Cowboy Bebop Fan Fiction / Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Ed n Duo's Greatest Adventure ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

Ed and Duo's Greatest Adventure

Chapter 6

By Devon Masterson

Thanks, Lady Evergreen, for help with the majors Nothing but love for ya, mami ;p

AN: Science terms

1. Histology is the study of organic tissue *sneeze*

2. Paraffin is wax to set the tissue in so that it can be sliced thinly

3. A fixative is a chemical that preserves tissue so that they won't atrophy while you're lazy. It allows you to come back to it days…weeks…months…years later

Trowa hung up his lab coat as he walked out of Histology lab. He looked at his watch and saw that it was after eight. He should have been home hours ago, but for some reason he decided to get ahead of himself and set his samples in paraffin instead of leaving them in the fixative. Lab ended four hours ago. He knew the real reason why. He had been avoiding her since yesterday. He did not know what to say to her. "What do you want?" he asked stopping short.

"Working late in the lab I see," Dorothy commented as she came up from behind him. "And just as astute as ever. It's good to know that you're still sharp even though your talents are being wasted here." She wrapped her arms around him. "Becoming a veterinarian isn't truly worthy of your time. You should be fighting on the side of peace as Preventer…"

Trowa pulled her arms away from him. "I have no desire to become a full-time Preventer," he replied. "Lady Une knows if she truly needs me that I will aid her, but I want a life outside of battles."

"How can you say that?"

"Quite easily," he answered as he started to walk away from her.

"Trowa." She stepped in front of him again. "I missed you. I believe I was quite hasty in letting you go."

He raised an eyebrow. "You didn't let me go, I left."

"Minor details," she commented as she placed her arms around him once more, "don't you remember how good we were together, the nights we spent? I know you remember the times we had." Her hands moved quickly across his chest and then downward.

"Stop," he said as he grabbed her hand. He stopped before she reached any spot that might even begin to tempt him. He did not want to continue on further into this trap. Ed was a forgiving soul, but he did not want to start defining her levels of anger. Girlfriends always find out.

Dorothy pouted and pulled away from him. Getting him back was going to take more than she thought. "Well no matter," she said as though she did not care. "I saw Duo today. You should have a talk with him. It is highly distasteful seducing freshman like he was and one so naïve. He rushed off before I could even save the poor girl."

Trowa shook his head as he realized what she was talking about. He walked around her. "Ed is my girlfriend."

"Surely you jest," Dorothy replied, she started walking with him. "I'll take you back if you're that desperate."

Feeling his temper about to rear it's ugly head, Trowa looked at his watch. "You'll be late for class."

She stopped. "You know my schedule for this semester? I didn't know you still care," she smiled. He still kept tabs on her.

"I make it a point to know where you are so I won't be in the same place," he answered as he kept walking.

Dorothy raised an eyebrow as she watched him turn a corner. "He'll be much easier to get to if I can get to the girl. There's no way he could be serious about her, she acts like she's eight years old. It'll be nothing to destroy her. This battle will be easy."

***

Ed sat on the floor cross-legged with her goggles on her forehead. She was supposed to be researching information for her paper, but she could not concentrate. All she could hear was her Dorothy's laughter. From what she could remember she always wanted to be part of a family, the Bebop was the closest thing until she started getting transmissions from the wormhole. She fit in with these guys…mostly and she actually had a boyfriend. One thought kept nagging at her. "For how long?"

Suddenly she jumped up and tried to shake off the bad thoughts. "Ed just needs more stimulation," she said to herself. She walked to the wall, bent over then kicked into a handstand. "Much better." She sighed and started to walk around the room. She giggled, as her walk became unsteady.

"What are you doing?" Trowa asked slightly amused at the sight of her walking around the room on her hands with her skirt flipped up.

"Boyfriend person," she greeted as she fell over. She rubbed the side of her bottom as she stood up then pounced him. "Where have you been?"

"I was working late in the lab," he answered. Since they had been together it seemed that he was always on his back. "How was your first day?"

She thought back to this morning then dismissed it. "Ed had lots of fun, so many things to see. Ed missed you at the lunch spot."

"I was in the library and missed lunch," he commented.

Ed's eyebrow raised. "Ed worries about boyfriend person sometimes," she said as she leaned forward with her hands above his head.

Trowa's eyes widened slightly. He never really expected her to take charge like this. Now, here she was pressed up against him as they lay on the floor in what most people would consider an intimate position. She might not be ready for this; he had to stop her. He opened his mouth to say something and an apple was shoved into it. "Ed?" he mumbled.

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," she sang as she sat up. "Eat up!" she bounced on him slightly then smirked once he started eating. She laid her head on his chest and got comfortable.

Trowa finished the apple feeling, amazingly enough, somewhat revitalized. He wrapped his arms around Ed as she rested on top of him. He enjoyed these times where they could just lay like that. It was not often that he was not busy with something or she was not bouncing off the walls with Duo or Wufei. "Thank you for the apple."

"You're welcome, boyfriend person," she replied. She kissed him on the nose then pulled away. "Boyfriend person…do you find Ed attractive?" She flushed slightly.

"What brought that on?" he wondered as he watched her fiddle with the hem of her skirt. "Yes, I do."

Ed smiled brightly then pounced him again. "Ed is happy! Happy! Happy!" she sang.

Trowa chuckled at her excitement. She was something else. "I'm glad."

"I love you," she said breaking from her song. She kissed him deeply. As the kiss grew deeper, she grew more adventurous. Her hands moved into his chestnut locks. She knew he always liked it when she ran her hands through his hair. Many times he drifted off to sleep in her lap while she did the seemingly casual act. Strong arms encircled her lithe body protectively in response. "Trowa," she sighed softly.

Emerald eyes widened in shock. A thousand warning bells were going off in his head telling him that he should stop. He quickly pushed her away breathing hard. "Ed.."

"What's wrong, boyfriend person?" she asked her eyes misting. "Didn't you like what Ed was doing?"

"Entirely too much," he thought looking at the distraught redhead sitting across from him. "It's not that."

"Then what?" Ed asked, her amber eyes searching his green ones.

"I don't want to take your innocence. I don't want to destroy what we have," his heart admitted but he could not bring himself to tell her the truth. Trowa stood to his feet. "I have a lab practical to study for," he commented then walked out of the room.

Ed blinked several times. Her heart felt ripped in two by the rejection and she didn't know how to handle it. "Hey, Ed, something wrong?" Duo asked as he walked in. "Trowa was looking pretty intense when I passed him in the hall."

Ed painted a smile on her face. "Nope, Dueyo," she lied as she got up and danced around. "Everything is perfectly fine."

"Kay," he said only partially convinced. "Well, anyway, Heero's got dinner ready and he wants us to hurry up."

"Yummy," she exclaimed as rushed past Duo.

"Hey!" he called after her. He started down the hall. "Ed, you better leave me some." Ed giggled. "I mean it!"

***

Ed turned the page of her textbook as she sat from her school study spot, the willow tree in the center of the campus. Her legs swung as she read further enhancing her whimsical charm. She closed the book and yawned. Over the past week, she made sure that she developed activities outside of the house. She had hardly seen Trowa since she tried to seduce him. "Things are not looking good," she said aloud.

"How on earth did you get up there?" Dorothy asked looking up. She shielded her eyes from the mid-afternoon sun.

"Like this," Ed answered as she preformed some elaborate acrobatics to get down from the tree.

"Well aren't we the little monkey?" Dorothy chuckled. "I see why Trowa's with you, you remind him of his days in the circus. He never could let go of his past."

"What does eyebrow girl want with Ed?" she asked innocently.

"Why you," Dorothy's sentence trailed. She took a deep breath to collect herself. "I just wanted to see how you and Trowa were doing."

"Oh?" Ed asked curiously.

"Yes, I know you two have only been together a few short months and I was wondering how you were holding up. If I remember carefully, Trowa has quite a healthy appetite. There were times…well many times that I…"

"Ed does not want to hear about this," she replied putting her hands to her ears.

Annoyed by her childish behavior, Dorothy stalked over to Ed and pulled her hands from her ears. Ed hissed at her for her trouble, causing her grip on the redhead's arms to loosen. "You are such a child and you really expect Trowa to honestly to love you? Why would he go ten thousand steps back when he can have me? Be a good kid and think about it, I hear that despite the way you look you're quite smart." Dorothy walked away leaving Ed standing in her aftermath.

"Yo, Ed. Earth to Ed. Hello," Duo commented as he waved his hand in front her face.

Ed blinked and looked into the concern eyes of Heero, Duo, Quatre, and Faye. The sun was starting to set in the western sky, how long had she been standing there?

Faye moved closer to her and poked Ed in the nose. "Are you okay in there?"

"Faye-Faye!" Ed called out and wrapped her arms around Faye. She needed the comfort right now.

Faye's eyes narrowed then softened. "She's fine. Probably got bored."

"I was getting worried there for a moment," Quatre replied.

Duo breathed a sigh of relief. "Well all we have to do, now is wait for Wufei and Trowa."

Heero shook his head. "He and Wufei are working on an ethics project. They said they'll be late."

"That's fine by me," Duo smirked. "I'll just eat their dinner. It's not like they'll miss it, especially Trowa."

"Ed will save some for boyfriend person," she interjected as she pulled away from Faye.

"You really know how to kill the fun," Duo replied. He rubbed her head. "But you're a good kid."

Ed's eyes widened slightly at his phrasing and she pulled away. "Ed's hungry."

©2002 Devon Masterson

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