Jumping up and to the left to avoid the charging dog Relena slipped on the tile floor in her bare feet. "Ahh" escaped her lips before landing right into unknown arms. Eyes wide in shock Relena glanced up to find herself looking into emerald green eyes that seemed to be trying to hide behind brown bangs.
He smiled, (well almost), before setting her up right. "Miss Dorlin!" Letting go of her completely he gave her a full bow.
"Daddy! Get him before he hurts the cat!" A little black haired boy shouted before chasing after the dog.
A little girl who had been running with the boy stopped. Looking from Relena to Trowa a small smile spread across her face. "Don't listen to Trev, I can handle it" The girl resumed her quest of getting the dog and acquiring a new pet cat.
Relena Assumed the black haired boy to be Trev. "Excuse me," He said directly to Relena then started after the children.
Standing there Relena blurted out "Romance" Stopping in his tracks to stare at her again the man didn't say any thing; the look on his face was one of confusion "I...Uh, this reminded me of something... nothing" She stammered. 'Now wasn't the time to remember the last part of Noin's speech' she scolded herself as she felt heat making its way across her cheeks. Just sort of nodding he went left hot on pursuit of the runaways. Standing there looking to where the cat, Dog, two children, and good looking man had gone down the hall Relena sighed. 'Get a grip, he's probably married,' spotting the pop machine Relena dug for coders in her pocket. Putting a few in She tried to decide which kind she wanted.
"Yes I'm sure they came in here!" A very angry, booming man's voice cut through the room. "The dog they were chasing left mud prints leading right in here!" He shouted.
Having no doubt that "They" were the children and their father Relena paid close attention to what the hotel manager said back. "Please sir, calm your self. If the people who skipped out on paying you are here I'll see to it they are found."
Forgetting her pop Relena looked to where she had last seen the dog going up the steps leading to bed rooms. Sure enough there was a more than obvious trail of mud. Trying to look inconspicuous Relena headed back up the steps. Following the paw prints, she saw where the muddy trail veered off on floor three. Glancing down she saw that the manager had sent a bell hop to follow the dog's trail, she also noticed he was a very old man who was rather slow. Seeing nothing else handy Relena took off her green vest. Wincing she hoped Zechs wouldn't be too mad if she ruined it, he had given it to her last spring. Getting on her knees she began scrubbing the mud up with the silk vest. "It's for a good cause, just because even I don't know what that cause is doesn't detract from it's importance" She muttered, once again speaking to herself. After two feet of scrubbing she didn't see any more mud to tell where the dog had gone she stood back up. "Let's just hope he ran out of mud" Looking down at her vest she sighed.
"Excuse me, miss?"
Startled by the husky voice Relena quickly turned around, hiding the vest behind her back. "Yes, sir can I help you?" She said smiling what she could only hope to be an innocent one, as she recognized the elderly bell hop sent on the dog chase.
"Did you see a dog pass through on this floor?" He asked smiling politely, Relena noticed he was a little out of breath.
Feeling a twinge of guilt Relena shook her head no. 'Well it's not really a lie' she told her conscience 'I didn't see the mutt actually on this floor'
"Well thank you" The bell hop went on to the next set of steps to go to floor five. When he was finally out of sight Relena turned to where she knew the trail had once led.
Sitting down in the hall Trev tried to get his breath back. "Go... On. with out me." He told his sister.
She stood there torn, between not wanting to leave her brother alone and catching the dog before he hurt Ally, as she had already named the cat. Finally making her decision she shook her head. "You stay I stay, I go you go" She said sitting down next to him. Glancing up at the sound of foot steps the man she was pinning her hopes on came. And he wasn't looking happy. He didn't say a word, just stood there towering over them with that "you're in so much trouble" look. Unable to stand the silence any longer she began to explain "Well you see there was this reeeeallly cute and sweet kitty, and I named her Ally, but there was this dog too and he was trying to hurt the cat because that's what dog's do. But I didn't want him to so I tried to stop him. But I was also trying to feed Ally 'cause she was just so thin. But as soon as I had touched her she got all upset and jumped down to get away, and the Dog-"
"-Enough" He demanded, his voice wasn't raised but she knew she was in for it, big time. "You left the restaurant by your self-"
"I was with her" Trev spoke up a little.
Glancing down at Trev he nodded "You left the restaurant with out an adult, crossed three streets, with out looking both ways and then, came running into a respectable establishment were you knocked down one fake tree, nearly ran over a lady's foot and" He stopped, took a deep breath and finished "What am I going to do with you?"
'He doesn't just mean about this' Ona thought as she looked in to his eyes and studied his face 'He's wanting to know what to do with us because we're abandoned'
"You could spank us, and we'll never do it again" Trev spoke up.
Trowa only blinked in shock 'Does he not believe in hitting children?' Ona wondered. It only made her like him all the more. Ona shuffled her feet trying to think of a way to get his mind onto another topic. "I heard some one shouting, it sounded like the waiter"
He nodded "After we get Ally we have to go back and pay him for the meal."
Eyes going wide Ona smiled, but before she could thank him for letting them get Ally another voice spoke. "So that was it?"
Trowa turned to see Miss Relena standing behind him, while he had seen her on T.V. many times, and even spoken to her over a radio, he'd never seen her face to face before today. Taking note of something muddy in her hands, her bare feet, and now messed up hair, he had to admit this was the last way he had ever thought they would meet.