A Shot at Normalcy: University Life
Disclaimer: - How many times exactly do u need me to say that I do not own Gundam Wing?
For everyone who is still keeping up with this fic of mine:
Sorry for the extreme delay in updating. I have been extremely busy and I did not receive very many reviews for the last chapter. No reviews, no encouragement, no quick chapters. Anyhow…Since no one seems interested in this story of mine. I have decided to update it as and when I like it ^__^
Chapter 18: Hmmmm…..
"So what did you people talk about?"
"You should have waited if you wanted to know so bad."
"Hey! Cool it. I was just curious."
"I know.... we…"
"You people didn't eat. Never mind. Breakfast is taken care of."
She closed the fridge door and stood by the kitchen window. Just looking out at the grounds; looking at the place where she had been standing a while ago.
Trowa watched her from the kitchen door. She seemed a bit distressed since she came back. She hadn't noticed that he wanted to say something, but had gone on talking all by herself and was all quiet like alone. She seemed preoccupied. Something was bothering her.
He walked up behind her. She barely reached up to his chin. He put a hand on her shoulder and it startled her. Hmmm. That was new. Very few things startled her.
"You scared me there," she said in a breathy whisper that sent pleasant shivers up his spine and resumed her prior position.
"What's bothering you?" he asked her in a low voice.
"Long story…really long story."
"I have the night to spare."
"Sometime later. Don't feel like it." And then she turned and leaned against the counter and put her hand on his shoulder and asked him, "Soooo…what did you talk about?"
He was momentarily stunned by her actions. She was so close and her lips were moving. She was saying something and she was moving closer. He was frozen to the spot. She was hugging him. And she whispered something in his ear, slid out from between the counter and him and went to her room. He just watched her in a dazed state. She had never acted like that before. Not that he minded.
He followed her into her room.
"You were saying something."
"Yes…I was asking you when you were going to tell me what you people talked about. But you were too preoccupied." She said it with extra stress on the word "preoccupied".
"We talked about the kidnappings. Girls that have gone missing. Be careful." And with that he walked back out.
She followed him back out. The look on her face darkening.
"Since when?"
"Past week. Both of them new."
She abruptly sat down on the couch, a look of horror on her face. Trowa immediately went to her and knelt down beside her. Very few things shook her up like that.
"Are you okay?" He asked her. 'There is something here that she is not telling me,' he thought.
She was still trembling. He put his hands on her knees and she jumped, for the second time that day. She looked at him and hugged him as though her life depended on it. This time he hugged back and tried comforting her. It was hard for him, him being the apathetic person that he was. She still had him in the hug when she whispered in his ear. This time he heard what she said.
"Those girls…they are not coming back…I'm so sorry."
"How do you know?" he asked her after pulling back from the death hug that she had him in. Now he was sure that she was definitely not telling him the whole story.
"How do you know?" he asked her again.
"I have this feeling…I just know," she told him.
'I might also know who the kidnapper might be…I thought you had left me forever…why did you come back…why?' she thought.
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"So are you going to follow me all day?"
"No. Just between classes."
"I can take care of myself, Heero."
"This attitude makes it easier for the kidnapper."
"Nothing is going to happen to me. I am with so many other people."
"The other girls were not alone either."
"Do you ever listen?!?" Relena said in an exasperated tone.
"Hn."
"Now what did I do?" She asked again. When Heero slipped back into his old habit of not using words to answer meant that she had done something wrong or something along those lines.
"Nothing."
"Good."
'I don't think I will ever understand the ladies,' he thought.
They walked in silence; Relena refusing to speak with him and Heero following nevertheless. It was Relena who broke the silence.
"You can go now. It is just at the end of the corridor."
He remained where he was and answer in a monotone.
"I know"
He was still standing there.
She looked at him for a while and then told him again.
"If you know, then go. Leave me alone."
"Okay."
He seemed hurt.
"O Heero! I did not mean it to be so harsh. It's just…"
"Just what?"
"It's just that I want to be independent. I can take care of myself. Trust me. Try to understand. Please?"
"No."
"Why are you so stubborn?" and she stomped off. He just watched her till she entered the classroom, but he did not follow her.
Relena smiled when she entered the classroom. He hadn't followed her. Even when he said "no".
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"You seem unusually quiet today," Quatre said to Trowa.
"Just thinking."
"About what?"
"Jade."
"What happened now?"
"She knows something."
"About what?"
"About those kidnappings, " he said as though it was obvious.
"So…?"
"She won't tell what."
"Oh…" He said as though it all made sense now.
Trowa just looked at him with ice cold eyes.
Quatre just smiled back.
"You should try some pick up lines buddy." Chimed in a voice from behind. We all know who that is.. ^_^
"Huh?"
"We all know you like her, maybe even love her."
"Yeah and your point being…?"
"Go propose dumb idiot…use some of the pickup lines that you know."
"…."
"….umm Duo. It's Trowa we are talking about," Quatre whispered to Duo.
"Oh don't worry!" and then he turned to Trowa, "I'll coach you."
(A/N: *Shudders at the thought of Duo coaching Trowa on how to pick up girls*)
Trowa just stared at him with a blank expression.
"Stand up"
Trowa stood up and Quatre stepped back to watch the drama unfold in front of him.
"Okay! Now think of me as Jade…" Duo said to Trowa and turned his back towards him.
Trowa just stood there with a blank face.
"Common, get me to go out with you. Tell me how much you love me…"
"But I don't love you," Trowa said in the same blank manner.
'Man, he sure can be dumb sometimes,' Quatre thought.
"OohKay~~~", said Duo as he turned around, his braid whipping around.
"Let's just say…I'm you and you are Jade."
Duo started walking towards Trowa and Trowa started backing off.
"…Duo? Are you gay?"
Duo, Trowa and Quatre, all three of them sweat dropped and turned to see Jade standing there.
"Hehehe…Not really, No." Duo said, still sweat dropping.
"Then why did it look like you were hitting on Trowa?" she asked, still confused.
Duo looked visibly disturbed while Trowa was smiling and Quatre could barely contain his laughter.
"That's a story for another time, Jade. Let's go Duo," said Quatre in between laughs, coming to Duo's rescue.
Duo was more than happy to leave.
"Yeah...Care to tell me what was going on there?"
"No…Not really." Trowa said looking at her. She was looking at the retreating figures of Duo and Quatre.
"Fine then," she said with a pout.
"Don't do that."
"Do what?" She asked surprised. As far as she knew, she hadn't done anything.
"Don't pout like that."
"Why?" She asked defiantly, pouting again, this time with her arms crossed.
"You don't want to know…" She really didn't want to know.
She watched him walk away from her.
'Idiot…Do you think, I have no clue as to how you are feeling?' she thought before following him
"Okay, I won't do it. I actually came to talk to you."
"Yes?"
"You seemed pissed this morning…why?"
"Because of you."
"Because of me?"
"You know something about those two girls that you are not telling me." He said, all business now.
"Yes, I do…I think…I am not sure…I cannot tell you anything until I'm sure."
"Can you not tell me anything?" He asked, his eyes all mellow.
"No, please…I'm sorry," Her voice only a whisper now. Whatever it was seemed to be causing her pain. He put an arm around her shoulders and bent down to whisper in her ear.
"You can tell me when you are ready. I need to know."
"I know you do…but…"
"Trowa, you need to see this."
Trowa and Jade both looked up to see Heero standing in front of them.
"You can come too, Jade."
"You had better come, Jade." Trowa said.
Heero just raised a questioning eyebrow at Trowa.
"She knows something we don't."
"oh!"
"Don't even ask her. she won't tell."
"Don't talk about me as if I am not here." Jade said from behind them, annoyance evident in her voice.
Both Trowa and Heero sweat dropped.
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"They found one of the missing girls," Heero told Trowa.
"Dead or alive?"
"Barely alive. She seems traumatised."
"Did they identify her?"
"Yes, they identified her as Middi Une."
'Middi Une…'
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A/N: Bleh! Hopefully the next chapter will be up soon. Just trying to sort out my ideas here. I have too many of them. It's kinda hard to figure out what comes after what. And thanks to whoever who reviewed. ^__^