Title: Yet Another Move: Part 4
LeaMarie F. Rocket
Disclaimer: I don't own 'em. If I did, they'd still be making episodes. I mean come on! There's tons of other stuff that could've been done with the show!P
A.N.: Sayings that are like this () are thoughts. Anything in all caps is yelling. {Like they can't tell, Lea?} Things in are sounds, or effects. Things that are in [] are actions. And things like means that it's a page break. New scene I know most of you know this, but just in case...
Nosedive smiled as he watched LeaMarie skate. It'd taken a long time but she could finally skate by herself. Dive was having fun watching her skate somewhat gracefully across the ice and cheering her on.
"What are you two doing?" Canard demanded startling both of the teens. Lea steadied herself enough to not hit the ice too hard. Nosedive could just barely hear her muttering a few choice words.
"I'm teaching her how to skate," Nosedive explained, motioning out to Lea as she pulled herself off of the ice.
"Why aren't you two doing something more productive?" Canard demanded.
Lea skated over to where the two were standing. "Like what? Yelling and bossing people around?" She asked sarcastically, brushing some ice flakes off of her black skating pants. "Come on, Dive." Lea walked away with Nosedive helping her off the ice.
Canard followed a few paces later. He watched as the two walked into their room. "You two are not going to play games," Canard declared entering the room.
"PERVERT!" Lea yelled holding a shirt up to cover her chest. "GET OUT!" When he didn't move Lea picked up a desk lamp and threw it at him.
Canard, seeing the object flying at his head, ducked out of the room. The crash that followed brought the rest of the team running.
"We heard a crash, what's wrong?" Mallory demanded.
The doors of Lea and Nosedive's bedroom swished open and a fuming Lea stepped out, followed closely by Nosedive.
"I swear to the High Heavens the next time you do something like that I will NOT miss!" Lea vowed menacingly.
"What did he do?" Wildwing asked, looking between Lea and Canard.
"He walked in without knocking and then wouldn't leave!"
"So?"
"My shirt was OFF!" Lea yelled. "I'm going to get a broom."
"Dude, you're in trouble!" Nosedive exclaimed.
"Shut up, Nosedive," Canard hissed.
Lea walked back and as she pasted Canard she hit him on the head with the handle of the broom.
"OUCH!"
"Lea," Wildwing started but was cut off as the door shut behind her. "Nosedive, tell her to come here and apologize to him," Wildwing instructed.
"No way! He deserved it!"
"Duke?"
"I think the kid's right. You can't just go barging into people's rooms. 'Sides, you saw the look on her face I don't want to tick her off anymore."
Lea came back out with the lamp in a wastebasket. Canard instinctively stepped away from the broom handle.
Nosedive followed her. When they were away from the rest of the team he placed a hand on Lea's shoulder. "You know, there's that sports dinner tonight do you wanna go with me?"
Lea smiled. "Sure, as long as neither of us have to be around Canard."
Nosedive chuckled. "I don't think that will be a problem. I get the feeling he's going to stay away from you for a while. Especially if you've got that broom in your hand."
"If he thinks I'm bad with a broom, he should see me with a bokken," Lea said smirking.
"Come on, let's go hang out at the mall and see what's going on with Thrash and Mookie, alright?"
"'Kay."
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Duke stood by and watched as Canard kicked the stuffing out of a punching bag. "She" [Punch] "Nearly" [Kick] "Hit me with that stupid lamp!" Canard yelled as he gave the bag one final kick.
"Well, ya did walk in without knockin'," Duke reminded him.
Canard growled at him. "If they hadn't walked off when I was giving them orders, I wouldn't have had to follow them in."
"The kids need some time alone. It's not fair to watch their every move. Ya keep it up and they might start tryin' to retaliate," Duke advised.
"Oh, and what's the worse that they can do? Dye my feathers green again?" Canard asked walking out of the gym and into the Ready Room.
"I get the feeling they'd do more then that," Mallory said grinning. "You missed the first couple of weeks Lea was here. Those two were sure coming up with some good stuff."
"Like you weren't there helping them along with it," Wildwing said smiling at her.
"I caught you giving Nosedive some ideas too, you know," Mallory responded.
"You mean, you all knew about their pranks, and didn't try to stop them?" Canard demanded.
"Why should we? They weren't hurtin' any one," Duke responded. "Besides, they're just kids they need to play too."
Canard rolled his eyes. "What they need is some strong discipline. No soldier should ever walk away from his or her superior officer like that."
"We may be finishin' a war here but they're still to young to fully get into the whole army bit. They're both too free willed to do that."
"Mallory's free willed and she fits in just fine with any army," Canard reminded him.
"Yeah, she was also raised that way."
"So what, Duke? If I could just discipline them the way my father did, they'd be following orders perfectly."
"They call the way your father disciplined you "child abuse" on this planet," Wildwing stepped in. "Hitting a kid with a hockey stick isn't legal here."
"They'd have a lot less problems with their children here if the government would get out of peoples lives and let them train the kids. Kids need a good dose of fear in them to make them obedient."
"They also need to be treated with respect!" Duke jumped in. "You wouldn't believe the number of kids I saw come into the gang 'cuz they're parents didn't give a damn about them, and the only attention they got was when they were being beaten! That's no way for a kid to grow up! I saw good kids dying in the streets, from some of your type-"
Ring Ring the phone suddenly yelled, surprising the ducks.
"Uh, hello?" Tanya asked. "No, she's not in right now. May I take a message?" Tanya asked searching for a pen and paper. "Night Cat meeting, 11'Oclock. Main meeting hall. Right. No problem, I'll make sure she gets the message," Tanya hung up the phone.
"What was that all about?" Wildwing asked.
"Lea's got some meeting she needs to go to Monday."
"So, she has to leave tomorrow?"
"Knowing her, yeah," Mallory answered.
"What kind of meeting?" Canard asked, suddenly interested.
"He didn't say," Tanya replied. "Come to think of it, I don't even know what she does or where she works."
"Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought him back," Lea's voice rang from the doorway. She and Nosedive were both holding several bags.
"What's all that stuff for?" Canard asked. "Money burning a hole in your pocket?"
"Who uses money now-a-days?" Lea asked.
"We've got that sports dinner tonight, and all my good clothes are in shreds-"
"They're more like good grease rags now," Mallory cut in.
Nosedive ignored her and continued, "So, Lea and I went to get some new ones and she found the coolest dress! So, we had to get her that, and then I needed new shoes-"
"Yeah, you're last ones might make nice gardenin' shoes," Duke cut in.
"Plus, he was growing out of them. If he keeps this growth spurt up he's going to be taller then me," Wildwing cut in.
Nosedive was starting to get a little annoyed but continued, "Then we just hit the mall-"
"Oh, Mal! I saw some stuff there you would just love!" Lea exclaimed. She glanced at Dive, "And I only cut in now to annoy you."
"I know. But, yeah, that's what we were up to."
"So, how much did you two spend?" Wildwing asked, looking between the two teens.
"Let's see...30 for the shoes, 70 for the dress, another 30 for accessories, and 90 for anime and other fun stuffs!" Lea bubbled. "So about..." Lea paused calculating it out. "$220! Wow, I thought I was hitting my budget..."
"Yeah, right," Nosedive smirked. "You knew you had more then that."
"So, how much did you spend?" Mallory asked him.
"Only $100," He answered her.
Canard's mouth dropped. "Only $100!"
"Cloths cost money," Lea replied.
"Lea, you got a call," Tanya cut in.
"Really? From who?"
"You're office, they said that you have a meeting 11'0clock, Monday, in the main meeting hall."
"Did they say what the meeting was about?"
"Just something about Night Cat," Tanya replied.
Lea sighed. "Wonderful. That won't last long."
"Are they really that bad?" Nosedive asked.
"Yeah, it's like sitting through a six hour documentary about floss."
"Ouch!" Duke commented, wincing.
Lea sighed. "Well, I'm going to go make my plane reservations, and make sure that everyone in New York knows I'm coming. Then, I'm going to take a nap. Could you wake me up about an hour before we have to leave?" Lea asked Dive.
"Sure thing!" Nosedive chirruped happily. "I'm going to go get a snack," He announced walking away.
"She's sure got him wrapped around her little finger," Canard muttered.
"You'd be wrapped around her finger too, if she looked at you like she does the Kid," Duke replied.
"Yeah right! There's no way I'd fall for a human!" Canard snapped looking back.
"That's what Nosedive said too," Wildwing noted.
Nosedive walked back in carrying a large sandwich. "Guys, I think we're out of bread...oh, and we're out of sandwich meat too!" He announced taking a bite out of the sandwich.
"Why is it dripping?" Mallory asked, a look of pure disgust on her face.
"I OD'd on the Mayo," He replied, taking another bite.
"That's disgusting!" Canard declared.
"Wha ih?" Nosedive asked through the sandwich.
"That for one thing!"
"Izh nah!" Nosedive argued.
Wildwing shook his head. "After you're done with that could you help Canard out with cleaning out the weapon's cabinet?"
Nosedive nodded his head. "Ur ing!"
Canard wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Wash your hands off first. We don't need the pucks covered in Mayo."
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Mallory watched as Nosedive and Canard soundlessly worked next to each other. Neither of them wanted to be working with the other, but Nosedive had been asked and Canard needed to learn the arsenal.
[Those two will never get along, will they?] Mallory thought to herself.
Canard shoved Nosedive to the side. Nosedive ignored him and continued to work on stacking some of the gas pucks in a small box.
[That's why Lea's been snarling at Canard,] Mallory gasped. [Canard's been shoving and ordering Dive around. Dive or Lea don't like taking orders. It's no wonder the two of them have been plotting against Canard.]
"How are things goin'?" Duke asked from outside the door.
"Canard's been shoving Nosedive around a bit, but Nosedive hasn't reacted yet."
"Lea's been working with him on some self control."
"Must be working. Normally Nosedive would've tried to hit Canard by now," Mallory sighed.
"Nosedive's been learning a lot from Lea," Duke said smiling. "Plus I think it helps that she's a girl. I think it keeps his attention...well at least to something," Duke said smirking, causing Mallory to roll her eyes.
"Move!" Canard snapped, reaching over Nosedive's head.
Nosedive rolled his eyes and moved a few centimeters to the side. "Better?" He asked sarcastically.
Canard glared at Nosedive, as he continued to clean the small storage room. "Where did you learn to organize? A college dorm?"
"Nah, I learned from you!" Nosedive shot back.
"Why you little..." Canard snarled, grabbing Nosedive by the front of his shirt.
Nosedive pulled his shirt free. "I'm not so little any more," he responded.
"So, you've grown a back bone," Canard snarled. "I'm not surprised. Trying to impress that girl?" I'm amazed she even gives you the time of day."
Nosedive snarled at Canard.
"You're so pathetic, maybe she feels sorry for you. That's it! She's a pity friend!"
"She is not!" Nosedive snapped. "She's my friend. She wouldn't do something like that!"
"Sure she wouldn't," Canard said knowingly.
Nosedive snarled and launched himself at Canard, just as Wildwing walked in.
He pulled Nosedive off of Canard. "Can't you behave yourself for even one day?" Wildwing demanded.
"But he-"
"I don't want to hear it! Go to your room!" Wildwing ordered dropping Nosedive onto his feet. "We'll discuss this later."
Nosedive dejectedly walked out of the room.
"I really don't know what's gotten into him lately," Wildwing apologized. "He's only been acting like this recently."
"Maybe he needs therapy," Canard suggested.
"I doubt we could get him to go."
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Nosedive stormed into his room, forgetting that Lea was taking a catnap. "I can't believe him! He never listens to me!" Nosedive yelled. "He's always taking his side!"
"Uhmh?" Lea muttered.
Nosedive turned to see her face down on the bed. He smiled softly looking at the mess of brown curls that covered the sides of Lea's face. "Sorry, I forgot you were sleeping." Nosedive heard a muffled "oh". "I'd leave but I was sent to my room. I'll be quiet now," Nosedive promised.
Lea raised her hand and waved a little, letting him know that she heard him.
Nosedive sat down on the edge of his bed. His eye caught sight of a red envelope on the nightstand he and Lea shared. Picking up the envelope he read the name "Ranma Saotome". He saw a stack of papers underneath where the envelope had been, all with the name Ranma signed to them.
"I wonder who he is? She's never mentioned him. Maybe he's just a friend..." Nosedive set the papers back down and lay down on the bed.
[Man, things really have sucked around here lately. Canard's been a total pest, Wildwing won't listen to me, and now I've been sent to my room. This BITES!]
The door opened swished open right then, causing Nosedive to sit up.
Canard walked through the door. "Wing says that he wants to talk to you in the kitchen," Canard announced.
Nosedive stood up and jumped out of the way as a red pillow went flying past his head, hitting Canard. Nosedive looked down at Lea. Her head now lay flat on the bed; the pillow she'd been using was in Canard's face.
Nosedive smirked at the puzzled look on Canard's face. "She doesn't like being woken up. You're lucky, the lamp is in reach for her."
Canard winced at the memory, and walked out of the room. Nosedive followed, stopping by the door. "Nice shot, Lea. You hit him dead on," He told her.
Lea raised her hand and spread her fingers in the shape of a 'v'.
Chuckling, Nosedive left the room.
---
Wildwing sat waiting for Nosedive to come in. He could understand that Nosedive was acting different because of his crush on Lea, but the way he acted towards Canard was totally inexcusable.
Wildwing looked up at the clock on the wall. He'd sent Canard after Dive ten minutes ago, and neither of them had shown up. [He's got three minutes, and then I go after him,] Wildwing told himself.
Wildwing alternated watching the clock and sipping his juice. He'd watch the clock for ten seconds, drink for five, watch for ten, and drink for five. This went on for about 12 cycles. Wildwing stood up and was about to fetch his wayward brother when the duck in question walked into the room.
"Canard said you wanted to talk to me?" Nosedive asked, looking at his brother.
"Have a seat."
"Oh, ho. That doesn't sound good," Nosedive quipped sitting down. "What's up?"
Wildwing decided against beating around the bush, and plowed right through it. "Why can't you and Canard get along?"
Nosedive paused at this. He hadn't thought Wildwing would ask him something like that. [Here's your chance to tell him what a jerk Canard is!] His mind screamed at him. [He's giving you a once in a lifetime chance to tell him exactly what's going on!]
[Sure, but you've grown up. You're bigger then that!] Another voice said to him.
"...We...just clash," Nosedive said lamely. "He's to uptight." Nosedive suddenly found the floor interesting. "That and he doesn't like Lea."
"So you pick fights with him over that?" Wildwing asked skeptically.
"He's the one that seeks me out," Nosedive responded pouting. "Remember, he came into our room and Lea had to throw the lamp at him to get him out?"
"What about today while you were cleaning. Canard told me he was trying to be conversational and you just charged at him."
[Lucky for him you walked in when you did,] Nosedive thought to himself.
"He was picking on me."
"We ALL pick on you. Myself, Lea, Duke, Mallory." Wildwing sighed. "Until you can work things out with Canard, I suggest you stay in your room unless it's team events or meals."
Nosedive's mouth hit the ground. "You're grounding me?" He demanded.
"I think until you two can get along it's for the best," Wildwing answered him. "The sports dinner starts in about an hour. You should probably start to get ready," Wildwing commented walking out of the room.
Nosedive shook himself for a second. [He grounded me!] He stormed out of the kitchen and into his room. He grabbed his new shirt and pulled the one he was wearing off, throwing it across the room.
"What's wrong?" Lea asked sitting up.
"Wildwing grounded me!" Nosedive exclaimed sitting down on his bed.
Lea moved across the room and sat next to him. "What for?"
"For launching myself at Canard today."
"I see. What'd Fuc...er...Canard do to piss you off?"
Nosedive paused, not sure that he should really tell her what set him off.
Lea studied him for a moment. "If you don't want to tell me, it's alright," She told him, placing her hand over his.
Nosedive smiled down at her. Her brown curls were framing her face, her light blue eyes sparkling. His eyes locked onto hers. She'd tilted her head off to the side a bit, giving her an almost innocent look. Her lips were pressed softly in a slight smile.
Nosedive felt himself being drawn to her. [Stars, she's beautiful!]
He could feel his heart speed up as he got closer to her. After several moments their lips touched.
Nosedive was mildly surprised to feel Lea kissing him back. She'd wrapped one arm around his neck and the other was resting on his chest.
Nosedive had wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close to him. Nosedive started leaning into her when the door opened.
"Uh...Nosedive, Wing wants to make sure-er, I'll...uh...come back later. Sorry," Tanya said, quickly leaving the room.
Lea pushed herself away from Nosedive. "We should get ready. There's that dinner thingie tonight," She said quickly getting up. And grabbing her clothes for the evening. "I'm going to take a shower," she said, walking quickly out of the room.
Nosedive watched her walk out of the room. "Damn! Now what have I done?" He yelled at himself.
---
Lea leaned back against the tile as the hot water poured over her. [I kissed him,] Lea thought to herself. [The last guy that I got involved with ended up breaking my heart. But Dive is different than them. But he's been through so much and I don't know when I'll be moved again.] Lea gently let her head hit the porcelain tiles behind her. "I need to think. I need time to think. But there's that Damned dinner tonight...I need time to speak to Dive before we go. But what...how....GODDESS! THIS IS HARD!" Lea snapped at herself.
Lea put her mind into concentrating on putting in the lavender scented conditioner in her hair. The scent started to calm her nerves. "Ok, let's look at this rationally. I'm talking to myself, which is never a good sign, but other than that-" Lea paused for a moment. "I like him. I have almost since I met him. Of course let's look at this from the other side. He's not human. Well then neither am I. Well at least not all human, I do have that human mother but jeez she hardly counts! She's got a ton of magics mixed in her too!"
Lea let her head hit the tiles again. "If I'm looking for some one to be the same species as me I'll be signal for the rest of my life! I have yet to run into any one with as much crap in their blood as I do!"
Pounding at the door caught her attention. " WHAT!Lea screamed in annoyance.
"Are you done in there yet or do we HAVE to leave without you?" Canard yelled through the door.
"I'll be out in just one minute!" Lea yelled before realizing she still wasn't out of the shower and she needed to get ready. "DAMN!" Lea yelled causing Mal and Wing to stop outside the bathroom door and glance at each other before walking off.
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Nosedive was tying his shoes as Lea came rushing in. Her hair was still dripping and her dress wasn't zipped in the back.
"Need any help?" Dive asked her as she pulled on a pair of nylons.
"Yes, could you zip me up and then tell the others that I'll be out in about five minutes?"
"Sure." Lea stood up so that Dive could zip her up. "Lea," Dive paused not knowing where to go from there.
"Let's talk after the dinner," Lea suggested.
"Right...I'll go tell them you'll be out in a bit."
"Thank you." Dive nodded and left the room.
Sighing Lea grabbed some lavender spritz and sprayed herself down. She than stood up and looked in the mirror. She closed her eyes for a moment and when she opened them again her eyes were lined with blue liner, and navy mascara. Her lids were painted with a light almost sliver blue powder. And her lips were done with a light brown-red lipstick.
"Thank you, magic!" Lea muttered grabbing her half-dried hair and pulling the bangs and the sides back with a silver flame shaped barrette. She placed a matching necklace around her throat.
"Ready with vary little time to spare!" Lea exclaimed running out of the room only to have to run in again and get her shoes.
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"She's got ten seconds before we leave," Canard exclaimed.
Mallory and Dive rolled their eyes.
"I'm here!" Lea yelled running in.
"It's about time!" Canard snapped.
"Don't get your knickers in a twist," Lea replied, pulling on her navy, high heeled shoes. She stood to her new height.
"WOW!" Nosedive exclaimed taking every one by surprise. "I mean...uh...er...wow?"
Lea giggled. "You saw me in this earlier," She said motioning to the full-length navy dress.
"Yeah, but not with the rest of it!"
Lea rolled her eyes but smiled. "Thank you."
"Can we get going or have those sparkles on your dress sapped your energy?"
"To repeat myself, don't get your knickers in a twist." Lea brushed past Canard.
"Dive's right, you look nice, Kitten."
"Thanks, Duke."
"Here, Lea you go ahead and sit," Nosedive said offering the last chair to her.
"We can share, like we normally do," Lea replied softly.
"I just didn't want to wrinkle your dress or anything like that."
"You won't."
Nosedive sat down and helped Lea to sit on his lap. I[Why'd she have to do this? How am I suppose to sort out my feelings when she's this close to me? Man, she smells good...Dive NO! Mustn't think that way. Her hair looks so soft...DIVE NO! Hey, what's that?] Dive reached out and touched a slight bump on Lea's dress. She jumped at the sudden contact.
"What are you doing?" She asked giggling nervously.
"Trying to figure out what this bump is," he said running his fingers over it.
"Dive, that's my bra," Lea said still giggling.
"Oh."
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Nosedive shifted in his seat causing Lea's head to drop to his shoulder. The Migrator was absolutely silent as the group headed back for the Pond. [I don't think we'll get a chance to talk tonight.] Lea snuggled tighter against Dive. Dive smiled and wrapped his arms around her. [But that's ok. Right now I'd rather watch you sleep than try and figure out what we have.]
AN: I know it's been a while since I've updated, and I apologize for that. I've already started on Chapter 5 and I'm going to try to conclude this fic soon. As always I don't own the Mighty Ducks or any other show that may have crossed over. Disney could sue me, but they wouldn't get much since I'm a poor student.