Jess: hey everyone!! I've never gotten to do one of these little commentaries before, so I'm really excited! .
Duo: Is there a particular reason for starting now?
Jess: thinks ... umm... Nuri said it'd be fun?
Duo: And you believed her why?
Nuri: HEY!
Jess: giggles You two are funny, isn't that right, Heero?
Heero: Hn. Remind me why I put up with you bakas.
Jess: Because you and I are on the same brainwave... and because we love Duo... and umm... Nuri... err...I can't think of a reason.
Duo: Damn straight you can't!
Nuri: Hey!! What is this? Pick on Nuri Day?
Jess: Oh I remember!! We put up with her because she comes up with lots of story ideas and because she reads us bedtime stories . I like bedtime stories
Heero: I do too
Jess: See? Same brainwave.
Duo: pouting because he isn't getting attention ... more like hair-brained.
Heero: Stop insulting yourself, baka. carries Duo off to do the scene
Jess: giggles on with the show!!
Lunar Symphony
Heero POV
It's been three and a half years since the end of the war and I now find myself working with the Preventers at the age of twenty. Most of the men and women with whom I work are at least five years older than myself aside from the other gundam pilots. I had a regular job, or what I classify as "regular," just like everyone else and I think I'm doing pretty well at integrating with the rest of the population.
At the moment, I was working on a mission on L2. Apparently, it was an effort to "clean house" so to speak. Relena had finally accepted that I did not want to be her bodyguard and so Lady Une decided that since I was one of her best, she'd send me to help organize the clean-up project. There were still many dirty politicians and officials, but I'd let Relena and Quatre handle them since they were more politically inclined anyway. I was here to do the dirty work.
My main duties were to sniff out drug rings and the like and put into effect several community projects to get kids off the streets and to make L2 a more habitable place period.
It was evening and I had already picked out an abandoned building to be the main center for this community project and I was scouting the surrounding area when I saw something that made my blood turn to ice. Just rounding the corner of the building I had chosen, I spotted an older man caressing Duo's hip!
I didn't want to believe it at first, but then I heard his unmistakable voice, as if his fair skin and hair weren't enough of a give away, and I just lost control. My vision went red and the next thing I knew, Duo was clutching his face, yelling at me for hitting him. The next choice was completely logical: take Duo away from the scene and knock some sense into him one way or another.
I was barely aware of what obscenities Duo was yelling, and I could tell the people around me hid in the shadows out of fear. It was uncommon to see a Preventer in this part of town and if one was ever spotted, they were there to cause trouble. I went back to the building I had found myself, and made my way inside. The walls were crummy and the carpet was threadbare and dirty and there was graffiti all the way down the halls, but the structure was solid. I made my way up the stairs to the third floor where I had picked an apartment.
I pulled out a pass-card and swiped it across the magnetic reading device I had installed just earlier today to make sure my room was secure then put it in my back pocket. Duo had stopped struggling somewhere along the way knowing that it was useless to try and fight me. Duo had retained most of his muscle, but I had been working out for three years, as my job required of me. Now, I was slightly of a larger build than Duo with more defined muscles, if I could bend steel before, I could do much more damage now.
Inside the apartment, the walls were a shade of off-white. I had fixed every hole in the wall, exterminated, and re-carpeted the floor. The apartment was really only a one-room flat with my Spartan décor to mark it as my own. Not much had changed in that regard since the war and yes; I was still anal about keeping things working with military precision. I stepped inside with Duo still slung over my shoulder, turned around, closed and locked the door, taking the time to reactivate my alarm system.
Once I was sure the area was secure, I set Duo down and glared at him.
"I don't even know what to say to you, Duo Maxwell." I ground out my fists clenching ready to hit him again. I still had anger management issues to resolve and he was NOT helping right now. "Here I am, thinking I'm going to be doing my job on this god forsaken colony and what do I find? I find my ex-partner whoring himself in broad daylight for what? What is it Duo? What was so damned important that you had to make your living as a street walker?!" I practically yelled in his face.
"Uh..." Duo looked both angry and ashamed, but he risked looking up at me. Before meeting my eyes though, they stopped and focused on something just behind me.
I whirled around, pulling out my gun and aimed at whatever Duo was looking at. In that instant, I made two observations: One, my gun was missing; two, there was a little girl in my flat clutching my sunglasses to her chest. When had I lost them?
The little girl looked like she was maybe twelve, but her face still had the roundness of someone younger. She had long black hair braided down her back, with a red baseball cap perched backwards on her head. She was also wearing a gray oversized sweater with a large pocket in the front and baggy blue jeans meant for boys. On her feet were some large black converse knock offs and mismatched socks. Her pretty little face was smudged but her hands were clean, as if she took special care of them for some reason.
"Heero... this is my 'someone special'" Duo said as I stared at this creature in front of me.
"Awwww... I ain't that special..." the girl said, shuffling her feet.
"Heero, I'd like you to meet Morgana Wallace. Morgana, this is Heero Yuy. Now... remember what I told you?" Duo asked her in a patient voice. "We don't steel from friends, and Heero is my friend. Give the glasses back."
The girl sullenly handed me back my glasses and I took them, still trying to figure out how she managed to get into my personal space to take them. An even better question would be how she got into my apartment without my knowing.
"If the Preventer is your friend, does that mean I have to give everything else back too?" the girl asked innocently.
"Yes." Duo told her and she sighed, going to my kitchen table and dumping out the contents of her left pocket.
What I saw shocked me to no end. The girl had stripped me bare. All she had left to take from my person was my clothes, holsters, and sheaths. From her pocket emerged my wallet, the spare change in my pocket, my badge, my Preventer pass card, my keys and my flat pass card, but that wasn't all. She then began pulling out my three guns from her pocket. She had taken the one in my shoulder holster, the one at the small of my back, and the little silver one I keep tucked under a belt loop to the left of my belt buckle. She had taken all my twelve throwing knives from their hiding places at my ankles and had even gone so far as taking the blade from the spring-loaded sheath tucked under the cuff of my sleeve. The girl had taken out the handcuffs, the pepper spray, the stun gun, and the four loaded magazine clips to my guns from their pouches at my belt and had even taken my platinum chain around my neck with the number "01" hanging from it that Quatre had given each of the pilots with their respective number.
This little girl was the best thief I had ever laid eyes on, and she didn't even look old enough to pilot a gundam! This was definitely Duo's work. I turned to look at Duo who also looked just as stunned as I was.
"Okay, sweetie..." Duo coaxed, "now how much of this stuff belongs to Heero?"
The girl just shrugged, playing with the end of her braid, "I took all this off the Preventer."
Duo blinked, "Then what's in your other pockets?"
She shrugged again, "It's my day's work."
"Let me see." I surprised myself by asking.
The girl, Morgana, looked a little wary, but at a nod from Duo, she began emptying her pockets. The girl was beyond good. She had a total of 31 wallets in her possession as well as assorted jewelry of various values. She had loose credits and change and an assortment of watches that could be pawned.
I was snapped out of my thoughts when Duo just laughed a little, "No wonder you have half of the rent already! Look at you, you little thief!"
The girl grinned a little and looked up innocently at Duo, "I only want to be as good as you, Duo."
Duo laughed again, "kid, you've been better than me for over a year now!"
I wasn't too comfortable with the idea of having this many stolen goods in my apartment, especially since I was now supposed to be enforcing the law. "You have to give as much of that stuff back as you can," I said.
Duo gave me an angry look while Morgana gave me the kicked puppy look, "But... if we give everything back... we won't have enough money to pay our rent!"
"Yeah, Heero, and you don't like my line of work either." Duo sneered. "We won't take charity either, so don't even think about offering it."
"I wasn't planning on doing any such thing!" I practically shouted at him. It's been years and he still gets me riled up. It must be a Duo thing that he's passing on, it seems because the girl takes after him a little too much.
"There you go," Morgana said matter-of-factly. "This is our livelihood, you can't take it from us."
"Speaking of which, kiddo, how in the hell did you ever get that good?" Duo asked the girl. He shouldn't be encouraging her behavior. "It takes a LOT to be able to get that close to Heero. He's broken wrists when people try to get too close to his weapons! You know... he used to be able to bend steel with his hands when he was skinny, imagine what he can do now!" Duo looked at me from head to toe, seeing all the muscle mass I'd accumulated over the years and nodded to himself. "So, answer the question, squirt."
Morgana blushed slightly, her hands behind her back, "Well... I switch your hair tie three times a day...From black to pink, then later from pink to purple, then from purple to black before you go to bed because I know you take your hair down at night."
Duo looked stunned that someone could tamper with his braid without his knowledge. He then cracked a grin and spread his arms for a hug, "C'mere you!"
Morgana rushed up to him and hugged him back. I sighed... this was going to be a LONG mission.
"Duo... why don't you help me out? I'm sure Une wouldn't mind putting you on payroll if you agreed to help with our latest project." I couldn't help feeling left out when Duo hugged Morgana. Don't ask why, but I felt the need to bring their moment to an end.
"Project?" Duo asked curiously.
I nodded, "A project to clean out L2"
Jess: Hey everyone!! Well... wouldn't you know? I started writing this chapter this morning and then I had to go to class halfway through the thing so I went. So there I was on campus walking to my Anatomy and Physiology class when a piece of dirt or something blows into my eye....
Heero: Does this story have a point?
Jess: I'm getting there!
Heero: Hn.
Jess: So like I was saying, I got a foreign particle in my eye and it HURT! So I took my stupid test, went home, and called my mom. She told me to get my ass to the doctor and it turns out I have a cut in my eye! Now I have to walk around with s stupid looking eye patch and a headache. Fun, huh?
Heero: Hn. That didn't have a point to it.
Jess: But it hurts!
Duo: Be nice to her. At least she finished this chapter...
Nuri: Yeah Hee-chan, be nice... or... or... I'll write something you won't like! It's my turn after all grin
Heero: pales and mumbles an apology then grabs Duo and makes a hasty exit.
Nuri and Jess: Bye everyone!! Till next time!