Disclaimer: I don't own the song Genie in A Bottle but I couldn't resist using it and everything other then my original characters and plots belong to someone else.
Note: Sry for the )s, they're to make the spacing for my paragraphs since fanfic net screws with mine as you'll have noticed.
Green Eyed Monsters
"But what I still don't get is where the singing was coming from, guys. Maybe I was dream walking but I didn't even recognize the song she was singing which doesn't make any sense at all. I mean I have at least one of her family CDs around the house somewhere but if I was going to hear her in my dreams why would I pick a song I didn't even know? I would have had to make the song all up in my head and I always need help writing my speeches which are likely easier then song writing." Relena said as she finished the rest of her cookie with a peeved off look. This was all really starting to bother her because she had a feeling she was missing something important. She, Noin and Sally had developed a habit of sharing lunch together whenever possible which was what she was up to now as they tried to help her solve the puzzle. Though Preventers was started by women there weren't a lot as old as they were so the three women tended to stick together and this was an interesting mystery.
"Who did you say her voice sounded like again?" Sally said as she poured herself more coffee even though she really shouldn't. She'd spent the hour before arguing with Wufei and she needed something to take her mind off it. A caffeine fix sounded good to her.
"Well that's the weird thing, it sounded like Eve Tenchi's voice." Relena said with a shrug but she just couldn't get it off her mine. "So I had to be dreaming of course because she's dead but on the other hand whoever or whatever I heard was her voice, no question.."
"You mean Eve Tenchi as in Adam Tenchi the singer's sister?" Noin said in surprise as she raised an eyebrow. "That's weird, especially since pretty much every song she was ever recorded singing was on that memorial CD they did for her and her family and I know you have it because I've borrowed it or did until I got my own copy. Now those were singers you could listen to for hours on end."
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"Who are you three talking about?" Heero asked as he, Duo, Wufei and Milliardo walked into the room to see the girls deep in thought. Usually they were chattering away like hens during this break but they seemed to be having a serious discussion.
"Eve Tenchi the singer? Now there was one hot babe, hubba hubba!!" Duo said dramatically as he placed a hand over his heart. "There was one girl who was most definitely worth fighting over."
"I remember Adam Tenchi, what a hunk!" Sally said dreamily as she pictured him in one of the posters that use to hang in her room before she'd gotten too old to hang pictures of singers and movie stars on her walls. She recalled being very careful taking the poster off the wall and rolling it up and saving it instead of throwing it away or giving it to someone as she'd done most of the others.
"No kidding, what a hunk doesn't even begin to describe what he was. I had such a huge crush on him when I was younger." Noin said as she smiled at the memories those thoughts invoked. Happy memories of life before she was too busy with instructing soldiers and doing paperwork till her hands threatened to up and die on her. "I had all his discs the first week they were out and I had so many posters it wasn't even funny. A lot of my allowance money went to that family." Noin said with a laugh as she shook her dark head at the kid she'd been.
"What!" Milliardo said not liking the sound of that at all. He didn't like the sound of his wife mooning over anyone but him.
"He was a hunk but I always preferred Gabriel myself." Relena said slyly as she watched a huge frown take over the love of her life's face. Heero looked so cute when he wanted to pout but wouldn't let himself.
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"Who the Hell is or was Gabriel?" Heero demanded joining Milliardo on the jealous husband crusade for blood that the women found comical and cute while the guys could only sympathize with their fellow men. "And why are you three acting like a bunch of hormone crazed teenagers anyway? I've never even heard any of you mention these guys before and now your acting like they're made out of chocolate!"
"Gabriel was Adam's younger brother and three years older then Eve. He was hot to but there was just something about Adam that stood him a part in my oh so biased opinion. I always wished I'd had the chance to meet him." Noin said as she pictured her former teen idol with a twinkle in her eye. "And they were singers, Heero."
"Yea Adam's voice had a way of making you feel like he was singing just for you. The fact that he was drop dead gorgeous didn't hurt either." Sally said with a similar twinkle in her eye that said point blank that she was similar to Noin in her thoughts concerning the oldest Tenchi. Watching the men try and cope with their women sighing over other men was getting to be rather entertaining as well.
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"You're drooling, Sally." Wufei said not liking this much either though he'd never admit it. He'd have thought Sally would have more sense then to fall for some guy who'd made a career out of his looks. He'd thought she was smarter then that though he'd never say so. The guy probably wasn't even that good of a singer anyway.
"Trust me on this, Chang. Adam and Gabriel were definitely worth drooling over." Noin said with a wicked grin, picking up on Wufei's mood and having a fondness for bugging the guy kept it up. "I know a lot of girls who'd have sold their souls to the devil for a chance to even just go out on a date with one of the guys. Myself included." Noin said sending a wink in the girls' direction, the girls nodding their heads in agreement.
"What do you mean you'd sell your soul for a chance to date this guy!" Milliardo said getting more and more upset by the second. The other Gundam pilots weren't exactly crazy about the girls' obsession either. They were use to see them act intelligent and level headed, not acting like hormone crazed teenagers gushing over a bunch of egotistic preppy boys who'd probably gotten where they were by their looks and sex appeal. What was wrong with them today?
"Oh calm down you guys. It's not like were going to up and leave you guys for them. Besides it's not possible for any of us to date them, single or not." Relena said with a dramatic look of woe though it really was a sad story. She wished that they'd lived through the war instead of being wiped out so quickly and out of nowhere.
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"What's up guys? Why do you guys look like you're about to kill someone?" Quatre said as he surveyed the room before any of the guys could comment, an uneasy chill rolling down his spine. For some reason he got the feeling he'd be wishing he hadn't walked into the room very shortly. "Did we have a meeting and I forgot?"
"They all want to kill the Tenchi brothers but like I was about to say they can't because they're both dead." Sally said as she watched the males in the room sighed with relief and thought about reprimanding them for it but couldn't really see the point in it. "And no we didn't have a meeting so don't worry, Quatre. Us girls were just talking about Eve Tenchi and the guys wandered in here to bug us and interrupt our lunch hour with their green monsteracitis."
"What she means was that they were discussing whether or not some sissy named Gabriel was better looking then some guy named Adam." Heero said glaring at the girls as though they'd committed a crime instead of talking appreciatively about males that they weren't involved in which the girls thought was just hilarious.
"Well I always was of the opinion that Eve was a hell of a lot better looking then the two of them put together." Duo said as he snatched a cookie off the desk and received a whack on the head from Sally for his attempt.
"Those are our cookies and seeing as you're a boy you'd naturally think she was better looking then the guys! Nice hair by the way." Sally said deliberately staring at the ball cap Duo was wearing to hide some of the damage till he could dye it back.
"Oh shut up." Duo said pulling the brim of his hat lower.
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"Why are you guys talking about them anyway?" Wufei said as he frowned at Sally with a possessiveness that surprised her but made her smile slightly because she knew he'd put his sword to his throat before he'd admit it. It was rather cute the way he was in denial and she could only hope she was around to see his face when he figured out that he liked her as more then just a friend.
"We were talking about them because they're related to a weird dream I had last night that the girls are helping me figure out." Relena said then blushed slightly as she realized how her words could be interpreted.
"What dream?" Heero growled wishing the guys weren't dead so that he could personally kill them himself one at a time and in a most painful way.
" So you figured out it was just a dream?" Quatre said as he sat down on the couch that had been placed off to the side of the room, rather enjoying the show now that he was sure he wasn't going to accidentally set off a land mine. At least this took their mind off staring at him strangely because of that stupid tape Duo had seen fit to show around. He'd had enough weird looks to last him a long time.
"Well she couldn't have actually been there and you said you didn't have any of her music playing so I must have dreamed it. But it was so real." Relena said shrugging her shoulders in confusion. She'd pretty much come to the conclusion that it was just one of those things she'd never me able to explain.
"Would someone please explain what they're talking about." An agitated Heero demanded impatiently.
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"Relena thought she heard Eve Tenchi's voice coming from Quatre's room last night, Heero. Since Eve's dead and Quatre didn't leave music playing it had to have been a dream or her imagination." Sally said with a small feline smile in Wufei's direction since the man still looked like some of his feathers were still ruffled. "It's just that it seemed to real to her to be a dream and she's never slept walk before to her knowledge."
"What happened to them, Sally? How is it that they're all dead?" Quatre said as he leaned forward with an interested look. "I think I remember some of my sisters mentioning the group and going into serious morning over the loss of the male members of the group."
"They were all killed during the war. Adam was supposedly killed on a mission when he joined a special branch of Oz and the rest of the family was killed at...ooh MY God!!" Noin said as it hit her full in the face the piece she'd been missing.
"Noin, what is it?" Milliardo said rushing over to his wife's side to take her hand. She'd gone so pale of a sudden and he was all set to order Sally to hurry up and help her when Noin gasped out the reason for her face.
"The rest of the family was on the Kesiki colony when it was destroyed. That was the colony they got all the children for the Hunter Project from!"
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later that day
Eve slowly followed the man keeping well in the shadows which was second nature to her by now. He wasn't as sloppy as the others had been but he was still no match for her. She'd been following Relena when she'd noticed she wasn't the only one doing so and so she'd circled back, the dumb idiot hadn't even noticed so intent was he on his prey. You just broke one of the cardinal rules, moron, Eve thought as she moved to avoid a puddle. Never forget to observe your prey's surroundings. Watching him come to a stop in front of an apartment building Eve watched him pull down the fire escape and begin climbing up. The old shot them from the top of a building routine Eve thought as she headed for the apartments doors, how unoriginal. Walking through the doors like she owned the place Eve headed straight for the elevators and punched in the button for the top floor. Beating her fingers impatiently against the wall Eve mentally urged it to move faster. She had no intention of allowing the stupid jerk top succeed and if the elevator didn't hurry up the world was going to be minus a Vice Foreign Peace Minister. Luckily the button chimed her arrival and the doors slide open to reveal the roof. Stepping out Eve calmly removed her long jacket to reveal two guns strapped to her hips and had someone had x-ray vision they have seen the knife attached to the belt as well. Throwing the jacket over the railing near the door Eve quickly removed her shades and began scanning. Her green eyes came alight with an unholy glare as she caught sight of her target setting up his long-range rifle for go. Walking quietly Eve slowly approached him, watching him shrug out of his jacket and wipe a smudge on his lens. "Prepare to die, Minister.Yuy." The man said as he lined up his shot.
"Not today." Were the last words he heard as Eve came from behind, grabbed his rifle out of his hand and then grabbing his head snapped his neck like a toothpick. Then with a quick kick sent the body flying over the edge to the hard pavement below. Waiting for the expected screams and shouting Eve stayed in the shadows and hearing the sound of an ambulance smiled then took stock of her new toy. "Well it's a bit crude but I think it could be turned into a useful toy." Walking back Eve picked up her jacket and slugging the rifle over her shoulder went to find a good hiding place for the weapon so that she could leave it then come back for it when she was sure that nothing else would happened tonight.
Meanwhile
"I got it." Noin said walking in with several discs under her arm and wondered if she was right and if she was right if it really had been Eve Tenchi in there singing before or after she'd possibly played with Duo's hair.
"And we've got the sketches." Heero said as he held up the sketches they had done of Quatre's version of what their assassin looked like as well as the printouts they'd gotten off the security cameras when she'd broken in to Preventers.
"And I got Heero's lab top which we can hook up so that we can find info from the database. I would imagine that there will be hundreds of thousands to chose from given how popular they were and how many memorial shrines were set up for them." Duo said holding the lap top up with a smirk.
"Well lets see what the computer has on her first and confirm that she was on Kesiki when it was hit." Lady Une said as she came into the room wondering if she would soon be learning that she'd been a part of murdering one of the most internationally loved and recognized bands of this century. She herself had loved the Tenchi family singers and still had several of their CDs. For some reason that thought horrified her.
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"Okay, I'll see what the computer has to say." Heero said as he hooked up his computer to the projector so that they could see as well while he went into the search engine he prefered to use. Typing in the name of the group Angels he didn't get anything so instead he tried Eve Tenchi instead. Heero hit the Enter key and was soon blasted with a huge list of shrines.
"What the Hell!" Milliardo exclaimed as he stared at the huge number of shrines having not expected to see so many, especially when they were just under the girl's name and not the enitire family.
"No way." Duo said in surprise.
"I've got to look into these later." Noin said as she surveyed the huge list of shrines dedicated to the group, especially to Adam and Eve who seemed to be the post popular for the kids. It made sense though since they'd been the most fan dedicated out of the family where as Gabriel had been camera shy as she recalled.
"Why don't you guys try asking for just Eve Tenchi information so that you'll just get her shrines that have more then just pictures and more pictures." Noin said as she smiled at the male expressions. Shrugging Heero did as he was told and another equally long list appeared.
"Why don't you try the third one." Sally said with a smile. "That's the first one that doesn't have endearments or slang in the title."
"Okay the Adam and Eve Tenchi Information and Image Gallery shrine it is." Heero said as he clicked on the title. Instantly the screen was taken over by a huge poster of a young man holding an equally good-looking girl against his side with the words enter at the bottom in flowing black script with roses on either end. The male had thick black hair and sparkling green eyes while the girl he held with obvious affection had pale blonde hair and eyes the same shade of green, the two obviously related.
"Isn't she hot, guys?" Duo said as he eyed the picture before turning to wink at Quatre. "If that's your girl you're one lucky man, Quatre."
"There are some similarities to the thief." Quatre admitted as he looked at the smiling girl thinking how different the familr face was. Some part of him told him that this was her, but he hoped it wasn't because he didn't want this vibrant and happy female on the screen to have gone through the torture of inhumane experimentation and forced to live while everyone she loved was dead. To have become the assassin they were looking for and that he'd met.