takes up exactly where the previous part ended, so you'll have to read A Fate of My Own for this
to make much sense. Oh, and by the way, do you think I own Gundam Wing? Think again.
Enjoy!
A Life of My Own
"I do forgive you." She repeated. 'I would have forgiven
you two years ago.' she added
in her head. Shaking off the wave of memories coming in fast
with that statement, she leaned
back in her chair and looked Heero in the eye. "Heero," she began
slowly. He only hung his
head. 'God, he has changed,' she thought, but swallowed hard
and continued. "Heero, would
you like to come to the Sanq kingdom for a while and stay with me?
We have a lot to talk
about." Heero looked up, his face emotionless. Relena smiled
to herself. 'Maybe he's not
completely changed. At least not that look.' But to her
surprise, his expression softened, with
something that looked like relief. "When?" His tone was strangely
quiet. "Whenever you can
leave-" she began. "I'll come tomorrow." he said quickly, practically
cutting her off. She paused
for a moment, then smiled. "Sure. I'll see you soon."
There was a moment of silence, then she
ended the call.
"Well Relena," she said quietly. "After all your waiting,
after all your tears, after all this
time he's come to you." She smiled. "And this time you're
in charge," her subconscious added,
snapping her out of second-person. "I'm in charge?" she said,
turning to her window. "But he
never was..." She closed her eyes. "No, no. That's
not right. I let him be in charge. I let my life
revolve around him. And now he wants my help. Well, time
to make my own decisions then.
Time for my own life. Then I can help to change his." She
smiled broadly, accepting the
challenge. "And then maybe, just maybe, I can change his heart too."
The very thought sent her
head reeling, giddy with anticipation. The man she loved was
coming to stay at her house, and it
wasn't going to be at all romantic. No, not she would let him
go first on that too. A small sound
escaped Relena's lips. It was a sound of excitement, anticipation,
and, for the first time in a long
time, pure joy.
Feeling as though a huge weight had been lifted from her shoulders,
Relena danced out of
her room and down the stairs, past a very confused Pagan. She
stopped long enough to grab her
coat from the closet and assure him she was only going for a walk before
waltzing out the door
and down the castle steps.
She turned left and headed for the castle gardens, skipping every
step or so. She knew
exactly where she was going. Although the entire garden was pretty
much dead, there still
remained some snowdrops and narcissus plants. Relena's black
boots clicked merrily on the slate
pathways, mirroring her mood. As she moved past the main plots,
she entered a section of the
garden with high bushes on either side. With the cold they had
also been reduced to skeletal,
tangled masses, but still shielded most of the view from outside.
Some of Relena's excitement
dissolved as she passed through the entrance to her private section
of the garden. This was her
place. Her tears stained the ground here, her fingers had ripped
the grass to its roots in anger, it
was she that threw so many stones into the tiny pond in blind hopelessness.
This was the only
place that had seen the deepest of her emotions, and now there was
one more person who would
see it. She would show Heero this place. The placid pond
and little wildflowers beside it, the
long grass and one tall willow, all hidden away from everything.
Relena leaned against the trunk
of the huge willow tree with a sigh. Slowly, she sank to her
knees at its base. A small breeze
swirled around her ears and ruffled her hair. She closed her
eyes and listened, as everything inside
her was swept away, replaced by a single thought that filled every
inch of her with warmth and
happiness:
Heero is coming here.
With that, she drifted off to sleep under the willow, as its wispy
branches swayed back and forth
serenely in the wind.
Okay, okay, okay! I did something wrong with this. Could
you all please tell me what it is?
Flames or criticism, doesn't matter. Any reviews are good.
God knows I hardly get any....
Anyway, next part will be very different from all the rest, since our
stars will finally both be in the
same place. ^_^;; Hehe. 'Later!
