Chapter 3 - Trust and Tranqs
Trinity walked out of the bathroom on the second floor and headed down the hall to where the bedrooms were. She wanted sleep after the...incident...
"How could such a nice girl turn out to be a guy?" she muttered to herself as she opened the door of the first room she came to. "Why does this always happen to me?"
She walked into the room, and seeing that there were no clothes, CD's, papers, or other things strewn throughout the room, she assumed it was uninhabited and laid down on the large bed. She wiggled into a comfortable sleeping position, but groaned when she saw the door was still open.
"Yeah, I forgot...the door..."
She climbed out of bed and closed the door. She returned to the bed, and all thoughts of getting comfortable were banished when she just fell on the bed and immediately fell asleep.
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Zara was wandering through the house, thinking about Trin's reaction to the news that she had given her.
I think she's overreacting, I really do. There's nothing wrong with him. So he may be a rather feminine guy, but still. It wasn't like Quatre was doing anything mean to her or anything. I still think she's overreacting. Or maybe I'm just overanalyzing all of this...
She shrugged, and started sifting through what she had found out about each of the guys in her mind.
Well, Heero's kinda stiff and uptight. I don't think he likes me much
anymore. And me and Duo are a lot alike. Hanging with him will be fun. Then there's Trowa. He's cool enough, I guess. Kinda got a weird mind, and doesn't really talk all that much, though. Then Quatre...I guess he's just Quatre. Can't really say much else. And the other one...that Chinese guy... I don't know much about him. I'll bet it'll be fun to go and bug him...
She started walking back to the living room with a rather sadistic expression on her face.
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Heero had had enough of the guys in the living room. He was tired and he knew he needed sleep. After all it was nearly 1:30 in the morning. He sighed and left the living room, following the familiar path to his bedroom.
The door was closed just like he had left it, but he still opened the door cautiously. Duo had learned a long time ago that if he didn't close the door after he put some nasty practical joke in his room, then Heero wouldn't fall for it. He peered around his room, and noticing nothing out of the ordinary, everything all put away, and the whole room neat, he crossed to his bed. He was just about to sit down on it when he noticed that someone was already there. He looked down to see Trinity, sleeping quietly.
He smiled slightly and reached down to gently brush some hair away from her face. Heero leaned over and gently shook Trinity's shoulder. She mumbled a few words that sounded kind of like, 'Go away Zara, I don't want to get up.' Heero shook her shoulder harder, and she blinked a few times before opening her eyes. Sudden shock and horror filled her face as she saw Heero sitting over her.
"Oh my God!"
"What? What's wrong?" Heero asked, concernedly.
"Oh my God! Get...get away!"
Heero blinked a few times and asked, in a very confused voice, "Why? This is my room."
"Oh my God! Get...get away from me!" Trinity repeated, crawling away backwards under the covers.
Heero backed up to appease the apparently irrational girl. "Okay, but...what's wrong?"
"You...you in here...and...me in here! That's what's wrong! Get away!" She was getting more hysterical by the second.
"Alright." Heero tried to smile, but he couldn't even seem to force one onto his face. Trinity looked completely horrified. "I'll take the couch tonight, I guess." He backed out of the room and closed the door behind him.
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Zara returned to the living room to find only two boys still there. Quatre was yawning over his poetry notebook, staring into the fire. Wufei was sitting on the couch, still pouring over his textbook.
"Heya there, Wufei! Whatcha doin'?" Zara plopped herself down on the couch beside him and leaned over his shoulder to look at his book.
"Studying chemistry," came the snappy reply. "Go away." He sounded annoyed.
Instead of doing as he requested, Zara started poking his arm. "Isn't that boring, though?"
Wufei tensed every time her index finger jabbed into his arm. "It's better than failing." He turned back to his book, and Zara kept continuing her torment.
"Funky hair, Wu-man." To accentuate her point, she gave his short ponytail a sharp tug.
After a cry of pain, Wufei slowly turned his head to look at her. His dark eyes were aflame with anger. Zara laughed nervously.
"Geez, okay. No need to get all bitchy about it."
"Nani?!" Wufei stood up indignantly, and his book when flying off his lap onto the floor. "You did not just call me a woman, you...you...you baka ura(1)!"
Zara snorted at his pathetic excuse for an insult, then grabbed his wrist and pulled him back onto the couch. "Calm down, Wu-man. No need to get all...uh...nutty about it."
Wufei fumed as he picked up his chemistry book off the floor. "Never call me that again." He opened the book and continued to study.
Zara stared at him dumbly for a moment. "Alright, then." She slid off the couch and walked over to Quatre. He was sitting in front of the fireplace, yawning and muttering to himself. Occasionally, he would jot down a word or two in his notebook, then return to watching the fire.
"Hey there Quatre. Whatcha doin'?"
Quatre blinked sleepily a few times and looked up at Zara. "Oh, um...just writing..."
"Oh," She sat down, "What about?"
"Just something to cheer Trinity up. Why'd she leave so quick before?"
"Um...she uh..." Zara sputtered nervously, "Well um we...uh..."
"What is it?" Quatre asked with a rather confused expression on his face.
"We-both-thought-you-were-a-girl-so-she-was-talking-to-you-but-then-Duo-told-me-you-were-a-guy-so-I-told-Trin-and-she-left." Zara took a deep breath and closed her eyes. When Quatre didn't say anything she opened them again. He was looking towards the fire with the same confused expression on his face. Then he turned to her.
"Um, why'd she talk to me when she thought I was a girl, but not when she found out I was a guy?" Zara scratched her head then answered.
"Well, she doesn't trust guys too much. She gets along with girls pretty easily, though."
"Doesn't trust guys? Why?" Wufei suddenly made a contribution to the conversation. Zara and Quatre looked over. "What?" He asked in anger, "It's hard to study when people are talking so loudly...and I'm curious."
"Well," Zara bit her lip for a second, "I'm not sure I should tell ya. She barely even told me about it and I'm her best friend." Quatre and Wufei looked at each other.
"Barely told you what?" asked Wufei.
"Promise not to tell anyone?" asked Zara. Wufei nodded.
"Yes," was Quatre's reply.
"Okay...all I know is that she doesn't like guys and her dad scares her."
Wufei looked at Zara, then muttered, "That's all you know?"
"Well, she also doesn't really trust many people 'cept Doc and me really."
"Oh," sighed Quatre. "Guess I can't do much to cheer her up if she doesn't trust me, then"
Zara smiled slightly and shrugged. "Guess not..."
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Heero still stood leaning against the door to his room. "What was that about?" he muttered. After a moment Duo walked up.
"Hey Heero." He stopped walking and paused a moment. "What's with the face?"
"Uh..." Heero started, stopped, took a breath and tried again. "Uh well...Trinity is in my bed."
"Oh, really?" Duo smiled and almost laughed, "Then uh, what's with the face?"
Heero frowned at Duo. "I'm not sure why, but she freaked out when I woke her up..."
"Whoa!" Duo gasped in surprise. "D-Do you mean to say that a girl was sleeping in your bed and you woke her up? Good God! You need some help!"
"That's not the point," Heero replied icily. "Zara may have said that Trinity doesn't like guys, but this seems a bit extreme to me."
"Hmm, guess you're right. Want a professional to take care of it then?" Duo reached for the doorknob, but Heero stopped him.
"I'm not sure that's a very good idea Duo."
"Why?" Duo asked in a tone of pure innocence.
"She freaked out because of me. She might have a heart attack because of you."
"Don't think so." Duo pushed Heero away and opened the door. He walked in and closed it behind him. A high-pitched scream filled the air. Then it stopped as suddenly as it had started and Heero heard a thud. He forced open the door. The sight that greeted him was...rather odd. Duo was lying on the floor unconscious and Trinity was rocking back and forth on the bed.
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Zara jerked when she heard the scream.
"Oh God," she muttered, then jumped up and ran towards it.
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"What happened here?" Heero muttered as he walked into his room.
"I hit him with a dart," was Trinity's blatant reply. Zara then burst through the door, took in the sight and after a second or two of silence smacked her hand against her forehead.
"Trin..." She stood for a moment then gasped and reached into her pocket. "It's not..."
"No," Trinity answered quickly before Zara could administer the antidote to Duo. "No, it's just a tranquilizer, he'll be harmless for about an hour, I think."
"Harmless?!" Zara looked down at the poor unconscious boy. "Well...at least you didn't poison him...and thanks for telling me it wasn't poison. I mean that antidote is deadly unless it's reacting with the venom."
"I know. I told you." Trinity shrugged. "Does it matter?"
"Yes, you idiot! If you hadn't told me I would've killed him. What'd he do to deserve this anyway?"
Trinity looked down at Duo, then back up at Zara and answered, "He scared me."
"What? He scared you...so? It seemed like I scared you too when I woke you up," Heero muttered rather quietly. Both girls turned to him. Zara pointed at the door.
"Get out. I need to talk some sense into Trin."
"Get out? This is my room," Heero replied indignantly.
"It is? Oh well. Get out so I can talk ta Trin and you'll get it back in perfect shape."
Heero shrugged and walked out of the room where he was immediately met by two curious boys and a third yawning one.
"What's going on in there?" Quatre asked nervously.
"I don't quite get it," Heero answered, "I came to my room and Trinity was asleep in my bed and..."
"Trinity was asleep in your bed?" Wufei asked his eyes narrowing. "Why?"
"How the hell should I know? Wait that's not the point." Heero took a breath and continued. "No interrupting, alright?" Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei all nodded. "I woke her up and she freaked, so I went out into the hallway. Duo came up and went in before I could stop him. She screamed and hit him with a tranquilizer dart. Then Zara came up and kicked me out to talk to her."
"Oh...well no wasting time, let's find out what they're talking about."
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"Breath in...and out, in...and out, calm." Zara said to Trinity.
She followed the instructions then stopped to say, "Zara, I think you're going to make me hyperventilate."
"Well, at least I haven't knocked you out like you did to this poor sap." Zara countered waving angrily at Duo. "Why'd ya do that?"
"I told you, he scared me." Trinity replied angrily.
"Trin, I don't get it...Heero said he woke you up and you didn't do anything to...are you okay?" Trinity's face had paled suddenly.
"I-I couldn't do anything...when he woke me up I was to scared too react...so I just babbled like and idiot...but he left, so I prepared a dart, just in case he came back..."
"And you used the tranq on Duo...alright. Well Trin come'ere." She motioned for her to get up. "If we're gonna live here you just have to trust these guys, alright. Now let's go before Duo wakes up pissed."
"Okay." Trinity replied nodding. She then stood up and leaned on Zara to walk to the door. They both stepped gingerly over the now snoring Duo.
Before opening the door Zara stopped and asked. "How much you wanna bet that there're some of 'em trying to listen?"
"Don't know..." Trinity answered before saying rather brightly. "A snake bite?"
"Hell no! I...you know what I meant," Zara sputtered.
"Okay then...how about two dollars?"
"Right." They shook on it, and Zara opened the door. Two of the boys immediately fell in on top of Duo. Quatre and Wufei.
"Pay up," Zara said smiling at Trinity. Trinity reached into her pocket and handed Zara the money.
"Now, let's go find you a room," Zara said while stowing the money in her pocket. She and Trinity then walked over the two boys and down the hall where they suddenly erupted into a fit of laughter.
1- Dumb ass
DAY: Well thanks for reading
bg: I really hope you liked it.
bg: I wrote this! I wrote this!
DAY: Yes...yes you did Trin *pats Trin on the head*
bg: *smiles dumbly*
DAY: Uh...on with the fic!
bg: I just looked at the first couple of chappies and um...we didn't write a disclaimer...so uh here it is.
DAY: Oooh...oops
Disclaimer: We don't own the Gundam guys...but we own the idea of the fic I think...Um now on with the show!
Chapter 3 - Trust and Tranqs
Trinity walked out of the bathroom on the second floor and headed down the hall to where the bedrooms were. She wanted sleep after the...incident...
"How could such a nice girl turn out to be a guy?" she muttered to herself as she opened the door of the first room she came to. "Why does this always happen to me?"
She walked into the room, and seeing that there were no clothes, CD's, papers, or other things strewn throughout the room, she assumed it was uninhabited and laid down on the large bed. She wiggled into a comfortable sleeping position, but groaned when she saw the door was still open.
"Yeah, I forgot...the door..."
She climbed out of bed and closed the door. She returned to the bed, and all thoughts of getting comfortable were banished when she just fell on the bed and immediately fell asleep.
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Zara was wandering through the house, thinking about Trin's reaction to the news that she had given her.
I think she's overreacting, I really do. There's nothing wrong with him. So he may be a rather feminine guy, but still. It wasn't like Quatre was doing anything mean to her or anything. I still think she's overreacting. Or maybe I'm just overanalyzing all of this...
She shrugged, and started sifting through what she had found out about each of the guys in her mind.
Well, Heero's kinda stiff and uptight. I don't think he likes me much
anymore. And me and Duo are a lot alike. Hanging with him will be fun. Then there's Trowa. He's cool enough, I guess. Kinda got a weird mind, and doesn't really talk all that much, though. Then Quatre...I guess he's just Quatre. Can't really say much else. And the other one...that Chinese guy... I don't know much about him. I'll bet it'll be fun to go and bug him...
She started walking back to the living room with a rather sadistic expression on her face.
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Heero had had enough of the guys in the living room. He was tired and he knew he needed sleep. After all it was nearly 1:30 in the morning. He sighed and left the living room, following the familiar path to his bedroom.
The door was closed just like he had left it, but he still opened the door cautiously. Duo had learned a long time ago that if he didn't close the door after he put some nasty practical joke in his room, then Heero wouldn't fall for it. He peered around his room, and noticing nothing out of the ordinary, everything all put away, and the whole room neat, he crossed to his bed. He was just about to sit down on it when he noticed that someone was already there. He looked down to see Trinity, sleeping quietly.
He smiled slightly and reached down to gently brush some hair away from her face. Heero leaned over and gently shook Trinity's shoulder. She mumbled a few words that sounded kind of like, 'Go away Zara, I don't want to get up.' Heero shook her shoulder harder, and she blinked a few times before opening her eyes. Sudden shock and horror filled her face as she saw Heero sitting over her.
"Oh my God!"
"What? What's wrong?" Heero asked, concernedly.
"Oh my God! Get...get away!"
Heero blinked a few times and asked, in a very confused voice, "Why? This is my room."
"Oh my God! Get...get away from me!" Trinity repeated, crawling away backwards under the covers.
Heero backed up to appease the apparently irrational girl. "Okay, but...what's wrong?"
"You...you in here...and...me in here! That's what's wrong! Get away!" She was getting more hysterical by the second.
"Alright." Heero tried to smile, but he couldn't even seem to force one onto his face. Trinity looked completely horrified. "I'll take the couch tonight, I guess." He backed out of the room and closed the door behind him.
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Zara returned to the living room to find only two boys still there. Quatre was yawning over his poetry notebook, staring into the fire. Wufei was sitting on the couch, still pouring over his textbook.
"Heya there, Wufei! Whatcha doin'?" Zara plopped herself down on the couch beside him and leaned over his shoulder to look at his book.
"Studying chemistry," came the snappy reply. "Go away." He sounded annoyed.
Instead of doing as he requested, Zara started poking his arm. "Isn't that boring, though?"
Wufei tensed every time her index finger jabbed into his arm. "It's better than failing." He turned back to his book, and Zara kept continuing her torment.
"Funky hair, Wu-man." To accentuate her point, she gave his short ponytail a sharp tug.
After a cry of pain, Wufei slowly turned his head to look at her. His dark eyes were aflame with anger. Zara laughed nervously.
"Geez, okay. No need to get all bitchy about it."
"Nani?!" Wufei stood up indignantly, and his book when flying off his lap onto the floor. "You did not just call me a woman, you...you...you baka ura(1)!"
Zara snorted at his pathetic excuse for an insult, then grabbed his wrist and pulled him back onto the couch. "Calm down, Wu-man. No need to get all...uh...nutty about it."
Wufei fumed as he picked up his chemistry book off the floor. "Never call me that again." He opened the book and continued to study.
Zara stared at him dumbly for a moment. "Alright, then." She slid off the couch and walked over to Quatre. He was sitting in front of the fireplace, yawning and muttering to himself. Occasionally, he would jot down a word or two in his notebook, then return to watching the fire.
"Hey there Quatre. Whatcha doin'?"
Quatre blinked sleepily a few times and looked up at Zara. "Oh, um...just writing..."
"Oh," She sat down, "What about?"
"Just something to cheer Trinity up. Why'd she leave so quick before?"
"Um...she uh..." Zara sputtered nervously, "Well um we...uh..."
"What is it?" Quatre asked with a rather confused expression on his face.
"We-both-thought-you-were-a-girl-so-she-was-talking-to-you-but-then-Duo-told-me-you-were-a-guy-so-I-told-Trin-and-she-left." Zara took a deep breath and closed her eyes. When Quatre didn't say anything she opened them again. He was looking towards the fire with the same confused expression on his face. Then he turned to her.
"Um, why'd she talk to me when she thought I was a girl, but not when she found out I was a guy?" Zara scratched her head then answered.
"Well, she doesn't trust guys too much. She gets along with girls pretty easily, though."
"Doesn't trust guys? Why?" Wufei suddenly made a contribution to the conversation. Zara and Quatre looked over. "What?" He asked in anger, "It's hard to study when people are talking so loudly...and I'm curious."
"Well," Zara bit her lip for a second, "I'm not sure I should tell ya. She barely even told me about it and I'm her best friend." Quatre and Wufei looked at each other.
"Barely told you what?" asked Wufei.
"Promise not to tell anyone?" asked Zara. Wufei nodded.
"Yes," was Quatre's reply.
"Okay...all I know is that she doesn't like guys and her dad scares her."
Wufei looked at Zara, then muttered, "That's all you know?"
"Well, she also doesn't really trust many people 'cept Doc and me really."
"Oh," sighed Quatre. "Guess I can't do much to cheer her up if she doesn't trust me, then"
Zara smiled slightly and shrugged. "Guess not..."
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Heero still stood leaning against the door to his room. "What was that about?" he muttered. After a moment Duo walked up.
"Hey Heero." He stopped walking and paused a moment. "What's with the face?"
"Uh..." Heero started, stopped, took a breath and tried again. "Uh well...Trinity is in my bed."
"Oh, really?" Duo smiled and almost laughed, "Then uh, what's with the face?"
Heero frowned at Duo. "I'm not sure why, but she freaked out when I woke her up..."
"Whoa!" Duo gasped in surprise. "D-Do you mean to say that a girl was sleeping in your bed and you woke her up? Good God! You need some help!"
"That's not the point," Heero replied icily. "Zara may have said that Trinity doesn't like guys, but this seems a bit extreme to me."
"Hmm, guess you're right. Want a professional to take care of it then?" Duo reached for the doorknob, but Heero stopped him.
"I'm not sure that's a very good idea Duo."
"Why?" Duo asked in a tone of pure innocence.
"She freaked out because of me. She might have a heart attack because of you."
"Don't think so." Duo pushed Heero away and opened the door. He walked in and closed it behind him. A high-pitched scream filled the air. Then it stopped as suddenly as it had started and Heero heard a thud. He forced open the door. The sight that greeted him was...rather odd. Duo was lying on the floor unconscious and Trinity was rocking back and forth on the bed.
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Zara jerked when she heard the scream.
"Oh God," she muttered, then jumped up and ran towards it.
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"What happened here?" Heero muttered as he walked into his room.
"I hit him with a dart," was Trinity's blatant reply. Zara then burst through the door, took in the sight and after a second or two of silence smacked her hand against her forehead.
"Trin..." She stood for a moment then gasped and reached into her pocket. "It's not..."
"No," Trinity answered quickly before Zara could administer the antidote to Duo. "No, it's just a tranquilizer, he'll be harmless for about an hour, I think."
"Harmless?!" Zara looked down at the poor unconscious boy. "Well...at least you didn't poison him...and thanks for telling me it wasn't poison. I mean that antidote is deadly unless it's reacting with the venom."
"I know. I told you." Trinity shrugged. "Does it matter?"
"Yes, you idiot! If you hadn't told me I would've killed him. What'd he do to deserve this anyway?"
Trinity looked down at Duo, then back up at Zara and answered, "He scared me."
"What? He scared you...so? It seemed like I scared you too when I woke you up," Heero muttered rather quietly. Both girls turned to him. Zara pointed at the door.
"Get out. I need to talk some sense into Trin."
"Get out? This is my room," Heero replied indignantly.
"It is? Oh well. Get out so I can talk ta Trin and you'll get it back in perfect shape."
Heero shrugged and walked out of the room where he was immediately met by two curious boys and a third yawning one.
"What's going on in there?" Quatre asked nervously.
"I don't quite get it," Heero answered, "I came to my room and Trinity was asleep in my bed and..."
"Trinity was asleep in your bed?" Wufei asked his eyes narrowing. "Why?"
"How the hell should I know? Wait that's not the point." Heero took a breath and continued. "No interrupting, alright?" Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei all nodded. "I woke her up and she freaked, so I went out into the hallway. Duo came up and went in before I could stop him. She screamed and hit him with a tranquilizer dart. Then Zara came up and kicked me out to talk to her."
"Oh...well no wasting time, let's find out what they're talking about."
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"Breath in...and out, in...and out, calm." Zara said to Trinity.
She followed the instructions then stopped to say, "Zara, I think you're going to make me hyperventilate."
"Well, at least I haven't knocked you out like you did to this poor sap." Zara countered waving angrily at Duo. "Why'd ya do that?"
"I told you, he scared me." Trinity replied angrily.
"Trin, I don't get it...Heero said he woke you up and you didn't do anything to...are you okay?" Trinity's face had paled suddenly.
"I-I couldn't do anything...when he woke me up I was to scared too react...so I just babbled like and idiot...but he left, so I prepared a dart, just in case he came back..."
"And you used the tranq on Duo...alright. Well Trin come'ere." She motioned for her to get up. "If we're gonna live here you just have to trust these guys, alright. Now let's go before Duo wakes up pissed."
"Okay." Trinity replied nodding. She then stood up and leaned on Zara to walk to the door. They both stepped gingerly over the now snoring Duo.
Before opening the door Zara stopped and asked. "How much you wanna bet that there're some of 'em trying to listen?"
"Don't know..." Trinity answered before saying rather brightly. "A snake bite?"
"Hell no! I...you know what I meant," Zara sputtered.
"Okay then...how about two dollars?"
"Right." They shook on it, and Zara opened the door. Two of the boys immediately fell in on top of Duo. Quatre and Wufei.
"Pay up," Zara said smiling at Trinity. Trinity reached into her pocket and handed Zara the money.
"Now, let's go find you a room," Zara said while stowing the money in her pocket. She and Trinity then walked over the two boys and down the hall where they suddenly erupted into a fit of laughter.
1- Dumb ass
DAY: Well thanks for reading
bg: I really hope you liked it.
