Title: Reflections in a Broken Mirror (Sequel to Falling Shards)
Part: 1/?
Pairings: 1x3x4, 2x5
Disclaimer : Last time I slapped a yaoi warning on a story, no one got laid in it. Just for safety's sake though, call it a yaoi one. I might never get them finally in the bed, but there's usually lots of groping, kissing, and so on. This story is dedicated to the HeeronQuatresML and the 4x1-1x4ML especially to jefcat (let me miss a deadline and I will be reminded), Caer (first person to ever want to post my GW drivel), bearilou, Alec (keeper of my Duo when he escapes), Ana, Gal, Sky, Rain (ONNA!) and more recently, swythangel, Kasra (she of the Golden Click), Iczer, Dim Genesis, and Caspian who I must get readdicted to GW. These are the people that keep me writing. I don't own the GW boys, just wish I did. Don't sue me unless you plan on housing two Dachshunds and an evil cat. I'm a writer. I have no money. This takes place one year after Falling Shards. As always, I rarely respond to feedback since I don't know what to say outside of storytelling, but I do love and crave it.
Prologue – Walking on Broken Glass
Relena's hand rested on Millardo's arm as they watched silently. All over the city, many people were doing the same. Workplaces had ground to a halt a few minutes before noon as viewscreens were turned on to hear the decision. Resting her head against her brother's shoulder, the woman's face bore signs of sleeplessness. Dark hollows lay beneath her eyes, giving them a sunken and ill appearance. She had lost weight recently from not eating, leaving her expensive gowns hanging loose on her body. Even her chestnut hair had dullness to it that hadn't been seen before even in her worst of times.
Her brother wrapped an arm around Relena's shoulders, trying to offer up what comfort his presence could. His gaze stayed on the screen before him as the people shown on it remained still, waiting for the decision like the rest of the world it seemed. The soft noise of Noin joining them went unnoticed by Relena until her brother moved to fold his other arm about his fiancée`. The simple love in that act alone brought a tired smile to her lips. It was good to see that after all of this. Her brother was happy, she was happy. There was little to be happy about these days.
A loud rapping sound came from the viewscreen as a black clad man ascended the stairs shown in the center. Standing there, he rustled the papers in his hands. Another figure clad in grey stood at the urging of the armed guards surrounding him on all four sides. The prisoner's hands were chained before him and then latched to his waist. The same heavy restraints laid about his ankles, keeping them immobile as well as using the powerful magnets within to keep his feet secured to the floor. Even dressed and bound as he was, the figure's head rose to evenly meet the stony gaze from above.
Relena pressed a hand to her forehead, sighing softly, "Must they keep him bound like that? He's a human, not an animal."
"To them, he's not," Millardo whispered softly in reply, attention riveted to the screen again.
"We have found you, Heero Yuy, guilty of the murder of fellow Preventers Trowa Barton and Chang Wufei as well as the disappearance and assumed murder of Preventers Duo Maxwell and Quatre Raberba Winner. You are to be remanded for now to the Sanq Institute for the Criminally Insane until such a time that you would be found competent enough to be put into the regular prison populace without being a danger to yourself and others. It was the Minister's own mercy that is keeping you from execution and instead a four consecutive life sentences, Yuy. Do you have anything you would like to say to the court?"
Silence from Heero greeted this question, the pilot's Prussian blue eyes focused on the judge still. The ex-Preventer's face bore no disbelief, no anger, and no sorrow. It was a void as it had been the entire trial. There had been no tears from Heero Yuy, even as the torn condition of Trowa Barton's body, a man he had been said to be the lover of. Nothing came again as that of Chang Wufei, found impaled on one of his own katanas, was questioned upon. When asked what had happened to the now vanished Winner and Maxwell that same silence had held. Shaking his head slowly, the judge banged his gavel again and spoke solemnly as the guards began to move Yuy out of the courtroom and to the transport that would take him to his new home, "And may the gods have mercy on your soul… if you have one."
A soft click turned off the viewscreen as Relena pressed her hands to her face, trying to stifle her sobs. Noin sighed and leaned against her soon to be husband's chest. Wiping a silent tear away, she tried for a weak smile and failed badly, "At least he was saved from the electric chair."
Millardo held the two women in his arms, biting back the words he thought in his heart to be true. Killing Heero would have been kinder than caging him for the rest of his life. Resting is cheek against his sister's head, his eyes closed, wondering for the hundredth time what had possessed Heero to snap two weeks ago and end the night with killing all four of the other ex-Gundam pilots.
Part: 1/?
Pairings: 1x3x4, 2x5
Disclaimer : Last time I slapped a yaoi warning on a story, no one got laid in it. Just for safety's sake though, call it a yaoi one. I might never get them finally in the bed, but there's usually lots of groping, kissing, and so on. This story is dedicated to the HeeronQuatresML and the 4x1-1x4ML especially to jefcat (let me miss a deadline and I will be reminded), Caer (first person to ever want to post my GW drivel), bearilou, Alec (keeper of my Duo when he escapes), Ana, Gal, Sky, Rain (ONNA!) and more recently, swythangel, Kasra (she of the Golden Click), Iczer, Dim Genesis, and Caspian who I must get readdicted to GW. These are the people that keep me writing. I don't own the GW boys, just wish I did. Don't sue me unless you plan on housing two Dachshunds and an evil cat. I'm a writer. I have no money. This takes place one year after Falling Shards. As always, I rarely respond to feedback since I don't know what to say outside of storytelling, but I do love and crave it.
Prologue – Walking on Broken Glass
Relena's hand rested on Millardo's arm as they watched silently. All over the city, many people were doing the same. Workplaces had ground to a halt a few minutes before noon as viewscreens were turned on to hear the decision. Resting her head against her brother's shoulder, the woman's face bore signs of sleeplessness. Dark hollows lay beneath her eyes, giving them a sunken and ill appearance. She had lost weight recently from not eating, leaving her expensive gowns hanging loose on her body. Even her chestnut hair had dullness to it that hadn't been seen before even in her worst of times.
Her brother wrapped an arm around Relena's shoulders, trying to offer up what comfort his presence could. His gaze stayed on the screen before him as the people shown on it remained still, waiting for the decision like the rest of the world it seemed. The soft noise of Noin joining them went unnoticed by Relena until her brother moved to fold his other arm about his fiancée`. The simple love in that act alone brought a tired smile to her lips. It was good to see that after all of this. Her brother was happy, she was happy. There was little to be happy about these days.
A loud rapping sound came from the viewscreen as a black clad man ascended the stairs shown in the center. Standing there, he rustled the papers in his hands. Another figure clad in grey stood at the urging of the armed guards surrounding him on all four sides. The prisoner's hands were chained before him and then latched to his waist. The same heavy restraints laid about his ankles, keeping them immobile as well as using the powerful magnets within to keep his feet secured to the floor. Even dressed and bound as he was, the figure's head rose to evenly meet the stony gaze from above.
Relena pressed a hand to her forehead, sighing softly, "Must they keep him bound like that? He's a human, not an animal."
"To them, he's not," Millardo whispered softly in reply, attention riveted to the screen again.
"We have found you, Heero Yuy, guilty of the murder of fellow Preventers Trowa Barton and Chang Wufei as well as the disappearance and assumed murder of Preventers Duo Maxwell and Quatre Raberba Winner. You are to be remanded for now to the Sanq Institute for the Criminally Insane until such a time that you would be found competent enough to be put into the regular prison populace without being a danger to yourself and others. It was the Minister's own mercy that is keeping you from execution and instead a four consecutive life sentences, Yuy. Do you have anything you would like to say to the court?"
Silence from Heero greeted this question, the pilot's Prussian blue eyes focused on the judge still. The ex-Preventer's face bore no disbelief, no anger, and no sorrow. It was a void as it had been the entire trial. There had been no tears from Heero Yuy, even as the torn condition of Trowa Barton's body, a man he had been said to be the lover of. Nothing came again as that of Chang Wufei, found impaled on one of his own katanas, was questioned upon. When asked what had happened to the now vanished Winner and Maxwell that same silence had held. Shaking his head slowly, the judge banged his gavel again and spoke solemnly as the guards began to move Yuy out of the courtroom and to the transport that would take him to his new home, "And may the gods have mercy on your soul… if you have one."
A soft click turned off the viewscreen as Relena pressed her hands to her face, trying to stifle her sobs. Noin sighed and leaned against her soon to be husband's chest. Wiping a silent tear away, she tried for a weak smile and failed badly, "At least he was saved from the electric chair."
Millardo held the two women in his arms, biting back the words he thought in his heart to be true. Killing Heero would have been kinder than caging him for the rest of his life. Resting is cheek against his sister's head, his eyes closed, wondering for the hundredth time what had possessed Heero to snap two weeks ago and end the night with killing all four of the other ex-Gundam pilots.