Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Peace Children ❯ Chapter 23 ( Chapter 23 )

Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and none of its characters are mine. Most of the Mystical creatures are not mine. Prophets and Trackers are. Seelie and Unseelie, the way I use them here, were created by Laurel K. Hamilton. Hands of power were also created by Laurel K. Hamilton. The story and all original characters are mine. If I forgot to credit anything to its rightful owner, please email me, and I will credit it to them.

Pairings: 2x1, 3+4+3, 13+11 5+M H+Kali+H Rating CxKali Odin+OC: NC- 17, eventually Warning: several lemons, no spoiler, AU, definite yaoi, yuri lemon, OOC, angst, more as it comes

Author's notes: 'blah' = thoughts 'blah' = mind-speaking

<<blah>> = Low Mystical



Peace Children

Chapter 23



Catherine looked around the room she and the girls had been transported to . It was a bedroom, sparsely furnished - a double bed, a dresser, a closet, the only personal touch was a framed picture on the dresser. It was of a boy and a girl, maybe nine years old each. The boy had short, shaggy, chocolate-brown hair, and the girl had long, tousled, raven-black hair. Both had piercing eyes - the boy's Prussian blue, and the girl's forest green. Heero and Kali.

Catherine figured from the picture that she was in the Yuy's house. She picked Kali up from where she was slumped over on the floor. Catherine laid the girl on the bed, turning down the covers before she did so. Then, she went to Hilde and did the same with her, only on the other side of the bed. She tucked both of them in and sat on the floor, as there were no chairs in the room.

Catherine mulled over her feelings for Kali and Kali's *possible* feelings toward Hilde. Cathy knew she loved Kali; she admitted that much to herself when the Collectors had attacked them in their motel room. She also knew that Hilde love Kali: she had seen it in the girl's eyes when they were introduced to everybody. What Catherine *didn't* know was whether Kali loved her or Hilde or neither.

"When the two of you wake up," Catherine muttered, "we are going to have a *long* talk."

***

Cassandra's plan went off without a hitch. Duo single-handedly saved Heero and the rest of the Mysticals, they killed all of the Collectors, and the two lovers made passionate love while riding off into the sunset.

Yeah, right.

In reality, their plan was turning out pretty good, though there were a few *minor* problems. Meiran and Wufei attacked from the outside, creating a lot of damage and distracting many Collectors. However, the majority of the humans weren't distracted by the dragons. Odin, Quatre, and Trowa started freeing Mystical prisoners from their tubes. However, the creatures weren't able to help them - too woozy and disoriented - as they had hoped. Duo and Cassandra found the white room. However, Heero wasn't in it.

"Where is he?!" Duo demanded, pounding on a random guard. He was the only Collector Duo and Cassandra met that they hadn't killed yet. "Where is Heero?!" ::smack:: "Where did you people take him?!" Duo pulled the guard up by his collar and started shaking him like a rag doll.

"Duo! Stop it!" Cassandra shouted at him. "We don't have time for this. Besides, he doesn't know anything. If he did, he would have said something so that we wouldn't kill him as we did his friends," Cassandra swept her arms around the room - littered with bodies - to illustrate her point. "Now, stand aside so I can kill him and we can move on."

***

Wufei was having fun. It had been a long time since he had gotten to do something like this, especially with Meiran. She usually frowned on activities like this.

Pushing all human thought out of his mind, the red dragon turned back to the task at hand. Several Collectors ran out of the building, toting guns and other weapons.

'How rude,' Wufei thought before opening his jaw and exhaling fire on them. After he charcoaled those humans, Wufei turned to see how his wife was doing.

Meiran seemed to be enjoying herself immensely. She stomped on a Collector who got too near her, and opened her maw for a tasty human snack. She blew the remains of the Collector along with a blast of fire at a group standing in front of her, incinerating a dozen of them.

'This is fun,' she thought, thoroughly enjoying the havoc she and her husband were causing.

***

Duo and Cassandra walked into the white room to check it out - just in case there was something to be found in there. "Oomph!" Duo cried out, as he hit something. Only, there was nothing there. The space in front of him was only air.

Duo felt for what he had stumbled into, even though he couldn't see anything there. He was startled, but not too terribly surprised, to find something. It was metal. Cold, curvy metal. "Cassandra, get over here," he said, motioning for the prophet-turned-cat-turned-prophet to come to where he was. "What is this?" He motioned to the *empty* space in front of him.

Cassandra looked at Duo like he had just stepped off the tractor to the funny farm. There was nothing there, it was air; a blind man could see that. Her expression changed to one of shock when Duo put her hand on the thing. It was cold, like a stasis chamber, and it had about the same shape as the tubes in the other room. The only difference she could discern was that this one was bigger - much bigger. The better to steal your power with.

'Heero!' she thought.

***

Hilde slowly woke. She was warm, in a bed somewhere. "Aaahh," she yawned, stretching.

She jerked when she felt her arm hit something. Or rather, someone. Hilde opened her eyes to see Catherine staring at her. "Hello," she said, wary of the older woman.

"Glad to see you're awake," Catherine said. "Kali's still asleep." Hilde gasped in surprise when she saw Kali on the bed beside her. "Here. I brought you some soup."

Catherine thrust the bowl of chicken noodle soup at Hilde, careful not to spill any of the steaming liquid. Hilde took the bowl gratefully, suddenly aware of how ravenous she was.

As Hilde ate, she couldn't help but notice Catherine staring at her. She finally couldn't stand it anymore. "What?" She asked. "Why are you staring at me?"

"Doesn't matter," Catherine responded. "Now eat up. After you finish, you and I are going to have a little chat."

Selune