Snowy Fear

"I'm perfectly fine." Heero said with exasperation. It was over the hundredth time today that someone asked how he was feeling. He really needed to kick that Jason kid's ass. He snarled lowly at Gretchen who grinned and waved slightly.

"Man," Chrissie commented as she walked next to him and received a few glares and a few smiles. "I am beginning to wonder how you aren't loosing your mind."

"Damn people don't get it through their heads that I'm perfectly and one hundred percent fine!" He muttered to himself yet Chrissie heard every single word since she was right next to him.

"No you aren't," She poked him to prove her point and blinked in shock and surprise when she saw he didn't even wince when she prodded his wound.

He glanced at her, ignoring or not noticing the blush creeping up into her cheeks. Jonah's brow furrowed together slightly when he saw this and huffed silently.

"Well," Chrissie said, trying to get the tension out of the air. "You guys should go to English class," She smiled at them as they looked at her, questioning why she wasn't coming with them. "I'll be there in a minute. I'm going to go and get a drink of water and see how Anya is holding up."

"'Kay." Jonah waved to her as he headed off with Heero who simply waved slightly to her. She smiled and she had gotten used to him being silent at times.

"Hey Anya!" She called out as she pushed her way through a throng of people before a couple of hands gripped her jacket. "---Hey!" She shouted but her cry was muffled in the bustling of the crowded hall.

"How do you know Heero Yuy?" The person questioned with a glint in the person's eyes.

"What do you mean?" She shouted, people walking by like it was no big deal. "Let go!" She tried yanking her arm away but the hold didn't relent.

"Well?" The voice hissed.

"He's boarding with us, the island children." She said nervously. In truth she didn't really know that much about Heero Yuy though she was sure that she wanted to know more for sure.

The arm let off when some girls' voices sounded. "Chrissie!" They called as they dashed up to her. It was Sarah and Jas. "We were wondering if you wanted to sit with us at lunch today." The smiled at her.

The girl blinked. They wanted to sit with her? She must have a concussion or something! Her mouth opened but no sound came out. "R-Really?" She questioned, stunned at the turn of events.

"Yeah!" They exclaimed though their excitement must have been from some scheme Chrissie would have known but she was just too stunned. "Can you bring that Heero Yuy with you also?" They giggled as they blushed.

"Uh…yeah…" Chrissie said after she got her mouth to work. She was still too stunned. She turned after they waved good bye and headed off to class.

"You're late." A cold and precise voice said sharply to Christina who opened the door slowly. "Get in and sit down. You'll have detention after school." Mrs. Shevvington commented as she looked around the silent classroom.

Chrissie took her seat and couldn't help but notice how Vicki and Gretchen were already busy drooling while watching poor Heero who was sending them death glares that even scared Chrissie a little bit. She sighed and tried to pay attention.

"Hey, you're still coming to Pizza parlor, right?" Heero's eye twitched and Chrissie could just feel the anger seeping out of him like seismic waves.

'One more word.' Heero mind hissed as he clenched his fists. 'One more word and I swear that I'll just go and commit suicide or something!' His mind screamed.

"Well?" 'Arg!!' Heero's mind screamed and he felt like pulling out a gun and shooting the two girl's dead again and again. That would be a good stress relief game.

"Heero," The girl next to him cooed as she leaned against him. "Well? It would be so nice of you to come." The other girl glared at her friend's actions and Heero tensed with the sudden closeness between them.

Only Relena would ever be able to dare come that close to him. He bit his tongue to not let out a string of profanities.

"Come on, you know you want us." They said seductively.

'That's it!' His mind screamed as he stood up in his seat during the middle of a lecture. "Damnit!" He shouted at them and gained the attention of everyone else in the room. "Leave me the hell alone!" He yelled at them and stalked out of the room to leave a stunned teacher and students.

Gretchen fell out of her chair and Vicki just blinked in shock before the whole class then let out bursts of laughter. The class bullies laughed at the two girls who flushed.

"Looks like Yuy's not the only one that's not interested!" One laughed.

"I feel so sorry for the poor guy." Then the laughter ceased when a BANG resounded in the air.

(Should I leave it off here? MUHHAHAHAH! Naw, really I'm not that evil. I'm typing this currently since no one is updating his or her fics (hint hint!). I'm so bored. School makes me sleep O.O)

Mrs. Shevvington stood at the front of the class with a ruler that had slammed against her desk. The look on her face was enough to send some grown men cowering in fear.

She cleared her throat and then closed the door and continued on through the class as if nothing had happened…

Out on the rooftop, a person stood, knees drawn up to chest and sighing heavily. Brown unruly hair was ruffled around in the wind slightly.

Either he was going to stay here and end up committing suicide from those annoying girls that wouldn't stop badgering him or he'd get away from here, which he couldn't. By Une's orders. Why the hell did he even join them in the first place. 'To protect peace.' His sane side told him calmly.

Why did everything in his life have to be so complicated. Her he was, sitting on the top of a roof, arguing with himself and going more insane than he had with the Zero System.

"Damnit to hell." He muttered as he ran his cold hands through his hair. The Maine air was brisk. He looked out towards the sea that was crashing against the coast.

He had to get out of here….

Back at the Preventers, Duo Maxwell blinked when he put a hand up to his chin in the common thinking position.

"Hey!" He quipped up to a silent Trowa Barton. "Aren't you Heero's bunking partner?" He questioned.

"Hm?" Trowa blinked and looked up at the braided teenager with slight irritation. "Yeah…" He said as he looked back down at the papers for his mission briefing.

"Where is he?" Duo pestered further.

TBC

Chapter Nine?

Trowa blinked and looked up. "Well?" Duo asked again. "Where is he?"

Trowa blinked again. "I don't know." He said calmly. He hadn't seen Heero for over a week now. "Mission perhaps." He commented.

"For a week? Like hell it would take him a week!" He said as he threw his fists down in a frenzy over this.

"Go bring it up with Une if you have a problem Maxwell!" Wufei called from his office, not understanding what they were talking about. "Just keep it down in there!" He snarled and Duo stuck out his tongue though he couldn't even see it.

"Fine!" Duo shouted back. "I will Wuffers!" He stalked out of the room and stopped for a moment to think to himself, 'Where have you gone, Heero?'

It was a classic blizzard dinner he was told; pancakes and breakfast foods. He didn't mind; it was actually quite good. He sat next to Chrissie and Anya who was sitting and eating her food quietly. Chrissie cut out the insides of the pancakes and left the outer edges. He smiled at her actions and she grinned at him when she realized why he was smiling.

Then the conversations at the table started as natural of course. Then they all wound down to one thing.

Sleepover.

One word that would forever ruin Heero Yuy. Here he was, quietly eating dinner like a good little boy and then here Chrissie comes saying that she wanted to have a sleepover after inviting all the girls in the seventh grade that she knew to the Inne.

He blinked once and then twice. 'HOLY CRAP!!!' His mind shouted after he recovered from shock. If he knew what he was doing, he probably would be unconscious.

"It would be the perfect time for you to apologize Heero." Mrs. Shevvington replied as she ate her meal like a Queen.

Heero grumbled on the inside but he nodded his head dejectedly and pushed food around on his plate as he missed the meaningful glance Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington shared.

"Is something bothering you?" Anya asked quietly as she clung to Heero's jacket still.

"No." He said quietly as he asked to be excused and set off for his room after getting a worried nod from the two adults of the household.

"I feel sorry for him." Chrissie mumbled and Mrs. Shevvington shot the girl a glare.

"For what?" Dolly asked though she was clearly interested, a growing love for Heero like many others.

"Gretchen and Vicki were swooning over him again and he couldn't take it anymore." She smirked darkly inwardly. The two girls got what they deserved.

"Such rude talk shall not be said here. Eat you food Chrissie and stop being a baby and picking at it like a child."

She felt like attacking them and biting them. Gr…She was pissed.

"You should be ahppy with the Shevvingtons; you say that they never do anything nice for you and they're letting you have a sleepover after you invited people." Dolly said as she slipped out of her chair, outsides of her pancakes left on the plate.

"I'm so full, Mrs. Shevvington; I really liked the meal but I can't eat anymore." She commented as she got a smile and nod from the woman of the household before scampering off.

"Chrissie, eat your pancakes." Mr. Shevvington remarked a she ate his food quietly. Her face contorted as she ate the food, telling Heero and Anya later it tasted like wet pillows. Yummy, she thought sarcastically.

Heero sat up in his room as he looked at his laptop while he was playing a band called Breaking Benjamin (awesome band, y'all should listen to it) on his CD player.

"You're so cold, keep your hand in mine. Wise men wander while strong men die! Show me how it ends it's all right, show me how defenseless you really are. Satisfied and empty inside, that's all right, let's give this another try!"

He sighed as he plugged in his laptop and quickly set up an illegal connection with the Preventer's base.

"Une?" He questioned and the line cleared to reveal a shocked looking Une.

"H-Heero?" She questioned with shock. She took on a stern face now. "You aren't suppose to be connecting or contacting anyone. You're suppose to be a normal teenager." She told him sharply.

"In case you haven't noticed, I'll never be normal!" He retorted and Une could see he was obviously troubled about something. She hadn't heard from any problems from the Shevvingtons.

"What's wrong?" She saw he winced and how he sifted slightly to a more comfortable position.

"Stiff?" She chuckled slightly to him and got a glare back.

"If you got shot and then stabbed, not to mention hit by glass shards you'd be stiff also." He retorted darkly as he moved to a more comfortable position towards his laptop.

"WHAT?!" She hollered, disbelief etched into her features.

Obviously she wasn't the only one shocked; Heero was too. "I though you were taking care of my medical bills." He grumbled as he realized that she hadn't know about the…er…incident.

"Yes. I didn't receive any information about this."

"Then forget it. It was an accident anyhow." He said as if it was nothing. "It doesn't hurt anymore but I will kick that kid's ass even if you send Preventer's to stop me." He said in the tone of voice that promised death to his victim.

"Well, a kid did this to you?"

"No."

"Then who did."

"I don't know."

Une looked at him with confusion and shock. "You got shot, stabbed, and then hit with glass and you don't know who did it?" She asked, incredulous at the mere thought. Heero glared at the way she bluntly put it. "That's not like you." She sighed as she rubbed her temples.

"It doesn't matter." Heero growled lowly.

"Then why did you call me?" Une asked, wondering what could possibly make the perfect soldier so upset.

"Chrissie—" He was interrupted rudely by Lady Une when she stopped him with a simple yet annoying question.

"Who's Chrissie?"

"An Island boarder. Can you please be quiet?" Heero grumbled as Une sighed and was quiet for him to continue on. "She's having a sleepover, here. Seventh grade girls that won't stop stalking me!" He let out with an exasperated sigh.

Une laughed loudly, making Heero start yelling Japanese curses at her. "Well," Une said after her laughter subsided somewhat. "I think that I can understand why they stalk you."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Heero stated calmly, making his tone of voice seem even more deadly as he became a soldier again.

"You're cute." Une giggled. "All I can say to you is; nothing, I can't do anything at all. You're stuck there, besides it can't be that bad. I'm sure that you'll like it when some of the girls try to kill one another for getting so close to you."

"Yeah…" Heero said sarcastically as he rolled his eyes. "Right." The sound of a door opening was heard across the line and the link was severed as Heero closed the screen as well as Une. No one was suppose to know he was missing.

Back at Une's office, a suspicious Duo walked in with a frown on his face to a slightly smiling Une.

"I thought you were supposed to knock?" Une teased slightly, but seriously meant it.

"Who was that?" Duo questioned with a frown on his face and a glare at Une.

"No one." Une said calmly.

"It sounded a whole hell of a lot like Heero." Duo glared at Une as she remained as passive as ever, but on the inside where he couldn't see, her insides and everything was blaring with warning signs and fear along with other emotions.

"It wasn't." Une said calmly as ever.

Duo walked in further, closing the door behind him slowly as he turned to face her with a dangerously calm mask in place. Duo Maxwell wasn't a fool. "Then who was it?"

Author's note:

Well, a nice and long chapter for the other short ones and full of action? Anyhow, I want to thank all reviewers especially Artgirl150, you've been really supportive and everything, thank you so much! This chapter was for the reviewers who reviewed! Thank you everyone for the encouragement! Suggestions are always nice (thanks artgirl150 for yours again!)

Happy Holidays,

Red Tail