A Shot at Normalcy: University Life
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A/N: I reloaded this chapter, because I just felt like adding a few more parts to it. And if you are wondering why they are sick, (I know you are, Kira R.Chan ^_~) They just are. Its just some bug that they caught.
Chapter 15: And I thought that fainting was just a girl thing
Heero was feeling slightly uncomfortable. Seems like he was coming down with something. He tried to open his eyes, but they felt like they were glued together. He finally gave up the effort. His head was hurting like hell too. He was definitely coming down with something. He decided to sleep for a little bit longer. His alarm hadn't sounded yet.
Speak of the devil… the annoying thing just went off. Time to get up. There was this weird sensation within his head, like a hammer pounding his skull to powder… from inside. And he felt a huge weight on his head, when he sat up abruptly.
Hn. Nothing that a few tablets can't take care of.' He thought to himself.
He tried getting out of bed and felt a wave of dizziness sweep over him.
"Luckily, I only have half a day at the Building," he muttered to himself.
He walked out of his room, only to find Duo humming to himself. Some old song, from that song collection that Hilde had. A gift from her grandmother or something. Duo did have a good voice. Heero peeped into the kitchen.
Duo was busy making breakfast. He was also dancing to the tune that he was singing. Heero noticed that he was a good dancer too. (A/N: No people! They are straight in this fic. Minds out of the gutter. Now!) Heero shook his head. He hoped that Duo would not make a mess out of breakfast this time. He was feeling too tired to even kick Duo's @ss, if he blew up the kitchen again.
He was going to go into the bathroom when Duo said to him, "Don't look too good, Heero. What's the matter?"
"Just a headache. Nothing that a few tablets can't cure."
With that he entered the bathroom, and started the shower… on hot.
Ahhh… It felt so good.
He came out of the bathroom all dressed and ready. He headed for the breakfast that was waiting for him on the table.
"Looks like Duo's gone to his room," He muttered eyeing the food.
The food, though he couldn't make out what it was, smelt good. He tried eating it, experimentally. Hm. Not bad. It tasted good too.
He ate up the rest without complaint and then started looking for the pills that he had to take. He couldn't find them in his room.
"Duo, I need the headache pills. Where are they?" He asked in a monotone.
"Check the medicine cabinet, baka," Duo retorted.
"Oh yes, the medicine cabinet," He muttered to himself unintelligently.
He found what he was looking for immediately. He took about four pills and washed them down with a gulp of water. He knew that four pills was more than the recommended dosage, but hell… since when had he been normal?
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Trowa woke up and flopped back down again. He just plain could not get up. His head was hurting like a bitch and he wanted to bang it against the wall in hopes of making the headache go away. He heard a knock at his door.
That had to be Jade
"Wake up lazy bones, breakfast is ready and you need to get ready too," she said.
"Hmmnnnn," he mumbled into his pillow. Unfortunately, his classes were spread out throughout the day. And boy! It was going to be a long day too.
He tried pulling himself out of bed. The moment he slid out of the blankets, he felt as though the temperature in the room had dropped below freezing. And he couldn't open his eyes, for the fact that his head was practically killing him. He stood up and walked shakily to his clothes cabinet. He took out a T-shirt and a sweatshirt. He slipped them on. He walked out of his room and went and sat down on the couch.
"Hey! Wake up big boy, you haven't even brushed your teeth yet," Jade said from the kitchen. She could see him in the mirror above the washbasin the corridor that connected the kitchen to the living room.
"Okay," He mumbled before going to do what he was told.
Normally, he would have come up with a witty retort to the way she was treating him, but today, he was feeling like shit. He couldn't even function properly. And thinking of Jade, she had opened up a lot to him lately, she even made fun of him. Earlier she was a bit reserved. She was reserved now too, but she had opened up more. They were beginning to be friends, and he noticed one thing. The more he got to know her, the more he liked her… or should say…loved her? He wasn't sure what he felt for her.
But no time to think about that. He had to get ready and find some pain medication. He was brought out of his reverie when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to look into a pair of intense black eyes, and they were worried.
"You look like shit, are you okay?" She asked worriedly.
"Nice way to make me feel good…"look like shit"." He muttered sarcastically. What had gotten into him? She was worried about him and he was snapping at her. But hey, he was sick and brain was not functioning properly, remember?
"Hey, I'm just worried about you okay?" She said in her defence.
"Stop worrying about me, I'm not some kid. Telling me to do this and that," he snapped at her.
"Well, sorry for caring," she snapped back and whirled around, her braid whipping him on the arm. She sounded hurt.
Look what he had done. Hurt the person he wanted to be close to. He opened his mouth to say something, but shut it again.
He walked towards her. She had walked out into the living room. He started to follow her, but felt a bit dizzy, he held onto to the doorjamb till it passed.
She had gone to her room and was now walking towards him, He straightened himself and stared to walk towards her and he was overcome by dizziness and blackness. He closed his eyes and let himself fall. He heard his name in a distance before he lost it all.
"Trowa," Jade shouted before rushing to his side as he slid to the ground.
He had fainted, just like that. She knew he was sick, but didn't expect him to be that sick. He had been a Gundam pilot. Hell, He was supposed to have more tolerance than that.
She went to him and cradled his head and shoulders in her arms. She was startled at what she felt.
"Gods! You are burning up!" she exclaimed to his prone form, though she knew that he couldn't hear her.
"What in the world possessed you to go walking about, when you were that sick?" she chided him. She looked at him again.
"Now what do I do? You just faint on me like that," she mumbled to herself.
She pulled him up in a standing pose and practically lifted him off the ground, bridal style!
"Hmnph. You are heavy for a person with your frame," she commented.
He was a lot larger than she was, but she still managed to carry him to his room without any casualties. She put him in his bead and covered him up. She sat down on his bedside beside him after her exertion. She was thinking about something when she happened to glance at his alarm clock and that sent alarm bells ringing in her head. How long had she been sitting there? According to the clock it was atleast half an hour that she had been just sitting there. She still had to get ready for her day at work (A/N: she was in a co-op program^_^) and make excuses for her room mate.
She was just about to get up when she felt someone grab her hand and she had a pretty good idea of who that someone was. Normally, she would have punched the person right back, but this time she decided to make an exception. She turned around and looked directly into a pair of emerald eyes. Trowa was sitting up.
"Lie back down idiot, you are burning up," she snapped at him, while she freed her hand from his grasp, or rather tried to.
He just looked at her in surprise.
"How did I get here?" he asked her
"How did you think you got here?" She snapped. She hadn't forgiven him for his behaviour earlier or for the fact that he fainted on her without warning.
"……….." He was now totally confused. According to him, he must have either sleep walked or she must have carried/dragged him here. Both of these possibilities seemed impossible to him.
"I carried you here and could you please leave my hand?" she answered coolly after seeing the confused look on his face.
"You carried me?" he asked while trying to get out of bed.
"Yes, I did and what are you doing? You are supposed to be resting," She said as she pushed him back on the bed. He was feeling dizzy and falling back didn't help, so he did the only thing that he could do, grabbed the only support that he saw, i.e, Jade, pulling her down with him.
"Hey…" She all but squeaked as her eyes went wide and she fell against him. She opened her mouth to say something, but looked away, when she saw the position they were in. Luckily, Trowa didn't seem to notice.
"Looks like I'm gonna have to take a day off," She half muttered to herself before getting up.
"Don't go. Please."
"Huh?" she turned around at the voice. Trowa was looking at her through half closed eyelids and his throat sounded sore. He looked so vulnerable then.
"Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere. I'll have to call to take a day off and also to make an excuse for you. If I leave you like this, either you'll end up killing yourself or this place will be in ruins."
"Shhh... go back to sleep. I'll be back." Before she left she went back and gave him a glass of water with a few pain meds. He nodded and took the medicine from her.
They said it was fine if she took a day off. She was a really good employee and because of her record they could allow her a few days off. There would be no problem at the university either. Trowa could complete his hours for the week sometime later. It wasn't his fault that he was sick.
When she came back, Trowa was sleeping like a baby. She smiled at the sight. She closed the door and left quietly, she had to get some stuff from the management and she could work on it in Trowa's room. He wouldn't mind, if she used his table. She was not going to let him be alone when he was sick.
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Heero was having the worst possible day of his life.
"It was better when I self-detonated," he mumbled to himself. He was trying hard not to fall asleep. How in this whole wide world had he caught something like that. And that stupid professor of theirs was bent on making his life hell. He and Duo were always picked on.
Their professor had just cracked a joke (which targeted Heero).
"I swear if this goes on for a moment longer, I'm gonna shoot his brains out," Heero mumbled so that only Duo could hear him.
"Calm down bud."
"I told ya, you shouldn't have come today," Duo told Heero as they were walking out of the classroom.
"you never told me that."
"Yeah, sorry. But I'm telling you now. Go home."
Heero *Glares at Duo. Trying to burn a hole through his head*
"Hey are you okay?"
Great! Just Great! Another person to bother him. He recognised the voice. It was Jade. Where did she come from? She wasn't even supposed to be here.
He only glared at her.
"Aren't you supposed to be at work?" Duo asked her.
"Yeah, I took a day off."
"Why? And what are you doing here?" Heero asked her.
"Just came to collect some stuff from the management," She answered.
They heard some girls squeal in the background and Heero groaned, the high pitched sound assaulting his sensitive hearing.
"What's up with you guys being sick and all?" she asked Heero and Duo. They always sat together.
Duo just shrugged and Heero just walked away.
"What do you mean by, "you guys"?" Duo asked her. It was like he had only just assimilated what Jade had said earlier.
"Yeah, Trowa isn't here."
"Why what happened?"
"He's sick. Had a bad headache, was all cranky and stuff and he fainted," she told him.
"Fainted?"
"Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Heero fainted, too. He is showing the same symptoms."
"Hn. Wouldn't be the first time," Duo said.
"Well, anyways. I should go back now."
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When Trowa woke up, he was feeling a bit better. She turned around to get a glass of water that he kept on his table. He was greeted by a sight that made him smile slightly.
Jade was sitting at his table, or rather sleeping at his table. She had her laptop on and had her head in front of the keyboard. The glass was on the other side, i.e. farther away from Trowa.
He just extended his arm and took the bottle of water and the glass. That movement seemed to wake her up.
"How are you feeling?" She asked him through half closed lids.
"Better but still feel like shit," He said in a hoarse voice.
"She took the bottle from him and poured him a glass of water.
"Thanks," he said accepting the glass.
"For what?" She asked him with a bewildered expression.
"For everything," He said after downing his glass of water.
"Hey! I couldn't have you ruin this place or end up hurting yourself," She said in a mock-protest.
He smiled.
"You should sleep. I'll go make some soup. I'll wake you up when I'm done."
He nodded. It was too much effort to speak.
She got up and left. The laptop was still on. He had this curious urge to go and look at what she had in there. He shifted towards his table and took the laptop in his lap.
"Put it back Trowa," came her voice from the kitchen.
He stiffened, but still did not out it back.
"Trowa, I said put it back and you are supposed to be resting," she said again.
This time though he put it back and turned the screen away from him.
How the hell did she know he was handling her laptop? Did she have some sort of a connection with it or what?
"Soup's up," She said as she carried two bowls of steaming hot soup into the room.
She handed him a bowl and took the other one for herself. She put down her bowl and warned him that the soup was hot while shutting down her precious. (i.e. her laptop).
"How did you know?" He asked after a while.
"You make a lot of noise," She told him.
He smirked at that. She could have well been one of them, but then again, she already was accepted as one of them.
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Heero was dead tired and by dead tired, I mean DEAD tired. He came back to his room halfway through the morning. He couldn't take it anymore. He slipped back into his PJs and decided to take a nap.
"Better take some more of that stuff before I sleep," he said to himself. The medication had taken care of his pain, but he still felt like shit.
He went to the kitchen, grabbed some yoghurt, finished it off and proceeded to the medicine cabinet. He told four of the pills again and went to his room to take the said nap.
He was feeling tired and drowsy, but some how he couldn't sleep. He was just too miserable.
Just when he was dozing off, he heard a slight knock on the door.
Who the hell was it now? He got up groggily out of bed and made his way to the door. He noticed that he was feeling dizzy.
He opened the door. Relena was standing there. You can imagine the shock on his face on seeing her there.
"What are you doing here?" He asked her.
"Can't I just come and see you?" She asked, a little bit hurt by his manner.
"Hn." That was when she saw him stagger a bit
"Are you okay?" she asked, her voice full of concern.
"Yeah, I'm…" and *thump*. He just slid to the floor.
The door clicked open just as Relena cradled his head in her lap.
"Yeah, just as I thought. He fainted, too," Jade said from the door.
"I guess, he is sick and being the idiot he is, he won't even admit it," Relena said with a slight smile.
"Trowa fainted in the morning and I told Duo that Heero didn't look too good either," Jade said helping Relena put Heero back in his bed.
"This is the third time that I have seen him like this. Second time that he actually fainted on me," Relena told Jade with a fond look on her face. She was looking at Heero.
"Hn. And here I was thinking that fainting was only a girls thing."
"Call me if you need any help, right next door," Jade told Relena.
"Thanks for your help. I'll just go and check on him before I leave," Relena said glancing back at the door.
After Jade left, Relena went back in to check on Heero.
"So I fainted on you for the second time?" He asked through closed eyes, when she went and sat by his side.
"You were not supposed to be listening," She told him. "Now hush."
"I'm sorry. My fault," Heero said opening his eyes, just a slit. She looked like an angel to him just sitting there.
"No. Not your fault, you just caught some bug. Trowa's sick too."
"I heard."
"You are supposed to be sleeping," She reminded him and started to get up, when he caught her hand and pulled her back down.
"Kiss me goodnight," he said, now looking straight into her eyes.
She just smiled. "Okay."
She tucked him in and kissed him on the forehead, like he was some baby that she was putting to bed. "Good night Heero," She whispered.
"No, Not like this."
"Then how?" she asked confused.
He pulled her down again and pressed his lips firmly against hers.
"Like this," He said after he pulled back. "Good night Relena."
She was in shock. Duo barging right in brought her back to reality and a slight blush tainted her cheeks.
"Shhhh. He's sleeping," She told Duo.
"Oh! Sorry," Duo said apologetically, though his eyes were dancing. Relena saw this.
"It's not what you think Duo," She said quietly.
"Sure, sure."
"Hmmm. Good night Heero." And with that she closed the door and left.
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A/N: So people. How do you like this chapter? Its longer than the previous ones. And since I was on Christmas break, I could actually think. Personally, I like this chapter.
I also have a few questions for you guys.
1) Which zodiac sign do you think the Gundam pilots belong too? (individuals, of course)
2)What is Jade's Zodiac/Sunsign? (What do you think?)
I'll be posting the results that I get via the reviews in the upcoming chapters. Hope you enjoyed reading it and I won't mind a few pointers, suggestions, anything.
If you think I'm wasting my time, please tell me so. ^_^
Please review. Love you all.
Ja ne,
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