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Dream Maker: Okay folks, standard yadda. I do not own Gundam Wing. *sniffs* I wish I did but I don't. The wonderful g-boys and girls belong to their respectable owners. I promise to return them, only slightly worse for the wear, when I through with them. And please don't sue….. *turns pockets inside out* We're poor broke folk! Anything else?
Christa: Duh! Did you forget to say that the plot is ours? Or is it? I don't know. Angel keeps saying she's read a fic or two somewhat like this. *sweatdrop*
Dream Maker: Then I guess we don't own that either. *sigh* See what I have to put up with? I don't even have a muse that comes up with original ideas. I have to come up with them all by myself.
Christa: *annoyed* I have four words for you…….
Dream Maker: What are they?
Christa: Next flight to Hawaii.
Dream Maker: EEP! I'll be nice.
Christa: Good girl. Anyway folks, please enjoy the fic and don't forget to review!
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It was twelve o'clock in the afternoon and all that was on were re-runs and nature shows. I decided to plug in my tape of the Endless Waltz and listen to it while I was doing dishes until Toonami came on. As I did my dished I repeated lines along with the movie. I had watched it so many times I only got messed up on the hard lines.
"'So this will end everything will it? So this will end everything. What happened? Why won't it explode!? Ah… what did I do wrong?!' 'Duo, Deathsyth is an excellent piece of art. Think of a better way to use it than destroying it.' 'Ha! I'm not about to let my buddy here be used as a tool for massacre. Huh?!' 'Hmm… I see you were planning to stop me after you destroyed Deathsyth.' 'I was going to destroy everyone here, including myself. If it meant peace for this colony I would be the great destroyer any day.' 'If you're prepared to go that far try and outwit me.' 'What?' 'Duo, why don't you just steal Deathsyth?' 'Huh?!' 'Take it to earth now. There's a man called Howard on the Pacific Ocean. You can rely on him. And of course, go as the great destroyer.'' The great destroyer huh? Well it's better than being the hero of a massacre.'"
"Oh! Toonami is on!" I quickly shut off the movie and rewound it while I put the satellite on channel 176. The lineup today was Tenchi in Tokyo, Big O, and then two episodes of DBZ.
"I can't wait to see Vagita go berserk!" I said but I never got to. I was asleep before the end of the first half-hour. It seemed that last nights late night reading had finally caught up with me. As I slept I didn't know that when I woke up I would be in for one big surprise.
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"Dr. J, are you sure this is going to work? I mean it hasn't even been tested yet."
"I assure you that I have tested it on many guinea pigs and other rodents. They all came back fine."
"If your absolutely sure…"
"Of course I am Quatre. You and your friends should be able to jump from one colony to another in a matter of minutes with this thing. It should be a big help to everyone."
"Yes, I agree. Ready to test it guys?" Heero, Wufei, and Trowa just looked at him. Duo on the other hand had to be his normal cocky self.
"Yeah! Let's go into the stars boys! I want to see how long I can hold my breath if this thing dumps us in space!"
"That's so reassuring Duo." Heero muttered.
"All right everyone, stand on the transport pad. I'm going to engage it now and I expect you all to call me when you get to L-4."
"Fine." they all muttered.
"Here we go!" Dr. J pulled a lever and the machine started to hum. A bright light engulfed them and then felt as light as feathers suddenly. At the exact same moment Dr. J's new can Muffin jumped up on the machine and knocked his coffee over. Sparks flew every which way from it and the machine blew up with a loud bang and a puff of back smoke engulfed the lab. When it had cleared all five Gundam pilots were gone.
"This is not good. This is not good at all. Without this machine they cant get back and because it blew up they could have ended up anywhere! Even with all of the technology I have if they were jettisoned into space I'll never be able to find them!"
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"Hey, she's waking up." I sat up and yawned.
"Oy! How could I have fallen asleep? Tenchi in Tokyo couldn't have been that boring." I yawned again and stretched. When I opened my eyes I couldn't believe what I saw. I thought I saw five boys sitting on my couch but I rubbed my eyes and looked again. They were still there and looking at me funny. I pinched myself for good measure to make sure I wasn't dreaming. "Ouch!"
"Well I could have told you it would hurt before you did that." The one with the braid said.
"I have to be dreaming. There is no way five Gundam pilots are sitting in my living room… There is no way!"
"I think she's in shock. You guys had better not do anything irrational right now."
"No, I'm not in shock Quatre. I have gone crazy. That's all there is to it. I need to be locked up in a loony bin. My friends told me staying on this mountain alone would drive me mad but I didn't believe them. Now I'm sitting here talking to cartoon characters! I cant believe this!" I said plopping down on the floor.
"She has my vote that she's crazy. Since when are we cartoon characters? And how does she know our names?"
"Shush Duo. I actually feel sorry for this little girl."
"Thank you Quatre. I guess I should figure if I have gone crazy why not talk to you. It can't get any worse."
"Okay, hold it. Let me tell you this."
"Shut up Heero. I don't want to listen to you, the perfect soldier. I'm not in the mood. I had to listen to you an entire hour while I was watching TV. I don't want to listen to you now." he almost fell backwards. He had never had anyone but Duo dare talk to him that way. And even Duo had the sense not to go that far.
"She's flipped her lid." Duo said as he waited for Heero to blow up but her never did. He was too shocked.
"Do you think we should explain it to her Quatre?"
"Not while she's in this state of mind. I really don't blame her. This is all Dr. J's fault."
"Do Trowa and Wufei speak at all?"
"What do you want girl?"
"Okay that answers for one of them. What about Trowa?"
"I speak only as often as I have to."
"Same as I remember. Well there is one question I have had for both of you since I started watching Gundam Wing."
"Gundam Wing?"
"I'll explain that after I ask you each a question. Trowa, how do you know how old you are when you have no memory of your past?" he looked stunned for a moment before he answered.
"No one's bothered asking me that. I guess that part of my memory stayed in tact. I've always known my age but never anything else."
"Okay, Wufei, I want to know this. Which is your first name, Chang, or Wufei?"
"Why do you want to know that girl?"
"Its always baffled my because everyone calls you Wufei but your name is written Chang Wufei." He didn't answer me. "Okay fine. Be a stuffed shirt."
"What'd you call me?!"
"I use that term to refer to upper-class jerks like yourself. I don't know why you were ever my favorite character."
"You said something about something called Gundam Wing." Quatre reminded me.
"I'll show you." I pulled my two tapes off the shelf. One was my recording of the Endless Waltz and the other contained episodes 1-4. I explained this but none of them believed me. So I plugged the first tape in and let them watch it after I explained it was edited. They stared wide-eyed at the screen. When the first movie was done I plugged in the Endless Waltz. It annoyed them sometimes when I repeated their lines. When Zechs came on, without realizing I had said anything, I said, "Oh I love his voice! I want to find the person who does it." All five of the boys looked at me and I realized what I had said and blushed.
"What have you got with his voice?"
"I like it because…. Well… I don't know exactly. I think it's because of the way it's so gravelly or something. And it's so different from the first few episodes Duo."
"Whatever." They all went back to watching the movie and when it was through they wanted to watch the next tape.
"I don't think so. Its already six o'clock, I haven't eaten since breakfast, and I'm hopefully going to go to sleep and I'll wake up and this will all have been a dream. Or better yet, you can just go back to the Martian ship that brought you here and go home! Sorry, don't mean to sound cruel but if those tapes aren't enough to get you to believe me then I don't know what will."
Quatre stood and walked over to where I was sitting and sat down beside me. "Look, we don't even know how we got here. All we know is that we were trying an inter-colony transport and something went wrong and we were thrown here. We don't know how to get back. I'm sure your parents will be back any time and then we can try to explain it to them."
"Quatre, one, I don't live with my parents and two, no one and I mean no one is going to believe you. If you think I went nuts try someone who's wimpier than me."
"Has to be hard to come up with someone like that." Wufei muttered. I got up, walked over, and smacked him in the back of the head. He immediately stood and tried to intimidate me by standing to his full height and giving me a death glare. When I didn't back down he looked at me in disgust and walked to the front door and went to sit on the porch.
"Little girl, how can you not live with your parents?"
"Simple. I ran away to where the orphanage couldn't find me."
"Why would you want to do that?"
"I don't know. I just wanted to live on my own. The people there kept calling me things like your Royal Highness and stuff like that and saying I couldn't survive on my own so I ran away a year ago and have been doing just that. Surviving on my own."
"Hasn't anyone come looking for you?"
"Not this far up in the wilderness. There is only one house around here and its way further down the mountain. I live alone. Or, did until I found someone to keep me company."
"Dare I ask?"
"I have a dog."
"Little girl, what's your name anyway? You seem to know all of ours but we don't know a thing about you."
"My name? I'm not sure what to tell you. My real name or another name."
"For starters lets go with whatever you want then in time you can tell us your other one."
"Right now the only name I can give you is Natakue. I will tell you that it isn't my real name but I don't know if I can trust you with my real name. Not just yet anyway. And you won't be staying anyway. Wont that doctor open the pathway again and conger you all back there?"
"Whoa kiddo, he might not even be able to find us. He's probably looking through the colonies and when he doesn't find us there, well, you get the picture."
"This is just great. Now what are you suppose to do?"
"We're staying with you from now on."
"I don't think you get it Heero. I like my solitude and privacy just as much as you do. Maybe even more. I don't like relying on other people and I don't like them relying on me either."
"I don't think you get it either kid. We could take you down to the nearest authorities and turn you in. Then it would be all ours and we wouldn't have to worry about you."
"You wouldn't dare Heero because if you did they would ask you just how you found me, why you were there, and where you came from. What would you tell them? Would you say I'm Heero Yuy and I'm from L-1? I was thrown there by an inter-colony transport? Nope. They would throw you in the loony bin."
"She has a point Heero. We couldn't go doing that and it would be just downright rude. It is her place after all."
"Its as much her place as it is ours Trowa."
"Quatre, what are the odds of him finding you within a week do you think?"
"I would have to say the odds are one in one hundred billion."
"Great. This is not good."
"Girl, you said yourself that this was a good place to stay if you don't want to be found."
"So the stuffed shirt returns. I did say that but there is no way I am going to share my place with five guys! The kids at the orphanage were bad but they weren't as moody as you and Heero all combined together. I could live with Quatre, Duo, and Trowa, but you two? I don't know which of our minds would go first. If I still have a mind that is."
"We could kick you out."
"Heero already tried that. I could go to the police and get you all arrested or something. It would wind me back up home but I could always take off again. And Wufei, don't go thinking I'm intimidated by you because I am not in the slightest." If he had his sword I might be but not without it, I thought.
"I'm sure you are girl. But I don't fight bleeding hearts or women."
"One, I am not any ordinary girl, and two, if you must call me something call me Natakue." Wufei looked shocked for a moment but no one noticed but me. "I guess if you say please you can stay but if you stay you work. There are two extra bedrooms and a couch. I'm sure three of you can fit into the master bedroom so I doubt the couch will be needed. You guys can fight over it for all I care. I have four sleeping bags and some quilts." Quatre, Duo, and Trowa quickly thanked me and went to explore the house. It took Heero a while but he finally put his big ego aside and asked to stay.
"I'm going to start making dinner. If you are going to stay you have to ask me by the time it's done. Hope you don't mind top-roman, I haven't been shopping for a while. Not with only myself to feed."
"That will be fine for the extent of your skills girl." Wufei growled. I gritted my teeth but said nothing. By the time it was done he still hadn't asked me. The others drifted into the kitchen as the smell wafted to their noses. No one spoke as we ate but we all were thinking about the same thing. Home.
"Is everyone set up? I hope you don't mind the small rooms but this is a secluded place with only one person living here. That's the way the place was built. Sleeping bags are on the shelf on the back porch." Wufei started after the others but he didn't get very far. "I believe you never asked to stay Chang."
"I don't bend to the will of women."
"Sorry to disappoint you but if you don't ask you don't stay." He was right next to an open door so I quickly shoved him out and pulled it shut. Just for good measure I locked the deadbolt. There was a lot of fist pounding and yelling but I ignored it. It subsided after a long while and by then everyone but me was asleep. I crept to the window to see Wufei had fallen asleep on the front porch and was shivering.
"Me and my conscience." I muttered as I grabbed a quilt and a pillow and unlocked the door. Careful not to wake him I laid the pillow under his head and I laid the quilt over him and went back inside. I climbed the latter on my bed and fell into a fitful sleep.
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Dream Maker: Well, what do you think? Is it any good for a first chapter?
Christa: I hope it is……..
Dream Maker: Well I'm fighting with my comp to let me post this so please excuse me or I might not be writing for a while because I'm going to smash it!
Christa: Calm you butt down girl! Anyway, I have to make sure she doesn't kill Gilium (the comp.) Bye!
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Dream Maker: Okay folks, standard yadda. I do not own Gundam Wing. *sniffs* I wish I did but I don't. The wonderful g-boys and girls belong to their respectable owners. I promise to return them, only slightly worse for the wear, when I through with them. And please don't sue….. *turns pockets inside out* We're poor broke folk! Anything else?
Christa: Duh! Did you forget to say that the plot is ours? Or is it? I don't know. Angel keeps saying she's read a fic or two somewhat like this. *sweatdrop*
Dream Maker: Then I guess we don't own that either. *sigh* See what I have to put up with? I don't even have a muse that comes up with original ideas. I have to come up with them all by myself.
Christa: *annoyed* I have four words for you…….
Dream Maker: What are they?
Christa: Next flight to Hawaii.
Dream Maker: EEP! I'll be nice.
Christa: Good girl. Anyway folks, please enjoy the fic and don't forget to review!
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It was twelve o'clock in the afternoon and all that was on were re-runs and nature shows. I decided to plug in my tape of the Endless Waltz and listen to it while I was doing dishes until Toonami came on. As I did my dished I repeated lines along with the movie. I had watched it so many times I only got messed up on the hard lines.
"'So this will end everything will it? So this will end everything. What happened? Why won't it explode!? Ah… what did I do wrong?!' 'Duo, Deathsyth is an excellent piece of art. Think of a better way to use it than destroying it.' 'Ha! I'm not about to let my buddy here be used as a tool for massacre. Huh?!' 'Hmm… I see you were planning to stop me after you destroyed Deathsyth.' 'I was going to destroy everyone here, including myself. If it meant peace for this colony I would be the great destroyer any day.' 'If you're prepared to go that far try and outwit me.' 'What?' 'Duo, why don't you just steal Deathsyth?' 'Huh?!' 'Take it to earth now. There's a man called Howard on the Pacific Ocean. You can rely on him. And of course, go as the great destroyer.'' The great destroyer huh? Well it's better than being the hero of a massacre.'"
"Oh! Toonami is on!" I quickly shut off the movie and rewound it while I put the satellite on channel 176. The lineup today was Tenchi in Tokyo, Big O, and then two episodes of DBZ.
"I can't wait to see Vagita go berserk!" I said but I never got to. I was asleep before the end of the first half-hour. It seemed that last nights late night reading had finally caught up with me. As I slept I didn't know that when I woke up I would be in for one big surprise.
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"Dr. J, are you sure this is going to work? I mean it hasn't even been tested yet."
"I assure you that I have tested it on many guinea pigs and other rodents. They all came back fine."
"If your absolutely sure…"
"Of course I am Quatre. You and your friends should be able to jump from one colony to another in a matter of minutes with this thing. It should be a big help to everyone."
"Yes, I agree. Ready to test it guys?" Heero, Wufei, and Trowa just looked at him. Duo on the other hand had to be his normal cocky self.
"Yeah! Let's go into the stars boys! I want to see how long I can hold my breath if this thing dumps us in space!"
"That's so reassuring Duo." Heero muttered.
"All right everyone, stand on the transport pad. I'm going to engage it now and I expect you all to call me when you get to L-4."
"Fine." they all muttered.
"Here we go!" Dr. J pulled a lever and the machine started to hum. A bright light engulfed them and then felt as light as feathers suddenly. At the exact same moment Dr. J's new can Muffin jumped up on the machine and knocked his coffee over. Sparks flew every which way from it and the machine blew up with a loud bang and a puff of back smoke engulfed the lab. When it had cleared all five Gundam pilots were gone.
"This is not good. This is not good at all. Without this machine they cant get back and because it blew up they could have ended up anywhere! Even with all of the technology I have if they were jettisoned into space I'll never be able to find them!"
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"Hey, she's waking up." I sat up and yawned.
"Oy! How could I have fallen asleep? Tenchi in Tokyo couldn't have been that boring." I yawned again and stretched. When I opened my eyes I couldn't believe what I saw. I thought I saw five boys sitting on my couch but I rubbed my eyes and looked again. They were still there and looking at me funny. I pinched myself for good measure to make sure I wasn't dreaming. "Ouch!"
"Well I could have told you it would hurt before you did that." The one with the braid said.
"I have to be dreaming. There is no way five Gundam pilots are sitting in my living room… There is no way!"
"I think she's in shock. You guys had better not do anything irrational right now."
"No, I'm not in shock Quatre. I have gone crazy. That's all there is to it. I need to be locked up in a loony bin. My friends told me staying on this mountain alone would drive me mad but I didn't believe them. Now I'm sitting here talking to cartoon characters! I cant believe this!" I said plopping down on the floor.
"She has my vote that she's crazy. Since when are we cartoon characters? And how does she know our names?"
"Shush Duo. I actually feel sorry for this little girl."
"Thank you Quatre. I guess I should figure if I have gone crazy why not talk to you. It can't get any worse."
"Okay, hold it. Let me tell you this."
"Shut up Heero. I don't want to listen to you, the perfect soldier. I'm not in the mood. I had to listen to you an entire hour while I was watching TV. I don't want to listen to you now." he almost fell backwards. He had never had anyone but Duo dare talk to him that way. And even Duo had the sense not to go that far.
"She's flipped her lid." Duo said as he waited for Heero to blow up but her never did. He was too shocked.
"Do you think we should explain it to her Quatre?"
"Not while she's in this state of mind. I really don't blame her. This is all Dr. J's fault."
"Do Trowa and Wufei speak at all?"
"What do you want girl?"
"Okay that answers for one of them. What about Trowa?"
"I speak only as often as I have to."
"Same as I remember. Well there is one question I have had for both of you since I started watching Gundam Wing."
"Gundam Wing?"
"I'll explain that after I ask you each a question. Trowa, how do you know how old you are when you have no memory of your past?" he looked stunned for a moment before he answered.
"No one's bothered asking me that. I guess that part of my memory stayed in tact. I've always known my age but never anything else."
"Okay, Wufei, I want to know this. Which is your first name, Chang, or Wufei?"
"Why do you want to know that girl?"
"Its always baffled my because everyone calls you Wufei but your name is written Chang Wufei." He didn't answer me. "Okay fine. Be a stuffed shirt."
"What'd you call me?!"
"I use that term to refer to upper-class jerks like yourself. I don't know why you were ever my favorite character."
"You said something about something called Gundam Wing." Quatre reminded me.
"I'll show you." I pulled my two tapes off the shelf. One was my recording of the Endless Waltz and the other contained episodes 1-4. I explained this but none of them believed me. So I plugged the first tape in and let them watch it after I explained it was edited. They stared wide-eyed at the screen. When the first movie was done I plugged in the Endless Waltz. It annoyed them sometimes when I repeated their lines. When Zechs came on, without realizing I had said anything, I said, "Oh I love his voice! I want to find the person who does it." All five of the boys looked at me and I realized what I had said and blushed.
"What have you got with his voice?"
"I like it because…. Well… I don't know exactly. I think it's because of the way it's so gravelly or something. And it's so different from the first few episodes Duo."
"Whatever." They all went back to watching the movie and when it was through they wanted to watch the next tape.
"I don't think so. Its already six o'clock, I haven't eaten since breakfast, and I'm hopefully going to go to sleep and I'll wake up and this will all have been a dream. Or better yet, you can just go back to the Martian ship that brought you here and go home! Sorry, don't mean to sound cruel but if those tapes aren't enough to get you to believe me then I don't know what will."
Quatre stood and walked over to where I was sitting and sat down beside me. "Look, we don't even know how we got here. All we know is that we were trying an inter-colony transport and something went wrong and we were thrown here. We don't know how to get back. I'm sure your parents will be back any time and then we can try to explain it to them."
"Quatre, one, I don't live with my parents and two, no one and I mean no one is going to believe you. If you think I went nuts try someone who's wimpier than me."
"Has to be hard to come up with someone like that." Wufei muttered. I got up, walked over, and smacked him in the back of the head. He immediately stood and tried to intimidate me by standing to his full height and giving me a death glare. When I didn't back down he looked at me in disgust and walked to the front door and went to sit on the porch.
"Little girl, how can you not live with your parents?"
"Simple. I ran away to where the orphanage couldn't find me."
"Why would you want to do that?"
"I don't know. I just wanted to live on my own. The people there kept calling me things like your Royal Highness and stuff like that and saying I couldn't survive on my own so I ran away a year ago and have been doing just that. Surviving on my own."
"Hasn't anyone come looking for you?"
"Not this far up in the wilderness. There is only one house around here and its way further down the mountain. I live alone. Or, did until I found someone to keep me company."
"Dare I ask?"
"I have a dog."
"Little girl, what's your name anyway? You seem to know all of ours but we don't know a thing about you."
"My name? I'm not sure what to tell you. My real name or another name."
"For starters lets go with whatever you want then in time you can tell us your other one."
"Right now the only name I can give you is Natakue. I will tell you that it isn't my real name but I don't know if I can trust you with my real name. Not just yet anyway. And you won't be staying anyway. Wont that doctor open the pathway again and conger you all back there?"
"Whoa kiddo, he might not even be able to find us. He's probably looking through the colonies and when he doesn't find us there, well, you get the picture."
"This is just great. Now what are you suppose to do?"
"We're staying with you from now on."
"I don't think you get it Heero. I like my solitude and privacy just as much as you do. Maybe even more. I don't like relying on other people and I don't like them relying on me either."
"I don't think you get it either kid. We could take you down to the nearest authorities and turn you in. Then it would be all ours and we wouldn't have to worry about you."
"You wouldn't dare Heero because if you did they would ask you just how you found me, why you were there, and where you came from. What would you tell them? Would you say I'm Heero Yuy and I'm from L-1? I was thrown there by an inter-colony transport? Nope. They would throw you in the loony bin."
"She has a point Heero. We couldn't go doing that and it would be just downright rude. It is her place after all."
"Its as much her place as it is ours Trowa."
"Quatre, what are the odds of him finding you within a week do you think?"
"I would have to say the odds are one in one hundred billion."
"Great. This is not good."
"Girl, you said yourself that this was a good place to stay if you don't want to be found."
"So the stuffed shirt returns. I did say that but there is no way I am going to share my place with five guys! The kids at the orphanage were bad but they weren't as moody as you and Heero all combined together. I could live with Quatre, Duo, and Trowa, but you two? I don't know which of our minds would go first. If I still have a mind that is."
"We could kick you out."
"Heero already tried that. I could go to the police and get you all arrested or something. It would wind me back up home but I could always take off again. And Wufei, don't go thinking I'm intimidated by you because I am not in the slightest." If he had his sword I might be but not without it, I thought.
"I'm sure you are girl. But I don't fight bleeding hearts or women."
"One, I am not any ordinary girl, and two, if you must call me something call me Natakue." Wufei looked shocked for a moment but no one noticed but me. "I guess if you say please you can stay but if you stay you work. There are two extra bedrooms and a couch. I'm sure three of you can fit into the master bedroom so I doubt the couch will be needed. You guys can fight over it for all I care. I have four sleeping bags and some quilts." Quatre, Duo, and Trowa quickly thanked me and went to explore the house. It took Heero a while but he finally put his big ego aside and asked to stay.
"I'm going to start making dinner. If you are going to stay you have to ask me by the time it's done. Hope you don't mind top-roman, I haven't been shopping for a while. Not with only myself to feed."
"That will be fine for the extent of your skills girl." Wufei growled. I gritted my teeth but said nothing. By the time it was done he still hadn't asked me. The others drifted into the kitchen as the smell wafted to their noses. No one spoke as we ate but we all were thinking about the same thing. Home.
"Is everyone set up? I hope you don't mind the small rooms but this is a secluded place with only one person living here. That's the way the place was built. Sleeping bags are on the shelf on the back porch." Wufei started after the others but he didn't get very far. "I believe you never asked to stay Chang."
"I don't bend to the will of women."
"Sorry to disappoint you but if you don't ask you don't stay." He was right next to an open door so I quickly shoved him out and pulled it shut. Just for good measure I locked the deadbolt. There was a lot of fist pounding and yelling but I ignored it. It subsided after a long while and by then everyone but me was asleep. I crept to the window to see Wufei had fallen asleep on the front porch and was shivering.
"Me and my conscience." I muttered as I grabbed a quilt and a pillow and unlocked the door. Careful not to wake him I laid the pillow under his head and I laid the quilt over him and went back inside. I climbed the latter on my bed and fell into a fitful sleep.
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Dream Maker: Well, what do you think? Is it any good for a first chapter?
Christa: I hope it is……..
Dream Maker: Well I'm fighting with my comp to let me post this so please excuse me or I might not be writing for a while because I'm going to smash it!
Christa: Calm you butt down girl! Anyway, I have to make sure she doesn't kill Gilium (the comp.) Bye!
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