Hey people chapter 2 of this story. I want to thank computer geek Michelle and kimira for their wonderful review and I hope you'll read my other stories to especially Trowa's angel ,it's really cute. Well enough with the bla ,bla , bla's! On with tha fic.
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Gundam Wing. I do own Chao-Tse lee , doc. D and GEMENI. Oh , and also Chao-Tse's parents.
(me explaining)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter 2
"No!" Sally yelled putting her hands up defensively.
"Stop don't do this! It won't take away your pain." Quatre said as he walked towards her.
"Please, Sally didn't do it. She tells the truth. I know you can tell. You're like me." he continued. Tiger stopped her attack, but kept the chair hovering above Sally.
"Please calm down and let's talk. Tell me about what happened. I understand your pain. I lost my father too, but it was worse for you. You were so young, so cared, in pain and alone." Quatre said softly tears running down his face. Tiger looked at him as she put the chair down. Quatre looked at her smiling through the tears. For the first time since they met he could see her true emotions just for a few seconds. Then as sudden as it had come it was gone and she was back to her normal self. No emotions showing, just the normal carefree face.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what got into me. I'll help clean up the mess I made." she said.
"Oh, don't worry about that. I think you were hallucinating. You had a fever when I left, but I couldn't give you any medicine without checking with you. Because of the anaesthetics thing, but enough; let's clean this mess up and get you back to bed." Sally said. After cleaning up Sally was asked to come to Lady Une.
Back to Tiger POV
"Tell me what did you mean with me being like you?" I asked Quatre as he sat next to the bed I was strapped to. (This was done on my request since I didn't want a repeat of the before mentioned) He smiled at me and motioned his friends to go to Sally's office.
"Well I mean you're an empath. You can feel others emotions." he said.
"I'm an empath too. That's why I could feel your pain. You knew I was one. I saw it in your eyes. That's how I know." he smiled at me.
"Okay so you know I'm an empath and your right I knew you're one too." I said not understanding why he send the others away.
"I have many questions. How did you do that with those soldiers and how did you know about me and duo being targeted ?" He continued.
"Okay I understand you're confused about it, but I can't answer those questions." I said.
"I know, but I thought maybe you trust us enough to at least tell me your name.
"I'm sorry but I can't, he doesn't want me to." I said.
"I understand. Maybe you can tell me what happened to your parents?" He asked.
'He doesn't push me for answers. He's strange. I don't know but it feels like I can trust him.' I thought. I was very confused.
"Okay, I don't know why but I trust you and that means a lot coming from me I don't even trust my superior." I said.
"I'll tell you what I can. You can get your friends back now." I said as Quatre got up and untied the straps.
"Okay, I'll get them. What is said here will stay between us." He said as he ran out of the recovery room.
30 minutes later
"Sorry it took a while to find them." Quatre said as they walked in.
"That's okay. Now before I say anything I have some rules. One, if it's a question I can't answer don't push on it. Two, we ask in turn meaning first you then me. Three, stupid questions are not answered by me. Four, three questions per person. Do we agree?" I stated mater-of-factly.
"We agree." Quatre said before anyone could speak up.
"First question: Your name the real one." Heero said glaring at me. I closed my eyes.
"subject x93t4, Chao-Tse Lee a.k.a. The Tiger. Where am I?" I said calmly.
"Preventor HQ. What were you doing in that base?" Heero said.
"I was on a mission. Why am I here other than my wounds?" I asked.
"You were brought here for questioning. Who's your superior?" Heero answered.
"Can't tell." I said crossing my arms as Duo took Heero's place.
"What was your mission?" he asked.
"I was told to gather information and destroy the base. Why were you there?" I countered
"Same thing. Where are you from?" Duo said.
"We have our own secret base, but it's location as you can guess is a secret. Where is my motorcycle?" I said with a grin.
"Come again?" Duo asked confusedly.
"The motorcycle I came there on." I asked.
"It's in the hangar." Wufei answered.
"Thanks kindly." I said. Wufei looked away and said nothing.
"Okay question number 3. How old are you?" Duo said.
"19 and you?" I countered once more.
"I'm 18 and so are Heero, Wufei and Quatre and Trowa's 19." Duo said. Quatre took the seat as Duo stood up.
"How were you able to determine how many soldiers there were and what weapons they had?" he asked. I Closed my eyes again.
"I'm an empath. My superior had me train this ability for years and I've reached a level in it that allows me to as it were become the other person. That's how I knew. How far are you?" I asked genuinely curious about this.
"I'm only able to feel someone's feelings and sometimes I see flashes of memories that help me understand their feelings. What happened to your parents?" Quatre asked smiling sadly. I knew he'd ask. I wished he hadn't.
"They were murdered. Shot down before my eyes when I was three years old. I remember waking up in the hospital afterwards. Where they told me that some boy had found me and brought me there. I was shown a picture, but I don't remember the face. I…I don't have a question at the moment." I said collecting myself as the memory returned again.
"I'm sorry. How did you end up on that base of yours?" Quatre asked quietly now
"After the murder I was adopted by my superior in his special training centre." I answered.
One hour thirty minutes and six questions later
I was strapped down again and tried to sleep. I heard them talk with Sally and whom I presumed to be Lady Une in her office.
THE CONVERSATION
"He wants to see her back as soon as she's well enough. Preferably within one week." Sally said.
"We have a lot of info on her, but she's not saying anything about her organization." Heero said.
"I know Heero, I've asked him whether we could send a representative along to see how they work. I told him that we were impressed by her actions and are considering an alliance with them. He kindly declined. Their training-centre isn't a military school and she wasn't supposed to be at that base." Lady Une said slightly annoyed by the way she was treated.
"I think he lied, she said he gave her the mission to go there and steal info. It's not likely she'd be making that up and fool even Quatre." Wufei said.
"Wufei's right she told the truth. I'm sure of it Lady Une." Quatre added.
"We'll see tomorrow. Though I doubt she'll be back up her feet any time soon. Her little action this afternoon has left her drained and the wound needs time to heal. I'm not letting her out of sickbay before she's completely well again." Sally said.
"I agree with Sally. It's best that she stays till she's well again." Trowa said.
"Very well, dismissed. " Lady Une said.
I felt glad. D. may have adopted me as his daughter, but he wasn't exactly the model-dad any kid would want. Plus I knew that when I'd get back to the base he'd have me beaten for letting out info to them. So no I wasn't in a hurry to return to him. Soon sleep took over and I slept restlessly that night. I stayed in their hospital wing for ten days till my wound was healed enough to go home.
"No, she's not going home yet she needs to stay at least two more weeks." I heard Sally yell.
"I know Sally, but her wound is completely healed and he wants her back by 20:00 tonight, but if you say she's not ready yet…" Lady Une said. I didn't bother listening to the rest. I was bored so I left.
"What to do, what to do? Maybe I'll take a look around here. As D. always says knowledge is power." I said. I looked around the various rooms I walked past. Laboratories, quarters for those who stayed at the base, I also found the prison cells, offices (in one of which I saw Quatre. Being CEO isn't easy), entertainment rooms (I found Duo playing some racing game. But declined his offer to join him.) and last but definitely not least the training rooms and gym (In which I found Trowa and Wufei who were training).
"So this is where you train?" I asked while looking around.
"A little low-tech, but still most effective. At least you don't have 50 scientists looking over your shoulder while you train or a multitude of devices stuck on your chest, head and arms." I said as I started to do some warming up exercises.
"You shouldn't be here ,woman." Wufei snorted.
"I know, but lying in a hospital bed was getting boring. I wanted something to do other than staring at the walls." I replied walking over to the mat.
"You should be resting, even we don't heal from a near fatal wound within two weeks." Trowa said looking at me from where he was doing push-ups.
"I had far worse than just a hole in my chest. I'm fine." I replied now doing a series of complicated exercises on the mat.
In the following three hours I completed my usual training schedule (except for my mobile suit training.), been target for Trowa and fought with him and won and I was currently fighting Wufei since 45 minutes and counting. He launched a vicious kick towards my head, but I easily blocked him and swiped his other leg from underneath him. But he managed to bring himself back up before hitting the ground.
"Nice save, you're a good fighter best competition I've had so far!" I said.
"You're not to bad either, for a woman." he replied.
"I know." I said and with that I launched another series of attacks at him. All Wufei could do was block.
'I've got him now' I thought and I got ready to end this, but was however surprised by Wufei who managed to knock me of my feet. I landed hard on my chest and felt the wound sting, but ignored it.
'damn it lost my focus. Come on you can take him! Focus!' I yelled in thought as I got up and blocked his leg and fists several times before managing to fully get back up and launch some vicious attacks at him. The fight went on for another hour. Then suddenly I found myself lying on my back staring at Wufei's fist coming down to my face. Wufei stopped just millimetres away from my nose and he looked at me in surprise. Than he offered me a hand and helped me back up my feet.
"Why didn't you block or move away when you saw my fist?" he asked.
"I knew you wouldn't hit me." I said.
"Is that so? And why do you think that." Wufei asked smirking.
"Because it isn't honourable to hit a person when he or she is down and defenceless." I replied.
"There you are, why'd you leave?" Sally said as we left the gym.
"I got bored and you two didn't seem to need me to decide on whether or not I'm to stay or go." I replied. Then Sally led me back to the sick bay while telling me that I should know better than to go fight with them after just recovering form such a wound. When we got back to sick bay she examined my wound.
"Well you're lucky this time, but you're going to stay one more day." she said.
"So I'm leaving tomorrow?" I asked hiding my disappointment.
"Yes, we can't keep you here any longer. You're fully healed and we have no reason to keep you as a prisoner. Other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time we have no evidence of any crime." she explained.
