An Orphan's Life
Disclaimer: I'm not Japanese, so that should explain it all. But for those moronic lawyers out there, I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM WING!
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Elysia arrived at the Sanc Kingdom, a bit disoriented by the change in gravity and atmostphere. She couldn't believe her luck at the airport, absolutely positive that she would have to wait for two days to get a ticket to the Sanc Kingdom. But she figured the Fates were smiling upon her that night, probably to make up for Caterina's… Well, straight out bitchiness.
She breathed in deeply, liking the way the earth smelled. Who knew that one day in space would make one appreciate the simple aspects of earth better?
She sighed as she stood outside, where it was snowing (damn colonies have all the luck), and tried to figure out where exactly she should go.
"I really should have thought this over a bit more," she said to herself quietly. She chewed one her lip, wondering how the hell she was supposed to find this Trowa Barton.
And just as she thought that, she happened to look down and see an ad partially buried in the snow, bright letters and colorful pictures inviting people to come to the greatest circus in town.
She looked around, thinking God was playing a joke on her, then looked down at the ad. She picked it up, really sure that it was all in her head that it was what she thought it was.
She read it over and saw that it was dated just a month earlier.
*Quatre did say that Trowa moved from city to city every six months. He should still be here… But where?*
That's when she happened to see the fine print at the bottom.
Staying at the Sanc Kingdom City Plaza 'til February 13th.
She blinked and looked up suspiciously. "Is this some kind of joke?," she asked a bit too loud. She continued looking, oblivious to the weird looks that were being thrown her way.
After getting hit in the eye with a rather unusually large snowflake, she walked away to fond the Sanc Kingdom Plaza place, taking the pain in her eye as a sign that God was having fun at her expense.
Elysia was surprised that the circus was closer than she thought. Just as she was turning a corner, there it was. She was starting to think she was dreaming, the way everything was going in her favor all of a sudden.
She wandered through what she thought was the entrance, but soon found herself lost between all the large striped tents, the dark night not helping her see well. She would've been okay about having to find her way around, if it weren't for one thing.
She was deeply afraid of clowns.
It wasn't that they weren't nice to her, but as far back as she could remember, she always thought it was scary how they were always happy. She had never seen one sad or even angry, and that was a bit freaky to her.
That and one time at the orphanage, a group of kids shoved her into a closet where a jack-in-the-box, that never actually went back into the box, stared at her with a really big grin on it's little face. She had to stare at the horrid looking thing for nearly three hours, before the nuns found her.
So, clowns weren't the greatest thing in the world to her.
And, unfortunately for her, all her good luck went away when she happened to stumble into a tent, where clown masks and costumes glittered at her. She held back a scream as she saw something towards the back move and ran blindly out of the tent, not caring where she went, as long as she was away from those evil things.
The problem with that was that she should have cared a little bit about where she was heading, because she ended up face-to-face with a lion.
She stumbled away from it, holding in her terror, wondering how she was going to get out of this one.
It didn't help when the lion began to roar and walk closer to her slowly.
She bit back another scream and backed away as fast as she could, wothout provoking the lion in the process. She froze when she felt something breathing on her neck. She slowly turned around praying it wasn't another lion.
A tiger looked back, its sharp teeth gleaming in the moonlight.
This time, she screamed. And really loud.
That's when the lion chose to start roaring again, which made the tiger do it too, and soon they were all making a lot of noise.
Elysia was beyond teffified, so when she saw someone race out toward the lion, she was greatly relieved.
A light flickered on nearby, shedding light where she was standing at, revealing that the lion and tiger were in cages that would be impossible to escape out of and eat whoever happened to sneak into the circus.
She froze, feeling absolutely stupid.
She then noticed that the person who ran out was glaring at her, arms crossed.
She shifted around uncomfortably, not knowing what to say.
The person broke the silence for her, by saying in a slightly deep voice. "What the hell are you doing?!"
She gulped, not liking the way the person sounded. He sounded pretty pissed off.
He stepped closer to her and she tried not to allow how cute he looked to get in the way of her judgement.
The way he acted helped her out. He glared at her some more, his green eyes flashinf. "Answer me!"
She whimpered a little, deeply afraid of what he might do. She mentally laughed at herself, wondering why she thought Caterina was mean. This guy was worse. Or so it seemed.
He moved even closer, and this is when Elysia got a better view of him. Her eyes wandered over his nicely muscled body, and she nearly smiled at the way his long brown bangs fell into his eyes, making him look a bit childish.
Nearly smiled, that is, until he grabbed her by the arm and yanked her away from the tiger cage. "Are you okay?"
She was about to answer, when she realized that he was talking to the tiger. She made a face as he lightly stroked the tiger, the tiger purring like a big cat. Which it was, in a sense.
He looked over at her and narrowed his eyes. "You got some nerve, you stupid girl! Stealing my precious Tawny and Ricky."
She blinked, then fronwed. "What?"
"You heard me." He turned back to the tiger, kneeling as he pet it some more. "It's okay, Tawny. That stupid girl won't hurt you."
Elysia soon got over her fear and put her hands on her hips. "Excuse me? Stupid girl?"
He glared at her and nodded. "I don't see any other dummies around."
Her eyes widened at this, her anger rising dangerously high. "I'm a stupid girl?! I almost got eaten by that damn tiger of yours, and you're more worried about that dumb animal than me?!"
He stood up slowly and crossed over to her. "Don't bad mouth my animals. And from what I just saw, you are more stupid than they are! They at least know they're in cages!"
Elysia bluched a bit at that. She turned her face away from him, so that he wouldn't see, and said," Well, I didn't come here to steal your precious Tawny and Ricky. I came here to find a Trowa Barton. I have to talk to him."
The guy froze, then looked at her in confusion. "You came to talk to who?"
"Trowa Barton," she repeated, adding a second later," And you said I was stupid. You can't even listen."
He seemed to think this iver, then grabbed her by the shoulders. "What business do you want with Trowa Barton?!," he demanded, shaking her.
She tried to ignore the pain he was causing her and said," I just told you. I have to talk to him about… something."
"Well, you came to the wrong place!" He let go of her and turned around.
She watched him in confusion and rubbed her shoulders. "What do you mean? I was told he was here!"
"Well, you're too late! He's gone!" He started to walk away.
She stared at him, eyes widening. "Hey! I'm not done with you!"
"I am, so go! And stay away from my animals!"
She stood a second longer, then ran after him. "You're lying!," she said as she caught up with him.
He didn't glance her way as he muttered, "And what if I am? You aren't getting near himm as long as I'm here."
"Look, all I want to do is ask him if he knows where my uncle is at." She slowed down a bit. "I have lived without a mother or father all my life. I don't have any friends or brothers or sisters. I just found out two days ago that I have an uncle who didn't even want me, when my mother was killed. You may not care, but talking to your dad means a lot to me right now, and I am not allowing some big, woman hating, jerk stop me!"
She paused as he stopped walking and slowly looked to her.
He looked in her eyes, making her feel weird. "Your mother was killled, you say?"
She tried to not roll her eyes as she said," Yes. How many times do I have to repeat myself?"
He ignored that last part and asked quietly," How?"
She frowned, wondering why on God's snow-covered earth would he ask that kind of a question. She played with her hair and looked down. "I don't know. Murder or something. That's all the cop told me."
He studied her for a while, the sighed. "Follow me."
She blinked. "Huh?"
He grabbed her by the arm and silently lead her to a small green tent nearby. He glanced over at her for a second as he paused at the opening leadin inside, then pulled her harder, shoving her in front of him.
She looked around the tent, surprised by how big it was. She noticed a few beds on the side, a little girl and boy sleeping in two of them. She glanced around, admiring how nice it looked, then stopped when she noticed that someone else was in the room, sitting in a chair by the beds.
He looked up at her with the same green eyes the guy had, and said somewhat cooly," Who's this, Theo? Another girl you ran into to have a little fun with?"
The guy let go of her arm and snorted. "Yeah, right! Look at her!"
Elysia watched the older version of Theo look her over. "WHat seems tp be the problem?"
Elysia was about to answer, but Theo stepped in front of her and said," SHe said she wanted to talk to you about something important, dad."
Elysia's eyes widened. She pointed at Trowa in disbelief and looked at Theo in shock. "That's- he's- your dad?!"
He made a face and nodded slowly.
She closed her eyes as she tried to let this go through her mind, but soon felt herself faint. The last thing she heard before she went unconcious was." Stupid girl! Don't you dare faint!"
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A/N: He he he… A bit long, but I don't think any of you care. And it's pretty obvious I modeled Theo after the great english dubbed Inuyasha. I had to. It works so well. Andways, R&R please, and tell me how you liked this one. Bye for now! ~_^