Blood Lust

Part 2: Gira's Story

by Tamara Galin



    Give me time to reason
    Give me time to think it through...

    Passin' through the season,
    Where I cheated you...

    She stared in utter horror at the severe burn on her hand as she fell to her knees in agony.  Oh god did she hate being controlled like this.  She had failed her most important mission yet: to kill the enemy, aka Heero Yuy.  Unfortunately for her, he had lived.  The pain devise in her hand and upper arm had not been pushed this far before, and it hurt so much...

    "Gira, return to home base or suffer more."

    "Y... yes sir..."

    She slowly got to her feet and began walking in the direction of the assassin's headquarters...


    "You can shut-up now, Maxwell..."

    "Oh I couldn't do that!  You'd get bored!"

    "No we wouldn't!"  All the occupants in the car except Duo yelled.

    Heero had healed really quickly.  He was only in the hospital for a week before the doctors released him.  They were completed baffled.  Not the four other pilots, though.  This was the guy who blew himself up on a daily basis and survived, only to go and blow himself up all over again for pete's sake! ( Yea, I do make Heero seem like a person with weird powers in this story but he doesn't! )

    They pulled into the driveway and helped a very reluctant Heero into the house.  He immediately walked upstairs and slammed the door behind him.

    I will always stand across the river
    The boat reminds me I was there
    So give me strength to face this test of mine...


    She sat alone in her room, secluded from the rest of the building.  She had been given one last chance to complete her mission.  She was told to go to Heero Yuy's home while he was recovering and kill him while he was asleep.  She felt a little uneasy about this, but the pain... the searing, blinding, pain which held her freedom captive was what kept her from retaliating.

    She grabbed her cloak and knives and set out into the dark of night...


    Duo yawned sleepily.  It was one in the morning and he insisted on staying up and watching a Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi Universe, and Tenchi in Tokyo marathon.  (^_~ ) He was so preoccupied that he didn't hear the quiet snap of the kitchen window as it snapped shut or the figure that silently slunk upstairs towards Heero's room.

    She silently entered her enemy's room.  The sleeping form of Heero Yuy lay peacefully in his bed as she approached and drew her long knife.  He shifted and she could  now see his features perfectly because of the open window and misty moonlight.  A messy brown head of hair was what she could tell most.  It decorated his stern face in an unruly mass.  She suddenly didn't have the will to kill him.  Her enemy.  His peaceful face so innocent in his sleep, so beautiful...  She finally lifted the blade and hesitated.  < Why do I have to kill him?  He's so young... come to think of it... so am I...>  She shook her head and put a disgusted look on her face.  She finally plunged the knife towards her victims face...

    If only I could turn back time!
    If only I had said what I still hide!

    If only I could turn back time!
    I would stay for the night, for the night...


    He was sleeping lightly that night.  This new enemy would come after him again and he wanted to be woken by the slightest thing.  And he was awoken, too.  By a brief touch of soft hair on his face.  When he opened his eyes, he saw the girl from the concert standing over him, knife in hand and, luckily, he caught the knife just as she brought it down to meet his face, leaving the blade only inches away from his face.  Then, something wet hit his cheek.  He thought it was just raining and he had left his window open, that is until the girl let go of the knife and fell to floor crying.

    Claim your right to science,
    Claim your right to see the truth.

    Though pranks of conscience
    Will drill a hole in you...

    I've seen it coming like a thief in the night
    I seen it coming from the flesh of your light...

    Heero put the knife in the cabinet and replaced it with his gun.  He got out of bed and walked over to the crying girl, keeping the gun on her the whole time.  She stopped crying and stood, unarmed and unafraid.

    "Do it." She said plainly.

    "Huh?"

    "Pull the trigger.  It will ease both my suffering and yours."

    Heero stood expressionless and just as motionless.  Why did the girl want him to kill her?  Just as that thought ended, the sound of footsteps was heard and there, standing in the doorway, pistol drawn, was Duo.

    "A heard the commotion and thought I'd come and check it out.  The other three are on their way."

    Heero nodded.  He lowered his gun and Gira found her opportunity.  She smirked and chucked a small dagger at Heero and turned her attention to Duo, not knowing her dagger had not met it's mark until she felt a searing pain in her side.  She slowly reached her hand around, eyes closed in pain, and clasped her hand around the very same dagger she had thrown at Heero.  She pulled it out, wincing, before the control devise kicked in full blast and she passed out.

    So give me the strength to face this test of mine...

    If only I could turn back time!
    If only I could say what I still hide!

    If only I could turn back time!
    I would stay!


    That blasted girl!  Just as he lowered his gun she chucked a hidden dagger at him.  Luckily, he had ducked to the side and caught the dagger, only leaving a slight cut across his bare stomach.  Her back was turned so he did the only logical thing for Heero Yuy to do.  He threw it back at her.  He watched as she pulled out the dagger only to have her to fall the ground and curl into a protective ball in agony, passing out soon after.  Just after the girl had passed out, the smell of burnt flesh and blood was potent in the room as Heero bent down to examine her, seeing the burns on her arm and hand.

    "Assassin control technology..." He said to nobody in particular.

    "What?!" Screeched Duo as Heero picked up the girl and carried her out of the room where the other three pilots were waiting.

    Heero turned to the other four and said plainly "I'm taking her to the medical room.", before marching in that direction.

    If only I could turn back time!
    If only I had said what I still hide!

    If only I could turn back time!
    I would stay for the night!

     If only I could turn back time!
    If only I had said what I still hide!

    If only I could turn back time!
    I would stay for the night!

    If only I could....

    The rest of that night was spent reviewing strategies from tomorrow's assault since everyone felt at least a little bit uneasy.  Heero only made things worse by tapping the bloody dagger his attacker had used on the table.  Finally Duo couldn't take any more.

    "Would you cut that out!?"

    No response.  Heero kept tapping away.  A vein started to throb in the braided pilot's head as he watched Heero ignoring him.

    "HELLO!  EARTH TO HEERO!"

    Duo was silence by the bloody dagger's flat pressed against his lips to quiet him.  Duo looked up at Heero but the Japanese pilot's attention  was at the top of the stairs.  Duo followed Heero's gaze and saw the girl from earlier, her back resting against the railing but her face watching the group intently.  Duo opened his mouth to speak but his top lip was met with the blade and a tiny bit of blood began to trickle from the point of impact, which, Duo knew, was his own fault for bringing his lip down on top of it.  Heero pulled away the blade and whipped the blood off on his black boxers before flinging it through the air and having the girl catch it.  Of all things to do at this point, she smirked.

    "Heh, thanks."

    She trotted down the stairs and stoped infront of Heero.  Finally, after a couple minutes of silence, the girl raised the palm of her hand to show the burns to him.  Heero nodded and he got up, leading the girl back up to the medical room.  Duo touched his still bleeding lip tenderly.

    "Oww!  wha'd he do that for?"

    Qautre giggled before taking a sip of his tea and the other two just smirked.

    "What?!"


    still tbc

    How'd you like this one?  Better than the other one?  Please say yes.... *crickets chirping in the backround.*
    *sweatdrop*  Anyway, I need to know these things.  Plus, some of my real family is going to be in this next story. *grins evilly* they will know my revenge!



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