Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Blood Bonds ❯ A New Home... ( Chapter 8 )

Blood Bonds

By Tygerlilee

Chapter Eight

A New Home...

*Disclaimer: I don't own GW...etc.

Heero shoved the bronze key into the lock of room C-17. The heavy oak door swung open...the building was obviously build to withstand a lot of abuse...but then teenage boys were living in it.

Heero surveyed the room as he stood in the doorway. A set of bunk beds were situated strait across from him with a window at the foot, the top was unmade. On the wall adjacent to the window were two built in closets-one of them was open, revealing its empty shelves and rod. The wall opposite on that was lined with one desk, littered with paper wads and open notebooks. Heero walked in to see several suits and dress shirts laying neatly on the lower bunk, a note pined to the outer pocket of a jacket.

"Heero Yuy, these are your uniforms," is read in sloppy rushed manuscript.

Heero began to hang up his clothes and unpack his bags when he noticed another desk opposite of the beds...it was empty.

Heero went over to it plopped his backpack heavily on it, and unloaded several books that he had collected...a dictionary, a well worn calculus book, and a collection of famous quotes heavily marked and highlighted.

A framed picture on the other desk caught Heero's eye. It was a family...must be Huy's family...a Japanese woman sat smiling brightly, a little girl with the woman's blue eyes sitting patiently on her lap and holding an older man's hand, his gaze hard and measured. A boy in his mid-twenties and another girl in her late teens to early twenties stood behind them with goofy grins.

Heero smiled to himself...it didn't appear that his roommate was in the picture. They all looked so happy and similar to each other...blood bonds, Heero concluded, they were powerful things. They withstood distance and heartbreak and loss, some did anyway.

Heero put the picture down and proceeded with his unpacking.

He would start classes tomorrow, but he didn't even know where the school was. I most likely was just down the street a block or two though.

Heero left the room to explore the building and to become more familiar with it. A community bathroom was at the end of the hall...it looked to be in surprisingly good shape considering that teenage boys used it.

He left the room and continued his aimless wanderings.

He heard a dog bark outside so he made his way downstairs. A golden retriever bounded up to him. He smiled at the animal and scratched its ears lazily. The dog liked his face gleefully.

"Valcor!! Valcor, you stupid dog, where the heck did you run off too?!?!" Heero heard a voice yelling from just out of his sight range.

"I thinks he's over here," he called back.

A sweaty blond girl in a blue tank-top and gray shorts came sprinting up, "Valcor!" she stood in exasperation with her hands firmly on her hips...Heero noticed that she was about his age...shouldn't she be in school.

The dog just panted happily and licked Heero again.

The girl sauntered up and grabbed it by its collar to drag it away. "Thanks, Babe for holding him here," she smiled wanly at him.

"Shouldn't you be in class young man?" she questioned sarcastically. "Or are you skipping out again."

"I'm not 'Babe' and I start school tomorrow," Heero told her.

Her eyebrows shot up in surprise. "I'm sorry, you just look a lot like someone I know! I just assumed that you were him! I'm really sorry-I wasn't hitting on you or anything, I swear," she profusely apologized.

Heero shrugged and started to get up. "Hey, you're new here uh?"

Heero nodded.

The girl grinned. "My name's Etrea Stikas. I have a weird animal class this period, so I get to leave school to take Valcor for a walk. He got run over last year and we fixed his leg, now he lives at the school," she explained. "And you are..." she trailed off, waiting for him to take his cue.

"Heero Yuy," Heero said simply.

"Well, I hope you like it here! It was nice meeting you and Valcor agrees," she gave him one last smile before jogging back to where she had come from, the golden haired dog at her heals.

Heero turned to go back into the building.

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A/N Well, here we go...the story is about to get complicated...what has Tygerlilee gotten herself into this time. (Sighs heavily) Any way...grumble, grumble...that's the box talking, but I've run out of food so would you PLEASE FEED IT!! The dish is right down there!!