3 Space

An Orphan's Life

Disclaimer: ( Makes a bored Heero face ) I don't own Gundam Wing or any of it's people, etc., because if I did, I'd be REALLY rich by making these fics into actual episodes, instead of bribing people with cookies to R&R. *Sigh*

Elysia looked out the small shuttle window to see the stars. All of her life she had seen these stars from afar, dreaming of the day she would go to space and have a family to love and love her back. And now she was actually seeing them up close, getting one step closer to that dream.

Of course, when she was a child, she had always envisioned her mother with her, smiling happily as they sat together watching everything around them.

She looked away from the window, so as not to cause her to have more memories that would end up with her crying hysterically.

The orphanage had never mentioned anything about Relena or who she was.

Or why she was so important as the receptionist had hinted.

Something didn't seem right about the way everything was turning out. Why had everybody fail to tell her these important things in her life?

As much as this bothered her, she didn't let it ruin her good mood.

The receptionist had helped her a lot with getting a shuttle ticket right away and going to the first person on the list of people.

Quatre Winner.

Elysia liked the way his name sounded, like he was a really nice and caring person.

The receptionist had said that if Elysia wanted to find her uncle, Quatre would be the one to know where he'd be located.

So, here she was, on a shuttle to the LX4 colony, wondering what she should even say, or what Quatre Winner was really like.

After the shuttle had landed and everybody was well on their way to fulfilling their destinies, Elysia was staring in wonderment at all that was before her.

A colony was completely different from the earth she was used to. She would hear the other orphans tell tales of what they had seen on vacations, visits to relatives, or just from living on one, and would get somewhat envious of never seeing such wonderful places.

She watched the people go by, carrying on with their lives, never knowing what kind of effect they were having on a poor orphaned girl from earth.

Elysia looked at the papers in her hand to see the address of Quatre's house. She frowned in concentration and looked up at all the signs she saw.

"I wonder if he lives in an apartment or something," she mused.

She walked down the streets, looking for anything that would look like an "Iria St."

After walking a few blocks and not finding anything, she looked around for the nearest person who could help.

She noticed a young, blonde girl walking nearby with a group of friends, laughing as she tossed her hair over a shoulder.

Elysia liked the way her smile was and walked over, watching the well dressed girl with admiration.

As she approached, she cleared her throat and smiled as sweetly she could, saying," Hi, I'm new to... the whole area and I was just wondering if you could tell me where a…" She glanced at her paper. "497 Iria Street was at." She smiled a bit more, hoping to impress the girl.

The girl stared at her blankly for a second as her friends quieted down a bit. "Excuse me?"

Elysia's smiled faltered at the girl's lack of cordiality. "Um, I'm here looking for someone who could help me… With…stuff." She cringed at how lame she ended.

The girl studied her for a minute, seeming to judge her character with her eyes. After a long awkward silence, she nodded and straightened up, a bit too proudly. "Sure, I'll help you. We were heading in that direction, anyways."

Elysia smiled and nodded in gratitude, and would have voiced it, if it weren't for the fact that the girl had turned and was already walking away, her friends not too far behind.

She sighed and followed, not liking the way this was going.

"My name is Caterina. I live on Iria Street."

Elysia nodded as Caterina rattled on about herself. She had started to be a tad bit more talkative, once her friends had parted to go to their homes. But she was starting to get on Elysia's nerves with her obvious narcissism.

"The street was named after my aunt. When my father built this colony, he named all the streets after his sisters."

Elysia frowned a little at that. "So, there's more than one Iria Street?"

Caterina looked at Elysia as if she were stupid and shook her head. "No. He just named one street after every sister. He has twenty-nine of them, you know."

Elysia stopped in her tracks at that comment. "Oh… That's interesting…" She made a face at the idea of having to have that many sisters living in one house.

*And I thought the orphanage was bad. *

She looked at Caterina as she stopped walking too. "Here we are."

Elysia looked up and tried to hold back her surprise. Obviously she had failed to notice that all the houses on the street weren't houses. They were mansions.

"Holy crap. This place is huge!"

Caterina smirked and opened a door that was in the large wrought iron gate surrounding the property. "I know. But it's not as nice as our house on earth." She walked in, not bothering to hide her arrogance at living in such a nice place. "Coming?"

Elysia stared a second longer, then nodded. "Um, yeah." She paused when she realized what Caterina had meant. "Wait, you live here?"

Caterina rolled her eyes at what Elysia could only assume meant she'd asked another stupid question. "Duh! Quatre Winner is my father." She turned away and started walking up the long pathway leading up to the front door.

She followed Caterina, wondering just who the hell this Quatre Winner really was.

A/N: I know. Short. But I'm having a bit of a writer's block. And I know you all think Heero is really really mean, but he's not! He has a good reason! And just so you know, Elsyia's name is pronounced EL-EE-ZHA. You know, like the Elysian fields from ancient greece. Her whole name basically mean "Angel from Heaven." ( remember ANGELina?) Just thought I'd clear that up. Oh, and please excuse my lack of intrelligence in the colony name area. I have no idea what they're called and why, so I figured since most of them have "L" and "X" in it, I'd just stick 'em together as a made up place Quatre made. So, anyways, R&R as usual, and bye for now. ~_^