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Ed and Duo's Greatest Adventure

Chapter 8

By Devon Masterson

Dorothy Catalonia walked down the tree-lined promenade of the campus and smiled as she saw Trowa stalking towards her. "My! He actually looks angry. I will have to put on my best charms." She straightened her outfit nonchalantly. "Hello, Trowa."

"What did you say to Ed?" he asked.

"It was nothing of consequence," she answered. "We merely had a girl talk about our experiences that's all."

"Where you causally told her about our past."

"A lady never kisses and tells. We just talked in general," Dorothy commented. "What's the problem? Did she dump you? You poor thing, children can be so fickle these days."

"Just stay from her and me," he replied.

"That will be hard to do being on such a small campus."

"I'm sure you'll manage," Trowa said as he turned to leave.

"Wait," she called out as she grabbed his arm. Trowa turned to her and gave her look that said `what could you possibly want?' A gleam caught in her eyes as something caught her peripheral vision. "One last kiss. If you feel nothing then I'll leave you alone."

"No."

"Please," she replied as she moved closer to him.

"No," he said again and was about to move away when she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her lips to him. He pushed her away but not in time for further damage to be done. He froze as he stared at Ed.

"I'm sorry for interrupting," Ed said in shock.

"It's okay," Dorothy replied. "You should run a long now."

Trowa pulled away from her embrace. "Ed, let me explain."

"I know what's going on. Despite the way I look I am not stupid," she replied as she backed away.

Trowa moved closer. "It's not what you think."

Ed rushed forward quickly and pushed him to the ground. "Don't lie!" she exclaimed then ran off.

"I guess that leaves only you and me," Dorothy replied as she knelt beside him. "I know how you can make this incident up to me."

Trowa glared at her. "You and I are over. I love Ed."

Dorothy frowned at his stubbornness. "Fine, Trowa, keep your redheaded stepchild…if you can catch her that is," she spat as she walked away.

He shook his head to shake off the temptation. Shooting her out of anger would be in poor taste, but she was trying him. At least now, she would leave him alone and he could patch things up with Ed if there was anything left to patch up.

Trowa walked into the house sometime later and stopped as heard the familiar click of a nine. He raised his hands and turned slowly not at all surprised to see Faye holding the gun to him. "What did you do to Ed?" she demanded. "She actually ran in here crying and she won't come out of her room. Quatre's been up there the last hour trying to get her out."

"Everything I didn't want to do," he answered simply.

Faye's eyes widened. "What's that supposed to mean?" she asked angrily.

Trowa moved the barrel of the gun away from him. "This is something that we have to handle ourselves."

She lowered her gun. "If I didn't think you loved her I would have shot you, you know that?"

He nodded. He was well aware of all his housemates' capabilities and they were a dangerous lot, including Ed even though she had never exhibited any violent tendencies. But they were also his closest friends, they cared about him and they trusted him. He would find away to straighten this mess out. "I have to get through to her," he thought as he started up the stairs. As he got to the top of the stairs, he heard sounds of protest and then a door shut. Quatre and Duo turned toward Trowa.

"You kissed Dorothy?" Quatre asked. "What were you thinking?"

"That was uncool, Trowa," Duo added. "Aren't you afraid of rabies or something?"

"She surprised me while we were talking and before I could get her off me, Ed saw everything," he answered. "I need to talk to her."

"Good luck," Duo said as he leaned against the wall. "She hardly talked to us. We got the bare details. And what's this about you breaking up? I wake up this morning and she's coming out of her old room and she takes off before I can ask her about it."

"I don't want to get into it right now. I need to talk to Ed."

"Come on, Duo, let's leave them alone," Quatre suggested as he pulled Duo away.

Trowa knocked on the door. "Go away, I'm busy," she called. He frowned. The last time she was mad at him she spent a week in her room, he did not have time for that.

"Ed, if you don't open the door, I'm going to break it down," he threatened. He sighed when he heard a gentle click a few moments later. He opened the door and saw her standing in front of him. She slid her goggles over eyes and sat on the floor as he shut the door behind him. "I love you, Ed."

"Ooh, I have e-mail," she remarked ignoring his comment.

"Setting up bombs in an Oz base and fighting my way out before they explode is easier than this," he thought. "I don't want Dorothy. All she's about is ambition and politics. You understand me, you actually make me laugh."

"Duo, sent me a funny one," she laughed as she read her e-mail.

"You make me happy," Trowa continued.

"Ooh, I may have won a million dollars," she smirked. "Junk mail, yum yum."

"Ed, listen to me," he pleaded. He was never good at these things. Quatre always mediated or the guys would know what he meant, this was very different.

"I'm busy call back never," she sang as she continued to check her mail.

Trowa sighed. She needed more time. "You mean too much to me to let you go that easy," he remarked then left the room.

She lifted her goggles once he was gone and sighed. He really poured his heart out to her. She was not sure if it was a clever ploy or he was serious, but his actions did warrant a closer look.

***

"Any change?" Quatre asked as Faye sat down.

She hook her head. "Neither one of them will come out of their room. Ed tries to act normal and Trowa…well he's Trowa."

"This will not do," Wufei commented. "Barton is the only one who has the stamina and will to tame that woman. He gives her balance."

Duo nodded. "Those two need to kiss and make-up or whatever they do before they drive me crazy. All of the silence in the house is not healthy, besides, Ed and I have a game saved on my memory card. It's a moral imperative that we finish it."

Heero shook his head. "They will work things out in their own time," he replied. "We just need to eliminate all outside interference." His eyes went towards Dorothy and her friends laughing as they walked to `their' table.

"Is that Dorothy?" Faye asked.

"Yep, that's her bitchiness," Duo sneered. "If she wasn't a girl and I didn't want to get kicked out of school…hell just her being a girl…"

Faye stood. "Well I am a girl and I don't go to this school."

Quatre's eyes widened briefly. "Sweetheart," he called as she walked away. He stood to his feet when Wufei put his hand on his shoulder.

"You know I do not condone petty violence, but this justice served," Wufei replied.

Faye stalked over to the laughing bunch. She tapped Dorothy on the shoulder causing her to turn around. Her blue-violet eyes had a questioned look about them then widened as she saw a fist brought back. Dorothy slid across the ground a few feet as she held her face. "Don't mess with Ed."

"Damn!" Duo smirked as he watched the short exchange. "Quatre, you have to marry Faye."

Quatre looked towards Duo and the others trying to be appalled by the exchange, but was too proud of her to be successful. He would talk with her later right now he had to get her out of there, before she did something else to Dorothy. He swiftly walked over to her and grabbed her arm. "That was sweet," he whispered as he quickly removed her from the scene while everyone was still shock.

***

Trowa looked at a picture that Ed and he took together at the circus. It was the first time he actually went to the circus for entertainment. Everything seemed brand new and exciting when she was involved. He touched the picture of them siting on top of elephant. He remembered how it felt to have her arms wrapped around him as she yelled like a cowgirl.

It had been two days since the incident occurred and she was still ignoring him. She was also still talking in first person. At one point, Duo grabbed him by the shirt because he was on edge, and begged him to change Ed back. Everyone seemed worried about the distance between them. Then there was school, more guys, with less than honorable intentions, started to hang around her. Unfortunately since he was on probation with Ed right now he had to get his point across a different way. Also the guys had been helping out fending off admirers in Ed's presence. Out of her presence, Trowa put the word out that he would make anyone disappear who made a move on his girlfriend, it quickly got around that she was off limits.

"Two days is enough time. I need to try again," he thought as swung his legs around the edge of the bed. He looked up as the door opened slowly and Ed stuck her head inside of the room.

"Can I come in?"

"That's fine," he said calmly as he watched her come in and shut the door behind her.

"I thought about what you said..."

"God, I could use some good news this week…"

Ed smiled. "I love you too, boyfriend person." She pounced him and hugged him tightly then sat up with her chin in his chest. "But you still don't treat Ed like a girlfriend all the time."

He touched her face gently as he realized why this had been blown so far out of proportion. "Is that you really feel?"

She nodded. "Ed loves you very much and is ready to…" She blushed furiously and laid her head on his chest to avoid the issue. Part of her wanted to cover herself up and hide, but she knew that would not make the feelings go away.

Trowa lifted her head gently so that she could look at him. "I find you attractive, but I did not want to push you. I was afraid if I did, I would change you and lose you."

Ed shook her head. "Ed left her world for you. She…I would never leave."

"Ed…" his sentence trailed as he kissed her.

*.*

Duo walked down the stairs. There were some leftovers from dinner with his name on it and he ready to claim it. "Hey," he called out as he saw Ed sitting on the table with a laptop munching on leftovers. "That was supposed to be my midnight snack."

"Ed left you some," she said not looking away from the computer screen.

"Cool, good looking out," he smiled as he opened the refrigerator. It was only half of what he saved, but that was better than nothing. Even if she ate it, all he wouldn't care…too much. He was just glad things were back to normal and of course he now had something new to hassle Trowa about, he loved teasing his housemates. "You know Heero's going to blow a transistor if he catches you on his laptop."

Ed smiled. "This is Ed's laptop. Q-man bought it for Ed for her birthday."

Duo nodded then tried to peak at the screen. "Watcha' doin'?"

"Studying," she commented casually.

He smiled when he saw what she was looking at. "Stalking her is not going to work. You're going to have to come up with something better than that."

"Ed has a wonderful plan to get eyebrow girl."

"What is it?" he asked excitedly. Ed leaned over and whispered her plan into his ear. "That's vicious. I love it, welcome to the dark side, Ed. This will be priceless, need any help?"

Ed nodded and the two started to work.

©2002 Devon Masterson

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