Title: No Matter What

Author: x1-TaKeN-oVer

Chapter 3


He ran down the hall like a bat out of hell; bumping rather viciously into as many people or objects he could. He didn't notice and he didn't care, he could always apologize later but now was not the time. Right now, he had a job to do and that job was to get the information in his hand to the rightful owners ASAP.

He made a sharp left and ran into Mrs. Baker, who was an elderly filer for Preventers. Rather than taking time to make sure she was on her feet and not hurt he muttered loudly, "Move outta the way ya old bag," and continued on his way. He ran down the hall, twisting and turning as he went to escape any other casualties. He quickly made another left, ran down five doors and came a door that had the word 'PRIVATE' taped onto it and 'KNOCK BEFORE ENTERING.' But he, of course, took no heed of the sign and burst into the room.

10 pairs of eyes whirled around in their chairs and glared at him rather nastily. He gulped loudly before taking a deep breath and walking into the conference room.

"Shut the door, you idiot," Commander Chang hissed.

"S-Sorry sir," and he went to do as told.

"You are supposed to knock before entering and I'm pretty confident in assuming you are able to read a sign that BIG..." Trowa trailed off.

"Yes sir, I can but I have some very important news." He shivered noticeably when dangerous amethyst eyes turned his way.

"And what 'important news' would that be, Arnold?" Duo asked calmly although his eyes told another story.

"Sir, we have a lead."

Dorothy knocked once before she entered the large conference room. She saw many red rimmed eyes turn her way and smiled sadly. She knew that it was tough on a lot of the men in this room but who to do a better job than the Preventers. Preventer officers weren't known to get a full night's sleep, anyway.

She walked into the center of the room and sat one of the KFC bags on the table. "Come and get it guys," and immediately she was in the middle of a war between who could get their food the fastest. She held up her hands with the other bag and walked over to a smaller table in the corner of the room that was next to several computers. She jiggled the bag a bit and made her way to an empty chair that had been saved by lover.

She sat the bag on the table and watched as the men took their respected food with subdued excitement. Dorothy turned to Relena to watch her get her food but found that she was looking at her quite strangely.

"What?"

"Where's your food? Aren't you hungry?"

"Oh, I ate on the way here, couldn't hold myself." Dorothy smiled sheepishly as Relena rolled her eyes.

"MM, this is so good," Quatre said around a mouthful of chicken and biscuit.

"You aren't kidding," Wufei remarked around his own chicken leg.

"It's either that or we are very hungry," stated Trowa as he took a big bite out of his biscuit that was filled with grape jelly.

"I think that it's both," Duo...said? You couldn't really tell because he had so much food in his mouth. It was to the point where his cheeks were puffed to their limit but he was still shoving food in his mouth.

"Ew, Duo you spit food everywhere," Quatre laughed. He pointed to the bits of biscuit fluff and half eaten chicken.

"You're one to talk, ya little porker." He smiled as he noticed that Quatre was blushing a lovely shade of red.

Everyone at the small table chuckled at the two's antics before focusing on their food once again.

"So he's on L1?" They questioned with surprise very evident.

"Yes and from the looks of it he has been there for about...four years."

"But he is on...L1," Relena hesitantly repeated the question.

Richardson looked at her and nodded slightly.

"Okay," she whispered and as she carefully sat down she noticed the others were slowly following her lead.

It was pretty...strange that after two months of searching they had finally found Heero Yuy. Not strange as in 'something bad might be going on' but strange as in...strange. It would make sense that Heero would go back to there; it's his home colony for Christ's Sake! That should've been one of the first places they should've searched.

After a few moments Wufei cleared his throat and stood up. He turned to face the other officers; "Right then, ladies and gentlemen this is the moment that we have all been waiting for." He took a breath and let his words sink in a bit before continuing, "Okay, I need Samson and Davis to go with Richardson and find out where 01 stays, where he works, and any other possible places of where he might hang out. You two over there, I will need..." As Wufei began to give orders the others stood up and began to help as well...except for Duo.
Duo sat slumped forward in the chair with his braid falling over shoulder and into his lap where his hands were clapsed tightly. 'Well, ready or not Heero, we're coming to get ya.' He sighed and looked up only to spot Dorothy staring at him with worry filling her baby blue eyes. He smiled softly and gave a thumbs up, to let her know he was alright, before joining the others.


Not much to change there...gettin' closer to the new stuff. NEXT!