Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, although every fiber in my body is saying that I should go steal the rights for it. And if Heero were real, one of my friends would eventually steal him from me (darn you, Ashleigh!), Duo would be my best friend and Wufei would be (forcefully) married to my friend Brianna, Quatre would be dead 'cause, hey, NOBODY is like that and someone would eventually kill him because he was so damn annoyingly likable. That would leave Trowa to lil' ol' me. (God, my friend describes me as a Quatre/Trowa personality, so what the Hell would the two of us be doing? Plotting to stare at each other while I make a cake?)

Anyway, moving on, what I do own are my own characters that start to show up in chapter two and on. If you don't like it, don't read it. (Bleah/:p)

Author's Note: This STARTS one year after the Endless Waltz video. Plus, Relena is still using her birth name so if you don't like it, you can kiss me where the sun don't shine.

GUNDAM WING: REBIRTH

Chapter One

Secret

Relena felt her heart stop for a short moment as she took the left behind note into her quivering fingers, feeling the flow of tears beginning, her eyes wide as she stared at his handwriting in fear:

'I have to do something before anything else happens between us. I'll return as soon as I can. Don't worry about me. ---- Heero'

He had left her again, for the millionth time since their meeting three years ago. This time was diferent though. The two of them had just begun to be a couple, and had even shared her bed for nearly two weeks now. How could he just up and leave her now, after all the time they had just begun together, without telling her why he had to go? Why was this mission more important than she was?

It didn't matter about how he needed time to find himself. It just wasn't fair to her any more. Right after he decides that he loves her, he's wisked someplace else by missions- his own or another's. It just wasn't fair.

"Miss Relena, I have something to ask of you", a house servant said, alerting the young woman from her hidden thoughts. She faced the older woman, eyes confused and still filled with the shock that Heero's note had provided for her. "It has to do with your medical appointment a week ago. Your doctor is on the phone now with the news from the tests you took."

"Did she say what kind of news it was?" Her servant shook her head no, awaiting her master's command. "I'll take it in my office. Send the call there." The older woman bowed, acknowledging her order. She turned to leave, only to be stopped by her master's hand. "You should take off a couple weeks. I'll pay for your vacation." A large smile appeared upon the servant's face as she bowed again before skipping off down the halls.

Relena grinned. She felt so maternal now, and it was unclear to her why. At first, she thought it had been Heero's doing, placing her into a mental high. But here she was, sending a servant on a paid vacation of her choice, Heero gone once again.

She entered her office, face soft, eyes glittering and a smile upon her face. No one knew that they were as fake as they could be though. Relena clicked the video screen on, her smile brightening as she stared as the familiar woman on the other end. "Hello, Hilde", she greeted her friend, soft joy playing in her voice. "I'm glad that you are my doctor instead of some other person I don't know."

"Hey, you sent me back to collage. It's the least I can do."

Relena nodded with a large smile. "Yes. That is true. But anyway, what did you want to speak to me about?"

The purple haired woman looked down to her keyboard, quiet and somewhat anxious at the same time. "Relena, is Heero there too?" The blonde lowered her head, pain striking at her core. "I guess thats a 'no'. Do you know when he'll be back?" Her eyes were now threatened by tears. "I'm sorry. I guess this is the wrong time to tell you."

The pacifist brushed her tears from her eyes with a sleeve, turning her light blue orbs toward the screen. "Tell me what? Was there something wrong with my tests?"

Hilde stared at her friend nervously, reminding Relena of all the times Duo had witheld information from Heero who would look as if to kill the man. But that memory only made her miss her absent lover even more. "Um... You'll find out sooner or later but-"

"Hey, 'Lena! Congratulations! You and babe here can go to those classes together, huh?" Duo placed his now abnormally large head in front of the video phone, winking at her, Hilde hitting her forehead with an open palm. "So what? Did he rock your world that night?"

Relena felt her face go hot with embarrassment as she watched her female friend drag the brown haired man out of the room by the braid, then return to her seat with an exastperated look, mumbling the words, "I can't believe that I married that idiot."

The two women sat in the now defening silence, both waiting for the other to speak about the subject that her friend's husband so graciously put into her knowledge. The blonde young woman took her chance, opening her mouth to softly ask, "Am I really, Hilde?" As she continued to speak, her voice had received more and more confidence. "Did Heero and I really create create another being that now lies inside of me?" She felt like crying again, but this time in joy. She, the young woman who had loved the unemotional Gundam pilot the second they met, was carrying his child in her! The woman who was so out of reach for other men was pregnant!

"Well, that's just what your tests said", the purple haired woman said with a relieved grin. "So, how will you tell the universe that the most eligable woman is now with child? I mean, Heero may get a little too enthusiastic about his missions but think how he'll react when he finds out that he's gonna be a daddy. It will either be the most shocking day in his life or the happiest. When I told Duo that I was pregnant, he was so enthusiastic that we just went right back to where it all happened!"

Relena tried holding back her unstoppable giggles, failing as she began to laugh. "Thanks for the story, but I think that what I was just told is going to haunt my mind for the rest of my life."

"By the way, just between us mothers-to-be, how was Heero? In bed, I mean."

The youngest Peacecraft could only wonder if Duo was in the corner of the room where she couldn't see, picking up cue cards one at a time for his wife to ask her. She tried to keep her laughter inside as she told Hilde, "You're just as bad as Duo, you know that?"

"Guess so", the purple haired woman chuckled in agreement. "He's rubbed off on me, I guess. It's either that or it's just the horomones sinking in finally. Well, congratulations, Relena. Just remember that Duo and I are going to be here for everything, not to mention going through the same stuff. I'm sure would have a kick out of raising both of our kids at the same time."

Relena rolled her eyes at the comment, still trying to contain her laughter. Sadly enough, she'd break soon. She patted her stomache softly, grinning probably the largest smile she'd ever done. "No offense, but I wouldn't put Duo in ten feet of my baby."

"None taken", Hilde replied, soothing herself so she wouldn't laugh after the conversation. "Anyway, I have to go meet my husband before he gets a bit... overexcited, if you know what I mean."

The blonde playfully covered her ears, unable to hold her giggles to herself. "Too much information!" she shouted, it almost unheard over her laughter. "Way too much knowledge, Hilde. Now I'll have a mental image for the rest of the day."

"Bye, 'Lena. Hope to hear from you soon."

She lowered her arms, laughter nearly gone. "You shall, Hilde. You and I are expecting now, I suppose. We'll have a lot to speak about until we both have these children of ours. I'll speak to you again, as soon as I can. I promise you. Good-bye." The connection faded, as did her smile as she realized her situation. She, the former queen of the world, current foreign minister, the princess of the Peacecraft family, was pregnant.

She had only two problems to look forward to: telling the world, and then telling her older brother. Relena could see the man's reaction now. He was going to kill Heero, then give her the longest speech she had ever heard in her life.

The blonde woman felt herself grimmace as she dialled the number of the Mars colonies, of a certain home where two of the most important people in her life lived, where her mind would wander as soon as she brother started yelling.

A woman picked up the receiver, the man the foreign minister currently feared no where in sight. Relena breathed a sigh of relief, looking towards her sister-in-law. "Hello, Noin. I have some news to tell you."

"Really? Did you and Heero finally get together?"

"Thats both a 'yes' and 'no' answer", she replied, trying not to notice how her voice was beginning to crack in sadness. "We finally got together about two weeks ago, but... he left this morning on a mission." Noin looked as if she were ready to speak her soft condolenses to the heartbroken young woman but her sister-in-law spoke before she could. "But bad news does come with good, I suppose."

The dark haired older woman raised an eyebrow in skepticisum, a smirk forming upon her lips. "Would it have to do with the two weeks you guys were together?" Relena lowered her head in embarrassment, Noin's eyes growing in bewilderment and shock. "Oh my God, Relena! I swear that I was just joking when I said that! When? How? Do you know what Milliardo would do if he found out?"

"If I found out what?" his voice rang from the speakers, alerting the two woman at the video phone, sending a visable chill down the blonde young woman's back. "What are you hiding from me?" The man formerly called Zechs Marquise kneeled down in front of the screen, looking at his little sister in the eyes, obviously missing the fear hidden quite well in them. "What's wrong, Relena. Anything bothering you?"

She breathed in deeply. This was it, the moment before the mushroom cloud formed. "Milliardo, I'm pregnant with Heero's baby." As she blinked, the former OZ pilot was off the screen, his wife franically waving air to his face, trying to wake the man up from the sudden shock that he had just received. He was going to be unconcious for a while, twitching as truth's electricity coursed through him. Of that, Relena knew. "I'll talk to you guys later, once my brother wakes up." The foreign minister pushed the 'end transmission' button, hanging up on the call. She breathed out. For some reason or another, that call to her brother had seemed much easier than she thought it would.

She was certain that Duo and Hilde would have told everyone she was friends with by now- everyone except Heero, of course. No one knew his e-mail address, not even Duo. So, she would have to tell the world with hopes that he would hear her.

The blonde seventeen year-old walked happily outside her office, stopping at her secretary's desk. "Aggie, can you schedule a press conference for next week? Invite all the news people that are registered in the database."

"Yes, ma'am", the woman said, picking up an old fashioned telephone and began to dial ever paper, television and radio station. "And if they ask what the meeting it about, what shall I tell them?"

Relena grinned broadly to herself, allowing her words to come out as a slight giggle. "It's a secret. If they want to find out, they have to come to the conference."

"Yes, ma'am."

With that, the blonde mother-to-be nearly skipped out of the room in her joy.

Behind her, two workers began speaking under their breath, soft enough that even the secruity camera couldn't even hear that well. "Whatever that phone call was, it did Miss Relena some good."

"Yeah. Kinda makes you wonder if that doctor of hers had uped her meds a bit. The one thing I have never seen that woman do as long as I've worked here was skip out of her office. Bedroom the past two weeks, yes, but the office is definately a first."

"There is one thing I can tell about Miss Relena's action right now. A change is coming, a good change too. Whatever it is, we should be thankful to it."

"Yeah, I suppose so." The woman's eyes caught the nearby television screen in a nearby room, sighing. "I just think that change needs to come soon. Another one of those passenger ships has been destroyed while heading to an L colony. Its sad, really. Do you know how many of those ships have been destroyed this year alone? Seventeen. Thats close to five hundred casualties." She sighed. "Like I said, that change needs to come soon."

The other woman nodded.


Next Chapter: Sixteen years later. A teenager that resembles Heero finally meets the man who her mother once loved. What will he do when he finds out that the teen's his daughter?

RETURN

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