By: Jorge Vallejo (a

Chapter 2: From Tears to Bloodshed The Echo's Of Whispers


"Relena… I am so... sorry.." He muttered those words out as Relena back in reality stood there by his side. Heero at the moment was just in a complete dark void. His mind and soul seem to be getting weaker by the second, and right now all he could hear in his own world was the name Relena. Then finally some medics came up to where Relena and Heero where and 2 people with white uniforms with red crosses came and told Relena it would be best to get Heero to a hospital. Relena at that moment was still crying and holding Heero as tight as she could, for fear if she left him he would never come back or even live for that matter. But she finally came sided with reason she ever so slowly let go of Heero from her grasp. Just then the medics got him and set him up on a wheelcart and put straps all around that his body. His left shoulder all full of his blood from the gunshot he had taken for her. His face dark from what can be seen of endless sleep and his eyes closed with almost made him look like a dark angel at peace. Relena by this thought let a few more tears fall down her lovely red cheek. Then she stood up shakily but fell back down. Fortunately if it wasn't for Zechs her older brother. She would have hit the floor surely and she just looked to him. She turned around and her brother put his arms around as to comfort her as she wept even harder on his shoulder. Zechs sighed a bit and then spoke out comforting words, "Don't worry Relena, he will be okay." Relena new he would but what hurt her more was the fact she had made him get into that position in the first place. After about 5 minutes of endless tears and comforting words she pulled back and nodded to her brother. "Alright I am sorry, it's just that I love him so." Zechs smiled to her and nodded to her. "Yeah I know little sister, just come on and let me take you home. That way you can get your rest and tomorrow you can go see him if you like?" She smiled faddedly to him and nodded as well. Then finally Relena looked to around the place to see her brother's wife Noin standing there at the entrance talking to one of the paramedics. She looked as if angry but at the same time relief from something the paramedic told her. She then started to walk her direction and Zechs helped her along the way to just make sure today's actions hasn't taken its toll on her. She finally reached her and she spoke out softly towards Noin. "Is Heero alright Noin?" Noin heard the voice and instantly looked to Relena and smiled a bit. She responded, "Yes Relena the paramedics said he would be just fine, he is just tired from lack of sleep and the bullet missed any critical damage he could have gotten." She sighed a bit and then said to her, "Can we see him right now?" That's when her brother interfered and spoke out to her, "Not right now Relena. You need some rest first then we can see him." Relena had no other choice but to do, as what was told for she knew Heero was all right she would be as well. She then finally spoke out, "Alright lets go home then." Noin and Zechs both agreed and they both took her home for her well-deserved sleep.

(Back at the hospital)

"Ugh…" Heero open his eyes and all around him his vision became blurry for a second. He heard also a faint beep next to him and he sighed a bit. It was nighttime and he felt like as if someone had dropped a ten-ton boulder right on his right shoulder. He tried to move but he felt almost holden down by little tubs that which where stuck in his body. He sighed once again as he finally knew he was in a hospital. But one thing wasn't clear in his mind. Why was he in the hospital? What happened to him? He then decided it was best to just forget those little problems and just best to leave now and forget about the whole thing. He could heal himself for he knew also what to do to his body if he ever did get harm in anyway. But still he kept thinking to himself just what had happened to him. So without warning he finally decided to take the tablet that was stood at the foot of his bed and he read the following, *Heero Yuy- Taken in by Relena Peacecraft for shot in upper shoulder. Fraction: None, Bloodtype: B, Time taken in: 5:35 P.M., etc.* His mind soared almost as if he found himself dumbfounded when he read that one person's name. He slowly said to himself almost as if lost just by the sound of her name, "Relena." He then snapped out of it and looked around himself. He then sat up and to his cause all the pain to his shoulder came back and he almost gritted his teeth from the pain. He then laid back down knowing that if he left now he wouldn't get very far, and it would be best just to stay there and see if 'she' comes. He smiled to himself slightly and now he remembered what had happened. He went to her aid and took in the pain for her. He went to her and became her savior once again. He let the smile die down once he remembered her crying for him as well. He never wanted to make her cry, but then again he never wanted her to die either. His heart almost felt pain as well for the walls surrounding his heart also decayed little by little. He closed his eyes in defeat to sleep and he mumbled out even thought no one was there, "I love you too Relena. I love you too." Soon enough the darkness once again consumed him and he slumbered till the next day.

(Next Day at the Hospital)

Relena slowly walked into the room that held Heero in its possession. Noin and Zechs where outside waiting for her, for she had asked them to please let her have a time with Heero alone. Zechs was of course hard to persuade but soon enough he gave up and gave a quick nod. And finally Relena took short steps towards the bed that was holding her dark angel. The one she always wanted to hold in her arms like back in Marimea's coup de tat'. She always wanted to tell Heero that without him she would have surely crumbled so very long ago. She slowly walked up next to him and just the sight of seeing him there with tubes sticking out of his body and his own face dark from lack of sleep, but yet he still had been able to keep his beauty. Relena at that sight almost felt like crying again, but no this time she would be strong for him. She knew he had wanted her to be strong and so she was. She stood there looking down at him as she finally put her hand to his head and wiped away at the unruly hair that was stuck to his forehead due to the sweat and hotness of the room. She breathed in deeply and carefully and very delicately traced the outline of his jaw with one of her fingers. She smiled a bit to him and whispered out just barely enough that she heard herself. "Heero. I miss you so much Heero, why did you leave me? Why did you have you go and do this? Can't you see that I am already dying from just being apart from you?" Then at the moment with those words as if on cue Heero stirred awake as his eyes opened up to reveal almost a angel in his sights. His eyes just bore into her as she almost gasps in surprise from his awake. Then Heero frowned and closed his eyes again speaking out with barely enough voice and said, "Relena… I'm sorry." Relena then still a bit surprised said only his name as if she where about to cry again, "Heero." Heero's heart almost twisted more in pain as he heard her sorrowful voice and then he looked to her with eyes of pain. Relena then at his look couldn't help it anymore. She told herself she wouldn't cry but how could you not knowing the only person you ever loved is on a hospital bed and in there because you where the one to put him there? She then let a few tears fall down her eyes and Heero closed his eyes and spoke out softly and tenderly, all his perfect soldier training gone from sight at the moment. "Relena, please don't cry. I am sorry. I never wanted you to cry. I am sorry for being gone from you for so long." Relena then looked at him almost shocked at Heero raised a hand and put it to her cheek as before and wiped a few tears away. "Don't cry please. It hurts me to see you even shed a tear for a life as worthless as mine." Anger then reared its ugly head onto Relena and he looked at him almost mad. "Why do you say that? Cant you see your life is the most valuable thing to me!? Heero please understand that if you die… I'll surely die as well…" Heero then had a hurt look on him as he spoke out again, "I'm sorry." Relena then heart almost broke as she took in what she had just said and spoke to him in a repentive voice, "Heero, no I am sorry. I didn't mean to get mad at you.." Heero and sighed a bit and he looked to her eye to eye and he finally couldn't hold it in any longer and he just had to get it out. So it was now or never, leave or run, tell her or hide. He opened his lips to speak and finally those words that took him so long to understand and hear where coming out of his mouth. "Relena your right. I don't know what was wrong with me to ever see this, but now I know that your absouloutly right. I do have a precious life, a precious one because I have you in it." Relena almost caught her breath as she heard him speak and she then sat down slowly at the side of the bed near him. Heero then closed his eyes and spoke out those words of what will take him down his destiny and to face his fate. "Relena, what I am saying is that I love you…" Relena upon hearing those words brought more tears to her eyes. For all the time she ever dreamed about hearing those words from his lips and everytime she thought about it she would just snap out of it as he just was barely saying it. But this time she didn't wake up, this time she didn't snap open, this time it was for real. She then spoke out lowly and hopefully, "Heero… I love you to." With that Heero opened his eyes and they locked onto hers and as if hypnotizing them Relena ever so slowly leaned over to his face. Inch by Inch and both there hearts beat by beat they where getting closer. Relena finally got within range and finally felt what she had always wanted for so long as well Heero. There they shared there first kiss and as Heero's lips embraces Relena's. Relena at the touch felt the world drift away and she entered almost what seemed a heavenly bliss of love and pleasure. Heero then put his arms around her slim figure and brought her even closer than before and she almost moaned as her body touched his body. This day Heero and Relena would never forget. For both have seen so much tears to bloodshed. They would have both gladly go through it again if this was the outcome of it all. Love…

A/N: Alright alright I know it kinda sucked! So chapter 2 done and so far I need to work on chapter 3. Hmm.. So what do you think so far peeps? Hmm? FOR GOOD SAKES please tell me! R&R!!! . Sorry just lost it there. Its just that I really do need feedback on my stories. And um well lets just say not that many people have answered my heed! ^_^ Alright well with that I will also like to say sorry for Heero. I know he was a bit OOC in this, no? Well alright with that don't miss chapter 3! I am gonna call it "Holy Love". Alright peace you all! Talk to you laters!