Yet another chapter comes, and I still don't own any of these characters.
Maybe someday I can afford to buy them, but at the moment I'm not in that
kind of financial position. I can dream though….
Gomen minna, but being employed does cause problems. Due to my schedule this weekend, it might be a few days before I can update again. But I will do my best to get the next chapter out as soon as possible.
Enjoy!
Heero was the first to recover from this…unusual display. He quickly grabbed Lita's wrist, glaring daggers at her. "Ok, now I'll ask you this just once. Who are you really?"
"I told you! I'm Lita Kino."
"I think you're keeping something from us. Nobody I know can glow like that. What are you, some freak OZ developmental weapon? You're a spy aren't you!" he accused, gripping her wrist tighter.
"OZ? What the hell is that? I don't know what you're talking about! I'm not a weapon! I'm a sai…." Lita stopped as she realized she'd been about to spill her secret.
"I knew it! You are hiding something!"
"So what if I am? You haven't been exactly honest with me either. You sound like some kind of secret agents or some weird government agency…talking about missions and weapons…. You plan on telling me what you're hiding?"
Heero growled and dropped her wrist, knowing there was no way he could answer that question.
"I thought so. Look, I know it may not look like it, but I'm totally human and I don't plan on doing anything to any of you. You have my word as a…well, you just have it. So I won't pry into your life if you stay outa mine. Deal?" She stuck her hand out.
"Deal," Heero said gruffly as he shook it.
That had been two days ago. In the time that had elapsed, Lita got acclimated to her new home. She had insisted on occupying the small room off the kitchen, claiming that the larger rooms made her a little unnerved as they were so much bigger then she was used to. She quickly fell into her routine of cooking and cleaning, staying clear of the occupied bedrooms.
She also got used to being "alone" so to speak. Everytime Wufei saw her coming, he headed in another direction to avoid her and her electric personality. Trowa didn't really care one way or the other, but he was so quiet that when he was in the same room with her she just as well might have been alone. Quatre and Duo did talk to her when they could, but they were often off with the other 3 doing who knows what. As for Heero, well…he didn't avoid her per-say, but he didn't go out of his way to talk to her either. Maybe a good way to put it was he didn't really want her being there, but he at least tolerated her presence.
The night of her second day, the 5 had once again shut themselves into the library. Lita drummed her fingers on the arm of the chair she was sitting in. Wondering what she could do to occupy herself, she remembered that Duo mentioned he had a stash of video games in the living room. So that's where she headed, rummaging around in the stacks until she found a Sailor Moon video game-Silver Millenium Tournament 2000. She had to laugh as she started up the game. It just seemed like the type of game Duo would have. "That must be why it was at the bottom of the pile. If Wufei knew about this he'd probably burn it." She laughed some more as she selected her fighter, Sailor Jupiter of course, and began the tournament. So engrossed was she, that she never noticed Duo come into the room. "Damn! Queen Beryl wasn't this hard in real life…and what's with the green hair on Ami anyway….I mean, really…that doesn't even look like the Moon Kingdom!"
At this point, a very puzzled Duo coughed.
Lita whipped around and saw him standing there. "How long have you been there?"
"I just got here," he said smoothly. "Guess you're an avid game player. Really get into it huh?" he grinned.
Lita grinned back, relieved that he appeared not to have heard. "Yeah. I've played most of the Sailor Moon games, but I've never played this one before. It's really hard." She shook her head.
"Yeah…I haven't played it for a couple months. Well, maybe it would be more appropriate to say ever since Heero kicked my ass at it."
"Heero…?"
Duo laughed. "Yeah, if you can believe it. I talked him into it only because it was fighting game. Funny thing…he was playing the same character you were," he said, motioning to the screen where the ignored game character was now lying "dead". "Oh well…say, I think I was supposed to be doing something." He scratched his head. "Oh yeah! I remember now. You're wanted in the library."
Lita looked at him. "The library? Are you sure?"
He nodded. "We were having a meeting concerning you, so we thought it only right you be included."
"Alright…." Lita shut the game down and stood, following Duo up to the library. Her apprehensions where not eased any when Duo shut the door behind her, so she went and sat in one of the empty chairs at the map table, as she called it. It was big enough to hold a large map after all.
Once Duo was seated, Quatre started the second phase of the meeting. "Lita, the reason we've asked you up here is to give you a choice. Tomorrow is Monday, and therefore we all be going to the Peacecraft Academy, where we attend school when we are here. Now, since you obviously had to leave school to come here, we decided you should choose whether you'd like to continue your studies here or not."
"But…but I'm just an employee…"
Quatre shook his head. "That doesn't matter. Education knows no boundaries and if you want to continue your schooling here I see no reason why you shouldn't."
"Well, I'm not a very good student I'm afraid, but…but I'd like to try."
He smiled. "Then that's settled. We'll get you enrolled Monday morning."
"How?" said Wufei. "You realize if we give them her real age that she'll be put in another class…which doesn't bother me much…but if we aren't there she may lose control of her temper. That damn onna will get us in trouble if she starts glowing again."
"Not to mention she'd be with a lot of people she doesn't even know," Duo said.
"Then we'll just have to lie about her age," Heero said. "She looks old enough to pass as 18, so that won't be a problem, and we can fake a record for her to take in."
"You can do that?" Lita asked.
Duo grinned. "Darn right we can. Only one of our wide variety of talents, but it kinda comes with the territory."
"Oh, I see…part of your secret."
He nodded. Just like that game has something to do with yours, I'm sure he thought to himself.
"I think we are all forgetting something here."
"What do you mean Wufei?" Quatre asked.
"That lousy pacifist annoyance, Relena."
Heero scowled. "If we can keep her from finding out anything we'll be alright. Otherwise, Lita's gonna become a target."
"Target? What!?!" she all but screamed.
"Aww, Heero I didn't know you cared!" Duo smirked and elbowed Heero, who promptly silenced him with a glare. "Anyway," he coughed, "Relena is Heero's personal stalker."
"Stalker?"
"Yeah. She's got it bad for 'Mr. Friendly' here and makes no effort to hide her affections. But Heero can't stand her and has told her quite frequently to buzz off…to no avail. If she finds out that you're living here with us, she'll give you hell about living under the same roof with her Heero."
"Well goody for her. If she wants to get bitchy about it, let her. If I can give Heero a black eye, I can certainly beat her good."
"You can't do that!"
"Why not Quatre?"
"Well, you will get expelled for beating up the school's owner."
"Oh…damn." Lita slumped over onto the table. "Well, I'll think of something. If I have to that is."
"Yeah. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here," Duo said. "But I think we better get this taken care of now."
She smiled. "I understand…Top Secret. I'll see you in the morning then." She waved a goodnight to everyone and headed back down to her room.
True to their word, when the guys came down to breakfast the next morning they brought all the paperwork with them. So there was no problem getting her enrolled and getting the uniform that was required.
The school day passed smoothly enough. Relena introduced her to the rest of her new classmates. Lita wound up sitting in the empty chair next to Duo, which was good because she was near her acquaintances. It did, however, make it harder to pretend she didn't know them. But nobody seemed to suspect anything and the day went off without a hitch. Well, all except the annoying display of affection Relena insisted on giving to Heero as they left that day…but then again that wasn't that unusual.
Once Relena finally decided to leave poor Heero alone, Lita slipped out from behind a tree and hurried after the others. See, they had decided to have her come later then them and leave later too in an effort to keep things under wraps.
But while the day had gone well, the night would be a different story. Doing her duties first, Lita didn't start her homework until after dinner. The first assignment on the list was calculus, followed by physics, and then an essay whose subject was 'What Pacifism Means to Me' so it could be used in class discussion the following day. "I am so in trouble," she groaned. "I haven't even had this stuff yet!" Sighing, she decided to skip to the essay, and 40 minutes later had a 5-paragraph essay written. "Now then…about this…"she looked at the offensive books sitting on the kitchen table.
A period of about 15 minutes or so elapsed, and Lita found herself knocking on the door of Heero's bedroom, or what she guessed was his since there was a light coming out from under the door and all the other bedrooms were currently empty.
"Come in," came the muffled reply.
Lita cautiously opened the door and poked her head in.
Heero turned to see who it was. "You!" he said, pointing at her. "What do you want?"
"I need to ask you something."
"Whatever it is the answer's no. I'm busy." He turned back to the laptop on his desk.
"I need your help and if you say you're busy again I'll give you another black eye."
He turned back around, after shutting off his laptop. "Alright, alright. What do you need help with?"
"This," she said, coming in and depositing her texts and notebooks on his desk.
He looked at them. "Go find somebody else to help you. I'm not going to play tutor."
"Believe me, I didn't want your help." She glared at him. "But I don't have much choice. Duo's playing video games and he didn't understand it so he just had some computer program work them out. Quatre doesn't understand it either, and anyway Trowa is trying to help him with the assignment so that knocks him out. Wufei just hates me and he thinks homework is weak and unjust because it takes time away from his daily katana exercises. That only leaves you."
He sighed. "Oh alright." Opening the book to the assigned problems, he asked her what the problem was.
"Everything! I haven't had either of these classes yet," Lita answered, looking a little embarrassed.
"Well, no. I guess you wouldn't would you…. This is going to take a lot of work to get you caught up…you do realize that don't you?"
"I kinda guessed…but I promise to try."
"You better…otherwise I'm going to kill you for wasting my time."
"Yes…yes sir."
He made no reply, grabbing the books and heading into the den down the hall, Lita following behind. Heero set everything up, then instructed her to take a seat and proceeded the lesson. After several hours, they finally made it through the calculus homework. "We can take a break I guess."
"Good, cause my brain needs a chance to rest." She say back in her chair, then suddenly, she smiled. "You know, you're really good at this. Well, I mean…you obviously know what you're doing and you explained it pretty well too."
Heero blinked, mildly surprised. In the two and half days he'd known her, she had never complimented him, much less smiled at him. The fact that she did both, well…he wondered what it meant.
"You're probably as smart as Ami," she said, a slight touch of admiration in her voice.
"Who's she?"
"Oh, one of my friends back home…a real genius."
"You mean home as in where you came from…?"
She laughed. "Yeah. This is home now. I guess I just lived in Juuban so long I still think of it as home."
He nodded. "We better get back to work."
"Yeah, guess you're right…" Sighing, she turned her attention to physics as Heero began the explanations for this new subject. Finally, after another several hours passed, they were finished. Looking at her watch, she realized there was only an hour left until time for everyone to be getting up. "Oh my god! Everybody else has been asleep for hours…I'm so sorry Heero. I didn't mean to monopolize your time like that!" Hastily grabbing her assignments and books, she dashed out of the room and headed downstairs to start breakfast.
She was gone so fast, Heero was left standing in the den dumbfounded. She was definitely acting a lot differently then she had two days ago. Shaking his head he went to his room for an hour of sleep.
When everybody came filing down for breakfast, Duo noticed that Lita didn't look so hot. There were dark shadows under her eyes and she was yawning like she hadn't slept all night. He nudged Heero after she went back into the kitchen for the orange juice. "Say…Lita looks awful."
"How observant."
Duo rolled his eyes. "Well, you're nice."
When she came back, Duo asked her how she was feeling.
"Oh, I'm ok…" she yawned. "I was up late last night studying…well, ok I was up all night studying. If you'll excuse me, I'll get ready for school now," and she headed back to the kitchen.
Duo watched her leave. "Studying?"
"Yes Duo, studying. I should know. I stayed up all night helping her."
"You…helped…her?"
"Well, there wasn't anyone else and she's way behind us you know…about 2 years behind us. If she's going to make this ruse work she has to understand the material."
"Yeah, I guess you're right…but I can't help thinking this is going to take a lot of work."
How right he was. It soon became the nightly routine for Lita to go up to Heero's room for an all night study session. When she wasn't studying with him, she was working for Quatre. Even that didn't keep her from studying. She memorized formulas while she dusted, studied charts and graphs in the kitchen while eating, and recited information back to herself while cooking.
As the days wore on, the lack of sleep began to catch up with her. Lita looked and felt horrible, but she kept up her rigorous schedule, determined that she was going to succeed and be good student like Ami had always told her she could be, if she applied herself. Where she'd had no real motivation before, she did now. She just wasn't sure what it was. But one can not live on motivation alone, and after about 3 studious weeks, the exhausted girl could take no more.
Heero, who had actually gotten accustomed to tutoring Lita every night, was a bit surprised when she didn't come up that night. Wondering why he even cared that she didn't show, he shrugged off her disappearance as just being late…until he heard the loud crash echo down the hall. Hopping out of his chair, he appeared at the top of the stairs and looked down. There on the floor at the foot of the stairs, was Lita lying amidst a scattered pile of papers, notebooks, and texts. He dashed down, just as Duo appeared.
"Heero…?"
Heero, having given her a brief examination, looked back at Duo. "Go get Quatre and tell him to bring some ice," he said as he picked her up off the floor and laid her down on one of the living room couches. "She's unconscious."
Gomen minna, but being employed does cause problems. Due to my schedule this weekend, it might be a few days before I can update again. But I will do my best to get the next chapter out as soon as possible.
Enjoy!
Heero was the first to recover from this…unusual display. He quickly grabbed Lita's wrist, glaring daggers at her. "Ok, now I'll ask you this just once. Who are you really?"
"I told you! I'm Lita Kino."
"I think you're keeping something from us. Nobody I know can glow like that. What are you, some freak OZ developmental weapon? You're a spy aren't you!" he accused, gripping her wrist tighter.
"OZ? What the hell is that? I don't know what you're talking about! I'm not a weapon! I'm a sai…." Lita stopped as she realized she'd been about to spill her secret.
"I knew it! You are hiding something!"
"So what if I am? You haven't been exactly honest with me either. You sound like some kind of secret agents or some weird government agency…talking about missions and weapons…. You plan on telling me what you're hiding?"
Heero growled and dropped her wrist, knowing there was no way he could answer that question.
"I thought so. Look, I know it may not look like it, but I'm totally human and I don't plan on doing anything to any of you. You have my word as a…well, you just have it. So I won't pry into your life if you stay outa mine. Deal?" She stuck her hand out.
"Deal," Heero said gruffly as he shook it.
That had been two days ago. In the time that had elapsed, Lita got acclimated to her new home. She had insisted on occupying the small room off the kitchen, claiming that the larger rooms made her a little unnerved as they were so much bigger then she was used to. She quickly fell into her routine of cooking and cleaning, staying clear of the occupied bedrooms.
She also got used to being "alone" so to speak. Everytime Wufei saw her coming, he headed in another direction to avoid her and her electric personality. Trowa didn't really care one way or the other, but he was so quiet that when he was in the same room with her she just as well might have been alone. Quatre and Duo did talk to her when they could, but they were often off with the other 3 doing who knows what. As for Heero, well…he didn't avoid her per-say, but he didn't go out of his way to talk to her either. Maybe a good way to put it was he didn't really want her being there, but he at least tolerated her presence.
The night of her second day, the 5 had once again shut themselves into the library. Lita drummed her fingers on the arm of the chair she was sitting in. Wondering what she could do to occupy herself, she remembered that Duo mentioned he had a stash of video games in the living room. So that's where she headed, rummaging around in the stacks until she found a Sailor Moon video game-Silver Millenium Tournament 2000. She had to laugh as she started up the game. It just seemed like the type of game Duo would have. "That must be why it was at the bottom of the pile. If Wufei knew about this he'd probably burn it." She laughed some more as she selected her fighter, Sailor Jupiter of course, and began the tournament. So engrossed was she, that she never noticed Duo come into the room. "Damn! Queen Beryl wasn't this hard in real life…and what's with the green hair on Ami anyway….I mean, really…that doesn't even look like the Moon Kingdom!"
At this point, a very puzzled Duo coughed.
Lita whipped around and saw him standing there. "How long have you been there?"
"I just got here," he said smoothly. "Guess you're an avid game player. Really get into it huh?" he grinned.
Lita grinned back, relieved that he appeared not to have heard. "Yeah. I've played most of the Sailor Moon games, but I've never played this one before. It's really hard." She shook her head.
"Yeah…I haven't played it for a couple months. Well, maybe it would be more appropriate to say ever since Heero kicked my ass at it."
"Heero…?"
Duo laughed. "Yeah, if you can believe it. I talked him into it only because it was fighting game. Funny thing…he was playing the same character you were," he said, motioning to the screen where the ignored game character was now lying "dead". "Oh well…say, I think I was supposed to be doing something." He scratched his head. "Oh yeah! I remember now. You're wanted in the library."
Lita looked at him. "The library? Are you sure?"
He nodded. "We were having a meeting concerning you, so we thought it only right you be included."
"Alright…." Lita shut the game down and stood, following Duo up to the library. Her apprehensions where not eased any when Duo shut the door behind her, so she went and sat in one of the empty chairs at the map table, as she called it. It was big enough to hold a large map after all.
Once Duo was seated, Quatre started the second phase of the meeting. "Lita, the reason we've asked you up here is to give you a choice. Tomorrow is Monday, and therefore we all be going to the Peacecraft Academy, where we attend school when we are here. Now, since you obviously had to leave school to come here, we decided you should choose whether you'd like to continue your studies here or not."
"But…but I'm just an employee…"
Quatre shook his head. "That doesn't matter. Education knows no boundaries and if you want to continue your schooling here I see no reason why you shouldn't."
"Well, I'm not a very good student I'm afraid, but…but I'd like to try."
He smiled. "Then that's settled. We'll get you enrolled Monday morning."
"How?" said Wufei. "You realize if we give them her real age that she'll be put in another class…which doesn't bother me much…but if we aren't there she may lose control of her temper. That damn onna will get us in trouble if she starts glowing again."
"Not to mention she'd be with a lot of people she doesn't even know," Duo said.
"Then we'll just have to lie about her age," Heero said. "She looks old enough to pass as 18, so that won't be a problem, and we can fake a record for her to take in."
"You can do that?" Lita asked.
Duo grinned. "Darn right we can. Only one of our wide variety of talents, but it kinda comes with the territory."
"Oh, I see…part of your secret."
He nodded. Just like that game has something to do with yours, I'm sure he thought to himself.
"I think we are all forgetting something here."
"What do you mean Wufei?" Quatre asked.
"That lousy pacifist annoyance, Relena."
Heero scowled. "If we can keep her from finding out anything we'll be alright. Otherwise, Lita's gonna become a target."
"Target? What!?!" she all but screamed.
"Aww, Heero I didn't know you cared!" Duo smirked and elbowed Heero, who promptly silenced him with a glare. "Anyway," he coughed, "Relena is Heero's personal stalker."
"Stalker?"
"Yeah. She's got it bad for 'Mr. Friendly' here and makes no effort to hide her affections. But Heero can't stand her and has told her quite frequently to buzz off…to no avail. If she finds out that you're living here with us, she'll give you hell about living under the same roof with her Heero."
"Well goody for her. If she wants to get bitchy about it, let her. If I can give Heero a black eye, I can certainly beat her good."
"You can't do that!"
"Why not Quatre?"
"Well, you will get expelled for beating up the school's owner."
"Oh…damn." Lita slumped over onto the table. "Well, I'll think of something. If I have to that is."
"Yeah. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here," Duo said. "But I think we better get this taken care of now."
She smiled. "I understand…Top Secret. I'll see you in the morning then." She waved a goodnight to everyone and headed back down to her room.
True to their word, when the guys came down to breakfast the next morning they brought all the paperwork with them. So there was no problem getting her enrolled and getting the uniform that was required.
The school day passed smoothly enough. Relena introduced her to the rest of her new classmates. Lita wound up sitting in the empty chair next to Duo, which was good because she was near her acquaintances. It did, however, make it harder to pretend she didn't know them. But nobody seemed to suspect anything and the day went off without a hitch. Well, all except the annoying display of affection Relena insisted on giving to Heero as they left that day…but then again that wasn't that unusual.
Once Relena finally decided to leave poor Heero alone, Lita slipped out from behind a tree and hurried after the others. See, they had decided to have her come later then them and leave later too in an effort to keep things under wraps.
But while the day had gone well, the night would be a different story. Doing her duties first, Lita didn't start her homework until after dinner. The first assignment on the list was calculus, followed by physics, and then an essay whose subject was 'What Pacifism Means to Me' so it could be used in class discussion the following day. "I am so in trouble," she groaned. "I haven't even had this stuff yet!" Sighing, she decided to skip to the essay, and 40 minutes later had a 5-paragraph essay written. "Now then…about this…"she looked at the offensive books sitting on the kitchen table.
A period of about 15 minutes or so elapsed, and Lita found herself knocking on the door of Heero's bedroom, or what she guessed was his since there was a light coming out from under the door and all the other bedrooms were currently empty.
"Come in," came the muffled reply.
Lita cautiously opened the door and poked her head in.
Heero turned to see who it was. "You!" he said, pointing at her. "What do you want?"
"I need to ask you something."
"Whatever it is the answer's no. I'm busy." He turned back to the laptop on his desk.
"I need your help and if you say you're busy again I'll give you another black eye."
He turned back around, after shutting off his laptop. "Alright, alright. What do you need help with?"
"This," she said, coming in and depositing her texts and notebooks on his desk.
He looked at them. "Go find somebody else to help you. I'm not going to play tutor."
"Believe me, I didn't want your help." She glared at him. "But I don't have much choice. Duo's playing video games and he didn't understand it so he just had some computer program work them out. Quatre doesn't understand it either, and anyway Trowa is trying to help him with the assignment so that knocks him out. Wufei just hates me and he thinks homework is weak and unjust because it takes time away from his daily katana exercises. That only leaves you."
He sighed. "Oh alright." Opening the book to the assigned problems, he asked her what the problem was.
"Everything! I haven't had either of these classes yet," Lita answered, looking a little embarrassed.
"Well, no. I guess you wouldn't would you…. This is going to take a lot of work to get you caught up…you do realize that don't you?"
"I kinda guessed…but I promise to try."
"You better…otherwise I'm going to kill you for wasting my time."
"Yes…yes sir."
He made no reply, grabbing the books and heading into the den down the hall, Lita following behind. Heero set everything up, then instructed her to take a seat and proceeded the lesson. After several hours, they finally made it through the calculus homework. "We can take a break I guess."
"Good, cause my brain needs a chance to rest." She say back in her chair, then suddenly, she smiled. "You know, you're really good at this. Well, I mean…you obviously know what you're doing and you explained it pretty well too."
Heero blinked, mildly surprised. In the two and half days he'd known her, she had never complimented him, much less smiled at him. The fact that she did both, well…he wondered what it meant.
"You're probably as smart as Ami," she said, a slight touch of admiration in her voice.
"Who's she?"
"Oh, one of my friends back home…a real genius."
"You mean home as in where you came from…?"
She laughed. "Yeah. This is home now. I guess I just lived in Juuban so long I still think of it as home."
He nodded. "We better get back to work."
"Yeah, guess you're right…" Sighing, she turned her attention to physics as Heero began the explanations for this new subject. Finally, after another several hours passed, they were finished. Looking at her watch, she realized there was only an hour left until time for everyone to be getting up. "Oh my god! Everybody else has been asleep for hours…I'm so sorry Heero. I didn't mean to monopolize your time like that!" Hastily grabbing her assignments and books, she dashed out of the room and headed downstairs to start breakfast.
She was gone so fast, Heero was left standing in the den dumbfounded. She was definitely acting a lot differently then she had two days ago. Shaking his head he went to his room for an hour of sleep.
When everybody came filing down for breakfast, Duo noticed that Lita didn't look so hot. There were dark shadows under her eyes and she was yawning like she hadn't slept all night. He nudged Heero after she went back into the kitchen for the orange juice. "Say…Lita looks awful."
"How observant."
Duo rolled his eyes. "Well, you're nice."
When she came back, Duo asked her how she was feeling.
"Oh, I'm ok…" she yawned. "I was up late last night studying…well, ok I was up all night studying. If you'll excuse me, I'll get ready for school now," and she headed back to the kitchen.
Duo watched her leave. "Studying?"
"Yes Duo, studying. I should know. I stayed up all night helping her."
"You…helped…her?"
"Well, there wasn't anyone else and she's way behind us you know…about 2 years behind us. If she's going to make this ruse work she has to understand the material."
"Yeah, I guess you're right…but I can't help thinking this is going to take a lot of work."
How right he was. It soon became the nightly routine for Lita to go up to Heero's room for an all night study session. When she wasn't studying with him, she was working for Quatre. Even that didn't keep her from studying. She memorized formulas while she dusted, studied charts and graphs in the kitchen while eating, and recited information back to herself while cooking.
As the days wore on, the lack of sleep began to catch up with her. Lita looked and felt horrible, but she kept up her rigorous schedule, determined that she was going to succeed and be good student like Ami had always told her she could be, if she applied herself. Where she'd had no real motivation before, she did now. She just wasn't sure what it was. But one can not live on motivation alone, and after about 3 studious weeks, the exhausted girl could take no more.
Heero, who had actually gotten accustomed to tutoring Lita every night, was a bit surprised when she didn't come up that night. Wondering why he even cared that she didn't show, he shrugged off her disappearance as just being late…until he heard the loud crash echo down the hall. Hopping out of his chair, he appeared at the top of the stairs and looked down. There on the floor at the foot of the stairs, was Lita lying amidst a scattered pile of papers, notebooks, and texts. He dashed down, just as Duo appeared.
"Heero…?"
Heero, having given her a brief examination, looked back at Duo. "Go get Quatre and tell him to bring some ice," he said as he picked her up off the floor and laid her down on one of the living room couches. "She's unconscious."