I don't own Gundam Wing or any of its characters, just this plot.

Prologue

Mornings at Peacecraft Palace. She hated them. Actually, she hated it all. Everything. Her life, above all. If one could call it a life. Her whole existence was to serve the world, trapped in a golden cage while she did endless paperwork, working with people that abused her services continuously.

When had things gone so wrong?

"What do you think you're doing?" any other person would have winced at the voice's angry and dangerous tone, but she was too used to it to care anymore.

Her older brother, Milliardo Peacecraft, or Zechs if you prefer, was standing at her room's doorway, steaming in anger, a bunch of crumbled papers and folders at his hand.

"You have a meeting at 1:00! And you still haven't finished all your paperwork. You should have been dressed a long time ago! I'm not your mommy to be making sure that you do your job. It's YOUR job, not mine! When will you grow up and start being responsible!" of course he didn't wait for Relena to answer. He slammed the door with force and disappeared from Relena's blurry sight.

For the first time, she noticed her bodyguard, Heero, leaning on a wall, glaring at the spot his rival had been standing in just moments before. She was assaulted by two intense Prussian blue eyes.

"He had a fight with Noin last night" Heero said matter-of-factly, "he was lead by his emotions erroneously, it was wrong to vent his anger on you. He should know better"

Heero seemed to be disgusted by her brother's actions, ignoring the fact that he wasn't much different from the man he talked so badly about.

He came to stand behind her, and Relena suppressed the shivers than threatened to pass through her spine. She felt his scrutiny as a real shiver shook her body.

"You're too skinny. You have to eat more. You can't take care of peace if your body is not healthy"

With that he exited the room, leaving her with tears and a broken heart. She cried in silence, the tears rolling silently down her peach-colored cheeks. She couldn't take it anymore, this was too much for her, and she had just turned 18.

Through blurry eyes she looked out the window, where birds and eagles flew through the skies, celebrating their freedom, living in heaven. She fervently wished she could be a bird; to be able to spread her wings and fly, fly far away. Away from her golden cage, away from her captors. But she couldn't, for the cage's bars were made of gundanium. She would be trapped here forever, losing her soul to them day by day and her heart to him minute by minute.

Freedom. That word alone elicited so many emotions and dreams in her. So many choices, so many possiblities.

Her eyes came to land at her desk's lowest drawer. She didn't know what she was doing, her hands seemed to have a mind of their own, and before she could realize it, her hands were opening the secret compartment that she had built into the drawer. It opened with a popping sound, and her hands quickly went into the compartment, a smirk growing in her face when her hands grasped around a cool metal object. She looked around the room and at the door, making sure that no one would see her.

Wheels were turning around in her head as she stood up, her smart brain making immaculate plans in a matter of seconds. She was inspired and fearless at the moment. There was no one to stop her, and she would make sure that no one would.

Her hands held the object as if it was her last life source. She pressed the buttons that she knew so well, that only she knew. Then she lifted it at her head's level, placing it next to her right ear. A few beeping sounds were emitted, and Relena feared that Heero would hear them. She approached and locked her door as the 'thing' did its job.

A few more beeping sounds were heard before a louder one was emitted, meaning that it had done its job well.

"Hello?" Relena smiled when she heard his voice enter her ears.

"Andrew" she said proudly, tears no longer falling as she pronounced his name. Andrew Fitch, her only cousin and best friend in the whole wide world.

"Well, well, well, now to what may I own this pleasure, cousin dearest?" she could hear his smile all the way from his house to the Peacecraft Palace.

Her smirk disappeared as she turned into business mode.

"Andrew, I need you to do me a favor"

AN: Ok, this was but the prologue to my new story Tears in Heaven, which, by the way, I'm still not sure will be the definite title. Maybe I'll change it, I'm not sure. Time will tell. Anyways, my other story Aftermath of Rainy Nights will be supposedly finished by the 28th. I'm just giving the last touches to the last chapter, and editing whatever I think is wrong. I'll post the first chapter to this probably the same day , so...yeah, I hope you read and review, even if it's just a prologue. Oh and Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope you all enjoy your happy holiday. My best wishesto all of you

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