~ Once And For All
"Heero?" Serena whispered as she placed her shivering hand over his cool face. 'My halation power from my scepter must of work…' Serena thought, as she looked into Heero's closed eyes. "Come on Heero…"
Suddenly Heero grunted and blood erupted from his mouth. "Serena?" Heero asked but she could barely hear it."
"Oh my god, Heero, you're alive!" Serena cried on Heero's green tank top. Heero held onto Serena as she helped him sit up straight. "Are you alright?"
"I'm… fine." Heero stated as he stared into her crying eyes. "Shhhh…"
"I'm so sorry Heero… why did you do it?" Serena asked as she sobbed onto his chest. "You coulda killed yourself… why Heero? Why?"
"I… it's because… I don't know." Mixed emotions thrived through his brain. As Heero held onto Serena, he started to wonder why he did it at all. 'Why did I even save her? She was the one who caused all this… is it… no it can never be that.'
Ami awoke at the ray of morning light that shined through Trowa's window. As she approached the window, she felt a shiver of sensation of final freedom running through her body. 'Finally…' She thought as she opened the window a little and watched a little blue jay learning how to fly. She chuckled at the scene. She leaned out her finger as the little one hopped onto it. "Hey there little one."
Suddenly a strong grip of warm arms grasped her waist. Then Trowa placed his head upon her right shoulder. Ami turned around and her watery blue eyes met Trowa's dark green eyes. As they stared into each other's eyes, the little blue jay was about to fall off her lean finger, but Trowa struck out his arm and the bird fell onto the palm of his hand. As he brought it back, he placed it on her palm. Once his hands touched hers, an excited feeling shot through his spine. 'What is this feeling of mine?' Trowa wondered. 'Is it… no it can't be. ' As the bird hopped on Ami's open hand, with a few more tries of fluttering its wings, it was soaring off through the open sky.
"Duo? Hey sleepy head." Rei said as he looked at Duo drooling on her Sailormars uniform. Rei giggled and to wipe his drool away with a tissue. 'Some god of death he is, drooling.' Rei thought as she threw it away in a garbage can. Suddenly a loud crashing noise was heard from behind and Duo dropped from the bed, and still was sleeping. Rei shook her head and tried to pull the sleeping Duo from the floor, but she flopped on top of him instead.
Then Duo (finally!) came around, lifted his eyes, and stared at Rei, with her head close to his. They stared at each other for a few moments and then Rei tried lifted herself from Duo, but she flopped back onto his stomach, because of the deep injury at her ankle.
"Here." Duo lifted Rei from him and placed her on the bed. "Stay here."
"Duo… could I use the bathroom first? I need to shower." Rei muttered as she glanced at her bloody body and dirty clothes.
"Oh… sure." Duo placed Rei at the edge of his bed and went to his drawer and took out a black shirt and a pair of shorts. "I think these will fit you."
"Thanks." Rei replied as she limped towards his bathroom, but she fell, and when she thought that she hit the ground, Duo's strong arms under her held her up.
"You better hold onto me." Duo said as he lifted her arm and placed it over his neck and carried her to the bathroom. As they reached the door, Rei laid her hand upon Duo's fast beating heart. "It's okay… thanks."
"Sure." Duo replied as he helped her inside and then closed the door. 'Damn.'
Mina looked at the sleeping Quatre when she awoke and found Quatre sleeping on a chair. "Quatre?" She then looked at his bandaged fist and saw that it needed to be changed, so she took the bandages out of his bedside drawer and started to remove the bandage as delicately as she can without waking up Quatre.
"Hmm…." Quatre roused up with the strong smell of alcohol stirring up in his nose.
"Sorry." Mina whispered as she continued to change the bandage. "Are you alright Quatre?"
"Mina? I'm fine, and what about your injuries from OZ?" Quatre asked as he eyed her.
"I'm… all right, don't worry about that now." Mina tried to sound confident, but Quatre didn't believe her.
"No you're not, pass me first aid kit." With trembling hands, Mina handed Quatre the kit, but at the touch of her hands, Quatre felt her ice, cold freezing hands. Quatre placed his hand upon her forehead and felt that it was boiling hot. "You have a fever."
"No I-" Before she could even finish up her sentence, she fainted on Quatre's shoulder.
Quatre didn't know what to do for a minute and then placed her flat on his bed. As he took her temperature, he stared at her with wonder. 'How can she survived this?'
"Lita?" Wu Fei asked he rose his head and looked upon the sleeping Lita on his bed. Lita awoke at the sound of his voice and replied, "yes?"
"Oh… nothing, just rest for now." Wu Fei said, as he stood up and pulled the comforter over her. After he was done, he started to sneeze. "AH-CHOO!"
"Wu Fei… come here." As he neared her, she pulled him by the edge of his shirt, motioning for him to come nearer. She put the comforter over him as he sat down at the edge of the bed. When she was done, she walked towards his dresser and took out some of his clothes.
"Put them on, they're warmer than the ones you're wearing." Lita told him. Wu Fei's eyes shot up as he recalled what just happened. 'Oh dear Buddha, I'm being commanded by a ONA now?' But he did as he was told, as he touched the fingers of Lita, it sent him a shiver through the spine, one that he never felt before in his life. Never… well maybe once when he was wedded to his dead wife. 'Meiran…'
"Wu Fei… are you feeling alright?" Lita asked with her green eyes full of concern.
"Yeah I am." After taking the clothes out of Lita's arms, he rushed towards the bathroom with tears stinging his dark black eyes.
"We must take action now." Lady Une told Trezie. "The time is now Trezie. "
"I am aware of what had happened, but we only have Zechs, who is really the only one who can control the Tallgeese, and Noin controlling the Aries." Trezie said. "But… if we do this upon our terms… then things will be different." He said eyeing Lady Une.
"Our terms?" Lady Une questioned. "I see…"
"We must perform this task immediately then." Zechs spoke. 'Serena…'
"And I have the perfect plan…" Lady Une said as she recalled the training of the soldiers.