Parent Trap
By Eva-Lyn
Authors Notes: I do NOT own Gundam Wing and yes, this was inspired by the movie 'Parent Trap'. Thank you everyone for reading, please review! Also, I've received some messages about Donovan and Taylor's attraction toward young Rhea, please, do not worry, this is a child-friendly fiction.
Chapter Thirty-Five
July 31st, Year XXX9
Location: Europe
Place: Sanq Kingdom
They arrived at Sanq by nightfall which was their plan and made sure they exit the plane in disguise. Before landing, Hilde and Relena made extra effort on Duo, considering that anyone could spot him by just looking at his long braided hair. The whole entire time that the girls are working on him, the death scythe pilot whined.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? Why do I have to dress as a woman!?" Duo screamed. "Why can't Heero do it?"
"Because he doesn't have this long braided hair, unlike Heero, you can't hide that." Hilde pointed out, tugging his braid with a frown on her pretty face. "Be thankful that I'm not considering of cutting it."
"No! Babe! Don't do it!" Duo whined in a more childish manner that Relena had to giggle, she knew that he was playing now. "Anything but my luxurious hair!"
Hilde playfully swat the back of his head. "Shut it and allow us to braid ur damn hair in place so you can wear the wig properly." She expertly brushed her husband's hair like she always does for the last decade of their marriage, she secretly enjoys it. "You have to pass for a woman for only less than an hour until we reach the mansion. So behave."
Duo let out a miserable whine. "You both are so cruel to me!" He looked at the back of Heero's head who is currently on the cockpit piloting the plane. "YOU! You stone cold bastard, I'm your best friend! Help me!"
Heero grinned from where he is sitting but kept his eyes in the sky. "Can't. Navigating." He simply said and he heard the devastated Duo screamed at him.
"TRAITOOOOOR!"
'Wufei isn't going to let him forget this...' Heero laughed to himself as he continued to listen to the people behind him, until Hilde have shoved Duo into the private room in the back to try out clothes. Relena didn't follow, instead, she joined her husband at the cockpit and sat in the copilot seat. "How are you feeling, dear?" He asked.
"Slightly tired but I'm alright." Relena settled on the seat and made herself comfortable. "I know that they're safe with the boys but my mind is drifting towards them. I know they'll be fine but I can't help but worry. For all of them."
"Me too." Heero admitted, he reached over to take her hand and gave it a squeeze. "We will do our part. I promise you, they're in good hands."
"What if..." Relena started but she was cut off when Heero brought her hand to his lips.
"Love, they'll be fine. I promise you." Heero said with full determination in his eyes. "They are safe. Don't worry too much, it's not good for your health." He kiss her knuckles and from behind her hand, his eyes turned menacing with a grin to match. "Even if they did, they're all in for a surprise..."
Relena blinked, confused. "Heero? What do you mean by that?" But all she got was silence and Heero returning his attention back to the monitor and darken sky.
Milliardo, Lucrezia and Sally waited at the landing dock while Wufei took control of the whole operation on the main control tower.
"They'll be landing in five minutes. Changing to runway lights." Wufei said on the intercom. Outside, the streetlights dimmed and the runway light brighten white. "They're on sight."
Milliardo moved closer to the window. His vision fixated in the sky and spotted the plane's headlights slowly approaching, Lucrezia and Sally joined him. Another three minutes, the plane is in full view and expertly descended to the ground. Wufei appeared beside his wife with his arms crossed before moving toward the automatic double doors. "They're right on time."
The plane door opened and the aircrew immediately rolled the stairs over. Once in place, a tall and beautiful black haired beauty in a gray uniform appeared at the door way, she had a scowl plastered on her face as she climbed down the stair. She is followed by a brunette with a friendly smile who's waving at the small reception with the same grey attire, then Relena came into view. Milliardo moved then and waited at the bottom, he offered his hand at his sister who accepted before pulling her into a loving embrace.
"I've missed you." Milliardo whispered over her sister's head. "Are you well?"
"I missed you too, brother." Relena happily returned the hug. "I was until I have to return to all of this..."
Milliardo chuckled, he gently pushed back a little to plant a kiss on her forehead. "We're almost there, sweetheart. We're almost there."
The last member of the crew climbed down the stairs and stood beside the black-haired woman. He wore the pilot outfit, gray hair with a mustache to match and added colored contacts to hide his familiar blue eyes. Milliardo gave him a nod of acknowledgment before they walked away from the plane and back to the building. Once in, a group men were waiting for them, one of these men made Relena wanted to hurl and throw her high heeled shoes at him but knew that it wouldn't go well if she has.
"Miss Relena, how are you? It is good to see you. We are sorry that we cut off your vacation so short." Paris Senator William Quinton approached them with two of his men, the Germany Senator, Edward Paltrow and United Kingdom Senator Corbin White who Relena both know are good men, also, Heero confirmed that neither men are involved with Quinton in any way. "Did you have a nice holiday?"
"Thank you, I had a great time." Relena replied with a forced fake smile. 'This devious worm…' She had to bite her tongue. "I hope everything is well with the senates, they sent me documents about the issue of disbanding weaponry in both Earth and Space. I'll gladly give you a summary on Monday before the conference."
"That's good to hear, Miss Relena, we can obviously wait until then. Right, Paltrow?" White turned to his friend, he smiled. "We didn't need to be here to bother, Miss Relena, I am sure that she is tired from her travels."
"I'm satisfied with her answer, as always, what about you Mr. Quinton?" Paltrow turned his attention to the Frenchman. "We shouldn't bother the young lady, she's not even officially back to work until Monday."
Quinton didn't move but his eyes scanned the room. From Relena, to Milliardo and Lucrezia, to the Pilot and his two flight attendants. He then turned back his attention to Relena. "Miss Relena, do you mind telling me where your daughter is? I was hoping to get a glimpse of the young Princess Guinevere. I thought she traveled with you."
Prepared, Relena forced a smile again. "She's joined some friends of hers with their families to Hawaii that she met at camp, I'm happy to say that she's making progress with her social circle since she came back from there. Guinevere will be returning at the end of this week."
"I also hear that two Preventers joined you during your vacation, is that true?" Quinton pushed on, his eyes scanning the room again. "But I don't see any here."
Casually, Relena motioned her hand at the two flight attendants. "These two young ladies and the pilot himself are from the Preventers HQ, Lady Une personally handpicked them herself. The other two who joined me and Guinevere went with her to Hawaii."
On cue, Wufei's phone rang and he picked it up without checking the caller id. "Chang." He listened and nodded his head. "Yes. We have retrieved the V.M.P at the checkpoint and will be escorting her back to the mansion." He then turned to the pilot and flight attendants. "Yes, they'll be returning to HQ after we safety escort the V.M.P. Understood." Wufei shut off his phone, turned to Relena and crossed his arms. "That was Lady Une, checking in, we must leave now."
Relena nod her head before turning to the three Senators. "Well then gentlemen, I must be off. I'll see everyone on Monday, goodnight."
"Goodnight, Miss Relena." Paltrow and White smiled, bowed their heads and took a step back to open a path.
Quinton took a minute before he too took a side step. "Goodnight, we will see you on Monday." He said but clearly unhappy with the result if the whole conversation.
Wufei took the lead, followed by Milliardo and Lucrezia, Relena and the brunette flight attendant, and the last are the pilot and the black haired beauty that Quinton's men were eyeing with perverted eyes. This didn't go unnoticed from the rest of the group of course which they have to patiently wait.
Pagan and Jonathan were waiting patiently next to the stretched limo, they both smile when they saw Relena. Vice versa, the young woman smiled back and took a few quick step to give each male a hug. "I've missed you both."
"You're safe, I'm very happy to see you too, Miss Relena." Jonathan said cheerfully, his childish face showed his concern.
"I'm very happy to see you, Miss Relena." Pagan smiled adoringly at the young woman who he helped raised since birth. "I am very glad."
"Let's go home." Relena said, feeling the stress leaving her after the encounter with Quinton. "We need to get out of here. Too many preying eyes and ears."
Jonathan happily opened the doors for his passengers.
Throughout the whole car ride, no one said a word until they reached the PeaceCraft mansion, Jonathan drove the car around to the garage and bid everyone goodnight. Once the doors were closed was when the whole group, minus Duo who is bright red from both embarrassment and anger, burst into a fit of laughter.
"I saw those two guards checking you out, baby, they were ready to come up to you and ask for your number." Hilde removed her wig, she had to clasp her side from laughter. "It was great!"
Wufei grinned from ear to ear. "You finally did something right, Maxwell, you should dress like that more often on missions. You might succeed quicker."
"I'm so sorry you have to go through that, Duo but thank you for your efforts." Relena, trying her very best to control her laughter by covering her mouth with the back of her right hand while she used her left to wrap around her side. "You do look very pretty."
Heero and Milliardo just smirked at the long braided man's current predicament while Lucrezia couldn't help but joined Hilde's fit of laughter.
"AUGH!" Duo screamed out of frustration, he removed his wig, revealing his long mane wrapped around the top of his head with pins. "You guys sucks!"
This caused everyone in the room to lost their last strand of composer and laughed hard [on Milliardo and Heero's case, they openly laughed out loud.]
An hour later; Wufei, Duo and Hilde drove to the Preventer HQ [Duo in a different disguise; took over Heero's spot as the pilot.] While Heero have asked Sally to stay behind to check on Relena's health without giving much of a hint to the others who just left but of course, he couldn't hide the fact to Milliardo and Lucrezia, they joined them at the mansion's private clinic.
She took a deep breath, calming her mind and body while the scanner slowly made a soft hum as Sally examine her belly. Heero held her hand and silently anticipated for the result, they only wish that everything is alright. Milliardo and Noin are sitting at the corner with the full view of the monitor, neither could help but feel excited.
After a short while, Sally paused and removed her hand off the scanner. "There's the little one. Just a little over five to six weeks now. It is still too early to really get a 100% sure of the gender, another nine to ten weeks should do it. Baby is still too tiny to tell." Sally smiled before beaming at the couple. "Congratulations."
"Well now, I send my sister to you for protection and she comes back pregnant." Milliardo said roughly said but there was laughter in his eyes which no one missed. "Really, Yuy, top priority first."
Hero grinned, he kissed the top of Relena's head. "She is my top priority. Always."
Lucrezia noticed Relena's eyes still eyeing the image of her child. She walked over to the younger woman and patted her belly gently. "You're going to be fine, Relena. Just like when you were pregnant with the girls."
"I know... But..." Relena tugged on Heero's hand and smiled. "Heero, look, that's our baby in there.
Heero rested his cheek against hand as he stares at the monitor, he didn't say a word, just stared. Sally, Milliardo and Lucrezia took this moment to get up and leave the room to give the couple some privacy. Quietly, Heero reached over to the monitor so it could be closer to them which Relena was grateful for and touched the screen where Sally circled and typed 'Yuy Baby' on the growing embryo.
"That's our baby." Heero repeated, he took his and Relena's hand to place it on her belly. "Our baby is going to be growing inside you once more…" He listened to the strong heartbeat on the monitor. "Baby is going to be strong, listen to that."
"Reminds me of the girls, remember?" Relena teared up, she blinked them away and smiled. "We won't go through another separation Heero, I can't do it. Now that the four of us and in a few months, five, are finally back together."
"Shhh... Baby, it's ok. We won't get separated again, I promise you." Heero kissed her forehead, closed his eyes and inhaled his wife's sweet scent. "Not ever again."
Aug. 1st, Year XXX9
Location: South Korea
Place: Muju
"Muju is known for their taekwondo and winter sports competition all over the world." M.J [Short for Milliardo Jr.] said as he checked the local new paper that is written in English. "I read about them before but I'm not much of a fighter, unlike Daemon."
"You should have at least make an effort to learn self-defense MJ, Father would want you to." Jeanette pointed out, she looked over to Daemon who is chatting with Quatre Jr., Donovan, Owen and the rest of the Wing Squad [Let me name them all again: Luxus, Hayden, Gregory and Jericho] at dining room. "Brother is simply being paranoid about all of this, he insisted that he stayed with Father and Mother in Sanq but it was no use. Father made a simple point that he is needed her with us for extra protection."
"What I dislike is that we're being kept hidden in some country and we have no idea what's happening with our parents!" Victoria frowned, her long blonde hair in a braid and turned to face Gwen and Rhea. "Did they tell you anything?"
"The original plan was we were going to Busan but between the plane rides, Uncle Wufei called and said to go straight here in Muju instead." Gwen answer, she looked at Rhea. "He also said to move later on tonight, we're all heading to Uljin which is a couple of hours from here."
"We are being move around and apparently, were not allowed to stay in once place too long." Rhea says, she remembered the conversation. "Uncle Wufei said that we need to keep moving until Father calls us to stop."
"So we are waiting for Uncle Heero's call until then?" Susan sighed, she rested her head on Gwen's shoulder as she played with her long brown hair. "Wish Mom and Dad would have told us something too but they kept all of us in the dark."
Outside the house, the rest of the kids are playing volleyball or table games while the younger children are in the media room watching television. Rhea stood up, she needed to clear her head. "I'm going to take a walk."
Gwen didn't move from her position, Susan has fallen asleep. "You go on, I'm tired myself."
Rhea nodded her head, she knew better than to walk out the house alone so we walked up to the group of teenage boys who are currently in a deep conversation about their current mission. "Excuse me, if you guys don't mind. I would like to take a walk outside in the garden." All eight boys stood up from their seats. Rhea had to laugh. "I only need one of you to escort me." She left it at that and walked toward the patio door.
No one moved, except for Donovan who silently volunteered. Owen had to hide a smile, he mentioned ahead of time to the rest of the squad of their leaders 'small' soft spot for the younger Princess of Sanq. Once they were gone, he openly laughed. "He got it bad."
Jericho smirked. "Does the boss know about this?"
"I'm sure he does." Hayden said, then stared at Owen. "He does know right?"
Owen nodded his head. "Oh yeah, our Boss isn't clueless. He is even higher alert when it comes to his girls. I am just surprised that he hasn't said anything."
"Don got the Boss's trusts." Gregory smirked, he crossed his arms on his chest. "Let's leave them alone."
"You sure?" Daemon blinked, unsure of what to do. "Why not follow them just in case?"
"Don't be like that, Daemon, leave them alone." Quatre Jr. smiled. "Rhea's in good hands. Besides, we have to prepare ourselves and we have our set of orders and Don does not need to listen to them, he already knows."
Daemon smirked, he look outside the window and saw Donovan caught up to Rhea before facing the group. "Alright, let's start."
Outside, Rhea didn't need to turn around to see who followed her, she already knows. She turned around the corner which is the entrance to the deeper part of the garden, she didn't enter. 'No point wandering off and then get lost.' She waited until Don came to view. "Don, what's on the other side of the maze?"
"The lake and the view of the mountains." Don simply reply, smiled when he saw her eyes sparkle with curiosity and excitement. Taking the few steps forward, he took her hand and guided her inside. "I know the way, I've been here a couple of times before during training." Expertly, he made turns after turn without pausing. "My first time here was with your Dad and Uncles, they trained us in this maze as part of the survival training."
"Must have been very rough." Rhea said, she feel at ease and excited. Not only she's going to see something nice but because Donovan taking her there. "Was my Dad strict?"
"A lot stricter than your Uncle Wufei." Don chuckled. "Your Dad is THE PERFECT SOLDIER after all. He didn't expect anything less from us. Boss was completely thorough with our training; they all did. Not only how to survive, protect our clients, protect each other but they made it import to protect ourselves along the way. They all been good to us since they took us in."
Rhea didn't reply, she just followed until Don slowed down his pace. "We're almost there, a few more turns." He took a left, one more left and then a right. "Here we are…"
Beautiful didn't match the view she was seeing and spectacular didn't add up either. The lake was very inviting, the mountain across the lake was breathtaking and it took her a minute to realize that her mouth has dropped at the sight of them. Blushing, she turned to smile at Don. "Thank you."
Proud of himself, Don smiled back. "Your welcome. If anything, we should invite the other to -!"
They heard motors before they came into view which Don acted quickly, still holding Rhea's hand, he pulled her back into the maze and waited. Three speed boats came into view, coming fast towards the shore. Rhea didn't get to ask or even think before Don pulled her back deep into the maze, he pulled out his talkie out of his back pocket. "Attention all Wing Squad, phase one has begun. I repeat, phase one has begun. Immediate action. This is it!"
"D-Don?" Rhea kept up with his movements, turn after turn. "Are they?"
"Morge. I'll explain later." Don simply answer, they emerged from the Maze and the rest of the group have already scattered. He didn't take the path to the house but to the attached garage, where they found Owen with Gwen. "Take the car, I'll take the bike. You know where to meet us."
"Understood." Owen said, he opened the backseat door for Gwen. "Little Queen, I'll be taking you with me as I said. Don will take Rhea, the two of you can't be spotted together."
Gwen turned to Rhea, quickly pulled her into a bear hug. "I love you. Stay safe. I'll see you soon."
"I love you too." Rhea closed her eyes, returned the hug. "You be safe too. I'll see you soon."
Turning around, Gwen stopped and turned her head to Don. "Please, protect her."
"Not to worry, little Queen." Donovan respectfully bowed at Gwen. "I'll protect her with everything I got."
"I trust you with her." Gwen said as she smiled at Rhea before climbing in the car.
"Lay low on the floor, cover yourself with the blanket and forgive me for the bumpy ride." Owen said before closing the door, he rushed around the car and exchanged fist bumps with Don on the way. "See you there."
Donovan handed Rhea a helmet and helped her with it and carefully tucking her long sandy blonde hair under it. "No one must know which of the guys have you or your sisters, all the other girls are being instructed to do the same so hold on tight to me when we rush out of here." He guided her toward the blue Yamaha FJR1300ES which Rhea didn't have time to appreciate before she was put on it. "We're going to be fast."
The garage door opened, Don put on his own helmet before embarking the bike and Rhea didn't hesitate to wrap her arms around his waist to hold on. Owen punch the gas and left first, Don wasn't far behind but he heard screaming coming from the backyard and knew at that moment that the men who came rushing are not alone. They turned into the front and people were already scattered around but the car didn't slow down, they all jumped out of the way, giving Don the chance to pass by as well. A few raised their weapons but before they could fire.
"DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING SHOOT! I NEED THEM ALIVE!" The man screamed.
Don gritted his teeth at the voice, he didn't need to turn his head to even know who it was. From his rearview mirror, he could see him clearly. The man who brought nothing was fear and destruction, it was none other than George Corvet Manning. He wanted to stop and take a shot at him but the pair of delicate arms squeezed his waist, it was trembling.
'No, not worth it.' Don decided as he caught up to Owen, they made their way to the interstate which would lead to two different direction. Don nodded his head to Owen which Owen gave him a two finger salute, they separated at the fork and didn't look back.
End of Chapter Thirty-Seven
A/N: Thank you all! I really appreciate everyone that supported me and waited patiently.
