Destiny
Chapter 4
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Relena thought her screams could be heard half way around the world as the plain went down. It had been shot down, but was suddenly grabbed by a mobile suit. They were put on the ground. Guards surrounded it immediately. The door was bust open and they shuffled in with guns pointed at everyone. Everyone was forced to put their hands up. One came up to her.
"Relena Darlian?" he asked. She didn't answer. She just looked at him in disgust. He slapped her. "You will answer me!"
"Leave her alone!" Duo cried and began to fight with the guards who were trying to hand cuff him.
"No Duo, stop it!" Relena said. "I am Relena Darlian. Please don't hurt them. I will hand myself over with out a fight if you let them go."
"Sorry Miss Darlian, but we have to bring them too," He laughed. "We will enjoy watching their execution and yours."
"You scum, you bastards!" Duo cried. "Stop it Duo, it'll just bring death sooner," Heero said calmly, although Relena heard Heero cuss under his breath. Was this the end? What about Zechs, Noin, Hilde and Mien? What about the earth? All four of them were shoved out of the plain with handcuffs on and on to the back of a truck where they were tied each to a bar, so they couldn't jump out. Each had their head down. Relena looked up and saw a tear fall from Duo's face. How could so much sorrow happen so fast? Relena's own eyes welded up with tears.
"So much sorrow," she whispered incoherently. Now everything that she had been trying to deal with, with Heero didn't matter anymore. She was going to die with out knowing what it was like to feel loved back. Die with out feeling what it was like to have a child of her own. She gave a slight whimper. She looked up again through her mangled hair. Heero was watching her. She looked away ashamed of herself. She was so selfish. Duo was going to lose his wife and his child right when he was on the brink of finally being happy. And Zechs and Noin, they just had a child and were now happy. Quatre and Trowa were beginning to understand what peace really was. She didn't know how Wufei felt, but she knew it was just as devastating as everyone else's sorrows.
The truck stopped and the men forced them out of the back. They were at a huge dead looking building. It's gray exterior looked horrid. Relena didn't know such a place still existed. There were mobile suits everywhere. Relena knew they were in a forest and that was why no one knew about it. She was hit in the back with the stock of a rifle from one of the men. She winced in pain and fell to the ground.
"Get up!" the man yelled and kicked her.
"Stop!" the three Gundam pilots, yelled together. Another guard came over.
"Stop it, Ray!" the man said and pulled Relena up off the ground. "Go do something else. I'll take care of her."
"Yes sir," the man said and walked off.
"Come on, Lady. Lord Nicholas is waiting for you and your little friends."
"Nicholas?" Relena asked. The man snickered.
"Come on." He grabbed her elbow and pushed her along up to a door. Tried to look back to see where Duo, Trowa, and Heero were. She saw that they weren't too far behind her. The man pulled her again. She was dragged into a room. There lay Quatre and Wufei chained to the wall. It looked like a dungeon with all the shackles on the wall. There was one wooden bed with two shackles at each end. She was pulled to the side. Quatre looked up.
"Relena!" he cried with a weak voice. He looked like he had been beaten there was dried up blood streak on his face.
"Quatre, you're alive!" she cried. She began to cry.
"Don't cry, Relena, Please," Quatre whispered. Trowa was the first one shoved into the room, then Duo and last was Heero. Each one was locked up on the shackles. Relena waited her turn to be chained to the wall, but that was not to be.
"We need to put her there," one guard told the one holding Relena. He was pointing at the wooden bed. The man walked over to her. "What happened to her?" he grabbed her chin and turned it to the side. He over looked her. "Nicholas will not be happy. Let's get her on the bed. I'll get her legs." Relena thought of struggling, but would have been futile. The man grabbed her ankles and pulled her off the ground. They threw her on the table with a loud thud. They released her from her handcuffs only to shackle her to this torture bed. Her arms were high above her head now. The also cuffed her ankles to the bed as well. "Get a woman in here to clean her up a little," the man said and left the room. The other man looked at her and the other Gundam pilots, laughed, then left.
"Quatre, what happened? We thought you were dead!" Duo said and tried to pull out of his chains.
"It's no use," Quatre said weakly. "They won't budge. Wufei and I have tried and tried." Relena tried to lean up as far as she could to see Quatre.
"What happened Quatre? How did you get here?" She asked.
"Wufei and I were talking about what to do when we were suddenly attacked. We didn't even make it to our Gundams. I was thrown into a wall and passed out. Next thing I knew I was here." Quatre replied. The door opened and a woman soldier walked in. she had a bucket and a rag. She walked up silently to Relena and dropped the bucket beside the table. She drenched the rag and rang it out. She whipped Relena's face off. The water stung.
"Your one dirty woman," the girl said with a squeaky voice. "Nothing like a Lady. You know you were bleedn'?" the girl didn't speak again. She finished and left. No one else talked either. Relena stayed still. She tried listening for footsteps. She would always hear boots coming down the hall then become louder and louder until they passed the door and faded away. She heard one of the Gundam pilots try and wrestle out of his chains. As far as she knew he was unsuccessful. She heard the boots again. They got louder and louder then stopped at the door. Relena held her breath and watched the knob of the door twist to the right. Relena gasped loudly. Those eyes, green eyes. It was Nicholas, her Nicholas!
"Nicholas!" She wailed. He smiled at her.
"Hello Relena," He said gently. He walked up to her and slid his hand across her face gently. She wrenched out of his hold. "Relena, Relena, Relena, you are so beautiful, but look. You were bleeding." He bent down at her cheek and kissed the wound. His lips were warm and moist. His tongue ran over it.
"Stop it," She whispered and tried to pull her head away, but his hand was tight and held her where he wanted her. His other hand ventured down her throat. He forced her face to his and pushed his lips on hers. She heard the rustling of chains and grunts from the Gundam pilots trying to get out the chains to save her. Nicholas ignored it and allowed his hand on her neck go down and grab her breast. She winced under his lips. He stopped everything and looked at her. His lips only inches away from her. He kept his eyes on her and dragged his lips over hers.
"Stop it," Quatre cried. "Leave her alone!" Nicholas again ignored him. Nicholas replaced his hand on Relena's breast, but he did not grab it as he had done before, but caressed it. Relena half wanted him to stop the other half wanted more. She knew though, that this was just lust and not what she really wanted or needed. Nicholas pressed his lips back down on her hard and forced his tongue in her mouth. Relena tried to slap him and push him away, but the chains held her tight. Nicholas's hand left Relena's breast and ventured down to her lower body. It floated down the side of her stomach and then her hip. He stopped kissing her and watched his hand, allowing it to go farther down. It stopped at her mid-thigh area. He gripped her dress and pulled it up. Once he could get his hand up her dress that was just what he did.
"Leave her alone!" Duo cried and tried again to pull out of his chains.
"You are lower than scum!" Wufei cried.
"You bloody bastard!" Quatre cried.
"Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Relena wailed. Nicholas listened to none of them and ventured farther up her dress. He stopped high on her inner thigh, right below her panties. He looked up at Relena.
"Do you really want me to stop?" he caressed her thigh. "Relena you know you don't want me to stop. You know you want me just as much as I want you."
"No! No I don't. Please leave me alone!" she begged. He pulled his hand out of her dress and put both of his hands on her shoulders. He pressed her down hard on the table. He leaned his mouth down at her ear left ear, but spoke so everyone could hear.
"Relena I could give you everything you want, if you would just give me yourself. I
could give you children. Just let me rule," Nicholas begged. "Let me get rid of the violent Gundams and their pilots. Then the world and the colonies will be at real peace. Please Relena, you know this is what you want. You won't have to be here any longer. In this dark dingy dungeon and be with me. We could have a family. We could be happy." Relena thought for a moment. Happiness, children, peace? What did all that mean to her? She had been happy, she had been in peace and children, and well children could be made easily. "Relena let me marry you. Let me kill these Gundam pilots like they should have been so long ago." Duo with his not even born child, Trowa and Quatre finally living in peace and in happiness, Wufei's sovereignty finally found, and Heero... Heero, the one she knew she'd always love. No there would be no way she would allow their deaths. As she said before she would die first.
"No. I will not do it. I will not have the people I love killed! You would kill my brother and his wife too! No, no, no!" Relena screamed and shook her head wildly with her eyes closed. She opened them to see green eyes dark and angry.
"Fine Relena," Nicholas's voice was cold and now had a violent tent to it. "I will just take you here, now. Then you will die along with everyone you love!" his hands flung brutally up her dress. He kissed her roughly and forced his tongue down her throat. She bit as hard as she could he pulled his face up and groaned. He touched his lip with is two main fingers and looked at them, his blood stained on them. The same hand cocked up and flung hitting Relena hard. She cried out in pain. "Bitch!" Nicholas said angrily. He got on top of her completely and forced both of his hands up her dress.
"Stop!" a cold voice said. "Get off of her now!" Nicholas looked back at were the voice came from. Relena tried too look too, but Nicholas's body prevented her from seeing anything.
"Heero Yuy," Nicholas sighed. Relena gasped.
"Heero?" she whispered. Nicholas looked back at her. He searched deep into her eyes. His were now on fire. She could see it, green burning anger in those eyes. He stepped off her and back onto the floor. She saw Heero. He didn't even glance at her. He had a gun pointing strait at Nicholas. How may times had she been in front of that barrel and Heero at the other end. It all seemed so stupid and pointless now. All that mattered now was getting rid of this evil that had formed. She was so scared, so confused. Why had Nicholas looked into her eyes like that? What was he searching for? Nicholas put one hand on Relena's thigh.
"I would think it wouldn't matter to you what I did to this woman," Nicholas said and moved his hand to grab her dress hem. He did and began pulling it up.
"Stop it!" Heero yelled.
"Why Commander Yuy? What does this woman matter to you?" Nicholas waited for an answer, but got none, so he went on. "You matter a great deal to her, but you already knew that didn't you? She's in love with you, but you didn't seem to care until right now, when another man, me, decided she deserved some thing better."
"Stop!" Heero yelled again.
"Why Heero? Why do you need to save her? Is it because you feel a dept to her? Because she loves you? Is that it? You don't love her, but she loves you, so she's worth saving for that reason? I don't think that's your style Heero. You're selfish. You really shouldn't care. You can leave here and forget all about this. No one will go after you. It's what you've always wanted. Your freedom, alone and happy. Come one Heero. You know you don't need her. Only I really need Relena."
"No," Heero said. He paused "No, the world needs Relena."
"That is not what this is about. It is if you need her and you don't. Leave Heero. She'll realize she needs me and forget about you." He turned and looked all the other Gundam pilots. "All of you! You all should die and be forgotten!"
"No!" Relena cried. She looked at Nicholas. Her eyes filled with tears. "No, I could never forget them. They are everything I love! I can't forget what I love! I love Heero." Only then did Heero look at her in disbelief. "I love Quatre. I love Duo. I love Trowa. And I love Wufei, but Nicholas I can't love you." Nicholas looked down at her. "You don't know what peace means. You only want war and a revolution that would only bring war in peace times. No, Nicholas I could never love anyone like that."
"Then," Nicholas said and reached into his coat. "You will die!" he pulled out a gun a pointed it at Relena.
"NO!" Quatre cried.
The sound of the gun rang in Relena's ears. She had snapped her eyes shut as hard as possible and turned her head. But after the blast had ended and she felt no pain come to her she looked back. Nicholas no longer stood there. She could barely look down at the ground, but she saw his face. The horror ridden face of Nicholas as he lay on the ground in a puddle of blood. She turned her head away she couldn't look at it. Those green eyes were no longer on fire. There was no life in those eyes. She again shut her eyes tight. A tear whisked down her cheek.
"Relena," a voice said quietly. She opened her eyes. Heero stood over her.
"Heero," she whispered and burst into tears. He did the thing she least expected. He bend down and embraced her. She wanted to fling her arms around him and hold him tight so it felt like they would never part, but the shackles didn't allow it. 'It's all over," she though. 'Another battle won. Wait two battles won.' "I love you, Heero" she whispered in his ear. He leaned up and looked at her.
"Do you mean that, Relena?" he whispered back. Relena knew he didn't want the other Gundam pilots to hear.
"Yes," she whispered back. "From day one,"
"Hay guys, we're still kinda tied up over here," Duo said. Relena and Heero looked over at him. Then back at each other.
"Lets go home," Relena sighed. Heero went and got the keys off of the lip dead body of Nicholas Minstro and released Relena. He gave her the keys. He had a job to do. He left the room. Relena released the other Gundam pilots. "We have to go as far as we can away from this place. Heero's going to destroy it," Relena explained. All the other Gundam pilots agreed. They would highjack a plain out of here. They all split into groups. Trowa and Quatre together, Relena and Duo, and Wufei by himself. They all agreed on meeting at the place where they last saw their plane. Wufei, of course, didn't know where this was, but assured them he would find it. They all ran out of the room. Relena stopped at Nicholas's dead body and leaned down. All the Gundam pilots watched. She shut his eyes with a swoop of her hand over his face. She stood up and looked at the Gundam pilots, she looked at her friends. "Lets go, and lets never come back." The men nodded and ran out of the room.
Relena sat beside Heero on the plane back. The aircraft shook at the shock of the blast from the base. Relena felt guilty for the death of the people at the base, but knew there was no other way. She hoped this was never found out. She wanted to keep all that had happened that day a secret from the World. She looked out the window and saw the flames. The burnt themselves out quickly. Heero knew how to set bombs. He destroyed everything evenly and didn't hurt any of the wild life around the area. He was amazing. Relena sighed and wrapped her arms around herself to keep warm. The coldness she felt in her heart felt like it was now all around her. Heero put his arm around her uneasily. She leaned close to him. This was what she wanted. This was her peace, her happiness, and her completion.
Chapter 4
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Relena thought her screams could be heard half way around the world as the plain went down. It had been shot down, but was suddenly grabbed by a mobile suit. They were put on the ground. Guards surrounded it immediately. The door was bust open and they shuffled in with guns pointed at everyone. Everyone was forced to put their hands up. One came up to her.
"Relena Darlian?" he asked. She didn't answer. She just looked at him in disgust. He slapped her. "You will answer me!"
"Leave her alone!" Duo cried and began to fight with the guards who were trying to hand cuff him.
"No Duo, stop it!" Relena said. "I am Relena Darlian. Please don't hurt them. I will hand myself over with out a fight if you let them go."
"Sorry Miss Darlian, but we have to bring them too," He laughed. "We will enjoy watching their execution and yours."
"You scum, you bastards!" Duo cried. "Stop it Duo, it'll just bring death sooner," Heero said calmly, although Relena heard Heero cuss under his breath. Was this the end? What about Zechs, Noin, Hilde and Mien? What about the earth? All four of them were shoved out of the plain with handcuffs on and on to the back of a truck where they were tied each to a bar, so they couldn't jump out. Each had their head down. Relena looked up and saw a tear fall from Duo's face. How could so much sorrow happen so fast? Relena's own eyes welded up with tears.
"So much sorrow," she whispered incoherently. Now everything that she had been trying to deal with, with Heero didn't matter anymore. She was going to die with out knowing what it was like to feel loved back. Die with out feeling what it was like to have a child of her own. She gave a slight whimper. She looked up again through her mangled hair. Heero was watching her. She looked away ashamed of herself. She was so selfish. Duo was going to lose his wife and his child right when he was on the brink of finally being happy. And Zechs and Noin, they just had a child and were now happy. Quatre and Trowa were beginning to understand what peace really was. She didn't know how Wufei felt, but she knew it was just as devastating as everyone else's sorrows.
The truck stopped and the men forced them out of the back. They were at a huge dead looking building. It's gray exterior looked horrid. Relena didn't know such a place still existed. There were mobile suits everywhere. Relena knew they were in a forest and that was why no one knew about it. She was hit in the back with the stock of a rifle from one of the men. She winced in pain and fell to the ground.
"Get up!" the man yelled and kicked her.
"Stop!" the three Gundam pilots, yelled together. Another guard came over.
"Stop it, Ray!" the man said and pulled Relena up off the ground. "Go do something else. I'll take care of her."
"Yes sir," the man said and walked off.
"Come on, Lady. Lord Nicholas is waiting for you and your little friends."
"Nicholas?" Relena asked. The man snickered.
"Come on." He grabbed her elbow and pushed her along up to a door. Tried to look back to see where Duo, Trowa, and Heero were. She saw that they weren't too far behind her. The man pulled her again. She was dragged into a room. There lay Quatre and Wufei chained to the wall. It looked like a dungeon with all the shackles on the wall. There was one wooden bed with two shackles at each end. She was pulled to the side. Quatre looked up.
"Relena!" he cried with a weak voice. He looked like he had been beaten there was dried up blood streak on his face.
"Quatre, you're alive!" she cried. She began to cry.
"Don't cry, Relena, Please," Quatre whispered. Trowa was the first one shoved into the room, then Duo and last was Heero. Each one was locked up on the shackles. Relena waited her turn to be chained to the wall, but that was not to be.
"We need to put her there," one guard told the one holding Relena. He was pointing at the wooden bed. The man walked over to her. "What happened to her?" he grabbed her chin and turned it to the side. He over looked her. "Nicholas will not be happy. Let's get her on the bed. I'll get her legs." Relena thought of struggling, but would have been futile. The man grabbed her ankles and pulled her off the ground. They threw her on the table with a loud thud. They released her from her handcuffs only to shackle her to this torture bed. Her arms were high above her head now. The also cuffed her ankles to the bed as well. "Get a woman in here to clean her up a little," the man said and left the room. The other man looked at her and the other Gundam pilots, laughed, then left.
"Quatre, what happened? We thought you were dead!" Duo said and tried to pull out of his chains.
"It's no use," Quatre said weakly. "They won't budge. Wufei and I have tried and tried." Relena tried to lean up as far as she could to see Quatre.
"What happened Quatre? How did you get here?" She asked.
"Wufei and I were talking about what to do when we were suddenly attacked. We didn't even make it to our Gundams. I was thrown into a wall and passed out. Next thing I knew I was here." Quatre replied. The door opened and a woman soldier walked in. she had a bucket and a rag. She walked up silently to Relena and dropped the bucket beside the table. She drenched the rag and rang it out. She whipped Relena's face off. The water stung.
"Your one dirty woman," the girl said with a squeaky voice. "Nothing like a Lady. You know you were bleedn'?" the girl didn't speak again. She finished and left. No one else talked either. Relena stayed still. She tried listening for footsteps. She would always hear boots coming down the hall then become louder and louder until they passed the door and faded away. She heard one of the Gundam pilots try and wrestle out of his chains. As far as she knew he was unsuccessful. She heard the boots again. They got louder and louder then stopped at the door. Relena held her breath and watched the knob of the door twist to the right. Relena gasped loudly. Those eyes, green eyes. It was Nicholas, her Nicholas!
"Nicholas!" She wailed. He smiled at her.
"Hello Relena," He said gently. He walked up to her and slid his hand across her face gently. She wrenched out of his hold. "Relena, Relena, Relena, you are so beautiful, but look. You were bleeding." He bent down at her cheek and kissed the wound. His lips were warm and moist. His tongue ran over it.
"Stop it," She whispered and tried to pull her head away, but his hand was tight and held her where he wanted her. His other hand ventured down her throat. He forced her face to his and pushed his lips on hers. She heard the rustling of chains and grunts from the Gundam pilots trying to get out the chains to save her. Nicholas ignored it and allowed his hand on her neck go down and grab her breast. She winced under his lips. He stopped everything and looked at her. His lips only inches away from her. He kept his eyes on her and dragged his lips over hers.
"Stop it," Quatre cried. "Leave her alone!" Nicholas again ignored him. Nicholas replaced his hand on Relena's breast, but he did not grab it as he had done before, but caressed it. Relena half wanted him to stop the other half wanted more. She knew though, that this was just lust and not what she really wanted or needed. Nicholas pressed his lips back down on her hard and forced his tongue in her mouth. Relena tried to slap him and push him away, but the chains held her tight. Nicholas's hand left Relena's breast and ventured down to her lower body. It floated down the side of her stomach and then her hip. He stopped kissing her and watched his hand, allowing it to go farther down. It stopped at her mid-thigh area. He gripped her dress and pulled it up. Once he could get his hand up her dress that was just what he did.
"Leave her alone!" Duo cried and tried again to pull out of his chains.
"You are lower than scum!" Wufei cried.
"You bloody bastard!" Quatre cried.
"Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Relena wailed. Nicholas listened to none of them and ventured farther up her dress. He stopped high on her inner thigh, right below her panties. He looked up at Relena.
"Do you really want me to stop?" he caressed her thigh. "Relena you know you don't want me to stop. You know you want me just as much as I want you."
"No! No I don't. Please leave me alone!" she begged. He pulled his hand out of her dress and put both of his hands on her shoulders. He pressed her down hard on the table. He leaned his mouth down at her ear left ear, but spoke so everyone could hear.
"Relena I could give you everything you want, if you would just give me yourself. I
could give you children. Just let me rule," Nicholas begged. "Let me get rid of the violent Gundams and their pilots. Then the world and the colonies will be at real peace. Please Relena, you know this is what you want. You won't have to be here any longer. In this dark dingy dungeon and be with me. We could have a family. We could be happy." Relena thought for a moment. Happiness, children, peace? What did all that mean to her? She had been happy, she had been in peace and children, and well children could be made easily. "Relena let me marry you. Let me kill these Gundam pilots like they should have been so long ago." Duo with his not even born child, Trowa and Quatre finally living in peace and in happiness, Wufei's sovereignty finally found, and Heero... Heero, the one she knew she'd always love. No there would be no way she would allow their deaths. As she said before she would die first.
"No. I will not do it. I will not have the people I love killed! You would kill my brother and his wife too! No, no, no!" Relena screamed and shook her head wildly with her eyes closed. She opened them to see green eyes dark and angry.
"Fine Relena," Nicholas's voice was cold and now had a violent tent to it. "I will just take you here, now. Then you will die along with everyone you love!" his hands flung brutally up her dress. He kissed her roughly and forced his tongue down her throat. She bit as hard as she could he pulled his face up and groaned. He touched his lip with is two main fingers and looked at them, his blood stained on them. The same hand cocked up and flung hitting Relena hard. She cried out in pain. "Bitch!" Nicholas said angrily. He got on top of her completely and forced both of his hands up her dress.
"Stop!" a cold voice said. "Get off of her now!" Nicholas looked back at were the voice came from. Relena tried too look too, but Nicholas's body prevented her from seeing anything.
"Heero Yuy," Nicholas sighed. Relena gasped.
"Heero?" she whispered. Nicholas looked back at her. He searched deep into her eyes. His were now on fire. She could see it, green burning anger in those eyes. He stepped off her and back onto the floor. She saw Heero. He didn't even glance at her. He had a gun pointing strait at Nicholas. How may times had she been in front of that barrel and Heero at the other end. It all seemed so stupid and pointless now. All that mattered now was getting rid of this evil that had formed. She was so scared, so confused. Why had Nicholas looked into her eyes like that? What was he searching for? Nicholas put one hand on Relena's thigh.
"I would think it wouldn't matter to you what I did to this woman," Nicholas said and moved his hand to grab her dress hem. He did and began pulling it up.
"Stop it!" Heero yelled.
"Why Commander Yuy? What does this woman matter to you?" Nicholas waited for an answer, but got none, so he went on. "You matter a great deal to her, but you already knew that didn't you? She's in love with you, but you didn't seem to care until right now, when another man, me, decided she deserved some thing better."
"Stop!" Heero yelled again.
"Why Heero? Why do you need to save her? Is it because you feel a dept to her? Because she loves you? Is that it? You don't love her, but she loves you, so she's worth saving for that reason? I don't think that's your style Heero. You're selfish. You really shouldn't care. You can leave here and forget all about this. No one will go after you. It's what you've always wanted. Your freedom, alone and happy. Come one Heero. You know you don't need her. Only I really need Relena."
"No," Heero said. He paused "No, the world needs Relena."
"That is not what this is about. It is if you need her and you don't. Leave Heero. She'll realize she needs me and forget about you." He turned and looked all the other Gundam pilots. "All of you! You all should die and be forgotten!"
"No!" Relena cried. She looked at Nicholas. Her eyes filled with tears. "No, I could never forget them. They are everything I love! I can't forget what I love! I love Heero." Only then did Heero look at her in disbelief. "I love Quatre. I love Duo. I love Trowa. And I love Wufei, but Nicholas I can't love you." Nicholas looked down at her. "You don't know what peace means. You only want war and a revolution that would only bring war in peace times. No, Nicholas I could never love anyone like that."
"Then," Nicholas said and reached into his coat. "You will die!" he pulled out a gun a pointed it at Relena.
"NO!" Quatre cried.
The sound of the gun rang in Relena's ears. She had snapped her eyes shut as hard as possible and turned her head. But after the blast had ended and she felt no pain come to her she looked back. Nicholas no longer stood there. She could barely look down at the ground, but she saw his face. The horror ridden face of Nicholas as he lay on the ground in a puddle of blood. She turned her head away she couldn't look at it. Those green eyes were no longer on fire. There was no life in those eyes. She again shut her eyes tight. A tear whisked down her cheek.
"Relena," a voice said quietly. She opened her eyes. Heero stood over her.
"Heero," she whispered and burst into tears. He did the thing she least expected. He bend down and embraced her. She wanted to fling her arms around him and hold him tight so it felt like they would never part, but the shackles didn't allow it. 'It's all over," she though. 'Another battle won. Wait two battles won.' "I love you, Heero" she whispered in his ear. He leaned up and looked at her.
"Do you mean that, Relena?" he whispered back. Relena knew he didn't want the other Gundam pilots to hear.
"Yes," she whispered back. "From day one,"
"Hay guys, we're still kinda tied up over here," Duo said. Relena and Heero looked over at him. Then back at each other.
"Lets go home," Relena sighed. Heero went and got the keys off of the lip dead body of Nicholas Minstro and released Relena. He gave her the keys. He had a job to do. He left the room. Relena released the other Gundam pilots. "We have to go as far as we can away from this place. Heero's going to destroy it," Relena explained. All the other Gundam pilots agreed. They would highjack a plain out of here. They all split into groups. Trowa and Quatre together, Relena and Duo, and Wufei by himself. They all agreed on meeting at the place where they last saw their plane. Wufei, of course, didn't know where this was, but assured them he would find it. They all ran out of the room. Relena stopped at Nicholas's dead body and leaned down. All the Gundam pilots watched. She shut his eyes with a swoop of her hand over his face. She stood up and looked at the Gundam pilots, she looked at her friends. "Lets go, and lets never come back." The men nodded and ran out of the room.
Relena sat beside Heero on the plane back. The aircraft shook at the shock of the blast from the base. Relena felt guilty for the death of the people at the base, but knew there was no other way. She hoped this was never found out. She wanted to keep all that had happened that day a secret from the World. She looked out the window and saw the flames. The burnt themselves out quickly. Heero knew how to set bombs. He destroyed everything evenly and didn't hurt any of the wild life around the area. He was amazing. Relena sighed and wrapped her arms around herself to keep warm. The coldness she felt in her heart felt like it was now all around her. Heero put his arm around her uneasily. She leaned close to him. This was what she wanted. This was her peace, her happiness, and her completion.