Maybe Angels

Title: Maybe Angels Part 14/?? ~ Stolen Away
Author: Makoto Sagara
Archives: the usual suspects; anywhere else, just ask
Category: Supernatural, Angst, Romance
Pairing(s): 2+5, 1+2, 3+1, 4+3, 4+2, H+4, 6+9, S+C, R+OC, 5+R (friendship), 13x5, eventual 2x5x2
Rating: T (13+)
Warnings: Shonen ai, OOC, AU, language, skewed views of a few different religions

Disclaimers: (sigh) No part of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, or its characters, belongs to me. Any references to Dogma are just made because I adore the movie and Kevin Smith, and are meant only out of love and affection for both. Not a single cent was made off of this piece of fanfiction. Suing would be inevitably pointless, seeing as how I have no money. Flames -will- be used to entertain my rabid muses... All three of them... They live for the things.

A/N: Last chapter was short, but it was good. Now, on to...More interference!!!! Mwahahahahaha! (Cues the suspenseful music b/c she has issues.)

Symbols: =-=-= change in scene, POV, or time
=---= Minor change in scene or flashback
- Blah - in mind communication
-Blah- emphasized words

=-------------------=
Hello again
Seem like forever between now and then
You look the same
I mean you look different but you haven't changed
Funny to think how the time gets away
Funny how you take me right back again
Stole me away
First time I saw you, you did me that way
What should I say?
I saw you laughin' and I was afraid that I'd get in the way
I did not think I would see you again
So how have you been?
Do you remember, lose everything
Funny I think how the time gets away
Funny how you take me right back again
Stole me away
First time I saw you, you did me that way
What should I say?
Saw you there dancin' but I was afraid I might get in the way
I did not think I would see you again
Funny to think how the time gets away
Funny how you take me right back again
Funny the feeling when forever ends
Stole me away
~ Stolen Away on 55th & 3rd by Dave Matthews Band
=----------------------=

Stolen Away

Four years for humans passes so quickly, especially when they are teenagers. They grow physically, emotionally and mentally. Well, most of them do. Some will never grow up, but that's another story. One that is meant for another storyteller, I suppose.

However, I knew Wufei when I saw him again. Even though he'd grown another seven or eight inches and his hair had become so long that it reached half way down his back in his normal pony tail, he still looked like the gorgeous thirteen year old I'd been assigned to and the breathtaking child that drew me to him when he was first born. He moved with a grace that could only be described as gliding. And when he wasn't at school or his after school job at the collage library, he was wearing white silk pants and a white tank top.

Dear God, save me, I didn't appear to him when I arrived back to Earth. I just watched him as he practiced his kung fu with his partner. It was then that I took a look at the man he was practicing with. He was older than Wufei, by at least six or so years, stood at six-foot-three-inches with incredible definition for someone that tall, had wavy auburn hair that was perfectly mussed by sweat, bright blue eyes, and a wide smile. He was... perfect. Absolutely perfect.

The sight they produced made my heart stop. I couldn't help but feel jealous of the older man. They stopped and took a small break, making small talk and joking. Wufei's rich laughter, light and full of sensuous promises, filled the air of the gym they were using. And the look in the other's eyes told me that he found his partner attractive. I could feel the attraction that Wufei had for him as well, only a dozen times over. I wanted to go back to Heaven right then and there and never come back, but I knew I had a duty to do.

- Duo? -

- Y-yes, Wufei, I'm back. – I tried to keep what I recognized as my jealousy out of my voice, but I'm not sure that I did such a good job of it. – I see that Quatre took good care of you again. -

- He's like a mother hen. How have you been able to stand him for so long? I wanted to strangle him after the first week of your... vacation. -

I gave a strangled chuckle. – Yeah, vacation. I dunno. Q's a good guy, so cut him some slack. There weren't any more attacks on you, were there? –

- Didn't Quatre tell you? My uncle tried to come back, yet again, for dà niáng (1). He's been arrested and in jail for about two years now. Things besides that have been calm. _He_ hasn't been around since then. -

I let out a deep sigh, taking that as both a good and a bad sign. Solo was just waiting for me to return. I knew he hadn't been caught by anyone. I would have heard of it the moment that he was captured and eradicated. However, whatever relief I had from that news was short lived.

"Well, if it isn't the Playful One Who Fucks Up Royally?"

I repressed the urge to throttle Dorothy as she made a grand entrance. Although, even now, I find the thought of choking her with her own hair and plucking out her eyebrows until they're all gone strangely pleasing. Trying to keep my very un-angelic thoughts out of my eyes and off my face, I turned to the blonde angel. "Dorothy."

"Ah, now, Diachriel, is that anyway to greet a friend?"

"What makes you think we're friends, Dionyzial?" I asked sweetly.

"So true; however, with the way our charges are getting along, I think we will be seeing a lot more of one another." She pointed to the two men, who were talking animatedly about their practice session. "I tried to convince poor Treize that being friends with the Chang boy wasn't very practical, but he just seems to enjoy the brat's company. I can't for the life of me figure out why." She rolled her eyes blue eyes and heaved a dramatic sigh.

I looked back at my beautiful charge and felt another pang of jealousy, which made me want to cry, it was so sharp. It was then that I noticed he was packing up his things and making to leave the building with the elusive Treize. "As much as I hate to say this, Dorothy, but I think we will be seeing each other more." - God help me, - I thought.

- What did you say? - Wufei asked.

Yes, I had actually said that through our telepathic link, even though I hadn't meant to do so. Silently cursing myself, I replied back, - Nothing, Wufei. I was just thinking to myself. –

- Okay, well, Treize and I are going to clean up and then go to lunch. You are welcome to join us, the way that you normally do, or you can do whatever it is that you do when you are not with me. -

- Thanks, - I said wryly, for the first time really noticing how much I'd missed his sense of humor.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

While we were separated, Wufei managed to excel through middle school and high school. He was allowed to take classes that weren't offered for students in his years, and he even graduated high school two years earlier than Relena, Hiroshi, and Meiran. When I returned, he was in the middle of his first year of college at the local university, where his father taught history. His grades for the first semester were damn near perfect, and it seems that he and Treize had met in his English 201 class, where the other man was the Teacher's Assistant.

Everywhere the two went, both men and women followed with their eyes and whispers. Many women had their hearts broken by my gorgeous charge, but he was unperturbed. Yukari, Hiroshi's younger sister and Meiran's best friend, seemed to have gotten over her crush on Wufei and had found a boyfriend. Meiran had given into Hiroshi and the two had been dating for over a year, although it wasn't very serious on the Chinese girl's side of the relationship. Wufei often went out and hung with Relena or brought the blonde girl to a lot of the college functions so she would not have to be at home, brooding over the Japanese boy and her best friend's sister.

Not to say that Relena was not pursued by other men and boys. She was. However, the beautiful young woman wanted nothing to do with them. Her heart would not allow her to think of anyone but Hiroshi Takai, although I believe she was the most well behaved woman I have ever seen who has been spurned completely. She politely declined all advances, claiming that her classes and job took up too much time for her to date. It really broke my heart to see her acting like that.

My love has told me that I'm showing signs that I might have a crush on the young woman. I think he's insane and never got to see the girl as a baby. Excuse me as I shudder a bit and ramble on.

Needless to say, life had passed on well for the group of humans while I was away. To be honest, I was a bit distraught that I wasn't missed more during my absence. How wrong I was....

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

I followed Wufei to his father's house, upset with the fact that I had let myself be gone from the one human that I didn't want to be separated from, not paying attention to the happily humming Hilde awaiting my return. We had no sooner arrived in the door when I was... I believe the term is "bum-rushed"... by a flutter of wings, black hair, and girlish squealing.

"DUO!" I tried to disentangle myself from the other angel, but had no such luck. "You have no idea how much I've missed you." She punctuated her remark with a deathly squeeze around my middle section. Good thing angels don't eat, or I probably would have puked all over her.

"You didn't write. You didn't visit," I wheezed, finally getting my arms and legs and hair out of harm's way. "It couldn't have been -that- bad, Hilde."

I saw her cute face crumple into an annoying adorable pout. "I can't help that I've been so busy. I tried to have Quatre or Heero or Trowa tell you to contact me, but they all said that you were unreachable."

I looked at my friend's face and hugged her fiercely. "I had to stay away from everything that reminded me of Wufei during my punishment, Hill. I'm sorry. I missed you too." I gave her my most charming smile and she returned one of her shy ones. "So, I heard that Meiran and Hiroshi are an item now and have been for some time..."

"Yes, that's true, but she doesn't seem that interested in him. Or any other boy, for that matter. She doesn't talk much to me anymore. I suppose I should be used to this. It's not like she's the first charge that I've had that's decided that I don't exist after they reach a certain age, but her absence seems to have hit me the hardest. I just don't know why."

"Perhaps she has an interest in members of the same sex?" I asked carefully.

"I don't think that's it, Duo," she said, sitting down on the floor in the Changs' living room. "I think she's just not that interested in becoming anyone's wife and mother just yet. I'm sure you understand that from previous charges."

"I can see that," I replied, sitting next to her. "She has a fierce spirit, like Joan of Arc. Remember when you had to deal with her?"

That brought a huge smile out on my friend's face. "Of course. I couldn't help but admire her dedication though. Isn't that when Jean-Paul and Giselle changed their names?"

"I suppose it is," I said, after a moment of trying to recollect the time. "It's just so hard to tell with those two. Oh, and they send their love."

At that moment, Wufei came pounding through the living room, calling out his sister's name. "Mei, where are you?"

"Kitchen, 'Fei. I'm cooking dinner before Dà niáng and Father get home," she called out. "What's wrong?"

My charge walked swiftly into the kitchen and sat down at the breakfast table. "I have that tournament on Saturday... Plus, Relena and I are going to that gala her father is making her attend... And..."

"And? What?" Meiran slammed the spoon she was using to stir the vegetables and meat in the wok on the stove and stalked over to her twin brother. "You sound too happy. Something good must have really happened." She bent over and locked eyes with the boy. "Did Relena tell you you were going to get lucky after that gala-thingy?"

"No," Wufei said, stunned.

"Then what?"

"I just found out that I'm first in my class." He cocked one slender eyebrow at the girl still standing in front of him, invading his personal space. "What makes you ask if Relena and I are going to engage in sexual intercourse?"

Meiran sighed audibly. "Never mind, Wufei. Who'd want to have sex with someone who describes it so dryly? I'd be like trying to sleep with a textbook."

"Are you saying that you and Hiroshi have already had sex?" I could hear a bit of the older brother coming out in the boy.

- If she has, Wufei, it really isn't any of your business, - I tried to remind him.

- Stay out of this, Duo, - he snarled telepathically.

"I don't see how it involves you, but yes. Prom night, while you were with Little Miss Princess Perfect, Hiroshi and I stayed overnight at a hotel." Her eyes narrowed dangerously. "And if you breathe a word of this to our parents, I'll cut you into pieces so tiny, there won't be enough for DNA to identify you." She gave him a sweetly poisonous smile and went back to her cooking.

- She's dangerous. -

- Too true... I can't tell her what really happened today though. I doubt that she would understand it. -

- Well? -

- Treize asked me to dinner Friday night. -

TBC...


Notes:
1 dà niáng - (informal) father's older brother's wife; aunt