Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Irony at it's best ❯ Settling In ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2

 

Heero had just grabbed Leslie, and immediately Ally turned around, and started laughing and pointing at her. Heero walked around to make a wall between Ally and Leslie and immediately saw what Ally had found so funny; the tips of her bangs were singed along with a few other pieces of hair. Ally continued to laugh as everyone else came into the room and Heero saw Leslie close her eyes.

“It'll grow back.” She half whispered half grumbled and then took a deep breath before opening her eyes and turning around. “Heero, do you have some scissors I could use?” She asked as she started walking away.

“….Yea…” He answered and caught up to her in order to get them.

“Nice hair.” Duo commented and then found himself pinned to the wall, with Leslie glaring death at him. He heard her take another deep breath and then let him go before continuing to follow Heero down the hall.

“Wow she actually did that thing I told her too.” Ariel commented as Leslie and Heero turned a corner. Ariel looked at Ally who was still laughing and now messing with the lighter in her hand.

“Did what?” Duo asked, stepping back from the wall he had been shoved against. “Man, Heero's gundam sure does have a temper.”

“That thing that you saw her do, I suggested that she take a deep breath and count to three, it keeps me from loosing it when G does something that's annoying.”

“Does she have anger problems or something?” Duo asked.

“Onna stop that!” Wufei yelled as he tried to get the lighter away from Ally.

Ariel looked over to where Ally and Wufei were before answering Duo's question, “Well, yes and no I guess.” Duo looked at her confused, “A few months ago I over heard J telling G that that particular part of her system could be inflicted on people if she touches them-”

“But she touched me and I didn't feel anything.” Duo interrupted.

“- I know,” Ariel responded wondering when Duo had gotten so bad at listening, “apparently she has to want others to experience it, but when she's mad they said that she could lose control over it and end up unwillingly inflicting it on people, so J had me help her with her temper.”

“So she has control over it now?” Trowa, who had been standing next to Duo, asked.

“I guess, I mean she looked pretty mad right then and you said nothing happened right?” Ariel answered and looked at Duo who nodded, “I don't really know what would make her lose it totally but I guess it's happened before.”

Wufei had finally gotten the lighter away from Ally who was now giving him a very pathetic pleading look. “You are pathetic onna, there is no way you were my gundam.”

“Yes I am, look.” Ally responded and showed him her model number. “I can even call Master O if you want.”

Wufei didn't respond as he read the information on the medical-like bracelet that had practically been shoved in his face.

 

Leslie followed Heero down a few hallways before they came to a bathroom where Heero opened a couple of drawers and started looking for hair cutting scissors, “I find it very hard to believe that you could be a gundam system.” Heero commented as he opened another drawer.

“Hn.” Leslie responded, leaning against the door frame and holding her singed bangs in front of her eyes to correctly asses the damage without looking in a mirror.

Heero stopped looking through the untidy drawer for a moment in reaction to her response.

“Do I need to tell you something that no one else would ever know about? Maybe, about how even till this day you still feel remorse about what happened to that girl and her dog? Or maybe about Odin Lowe?” Leslie asked still eyeing her bangs.

Heero stiffened, and found the scissors, `There is no way that anyone could know about any of that and I know J detests speaking of that mission.' He thought and handed her the scissors.

 

“Well what do ya say we go find Quatre to see where he decided to have your rooms be?” Duo asked.

Ally stopped looking at Wufei pleadingly and nodded as they all went to the kitchen so Ariel and Ally could get their bags. Ally reached into her bag and pulled out another lighter.

“Is that all you brought?” Duo asked Ariel who had just slung a somewhat small bag over her shoulder.

“Yeah,” she answered and looked at him questioningly as they exited the kitchen and headed for some stairs.

“We weren't really planning on staying; actually we didn't have a plan.” Ally commented as Wufei made a grab at the lighter in Ally's hand. “If you find this annoying Fei, you aren't going to like it when Helen gets here.”

“My name is Wufei, onna.”

“And my name is either, Ally, Shenlong, or Altron.” Ally retorted.

 

Leslie had taken the scissors and was carefully trimming the singed pieces off, “You're a lot quieter than I remember.” She commented, “Or maybe you're just more comfortable talking to inanimate objects, but then that would kind of contradict the fact that I'm here wouldn't it?”

“I would suppose.” Heero grunted, “How do you know about…those things you mentioned?”

“You asked me about the girl if you remember, and when my system is operating I can access your memories; your mind is an open book to me, though it's hardly like one.” Leslie answered followed by a snip as another piece of singed hair fell into the trash can at her feet.

Heero nodded slightly and she handed the scissors back to him, “Isn't it always running though?”

“Yes, but I have to inflict it through physical contact in this form.” She answered and started messing with her bangs while looking in the mirror.

“Oh.” Heero said and Leslie finished with the mirror, “How old are you?” He asked almost feeling the talkativeness he had had with his gundam-or with her, apparently- coming back.

Leslie smirked as they exited the bathroom and headed back the way they came, “16, we all are.”

 

“Man I've been living here for nearly seven months and I still get lost.” Duo mumbled and turned another corner.

“Then why are you leading?” Wufei asked dryly.

Duo didn't answer, “Hey deathscythe you have a map in your system don't you? Or can you see through walls and stuff?”

Ariel put a hand over her face, “Duo, I'm a person I can do whatever my program allows me too, so anything that is on my program I'm quiet capable of.”

“So, I can program you to do things? Can I even reprogram your personality?”

“No that's mine and it's always been that way no one programmed me to be this way and I'd rather you didn't start messing with my programs.”

“Onna, what's something my gundam can do?” Wufei asked Ally who only gave him sort of a blank stare. “Who is Nataku and where is she if her spirit wasn't residing within the Shenlong?”

“She's that girl who died protecting you and she's dead.” Ally answered none too gently.

“Ally.” Ariel said somewhat sharply to keep her from continuing on to tell him he was weak or something to that extent.

“Oh there you are Quatre!” Duo greeted.

“Oh hi Duo, I was just getting their rooms ready and I thought I might as well get Sandrock and Heavyarms' rooms ready as well.”

“Do you want help?” Ariel asked politely.

“No it's ok I actually don't mind doing this sort of thing.”

“But I don't want to cause you any kind of trouble.” Ariel argued taking a step forward.

“No, no I'm fine!” Quatre answered cheerily and headed to another room with a pile of sheets in his arms. “I've already gotten three rooms ready; I thought it might be convenient for you to have them close to your pilot's rooms since you have to protect them.” Quatre added, sticking his head out of the door for a moment.

“Ok thank you.” Ariel replied.

“Well in that case come on buddy! I'll show you my room too.” Duo said to Ariel grabbing her arm and leading down the hall.

 

“Follow me onna.” Wufei said after Duo had dragged Ariel half way down the hall, and turned in the opposite direction. Ally glared at Ariel for a moment and then turned to follow Wufei.

 

Leslie and Heero had come back to the kitchen to see that no one else was there and neither were Ally and Ariel's things, “Quatre must have their rooms ready already.” Heero commented

“Yeah-” Leslie responded and was about to say something before her phone started ringing. She pulled it out of her pocked and answered it not saying anything, a girl with light brown hair appeared on the video screen. “Wwwiiinnnggg, please we-” the girl started to say before Leslie hung up. “Idiot's, why me?”

Heero cocked an eyebrow, “Let's go see where Quatre has your room.” He stated and picked up her things.

Ten minutes later- Heero and Leslie had found Quatre and were heading for Heero's room where Leslie's was supposed to be close by.

 

Duo and Ariel walked down the hallway towards his room, “First let's find your room so you can put your stuff away. Then you can see my room buddy!”

“….Ok.” Ariel agreed lackadaisically as they turned another corner and Duo started opening semi random doors.

“Hm…this one looks like it could be it.” Duo commented mostly to himself and walked into the room that had clearly been recently cleaned. “Yep this is it.” He confirmed noting that everything had been recently dusted and that there were fresh sheets on the bed.

“Ok cool.” Ariel commented and looked around the large room that had two windows, both of which were framed with blackout curtains.

“Alright come on.” Duo said barely giving Ariel time to get a better look around the currently bright room and put her things down, before she was pulled back out into the hall where they walked by three doors and stopped.

Ariel waited for Duo to open the door nervous that it would be as messy as he kept the cockpit, “Whoa… cool.” She whispered and Duo's room came into view; it was painted white like all the other rooms except that most of the interior was black, and to her surprise it was spotless.

“Hm I guess Quatre took it upon himself to tidy up in here again.” Duo remarked to himself and stepped further into the room. “Isn't it cool? Check this out I got bored a while back and made a mini model of you.” Duo said pointing to a scaled down Deathscythe. “I guess I must have really been missing having you around. This is great, I always wondered what it'd be like if my gundam were a person but I imagined you'd be a guy. Oh well we can still have fun right, buddy?” Duo asked swinging an arm around Ariel's shoulder and grinning.

“Duo… you know the reason I'm here isn't so we can just hang out.” Ariel answered carefully, not wanting to rain on his parade- if any one was going to do that she'd leave it to Leslie.

Duo's smile faded a little, “Well yeah… I know I just really missed having you around even if I didn't know you were a person.”

“Well we can still have some fun.” Ariel offered, “We just have to keep alert for any signs of possible threats.” She finished and smiled at him

“Right, well you wanna play some video games?” Duo asked removing his arm from around her shoulder and approaching the game system that was stationed under the TV.

“You bet!”

 

Wufei and Ally walked down the hall and turned a few corners, “My room is here.” Wufei stated opening a door to show her the interior; mostly light colored with a bit of a Chinese theme to it but not much. Wufei shut the door and started opening doors that came after it- his room being directly around a corner, there were no rooms on one side. “Onna…. Stop that flicking.”

“Hmm…” Ally said and continued to mess with her lighter, “It's Ally, and if you keep calling me onna I'm going to tell Master O how disrespectful you have become towards women.”

Wufei turned around for a moment and glared at her before opening another door noticing that it was recently cleaned. “This must be it.” He stated and walked into the room, noting the lack of dust and the smell of cleaning products still lingering despite the partially open window.

Ally put her things down on the bed and looked around the room for a moment, seeing that it had one window complete with black out curtains. “Now what?”

“You can do what you please, I'm leaving.” Wufei answered and left the room.

“Well I have to come with, to make sure no one kills, captures, threatens, or tries to inflict any sort of bodily harm on you.” Ally declared and followed Wufei down the hall and back in the same direction they had come.

Wufei glanced at a clock and was surprised to see that it was already twelve in the after noon and he couldn't remember what it was he had been intent on doing that morning. He decided to head for the living room when he smelled something that smelled like… burning cleaning products? Suddenly he realized that his neck was a bit hot and that… his ponytail was on fire!? “Gah!” Wufei said letting out a some what strangled yell and ran into the nearest bathroom where he managed to get the fire out- lucky for him he was passing a bathroom.

Ally started laughing the minute Wufei yelled and quickly stashed the evidence in her pocket.

“Onna! My hair!” Wufei yelled, trying to restrain himself from strangling her. Ally continued to laugh manically as he took the rubber band out and began to see how bad it was and starting looking for scissors.

“Hahaha,” Ally said pointing at Wufei, “`GAH!'” She yelled through her laughter, mimicking him.

 

Heero continued to walk followed by Leslie; both were quiet in what seemed like the awkward sort of way. Leslie knew Heero must not be very happy about her still being alive. Heero opened a door and Leslie discontinued the musings she didn't know she was having.

“This is my room.” He stated, stepping aside so she could see the interior.

“Ok.” Leslie answered taking in the somewhat bleak setting, showing a normal size bed (a/n: my definition of normal size for one person is either queen or twin, I may verify later) a desk at one end with a laptop plugged in on top of it, and normal things that'd you'd hope to see in someone's room. “Well you keep this one cleaner than the one you have back on L1.” She commented.

“I kept my room neat.” Heero argued as he closed his door and began heading for other rooms.

“Hm… that's not how it looked when I had to clean it, spandex boy.” Leslie retorted as Heero opened the first door that came after his. They both stepped inside and noting the open window and smell of cleaner concluded that it must be the room Quatre had gotten ready. Leslie looked around the room as Heero sat her things down on the bed; there were two windows that had blackout curtains that was the first thing she noticed other than the fact that it smelled like cleaner, she noted briefly the presence of the usual assorted bedroom furniture and wondered for an illogical moment if Heero had designed how the room would look considering it closely resembled his. “Alright, so first I need to take a look around, so I know where all the exits and such are.” Leslie stated heading for the door.

“That will take you at the very least an entire day to go through the whole mansion.” Heero protested.

“Hn, then I'll just start tomorrow; I have other things I need to do right now anyway.” Leslie replied and walked back over to her bag, pulling out a laptop and her phone in case she got anymore calls.

 

Ariel stretched her arms out and leaned back a little. “Well I've never seen that game before and it was pretty cool.”

“You've never played a real time strategy game before?” Duo asked and stretched his legs out in front of him.

“Yeah, but just not that one.” Ariel replied, they had been playing video games for the last hour and a half and Ariel suddenly heard her stomach rumble, looking down at her watch she was surprised to see that it had been a while since she had eaten last. “Hey let's postpone the next round and get some food.”

“Just what I was thinking.” Duo answered and they both headed for the kitchen.

 

Wufei had made his way to the living room eventually but had never found the scissors so his hair was still singed along the ends. Ally was sitting on the couch next to him, and had stopped flicking her lighter for the time being and Wufei went back to reading his book.

“Is this all you do?” Ally asked looking very bored.

“No, I have the week off; I'm usually on call with the preventers.” Wufei answered not looking up from his book.

Ariel and Duo walked through the living room in order to get to the kitchen, “Hey- what's that smell?” Ariel asked diverted from her would be question.

Ally started laughing again and Ariel figured she knew.

“Um you two wanna join us? We're gonna make some lunch.” Duo asked ignoring the other things that were going on.

Wufei nodded, “Sure… what are you making?”

“Don't know yet.” Duo answered and headed for the kitchen followed by Ariel, and Ally. “Alright… I think I'll make the Maxwell specialty!” Duo exclaimed and began looking through the cupboards.

“Maxwell specialty?” Ally asked, trying to get closer to Duo to see what he was getting out.

“Um… Duo… why don't I make something?” Ariel suggested.

“What's wrong with the Maxwell specialty?” Duo asked not stopping getting things out of the cupboard.

“Well, it's a little… exotic and I don't think anyone else will really like it.” Ariel answered.

“Hm well we'll just have to see about that huh?” Duo asked, now determined to make it after hearing that the other systems hadn't tried it yet.

A little later Duo had finished all the sandwiches and everyone had made their way to the kitchen.

“What's that smell?” Wufei asked upon sitting down.

“What smell?” Duo asked and sat a sandwich down in front of Wufei who took one sniff at it and turned his nose up in disgust.

“I'm not eating this.” Wufei said, “It smells like it died 4 days ago.” He added and began preparing his own meal.

“Here you go wing-zero!” Duo said cheerily and handed Leslie a sandwich. “And Heero, enjoy!”

Ariel looked uneasily at Leslie who sat down with the food and took a bite, showing no reaction to what the ingredients were as did Heero.

“Here ya go Shenlong…or err…Altron….Nataku...?” Duo said not sure of what to call Ally as he sat a sandwich down in front of her.

“If you have to call me by a gundam name Shenlong or Shen is fine.” Ally offered, smiling at Duo.

Duo nodded and handed Ariel her sandwich and sat down- Quatre and Trowa had also decided to make their own food.

“Uh…Leslie are you really that hungry?” Ariel asked seeing that Leslie was actually eating Duo's sandwich.

“Not entirely, why?”

“Well…”

“Ugh! THIS IS GROSE!” Ally exclaimed and cringed. “What's in this?!”

Duo seemed unfazed by Ally's reaction to his `cooking' and smiled proudly, “Well, it has anchovies, horseradish, sour-kraut, onion, salami, limburger cheese, lettuce, pickles, peanut butter and French bread.” He finished, Ally looked as if she would be sick and Ariel continued to ignore her own sandwich.

“Eww, how can you eat that? Wing?” Ally asked first looking at Duo and then at Leslie.

“Hn, it's better than some of the stuff I get at the base in L1, food is food, and I didn't say I liked it.” Leslie stated and Heero nodded in agreement and also continued eating his own `Maxwell special sandwich.'

“Hm, well I guess you all have been around that tasteless military food for too long.” Duo commented and took another bite of his sandwich.

“Actually the only one that would apply to is Leslie here, as far as I know.” Ariel corrected and slowly started edging her sandwich towards the trash can.

“No, sometimes J allows me to shop instead of one of his `employees' but that is sort of rare.” Leslie answered and took the last bite of her sandwich.

“Well I know I can almost always count on Heero to eat whatever I happen to make.” Duo said and took Leslie's plate for her- having practically inhaled his own sandwich- and put it in the sink.

 

(a/n: sorry to end it right here ^^; but the next chapter will be better! I'll try not to have too many default chapters ^^x later otakus read and review!)