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Chapter 9:
Confrontations
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"Jay's moving us farther into the city. Apparently a secret undercover operation is there, on the North side, he wants us to infiltrate, get info, destroy base, and change location within the next nine days." Heero told the other two, and they nodded. "We leave immediately." He finished, and all three packed their few belongings as well as the two missing pilots' things away. Heero was taking the ford truck he had 'bought' with someone else's bank account money, while Trowa and Quatre took Trowa's jeep.
"We'll go ahead to the new Safe House, we need some supplies and stuff, can you go and everything Heero?" Quatre asked, and his reply was a sharp nod. "K, well we'll be at the SH by the time you're done, and unpacked everything probably. See you then!" He called friendly while Heero pulled out of the drive way. Heero just gave a curt nod, and was off.
Heero took his time getting to the grocery store, he was aware he could be dangerous, since he had so little sleep, so he was cautious at how he drove. When he arrived at the well kept, but not very large store, he noticed a fair number of cars vacated the parking lot. Out of all the cars, one stuck out rather harshly, it was obviously a speedy sports car, and very expensive, topped off with a delicate light shade of violet. 'Violet, Duo's eyes.' Heero thought, and his chest constricted painfully at the reminder that Duo was gone, and Heero was the reason for it. 'Odd for such an obviously rich person to be in such a common and slightly drab community. Must be a visiting high ranked Oz officer.' He thought, but was he off, the person lived here, wasn't oz, and was the same person who was on his 'to kill' list.
Once inside the store, he grabbed a cart and pushed it to the far end of the store. He started toward the vegetables and fruits, knowing how much Quatre loved peaches, and Trowa was fond of Strawberries. He then managed to catch sight of someone in a dark blue shirt, but didn't think much of it. That was until he caught sight of something trailing quickly behind the person when they quickly moved down another aisle. 'A braid!? Duo? No, its blonde...THE GIRL!' He finally contemplated the evidence, and tried to follow her, but obviously she had noticed him first and was avoiding confrontation.
He finished his shopping, trying to keep an eye out for the girl, but only caught sight of the braid once or twice. He was getting tired of it, and quickly left the store, going to wait for her to come out of the store, and then talk. Once he was out, he put his supplies in the truck, and was going to wait. He immediately took notice that the purple sports car was still parked in the lot.
"Thanks!" Heero heard a female call out to someone, and he turned to take notice. It was the oz girl, and she was heading right toward him, walking backward, talking to someone at the entrance of the store. "O sorry!" Jessy called once she felt she bumped into someone, and turned around to see who it was, after she had apologized. "O no." She mumbled under her breath, once she took in the sight of Prussian blue eyes, messy chocolate hair, and piercing glare, Heero Yuy. She had inevitably ran into the stoic Japanese she had been trying to avoid.
"Hn." Was her monotone reply, and Jessy knew he recognized her, she was in hell. "Watch what your doing." He said with his voice breaking out of its monotone shell, with an outline of seething anger, making Jessy internally cringe, shit.
"Heero, what's your problem?" She asked, looking at the bronze skinned Wing pilot, quite intensely, but being met with a piercing glare.
"MY problem? I wasn't the one who ran into the same person she was running from." He reminded her, voice heightening slightly, Jessy sighed at the realization.
"Sorry!" She said in a teasing kind of way, but meant it all the same. " Damn, so you noticed earler? Damn rope of hair." She said lightly, and Heero still glared at her, looking her over.
"Hn." He answered, his patience shortening, as well as his anger rising. "Why are you joining the Preventors?" He asked, wanting to get answers, and now.
"Une told you!?" She asked unbelievingly, but Heero gave a slight shake of the head, and she took a breath, she hadn't realized she was holding. "You've been hacking into my files!?!" That was the next reasonable explanation to how he knew, and she was outraged.
"Preventor files, but I have been trying yours too, no luck." He said, and Jessy was still pissed but quite pleased, she knew from what Duo told her, Heero was one of the best hackers there was.
"Couldn't get passed my barriers? Aw, tough luck. I'll make sure I seal my computer better, just to make sure you don't get into it, I don't trust someone so stoic, quiet, and cold." She said, and smirked with her last comment, she wanted to make him angry, and see if he toppled, from what she understood he never let his anger get the better of him. Jessy planned to change that, she wanted to get him to break, even if it meant dying in the process.
She was given a death glare, and Jessy realized it was more intense than the one she was given last year when they first met. She tried to match the glare, but she knew she was doing miserably, but it was still a strong glare, just weak compared to Heero's. "Well Heero, I have to go. My supplies will spoil, my friends are waiting also. I hope I get home before they kill each other, or one breaks his already busted leg...Bakas." She mumbled the last part to herself, but Heero caught it and raised an eyebrow in question, he was furious the girl was going to run off.
"You aren't leaving." He stated firmly, and Jessy gave him a glare that surprised him, and glared right back.
"You can't tell me a damn thing Yuy. I am leaving, and that's final, you could try and follow me, but I doubt Trowa and Quatre would appreciate it, and I don't think you could keep up with my car. Demons can fly." She was angered, and let the first sentence sound seething with anger, and the other come out knowingly. Her last comment was in use of he name, Demon, and her fast car, that can 'disappear', by speed.
"Hn. Omae O Korosu." He stated, and Jessy cringed, she knew some of the Japanese language and she very well understood that phrase. "Just not today." He told her, and she glared at him, and stalked to her car.
"Heero Yuy, you're oblivious to the obvious. Someone once told me, 'The coldest is the hardest, he can't see through the fog.' [1] I get what he meant now, and you should to.'' She called to him, after she had gotten into her car, and rolled the window down for him to hear her. "You need to know something." She took a breath, Duo would kill her if he fount out she spilled to Yuy. " Duo ran away, Sally told me the other day, you know the truth, I probably know why..." She started but stopped at the look she fount in Heero's eyes.
"You know nothing." He stated and tried to give her a death glare, but his heart wasn't into it, he was worried she did know why Duo ran away.
"Over something that happened last year, when he was at the base...Shinigami would kill me if I told more. It had nothing to do with me, in fact if it wasn't for me, I'm sure Duo would have died before you got there..." She told him, and Heero had a mortified look on his face, Jessy could tell by the pained yet angered look in his eyes, just how much the Japanese cared for her friend, but she wouldn't tell each others feelings to the other one. That was their place to do it, and she hoped Duo would forgive Heero.
"Omae O Korosu." Heero stated and stalked off to the truck, starting it up, and backing out. He fount that the purple Diablo was gone, and no where in sight. 'Kuso. I am getting to emotional over that braided baka Shinigami.' He thought amusingly to himself, then he thought of what the girl had said. 'She talks as if Duo has told her why he ran away, as if she's talked to him...'
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"Shit." Jessy cussed as she come into the door of the apartment. "Damn, I am so STUPID." She yelled and walked through the living room, finding Wufei listening to music, headphones on his ears. Duo was in the kitchen, and perked his head around the doorway to see what was wrong with Jessy. "You'll never believe what happened! Damn I am a fucking lunatic for doing what I just did." She stated, and received a quizzical look from the DeathScythe pilot.
"What are you talking about? What happened? What did ya do?" Duo asked, voice bubbling with curiosity and confusion. "WU-MAN! Jessy got something to tell us! She's really agitated!" He called to the Chinese, who took the phones from his ears and turned toward the two.
"What are you babbling about Maxwell?" He asked, looking at the two braided pilots.
"Jessy is agitated, and she's gotta tell us something." Duo told him, again.
"Yeah, I have the worst luck. You'll never believe WHO I ran into, literally." She told the two, and Wufei looked at her, telling her to go on. "Heero." She stated, and Wufei looked like he'd hyperventilate, while Duo stared at her in shock with his mouth agape.
"What!?!" Duo asked, quite stunned, he wanted to make sure he heard right. "You RAN INTO Heero?" He emphasized his word use, and the Chinese just nodded, as if saying he'd like to know the answer also.
"Yeah. He was at the grocery store, and I was REALLY trying to avoid him. Then when I came out the store, I was talking to someone and I was walking backward, BUMPING INTO HEERO!'' She told the, and Wufei shook his head in dismay. "I thought he was going to kill me, I was kind of pushing the limits with him, I think I got him angry..." She told them, and Duo looked surprised. "He told me he was gonna kill me. Just not today." She finished, and Wufei was the one to question.
"He recognized you, and carried a conversation?" He questioned disbelievingly.
"That's what I just said!" She scolded, and sighed. "You two are no use...But why would Heero be this far in the city, if your safe house is out two miles from the perimeter of the city?" Jessy asked the other two, she hadn't come up with an explanation to the question yet.
"New safe house? Or undercover work?" Duo suggested, he sat down on the arm of the chair, trying to figure out the answer.
"Yuy and myself have been trying to tail you." Wufei stated, referring to Jessy. "I think he may have gotten a lead on you, that's just a possibility."
"So that's what you were doing at the bar! Spying on me, how stupid of me, I thought it was about Oz!" She scolded herself, and was yelling at Wufei who was trying to keep his stoic mask on.
"Yes." Came the startled answer, and Jessy sighed at her stupidity and dramatically flopped into the leather chair, that Duo was sitting on the arm of.
"You two seem to be getting along better." She stated, referring to the fact they weren't arguing or trying to conflict bodily harm on one another.
"Yeah, we've got an understanding going on...I got mad earlier, but I forgave Fei-Fei. I think I scared him though, so he's being nice." Duo chimed, just making an excuse for their good behavior.
"Maxwell, you are a baka." Wufei stated the obvious, and emphasized his statement with a shake of his head.
"I noticed also." Jessy agreed, and started to get up, but was pushed back down by Duo. "What are you doing? There's still things in the car." She told him, giving him the reason she needed to get up.
"I'll get them, show you who's a baka. Stuck up Chinese and a mentally unstable American woman." He mumbled, and he got to glares from the offended pilots.
"Stop using my mental capabilities as an insult!" Jessy told him, and Duo just shook his head.
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"Heero, what took you so long?" Quatre questioned the Japanese who had just returned with the supplies.
"Had something else to do." Came the monotone response. The Arabian raised an eyebrow at the answer, starting to become curious, like the nosey aristocrat he was.
"Like what?" He asked, knowing he was pushing his luck with the gun happy Heero.
"The oz girl ran into me." He stated, and continued to put away the things he had just bought.
"Don't you mean that the other way around? 'I bumped into her'?" He questioned, and Heero glared at him.
"No, I meant it like I said it. She was the one who bumped into me. Literally." He cleared the matter up, and headed straight for one of the rooms that were unoccupied. His laptop accompanying him, as he walked down the hallway.
Trowa came into the large apartment and sat down at the old table, his tall lithe figure propped gingerly in the wooden chair. "What's the matter love?" The Arabian questioned his lover.
"The bar Wufei went to was closed the other night...Apparently Oz had attacked it, but all thirty men were killed or disabled." The clown answered his blonde koi.
"But if their all downed, then how come Wufei didn't return?" Quatre questioned, baffled by the results.
"The bouncer at the bar said his friend 'Demon' and her companion took them down rescuing a badly injured Chinese. Apparently Wufei was shot by Oz and two someones went and retrieved him. The funny thing was the bouncer said 'Demon' had a long braid as well as her friend." Trowa smirked at the stunned look on the shorter one's face.
"You mean, Duo and 00?" Quatre questioned and Trowa nodded in agreement. "So Heniki has Duo? Or did Duo go to her?" He questioned.
"I don't know. By the sound of it, Maxwell was on his own free will." Trowa stated, and thanked the blonde for the cup of fresh brewed coffee set in front of him. Silently in the hallway, Heero heard the conversation, and was mentally distraught. He had let his only connection to Duo go, the girl did know exactly why Duo had left, and by the remembrance of her words, it sounded as if, she wanted to get it across to him.
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Evening was setting in and the sun was on the horizon about to set. Wufei was irritated by the fact he was forced to stay on the couch, he was dying of boredom, even though he'd never admit to it. "I usually practice at least once a day for an hour!" He stated, and continued to rave. "It's injustice I have to lay here, and watch Maxwell run around." He told Jessy, who smirked at the comment.
"What do you suppose you could do? I know you've been meditating since earlier, so you must be dead bored...How about watching the sun set?" She asked, and Wufei raised an eyebrow in question. "Come on." Jessy told him, and helped him up off the couch and continued out of the apartment, she supporting his weight by having his arm on her shoulder, and hers around his waist. The arrangement wasn't what Wufei had in mind, a blush settled on his cheeks for a few moments, when he felt the grip tighten when Jessy went to open the door. "Here." She told him, and helped him sit down on the steps, and both looked out at the sun, starting to slowly dip down and around the other side of the earth.
"This is better than watching Maxwell." The arrogant Chinese stated, leaning against the railing and gazing at the setting sun.
"Yeah I guess so...Wufei..." He began to ask a question but paused.
"Yes?" Came the reply, and he was growing curious to what she wanted to know.
"I noticed, you haven't called me any name...Nothing but 'you' or 'onna', why is that?" She questioned the Chinese who looked at her puzzled.
"I usually refer to people by their last name. Its a reference sort, my clan used, I've never stopped the custom." He told her, and Jessy just sighed in frustration.
"Still not the answer I was looking for, but good enough. I'd really like it if you called me Jessy or Jess or something." She told him, as she leaned back and laid on the step.
"Why don't you want to be referred to as Heniki?" He questioned, noting the look of anger and misunderstanding in them.
"I never considered myself of the Heniki...Plus the terrible memory of my cousin Ralph, who I killed while at the base. See I was a runaway, who became orphaned, and I lived in an orphanage for a couple years, then in a gang for about 4 and a half...After the gang was killed, I got turned to the base, where my brother worked, and he took me in. That's why I was at the base, my only living relative was there, and I had no choice really, I had no where else to go, and I would be jailed if I had tried to run away from there." She told him, and the Chinese was amazed she shared her past with him, even if it was only tidbits, more than he shared with anyone of his past. "You see, the majority of my life was without the 'Heniki's' or with terrible memories of them, in fact I sometimes refuse that I had any relation to the Heniki's but I know it isn't true, I was born to a drug mom and an abusive father...I had a fucked up life, still do. Ever since the gang I didn't have not a friend, till Duo. He's the only friend I got, besides my dog Naomi...But she doesn't count, she's a dog, not a human."
"I understand." Jessy turned to look at the Chinese, and saw him facing the horizon, with that hard mask back in place, she realized she must have offended him.
"You know...I consider you my friend also, even though I just met you...You must be, since I've tolerated you this long, and I usually have a low tolerance level for people...So I have two friends, You and Duo." She explained, and noticed Wufei's expression soften, she had in fact hurt his feelings, that made her smile even wider. "You know, you're not as irritable and mean as Duo says you are...I mean you are a little, I have to admit, but you're calm and reserved, I like that in a person, because they have lots of self control....Why do you distance yourself from others? I noticed it with you in the bar...You're a very solo or lone wolf kind of person, why is that? What about your past?" She asked the many questioned, and Wufei suddenly felt nervous, he hated to talk of his past.
Jessy seemed to notice the fact Wufei tensed up, and the mask was back, but his eyes held confusion and sorrow. "Its ok, you don't have to tell me, all you had to say is that you're not comfortable with talking about it...But answer this, am I your friend?" She questioned, and the Chinese looked like a scared wolf trapped in a cage. She just smirked at his vulnerability from the question.
"Uh..." He was at a lose for words, he didn't often admit people to be his friends, cause he usually told himself that friends were weak. "Yes." He admitted, looking embarrassed yet relieved by answering the question.
"Aw. Thanks Wufei. That means a lot to me, now I feel a lot better...By the way, how's your leg feeling?" She looked at the Chinese, with her head cocked lightly to the side. He put his hand down on the splint she made for him, and looked back up at her.
"Fine. I should be able to walk on it perfectly in two to three weeks tops. The fracture wasn't that bad." He gave the analysis of his health to her. She sighed, he still wasn't opening up to her very much, she wished he would, it was for his own good.
"That's good...We better get back inside, also check on Duo, he better not be rummaging through the fridge." She commented and Wufei smirked, that was probably what the braided baka was doing. Jessy helped Wufei back into the house and over to the couch, the door had been closed, when suddenly a knock was heard on the door. Jessy looked panicked, she never had visitors, and she was afraid to answer. "Lets get you to the kitchen, where you can't be seen..." She whispered to him, and hurried to get him to the kitchen door, where he was able to sit in a chair quickly. "HOLD ON!" Jessy yelled to who ever was at the door, as she ran for the door.
"Miss. Heniki?" A man of about thirty asked, a little skeptical of this 'girl' to be the same high rank soldier he'd heard so much about.
"Yes? Who may you be?" She asked, and the man bowed his head in recognition.
"Sergeant O' Connell, I was told you were a respectable Lieutenant at the High Valley base...Is that true?" He questioned, and Jessy was horror struck, but she didn't let it show.
"Yes, my brother Lieutenant Kai, and Colonel Akins were the head of the base...Why do I get a visit from you Sergeant?" She questioned the man, being stern voiced, but she was actually scared shitless.
"As I figure you already know, there's a large warehouse on the corner of the North Side, and its being constructed into another base...You were referred to me as an excellent choice for my staff, I am hear to ask you to reassign yourself to the base. Will you consider it?" The Sergeant explained, and then asked, Jessy raised an eyebrow, but still kept her superior stance.
Jessy knew if she refused, then the officer would most likely send a swat in after her, figuring she was a preventor or something of the cause. But she wasn't going to join them, she hated Oz, their cause, and her past with them. "I will consider your offer, but there is no guarantees, as you see I plan to move to L1, do some spy work...But all options are available, thank you for your offer again Sergeant. Good night." She told him, and slowly closed the door, as the man bowed and turned around to leave. Jessy sighed in relief and slid down the door, her heart racing and her blood pumping furiously, she wouldn't let herself panic though.
"What the fuck!?" Duo called from the kitchen and ran around the doorway and saw Jessy laying back against the door, head in her hands. "What was that about!? I thought you were against Oz!" Duo shouted at her, and she took a deep breath slowly lifting her head to see him. Wufei had joined Duo at the door, supporting his wait against the wall. Jessy's eyes were glazed over and already blood shot, a few tears wetting her cheeks.
"What did you expect me to do? Tell him 'Hell no, I hate Oz?' Do you really think I would have lived a few more seconds? I was protecting you two, damn it. We have to leave...You two have to go back to the others, I'm a nescience to you, you can't afford to be with me, I attract to much attention...Do you understand?" She asked, picking herself off the ground, a serious and firm mask on, she wasn't joking or suggesting, she knew what had to be done.
"But...Your not a nescience, if it wasn't for you me and Wufei would be dead by now...Do you understand that?" Duo asked, looking quite surprised by her little speech.
"I agree with Maxwell, we can't let you become a target also." Wufei added to Duo's remark.
"Thanks, I feel better, but I am serious. I am already a target, have you forgot, I am a Gundam pilot, a spy, a traitorous ex Oz soldier, what ever they could throw at me. I helped a Gundam pilot escape while I was a soldier, that's treason to the cause...I'd be tortured to death for such a thing...Once they look into my files deeper, they'll find out I was suppose to be inside the base, or piloting a suite, a suite that was destroyed by you guys...But yet here I am, limbs in tact, and without outlaying injuries. Once they find out, I will be on the top of the list for them to capture and kill, don't you understand? I am a danger to you, you're safer with Heero and the others." She told them, quite distressed they were so stubborn, and blind to the fact. Jessy was about ready to yell by now, or cry, she was confused and worried.
"Jessy, we can't do that. That's why we've got to stay here with you, so they won't get you...Three is better than one, against a small army!" Duo tried to rant to her, but Jessy glared at him, she couldn't understand why he wouldn't listen.
"You're both crippled, what good would you do? Duo, you're still recovering from your wreck, and emotional scars as well...Wufei's got a busted leg, he can't even walk on his own yet...You're both at danger, but your safest back with Heero. That's why I'm going to look for him tomorrow, and tell him where you two are...I refuse to change my mind." She told them, and Duo looked horrorstruck.
"NO! Don't you dare, I don't want Heero coming here! That's why I'm here in the first place, don't you dare tell him, I'll leave again." Jessy sighed, and put her head back in her hands, as she heard Wufei move to the couch, he hadn't commented for awhile.
"Duo, I don't know the details to why you ran from Heero, but its damn right obvious that you're his best friend, maybe even more...Heero was about to bite my head off when I was talking to him, he looked like he was about to fall out right where he was...It's best if you go back, from what Wufei said all three of them are restless, do you want them going through that? Forgive them for what ever they did, I'm sure they miss you. You can either run away or return, but I'm getting Yuy to come here tomorrow." She told him, and flopped out on the cot in the living room floor.
"She's right. But I don't see why she doesn't go to the safe house also...Winner would be thrilled, Barton and Yuy however, I'm not sure....Yuy has you on his death list, that's not a good position to be in." The silent Chinese commented, and Jessy sighed again.
"No. I refuse to go. Heero hates my guts, and I've never met the other two, I'm sure I would like Quatre from you're description of him, but Trowa I am sure would be like Heero, untrustworthy toward me. This is final, I don't want to hear any more about it. I am tired." She finished the conversation, Duo sighed and stalked to his room, and Wufei just laid on the couch, still tense.
All three just went to sleep, or as close as they could get. Jessy was restless, that Sergeant sent bad vibes through her, and she was scared, he reawakened the fear that lie dormant inside of her, it was starting to eat at her while she slept. Wufei had a dreamless sleep, still restless but well enough that he didn't wake up but a few times during the night. Duo had cried himself to sleep, he didn't want to face Heero yet, and he didn't want to let Jessy face Oz by herself. He knew it was all his fault, and he wanted to fix it, but he couldn't and she wouldn't let him.
- - -New Safe House (H,Q,T) Next morn- - -
"Trowa!" Quatre said excitedly as he entered the kitchen, Trowa smirked and looked up from his paper with his eyebrow arched. "You're wonderful! I love you so much!" The little blonde chimed, and hugged his lover.
"What was that for?" The taller male asked, knowing perfectly well why the Arabian was so happy.
"Like you don't know! They are so beautiful, my favorite flowers! Desert lilies and wild roses! You're so sweet, but why are you in such a good mood?" Quatre questioned curiously.
"Nothing...I thought you needed something to lift up your mood. You're becoming to stressed out." Trowa explained, as the blonde sat in the taller one's lap and cuddled up to him.
"Well this sure does help..." Quatre admitted contently, as he breathed in the fresh scent of peppermint and strawberry. Trowa gave the little Arabian a small yet genuine smile, as he let the smaller youth cuddle to him, holding him protectively.
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"I've got to go. That girl sent me an e-mail, she says she has something important to tell me...I might just go ahead and kill her while I'm at it." Heero mumbled to the other two, as he exited the new safe house.
"Don't do anything rash!" Quatre warned from the living room. His reply was a grunt and the door slammed. "Oh, this doesn't sound right...What do you think Trowa?" He questioned his lover.
"Heero will be back, and fine...Don't worry about him, as long as he doesn't wreck while driving that is, he hasn't slept for two nights straight, I've heard him on that damned computer." He told his blonde companion, who sighed.
- - - Grocery Store - - -
"What's taking him so long!?" Jessy yelled to herself, the parking lot wasn't that busy, as it usually was on a Monday at noon. She was pacing impatiently beside her car, nervous about this second encounter with Heero. She remembered how Duo nearly begged her not to go, and she had to ignore him, it made her cringe to think of it.
Finally after a long twenty minutes of waiting, she saw the dark blue Ford truck pull into the lot, and the stoic Japanese was driving. He looked near death tired, but a angered expression on his face, she was slightly intimidated in her state of mind. "Where the fuck have you been?" She asked him, seriously as he got out of the truck, and she noted to the extent of his appearance. He had dark rings under his eyes, the eyes themselves were glazed and bloodshot from either lack of sleep or crying, but she was sure it was from no sleep. His skin had turned paler than it was the day before, and his whole posture was restless.
"What do you want?" He asked, it would have sounded deep and threatening but it came out in a husked commented way.
"Shit, you know what...You look awful, I mean you look like the walking dead. Not trying to be mean, but its true, have you gotten a good sleep since Duo's been gone?" She questioned him, and he glared at her, that was one thing that wasn't tired.
"I asked you what did you want!" He spat at her, and she answered him to his wishes this time.
"I didn't tell you something yesterday...I know where Duo is..." She began but was suddenly lifted an inch off the ground by a hand twisted around the collar of the long sleeved shirt she was wearing.
"What do you mean, you've known where he's at!?!" Heero was furious, but seemed relieved.
"He was in really bad shape when I fount him the other day...His wounds from wrecking his bike got infected, and he had a lot of road rash...But he's healed up pretty well in the past few days...." Heero was glaring at her, but she ignored it, and was about to continue talking when the Japanese interrupted.
"You have him?" It was more of a statement than a question, and Heero looked seething with anger.
"Yes! But wait, there's more....Friday night Wufei came to the club, well eleven Oz officers came along in their also...Lets say this, they captured Wufei, but I didn't have a damn thing to do with it. Once I found out, I went home quickly and got Duo...We went to the basement of the bar, and there were well over thirty officers down there...We managed to rescue Wufei though, he had hairline fracture to his medial malleolus and a gunshot wound to his right shoulder..." She told the Japanese who was obviously very angry at her, and Jessy barely missed the punch that was sent toward her jaw. "Now stop that! I'm not finished!" She yelled at him, after he was about to swing a second time.
"Bitch! Why would you be hiding them? They can't be there on their free will, I'm going to get them!" Heero told her and Jessy shook her head.
"That's why I'm here! You have to come to my apartment and take them to your safe house...I know you had to have moved locations, so I couldn't bring them to you. There is one complication however..." She trailed off, waiting for Heero's response.
"What? You're surrendering them? Why?" He was interrogating her, and she didn't have time.
"I don't have time for this...I didn't take them by force, they are at my apartment on their free will! But they need to get out of there now! Oz is to active, and their after me...By now I'm sure they've figured out what happened at High Valley...If so, then those two are in great danger...I can't afford that to happen, so you've got to get them out now...But as I said there is a problem...Duo, he doesn't want to go, he was nearly pleading to me last night not to get you...What did you do to him? He's really emotional, I can't believe you were the cause of his outburst..." Heero was glaring at her, again, but an analyzing glare.
"That's not your business. Duo hasn't been himself lately, and I believe your the cause of it." Heero stated, and Jessy looked sat him in disbelief.
"ME! No, if you're going to keep doing this analyzing shit, then I'll tell you why Duo has been so out of it...He'll never forgive me, but its for the best for both of you...Someone besides me has to know, I think you're the next best choice, you're always there for him..." Jessy started to tell him.
"What are you babbling about?" The Japanese asked, annoyed by her slow progress.
"When Duo was at that base, the fourth night, three soldiers took their own approach at 'punishment'. Two of them raped Duo, and they were about to do it again on the fifth night when I killed one of them...So you see I was not the cause, but the solution...I was only sorry that I didn't make it the night before." Heero looked dumbstruck and pertrified by he information. "I'm sorry Heero, but we have to go...Don't tell Duo I told you, he'll kill me for sure..."
"I can't believe that...Duo would never let that happen. You're lying..." Heero said, tone of desperation and disbelief tainting his vocal cords. Jessy looked desperate, her eyes by now were glassy from unshed tears, worry, fear, and uncertainty coursing through her veins.
"Heero, it is, I'm sorry but it is. Duo's emotions have been closed off to you other pilots, I'm sure he's been to ashamed to tell you guys, and show his tears to you...Please you've got to follow me, I'm fucking scared Heero, do you understand? I am scared because I don't want Oz finding any of you, if they return back to my apartment, Duo and Wufei won't have a chance, I only have three guns, and I left one for each of them...That's not enough to fend off a swarm of militia...Follow me home now! Call the other two, here..." She tossed a cell phone to Heero, who still looked in deep thought trying to process the information, but grabbed the phone and looked at her quizzically.
"No." He told her, throwing the phone in the open window of her car, and he stepped back into his truck. Jessy looked relieved, and did the same, rushing to cut on the engine and was pulling out of the lot quickly, making sure Heero could keep up with her. As they rounded the corner and had less than a block to go, Jessy suddenly slammed on the brakes, the tires squealing lightly in protest to the sudden stop.
She jumped out the car, and ran back to Heero's truck, which was already vacated. "Damn, Heero don't do anything stupid!" She said to herself, and started to run toward her apartment. What the sudden stop was about, two Oz patrol cars were down the street across from her apartment. Also she had no way of telling how many more were there.
"They're leaving." Heero murmured from the building in front of her, and she shook her head.
"That was my apartment! We've got to go and see if they've got Wufei and Duo!" She told him, and she rounded back to get her car, much easier if they did have the two injured pilots. "Get in the car." She told him, as she pulled up after retrieving the vehicle. Heero tried to glare at her, and Jessy knew he didn't trust her, she shook her head. "Lets go, don't want them to get to far away if they do have those two!" She told him, and he complied to the demand and got into the car.
Heero looked anxious and nervous at the same time, Jessy noticed it, as she exited the car, engine off, and keys in hand. "Duo?" Heero asked into the apartment, and there was no answer. Jessy ran through the complex, opening every door or cabinet, looking for either of the pilots. No luck, till she heard the dog outside, she was barking hysterically, but Jessy hadn't seen the dog when she pulled up.
"NAOMI!" She yelled, and the dog ran through the door of the apartment, and to its owner. The dog was excited, and glad to see its owner, but she quickly ran back outside, and Jessy followed. Heero looked at her as if she had two heads, and Jessy motioned for him to follow, she had a feeling Naomi knew something. Sure enough after running for half a block, into a large cluster of bushes, the pit bull mix stopped. "What is it girl?" The braided American questioned the dog, and she heard rustling in the bushes.
"Wha..." Came an uneasy answer, and then the male registered the voice he heard. "Jessy!"
"Duo! You're ok...They must have Wufei, don't they?" She asked, as she helped the boy out of the bushes, just as Heero rounded the building the bushes were beside.
"Heero..." Duo said, he was fatigued and injured, all his wreck wounds were reopened, and he had two gunshot wounds, one to his left arm, and the other to his right thigh. Heero looked dumbfounded, and he looked so relieved, he rushed to his fallen pilot's side, and helped him walk. Jessy smiled, Duo would be able to see just how much Heero actually cared for him.
"Are you ok?" The Japanese questioned, as they started to walk.
"Yes Heero...But they got Wuffers." He replied, and leaned more weight onto Heero, he was drained, he couldn't support but a little bit of weight on his leg.
"You two stay here...I'll bring the car to retrieve you, there's no way you two can make it back home." She told them, and ran back up the street toward the purple car parked on the side of the road. Heero let Duo sit back down, as he did the same, looking over the boy, inspecting injuries.
"Heero, you must still not like Jessy...If it took her an hour to get you here....You look awful." Duo commented to the Japanese, who gave a small smile to the braided boy, as he rubbed his face, trying to get the dark circles under his eyes to go away.
Soon Jessy came back, and Heero got Duo in the car, then put himself in the front seat. She had to take them back to Heero's safe house, because it was a danger to be at her apartment, and plus she didn't have the supplies to take care of his wounds. "How do I get to the safe house?" She asked, and the Japanese didn't hesitate to give her the address to the new Safe House.
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OMG. Heero found Duo! Duo's scared to go back, Jessy's panicked! Oz is after Jessy now, for treason to their organization! Wufei's been captured, again. How will Trowa and Quatre react to the return of Duo, and the arrival of the 00(Jessy)? Who will retrieve Wufei, and what awaits all six pilots?????? Find out next chapter!
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Wufei: Nataku why me?
Jessy: You were the easier target? Plus its so cute that Heero and Duo are reunited!
Duo: Why do I got to be in such a situation? I'm injury prone in this story!
Quatre: Aw, Heero! I bet you'll sleep well now!
Heero: *Glares at Quatre* Hn.
Trowa:....is 00 safe to have at the SH?
Duo: Hell yeah!
Quatre: She seems to be on our side, I don't mind.
Jessy: *sweat drops* This whole chapter was about me trying to get you three to realize I AM on your side!
Heero: All American's are bakas.
Duo and Jessy: HEY!
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Read and Review! Chapter 10 coming soon. Thanks for great reviews so far, this story is kind of going out of whack, but it'll turn out better soon....I hope. LOL