Chapter 2
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" What?! Heero Yuy?! Are you sure? We haven't seen him around the preventors in a long while!" Sally, a woman in her early 20's practically screamed over the videophone.
"Yes Sally. We are quite sure. I will explain it all when you get here. Just please. He needs medical attention badly. So hurry over here as soon as you can." said Noin.
"Understood. Keep pressure on the wound until I get there. Out." Sally said as she terminated the connection.
Going down the small hallway and into the bedroom she looked at Relena. She looked so....happy! Though right now you might mistake Heero for dead the way she was acting.. it was obvious in her eyes..the way she looked at him.
'She's been waiting for you Heero.' Noin thought as she looked at the two.
However as soon as Noin turned to her financeé, Milliardo he had a different sort of look on his face. The sort of look that would kill any normal person. She could tell Milliardo wasn't in favor of Relena and Heero being an "issue". He was about to open his mouth when Noin put her hand on his shoulder and motioned for him and her to steap outside. Milliardo glared at her in return, but Noin not being the one to so easily give up practically threw him out of the room.
"We'll be right back, Relena!" Noin shouted out to Relena from down the hall, picking up some gauze at the same time and throwing it to her. "Keep pressure on his wound until we get back!"
Noin stopped mid-way down the hall, facing Milliardo.
"What do you think your doing?!" Milliardo practically screamed, his face growing red from anger.
Noin knew that she had better be careful of what she said, so as not to get him more upset.
"Milliardo. Please listen...-"
"NO! YOU listen! I decide what is best for Relena., not you. Do you understand me?!" Milliardo yelled.
" No Milliardo, I don't understand you. First of all she's a grown woman, she can make her own choices. Second. You do not own her!"
" No I don't Noin, but I do know what's best for her, and what is best for her does not include the name 'Heero Yuy'!"
"Milliardo!-"
"I will not let him near her. I only want her to be safe. She's my baby sister Noin...." Milliardo said, his voice slowly starting to quiet down.
"Honey, she may be your sister, but she's not a little child anymore. She can make her own choices, and grow from them. You know that."
"I only want her to be safe..."
"- and she will be Milliardo. Heero will always protect her. He would never do anything to hurt her..."
"It's not her protection I was referring too.. but her heart." he said, concern written all over his face.
Noin frowned and slowly placed her arms around his waist ,burying her face into his chest. Milliardo was shocked at her sudden actions, but none the less returned the hug. Noin looked sweetly up to him giving him a genuine smile.
"Milliardo. I will always follow you , but you can't hide her from the rest of the world forever..-" Noin said slowly reaching up and kissing him gently on the lips. "-i'm only asking you to consider it...but won't you give Heero a chance?"
He looked dumbfoundedly down to his fianceé. He had not been expecting that...and now he was unprepared. He didn't know how to react. Milliardo sighed in defeat.
"Very well...I suppose I could let her..but if he so much as harms a single hair on her i'll....-"
" It won't happen. Trust me Milliardo." Noin said, smiling.
'You better be smarter this time around, Yuy..' Milliardo thought, feeling himself start to tense up again.
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Relena looked down at Heero who's head was laying on her lap. She looked down sadly to the young man that lay before her.
'What did they do to you Heero..?' she thought grimly while looking at his unconscious form. Even in the state of total unconsciousness he managed to keep a straight face. Just like a soldier....
'My perfect soldier...' she mused.
It had seemed like all too long since she had seen Heero....she was
still mad at him. He had been the one filling her dreams and
thoughts everyday and night. He was the one which caused her so
much pain in her heart....
He had brushed her off so many times in the past that it had made her
head spin. She wanted so badly to just slap him hard across the face for
everything he had ever done to her... but she knew it wasn't his fault.
It was her own. He had done nothing wrong. She had always gotten
in the way, and she understood that. It wasn't his fault that she fell
for him. Though she had silently prayed that he had loved her as well...
As she looked at his unconscious form she noted how cute he actually
looked in his sleep. Relena smiled and actually chuckled.
'Oh, how i'm sure he would love to hear that!' she thought.
Out of nowhere Heero suddenly convulsed, making Relena shriek. Milliardo and Noin back rushed into the room to see what was the matter.
"Relena! What happ-" Milliardo started.
Relena cut off his sentence, looking at Heero whose face was a ghostly white. "- he just started convulsing! Noin! What's wrong with him?!"
Noin rushed to Heero's side and checked his pulse.
'Steady.'
Then she checked his wound, which Relena had kept the gauze over. Her eyes widened in shock.
'The bleeding had stopped?! Wait...no...There's still blood flowing from somewhere...Oh no.'
Noin gently turned Heero over on his stomach only to find a SECOND wound in his lower back.
'A knife stab no doubt.' Noin noted.
Relena looked completely horror stricken. THAT'S why he had been bleeding so badly...why hadn't she noticed it before?!
Suddenly, the screaching of a car coming to a sudden stop filled their ears.
"Sally..!" Relena exclaimed.
Noin and Milliardo rushed downstairs to help her with the supplies,
leaving Relena all alone with Heero.
Relena looked down to Heero with tears glistening in her eyes.
"You'll be fine Heero...I promise."
"General Sinen! We cannot seem to trace the last transmission sent from soldier Morris Burnt SIR!" said a soldier in a deep red military coat.
"WHAT?!" screamed the elder man, known as General Sinen.
"Yes SIR! All memory seems to have been deleted from our camera's memory bank..." the soldier said hesitantly
General Sinen rubbed his temples furiously and sat back down onto his desk.
"Very well...." the general mumbled. "Anything on the troops we had sent?"
The soldier shuddered inwardly as he replied:
"They have also been destroyed." the soldier cringed at these words and prepared for the worst
The General's eyes widened in shock as his face reddened in anger
"WHO DID THIS?!"
"W-We are not sure at this moment SIR! But we are getting to the bottom of it!"
The General sighed loudly as he continued to rub his temples
"Get out of my sight." he said sharply.
The soldier nodded and gave a very brief salute, quietly walking out the door.
The General slowly looked up from his desk and glared straight out in front of him.
"They have hidden her well.....but not good enough to keep General Sinen away. I will find her. If it is the last thing I do..."
General Sinen said as he slammed his fist into the table, sending strips of wood and metal clashing with each other.
"Your playing with fire Miss Peacecraft....make one wrong move..and your mine."
The lights shined brightly over the uncauncious form of Heero Yuy.
' Too hot....'
The room seemed to be spinning around and around in his head. The throbbing pain of his back quickly kicked in as he slowly stirred back to the state of counciousness. He slowly opened his eyes, blinking a couple of times to focus. At first he had forgotten where he was ,and started to panic. However after surveying the room , he looked to his left and saw the sleeping form of Relena next to him, slumped over in a chair. Suddenly Heero remembered what had happened......
* Flashback*
It was on the way over to Relena's mansion....the engines were roaring inside his car, going much faster than the speedlimit, driving like a mad man.
' I hope i'm not to late....' Heero thought
Previously Dr.J had informed him about a certain terrorist group who had been planing an assassination on 'Relena Darilan'. A group of terrorists named the "Lowe Organization". It seemed as though they were very organized and had been planing the attack for months in advance. Only till now was he informed.
Heero's brow furrowed. He could not fail this mission. It was too important. Peace was too fragile to stand alone in the hands of the people. If Relena died, then peace would follow. She was too important to lose....for peace-
'-and for you as well.' his subconscious reminded him.
'Shut up.' the soldier side of Heero was starting to kick in. 'She is only my mission objective.Nothing more,nothing less'.
'You only wish to think of it that way. Keep telling yourself that Heero. You just might believe it someday....'
'I do believe it! What would you know...?!'
' I know everything about you Heero. I am you.'
Now he was getting annoyed. He put the voice aside for now and continued thinking about the best way to enter the mansion... but soon it came back:
'Stop trying to ignore it Heero..you know you care about her.'
'Even if I did ..what would it matter? I don't deserve her..... Everything I touch I destroy..' Heero reminded himself, momentarily looking down to his hands.
'Heero, stop torturing yourself.'
'This conversation is over. I have a mission to complete.' Heero thought firmly, as he came to the entrance of the mansion.
Jumping out of his car, he quickly climbed over the fence which surrounded the building, landing on the hard soil beneath him. After giving himself a propelling start he raced towards the building.
'Please don't be too late....!' He prayed silently.
Out in front of the building, the enemy had already surrounded the premises.
'Damn!' Heero thought,quickly ducking behind a tree.
There were about 10-11 men, against one. The odds were against him, but he figured a way to get past them....
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'BANG!' the gunshot sounded out throughout the woods, as the last man fell to the ground.
Heero looked down in disgust to the 10 men lying dead in a large
heap, in their own blood. He limped slowly towards the man whom he
had just shot. Heero had taken a pretty bad blow to his upper thigh earlier
and a large gash was what greeted him,gushing blood.
He glared down to the man, his eyes tried to focus but he was beginning
to feel dizzy from loss of blood. After making sure the man was dead he
slowly turned around to leave, when suddenly the man leapt up with
his last ounce of strength and stabbed Heero right in his lower back tailbone.
Heero's eyes widened in shock, as he stumbled forward catching his breath. His eyes winced at the pain surging through him, and took out the knife. Heero glared at the man and lunged towards him, forgetting the pain of his back. After the man was presumed dead, once more he turned to leave. This time blood gushed from not just one wound, but two.
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He had just climbed up Relena's balcony, only to find the door already
opened. As he quietly walked into the dark room he did not see Relena,
but a dark shadow across the room. His head was facing the other direction,
and from the looks of it he didn't even know Heero had entered.
'Baka.' Heero thought as he focused his attention to the man.
Suddenly Relena walked into the room, combing her hair. He watched her pause and turn around to the figure as he advanced towards her.
Heero struggled to bring out his gun, but he was loosing balance and stumbled against the wall. Finally, after getting himself together he brought out his gun and aimed for the man's head.
A slight anger had risen up in his chest as he had seen the man, only inches from her face about to kiss her. He didn't know what that feeling was...infact he was quite clueless. However he ignored it for the most part and pulled the trigger, sending the man's body to tumble to the floor, in his own blood.....
The last thing he remembered after that is suddenly
feeling a whole lot lighter and collapsing to the floor.
Everything after that was a mystery...exept for the distant
voice of Relena who called out his name as he fell.....
*End Flashback*
Heero laid back and closed his eyes.
The soft, assuring sound of the heart monitor slowly entered his ears as he let it's sickening harmony fill his senses, and soon accompany him to sleep......
"Mission Complete.." Heero mumbled softly as he anticipatingly greeted
the darkness that overcame him. Not long after, he felt himself falling
into a long anticipated deep sleep.....
To Be Continued.....
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