Title: Children of War and Peace Chapter 8
Written By: Quality Paiges(aka Sailor Air)
Rating: PG-13 (For Swears and Sexual Reference)
Genre: Romance/Drama
Hey all I know it seems like this is taking me forever but I'm really sorry and I am working dedicately on this fic but please be patient. I'd like to dedicate this chapter to Miaka (I'm sorry I dont' remember your whole e-mail addy) a girl who IM'd me saying she liked my fic a couple days ago. Anyway she really encouraged me to get this fic out ASAP so you all have her to thank for my enthusiasm and I just wanted to dedicate this chapter to her to say thank you very much. I've noticed all you guys are getting really antsy to know who the father is and now I have a pretty good idea as how I'm gonna wrap up the fic and fortuneatly I've gotten some help on determineing personality's as related to blood types. Unfortuneatley the fic won't work out the way I want it to if I do that. So I decided to screw matching personalities with blood types and just give them what's important. But I have to say I'm not telling who the father is till closer to the end. I know this may be annoying but I have to follow where I think the fic is taking me and I'd rather get the chapters out a bit slower and have them good than get them done in an hour and have them suck. At first you guys got chapters faster because I had been done with them for awhile and just fianlly got around to uploading them (and that whole 2 snow days thing) so please put up with it. I dont' really intentionally leave cliffhangers (at least not all the time) but that's where the chapter ends in my mind so when it ends I've gotta end it really. Chapter 9 should be up in a couple of days and I have all my basic ideas prepared for chapter 10 (I had no clue what I was gonna do with Chapter 8) As of right now I don't see it being anymore than 11 chapters so hang in there we're almost at a close! I apoligize to those who hate me and think I'm dragging this out but really I'm telling this from MANY point's of view and not just one so it takes awhile besides the fact that school sucks and if it were up to me I'd stay home and write fanfics all day but NOOOOO stupid teachers always handing out homework and trust me no matter how much you half-ass the work it never ends! Well gomensai for carrying on for so long. As always C&C are welcome and on with the boring disclaimer!
I don't own Gundam Wing and as much as I'd like to I can't and don't make money for writing fanfiction. It's just a fact of life, sorry. But if I did own Gundam Wing believe me the series would be much longer and someday I will own it and believe me there will be more GW than anyone person can handle! ;)
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Millardo had carefully tapped through hospital records to pull up these files. He was a master at finding these sort of things and his cover story had been perfect in case anyone happened to come in the records room and find him there breaking hospital security codes by pulling up restricted files on Relena's baby and her pregnancy as well as printing out the documents. If anyone asked he was a concerned uncle who didn't believe his sister's story about her and her child's state of health and if that didn't work threats to pull up employee files always came in handy but neither course of action was needed. The hospital staff was busy enough just trying to keep the press from entering the hospital, today was Relena's release date and this information had somehow gotten through to the press. Fortunately, even though Duo's van was snug to say the least, it wouldn't attract any attention and it was a good way to get Relena out of the hospital unnoticed. The last thing he needed was the simple item of Relena's date book. It would tell him where Relena was nine months ago and it would be the final piece of information he needed to determine who the father was. This would be easy enough if all went well with Relena's secretary Mayline. It should all go well, Mayline was a good secretary, a skilled typist, and a generally cheerful person that worked well with the politicians that were always trying to get in a meeting with Relena. Unfortunatly she was a bit too trusting. If Millardo wanted something of Relena's, she wouldn't be able to think of any reason why not to hand it over. After all, Millardo was Relena's brother, why shouldn't she trust him? Millardo knew all of this was in his greatest advantage. He took off to the hospital pay VidPhone to go talk to Mayline.
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Heero sat in the hospital's cafeteria with Wufei, Quatre, Trowa, Sally, and Catherine, eating what looked like green jello. Sally was telling Catherine how the newly named little Justice had thrown up all over Wufei while even Trowa was trying to stifle a laugh. Wufei was struggling to keep an even face and pretend like it didn't bother him when this story would have been VERY embaressing to anybody else. After the story was finished, Catherine turned to Heero and asked. "Hey Heero, what have you been doing lately?" Only Catherine had the gall to ask Heero something as trivial as what a former assassin had been doing after the war. Everyone else figured they didn't want to know.
Heero chose to ignore that question and continued swirling his jello around in the little plastic cup, turning the once solid jello back into a liquid form.
Catherine repeated her question.
Heero again decided to ignore Cathy.
Quatre told Cathy it was probably better for Cathy to
give up her question, giving her a meaningful look that said not to pursue the matter."No Quatre, I asked Heero a question. I know Heero is a war hero but so are all of you! It doesn't give Heero the right to act like a dickhead!"
Everyone was stunned at Cathy's comment. She normally had such a cheerful disposition and was generally kind and good natured, but like the time she slapped Trowa across the face, she could be forceful when she wanted to make her point.
Heero turned his face towards Cathy's, pushing aside her jello and gave her his patented death glare. Cathy was scared to no end but she wasn't backing down now, she managed to stare right back. Seeing she was up to the challenge Heero stated. "I use my computer to ensure that all is going well with the colonies and I use it if I need money."
"Thank-you for answering my question."
"Hn." Was all Heero said in reply.
The whole group was pretty uncomfortable right about that moment so Quatre suggested that they head back to Miss Relena's room, and that they do what they had originally planned on, and that was to take Relena out to a quiet lunch. The group agreed and quickly got out of the cafeteria.
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Millardo smiled into the VidPhone. "Thanks Mayline. I knew I could count on you."
Noin could hear Mayline on the phone say something in reply, though she wasn't sure what it was. She had just stepped out of Miss Relena's room and was fairly confident that things were alright between Relena and Hilde now. Duo was now causing Relena to laugh and her little Pacafia Reina to cry by making all sorts of fun faces. She chuckled as she thought of this and approached Millardo.
"Hello Noin." Zechs acknowledged as she approached.
Noin didn't give a greeting but said. "So you're really gonna go through with it, huh?" As she leaned her head up against the wall near the phone.
"Yes. The research on the child is done really. I've got the hospital records." He replied pointing to some papers concealed in his pant's pocket. "Relena's secretary Mayline is going to give me Relena's date book then all I need are the blood types of the Gundam pilots and I'll be all set."
"Millardo. I once had a younger sister too. She would be about Relena's age now. I haven't seen her since I ran away from home. I hated my parents, I couldn't stay with them. They were going to put my sister and I in a foster home anyway so I ran away and I wrote my sister saying I would come get her. I promised I'd be loyal to her. But I never went back for her. I broke my word. I don't even know if she's alive now. Maybe that's why I'm so faithful to you, maybe it's because I want to, at least in part, make up my unloyalty to my sister by staying at your side. Maybe it's not just because you saved me when we first met, maybe I'm trying to simply right my past wrongs." Millardo stopped listening here, he was thinking about something else. "Do you really want to be unloyal to your sister Millardo? Do you want to betray her, it might mean you regret it for the rest of your life."
Millardo snapped back to life. "Noin. Do you stay with me because of your sister. Do you think of me as a sibling you once abandoned."
Noin picked her head off the walled. "No... I don't know Millardo. I don't know why I do what I do sometimes. I just know I'd rather not have anyone regret what I've regreted."
Millardo picked his hand up putting it under Noin's chin. "Noin..." He said looking into her eyes. "Noin, I don't think of you as...."
"Hey that's where you guys are!" Quatre said. "We were looking for you! We're gonna go to Relena's room and take her out to lunch like we planned."
"Okay." Noin called. "We'll catch up with you in a minute."
"Alright!" Quatre yelled back.
Millardo slowly removed his hand from Noin's chin. "We'd better go." He said.
"Yeah. It would be best." She said not moving.
Millardo paused, looking at her for a moment longer. Then he took off down the hall, not waiting for Noin.
"Damn!" Noin swore under her breath. "That close, that freaking close and yet you can't over come those walls you built yourself Millardo. No matter what we call you, you keep a little bit of Zechs within you."
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Duo, Hilde,and Relena were talking now a lot more happily than earlier, after Duo had suffiently proved himself worthless in trying to make the baby laugh. Hilde once again brought up the subject of Duo and hers future nuptuials. Going over every little detail of what the wedding dress would look like. "It's going to short and fun Relena! I don't want to wear something with a super long train. How are you supposed to dance in one of those numbers right? So I was thinking a getting a nice fitting tube dress and then placeing large bow on the back! The entire thing will be made out of silk and instead of a veil I want a crown of flowers made of dasies and white roses. And large choker pearl necklace. What do you think?"
"I can't wait to go out looking for a dress with you Hilde! It's gonna be so much fun! You and Duo are always the best to hang out with, I'm sure we'll have loads of fun watching you try on dresses!"
"What! I'm gonna go looking for dress with you guys?"
"Of course Duo." Hilde replied. "You're gonna have to be there to make sure we don't go crazy spending all of the money for the wedding on a single dress."
"Ohhhhhh but I don't want to Hilde please please please don't make me go!!!"
"Wether you go or not is your decision but don't be mad if I blow your life savings!" Hilde sang out.
"Arg! Stuck going shopping with girls!"
Quatre and the gang walked in at the moment shortly followed by Millardo, then by Noin. "Hey you guys let's get out to lunch. Are you hungry Relena?" Quatre asked.
Relena's stomach growled quite loudly causing her to blush furiously. She hadn't really eaten much in the hospital, the food was gross and after giving birth she just didn't really have an appetite.
Most of the group chuckled appreciatively. "Well I guess that answers Quatre's question little sister." Millardo said. "We'll go off to Duo's van in groups so not to attract attention from the press. A crowd of us leaving the hospital would bring too much notice. If Noin, Quatre, Trowa or myself go with Relena it will bring too much notice since I'm Relena's brother and Noin is constantly with Relena. Quatre and Trowa will be too visible because of Quatre's fame in the colonies. If Sally and Wufei go with Relena they could be possibly noticed since they're Preventors, but I think it will be safe with just one of them. You two decide who is going with Relena. The rest of you can work it out among yourselves and no more than four in a group."
Sally decided to go with Relena for obvious reasons, and Hilde wanted to continue talking to her maid of honor. Duo went with Quatre and Trowa and that left Wufei, Millardo, Heero, Noin and Catherine. The guys split up from the girls and they all took different routes out of the hospital.
Okies Whatcha all think. Short I know, especially compared to some of my chapters. I think this was my shortest one. The next one should be out within a couple days. All of you who are worried about Relena's motivations for keeping this big secret don't worry all your questions shall be answered at the end. I might add an epilogue as well to the end of the 11 chapters just so you guys can have some more resolution. Well as always C&C are welcome. (and if you reallly want some more of this fic pray or hope or wish or do whatever you can to get me some snow days so I can work on this fic)!