I think we broke our record of not updating... totally really absolutely deeply sorry about that... we totally hate people who don't update too, it's depressing really, especially if you know that you're one of those people...

But well, this story is coming along quite slowly so... I hope you people are still willing to read it... ahum...

Disclaimer: don't own, so feck off

R&R please?

Reaching the monastery

We were driving again, when my phone rang.

Heero pulled over on the middle of the road and grabbed my phone. He looked at the display and swallowed (at least I think he did) "Hello?" he said when he answered my phone.

I heard something like: "Mumbeldemumbel bwaaabwaaabwaaah." (My mum)

"O, eh… well… she is, but she's sleeping right now," he said and turned around looking at a totally tied up me, with a piece of tape on my mouth. "I really don't think I should wake her, last time I did that she attacked me, I still got the bruises," he said in a very convincing tone.

My mum answered again: "Mumbeldewhaaabaaabaaah."

"No, bad idea Miss, but I shall tell her you called," Heero answered with a big evil smile on his face, "Bye now."

"Mumbeldebwaaaaaaaaaaahbwaa-"

"Tuut, tuut, tuut."

I couldn't believe my ears. Heero just hung up on my mum! Didn't his freaky father ever teach him any manors at all?

I suddenly had a great idea. I'm a girl with gorgeous nails, so I always had my nail file with me. It was safely hidden in my hair! Lucky me! I nodded my head very hard a couple of times (the file was like totally stuck somewhere in my coupe) and it fell in my lap. I was happy Heero hadn't bound my arms on my back, so I could reach it, if I just struggled a bit.

It worked, I grabbed it and tried to say: 'Eureka!' But it just came out as a: "Murma!"

Heero turned around and looked at me with a questioning glare (at least it looked like one) I tried to say 'nothing', but all you heard was:

"O-in."

"Hn," Heero said and turned back.

I started to cut the rope. Heero didn't hear anything. When I was released I quietly took the piece of tape off my mouth. This was my chance.

I smashed the piece of tape somewhere in Heero's face. He was shocked for a moment, but then he quickly hit the brake. I didn't hesitate for a single second and quickly grabbed my bag. Heero's bag (who was lying underneath mine) was stuck to it. Oh, well, more chocolate for me, I thought. I opened the door and ran off.

"Where are you going? Come back!" Heero screamed after he removed the tape from his face. He got out of the car and started chasing me. I turned around and saw him coming closer and closer. And there we were, running on a god forsaken piece of road in the middle of nowhere! I couldn't hide in the bushes or something; there weren't any. I kept on running, when I passed two men. That was so weird. Why would anyone wanna walk here?

"Gotcha!" Heero suddenly shouted. He grabbed my arm and a second later we both rolled over the ground. "Let me go!" I said, while I was struggling with him

"You really don't get it, do you?" Heero said, "This is your punishment. You'll just have to go through this all without a fuss."

"I will escape, just wait and see," I said.

"It's a good thing I always have a solution to any situation," Heero said while he searched for something in his pocket with his free arm that wasn't holding me, "Aha, got it!" and I saw him holding up a pair of handcuffs.

Before I could do anything (like protest or scratch his eyes out) he snapped one on my right wrist and the other one on his left wrist. Now I was stuck on him, literary. "What the-"

"Just try to escape now," Heero said with that usual evil smile on his face. He grabbed my bag and threw it in my stomach.

"Au! Thanks," I said defeated. We walked back and when we reached Heero's bag (that had let loose of my bag while I was running) we heard the ignition of an engine, and looked up; the two men I had passed earlier were stealing the car.

"Wait," Heero screamed, "Come back, that's my car!"

He grabbed his bag, hung it over his shoulder and started running. He pulled me with him and I almost fell because I wasn't used to run this fast. After a mile or something we finally stopped. My legs were aching painfully and I couldn't breath. Unlike me, Heero wasn't gasping for air; he just fell on his knees and started making this weird noise at the back of his throat. It sounded an awful lot like a whine.

"Will you... huh... will you... huh... just... stop...huh..." I said, "Let's... huh... go back... huh... home... please... huh..."

"No way," Heero said, "This is all your fault!"

"My... huh... fault! If you...huh... just had... huh... chased me... huh... with the car, this... huh... wouldn't have... huh... happened!"

"Hn," he snorted at me.

"And what... huh... now, mister... huh... brilliant?" I asked.

"We walk," he said short and direct. So we started walking.

Heero didn't say a thing to me and I kept asking myself what in the world he was planning to do. It seemed like we had to walk ages to get to the inhabited world. I asked Heero that question a thousand times, but he just kept ignoring me. Once in a while he blurted something out like: "Hn," or "Grmbl."

That lead me to an idea; I just had to irritate him enough to get him to start to shout at me. His outbursts may seem very boring and useless, but now they could uncover a lot of information about what his plan is. So I just started to talk about the first subject that came up in my mind; fashion.

"You know Big-H, I can call you that, can't I, I mean now that your my travel partner you need a nick-name, anyway, have you ever red a fashion magazine? Take those shoes of yours, so not cool and totally last century, not to talk about the fact that you always wear them and they're covered with mud. You'd do a lot better with adidas or converse the newest models. And that ugly bag of yours, no offence, is also like... prehistorical. People wouldn't even believe you if you'd call it retro! You really have to take an example of me. I guess that's not gonna be hard 'cuz you're going to spend lots and lots of time with me, especially now that you're STUCK ON ME!" I had a short of breath because of my long everlasting story, but Heero was still ignoring me!

"Hello, I'm talking to you. The only living thing around here!" I said, but there was still no response.

"Fine, have it your way, but don't depend on me when you need company or someone to talk to. I'm not gonna be that person, just remember that," I said, but then I saw Heero's face was very red and he was trying to keep his nerves.

That was it! If I could keep on talking for a few more minutes, there would be a huge outburst. I wanted to start, but right on that moment I saw something. It was large and dark, it was a monastery!

"Oh my god! Heero, look!"

"What now!" he said loudly.

"Look, it's a miracle, it's a monastery!" I said.

"Finally, a sleeping place," Heero said and started to run, pulling me with him (again!) Heero was running so fast that I almost fell.

"Can you slow it down please!" I shouted. Bur he ignored me and ran even faster. We were getting closer and closer and I saw a big front door. There were stairs in front of it. Heero climbed them like a madman, but I tripped. Heero didn't notice it, so he ended up pulling me up the stairs. When he stopped right in front of the big door (I was still laying on the stairs) I got up and looked at all my bruises.

Heero was already pounding on the door and in a few seconds someone opened it. A priest was standing there. He was short and very fat. "Can I help you?" he asked.

"Yes, please, two men stole my car and we had to walk, but it's getting dark and we really need a sleeping place," Heero said in one breath.

"Of course, everybody is welcome here, just follow me," the priest said and turned around. We followed him. I saw the priest was just a boy, around the age of fourteen, fifteen. I wondered what got him so fat. Maybe the food's great in here!

We entered a big room full of more fat priests. A couple of adult priests were talking by the fire place, other younger priests were reading books or the bible. One very old priest came to us. "Thank you son, you may go," he said to the priest who opened the door. "So, can we help you?" the priest asked.

"We kinda need a place to sleep," I said quickly, before Heero could say anything.

"But of course! Everybody is welcome, dinnertime has already passed, but if you like something to eat...?"

My face brightened up, but Heero beat me to it:

"No thanks, we just wanna sleep. We're leaving early tomorrow and besides, we just ate," He said.

"What! But we haven't had any food all-"

"Please show us our beds," Heero almost begged the priest.

"Sure, follow me."

The two of them walked away and I had to follow them because I was still stuck on Heero!

The priest opened a door. Behind it was a small room with one bed. "I have noticed you two are chained to one another, so I figured you can sleep in one bed. We only have this size of beds so I hope you don't mind. Do you two have a relationship?" the priest asked.

"No way!" I said, "He just handcuffed me so I can't walk away."

"And we will stay handcuffed, we're in therapy. She's in denial. But if you get past that she can be... quite... umm... mostly harmless" Heero said with a fake smile.

Too shocked to protest I ended up giving him a dark look. The one that comes straight from hell and burns laser through the eyes.

"As you wish," the priest said while seizing me up, "Anything else you need?"

"No thanks," Heero responded politely. The priest turned around and walked away.

"And now what?" I growled.

"Now we get some sleep," Heero said and went to sit on the bed.

"You must be crazy, I am NOT sharing a bed with you!" I said madly, "Especially not after that! Mostly harmless? What the hell! Do you have a brain, at all!"

"Do whatever you like, but I'm gonna sleep now, if you don't, there will be just more room for me. Goodnight," he laid down and pulled the sheets over himself.

"So you're just leaving me standing here, the whole night!" I asked with resentment in my voice.

"That's up to you," he answered simply and closed his eyes.

"Ok, if that's what you want," I said and waited a few minutes before making my move. Enough for him to drop his defences. When I thought he had drifted off to lala-land, I made my move; I suddenly stepped backwards and lifted my arm. Heero flew out of bed and landed on the floor. He quickly stood up and shouted: "WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD ARE YOU DOING?"

"Oh, Heero, I'm terribly sorry. My doctor says I have late reflexes so that must have been it," I said with an evil smile on my face.

"You think you're funny?" Heero said.

"I wasn't joking, what do you take me for?" I replied, pretending I was shocked by his words.

"Well, I've had enough! You are getting in that bed… NOW!" he bursted out. When I didn't do anything, Heero grabbed my arm and hard-handedly pulled me towards the bed. This time I did struggle; very hard!

"LET ME GO!" I screamed. Heero was really hurting me. Suddenly the door flew open and that earlier priest was standing there.

"Is everything alright?" he asked.

Heero and I were standing still in our wrestle position and we both juggled a fake reassuring smile on our faces.

"He's just having some kind of midlife crisis, you know, we all have them, I'm trying to calm him down," I said and smiled. I know, I know, it sounds very stupid, but it was the first thing that came up to me, besides added with the thing he said earlier about me it would make sense.

The priest looked at me questioning and so was Heero.

"Haha, no problems at all, haha, you can go… ok… please," I tried again. He closed the door and when we heard him walking down the stairs, we immediately started struggling again, though this time quietly.

"Just get in that bed!" Heero hissed.

"Let me go first!" I hissed back.

"Will you then get into bed!" Heero murmurs back.

"Ok, ok, I will, just let go!" I whispered and Heero let me go.

I slowly walked to the bed and suddenly Heero pushed me in it.

"HEERO! We had a deal!" I shouted, but still keeping my voice down.

"You should really see yourself. You're such a slowpoke," he said with that everlasting evil smirk of his.

"Whatever, goodnight!" I said and turned my back at him. I felt him getting in the bed.

Unfortunately the bed was way too small. He literally had to squeeze himself next to me. After a while I couldn't breathe anymore.

"Heero?"

"Hn?" Heero answered very sleepy.

"I can't breath, can you move a little to the right?" Heero moved and now I really started to choke!

"The other right," I said in a subdued voice.

"Sorry," he mumbled and moved to the real right side. I felt his left hand pierce in my back. That was because that hand was still stuck on my hand. Heero made a sudden move in my direction. He wiped his right arm over me and squeezed me even more. 'O great!' I thought, but in some kind of way it felt… goooood! I felt his body against mine. I was very cold so now Heero could keep me warm. Lucky me! And with that thought I fell asleep.

God that was... an update, cool huh

TBC

Half-Devil and Galow Angel