Warnings: Some mentioned yaoi. Angst, OOCness.
Disclaimers: Gundam Wing and all related characters do not belong
to me.
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No Title Yet - Chapter One
The day Heero asked to marry me, was the happiest day of my life, next to the actual wedding. It had been the perfect romance - the knight in shining armour (in this case, a Gundam), and a long lost princess. All our friends from the wars came, as well as some new ones. One very big, white ceremony with flowers, birds and cakes. Simply beautiful - simply perfect. Like in a fairy tale, we were destined to live happily ever after.
But unfortunately, happy ever afters don't last forever.
We had been married for almost three years when, suddenly, my entire life became a joke. I had plummeted down from the top of a mountain, into a little black hole just for me.
It was an Autumn Thursday evening. Buckets of rain whipped against the windows, and the sky was covered by a gloomy sheet of clouds and thunder. Soft rustles of wind howled somewhere in the house, but despite all of this bad weather, I had had a good day. My meeting with the colonist delegates had went well, and strengthened our relations. I wanted to celebrate, and so I had come home early to surprise Heero.
The moment I entered the house, I could feel something amiss. Call it intuition, call it whatever you want, I just knew. I dropped my small purse by the door, and was about to hang up my drenched raincoat, when at the end of the corridor, I could hear moans and cries emanating from our shared bedroom. They were almost inaudible above the thundering skies, but definitely there.
"Heero?" I cried out, but my voice was too quiet against the crashes of lightening to be heard. A sudden thought struck me - what if he was hurt? Or worse, what if he was... I quickly pushed all those thoughts away from my mind, too afraid to even think about them, and hurried towards the source of the cries. They became louder as I approached them, and amongst them somewhere, I was sure I could hear someone say Heero's name...
Standing in front of the door, not really sure if I wanted to know what was behind it, I froze. Who was in there with Heero? What was going on? It was sounding like... but he wouldn't do that to me, would he? He wouldn't...
Determination set itself in my mind, as I slowly put my hand on the door handle, and pushed it down. Pushing the door open, I gasped in horror, as my fears were confirmed. In front of me, in Heero and my bed, lay Heero naked under our sheets with... with Duo?
"Relena?" They both breathed, quickly getting off each other. I just stared at them for what seemed an eternity, mouth wide open. Finally, my senses returned to me, and I was able to speak.
"Hee... Heero?" I whispered. No reaction. "Duo? Please... please tell me this is a joke..."
"Would you believe me if I did?" Heero replied. My body started trembling with fires of rage and betrayal. How did this happen? What did I do wrong?
Hot liquid ran down my quivering cheeks, not knowing what to do or say. How could he be so cold to me, when he had always seemed so warm when we were alone... How could he do this to me?
I slowly backed away, slowly closing the door. I only watched, as Heero called out my name, while scrambling up from the bed and rapping a sheet around his body. But before he could reach the door, I had closed it. Quickly, I turned and ran. Ran away from the scene I had just witnessed, the betrayal... Heero... Behind me, I heard Heero coming out and racing after me.
Please, let me be... just let me be...
He caught me, and turned me around into his arms. I didn't even struggle as he embraced me - I was too emotionally weak to do anything. I dug my face into his chest, and cried. Rivers of tears spilled from my eyes, as if a dam had been broken, and all my emotions escaped out into the open. Rocking me in his arms, Heero tried to calm me down. For a small moment, I had forgotten why I was so upset. But then, the memory hit me again, and I pushed away from my husband. I glared at him for all I was worth, then at Duo, who had come up behind us.
"Wha..." I started shakily, swallowed painfully, then tried again. "What..." I couldn't force myself to talk to him right now, not with Duo here. I just shook my head in defeat, and turned towards the door again.
"Relena, wait! I... I can explain everything--" Heero cried out.
I stopped in my tracks, but didn't turn around. "Please, Heero... I can't bare this... please... just let me be..."
"But--"
"Please," I begged. I heard him sigh softly behind me, accepting defeat for now.
Walking on, I felt as if I could collapse any moment. I could feel both Heero and Duo's gazes burn into me, as I quickly stepped out the door and closed it behind me. The rain was still pouring with no end in sight, but I welcomed it. At least the skies were crying with me.
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