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Anything and Everything

Duo's words came back to me for some reason when the Barton Foundation informed me that Relena Peacecraft was in the building I'd just attempted to destroy. Anything and everything for the one you love. I'd heard Duo say it, of course, as our mission began. I ignored him. By this time, I was used to his babbling, most of it was just an excuse for him to hear the sound of his own voice. So, when he said it, I continued my run down the corridor, never stopping to ask myself 'Why am I running?'

Anything and everything for the one you love. Again, his words echoed in my ears. My mind was racing. If I shot at the building with the same force, it could collapse, killing Relena in the process. Not only would that result in a failed mission for me, but chaos for the sphere and colonies. I had to find some way to rescue her. Time was running out, Barton Foundation mobile suits were attacking on all sides, literary ripping Wing Zero apart. If I was going to something, it had to be now.

I recalibrated the beam from Zeros's buster rifle and aimed again, a weaker shot should just tear an entrance into the building, but not cause it to fall in on itself. I shot, and was shot at, almost simultaneously. The pieces of Wing Zero crashed to the ground and I barely managed to open the hatch and climb out. This mission had already taken a heavy toll on me, especially fighting Wufei, and needless to say, the crash landing didn't help.

I stumbled out of Zero, half rolling, half falling down the debris left by enemy mobile suits and my own. I pulled myself up to a standing position, I had to do everything in my power to save Relena and return the world to the peace we had all fought for so hard. Everything. Anything and everything. It repeated over and over through my head like a mantra. Anything and everything, anything and everything, anything and everything...

I tore through the building searching for Relena. ...For the one you love. I tried to shake away Duo's words, but I couldn't. As much as I'd like to deny that I have feelings for the girl, I had just proven Duo right; here I was, doing anything and everything I could for Relena, just as I'd done in the past.

When I finally found Relena, with Une and Mariemaia Barton, I was no longer steady on my feet. My hands shook as I informed the child who was moaning in pain that I would it end that pain for her. My hands shook, my vision blurred, my knees were growing weak, I knew I could keep standing up for much longer. Disorientation was beginning to settle over me and when Mariemaia closed her eyes, I thought I had shot, that I had freed her of her pain, that I had killed her. Killed a little girl who thought she understood the adult world when she was actually just a puppet.

We were all just puppets and my strings had finally been cut loose. I wouldn't kill anymore, I couldn't and I won't. That's part of the everything I'd do for you, Relena, give up my very way of life for you, for myself and my humanity.

I was getting lightheaded by now, and swayed on my feet. I heard Relena call my 'name,' more accurately, my code name, and could just see her running towards me. She reached me the moment I fell, our bodies hitting each other before we landed on the floor in a pile, me mostly on her lap. I barely felt her hug me and press her cheek against my head. I vaguely remember pushing my head onto her shoulder during those last moments before I lost consciousness.

Anything and everything for the one you love. I'd do anything for her because she's everything to me.