Here's another chapter, I hope you all enjoy it.
Chapter 11
When Quatre made it back to Serena's room, he found the door opened. At first he was hoping that it meant that she was feeling better, but when he went into the room, he found out that that hope was not to be, for he found the room empty.
She couldn't have gone downstairs; at least someone out of the four of them wouldn't notice her. With a sigh, he took off to the only place he could think of that she would disappear to. The Music Room.
Once he got there, he found her looking out one of the windows. The window she happened to be looking out happened to have a good view of the front of the estate.
"Serena?" Quatre said, trying to get her attention, as well as letting her know that he was there.
"They left." Serena stated, as she continued to look out the window, with one hand on the window.
"So you saw…" Quatre started to ask.
"Yes, I saw them leave." Serena answered, confirming his thought. "Amara didn't look to happy." Serena stated as an afterthought.
"They seemed to be in a hurry to get to Earth." Quatre explained. "They said there was something they forgot to take care of."
"I see." Serena said, trying to not let her thoughts get the better of her, but her thoughts seemed to be winning. "So, they…" Serena started to say, sounding sad.
"No! No, they said they don't care about it." Quatre said, interrupting his sister when the sadness entered her voice.
"But…" Serena tried to argue, trying to face her brother, hand still on the window.
"They don't care about it, Serena, they said so themselves." Quatre once again interrupted his sister.
"I don't know…" Serena tried to argue the point again.
"Serena, look," Quatre interrupted her again, trying not to sigh, "I had a feeling when I met your friends that they were people that care about you, no matter what. And I also had a feeling, that like my friends, they wouldn't care about how you were born." Quatre paused to see if he was getting any kind of reaction out of his sister, whether it be understanding, confusing, or just thinking over what he was saying, anything really. When it became obvious that she wasn't going to say or do anything, he continued, "If you're still worried about why they didn't react when you told them, they said it was because they didn't expect you to say something like that to them. It took them a moment to register what you had said."
Serena didn't show that she had heard him or that she was paying attention to what he had said. But he knew that she had heard, that she was paying attention to what he had said. It was just the fact that she didn't feel like arguing the point anymore, but he did notice that the sad expression on her face was still there.
Quatre walked up to Serena and put his hand on her shoulder, "Come on, let's go see what is going to be for dinner." Quatre suggested, guiding his sister out of the room and downstairs to the kitchen.
After Amara and Michelle left the days that passed started to get back to normal. Well, at least what could be considered normal, with the way Serena kept avoiding telling anyone about what was bothering her and why she had come to Quatre in the first place. Quatre didn't press the matter with his sister, hoping that she would willingly talk about it, especially when she was ready. But, after her two friends left, Serena went back to the way she was before they came.
The days that passed, passed by without incident. Quatre, Rashid, and the rest of the Maganac's spent most of their time setting things up for when the others stopped by with their Gundams. Quatre did try to spend some time with his twin sister, even if most of the time spent with her was during meals.
Roughly a week passed by before someone decided to stop by. The person walked in without knocking, or anything. They walked in like they either owned the place or they were welcome there no matter what. The person walked in, looking around, wondering where everyone was.
"Hey, Q-man, I'm back!" A male voice called out as he entered the living room area. When he didn't get an answer he tried again, a little louder this time. "Is anyone here? Quatre, Rashid, Sere…" He was cut off as something big and soft hit him in the face. He took the object into his hands and notice d it was a pillow, and not just any pillow, but a throw pillow from one of the couches.
"You're too loud." An annoyed, tired female voice spoke out as a way of explanation as to why the visitor got a pillow in the face.
At the sound of the voice, he looked up from the pillow in his hands, to the direction the voice came from. The only thing he saw was an arm sticking up over the couch, as the arm sunk down to return to the side of the person that was lying on the couch. With a smile on his face, he walked over to the couch, leaning on the back of the couch, pillow still in hand, looking down at the girl laying there. The girl looked up at the person leaning on the back of the couch, giving him a somewhat tired, evil look.
"What this back?" He asked, with a smirk, holding the pillow up, so she could see it.
"Sure." She answered, now giving him a sweet smile, holding out her hand for the pillow.
He handed over the pillow to her; she made to put the pillow back where it was before she threw it. Then, without even a split second notice, she turned back to the one that woke her up, pillow in hand, and clobbered him in the face with it.
"Next time, try not to be so loud!" She exclaimed, watching as he fell to the floor from the force and the fact that he wasn't expecting that to happen.
"Aw, come on, I didn't think anyone was here, because it was so quiet." He explained, while using the pillow that he had as a shield to fend off another one that was thrown at him.
"What's all the commotion down here?" Quatre asked, as he made his way down the stairs. The sight that greeted him, he found almost amusing. For there the two of them were, his sister kneeling on the couch, getting ready to throw, what seemed to be another, pillow at Duo, who was cowering on the floor, using another pillow as a shield.
"What's up with your sister?" Duo asked, as another pillow was hurled at him. "She seems rather violent today."
Quatre looked from Duo, who was defending himself with a pillow he was holding, to his sister. He could tell she wasn't truly angry, she was more annoyed then anything.
"Duo…" Quatre said, gaining his friends attention, which, sadly, earned him another pillow in the face by Serena, but he continued as if nothing happened, "I think you might have woke her up."
"Woke her up?" Duo questioned.
"Why do you think it was so quiet?" Serena asked, irritated, as she threw another pillow at him.
"How was I supposed to know you were asleep on the couch?" Duo said, trying to defend himself, "It was way to quiet. I thought that no one was here."
"Not good enough." Serena said, as she was getting ready to throw another pillow. "That was exactly why it was so quiet!" And then the pillow flew, Duo once again blocking it with the pillow he held.
Quatre watched this go on for a couple of minutes before he decided to intervene.
"Now, now, Serena," Quatre said as he walked up to his sister, and putting a hand on her shoulder, "I think you've had enough fun, for now."
Duo was about to sigh in relief, until what Quatre said hit him. "Fun?" Duo shouted out, in somewhat, disbelief. How was she having fun, she seemed upset and angry that he had woke her up.
"She may not have started off having fun, but it turned out that way after awhile." Quatre explained, which earned him a pillow in the face as well.
This action made Duo look over at Serena, and discovered a slight smirk on her face. This made Duo burst out laughing. Leaving it to Quatre to notice that she was having fun throwing the pillows at him.
Quatre was about to voice to Duo that he was right, when he heard his friend burst out laughing. 'Looks like he noticed, now.' Quatre thought to himself, as the pillow was removed from his face. But, Quatre couldn't help but smile. It looked like his sister was starting to lighten up again.
Quatre and Serena watched Duo as he laughed, waiting for his laughing to subside. Which didn't seem to be happening any time soon, and not soon enough for Serena, as she decided to chuck another pillow at Duo to get him to stop laughing.
"Alright, alright, I'll stop." Duo said, a moment or two after he got hit with the pillow. A giggle or two still present as he tried to get it under control.
"You're earlier than I expected you to be, Duo." Quatre stated, figuring getting down to business would help with quelling Duo's laughter and giggles. "I thought you would've been here later on in the day."
"Hilde practically kicked me out of the door telling me I should get to it." Duo explained, as he got up off the floor and putting the pillow in his hand back on the couch.
"Get to what?" Serena asked, looking between Duo and her brother. Serena had this feeling that Quatre knew what Duo was referring to.
Duo and Quatre exchanged a look between them at the question. Duo shrugged, so Quatre took it upon himself to come up with an explanation.
"You see, Serena," Quatre started to explain, as he turned his attention to his sister, "Duo and Hilde work together as salvagers."
"Salvagers?" Serena asked, repeating the word. She wondered why someone would want to do that kind of work.
Quatre nodded at the question, and continued his explanation, "Duo and Hilde salvage things, particularly parts for mobile suits, and if they can, fix them and resell them."
"I see." Serena said, still looking between Duo and her brother. "But that still doesn't explain what he had to get to."
Once again, Quatre and Duo gave each other a look. They had hoped that that explanation would've explained enough to satisfy Serena's curiosity. But, it would seem, that she may have caught on to the fact that that answer really wasn't the answer to the question.
As it seemed to Serena that neither was going to say something, she continued on voicing her thoughts, "Did Duo bring parts for Rashid and the other Maganac's?"
"Ye…yeah, that's exactly it." Duo agreed, instantly jumping on the useable excuse. Now Duo was wondering how Serena knew that the Maganac's had mobile suits of their own.
"I see." Serena said, getting the idea of what they were saying.
"Hey, Quatre." Duo said, gaining his friend's attention, hoping to get things taken care of before Serena could get any other ideas as to what was really going on. "How about we go and you can show me where to put all of this."
"Right," Quatre agreed, heading over to Duo, as they started to head on their way out of the door Duo had previously come through. "I'll show you where you can put them."
Serena watched them leave, heading out the front door, getting this small feeling that the two of them were up to something. For a moment or two, Serena tried to contemplate what it could possibly be, then shortly came to the conclusion that she probably didn't want to know what it was. After that thought, she proceeded to pick up the pillows that were scattered about, that she had thrown at Duo.
Neither Duo nor Quatre spoke until they were in the truck that Duo brought with him, and until the doors of the truck were closed, with them sitting inside.
"You remember where to go, right?" Quatre asked, after Duo started up the truck.
"Of course!" Duo answered, as he took off in the direction to the entrance of the underground hanger.
"Quatre?" Duo said, after a few moments of silence, as he drove.
"Yes, Duo?" Quatre answered, looking over at Duo.
"How did you come up with what you told your sister?" Duo asked, keeping his main focus on where he was going.
"I wasn't exactly lying to her." Quatre pointed out, knowing what Duo was probably thinking. "After all, it is what you do for a living, now that the war is over." Duo nodded his agreement to that. "And, besides, what is a mobile suit made up of?"
Duo burst out laughing at this. "Parts!" Duo said with amusement.
"You see, in a round-about way, we weren't lying to her." Quatre stated, as they came to the entrance of the mobile suit hanger that Quatre has on the property.
"True, true." Duo agreed, as he drove in.
Once they were inside, they found Rashid and some of the other Maganac's waiting for them.
"Master Duo, you're early." Rashid commented, as Duo got out of the truck.
"That's what Quatre said." Duo commented back, as he got to work removing the fabric covering his gundam from the rest of the world. The other Maganac's started to help out Duo once he got started.
"Ya know, Quatre…" Duo started to say, once the fabric covering was off, and before he went to hop into his gundam to move it into place some were in the hanger. And once Duo hand Quatre's attention, he continued with what he was saying, "…We're going to have to come up with a different excuse for the others if Serena ends up noticing them too when they get here."
"Lady Serena noticed?" Rashid asked, looking from Duo to Quatre.
"Hey, it's not my fault she decided to take a nap on the couch when I walked in." Duo said, trying to defend himself from whatever it was that was mostly likely to happen.
"I take it something happened?" Rashid asked Quatre, finding Duo's comment to be rather amusing, and sensing a story attached to it.
"Duo woke Serena up and she started to throw pillows at him." Quatre explained, trying to hold in the laugh that wanted to escape as he remembered the little scene that he walked in on.
"Hey, I said it wasn't my fault!" Duo said, noticing the small smile on Quatre's face, as he hopped into the cockpit of his gundam and moved it off of the truck and out of the way and to a spot the other Maganac's were telling him to put it.
Well, that's it for now. I think I've worked myself into writers block with this story. I dunno if I should have the others sneak in during the night or have Serena noticed them to when they get there. And if Serena does end up noticing, what kind of excuse should I use for it. I could use suggestions to help get the creative juices flowing again.