An Orphan's Life

Disclaimer: Once again, if I owned Gundam Wing, Hilde would be with Duo all the time, Noin and Zechs would not be so darned platonic, Catherine wouldn't make so much soup, and Wufei would be an all right guy and not so serious all the time. So, we can all see that none of this has happened, which means I do not own it!

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Caterina sighed when Jade didn't answer her phone again. What the heck was keeping her so busy?

"Give it up, girl. They're not going to answer."

Caterina smiled and turned over in the bed to look at Jacob.

After leaving the hospital and having a couple of drinks at a nearby bar, Jacob had invited her over to his house.

Caterina never missed an opportunity to have fun and she wasn't about to let this one slip through her fingers.

Especially when he mentioned that his parents were out of town and that his little sister avoided all contact with him when they're alone together in the giant mansion.

Oh, no, Caterina knew a good time when she saw it coming. And this was definitely a good time.

She poked him playfully and moved closer to him, pulling the bed sheets with her. "Why do you care? It's not like you're paying for the bill or anything."

He smiled at her and pulled her in for a kiss. "I care, because you're attention is not on me."

Caterina smirked at that comment and shook her head. "Idiot. You know I don't pay attention to anybody, except myself."

He laughed and wrapped his arms around her. "Ah, there' my selfish girl. How I love her."

Caterina smiled and snuggled into his chest. She bit back a feeling of guilt and looked up at him seriously. "I don't want to come off all weird and ungrateful and everything, but don't you think we're moving too fast?"

Jacob frowned and looked down at her in confusion. "Really? You think so? What makes you say that?"

Caterina motioned at their clothes that were thrown on the floor haphazardly and the way they were lying in his bed with only the blankets to cover their lack of said clothing.

He blinked, then shrugged. ""You weren't complaining a few minutes ago," he said, nibbling at her right earlobe.

Caterina blushed (A/N: *GASP*!) and played with his hair. "Or the time before that," she added, hoping to make him blush too.

If he did, he hid it well. He laughed some more at her comment and hugged her close to him. "Or the time before that." He laughed when he saw her turn more red.

Jacob two, Caterina zero.

He brushed a stray hair from her face and leaned in toward her ear. "Why are you blushing? There's nothing to be embarrassed about. Not like you haven't done it before."

Caterina smiled and shrugged a little. "Maybe 'cuz I haven't done it before with a guy I actually liked… Well, you know, the whole passion thing and …feelings and such."

Starting to feel uncomfortable with the whole situation, mainly because she kept thinking of what her father's face would look like if he ever found out his precious little girl did what she had just done, she sat up and sighed.

Jacob frowned at her sudden change of mood, but said nothing. He sat up as well and began to look for his boxers. (A/N: O^_^O *BLUSH*)

Caterina watched him move around, wishing she wasn't feeling so guilty. This guy was so damn hot it was killing her not to be close to him anymore.

She rubbed her forehead, mentally kicking herself for drinking a lot again. That's probably what added to her being so wild tonight. Her mother would not be happy if she found out she drank more than she was supposed to.

Again.

On the plus side, she didn't think about Elysia or Theo or Jennifer at all throughout the entire night. She had done pretty well forgetting about them.

But when she remembered why she came to the Sank Kingdom, she immediately tried to contact Jade.

Jade never answered, but there was this one time where somebody picked up the phone. However, when Caterina tried to talk to whoever it was, the only reply she got back was something that sounded like groaning and heavy breathing.

And she did not want to think about who it was or what was causing it.

She sighed again.

What was she going to do for the rest of the night?

She looked up at Jacob when a loud banging noise was heard somewhere off in the house.

Jacob frowned and looked back at her slowly. "Is someone at the door?"

Caterina shrugged and began to look for her underwear. "How should I know? This is my first time here."

Jacob made a face and shook his head. "I think someone's here." He found his boxers and slipped them on as he walked over to his door and opened it. "Lisette! Get the damn door!"

"Get it yourself!" came the reply from somewhere upstairs.

Jacob sighed and looked to Caterina apologetically. "I have to get the door. I'll be right back."

Caterina paused in her getting dressed routine and nodded. "Okay. I'll meet you out there."

Jacob nodded and smiled at her. He ran over to her and gave her one last passionate kiss before walking out of his room.

This had better be good.

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Elysia glared at the front door and pounded harder on it. "Open up, damn it!"

Jennifer raised an eyebrow at her fellow orphan's behavior and glanced over at Theo.

He looked to be in a state of shock at how Elysia was acting. He stared back at Jennifer, a look of concern on his face.

Elysia pounded some more. "Damn it! He knew I was coming! He somehow knew!"

Theo couldn't take it any more. He grabbed her hands, before she could inflict any more damage upon the poor door and tried to pull her back. "Sweetie, stop with the knocking. You're going to hurt yourself. "

Jennifer nodded and laid a hand on Elysia's shoulder to calm her down. "Someone's probably already on their way down. Banging on the door will only frighten them off."

Elysia took a deep breath and let it out slowly as an attempt to contain her anger. She kicked the door a couple of times for good measure. "Bastards!"

Theo sighed and tried to hold her down as she went to kick the door again.

Luckily for him, the door swung open.

They looked up expectantly at whoever it was, Elysia ready to pounce and beat the poor soul up.

She paused when she saw a blonde girl who appeared younger than her staring back at them.

Elysia slowly pulled away from Theo, her anger melting away quickly. "Um… hi."

The girl frowned and held onto the door. "Hi."

Elysia frowned as well, not knowing what to do. She had expected to see some middle aged man to open the door and she in turn punching him in the face. This girl really threw her off.

She took a step forward and gestured around with her hands. "Okay, I'm sorry. I came here to go beat- er, talk to someone. And you're not him..." She turned around, mad that she embarrassed herself the one time she wasn't afraid to meet someone.

"Wait." The girl stepped out onto the porch and grabbed Elysia by the arm. "I'm supposed to know you, aren't I?"

Elysia turned back to face the girl and frowned. "I think so…"

The girl studied Elysia, then gasped. She let go of her arm and held onto the wall for support. "Aunt Relena…She…I… Y-you're my cousin!"

Elysia's eyes widened a bit as this sunk in.

She mentally slapped herself for not even thinking about the fact that her uncle had to have had children.

The officer had told her he was married.

Elysia closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead. "Oh, well this helps my plan to kill him," she said sarcastically to herself.

At that moment, a tall blonde guy came strolling towards them from up a hallway. He frowned at the group in front of him and tapped the girl angrily.

"Damn it, Lisette. You said you weren't going to get the door!"

The girl glared at him and motioned at Elysia. "Well, I knew you were going to take a long time to do it, since you came in with that bimbo earlier, so I decided to come down instead. And anyways, Jacob, did you not notice I am having a moment right now?!"

Jacob glared at her some more. "Why do you do this to me?" He looked at the three frozen teens on the porch. "Who the hell are you?"

Elysia was just finished processing the fact that this guy was her cousin as well, when Caterina came walking up from the same place he had appeared with a white bed sheet wrapped around her. "Jacob, who is it?" She paused in her steps when she saw who was there.

Elysia froze as Theo made a face at Caterina's appearance. Jennifer was also struggling to grasp the concept that her older friend was practically naked.

Her mouth fell open as she pointed to the bed sheet. "W-w-what…" she sputtered. She looked to Theo and Elysia for help.

Elysia pointed to Caterina slowly, her eyes wide. "Y-you…"

Lisette turned to get a good look at Caterina and gasped. She slapped Jacob upside the head. "You moron! You're screwing a Winner?!"

Jacob frowned, not even acknowledging the pain was feeling, and looked at Caterina in confusion. "What's wrong with that?"

Elysia blinked a couple times, then managed to yell at Caterina," You're screwing my cousin?!"

Caterina blinked, then looked to Jacob on shock. "He's your cousin?!"

Jacob looked to Elysia quickly. "Cousin?! You're my cousin?!"

Lisette waved her hands around a bit. "All right, I think we all need to calm down." She took a deep breath and looked at Elysia. "How old are you?"

Elysia tore her gaze from Caterina and looked to Lisette. "I just turned eighteen."

Lisette nodded and looked at Jacob. "Well, that explains why I don't remember her."

Jacob stared at her. "So, what? I'm supposed to be the one remembering her?!"
Lisette glared at him. "Well, you are five years older than her. You should have some kind of memory of a cousin."

Jacob glared at her, then looked to Elysia. "No. This can't be right. Aunt Relena never had a kid."

Elysia narrowed her eyes at him. "Well, surprise, surprise."

"Wait a second," Caterina said, walking over to their, waving her hands. "Jacob told me his last name was Marquise." She pointed to Elysia. "Wasn't your mother's last name Peacecraft?"

Elysia nodded slowly.

Caterina looked at Jacob. "Well, then you can't be cousins."

Lisette smirked and walked over to Caterina. "Oh, so you fell for that one, eh?"

Caterina looked at the younger girl in confusion. "Huh?"

Lisette shook her head and motioned at her brother who was looking around casually. "Well, you see, ol' Jakey here has a thing where he likes to give a fake name to whatever girl he happens to be hitting on. He likes to use our dad's old code names."

Caterina took this in, and then turned to glare at Jacob. "You lied to me?!"

Jacob raised his hands in surrender. "Sorry. I didn't mean to."

Caterina went to hit him, then sighed and kissed him instead. "Aw, I can't stay mad at you."

Jacob smiled at her and pulled her closer to him as they began to make out right there.

Theo pointed at them in disgust and tried to cover his eyes. "Oh, this is pure torture."

Lisette grabbed Elysia's hand and pulled her inside, steering off in a different direction then her brother. "C'mon. We have a lot to talk about."

Elysia nodded and followed, trying to ignore the gross display of PDA behind her.

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A/N: … That was the dirtiest chapter I have ever written. Sorry if I nauseated any of you. I don't know what the hell is wrong with Caterina. I just figured she'd be the one who'd change the most out of everybody. On a lighter note, YAY! I broke 100 reviews. You people make me so happy. ^_^ Any who, R&R and I'll see you next chapter. ~_^