Hello all. I'm in a good mood right now, maybe cause I'm sitting in my brand new executive leather chair. :) It's either that, or I just need to sleep... Anyway, people liked the fist part so here's the next part. Oh, and this series will be very short. I'm thinking like trilogy short... meaning this part will compose of the wedding. Enjoy!

A Doubtful Marriage

Chapter 2

Relena felt much more at ease finally talking to someone. She knew that he would be able to help her, since the first time they met in a peace talk conference, he could make her laugh. He would only be in town for one more day, then having to go return to Paris.

Jean-Pierre Lemercie was a very friendly person, it being in his nature since he was french, also from being happy that he was able to met former Queen of the world, and now Vice Foreign Minister.

"Jean-Pierre thank you for your time, but I should be heading back."

"Oh, would you like me to take you home?" he responded in a heavy accent.

"No, no. That's all right, I'll be fine." They said their goodbye's and went their separate ways. Upon returning back to the apartment that they shared for the time being, Heero not wanting to stay in the Cinq Kingdom, she noticed all the lights were off, and windows closed. 'Heero must have gone somewhere while I was gone.' Not that she knew he saw her.

It was a few more hours, and he still hadn't come back which got Relena worried. She had no idea where to look for him, and eventually dozed off while waiting.

Sometime after 4am, a weary Heero returned to the apartment, somewhat surprised she came back to it. 'Why didn't she go off with that guy?' He didn't want to wake her up and talk about it at the moment. Gently he picked her sleeping form up and carried her back into their room.

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One week later, it was the big day. 'This is it.' Relena sighed as women altered her dress, and people buzzed about the room, getting their opinions from her.

Her dress was simple, yet very pretty. The bodice had a glittery sequence on it, while the skirt was a shimmering chiffon material that was a little puffed out, though not by much. All her worries seemed to drift away as she visualized walking down the aisle.

The men all the way on the other side of the palace were having a bit of a problem. Nothing they thought they couldn't deal with, there was still 4 hours until the wedding started after all. The one thing was, it would be best to not tell Relena about it.

Their problem was someone very important to the ceremony was not there. In most weddings, you need a groom to do anything. No one had any idea what so ever where Heero was. He was suppose to be there so the alternators could make sure his tuxedo fit right, but... he didn't show.

Quatre knew Heero had been distant lately, Relena told him about it. She said ever since one night a week ago, he hadn't talked to her much and kept on giving her cold glares when she said something about the wedding. Of course she asked him what was wrong, but never received any direct response.

And today, the most important day of both of their lives... he wasn't here.

Duo's expression was one that closely matched Heero's when he was angry. Duo was angry. Just like Heero was supposed to come to his own wedding. 'Where is that guy?' They had about 3 and a half hours to search for him without anyone noticing. After that amount of time, they would have to tell Relena. Duo hoped it wouln't come down to that.

He snorted to himself. 'Seems like we always have to look for him.' "Ok, Quatre, Trowa. You two go and look around the stores and stuff. I'll tell Milliardo and Noin about this. We can look together too."

Duo left the room and went around the palace searching for the tall blond haired man and his own wife. Five minutes after dead ends and wrong rooms he found the pair outside. "We have a problem."

Both of them looked at Duo with a 'what is it now?' kind of look. "Heero isn't here."

"WHAT?!"

"We have less than 3 hours and a half to look for him."

Noin nudged Milliardo. "You go help him look. I'll finish with things out here and make sure Relena doesn't find out. You guys better find him."

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Four exhausted men returned exactly four hours later. They knew they were late, but they thought they had a good lead. To make a long story shorter, the lead was bad, and they didn't find him. Heero things were gone from his apartment shared with Relena, and they don't know where he went.

But, as luck was not on their side, the wedding had started and the procession was going down the aisle. Noin saw them come and shot a worried look at them. She knew that he wasn't coming.

Noin told Relena that just in case her brother didn't show up she should walk by herself. Relena was very curious to why he wouldn't be there, but Noin told her not to worry about. Now, there was something to worry about. Relena had no reason to walk down because her groom wasn't there. She didn't know that, yet.

Duo watched on angrily, his fists balled up tightly. 'Damnit, where are you Heero. You can't run away from things all your life, but that seems to be all you're really good at.'

Milliardo also looked on. He was sad for his sister, who still didn't notice since she was looking at the ground. Mad at a certain man named Heero Yuy, who if he ever met again was going to be hurting for quite a while.

And then the music stopped. Relena stepped up to where the priest was standing, but he wasn't there... Heero wasn't there. She turned around, searching in the crowd just to see if this was some joke on her, and he was going to come and laugh it off. No, he wasn't in the crowd. Maybe...

She didn't know what to think. Heero wasn't there...? But this was their wedding... He proposed, he had to be there. But he wasn't. Nor was he in the crowd. It was no joke. She looked up to the faces of four men in the back of the seating area. By their faces she knew that they knew.

She didn't realize when she started to cry, until she yelled out to them, hearing the strangled tone in her voice. "When were you going to tell me he wasn't coming?! Huh? Did you want me to come up here so I could look stupid? Or was this his idea?!"

"We went to look for him Relena... but we couldn't find him..."

That was enough for her to assume Heero didn't want to come. He didn't show up, and he didn't let himself be found either. She slumped down to the floor, crying her eyes out, not caring anymore that her dress was getting dirty. Not caring that she looked like a mess, not caring that all the news would be reporting on her looking like that, and that Heero would see.

For all she cared, nothing really mattered anymore, because it seemed that was the way Heero felt about her.

Did I succeed in provoking a sense of pathos? I wanted to make this sad since I'm sure it's something anyone would be sad about their groom not showing up. That was really cold of Heero, ne? That's what I was going for too. Man, I'm so bad doing this to the two of them... hehe... where did Heero go? Will Relena ever forgive him? Will they even talk to each other? Guess you'll have to wait again and find out. Happy New Year's Eve!