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Chapter 11- Promises

By Aku Tenshi

      Heero's eyes widened 'what is she doing!' he shouted to himself, as he gently pushed Tasha away, she couldn't hide the pain and surprise that lay in her eyes. She turned her head and looked down at the cement floor.

"I thought this would happen, I'm sorry Heero." She apologized and stood to leave.

Heero grasped onto her arm and stood along with her but he would not let go of her arm, she turned to look at him bewildered at his actions. She was even more surprised as she brought herself to look into those, two prussian blue depths, to see anger.

"Just what do you think you're doing, Relena would kill you if she knew about this?!" he demanded his tone harsh.

Tasha shook her head and flung her arms around Heero, "Without you I am dead." She told him and turned and ran out of the room slamming the door behind her.

Heero stared after her and shook his head 'Don't get yourself killed over me.' He thought after her and dragged himself back to the manacles and clasped his wrists within them.

      Midii Une regained conscious a day later after her escapade the bright lights of the hospital room burned her eyes and caused her to close again. After a few times of opening her eyes, her pupils adjusted to the brightness and she looked around the room and frowned. Picking up her arm, which had now become a great effort, Midii pressed the nurse call button. After several minutes of waiting a young woman clad in a bleached white nurses dress, complete with a white cap and white sneakers, she smiled when she looked at Midii, the smile reached her brown eyes.

"Well I'm glad to see you awake, Ms. Une. I'll just call your commanding officer and then we'll see how fast we can move you out of here." The nurse with the even bleach white teeth responded.

"G…good." Midii was able to croak out and then closed her eyes to have a brief nap.

When she woke up again to the constant poking in her arm she was quite annoyed, it hadn't seemed like she had slept at all. Cracking open one eye Midii looked to see whom her visitor was, her eyes opened fully when she saw that it was Sally.

"Ma'am" Midii greeted and made a move to salute but Sally held up her hand.

"That was good work you did back there Midii, but tell me how did you know that there were people inside the house?" Sally asked.

Midii took in slow and deep breaths and looked straight into Sally's eyes, "Simple, I know her style," Midii said and continued at Sally's questioning glance "Her name is Ida, but you people have come to know her as Relena Peacecraft. When in fact the real Relena Peacecraft is dead."

      Milliardo knew that something was direly wrong, for every few seconds one of his comrades would spare him a pitying glance and then quickly look away. Until after the fifth hour of the stakeout he dropped his night vision binoculars.

"What is it?" he demanded more than asked.

The four hesitated and looked to each other then back to Milliardo their hands either in their pockets or fidgeting. Milliardo crossed his arms and glared intently at each of them.

"This is a direct order, tell me what you all are so wired about?" he demanded.

"We didn't think that we should tell you," Duo started

"Tell me what!" Milliardo demanded.

"Your house…it was destroyed," Duo started once again.

"Lucretzia! What about Lucretzia!" Milliardo demanded hysterical.

"They, they can't find her Milliardo." Duo finished.

The tall blond man stood there his hands clenching and unclenching, his jaw tight and his eyes glaring hard at no spot in particular. When finally he did speak, his voice was so hollow and his eyes so empty, it seemed as if he had no soul at all.

"Relena will pay for this, she will pay." He said and turned back to go to the jeep.

The other four looked at each other and ran after him, they found him checking artillery and arming himself.

"We move out in an hour, get ready now." His voice held no room for discussion.

The other four nodded and prepared for their assault on the castle, that loomed just over the hillside like a threatening omen of bad things to come.

      Marimaea zipped over the road, the wind whipping through her hair and waving it like a blood soaked flag behind her. Her sapphire eyes were hard and filled with determination. The gun sat on the passenger seat besides her resting on top of the map, the sun bounced off of it and against the sunglasses, that she picked up in one of her small pale hands. She placed the glasses over her eyes and stared at the road, true the scenery was beautiful, but she didn't notice her mind was one something else, something deadly. She turned on the radio and picked a station that blared hard rock music that exactly fit her mood, bleak and dreary. Thoughts of revenge and pain ran through her mind as well as thoughts of regret but she pushed that aside for now and concentrated on the more deadly emotions, the emotions that fueled her rage. Sure she looked calm and tranquil now, but inside a monster was running itself ragged trying to escape, but she quelled it with her determination. Her pale face glistened lightly at the few tears that had managed to escape, not tears of sorrow, but tears of anger.

"I will kill you Relena." She promised, herself and God her witness.

      Relena nodded her head at what her fateful servant was saying but she did not believe a word of it. 'Tasha is loyal to me, she would never do these things that he is saying, NEVER! Raphael must be lying, I cannot accept these accusations as truth.'  She thought to her herself.

"Raphael, I do not believe a word that you are saying, Tasha would never betray me like that, never." She spoke softly but she was confused and angry.

"It is Okami, I swear it. I even saw them kissing, imagine that kissing! They are both traitorous and should be killed." Raphael said determined to make her believe him.

"How can I believe you when you try anything to have Tasha. This may all be a ploy, a trick just so you can save Tasha and she can fall madly in love with you at Heero's expense." Relena responded.

"But Okami would I lie to you?" he asked.

"To have Tasha I believe that you would do anything, but part of me is willing to believe you so, I want proof. Either a picture, recording or tape, if I don't get it Raphael then you will be severely punished for lying to me." She said her voice dripping with ice.

Raphael stiffened and nodded, and like a snake he slithered out of her bedchambers and to his own quarters to devise a plan.

Relena closed her door and turned out the lights to her room, true it was still light outside but she was tired now, and reached for a pill that sat on her nightstand. She popped the blue pill into her mouth and chewed the pill making loud crunching noises as she grinded it with her teeth, 'I don't believe that Tasha would do that, I mean she wouldn't not ever she's one of my best friends she would never. I mean Tasha is so pure hearted and innocent she would never do something so treacherous, surely Raphael is lying.' Relena thought to herself as she closed her eyes and fell into a dreamless slumber.  

      Tasha threw herself down onto her comfy bed and closed her eyes, she'd take a brief nap and then go and talk with Lucretzia. She didn't even bother to clean up her tearstained face, only let the tears slide down her pale cheeks and soak through her bed linens. Her heart screamed at her and her mind screamed at her, the two saying the complete opposite thing but she didn't care. All of a sudden she was deathly tired and could no longer keep her eyes open. She just wanted everything to stop and end, but her mind kept running, it kept going over the recent event analyzing every little thing. Gauging over Heero's reaction and everything that he said her eyes tear brimmed and her eyelids growing heavy but she couldn't get his angry cobalt blue eyes out of her mind. They tortured her in her sleep, because every time she closed her eyes she would see his angry gaze piercing her heart. She got out of bed and went to the window; opening it she climbed out and stepped onto the small landing that was just outside her window.  She stared at the fields and gardens, reaching up she released her hair of the bun and her knee length bronze hair tumbled down her back and blew in the wind. To anyone passing by they would think she was a beautiful woman with no troubles, and they would think she had everything that she had ever wanted, but that was far from the truth. She didn't have the man she loved, and by the looks of things she never would.

TBC

Well…tell me what you think. I'm sorry I haven't been updating as quickly as I used to but my English teacher thinks that the end of the year means you give out as many projects as possible. Yeah not a good excuse, why you may ask, because it's the truth. I'll try to be as quick as I used to be with the updates ~_^