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New Additions part 2
Chase groaned as she slowly regained consciousness. She pulled one arm underneath herself to push herself up off the floor slightly. The young officer winced as she tried to open her eyes, she put her hand gingerly to her head and then brought it back down to look at her fingers. Blood. /Heero you bastard, you didn't have to hit so hard./
"Sergeant Major Chase, are you alright?" She snapped her head up at the voice, and saw one of her fellow officers kneeling down beside her. She hadn't realized that anyone else was there. She prayed that her last thought had been just that, a thought. "Are you alright?" the man repeated.
"Aa." was all she managed. Chase began to push herself to her feet but lost her balance. Her head pounded as she knelt on the ground.
"What happened?" a larger, stronger voice demanded. /General Tompson./ Chase groaned. Just what she needed. "Well?!" The young officer grabbed her head in pain, She didn't have time for this. She had to get to a computer.
"General Tompson, she's hurt. She needs to see the doctor." The young man defended Chase, he put her arm around his neck and helped her to her feet. He then proceeded to assist her down the hall and away from the General.
"Thanks Jack." Chase offered him a weak smile as they continued down the hall.
"Hey no problem, what are friends for?"
"I guess." She looked up at the young man with short black hair and deep blue eyes who had been her only real friend in OZ over the past year. He stuck by her no matter what. "I need you to help me with one more thing then I need you to get off the base." He looked at her confused.
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"I need to get to a computer."
"But, what about what you said about getting off the base?"
"This base is in danger." Chase stopped and stood to face him. "We both need to get away from here." Jack gave her a skeptical look.
"I think your head injury is worse than you think." The young girl glared at him then stormed into the closest room, Jack followed. He watched as she worked at the computer, vigorously typing away. The Corporal walked up behind her to see what she was doing and read the message just before she hit send:
Duo and Heero are out. Destroy the base.
Jack's eyes widened, "What the hell...?" Chase turned and pointed her gun at him.
"Now you know why I told you to get out."
******
"Ow!! Heero!!" Duo yelped as Heero shoved him through their dorm room door. The Japanese pilot ignored his cries and dragged him to his bed by the arm. "Jeez Heero you don't have to be so ruff!." Duo rubbed his aching head . The trip back had been long and bumpy, and his head hadn't enjoyed it much. It felt like it was about to split into a million pieces. He made a mental note to make those OZ bastards pay. Just then something dawned on him that he had forgotten about. "What about Chase?"
"What about her?"
"You aren't worried about her?"
"Why would I be?" Heero began rummaging around in the closet for something. Duo stared at him in disbelief.
"You hit her over the head!!" He screamed, "I don't think I've ever seen so much blood come from just one wound!" He paused for a second, "Okay, maybe that's slightly exaggerated, but still."
"She's had worse. Here." Heero threw a bottle of Asprin at his roommate. "Now shut up and lie down, they probably broke a few of your ribs. I'll raid the nurse's office later tonight."
"What are you talking about, 'She's had worse'? How do you know her?!" Duo asked as Heero sat down in front of his laptop. The computer screen on as he began typing. "Heero, answer me." He was becoming impatient, he wanted to know what connection Heero had to the girl at the base and Heero didn't seem to want to give him any answers.
"Not now."
The Deathscythe pilot huffed, that was not the answer he wanted. He glanced over at the screen on the laptop. His roommate was trying to gain access to something, but "what", he couldn't tell.
"What are you doing?" duo never did leave a question unasked.
"I'm trying to access the latest news reports."
"Why? What's going to be on the News?" As he asked, a news report suddenly came up on the screen.
"A military base was attacked this afternoon." The news anchor reported. "The base was the site of a mobile suit research facility. It is believed that the attacking force was three mobile suits known as Gundams." On the screen images of a base going up in flames and battles involving the Gundams is shown. Duo's eyes went wide in surprise.
"That's the base we were just at."
"Yes." Heero shut down the computer.
"But that's where...."
"That was the second part of the mission." The Wing pilot said cutting Duo off, "Now the mission is complete."
"But Chase....."
"What about me?" The two boys looked up suddenly, even the Perfect Soldier was caught off guard by the third voice. Chase stood in the door way, now clad in a pair of tight jeans, black ankle boots, and a white tank top that stopped at the waist of her pants. Her dark golden hair now hung down, falling around her shoulders.
"But you.......the base......" The American stammered. Chase raised an eyebrow and closed the door behind herself.
"Did you honestly think that I would let the base blow up with me inside it?" Duo gave her a blank look. She turned her gaze to the other pilot. "You didn't tell him?"
"Tell me what?" The Deathscythe pilot looked back and forth between the two, who were ignoring him.
"What is there to tell him?"
"Well that's a stupid question."
"Then why does he need to know?"
"Why shouldn't he know that you're my brother?"
"What?!?!" Duo nearly jumped to his feet, but doubled over in pain instead. Chase and Heero rushed to help him lie back down. Once they had accomplished that successfully, after a lot of swearing and cursing, Chase sat on the bed next to Duo while Heero sat back in the chair at the desk between the two beds.
"You should be more careful." the young girl pointed out, "You'll only make your injuries worse."
"Thanks for the tip." The American's sarcasm was rewarded with a glare. "I'm sorry," he changed the subject, "but I thought I heard you say that Heero was your brother."
"I am."
Duo let out a weak laugh at Heero's admission. He looked at Chase baffled. "But....... how?"
Chase looked at him strangely, then at Heero who had no comments. She turned her attention back to the injured pilot. "Well....." she began, "Heero and I have the same parents, which classifies us as brother and sister. Actually, to be specific, we're twins."
"You never said anything."
"It doesn't usually come up."
"So what were you doing at the base?" Duo seemed to be having a difficult time with the whole concept.
"Can you wait for that answer?" Chase asked, "I'll have to explain what it is that I do when the others get back, and I really don't like explaining things twice."
"I take it that that means you're sticking around for awhile." the dark haired boy addressed the golden haired girl.
"I'll discuss it with you later." the girl replied, "Until then, do you want to go down to the Nurse's office?"
"Can't go while she's there."
"But she's not there." Heero raised an eyebrow, Chase continued, "Some kid fell down the stairs as I was on my way up here. She's outside with him now." Had his eyebrow not already been raised, Heero would have raised it, "Don't give me that look. I didn't trip him."
"Fine." The Japanese boy stood up, "I'll be back soon." And with that he left the room, leaving Duo and Chase alone. Chase let out a sigh and rubbed the bridge of her nose.
"So Heero's your brother huh?" Chase nodded, "Well that's something I never would have guessed." He shook his head, soon realizing that it was a mistake and winced in pain.
"Does it hurt a lot?"
"It feels like there's a clamp on my head." Duo said through clenched teeth.
"Here." Soon he felt Chase's cool fingers on his head. Her thumbs traced up his jawbone and to his temple, she placed her fingers behind his ears and slowly applied pressure.(1) Duo was amazed as the pain in his head slowly faded and Chase took her hands away. He stared at her amazed.
"How did you do that?"
The young girl shrugged, "Just one of the many tricks I've picked up along the way. Don't go moving all around though, the pain may be gone but the injury's not."
"How can you be related to Heero?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you're a lot more... compassionate than he is."
"Different training." Chase turned her gaze to the floor, "Duo, I wanted to apologize."
"Huh? What the Hell for?"
"It's my fault you got caught," the American gave her a questioning look, "I didn't get the information on the guard shifts to you. If you had gotten the information you could have avoided a confrontation."
"What?' The braided boy cocked his head at her comment, "What do you have to do with the information?" Chase looked at him confused, then opened her mouth to answer but was cut off.
"The information came." A monotone voice joined the other two. Heero kicked the door shut, his arms weighted down with various bandages and medicine bottles which he soon dumped onto the bed next to Duo. "Duo left without reading the second part, that came after the first part. It was his own stupid mistake."
"Thanks a lot Heero." The Deathscythe pilot pouted.
"Cool." Chase stood up, "Now I don't have to feel so bad about it." Her cyan eyes looked straight at Duo's violet, "You did get the information I sent you for, right?" She recieved a nod for an answer. "Good. I'll see you guys later then. I've got a meeting with the school officials." Leaving it at that, she left.
"Okay........," Duo turned to Heero, "So, what's up?" The Wing pilot simply galred at him.
"Omae o karusu."
******
Heero watched out of the corner of his eye as Duo rubbed at the scab on his forehead as he sat in the desk next to him. Quatre was sitting quietly at his desk looking over the homework from the night before, Wufei was reading a book and Trowa was cool as always not doing anything in particular. It was the first class of the day, and the only one the five boys had together. Class had not yet begun so the classroom was bustling and full of conversation.
Duo sighed, it had been two days since the whole incident with the base and they hadn't heard from Chase. Heero said she was probably tying up some loose ends, whatever that meant. It still hadn't been explained to him why Chase had been at the base in the first place. He glanced over at Heero, whose eyes then quickly darted back towards the front of the room. The American wrinkled his brow in confusion. /Was he watching me?/ It hadn't been the first time Duo had caught his partner looking at him with those hard cobalt eyes, only, sometimes they didn't seem that cold. He studied the other pilot for a moment. /God he's gorgeous....What?????/ He quickly moved his eyes to stare at his desk and began nervously chewing his braid. /Where the Hell had that come from?/
"Class let's settle down now." Duo didn't get a chance to analyze his last thought as the teacher walked in followed by a female student. "Now I would like you all to welcome our new student." The older woman gestured to the girl next to her. She was dressed in the school uniform, a black pleated skirt that came just above her knees, white knee socks and a white button up shirt. She had dark, golden hair that fell around her shoulders and she smiled sweetly as her cyan blue eyes searched the classroom, finally resting on cobalt.
"My name is Chase McKay. It is a pleasure to be here."
Heero would have rolled his eyes, if he was the sort of person who did that sort of thing, seeing right through her facade.
"Chase you may take a seat in the back behind Heero." The teacher instucted, "Now let's move on with today's lesson." Chase walked up the rows and took her seat.
"I see I was correct in assuming that you'd be hanging around for a while." the Japaneseboy said in a low voice.
"You were."
******
"She's what!?!?!?" . Wufei asked, puzzled as he and the other pilots stood outside later that day.
"She's my sister." Heero repeated himself, a rare occurrence indeed.
"Wow. I didn't know you had a sister Heero." the blonde Arabian said in his usual sweet tone.
"I guess you have more secrets than we thought." Trowa commented. Heero simply snorted in response.
"My ears are burning. You must be talking about me." The golden haired girl was suddenly beside them.
'We're all quite interested in hearing your story." The Chinese pilot spoke up, not wanting to beat around the bush.
"I'm sure you are." she replied, "But here is not the place." Chase glanced over at Duo. "You okay Duo? You're being quiet." The American boy looked at her and blinked a few times to snap himself back to reality.
"I'm okay. Always am." He grinned one of his famous lopsided grins. Chase couldn't help but grin back.
"If you want to hear my story we can go back to the dorms. We can even go to mine if you like." When the boys gave her odd looks she continued. "I hacked into the computer and arranged it so that the only free room was the extra single on your floor."
"Didn't they try to change it? They don't usually allow girls in the boy's dorm." Quatre inquired with a slightly skeptical look on his face.
"I assured them that I could take care of myself."
"Anyway, why don't we all go back to get to know each other." Trowa offered steering the conversation back on track.
"Good idea." Chase began to leave but a rough hand grabbed her arm, she turned to face her brother, "Yes?"
"I've been meaning to ask you, how do you know Duo so well?", the Wing pilot stared at her intently.
"I never told you?" the young girl looked genuinely surprised, Heero shook his head. "Then I'll add that to the explanation."
(1)~ I don't know if this will really work, I doubt it will. I took a little poetic license, you could say.
G-girl~ Yes!!! One more down!! Oh, but soooo much more to go.... :sigh: Well, thank God for Snow days or there is no way that this would be up right now.
On to Part Three