Title: The Children of War and Peace Chapter 9 Part 2
Written By: Quality Paiges (aka Sailor Air)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romanca/Mystry/Drama
So here it is as promise, see now it's like you get two parts in one day isn't that better? Okay so it's not sue me! Ahhhhh no don't you'd be wasting your money I own nothing. I only own Gundam Wing in my fantasy world.
The others were throughly confused. "What's with Twister?" Catherine asked.
"Oh I guess you can just call it an inside joke, Cathy. I suppose you just had to be there, ya know?" Relena replied.
"Oh."
Hilde smiled glad that Relena was up to being playful and laughing. Also glad that her work of that one night had paid off. She was completely unaware of the sexual undertones the game implied.
Inside Denny's they were greeted by a waitress no older than 50 yet no younger than 40. She was your average height, a bit of a heavy build with medium length black hair and dropping eyes. She had crow's feet and wore heavy blush. Her eyebrows were penciled in with make-up and she looked generally displeasing. However she greeted them kindly and quickly anticipating a large tip from such a group rushing them to a table asking them what they wanted to drink.
They went around the table.
"Orange juice." Catherine requested.
"Tea no milk but a little sugar." Quatre said.
"Water." Trowa answered.
"Coffee. Black." Wufei said.
"Coffee, cream and two packs of sugar for me." Sally replied.
"Just apple juice." Noin said.
Millardo was looking over the Menu looking for Don Perigon (this really expensive good tasting Champagne ;D ) he couldn't find it. "Miss could I please have the wine list?"
Noin nudged him with her elbow and shot him a look while the rest of the burried their faces in their hands shaking their heads back and fourth thinking of Millardo's unawareness about life outside endless wealth. The waitress looked at Millardo curiously.
"Ummm just coffee with cream."
"Milk please." Relena requested as she pulled out a bottle for the baby that had been given to her by the hospital.
"Decaf Coffee." Heero muttered.
"Beer." That one came from Duo.
Hilde tugged on his braid with a lack of gentleness. "He'll have a Coke the same as me."
"Coke." Hilde repeated this time with a lot more firmness and she gave a final tug to Duo's braid and let go.
Duo gently rubbed the roots of his hair under his braid, Hilde's tug had smarted.
The group lapsed into silence pouring over their menus. Each wondering what to get no one besides Duo and Hilde had actually eaten there before and they weren't sure of quite what to expect.
"Sooooo ummm...... how's the food?" Relena asked.
"Oh it's really greasy and bad for you but it tastes great!" Duo responded.
"I think you'll like the grilled chicken Relena." Hilde told her hopeful to stop everyone from being scared of the food due to Duo's comments. She may have loved his heart but him stomach was on a whole nother level.
Duo continued to make comments on the place's food left and right up to the point where the whole group outside of Hilde wasn't sure if they were quite that hungry anymore, even Relena who had been starving was beginning to have second doubts about the food. However Hilde had managed to shove a few cheese fries into Duo's mouth shuting him up for the whole two minutes it took everyone else to order.
The group went through endless chatter waiting for the meal. Well the girls along with Duo and Quatre were doing all of the talking with Millardo throwing in a comment now and then. After they were all done fussing with Relena's baby. Hilde brought up shopping with Relena for a wedding dress the next day.
"All you guys have to come! It won't be the same without you!"
All the girls nodded and talked excitedly about shopping. The guys turned their heads and rolled their eyes. Duo was wondering if it wasn't a better idea to just elope. When Sally saw the look on Wufei's face she turned to Hilde and in a not quite a hushed enough whisper she cupped her hand to her face as if not wanting anyone else to hear she said, "Hilde don't worry we'll bring the guys too even if we have to club them and drag them there." Hilde giggled.
Wufei arched an eyebrow and said. "What makes you think I'll show up women?"
Sally raised her voice to a squeaky tone like some Aunt talking to her little nice saying something stupid like 'geee isn't that cute?' "Ohhhhhhh that's so sweet Wufei wants to stay at home with little Justice and take care of him all by himself."
Wufei Growled. "Women you're taking care of that baby."
"Of course as long as were going with Hilde."
"Grrrrrrrrrrr." Was the only sound made by Wufei.
"Relena's gonna be my maid of honor everyone. So the rest of you absolutely have to be bridesmaids. Now you all have an excuse to go shopping with me anyway since I have to pick out dresses for all of you."
After all the girls confirmed Hilde Quatre spoke up his concerns for the guys that were there. "Hilde I'm sure all of us guys would just love watching you try on wedding dress." Quatre paused silently willing the others not to roll their eyes. "But we all have a lot of work to do so of course we'll come to your wedding but we simply cannot make it tomorrow."
"But you guys HAVE to come!" Hilde whined.
"Whatever for Hilde? I'm sure we'll be of no use to you. Your girlfriends will help you pick a much better dress than we ever could."
Hilde was stumped so she did what any girl in her right mind would do. She dumped the problem on her boyfriend. If he didn't solve this problem, he knew where he would be sleeping tonight and it wasn't in the house! "Duo tell them why they have to come."
Duo looked startled. "Me?" He said pointing a finger at his face wide eyed.
"Yes you silly." She said trying her very best to look cute and innocent. "Didn't we talk about this last night? After you told me Heero was your best man?" She batted her eyelashes.
While everyone else knew exactly what Hilde was trying to pull of Duo was clueless. "Ummm well ummm....." Duo started. 'Damn! He thought, did I really forget?'
"Don't be shy now Duo, it was such a good idea. I'm sure they'll say yes!"
'Oh crap!' Duo thought. 'What am I going to do? What can Hilde possibly be talking about? Heero best man yes he remembered talking about that. What question did he have for everyone? It had to have something to do with the wedding. A reason why they all had to come the next day. Hmmmmmm....... What could he ask? Wait a minute.... of course if Hilde was having so many bridesmaids than he had to have more than Heero as just a best man. He would have to have groomsmen!'
"Well... Duo?" Hilde said. "Aren't you gonna ask them?"
"Well guys I hate to put it out but ummmm...... You wanna be my groomsmen?" Duo looked towards Hilde to see if he had asked the right thing. Hilde smiled so he knew that must have been it. 'Phew!' Hilde thought. 'That was too close.'
"I'd love to Duo." Quatre said.
"Yeah I don't' see why not." Trowa responded.
"Well I don't really know you that well but you were a Gundam Piolet and I respect that. So yes." Millardo haugtily replied.
Grumbles were heard from Wufei's general direction. But before he could give a resounding no Sally clamped her hand over his mouth tightly and forced his head into a nod saying. "Wufei will be happy to be a groomsmen, Duo. He's honored you asked him."
The waitress arrived with the groups food. They all managed not to look incredibly disgusted as the food (if you could call it that) was placed in front of them. The entire group was brave however and dug in. Mostly finding it wasn't as horrible as it looked. The group stopped talking until Relena had managed to drop her fork. Between Pacafia's demand for attention and trying to cut up her chicken and eat she was having a difficult time of it. Without hesitation she gently passed Pacafia to Heero, "Heero please hold her while I retrieve my fork." Relena slid under the table with much difficulty. First she put all her weight towards her knees that left everything from her chest up stuck between the table and the seat. Then with caution she managed to slide further to her knees and get under the table. It was darker than she expected it to be. She felt around for the fork with her hands careful to avoid everyone's feet. Feeling around she managed to grasp as what seemed to be the forks handle. Now that she had found it she wondered how exactly she was going to get out from under the table in a crawl position. Getting under it had been hard enough. 'Hmm... I'll stay under here a moment. Heero's gonna hold Pacafia or I'll be damned.' After a moment she started to get up but she heard voices coming up from above the table that didn't belong to any she recognized. 'Well it would look pretty stupid of me to just get up with total strangers standing there. It's certainly not like I want to draw attention to myself.'
The group at the table had not forgotten about Relena but they hoped she would stay under there when the strangers approached their table. The strangers happened to be girls. They looked like young teenagers. Both wearing jeans and a t-shirt with their hair up in matching styles. Infact they were dressed exactly the same but besides that they were polar opposites one tall and darkly colored while the other was short and very pale. Apparently Relena's baby had caught their eye.
"Oh what a cute baby!" The taller one cried in a girlish giggle.
"She's so adorable." The shorter one agreed.
The group did not respond but stared at them incrediously. 'And these girls are doing exactly WHAT here?' Heero thought. The rest of the group looked like they were thinking the same thing.
The taller one noticed the reaction of the group. She winked at Heero. "Well the baby's not the only cute one." The shorter one stupidly giggled, her hands flew to her mouth to cover up the loudness of the full laughter.
"I hope you're not the father. I'd be real diappointed." The taller one said ignoring the shorter girl still recovering from her giggle fit.
Everyone besides Heero had their jaws to the table.
'These girls had the balls to flirt with Heero Yuy? The audacity, it was ludicrous!'
'Never in a thousand years.....'
'Hmmm I wonder if Hilde would be mad if I.......'
'Women!'
'I can't believe it, simply can't believe it.'
'.........'
'Just what is going on here?'
'Hey why isn't anyone hitting on me?'
'Oohhhhhhh Relena's gonna be mad!'
These were only some of the thoughts that went through the rest of the groups mind at the time. [I"ll let you guys decide who said what ;) ]
"I'm not." Heero said pointedly.
The darker one now gaining confidence pushing the shorter one to the side said, "Good then call me sometime." Tossing a small piece of paper on the table. Heero didn't even look at the paper and the girls left to their own table wherever that was.
Thirty seconds passed since the girls left. Relena managed to slowly pull herself up from under the table. Her face was an angry red. "Found my fork." She said. "But I think I'll ask the waitress for a new one, the floors down there were filthy." She accepted Pacafia back from Heero and the rest of the group continued eating in silence (Even Duo and Hilde!) no one bringing up what had just happened.
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Millardo walked into his apartment door. He could have lived with Relena in her large house she often commented to him on how lonely it was, hinting at his living there. But he knew Relena liked her privacy and he liked his so he never staid with her for long when he visited her. He flipped on his computer, drawing up a science program from the hard drive that determined the possible blood types a child could have if their parent's had different blood types (this program may not be in existence but it's my fic and it's many years in the future so there :P ). Once he figured out the possible blood types of Pacafia with the different pilots he would take those and compare it to Pacafia's blood type.
The results were pulled up in seconds. He scanned through the results. "Oh My God!" He cried out. Even with just blood types there was only one possible father. He couldn't believe it! My God he never thought he would be it! He was so responsible he was sooooo well not interested in Relena in that way. He pulled out Relena's date book. Nine months from the babies birth she had met with him it was even in her date book. Millardo was NOT liking this.
Noin stormed down Millardo's hall. 'This cannot be carried any further. Millardo cannot find out the father of Relena's baby, it will destroy all the trust they worked so hard to build in their relationship, I am not going to allow this to be carried any further.' She shoved the key in the door. Not waiting for Millardo to come to the door, not bothering the knock. She went up to him and said with all the firmness her voice could carry. "Millardo I cannot allow this to go any further! If you carry though with finding out the father of Relena's baby you'll regret it forever and I cannot allow you to do something so self-destructive. If will ruin all the trust you and your sister have put within one another. I told you I'd always stand by your side and I will but I cannot simply stand there when you're hurting yourself."
Millardo gazed at Noin. "Yes Noin, your advice would be the correct course of action. But it's already too late." He finished his sentence embracing her in his arms.
"Oh Millardo." She sighed. "Is it true, are you sure?"
"It's impossible for it to be otherwise." He responded.
"I'm so sorry Millardo, I've failed you I should have stopped you sooner, I should have prevented this. I knew it would cause you pain. I didn't do enough." She said tensing in his arms, not moving.
"Hush. Noin. You did all you could. It is no one's fault but my own. You warned me and I wouldn't have done otherwise if you'd told me more. But hindsight is 20/20 right? I just never thought the father would be Quatre Winner."
Okay okay I know huge cliffhanger right? Do I enjoy letting you hang? Yes yes I do. Gomensai but it's just so fun! Anywayz I can already seen the guns being pulled out and pointed at in my general direction. So I'll scurry off and work on the next chapter more. I do know who the father is, it will be revealed in the next chapter I promise, though I'm not sure if there will only be one more chapter or two. I hope you all enjoy reading the series and if you don't why are you bothering? So make sure to leave a review because they always inspire me to write faster ;)