Title: Assailant part 6 Author: Reboo Email: lngwp@oz.zzn.com A/N: This part might be a little well lets just say it might not quite fit together, normally I just go and write and I’ll just go back and add some stuff. But this time I actually wrote this part in three different sections, so if its sorta splotchy let me know. As always reviews are great. Hopefully this is a little longer, by the way does anyone know if peppermint candy canes are addictive because I’m beginning to think they are. The laugh escaped Zechs lips as he caught a glance of himself in a window. It was a grim laugh, cold with knowledge of what had been and what will most uncertainly be, darkened by the years manifests. Death was cold and evil dark and his laugh seemed to currently personify both. Noin had been the only one to shed some light on his world and now with her missing, and because of him, his soul seemed to have drifted back to where it had been before she came, and the pain was quick becoming a comfort to his wandering soul. He walked through the town, finding peace in its darkened streets. Even the drunkards had long ago deserted the street for the safety the indoors could offer. Days ago he had left, and silently he wondered if anyone even noticed he was missing, ‘Noin would have,’ he thought then smiled cruely, ‘but she isn’t there anymore.’ Although he was tired and sore he still continued to walk as he had been doing, the spaceport was a couple of towns over, he’d just take a shuttle and go. The wind began to whip suddenly taking his long hair and swirling it about him. Grabbing his trench coat he pulled it tighter before the chills could start to come. Someone thought they had seen Noin on L2, but it was probably just Hilde. Hilde looked almost like a younger replica of Noin in some degrees, but yet completely different all the same. He’d go and check it out all the same, right now he’d check out any rumors of sitings of her. Maybe that way he would find her. Zechs stopped and looked up towards the sky, it had always been one of Noin’s favorite things to look at. Silently he prayed that that and his heart would guide him to her. The organization had been eliminating political powers for years now, taking over from the inside out, they were not simply assassins out for a good kill, but another power simply trying to take over. It surprised Noin to no end that they hadnt' seen it coming. They already had several operatives within the political ring that were in power and seemed like they were going to keep in office as well. She turned off the computer and leaned back in her chair. What was she going to do, Relena was already one of their targets, but a colony delegate was on plan to get assassinated tommorrow night, and she would have to stop it, the Preventers would be to easily noticed and the man might wait for another chance if he saw them, she'd have to be the one to stop him, there were hundreds of people on the orgs lists and the Preventers couldn't pick and choose who to protect, let alone right now she was on her own with only a little inside help. She'd go over strategies in the morning she decided and walked over to her bed and turned the light off. Tonight she would get a good sleep, that was if she could. Zechs was haunting her it seemed. She didn't know why but it was, it was almost as if something was terribly wrong but she couldn't tell what. Silently she had hoped to have been able to see him, but she wondered if it would do more good or bad.good. Then there was the chance of him not recognizing her with all the change as of late. 'Face it,' she thought,'your simply to caught up in what your doing, time is moving slow, and yet to fast at the same time.' It had been almost a month and a half since everything had begun. She had rested, recovered and was now wondering exactly what to do. The next morning she awoke to the artificial sunlight on L4 streaming through the window. She wiped her eyes as she stood up and moved to close the blinds. Light was always irritating in the morning, she thought darkness was so much better and much more appreciated. Grogilly she went and put the kettle on the stove for tea, the smell of coffee in the morning made her sick. One reason why she had always tried to avoid Zech’s and Sally’s offices in the morning, they always seemed to be drinking gallons of it. The thought of her old partners brought her back reality and the fact that she needed to call Sally and tell her what was going on. Noin’s weeks of hacking had payed off at last and she wanted Sally to know. She now knew whaat the org was doing, as well as their targets and workers. It would be a whole lot easier for Noin to spot their men out of the crowd now, and avoid them if she had to. "Owe," she yelled after banging her knee into the table. "Blasted table, darn thing had to move on me." she muttered the last part under her breath. She pulled out the lone chair at the table and sunk into it and began to rub her knee. "Scheez, couldn’t you have been a little nicer to me, huh ya dumb table." Fire said while looking straight at it. She began to run her knee again, that bump might actually bruise she mused. ‘Me Noin, hurt by a stinkin table.’ she said, ‘my old cadets would most certainly have liked to have seen this. They always said I was twinkle toes. Guess I proved them wrong.’ "Oh, boy I think I most definitely need to call Sally, before I start naming appliances as well as talking to the table and myself, I’ve got to be going insane." she giggled. Fire decidedly turned on the com link to Sally and patiently waited while it beeped, not much unlike her old alarm clock that had wound up shattered against the wall, after waking her up when she was in a bad mood. "Awe, Karin. What is it." Sally said popping up onto the screen in her pajamas and not looking so well. She sneezed and looked apologetically back at Noin. "Blesh-you," Noin replied and Sally smiled at her friend reply. "I had some stuff to ask you, and some news to share with you, but since your sick I’ll take care of it myself. And Sal you really need to take care of yourself. It’s not like you to get sick." Noin smirked, "Ecspecially since you’re the doctor." Sally scowled and growled a playful shut up. Suddenly her attitude changed however and she looked down before looking back up and the expression on her face made Noin go quiet. "Zechs isn’t well Noin." Water said simply. "Relena tells me he had locked himself in his room, no one knows if he was eating or not. Then a couple of days ago he took off." Sally coughed suddenly and covered her face. "Sorry ‘bout that." Noin’s face was expressionless as she replied. "Don’t worry ‘bout it Sal. Now keep care, okay. And thanks for telling me about Zechs." Sally simply nodded and disconnected leaving Noin to her thoughts. Slowly Fire slumped and looked in her lap. ‘Why would Zechs do this,’ she pondered. ‘He’s done crazy stupid things before, yes, but not quite like this. This simply isn’t like him, but then again he’s a really hard person to read. He keeps on throwing new stuff your way.’ She looked up at the bare ceiling, "You had to go and confirm my worries didn’t you Zechs." she said to no one at all. Decinding she had a hard day ahead of her she headed to the shower, maybe, just maybe that would help clear her thoughts and straighten things out. Disclaimer: Ha, Ha I’ve been forgetting this haven’t I and haven’t even realized it. Oh well Here it goes. Gundam Wing and its characters do not belong to me. Wow its finished, no wonder everyone gets sick of these things