An Orphan's Life

Disclaimer: Since kidnapping Quatre and ransoming the owners of Gundam Wing to hand over their rights to me didn't seem like a wise idea, Gundam Wing still, sadly, does not belong to me. That is, until I can come up with a better plan…

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As Elysia and Theo got off of the shuttle and headed out of the terminal, Elysia couldn't shake off a bad feeling she was getting. She was turning out of the terminal and out towards the baggage claim area, wondering what the heck was wrong, when she walked straight into Caterina's smirking face. She gasped and stopped in her tracks, Theo crashing into her.

"What are you doing?! Why'd you stop walking?!" He pushed her a little and walked around her, muttering about aspirin. He made a face when she was still standing in shock at Caterina. He stopped and glared at her arms crossed, waiting for her impatiently.

Elysia blinked and looked at Caterina. "What are you doing here? How-"

"My father forced me to come here and give you your bag. You left it at my house." She held up Elysia's bag, letting it dangle between her fingers. She rolled her eyes. "Actually, he told me to go to Trowa's hous-er, tent, since he said you were going there. After I got there, Trowa told me you were heading to Wufei's. So, I had to take another shuttle to get to this god forsaken colony." She looked around and shuddered. "It needs some repair. Badly."

Elysia took her bag from Caterina and frowned, still confused. "If you were that far behind us, then how'd you get here before us?"

"When your father's the richest man in the colonies, you tend to get the faster, more relaxing shuttle flights. But I guess you wouldn't know what that feels like, now would you?" She looked over at Theo. "Why, Theodore Barton! Look at how tall you are!"

Theo glanced over at Caterina, still glaring. "Who the hell are you?"

Elysia, who was confused by Caterina's comment, started laughing. "Your name is Theodore?!" She laughed harder, until Caterina and Theo gave her a look. She stopped quickly and cleared her throat. "Um… I'll just go get our bags and- oh, look! Isn't that your bag, Theo? I'll just go and get it…" She ran and made her escape, covering her face in embarrassment.

Theo continued glaring at Caterina.

Caterina rolled her eyes and shook her head. "I can't believe you don't remember me. Did that fall off the roof really mess up your head?"

Theo gasped, and narrowed his eyes at her. "You!"

"Oh, don't start. You still haven't let that little accident go, have you?"

"Accident?! I don't think accidents involve someone purposely pushing somebody else off of the roof!"
"Well, I told you I was going to do it! You'd think someone who had been in the circus as long as you were would've landed gracefully." She frowned when she heard Elysia shouting obscenities. She looked past Theo and shook her head. "That girl has some serious problems."

Theo frowned and looked behind him to see what she was talking about.

Apparently the bag was heavier than Elysia had anticipated, so she was struggling to lift it up, while trying to stop the bag from moving on the rotating baggage thingy. Which was the cause of her not so nice mouth at the moment.

Theo slapped his forehead and sighed. He looked at Caterina. "Excuse me." He walked over to Elysia yelling," What the hell are you doing?! Leave my bag alone!"

Elysia stopped moving, her hand still on the bag. "Hey, well, I told you I was getting it!" She froze when she heard something rip. She looked down to see Theo's bag go off, the handle in still in her hand.

Theo said something pretty bad and loudly, and dove for his bag. Elysia slowly brought the ripped handle closer to her face and nodded. "Plastic. Not the strongest material around." She looked up when she heard Theo begin to use the words she was using earlier. She tried not to laugh at what she saw.

When Theo had grabbed his bag, it fell open, the handle not being the only thing that had broken off. So, his clothes, mostly his boxers, were strewn all over the floor.

Elysia held in her laughter and went back to Caterina, feeling it was safer to be with her than with Theo at the moment.

Caterina shook her head and looked at her watch. "You two are the worst people I have ever known."

After Theo had picked up all of his clothes, the three teenagers were walking out of the airport, following Caterina to the special limo she had arranged to pick them up in.

Of course, when Theo had heard that part, he immediately wanted to go home, until Elysia reminded him that he would have to go back on a shuttle.

He gulped and protested no more, finding it a bit more tolerable to stay in a limo with Caterina Winner than going on a shuttle again.

Sitting in the limo in the back, squished between Elysia and their bags, Theo glared at Caterina who was sitting comfortably in front of them. He never liked that blonde, for more than one reason. Selfish was one of them.

She was looking in a compact mirror, not seeming to notice, or care, how uncomfortable Elysia and Theo were feeling. "So, why are you two seeing Wufei?"

Theo didn't bother to hide his contempt. "Why do you care?"

Caterina glanced over at him with her eyes and lowered the mirror a little. "I don't. Just wanted to know why I'll have you guys with me when I go speak with Jade."

Elysia frowned and tried to shift, her right foot beginning to fall asleep. "Jade? Who's that?"

Caterina gave a small frown, then smiled. She closed the mirror and set it down in her lap. "Jade Chang. She's Wufei's daughter. Sweet girl."

"Isn't she older than you, Caterina?" Theo asked, raising an eyebrow.

Caterina glared at him. "What the hell is your problem? I've done nothing but be kind to you and all you've done is act like a huge jackass! You sure have changed, Theo."

"As did you."

Elysia shifted some more, hoping that she didn't get caught in he crossfire of the argument. She tried to look out the window, but the dark tint prevented her from seeing anything. She stole a glance at Caterina and Theo, who grew silent.

They seemed to be having a glaring contest, and it appeared that neither of them were winning or losing.

She gulped, glad that she wasn't receiving hose glares and decided to stare at her feet until they stopped.

After a while, Caterina started laughing. "Oh, what are we doing? Acting like a bunch of five-year-olds! I mean, really, we should be catching up on each other's lives and sharing embarrassing stories of our youth!" She stuck her hand out to Theo. "Truce?" She smiled a bit too sweetly at him.

Elysia didn't like the way Caterina suddenly changed moods. She watched her suspiciously as Theo stared at Caterina's hand as if it were a poisonous snake.

He raised an eyebrow at her. "What's the catch?"

"Why, nothing at all! I can't believe that you would think I'd be planning something against you!" She was still giving that smile that looked too fake.

Theo studied her for a minute, then slapped her hand away. "Fine. But we don't need to shake hands. That's like a business deal, which are all shams to begin with."

Caterina sighed and picked her mirror up from her lap. "Fine…" She frowned when she saw Elysia out of the corner of her eye, staring at Theo with what looked like affection in her eyes. She pretended she was looking at the mirror still and watched as Elysia and Theo kept stealing glances at each other the whole ride.

She gave a smirk as a plan began to form in her mind. *I still have to pay her back for getting me in trouble with daddy. And for me being forced to go here… Oh, this will be too easy! *

She put the mirror down and clapped her hands together. "Oh! This will be so much fun!"

Elysia looked at her warily as Theo rolled his eyes.

"What are you talking about, Caterina?" Elysia asked, confused.

"Oh, dear, dear Elysia. I meant sharing our rooms together and everything! It'll be just like we're sisters!" * In a twisted world, that is. *

Elysia frowned, not sure what to make of this. Was this the same Caterina who kicked her out of her house a few days ago? She smiled weakly at Caterina and nodded. "Yeah, I guess… Wait… What rooms?"

"The hotel room, silly! I got one for us. We'll all be sleeping together!"

Elysia looked down quickly as she started to blush, getting a different meaning of the sentence.

Theo was hiding his feelings better and was still glaring out the window.

Caterina didn't notice, and opened the partition between them and the driver to see where they were. "Oh, good. We're almost there!" She looked at Theo and Elysia happily. "After we get settled in, let's go get something to eat. I believe it's lunch time already."

Elysia nodded, starting to get that bad feeling again.

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A/N: Hmm… What'd you think? Sorry this one kind of drags along a bit. Just had to shove Ms. Winner in somehow. It's get better, later on. *Gets evil grin* Anyways, R&R and be nice. Oh, and just to let you all know, I was just saying things that float around in my mind in my explanation chap and that you don't need to share my views in order to read this. So, as a precaution, IGNORE EVERY OPINION I HAVE!!!!! Thank you and see ya later! ~_^