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I Can't Live Like This
Chapter 9
All night and morning he stirred in bed. Trying to either wake from a terrible dream, or fall back asleep to lose the feeling of guilt. He couldn't get the thoughts of what he had to out of his mind, the look on Lena's face, the way she had just forgiven him. He kept thinking of how he had screwed up his whole relationship just by losing his head and making out with Sally, he didn't think it would get that far, or that it would even happen. Now he was girlfriendless, his friends didn't trust him and didn't like him as much as they usually would at the moment, and he had to avoid the girls to keep from breaking out in tears.
Heero and Lena had a peaceful nights sleep. They slept throughout the night, not waking once. Heero had kept his arms around her, holding her to him, and Lena had snuggled closer to his warm.
Heero opened his eyes as he felt the suns rays land on him through the window. He blinked the sleep out of his eyes and stared at the brown locks of hair on the head of the angel he held in his arms. He hugged her tighter to him and yawned while she continued to sleep peacefully.
There was suddenly a knock at the door, actually there were several knocks and what seem to Heero, and were separate types of knocks from at least 3 different people. He let go of Lena and set her down gently, pulling the blankets over her. He stood up and walked to the living room. Looking out the peep hole, he saw Trowa, Quatre, and Duo all waiting outside. He opened the door slowly, just enough for them to fit through one at a time.
When they were all in he closed the door and asked,
"What do you guys want?" They all just stared at each other and laughed.
"Heero, we're just here to talk to Lena, don't have a cow!" Duo laughed. Heero glared at him and sighed.
"She sleeping right now, you can talk to her later." Heero stated.
"Aw, oh well, we'll just wait for her to wake up in her room." Duo said softly at first then screamed the ending. The three raced to Lena's bedroom and locked the door before Heero could stop them.
Heero ran to the door and started hissing,
"What the hell do you guys think you're doing?!"
"Nothing…" the trio whispered. They walked over to Lena and sat on the bed.
They all knew why they were there. They needed to talk to Lena about an important matter they've been putting off ever since they moved into the apartment. They knew of her deep secret, and they thought that now would be a good time to talk to her about it.
Lena began to stir and the guys turned to her. She yawned and opened her eyes slowly. As her eyes focused she blinked. She stared at them with a questioning look and sat up, leaning her back against the headboard.
"Hey guys, what are you doing here?"
"Relena, we need to talk." Quatre said softly.
"What did you just call me?" Lena asked, her eyes widening with a slight hint of fear.
"Relena, we know it's you, we've known ever since we moved in. Heero and Wufei might be blind, but we're not." Duo told her.
Relena looked down and smiled slightly. As she looked back up she had happy expression on her face. She shook her head and stared at them.
"I guess I couldn't fool you guys, why are you talking to me about this now? Why didn't you bring it up when you first came?" she asked softly.
"Well, we knew you were happy with this new identity of yours and we didn't want to spoil your fun, besides, we wanted to see how long it would take these people to notice." Duo said happily. Relena sighed and smiled. She shook her head and stared at them.
"We were wondering, though, about what you were going to do with your life…are you ever going back to being Vice Foreign Minister?" Trowa asked softly. Lena stared at him and whispered softly,
"I don't know." She looked down at her lap and clasped her hands together. She held them tightly together, so tight the guys noticed and stared at her.
"Relena, it's nothing to get stressed about already. We're not going to tell." Duo said alarmed, when she loosened her grip they all sighed.
Trowa walked close to her and took her hand in both of his. He waited for her to look up at him before he started to speak. When she did look up at him he took in a long breath and began,
"Relena, we're going to need you to become Vice Foreign Minister again, and soon." He told her softly, "We're not saying you have to, but the earth is in danger. But if you don't come back, we still have Zecks, but, he may not be enough.
Relena listened silently. That must have been the longest speech she had ever heard come out of Trowa's mouth. He was so silent normally. If he was willing to talk so much, this must have been important. She smiled at him and squeezed his hand.
"Alright, tell me what's happening and I'll consider coming back if it's important."
"Since it seems you haven't heard, I'll tell you." Quatre said softly as he walked over and sat on the other side of her. He took one of her other hand and held it in both of his just as Trowa was doing. "It started about a year and a half ago, but was just announced a week ago. Oz is back. They broadcasted it on live television and scared the living daylights out of the people on earth. They threatened to blow it up. It's either that or hand the earth over to them."
"Wh-What can I do? And why are we all whispering?" she asked softly. The guys smiled softly and Duo whispered,
"We don't want He-man to find out." Relena smiled.
"I'll come back. Whenever they call for me, and they will. Until then, I want to just live this out." She whispered and smiled. "Will that be alright with you guys?"
They all nodded in agreement and hugged her tightly. But they didn't know about how she was secretly thinking and crying, she didn't want to leave this life, and she knew she was able to say no. Yet she couldn't get herself to say no, she wanted to help, yet not help, it was so confusing to her.
There was suddenly a knock on the door, followed by some talking, and more knocking.
"What are you guys doing in there? Breakfast is ready." Heero announced.
"Nothing He-man, just talking to R----Lena" Duo said, trying to stop himself, and hoping Heero didn't hear.
"Well hurry up!" Heero said.
They all heaved a sigh of relief. Then Duo walked over to Lena and picked her up, throwing her over his shoulder. She gave a yelp and began to laugh hysterically. Then Trowa and Quatre joined in laughing. They walked out to the kitchen and Duo set her in a chair. The three winked at her and she laughed more. When everyone began to calm down, they began to set the table and put food on their plates.
An hour later everyone was in the living room watching TV. Duo and Quatre sat on the floor, and Trowa and Heero sat on the ends of the couch with Lena in the middle. Then Trowa looked up at the clock.
"I better go; I got to get to work in 15 minutes. And Duo and Quatre do, too. So we all better go." They all said their farewells and left Heero and Lena alone on the couch.
The duo continued to watch TV, inching closer to each other without even knowing, till it was too late and he had his arm wrapped around her shoulders. Her head resting on his shoulder. Lena looked up at him and kissed his cheek.
"Thanks for breakfast," she whispered, "and for staying." She reached up and kissed his cheek, still staring into his perssian blue eyes. Heero kept his face an emotionless mask,
"You're welcome." Lena couldn't see anything in his facial expression, but she could see the emotions building up in his eyes. He leaned down and covered her lips with his, giving her a small sensual kiss. Pulling back for a second he smiled and leaned back down, deepening the kiss slowly, but surely. Lena wrapped her arms around his neck and closed her eyes.
They pulled away from each other and stared deeply into each other's eyes. Lena mouthed "I love you" and he mouthed it back. They hugged each other tightly and fell asleep, each other holding the other close to them.
Wufei sat in his room miserably thinking about the past day's events. The images of him and Sally, of Lena's expression, her running away, her defending him from Heero. He groaned and got out of bed. Walking out of his room he looked around the guys, but they were nowhere to be found. Though he did find the girls chatting away in the living room, he didn't want to have to bother with them at the moment. He walked back to his room and got dressed. He then walked back out and towards the door to leave for work, he though it was the only way to get his mind off his problems. Shutting the door with a loud bang, he walked down the stairs and out onto the streets.
Sally watched him as he left and sighed. She had wondered why everyone was so mad at her, it never dawned on her that they were mad because she had tricked Wufei into making out with her in his girlfriend's apartment. She didn't see what was wrong with it; she still believed that he and she shouldn't have been going out instead of him and Lena. She thought Lena had tricked him into going out with her.
All the girls sided with Sally, mainly because she was their friend, so they didn't even try to like Lena. Hilde knew there was something about Lena that was slightly familiar, she just didn't want to say anything, for fear that her friends would be mad at her.
Sean sat on a stool in the kitchen of the diner. He was staring up at the ceiling, thinking about Lena and what had happened. Wufei had talked to him afterwards and received a glare and hiss, but came out unscathed. Sean felt he dealt with it very maturely.
"Sean, do you know when Lena might come back to work?" Mr. Johnson asked as he walked into the kitchen.
"No, Sir." Sean said as he stood up.
"Well, when you see her, tell her that she should take as much time off as she needs. She'll still have a job here when she's ready to come back."
Sean smiled and nodded. He poked his head out of the kitchen door and saw that business was pretty dead, which was normal during this time of the day. It was around 10, no one was eating breakfast, and hardly anyone was ready to eat lunch.
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Short, I know. But I had a sudden rush of inspiration and got a great idea. So I stopped here and started another chapter. I promise, next chapter will be long! Or at least regular length, and it'll be out soon…I hope…..^^;; heh…heh…ya