Sapphires through the Mist-11
ladytigera21: Yes, that is a cute pairing. And I'm working at bringing the plan into motion! Woo! =)
Airlady: I never really said where Quatre's house was...so it's possible! ^- ^' Thanks for the review! =)
Sailor-Tsunami1: =)
GracedAngel1854; =)
An: =( If you don't like what I'm writing, Don't read it!
Kaiya: Sorry for the quick pace, but I want to get it finished before June, I go to boot camp aka: De-fun-a-fa-cation camp. And I'm going to be gone most of May. So I don't have a lot of time. ^-^' sorry once more. =)
Disclaimer: I do not own anything worth being sued over.
NOTE: I'm going to be gone for most of next month, so I'm going to try and get this finished this week! So review often! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
After a while, Ami mumbled that she had to finish working on the holo projector.
Although loathing to remove herself from her nice seat in Trowa's lap, both knew that there were more important things to take care of first.
That, and they saw Duo peeking from around the corner.
For about an hour, Ami went over the mechanics of the projector with Trowa while she fixed the last few wires.
"There" Ami proclaimed happily. "All finished!"
Trowa smiled at her from his sitting against the wall position.
And, as if on cue, Duo sauntered into the room.
"Now, that you're done" He started as both Ami and Trowa exchanged worried looks.
"Can you give us a tour?"
In situations like that, what else can you do but comply.
It didn't help that Trowa and Heero were interested as well.
Sighing in resignation, Ami explained what the control room, the one that they were in was for.
It was the place that all defenses checked in to give their reports. It also was the place that ran all mechanical workings in the palace.
All three men were surprised to find out that Ami herself had invented most of the equipment used in the room.
"Being a genius has a few advantages" Ami muttered in an amused voice.
Trowa chuckled while Heero smirked and Duo grinned.
"Now," Ami said. "What else do you want to know about?"
For the next few hours, Ami was hauled about by her arm by Duo. Trowa and Heero only gave her sympathy looks.
She showed them the room where the parties were held. Some of the splendor still clung to the magnificent room. It almost looked as if a cleaning crew was about to come in and clean it up for a party that very night.
The library was next. It had huge tomes of information and history. It was one of Ami's favorite places in the entire place.
On their way to yet another site, they passed by the hall to the Senshi's rooms.
'What's down there?" Trowa asked her. "When we were here last, I tried to go down that way, but there was a barrier there."
Ami chuckled.
"One of my best inventions is that barrier. It only allows certain people through."
"So, what's down there?" Duo chipped in.
Ami grinned. "The personal rooms of the Senshi. We really value our privacy!"
Duo's eyes grew to about three times their size in wonder. "Wow! Can I see them?"
Ami looked at him. "Do you made it a habit of showing off your room?"
"No"
"There's your answer"
"Aww!!! Please!!!"
Ami glared at him.
"Please Ami! Can we at least see your room?"
She rolled her eyes.
Trowa leaned over to her and whispered something in her ear right then. "You do realize that he won't stop asking until you give in."
Ami sighed. "I know...I guess you want to see what's down there as well."
Trowa gave her half a smirk.
"I'll take that as a 'yes.' Fine... Wait here you three. I'm going to deactivate the barrier."
"SWEET!" Duo hollered.
Ami felt the slight tingle as she passed through the barrier, but paid it no mind as she walked over to the hidden control panel in the wall.
One open secret door and a few pushed buttons later, the barrier vanished with out a show.
Grinning, Ami waved them through.
Tentatively, Trowa took the first step. On finding that the barrier wasn't there anymore, he walked more confidently towards Ami.
Duo and Heero came after him not a second later.
Once all three men were through, Ami set the barrier back up.
Throwing a questioning glace at Ami, Trowa wondered why she put the barrier back up.
Ami, seeing that look chuckled at him.
"Once, you're in, you can go out no matter who you are."
"Cool!" Duo said with mirth dancing in his eyes. "I need to get me one of those things!"
Ami grinned. "It's the only one I made. Sorry Duo."
"Damn."
There, in the hall that Ami had looked at with longing not four days earlier, three guys openly gawked in admiration.
Ten doors lined the hallway. The symbols of the Senshi sparkling in the sunlight.
Since the hall with the barrier was just the entrance hall, Ami led them to the next hall and turned left.
The first room on their left had tow symbols on it. Uranus and Neptune.
Duo eyes the door with curiosity.
Ami smiled at him. "Yes, Duo. They were lesbians. And a very cute couple to boot. But if anyone looked at Neptune, Uranus would leave the person in a bloody heap."
Duo smirked. "I think I would have like to meet them."
Ami smiled evilly. "Uranus would have killed you. She was less tolerant than Rei and Wufei combined.
Duo gulped.
That was the only door on that said of the hall. A window was the frame of the wall that led to the outside.
Opposite the door to Uranus and Neptune's room, was Jupiter's room.
The emerald that made up the Jovian symbol gleamed in the sunlight that flooded the hall.
"This is Makoto's old room. And no you can't go inside. She would really kill you for that!" Ami answered Duo's unspoken question.
"Darn"
The next on their way to the other end of the hall was Ami's own room. Which they passed by.
"Why are we passing that room Ames?" Duo asked, curious.
Trowa answered for her. "The symbol on the door is Mercury. It's Ami's room."
"Ohhh....." Duo trailed off.
Next to her room was the room of Mars. The ruby glowed like blood.
"Mars's room. Don't even ask to go in. She probably booby trapped it."
Duo gulped again. "Why would she do that?"
Ami grinned. "One goddess of love was to blame. She kept barging in on her and trying to set her up on dates."
Duo grinned.
Speaking of said person, Venus's room is the next one.
An amber heart shown happily at them all.
Trowa looked at it in confusion. "Why does she have a heart instead of her symbol?"
Ami grinned. "Because she is the goddess of love. And both her's and my symbols look similar."
Trowa nodded, satisfied.
The door at that end of the hall was the one that belonged to Neo-Queen Serenity and her husband.
"This is the queen's room." She said simply before turning around and listing off the rooms on the other side.
"This is the room of Princess Serenity. She was just like her mother at that age. She had a great love of life."
Ami smiled at the memory of the pink haired child that had stayed with them when they were young.
Dark amethyst was shaped into Saturn's symbol on the nest door.
"This is Hotaru's room. She and the princess were best friends since they were the youngest."
The last door they looked at before completing the circle around the hall was the room Pluto used when she stayed at the palace.
Deep garnet shaped the small Plutonian symbol that rested right above the door handle.
"Why is her symbol so small Ames?" Duo asked the blue haired woman.
Ami looked back at him. "Pluto didn't often stay here with us. It was her job to guard the gates of time, and it was a rare time when she could leave that place."
After that, Ami went back to her own door, the three others following her, their curiosity insatiable.
Ami shook her head at that.
Quietly she opened the door to her room.
She had been mistaken the first night she had been there. All was not as she had left it. The attack on the palace had knocked some things over and shattered some of her things.
But when she had found a little time, she had cleaned it up a bit.
It wasn't really a room that the Senshi had, rather a small suite.
There was a bathroom that was shared between two adjacent senshi. In Ami's case, she shared with Jupiter.
She had a main room and her bedroom.
The main room was decorated in blues naturally. There were a lot of books lining the walls.
To which do commented 'As if there weren't enough in the library!'
A few chairs and a couch took up the last bits of space there was.
Duo insisted on see ALL of her room, so a bit reluctantly, Ami opened the last door.
A large bed, covered in blue silk sat by the window. The bed was so large that four people could easily sleep there and not interfere too much with the others.
'Wow' was the only comment from Duo.
A mahogany desk, one that matched her door, sat opposite the window.
Blue prints and scientific thesis's sat there, aged by time.
After a moment of gawking, Ami shooed them all out.
Duo and Heero left, but Trowa stood firm, looking at the pictures on her dresser.
"Who is this?" he asked her coldly, pointing to Greg.
Ami smiled at the picture. That was one of my best friends before I became a senshi. His name's Greg. He was special, like me.
Both of us had powers that we could tall anyone about. In his case, he could see a short way into the future."
Suddenly, Ami had an insight. Trowa was jealous!
"We were way too similar to ever be anything more than friends." She told him to calm his nerves down.
Trowa nodded. 'I shouldn't have been jealous, but I was. Glad to know he wasn't her boyfriend. Though, she did say that she never had a boyfriend.'
"Who are they?" he asked of her, pointing to the picture of her with her parents.
Ami smiled softly at the picture. "Those two were my parents. That's the only picture I have of all three of us together."
Trowa looked at her, confusion running rampant in his mind. "Why just the one? And why do you look so little in that picture?"
Ami smiled sadly. "My parents divorced when I was little. I never saw my father after it was final."
Trowa winced inwardly. He didn't mean to bring back bad memories.
Ami didn't even see him thinking, she was still lost in her memories.
"Come to think of it, I didn't see much of my mom after that either. She was always working."
Trowa nodded and led her out of her own room.
Back in the other room, Duo and Heero were sort of lounging in the soft comfy couch.
"Comfy?" Ami asked him, amused.
"Yup" he answered nonchalantly.
Ami just shook her head. "Well, if you're so comfy, then I guess it'll be just me and Trowa getting some dinner then."
The effect was instantaneous. Duo was on his feet and out the door.
Ami grinned mischievously. "Did I forget to mention that all the food's in subspace so it doesn't go bad?" Trowa and Heero chuckled.
From down the hall, Duo wailed. "Where's the food?"
"Shall we?" Trowa asked Ami, holding out his arm.
Smiling, Ami took it and they walked slowly to the kitchen, Heero still silently laughing behind them.
For the rest of the day, nothing happened. Ami was finished with the first part of the plan, and she couldn't continue until she got the data on the seven who attacked.
For Ami, the time she spent with Trowa was the best in her life.
Unfortunately, it ended at dawn the nest day.
That was when the Starlights arrived with the data.
Grimly, Ami set to work uploading the data into the holo projector. It wasn't the hardest thing to do, but it was painstaking.
She kept having to go back and tweak an image until it was perfect. Each image took about an hour to input properly.
And there were seven people to put in.
During that time, the others were well entertained.
They were being told stories about the senshi before Crystal Tokyo.
Duo got a kick out of the comment that Rei would chase the future Neo Queen Serenity around with a broom.
It baffled and amused them that so great a queen was just a normal teenager. Pigging out on burgers and gulping down milkshakes.
Even thought the Starlights hadn't been around for very long, they knew enough to put a blush of embarrassment on any of the Senshi save Pluto.
When they heard about Ami's little secret, they all cracked a grin. Ami? Allergic to love letters? That was something new.
Trowa made a mental note not to ever write one of those things.
For all but Ami, it was an amusing day.
By the time Ami finished, and got back to where the others were congregated, the Starlights were just about to tell the story about when Usagi and Chibi-Usa switched ages.
Leaning against the door frame, Ami listened in.
She smiled at certain points. All the confusion, frustrating at first, was really cute once it was over.
Those were vivacious times.
Once that story was done, Fighter grinned. "Eaves dropping now Ames?"
Ami smirked. "I don't need to the way Healer was shouting that story."
Said shouter pouted.
With an exhausted breath, Ami sunk into one of the chairs. "It's all finished."
Duo and Heero, not in on what was happening, looked at them with faces that said 'Tell me what's going on!' Although Heero's was more 'Tell me or I'll do worse than kill you.'
Wearily she told Trowa to explain it since she was going to fall asleep right then and there.
And so she did. Right in the middle of Duo ranting about how he knew that something was wrong in that house.
Sometime later, she woke up. A cold breeze was blowing through a shattered window.
Rubbing her arms, she glanced at the others who had fallen asleep in their chairs.
Smiling, Ami went off to find some blankets. It was the least she could do since they were keeping her company.
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I think this is my longest chapter yet! So...REVIEW! It's so easy! Just hit the little purple button that has 'submit REVIEW' next to it! Ja! ^-^8
~DevilWench~
ladytigera21: Yes, that is a cute pairing. And I'm working at bringing the plan into motion! Woo! =)
Airlady: I never really said where Quatre's house was...so it's possible! ^- ^' Thanks for the review! =)
Sailor-Tsunami1: =)
GracedAngel1854; =)
An: =( If you don't like what I'm writing, Don't read it!
Kaiya: Sorry for the quick pace, but I want to get it finished before June, I go to boot camp aka: De-fun-a-fa-cation camp. And I'm going to be gone most of May. So I don't have a lot of time. ^-^' sorry once more. =)
Disclaimer: I do not own anything worth being sued over.
NOTE: I'm going to be gone for most of next month, so I'm going to try and get this finished this week! So review often! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
After a while, Ami mumbled that she had to finish working on the holo projector.
Although loathing to remove herself from her nice seat in Trowa's lap, both knew that there were more important things to take care of first.
That, and they saw Duo peeking from around the corner.
For about an hour, Ami went over the mechanics of the projector with Trowa while she fixed the last few wires.
"There" Ami proclaimed happily. "All finished!"
Trowa smiled at her from his sitting against the wall position.
And, as if on cue, Duo sauntered into the room.
"Now, that you're done" He started as both Ami and Trowa exchanged worried looks.
"Can you give us a tour?"
In situations like that, what else can you do but comply.
It didn't help that Trowa and Heero were interested as well.
Sighing in resignation, Ami explained what the control room, the one that they were in was for.
It was the place that all defenses checked in to give their reports. It also was the place that ran all mechanical workings in the palace.
All three men were surprised to find out that Ami herself had invented most of the equipment used in the room.
"Being a genius has a few advantages" Ami muttered in an amused voice.
Trowa chuckled while Heero smirked and Duo grinned.
"Now," Ami said. "What else do you want to know about?"
For the next few hours, Ami was hauled about by her arm by Duo. Trowa and Heero only gave her sympathy looks.
She showed them the room where the parties were held. Some of the splendor still clung to the magnificent room. It almost looked as if a cleaning crew was about to come in and clean it up for a party that very night.
The library was next. It had huge tomes of information and history. It was one of Ami's favorite places in the entire place.
On their way to yet another site, they passed by the hall to the Senshi's rooms.
'What's down there?" Trowa asked her. "When we were here last, I tried to go down that way, but there was a barrier there."
Ami chuckled.
"One of my best inventions is that barrier. It only allows certain people through."
"So, what's down there?" Duo chipped in.
Ami grinned. "The personal rooms of the Senshi. We really value our privacy!"
Duo's eyes grew to about three times their size in wonder. "Wow! Can I see them?"
Ami looked at him. "Do you made it a habit of showing off your room?"
"No"
"There's your answer"
"Aww!!! Please!!!"
Ami glared at him.
"Please Ami! Can we at least see your room?"
She rolled her eyes.
Trowa leaned over to her and whispered something in her ear right then. "You do realize that he won't stop asking until you give in."
Ami sighed. "I know...I guess you want to see what's down there as well."
Trowa gave her half a smirk.
"I'll take that as a 'yes.' Fine... Wait here you three. I'm going to deactivate the barrier."
"SWEET!" Duo hollered.
Ami felt the slight tingle as she passed through the barrier, but paid it no mind as she walked over to the hidden control panel in the wall.
One open secret door and a few pushed buttons later, the barrier vanished with out a show.
Grinning, Ami waved them through.
Tentatively, Trowa took the first step. On finding that the barrier wasn't there anymore, he walked more confidently towards Ami.
Duo and Heero came after him not a second later.
Once all three men were through, Ami set the barrier back up.
Throwing a questioning glace at Ami, Trowa wondered why she put the barrier back up.
Ami, seeing that look chuckled at him.
"Once, you're in, you can go out no matter who you are."
"Cool!" Duo said with mirth dancing in his eyes. "I need to get me one of those things!"
Ami grinned. "It's the only one I made. Sorry Duo."
"Damn."
There, in the hall that Ami had looked at with longing not four days earlier, three guys openly gawked in admiration.
Ten doors lined the hallway. The symbols of the Senshi sparkling in the sunlight.
Since the hall with the barrier was just the entrance hall, Ami led them to the next hall and turned left.
The first room on their left had tow symbols on it. Uranus and Neptune.
Duo eyes the door with curiosity.
Ami smiled at him. "Yes, Duo. They were lesbians. And a very cute couple to boot. But if anyone looked at Neptune, Uranus would leave the person in a bloody heap."
Duo smirked. "I think I would have like to meet them."
Ami smiled evilly. "Uranus would have killed you. She was less tolerant than Rei and Wufei combined.
Duo gulped.
That was the only door on that said of the hall. A window was the frame of the wall that led to the outside.
Opposite the door to Uranus and Neptune's room, was Jupiter's room.
The emerald that made up the Jovian symbol gleamed in the sunlight that flooded the hall.
"This is Makoto's old room. And no you can't go inside. She would really kill you for that!" Ami answered Duo's unspoken question.
"Darn"
The next on their way to the other end of the hall was Ami's own room. Which they passed by.
"Why are we passing that room Ames?" Duo asked, curious.
Trowa answered for her. "The symbol on the door is Mercury. It's Ami's room."
"Ohhh....." Duo trailed off.
Next to her room was the room of Mars. The ruby glowed like blood.
"Mars's room. Don't even ask to go in. She probably booby trapped it."
Duo gulped again. "Why would she do that?"
Ami grinned. "One goddess of love was to blame. She kept barging in on her and trying to set her up on dates."
Duo grinned.
Speaking of said person, Venus's room is the next one.
An amber heart shown happily at them all.
Trowa looked at it in confusion. "Why does she have a heart instead of her symbol?"
Ami grinned. "Because she is the goddess of love. And both her's and my symbols look similar."
Trowa nodded, satisfied.
The door at that end of the hall was the one that belonged to Neo-Queen Serenity and her husband.
"This is the queen's room." She said simply before turning around and listing off the rooms on the other side.
"This is the room of Princess Serenity. She was just like her mother at that age. She had a great love of life."
Ami smiled at the memory of the pink haired child that had stayed with them when they were young.
Dark amethyst was shaped into Saturn's symbol on the nest door.
"This is Hotaru's room. She and the princess were best friends since they were the youngest."
The last door they looked at before completing the circle around the hall was the room Pluto used when she stayed at the palace.
Deep garnet shaped the small Plutonian symbol that rested right above the door handle.
"Why is her symbol so small Ames?" Duo asked the blue haired woman.
Ami looked back at him. "Pluto didn't often stay here with us. It was her job to guard the gates of time, and it was a rare time when she could leave that place."
After that, Ami went back to her own door, the three others following her, their curiosity insatiable.
Ami shook her head at that.
Quietly she opened the door to her room.
She had been mistaken the first night she had been there. All was not as she had left it. The attack on the palace had knocked some things over and shattered some of her things.
But when she had found a little time, she had cleaned it up a bit.
It wasn't really a room that the Senshi had, rather a small suite.
There was a bathroom that was shared between two adjacent senshi. In Ami's case, she shared with Jupiter.
She had a main room and her bedroom.
The main room was decorated in blues naturally. There were a lot of books lining the walls.
To which do commented 'As if there weren't enough in the library!'
A few chairs and a couch took up the last bits of space there was.
Duo insisted on see ALL of her room, so a bit reluctantly, Ami opened the last door.
A large bed, covered in blue silk sat by the window. The bed was so large that four people could easily sleep there and not interfere too much with the others.
'Wow' was the only comment from Duo.
A mahogany desk, one that matched her door, sat opposite the window.
Blue prints and scientific thesis's sat there, aged by time.
After a moment of gawking, Ami shooed them all out.
Duo and Heero left, but Trowa stood firm, looking at the pictures on her dresser.
"Who is this?" he asked her coldly, pointing to Greg.
Ami smiled at the picture. That was one of my best friends before I became a senshi. His name's Greg. He was special, like me.
Both of us had powers that we could tall anyone about. In his case, he could see a short way into the future."
Suddenly, Ami had an insight. Trowa was jealous!
"We were way too similar to ever be anything more than friends." She told him to calm his nerves down.
Trowa nodded. 'I shouldn't have been jealous, but I was. Glad to know he wasn't her boyfriend. Though, she did say that she never had a boyfriend.'
"Who are they?" he asked of her, pointing to the picture of her with her parents.
Ami smiled softly at the picture. "Those two were my parents. That's the only picture I have of all three of us together."
Trowa looked at her, confusion running rampant in his mind. "Why just the one? And why do you look so little in that picture?"
Ami smiled sadly. "My parents divorced when I was little. I never saw my father after it was final."
Trowa winced inwardly. He didn't mean to bring back bad memories.
Ami didn't even see him thinking, she was still lost in her memories.
"Come to think of it, I didn't see much of my mom after that either. She was always working."
Trowa nodded and led her out of her own room.
Back in the other room, Duo and Heero were sort of lounging in the soft comfy couch.
"Comfy?" Ami asked him, amused.
"Yup" he answered nonchalantly.
Ami just shook her head. "Well, if you're so comfy, then I guess it'll be just me and Trowa getting some dinner then."
The effect was instantaneous. Duo was on his feet and out the door.
Ami grinned mischievously. "Did I forget to mention that all the food's in subspace so it doesn't go bad?" Trowa and Heero chuckled.
From down the hall, Duo wailed. "Where's the food?"
"Shall we?" Trowa asked Ami, holding out his arm.
Smiling, Ami took it and they walked slowly to the kitchen, Heero still silently laughing behind them.
For the rest of the day, nothing happened. Ami was finished with the first part of the plan, and she couldn't continue until she got the data on the seven who attacked.
For Ami, the time she spent with Trowa was the best in her life.
Unfortunately, it ended at dawn the nest day.
That was when the Starlights arrived with the data.
Grimly, Ami set to work uploading the data into the holo projector. It wasn't the hardest thing to do, but it was painstaking.
She kept having to go back and tweak an image until it was perfect. Each image took about an hour to input properly.
And there were seven people to put in.
During that time, the others were well entertained.
They were being told stories about the senshi before Crystal Tokyo.
Duo got a kick out of the comment that Rei would chase the future Neo Queen Serenity around with a broom.
It baffled and amused them that so great a queen was just a normal teenager. Pigging out on burgers and gulping down milkshakes.
Even thought the Starlights hadn't been around for very long, they knew enough to put a blush of embarrassment on any of the Senshi save Pluto.
When they heard about Ami's little secret, they all cracked a grin. Ami? Allergic to love letters? That was something new.
Trowa made a mental note not to ever write one of those things.
For all but Ami, it was an amusing day.
By the time Ami finished, and got back to where the others were congregated, the Starlights were just about to tell the story about when Usagi and Chibi-Usa switched ages.
Leaning against the door frame, Ami listened in.
She smiled at certain points. All the confusion, frustrating at first, was really cute once it was over.
Those were vivacious times.
Once that story was done, Fighter grinned. "Eaves dropping now Ames?"
Ami smirked. "I don't need to the way Healer was shouting that story."
Said shouter pouted.
With an exhausted breath, Ami sunk into one of the chairs. "It's all finished."
Duo and Heero, not in on what was happening, looked at them with faces that said 'Tell me what's going on!' Although Heero's was more 'Tell me or I'll do worse than kill you.'
Wearily she told Trowa to explain it since she was going to fall asleep right then and there.
And so she did. Right in the middle of Duo ranting about how he knew that something was wrong in that house.
Sometime later, she woke up. A cold breeze was blowing through a shattered window.
Rubbing her arms, she glanced at the others who had fallen asleep in their chairs.
Smiling, Ami went off to find some blankets. It was the least she could do since they were keeping her company.
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I think this is my longest chapter yet! So...REVIEW! It's so easy! Just hit the little purple button that has 'submit REVIEW' next to it! Ja! ^-^8
~DevilWench~