Title: Clock Watching
Author: Karina
Rating: PG
Pairing: Heero
Notes: Challenge 96. Baby Series 3 #54. Takes place a short time after He Is Male.
Spoilers: None
Warnings:
Many thanks to ShenLong Deb for her work betaing this set.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or the Characters from the series but the baby is mine.
Title: Clock Watching
There were many things he would prefer to be doing than glowering at the chemist hovering over his equipment. He could be in the ballroom dancing with Relena and enjoying the one bright moment in the entire evening.
He was not a religious man but if he was he would spend a day or three praying for the opportunity to dance with her without distractions constantly disrupting their limited time together.
His eyes flicked to the clock. It was well over an hour since Milliardo had drunk whatever was within the glass. An hour but no medical alert had come over the comlink. There would be an alert, he was certain of that, if the King had shown any indication of illness.
What had they managed to secrete in his drink? No, the question should be how had they managed to do it? Who was it? Why was it done? How many people were involved? Was it personal or politically motivated? There were so many questions to be asked and answered and those questions would have no answers tonight, but he was only concerned with one question now.
He had lost his chance to waltz with his Princess and for that he would owe the perpetrator of this incident a debt. A debt he personally would be only too pleased to see paid in full.
It was not so much that the incident had happened which annoyed him, but how it had happened. The King's refreshments for the evening was safely under lock and key with only a select few individuals having access. Pagan was likely to insist on a food taster after this evening and Heero could well imagine how the very suggestion would be greeted by Milliardo.
//I so do not want to be around if Pagan brings up the subject.//
They had state of the art equipment in this laboratory located three floors beneath ground level but it was still taking forever in his opinion to analyse the drink's contents. This was a sealed section of the complex, accessible by a limited few and the nerve centre of Hunter's intelligence network. Pagan had taken a great deal of care in converting the levels below the public palace to best serve the needs of keeping the Peacecraft siblings safe.
The former Alliance Governor who had had the complex constructed had been a man who treasured secrets and who was not at all adverse to spying.
The secret levels of the palace were extensive and linked to the former military base near the harbour. Heero had been given a tour by Pagan soon after accepting the position as Hunter's successor. A decision needed to be made in the near future on what was to be done with the abandoned base, but for the moment it was monitored and sat vacant.
The rustle of clothing alerted him to movement and he pinned the chemist with a baleful glare.
"Well?"
"The first results are ready."
End
Karina Robertson 2008
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Authors Note:
For those of you following Friends, I should have a new chapter up sometime tomorrow, all going well. Hope you enjoy.
Karina
