Chapter five
She had been stationed at one of the motels on the colony, where they suspected the base there was building a new mobile suit. She was obvious about a few things she did, to get their attention, but not too obvious for them to think that she was being careless, or suspicious.
She had overcome the effects of the drugs in a matter of two days, while keeping her brain waves normal, and her breathing slow and steady. She had even overcome a higher dose, before Dr. J thought she was ready.
It hadn't taken OZ long to track her down, and they watched her movements for a few days, before they decided to capture her. She had put up a fight, killing four men, and injuring three others, before she let the drugs take their toll on her body.
She had only slept for about half an hour, until she woke up, and pretended to be asleep as they unloaded her from a truck. They carried her into a larger room than the last, and began setting her up to the machines. After about two hours of injecting more sedatives in her, and watching her brain waves, they decided to leave. The light went off automatically, as well as the door locking from the outside.
She would wait a few more minutes before she went into action. In the meantime, she could go over the plans in her head...
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Duo and Heero waited for the signal by the base on top of a building. They sat there, listening for the alarms to go off.
'One, two, Duo thought to himself, three... there it is. Good girl, Robin.'
They climbed down the fire escape on the side and hurried into the base, that was now ringing numerous warning signals; red lights flickering in the dark.
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She clicked away furiously on the key board, as she searched for the information she was looking for. Six guards were sprawled on the floor behind her, where she had let herself in, and more strung outside around the door.
She clicked on a folder labeled Top Secret, and copied its confinements on a disc she found, when her eye caught something. Another folder, under the name Top Secret: Tool. Only too aware of one of her many nick names, she clicked on it.
The first page she read was about her mother, she guessed. A woman named Elizabeth Thorne, age thirty six, height...
She read through the paragraphs, reading about her mothers life, up until her death.
(The house had been purposely burned down. Only the girl was saved, due to the experiments her father had done on her as a baby, and to himself before his wife had gotten pregnant. The father had commit suicide, and that was when we discovered the tests he had recorded about her and himself. Since we no longer had him, we had to use the daughter instead for our research and studies. She was to become our new project...)
She felt like she had to throw up. How could her father do that to her? Who had killed her mother?
Her thoughts were disrupted by the explosion down the hall. She needed to move, get out of there, but she sat frozen. She heard a familiar voice, and looked towards the door. Duo stood there, saying something, but she couldn't hear him anymore. The last thing she saw was a pair of dark blue eyes staring at her.
(Small hands clutched the teddy bear harder, squeezing it to the point where the head was about to fall off. The needle's blue liquid shot through her arm, and almost made her scream. "Just squeeze the bear sweetie, I promise it won't hurt in a few minutes", a smooth, deep voice said soothingly to her. A large hand came up to stroke back her hair, that was now sweaty. Her breathing hitched a few times and than went back to its normal pace. "Daddy, she said, can I go play now?" "After we do some more tests", he said, indicating towards a treadmill and a few sets of weights. "But Daddy, I...")
Her head throbbed steadily as she sat up, rubbing her arm, where she felt like she had just gotten a shot. She looked down and saw that she was bleeding a little, from where she had ripped out one of the needles they had shoved into her arm. She was in her room at the doctors house, and she noticed a few hushed voices outside in the living room.
She got up and walked out of her room into the hallway, making her way down it and into the living room. All five pilots and the doctor were sitting there, talking, until she entered the room, and everything was suddenly hushed.
"What's going on", she questioned.
"You could have jeopardized our mission", Heero snarled at her.
"What are you talking about?"
"You were suppose to get the information and than get out before me and Duo arrived. But, no, you were still there, looking at stuff that wasn't even important to us, and than we had to haul your ass back up here cause you passed out."
She was starting to get pissed, more so than Heero was.
"Dammit, I was doing what I was supposed to. I had to wait for the disc to save the information, when I saw something about me. Excuse me for caring about a past I can't even remember."
She paused for a moment, trying to control her anger before she unleashed it one him.
"You got the information, well didn't you?"
He didn't reply, just kept staring at her, with his usual death glare.
"You did, so I don't want to argue about this anymore."
He looked at her, and than answered back.
"You still could have screwed things up for us. We almost got caught while carrying you out."
"Yuy, shut the fuck up. Even you, the perfect, emotionless solider, would have at least felt something if you found out your mother was murdered and your father had..."
'God dammit, she was starting to lose control. She didn't need that right now. She didn't this right now, either.'
She stopped, and looked around the room that was dead silent. They all stared at her, wondering what she was about to say.
"Forget it", she replied, before turning around and started heading for the library, but stopped to tell the doctor something. Her back still turned on them.
"Oh, and Doctor, don't worry, I didn't find out everything I need to know, so I'll still be around for you to use as your tool", she said, smiling a sinister grin before she turned her head back around and stalked off towards the library.
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She ran her hands over the many worn covers, searching for her favorite poem. Aha, here it is, she smiled inwardly.
The Crow-Marble Whores of Paris
At midnight, sudden, dim-lit isolation,
In silent streets, hardening, stiff-legged
Flocks perching on corners, in alleys, doorways,
Beckon with stone arms, peck of crows,
Crow-marble whores: silent caw for customers,
Clutching marble limbs, no memory in shadow-faces,
Dark stance of the birds piercing moonlight,
Statues of their carved embraces.
-James Schevill
Something about that poem, it just spoke to her, gave her chill bumps at the same time, but was also calming. As strange as it was, it always helped her when she was either angry or unhappy, which was almost all the time.
The first time she had found it was when she had stolen a book from the man who was training her out of his office. It was supposed to be revenge, to just tear it up, and place it back in there. But she had ended up reading it instead. It had been her favorite poem out of all the ones she read. She had placed the book back, but would sneak in there and take it out just to read it, until she got caught. But, she didn't care, cause by then she had it memorized. When ever she felt herself about to snap, she would recite it in her mind or out loud, if she was alone.
A knock came from the door, and it slowly opened. Duo walked in, and she couldn't help but smile. She had liked Duo the best out of the five, and was glad that he wasn't scared to talk to her, or get to know her. Neither was Quatre, but she hadn't talked to him as much as she did with Duo.
He walked over towards one of the many comfortable pieces of furniture, that she was currently draped over. She was laying on one of the small couches, feet propped on top of a pillow. He moved slowly, so she knew what he was doing, and not try to take his head off, as he picked her feet up and sat on the couch, laying her legs and feet on his lap.
She let him do this, not caring in the least, even though it was the first time she remembered someone touching her and it not being a strike, or a painful experience.
He knew from experience that she probably didn't want to discuss what she found out about her past. He was still trying to get away from the nightmares his caused, as he was sure she was experiencing them as well. Even though it was about to get much worse.
"Hey, what'cha reading?"
"Remember that poem I told you about."
"Yeah, is that the one?"
"Yeah, you want to read it now?"
"Sure."
She handed the book to him and he began to read it. She watched his eyes move back and forth across the page, they took their time, and she was glad that he did, or else he might have seen how she was practically drooling over him.
When he was done, he looked up and smiled at her.
"Hmm, I've never read anything like that before. I really liked it though, it seems almost calming."
She was glad to have someone else think this as well. They sat for a few more minutes, in utter silence before she spoke up.
"I'm glad someone else thinks that."
"Umm, Duo", she asked a little hesitantly.
"Yeah."
"Are you mad at me too, about the mission?"
"No, Heero's really the only one who's mad. He just gets that way about missions is all. Remember, I told you how uptight he can be sometimes. "
"Yeah, thanks, again."
"Anytime. Hey, you hungry?"
"Yeah, I am actually."
"Well good, let's go out and get something. The Doc ain't got much to eat around here."
"All right."
They walked out into the living room, after she ran to her room to get her shoes, and than got into one of the many cars Dr. J had. They rode into town and got a big lunch at a nice little Greek restaurant. When they were done, they decided to go catch a movie.
When they got there though, they noticed some OZ soldiers causing some trouble. They decided to handle it, which they did, until more came. They didn't want to make to much of a scene, so they ran, with them chasing them. They ran into an alley, and they passed them by in a truck. When they caught their breath, they actually started to laugh. They waited a few minutes, until they emerged and made their way to the car, and went back to the house.
"Oh, god that was fun", Duo stated in the car.
"Yeah, I just wish they would find some other way to have fun."
"Man, I know, they always have to be such dicks."
The cool night air was soothing on their faces, as the top to the car was down. They were silent on the rest of the trip back up to the house. She stared at the moon and stars the entire way, wishing that the night would never end. She was actually having fun. She was glad that she met Duo, and the others, even Heero, who was an ass most of the time, at least to her anyway.
They pulled up in the drive way, opened the garage door, and parked the car. They were surprised when Heero came out to greet them, they were being overly generous, he only came out to yell.
"Where in the hell have you two been all day?"
"We went to go grab something to eat, and a movie, where we ran into some trouble. But we took care of it."
Heero noticed the bloody knuckles on her fingers, and the slightly bruised bottom lip on Duo.
"What did you two do", he asked irritated, the same coldness in his eyes.
"We got into a fight with the soldiers from the base nearby", Duo stated, while grinning.
"Duo", he said warningly.
"Hey, they started it, all we wanted to do was see a movie. Isn't that right Robin?"
She had been quiet the entire time, but now she couldn't help but laugh at the expression on his face. They just looked at her. Well, Heero did, Duo just cracked up as well.
He didn't get them, they could have been caught. They might have followed them here, and given away not only their hideout, but the doctors as well. He didn't find any of this amusing.
He was about to say this when Robin stopped laughing and looked at him. She saw what he was thinking, answering him before he could even ask.
"I know what you're thinking Heero, and you're right. But, we did think of that. Don't worry about it, they didn't follow us. There weren't many left, most of them were just passed out in the back of the truck. We made sure that they left before we even got in the car."
He looked at her, and than at Duo, who had finally stopped laughing. He grunted and walked inside, leaving them alone in the garage.
Duo was surprised that Heero didn't yell at them more, he was glad that he didn't. His head hurt a little from where he had been tackled to the ground, by like three guys. Thankfully, Robin pulled one of them off, and he took care of the other two. It had been fun, and they made a pretty good team, better them him and Heero. She actually talked to him.
They made their way into the house, and said good night to each other, before going to their rooms. When she got to her room, she didn't bother to turn on the light. She just stripped down into her bra and panties, and crawled into bed. It was always hot in her room, that she didn't even put the covers over her. She fell asleep a few minutes later.
She didn't notice the yellow eyes outside her window.
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Sorry for the lateness, and shortness.