9: Feburary third 198 II
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Tap-tap-tap-tapy-tap-tap......
The sound of endless tapping against a keyboard echoed in a large storage room, underneath the stairs that led into this room lay Jin who sat on a crate with a portable laptop smaller than Heero's. His onyx blue eyes were squinted obviously annoyed by the only light in the room as they scanned the screen absorbing everything it read.
Jin rested his back upon the cold tile wall Jin was unaffected by the cold, he had gotten use to it during his time drifting in and out of consciousness while floating in space though he remembered very little from that time.
He brushed his bangs away from his eyes as he continued to read the document on the Organization of the Zodiac and Romafeller's top notch colonels and officers speed reading memorizing every word as he scrolled down further when something caught his eye.
Going back up Jin began to read the information during the Vergo mobile doll production on the four prisoners former OZ colonel Lady Une had captured to test on the new mobile suits Mercurius and Veyaete. His eyes scanned across the screen intently absorbing what information he could when something else caught his gaze.
......Ah.......!
Jin eyes brightened shinning like the reflection of light against his stainless steel cross; [Wing Zero gundam currently located at the Corsica base]. A grin appeared on his face as he shoved his hand into his jacket pocket revealing a disk, he pressed a button on the side of his laptop and a disk holder revealed itself.
Jin hastily placed the disk onto the platform and pushed it back inside, he stared back up at the screen noticing the warning downloading now please do not remove disk or shutdown computer. "This was easier than I thought," He grumbled rubbing his cold hands together to generate some heat.
The warning vanished and a happy winking face appeared indicating it was safe to remove the disk from inside, the download was successful, Jin reached down and opened the disk holder and removed the disk from the platform before reaching into his pocket pulling out a case. He placed the disk inside and placed it back into his jacket pocket for safe measure.
Jin rose from his place in a crouched position removing his wire connection from the jack and placed the laptop behind the crate he was sitting on against the wall, swiftly he bolted from his spot running silently up the stairs with a prideful smirk on his face.
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Heero smirked as he closed his laptop returning to a conversation he had no be holding with Duo. The braided pilot seemed to have noticed Heero was not listening to him because his mouth was closed and his coalbolt eye were staring at the back of Heero's laptop until it had closed. Heero looked up at his partner with an inquiring look on his face.
Duo leaned forward against the table with an annoyed expression, the five gundam pilots decided to take spend their one hour with eachother discussing their mission in the lounge, which is what Duo was talking to Heero about until he figured out the Japanese teenager was not listening to a word he had said to him.
"What?" Heero dared to ask. Duo rolled his eyes falling back against the back of his chair with his arms behind his head, Heero was now confused. "You could have at least said you didn't wanna talk instead of ignoring me the entire time I was doing so!" Duo barked under his breath throwing his head back to stare up at the ceiling. Heero pursed his lips in amusement before placing his laptop to the side to eat the cheese pizza that resided in the middle of the table that Duo had ordered for them.
"Sorry about that, I forgot you were talking," He lied biting into his pizza. Duo sighed waving a hand at his friend knowing his was lying through his teeth Heero was never good at lying to him and he wasn't getting any better. "Sure you are," He grumbled before noticing a small figure come running into the lounge. He turned his gaze toward Jin who appeared to be in high spirits. Duo grinned a silly grin waving to the young man before picking up a slice of pizza for himself.
Jin gave them a quick nod in response sitting himself down at the circular table staring only at the pizza. "So, where'd you go kid?" Duo asked with a mouth full of food. Jin grimaced at the simple question wracking his brain for an excuse that wouldn't sound like too much of a lie but just as convincing as the truth which was hard for him to do. "I wanted to see more of the building," Jin replied halfheartedly. "I felt the need to explore without the hindrance of a chaperone."
A lump formed in Heero's throat, he felt as though the word 'chaperone' was directed straight at him instead of no one in particular or Duo. Duo rolled his eyes shoving the last bite of his pizza and crush into his mouth chewing vigorously as his stomach begged for more pizza. He burped in the midst of his chewing releasing a fowl smell into the air, Heero did his best to ignore the smell keeping his face impassive and fighting the urge to place his shirt over his mouth and nose.
"[Cough] is that so?" Heero grumbled rubbing his eyes. Jin nodded fervently grabbing the last peice of pizza, he placed the bottom into his mouth skinning his teeth into the soft sauce and cheese covered dough with a smile before he began chewing it separating it from the rest of the pizza.
Duo whipped his face clean of any food with napkin crumbling the use tissue into a ball he turned around in his seat and fired the balled napkin into the air watching as it sailed toward the trash-can when a hand reached out and grabbed it in midair.
Duo groaned slouching his shoulders as he watched Trowa drop the balled napkin into the trash his free throw was ruined. "I do believe your supposed to get up and place your trash into the trash can correctly Duo," He said calmly in his usual tone of voice but with a hint of laughter following.
Duo frowned throwing his hands into the air leaning against the back of his chair once again. "Killjoy," He grumbled. Trowa simply smiled returning his attention back to afternoon sky. Jin was beginning to feel uncomfortable under Heero pricing gaze; it was as if he knew something he didn't. Unless.....!
Jin hastily rose from his chair with a nervous smile as he moved away from the chair giving him enough room for an escape plan. "Wow, look at the time. I think I'll go to the bathroom now, yeah that's what'll do! Go to the bathroom....yeah!" Jin rambled walking robotically toward the lounge exit when heard Heero's doom impending voice. "I think I'll follow," Heero piped up rising from his chair.
The four gudam pilots gave him a strange look; what was Heero up to, following Jin to the bathroom? "Errr... He-ma--- I mean, Heero don't you think the kid needs some privacy? I mean its' the bathroom after all," Duo grumbled, his cheeks were flushed at the entire subject on the restroom issue. Heero scowled at the braided teenager.
"He probably doesn't know where the restroom is baka, I was going to show him the way not watch him! Get your head out of the gutter," He snapped irritably. A sweatdrop appeared above Quatre, Wufei and Trowa's heads as he fought to clear their minds of the horrible image their minds conjured up. Duo felt like a complete idiot.
"Heheheh. Gomen Nesai, Heero," He said nervously with his hands up in defense. Heero grumbled under his breath grabbing Jin by the collar dragging him out of the lounge ignoring his shouts of protests. Duo blinked in bewilderment staring at the space Heero once stood.
Jin fought against Heero's grip as he dragged him toward the bathroom, a place where he did not want to go at the present moment. He was hoping Heero would not say anything and let him leave the lounge with no problems, but his hopes were shot down in that single moment the second Heero stood from his place.
His onyx blue eyes stared at the Japanese teenager with resentment while his mind fought endlessly to come up with an escape flawless plan but from what he had read up on Heero in the OZ database that happened to be floating around on the net undetected by anyone he felt there was little or no chance of his escaping from the perfect soldier.
Heero stopped in front of the restroom door for a brief moment grabbing the door knob but keeping a firm grip on Jin's collar as he turned the knob and pushed the door open dragging Jin inside with him. He released Jin from his grasp sending him stumbling across the restroom floor the 11-year-old grabbed the edge of the sink catching himself from a possible fall.
Jin couldn't shake the feeling of uneasiness did not leave him as Heero neared him with his trademark glare. "Wh-what?" Jin stuttered in fear. Heero stopped in mid-step his hands were balled into fists his arms close beside him his eyes showed the determination that radiated off of him giving Jin the uneasy feel that wrapped itself around him Heero blinked at Jin before speaking.
"I know what your up to Jin," He stated firmly. Jin swallowed wincing at the pinching of his dry throat. "I don't know what your talking about, Heero," He said mimicking Heero's expression. Jin fought the urge to swallow again as he folded his arms across his chest hardening his resolve hoping he would not crack under the Japanese preventers gaze.
Heero's glare deepened as he reached into the inside of jacket pulling out a CD concealed in a case, Jin's face faltered in to a shocked expression his hand patted his left jacket pocket nervously as fear captured his heart as he peered into his pocket that was now empty. He looked up at Heero enraged.
"It was easy to be honest, you should learn to zip your pocket and make sure there isn't another hacker using a jack connected to yours," Heero explained bluntly staring at the disk. "Your hacking skills are sloppy to say the least. I won't mention your other skills you need to improve on." He paused, Jin was scooting against the skin toward the door. "Who do you work for, Jin?"
Jin snorted turning his head away from Heero closing his eyes so he wouldn't have to look at him. "I'm just a kid. A worthless child abandoned by his parents. I work for no one," He replied darkly turning his gaze toward him. Heero's frown lessened but his glare remained the same. "Your a lousy lair," Heero snapped surprising Jin out of his present position just as he slipped his hand into his right jacket pocket.
Jin smirked devilishly, as he slid toward the door Heero made his way over toward him when the unruly braided boy revealed an object that looked liked a grenade. "Maybe I am, you'll never know!" He cried pulling the pen out from the grenade and threw it toward Heero with a sadistic grin.
Heero's Prussian blue eyes widened in horror as the grenade spun in midair toward, he jumped to the ground sliding across the cold tile floor stopping underneath the sink just as the grenade hit the ground releasing a thick smoke into the air fill the entire bathroom area. Jin did not bother to search for the Heero amongst the smoke screen instead he rushed toward the door shoulder first the door swung open violently and Jin came stumbling out surprising a majority of preventers in the hall way.
Several of them leaped backward as the smoke came rolling out of bathroom entrance puzzled and confused but the sneaking suspicion that the boy had came out of the bathroom had something to do with it hung heavy in their minds.
Jin climbed off of the ground in a hurry rushing past the huge crowd in hopes that he would find the exit and quick transportation. He whipped the sweat from his brow as he headed toward the parking lot where he believed the vehicles resided.
Heero came stumbling out of the bathroom choking on a fair amount of smoke as he tried to ease the stinging pain in his eyes caused by the smoke when he futility tried to pinpoint Jin's location.
The Japanese preventer fell to his knees now as his body shook violently with uncontrollable coughing fits his hands balled into fists as he felt his anger reaching the breaking point his lungs burned furiously for fresh air and he was beginning feel a bit light headed.
Heero sluggishly climbed to his feet blindly searching for something to cling onto when his legs gave way beneath him and he began to pitch forward when he was caught in mid-fall. "Heero, are you okay?! Where's Jin?!" Heero recognized the voice as Duo's. He shook his head pulling himself up in an upright position with help of Duo's upper body strength letting out a ragged sigh.
Duo wrapped an arm around Heero's waist as he began to move to a less populated area near a bench not too far away from the bathroom but it was a decent enough distance away from the smoke, he placed the bewildered onto the bench before sitting next to him before he spoke.
"Now tell me what happened----," Duo however was cut off in mid-sentence when Heero shoved him away from him. "Go after Jin! He's helping the rebels!" He shouted. Duo stayed where he was he folded his arms across his chest his comforting expression had faltered replaced with a slightly angry one. "What do you mean he's helping the rebels?" Duo exclaimed suddenly placing his foot on the edge of the bench. His boot left a black scuff mark in its wake.
Heero began to speak but he was bombarded by an another coughing fit, he placed one of his hands upon his head Duo sighed unfolding his arms not really caring what Heero had to say, right now he was more worried about his well-being than his explanation of his sudden outburst concerning Jin.
Moving forward Duo grasped Heero's left arm with his right hand carefully flinging his arm over his shoulder while in the process of lifting him from the bench. Heero was too tired to protest against Duo's helpful hand he did his best to hold himself up so there wasn't too much weight against the braided preventer. He could only follow Duo as he began to head toward Sally's office.
"Look we'll talk about this later, right now we've gotta get you some help before you start seeing pink Elephants, hmm?" Duo grumbled tiredly yawning. Heero merely grunted in agreement seriously doubting he would even begin to see Elephants of any kind or any color as he followed Duo unwillingly.
[Authors note: Not too exciting chapter. I'm am sooo sorry for taking forever to update this. I've been so tired lately and I keep getting kicked off the computer. I hope you all like it. It'll get better soon. I promise! Sakura123~]