Title: The Children of War and Peace Chapter 11
Written By: Quality Paiges (aka Sailor Air)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romanca/Mystry/Drama
Chapter 11
Relena's head was pounding. It was so dark. Why was it so dark? Oh yeah, she had her eyes closed... duh! What had just gone on? She had been shopping with Hilde.... and everyone... for a dress for Hilde's wedding. Then... then... there was that crazy sales woman. She'd been trying on a dress when a gun was pointed at her head. Her baby no...no.. her babies that's what the women said would be her destruction,then she told everyone that her children were Duo's, then Millardo said they were Quatre's, so much finger pointing everywhere. She'd been so upset.. So weak on the ground, that stupid woman laughing at her pain. So what had she done... she told Heero. Yes... she told Heero that he was the father... so upset.... she was so upset... what had she done now? He wasn't supposed to know... he kept confusing her... hot and cold.. hot then cold... couldn't understand what he felt anymore... didn't see any love in his eyes. She didn't want him to feel committed so she got out of it the only way she knew how. She broke her own heart. Told him he wasn't the father. She'd discovered she was pregnant the same day she had lunch with Quatre, that's why Millardo thought it was Quatre's baby. The baby had been born late... she was lucky... she guessed... that's why Heero really couldn't believe he was the father the baby was late and she had only told him two weeks after she found out she was pregnant. Of course he would have thought it wasn't possible.... even if he did believe her. Oi, what had she done? She told him and now she'd have to live with it. Would he hate her for not saying? Would he hate her for having the babies? She squeezed her eyes shut tighter than they already were and groaned.
"I think she's coming to." She heard Quatre say.
Relena blinked twice and looked furiously around placing one of her hands in front of her eyes, the florescent lights were blinding after staying in perfect darkness for so long. Someone grabbed her other hand.
"You're up." Heero stated.
Relena could now clearly see Heero looming above the couch she was on. She was still in that wedding boutique. Glancing around she noticed a body covered with a white sheet. A bloodstain was present over what should be the heart. The rest of the group was approximately five feet behind Heero, all huddled together peering at her nervously. Noin held Pacafia and Wufei had Justice. Wow! That was her baby, he wasn't dead she'd clearly heard that woman say that. Millardo looked the most concerned. What was this? Dorothy was with the group? "Yes, I'm fine." She responded faintly trying to sit up further.
"No, you should rest." Heero commanded her.
Relena nodded and laid back down obiedently.
"Is it true?" Heero asked. He knew that she knew what he meant.
Relena nodded looking away. Heero gently pushed her face back towards his, own forcing her to look in his eyes.
"But why?" He asked.
"I didn't know if.... I didn't understand." Relena glanced towards the rest of the group and blushed with a passion.
Heero turned towards the rest of the group momentarily giving them a light death glare.
"Millardo.. everyone I think it's best if we give Heero and Relena a bit of time alone." Noin said.
"But I want to see if...." Millardo began.
"It's not fair that..." Duo started.
"Shhhhhh. We're leaving, now." Noin and Hilde said at the same time.
"She's my sister."
"I was accused of being the father!"
"Duo if that's the only requirement almost every male political figure on the planet and the colonies would be in this room right now." Sally stated truthfully.
With a bit of grumbling from both Millardo and Duo, the group dutifully shuffled out of the room.
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When the group left Heero and Relena they were all standing around in an awkward silence. Each one shuffling rather impatiently. It was like somebody had their fly open and nobody wanted to mention it. Wufei's impertinence broke the silence. "Woman you choose now exactly to come in and finally rid people of this secret group against Relena Doralin because.......?"
Dorothy fidjited, "Well, after the one year war of A.C. 195. After the last time I visited Millardo's grave...."
"Ahem, I wasn't dead!" Millardo said.
"Well everyone thought you were! Geezzz!"
"Except me." Noin said.
"Except you." Dorothy consented. " How someone could escape that death I don't even want to know. Anyway as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, after the war I wanted to disappear, I was sick of a life of politics and constantly thinking about war. I wanted to enjoy life and I was perfectly rich enough to do so. I even told Trowa the last time I saw him I didn't have a home to go back to so I made one for myself. Far away in a remote part of Old Northern England. I still however kept in touch with the rest of the world through computers and the latest technology. Going through high security channels searching for knowledge of Miss Relena, I stumbled on by chance the organization of AFUEA. Going through their files and hacking through a highly cryptic code I was able to discover their plans for Miss Relena and her children."
"I still don't understand, what were their plans exactly?" Quatre asked.
"The whole base of their action was a quietly politically violent means of overthrowing any government currently in session to obtain power. They were not a violent group by nature, they didn't want to procure power for war. They were more interested in power and the money it brought. The gory means of war would have been a drain on both their money and resources. They've been around since the early days of Romafeller. We all know that Romafeller had been the financial backing of OZ. Well, apparently a small section of Romafeller did not agree with the means of OZ so there was a split between the two. That was when AFUEA came about. They supported the highly driven mental training of many people that waited for a time when there would be a political weakness in a person of high authority over both the colonies and the Earth. They remained quiet however during the war even though many had political weakness they could expose they did not want to be involved during a war. They were instantly interested in Miss Relena though even while she was only 15, they saw her as the perfect means to deliver their plans. A strong pacifist who had the power of persuasion over the people and who had once been royalty herself. When they learned of Miss Relena's pregnancy and of the total secrecy shawdowing it. They recognized it as the perfect time to threaten Miss Relena. They plotted since the announcement of Miss Relena's twin pregnancy to deliever the babies themselves, take one for their own and discover who the father of the children was."
"What went wrong then that they didn't have both children?" Sally asked looking at Justice in Wufei's arms. "So you mean to say this woman was right when she said Justice was Miss Relena's as well?"
"Yes. They decided to take the boy, hoping there was a better chance it would have more of the father's gene's than the girl because of the Y chromosome. What went wrong you ask? I did. I learned of their plan yes but I was too late to prevent them from delivering the children themselves. But I did want to save the child from their hands. They had however already announced the death of Miss Relena's second child and if I had returned him to her I thought at the time it would cause needless worry by everyone on behalf of her life. I now see I was wrong but at the time I thought I had at least for the moment eliminated any chance of them going after Miss Relena."
"So you choose my doorstep of all the doorsteps in the world to place the baby on?" Wufei begrudgingly asked.
"What could I do, I didn't even know who the father was! I asked the child but he was no help!"
The rest of the people in the room only glared.
"Joking, joking, really you guys." Dorothy said waving them off with her arms. 'Mental Note.' She said to herself. 'Don't tell anyone I really did try that.' "But I was sure that Wufei would take care of him if I left him there." Wufei arched an eyebrow. "With Sally's help of course." Dorothy amended.
"So then why did this woman say it was me?" Duo asked.
"I think it was that she wanted to toy with all of your emotions first, she knew she couldn't get away with killing Miss Relena, the organization didn't want that but she could watch Miss Relena suffer if she played with you first. I don't think she expected Miss Relena to say anything."
"This whole thing then, was simply a plot to get Miss Relena out of power." Noin stated.
"Yes. The whole damn thing." Dorothy replied.
"What a waste."
"Yes." Dorothy agreed.
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The group had left Heero and Relena alone to work out things between them. Now each was left to explain their feelings.
"Why Relena? How come you didn't tell me?"
"Because... because I was afraid."
"Afraid? Of what? Of me?"
"Of everything. Of our relationship! Of your feelings! Afraid for the babies, afraid for what the rest of the world would think. I'm not as strong as you Heero, when I was with you I felt so secure. Like you would always do what was right, if you asked me to walk of a cliff I would, it was complete trust when I was with you. When you held me close it was like waking up from a nightmare. A feeling of exiliaration and relief that everything wrong in the world was over and gone. There was no need for pretense when I was with you but my brain kept telling me that it would never last that you only stayed with me for the sake of peace, because I could go on without you but I could never be as happy, never climb quite as high. I could live without you but not fully. You weren't my other half you were me. So I was convinced no matter how many times you said you loved me it would just never be true. Did you know you were still guarded Heero, no matter how many times I was with you, you kept a little bit of yourself from me."
"Relena how could you?"
"How could I what Heero? You know it's true. You were there and then you weren't. I didn't feel you wanted to be with me, let alone have children with me! How can I help the way I feel?" Relena burst out into sobs and pulled her hand from Heero's placing her face in both her hands.
Heero removed her hands from her face. "You're wrong Relena." He said bluntly.
"You always did put it to me exactly as it was Heero. You were never one to beat around the bush. You never said it kindly or tried to make it look better or worse than it was. You just said exactly how it was. Quatre can't do that he's so mild. Duo doesn't know what's going on half the time. Trowa just doesn't say it and the only thing Wufei... well I don't think Wufei would care to talk to me much at all! That's why I've so admired you. You're always straight with me.
"Then why couldn't you believe it?" Heero asked turning his back on Relena.
Slowly and carefully Relena got on to her feet and stood behind Heero facing his back. Pushing her feet off the ground slightly so that she was no longer standing flat footed she wrapped her arms around Heero's neck now equal to his height leaning her head against Heero's shoulder she aligned her lips to his ear and whispered. "Because you didn't believe in me."
"Huh? You left me. You ran away from the relationship." Heero asked confused.
"I thought you would follow." She replied in turn.
"I would have but I didn't think you wanted me to."
"I didn't think you wanted to."
Each of them stayed there like that for a moment. Relena broke the silence this time. "It's my fault Heero, it's my own stupid fault."
"Yeah."
She punched him lightly, knowing even if she tried she wouldn't have hurt him anyway. "So are you gonna forgive me?"
"I guess."
"You guess, huh?" She said sarcastically.
"Yeah, I guess."
"So what are you goning to do now then?" She asked him.
"Nothing." Was all he said.
"Nothing?" She replied incredulously.
"Nothing" He repeated, unwaivering.
"Oh I see." She said. "I'm left to do all the work." She rolled her eyes and leaned in for a kiss.
"Ahem." Millardo said opening the door.
Heero began to pull away.
'What the heck? They know now anyway.' Relena thought as she pulled Heero in for a kiss.
"Ahem." Millardo repeated.
Relena managed to pull herself away from Heero's lips. "It's been too long." She whispered to him.
"Yes?" Relena asked oh so innocently.
"Can I speak to you sister dearest?" Millardo requested slightly ticked.
"Oh I guess so." Relena said as she casually strolled passed Millardo into the room the group had been in previously.
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"Relena........"Millardo said in his best big brother voice.
"Milarrrrrrrrdoooooooooo." Relena returned.
"Relena what exactly is going on here?"
"I could ask you the same thing!"
"Relena, I'm sorry I was wrong. I shouldn't have attempted to discover the father of your children but I did and I'm sorry. But really!! What kind of problems did you have with Heero that you couldn't even tell him and the rest of us?"
"The same problem Noin will have with you soon enough if you don't act on your feelings. I didn't feel that Heero loved me. So I gave him an easy out. But we both paid the price. I love him dearly and now I'm sure he loves me back but you don't have the luxury of the problems we had."
"Relena your not making any sense, the luxury of problems? Stop trying to get off the subject! I asked you a question."
"Millardo I love Heero but he was so indifferent at times yet so caring at others I never knew how to think. I thought he trusted me, I thought he felt the same way but then at other moments he could be so cruel without even realizing it. I've come to know and accept it and maybe Noin has too but you and Heero are so confusing in your emotions I'd find it a miracle for it to be so. The luxury Heero and I had is that we had already admitted our feelings to ourselves and to each other before what I did came between us so in a way we were lucky that we had time to get the base of our feelings but Noin she doesn't know how you feel and no one can stay in love forever when it's unrequited."
"Relena....." He began.
Relena cut him off. "Millardo no, now is not the time to tell me you need to work out your feelings. Now is the time to say what you already know you feel."
"Relena my feelings can wait. But you..."
"But Noin's feelings can't, Millardo. Can't you see that?"
Relena's words struck a chord in Millardo's heart. " Then tell me Miss-Lord-and-Master-of-all-relationship-problems-Relena, what will you do now?"
Relena shrugged. "I don't know. I suppose the public with have to know and I do still have things to work out with Heero, life doesn't end in a fairy tale way with all things being resolved nicely and coming out evenly, but it does go on and I want my life to go on with Heero, I don't want it to end just because things look good now."
"So your saying you don't know?"
"No, I don't."
"And you're happy with that?"
"Yes, yes I suppose I am. I'm happy that Heero loves me and I'm happy I have both my children. I don't need anything else. I don't want to know the future, I'll enjoy finding that out for myself."
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Now the rest of the group was gawking at Heero. Heero only returned their looks with a death glare.
Quatre cleared his throat. "So ummm... you're the father."
"Yes." Heero confirmed unemotionally.
"Hey then I want my money back you guys!" Duo yelled angrily. "I knew it. I knew I was right!!! Now pay up."
Hilde wacked Duo's head. "Duo shut-up you don't need to bring that up now!"
Heero glared. "No, I think everyone should even up with Duo now. What do you owe him money for now?" Heero narrowed his eyes.
"Ignore him. You know Duo. He just can't bring up anything at the right moment."
"No I think I want to pursue this."
Noin and Sally glanced at each other. "Heero!" They cried out in unison. "These babies want to be with their daddy!" The each ran over to Heero to give him Pacafia and Justice.
Duo started rolling around on the floor laughing. "Hahahahahaha! Heero's a daddy!" *insert more laughing and rolling around on the floor here*
"Baka!" Hilde cried. "You're just asking for it today aren't you? Heero just shoot the boy then maybe he'll get some sense."
"Mission accepted." Heero said.
"Heero, how did I end up with your blood type?" Quatre said knowing full well he couldn't stop one of Heero's missions but he could try to prevent it until they left the store which was still in utter disarray.
"When I took on Duo's name after I saved his butt from OZ the first time. I realized it would be too risky to take on his entire persona. So I blended all the data on the Gundam pilots together, mixing up all of Oz's records on us while simultaneously concealing my own identity from Oz. Now if you'll excuse me Quatre, I have a mission to attend to."
Millardo entered the room with Relena trailing him pushing through the curtains that seperated the room. Millardo spoke. "Yuy I've got one thing to say to you."
"Hn?" He said gun pointed at Duo. [AN: He even manages to point a gun at Duo with two babies in his arms!]
"You better take care of her!"
"I'll take care of that mission right after this one."
"Oh Heero, am I just a mission again?" Relena mocked walking towards Heero. She carefully picked up Justice. "This will be the first time I ever held my son."
Duo took this distraction to slip from Heero's view [AN: He *is* good at stealth missions] and hid behind Hilde.
"Hmph!" Wufei said. "It takes a very weak man to hide behind a woman!"
"Are you calling women weak?" Hilde questioned.
"I said what I said." Wufei replied.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I will kill you Duo." Heero said pulling his gun out again.
"Oh please Heero, no more guns in front of the children. Not again." Dorothy pleaded.
"Again?" Relena questioned.
"You mean these babies have been put in a position to have seen guns before this?" Quatre cried.
Dorothy twiddled her thumbs and whistled. "Oh no no. Of course not." She said backing up.
"Heero come on forget your mission just this once please." Hilde pleaded. "I did only want you to shoot him not kill him."
"Well if that's the case." Heero said.
"Oh come on buddy please, you wouldn't kill me would ya? You are my best man." Heero continued on to Duo and placed his gun against his forehead. Duo felt the cold barrel against his skin. "Heero man you're really scaring me here. Listen I promise I'll never make a bet about you again, please." Heero pulled the trigger.
"Gulp." Said Duo.
"Bang." Replied Heero.
Duo's eyes went big. "Huh?"
"No bullets." Heero said.
"NANI?" They all yelled.
"I don't usually put bullets in it. Who needs them in a peaceful world?" Heero replied.
The group sweatdropped and stared at Heero.
"What? What is it?" Heero asked all of them staring at him.
"It's nothing Heero." Relena managed to get out. "You just manage to surprise us sometimes."
Heero moved to give Pacafia back to Relena who was still holding Justice but Relena stopped him and gave him a hug. "I love you, Heero."
He slowly allowed his guard to fall and returned the embrace. "Yeah, you too."
Relena smiled knowing all the times she had kissed Heero and the love that had produced Pacafia and Justice was nothing compared to that simple embrace when Heero allowed her to tear down all the walls he'd ever protected himself with.
Hey all, it's really been a long time hasn't it? I'm really sorry this took so long but ya know it's the holidays and all and I worked really hard on Christmas to make sure you'd get a nice Christmas gift from me to you.
The reason I wrote this fic was because I was reading all these HYxRP fanfictions and every single time they didn't have a relationship because it was Heero's fault or Relena had to run off and get married and Heero had to stop her or Heero just suddenly pops out of nowhere one day when Relena was sad and proposes and I really wanted to see something a little different. I'm not saying they're bad fics because they're not I enjoy reading them most of the time but I wanted to express what I thought would happen my way and this was my idea so out came this fic and I hoped I managed to achieve my goal and have this fic be a little more origional!
You might be wondering what's going on with my subplot like MPxLN or what is Duo and Hilde's wedding going to be like? So to get the answers to these aching questions instead of having an epilogue like I origionally thought I would I decided to make a sequel with more of a focus on my subplots in this fic than HYxRP though they will still play a part to answer that question; What would Heero do if he were a daddy? I just have to play with this angle.
So now that The Children of War and Peace is over please tell me what you think. I'd so appreciate a review. Even you never reviewed any other chapter in the review box leave a 1-10 (1 being really really bad and 10 being really really good) to tell me how you thought the series was. This was my first fic (though I've written others between chapters during this series) and I put a lot of my heart and soul into it so responses are greatly appreciated!
That all being said I hope you have a wonderful day and an especially good holiday season!