Darkness Without the Light
By: Amber
Relena studied him intensely probing for a weakness. "You know, you wont get away with this all I have to do is call out and alert my brother and you will be stopped."
"Relena he scolded, you know as well as I do he's at the hospital with his wife. I know I checked you really didn't think I would leave anything to chance did you?"
"Why are you doing this, she asked genuinely perplexed?" He sneered dragging her to the doors of the balcony; he shoved the doors open jerking her into the moon's silvery brightness. "You don't know who I am do you? It's me." He flung her arm away and thumped his fist into his chest."
At her confusion he screamed. "Its me," he started sobbing. Relena hesitantly lifted her hand, as if to comfort him but jerked back when he started giggling. "I've been here since the beginning, but you never saw me no not once he came."
" I'm sorry." She shook her head faltering. "Think Princess, you left us the moment I told you I saw him left us all standing around looking at ourselves to run off and chase Yuy." He murmured nonsense as he continued stroking a knife she hadn't noticed up and down his cheek.
He snapped his head up to look at her. "I loved you, worshiped you, and you betrayed me." He moved closer, lifting a strand of her hair he brought it to his nose and inhaled. All those feelings love, lust, tenderness, anger, crowding each other fighting for dominance he gritted his teeth against the ache. The endless unrelenting desire to possess
her consumed him and he would possess her he had her now everything would be fine.
Relena watched him warily, as his eyes slid closed. She worried her lip nervously, he really was sick but as much as her heart went out to him sympathy wouldn't keep her from stopping him he was a danger to himself and everyone around him. She wasn't going to let him go after anyone else she cared about. Her eyes welled with tears. "Yes, it's always been Heero since the moment I saw him. I'll always love Heero. I am sorry you were hurt though."
"No! No, no, don't say that we're together now that's all that counts there is no one left to stop us." Grabbing his hair, his breathing was heavy and erratic as he struggled to regain control.
She was watching him cautiously, when she saw the red dot crawl slowly up his body her eyes widened. Relena had hoped it wouldn't come to that there had been enough death already. She gasped, when suddenly he jerked her against him with his arm around her waist she realized the shooter had lost his shot. Relena felt him stiffen at the click of weapons targeting him from behind.
"Let her go and you wont be harmed we'll get you into a facility that can help you." Relena flinched; as she recognized the voice of her brother damn him he promised. He swung her around giggling. "No can't do that how can a man live without his heart." Relena closed her eyes wincing; then she looked toward Milliardo their eyes met in silent communion the reproach in the midnight blue met the icy fury in his and she feared for them all. Someone was going to die this night.
Some how he had replaced the knife with a gun and it rubbed caressingly up and down her throat. "Come out, come out, where ever you are he chanted." Through the billowing sheers, she watched Milliardo nod as Lucrezia stepped out beside him. "Aaah the efficient officer Noin you seem quite energetic for the victim of a shooting."
"Actually its Peacecraft," Lucrezia said coolly.
Relena tensed as she saw his hand tighten on the gun, imperceptibly she signaled no. He smiled. "Congratulations. I wish I could say you will be invited to ours but.." He giggled, "you won't be around long enough to see it. All this trouble to lure me out your to be congratulated I didn't think there was brain among you all to come up with a plan."
"Look." Milliardo struggled to keep the anger from his voice. "No one wants to hurt you just drop the gun and step away from Relena."
He tilted his head to the side. "No I have a better idea you'll just keep interfering where your not wanted I'll kill you and she will be all mine."
"Or." Milliardo countered, "I could save myself trouble and kill you instead."
He smiled pityingly. "You would never do anything that might hurt Relena and like it or not to get me you would have to shoot through her. You can't do that," he laughed. "That fool Yuy could, quite the little soldier boy I hear but even he couldn't out smart a bomb."
Milliardo smile savagely. "You might kill me, but someone else will take my place Heero Yuy won't be injured forever."
Relena moved instinctively in protest and his arm tightened painfully. "Shut up, shut up, he's dead I tell you dead. Dead. Dead." He suddenly started giggling. "Just like you." He no sooner said the words, than his hand was in motion pulling the gun away from Relena he aimed at Milliardo. Time seemed to slow to ridiculous proportions. Years later, when Relena would reflect back to this time she could swear she still heard his insane laughter in her nightmares as he aimed that gun as her brother.
Relena sought her brother's eyes in apology, knocking the gun up as it fired she heard Lucrezia and her brother screaming; but all her attention was focused on dislodging the gun from his hand. As they wrestled for control, he ended up lifting the gun and her with it as she clung tenaciously to his hand. He was aiming it at Noin, when she realized they wouldn't dare to shoot him with her in the way. Sheer terror turned her blood to ice, her brother wouldn't survive loosing Lucrezia and with that thought in mind she threw all her weight back against him over balancing them both.
As they toppled over the wall he tightened his hold on her waist. "Together, forever my Dove one way or another." She heard her brother's cry of denial in her ears as they both fell to the ground below.... And then the rest was silence.
* * * *
It hurt everywhere, she tried forcing her body to wake but the pain was relentless the harder she struggled the more her head and chest ached. That soothing voice, it was so familiar and so beloved how long had she waited to hear those feelings from him it seemed forever. She ached to reach that voice; she couldn't loose him now not when she finally knew he cared. Heero - Where???
It was suddenly gone. No her mind screamed, but the ache pounded through her head so ferociously her mind stopped processing what her body couldn't deliver. Once more she sank back into the soothing embrace of dark nothingness.
When she surfaced, she forced weighted lids up to a room silhouetted in afternoon shadows hazily her eyes went around the room and found her brother sleeping in a chair beside the bed. Vaguely she noticed he looked exhausted and she wondered how long she had been here before sleep claimed her again.
Relena fought up through the layers of cotton covering her mind yet again it was happening more and more and for longer periods of time. Sometimes she remembered hearing the voice, other times it took her so long to make herself wake up that by the time she did the voice was gone. She had no way of knowing how long she had been here she just had the barest sense of time passing. When she finally woke, it was dark except for the small glow near her brother she concentrated on getting words past vocal cords rusty from silence.
"Milliardo".. She fought to form words, make her mouth work, even a grunt to ease the lines around his eyes and mouth... "Mil," she whispered. Jerking upright, he leaned forward clasping her hand.
"Damn you Relena! If you ever pull a stunt like that again I will murder you myself." She swallowed trying to moisten her painfully dry throat. He stood up and filled a glass of water sticking a straw in it he carefully lifted her enough to sip.
"Lu?"
"She's all right they wont let us in but one at a time and your room doesn't seem to lack volunteers."
"Who?"
"Your loony admirer?" She nodded slowly. "Reginald Phagan." At her blank looked he started filling in the gaps. "He was a classmate at your old school the one that was eventually destroyed by mobile suits. Heero recognized him, as a boy who he had once dueled with apparently he objected to Heero's attitude regarding you imagine that."
" Is??"
"He alive?" Milliardo shook his head. "He died on impact fortunately for you his body broke your fall. You broke your clavicle and your right leg, you cracked a couple of ribs and you have a concussion but with rest they say you'll heal nicely."
"How long," she whispered hoarsely?
"Three weeks." Her eyes slid closed until she felt him touch her hair. "Your not going to ask are you?" Her mouth curved slightly. "He arrived back the next day on his own. The doctor said she has never seen anything like it his body simply fought off the sedatives.
Relena rolled her head back and forth in amusement. "I should have... asked Sal... warned them."
"According to the doctor he gave your guards an attitude adjustment that she's now giving them treatment for. Then left on his own. He went straight back to work as far as we know by the time he arrived your accident was all over the newsvids. Maxwell said he came through the halls of HQ looking like a caged tiger; everyone regardless of rank was trying to avoid him. Lu did say she saw him and he glared at her guess he didn't think to highly of our security measures."
He eyed her speculatively, "you knew deep down somehow what his reaction to what you did would be didn't you?" She nodded; moistening her lips he stood again offering her another sip of water.
"He tolerated," she winced shifting her leg a bit me ...
"long as didn't"... "hurt mission..."
"Crossed tha line...knew the price would, she swallowed .. be high."
He resumed stroking her hair. "Heero is an enigma, you do better than most understanding him don't give up now. Not if he truly makes you happy." Her eyelids drooped and she snapped them back open so she could get out what she really needed to know before she lost the battle with sleep. "Get me out."
"Soon," he soothed. Blinking she surrendered the soothing rhythm and slept once more.
By: Amber
Relena studied him intensely probing for a weakness. "You know, you wont get away with this all I have to do is call out and alert my brother and you will be stopped."
"Relena he scolded, you know as well as I do he's at the hospital with his wife. I know I checked you really didn't think I would leave anything to chance did you?"
"Why are you doing this, she asked genuinely perplexed?" He sneered dragging her to the doors of the balcony; he shoved the doors open jerking her into the moon's silvery brightness. "You don't know who I am do you? It's me." He flung her arm away and thumped his fist into his chest."
At her confusion he screamed. "Its me," he started sobbing. Relena hesitantly lifted her hand, as if to comfort him but jerked back when he started giggling. "I've been here since the beginning, but you never saw me no not once he came."
" I'm sorry." She shook her head faltering. "Think Princess, you left us the moment I told you I saw him left us all standing around looking at ourselves to run off and chase Yuy." He murmured nonsense as he continued stroking a knife she hadn't noticed up and down his cheek.
He snapped his head up to look at her. "I loved you, worshiped you, and you betrayed me." He moved closer, lifting a strand of her hair he brought it to his nose and inhaled. All those feelings love, lust, tenderness, anger, crowding each other fighting for dominance he gritted his teeth against the ache. The endless unrelenting desire to possess
her consumed him and he would possess her he had her now everything would be fine.
Relena watched him warily, as his eyes slid closed. She worried her lip nervously, he really was sick but as much as her heart went out to him sympathy wouldn't keep her from stopping him he was a danger to himself and everyone around him. She wasn't going to let him go after anyone else she cared about. Her eyes welled with tears. "Yes, it's always been Heero since the moment I saw him. I'll always love Heero. I am sorry you were hurt though."
"No! No, no, don't say that we're together now that's all that counts there is no one left to stop us." Grabbing his hair, his breathing was heavy and erratic as he struggled to regain control.
She was watching him cautiously, when she saw the red dot crawl slowly up his body her eyes widened. Relena had hoped it wouldn't come to that there had been enough death already. She gasped, when suddenly he jerked her against him with his arm around her waist she realized the shooter had lost his shot. Relena felt him stiffen at the click of weapons targeting him from behind.
"Let her go and you wont be harmed we'll get you into a facility that can help you." Relena flinched; as she recognized the voice of her brother damn him he promised. He swung her around giggling. "No can't do that how can a man live without his heart." Relena closed her eyes wincing; then she looked toward Milliardo their eyes met in silent communion the reproach in the midnight blue met the icy fury in his and she feared for them all. Someone was going to die this night.
Some how he had replaced the knife with a gun and it rubbed caressingly up and down her throat. "Come out, come out, where ever you are he chanted." Through the billowing sheers, she watched Milliardo nod as Lucrezia stepped out beside him. "Aaah the efficient officer Noin you seem quite energetic for the victim of a shooting."
"Actually its Peacecraft," Lucrezia said coolly.
Relena tensed as she saw his hand tighten on the gun, imperceptibly she signaled no. He smiled. "Congratulations. I wish I could say you will be invited to ours but.." He giggled, "you won't be around long enough to see it. All this trouble to lure me out your to be congratulated I didn't think there was brain among you all to come up with a plan."
"Look." Milliardo struggled to keep the anger from his voice. "No one wants to hurt you just drop the gun and step away from Relena."
He tilted his head to the side. "No I have a better idea you'll just keep interfering where your not wanted I'll kill you and she will be all mine."
"Or." Milliardo countered, "I could save myself trouble and kill you instead."
He smiled pityingly. "You would never do anything that might hurt Relena and like it or not to get me you would have to shoot through her. You can't do that," he laughed. "That fool Yuy could, quite the little soldier boy I hear but even he couldn't out smart a bomb."
Milliardo smile savagely. "You might kill me, but someone else will take my place Heero Yuy won't be injured forever."
Relena moved instinctively in protest and his arm tightened painfully. "Shut up, shut up, he's dead I tell you dead. Dead. Dead." He suddenly started giggling. "Just like you." He no sooner said the words, than his hand was in motion pulling the gun away from Relena he aimed at Milliardo. Time seemed to slow to ridiculous proportions. Years later, when Relena would reflect back to this time she could swear she still heard his insane laughter in her nightmares as he aimed that gun as her brother.
Relena sought her brother's eyes in apology, knocking the gun up as it fired she heard Lucrezia and her brother screaming; but all her attention was focused on dislodging the gun from his hand. As they wrestled for control, he ended up lifting the gun and her with it as she clung tenaciously to his hand. He was aiming it at Noin, when she realized they wouldn't dare to shoot him with her in the way. Sheer terror turned her blood to ice, her brother wouldn't survive loosing Lucrezia and with that thought in mind she threw all her weight back against him over balancing them both.
As they toppled over the wall he tightened his hold on her waist. "Together, forever my Dove one way or another." She heard her brother's cry of denial in her ears as they both fell to the ground below.... And then the rest was silence.
* * * *
It hurt everywhere, she tried forcing her body to wake but the pain was relentless the harder she struggled the more her head and chest ached. That soothing voice, it was so familiar and so beloved how long had she waited to hear those feelings from him it seemed forever. She ached to reach that voice; she couldn't loose him now not when she finally knew he cared. Heero - Where???
It was suddenly gone. No her mind screamed, but the ache pounded through her head so ferociously her mind stopped processing what her body couldn't deliver. Once more she sank back into the soothing embrace of dark nothingness.
When she surfaced, she forced weighted lids up to a room silhouetted in afternoon shadows hazily her eyes went around the room and found her brother sleeping in a chair beside the bed. Vaguely she noticed he looked exhausted and she wondered how long she had been here before sleep claimed her again.
Relena fought up through the layers of cotton covering her mind yet again it was happening more and more and for longer periods of time. Sometimes she remembered hearing the voice, other times it took her so long to make herself wake up that by the time she did the voice was gone. She had no way of knowing how long she had been here she just had the barest sense of time passing. When she finally woke, it was dark except for the small glow near her brother she concentrated on getting words past vocal cords rusty from silence.
"Milliardo".. She fought to form words, make her mouth work, even a grunt to ease the lines around his eyes and mouth... "Mil," she whispered. Jerking upright, he leaned forward clasping her hand.
"Damn you Relena! If you ever pull a stunt like that again I will murder you myself." She swallowed trying to moisten her painfully dry throat. He stood up and filled a glass of water sticking a straw in it he carefully lifted her enough to sip.
"Lu?"
"She's all right they wont let us in but one at a time and your room doesn't seem to lack volunteers."
"Who?"
"Your loony admirer?" She nodded slowly. "Reginald Phagan." At her blank looked he started filling in the gaps. "He was a classmate at your old school the one that was eventually destroyed by mobile suits. Heero recognized him, as a boy who he had once dueled with apparently he objected to Heero's attitude regarding you imagine that."
" Is??"
"He alive?" Milliardo shook his head. "He died on impact fortunately for you his body broke your fall. You broke your clavicle and your right leg, you cracked a couple of ribs and you have a concussion but with rest they say you'll heal nicely."
"How long," she whispered hoarsely?
"Three weeks." Her eyes slid closed until she felt him touch her hair. "Your not going to ask are you?" Her mouth curved slightly. "He arrived back the next day on his own. The doctor said she has never seen anything like it his body simply fought off the sedatives.
Relena rolled her head back and forth in amusement. "I should have... asked Sal... warned them."
"According to the doctor he gave your guards an attitude adjustment that she's now giving them treatment for. Then left on his own. He went straight back to work as far as we know by the time he arrived your accident was all over the newsvids. Maxwell said he came through the halls of HQ looking like a caged tiger; everyone regardless of rank was trying to avoid him. Lu did say she saw him and he glared at her guess he didn't think to highly of our security measures."
He eyed her speculatively, "you knew deep down somehow what his reaction to what you did would be didn't you?" She nodded; moistening her lips he stood again offering her another sip of water.
"He tolerated," she winced shifting her leg a bit me ...
"long as didn't"... "hurt mission..."
"Crossed tha line...knew the price would, she swallowed .. be high."
He resumed stroking her hair. "Heero is an enigma, you do better than most understanding him don't give up now. Not if he truly makes you happy." Her eyelids drooped and she snapped them back open so she could get out what she really needed to know before she lost the battle with sleep. "Get me out."
"Soon," he soothed. Blinking she surrendered the soothing rhythm and slept once more.