Jura Basil Elden was the picture of someone presented with an interesting puzzle and trying to solve it. She scratched her chin as she tried to make sense of what she was seeing "Hmmm..."
Barnette threw a quizzical look at her partner who looked like she was deep in thought over something. It wasn't difficult to trace the source of her ponderings to Hibiki Tokai (and not what had happened to her Dread fighter to her chagrin). Just what did Jura see in that... man to begin with? "Jura, is there anything wrong?"
"Hmmm...?" Jura blinked and seemed to register Barnette's presence at her side only now. There was something nagging her in a corner of her mind "Barnette, would you look at Hibiki and Meia and tell me what you see"
Barnette was nonplussed over that request but nevertheless decided to humor Jura.
The Dread squadron leader was listening to Parfait explaining what was happening to the cocooned fighter while Hibiki was sitting near his vanguard with Dita who was speaking to him. Of course, knowing her, he was probably trying to tune out her babbling. There was nothing out of the ordinary in this picture and Barnette wondered what point Jura was trying to make "Jura, I don't see..."
Jura interrupted her with a wave of her hand "Keep looking at them. Focus on their faces, their eyes especially"
Barnette sighed "All right..." She did as her lover told her and a minute later, finally noticed something odd.
Meia listened intently to Parfait's speech, no doubt about that, but she occasionaly sent looks toward Hibiki. When she did this, her eyes lost their usual coldness and shimmered with barely repressed emotion.
As it wasn't weird enough, Hibiki was reciprocating! And when their gazes would cross, the two of them would start to blush, uncertainty and a bit of longing faintly appearing on their faces. And then the most shocking thing happened: Meia... smiled. Oh sure, it was a tiny upward quirking of her mouth but it was there nonetheless!
Barnette blinked, unsure of what she was seeing. She rubbed her eyes but the sight didn't change in the slightest. If she didn't know better, she would assume that they... Naaaaaaaaah...
"Interesting, isn't it?" Barnette was startled out of her shocked state by Jura's voice "Hibiki and Leader, stealing glances at each other, smiling... Something has happened or is happening between the two of them, that much is obvious"
"And what could it be?" Surely she wasn't thinking...
"Come on, Barnette. I remember distinctly that you used to behave like this with me around in the days before we got together"
"WHAT!? You can't be serious! I can see Dita going for something like this but MEIA? You must be mistaken..."
"Perhaps... Then perhaps not... She was the one who waited for him to wake up in the infirmary, wasn't she? I don't think it was just to chew him up for his little stunt in our last fight..."
Barnette was trying to picture Meia and Hibiki having some kind of relationship. Nope, she had a good imagination but that kind of thing just wasn't possible! No way in Hell!
Besides, men and women were enemies, right? Romantic notion of enemies falling for each other aside, Hibiki was too... alien for this to work (Great, she was so disturbed that she had used Dita's vocabulary).
"And remember...The captain told us that men and women lived together in the old days. So it IS possible"
"Urk!" Barnette remembered that only too well. That old christmas video and the few inhabited planets they had visited had proven that fact beyond any shadows of a doubt. Still...
The vouptuous blonde smiled "You know what this means, right?"
"We put the men in the brig again?" said Barnette in a half-joking manner.
Jura frowned "I sincerely hope you're joking because I don't want that mutiny mess to happen ever again. No, all we have are suspicions so I'm suggesting we should watch over them to be sure"
"You mean, spying on them. Why?" deadpanned Barnette.
"Aren't you curious? Even a little bit?"
Barnette flushed "Er... Hmm... That is..."
Jura took her partner's indecision for acceptance "I knew you would see it my way! Come with me, we have to make plans!"
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(Posted Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:55)
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