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AN: Hope you like,

Relena smiled as she left her office. ~A whole two weeks off! This is great!~ Relena chuckled lightly while she practically skipped to her car. ~And the guys are even coming to hang around for a day!~

Humming quietly to herself on the drive home Relena couldn't have been happier. Unless of course a certain one of those pilots actually showed up with the rest. Relena shook her head. Quatre, who had been her friend for some time, and a powerful ally in the political arena had once called her up to go to dinner. What Relena didn't know is that he had some how managed to get the rest of the pilots to meet them at the restaurant. That was two years ago. So that's why Relena was going to spend the next day or so with Duo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei. That's why they started to meet every so often.

The last time they had all met up with each other Quatre and Duo were constantly apologizing for Heero's absence, but Relena had just waved it off saying, "I'm not a pathetic teenager anymore. He is the least of my interest." Neither of them really believed her although Relena was dead serious. Heero just wasn't her problem anymore.

With a smile firmly in place Relena parked her car and entered her apartment. When she turned on the lights she noticed a bouquet of roses sitting nicely on the counter. So, her heart lighter than ever, Relena placed them in a vase, before going to bed.

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The next morning Relena was greeted by Duo's smiling face after answering the door. It was about 6:30 in the morning and he had been ringing the door bell for the last twenty minuets. To Relena and any one else with much common sense it was too early. She was actually tempted to just close the door on him, but had the sinking feeling he'd start with the door bell again.

She smiled sleepily, and yawned, "I thought you guys weren't coming till eight?"

Duo grinned sheepishly and stepped through the door way followed by the rest of the gang. "We just couldn't wait to see our favorite politician," he bellowed enfolding Relena in a giant bear hug.

"Nice to see you too," she coughed out.

"Duo," Quatre yawned, "let go of Relena, what you're doing my very well be considered an assassination attempt."

Trowa smirked and Wufei, (being Wufei) muttered something about stupidity. Relena just giggled when Duo finally put her back on her feet. "So why'd you get here so early?" Relena questioned, covering another yawn. Part of her time off was to get some well needed sleep.

"No idea what so ever," Duo answered grinning like an idiot.

"Well than," she mumbled, slightly pushing the lot of them out her door, "come back in an hour," she finished closing the door and locking it before they could protest.

"Might as well get ready," she groaned making her way toward her bathroom.

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Exactly one hour later her doorbell rang and Relena just opened her door was pulled out into the hallway.

"Come on, we've got breakfast reservations at McDonalds," Duo stated proudly.

Relena couldn't help but laugh, "Let me get my shoes first, I wouldn't be caught dead in such a fancy place with improper foot ware."

Quatre laughed and Trowa smirked, Wufei just looked …. Nervous.

Dressed and pressed the little group made their way to a little café. It was amazing how polite and well behaved they were. At a ripe age of about  nineteen each they had each matured into decent, well-mannered, and HANDSOME young men and Relena was constantly being glared at by many of the other young ladies in the quaint little restaurant. She just found it very amusing.

Trowa was looking around constantly, and Quatre too, when he wasn't taking part in the conversation. Wufei was staring at his food and remained very silent, but he sometimes added some comment (not at all sarcastic). Duo on the other hand, spent the entire hour they spent at breakfast goofing around being… Well Duo. Relena was half suspicious, but like most other politicians hid it well. When they were done, the pilots did something monumental for the entire male race. THEY TOOK HER SHOPPING!!!

It was a really nice place. One of those open air markets. Sanq was unique for their shopping places, as it had become quite the fashionable place for younger people to go to. Since it's reconstruction everyone thought of it as one of those new, 'hip' places.

Relena had been here before. It was a favorite shopping spot. After she had told Lady Une that she refused to have bodyguards when she was not making a public appearances, it was a lot easier to blend in and enjoy her blossoming kingdom. It was great.

The guys took the whole thing in stride. Telling her she could browse, "just not too long," were Trowa's exact words. Around noon they had wandered through most of the market and into a small alley when Trowa drew his gun.

Relena looked around for some sign that anything was amiss and the reason for him to be startled. "What's up?" she asked quietly.

She got no answer but the other three also brought out guns of their own.

Relena frowned, "what's going…" she noticed that the four pilots had formed a circle around her, and were facing inward. "on."

Each man had their guns trained on her and Relena had gotten very freaked out. "I want an explanation now!" she demanded.

Trowa frowned. "You'll find out soon enough," he replied tonelessly.

Relena frowned, and Quatre looked away from her as if to make sure there wasn't anyone who would interfere. "I'm sorry Miss Relena, but we have too," he continued remorsefully.

Relena folded her arms in front of her chest. "Allies my ass," she snorted. Like lightning she stiffened when she felt an arm wrap about her waist and a hand over her mouth. A vaguely familiar monotone voice whispered into her ear, "I'm sorry, Relena." Before she felt something sharp in her neck and fell into darkness.

AN: I know, I'm mean and cruel and nasty, but hey, you'll just have to read the next chapter. Please don't hurt me