Stars In Your Eyes


Chapter 1
"Why has it been so long," thought Relena as she stood out on
her balcony. The wind whipped through her hair and blew the light
curtains into her room. The door creaked a little, and swayed inward.

It closed with a quiet click and Relena spun around. Seeing it
was only the door, a tear came to her eye. She had hoped it would be
Heero, she hadn't seen him since the fateful day the Eve Wars had been
ended.

None of her friends knew this side of Relena. The side that
cried when no one was around, the side that always ached. She didn't
let them see that side. The only side they saw of her was the out-going
cheerful person who worked entirely too much.

Now in the quiet stillness of the night, she let the other side
come out. And always someone saw it from the shadows.

The next day at work she put on her fake smile and walked down
the halls with confidence. She had a big meeting. Halfways through
the meeting, a side of the room was exploded. People were threw about
and most took cover under the long conference table. Debris fell and hit
Relena on the head. The last thing she saw before she passed out was a
group of masked people come in.

She woke up later. It was dark out. Her head throbbed and she
placed a hand over it moaning. A figure was sitting in a chair a few
feet from where she lay. It stared out the window and then spoke.

"I wondered when you would awaken Vice-Minister Dorlian." The
voice was masculine, and hard around the edges. The vovels were produced
harder than normal.

"Who are you," she asked. She stood up and streached her sore
muscles. She had been thrown down in a very uncomfortable position.

"My name is Sorlido Trachez, you've probably never heard of me.
I used to run the company for mobile suit production when the United
Earth's Sphere Alliance was still around."

"So what do you want with me?" she asked suspiciously. Tranchez
just gave a rich laugh.

"Why Miss Dorlian, I think it would be obvious what happened to
you."

"How much are you asking?"
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Chapter 2
"Right to the point as always Miss Dorlian, not why, or what.
Just how much am I asking. You are right though. I am asking something.
All I want is five lives, or even one specific one."

"You want the Gundam pilots," she accused. He turned around and
smiled, and for the first time she could see his face. It was a horrid
sight, there was a long scar down his face on the right side, barely
missing his eye. The left side of his face looked as if it had been
burnt almost completely off, there was an eye patch over the eye. His
mouth was a scar at the one side and regular at the other. He looked
like a half and half horror mask.

"Suprised Miss Dorlian? This is the reason why I want the pilots.
Or rather just one of them, of course I wouldn't say no to getting the
rest either. Your little friend Heero Yuy did this to me. He blew up
the base I was in. I escaped with my life but these scars are forever.
Now I want his life." His voice grew more vicious as he talked and
Relena was horrified at the sight of his features curling up in anger.

"Are you afraid," he asked menacingly and all Relena could do
was shake her head. His face softened and his voice took on a lighter
lilt. "I'm sorry, I don't mean to scare you. I only want to hurt the
Gundam pilots, not you. When this is over, I intend to let you go."

"How kind of you," said Relena, voice shaking but slowly becoming
surer, "kill my friends and then return me, expecting to have no harm
done."

"I don't intend to harm you, my fight is not with you. You
represent a peace I've always dreamed of."

"Your fight with me started when you said you were going to kill
my friends. And if you want peace, how do you expect to achieve it by
doing this?"

No answers came to him right off. Sadly he said, "I'm sorry you
have made me your enemy."

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Chapter 3
A few nights had passed since her discussion with Sorlido Trachez,
but all Relena could think of was that talk. He had wanted revenge on
her friends, mostly on Heero.

She was surprised by a light suddenly coming on. Trachez walked
into the room.

"What do you want?" she asked, not bothering to hide her anger.
He said nothing but sat down in a chair.

"I want to talk to you about the pilot Heero Yuy." This threw
Relena completely off guard.

"Why do you want to talk to him," she asked, curiosity coming
to her voice.

"I want to know why you cry for him every night. Tears pour
down your face and there is such a sad aura around you during the day
even though your friends don't see it."

"You've been spying on me?" she asked incredously.

"Yes, we needed to known when the best time to kidnap you would
be, so I watched for when you would hint where you would be at night,"
he admitted. Relena was furious, this man had saw her when she was most
vulnerable, he had seen a side no others knew existed.

She walked up to him and smacked him. Never once thinking of
the consequences. All she got was a pair of sad eyes.

"No one is supposed to see the things you did," she whispered
coldly. He nodded and stood. Slowly he limped out of the room.

Relena sank to the ground. She just couldn't stand anymore. She
burst into silent tears. Meanwhile Sorlido Trachez listened outside her
door, a tear slipping down his eye.

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Chapter 4
At the preventer office a very angry Milliardo Peacecraft was
shouting orders.

"Are you fools so incompetant that you can't find her, she's
been missing for over three days now! You need to get your act together."
Noin came over and put her hand on his arm.

"Calm down, screaming won't help, they are already doing all they
can." Reluctantly he settled down. Noin had an uncanny knack of being
right all the time.

Suddenly an officer ran up.

"Preventer Wind, this just came into headquarters mail." He held
up an envelope. It was addressed to the brother of Relena Dorlian.

Milliardo snatched it out of his hand and tore it open, out loud
he read:
"Dear Milliardo Peacecraft, Preventer Wind:

Don't worry, Relena is safe. I am holding her hostage until I
get what I want. What I want is all the Gundam pilots or at least the
one they call Heero Yuy. If you wish to see Miss Dorlian again, please
send the pilots to Lake Amazon, located near the Amazon River at noon
four days from now. Don'ttry anything funny, seeing as I still have
Miss Dorlian. There will bea chopper there waiting for them. As proof
that I have Miss Dorlian,here is her signature.

Relena Dorlian (pretend it is handwritten)

Sincerely,
Sorlido Trachez"

Furious Milliardo crumpled the letter up into a ball.

"All right, find the Gundam pilots as soon as possible. I want
them contacted immediately."

The Preventers flew into a flurry. Within ten hours all of the
Gundams except Heero Yuy were found and brought to the headquarters.

Milliardo walked into the room where they were waiting.

"Where is Heero Yuy," he asked a soldier.

"We could not locate him sir," answered the soldier. Growling
in frustration Milliardo slammed his fist onto the table.

"Perfect, the only Gundam we need, and we can't find him."

"If he's the only one you need, why did you call the rest of us
here," asked Duo. The other Gundams nodded their agreement.

"Do you honestly think even Heero can pull a mission like this
off on his own? If something were to go wrong Relena could be hurt."

"What are the details," asked Trowa quietly.

"Relena was kidnapped by a man named Sorlido Trachez, he used
to work as head of mobile suit production when the United Earth's Sphere
Alliancem was still around. His intentions for kidnapping are unknown
except that he wants all of you including Heero, or just Heero."

"Sounds bad," whistled Quatre softly. He was annoyed deep down.
They had just reached peace and now this had to happen.

"No matter anything, that leaves us three and a half days to
find Heero and get to the pickup point. We don't have a lot of time and
Heero won't be easy to find. He just seems to dissapear," stated Milliardo.

"Don't worry about it Zechs, you won't have too much trouble,"
said a voice from the corner. Everyone turned around in suprise, there
was Heero!

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or any of its characters.

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