At Your Service

Author: Oh my GOODNESS! I am so, very sorry! I haven't written in about 2 years and have at last decided to finish this fic, SIGH! So, for those who have been extremely patient and followed my fic all the way through, THANK YOU! And those who have just read this, THANK YOU! I just really hope you enjoy this miraculous appearance of this chapter after such a long time. Again, my apologies to you and my thanks to you. PLEASE ENJOY!!!!!!!!!

Reviewers: Thank you reviewers, you've been GREAT! I have nothing else to say, so very encouraging and helpful you've been. I will admit, the last review a received a few days ago was the motivation to why I am writing now. I felt so happy that someone had bothered to read AND review after such a long time that I felt I MUST write the end. SO THANKS HEAPS!

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THE REAL REASON

What a long journey it's been. All the work, all the tears, all the pain and suffering…all the effort and peer support. Now, it's all going to be over. Now it's going to be the real thing, it's going to be hard, hard, hard. The times of easiness are now over, good bye those lovely days, good bye…

"Good bye"

"What are you going on about?" Catherine eyed Duo as he flung his arms out and was yelling to the ceiling of the corridor.

"Guys, thanks for all of what you did to help me through to where we are now. Look how far we've come. We didn't even know what was going to happen those long hours ago when we were standing outside this training camp—"

"From when did this become a training camp?" Rishika asked herself. She was busy feeling very sorry for all the pilots…for certain reasons.

"—but all together we've made it to the last stage. Guys? Are we all ready?" Duo sniffed, whisking tears from his cheek using the back of his hand.

"Whatever," muttered Heero.

"Oh, DUO!" Quatre looked as though he were ready to make a melo-dramatic embracement with the other boy.

Trowa sighed but did look as though he appreciated Duo's speech.

"Long haired freak, " Wufei averted his eyes and stubbornly turned his head in the opposite direction.

"A..hahaha…yes. Well done all of you." Catherine also glanced away, biting her lip. Gulping she continued, "Then, ah, let us proceed."

Cathy turned and set her hands on the door knob.

The hinges made a rusty noise as the door creaked sadly open.

"WELL DONE EVERYONE!" Catherine burst out as she turned to the party standing in a cluster looking through the open door. "Your ah, mission is over! U-huh…? Ehehe?"

"Cathy?" Rishika looked up at Catherine, cowering next to Quatre. "What does—"

Her sentence was finished by Heero Yuy. "What does this MEAN?"

Dr J sat on a computer swivvly chair in front of a desk at the back of the room they had entered. The room looked nothing like a restaurant, which they had all been expecting. The room looked only like an office study with a glass window at the back, grey walls, and a lamp on the desk behind Dr J, who was smiling…no grinning suspiciously. He looked very impressed.

"Good job Catherine Bloom," he said and turned back to grin at the pilots. "How was your mission?"

"Mission…mission incomplete." Heero continued to stare straight into Dr J's face, probably asking for explanation through telepathy.

"Now, now," Dr J only waved his index-finger back in reply.

"Would you be kind enough to please explain?" Trowa suggested.

"Catherine here will do that, won't you?"

Catherine's eyes grew large, she gulped and stepped back. "Please, please no. I have fulfilled your wishes and have nothing more to—"

"Is that so, Catherine Bloom?"

Ohhh, no. What now? Do I really have to do this? Catherine hesitated then making up her mind she timidly turned to face her company, who were busy looking REALLY, VERY intimidating; with their eyes stern, facing set in frowns or snarls and hair pricking up at all ends!

"Oh, alright." Cathy sighed and began her explanation. "The other day, I was planning to visit Trowa at headquarters when I overheard Dr J having a conference with some other important sounding people. I heard him speaking of an interest he had been inspired of recently, which was, to see all the pilots…err…dressed up?"

"Wha—?" Wufei burst when Heero gripped the Chinese boys neck and nodded for Cathy to continue.

"Ah yes, and I was caught eavesdropping and—"

"Why'd you have to listen in on them in the first place?" Duo asked, incredulously.

"—AND since I had heard things I shouldn't have, I was…errr…forced…a-ahaha…into helping Dr J with his plans. Which has resulted in this! Yes, la-didadidaaa! Alright? Yes, good, now let's all go hom—"

"Tell them the truth, Catherine Bloom." Dr J had a spark in his eyes as he fiddled with a pen, still grinning maliciously.

"I have finished with my expla—"

"Cathy!!" Duo yelled, teeth bearing ready to bite.

Cathy suddenly bowed her head as she threw her open palms out. Her next tumble of words jerkily thrust themselves in a rush from her mouth. "I was interested too and so I contributed in some ideas I had which resulted in this very…err…very amusing event which was disguised as a mission so that you'd all agree to be supportive and…and…I'M SORRY! PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ME! DON'T KNIFE ME OR SWORD ME OR BURN ME ALIVE! It wasn't my idea in the first place," Cathy said a little smugly. "It all started from Dr J. Blame him! Oops…"

To Cathy's sheer luck all the pilots did go and direct their glares to the grinning doctor, who's grin started to fail him.

Within a matter of a split second Dr J was stabbed, shot, beaten, burnt, eaten, yelled at and thrown out the window.

"Good riddance," Wufei huffed, looking satisfied for the first time in a while.

"Mission complete," Heero mechanically said, contentedly.

"Cathy, I forgive you," Trowa was saying.

"Cathy, I'll kill you in a sec, just wait!" Duo was assuring Cathy.

"Rishika, are you okay? Now that was a devious plan!" Quatre was saying with one arm protectively around Rishie's shoulders.

"Oh yes, I am. And I do admit, that was devious."

After a few moments to settle, Duo turned to Rishika and asked, "Didn't you know about this though?"

"Oh no, I only knew half of what was going on. And—"

"Which half, exactly?" Wufei gritted his teeth in a nasty face.

"UUMM! Well, I was told that I was to help in waiter-training a group of 5 people who know of nothing but to murder in monstrous mechanic machines and—"

"CATHY!"

"I'm sorry Duo, I just hate those Gundams."

"Yeah, I agree, but…I quite like mine."

"Please continue," Trowa prompted Rishika.

"Aaah, and that there will not actually be a restaurant at the end, which they will be expecting—betting on their lives. That was, well, all."

"You're innocent then. Cathy is found guilty." Duo said.

"Duo, we have completed our mission, don't bother to do anything else," Heero advised. "Look at Cathy's hand."

Duo followed Heero's gaze to see Cathy drawing a think knife from her socks.

"E-HEM! All's good. We have completed our mission and there is absolutely no-one guilty in this room. Shall we all go home now? Yes, let's." Duo nodded vigorously, replying his own questions and started moronically drifting out of the room.

Trowa followed Duo to the corridor.

"WHAT a waste of time." Wufei stalked out of the small office and took over Trowa and Duo and disappeared back the way they had come from, never to be seen that day again.

"I'll see you at the circus tomorrow then, Cathy," Trowa smiled at his sister and also disappeared in the same direction as Wufei.

"SEE YA FEI—!" Catherine called then glanced affectionately after her brother. "Yep, see you tomorrow Trowy!"

"Heero, where are you gonno go?" Duo was saying excitedly, as though nothing had happened for the past several hours. "Hey you wanna go see a movie or go have a coffee or—"

"No."

"Heero! Wait up!" Duo called but Heero Yuy had already left, not to be seen for the next week. The only words he left behind as he disappeared back down the corridor was 'I must grill Dr J'.

"Duo, wanna go out?" Cathy said. "I have a few words with you."

"Ummm," Duo turned his head away then snapped it back toward Cathy and said, "Sure thing, wanna catch a movie first?"

"Sure. Then we can talk over a coffee."

They both linked arms and disappeared down the corridor.

"Rishika?"

"Yes?"

"Would you like to come for dinner at my house?"

"I'd be very happy to, if your family's okay with this arrangement."

"I'm sure they'd be delighted." There was a short pause. "They've also been waiting for me to get my first date."

Rishika closed her eyes as Quatre squeezed her hand.

"I'd be glad to," she said before she wrapped an arm around Quatre's neck and they both shared a very memorable kiss.

Author: I have finished! Was that ending lame? Was it awful? Was it really boring? Did anybody enjoy it? I hope so, I really hope so. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE review even if you write one word or anything. I don't care whether you write a whole essay even. Anyway. I hope you enjoyed it. Good bye, from me and I hope to see you sometime else. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!