Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ School ❯ School ( Chapter 1 )

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~~~ Hey y'all! This is my third fanfiction. It's a
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read at your own digression... not rated, but it's probably going to be medium,
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We All Have A Lesson To Learn



*He looked into the sky and cringed. It was a beautiful day,
too beautiful for him. He deserved nothing but the rain and thunder. He wanted
it cold and black so that he wouldn't feel obligated to feel guilty he wasn't happy.
The feeling washed over him again. What to do now? Everything was over.
Everything that needed to be said had been said; everything that needed doing
was done. Was he just going to waltz around the rest of his life a drifter?
Probably. But what did it matter to him? All he was there for was to kill. Then
he heard it: " Did you really think you were through with everything
Heero? There are things even the Perfect Soldier must learn. After all, I did
rob you of some things, like a decent home, a family, and feelings all for the
war, but there is one thing you need that I can give you."

" What
would that be Doctor J?" Heero replied in a soft-spoken tone. With Doctor
J, he didn't need to be harsh, just stay quiet so he could hear the old man's
chatter." a good, well-grounded education. I tell you, I found the perfect
school for the Perfect Soldier." The old man smiled with a gleam in his
eye. "It's called TerraLune Hall, and it's probably one of the most
challenging schools open at the moment. You'll get used to it fairly easily,
and no one will question your background."

"
School, with other people. Mission Denied. Goodbye." School. He did not
need more schooling. He could handle huge killing machines, guns, planes,
infiltration missions, assassinations, being shot, and a hell of a lot more,
and Doctor J wanted him to go back to school? No, he would not; he had no need
for it.

"
Heero, it will be good for you. Besides, you can't wander around the streets as
a drifter your entire life, as you intend to. You need to interact with other
people. Re-integrate yourself into society. Make yourself fit in. At your age,
school will be the perfect jump starter for you. Now then my boy, mission
accepted or denied?

"
Mission accepted." Why he accepted, he didn't know. He wanted to be apart
from other people, he didn't want to integrate with society, but it was his
mission, and he never failed a mission. Besides, what else was he going to do?
Maybe this new 'school' would help him find finality to the war he had begun to
fight so long ago. Maybe one day, he would be completed. And just maybe, this
new school would help him do that.*



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Chapter One: First Day Jitters



*Heero woke
up the next morning with his bags packed and his apartment nearly empty. The
only thing left was his bed, and of course all the boxes he intended to take
with him to TerraLune Hall. While he washed his face, random thoughts ran
through his head ' new school, finish education, integrate. What a waste. I am
a waste. I am a soldier, not a scholar.
Born to kill. I am a killer, a murderer, and not some scholastic achiever. Why
did I accept this mission in the first place? Oh yeah, to get Doctor J off my
back.' He knew that was not the real reason, that he was searching for more
than grades, but he wouldn't admit it. Not yet. Suddenly a horn honked.

" Hey
Heero man! Come on! Let's check out our new school! Hurry up buddy, let's
go!" Duo Maxwell? That braided baka is going to be in the same school as
me? Grand. I can almost hear it now. ' Heero, do this, do that with me Heero,
Come on Heero,' twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and
sixty-five days a year. Again came the whiny voice. " Heero! Come on!
Quatre, Trowa, Wufei and I aren't going to wait all day for you man! Bring down
your moving stuff and let's hit the open road!" He looked out the window
and groaned. Three of the four the old pilots were in a red convertible, top
down, trunk open, with Duo standing next to it yelling up at him. He gave a
slight nod and picked up the two boxes of things he was taking with him. It was
going to be a long drive.

~~~Three hours later~~~

"Yes!
We're here boys! Let's see what this school is all about!" The way too
cheerful boy with the long brown braid and violet eyes cried, awakening both
Wufei and Trowa. Quatre had been driving, and though Heero did not take kindly
to Duo's endless chatter, nightmares of the war plagued him, so he did not want
to sleep.

"Alright,
let's go check in with the main office and get our dorm assignments. Then we
can check out the rest of the school." Said the ever calm blonde haired
blue eyed Arabian. As Quatre spoke, Wufei got out and stretched.

" I
hear this is a co-ed school, so we'll probably run into some baka onnas while
we look around. Anyone think to bring a leash for Maxwell?"

" Ouch
Wu-man, that hit home! But while we're here, we might as well scope out some of
the cuties. After all, we do want to have three years of enjoyable bliss here
at school, and we're sure as hell not gonna get it from homework, if you catch
my drift." Duo winked, and Heero inwardly groaned. Great. Now he had first
row seats to watching Duo flirt with every female thing in the vicinity. He was
going to be sick soon.

"Injustice!
How dare you call me Wu-man you braided imbecile! Maxwell, you incompetent
fool! Get back here so I can katana that lovely braid of yours off!" And
it starts thought Heero.

"
Well, well, well, look what the cat just dragged in everyone. Five new victims
Hello rookies, welcome to The Hall. It's so nice to see some fresh blood in the
academy. Hope you're strong enough for us here." Heero slowly turned
around, as did the other boys, and was greeted by a boy two times his height.
The boy was on the larger side, but it looked like it was all muscle, not an
inch of fat anywhere on him. Dark midnight eyes glowed under well- trimmed
black hair. He had four or five huge guys behind him, and a trail of women
behind them. Heero thought he must be a popular guy at the school. Then Quatre
tried to approach him.

"Hello.
My name is Quatre Ra..."

" No
one cares what your name is kid. The only thing that matters around here is
your strength. Do you honestly think you'll survive one day here?" Heero
noticed Quatre looked visibly hurt. "My name is Darien, and I'm the one
who calls the shots around here, and I say, your dead meat boy." With
that, Darien started to circle the five new guys. Even Heero tensed up as he
saw that this guy meant business. Big business.*



Chapter Two: Perfect Soldier Speechless



*" Why does strength matter? What? I don't get it!
What's going on?" Hmm, you could
always count on Duo to play it stupid in a situation like this.

" I'll
tell you why. Here's the deal. The stronger you are, the better you are, and
the better you are, the more privileges and fun you can have here at TerraLune
Hall. Now then, before you go sign in, let's find out what you're made of. Who
wants to try me first? How about you blonde boy? Come on now." Quatre
stepped back a couple of times, but Darien's huge arm caught him and held him
up so that his feet were dangling off the ground. He punched Quatre hard, and
then threw him into the car that he had only gotten out of ten minutes ago.
Trowa stepped up to defend Quatre's honor, but was mutilated in the same
fashion. Duo was kicked in his most precious place, and was now cowering behind
the car, and Wufei was leaning against the car with a bloody nose clutching his
stomach and muttering injustices. Heero was the only one left standing, and
though he tried, knocking the guy called Darien down was impossible. Were these
boys ex-soldiers? He had never had trouble with anyone like this before. Not
even one of the other pilots had ever presented a problem for him. This time,
it looked liked he was going to lose. Then, a cold, quiet voice spoke up,
saving his face from the impending doom he had been expecting.

"
Layoff them Darien, or you'll have bigger fish to fry than these
minnows." Heero noticed Darien
pale slightly and slack off in his stance.

"Humph.
You just wait Tsukino, your time is coming too."

" But
not yet, so until then, you layoff the new boys. Shoo. Go on. Take yourself
elsewhere."

" I'm
going, but just you wait. You'll be mine yet." Darien stalked off, his fan
club following him. Heero stood up and walked to the car to check on his
friends. They could be annoying, but he did care about them nonetheless. They
were all picking themselves up from the fight, each one groaning about the
injustices of being beaten.

"Oh
man, I'm gonna be so sore!" Hey! Where'd you come from?" Duo was
looking over Heero's shoulder at their savior. " Hello, are you in
there?"

" Yes,
I heard you. I came from the school. Sorry I didn't get here sooner. Think
nothing of Darien, he's an ass, has always been an ass, and will always be an
ass. Speaking of butts, how's yours? You were totaled pretty harsh." The
figure was shrouded in darkness, but the guys could make out the figure of a
short, very thin person. Heero wondered why they wouldn't come out into the
light to help them.

"
Mine's fine, but I don't know about the rest of the guys."

"
We're all doing fine Duo, but Heero, you have a nasty cut on your arm."
Quatre answered Duo.

" Hnn,
it's fine." Heero looked at his comrades. Each of them was straining to
see the person in the shadows, but they were doing it very subtly.

" You
can all stop wondering who I am, curiosity killed the cat, or have you never
heard that proverb before?" Said the mystery person.

"
We've heard it. So, do we get a name and a face to go with it, or are you going
to leave us hanging." Heero sighed inwardly. Would Duo ever learn?

" Yes.
My name is Serena. Serena Usagi Tsukino." The figure stepped into the
light and the pilots gasped. She was not what they were expecting. They were
expecting to see a boy that was built
muscularly with scary features, but they were knocked off their feet be the
real version's appearance. It was a short, thin girl with large azure eyes and
blondish silver hair swept back into a bun atop her head. She was dressed in a
very short black skirt and a tiny blackish gray sweater with a collared white
shirt underneath. Black combat boots adorned her feet, showing off endless
legs, and heavy black eye makeup made her pale face seem even paler. A black
book bag was slung over one shoulder, giving her the appearance of a school
-girl gone wayward She was someone no one could ever forget, and Heero for once
felt speechless in front of this girl. Who was she?*



Chapter Three: Bad Impressions on the Good



*" You had better get cleaned up if you are going too
see the headmaster." Said the girl to the boys. Each gave her a look she
knew meant they were not listening to her, but looking at her instead. "
Come on now, Darien will come back soon, and you don't want to still be here,
do you?" That got Heero's attention.

" Hnn." Was his reply. He didn't care how nice
this girl looked. One way or another, he had to complete his mission of fitting
in, and the only way to do that was make a good impression on the headmaster.
He didn't want to go without cleaning up, but if he did, he would be late.
Decisions, Decisions.

" Excuse me, Miss Tsukino, but is there a restroom
anywhere that we might be able to freshen up in?" Quatre asked for all of
them. Somewhere while Heero was arguing with himself which would be the bigger
social blunder: being late, or being unclean, the other boys had regained their
trains of thought.

" Yes.
The closest one is to your left." She turned around to leave, and as she
did, Heero's eye caught hers. "If you hurry, you won't be late." Then
she gracefully walked down the cement path to the old dorm building.

" Damn! I want a piece of that! Oh yeah. She was hotter
than the Devil, and Lord knows I do love women that are too hot to
handle." Duo began right in as soon as he thought she was out of earshot.
Heero just kept staring straight ahead. Ever since his eye had caught hers, an
instant understanding of each other had been communicated. He just didn't know
what that understanding was yet.
" Heero man! You coming? Or has a girl finally caught the eye of
the Perfect Soldier?" Duo teased him as they all jogged to the public
restrooms to fix up themselves. Heero gave Duo his ultimate death glare and
refused to speak to him until they were in front of the headmaster's office.

" Duo,
don't embarrass us with any mindless chatter. Let Quatre do all the
talking."

" Hey!
Why would I ever... hey! You just said a full sentence. I'm so proud I was the
cause! I knew this day would come one day! I think I'm going to cry!"

" Duo,
shut up you braided baka!" Cried Wufei.

"
Guys, we have to go in now, or we'll be late. Let's stop fighting and go
in." Said the ever- calm Quatre. They opened the door and entered into the
room.

The first thing Heero noticed was that the room was
decorated with all kinds of ancient weapons: cross bows, daggers, old rifles,
swords, and others. Then he noticed the large desk in front of the window and
the man in the chair that was facing out to see the courtyard. " Well
then, what do we have here?"

" Sir,
we are the new students, just transferring into the school today. My name is
Quatre Ra..."

" I
did not ask for your name boy, nor do I care. There are well over seven hundred
people at this school, and I do not care to know their names or anything about
them. You should not care either. You are here for two reasons: to prepare you
for life outside these walls, and to get an education. Friends will never help
you do well in the scheme of life; either step on them, or be stepped on. If
you do not agree, please leave this room now. Good. Now then, have my secretary
take note of your name and address home, incase information must be given to
your parents regarding school issues. She will also assign you to your dorms.
Well? What are you waiting for? Move, NOW!" Heero noticed his comrades sink into the floor at the man's
bellowing tone, but he stood his ground. As they filed out of the room, he
heard their new headmaster talking to himself: " Stupid lazy bums. Damn
rotten stinkers. The whole lot of 'em. My son's the only worth while boy here
at this academy for losers." He droned out the man's mindless babble and
focused on his newest task: answering the secretary's questions. Finally she
finished with Trowa and gave them their room assignments.

" Hey!
I'm sharing a room with Quatre! Hey Q-man, let's throw a dorm warming party!
Plenty of beer to go around!" As Duo held up the case of beer he had
brought from home, Quatre shook his head and slightly smiled. Oh well, Heero
thought. Duo would never change.

"
Wufei and I are sharing the dorm next to Quatre and Duo, so where does that
leave you Heero?" Asked Trowa. They had to know each other's locations
before they could officially break apart.

" What
room are you in?" Heero asked Trowa.

"
Number 785. Quatre and Duo are in 787."

"I'm
in 786, right across the hall." Outside he showed no emotion, but inside
he was secretly glad they were close by. If he had to go a longer distance to
see them, it would be harder to sneak around at night. Not that it would be
hard in the first place. " Get your stuff, let's move in now." With
that, Heero picked up his two boxes and began walking, the others following in
suit.

As they
climbed the stairs Duo kept complaining of his aching back, Wufei the
injustices of not having decent electrical works, and Quatre that it was so far
away they were going to be late to class. Trowa and Heero were quiet and said
nothing as they neared the top of the thirteenth floor, the last floor in the
building. There were nine doors on each side of the hallway, and Heero realized
they were in the last three dorms of the entire building. They reached their
dorms and opened the door to Trowa's and Wufei's first. Instead of them moving
in separately, they decided to all help each other move in before going to the
next room and setting up their own stuff. As Heero looked around the dorms, he
noted the layout, thinking that all of the rooms were them same. A kitchen with
a stove, sink, counter and fridge, a sitting room with a couch, chair, and table,
two bedrooms, and one bathroom to be shared. All in all, it was more than a half way decent place to live.
It even came with a television, which Duo happily checked for cable and pay per
view. It got both.

As the boys
moved Duo and Quatre into their place, they quietly spoke of where to meet.
They decided to meet in Quatre and Duo's room because they had a balcony to sit
on and easier to leave from if needed. After all the pilots, save Heero, were
settled in, they unlocked Heero's dorm door and opened it.

"
Whoa! Heero! Look at what you get to live with!" Cried Duo as quietly as
possible. Heero noted that the room had already been decorated with posters of
layouts of the dorm, campus, time schedules for the guards, and other such
information. He noticed that all the furniture was either black, gray, or
white, with heavy gothic accents in everything. But only when he caught site of
what was in the couch did he know why Duo had made such a fuss about his new
home. Asleep on the black leather couch was the very same girl who had scared
way their attackers that afternoon, the amazon Serena Usagi Tsukino.*



Chapter Four: Settling In and Adjusting



* This
cannot be happening. I cannot be in a dorm with a girl, let lone this girl. No,
there is no way. Heero kept denying to himself the facts. Then he was brought
out of his reverie by a near silent yawn coming from the couch. He looked over
just in time to see his new roommate blinking her eyes and then turning and
glaring at Duo, who had woken her up by his yelp. " And I thought I
destroyed the extra key copy. Damned office. What are you all doing in
here?" She asked.

Serena had
been a lone roommate ever since she had first entered the school five years
ago. She had always made sure that she was alone, and every year had managed to
keep the same dorm by hacking into the computer systems and rigging it. She was
more than a little surprised to find five boys in her dorm when she woke up
from her nap, and needless to say, it did not put her in a good mood.

"
Sorry, Miss. Tsukino, but we were just, uh, just..."

" What
Quatre means to say is that we are just here to help Heero move into his new
dorm." Wufei answered for the stuttering boy.

" Well
now, isn't this a pretty little sight? The new boys have already found a
master. Too bad she won't take you boys, or haven't you heard the stories of
the Fallen Angel yet?" A new, familiar voice filtered in through the room.
All turned to see Darien standing at the door.

" Gee,
I thought this was supposed to be a rat free facility. Maybe they need to call
in an exterminator more often, looks like the rats are getting too nosy for
their own good. Get out Chiba, or you won't live to regret it." Serena was
beyond furious. This game Darien kept playing with her had to stop, she hated
being treated like an animal below his feet.

Heero
sensed the tension between the two and decided that it was probably a bad
moment to interrupt. Too bad that just as he was thinking that, another boy
with blonde hair came down the hall and yelled Darien's name.

" Hey
Dare, come on! One of the first year scrubs thinks he can sit in the library
without your permission! I believe we have a lesson to teach, right?" The
blonde smiled evilly.

"
Yeah. Coming Andrew! So Serena, babe, what do you say to a night on the town
with me tonight? Come on. It'll be just you, the food, and me. We can go
dancing, and afterwards, go back to my dorm for coffee and a little more."
He gave a brilliant smile that few women could resist, then tried to kiss
Serena's shoulder.

"Thanks, but hell no scum bag! And let me make this
very clear: If you ever so much as lay a finger on me again, or anyone of these
boys, you'll have to answer to me. And, Dare, do remember what happened last
time you tried to get me in bed with you. As I recall, you had a broken nose
for nearly a month. Wouldn't want a repeat, now would we?" At her joke, she gave a small smirk, then a
wide grin and laughed. The boys looked at Darien's red face and had trouble
keeping in laughter of their own.

" Come
on Andrew, let's go pound that first year." He said as he stalked around
the corner and out of the room.

Heero looked at Serena as she visibly shuddered and then
went to close and lock the door. He wondered why she didn't just pound Darien
in now? Why wait? She certainly had good reason to at least slap him. And if
she had broken his nose before, it showed she was not too weak to do so again.
He looked at the rest of the boys, and then at the clock that had started
chiming that it was nine o'clock. It was later than he had thought it would be,
and though he was used to more strenuous activity than this, he was still dog
-tired from the day's events, emotionally. He tuned back just as Serena started
to speak.

" That chime means it's time for everyone to go back to
their dorms. You boys can keep your lights on as late as you want, but if they
catch you with the volume of a television or radio turned up too high, you'll
have extra chores for a month. Go now, good night. I'll help Heero settle
in." With that, she practically pushed them out of the door and slammed it
back in their faces.

" Fine, I know when I'm not wanted!" Heero could
hear Duo whining through the thick mahogany door.

" Do you have all your stuff here?" He heard
Serena ask him.

" Yeah. All my bedding is in this box." He said as
he pointed to the smaller of the two boxes he had brought. " The other
stuff can wait until morning."

" Fine then. Go change and take a shower. I'll do the
rest just this once. I will, and I do repeat will never ever again do what I am
about to do for you."

" Huh?" Now Heero was confused.

" Just go." She pushed him and a change of clothes
into the bathroom and took the other boxes to his room across the hall from
hers. She made his bed, admiring his taste in his al black bedding; it was just
like hers, save hers had silver crescent moons and roses as a boarder. She
thought to herself: What am I doing? I'm not one of them. I'm not a slave to
this boy, so why am I helping him? I'm finally losing it.

In the shower Heero could not get his mind off of Serena.
She was polite, strong, and even nice, but she was cold and distant like Trowa.
Why? He wondered. Then thought: why do I care? She's just some girl. My mission
comes first always. But isn't my mission to fit in? Doesn't fitting in include
dating? Why do I care bout any of this? Hnn. Never mind. He turned the water
off and got out to dry off. When he walked back into the hall, he looked at the
closed door across from his own. 'she must have gone to sleep. I'm going to bed
too, and I still have to make my bed. Damn.' He walked into the room and was
surprised to find his bed already neatly made and his clothes put away in the
drawers and closet. He noted that his other box had not been touched, just as he
had requested. ' Maybe she's not going to be intolerable.' He said just before
sleep came to claim him for it's own.



Chapter Five: Hell Reveals Some Secrets



*It was hard to believe that when she woke up, she smelled
food cooking. No one had ever cooked for her as long as she could remember.
Forgetting to dress, she exited her room to find out who was whipping up the
storm in the kitchen. Seated around the table in the kitchen were five boys,
all of which she immediately recognized from the day before. "Hmm, I
forgot that I have a roommate now. Well, I'll just have to be more alert, won't
I Luna." She said to the black cat that was now perched on the counter
next to the entrance to the kitchen. " So what's for breakfast then?"
she said to the boys, who snapped their heads up to look in her direction at
the sound of her voice.

"Damn." Was heard somewhere in the room.

" Umm, uh, umm, good, good morning Miss Tsukino. We're
uh, just cooking stuff. That's all, just uh, wow." Quatre tried to answer
her, and she felt a little guilty for not taking the time to have gotten
dressed. Her choice of bed -wear was probably a little too risquŽ. She was
wearing a short, thin, silk black slip that had a low neckline and slit up to
her thigh, revealing her black silk underwear when she sat or walked. Then she
sighed to herself and said " I can see that you are cooking, I asked what
it was."

" Eggs, bacon, toast, and OJ for breakfast coming right
up!" Duo cried as Heero and Trowa
walked toward everyone with plates in their hands. Heero noticed Serena was up,
gave her nod, and then handed her a plate.

Serena looked at the plate in disbelief. All of the food on
it was recognizable and looked edible. Heero also handed one of her silver
forks to her, and as she took a bite of the scrambled eggs, her eyes went wide.

Heero was suddenly nervous. He knew how to cook from his
days back with Odin Lowe the Assassin, but this, he thought, would be the
ultimate test. When he first had seen her this morning, he was actually worried
that she might object to having the boys over for breakfast, or even over at
all. Then he reconsidered, and thought that now they were sharing the dorm, and
had to learn to put up with not only each other, but their friends as well.
That was, if she had any friends. It didn't seem like she did. From what he had
seen of the school the day before, the dress code was collared shirts and
skirts for girls, and collared shirts and non-jean pants for boys. He also
noticed how all the other girls had stared at him and tried to straighten their
bright colored floral skirts when he walked by, trying to get his attention.
Serena had done neither. She had said hello, are you ok, and goodbye without so
much as a flirting note in her voice. She did not wear bright flowery clothing,
but darker, more depressing tones. She was different from the others it seemed.
Then, he saw her eyes bug out from his cooking and thought the world was coming
to an end.

" Are you ok Miss Tsukino?" Quatre asked her as
she gulped the bite down.

" Who made this?" She asked coldly. It sent
shivers up Heero's spine. "Well?"
'They all think I'm disgusted with it. I can't wait to see what happens
when I say what I really think about it.'

" Umm, Heero did." Duo stated. Even he was scared
now. He thought Heero was a semi decent cook for an assassin. Was she going to
tell him different?

" Heero huh?" She shifted her gave over to him and
saw him go from looking hurt to no expression. ' Almost like he doesn't even
care what I have to say about the food. Such cold eyes. Such a heartless look.
This is going to be fun.' "Well, Heero, did you make this?"

"Yes, I did." Now, though he had put on his
perfect soldier face, his hands were sweating like bullets. ' Get it together
Yuy, she's just a girl!'

" Good." Was all he heard.

"What?" he asked in a disbelieving tone. Even he
was surprised by her answer. She had looked like she had swallowed a cockroach.

" I said good. Now I don't have to do all the cooking
to get a decent meal around this hell -hole. You're a good cook." Serena
gave him a nod as she jumped up and settled on the kitchen counter across from
the table where all the boys were sitting. She leaned against the wall and
savored the food in pure bliss. As she did so, she took time to really study
the five boys that were sitting at her table. The stuttering and innocent
blonde with blue eyes they called Quatre was beginning to butter his toast.
Next to him was the taller, more muscular Trowa with light brown hair covering
one of his green eyes. Across from Trowa was the Chinese boy Wufei with the
black hair pulled into a tight ponytail and black hard eyes. He was nibbling
ever so slightly at his bacon. The one
that was the loud mouth, Duo, had a long brown braid and violet eyes that were
filled with laughter as he happily chopped down his eggs. Last was her
roommate. He was standing in a darker corner of the room, watching the others
like she. Serena noted that his messy chocolate brown hair and prussian blue
eyes gave him the look of a man without care, but with desperation. He looked
hardened and cold, like he would do anything to survive, but at the same time,
like he could be nice if one got to know him. Then she heard the bell ring,
marking the time for everyone to wake up. If she didn't get the shower now, she
wouldn't be able to dry her hair in time for class that day. Putting her dish
in the sink, she said to Heero "Have your friends put their dishes in the
sink when they are done. Class starts in half an hour, I would suggest being on
time, the consequences are not fun. By the way, I get the shower first."
With that, she calmly walked out of the room and into her own.

" Whoa! Heero! Getting burned by the Fallen
Angel?" Said Duo.

" Why did you call her that Duo?" asked Trowa.

" That's what that creep Darien said everyone called
her last night. I think it suits her, she's definitely an angel, and I'm glad
she's fallen!"

" Duo, that's the worst pick up line I've ever
heard." Said Quatre as they walked out of the door.

~~~Ten minutes later~~~



Serena
stepped out of the shower refreshed and ready for another day in hell. As she
wrapped her long hair in a towel, she thought of how the morning had gone. It
had been so nice not to have to eat cold cereal again. To have other people to
eat with, people whom actually cared what she had to say. Then she thought,
hell, that'll never happen again, not after what they hear about me today in
class. Well, it was nice while it lasted. Then she opened the door, quickly
knocked on Heero's to tell him he could use the shower, and ran into her own
room.

By the time
Heero opened his door to go to the bathroom, Serena was just shutting hers. As
he let the hot water run over him and drip down his back, he thought of the
morning and how nice it had been. She had liked his cooking. That was a relief,
but she had still seemed up tight, even too much so for Quatre and Duo. He
wondered why, and he also wondered why she had been given the nickname Fallen
Angel. Duo was right, it did suit her, but was it meant to be a compliment as
he had made it? Darien had said it with so much hatred. Well, that was that
creep though. He turned off the water and ran across to his room so that he
could quickly change for class. He was would be late if he didn't hurry.



~~~Class, half and hour into Session~~~



For al the
luck, Heero got stuck with Duo in all his classes except one. He would easily
tire of Duo's mindless chatter and the teacher's monotonous lecture, he knew,
so he opened up his email and checked for any new letters. There was one from
Relena saying hello, one from Quatre thanking him for breakfast, one from Trowa
about that night's meeting at Duo and Quatre's place, ten from Duo, and one
from Doctor J. He opened Doctor J's and scanned it quickly. It just said hope
you like your new school in a lot more words. Then Duo's IM popped up on his
screen and he answered it.

(The following is what they wrote to each other)

" Hey
man! Guess who else is on that's in this class?" Heero was in no mood for
guessing games, so he simply didn't reply and let Duo answer for him. "
Serena is. Her IM name is, get this: LunerHime."

" LunerHime?" He wrote back to check the
spelling.

"
Yeah, that's it! I just rang her, I'm gonna see if she answers. You should IM
her too."

" No.
Omea wa Koruso. Goodbye Maxwell."

"Fine
then, but don't say I didn't give you a chance to flirt with her. If your not
gonna take her, I'm gonna!" When Heero read Duo's last message, he tried
to shrug it off, but he felt a little tug deep down in his belly. He passed it
off as some indigestion form breakfast, but knew that that wasn't really what
it was.

As the bell for lunch ran, he and Duo waited by the door for
Serena, thinking they would eat with her, but she passed right by them without
giving them so much as a glance. They followed her, with the other three boys
joining the procession soon, and found that she had lead them to a cafeteria.
Then, she whipped around without warning them, and spoke harshly to them "
It was nice while it lasted, now take your place boys." With that, she
walked to the corner table and sat her self down.

Heero watched as she took an apple out of her book bag and
started biting into it while reading a book. He saw how the other girls
passed her and then turned to speak of
her behind her back. He saw some boys staring at her with hearts in their eyes,
and others with sickening and twisted faces. Then he noticed that Duo had
pulled aside another boy and was asking about why everyone talked about the
Fallen Angel. The boy looked at Heero, then Quatre, Trowa, Wufei, and finally
back to Duo who was holding on to his shirt. He gave a squeak, and then
answered. " She's the one who beat Darien up."

"So? What does that mean? Come on kid, Duo's not gonna
hurt you if you tell us everything." Even Wufei had been curious to learn
about this new school and the new girl.

" Ok,
well, you know the order system here, don't you?" the boy was rewarded
with blank stares, so he went on " it's based on strength. The stronger
you are, and the more people you can beat up, the more slaves you get. You're
either a master, those are the real strong guys who have decided that they
won't fight each other for power anymore, just the newer guys, and then you got
your slaves. The slaves have all been beaten by the masters and have been
picked to do whatever they want, like fan them if it's hot, or massage them, or
sometimes, even other, more disgusting favors. Anyway, since Darien is the
strongest boy around here, he calls most of the shots. All the girls are slaves
to the guys, because all of them are so weak that they could never win any
fights. When the Fallen Angel showed up, she was challenged just like the rest
of us were, the difference was that she won. She beat the third ranked guy,
then second, then first, and finally, she beat Darien in one easy swoop. He was
so embarrassed that he told her she could have any slave she wanted." He
stopped there, out of breath.

" So? She doesn't have any slaves, does she? I haven't
seen any around..." Duo said as he let the poor kid go.

" That's why she's called the Fallen Angel. She refused
to take the slaves. You see, when she did that, even little worthless slaves
like me saw that there were normal people out in the world, and that not
everyone thought having slaves was a good idea. She gave us hope, so we slaves
started calling her the Fallen Angel. The masters just picked it up and decided
to use it against her. After everyone started calling her that, all the girls
got real jealous, so now all the girls hate her for getting do much attention,
half of the boys adore her, and the other half despise her for disobeying
Darien. Can I go now?"

" Sure kid." Trowa answered for everyone.
"looks like this angel's past is loaded with secrets." He said.

" So now the question is why doesn't she want us to sit
with..."

" Hey look here! We got us the new kids!" Darien's
voice was heard above all the crowed. Everyone looked at the pilots, including
Serena. " Well boys, it's time to decide. Fight Tom over here and win and
you get a slave each. Fight Jason Rhine over here and you get two slaves each,
and if you fight my right hand man Andrew over here and win, you'll get three
slaves a piece. Well boys, who will it be?" He smiled an evil smile.

" Do we have to fight? I mean, Relena Peacecraft just
achieved peace, and I don't think that..."

"
Afraid little blonde boy?"

" No,
I just don't think that..."

"
Fight. All of you will fight one on one, whether you want to or not." With
that, Darien signaled to his three men, and each chose one of the pilots. The
one named Tom chose Wufei, Jason Rhine chose Quatre, and Andrew chose Duo.
Trowa slipped off to watch unnoticed, and Heero just stood there to watch the
out comes of the fist- fights.

Darien
stood next to Heero as all of his 'boys' instigated the fights with the Gundam Pilots.
While all the fighting was going on, Serena just stared thoughtfully at the
boys, each earning her respect as they fought fairly and after all was
said and done, came out victorious over
Darien's three men. As the pilots made their way back over to Heero, the
mummers in the crowd began to grow around them. They made Serena shudder. She
remembered this. This was how everything started for her. She really didn't
want to see what happened to her happen to her new 'friends', but she didn't
have that choice to make, they had just made it for themselves.

" Your
boys handle themselves well, but can you? Fight me." Darien taunted Heero.
" Come on coward, afraid of me? What? You can't look you enemy right in
the eye, and let's face it, I'm your enemy, aren't I? You can't face me? You
scared?"

" I am
not scared, and I will not fight you." Heero then caught Serena's eye and
was shocked when she gave him a dazzling smile. Was she happy with his answer?
She wanted him to be a coward in Darien's eyes? No, that wasn't it. She didn't
want them to become like her! She knew that if he fought Darien and won, he
would ultimately end up like her, and she didn't want him to share the awful
fate she had.

" Then
I will fight you!" Darien cried and tried to slam his fist into Heero's
back. Heero side- stepped him and Darien went flying forward.

" I
said I will not fight you."

"Then
I will have fun beating you." Darien once again tried to tackle Heero, but
had little success in pulling the Perfect Soldier to the ground with him. As Heero tried to avoid Darien, he
realized he was getting himself involved even more. He looked up at Serena, who
saw his plight, and she nodded reluctantly. He took it to mean don't go over
board, but beat the shit out of him. That was all the permission he needed, and
he went into the fight full force after that. Ten minutes of struggling lead
him to standing over Darien, with a hold on his shirt. He spoke " If you
ever try messing with me, Quatre, Wufei, Duo, Trowa, or even Serena again,
we'll have a replay of this fight. Understand?" Darien nodded his head and
wiped his bloody nose with his hand. Then he had the nerve to smirk.

"How many slaves did you want?"

"None.
Keep them you bloody bastard."

"Yeah!
Ex- soldiers don't need anybody to do their work for them, they learned to do
it on their own, unlike you, weasel!" Duo cried, joining in the yelling
fight.

"
Maxwell, you braided baka! Watch what you say you onna, or I'll katana off that
braid of yours!" Wufei screamed at Duo, afraid their secret would be
learned.

"
Sorry Wuffie. Didn't mean it, I swear!" Duo cried as Wufei screamed at
him.

"
Maxwell! Kisama! Come back here!" With that, the two ran out of the room,
and Quatre followed, trying to get them to stop fighting, Heero noticed Trowa
was already gone, and that everyone else had gone back to eating, including
Darien's clique and Serena. He walked over to Serena and sat down.

" You
know." She said to him.

" I
guessed." He said.

" Or
you just asked that poor boy tips while Duo held him up by the shirt. By the
way, If Duo ever tries to put the moves on me again, I'm going to kill him.
Tell him that for me, would you?" She asked him.

"
Yeah, sure." They sat for a while in silence, him enjoying an apple just
like hers that he had stolen from the fridge that morning. Then she spoke.

"
You're still here." Serena was in disbelief that anyone could beat Darien
besides her, and then just as she did, refuse ultimate power over slaves and
the others in the academy. " Why? You know my past, and you also know that
you just assigned yourself to the same one. Aren't you mad, or something along
those lines?"

"No.
You had no choice in the matter and you still held firm to your beliefs. I just
followed your example. Incase you haven't noticed, my friends and I don't need
slaves to get along." He was getting soft, he thought, talking to a girl,
and almost throwing a fight for her. But then, he reasoned, she was worth it.
He took time to savoir her appearance of the day. She was wearing a short black
skirt with high slits and a red tube top underneath a black, shear collared
shirt. She was conforming to the dress code, but rebelling against it at the
same time.

"So?"
she asked him. She noticed his eyes going up and down her. He was scanning her.
For what, she didn't know. He wasn't the type that would be checking out what
she was wearing, or her body, unfortunately, but she brushed that thought aside
for the moment.

"
Huh?" Because he had been checking her out, he had missed what she had
said to him.

" I
said, would you like to go out for ice cream now? My next class is Greek and
Roman Mythology, and I'm half way decent in it, so I can skip."

"Sure.
I have the same class." He answered. Now he was worried. Did she just ask
him out on a date, or was it just veteran feeling sorry for the rookie?*



~~~Chapter Six: Ice Cream A La Heero~~~



*As he
walked down the street, he desperately tried to keep up. He had thought there
was a closed campus rule at The Hall, but apparently during classes, no one
monitored the gates. He and Serena had slipped out easily, but now came the
hard part: trying to keep up with her. He noticed that when she was intent on
something, she never let go. She suddenly stopped and he slammed into her back
because of the unwarned stop. " Why did we stop?" He asked her.

"Because."
Serena had noticed he was having a hard time keeping up with her, and was going
to slow down, when she saw one of the teachers from The Hall coming their
direction. Heero hadn't been at the hall long enough to know most of the
teachers, but being a student in hell for five years helped her out just a bit.
She noted Heero's confused eyes but solemn face and realized the only way to
tell what his emotions were was though his eyes. She pulled him into a dark
alleyway and waited for the teacher to pass.

Heero
didn't get it. She had stopped suddenly and pulled him into a dark alleyway.
What was she doing? Then he saw her eyes following an older man who passed by
them without looking at them. He asked her " Who was that?" Serena
whipped around to face him and said:

" One
of the school's teacher's." Then she noticed just how close she and Heero
were. She could feel the heat of his warm breath on her face and his heart beat
with her hand that had somehow landed on his chest when she had pulled at him
to follow her. She looked into his eyes and froze.

Heero was
going crazy. She was way too close for his liking. He felt her body pressed up
against his and her breath on his neck. When she looked up at him, his eyes
locked with hers and he nearly lost it. He roughly pushed her back from him and
said " How about the ice cream?"
'That was too close. She is off limits, can't do anything with her,
she's my roommate for crying out loud!'

"Yeah,
how 'bout it?" She shuddered with relief. That was weird. Imagine what
would have happened if he, or she, or both had bent towards each other just a
couple inches more. She would have had to live with a guy she had kissed, and
that would make it hard, because it would make her attraction to him known and
established. She didn't want that. She grabbed his shirt and pulled him back
onto the street and continued walking, this time at a slower pace.

As she
pulled him back onto the street, he sighed with relief. Nothing had happened,
and no one had seen them. Not to mention she was walking at a slower rate,
making it easier for him to keep up with her. After a silent five more minutes,
she turned into a dark store with sliding doors. "Jeff, my usual. What do
you want? It's on me." She asked Heero as he had just barely stepped into
the doors.

" One
scoop rocky road in a cup." He answered. After all, why not take advantage
of a situation at hand? And he had always had a sweet tooth for rocky road ice
cream.

"
Jeff, make that two of my usual." ' I can't believe he likes rocky road
too. And I thought I was outdated in my sense of taste.'

"
Coming right up Tenshi!" said a voice in the back. Heero walked in farther
and saw a bar. Serena had gone up to sit and wait at the bar. Looking around,
he saw four men at a back table drinking beer and laughing loudly. There were
four other men, all ex-soldiers sitting at the bar, watching a football game on
the television.

" I
can't believe they call that a game." Serena said to Heero as she too
looked at the football game. " If the war is over and peace has been
achieved, why would anybody want to go around ripping each other up for
fun?" The men at the bar turned and looked at her, and Heero saw haggard
faces of boys who had grown up too soon.

"
Well, sweet heart, how would you know what violence is? You go to that preppy
private school up the road. You don't know what real pain is. You weren't in a
war." One of the men sneered at her, and the rest nodded along. Heero got
wary, but noticed Serena was calm as ever. She hadn't even tensed up like she
did when Darien came into a room. If she had been mad then, why wasn't she mad
now?" Let me give you some advice Tenshi, don't speak of things you don't
know about." The same man started in.

" Two
rockies in a cup coming right up!" Cried the man Heero identified as Jeff.
" Hey, Tenshi, do me a favor, would you?"

"
What?" Serena asked the man, who was obviously her friend.

" Tell
your friend to keep his cool in my bar. No blood today, you hear?"

" He
knows, don't you Heero?" She said. By now she was sure he was completely
confused.

"
Yeah, I know." Heero said. He didn't get it. Serena wasn't upset, and then
this 'Jeff' guy asked him to keep his cool? Whatever was going on went deeper
than he knew apparently. " Serena." Was all he had to say.

"
Heero, this is Jeff, the owner of the Black Bruise Bar, BBB for short, and over
here are Chris, Yuri, and the loud mouth is Mike, or Micha for short. Micha and
Yuri are Russian 'gangsters', and they drag Chris everywhere with them. They
are regulars here, just like me, and we like to disagree with each other. It
makes life a hell of a lot of fun." Serena liked the men at the bar, they
certainly were entertaining. She smiled one of her rare smiles at Heero to show
him that they didn't mean anything, that it was all just talk.

"
Tenshi, did you just smile at that boy? You never smile at me! I think I'm
gonna have to have a talk with this here boy!" Announced Micha.

" Hell
no you won't Russian. I wouldn't trust you with my cat."

"
Hurt. I'm truly hurt." He said.

" No
more than I usually hurt you." Then she smirked at him. " Happy
now?"

" Kind
of. So he must be important to bring around here. You never bring friends
here."

"
Yeah, well, I do now, so there." Serena nearly blushed at his comment that
time. He was right. Why had she brought someone she barely knew to her favorite
place?

Heero
followed the conversation without intervening. He wanted to hear how it played
out. He wasn't hoping to get involved, but the one named Yuri had different
plans.

" So,
Heero, what do you think of football? Do you think its stupid, or that it's all
good fun?"

" I
think that it is stupid. I think that if those men want to show strength, they
should do it in their own backyards, not in front of everyone. But then, let
them do what they want. I'm not one of them, so I don't care."

" But
what about the pain? It's not even real pain, nothing compared to that war. Oh
wait, you're just a kid. You wouldn't know about the war. Never mind."

"
Actually, I fought in the war, and I'll tell you, football is nothing."

" I
don't think so! I think it is!" Cried Micha, who had been listening in.
" Be ignorant you little bastard!" And with that, he picked up
Heero's ice cream and dumped it on his head.

" Come
on Heero, let's go. These hot heads need to cool down for a while. Ciao
guys."

" Bye
Tenshi, see you tomorrow, same time, same place! And don't be late!" Cried
a chorus of three men as Serena escorted Heero out of the bar.*

Chapter Seven: Stars, Arguments, and Epiphanies



*It had
already been a whole year since Heero and the rest of the gang had joined the
student body of the TerraLune Hall Academy, and it seemed like it had been
forever to Serena. As she sat on the balcony looking at the stars, she
remembered how she had been so cruel to the boys in their first couple of days
at the school. Sure, she had helped them get Darien off their case, and taken
Heero to ice cream at her favorite bar, but she had still been so cold to them.
In fact, the more she thought about it, the more she realized 'I'm still cold to them, even Heero. I wonder
why? It's not that I don't trust them, I would trust them with my life. It's
just that after the war of 196, I just can't seem to trust anyone. Why did
everything have to happen the way it has? Why couldn't everything just go on
the way it was?' The deeper into thought she went, the less aware of her
surroundings she became. As a silent drop of salty water rolled down her cheek,
a finger brushed it aware, startling her back into reality.

Heero had
walked into his dorm room and made a quick sweep of the room with his eyes,
trying to find Serena. He saw her back through the glass door of the balcony
and went out to join her. When he caught the melancholy visage she was wearing,
and the lonely tear trickling down her cheek, he tried not to feel anything. He
tried to forget her deep blue eyes, her long blonde hair that she only wore
down in front of him, the girl that had
saved him from having to deal with the creeps at the school like Darien. He
tried. Then he felt himself lifting a hand to wipe her tear away and knew that
it was hopeless. Damnit! He had already admitted to himself he felt something
for her. Though he knew it had to be the emotion called love, he wouldn't admit
to that being the thing he felt. As he wiped her tear away, he heard he gas in
surprise. 'She must have really been out of it to not notice I came in. If her
defenses are already down, maybe she'll tell me why she is so sad.' He thought.
Then he decided to ask her.
" Serena? What's Wrong." He said it more like a command than a
question, and he could see her chin turn up to be stubborn.

"Nothing.
Why would you assume anything is wrong?" ' I'm doing it again she thought.
Closing myself up. I like him. I like him a hell of a lot. So why can't I tell
him? What am I so afraid of?'

" You
cried. Something is wrong. Why?" This time, he knew his voice sounded more
gentle and soothing. He tried to picture what Quatre would say to a girl who he
had just found crying. " Please, Serena, tell me what has made you so
sad?" 'God, she'll think I'm a lunatic now. That sounded so... lame.' he
thought.

" I'm
sorry, Heero, but I just can't. Look at the stars. Aren't they beautiful?"

He turned
his head to look up, and what he saw made him gasp. The sky was filled with
hundreds of tiny little specks and sparkles that seemed to have just appeared
out of nowhere. There were white ones, more yellow ones, red ones, and even
some blue. All were so bright and constant tonight, shining like he had never
seen, not even in space. He dropped his Perfect Soldier faade; something he
did only for her, and replied: " You know, When I fought in space, there
were times when all I saw were stars. They were all that was there in the
blackness of space. But, nothing I saw could ever rival tonight."

" Why
did you fight? What was the purpose of that war? It destroyed so many
lives...didn't it destroy yours as well?" ' Maybe Heero will be able to
understand my problems; if he went through the same thing, maybe I can finally
tell someone.'

"I
fought the war because" Heero started to not like the direction the
conversation was taking. "As for the other questions you asked, maybe.
It's not something I want to discuss. Sorry."

Now Serena
was intrigued. Forgetting her own problems, she began to focus on Heero. "
Why not? What happened in the war to you?" She asked in a soft voice.

Heero
turned to face her and his breath was caught. She looked like an angel. A
difference from her normally all black outfit, she was dressed in a dark white
tube top and a short maroon skirt. She looked like a psychologist. He hated
them, always poking around and asking questions when he hated answering. But,
the way she asked sounded so innocent, as if she really cared what had
happened. He could usually tell with all the psychologists he had visited when
they cared or when they just wanted money. Relena had tried to set him up with
three different doctors, but he never cooperated; never showed up on time, or
at all sometimes, and never talking, just blankly staring or glaring. But, she
was different. She made his heart flutter, and stomach flip. 'Get it together
Yuy, you can't be doing this. You need to lose this girl...fast! She is like
sugar to your teeth. Good and sweet on the top... cavity causing and
heartbreaking on the inside.' He couldn't tell her. " Nothing happened in
the war. It was just a war. People fight, like me, then we come back and try to
integrate ourselves into society by doing things like playing sports, getting
jobs, or like me, going back to school. End."

He was
dodging her questions 'well, two can play at this game then.' " So then,
that's why you never talk to anyone, why you pass your classes without paying
attention or studying, and keep guns
hidden around the house?"

" I do
talk to people, more than you... and as for classes, I get the notes from
Quatre."

" Yes.
And the guns?"

"
Hnn." She was too close for comfort. He could never tell her he was a
Gundam Pilot. What would she do? She would hate him. If he couldn't have her
because of his job, then at least he would stay friends and keep her innocent
of the knowledge of what he truly was. Best defense right now: don't answer any
questions.

"
Well, forbid me to ask any questions of the Perfect Soldier. Just who do you
think you were? A hero? Or just some
nameless no account fighting because he was upholding his family's honor? Or
because you were told it was the only manly thing to do? Is that it? You can
keep guns, keep silent, know all there is to know in every subject, and be a
great fighter, and still think it is alright for you to be a creep to everyone who comes along? Not everyone is on the
bad side, you know. Not everyone was spared the ravages of the wars. You may
have fought in them, but did you consider all the others that couldn't, or
didn't? What about them? How do you think the war effected them? Obviously from
the way I turned out, it didn't exactly have any positive effects on those
kinds of people." Out of breath, Serena stopped her tirade and covered her
mouth. Realizing what she had just said, she gasped in horror at herself.

Heero just
sat through all her speech like a rock. He didn't move. Didn't cry or storm
out. Just sat and took in every word she spoke. He knew it was all true. He had
fought to be something, not just the nameless no account he had been with the
assassin Odin Lowe. He knew that he had definitely not been spared the
consequences of the war, but also that he had never considered the others who
the war affected daily. He saw her cover her mouth, then gasp. Why? Couldn't
she see that she was right? That he really was a creep and deserved all that
she had accused him of?

Serena took
one look at Heero and said " I'm so sorry. I didn't mean any of that!
Please forgive me!" He just continued to stare at her. "
Please!" Still no response. " Say something! Heero! Please! Answer me
damn it!" Once again she covered
her mouth. He had done it. He had broken through her shield. She knew when she
felt so rotten about thinking that she might have caused him pain that he had
finally broken through her barrier to her. She felt nauseous.

Heero
watched as she ran to the bathroom. He saw it. He had seen everything. Her eyes
that had cried tears. He knew why they cried. Her shield that was up. He knew
why it had been erected. Her heart that was broken. He knew how it had been
broken. He got up and followed her, finding her emptying her stomach of that
evening's dinner into the toilet. As she stood up, he handed her a towel to
wipe her mouth with.

Serena
rinsed her mouth and dried it with the towel Heero had given her. She looked at
him with tears in her eyes. He hadn't spoken since her outburst, but that was
expected. " I'm sorry. I just, I mean, I just..." She broke down into
heaving sobs.

Heero
wrapped his arms around her and hugged her. He let her cry her heart wrenching
sobs into his black t-shirt and just held on. He hugged her like she would
float away if he didn't. His arms raced up and down her back as he tried to
comfort her, to make her feel normal again. Finally he spoke: " No. I
haven't anything to forgive you for. You are right." 'It's time, she has to know.' He thought.
" Serena, I am a creep. Those guns are here incase anyone ever finds me.
I'm sorry for not telling you sooner, but I thought that it would..."

Heero was
cut off by a slight whimper. He looked down to see Serena cuddled up close to
his chest and looking up to meet his gaze.
"What do you mean, incase someone finds you? The only person you
have to worry about is Darien, and maybe his girlfriend Marie-Clarisse. They've
both had their eye on you from the first day you got here." He saw her
smile a bit. " Her long brown hair and chocolate eyes are hard to resist,
and you must have noticed her new mini skirts and belly shirts... every other
guy stares at her." He smirked. He had noticed her: all how she was trashy
and annoying.

" No
Serena, not them. If you think that Darien and his little girlfriend are evil,
then I don't want to tell you who the real evil people in the world are. You
see, that would take just a bit more of what I like so much about you: your
innocence." He heard he breath in sharp, and his heart raced. " Just
know that during the war, the other boys and I all fought, and now that the war
is over, it will be easier to track someone and destroy them because their
guard is down. You don't have to worry though."

" I do
worry. About you, about the other guys too, but mostly you. I see that they
laugh, they go out for fun. You don't."

"
Neither do you."

"
Well, I go to the BBB, and it's not like I have friends here. You and the
others are my only friends. I know why I don't laugh. I don't know why you
don't." Serena could tell she was near tears again by the way her voice
kept cracking.

" If
it will make you feel any better, I'll tell you why I don't laugh. When I was
younger, a man raised me. He taught me that emotions are a sign of weakness and
that they would be my downfall if I let them get them better of me. Does that
satisfy you?"



" Do
you still think emotions are not to be used?"

" I
don't know. What I do know is that I like showing what emotions I am in touch
with around you. Does that make sense?"

"Perfectly."
With that, she reached behind his head and pulled him toward her face. She just
barely pecked his mouth, then pulled away.

Heero was
expecting a huge kiss on the lips. When all he got was a soft peck and then her
pulling away, he decided: To hell with being perfect! He pulled her back and
kissed her hard and long.

Serena was
in awe of how it felt. She felt warm, safe, and protected. Not to mention on
fire. Her heart speed up and her face became flushed as she and Heero both
poured their soul and desire into each other. Then she pulled away quickly and
when he protested, she said: " The door bell has been ringing for the last
five minutes. Sorry." With that, she flipped around to answer the door.

Heero was
left standing outside the bathroom door with a stunned and surprisingly serene
look on his face for all that had just happened. When he heard nothing from
Serena about who had been at the door, he called out to her. " Serena? Who
was at the door?" With still no answer, he began walking to the door.
" Serena? Who was..." He looked at the ajar door and the blood on the
ground and nearly fainted.*



Chapter Eight: Heero Feels and Serena Deals



*Duo walked
to his dorm room feeling good. He had just had a date, and the woman had asked
him to call her again. " I love it when they love me!" He cried,
whistling as he came to his door. He looked down to the end of the hall to
Wufei and Trowa's rooms, then turned to look at Heero's room. Expecting to find
the door shut, as it usually was, he turned back around and went inside his
dorm. Then he walked right back out and started laughing hysterically, calling
the others to come quickly.



~~~20 Minutes Later~~~

Heero
was giving a laughing Duo his worst
death glare. " Shut up Duo, it's not funny. She was hit over the head
quickly and knocked out, then taken."

"Yeah,
knocked out alright, just like you!" Dui doubled over, laughing twice as
hard.

" Shut
up Maxwell! Repeat what you just told me Yuy." Said Wufei. The training he
had gotten in the Preventers had been so drilled into his head that even now he
approached a situation with the same procedure.

" I
walked out of the bathroom and called to her to see who was at the door, and
when she didn't answer, I walked over to the door and saw blood on the floor.
We need to analyze the site for DNA, fingerprints, hairs, scraps of evidence or
anything that could be a lead. We need to lock and secure all our weapons, and
encode all our computer disks of information. We also need to access the
security monitors and tapes from tonight, and fast, before any evidence is erased."
Heero kept his head, but for a guy that didn't talk too much too often, that
was a long paragraph.

" Yes.
And you need to make sure you don't keep fainting at the site of blood! Some
cold blooded assassin! He can't even stomach the site of a few drops of
blood!" Duo was having a field day over the fact that he had found Heero
passed out in the doorway of his dorm room while coming home from his date.

" Yes
Heero, I do find it quite amusing that you knocked yourself out over a few
drops of blood." Even Trowa was smirking.

" Hey,
I'll bet not only did he know himself out, but he knocked Serena up too!"
With Duo's last comment, all four of the boys cracked huge smiles, then began
laughing. Heero and Serena! Together! As a couple, and even lovers? Like that
would ever happen! By the time they had all stopped rolling on the floor and
wiped their tears away, they found Heero gone. When they went to search his
room, they found his favorite two guns were gone, along with his beloved laptop
computer.

" He
went without us! Kisama! That stupid baka!"

"
Heero could get himself into real trouble, we should try to find him."

" Hey,
Q-man, cheer up! Guys, this is Heero we're talking about, not some helpless
pansy boy who couldn't hold his own in a fight. Let's remember who saved who in
the war."

"
Duo's right. He'll be fine. Once he finds her and destroys the enemy, he'll
return in one piece. Let him go." Said Trowa.

"
Alright, but I still don't like it much."

" No
one asked you Wuffie."

"
Maxwell!!..."



~~~Atop the Roof @ the Same Time~~~



"
Satellite linked... connection in five, four, three, two, one... connection
complete. Now for the access to the scanning boards... access password? Hmm,
not enough protocols on these damned machines, I'll have to talk to Relena
about that as soon as I can, there's just not enough, and the ones here aren't
strong enough if I can crack them this easily. O.K., relay input at
maximum..." As Heero's brain worked out the logical facts, his heart
started to work out the others, the ones his brain had tried to overlook.
Serena was gone. He didn't know who, but he could take two guesses as to why.
One: revenge on him. That would be OZ, the White Fang, or any other rebel group
like the Barton Foundation. The other motive was obvious: the people had
something personal with Serena. Both were very logical and reasonable motives,
the problem would be which one fit. Poor Serena. Stuck with creeps who hurt
her, or could do even worse. Those human monsters would pay for any damage they
did to her while she was in their custody. He would do everything to them that
they did to her, and make it hurt twice as worse. Of all times to attack, right
when he had finally dropped the whole denial act and had almost admitted that
he loved her! God were those people going to pay for what they'd done.



~~~ Two Hours Later Across the School in a Condemned
Building~~~



Serena sat
up in a bed of satin sheets and looked around the room she was in. It was a
huge old dorm room adorned with beautiful pictures and tapestries. A huge
vanity table sat in one corner of the room, and a huge wooden dresser in
another. There were no windows, and only one door. Then she saw two shackles of
chains attached to the walls both across from the bed, and on her right. Serena
closed her eyes and groaned inwardly. This was not happening. She was being
taken prisoner in a room that was fit for a queen, without the shackles of
course. Then the door opened, and in
walked Darien Chiba's girlfriend, Marie
Clarisse. She stood in front of the bed and looked at Serena.

" I
hate you. At first I thought Darien's obsession over you was just a phase. Now
it seems to have gotten bigger. My mistake for not showing him who could beat
whom up around here, but that's what I get for being lazy." She skirted
the bed and dragged her fingers up to Serena's chin and forced her to look into
her chocolate eyes. " I thought that mattered. I was wrong. Now I know why
he did it. Don't get me wrong, I still hate you, Darien and I love each other.
Now that you are at the school, he never pays attention to me any more. Darien
wants you, and I want him. This way, Darien will a have a playmate at night,
and I at least get to have fun with him
during the day. Sucks for you that you'll be stuck in here all day while I get
to have fun. Oh well, no one ever said life was always fun. Ciao deary,
Darien's coming in soon, you had better be ready, he likes to move fast with
girls."

Serena
shuddered as the evil girl walked out of the room. She felt sorry for her, and
couldn't understand why Darien wasn't attracted to her, she was drop dead
gorgeous. Long silky brown hair and large chocolate colored eyes placed in a
round head that matched her tall thin body perfectly, she was the most sought
after girl in the school. It was her attitude that Serena didn't like, and in fact, it was her attitude that scared her
the most. What did she mean, playmates? Stuck inside this room? Darien liking
to move fast? What was her deal? Just then, she heard the door cracking open.

"So, I
guess I've finally caught a true Fallen Angel, hmm, Tenshi?" Serena
shuddered. He was here.*



Chapter Nine: OMG, HELP!!



*The screen
on the computer read 'link uploaded'. Heero broke through the security access
codes and into the old tapes from the security cameras. He went back about an
hour, and picked the camera that he wanted. Typing into his laptop the camera
number and data access codes, it revealed a newer, much more intricate weave of
encrypted files. He sighed. At first he thought that it would be easy to hack
into the camera room, but it was becoming more and more like a mission. The
cameras had originally appeared un secured, but as he got deeper into the
system, he realized only a specialist could have created such a top notch security file. It needed
encryption codes, passwords, and was obviously meant for authorized personnel
only ( the screen kept blinking the words ' authorized personnel only' across
the top). It annoyed Heero half way to the dickens, but he managed to contain
his temper with the years of practice he had spent denying his emotions while
preparing for the wars. ' If what ever creep touches her before I get there...
if he's using her to get to me... his life expectancy just dropped.' He kept
thinking over and over in his mind. Finally, the screen blinked black, then
white. The computer read across the top 'Access Granted'. Heero could have kissed
the moon with joy. He accessed the video tape and began downloading. Just then,
he wished he had taken Dr. J. up on his offer to upgrade his laptop; the
computer download icon read he had to wait twenty minutes to finish the upload.



~~~Serena~~~



" Well?
It's not polite to not answer."

" Why
would I be polite to a pig?" Serena muttered half way under he breath,
just loud enough so that Darien could hear her. She still couldn't believe
Darien was capable of kidnapping her, let alone hurting her.

" Shut
up, whore! Andrew, Jason, get in here!" the two guys waltzed in and
stopped in front of Darien, clearly awaiting orders. " Chain her up to the
wall next to the bed, and make sure the shackles fit her wrists tightly enough
so that he can't slip out of them." The boys moved to face a struggling
Serena. She would have been able to beat them easily normally but, she had a
splitting headache from the bump on her head and felt sick to her stomach. The
guys were able to chain her without too much difficulty, and then stood off to
the side.

" Who
do you think you are? You can't chain me up here!" She spat on his shoe.

" I
think I'm allowed to do whatever I want, and that you have no power over me.
Hey, Andrew, check and make sure that Marie- Clarisse is chained in her room.
She may be so head over heels in love with me that she'll never tell, but just
incase." Andrew nodded and strolled out of the room, Jason in tow. "
So, now that I have you all alone, shall we continue our little
discussion?"

Serena
closed her eyes and turned her head to the side, away from Darien's prying
eyes. She wasn't going to answer that jerk, not if she had anything to say
about it.

"
Come, come, pretty thing. Tell me, what are your favorite nightly activities?
Do they involve a bed and a man? Because I know mine does, but that man would
be a woman in my case. A woman named Serena."

She sickened. She knew what this was. He had once approached
her with an offer of the same thing, but she had swiftly upturned both his
offer and him onto the floor and rushed away. What was that saying Duo had used
one day when Wufei pegged him with a bunch of water balloons? Oh yeah, 'pay
back's a bitch'. His saying certainly suited her situation. She saw him
advancing on her and got ready to hurl onto his face.

" At
any rate, I think we should stop talking and see a little more action
here." As Darien went in for the kill, Serena held her breath. Then, as he
started to kiss her shoulder, then her neck, she kneed him where it hurts the
most. Down went Darien for the count, huffing and puffing 'ouch' the entire
way. " Why you little..."



~~~Heero~~~



'Down load
complete' flashed atop the computer screen and Heero sat up with alertness. He
quickly typed in the date and approximate time that he wanted, and watched the
security tape unfold the entire kidnapping scene. He saw Serena open the door,
get knocked out by three goons, and get dragged off through the dorm one floor
down and six doors over from theirs. He figured that the dorm room number was 666. He quickly scouted his memory for
who resided in the dorm, and the name that came to his mind was not one he had
hoped for. Darien Chiba lived in 666. Heero switched cameras to see the three
guys, probably Darien's guys, carrying Serena out the balcony and putting her
into a truck. Than he saw the truck turn north onto an older, less used road.
That was all he needed to see before he deleted any traces that he had hacked
into the system and grabbed is motorcycle key from his jacket pocket.

As Heero scaled the wall down to the parking
lot, the other four guys, who were walking out of the building, saw him and
yelled to him. " Heero! Hey Heero!" He heard Quatre call to him.
" Are you alright? Did you find her yet?"

" Yes,
yes, and I have to go." He ran to his cycle and turned the key. Speeding
away, he left the other four in the dust.

"
Wow." Was all Duo could say.

"
Yeah." Said Trowa.

" He
actually acknowledged us! I'm so proud!" Duo cried and the others all
cuffed him on the head, while Wufei simply responded for all of them.

" Shut
up you braided baka."

Heero heard
his friends laughing and joking around. He almost wished he could be with them,
as carefree and happy. Then he remembered Serena and with renewed vigor speed
down the old country road. Two miles down the road, he came to a huge old
mansion that had once been used as dorms, but was now condemned because of the
fire codes and safety regulations. He saw lights on and knew that somewhere in
the building, Serena was being held captive. He let out a breath that he didn't
know he had been holding and raced in for the kill.



~~~Serena~~~



Serena saw
Darien stand up and knew what was coming. He raised his hand and hit her had on
the side of the face. It was more of a punch than a slap it was so hard. Then
he punched her in the stomach and grabbed her chin with his hand. He held it in
one place and kissed her hard. Serena
felt like she had been run over by a truck. Her head was swimming because of
the hit and the bump that was already there, the added pain, plus the
disgusting feeling of his lips against hers, made her knees give out and her
drop into a state of semi consciousness. Darien's lips was cold, hard, and
chapped, unlike those of Heero's, and she wondered what he was doing right now,
if he was worried about her at all. She hoped so.



~~~Heero ~~~



Heero raced
up the stairs to the noise he heard. He ran down a long hallway and busted down
the door. He found Marie- Clarisse, Darien's girlfriend, chained to a wall,
yelling and screaming for help. Heero sighed. It wasn't Serena, but even still,
Marie -Clarisse didn't deserve this kind of treatment. As he unchained her, she
said to him " I'm so sorry! I didn't know!" Heero paid her little
heed as he finished with the last locks. He got to the door when he heard
"Wait!" He turned to face
her.

"
What"

"
She's on the third floor, bedroom at the end of the hall. Now go get
her!" He gave her a small smirk
and a nod before rushing out the door, a few short steps closer to saving the
one he loved.*



Chapter 10: Mission, No, Rescue Complete



*Darien
turned around as the door opened " I told you not to bother me now! Can't
you see I'm in the middle of..." A huge punch to the mouth shut him up.
Heero now saw that the room was empty of anyone but himself, Darien, and Serena. He couldn't believe
Darien's goons weren't near by to protect him incase... Serena? His heart raced
as he saw that she was dangling from the wall next to the bed. He saw that she
was now only dressed in her bra and panties, and that her clothes had bee torn
to shreds by a sharp knife that now lay on the floor.

" Oh
Lord, oh Lord, oh please let her be alright! Oh my...Serena? Serena, can you
hear me?" Serena heard a faint voice calling her name. Unlike Darien's big
booming, scary voice, this one was sweet and full of concern. Come to think of
it, it sounded like Heero. But, that couldn't be. He didn't know where she
was-did he? She pulled together enough strength to mumble out his name.

"
Heero?" It was like music to his ears. She was alive! She was badly
injured, but alive! He went to unlock her, but was pulled back down by Darien
from behind. Heero reached behind him and grabbed Darien.

The two boys, who were nearly men, tumbled on the floor
together. Heero would punch Darien, Darien would punch Heero. They were going
full out on each other. Darien tried to bite Heero, but only succeeded in
getting his shirt. Heero pulled Darien's hair, and Darien yelped in pain. Finally, Darien had to back off because he
was breathing so hard he could barely see straight. ' He must be really out of
shape' Heero thought to himself. Then he saw Darien lunge for the knife he had
used to cut Serena's clothes off. He whipped the knife around to try to cut
Heero across the belly, but was too far away to even come close. Then, he
suddenly lunged forward and knocked
Heero to the ground again. The knife tip was pointed directly at Heero's neck,
and just as Darien forced it down, he turned as instinct kicked in. Darien
pulled the knife back up from the ground and ran towards Heero. Heero just side
stepped him, and Darien went flying into the wall, dropping the knife onto his
stomach. Darien, more than a little out
of it, picked up the knife and aimed the point towards himself and the blunt
end towards Heero. He tried to lunge into Heero to stab him, but only landed on
his own knife, stabbing and killing himself.

Heero stood
there for a moment, just staring at what had happened, and then heard another,
very faint: " Heero?" come from the directing of the wall. He ran
towards Serena and picked he handcuff locks. As she dropped to the floor, he
picked her up and carried her down the stairs and out to his bike.



~~~ A Day Later~~~



"Uhnn."
Serena groaned in her sleep. She opened her eyes to a dark, hazy room. She lay
still, and looked around the room. It was her own bedroom! She didn't remember
being here! She remembered Darien, his knife, his hits and kicks, and his
threatening words on her and Heero's lives. Suddenly, she heard the knob on the
door twist, and the door was opened to admit a visitor. As she sat to try to
greet her guest, she heard a deep, soothing voice.

" No,
stay laying down." Heero saw that she was awake and worried how much pain
she felt. As if she read his mind, she said:

" I've
felt better, but I can live with it."

" Do
you remember what happened?"

"
Some. I remember waking up in a strange bed, having a little chat with Marie-
Clarisse, than having Darien come in and start. He beat me pretty bad, and I
sort of slipped out of it for a while. Then I heard your voice and tried to
wake up, but I was just so far gone that I couldn't. What happened?"

"
Well, when I found the house, I found Marie-Clarisse chained to a wall, same as
you. She told me where to find you, and I pretty much had a field day kick
Darien's ass around for a while." He sighed. He had to tell her, and
now. " There's more. Serena,
Darien pulled a knife on me, and later, he fell onto it. He's dead,
Serry."

"Darien's
dead?"

"
Yeah. Sorry."

" It's
alright. I'm sorry to have dragged you into this petty school war in the first
place. It was to dangerous, even for an ex soldier like yourself."

"
Serry, I got myself involved. And as for me just being a soldier, well, Serry,
I wasn't just some soldier."

" Huh?
What do you mean?"

"
Serry, I want to tell you, but I'm afraid of what you'll say, what you'll think
of me."

"
Well, I promise I won't laugh. And if you think it's so bad, why don't t your
other friends think so? Just tell me He-Chan."

"
He-Chan?"

"
Serry?"

" I
like them both."

" So
do I. Now spill it."

"
Serry, in the war, I was trained by a man named Dr. J. He was one of the five
mad scientists of the colonies, and I was one of his students. I trained and
trained to become perfect. I ultimately gained the nickname the 'Perfect
Soldier' because I was able to master not only my own original Gundam, but Wing
Zero and the Zero system. Serry, I'm Gundam Pilot 01, Heero Yuy." All was
quiet for a minute. Then Serena wrapped her arms around Heero and laughed.

" And
here I was afraid you worked for Treiz Kushrenada or the White Fang or the
Romafeller Foundation!"

" You
mean, you're not mad, or disgusted by who I am and what I did?

" Let
me tell you something. Both my father and brother went off to fight for OZ in the war. When Treiz stepped down,
my brother stayed with Duke Dermail, and my father went to the Treiz Faction.
We couldn't even be in the same house without fighting. My mother caught ill,
and on her death bed, she listened to my brother and father arguing about the
war, again. Two weeks later, I received word that both my father and brother
had be killed in action. I was alone. My aunt, my only living relative, sent me
here because she said she didn't have time to be pestered with annoying brats
like myself. Heero, by the time the war became Earth versus Space, I hoped that
the rebels and Gundam Pilots would win
so that my father and brother could both be proved wrong. You and your friends
made it possible. Thank you."

" Oh
Serry."

"
Don't go 'Oh Serrying' me mister. I'm happy. I miss my family, but I'm happy.
How can I be disgusted with the person that made my wish come true?" She
gave him a huge smile and he returned one of his own, very rare smiles.

" Serry, let's get out of this school. I don't need any
more education, I'm fixed because of the war. Come away with us. The boys and I
have already decided to leave tomorrow. I can't risk anyone finding out about
Darien. We'll go to the Sank Kingdom, I know Relena Peacecraft, and she's
offered to help us find a place to stay. Please?"

" Well, wouldn't the boys mind?"

" No, they love you too. Please." This time it
sounded firm, but pathetic. Serena looked into Heero's eyes, and a spell was
cast.

" Of course I'll come. Aishiteru He-Chan."

" Aishiteru Serry." They knew they would be
together forever now that nothing was there to try to rip them apart, and they
sealed the deal with one last soul searing kiss that made their hearts throb
and blood rush. As they pulled apart breathlessly, they stared straight into
each other's eyes and broke out laughing. Boy oh boy would Duo have a coronary
when he found out that the Perfect Soldier and the Fallen Angel had fallen head
over heels in love with each other.

The End