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Notes: This chapter and the next chapter are going to be happening simultaneously. You'll understand why later I promise.
"Oh nothing. Nothing that I shouldn't have expected. If Heero and I seem different around each other just don't ask questions ok?" She asked looking at him.
Her eyes gave nothing away. He tried to look in the depths of her deep green eyes for insight but there were no answers for him held within her bright eyes. He sighed and cupped her face with his hands.
"You can't expect me not to ask questions. But I will try to be understanding. What's going on with him anyway?"
"I wish I knew Duo. I really do." She looked up to him and his indigo eyes were deep in thought. As she looked at him she realized just how perfect he really was. He was very attractive, smart and funny. Everything a girl could ask for. There was something about him that made people want to be around him. He was the life of the party and he knew it.
"What?" He asked after she had been staring at him intently for a few moments.
"I didn't say anything." She answered innocently.
"You were staring at me. Is there something on my face? I have dried drool on the side of my mouth don't I?" He asked covering his mouth.
"No Duo. There is nothing on your face. That's not what I was looking at. I was looking at you, all of you. I was realizing how prefect you are." She said smiling at him.
He smiled right back at her and kissed her. Their kiss was like electricity, the passion between them only truly realized when their lips touched. Every care in the world was as far away when they were together like this. Nothing could touch them now.
Meanwhile outside:
"Where the hell is Yuy?" Wufei asked with his arms crossed over his chest.
He was becoming more and more agitated lately. He was searching for a part of himself that he felt he lost in the war. With that came changes in his personality, but he slowly began to realize that he didn't need to change at all. He just needed to modify himself to fit in a time of peace. When he was done he would be better than ever, Wufei 2.0 if you will. But in the meantime during his search he would become frustrated and take it out on the rest of the house, like today.
"I don't know. But considering that fight he was in this morning he probably took off. He never has his phone on him and probably doesn't know what time it is." Trowa said leaning against the car looking around the painstakingly normal neighborhood.
This neighborhood was the last place anyone would think to look for Preventer agents. Exactly the way they liked it. Trowa admittedly felt a little strange leaving the circus behind, but he couldn't pass up the chance to help maintain peace. Something he fought so hard to obtain, he would be damned if it went up in smoke while he had anything to do with it.
"Do you think we should just go without him?" Quatre asked a little hesitantly. Nobody really wanted to go without Heero, he was the team leader and in charge of specializing different areas of the mission to play to each of their strengths. Trowa was in charge of surveillance, Duo was in charge of infiltration, Andrika handled creating a diversion; infiltrating the operation from within itself, usually a week before the rest of the mission was set to take place and making preparations for their arrival, Wufei was in charge of weapons, Quatre was the expert on time management and escape route if necessary, and Heero was in charge of making sure everyone had what they needed in order to succeed.
"We can't Winner. He is in charge of making the overall plan, we can't all just go off on our own and try to bring this thing down. We need him to make the plan." Wufei said, his frustration boiling to the surface.
"I think we just will have to make due without him. We can't wait any longer, we either have to find a substitute of go without." Trowa replied.
"Do you think we can have Duo help us instead?" Quatre asked offering and help possible.
"I suppose. I'll go get him." Trowa said as he began to walk away from the car.
"Why is it so hard for people to be where they need to be when they need to be there?" Wufei asked obviously very angry now.
"Come of Wufei cut him some slack. He has had a rough couple of days. I mean you have seen him, he doesn't know what he is doing anymore. He's confused."
"But this is his job. He is the best at it, if anything it will take his mind off of whatever the hell is going on with Andrika." Wufei said shaking his head at the thought of Heero. He was the last person Wufei thought would be affected by girl trouble.
With that Trowa came walking out of the house with Duo skittering behind him. Hopping on one foot while putting a shoe on; he was disheveled to say the least.
"I'm ready." He exclaimed excitedly.
"You don't look it." Wufei said looking over his comrade disapprovingly.
"Do I ever look ready for anything?" Duo asked.
"He has a point." Quatre said quickly.
"Can we go? I want to get this over with. This mission doesn't sound to promising and with our leader MIA we are put in kind of a tight spot." Wufei said just wanting the day to end.
"Don't worry Wuffles everything will be fine. Duo Maxwell is here to save the day." Duo said inflating his ego as his comrades got into the car and rolled their eyes at him.
Once at the Preventers station they were called upstairs immediately by Lady Une. They were to begin planning stages for invisible infiltration.
"This is a very important mission. I expect all of you to work together at the level we expect of you…" she began without looking at the group assembled on the other side of her desk, "Where is Agent Yuy?" She sighed realizing the team leader was missing.
"He was in a bit of a tussle with Agent Valentine this morning and has been AWOL ever since ma'am." Wufei reported.
"Alright, no need for formalities. I give you all permission to speak freely. What the hell is going on at that house?" She asked putting her fingers to her forehead. A headache already well on its way.
"Heero and Andrika have been at it for about a day or so. They got into a fight this morning that resulted in yelling. Heero left, we have no idea where he is, and Andrika is still at the house no doubt preparing for the goodwill mission you have scheduled for her tonight." Trowa answered efficiently.
"And the little fight with his would-be girlfriend is an excuse for him to miss the mission today?" She asked exasperated.
"No, but you didn't ask us to give an excuse for him; you asked us to tell us what was going on." Duo said smartly. Lady Une shot him a look that would have slayed a lesser man, "And she is not his would-be girlfriend."
"So that is what this is about. Girl trouble? I think it is time I had Andrika removed from that house. Sometimes she is more trouble than she is worth." Lady Une said shaking her head.
"NO!" Duo exclaimed; blushing slightly from the wide eyed looks his friends gave him, he recoiled. "...I mean; there is no need to remove her from the house Corneal Une. This will work itself out."
"No, I think it is time for her to spend some time away from the 5 of you. Besides I was planning on pulling her from missions anyway. It is time for her to work behind the scenes. I can't risk my top interrogator being killed by some renegade on a power trip. I will arrange for her to pack her things while you are away. She will be gone when you return. Try not to let this affect your mission agents. Especially you Maxwell; I know you have feelings for her but it is important to your future. Understood?" Lady Une was firm in her decision and there was going to be no talking their way out of this one.
A little deterred they obtained the information about the mission and began discussing the best way to go about completing it.
"I think if we go in through here we can get into the duct work and bypass most of security. That will limit the damages and lower the probability of being ambushed. Duo you are the master of invisible infiltration do you see anything I'm not?" Trowa asked looking over the map.
Duo, lost in his own little world was not paying attention to anything that was being said. He was busy cursing Heero and trying to find ways to convince Lady Une to keep Andrika in the house.
"Duo Maxwell are you even paying attention?" Quatre asked noticing the spaced look in Duo's eyes.
"Of course, something about a mission and killing people, destroying things all of that fun stuff. When are we leaving? I want to get home." He said trying his best to sound like he had any idea what was going on.
"I get the feeling that he would be more useful if he wasn't here." Wufei said.
"Come on guys, that didn't bother you at all. Andrika has to move out all because Heero is acting like an irresponsible jerk, does anyone even know why he is being this way?" Duo asked completely shifting topics.
"Duo, none of us like it but we can't change it. Corneal Une has made up her mind. Besides thinking about it now won't help matters either, we have a mission to complete. When we get back you can go talk to the therapist about all of it." Quatre said helpfully.
"No I can't Quatre. The on-staff Preventer therapist is Andrika. I doubt if I went to see her for a therapy session I wouldn't actually be going there for therapy." Duo said folding his arms over his chest.
"Am I the only one who gives damn about this mission?" Wufei exploded. "Duo, deal with it when we get back, she will still be there, she isn't going to be killed or anything. I'm sure the two of you will find a way around it if necessary. We have an important mission in front of us that needs to be dealt with. There is a renegade faction that is planning on threatening the world peace that we all fought so diligently to obtain. I would like to wipe out this thing so I can go home and not worry about being engulfed in a mobile suit battle." He yelled. Breathing heavily he slowly regained his composure.
He liked Andrika and everything but Lady Une was right, she was causing trouble in their group and the problem needed to be removed in order for them to function together at the level they were expected.
"We can go in through that duct, go into that room, blow out the door, cause attention, knock out a few guys, steal their uniforms and march our way to the headquarters in the middle of the building and lock ourselves in the room with the group leaders. Pretty standard we've done in a million times." Duo said defeated.
"Duo if you don't want to do this drop out now. You would be risking all of our lives if you are not 100 percent in on this." Quatre said sympathetically.
"No, I want to help. I'm just a little distracted right now. I'll be fine. Personally I think we should nip this one in the butt before it gets too big."
"We'll finalize plans on the way to the base. Thanks for finally joining us Maxwell." Wufei said as they all left the briefing room and prepared for departure.
The trip was long and tedious. It was hard to concentrate on the mission at hand with everything that was swirling in Duo's mind. He wasn't sure what to think about Heero's behavior lately. And when he finally had everything going well with Andrika Lady Une snatched her away. Something had to be done. But alas Wufei was right; obsessing about it now wasn't going to do any good. They had a mission to take care of. Disputes at home would be handled in due time. On the way there they once again went over the plans and the blueprints of the building they were trying to infiltrate. This was a routine operation, same as all of the others. But why was he so nervous?
Alright so here it is, hope you guys like it, I know it doesn't have anything funny in it like the others but it will return I swear. -Tessra