This is a little different. It has not a trace of Yaoi, but (I don't want to spoil the surprise) I know most of my normal fans will not be happy with me for this. Please don't flame me. I needed to make a change, but don't worry this is the only one!!! LOL

Disclaimer: I do not own any Gundam Wing Characters, or claim to, but I do own the story line. No taking it!! I just had an encounter with someone who took my 'Destiny' story and posted it on FF.net. I don't want it to happen again. I work hard on this, just as much as any author does. It is disrespectful, not only to the author, but you the thief. This proves you have no faith in yourself or your writing capabilities. My advice to you is to try and do it yourself. You just might surprise yourself. And if the person who took my story is reading this I want to tell you that I forgive you and I hope that you will try writing something yourself. If so, send it to me and I'll be more than willing to help you with it. now on with the important stuff, the story...
Love,
Moony
Alone at Last
By Moony

It was a beautiful party. Of course it was Relena's. No one else on Earth or in the colonies could throw such parties. Quatre just watched as some girls across the room pointed at him and giggled. He always found it funny when girls or women did that. He smiled at them then turned his head back to the stairs as everyone else. Relena was now going to make her appearance. And there she was. The beautiful princess of the world. She wore a long white dress with gold trim on the bottom and on the shoulders of the dress. She touched the beam on the balcony she was standing on and smiled. Only Quatre and Heero could see through that smile. It was fake. The music stopped and everyone awaited Relena's announcement.
"Thank you everyone for coming," She sighed sweetly. Everyone smiled and clapped, as they always seemed to. How could just a few words from her mouth cause people to love her like they did?
'But they don't love the real me,' Relena thought. 'No one knows the real me or loves the real me.' She headed on down the stairs with the smile plastered on her face. She saw all the rich young men waiting for her to ask her to dance. Relena wanted nothing to do with any of them. She could only dream of being in one man's arms and that was Heero Yuy. She looked up a bit to try and see if he was there, but he wasn't. She would have to suffer with these men on her own, but then she saw beautiful wild blond hair that could only belong to one man, Quatre Rabba Winner. She nearly ran to him. Ignoring all the calls from the men she passed.
"Oh, Quatre," She said loudly to keep the other men away. "I am so glad you are here! I was so hoping you would come." Quatre smiled.
"Relena, you look lovely," Quatre replied. "Would you like to dance?"
"Oh, of course," Relena smiled. If she wasn't going to be in Heero's arms she would prefer being in Quatre's than any other man's here. After they were dancing Relena decided to thank Quatre. "Thanks for saving me," She whispered in his ear.
"No problem, Relena," Quatre said back.
"Is Heero here?" Relena asked. It was the question Quatre was dreading. He always hated telling her Heero would not be there.
"No, he's not," Quatre said and tried not to look her in the eyes.
"Oh."
"You know he never comes. Why do you always wait for him?" Quatre asked. Relena looked up at Quatre and smiled sadly with tears brimming her eyes.
"I love him. I don't know why or how I do, but I do. I can't look at another man with out thinking of him. I'll wait forever knowing he'll never come. That's what love is," Relena said sorrowfully.
"Come along," Quatre smiled. "We'll go outside for some fresh air." Quatre led Relena out into her garden. Quatre did notice there was one pair of eyes in the crowd that he couldn't shake off. Was Heero really there?

Duo watched Quatre lead Relena outside. She looked like she was about to cry.
'Heero, she really needs you. Why aren't you here?' Duo thought and downed another glass of wine. He was going to have fun tonight. He knew Relena expected it from him, or she wouldn't of invited him.
"Now for some hott chicks," Duo said to himself after placing his wineglass on a wait's tray as he rolled it by. He grinned and started looking over all the ladies. Most were old diplomat's wives. Duo made a face in disgust and shuttered. Duo was just about to find Relena and tell her he was leaving when he saw two stunning legs. His eyes went up to the body to see whom those lovely legs belonged to. She had a slightly short skirt on and the dress that she was wearing clung to her body.
'Nice hips... nice curves...aw... small chest, all well...' Duo thought as he looked her over. 'Well the dress is cut low enough... oh my God...'
"Hilde?" Duo asked the girl as he walked up to her.
"Oh, hi Duo! How are you? I'm glad to see you here. I was hoping I'd see some one I knew!" Hilde said happily.
"I'm fine and what are you doing here?" Duo asked.
"The same thing you are silly, enjoying the party," Hilde smiled and sipped some Champaign she had. Duo had never thought of Hilde like, like... this. She had always seemed to be the Tom-boy who he teamed up with for a while, but now she was as hott as any woman in a miss America pageant, hell Duo was sure Hilde would win and if she didn't he would have to kill a few judges.
"Relena invited you?" Duo asked.
"No," Hilde said in a fake dramatic voice. "I sunk in! Of course she invited me. From what I hear everyone who was involved with um, the 'mission' has been invited to this party."
"You mean Wufei was... Oh no," Duo sighed and buried his face in his right hand.
"Now, now, Duo," Hilde smiled and touched Duo's shoulder. "I never said he was going to actually come. Duo looked down at Hilde and grinned.
"Would you like to dance," Duo asked. Hilde turned her head to see a waiter coming by with a rolling cart. She put her drink on the cart as it passed and turned back to Duo.
"I would love to," She smiled. Duo took the little woman in his arms and pulled her gracefully onto the dance floor.
"So how have you been?" Duo asked.
"I've been wonderful. I met someone," Hilde replied. Duo gave her a shocked look.
"Who is this someone?" Duo asked. Hilde grinned.
"Oh, just a wonderful guy. He's living with me," Hilde smiled.
"Living with you? Is he here?" Duo stuttered and stopped dancing.
"No he's not here. He's at home. I couldn't bring him to this," Hilde said.
"I want to meet him!" Duo said with a spark of jealousy in his eyes.
"Alright. I'm more than sure you two will get along wonderfully!" Hilde giggled.
'Don't count on it,' Duo thought. 'I'm going to kill him, who ever he is.' Hilde kept smiling. Her plan was working.
'Thank you, Relena,' Hilde thought as they began dancing again.


"Thank you Quatre. I think the fresh air is helping," Relena smiled and wiped the last tear away from her eyes. They stood on a balcony that looked over Relena's garden.
"Relena, Why do you love him so much?" Quatre asked and leaned up against the railing.
"I don't know. I just do. It's not something I can really help, but lets not talk about him or my problems. Someone's going to be here that you might like to see," Relena said and looked over at Quatre.
"Who?" Quatre asked.
"Dorothy," Relena replied. "She's going to be a little late, but she'll be here. I wouldn't be surprised if she isn't here already."
"Dorothy?" Quatre said a little shocked. Relena smiled.
"When she gets here feel no obligation to me. I want you to have a good time. You two haven't seen each other in a while. You need to catch up. You wouldn't believe what she's doing now!" Relena smiled.
"What?" Quatre asked.
"Well, She's a school teacher. Kindergarten! Do you believe it! Dorothy Catalonia a kindergarten teacher," Relena shook her head happily. "She has changed from the war hungry girl we all once knew."
"Yeah..." Quatre said. He looked down at his feet. "A school teacher?" he whispered to himself. Relena giggled and looked back at the ballroom just in time to see Dorothy walk in.
"There she is!" Relena smiled and walked to the door. She opened it and Quatre joined her by her side. She put her arm in his. "It's now or never," she smiled and headed to Dorothy. Dorothy saw them and smiled. She waved slightly and Relena just walked faster. She could tell that Quatre was nervous because of how tense his hold on her arm was becoming. They reached Dorothy. She had grown so much physically and mentally. Dorothy was nearly 5' 8" now and Relena was only 5' 2", Luckily Quatre had grown as well, he was now 6' 2". Relena looked up at Dorothy. "I'm so glad that you could make it!"
"Hello Relena, Quatre. I'm glad to see you two as well. How have you been?" Dorothy said politely.
"I've been alright," Relena smiled. "The usual you know." Relena turned her head to the side to see someone else walking in. It was Trowa. "Oh look there's Trowa. I must go greet him. You two stay here and talk. I'll be right back. Relena pulled her arm from Quatre and headed over to Trowa and the two other women he came with. Relena was guessing that one of them was his sister, Cathrine. She walked up to the three. "Trowa, how lovely to see you. I am so very glad you made it," Relena smiled.
"Relena," Trowa said plainly. One of the ladies he brought stepped in front of Trowa.
"Relena Darlian, how lovely to see you finally. I'm Cathrine, Trowa's older sister," the lady said.
"Oh, Cathrine, how lovely to finally meet you," Relena said and put her hand out to Cathrine. Cathrine shook her hand.
"You must excuse my brother. He's never been too talkative," Cathrine smiled.
"Of course," Relena smiled. "But who is the other lady with him?" Cathrine turned to see Trowa and the mystery woman dancing.
"That's his betrothed, Midii Une," Cathrine smiled. "Such good news that he's finally going to settle down. I don't know where he and Midii met, but she's a wonderful woman and the way she is with Trowa is amazing. He's opened up to her more than anyone I've ever seen Trowa with, including Quatre! Speaking of Quatre, where is he?"
"Oh he's with Dorothy Catalonia. The two are now dancing. What about you? Where's your date?" Relena said.
"Oh," Cathrine smiled. "My husband is back home taking care of everything and the children you know. I just wanted to see everyone so bad he told me to just go and that he would take care of everything. He's such a wonderful man."
"He must be," Relena smiled. "If you'll excuse me. I must go and greet some one I see walking in."


"So, Quatre what have you been doing with yourself?" Dorothy asked as he twirled her around.
"The usual. Taking care of my father's business," Quatre replied.
"I meant in your love life," Dorothy explained.
"Oh, nothing's happened then. I haven't dated in a while," Quatre replied.
"Why?"
"Too busy I guess," Quatre replied. "And what about you how's your love life?"
"There's no love life with me either. My kids keep me busy enough," Dorothy sighed. "I guess we both have very busy lives huh?"
"Yeah," Quatre replied. Dorothy looked up at Quatre.
"Quatre, do you think we could make it work if we tried?" Dorothy asked.
"I don't know, but we could try and see."
"I think we should," Dorothy replied.
"Me too," Quatre said and leaned down. Dorothy met him in the middle and their lips met.

"Midii, Do you see what I see?" Trowa asked. Midii looked over at Dorothy and Quatre.
"That they are kissing?" Midii asked.
"Yes. I was wondering when they would finally come around," Trowa said.
"You know, I was wondering the same thing about you only a few months ago," Midii replied.
"And when we were ten I was wonder the same about you," Trowa shot back. Midii looked at him and smiled.
"Well, I guess we got what we asked for," Midii said and pulled Trowa down to her. She kissed him. Trowa pulled up and smiled a smile only Midii could see.
"Yes we did," he said and came back down and kissed her.

Duo looked over at the two couples kissing and his mouth dropped.
"Hilde! Look at that!" He said and pointed at the couples. Hilde looked over and nearly choked on her drink.
"No way! Dorothy and Quatre!" she gasped.
"Do you and that guy you met do that?" Duo asked. Hilde looked up at him.
"Why?" She asked. "Are you jealous?"
"Uh..." Hilde just smiled and pulled Duo down to her.
"I'll take that as a yes," she smiled and kissed him. Duo was more than happy to oblige Hilde, but he pulled out.
"What about that other guy?" He asked.
"Oh, Buster, my dog? I don't think he'll mind," Hilde smiled and pulled Duo's lips back down to hers.

Relena Greeted Sally Po Chang and Wufei Chang. The two had been married for a while now and from the look of Sally she was expecting. Relena walked up to them, but saw they were in awe of something. She turned and saw. Three couples kissing. She smiled. She was glad they were happy.
"Hello, Relena," Sally said when she noticed Relena in front of them. "It seems Cupid has made the rounds tonight."
"It has," Relena smiled. "Good evening Sally, Wufei."
"Hello," Sally smiled. Wufei grunted his hello. "Where's Heero?" Relena gave Sally a shocked look. "Oh, I'm sorry Relena."
"Oh, don't worry about it," Relena said and put on a fake smile. "He's never here. There's no difference. I think I'll go and let you two dance."
Relena headed out to her balcony where she and Quatre stood earlier. She left the door open to listen to the music and people talk this time. She looked down at her garden and sighed. The moon was glowing down magnificently tonight. She thought about everyone she knew. Each one had found love some way or another tonight. Why hadn't she? Where was her lover? She sighed and rested her elbows on the balcony rail.
"Heero, come back here!" A young woman's voice said and Relena felt a yank on her dress. She looked down into little Persian eyes. It was a little boy.
"Miss Relena?" the child asked.
"Yes?" She smiled and squatted down to his height.
"I, I," the boy stuttered.
"Oh Heero, why did you run from me?" a young woman came and picked the boy up. She looked up at Relena. "Hello Miss Darlian, I'm Sylvia Noventa Yuy." The woman put her free arm out to Relena.
"Yuy?" Relena asked and her stomach did a flip.
"Yes that's my husband's last name. You should know him, Heero Yuy," Sylvia smiled. Relena nearly passed out. "Would you like to see him?"
"Uh, uh, no," Relena gulped. "I have to leave. Excuse me." Relena passed Sylvia and ran through the ballroom. Past Hilde and Duo who were completely confused, then she passed Trowa, Midii, Wufei, and Sally. Lastly she passed Dorothy and Quatre who looked at each other than ran after Relena. Relena slammed the door to her room and threw herself on her bed as she cried her heart out. "It can't be true," She mumbled through her tears. "It's not true!" She slammed her fist agents her pillow. "Noooo."
"Relena?" Quatre whispered through the door as he knocked on it. Dorothy was behind him waiting.
"Leave me alone!" was Relena's reply. Quatre had never heard her be so harsh. He opened the door anyway and walked in with Dorothy behind him. Relena looked up at him with blood shot eyes. "Did you know?" she asked angrily.
"Know what?" Quatre asked.
"That Heero was married and had a child?" Relena whispered and began crying again. Quatre and Dorothy gasped at the same time.
"No!" Quatre said. "No one did. Who?"
"Silvia Noventa!"
"Noventa?" Dorothy whispered. "She's the granddaughter of the man Heero killed at the beginning of the war..."
"I wonder if Heero felt a dept to her so he married her..." Quatre added.
"Leave me!" Relena cried suddenly. "Leave me alone!"
"As long as you promise to do nothing to yourself!" Dorothy said and walked over to Relena. She pulled her friend up by the shoulder and looked into her eyes. "Do you promise me?"
"Yes," Relena whispered. "Now leave." Dorothy got up and walked over to Quatre. She took his hand.
"Let her be now. She will be alright," Dorothy said and the two walked out together with Quatre shutting the door behind him.
"Are you sure she will do nothing to herself?" Quatre asked as they walked back to the ball.
"She has never lied to me. She will not now. I have been close to her for a long time. She does not go back on her word, even in a case like this. She's a very brave and strong," Dorothy replied.
"I know, but I don't know what I'll do to Heero if I see him soon. He may be the perfect soldier, but he's not a man at all," Quatre said with a touch of anger in his voice.
"I know," Dorothy replied as they looked at everyone from the top of the stairs. The headed down. "I know..."


**** NOTE**** Okay guys this is not going to be too long, but I hope you liked it. It's a twist I know and Relena doesn't end up with Heero, but I had to make something a little different. Okay I need to know what you guys want. Do you think Relena should live her life alone and endlessly pining over Heero, even though he's married and will never come for her, or should she meet someone new? I'll try and put what ever you guys want in the next chapter.
Love,
Moony