Title: The Children of War and Peace* Chapter 3
Author: Quality Paiges (aka Sailor Air)
Ratng: PG-13 (For Swears and Sexual Reference)
Genre: Romance/Drama
Heero was quietly typing on his computer. Going through the usual webpages he liked to visit: www.gunsandamo.com, www.christianscience.com , www.foreignprincess.com etc. etc. Though by chance he happened to pop into cnn.com. Geez that website was so old it must have been around for over a thousand years! He thought. The web today hasn't even changed that much since then! He thought. After the Universal Century had ended just after the A.D. years they had gone into the age of After Colony and most technology since after the year 2500 A.D. had been dedicated to military weapons, of course it had paid off at least in the sense that great military weapons had been made, but they were used for senseless killings and in thatsense humanity had taken a great step backwards, but now they could move forward again into an age of peace. One that so many had worked for. Heero, who had been half heartedly daydreaming about these things came crashing back to reality staring at his computer screen. The headline read "Vice Foreign Minister Gives Birth, One Child dies in Labor" Huh? Relena lost one of her children? He thought. Well that was not really a surprise, Relena was overworking herself, probably didn't get enough rest for herself let alone her two kids.
Heero was beginning to wonder if he should go see Relena. No, no he wouldn't see her he didn't have anything to do with this. Seeing Relena would just be being too hard on himself.
Suddenly the great sliding doors came open. No one knew where this place was, Heero thought. Can it be an enemy? He picked up his gun and pointed it towards the door.
"Hey man, what's up?" Duo came in the door greeting him happily!
"How did you find this place?" Heero asked.
"Trade secret man. I was a Gundam pilot wasn't I?" Heero didn't reply right away. "What are you doing here?"
"Awwwwww can't a guy come and check up on and see how his comrades are doing? Haven't seen you since Quatre and Trowa's wedding and that was what, five years ago?"
"It was four. That doesn't answer my question though."
"So you were counting the days. You missed me didn't you. Well I suppose your right I do have a bit of an alterior motive. I wanted to find out who was the father of Relena's baby. You are obviously thinking about her, you were reading that article right?" Duo gestured to the computer. He had a grin on his face. "If you can't tell me I don't know who can, my money is on you actually and man you do like to keep things hush, hush."
"I...." Heero started. He was looking towards the ground "I had nothing to do with that. That article was simply at the site I was visiting." Heero's uncontrolable bangs were covering his eyes and his voice sounded agitated.
Duo noted the sound in Heero's usually unwavering voice but he truely was surpised to hear him answer that way, why else could Relena want to keep something like that a secret? He had only met her a few times and seen her with Heero less but she obviously cared for Heero deeply and she wasn't your normal chick wanting to go out with a guy trying to kill her. "Hey, Heero come on man I was joking of course you wouldn't have kids, can you imagine the little Heero's running around threatening to kill everyone?" Duo laughed half heartedly.
Heero was not amused, he remained silent.
"Well man, listen I'm sorry but did you hear the news Hilde and I are going to tie the knot."
"It's about time." Heero replied.
Duo was startled to hear Heero say something like that, he would have imagined something different like something more cold but he couldn't quite place his finger on what it would have normally been. "Ummm.... yeah I thought so and Hilde's happy about it! So am I for that matter what I really wanted to ask you was....." Duo didn't finish his sentence.
"Wasssss...." Heero imitated.
"Heeroyouwannabemybestman?"
"Man if that's the way you proposed to Hilde I don't even know how she accepted.
"Ummm..... actually she proposed to me sort of. I couldn't get the words out and she finished my sentence for me and I just sat was kneeling there like an idoit with a ring in my hand. Sooo...????"
Heero looked up and grinned ever so slightly. "Yeah sure Duo. I'll be the best man."
Duo breathed a sigh of relief. Then spoke up "Hey Heero you wanna come to a party tonight? All the hot shots are gonna be there and Wufei, Trowa, Quatre, Noin & Sally as well and of course I'm going with Hilde and we can party the night away with free champagne."
"Uhhh... thanks but I don't think so." Heero said thinking about Relena.
"Well FYI Relena's still in the hospital so it's not like she'll be there." Duo said looking at Heero's face.
"What does that matter?"
"Nothing, it's just FYI." Duo knew that it wasn't true that Heero didn't care but he wasn't gonna push it.
"Well, I'm your best man right? Of course we gotta plan stuff together."
"Yeah that's right, like a bachalor party."
"Yeah." Heero replied. "If Hilde doesn't kill you first."
A large sweatdrop appeared behind Duo's head "Yeahhhh your probably right on that one there."
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Millardo stepped into his sister's hospital room with nervous trepidation. As he walked in he noticed she was sleeping. He looked at his sleeping sister. She looked so peaceful and content when she was sleeping. Not at all like when she was awake, always worrying about Earth and Colony relationships, she looked old in her eyes like she had seen so much when she was all to young. "My sister, what you have been through." He said aloud. She stirred slightly but only rolled over to her other side. He gently stroked her hair with his fingers in brotherly affection. He was not mad at her, he couldn't be even if he wanted to. Even a former Queen of the Earth deserved privacy, but this much Relena, you need to keep so to yourself, you won't even declare the father of your child. Are you ashamed, nervous? I'd be mad, do you not love the father anymore, or do you just don't want him to be involved. It makes me fustrated Relena that you have to keep everything inside you. You, who've so encouraged me to make my feelings about Noin known. You have always been telling me not the let the firery passion inside of me be blocked off by a ice wall of pain.
Relena stirred again and woke up, slowly opening her eyes and yawning. Everything she saw was blurry but slowly her eyes came into focus and she saw her brother standing over her.
"Ohhgoooodddd MmMmooouurning." She said still half asleep.
"It's Good Morning Relena and it's not even that, it's good evening, you must have slept the whole day away."
"Oh no! It's the evening? I've got to get to the colony ball so I can speak to everyone."
"Relena, even you must realize your limits, you cannot possibly go tonight. There is no way you'd be ready on time besides you and your baby need your rest."
"I suppose your right there's nothing I can do about it now but everyone will be...."
"Everyone will be glad that you finally stayed in bed and got some rest." Millardo finished for her.
Relena sighed and looked away.
"Relena, I'm not mad you know. I feel bad that you don't think you can tell me anything. It must hurt for you to keep things so bottled up inside."
"Millardo this is simply too hard. It's my own fault I know but I need it to be this way. Either path I take will be rocky but this path is the one I've chosen at least for now and probably forever."
"Relena a wise woman once told me that if you can't even tell the truth to your own sibling then you should at least tell it to yourself, and tell it to the person you truely care about. I know you would never bring a child into this world that you thought wouldn't be loved. Even if they were a surprise to you too. I know you too well and I'm absolutely sure you wouldn't be with someone you didn't love."
Relena saw her brother blushing and knew that it must be hard talking to your younger sister about sex especially when you weren't getting any.
"I suppose we should both practice what we preach." Relena replied.
"Relena I don't want to make you sad but I know you lost one of your children and I want you to know I'm here for you."
Relena blinked away some tears. "Thank you Millardo, I'm sure that I too sometime some way will be able to say what I need to say and get my feelings out in the open as well."
"Relena." Millardo sighed. "I will always be here for you, no matter what you decide. I am your brother even if I haven't always acted that way. I won't pressure you about the father or having a husband, just make sure you don't the let the stupid press get you down, alright?"
Relena hugged her brother back. "Millardo, thank you. Don't worry about the press they've always had one thing or another to say about me in the newspapers, this is just the same old same old said with new words."
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"No Wufei, we're definitely going even if we have to bring that child with us!"
"You have to be so stubborn?"
"I could say the same thing about you!" Sally had the baby in her arms. "I don't know where you belong little one but it looks like your on a ride with us for now." She turned to Wufei "Now let's get going!"
Each of them stompped out the door one mad because there was a new addition to the party the other mad because there was a party.
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Noin was thinking about Millardo. Not that, that was an unusual thing but this was different. She was hopeing that Millardo was making peace with his sister and not with his feelings about her. It's not that there were no other possibilites for her. Plenty of other guys wanted to date a military woman, but how could she even think about them? There had never been any other guys like Millardo, they didn't push the right buttons with her the way he did. Even if he never returned her feelings she would always stay with him. She noted someone making their way across the room with another person holding their hand right behind him. It was Duo with Hilde and they were both smiling as they picked up some champagne off some poor waiters tray, who was now just barely balancing his other drinks.
"Hey Noin long time no see!" He said loud enough to draw attention to her as well as himself.
"Duo how's it going and this is Hilde right?" Noin was struck by the resemblence between herself and Hilde, more than one person had commented on it but they were right. Hilde looked like her four years younger.
Hilde smiled. "It's nice to meet you finally, I've heard a lot about you." Hilde was also struck by the resemblences between them.
"All good I hope, How are you two?" Noin asked again.
"Go on tell her Duo." Hilde pointed at Duo. "He's so bashful about this."
Duo was blushing brightly.
"I can hardly imagine Duo being so embaressed about anything."
"Well uhhhh we're ummm engaged." He pointed at the ring on Hilde's finger and turned even brighter red.
Noin inspected the ring. It wasn't anything fancy but just by looking at you could tell Duo was romantic at heart. The ring was a single golden band with a heart shape diamond at the center surrounded by two sapphires.
"Why the sapphires?" Noin asked.
Duo blushed even brighter "They reminded me of Hilde's eyes." Duo, wanting to quickly get the attention off himself, looked to the crowd to try and find something to say and at that moment his prayers were answered. He saw Sally Po across they room.
"Hey isn't that Sally?" Duo asked.
Noin looked out in the crowd. "Yeah that's Sally and it looks like she's got Wufei with her this time!"
"Hey arn't all the Preventers supposed to come every year?" Duo asked.
"Yeah but this is the first one Wufei's been to and they've only started it five years ago."
"That's Wufei for ya." Duo said.
"Yeah but isn't that a baby Sally has in her arms?" Hilde asked with an incredulous look on her face.
Noin looked closer. "Yeah, that's a baby alright!"
"Way to go Wufei." Duo said.
"I don't think so Duo!" Noin exclaimed.
"Could it be Miss Relena's?" Hilde asked.
"No. Miss Relena and her daughter at still at the hospital." Noin replied.
"Then whose is it?" Duo asked.
"That's what I'd like to know." Noin and Hilde said in unison.
So how'd ya like it? I'm trying to get the chapters out as fast as possible for you guys. I'm already working on chapter 8 but it takes awhile for my editors to go through them a bit then I have to put them into html format which takes just about forever but I'm really gonna try to get you out a chapter as fast as possible! If anyone is confused and I know some of you are yes there are two babies. A girl and a boy both Miss Relena's, most everyone thinks the boy died in childbirth and now he is with Wufei. Who's the father? You'll have to read to find out! And I'll have to write to find out since I don't know yet! Oh and if you have the chance plese R&R my other fics, Epilogue~The One Year War and The Undelivered Letter! Thank-you so much!