This is a cross over with a series that I’m working on. I tried not to put in too much, but there are a lot of allusions still. It’ll prolly make sense when I gather up enough courage to put up the series. Maybe. (FYI It’s called Sol’s End)

 

I’m just dying to make a fic that throws together My bounty hunter and her un-catchable prey. If anyone’s interested, it turns out something like Boba Fett and Han Solo in the books. Or maybe Ru Bled and Narutaki. ^_^

 

I don’t own Gundam wing but I do own Kyu and anything else she refers to. Oh, I don’t own coke either.

 

Coke and Fries

GWing Fic By J. Helios

 

“A large coke and large fries please” Kyu looked at the hopelessly young attendant across the counter. He smiled back cheerily though the bounty hunter could see that the edges were cracking from over smiling. She hoped that the kid’s shift was nearly over. He looked like he needed the rest.

 

“Will that be all Sir?” Kyu didn’t even blink at the mistake and nodded.

 

She paid for her food and grabbed her tray. She walked around the small fast food joint and sighed as she realized that there was no other place for her to sit.

 

She cursed Zephyr under her breath. If the control freak hadn’t sent her here for ‘much much needed R & R’ she wouldn’t be bored enough to actually go to a fast food joint. And when she realized that he, (With help from Rois and Jan[1]) was monitoring air traffic around L-3 and stopping WHATEVER she was on, she decided she wanted to take a number 14 wire and strangle him with it. She wasn’t ‘stiff and tense’ she was perfectly fine! The only reason she was damn tense was her prey never…

 

Empty spot just to the side.

 

With lightning reflexes born of years of training to become a bounty hunter, she glided towards the empty spot.

 

…just in time with someone else…

 

“I got here first” She blinked as the guy said the exact same thing. At the exact same time. “No I did” they BOTH blinked.

 

For a moment, Kyu bent a bit, trying to see under the black cap of her rival. :Damn, he looks pretty damn familiar:

 

Apparently, he thought so too. Chestnut bangs and indigo eyes flashed as he looked up and smiled. “Hello Kyu-baby”

 

“Maxwell….” She hissed. :in a public place. With my hands MILES away from my gun. Damn. I have GOT to take Jan up on his offer. I wonder how much wrist guns would…:

 

“With my gun just…” he mockingly looked behind him “Miles away” he smiled his infuriating grin back at her. “Not to mention the fact we’re in public.”

 

:Dammit. He’s a mind-reader: she frowned at him. “So? Now what?”

 

“Now?” he looked thoughtful for a moment. “For now I suppose I’d like to enjoy my food” he nodded towards his tray which was cluttered with his food.

 

Kyu couldn’t restrain a sweatdrop at the amount that filled the teenager’s tray. “And then what?”

 

He rolled his eyes. “Gawd, you’re just like Heero. SO damned focused.” He gave her a grin. “Can we just enjoy our food and THEN maybe think about killing each other AFTER?”

 

He was so irreverent that Kyu just nodded and decided to sit down. She could kill him later. Or tomorrow. On some other day. But not today. Whether she liked it or not, it was her day off. He sat on the seat across from her and smiled.

 

“Stop that” she said, idly tapping a fry on the tray.

 

He blinked and grinned even wider. “Stop what?”

 

She rolled her eyes. :Star Wars hunh: she thought.[2] “You know very well what. Grinning like a Cheshire cat, grinning like the foolish boy that you are.”

 

“Ehe, who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who keeps on following the fool?” misquoted the boy. He unwrapped the huge hamburger and grinned at it.

 

“I’m only doing my job” she threw a small fry at him.

 

He ducked and the fry flew past his shoulder. He then took a huge bite out of the burger. He said something but all she got was “Moghphghahohghhhh” and a few flying bits of meat.

 

“That is disGUSTING, Maxwell!” she said, wiping away a stray bit that hit her cheek. She glared at him.

 

He swallowed and for a moment she was hypnotized by the movement of the burger down his throat. “Sorry” his sincere voice snapped her back into reality. “I said that I was doing mine as well”

 

She rolled her eyes. “Yeah sure.” She ate a few more fries, watching him intently while he wolfed down the rest of the burger.

 

After a while, he looked up and gave her a pained look. “Will you PLEASE stop looking at me while I’m eating? You make it look like I’m committing a mortal sin by eating.”

 

She smirked. “It IS Friday”

 

He stuck his tongue out at her. “Yeah and?”

 

“Never mind. It’s lost on you”

 

“You’re just an old fogey” he said after taking a sip of his coke. :Extra large: noted Kyu with a wince :no wonder this kid’s always hyper:

 

“Fogey?” she rolled her eyes. “Where have you been getting your vocabulary? 60’s reruns?”

 

“Hah. At least I have a vocabulary” he rolled his eyes at her. “Everytime we see each other the first thing you say is…” he sighed and said “Maxwell….” Perfectly copying her voice and mannerism.

 

She blinked. “Yeah well…you’d always be grinning.” She winced at the weak comeback.

 

He didn’t seem to notice and just shrugged.

 

She ate her last fry and realized that he too was finished and was eating the ice from his coke noisily. “You’re done?” she asked incredulously.

 

He smiled and motioned to the pile of fast food packaging that lay wasted on his tray. “Unfortunately.” He frowned “Still hungry though.”

 

Her jaw dropped. “Where does it all go?”

 

He patted his stomach and smiled.

 

She rolled her eyes.

 

They both sat there for a while, in silence, while the lunch crowd streamed around them. Kyu tapped her fingers on the table and watched him watching her.

 

“Okay. So now what?” he said finally.

 

She shrugged. “It’s my day off.” She stood up and smiled at him. “Psyche”

 

He smiled right back at her, “And I don’t have my gun” he tilted his head. “Psyche”

 

There was a period of silence.

 

“You’re still number one on my list you know” she gave him a small smile while edging away.

 

“And I’m still going to run.” He smiled. “Ja.” And threw something at her.

 

She ducked , expecting an explosion. But what greeted her was a shower of ice cubes. :Dammit. He threw the cup at me: she rolled her eyes as she picked herself off the floor. :That was SO lame.:

 

She calmly stepped out into the streets. A Tall man was right across the fast food place and she made her way there.

 

“You knew he would be there” she said to him. They met half way and walked down the street together.

 

“I Haven’t the faintest idea of what you’re talking about Mon Ami” Zephyr smiled at her.

 

“I could kill you” she said, her soft smile taking away the edge in her words.

 

“Ah, but that would be a difficult thing.” He laughed. “Bite…non, Kill that hand that feeds you?”

 

“You’re not feeding me anything.” She looked up at the colony that lay sprawled out before her. “I pay for my own food”

 

“Oui, mon petit chou” he smiled.

 

“You’re still a horrible person”

 

“And you still have two more days of vacation” he smiled. “Come with me and eat at the French restaurant tonight?” there was a twinkle in his dark green eyes. “Or would you rather spend it at another fast food joint with Monsieur Maxwell?”

 

She laughed and kissed him instead.

 

-- End --

 

[1] Okay, roll call…. Zephyr, Kyu, Rois, Jan, Garm, Stacho. ^_^ This would be before Stacho’s botched smuggling run.

[2] Scene from Empire Strikes Back, where Han is massaging Leia’s hand.