Healing Hearts

By: Pixie Wings

A quick note... in this story I use a flashback (not in dream sequence ^_^) and it will be indicated by symbols so I don't confuse anyone... oh and this story will make better sense if you have read the first three stories before this... (in this order) 1. Breaking my Heart 2. Unbreak my Heart 3. The Dance. Got it? good.

~*~

Fourteen year old, bored out of her mind Lena, sat at a conference her uncle had put her in once again. She hated these meetings, with a passion. Oh how she would love to see this entire conference to blown to bits. Of course her uncle would have gone into one of his many lectures about her thoughts and behavior had she said that aloud near him.

She mentally groaned as yet another 'diplomat' jumped up from his seat to debate against the last mans argument. What she would give to be able to just get up from where she was and leave. But of course her uncle would have thrown a fit and she would have just gotten in another yelling contest with him. Her uncle was basically forcing her to attend these meetings so she could eventually follow in her mothers footsteps, to become the next vice foreign minister.

Sometimes she had actually wished that her mother had died entirely, memory and all. As terrible as it sounds she really didn't like to be forced to live her mothers life. She was only fourteen, soon to be fifteen, yet all she heard was how much like her mother she was. Or people would constantly compare her to her mother and point out the faults. For goodness sake! She *wasn't* Relena Dorlain Peacecraft Yuy! Why couldn't they get it through their thick skulls that she was *Lena* Peacecraft Yuy!

Of course many people didn't even bother to add on the last name of Yuy... That name brought fear to everyone's eyes. Lena smirked as she tried to remember everything that she was told about her father. She could count the facts that she knew about him on one of her hands.

1. He was a Gundam Pilot

2. He was anti-social

3. He killed her mother

If she had ever asked her uncle or aunt about him, they would turn their backs on her and try to get her to talk about another subject. She hated that. Here she was... she only knew three facts about her father when it would take at least a whole library of books to even record what she knew about her mother! It wasn't fair. Her life was centered around a dead person!

Lena felt her eyes begin to water. She didn't want to live this life. She wanted her *own* life where she could be a regular teenage girl with her *real* parents. But of course, her mother was dead, her father disappeared and was thought to be dead, and she only had her aunt and uncle who constantly preached to her about the responsibilities that she would one day have. She was fourteen but felt as if she were thirty. She had to keep peace stable, calm down the influential people, act all proper and prim, be an excellent student and role model, and on top of that, she had to erase anything that reminded anyone that she was Heero Yuy's daughter.

That was the *most* difficult task of all. How was she suppose to simply erase her father? She was as much a part of him as she was her father. She even heard her uncle say that sometimes she reminded him of her father. She never knew if it was a good thing or a bad thing... but as far as she could tell with her uncle being the way he was, it was a bad thing.

"Lena Peacecraft"

Lena blinked and hurriedly wiped away any lurking tears. "huh?"

"Your vote Ms. Peacecraft." A fat, short, slightly bald man repeated for her, smirking as he did so.

Lena remained silent for a few minutes trying to remember what the meeting was about, when she couldn't she simply said, "I don't care... whatever."

She watched as every diplomats head snapped in her direction, some were turning red with anger, and some of their mouths were hanging open. She could only smirk at how foolish a bunch of grown persons could look.

After a few more moments of them dumbly gawking at her, the short, fat, slightly bald man from earlier managed to compose himself. "Ms. Peacecraft, may I remind you that the issues we talk about are very serious and if the wrong decision is made our fragile grasp on peace *will* slip! and once more we are only allowing you here because your uncle requested that you be allowed this experience so that you can learn more about this delicate union of the Colony's and the Earth. All in hopes that you will be able to keep this union together in the future just as your mother did!"

At the mention of her mother Lena jumped up from her chair, she knew that something inside of her had just snapped. "I don't give a damn about this 'delicate' union! It'll last if the promises are kept! I'm only fourteen years old, I'm *not* my mother, nor shall I *ever* be her! Stop trying to compare me to her and leave me the hell alone!" She screamed at them.

She took a few seconds to look at each of their shocked faces before she decided that they weren't worth the time of day and quietly, but angrily marched outside to her butler who drove her home.

As was to be expected Milliardo had received a call about his niece's behavior, and was awaiting her arrival at the door with Noin by his side. So as soon as Lena stepped into the door, the yelling began.

"What did you think you were doing Lena!" Milliardo yelled stepping in front of the girl preventing her from going further into the house.

"I wanted out of there, I didn't need that stuff pushed on me!" Lena yelled back.

"Excuse me? I asked a good friend of mine to allow you to attend that meeting, and you go and show my gratitude by acting like a little child?!?"

"I didn't act like a little child uncle! I just couldn't take it anymore!"

"What do you mean you couldn't take it anymore?!?" Milliardo yelled getting angrier by the second.

"I can't stand those meetings! They're stupid! They accomplish absolutely *Nothing* they only make me bored!" Lena yelled back at her uncle, sending him her best glare.

"They accomplish a hell of a lot! Who are you to be judging them in there? They work to keep peace stable like your mother did!" Milliardo took a few steps toward Lena looking ready to kill, until Noin stopped him by pulling him back into place.

"Lena, all your uncles trying to say is that maybe you should pay more attention and be more respectful if you want to be like your mother." Noin said calmly toward Lena, the only daughter that she'd ever have.

Lena looked at Noin then at her uncle, anger filling her eyes. "I *Never* wanted to be like my mother. *You* wanted me to be like her, and I am *Not* my mother, and I refuse to have anything to do with being any Vice Foreign Minister Anything!" She screamed.

Milliardo's face started to turn red. "You *will* continue to study being the vice foreign minister, and you will honor the job when the time comes. You *will not* disobey me again!"

"Milliardo, maybe this isn't the right thing for her." Noin said softly trying to calm her husband down.

"No this *is* the right choice for her! She *won't* turn out like that no good for nothing father of hers!"

"And what about my father huh? You *never* tell me anything about him! Your just as afraid of him as everyone else! *You* think I'm gonna kill someone or hurt something don't you!?" Lena yelled in disgust.

"That's always a possibility, after all you do have his blood in your veins!" Milliardo yelled before he could stop himself.

Lena's mouth hung open. 'So he hates me because of my father...' she thought unhappily. Her eye's started to water, but she couldn't let him see her cry because of that. So she turned and ran.

She kept running. Even after she heard her uncle's and aunt's voices calling for her to come back.

She ran. She didn't stop running, she couldn't. She didn't even know where she was going, only that she needed to get far away from her uncle and aunt.

When darkness falls upon your heart and soul

I'll be the light that shines for you

When you forget how beautiful you are

I'll be there to remind you

When you can't find your way

I'll find my way to you

When troubles come around

I will come to you

When she did finally manage to make herself stop, she found that she had run directly into the 'bad' part of the city. She looked around and found that no one seemed to be out.

She let out a sigh and began to walk to the nearest pay phone to call a taxi. She knew what kind of things happened around these places, they were often brought up in school, and she wanted no part in things that happened here.

Unfortunately before she could even find a pay phone, she ran into a group of boys who were dressed in jeans and different colored dirty shirts. They looked quite greasy and each person had a cloth bracelet around a wrist showing that they belonged to a certain gang.

Lena's eyes widened as they cornered her against a building. She was extremely afraid of what they might do to her.

"Well lookie here, looks like we got ouaselves a purdee one jus standin righ hea boys" Said the tallest kid in the group.

"Heh, sure do. Looks like she's loaded too... say kid, what parta that rich place ya from?" a black haired kid teased.

"l...l...look... I'm not doing anything wrong here... I just want to get home okay? now please, I got to get home" Lena said trying to be brave.

The gang let out howls of laughter upon hearing Lena's request.

"She sura acts all high n mighty" one of them said.

"Maybe that's sumthin we can fix eh" said another member of the group as he pinned her to the wall pulling a knife out of his pocket.

Lena let out a small scream but was silenced with a quick slap to the face.

"You stupid girl, ain't no one here gunna help ya! they don't like you rich people who think there bettah than us!" the boy said with a smirk as he leaned forward.

"Let her go." A monotone voice yelled out behind the gang.

The boy turned around with the rest of the gang to see who was stupid enough to try and interfere with their affairs.

"'n who're ya?" asked the boy.

"None of your business... let her go."

"Hell no.."

"Hn..." and with that grunted, the gunfire started.

Lena watched as one by one the boys ran off into the darkness of the city, even the leader had run after the stranger had fired his gun into the air.

She knew that she was trembling, but that was something that she couldn't really help, she was terrified. She was terrified of what could have just happened to her, but wasn't terrified of the stranger. For an odd reason, she felt safe now that he was here.

So when the stranger started to walk toward her she stayed where she was, she only observed him. He was pretty tall with dark brown hair with little strands of gray popping out here and there. The thing that caught her full attention though, was his eyes. The same prussian blue as hers, except his seemed to carry more shadows in them.

The stranger stopped a few feet in front of her and seemed to make sure she wasn't hurt, all the while he never uttered a single word. Lena became nervous, she liked silence, but with things being the way they were, she needed this man to say something, anything.

"Thank you mister" she said hoping that he would respond. nothing.

A few minutes passed by and still nothing was said. He just continued to stare at her, a faint light showing in his eyes.

"Umm... my names Lena... Lena Peacecraft..." she hesitated to say the last name fearing that this man might hear it and run off. "Lena Peacecraft... Yuy..." She finally managed to finish.

She watched as the man started to smile. Her eyes widened, 'Doesn't he know who and what Heero Yuy did? or maybe it doesn't matter... maybe he wants to hurt me now!' she mentally screamed at herself.

"Hn... you know what he did?" the man asked, breaking his silence.

"h...huh? umm.. yeah I guess.." Lena stuttered out.

"Then why do you add his name to yours." was his statement, or question.

Lena blinked a few times at the man. There was something familiar about him that she just couldn't place. "Because he was my father..." She stared harder at the man, trying to make out anything else about him that would ignite a memory that might help her recognize him.

"But don't you hate him for killing your mother?" He asked in a low voice, almost a whisper.

She smiled, "No, I couldn't hate him, ever. I know he feels bad about whatever he did but, things happen, even if they are terrible."

The man let out a smile, "Just like your mother, always forgiving."

Lena's eyes widened with recognition as her mind played back a scene she had long since forgotten.

"I won't be coming back tonight... or any other night"

"Why daddy... did I do something bad? I'm sorry daddy, please daddy!"

"No Lena it's nothing you did. You didn't do anything wrong, you never did. It's my fault Lena.. I ... I just have to go... your safe and you don't need me anymore..."

"Daddy..." she whispered. "Daddy, your back!" she yelled and ran to her father, hugging him for all that she was worth.

Heero hesitated for a bit before he returned her hug. He wasn't sure why she was here in this part of the city, and he didn't know why or how she could ever forgive him, but he knew that he loved his little girl and that she needed him at the moment.

I'll be your shoulder when you need someone to lean on

Be your shelter

When you need someone to see you through

I'll be there to carry you

I'll be there

I'll be the rock that will be strong for you

The one that will hold on to you

When you feel that rain falling down

When there's nobody else around

I'll be

"Oh daddy, I missed you so much" Lena mumbled loosening her grip on her father. "But where were you all this time though, and how did you just show up here?" She asked, now pulling away from the hug.

Heero remained silent for a few minutes trying to think of something, anything, that he could say to her. In the end all he could come up with was, "I've been around...and... well... I guess I just happened to be passing by."

Lena lifted an eyebrow and smirked. "Oh daddy! You don't have to lie to *me*! Lets go somewhere and talk." She said trying to get Heero to take her somewhere safer than the section of the city they were in at the moment. Heero finally lead her to the beach where he met Relena, for some reason he felt that this place was more appropriate than the park.

When they sat down in the sand and sorted their thoughts out they began to talk. Mainly about the life she was leading now, how mad she was at her uncle and aunt for trying to force her to be someone she didn't want to be. She told her father that her uncle had never been able to accept her mothers death and had kept his anger and hatred for him and sometimes he would see him through her.

Heero just nodded his head and listened. He knew that she needed to get all of her feelings out without being interrupted. When she finally finished off her long list of complaints with the fact that she knew very little about him, he sighed and decided that he might as well begin from the time he met her mother.

~*~

"And that's how my mother died?" Lena asked softly, she could tell her father was torturing himself for his actions. He had been living in his own personal hell the day Relena Dorlain Peacecraft Yuy had died.

Heero slowly nodded his head, too afraid to look up into his daughters eyes to see the disappointment in them.

"Oh daddy... It's alright. I forgive you, and I know mommy will too." She said scooting closer to her father to give him a hug. Heero smiled and gave her a small hug in return.

"So, what exactly were you doing in that section of the city again?" Heero asked his daughter.

Lena laughed. "Well... uncle Mil and I had another yelling contest... and I got mad and he got mad and I guess I couldn't stand the sight of him... and I ran. I didn't know I got that far until I stopped. And that's when those boys cornered me. Now, what exactly were you doing in that section of town daddy?" she asked with a small smirk.

Heero returned her smirk, "following you."

"What??"

"I've been watching over you whenever your uncle hasn't... please don't get mad, but I had to make sure that you were safe... and I'm glad I did...." Heero looked up at the setting sun.

Lena sighed. "So you've been around me my entire life and I never knew?"

"... yes... but no one else knew either..."

"oh..."

And when you're there with no one there to hold

I'll be the arms that reach for you

And when you feel your faith is running low

I'll be there to believe in you

When all you find are lies

I'll be the truth you need

When you need someone to run to

You can run to me

They sat there in silence until the sun had completely set and the stars appeared above them. Then Heero finally broke the comfortable silence.

"Lena, do you see that star right there?" he said pointing to the brightest star in the sky.

"Yes.."

"That was your mother's and my wishing star, I know it sounds... dumb, but every night we use to go out and take walks, and we'd look up at that star and make wishes on it." Heero said with a soft smile, then it quickly turned into a frown, "but now no one wishes on it..."

Lena looked toward her father and noted the sadness in his voice as he finished the sentence. "Well then that will be my wishing star too!" She said trying to cheer her father up.

Heero smiled. "Do you still have that bear I gave to you?"

"You mean the one with the red ribbon? Muttons always lays on my pillow at night." Lena said.

"Muttons?" Heero asked raising an eyebrow skeptically.

"Yeah.. I wanted to call him buttons... but muttons slipped out and well... muttons stuck" Lena said with a small laugh.

"Hn..."

Lena turned her head and observed her father. In the short time that they had together, she had learned that he *wasn't* as cold as everyone said he was, and he was truly sorry for her mother's death. He *was* capable of love, and he did care about his family.

"Lena... did you know that this was the very beach were your mother and I met?"

"Somehow I thought it was..." Lena said looking out across the ocean. "Daddy..."

"Yes"

She smiled at what she was going to ask, "Daddy... one day... one day can you take me to outer space?"

"What?"

"I hear its really beautiful there... it's just that... uncle Mil doesn't think I'm ready to go up there. He said that I belong on Earth..."

Heero smiled, "You do belong on Earth... but I know one day you'll be able to go up there... especially if your going to be the next vice foreign minister."

Lena's eyes welled up with tears again. "What if I don't want to be.... Daddy... why does everyone want me to follow in momma's footsteps... I don't want to follow in her footsteps though! I hate being compared to her, she's dead... *I'm* alive!" She sobbed.

Heero looked toward his daughter in mild surprise, but said no comforting words at the moment, only held her close while she sobbed into his shoulder. When she finished crying, he wiped away her tears and forced her to face him.

"Lena... you don't have to be anything you don't want to. Don't let them force you! I'll always be a step behind you if you ever need anything. You just call out and I'll be there for you no matter what." He finished.

Lena smiled brightly. "Oh thank you daddy! I knew you would understand!"

I'll be your shoulder when you need someone to lean on

Be your shelter

When you need someone to see you through

I'll be there to carry you

I'll be there

I'll be the rock that will be strong for you

The one that will hold on to you

When you feel that rain falling down

When there's nobody else around

I'll be

They stayed on the beach for nearly a half hour more before Heero ushered his daughter back in the direction of her uncle's house. They both stopped when it came into view.

"Daddy... why don't you come with me?" Lena asked looking at her father.

"Because... you already know the answer... I will never be forgiven in Milliardo's eyes, I'm as good as dead to him, and I'd like him to believe that too, if you don't mind" He asked staring at her, gaining her silent approval.

"Remember what I said sweetheart... I will *always* be around the corner... just call out. I mean it"

"Thank you daddy... I love you" she said as she gave him a quick hug and ran inside her uncle's house

"Daddy...I love you..."

"Sweetheart, be a good girl for your uncle and aunt...they love you, and I love you too... good bye sweetie..."

"... I love you too Lena.... goodbye for now" Heero whispered into the night.

He turned around and stared at the wishing star, a small smile crept onto his face as he disappeared back into the night, awaiting the day his only child would need his aide again.

I'll be the sun

When your heart's filled with rain

I'll be the one

To chase the rain away

Lena kept her father's secret throughout her life a secret. Once in a while she would get a letter from him with no signature. Signatures were never necessary for either of them, they could just tell. She had grown up to become a lovely woman many said, although she didn't follow in her mothers footsteps she was an excellent doctor.

After years of floundering about she had finally been allowed to choose her profession, and she wanted an honorable one where she felt she could directly help those in need, and surprisingly, her uncle approved. And of course, she did get married and have children. Although her uncle was the one that walked her down the aisle, she knew her father was somewhere in the crowd watching her proudly.

Years did seem to fly by for her, sometimes she received 'mysterious' presents or letters for her children, and sometimes they were for her. She never really had another chance to talk with her father, or give him a hug, but it didn't matter, she knew he was there.

I'll be your shoulder when you need someone to lean on

Be your shelter

When you need someone to see you through

I'll be there to carry you

I'll be there

I'll be the rock that will be strong for you The one that will hold on to you

When you feel that rain falling down

When there's nobody else around

I'll be

Then... one day sometime in October, she received a call from the cemetery where her mother was buried. Apparently some 'stranger' had breathed his last on her mother's grave. She immediately went to identify the body as her fathers.

He was buried next to her mother's grave the following Sunday. Not many attended his funeral, mainly because it was kept silent. Only her family and old friends of his did, all except her uncle, who still held bitterness deep within his heart. Everyone stayed for as long as they could, but they eventually had other things to attend to.

"Mama... who was that man they buried?" asked her youngest son.

"That was your grandfather honey, one of the strongest people I've ever known... why don't you go wait for me in the car with your father okay honey?"

"Okay mama..." he said before he stepped up to his grandfathers grave, "Love you grandpa, good bye..." and with those final words the young boy sprinted towards the awaiting car.

"...... Daddy... daddy I... I'm glad... I know your up there with Momma now. And I know your still watching over me, and I forgive you for leaving. You had to go, it was your time... But I still will miss you. And I'll do everything to keep both your memory and Momma's memory alive. You *both* deserve it. I love you daddy... and I love you too mommy" She turned to her mothers gravestone. "I know your both happy now, and now I can be happy too."

She placed a small, beaten and torn brown bear with a red ribbon between the two gravestones.

"Goodbye Daddy and Momma... maybe I'll see you two someday, until then... be happy."

With that, Lena walked to the car where her family awaited her.

I'll be

"You can tell them now..." He said before stepping back in the shadows.

"Yes Daddy, good bye..."

~Owari~

*GRIN* okay I admit it... a few tears slipped out at the end. *sob* Well... I hoped you all liked it... after all I *DID* spend an *ENTIRE* day writing this! (well... almost ^_^) Oh and since I used the song that M.E. Relena suggested... she gets to choose what I write next ^_^ Thank you all who suggested and/or supported me! Oh and heres the story you requested Dr. Briefs Cat... I hope you liked it!

Now this *IS* the *FINAL* ending to this series... kinda angsty eh? HA! the entire series was angsty! haha! ^_^ *wiping tear remnants off of cheeks* So did you think the flashbacks were appropriate or what? I hope they were... anyway please tell me how you felt about this one! Now I need to create the next chapter to my other series *_*

Oh and before I forget... I know the end was kinda rushed, and Heero was kinda OOC... but... well.. not really for this story ya know? anyway also! ALSO! we cannot forget, that the spelling when the gang was talking was *very* intentional... just read it aloud to get a bit of the accent ^_^ okay so I'm not good at making them talk funny... *sob*

~Pixie Wings~

DISCLAIMER:

The song I'll be is written by Diane Warren but sung by Reba McEntire... so obviously I don't own it.. and your a nut if you think I could have come up with Gundam wing! If I did the mobile suits would be like... pink and purple or some weird color! *shivers at the thought*