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Note: words in italics are meant for emphasis while a phrase between '' is a person whispering italics and '' are thoughts oh there will be dreams in this one too so between // are dreams.
Thank you Ley, Dana, Shi no tenshi, Relena Maxwell, Kmf, Josh, Radical Edward, Meio-chan, Silver Wing, Wildfire's Flame, Jupiter's Light and last but NEVER EVER least Dark Deity. Sorry that I'm kinda sorta late with this chapter but I've been sick with the flu. And I am angry with my brother for giving it to me and what tops it off is that it's my spring break! Grrrrrr (goes to hunt down older brother armed with a pitchfork and angry mob)
Chapter 7 – Sleepless nights
By The Pretty Penwriter
Milliardo didn't even have to think before he responded, "Absolutely not Marimaea, this will be too dangerous."
The teenage girl slowly turned to look at him; it was sapphire against sapphire as their eyes met.
"Milliardo let me go, if you do not you know in the end result I will come along anyway." She said her voice deadpan
"No Marimaea…listen I am your legal guardian and I was a friend to both your mother and father, I will not allow any danger to come to you." Milliardo said his voice softening.
"A person can be in danger by just walking outside their door, and I want to know why she did it and if she feels any regret for doing it." Marimaea said her voice soft but her eyes betrayed her raging emotions, they betrayed her thirst for revenge; for blood.
"No and that is final." Milliardo said his voice firm.
Carrying all the medical supplies she was sure she'd need Tasha proceeded to the prisoner's ward to tend to Heero's wounds when she passed by a door and heard loud and angry voices, she stopped to listen.
"You can't do that!! Why are you going to kill them all, I thought they were your family!" an angry voice demanded.
"You thought wrong, and I must kill them all, they know my secret. If they live than all this your home will be destroyed." The voice responded.
"I don't care," the voice becoming shaky "Nothing is worth the loss of human life." The earlier voice stated.
That voice, Tasha recognized as belonging to Teresa.
"This is…I will not have this life taken from me after all I've gone through to get it!" the other voice said angrily.
"No it's not Ida, how can you say that? What is wrong with you?" Tasha asked her voice becoming thick.
Tasha could hear a crisp smack sound and then Teresa gasp.
"Ida no longer exists. Ida is dead, that servant girl died a long time ago." The voice said getting angrier by the moment.
"Ida you are no longer the friend I thought I had, I'm leaving now. I can no longer be a part of this." Teresa said
Tasha could hear footsteps nearing the door when a shot rang out; and then there was a loud thump onto the floor.
Her ginger eyes widened and she moved as slow as possible back down the corridor and away from that horrid room. Only when she reached Heero's cell did she realize that the other voice was her Okami.
Heero noticed how distressed Tasha was but he could barely keep one eye open; he kept having lapses of consciousness and then he'd be out of it. He tried not to concentrate on the pain but it was unbearable; after the sledgehammer hit they'd taken him lose of his manacles and took turns beating the life out of him. He at least knew he had three broken fingers; he lay sprawled across the hard cement floor staring up at the gray ceiling. And slowly his eyes closed and the darkness claimed him once again.
"Oh Heero." Tasha sighed gently as she looked at his bruised and broken body.
His right arm and left leg were twisted at an odd angle and by his breathing Tasha could tell he had a few broken ribs. She quickly set down to work; it was a stab at her heart whenever she saw a large gash or a broken bone. Slowly as if he were as fragile as a china doll she pulled his bones back into place and splintered them. She cleaned out his wounds and wrapped them in gauze; she replaced the old gauze with new and then looked over Heero to make sure she hadn't missed anything.
Slowly she sat on the floor and tucked her feet beneath her; gently she placed Heero's head onto her lap and looked into his face. She gently wiped a few locks of his chocolate brown hair aside. She painfully wished that he would open his purssian blue eyes so she could get lost in them, because she wished that they were anywhere but there. Grabbing a bottle of water she slowly parted his pale and dry lips to feed his body the mineral enriched water. Quickly the water bottle was emptied and she was about to move his head off her lap when he stirred and slowly opened one purssian blue eye.
"Am I dead yet?" he asked his eye searching hers.
She slowly shook her head "I wouldn't be here if you were, I'd be dead too." She responded and picked up the bowl of lukewarm oatmeal and began feeding him.
"Duo I think you should go home now and check on Hilde, you've been working long enough on this project and remember you've got a baby on the way." Milliardo said and stifled a yawn.
"No I really think everyone should go home," Quatre started "we've been working 4 solid days on this and still nothing…" The beeping sound of his laptop interrupted him. He quickly responded to the beeping sound and his fingers rapidly pounded on the keys, a smile began to grow on his lips and he looked to each of them, "We've found them." He simply stated
The other four men in the room quickly bounded to his side and looked at the laptop monitor.
"See this place right here," Quatre said and pointed to a spot on the screen. He moved the cursor over to it and double clicked it, which brought up a large picture of a medieval type castle. "They've been hiding here, it's a castle in Scotland. This is where the main headquarters is located I hope," he double clicked on the spending record "By the looks of it they're feeding a small village here."
"Or an army." Wufei murmured as he looked over at the information, the light from the screen caused an eerie shadow to come over his features.
Lucretzia sat on the examining table and swung her legs back and forth the paper like hospital gown making an eerily loud swishing sound like sandpaper. Finally becoming way too bored she hopped off of the table and walked around the room, she looked at the many diagrams of the human body, but stopped when she came to be in front of the diagram with a pregnant woman.
"Hoping." She muttered and went back to sitting on the table.
The door opened and Lucretzia was greeted with the face of Dr. Shields.
"Lucretzia, I've got the results right here…now you should have a family member with you for this, I've told you before. Are you sure you don't want to call someone?" The doctor cautioned again.
"Celia, I've known you since we were in OZ, that's why you're my doctor and I can consider you as family." Lucretzia said a smirk on her features.
"Sly one aren't you, so you want a surprise for Milliardo is it?" Celia asked and tucked a red strand of hair behind her ear.
"Well yes and no, you know with the passing of Emily and the adoption of Mari I just don't know how he'll take it." Lucretzia answered and bit her bottom lip gently.
"So you already know don't you?" Celia asked an eyebrow raised.
"In my heart I do," Lucretzia said as she brought her hand up to rest upon her bosom. "I just came here to be sure." Lucretzia answered.
"And you wasted all my valuable time! Yes you are 8 weeks pregnant Lu and if Milliardo isn't happy I'm going to come over to your house and hit him with a frying pan." Celia said and smiled at her friend.
Lucretzia's smile grew and she ambushed her friend with a hug.
"How long was I out for?" Heero asked when he was able to speak again.
"Oh for just a few hours maybe, you were in pretty bad shape, you still are." Tasha answered as she gathered her supplies together.
Heero painfully sat up and looked around the room, he sighed and leaned his head against a support beam. Tasha picked up the gauze that had somehow fallen to the floor and in doing so her charm bracelet shook loose of her sleeve. She stopped what she was doing and slid the silver bracelet off of her wrist; she stared at it as the tears trekked down her pale cheeks. She set the bracelet onto the floor and pulled her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around her knees; slowly she began to rock back and forth, still staring at the bracelet.
'Oh...Teresa, what have you gotten yourself into?' she whispered
Heero raised an eyebrow and looked over to her, "What?" he asked.
She didn't seem to hear him and continued to rock back and forth and cry. Slowly and painfully he made his way over to her and placed a hand onto her shoulder.
"Tasha..." he called softly.
She turned to look at him; her eyes were clouded over and looked as if they were locked in a trance.
Milliardo tossed and turned in his sleep for what seemed to be the thousandth time in that week no matter how hard he'd try he couldn't get to sleep things just kept traveling through his mind. He opened his eyes and looked over at the clock that rested on his nightstand it read 2 AM and he had to go to the shuttle port tomorrow and start the search. He sat up and looked over at his sleeping wife, she was sleeping peacefully in fact a smile was plastered to her face. He leaned over and gently kissed her on the forehead and somehow the smile grew, he smiled and laid back down to go to sleep; only this time his eyes did close.
//He saw a shiny object in front of him and he heard a childlike laughter, only it wasn't the laugh of his sister nor was it innocent. His eyes squinted through the rain that was pelting him and he pulled the light jacket he was wearing closer around him.
"Relena." His childlike voice called.
There was still no reply to his call. His hair was now plastered to his forehead and kept getting into his eyes he brushed them away quickly and called again,
"Relena!" he called out for his little sister.
There still was no reply; that only made him run faster, when he slipped and fell into a pit of darkness.//
Milliardo shot up in bed he was covered in a cold sweat; he squinted against the unrelenting sun that poured through the windows. He looked to his side to see that Lucretzia was gone; he then looked at the clock it read 8 AM, he stretched and got out of bed to get dressed. After he finished bathing and getting dressed he hurried down to the kitchen and grabbed an apple off of the counter. He was about to leave out the door when Lucretzia's voice beckoned him,
"Milliardo I need to talk to you." She called.
Milliardo took a quick glance at his watched and deciding that he had enough time he went to see what it was his wife wanted. He strolled hurriedly into the sunroom to see his wife sitting in the willow chair her feet tucked beneath her; somehow there was some type of glow about her, one that Milliardo couldn't describe. He gave her a peck on the cheek,
"Good morning and what is it that you are going to talk to me about?" He asked.
Lucretzia suddenly felt a tad bit nervous 'Oh I don't know if I tell him now, he's about to go on a mission and I don't want him distracted about me or anything, distractions could get him killed. I know when he gets back, we'll make a dinner date that'll work' her head titled to the side and her long locks of platinum black hair spilled from being tucked behind her ear, they caught the rays of the sun and gave an almost heavenly appearance.
"Well, I want you to be careful out there Milliardo; I only have one love and that's you. When you come back safe and alive…I have to tell you something important. I know you're in a hurry right now so I won't tell you now, but just be careful okay." Lucretzia said and then stood and wrapped her arms around her husband.
Milliardo kissed her head, "I will, and I will always come home to you Lucretzia. I love you." He promised
"And I will always love you." She responded, as the hug broke apart.
Milliardo nodded and turned to walk away, Lucretzia waited until the door closed until she let out a sigh of relief. She went to the window and watched as he slowly pulled out of the drive and speed away; she placed her hand onto her stomach and smiled.
"Yeah, you'll be back; and then I can tell you about the baby." She said to no one, or so she thought.
'And I'm sure he'll be very proud.' A teasing voice whispered from out the shadows.
Lucretzia's eyes widened and she didn't even have time to react before her vision clouded and her whole world went black.
TBC
Yes I was sick all this week and today and yesterday were the first two days in which I was able to get out of my bed and make it to the computer. The other days the computer was off, and every time I turned it on it had this greenish sort of tint to it…but so did everything else in my world at the time so yeah today and yesterday I was able to type YAY!!! (Has brother tied and bound in the corner) it was his fault in the first place why I was sick, and my whole family got sick and now my poor little mommy is sick. Yeah I said mommy, because I feel bad for her if she has what I had it hurts to move and the world is spinning. (Goes to make chicken noodle soup) now I'm off to eat my chicken noodle soup even though I absolutely hate it, and then I am going back to bed, I'm still sick. =( Here's a quote most people should know "Most siblings aren't that bad , they just want to hug you to spread disease."