Notes and Disclaimers: Nope, I don't have GW as my own…..wish I did sometimes….then I could just forget about some of these idiots here at home…..
Chapter 4Halloween morning came by fast and found Rose shopping for a costume. She had put it off for long enough and she was afraid she wouldn't get many choices.
She finally found some and decided on a sexy policewoman outfit. As she paid for it, she smiled evilly to herself; she had a pair of real handcuffs at her apartment and knew that she would use them. But then her smile faltered. She would have to use them as part of her trick. She hurried back to her home and prepared to capture the Gundam Pilots.
She had a few sedative darts that she knew would work on the toughest of them and stored them a small leather purse she owned. With the other objects went a very small handgun. Looking around her room she pondered on what else she should carry with her as she picked off the pilots one by one.
She looked up at the clock in her kitchen when she finished getting ready and found that it was already four in the afternoon. She needed to leave if she wanted to do it that night. And she needed to do it or she would never actually do it. She grabbed her little leather purse and a pair of sturdy flat-soled sandals along with her car keys and headed out to her car. But before she managed to start her small car, she went back to her apartment and called the place Duo and his friends were staying at. She asked for Wufei and was promptly connected to him.
"Hello?" a deep, no-nonsense male voice said into the phone.
"Hi, is this Wufei?" she asked with a calm tone.
"Yes." He answered shortly.
"I was wondering if you could…how do I say this…give me some pointers in martial arts?" she asked timidly.
"Why?" he demanded, yet still using a polite tone of voice.
"I am already a second degree black belt in karate but I need some critique from someone not of my family nor who I have learned with." She said. She went for the truth, but she did lie to a certain point. She only wanted to get him someplace private, but she really was a black belt in karate, and while she made it up, she secretly wanted the pointers, but as it was she would not get them.
Wufei seemed to consider the request and then slowly replied, "Fine. Where do you want to meet?"
"Is the Saiso Karate place okay with you?" she asked.
"Yes," he answered simply.
"Then I'll meet you there." She said and then hung up. Then she relocked her door and walked quickly down to her car where she promptly climbed in and then drove off to her parent's karate place, where it also shared building with their home and her mother's little herbalist shop. When she pulled into the front of the building she turned the engine off and sank into her seat with slight relief when she discovered that Wufei was not there yet. That bought her a little time to get into the building and unlock the doors.
By the time she had unlocked the front doors and then walked inside to open the inner doors, she heard another car pull into the parking lot near the front of the building. She slowly walked out and watched as a Chinese man, Chang Wufei climb out of his small truck and then impatiently stride up to stand a few feet in front of the younger woman.
"Who are you exactly?" He demanded in a flat tone. But he was very serious and Rose could do nothing else but answer truthfully.
"My name is Suzumi Saiso but you probably have heard of me by the name of Rose." She replied sincerely.
"Yes. I have heard Maxwell babble quite often about his girlfriend." Wufei said, but he looked as if he only heard it because Duo had been obnoxiously annoying to the man. "I assume he is the one who informed you that I was a martial arts master?" he asked, but it was more of a statement than an actual question.
"Yes. I have opened one of the practice rooms, if you are ready?" Rose arched an eyebrow
"I am ready." He said simply. With that she turned and he followed her into the building and then into a very large room that had wall to wall mirrors throughout the whole entire room. The floor was hardwood and there were mats stacked up against one of the far walls. Wufei gazed around the room and then at the girl. She had moved closer to him and then all of a sudden she stabbed him with a very small dart and realized she was betraying him. He fell to the ground unconscious.
Rose caught him just before he fell hard on the floor and laid him down gently. She knew that when he woke up he would be furious. She stared down at him until she remembered that the dart would only last three hours, and then proceeded to drag him out of the building to her car. But he was heavy for all that he looked somewhat small. It took at least ten minutes to drag him carefully and as gently as she could out of her parent's building and to her car. But it took an extra ten minutes just to get him settled in the back seat. When she finished with him she hurried with relocking all the doors and then making sure his truck was locked before she climbed into her driver seat and drove off.
She pulled into a small parking lot in front of an old, abandoned warehouse. Once there she made sure nobody was around before she tended to Wufei once again. She dragged him as carefully as she had before into the building and sat him in a wooden, stiff backed chair she found. It took her twenty minutes to do all that. But then she found some long, strong ropes and tied Wufei to the chair. Each individual ankle was tied to a chair leg and then his wrists behind him and then a very long piece around his torso and the back of the chair. Rose even found a gag that she tied in a double knot around his slack mouth.
When she had finished with him she hurried back to her car. She had other people to capture and not a whole lot of time. She probably could get one more before Wufei woke and then she'd had to use another sedative dart on him to complete her mission. But if she was lucky she could get the majority of the pilots before Wufei woke.
She found a pay phone not too far away and when she inserted some change into it, she quickly dialed the number she had used not too long ago. And she was very glad when Quatre answered the phone, for he was to be the next victim. She managed to sound distressed while she talked to Quatre.
"Oh Quatre, I've found Wufei and he's unconscious! I didn't know what to do so I called you!" she lied.
"Don't worry Rose. Tell me where you both are and I'll come to you." He said.
She told him the directions of the warehouse and then swiftly hung up with him. After she left there she quickly drove back to the building and went inside to wait for the sweet blond man. She sat on the ground near the door, away from Wufei but she watched the unconscious man, hating herself for what she was doing. She had their trust and now she blew that. But Rose hardened herself for the sake of her family.
Quatre arrived shortly and Rose unfolded herself from her sitting position and rose to meet him outside.
"Oh I'm so glad that you found it all right!" she exclaimed as she threw herself into his arms, totally surprising him. "I don't know what had happened to Wufei, but I had to call someone! I wasn't sure if Duo was home, but…" she trailed off, all the while bursting into genuine tears. She really hated herself for this betrayal, and was mentally punishing herself already.
Quatre gave her a gentle hug and then said, "Come on. Let's go to Wufei."
Sniffing and drawing back from him, Rose nodded and led him into the building. When she entered the room holding Wufei, she let Quatre go ahead of her as she stealthily drew her small gun. She followed him up to Wufei and before he could turn around to face her, she hit him in the back of his head with the butt of the gun. He crumbled to the ground with Rose catching him, the gun falling from her hand to the floor, and then laying him down.
"I'm so sorry Quatre. I didn't want to do this." She cried as she scooped up her gun and put it away. But she wiped her tears away and found some more rope on the other side of the room, with which she tied Quatre to another chair but away from Wufei. She added a gag and tied it securely. After that she found a length of chain and with it she pushed it through between Quatre's back and the chair and then dragged his chair over to a support beam where she managed to chain his chair to the beam. She didn't want him to wake up while she was gone and then drag himself over to Wufei and get them untied.
She also hoped that neither of them would wake before she came back with Trowa, if the other three were back from their mission. She took another long look at the two and then left the building. She glanced at Quatre's car and had to go back to his unconscious body and fish his keys out of a pocket. She drove the blond's car to sit next to Wufei's at her parent's home and business and then took a bus back to the warehouse. But she slipped Quatre's keys into her pocket and found Wufei's and slipped them in with the blond's.
"How am I going to get Trowa? What excuse can I use?" she thought as she gazed around at the interior of the warehouse. "Oh, I guess I'll just use the same excuse for him as I did Quatre." She concluded.
She found a phone a little while later and used the same tactic on Trowa as she had done on Quatre. When she gave him the directions he said that he would be there as soon as he could and hung up. She returned the phone back to its rightful place and then drove back to the warehouse to wait for the third pilot.
Trowa arrived about ten minutes after she had called and came into the warehouse on his own. Rose had been standing in the shadowed doorway when he walked through. One arm was upraised with her gun and just as she brought it down hard on his head, she cried, "I'm sorry."
He fell against her and she wrapped her arms around him all the while her gun bounced on the floor and ended up near the closest support beam. She ignored it while she dragged him to a different beam deeper in the room, to the one next to Quatre. But they were spread far enough from each other that even if one of them strained they would not be able to reach each other. Rose set the taller pilot against the beam and went for ropes. When she had gathered enough to firmly secure Trowa, she realized there were none left so she would have to find other means of binding for Heero and possibly Duo.
TBC