Gundam Wing
Episode 1 *Meeting Fox*
6:00pm
You hear the echoing of running feet in a dark alley under the artificial night sky of the colony. The feet stop as they reach the dead end of the alley. Three men of the four men in tuxedos produce guns as they look around. "Ok kid, come out! We know you're here."
The kid hides conveniently inside a trash can. He stays perfectly still controlling his breathing taking in just enough to stay conscious since the smell of the garbage was starting to overwhelm him. He takes of his hat and covers his nose with it to stifle the smell. Why couldn't they have found me on garbage day? At least the cans would have been empty and to think I thought this was going to be a normal day.
~~~~~ Flash ~~~~~
"Hey, Teri!" Teri looks up after giving his last fish to the penguin. He has come into work late so he wasn't in his normal uniform of solid blue t- shirt and shorts.
"James, now what?" He climbs out of the pen where James was waiting.
"Mr. Sander wants you." James points to four guys in tuxedos. Teri walks over casually up to them, but with caution as he always did around new people. One of the men he recognized quickly stopping him in his tracks too late to turn back.
"Where have you been all this time, Teri? Mr. Sander was just telling us what a good job you do here at the zoo." Teri takes a step back, but two guys grab his arms before he could get away. "I can't thank you enough for taking care of Teri for me."
"Your welcome Mr.-"
"Just call me Brian. I hate to be so formal."
The guy on his right gets Teri's attention. "If you so much as breathe wrong kid I'll kill the old man." Giving in, they start for the exit passing a young man with shaggy dark brown hair. He looks up showing his motionless, Prussian blue eyes as one guy takes out some handcuffs and proceeds to handcuff Teri.
"Hey!"
"Shut up!" Teri dodges his punch to the face and knees him in the balls. He falls to the ground cringing in pain. His brother helps him. The last triplet picks Teri up so he couldn't run away. Teri's first reaction was to bite back. He lets go and Teri kicks him in the stomach then jumps on his back as the others try to catch him. Jumping off his back, he dashes away from them and they soon case after him.
~~~~~ Flash ~~~~~
Teri lifts the lid slowly just enough to see them arguing. As quickly as it stated it ceased as two gunshots shatter the angry hollers like glass. The triples leave quickly. After a while he, exits the trashcan and walks over to Brian's still body. Even though he knew, he was dead, he checks for a pulse anyway after putting his black hat on his head. He face grows motionless remembering how he betrayed him and begins to dig in his pockets.
Finding his gun, he studies it before setting it down by his knee looking for more that could aid him besides the wallet he stuffed in his pocket. Without warning, the gun is placed to Fox's head. "Put your hands up and stand up slowly."
Teri obeys but not after snatching the dead man's cell phone. He holds it up. "Do you want to call an ambulance or are you going to let this body rot here." There's a moment of silence.
"Turn around." Doing as he says he turns recognizing the young man he had passed by at the zoo. He noticed that he was wearing a white T-shirt and some maroon kakis. Teri stands quietly as he calls for an ambulance. Surprisingly, it came in a few minutes. After turning Teri over to the police, he decides to tag along.
He looks down at his Chinese slippers feeling uneasy then decides to brake the silence. "So. What's your name?"
"My name is Heero Yuy," Heero says his voice monotone and expressionless, but dead serious. Teri looks at Heero with his walnut black eyes.
"And yours?"
"Just call me Fox; it's a nickname given to me by my friends." Just then, the police car stops and inside they separated them.
A Chinese officer who looks around 16 walks up to Heero. He had short black hair and dark green eyes. "Hello my name is Officer Tembo and I'd like to thank you for bringing him in. he has the worst criminal record I've ever seen."
"O you mind if I talk to him before I leave."
"Sure, just follow me." Heero follows him to a door. He turns the knob. "He should in this room." Opening the door to his horror are three knocked out officers on the floor. Officer Tembo quickly goes to the one that stirs. "What happened?" Helping his fellow officer up, Heero walks in noticing one of the ceiling tiles was out of place as the door automatically closes behind him.
"I don't know. The kid just went crazy when we tried to take a fingerprint."
"Where does that vent lead to?" Both officers look as him confused at his sudden interest in the vent.
"It leads to the bathrooms."
"Where are the bathrooms?"
"Just take a left, but why?" Heero runs to the door throwing it open.
"OOW!" He stops when he hears the familiar voice behind him. He turns to see Fox holding his nose. His hat falls to the floor exposing his long jet back braid that stops at his thighs. Fox quickly picks up his hat. "You shouldn't open doors so quickly. You can really hurt someone!" He looks up to see Heero. "Oh, it's you." He shrugs as a few officers turn the corner.
"There he is!" Fox smiles and does three back flips. The last one lands him on a desk, but he slips on a piece of paper and falls backward in a roller chair. Fox pushes away from the desk dodging one of the officers and plowing into the other with the chair. Rolling off the chair, he leaves them to slam into the nearest wall.
He dashes for the exit. An officer walks in from a lunch brake. "Catch him!" Fox skids to a stop as he leaps at him. Fox moves to his left dodging it. At the last second, he jumps on the officer's back. Jumping off, he leaps through the glass above the door and lands perfectly on the stair rail in front of the building. After sliding down it, he disappears in the night.
Officer Tembo emerges furious form the station and walk to his car as the triplets Fox escaped from earlier walk up behind him. "What do we do now?"
Officer Tembo leans on his car without looking at them. "Eliminate him. We'll find the girl another way." Heero stands behind a nearby tree listening then leaves soon after they do.
0_- A golden brown haired woman leans back in her seat after putting the ship on autopilot. "Everything checks out ok." As usual, sometimes I wonder if it's worth it. She checks her watch as a young Chinese man with black hair and eyes walks in. She looks up at her partner. Now I remember. "It's almost time for our break." He sits down next to her. "Is there any place in general you want to eat?"
"Doesn't matter to me" he glances over at her. From the looks of her, you couldn't guess she was part Chinese herself. The shape of her blues eyes is the only clear indication.
There's a pause as she turns her head to look out the windshield of the ship. She listens to the steady hum of the ship before answering. "So you won't mine if I make lunch."
"As long as it's better then yesterday's." The computer screen blipped.
"Wait and what's that suppose-"
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything important." A brown-eyed woman with hair to match cuts her off. "Because I have a search and rescue mission for you." A picture of a girl with long jet-black hair down to her thighs and walnut black eyes wearing a Chinese Ceremonial robe with Mariemaia Barton appears on the screen.
He looks at the picture surprised. She hasn't changed much, but why would she need rescuing.
I remember her. "She was one of the prisoners I helped escape from colony X18999. She decided to stay with Mariemaia, Lady Une." But, Sophia isn't a Chinese name.
"Yes, her name is Sophia Dragon, and for some reason she has disappeared after she went to visit her uncles. The only clue we have is that she promised to show up at Mariemaia's birthday party."
"She's partly American." He replies suddenly as though she asked her question aloud. "We might as well get started."
"I'll send you information if I find out any more. Sally, Wufei I wish you good luck." The screen goes black leaving the two to start their work.
"It's obvious you, know her."
"We grew up together, but she hardly ever talked. She was the stepsister of my wife, Mei Lan."
:-I Fox cleared the police station with Heero not far behind. Then, Fox turned into a long narrow walkway between two buildings. Next, he spread his legs, one for each wall, apart and proceeds hops up the buildings. Looking down, Heero and Fox make eye contact for a second before he reaches the top and disappears atop one of the two builds.
It didn't take long for all that running made him hungry so he enters a store now being around five in the morning. He grabs what looks appetizing. Fox hands the casher the money. Happily, he leaves the store. Uh, oh! He notices Heero quickly begins to stuff his face. Fox wolfed down half of the assorted donuts when they locked eyes. After stuffing the rest in his pocket, he took off running. The chase was on once again.
Running to the end of the street took them to a public park. Because it was still early for most people, the park was almost completely empty of people. Fox does a sidekick, but Heero grabs Fox's leg and trips him. "Why are you still following me?" Fox sits up and looks up at him annoyed.
"You know why he was killed, who killed him, and why they're after you. I want some answers, and I'm going to get them one way or another." Fox finally gets to his feet.
What is he Batman? "It looks like you're going to have to find your answers another way." Fox gives a familiar smirk. Without warning, he does a jump kick and hits Heero under his chin in an upward position. Just as fast as the first kick he does a spin kicking Heero on the side of his face knocking him to the ground. When Heero gets to his feet, Fox had disappeared once again.
*_* I can't believe the swarms of police that were around all last night. It is best to leave and come back when this whole thing blows over. The circus manager sighs and looks at his watch. It is nearly one in the afternoon when he sights Fox running toward him. Oh no "What do you want this time?"
Fox stops a little way in front of him. "So?"
"So. what?"
"Have you thought about my working for you or are you still thinking about it." He begins to walk away, but Fox follows like a puppy to its owner. They pass a young man with mustard brown hair and bright, dark green who was listening silently as they pasted him.
"Sorry, kid business has been slow so I can't afford to hire anyone at this time." Suddenly he makes a face as Fox comes closer. "Get away kid you smell."
Fox blushes embarrassed knowing he didn't have time to take a bath before he came. "Sorry, I um. had a rough night, but you can use the extra help, am I right." Both stop in front of the elephants. The manager thinks for a moment.
"Sorry, kid, can't do it."
Fox clasps his hands together in front of his head and bows his head slightly in a praying position. "Then will you be so kind as to give me a ride to the next colony?"
"This is a circus not a taxi!"
"Well, I think we could use the extra help." A woman in her early twenties with blue eyes and brown eyes came from behind the elephants. Fox looks up when he hears her soft voice.
"Now don't you start Catherine?"
"Fox why don't you go feed the cats, ok." She pushes him gently towards the tent. He takes one last look back before running towards the tent. "Since when do you ride off kids before giving them a chance?"
"I don't need any more kids like that around. They're too much trouble."
"You mean more kids like Trowa." Catherine walks off leaving his to think about what she said, but all he does is shrug and goes to his trailer.
The hungry lion ripped greedily at the raw meat. Fox watches from a short distance as he fed the other cats. After finishing, he goes to the corner of the tent and picks up a black book bag with a green dragon on the front that he had left earlier. He walks outside and walks toward a familiar trailer, but hides when he hears a familiar voice. Heero comes out of the trailer talking to the man with mustard brown hair and bright, dark green from before. What! No way, he followed me here!
When Heero finally left, the man went back in his trailer. Fox moves out from behind the trailer. Catherine opens the door nearly hitting Fox in the face. "Oh, Fox is something wrong?"
"No, no, I just came to return the book I borrowed." He hands her the book.
She feels the book in her hand as though thinking a moment. "Thanks would you like to come in?"
It's better to just leave before that guy comes back. "No, I can manage."
"Nonsense, I made dinner for three and it turns out our guest didn't stay." Catherine hops down now face to face with Fox. "Come, I don't want my food to go to waste and I know you're hungry." She starts pulling Fox up the step.
Crap, she has that look. Fox's stomach growls betraying him as Catherine practical drags him inside. "I guess I am a little hungry." He looks down embarrassed. Catherine hands him some towels, body wash, shampoo, and conditioner.
"What are these for?" Fox looks at Catherine as she takes his bag. "I thought we were going to eat?"
"I'm not going to feed you until you're thoroughly clean." She pushes Fox in the bathroom and closes the door after she put his book bag down inside first. "Don't take long either."
"Wasn't a little harsh saying he needed a bath," Trowa says standing in the doorway.
"He actually smelled like garbage. That really makes me worry about what he does and being an orphan he doesn't stay in one place too long." Catherine tends to the food. Trowa looks at the closed bathroom door.
"You know, he reminds me of you, when you first came Trowa, only Fox is polite and shy around people, unless he knows you." She hands Trowa a bowl of soup before Fox came out of the bathroom in a Chinese training uniform that Trowa has seen Wufei wear before. Unfortunately, Fox still had a towel on his head making him about two feet taller.
Trowa and Fox make eye contact. Something tells me I'm going to have some trouble with this one here. "It takes a while for my hair to dry. You know that, Cathy." He turns his gaze from Trowa. Catherine puts two more bowls on the table and laughs. "I know I look like a cone head, but it's not that funny."
"Ok I'm sorry. Go on and eat." Fox starts on the food noticing Trowa had not talked since he entered the trailer. I wonder what his relationship is with that Heero character is. Fox's staring catches Trowa's gaze. Fox looks down into his soup eating slightly faster.
"What have you been up to lately?"
"Hum." Fox looks up at her a second sliding his spoon out of his mouth slowly. He looks up at the ceiling a moment. "Ummm, I worked at the zoo a while." He watches the soup spin as he stirs what was left of it with his spoon. "I pretty mush took jobs that involved engineering and animals. you know."
Is he the one Heero was talking about? I wonder. Trowa goes back to eating watching him for the corner of his eye.
"So, that's why you want a job here."
"Well. yeah and besides all the animals here I know, but I'll just spend the night and leave in the morning."
"We're actually leaving tomorrow."
Fox fakes a look of surprise. "Really, how come?" Catherine takes his bowl, but fox stops her. "Cathy, can I have another bowl?"
"Sure, as long as you do the dishes afterward."
Hearing this he puts his head on the table wrapping his arms around his head. "I knew there was a catch." The towel around Fox's head unwraps and falls flat." Great He stands up. "Never mind I have some web surfing to do and thank you for the meal." He bows and grabbing his book bag out the bathroom, he goes in the living room part of the trailer.
After Trowa helped Catherine with the dishes, she goes in and checks on Fox. She walks up to him on the couch only to find that he had fallen asleep. His laptop was open in front of his face as he slept peacefully on his side. Catherine kneels down beside him closing his laptop. "Fox come on- "
"It's ok Cathy, he can sleep here."
"Are you sure? I don't want to put this burden on you." She hesitates a moment before getting up. She looks at him finally giving in. "Ok then, but he causes you any trouble, Trowa. Just call me." Trowa sees her out.
You hear the echoing of running feet in a dark alley under the artificial night sky of the colony. The feet stop as they reach the dead end of the alley. Three men of the four men in tuxedos produce guns as they look around. "Ok kid, come out! We know you're here."
The kid hides conveniently inside a trash can. He stays perfectly still controlling his breathing taking in just enough to stay conscious since the smell of the garbage was starting to overwhelm him. He takes of his hat and covers his nose with it to stifle the smell. Why couldn't they have found me on garbage day? At least the cans would have been empty and to think I thought this was going to be a normal day.
~~~~~ Flash ~~~~~
"Hey, Teri!" Teri looks up after giving his last fish to the penguin. He has come into work late so he wasn't in his normal uniform of solid blue t- shirt and shorts.
"James, now what?" He climbs out of the pen where James was waiting.
"Mr. Sander wants you." James points to four guys in tuxedos. Teri walks over casually up to them, but with caution as he always did around new people. One of the men he recognized quickly stopping him in his tracks too late to turn back.
"Where have you been all this time, Teri? Mr. Sander was just telling us what a good job you do here at the zoo." Teri takes a step back, but two guys grab his arms before he could get away. "I can't thank you enough for taking care of Teri for me."
"Your welcome Mr.-"
"Just call me Brian. I hate to be so formal."
The guy on his right gets Teri's attention. "If you so much as breathe wrong kid I'll kill the old man." Giving in, they start for the exit passing a young man with shaggy dark brown hair. He looks up showing his motionless, Prussian blue eyes as one guy takes out some handcuffs and proceeds to handcuff Teri.
"Hey!"
"Shut up!" Teri dodges his punch to the face and knees him in the balls. He falls to the ground cringing in pain. His brother helps him. The last triplet picks Teri up so he couldn't run away. Teri's first reaction was to bite back. He lets go and Teri kicks him in the stomach then jumps on his back as the others try to catch him. Jumping off his back, he dashes away from them and they soon case after him.
~~~~~ Flash ~~~~~
Teri lifts the lid slowly just enough to see them arguing. As quickly as it stated it ceased as two gunshots shatter the angry hollers like glass. The triples leave quickly. After a while he, exits the trashcan and walks over to Brian's still body. Even though he knew, he was dead, he checks for a pulse anyway after putting his black hat on his head. He face grows motionless remembering how he betrayed him and begins to dig in his pockets.
Finding his gun, he studies it before setting it down by his knee looking for more that could aid him besides the wallet he stuffed in his pocket. Without warning, the gun is placed to Fox's head. "Put your hands up and stand up slowly."
Teri obeys but not after snatching the dead man's cell phone. He holds it up. "Do you want to call an ambulance or are you going to let this body rot here." There's a moment of silence.
"Turn around." Doing as he says he turns recognizing the young man he had passed by at the zoo. He noticed that he was wearing a white T-shirt and some maroon kakis. Teri stands quietly as he calls for an ambulance. Surprisingly, it came in a few minutes. After turning Teri over to the police, he decides to tag along.
He looks down at his Chinese slippers feeling uneasy then decides to brake the silence. "So. What's your name?"
"My name is Heero Yuy," Heero says his voice monotone and expressionless, but dead serious. Teri looks at Heero with his walnut black eyes.
"And yours?"
"Just call me Fox; it's a nickname given to me by my friends." Just then, the police car stops and inside they separated them.
A Chinese officer who looks around 16 walks up to Heero. He had short black hair and dark green eyes. "Hello my name is Officer Tembo and I'd like to thank you for bringing him in. he has the worst criminal record I've ever seen."
"O you mind if I talk to him before I leave."
"Sure, just follow me." Heero follows him to a door. He turns the knob. "He should in this room." Opening the door to his horror are three knocked out officers on the floor. Officer Tembo quickly goes to the one that stirs. "What happened?" Helping his fellow officer up, Heero walks in noticing one of the ceiling tiles was out of place as the door automatically closes behind him.
"I don't know. The kid just went crazy when we tried to take a fingerprint."
"Where does that vent lead to?" Both officers look as him confused at his sudden interest in the vent.
"It leads to the bathrooms."
"Where are the bathrooms?"
"Just take a left, but why?" Heero runs to the door throwing it open.
"OOW!" He stops when he hears the familiar voice behind him. He turns to see Fox holding his nose. His hat falls to the floor exposing his long jet back braid that stops at his thighs. Fox quickly picks up his hat. "You shouldn't open doors so quickly. You can really hurt someone!" He looks up to see Heero. "Oh, it's you." He shrugs as a few officers turn the corner.
"There he is!" Fox smiles and does three back flips. The last one lands him on a desk, but he slips on a piece of paper and falls backward in a roller chair. Fox pushes away from the desk dodging one of the officers and plowing into the other with the chair. Rolling off the chair, he leaves them to slam into the nearest wall.
He dashes for the exit. An officer walks in from a lunch brake. "Catch him!" Fox skids to a stop as he leaps at him. Fox moves to his left dodging it. At the last second, he jumps on the officer's back. Jumping off, he leaps through the glass above the door and lands perfectly on the stair rail in front of the building. After sliding down it, he disappears in the night.
Officer Tembo emerges furious form the station and walk to his car as the triplets Fox escaped from earlier walk up behind him. "What do we do now?"
Officer Tembo leans on his car without looking at them. "Eliminate him. We'll find the girl another way." Heero stands behind a nearby tree listening then leaves soon after they do.
0_- A golden brown haired woman leans back in her seat after putting the ship on autopilot. "Everything checks out ok." As usual, sometimes I wonder if it's worth it. She checks her watch as a young Chinese man with black hair and eyes walks in. She looks up at her partner. Now I remember. "It's almost time for our break." He sits down next to her. "Is there any place in general you want to eat?"
"Doesn't matter to me" he glances over at her. From the looks of her, you couldn't guess she was part Chinese herself. The shape of her blues eyes is the only clear indication.
There's a pause as she turns her head to look out the windshield of the ship. She listens to the steady hum of the ship before answering. "So you won't mine if I make lunch."
"As long as it's better then yesterday's." The computer screen blipped.
"Wait and what's that suppose-"
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything important." A brown-eyed woman with hair to match cuts her off. "Because I have a search and rescue mission for you." A picture of a girl with long jet-black hair down to her thighs and walnut black eyes wearing a Chinese Ceremonial robe with Mariemaia Barton appears on the screen.
He looks at the picture surprised. She hasn't changed much, but why would she need rescuing.
I remember her. "She was one of the prisoners I helped escape from colony X18999. She decided to stay with Mariemaia, Lady Une." But, Sophia isn't a Chinese name.
"Yes, her name is Sophia Dragon, and for some reason she has disappeared after she went to visit her uncles. The only clue we have is that she promised to show up at Mariemaia's birthday party."
"She's partly American." He replies suddenly as though she asked her question aloud. "We might as well get started."
"I'll send you information if I find out any more. Sally, Wufei I wish you good luck." The screen goes black leaving the two to start their work.
"It's obvious you, know her."
"We grew up together, but she hardly ever talked. She was the stepsister of my wife, Mei Lan."
:-I Fox cleared the police station with Heero not far behind. Then, Fox turned into a long narrow walkway between two buildings. Next, he spread his legs, one for each wall, apart and proceeds hops up the buildings. Looking down, Heero and Fox make eye contact for a second before he reaches the top and disappears atop one of the two builds.
It didn't take long for all that running made him hungry so he enters a store now being around five in the morning. He grabs what looks appetizing. Fox hands the casher the money. Happily, he leaves the store. Uh, oh! He notices Heero quickly begins to stuff his face. Fox wolfed down half of the assorted donuts when they locked eyes. After stuffing the rest in his pocket, he took off running. The chase was on once again.
Running to the end of the street took them to a public park. Because it was still early for most people, the park was almost completely empty of people. Fox does a sidekick, but Heero grabs Fox's leg and trips him. "Why are you still following me?" Fox sits up and looks up at him annoyed.
"You know why he was killed, who killed him, and why they're after you. I want some answers, and I'm going to get them one way or another." Fox finally gets to his feet.
What is he Batman? "It looks like you're going to have to find your answers another way." Fox gives a familiar smirk. Without warning, he does a jump kick and hits Heero under his chin in an upward position. Just as fast as the first kick he does a spin kicking Heero on the side of his face knocking him to the ground. When Heero gets to his feet, Fox had disappeared once again.
*_* I can't believe the swarms of police that were around all last night. It is best to leave and come back when this whole thing blows over. The circus manager sighs and looks at his watch. It is nearly one in the afternoon when he sights Fox running toward him. Oh no "What do you want this time?"
Fox stops a little way in front of him. "So?"
"So. what?"
"Have you thought about my working for you or are you still thinking about it." He begins to walk away, but Fox follows like a puppy to its owner. They pass a young man with mustard brown hair and bright, dark green who was listening silently as they pasted him.
"Sorry, kid business has been slow so I can't afford to hire anyone at this time." Suddenly he makes a face as Fox comes closer. "Get away kid you smell."
Fox blushes embarrassed knowing he didn't have time to take a bath before he came. "Sorry, I um. had a rough night, but you can use the extra help, am I right." Both stop in front of the elephants. The manager thinks for a moment.
"Sorry, kid, can't do it."
Fox clasps his hands together in front of his head and bows his head slightly in a praying position. "Then will you be so kind as to give me a ride to the next colony?"
"This is a circus not a taxi!"
"Well, I think we could use the extra help." A woman in her early twenties with blue eyes and brown eyes came from behind the elephants. Fox looks up when he hears her soft voice.
"Now don't you start Catherine?"
"Fox why don't you go feed the cats, ok." She pushes him gently towards the tent. He takes one last look back before running towards the tent. "Since when do you ride off kids before giving them a chance?"
"I don't need any more kids like that around. They're too much trouble."
"You mean more kids like Trowa." Catherine walks off leaving his to think about what she said, but all he does is shrug and goes to his trailer.
The hungry lion ripped greedily at the raw meat. Fox watches from a short distance as he fed the other cats. After finishing, he goes to the corner of the tent and picks up a black book bag with a green dragon on the front that he had left earlier. He walks outside and walks toward a familiar trailer, but hides when he hears a familiar voice. Heero comes out of the trailer talking to the man with mustard brown hair and bright, dark green from before. What! No way, he followed me here!
When Heero finally left, the man went back in his trailer. Fox moves out from behind the trailer. Catherine opens the door nearly hitting Fox in the face. "Oh, Fox is something wrong?"
"No, no, I just came to return the book I borrowed." He hands her the book.
She feels the book in her hand as though thinking a moment. "Thanks would you like to come in?"
It's better to just leave before that guy comes back. "No, I can manage."
"Nonsense, I made dinner for three and it turns out our guest didn't stay." Catherine hops down now face to face with Fox. "Come, I don't want my food to go to waste and I know you're hungry." She starts pulling Fox up the step.
Crap, she has that look. Fox's stomach growls betraying him as Catherine practical drags him inside. "I guess I am a little hungry." He looks down embarrassed. Catherine hands him some towels, body wash, shampoo, and conditioner.
"What are these for?" Fox looks at Catherine as she takes his bag. "I thought we were going to eat?"
"I'm not going to feed you until you're thoroughly clean." She pushes Fox in the bathroom and closes the door after she put his book bag down inside first. "Don't take long either."
"Wasn't a little harsh saying he needed a bath," Trowa says standing in the doorway.
"He actually smelled like garbage. That really makes me worry about what he does and being an orphan he doesn't stay in one place too long." Catherine tends to the food. Trowa looks at the closed bathroom door.
"You know, he reminds me of you, when you first came Trowa, only Fox is polite and shy around people, unless he knows you." She hands Trowa a bowl of soup before Fox came out of the bathroom in a Chinese training uniform that Trowa has seen Wufei wear before. Unfortunately, Fox still had a towel on his head making him about two feet taller.
Trowa and Fox make eye contact. Something tells me I'm going to have some trouble with this one here. "It takes a while for my hair to dry. You know that, Cathy." He turns his gaze from Trowa. Catherine puts two more bowls on the table and laughs. "I know I look like a cone head, but it's not that funny."
"Ok I'm sorry. Go on and eat." Fox starts on the food noticing Trowa had not talked since he entered the trailer. I wonder what his relationship is with that Heero character is. Fox's staring catches Trowa's gaze. Fox looks down into his soup eating slightly faster.
"What have you been up to lately?"
"Hum." Fox looks up at her a second sliding his spoon out of his mouth slowly. He looks up at the ceiling a moment. "Ummm, I worked at the zoo a while." He watches the soup spin as he stirs what was left of it with his spoon. "I pretty mush took jobs that involved engineering and animals. you know."
Is he the one Heero was talking about? I wonder. Trowa goes back to eating watching him for the corner of his eye.
"So, that's why you want a job here."
"Well. yeah and besides all the animals here I know, but I'll just spend the night and leave in the morning."
"We're actually leaving tomorrow."
Fox fakes a look of surprise. "Really, how come?" Catherine takes his bowl, but fox stops her. "Cathy, can I have another bowl?"
"Sure, as long as you do the dishes afterward."
Hearing this he puts his head on the table wrapping his arms around his head. "I knew there was a catch." The towel around Fox's head unwraps and falls flat." Great He stands up. "Never mind I have some web surfing to do and thank you for the meal." He bows and grabbing his book bag out the bathroom, he goes in the living room part of the trailer.
After Trowa helped Catherine with the dishes, she goes in and checks on Fox. She walks up to him on the couch only to find that he had fallen asleep. His laptop was open in front of his face as he slept peacefully on his side. Catherine kneels down beside him closing his laptop. "Fox come on- "
"It's ok Cathy, he can sleep here."
"Are you sure? I don't want to put this burden on you." She hesitates a moment before getting up. She looks at him finally giving in. "Ok then, but he causes you any trouble, Trowa. Just call me." Trowa sees her out.
