Lita shoved Quatra away from her with an angry, although weaker then normal, hand. After all she had been severely injured by Dominic, but it was one thing to be barely alive and hooked on ventilation machines, and quite another to be basically allowed out of the hospital as long as she religiously followed their ten point plan for her and kept to their exact guidelines.
And with Mother hen Quatra around, there was no trouble with that she though sardonically. If he were any more solicitous she would curse at him and beat him up like many of the tele-marketers that had literally fallen out of their jobs over her. That said, subconsciously it would be sweat in small doses, as she was handed water with a damn straw in it, she grinded her teeth together, very small doses she silently amended.
Since she was at home or at least on her way there, she didn't understand why he was reacting so badly to her request to go to Usagi's race. Granted she knew there was danger, and that it was hopefully going to be the trap that caught the bait, but she thought, all the guys were there, and since Quatra was in his over protective frame of mind, she didn't think anyone was going to get near enough for them to breath on her let alone try to finish the job.
Since Lita was adept at Manipulation, growing up in an orphanage and then adopted out to a family of six brothers, all ironically working in some way, no matter what, directly with the racing circuit, be it mechanic's, racers, tyre changers, etc, she knew just how to get what she wanted.
Which is why Quatra found himself driving her to the race course, thinking that it had been his idea, to help her feel less left out of the fray of their big plan, that and the fact he just knew how upset she was that she didn't have Usagi, and all her 'sisters' backs.
Having a faint glimmer of thought that this wasn't his original idea and that he had in fact been manipulated, didn't stop him from driving. It didn't even give him second thoughts, as he helped her out of the car, and towards the stands that stood as watchtowers over the race, simple scaffolding with boards of wood pressed over bars, used to see if anyone was in trouble or for racing bets, upping the odds as the race went on.
He didn't have seconds thoughts for two simple reasons, the .35 snub gun attached to his ankle, which he hadn't taken of his ankle since coming back from the 'accident' that nearly killed him and his one of his many sisters three years ago. Considering the stuff he was into it, it had seemed logical at the time.
Now it just seemed safe.
And the second reason, the razor edged flip knife he had borrowed from Wu fei when he had found out that Lita had a past, and needed to be protected, held close against his body, against the base of his spine. Nobody knew it was there, and hopefully he thought, he wouldn't have to use it, but it eased his mind to know it was there.
The crowds parted easily as he escorted Lita through them, as if they knew what it was taking her to be here, and giving her their respect by making it easier for her, that is until they came just before scaffolding, and noticed somebody lounging against it, obviously waiting for them, their hand already in their pockets, gripping something.
Quatra hadn't spent much time on the street, considering he was a rich boy, but he knew a lot from Duo and Trowa, who at one point belonged to a, how would he put it, a thieving association. They had prepared him.
As he felt Lita tense beside him, not in fear he noted but suppressed anger, he realised that this must be Dominic.
How he had gotten out of jail so soon was beyond him, but he didn't look the best. Bruises marred his almost too rough face, a plectra of multi-coloured ness, scratches and deep cuts running along the edge of his face almost hidden by his hair line, deep incisions along his hands had obviously required stitches, but the hatred in his eyes, that was what worried Quatra.
This was a guy who had been to the bottom of hell, and had come back with a hatred so thick, it could be used as a weapon, and it was directed towards his girlfriend. Wrapping his hands more firmly around Lita's, he subtly pushed himself in front of her, But Dominic's attention was all focused on Lita.
"Think you can set your Bitches of sisters on me, and just expect me to lie down?" rage made his voice ruff and loud, stopping groups of people that had been taking around them, wondering what was going on.
Fights were expected at these kinds of things, but this wasn't a fight fight, this had an air of dangerousness, of death.
Lita's voice was low, but insistent, she didn't have to raise he voice to be heard, even though Quatra thought that he was the only one close enough to her to see the satisfaction in her eyes that this was the work of her sisters. "Think you can stab me and not pay the consequences. You don't mess with us and think you won't get hurt. You got what was expected, be happy they didn't do worse!"
Hatred made his voice shake, but the hand he ripped out from his jacket, the four-inch blade shinning in the neon lights of the spotlights that occasionally swung their way, was not.
If anything it was solider steady, the hand of a man ready to kill, if for nothing else then the fact that he had been humiliated by a group of girls. Girls with damn deep underground connections but girls none the less.
Seeing that he had everyone's attention didn't make him more of a man in anybodies eyes. Knowing that if he were ever to regain his title in the underworld he would have to deal with this little piece of ass first. And even then, in the groups he ran with it would be touch and go. Sizing up his opponent, the guy that Lita had come with, he knew one way to get his rep back. Linking his face to a face he had seen on some surveillance photo's in the house of an acquaintance of his, he just knew that by doing away with this blondie, for want of a better word, he would be earning big points.
Lunging forward, he used the element of disbelief to drive him closer then he would have gotten before he had stabbed Lita, but not close enough.
Stopping suddenly, as a shot rang out, he blinked in surprise. Dropping the knife in shock, he rubbed his hands down his body and quickly held them up to the light, catching a glimpse of something sticky on his hands before dropping dead at their feet.
Mouth gaping like a goldfish collecting food, Lita turned to Quatra. "You you you…." She pointed a shaky finger to the dead body.
"Shot him, killed him?" he asked curiously. At her nod of agreement, he shook his head sadly. "What is it about my looks that make people think I'm so innocent and defenceless… I mean seriously with my background you needed to know how to fight! Shaking his head at her look of wonderment, he said, "I'll tell you some other time, needless to say I come from a big family."
Swivelling his head around he noticed that from his left was a group of guys and girls that he swiftly assessed were Heero, Duo, Trowa and Wu fei, with Mina, Ami, and Rei close behind.
Placing his two fingers in his mouth he blew a sharp whistle and watched as only Trowa answer the call, the others keeping on going hoping into three cars that had unobtrusively been parked to the side for an easy chase or escape whatever the reason.
"Ah whats going on?" Quatra asked, already knowing instinctively that it wasn't good.
Trowa simply turned and started walking away, Quatra knowing they didn't have the time to stop and talk simply walking alongside him, dragging, almost unknowingly Lita along behind him.
"Usagi raced with out any one around to check the opposition out. The course is simply, a five-minute race for even the worst of racers. They still haven't come back, that was fifteen minutes ago, and" he paused as if to emphasis this as he jumped into the back of the third car, instinctively raising his arms to help Lita in, Quatra holding the opposite end as he eased her gently over, knowing there would be war if he even thought of leaving her behind. "We can't contact her on her two –way monitor."
Leaning his arm along the back of Lita's neck he forced her to lie back, "Do we have any idea who we looking for?"
Grabbing a picture from the front, Wu fei continued to drive not breaking stride at the request.
Trowa shook his head curiously "I forgot you haven't been around that much. Ami worked her magic and her connections and found the one who got the guy to tamper with the car. Unfortunately none of us know her and we can't figure out why she's so hell bent on Usagi!" Grimacing in frustration, Trowa forced him self not the get angry, but he had gotten to know her so well in the last while and now looked on her like a sister. Passing the picture to Quatra he wasn't surprised when Lita Grabbed it to take a closer look at the woman who had caused them all hell.
Focusing on the picture, Lita memorised the features, and only looked up when a sharp indrawn breath from her right, from Quatra, who simultaneously grabbed the picture from her hand and brought up to the over head light.
"But I do know her!" Quatra answered quietly, and steeled himself and Lita as the brakes were suddenly applied to the car, causing a slightly movement forward.
"What do you mean you know her?" Wu fei demanded from the front somehow keeping control of the car and continued on searching for the by now familiar car.
"I mean I used to live with her so to speak, and if she has Usagi, we need to get to her fast!"
Crumpling the picture in his hands, he turned so he faced out the window looking for signs of two cars, or even the remains of one.
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"Jeez you're a really dirty blonde, and did you ever think of waxing those eye brows? There freaking weird!" Usagi talked to fill the silence, because it was obviously this woman was of her batter.
It didn't help the case that she was also pointing a .45 calibre gun at her, old school and designed to hurt like hell.
Pulling the trigger, Usagi felt herself drop the ground as the bullet found its mark in her right leg.
Ripping off her belt, she tied it around her leg and tried to stop the blood flow, still words came out of her mouth, designed to piss her off, while her brain screamed at her asking what the hell she was at.
"Dorothy Catalonia, at your service!" She bowed from the waist. "And it just so happens that my husband likes my hair and eye brows."
Walking slowly forward, she cocked the gun again, "And it appears you like my husband," she paused to laugh sarcastically. "Oh I know your kind. Waiting to beak up marriages just because you can, but your not going to wreck mine. I'm going to get my husband back, just as soon as I do away with tramps like you!"
"Ohh, who you calling a tramp? I don't know your husband that's for sure anyway, in case you missed, have a perfectly overly obsessive boyfriend of my own, thank you very much." Usagi hoped that something had gotten through Dorothy's mind, but as she continued to talk, she knew she had failed.
It was at that point she started to pray, to which god she didn't really care as long as one answered her prayers to get through this alive with out sacrificing any essential parts, such as her actual life.
"Dancing seductively against him, taunting him to leave me, again. You think I wont fight for him. Its what I've been doing for the last five years, and its what I'm going to keep doing until he realises who he really loves and comes back to me. My darling Quatra is so innocent in the ways of the world, its up to me his wife to protect him." Raising the gun again she cocked it and aimed it at Usagi's head, "And, that" she continued her voice deepening sinisterly with every word "Means getting rid of you!"
Usagi closed her eyes, waiting for the final blow to come, and as ten seconds passed and still no shot, she cautiously opened one eye, to watch Rei went at the Dorothy woman with a rare vengeance.
Propping herself against the fender of her car, she watched as Rei ducked under one of her legs and twisting hers up in an unusually poetic movement kicked Dorothy full on in the face. Shocked Dorothy sank to the floor holding her nose, "I think you broke my nose!"
Rei looked down at the woman who had tried to kill her friend and felt no pity. "It's not the only thing ill break, Bitch!" Raising her leg high and landing it softly and distinctively in the space between her neck and shoulder, knocking her out for a few minutes.
Rushing over to Usagi, kicking the gun away from Dorothy as she went, she ripped of her bandanna, and tying it tightly around her leg, grabbed her phone from her pocket and send out a message telling them of her co-ordinates. Leaning down, she grabbed Usagi, and with her back to Dorothy, helped her up, grimacing as she heard a cocked gun behind her.
Grimacing, because she should have checked the damn woman was unconscious first. Really she thought, she needed to perfect that kick, because it was quite annoying when it happened. She turned around Keeping Usagi body hidden behind her hiding Usagi's movement until Dorothy once again dropped, this time dead, from the gun Usagi had eventually fired.
Looking at the angle of the body and having watched way to many crime scene programmes, the documentaries and not the stupid series ones, Rei knew there would be no problem with the self defence, defence, but first they had to come up with a valid reason as to why they were out there in the first place. Cops had a distinctively nasty way, at least in these parts, when it came to murders on the under ground race circuit.
Pushing the thought away for the moment as she saw the three other cars pull up, glad for once she had decided to go separately at the last minute on her bike.
Now for the fun explanations she thought, watching as what counted for the horizon line lit up with the lights of ambulances and cops sirens echoed through the empty area.
Six hours later, Rei shook her head in amusement. If it was one thing she had learned in all the time she had known the girls, it was that she loved them for their unpredictability.
They had all known about Ami's underworld mum. But what they hadn't known about was her supreme judge dad, the one who cleared the way for them.
It was really true, she thought, opposites do attract.
Coming out of the hospital, Wu Fei's arm firmly around her waist, Usagi being pushed out the door by Heero, released from the hospital as they realised the bullet had actually gone straight through, cleaning it up and putting her on some meds, they had agreed to release her.
In fact the whole crew was heading out of the hospital, no one leaving their friends behind.
Rei watched as Trowa, Mina and Ami went of to get the cars, and turned back to look at Wu Fei when he started to speak. "So what happens next?" he asked curiously, filling in the void that Ami and Mina's talk had left behind.
"Haven't got a clue, but I know we'll be doing it together!" Rei answered, winching at the mushy yet pushy nature of her words, but looking into his eyes knowing that he understood.
"YAHOO!".. Duo shouted enthusiastically, jumping around the air as if his ever wish had come through. When he eventually stopped and realised everyone was looking at him, he grinned and realised he was the only one who had caught the gutter nature of the comment. "Ah, orgy?" when they continued to look blind, he sighed, and decided next time he wasn't going to share his thoughts with those weirdo's, and wandered over to the shop across the road.
Usagi blew a breath out, filling the silence left by Duo's wandering off, "Ah whatever happened to Quatra," she asked looking around her, waiting for someone to answer her.
It was Heero, who for once had the answers.
"He's gone to pay his respects to Dorothy's family who arrived to identify the body when you were being cleaned up."
"Ah why?" Usagi asked slightly miffed that he still paid his respects even though the woman had tried to kill her, little old her!"
"Because there families go way back, and it was because of us that he broke it off with her, he wanted to travel, to race, she didn't want him to. And since they had been engaged for the last three years, it was the final straw for Dorothy who's always in our opinion been a bit loopy. Her family committed her after she attacked a maid who happened to know Quatra, and thought she was after her Husband, as she liked to call him. Anyway she's been out about two years, and they think you may not be the first girl she's tried to or succeeded in killing!"
"She was a bit of a freak, maybe now she'll have peace," Usagi said.
They waited silently till the cars pulled up, and as they were helping in Rei noticed that woman was coming out with a new born baby behind them, her partner/ whatever carrying five bags, only one of which was the woman's belongings, behind her.
"Ah look guys," she said pointing to her left where the exit door was, "little babies!"
Amid a bunch of cooing and such, the guys pretending not to think it was cute but agreeing, her comment stood out like an ice cream cone in the north pole, or a body two heads.
"Uww babies! What are they but nasty little aliens, that grow inside you, with their little fingers, and weird hairy bodies, and they fishlikedness, sucking the life and nutrients from your body, while they swim around inside you kicking you every so often and making you pee so often people mistake you for an elephant that has just sucked up a river and is planning on watering the whole desert area singly bringing back life to it." finishing her rant, Ami looked and the slacked jawed people around her and shrugged.
"My mother's insane!" lengthening out the sentence so that it came out sounding like a drawl.
Duo coming back heard the end of her little rant, and smiled evilly "From one insane person to another, I have one thing to say, when we going to the beach?" and laughed manically at their confused looks.
"I'm way to intelligent to lower myself to explain these simple things to you," Jumping into the seat beside Ami before Trowa could, he ripped open his shirt exposing his firm abs, and raising himself on the seat, screamed in Ami's ears "On ward blue, coffee is a calling me, and by the way at least your mother didn't chase you down the street screaming my son is a nympho so that she could see which girls were not after me while trying to decide who to lease two of the extra rooms out to. While whacking me over the head with three dead tomato plants and a big fluffy bee I had won at the fair when I was ten." even saying it he smiled, remembering other times. "And that my dear blue was my mama sane"
"Ah guys to interrupt the craziness of Duo," mina added "I'm just really curious. Found something in the bathroom this morning." looking down nervously as if she was working up the nerve to ask this. "Who exactly is pregnant?"
Dun dun dun… I liked the thought of ending it with everyone open to imagining anything they want with like one question. And it doesn't get any better then a question like that among speed freaks.
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Anyway thanks for all those who reviewed, sorry it took so long coming but I had it written and then kept rewriting the ending because I didn't really like it all that much and then I got this and I think its okay… but u cant tell me what u think yourselves…
anyway
Review and all that, might be back soon with something new..
Willow1986
note: okay fanfiction pissing me off...it just wont seperate the pages so if some of you get confused.. sorry but i tried everything i could to get it work..
