When the Waltz Ends: Part 6


"Oh Relena, what have you done?" he whispered.

"Well, I think she is going to be ok," announced Sally, "but it
probably is going to be difficult to get her off the alcohol."

"Leave it to me," said Heero quietly. The rest nodded and went
to tell Lady Une what happened. Quatre went out with a picture of Relena
and went to all of the stores that sold liquor and told them not to sell
to a girl that looked like this. Heero stayed by her side.

Heero streached, he had been sitting for about two hours waiting
for her to wake up. She stirred and finally opened her eyes.

"Heero? What am I doing here?" she asked. He kinda looked away
for a moment and then turned back to her.

"You took some medicine while drinking and it knocked you out,"
he answered, a tiny tear slowly trickled down his cheek.

"You found it," asked Relena, horrified. Heero nodded and Relena
grew quiet. "I'm sorry Heero, but I need it, it helps me forget."

"All you had to do was talk to us Relena, its better to know
then to forget anyway, it helps you make the right choices in life.
Those who have been through war know what it is like to fight, to kill.
They begin to hate it and try to end it. It is the passion of making
it end that wills them to live, then with that passion they can succede
in what they are trying to do." Relena nodded.

"I messed up, didn't I?"

"No, you just chose a different way. It wasn't you that made
the horrible mistake, it was your mind after some outside influence.
All of us are going to help you Relena. We're all your friends."

"I don't know if I can quit Heero," she stated simply.

"It will be hard Relena, but all of us are going to help you
through it," he stated, a fierce passion rose in his eyes and Relena
knew that somehow he would get her through it.

"Thanks Heero."

Later that night

All of the White Wing was in the game room except for Heero and
Relena.

"Alright, who's up for a game of cards," asked Duo mischeiviously.

"Count me in," announced Hilde with the same gleam in her eye
as Duo.

"What kind of game?" asked Wufei.

"Poker," announced Duo simply.

"I'm in," shouted Dorothy and she lept over to join them at the
table.

"C'mon someone, we need at least one more player," complained
Duo.

"I'll join you," said Trowa. He walked over and took a seat
with the rest of them.

"Ok, dueces wild, no crap games." Duo dealt out the cards and
within minutes, all were absorbed in the game. They had no idea anything
was wrong until a huge glass shattering noise rocked the room. The
whole building shook with the explosion.

"What was that?" yelled Katherine. The rest shrugged and ran to
the infirmiry to see if Heero and Relena were all right. When they got
there, there was no infirmiry. It had been blown up.

"Oh, no, Heero and Relena were in there," whispered Quatre with
horror. The others were too surprised to say anything. Lady Une ran up
to them.

"You all have to get to your Gundams, the PFF is attacking." she
shouted the orders. They nodded and ran off, the lost friends forgotten
for a moment.

The Gundams took off to the sky and a battle began. But the
battle was one sided. The suits didn't fight back.

"Whats wrong with them," asked Wufei puzzled. The rest had no
idea. "You would think they wouldn't want their suits destroyed like
this. Grant them, I know there is a lot but this is a losing battle for
them if they fight like this."

Then a new troop appeared out of the sky. It seemed as if it
was raining them they were so thick in coming. These suits didn't stand
around though. They attacked. The ratio was about 200 to 1. The White
Wing was going to lose.

Then the Peace and Wing Zero Gundams appeared.

"What!" shouted Sally. Everyone turned and looked at the
approaching mobile suits. "But how?"

"We will tell you later." No more questions were asked. All
of a sudden the lifeless dolls woke up. They went after the Wing Zero.

"So that was the plan, the whole platoon of them were just set
to attack the Wing Zero," yelled Katherine.

"I'll help him," voiced Noin and Epyon blasted off to where
Heero was trying to hold off the hundreds of mobile dolls attacking him.

Relena was furious, "Milliardo, I know you can hear me, answer
me!"

"Yes princess," he sneered, his face appearing in her communications
link.

"Why are you doing this, you are a Peacecraft, what would father
think?"

"I don't care what he would think. This world is meaningless
without battles and I intend to make sure they never end." The link
went dead and Relena found herself staring at a static screen.

"I'm almost out of bullets," shouted Trowa, "there are just too
many of them." Katherine went and tried to help him, but she herself
was almost out of energy. Her laser knives as they flew, flickered and
threatened to disinegrate. As many suits as they were destroying, more
just kept coming.

Meanwhile, Noin and Heero were fighting the mobile suits that
were attacking him. Noin was able to destroy a great many, considering
they were only set on attacking the Wing Zero. The numbers slowly
decreased and finally Heero destroyed the last of them with a quick arc
of his laser.

Beam cannon in hand, Noin and him flew off to help their friends.
The fight raged on Gundams against dolls. At last more stopped flying
out of the sky and the only ones left to fight were those that were
already there.

"Oh no, my energy is gone," shouted Dorothy in dismay. Quatre
quickly flew to her aid and destroyed the mobile dolls that were a
threat to her.

An hour later the fight was over. The remains of the mobile dolls
lay smoldering on the ground below. The smell of burnt metal drifted
through the cracks of the Gundams and made the pilots half naseous.

"You can't see the ground, the metal is so thick," said Quatre
sadly.

Meanwhile Duo was whooping joyfully, "look Hilde, all that metal
for our scavanger shop!" Everyone else couldn't help but smile. They
turned back to the preventer base. Or rather what was left of it. The
whole infirmiry wing had been blown off.

"Heero, how did you guys escape that, the blast was massive?"
asked Trowa.

"Heero heard the planes coming and we ran as far as we could
from there. If we had waited a second longer we would have been dead.
The explosion burnt us we were so close to it," answered Relena.

"Well, we better get back to the base then, I think everyone is
going to need medical help."

They parked their Gundams and were out in minutes. All except
Katherine.

"Where's Katherine," asked Trowa. He had seen her Gundam come in
but she wasn't in the group with them.

"I don't know, I didn't see her get out of her Gundam, maybe she
needed to fix something real quick," answered Dorothy.

"I'll go check," said Trowa and he walked over to where Katherine's
Gundam was stationed. He opened the hatch and just about screamed.
Katherine was lying slumped in her seat, blood pouring from her head.
He quickly tore his shirt off and wrapped it around, trying to halt the
bleeding. He picked her up and jumped off the Gundam. When his feet
finally touched ground, he started running to catch up to the rest.

"Help," he screamed. They turned around and saw him carrying
Katherine. Blood was staining his arms and it was smeared across his
face. The shirt he had wrapped around was completely stained a deep
crimson. Sally ran off and got some emergency medical equiptment that
was kept in the storage room for the repairmen in case they got hurt.

When she got back Trowa had lain Katherine down and was applying
pressure to the wound. Pushing him away she unwrapped the wound and
applied some antiseptic to it. She got out a thread and needle and began
to sew the large incision up before any more blood was lost. Finally it
was completely sewn up. It was still bleeding but not as much as before.
She wrapped a clean cloth around it and had Hilde hold it there applying
pressure at the same time.

She then checked to see if Katherine was breathing. Her face
got a twisted look on it and she announced, "she's not breathing." Thats
when Trowa, one of the strongest of the Gundams fainted. He landed on
the metal walkway with a dull thud and Dorothy ran over to help him.

Taking a deep breath, Sally began to give CPR. She tried over
and over and just couldn't get Katherine's heart beating.

"Let me try," demanded Heero, who had kept a cool head through
everything that was happening. "You breath and I'll do the thumps."
Sally complied and Heero brought his fist down and thumped Katherine
in the chest. When that did not work he tried it a second time with
a little more pressure. Katherine jerked and she coughed. Weak gasps
came from her and she slowly began breathing.

"Thank god," breathed Relena, she had been holding her breath
as Heero pounded. Together they got Katherine and Trowa to Trowa's room.
They layed Katherine on his bed and Trowa got the floor beside the bed.

Relena began to feel the need for alcohol and quietly slipped
out the door. Heero noticed and followed her. When she reached her
fridge she found it empty.

"Sorry Relena, we cleared it all out," came Heero's voice from
behind her. She spun around, startled. Her eyes changed from surprised
to burning.

"I need it now," she said a deathly tone coming to her voice.
Heero said nothing and shrugged his shoulders. Angry Relena lunged at
him. Her fists came into contact with his stomach and she began
pounding on him. Heero made no move and stood there taking the beating
without so much as a grunt. Finally Relena gave up exhausted. Tears
came to her eyes as she looked at him. He had let her beat him and he
most likely would be showing bruises for days.

She went over to her bed and lay face down on it. Her tears
spilled over and soaked the pillows. Heero came and sat down beside
her and rubbed her shoulders to help calm her down. Finally her body
stopped shuddering with the repeated sobs and she fell asleep. Heero
stayed with her.

In Trowa's Room

Trowa woke up to see people milling around above him.

"Kathy," he shouted as he bolted upright. "Where is she," he
asked frantically.

"She's alive, she just needs some blood," answered Sally.

"Take mine," he said right away.

"We don't have the supplies to transfuse it," she answered.

"WELL THEN GO GET IT," he screamed.

"I already sent Quatre for it, relax." Trowa stood up and looked
at Katherine. She was a ghostly white. The bruises on her face the only
color that differed from his white sheets.

Quatre screeched in the Preventer Headquarter's parking lot.
Not bothering to find a parking spot he left the car running in front
of the door. He ran up the stairs, with the equiptment in hand. He
rushed to Trowa's room and slammed open the door. He walked over to
where Sally was standing and gave her the equiptment. She quickly
plugged it in and attached a needle to both Katherines and then
hesitated when she got to Trowa's arm.

"We have the same blood type," he answered her unspoken question.
She nodded and then inserted one into to Trowa's. The blood went through
the tube into the machine and then into Katherine. It seemed like
forever until she finally stopped it and Trowa was feeling pretty
woozy. He stumbled over to a chair and fell into after she had removed
the needle. Sally had taken a lot of blood and he had never given blood
before.

"Trowa, I'm going to have you go to sleep," said Sally, coming
over with a needle full of a clear liquid. He nodded and after a sharp
sting from the needle, he began drifting off.

Heero was walking down the hall as Quatre, Dorothy, Wufei, Hilde,
and Duo came out of Trowa's room. He had taken off his shirt and had
a towel hung over his shoulder. His whole chest and stomach area was
covered with yellow marks that were slowly turning purple.

"Jeez Heero, what happened to you, that's not from the battle
is it?" asked Duo.

"Let's just leave it at the fact that Relena wasn't happy about
us clearing out her alcohol," he answered dryly. Then he smirked. The
others, even though they knew it was nothing to laugh about started
giggling. Heero pushed past them and went to the showers, a nice hot
one would ease his sore muscles.

"Jeez, who would have known Relena packed such a wallop," giggled
Dorothy. After their laughter had subsided they each made their ways
to their rooms to have a shower as well.

Trowa's Room

Sally had left to quickly shower after she had been satisfied
that Katherine would be alright. All that remained in the room was
the two sleep figures. Trowa was still put out by the shot Sally had
given him.

Katherine's fingers twiched and she opened her eyes. As soon as
she did she regretted it though. Her head pounded and she felt as if
her Gundam had run her over. She turned her throbbing head over and
saw Trowa, fast asleep in the chair. He looked pale and exhausted.
"Good that he's sleeping," she thought to herself. She blinked and her
whole world seemed like it was ending. The pain was so intense that she
could have screamed had she had the energy. She lay there in agony until
she finally passed out from the burning pain of her body.

Heero stepped out of the shower. His hair was dripping and hung
flat on his head. He rubbed the access moisture out of it and got out
of the other towel that was wrapped around his waist and into his usual
tanktop and then he pulled on a pair of black windpants. He walked out
of his room and went to see how Relena was.

He stepped into her room and heard the shower running in the
bathroom. He sat down by the T.V. and turned it on. A war show was on
and he switched it with disdain. A cartoon came on, it looked American,
who else would have thought to have a cat and dog stuck together.

"American's are weird," he thought to himself, "of course I knew
that already from just being around Duo." The shower stopped running
and a couple minutes later Relena walked out drying her hair with a
towel. She was wearing a pair of pajamas with rubber duckies on him
and Heero looked at her weirdly.

"Rubber ducks," he asked her. She stuck her tongue out in a
childish way.

"Look whose talking, oh "King of the Catdogs," she replied. He
grinned sheepishly and turned the T.V. on mute. "Heero, I'm sorry for
hitting you earlier."

"It's no problem Relena, forget about it." He motioned for
her to come sit beside him. She did and he snuggled her up next to him.
"I brought that movie," he told her. She nodded and he hit play on
the controller. Within minutes they were absorbed in the movie. They
were just teenagers, after all.

Hilde and Duo meanwhile, were having a heated arguement over
which American boyband was the best. Since Duo was an American and
Hilde was in to the music it was a pretty ferocious battle.

"98* is the best, no contest," she shouted. He grinned and
laughed.

"Oh, Hilde you are sadly mistaken the best boy band is definatly
NSYNC, even if they are a bunch of wusses."

"Why I oughta," she said and tackled him. They play fought for
awhile until he silenced her with a kiss. Both of them were glad just
to be leading the normal lives of a teenager for the short time they
got to.

Sally and Wufei were in Trowa's room. Sally had wanted to check
on both of them and Wufei had come along to keep her company. She
put a fresh wrap on Katherines wound and then gave her a pain killer.
All the while she talked with Wufei.

Quatre and Dorothy were getting a late night snack in the
cafeteria. All of sudden Quatre got an evil look on his face and threw
a piece of popcorn at Dorothy. It hit her right in the middle of the
forehead and she jumped in surprise.

"Alright Quatre, you asked for it," she said sinisterly, all
the while a huge smile was making its way onto her face. She grabbed
a handful of the chips she was eating and prepared to throw it at him.
Quatre jumped up and grabbed the popcorn bag that was laying on the table.
They started a food fight between themselves and their laughter
rang through the halls of the Preventer building.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or any of its characters.

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