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Chapter 4
The Meaning Of Hate
Ian glared at Trinity and took a seat in front of the two connected computers. His trained fingers also flew over the keyboard with accuracy. He did a search on 'Trinity Yuy-Maxwell' and came up with nothing. Glancing at the girl no the table, he noticed her examining her finger nails with boredom clearly etched in her expression. Ian growled and increased his efforts tenfold. He hacked into the preventer's computer system and did another search on 'Trinity Yuy-Maxwell'. This time, he had some results. He chose one of the links and clicked on it.
"Password Please" the computer beeped at him. Right. He could do this. Typing in a few codes, he tried to work around the password.
"Beep Beep" The computer rebooted.
Ian sighed with relief. When you do something right, the computer beeps. And it reboots. He'd done this a million times before, why had he been so worried? Trinity's sureness of herself? Possibly. He chanced another glance at the girl. She was now looking over her shoulder at the screen, no expression on her face.
"I'm in." He said.
Trinity looked at him. Her eyes betraying her feelings. They simply screamed "sure sure". Ian tensed. What if this was what he was supposed to think. That he had gotten past the first password. When really, it was just a cover up. "nonononono" his mind was screaming at him.
The computer finished booting up, and Ian logged into the file again. He chose the same link, and was surprised to see that the first password was taken care of. He rapidly repeated the process that he'd just done, and the computer beeped and rebooted again. Now Ian was confused. He glanced again at Trinity. She was leaning on her hands, which were propped behind her on the desk, and her head was leaning back. Her eyes were closed, and she definitely looked as if she had better things to be doing.
The computer finished loading again, and Ian dealt with the third password in the same fashion in which he had dealt with the first two. The computer rebooted.
He waited, staring anxiously at the screen. The preventer information accounts were only allowed to have three entry passwords. The computer finished loading. Ian logged onto the preventer site and hacked into the information files once again. Trinity now was watching as well. She was sitting cross legged on the desk top, watching the screen, then turning to glance at him. Ian was definitely sensing that something was wrong. She was too calm.
Trinity cleared her throat. "Maybe I should have warned you…"
Her sentence was cut off by a loud screeching sound coming from the computer. It didn't stop. The computer was frozen in this awful sound. Ian tapped away at the keys. Nothing. He clicked the mouse. Nothing.
Trinity sighed, and got off the table. "move." She said, her voice straining to be heard over the noise coming from the computer.
Ian obeyed. There was nothing else he could do. The power switch hadn't worked. Trinity took his place at the computer desk and her fingers flew over the keys. After a moment or so, the screeching stopped. Trinity turned the swivel chair in Ian's direction and then stood. "told you so." She said, brushing past him and heading once again for Deathscythe.
She turned half way there, and cleared her throat, bringing Ian from his thoughts. "Maybe I should have warned you, that neither of my dads were able to hack into my files."
Ian watched her leave. His blood was rushing to his head in anger. He sat once again at the computer. Hacking into the preventer files, he decided that instead of trying to work around the password, he'd try to guess at the password. Choosing something that seemed logical, yet not too easy to guess, he typed in the word "family". The computer asked for a second password. Amazed that he'd gotten it first try, his second guess was "Heero Yuy". The computer asked for a third password. Ian typed in "Duo Maxwell". The files opened. Except, instead of information on Trinity, there was a list of websites. At the top of the list was a text. It read:
If you are reading this, I suggest you turn off your computer now. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Trinity
Ian chose to ignore this remark, deciding that it was just to scare people off. He chose one of the links and positioned the mouse above one of the web urls. However, before he had time to click, the screen flashed violet, and stayed that way. In the middle there was another text, written in a darker shade of purple. It read:
You were warned. Never try to invade on my files *ever* again.
Then the awful screeching sound started up again. The power button didn't work, neither did the reboot. He typed. Nothing. He clicked. Nothing.
Then Trinity was beside him, telling him once again to get out of the way. "move." He obeyed once again, and she typed away for another few minutes. The sound stopped, and the page with the links returned. Trinity hurriedly turned off the computer.
Then she turned to face Ian. "Why on earth didn't you listen to the warning?" She demanded. She spun around again, and unhooked her laptop. Pushing a few buttons, the doorway above opened again. Trinity sighed and made her way to the steps. "When that door closes, I can guarantee you I won't be happy if you're still inside." She then headed up the stairs.
*~*
When Trinity reached her room, Duo was sitting on her bed waiting for her.
She placed her laptop on the desk. "Hey dad."
Duo frowned. "Where were you?" he asked.
Trinity didn't look at him. "In the hangar."
"Why were you down there?" Duo was sitting on Trinity's bed. She obviously had done something to upset herself in the hangar, and he wanted to know what it was.
Trinity kept her eyes on the ground. "I went to see Deathscythe." She said.
Duo frowned again. "And…"
"Ian was there."
Duo sighed. "Continue."
Trinity started pacing the room, but stopped abruptly at the pain it caused. Duo noticed her wince, and he got off the bed. "Sit." He said.
Trinity obeyed.
"Talk."
"Well, he was there, and he wouldn't tell me why. So I started hacking into his files."
"With him standing right there"
Trinity nodded. "So, then I suggested that he should get some better security."
Duo sighed again and shook his head. "And I guess you egged him into trying to get through to your files."
Trinity looked up at her ceiling. "Of course."
"And I take it he didn't get through."
Trinity looked at her father. "You and Heero couldn't get through. As if that loser would be able to."
Duo shook his head once again. "You're messing up your partnership." He said.
Trinity looked back up at the ceiling. "Do I look like I give a damn?"
Duo glared at his daughter. "You should. For the sake of your job, please try to cut the guy a little slack. I mean, nobody's perfect. And you're going to get yourself and him in trouble."
Trinity didn't say anything, although both of her wounds had decided to start throbbing again. "I've got to get back to sleep dad." she said.
Duo nodded. "I know you do. Here, take this." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle. He unscrewed the cap and got one of the tablets out, and passed it to his daughter.
Trinity took it and swallowed it, then got back underneath her covers. "I wonder if Quatre, Trowa and Wufei are here." She said. "You and Heero would probably like to see your old friends again, huh?"
Duo smiled. Trinity was always thinking of other people, no matter how many problems she had. "Maybe." He said, reaching down and brushing a stray hair out of Trinity's face. "Now try to get some sleep."
Trinity nodded, already half gone.
Duo smiled again before leaving the room and shutting the door softly behind him. A pair of arms wrapped themselves around his waist. Recognizing the touch, Duo leant back into the other man's arms.
"She'll figure things out." A voice said gently in his ear. Duo shivered from the effects of the warm breath.
"I know she will, Hee-chan." Duo replied as he was led back to his room.
*~*
Within two weeks, Trinity was back at school. She hadn't had any more run ins with Ian, although Nate had dropped by once with a message from the preventer's headquarters. Trinity had noticed the lack of feeling in the boy's actions, and she'd decided to do something about it. If anyone would learn how to hack into her files, it was definitely going to be Nathan Winner-Barton. He reminded her slightly of her short haired father.
Once again, the girl sighed as she headed down the familiar hallways of the school. The only difference was, that now people seemed to notice her. She was known as the 'girl who had dodged two bullets'. She noticed Ian to the side, leaning against one of the lockers. He was surrounded by girls. "oh, he has a fan club." Trinity thought icily as she passed him without a second glance. She had noticed Nate standing off to one side, completely alone, laptop in hand. It appeared that Ian was ignoring him.
Trinity felt a twang of hate towards the raven haired boy. "hm, not an unfamiliar feeling" She mused. How could he just leave his friend like that? So, Trinity headed over to Nate, grabbed his hand and pulled him with her to her locker so she could ditch her extra books.
"What are you doing?" The semi blond asked.
Trinity grinned. "Being annoying, what else?"
His expression remained emotionless as he let Trinity lead him down the halls to her locker. She dropped his hand upon arrival at the metal rectangle, and she fumbled with her lock. Kicking her locker, it popped open, and Trinity set her bag and discman inside. She grabbed her physics book, and locked her locker again.
"Grade 12 physics?" Nate asked.
Trinity nodded. "I was hoping to learn something, and the homework kept me busy while I was at home.
Nate followed the girl as she headed to her classroom. "hoping to learn something?" he thought about this for a moment, and decided to make a file about his partner as soon as he had the chance. He would need some information about her in order for them to be able to cooperate properly.
As if sensing his thoughts, Trinity stopped him as he turned to leave when they reached the classroom. "Um, Nate, I need to tell you something." She said, pulling him inside the deserted room.
Nate followed and stood, waiting for Trinity to place her books on her desk.
"Alright, I hacked into some of your files the other day, you know, looking for info and stuff, and it didn't mention anything about Sandrock or Heavyarms. Do you know how to pilot a gundam?" She asked.
Nate contemplated the question for a moment, trying to figure out if he should reveal the information. After a minute he nodded his head slowly. "Although no one else knows. I didn't tell Sally Po."
Trinity's expression turned thoughtful. Sally Po was the Lieutenant in charge of their division of preventers. "Alright." She said. Nate turned to leave, but Trinity wasn't finished with him yet. "wait a sec." she said.
Nate stopped, hand on the doorknob. "yes?" He asked.
"If you were planning on hacking into my files, you might want me in the same room with you. Don't ask me for an explanation though, I'd turn to Ian for that."
Nate nodded, and left the class. Zechs entered soon after.
Upon noticing Trinity in the room, Zechs smiled.
"Nice to see you back, Trinity." He said.
"Glad somebody noticed." Trinity murmured, attention mostly on her laptop.
"The whole student body has been talking about you." Zechs said. "I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who's noticed your return."
Their conversation was cut short as other students started filing into the room, and with them came the happy chatter of normal teenagers. Trinity tried to keep her attention on her laptop, but found it extremely hard with all this noise, and mentions of 'guns' and 'bullets' kept reaching her ears.
Trinity blocked out the noise, and focused on her report. However, someone had different plans for the braided girl.
"How come you never wear your hair out, sweetheart?" came a voice in her ear.
Trinity's first instinct was to punch the guy's lights out. She calmed herself, deciding that she much preferred to be invisible. She turned her attention to the guy that was sitting beside her. Their tables were fashioned to sit two people comfortably, but this situation was definitely not comfortable for a certain gundam pilot.
"How bout you come to the dance with me Friday, huh?" The guy asked.
Trinity shook her head. "No thanks."
"Awww…how come?" he asked.
Trinity looked him up and down, taking in his size. He was heavily built, with dark brown hair, and amber coloured eyes. "I don't know you name." She said.
The guy grinned. "It's Andrew. So now you can come with me."
Trinity sniffed. There was a familiar smell reaching her nostrils. "alcohol." She thought. The smell was familiar because her parents sometimes just needed to forget. She couldn't blame them either. With the memories they had…
"No, I still don't think so." She politely refused.
The guy frowned. "Why not sweetheart?"
Trinity thought fast. Then Ian entered the room. "What's he doing in here?" She thought. He made his way over to Zechs, and handed him a sheet of paper. "A message for Marquise? Why wasn't I assigned to give it to him?" She watched as the two exchanged a few words, then Ian made his way over to one of the desks.
"Hey, are you listening to me?"
Trinity was snapped from her thoughts. She turned back to Andrew. "Um, sorry, I kinda blanked out for a minute there, what were you saying?"
"I was saying that you have no real reason to not come with me."
Trinity had a feeling that this was going to get ugly.
"Hey, Trin!"
Trinity recognized the voice. Ian was making his way over to where she and Andrew were sitting. Her eyes narrowed, and Andrew stood.
"Why didn't you just say you had a boyfriend?" He spat out, and headed over to the group of guys that were chatting on the other side of the room.
Trinity growled and narrowed her eyes. "This is not good." She thought.
Ian ended up at Trinity's desk to find the girl typing away furiously at her laptop. He received an unhappy "don't call me 'Trin'." From the braided girl. Ian chose to ignore the tone of this remark, and sat himself beside Trinity.
"How come?" He asked. "It suits you."
"I don't care if it suits me. Duo is the only one that ever calls me Trin. Understood? Good." Trinity glared at the computer screen.
Ian sighed. "Look, I wanted to talk to you."
"About what?" Trinity growled.
"I wanted to apologize." He said.
Trinity looked at him, snorted, and turned back to the machine on her desk. "You really like your job, don't you."
Ian felt his anger flaring up again, but he quickly pushed it back down. "I mean it Trinity. I don't want us to hate each other when we have to work together."
Trinity chose to ignore this, and turned her icy eyes on the boy beside her. "What are you doing in my physics class?" She demanded.
"Your physics class? Right. Our physics class you mean."
Trinity moaned. She'd been afraid of that. "Fine then. But don't expect me to actually enjoy your presence or anything."
"Now why would you want to do something stupid like that?" Ian mumbled to himself. He'd apologized. It wasn't his fault that their missions were going to get totally screwed up now. Suddenly, his laptop beeped. He pulled it out and opened it just as Trinity was putting hers away.
"I'm on call. I'll be back in half an hour." She said, before standing and heading to notify Zechs that she was leaving.
Ian nodded, and flicked on his laptop. The beep had notified him of an incoming email message. He opened it, and his jaw dropped. He had two new emails. One was from earlier, he'd forgotten to check it. The second was from Trinity.
He opened the first email and scanned it quickly. It was a mission from the preventers. He had to go with Trinity that evening to bust out some illegal weapon handling. Nate was invited along as well for the 'outing'.
He eyed the second message carefully, before deciding that she wouldn't have sent him anything that would disrupt class. He opened it cautiously. The screen flashed purple. Ian's finger strayed towards the power key.
The dark purple lettering appeared. It was in binary code. He scanned the message, picking enough letters out to be able to read it as it filed across the screen. They were instructions on how to get into her files. "great." He muttered. So much for gaining her approval. Nate had talked to him that morning. He'd said that Trinity was going to be in his physics class and that she'd said she was 'hoping to learn something new'. This hadn't surprised him. Nate had also said he was planning on meeting Trinity after school to hack into her files. He had taken the warning as a challenge. "typical." Ian thought. He'd told the semi blond what had happened when he'd tried and he'd wished his friend good luck.
Sighing, Ian set to work on hacking into Trinity's files with the information she'd left him. He was careful to do everything perfectly the first time, for he had no idea how to get the screeching sound to stop if it started.
*~*
Later that day, in the busy caff, Trinity once again bought her lunch and headed for the courtyard. This time, however, she had a follower. Not to mention how people kept staring at her. Ian was with his fan club again, and Nate was with Trinity. The two headed for the courtyard and settled down at one of the tables to eat their lunch. Trinity was glad to have some company, however quiet he may be. "What's your favourite season?" Trinity asked.
Nate looked at the girl before answering. She was typing away at her computer, and nibbling at her pizza. "Summer." He replied.
"Why?"
Once again Nate paused. He wasn't used to people asking him questions for their own interest. "Because it's not cold."
"Neither is fall"
"Too many colours in the fall."
"Oh."
Then silence. Trinity cursed under her breath. They had a mission that night.
She glanced at Nate. He was staring at his hamburger with a blank look in his eyes. "you ok?"
"huh, oh. Yeah." Nate grabbed his hamburger and took a bite. He chewed slowly, watching Trinity's frustrated expression intensify as she typed on.
Trinity felt the eyes on her and she glanced up. Nate quickly averted his gaze and the girl grinned. "You want to ask me something, don't you?"
Nate looked at her in amazement. "How did you guess?"
Trinity shrugged. "Just a hunch. So, what is it?"
"I wanted to know..." He stopped, unsure of himself. Why was he so nervous to ask her? It was easier than any of the missions he'd had to do.
Trinity waited for him to continue.
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well, please let me know what you think! Should I continue?
Aria
Chapter 4
The Meaning Of Hate
Ian glared at Trinity and took a seat in front of the two connected computers. His trained fingers also flew over the keyboard with accuracy. He did a search on 'Trinity Yuy-Maxwell' and came up with nothing. Glancing at the girl no the table, he noticed her examining her finger nails with boredom clearly etched in her expression. Ian growled and increased his efforts tenfold. He hacked into the preventer's computer system and did another search on 'Trinity Yuy-Maxwell'. This time, he had some results. He chose one of the links and clicked on it.
"Password Please" the computer beeped at him. Right. He could do this. Typing in a few codes, he tried to work around the password.
"Beep Beep" The computer rebooted.
Ian sighed with relief. When you do something right, the computer beeps. And it reboots. He'd done this a million times before, why had he been so worried? Trinity's sureness of herself? Possibly. He chanced another glance at the girl. She was now looking over her shoulder at the screen, no expression on her face.
"I'm in." He said.
Trinity looked at him. Her eyes betraying her feelings. They simply screamed "sure sure". Ian tensed. What if this was what he was supposed to think. That he had gotten past the first password. When really, it was just a cover up. "nonononono" his mind was screaming at him.
The computer finished booting up, and Ian logged into the file again. He chose the same link, and was surprised to see that the first password was taken care of. He rapidly repeated the process that he'd just done, and the computer beeped and rebooted again. Now Ian was confused. He glanced again at Trinity. She was leaning on her hands, which were propped behind her on the desk, and her head was leaning back. Her eyes were closed, and she definitely looked as if she had better things to be doing.
The computer finished loading again, and Ian dealt with the third password in the same fashion in which he had dealt with the first two. The computer rebooted.
He waited, staring anxiously at the screen. The preventer information accounts were only allowed to have three entry passwords. The computer finished loading. Ian logged onto the preventer site and hacked into the information files once again. Trinity now was watching as well. She was sitting cross legged on the desk top, watching the screen, then turning to glance at him. Ian was definitely sensing that something was wrong. She was too calm.
Trinity cleared her throat. "Maybe I should have warned you…"
Her sentence was cut off by a loud screeching sound coming from the computer. It didn't stop. The computer was frozen in this awful sound. Ian tapped away at the keys. Nothing. He clicked the mouse. Nothing.
Trinity sighed, and got off the table. "move." She said, her voice straining to be heard over the noise coming from the computer.
Ian obeyed. There was nothing else he could do. The power switch hadn't worked. Trinity took his place at the computer desk and her fingers flew over the keys. After a moment or so, the screeching stopped. Trinity turned the swivel chair in Ian's direction and then stood. "told you so." She said, brushing past him and heading once again for Deathscythe.
She turned half way there, and cleared her throat, bringing Ian from his thoughts. "Maybe I should have warned you, that neither of my dads were able to hack into my files."
Ian watched her leave. His blood was rushing to his head in anger. He sat once again at the computer. Hacking into the preventer files, he decided that instead of trying to work around the password, he'd try to guess at the password. Choosing something that seemed logical, yet not too easy to guess, he typed in the word "family". The computer asked for a second password. Amazed that he'd gotten it first try, his second guess was "Heero Yuy". The computer asked for a third password. Ian typed in "Duo Maxwell". The files opened. Except, instead of information on Trinity, there was a list of websites. At the top of the list was a text. It read:
If you are reading this, I suggest you turn off your computer now. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Trinity
Ian chose to ignore this remark, deciding that it was just to scare people off. He chose one of the links and positioned the mouse above one of the web urls. However, before he had time to click, the screen flashed violet, and stayed that way. In the middle there was another text, written in a darker shade of purple. It read:
You were warned. Never try to invade on my files *ever* again.
Then the awful screeching sound started up again. The power button didn't work, neither did the reboot. He typed. Nothing. He clicked. Nothing.
Then Trinity was beside him, telling him once again to get out of the way. "move." He obeyed once again, and she typed away for another few minutes. The sound stopped, and the page with the links returned. Trinity hurriedly turned off the computer.
Then she turned to face Ian. "Why on earth didn't you listen to the warning?" She demanded. She spun around again, and unhooked her laptop. Pushing a few buttons, the doorway above opened again. Trinity sighed and made her way to the steps. "When that door closes, I can guarantee you I won't be happy if you're still inside." She then headed up the stairs.
*~*
When Trinity reached her room, Duo was sitting on her bed waiting for her.
She placed her laptop on the desk. "Hey dad."
Duo frowned. "Where were you?" he asked.
Trinity didn't look at him. "In the hangar."
"Why were you down there?" Duo was sitting on Trinity's bed. She obviously had done something to upset herself in the hangar, and he wanted to know what it was.
Trinity kept her eyes on the ground. "I went to see Deathscythe." She said.
Duo frowned again. "And…"
"Ian was there."
Duo sighed. "Continue."
Trinity started pacing the room, but stopped abruptly at the pain it caused. Duo noticed her wince, and he got off the bed. "Sit." He said.
Trinity obeyed.
"Talk."
"Well, he was there, and he wouldn't tell me why. So I started hacking into his files."
"With him standing right there"
Trinity nodded. "So, then I suggested that he should get some better security."
Duo sighed again and shook his head. "And I guess you egged him into trying to get through to your files."
Trinity looked up at her ceiling. "Of course."
"And I take it he didn't get through."
Trinity looked at her father. "You and Heero couldn't get through. As if that loser would be able to."
Duo shook his head once again. "You're messing up your partnership." He said.
Trinity looked back up at the ceiling. "Do I look like I give a damn?"
Duo glared at his daughter. "You should. For the sake of your job, please try to cut the guy a little slack. I mean, nobody's perfect. And you're going to get yourself and him in trouble."
Trinity didn't say anything, although both of her wounds had decided to start throbbing again. "I've got to get back to sleep dad." she said.
Duo nodded. "I know you do. Here, take this." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle. He unscrewed the cap and got one of the tablets out, and passed it to his daughter.
Trinity took it and swallowed it, then got back underneath her covers. "I wonder if Quatre, Trowa and Wufei are here." She said. "You and Heero would probably like to see your old friends again, huh?"
Duo smiled. Trinity was always thinking of other people, no matter how many problems she had. "Maybe." He said, reaching down and brushing a stray hair out of Trinity's face. "Now try to get some sleep."
Trinity nodded, already half gone.
Duo smiled again before leaving the room and shutting the door softly behind him. A pair of arms wrapped themselves around his waist. Recognizing the touch, Duo leant back into the other man's arms.
"She'll figure things out." A voice said gently in his ear. Duo shivered from the effects of the warm breath.
"I know she will, Hee-chan." Duo replied as he was led back to his room.
*~*
Within two weeks, Trinity was back at school. She hadn't had any more run ins with Ian, although Nate had dropped by once with a message from the preventer's headquarters. Trinity had noticed the lack of feeling in the boy's actions, and she'd decided to do something about it. If anyone would learn how to hack into her files, it was definitely going to be Nathan Winner-Barton. He reminded her slightly of her short haired father.
Once again, the girl sighed as she headed down the familiar hallways of the school. The only difference was, that now people seemed to notice her. She was known as the 'girl who had dodged two bullets'. She noticed Ian to the side, leaning against one of the lockers. He was surrounded by girls. "oh, he has a fan club." Trinity thought icily as she passed him without a second glance. She had noticed Nate standing off to one side, completely alone, laptop in hand. It appeared that Ian was ignoring him.
Trinity felt a twang of hate towards the raven haired boy. "hm, not an unfamiliar feeling" She mused. How could he just leave his friend like that? So, Trinity headed over to Nate, grabbed his hand and pulled him with her to her locker so she could ditch her extra books.
"What are you doing?" The semi blond asked.
Trinity grinned. "Being annoying, what else?"
His expression remained emotionless as he let Trinity lead him down the halls to her locker. She dropped his hand upon arrival at the metal rectangle, and she fumbled with her lock. Kicking her locker, it popped open, and Trinity set her bag and discman inside. She grabbed her physics book, and locked her locker again.
"Grade 12 physics?" Nate asked.
Trinity nodded. "I was hoping to learn something, and the homework kept me busy while I was at home.
Nate followed the girl as she headed to her classroom. "hoping to learn something?" he thought about this for a moment, and decided to make a file about his partner as soon as he had the chance. He would need some information about her in order for them to be able to cooperate properly.
As if sensing his thoughts, Trinity stopped him as he turned to leave when they reached the classroom. "Um, Nate, I need to tell you something." She said, pulling him inside the deserted room.
Nate followed and stood, waiting for Trinity to place her books on her desk.
"Alright, I hacked into some of your files the other day, you know, looking for info and stuff, and it didn't mention anything about Sandrock or Heavyarms. Do you know how to pilot a gundam?" She asked.
Nate contemplated the question for a moment, trying to figure out if he should reveal the information. After a minute he nodded his head slowly. "Although no one else knows. I didn't tell Sally Po."
Trinity's expression turned thoughtful. Sally Po was the Lieutenant in charge of their division of preventers. "Alright." She said. Nate turned to leave, but Trinity wasn't finished with him yet. "wait a sec." she said.
Nate stopped, hand on the doorknob. "yes?" He asked.
"If you were planning on hacking into my files, you might want me in the same room with you. Don't ask me for an explanation though, I'd turn to Ian for that."
Nate nodded, and left the class. Zechs entered soon after.
Upon noticing Trinity in the room, Zechs smiled.
"Nice to see you back, Trinity." He said.
"Glad somebody noticed." Trinity murmured, attention mostly on her laptop.
"The whole student body has been talking about you." Zechs said. "I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who's noticed your return."
Their conversation was cut short as other students started filing into the room, and with them came the happy chatter of normal teenagers. Trinity tried to keep her attention on her laptop, but found it extremely hard with all this noise, and mentions of 'guns' and 'bullets' kept reaching her ears.
Trinity blocked out the noise, and focused on her report. However, someone had different plans for the braided girl.
"How come you never wear your hair out, sweetheart?" came a voice in her ear.
Trinity's first instinct was to punch the guy's lights out. She calmed herself, deciding that she much preferred to be invisible. She turned her attention to the guy that was sitting beside her. Their tables were fashioned to sit two people comfortably, but this situation was definitely not comfortable for a certain gundam pilot.
"How bout you come to the dance with me Friday, huh?" The guy asked.
Trinity shook her head. "No thanks."
"Awww…how come?" he asked.
Trinity looked him up and down, taking in his size. He was heavily built, with dark brown hair, and amber coloured eyes. "I don't know you name." She said.
The guy grinned. "It's Andrew. So now you can come with me."
Trinity sniffed. There was a familiar smell reaching her nostrils. "alcohol." She thought. The smell was familiar because her parents sometimes just needed to forget. She couldn't blame them either. With the memories they had…
"No, I still don't think so." She politely refused.
The guy frowned. "Why not sweetheart?"
Trinity thought fast. Then Ian entered the room. "What's he doing in here?" She thought. He made his way over to Zechs, and handed him a sheet of paper. "A message for Marquise? Why wasn't I assigned to give it to him?" She watched as the two exchanged a few words, then Ian made his way over to one of the desks.
"Hey, are you listening to me?"
Trinity was snapped from her thoughts. She turned back to Andrew. "Um, sorry, I kinda blanked out for a minute there, what were you saying?"
"I was saying that you have no real reason to not come with me."
Trinity had a feeling that this was going to get ugly.
"Hey, Trin!"
Trinity recognized the voice. Ian was making his way over to where she and Andrew were sitting. Her eyes narrowed, and Andrew stood.
"Why didn't you just say you had a boyfriend?" He spat out, and headed over to the group of guys that were chatting on the other side of the room.
Trinity growled and narrowed her eyes. "This is not good." She thought.
Ian ended up at Trinity's desk to find the girl typing away furiously at her laptop. He received an unhappy "don't call me 'Trin'." From the braided girl. Ian chose to ignore the tone of this remark, and sat himself beside Trinity.
"How come?" He asked. "It suits you."
"I don't care if it suits me. Duo is the only one that ever calls me Trin. Understood? Good." Trinity glared at the computer screen.
Ian sighed. "Look, I wanted to talk to you."
"About what?" Trinity growled.
"I wanted to apologize." He said.
Trinity looked at him, snorted, and turned back to the machine on her desk. "You really like your job, don't you."
Ian felt his anger flaring up again, but he quickly pushed it back down. "I mean it Trinity. I don't want us to hate each other when we have to work together."
Trinity chose to ignore this, and turned her icy eyes on the boy beside her. "What are you doing in my physics class?" She demanded.
"Your physics class? Right. Our physics class you mean."
Trinity moaned. She'd been afraid of that. "Fine then. But don't expect me to actually enjoy your presence or anything."
"Now why would you want to do something stupid like that?" Ian mumbled to himself. He'd apologized. It wasn't his fault that their missions were going to get totally screwed up now. Suddenly, his laptop beeped. He pulled it out and opened it just as Trinity was putting hers away.
"I'm on call. I'll be back in half an hour." She said, before standing and heading to notify Zechs that she was leaving.
Ian nodded, and flicked on his laptop. The beep had notified him of an incoming email message. He opened it, and his jaw dropped. He had two new emails. One was from earlier, he'd forgotten to check it. The second was from Trinity.
He opened the first email and scanned it quickly. It was a mission from the preventers. He had to go with Trinity that evening to bust out some illegal weapon handling. Nate was invited along as well for the 'outing'.
He eyed the second message carefully, before deciding that she wouldn't have sent him anything that would disrupt class. He opened it cautiously. The screen flashed purple. Ian's finger strayed towards the power key.
The dark purple lettering appeared. It was in binary code. He scanned the message, picking enough letters out to be able to read it as it filed across the screen. They were instructions on how to get into her files. "great." He muttered. So much for gaining her approval. Nate had talked to him that morning. He'd said that Trinity was going to be in his physics class and that she'd said she was 'hoping to learn something new'. This hadn't surprised him. Nate had also said he was planning on meeting Trinity after school to hack into her files. He had taken the warning as a challenge. "typical." Ian thought. He'd told the semi blond what had happened when he'd tried and he'd wished his friend good luck.
Sighing, Ian set to work on hacking into Trinity's files with the information she'd left him. He was careful to do everything perfectly the first time, for he had no idea how to get the screeching sound to stop if it started.
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Later that day, in the busy caff, Trinity once again bought her lunch and headed for the courtyard. This time, however, she had a follower. Not to mention how people kept staring at her. Ian was with his fan club again, and Nate was with Trinity. The two headed for the courtyard and settled down at one of the tables to eat their lunch. Trinity was glad to have some company, however quiet he may be. "What's your favourite season?" Trinity asked.
Nate looked at the girl before answering. She was typing away at her computer, and nibbling at her pizza. "Summer." He replied.
"Why?"
Once again Nate paused. He wasn't used to people asking him questions for their own interest. "Because it's not cold."
"Neither is fall"
"Too many colours in the fall."
"Oh."
Then silence. Trinity cursed under her breath. They had a mission that night.
She glanced at Nate. He was staring at his hamburger with a blank look in his eyes. "you ok?"
"huh, oh. Yeah." Nate grabbed his hamburger and took a bite. He chewed slowly, watching Trinity's frustrated expression intensify as she typed on.
Trinity felt the eyes on her and she glanced up. Nate quickly averted his gaze and the girl grinned. "You want to ask me something, don't you?"
Nate looked at her in amazement. "How did you guess?"
Trinity shrugged. "Just a hunch. So, what is it?"
"I wanted to know..." He stopped, unsure of himself. Why was he so nervous to ask her? It was easier than any of the missions he'd had to do.
Trinity waited for him to continue.
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well, please let me know what you think! Should I continue?
Aria
