Part Three
by Duogirl
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Leeda handed Max a long red dress, and Max handed it back.
"Uh-uh. I ain't gonna where a dress!"
Leeda turned around, but then swung around and tried to grab Max. Max jumped up on to the bed, and ran toward the door. Leeda got in front of her before she could reach it. Max turned and jumped on the bed again. Leeda ran at her, and when she was two feet away from Max, Max jumped right over her and sprinted out the door. Quatre and the others started down the hall.
"UNCLE QUATRE! HELP!" Max yelped as she swung around her uncle, and tried to hide behind him.
Leeda slid out the room and looked down the hall.
"UH-OH" Max chirped and turned to run.
She turned to look back and she ran in to what felt like a wall. She fell down and looked up to see what she had run into. A yellow skinned boy with black hair stared down at her with a face that was a mixture of confused and irritated. She looked behind her to she Leeda running to get her. Max crawled to her feet and tried to run again, but before she could get anywhere Trowa grabbed her shoulders and lifted her clean off the ground.
"Hey, Put me down Goliath!"
Trowa looked at Quatre, wondering what to do with this squirming girl. Quatre ask Leeda as she rushed by
"What's wrong with her?"
"Damn, girl don't want to wear a dress." Leeda told him as she took the girl back in to the room.
Quatre tried to keep him self from laughing. She is just like her mother. This girl will do almost any thing but wear a decent dress, just like her mother. Suddenly Quatre couldn't hold it any more and he burst out laughing. Trowa and Duo joined in, yet Wufei stared at them and cocked his eyebrow.
"Who was that?"
"Oh crap" Quatre stopped laughing and said under his breath. He wasn't supposed to see her yet. "That was my niece, Sorry Wu she didn't mean to run into you"
Wufei threw his hands in the air, turned around and went back to the living room back to his solitary corner. Duo looked at Quatre, and Trowa. Quatre and Duo bust out laughing again, while Trowa shakes his head and goes back to his Bruce Lee show. Leeda dragged Max in to the room and yelled for Rashid. Rashid walked in and stared at the chubby woman who was sitting on a little 15 year old, that was fighting and kicking as fast as she could.
"Don't you dare laugh! Now hold her down while I put this dress on her." Leeda ordered.
"Why me?" Rashid asked timidly.
"Because you are probably the only one besides the gundam pilots that can hold her down. And I didn't want those boys seeing her. You don't matter you won't look any way!" Leeda snapped.
Rashid held the girl down as Leeda began to take her tennis shoes off. Max jerked up and punched Rashid in the eye and kicked at Leeda, just barely missing her. Rashid tried to hold the girl but she was worse than a wild mustang that was being caged. Finally Leeda gave up and hit her upside her head with a strong blow.
"Sorry. Girl I wouldn't have done that if you would have cooperated. Rashid don't tell Master Quatre I did that." Leeda apologized
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Heero walked in the front door and headed toward his room. He stopped as he saw Rashid come out of Max's room. He was glowing bright red except for his left eye that was bruised. He walked by Heero like he didn't notice him. Heero cocked his eyebrow, shrugged and kept going. He walked by Max's room and noticed that the cobra that was coiled around Max's arm was slithering through the door. Some one from the other side picked her up.
Leeda opened the door almost knocking Heero out, walking by without helping him up. She had a grin of satisfaction on her face. Heero shook his head and got up. He looked in to Max's room. He stopped and backed up and entered the room. Max was sitting on the bed petting the cobra. Heero sat down on the bed and looked at her. She looked up at him and Heero thought he was going to go flying through the wall.
"If looks could kill." He said trying not to make eye contact with her tormenting hazel eyes.
Yeah, if looks could kill every one in a twenty-mile radius would all be incinerated. He thought. She stood up still holding the cobra. She went over to the window and looked out.
"What do you want?" she said in a voice so cold Heero got shivers down from the base of his skull, down to the base of his spine
"Ungrateful maggot!"
"Excuse me?"
"Is that any way to treat some one who saved you?"
Heero usually wouldn't care if she hadn't said thanks, but this time it was eating at him because he knew if some one had saved Quatre he would have tried to been their slave or something, but she talked to him if she didn't care if she had died or not
"So it was you? I was wondering what pilot had the gall to save me after y'all blew my mission. I wouldn't have known it was the perfect solider himself that saved me. The almighty Mr. I-care-for-no-one saved poor little old me." Max said keeping her glare out the window.
Heero stood up at the insult. She turned around waiting for a death glare. He gave it to her
"What do you mean YOUR mission? That was sent to all of us."
"Get out." Max said flatly.
"Nice dress" Heero said sarcastically, right before she slammed the door in his face.
She had slammed the door so hard that Quatre felt it vibrating on his violin strings. He laid down his instrument and wondered if Leeda had ever fought Max in to a dress. He went in to the hall where he saw Heero standing out side Max's room. Heero turned and walked toward Quatre. He stopped and gave Quatre a look. Quatre knew that Max had to have done some thing for Heero to come to him. Quatre walked over to the door. He tried to go in, but it was locked.
"Go away!" Max yelled.
"Max, come out here. I want to see you in a . . . I want to see you"
"GO AWAY! UNCLE QUATRE!"
Quatre felt like he was going to cry. He turned to Heero. "What did you do to her?"
"Me? I did nothing!"
"She is wearing a dress isn't she?" Heero nodded.
Quatre went to the kitchen to get the master keys, but they weren't there. So he went and got Duo and Trowa. He couldn't find Wufei, yet he knew he couldn't do any thing and probably wouldn't if he could. Quatre knew that Trowa might be able to knock the door down, if Duo couldn't break in to it, since he was raised as a thief. Duo got down on his knees and fiddled with the lock.
"It is unlocked now, but it won't budge." Duo said bracing and pushing the door.
Max listened to the noise outside. She smiled satisfied with the way she had rigged the door. She had pushed the bed up against it. She knew they would be able to get in, but it bought her a little time. She took the dress of and slipped her bloody shirt and old jeans back on.
"No way am I going to wear a dress." Ahh this feels much better. She thought.
She walked over to the window and lifted it up. She climbed out and shut the window. She was lad they didn't put her on the top floor. She started walking but then turned around and opened the window back up.
"tsksksks tsksksk." She called Halo over to the window where she picked her up and laid her on her shoulder.
Halo curled around Max's neck like she usually did. Max turned and walked out to the garden. She sat down on the fountain edge. She looked at her reflection in the water.
"Look at yourself Max. You look terrible." She slapped the water breaking the reflection of the girl that stared back at her. Halo slithered down her arm and stretched out on the cement in the warm summer sun.
"Spoiled snake." she said to no one in particular.
She turned suddenly when she heard a twig snap. She looked toward the sound and saw a figure sitting in the shadows of a maple tree. She looked closer it was the boy that she had run it too earlier. He was asleep now, and the movement of his body snapped a twig. She was curious to see what he looked like since she didn't get a good look at him earlier; She got up and went over to the maple tree. She looked down at the boy who leaned against the tree asleep. She knelt down beside him. She looked at his profile, studied his jet-black hair, that seemed vaguely familiar.
Suddenly her watch, that had a built in computer, began to beep, which was the signal that she had a mission. She left her sleeping mystery and ran through a gate she, some how knew lead to the front. She looked around searching for her gundam. She had found the place that all the pilots kept their gundams. They were all there except her gundam. She thought that maybe her uncle was having it repaired.
So she took the next best thing, the Shenlong.
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Trowa finally broke into the door with a little help from Heero and Rashid, who was still bright red. Duo looked in and Max was no where to be found.
"Are you sure this girl is related to you. She should be related to Duo or Houdini. Two master escape artist."
\"Trowa you have been watching to much TV, No more for you." Duo said, teasingly.
He went over to the window and pointed at the latched that had been broken.
"She must have been in a hurry"
Wufei shot up when he felt the ground trembling. The heavens are screaming. He remembered feeling someone's presence while he was in his superior state of mind, sleep. He looked towards the sky when he saw Shenlong flying toward the western sun.
"NO, NATAKU!" He yelled.
He took off toward where he had parked his motorcycle. I knew it. That girl was the gundam pilot I had been following. How dare her take my gundam! I will show her justice! Wufei thought as he sped off in hope of catching his beloved Nataku.
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" Ohh I like this gundam. Fire arm, and all that good stuff. I just hope that Wufei guy doesn't come looking for you Shenlong." Max said between mobile suits.
I wonder who that handsome young man was that was leaning against the tree. She thought. She wiped out the last of the mobile suits and destroyed the base with one swift blast from her fire dragon. Shenlong knelt down and Max jumped out.
"YEAH!! TAKE THAT OZ! TAKE THAT! HAHAHAHA" She laughed dementedly.
She stopped laughing abruptly when she heard tires squealing to a stop. She turned around ready to pull out her pistol. She saw the guy that was asleep against the tree, jump off a motorcycle and run toward the Shenlong. When he got to it he practically hugged it. He turned to her, fire glowing deep in his black eyes.
"You insolent woman! How dare you steal my Nataku! You who are weak should keep to your own possessions." Wufei yelled at her.
She looked at him, stunned that he was Chang Wufei. She took a step back and started to say that he couldn't possibly be Wufei, but came out instead was
"I destroyed this entire base myself, and you are calling me weak? If I would have had my gundam I would have been throw half an hour sooner, your gundam is way to slow!"
"DEMON! MY NATAKU COULD BEAT ANY MOBILE SUIT IT COMES AGAINST!" Wufei yelled.
"I didn't say it couldn't all I said was that it was to slow, do you have a problem with that?" Max snapped back.
" I thought you would destroy mine like you did your own. I saw the whole thing, you got distracted. That 's why women don't make good soldiers, Men have always been superior!" Wufei said right before he went flying backwards.
He was light so it didn't take as much energy as she thought to punch him back. He stumbled back and regained balance he looked at her totally surprised at the strength she used. Women aren't supposed to be that strong. She didn't use half her strength. Well she caught me by surprise. Wufei glared at her, and turned ran and jumped in to Nataku, shutting the cockpit. Nataku stood up and reached down and picked up Wufei's motorcycle. Max cocked her eyebrow. She turned around and started walking into the woods behind the Shenlong. Then she was stopped and couldn't move her shoulders. Wufei lifted her off the ground.
"AHHH! PUT ME DOWN! ON SECOND THOUGHT DON'T!" Max half screamed, half squeaked.
Wufei, inside the cockpit, rolled his eyes. God, I wouldn't take her back if I had the choice. But if I don't Maxwell, and Winner will never let me hear the end of it. She is a great fighter, but she is too weak. He flew off toward the mansion. When he landed, he set Max down. She sat on the ground and crossed her arms, like she was pouting.
Wufei jumped out and went over to her. He kicked at her as he walked by. She jerked her head in the other direction so that she couldn't see the playful grin he was giving her. What am I doing? Am I fl... flirting?! NO NO NO NO NO NO he scolded himself. He hurt himself by thinking of flirting with another woman... the painful memory of his dear wife Meiran.
He had loved only once and she was the one special person that received that odd emotion from Wufei. He cursed himself under his breath as he entered the backdoor to the kitchen, where Quatre sat with his head down on his hands. Duo was sitting at the table talking endlessly to Heero about how he used to know this girl that was a compulsive little thing. Trowa was sitting next to Quatre trying to comfort him.
"It will be ok , Q-chan. She will come back, you're her uncle remember that." Quatre just grunted in response.
Wufei stopped in the doorway watching their movements, that told him they were worried about the trouble-making girl that was pouting outside.
"Trowa, she wasn't supposed to wake up for another three days. How do we know she fully recovered?" Quatre mumbled, head still buried deep in his arms.
"She's fine," Wufei said abruptly.
He walked over and took two glasses from the counter and filled with milk. Then he turned and walked back out the door; leaving Quatre surprised at the sudden entrance and tone of Wufei's voice. Wufei had this sudden interest in this girl. How could she be so strong? She is just a weak woman. That's it women are weak, therefore the carry the emotions strongly. I must learn more about her but how? . He looked at the girl that he was walking closer to while he was thinking. I know! I could make her think that I love her, to find out all her weak points, then I can get this girl gundam pilot out of my way for good! Wufei thought laughing to himself sinisterly.
Congratulating himself on his intellectual brilliance. He sat down next to the girl and thrust his arm out to hand her the glass of milk. She turned and looked at him with a cocked eyebrow. What the hell? I thought he hated women, Especially strong ones. What is he trying to pull?
"Well take it." Wufei said setting the drink in his outstretched hand in hers.
He looked at her as she studied the drink timidly.
"What?"
"What did you do to it?"
"NOTHIN'! I WAS TRYING TO BE GENEROUS!" he yelled at her
"That's a change" she said matter of factly.
She took a drink and it tasted fine, yet she felt weird. She looked over at the boy, who was sitting uncomfortably close to her. She noticed that he was looking at her, making her feel even more uncomfortable. She looked into his smoldering black eyes, trying to read his emotionless face. What she saw was deeper than his emotions. She was reading his soul. No he is only trying to learn more about me by tricking me. He actually feels for me and doesn't know it. Either that or he is really good at disguising himself. She said trying to figure him out.
"Hey since I heard you don't like to where dresses, what will you wear? You gonna wear that every day?" He said taking his gaze off of her.
She looked down at her bloody and tore shirt, and her ripped jeans.
"Well I guess since you brought me back here I could squander some money off Quatre and go shopping for a new wardrobe." She said bringing her eyes up to meet his. "What?"
"I just noticed the way the sun is shining on your hair, I t makes it look like you have a halo."
"HALO?! I totally forgot about her!" Max said jumping to her feet.
Wufei got up slowly "Who? What?"
Max had taken off before she could answer him. He followed he closely, to the fountain, where she bent down and started to make a calling sound. "tsksksksksksksks tsksksks" He watched her as she picked up something and put it on her shoulder. She turned around and he saw the cobra coiled gently around her delicate neck.
"Cool. Is this Halo?"
Max nodded. They went back to the place where they had sat their empty glasses, and sat back down.
"Hey Wuf...." Duo started when he stuck his head out the kitchen widow, but stopped when he saw that Wufei was sitting very, VERY close to Max. "OH MY GOD!!!! QUATRE, TROWA, HEERO COME LOOK AT THIS! THE WU-MAN FOUND THE RUNNAWAY!"
Heero and the others stuck their heads out the door, in time to see Wufei help Max up.
"Who would have, " Quatre started
"What the hell. . . " Heero started.
Trowa just grunted and went back inside. Max ran over to Quatre, smiling innocently. She gave him her best puppy-pouting face.
"Uncle Quatre, You know I won't wear a dress, but I need something to wear. Can I have some money to get me some clothes, since Trint probably already burned mine."
Quatre hugged his niece, who when she slouched down she was two inches shorter that him.
"Sure." He said calmly. "But you will need an escort, I will send Rashid with you."
"What?" Max said in a "You're kidding" tone.
Rashid was listening to their conversation and intervened."Master Quatre. Please don't make me accompany her. Look at what she did to me!" He said pointing to his black eye.
"She needs some one to go with her" Quatre said in a worried tone.
He couldn't go with her because he had afternoon classes. Trowa was the same. He didn't want Heero or Duo going with her, because the way things were going only one person would come back alive
"Wufei can go with me?" She said trying to persuade her beloved uncle.
He looked at her and nodded. He handed her some money and hugged her again. She turned around and took Wufei by the arm. He looked down at her. So, I guess this means she is falling for it. He led her out to his motorcycle, and helped her on. He got on in front of her. She wrapped her arms around his slender abs and held on tight. They entered the store walking about two inches apart. What is the matter with this picture?She thought to her self.
She walked over to the work out clothes, Wufei hot on her heels. She looked at him. He was looking at the guns that were mounted to their left He had on the only pair of jeans he had. He had on a white muscle shirt, with an unbuttoned plaid shirt over it. I don't care if he is playing with my emotions he is still hot. She looked back at the work out clothes. She reached over and slapped Wufei on the shoulder.
"I am going to go to this on I will be right back." She said walking of towards the fitting rooms.
He slipped his hands in his pant pockets, and looked around. Suddenly something caught his eye. He walked over to a rack of fine silk dresses. She would look gorgeous in one of these. What am I thinking!?! Well she would I think. He turned around to find her looking threw some denim jeans. He walked over to her and leaned on the shelf.
"Do you think I could talk you in to at least trying on a dress? After all you will need one when you uncle enrolls you in school, and I didn't think you would want to wear those old fashion things."
She looked at him and searched his face." Which one did you have in mind?" She said turning to the rack of dresses.
He walked over and pulled one off that was off-white, with a bright green cobra curling up from the bottom of the dress and ending up with its head seemingly resting on the chest area. She took the dress, and looked at the size. You're good Wufei. She turned to the dressing room, then turned around and looked at him.
"I'll need a judge to see if it is me."
He followed her over to the dressing room. She went in and changed then came out and looked in the mirror. She snarled her nose up and taking a hold of her hair band, pulled it off. Her shoulder length maple colored curls fell down around her shoulders. She smiled at the look. She walked out of the dressing area too show Chang. Wufei was looking around, not knowing what to expect when she came out. He looked toward the area door and kept telling himself You are tricking her, You don't feel for nobody. She is not pretty.
Just then she appeared before him. He couldn't keep his jaw from dropping. Damn, Damn, Damn, Damn, DAMN! That looks good on her. It hugs her curves perfectly. The dress was a straight top that showed off a little of her cleavage. The cobra was perfectly positioned so that it's head lay in between her breasts. The sleeves were long and flared out at the end.
Wufei scanned the length of the dress. He looked down her and started back up but stopped when he saw the slit. He followed the slit that ended at her hip. It showed the majority of her right leg, noticing that her legs had multiple bruises. He kept going up until his eyes met hers. He noticed; also that she was slightly blushing.
"Damn, girl that looks good." Wufei whispered.
A few other customers had stopped and were looking at her. A young man started clapping, and others joined in. Wufei joined in, unknowingly. She went back to the mirror.
"It would be a crime not to buy this sexy thing." She looked at the price tag, and thought she was going to faint. She balanced her self and ended up in a fighting stance, just to keep herself balanced. The dress was on clearance for ten dollars.
She changed back and continued shopping. Wufei pretty much approved of every thing. She was ready to checkout and turned back to tell Wufei, but he wasn't behind her like he tried to stay. She stood on her tiptoes and looked over the racks. She spotted him talking to a store clerk. She paid another clerk. She had to change out of the torn up stuff. So she instead put on a tank top that fit her real good, and she put on a pair of loose cargo pants, and a pair of platforms. She looked in the mirror to approve her self and went to find Wufei. He was still talking to the same clerk.
She walked over toward him, when a guy took a hold of her arm and turned her around. He and a few others backed her up into a corner. Wufei glanced around to see if he could still see Max. He could see her all right. She was backed in a corner by three guys twice her size. He started toward her.
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Quatre sat down in his desk in his homeroom class. He tapped his pen on his desk, nervous, about Max and Wu. He knew Wufei well and, he knew that he wouldn't have fallen for some one like her. Would he? He stared out the window. He ignored all his teacher was talking about. He walked out of his first class and ran straight in to his crush.
"Oh Sorry Dorothy." He said hanging his head so that she wouldn't be able to see him blush.
She smiled and him and took him by the arm. "Sit with me for lunch!"
"Ok."
He had wanted her to say that since after the battle at the White Fang, base. Yes, he and Trowa loved each other, but they each knew that they were just there to comfort each other. They both knew the others dream to get married to a beautiful woman and start a family.
They entered the lunchroom and Quatre glanced around to find Trowa. He was standing at the payphone talking to his old girlfriend Catherine.
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Wufei walked over to the man standing directly in front of Max. He grabbed the man and spun him around so that he was facing him.
"Get your hands off of her and Keep them off." Wufei said icily.
The man was taller than Wu, but he didn't back down to size. The man smiled and threw a punch at Wufei, which was easily dodged. Suddenly the man's head was jerked back and he was put in a sleeper hold the other two men tried to get the tall one loose from Max's grip. But every time they tried she would kick them back. Wufei went to help her.
He took out his small hunting knife and tilted his head. Max sat them unconscious man on the ground. One of the other men tried to grasp at Max, but Wufei took his knife and placed it right up under the man's balls.
"Touch her and you won't be a man no more." Wufei said and put his knife back up and turned to Max, who was giving him a sly, playful grin.
Knowing he had scared the shit out of them Wufei wrapped one arm around Max's waist and flipped the guys off with the other hand. They walked out of the store.
"Why did you do that for me Wufei?"
"I have no idea." He really didn't know.
Then he did. He was trying to fool her any more he had actually fallen in love with this girl which was as the great Chinese dragon; beautiful, mysterious, and strong.
To be continued********
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