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My revenge down the drain
(PS: I don't remember why I titled this story as such... hmm)
Chapter 1
'Duo? DUO!' He waved a hand in front of the face of his friend and Duo flinched, almost falling backwards off the bench they were sitting on. 'Duo what is wrong with you lately!' Quatre demanded. As soon as Duo regained composure he continued staring to some point in the forest that surrounded the large mutant school. He followed his gaze, but to no avail, all he saw were lush green trees and a creepy darkness beneath the many layers of leaves. 'Duo...' He whined. Turning to look back at his friend he saw the longhaire American looking around, as if he was looking for something, the thing he had been staring at just moments ago.
He grabbed both his shoulders and shook him fiercely. 'Duo, you are going to tell me what going on or I'll... Um... Well, I'll think of something and it won't be pleasant!' He finished, flustered.
'I don't know if I should tell you this. Because I fear you will sent me to the school's shrink again...' He said with a smile, but turned serious again, 'I feel like I'm being watched.'
Quatre rolled his eyes. 'Tell me about it! Ever since went balistic and set half of the girls dorm on fire Xavier has been keeping a close eye on all of us!' he threw his hands in the air in defeat. But looking at his friend, giving him a strange look, he soon figured that was not what Duo was talking about.
'That's not what i meant.' Duo said to him, confimring his doubts, looking around as if he was afraid someone would hear them.
'What is it then!'
'I... I dunno... never mind! I don't want to bother you with it!'
'Duo...'
'No! I mean it Quat, I'm fine. C'mon, we're gonna be late for class.'
Quatre sighed in defeat and let himself be dragged towards the school.
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Everyone sat silent in class, looking at the front. Some took the assignement they just got serious, but that were only a few. The rest was either whispering with their neighbours or giving their young redhaired teacher strange looks as she sat in front of the class, legs crossed, eyes closed.
Duo sighed and rested his head on the table top, looking to the side at his blonde friend, one of the few who was actually obeying miss Jane and trying to get in touch with their inner Wisdom, as she had dreamily called it. He knew why this was important for Quatre, since he was a phsycic and not able to control his powers. He knew what it was like to not be in touch with your powers, extremely annoying. It feels as if there is an animal caged within yourself and if you don't learn how to control it, it will eat you up from inside. Yeah, nice perspective, don't you think?
'Duo?'
He looked up to see Jane standing before him, he wondered when she had gotten out of her trance like state.
'Why are you not paying attention'
Because I have other things on my mind 'Because I have my power under control, so there's really no need-'
'I'll be the judge of that. Just pay attention, will you Duo?'
'Yes ma'am.' He sighed and watched as she walked back to the front again and started telling them stuff about analysing dreams. The only reason why he had signed up for this class was for sake of the evr insecure Quatre, he himself had nothing to do here, since he had no phsycic powers. Mind reading, dream analysis, it meant nothing to him. He had a more physical power and for that he was grateful, much less training was needed.
Though he was pretty good at picking it up when he was watched. He whipped his head around and looked out the window he was sitting next to. It looked out over the bastketbal and soccer field. He could imagine someone standing there, looking at him, but there was no one to be seen. No PE was given at this hour so the field were empty for those who felt like playing a game with friends, but hardly no one ever did.
Uncomfortable he tried to deny the feeling of piercing eyes and he turned to the front, to watch Jane writing some thing down on the blackboard. Looking to the side, ignoring the burning feeling that was begging him to look out the window again to search the source of the gaze, he looked at Quatre, writing everything down Jane said. He knew, since he shared a room with the blonde, that he would study them tonight. Sometimes it freaked him out the way Quatre was obsessed with his powers, but then again, he was dealing with it better then Duo had in the beginning. So maybe it was just the feeling of jealousy. It proved that the petit blonde was so much stronger, menatlly, then him. Had to give him credit for that.
He looked out the window again, turning his head quickly, so that if someone was watching him whenevr he turned his head away, the figure now had no time to run away. He sighed, there was no one to be found... or was there? He squinted his eyes and frowned as he saw a single black cat, sitting precisely in the center of the basketball court. He could not see if the cat was looking at him, he was too far away, but it did face him while the black tail swayed as if casting a spell.
'Quatre...' he whispered, nudging his friend.
Irritated Quatre looked up. Duo gustured towards the basketball court, Quatre gave it a quick glance before looking back at Duo, raising one blonde eyebrow in question.
'The cat...' Duo whispered.
Quatre looked again and frowned 'Duo, I don't see a cat.'
Frowning he looked back at the court to find the cat gone. Something was seriously off here... He ignored Quatre's concerned gaze and just stared at the white letters written on the blackboard. He gasped softly when he read the third line: Dreams with black cats: always mean something bad is going to happen to someone close to you.
Was it just coincidence? He looked outside again, stunned. Maybe he did have phsycic powers?
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'All I'm saying is that you should be extra careful.'
'Duo, why the concern all of a sudden? What could ever happen to me?'
'Well, for once, you can drown now.' Duo commented. He was sitting on the edge of the indoor pool. His jeans rolled up to just under his knees. His knees drawn up to his black clad chest as he watched Quatre swim in the large pool with crustal clear water. They were the only ones there. The other hundreds of students were being occupied by homework of useless classes, like science... But since Qautre was a genius and duo never did his homework, they found time to do things other kids never did. Like visiting the pool at ten O'clock in the evening.
Quatre rolled his eyes, continueing to swim bach and forth. 'I'm not going to drown. Seriously though. What makes you think anything will happen?'
'Today, during the seventh hour, I saw a black cat. Outside on the basketball court.'
Quatre stopped swimming, his legs kicking in the water so he'd stay in one place and keep his head above the water. Since he had memorised what Jane had written down, he knew exactly what Duo was referring to 'But Duo, you don't have any phsycic powers!'
'Who says that? What if I do?' He straightened his legs and dipped them in the water, not caring that the bottom of his jeans were getting soaked.
Quatre began swimming again 'You know, if you had paid attention you would know that the behavior or location of the black cat can tell you which friend will be hurt. Didn't you say he sat on a basketball court'
Duo nodded.
'Then you shouldn't worry about me, I'm too short for basketball.' He laughed at his own little joke 'You should be more concerned about Trowa, who plays it everyday. But before you freak out and start looking for Trowa to warn him, I must tell you that I think this is bullshit. You saw a black cat, so what?'
Duo sighed, he loved Quatre, but sometimes he really just needed tpo agree with him. He shook his head, he was doing it again. Quatre was only being helpful, trying to calm him down and not be so concerned. 'You're probabaly right, you always are. But I'm still gonna talk to trowa tomorrow, I should at least warn him so that I can get it off my chest.'
Quatre climbed out of the pool and wrapped a large white towel around his body 'That sounds fair. Let'd go.'
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He looked at his clock again. Five minutes later then the last time he checked. He turned to continue staring at the white wall of his door room, that was now painted with the eerie shadows of the large tree standing just outside their window, reaching far higher then them on the second floor. At times the tree was very handy, he could be used to climb out of the room without anyone noticing, it was an apple tree so in the summer in blossomed beautifully. But now, in the late, chilly days of fall it was creepy seeing those wooden arms sway in the wind. The same wind that made such a scary sounds as it rushed past the outer walls of the building. On the other and cleaner side of the room, Quatre was fast a sleep. He envied the boy, who would fall asleep as soon as his head hit the pilow. If only his sleep came so easily, but he hadn't been able to sleep like that since... since... since a long time ago. He shook his head, the past six years he had forced himself not to think of it. He had banned it out of his head. He turned to ly on his back and stare at the ceiling, but it only made the movements of the shadow, which he could see in the corner of his eyes, even scarier and he turned again. He felt this was going to be one of those completely sleepness nights again. The thing with Trowa still concerned him, despite what Quatre had said was probabaly the truth.
'Duo...?' A sleepy voice called out.
He sat upright in his bed, looking at the dark shadows at the other side of the room, he could vaguely see Quatre's body covered by thick sheets. 'Huh, Quat? You awake?'
'Of course I am, with all your sighing, tossing and turning...'
'I'm sorry...'
'S okay... i'm just worried.'
The rustling of sheets indicated that Quatre turned in his bed, to face him.
'You've been so out of it lately. You didn't even laugh today when Ruben was walking around naked, thinking that he was invisible.'
He snickered 'He did that?'
'You didn't even see?' another concerned sigh from within the sheets 'That's what i mean. Everything goes past you. You didn't even try to cheat on that math test last week, you keep forgetting things.'
'I'm fine.'
'And what about this afternoon? First you say you feel watched and then that whole back cat thing. I'm concerned.'
'You are always concerned! Just drop it Quatre, I'm fine. Just don't tell Xavier, he's such a pain in the ass when it comes to things like this... Promise?'
'But Duo, i think he can hel-'
'Promise?' He urged.
A sigh and then: 'Okay Duo, i promise... I promise... But you need to talk to someone... what about WuFei?'
'Chk, you know we haven't been best buddies for a long time now.' He said, he could just feel himself infuriating just thinking of the Chinese man.
'I wish you would tell me what went wrong between the two of you... I don't believe it was only about the fact that he became an X man and you didn't.'
'Quatre, stop talking, stop asking. You won't get anuthing out of me.'A long suffering sound could be heard and then once again the rsutling of sheets. When he looked he saw that Quatre had turned around in his back again, his back facing him. Amazingly, not too long after, he could hear his breath evening out. He had fallen asleep! How does he DO that!
Coming to terms with the fact he would get no sleep tonight he crawled out bed, shivering in the cold. He quickly put on a sweater and sweatpants as he sat behing the small desk in their room. Raising his hands behind his neck he struggled to get the simple necklace off, he brought it up to his face, the key hanging on it, which he knew was gold, shone blue in the pale moonlight. He put the key in the lock of one of the two large drawers in the desk. The drawer that had stickers on it of skulls and half naked female devils. His drawer. He turned the key, praying that the lock would open with a soft click. It did. But just to be sure he remained silent and listened. Quatre was still asleep. He opened the drawer slowly and silently and rummaged through it's contents. His hands delving for the bottom of the drawer, after a few moment his hands came up holding a simple wooden frame, but he held it like the most precious thing in the world. He lay it on the desk and flicked the small reading lamp on so that he could stare at the picture for the rest of the night.
Not knowing that two cocnerned aquamarine eyes were watching him from the dark.
Okay, we all know who's in the picture and we all know who the eyes belong to. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this story. I'm just trying to salvage it. I HAD good ideas when I started this story, but they are all frozen and... forgotten. Yeah, so much for me thinking I had good memory.
So I really need your help on this one. If you have ANY idea, any idea at all, just tell me, really, I can use all the help I can get as you've probabaly already noticed.
So: Review, send your ideas and don't forget to tell me what power you want them to have!
PS: i just want to clarify that the aquamarine eyes (Quatre's) that are watching him 'now' isn't why Duo always feels watched. So Quatre is not some concerned stalker!
HELP ME!
Crimson Waterfall