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He Holds The Key To My Heart
By: Kayla Thurston
Chapter 1: Unexpected Visitor
I sighed bringing my hand to the back of my neck, hoping to relieve the stiff muscles there and hopefully the tension headache that I knew was coming. I looked down at the folder on my desk in front of me; I reluctantly opened it and began to read the document inside. I find myself unable to concentrate and my thoughts wondering. I find myself thinking about him, wondering where he is, if he is alright and if he was thinking of me. Everyone thought it was Heero Yuy I loved and was obsessed with. No, they're wrong for there is another who holds the key to my heart.
At the tender age of nineteen I have accomplished more in my political career than any other Vice Foreign Minister in history, including my late father Vice Foreign Minister Darlian; well at least I thought he was my father. I had just turned sixteen when I learned the truth, the truth my father breathed with his last breaths before he died. My father had brought me back out to space with him for a second time; he had a meeting in the colonies. Something terrible happened then, an explosion in the room my father's meeting was being held in. Men took my father and me to safety, rebels against Oz and the Alliance. It was a soldier for Oz who had assassinated him. That's when he told me that my real name was Relena Peacecraft and I was the Princess of the Sanq Kingdom.
He told me he had known my real parents and when the Kingdom fell he took me in as his daughter to protect me. I had been four years old and I have no memories of my real parents. Later I would learn that the "Lightening Count" Zech's Merguise, a commander in the Oz military was actually my elder brother Millardo Peacecraft. A brother I didn't know I had. I took back my rightful name of Peacecraft and returned to "my" castle at the Sanq Kingdom and rebuilt it into the great Pacifist nation it once was. I turned a section of the castle into a school, where I taught the daughter's of each nations' leader's about pacifism, in hope of someday extinguishing all wars and instead talk things over. After the war I changed my name back to Darlian, since I would be following in my adoptive father's footsteps and became the Vice Foreign Minister. The peoples' "Dove of Peace" as they call me.
It's been four years since the end of the war, three since the Marimaya incident. Even though we are finally at peace, people don't realize that it is much harder to maintain the peace than it is to obtain it. That's my job as Vice Foreign Minister, constantly in meetings to settle disputes between nations, drawing up new plans to maintain the current peace. I'm constantly slammed with paper work and documents to review and sign. I never have any time to myself and that's probably why I'm alone. With this job I have no love life… wait let my rephrase that, I don't have a life at all.
I am pulled from my thoughts when someone knocks on the door. "Come in." The door opens to reveal my assistant Claudia.
"Ms. Darlian, you have a visitor who says he's a friend of yours and he doesn't have an appointment." She said, I wish she would drop the formality and just call me Relena. I mean she's worked for me for 2 years, but I gave up on it, no matter how many times I tell her she still won't do it.
"Who is it?' I ask curiously, I don't get too many visitors outside of those here on business.
"He says his name is Duo Maxwell ma'am." She replied. My face lit up with a genuine smile, my first real smile in a long time actually.
"Ah yes, please send him right in."
"Yes ma'am." She turns and leaves and a few seconds later Duo walks in closing the door behind him.
"Duo!" I say in greeting, getting up and going over to him.
"Hey Lena, long time no see." He replies giving me a big bear hug, nearly crushing me in the process.
"Please sit down." I tell him leading him to the sofa by the window. "How have you been Duo? How's Hilde?"
"I'm great and Hilde's good, aside from morning sickness and mood swings." He replied with the biggest smile I had ever seen on his face, and then what he had said hit me.
"Oh my god Duo, Congratulations! How far along is she?" I ask giving him another hug.
"Thirteen weeks, I guess you can't really call me the God of Death anymore, instead of taking a life I helped create one." He replied leaning back, putting his feet on the coffee table. Duo and Hilde had married six months ago, I am so happy for my two friends; they deserve this happiness after what they went through during the war. Poor Duo had only been sixteen back then, as were all the Gundam Pilots, so young to be soldiers, soldiers that ended the war and became heroes. I looked at the former Gundam pilot, pilot of the Gundam Deathscythe. Hilde was a former Oz soldier that joined forces with the Gundam Pilots and fell in love with the God of Death Duo Maxwell.
Duo looked at me, I guess I must have zoned out, because I didn't hear him saying my name and then he poked me finally getting my attention. "What?"
"You okay Lena, you zoned out on me for a minute." He asked concern written all over his face and in his voice.
"Oh yeah I'm fine, just tired. I've just been slammed lately and it's starting to wear me down a bit. Sorry." I reply.
"You need a break Lena. You know what; I want you to cancel all your appointments for the next two weeks. You're coming on a trip with Hilde and me for those two weeks. No ifs, ands or buts about it." He looked at me with a serious expression on his face, which is a rare thing for the always cheerful Duo.
"…" I was at a loss for words, hard to believe a high ranking politician to be speechless. I thought about it for a minute. Well I do need a break, maybe I should. "You know what; I think the world can survive without me for two weeks. I'll do it, but where are we going?"
"You'll have to wait and see it's a surprise." He replied with a goofy grin on his face. I sighed, walking over to my desk hitting the button on my intercom connecting me to my assistant's desk.
"Yes Ms. Darlian?" she chirped at me.
"Claudia could you please cancel all my appointments for the next two weeks, I have to go away on some personal business and won't be able to attend the meetings."
"Yes ma'am."
"Thank you Claudia." I replied. I looked over at Duo. "Okay, I just need to stop home to pack and we can go."
"Why ahead of ya Lena, I called Pagan earlier and asked him to pack for you, then I picked up your bags, they're in my car." He replied with his goofy grin still plastered on his face.
"You had this planned." I accused trying to be serious and failing miserably with a goofy grin of my own on my face.
"You caught me red handed, but you still love me anyway." He replied getting up.
"You're pushing it Maxwell." I replied and then we both burst out laughing.
To be continued...
Author's Note: I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter! PLEASE REVIEW! Chapter 2 will be up as soon as possible. I'm writing two fics at once, the other is a Rurouni Kenshin fic titled "Finding You" it's a Sou/Mi pairing. So if you're a fan of RK and Sou/Mi check it out. Anyway, I'll see you all next chapter!!