Misunderstood

Chapter 1- Et tu?

Duo! It's so good to see you again!" Quatre replies, as he enters the large living room of the Winner Estate in the L4 Colony. His smile reached from ear to ear. It's been a few weeks since he last saw his friend from the Eve Wars.

"It's good to be wanted..." Duo replies. "Especially by a certain rich pilot named Q-man!"

Quatre giggles. "So what has been happening in your life lately?"

"Well...I still live in the L2 Colony as a Repair Shop/Sweeper Officer. Hilde helps me out with the hardest part of the business. I don't know what I would do with out her."

"That's understandable. Even the great Shinigami needs a Shinimegami to be complete." Quatre replies. "Even though you guys are somewhat opposites, you are balanced together."

Duo shows an expression of confusion, but then breaks the silence. "I guess."

"So, you said you had some urgent business? I'll help you in any way--"

"Yeah...it's about Dorothy." Duo replied.

"What about Dorothy?" Quatre asks. "She's not hurt or anything, right?"

"Oh, that's not the problem." Duo smirks. Quatre looks at him with a weird look. "Well...while I was visiting New York a couple of days, I saw Dorothy with another man..."

"That might have been one of her family members...she did say that she was visiting her family."

"That's not it, Quatre." Duo replied, as he turns his face away from the sensitive Arabian. "Actually...she was having dinner with Heero."

"So?"

"They were having a good time. They even made jokes about you." Duo said. "And they were looking very comfortable...like they were lovers." Duo added, still looking away from the Arabian.

"WHAT? You have to be joking, Duo!! She--she wouldn't!! Tell my this is one of your jokes!!" Quatre yells. Duo turns his head back to his now standing friend.

"I wish I was, Quatre." Duo replied. "They were looking very comfortable..."

"I won't believe this!! You're lying...you're lying!" Quatre replies, now close to yelling, and getting the same look he had when he was under the influence of ZERO.

"I run, I hide, but I never lie...Duo Maxwell." Duo replies. Quatre sits quickly back on a sofa. Rashid runs into the room.

"Master Quatre...are you okay?" The older Arabian man asks. Quatre looks up to the elder man and tries to look normal.

"I'm fine, Rashid. Go on...Duo and I will be fine." And with that Rashid bowed, and left the two young former pilots in the living room. Quatre looks back at Duo. "You're not kidding are you?"

"Q-man, I wish I was." Duo replies, solemnly.

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"Hilde!!" Relena squeals, as she opens the door to the Darlian-Peacecraft Mansion. The other girl smiles and hugs the vice-foreign minister, tightly.

"Relena!!" The girl replies back.

"It's been so long!!"

"I know!!" Relena said, as the two calm down and walk into the sitting room, and starts to chat. "So, how have life been treating you and Duo?"

"Great! Our business is growing and I think that Duo's going to end up being the leader of the Sweepers." Hilde replied. "Of course, Duo wouldn't see these events if I didn't help with the accounting and bookkeeping."

Relena smiled at the thought of Duo trying to do the bookkeeping. "I can't imagine Duo doing the bookkeeping..."

"Don't count him out, Relena." Hilde replied. "He can...but I'm just better at it." The two laughed before Relena moved on.

"So, you said you had urgent business with me?" Relena asked.

"Yes." She replied.

"Do you want some tea or coffee?"

"I'll take tea." Hilde replied. "Living with Duo, you don't want to take too much caffeine." The two girls laughed at the comment, as Pagan walked in with a tray of tea. Bowing, Pagan left the two women in the sitting room.

"So...what do you want to talk about?"

"Well...when Duo and I was visiting New York, we saw Heero with a girl." Hilde started.

"That's no problem." Relena replied.

"It's not?" Hilde asked surprised. Does Relena already know about it? Hilde asked herself.

"Nope. Heero is on a mission...I guess he had to talk to her as a part of the mission." Relena replied smiling.

Hilde starts to choke on a teacake. Relena concerns walks over to Hilde to go pat her back. Once as Hilde spits the teacake out, Hilde took a few sips of tea before speaking again. "Actually...I don't think she was part of the mission."

"Maybe it was---"

"No. It was Dorothy..."

"Maybe she gave--"

"No she didn't." Hilde replied. "They were apparently having dinner together and they were enjoying it!"

"Don't be silly...Heero wouldn't do that...I mean..."

"Duo and I saw the two of them with our two eyes. They were laughing and even made a joke about you and Quatre." Hilde replied, before stopping and feeling guilty.

"You're joking!! Ha!! I knew that....come on Hil...you aren't real..."

"I'm not!!"

"Okay...you guys and come out now!!" Relena said, as she walks to the closet to find it empty. Hilde sighed, as Relena walked around the room...making a fool of herself. After 5 minutes, Relena stopped and sat back down, and started to cry. "You're...you're...you're...not kidding are you?"

Hilde shook her head, as she sat by Relena. "I wish I was..."

"That's okay." Relena replied, as she got up from the couch where Hilde was sitting on. "I have to be alone..." And with that, Relena ran to her room. Sighing, Hilde got up and followed Relena to her room. The door was closed and locked.

"Relena..."

"I'll be fine, Hilde. Call me in a few hours..."

"But, Relena..."

"I said call me in a few hours."

"Relena...I'm sorry!" Hilde replied before walking down the stairs.

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Heero walks out of the jeep in which Lady Une drove. The brunette leader of the Preventers looked at the younger Japanese man. "I'll see you later, Preventer Perfect." Lady Une comments as she drives off in the green jeep towards the HQ. Grunting, Heero walks up to the front door of the mansion. Just as he was going to take out the key, Pagan opens the door.

"Hello, Mr. Heero." Pagan replies, as Heero walks inside the house. Pagan closes the door before Heero finally speaks.

"Pagan...where's Relena?"

"I believe that she's in her room." Pagan replies. "Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong Pagan." Heero replies. Pagan nods and walks off into the study to do his dusting there. Heero looks at the sitting room and notices that Relena had some company to day. Shaking his head mentally, Heero continues to walk up the stairs to Relena's room. Once there, he reaches for the knob and tries to turn it. It's locked.

"Relena?" Heero calls out. From the other side of the door, Heero could hear Relena's soft footsteps to the door. Suddenly, the door is unlocked, and Relena is now facing him. "Relena..." Heero said before moving to kiss her on the cheek. Relena takes a step back from a now surprised Heero.

"You're not getting any kisses from me." Relena replies, icily.

"What's going on, Relena?"

"I should be asking you that." Relena replies. "Just how was your mission?"

"Like any other mission...fine." Heero replies, as he reaches to kiss Relena, only to be pushed away.

"So...how's Dorothy?"

"How should I know...I didn't see her." Heero replied.

"Heero...are you lying to me?"

"..."

"Heero...I can't believe that you lied to me!! You saw Dorothy in New York and now you're lying to me about ever seeing her!!"

"Re--"

"I don't even want to hear it." Relena replies, as she turns her back on Heero. "I thought that we had something special."

"We do--"

"I guess I was wrong!! Heero if you don't want to be around me, why not just say the words!! I'm not a weak girl anymore!! I can handle rejection!!!"

"Relena...she doesn't mean anything to me!!" Heero replied. "We're just friends...friends!!!" Relena turns around and Heero softens a little bit. "We're just friends...Dorothy and I are just friends."

"I don't want to talk to you, Heero. Go talk to your Dorothy!!"

"Don't make me repeat myself."

"Your threats are not going to scare me, Heero." Relena replied. "Now leave me alone!! I don't want to talk to you!!" And with that, she pushed Heero to the other side of the door and closed it on Heero's face, before locking it. Heero was going to walk away when he heard Relena's cries from the other side. He wanted to move his hand walk in...but he knew better. It tore him to leave that door, but he had too. Sadly, he walked down the stairs to the study.

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Dorothy casually walks into the Winner Estate after one of the butlers opens the door.

"Hammond...do you know where your master is at?" Dorothy asked.

"I think he's in the study, Miss Dorothy." The young butler replied.

"Thanks." Dorothy replied giving him a rare smile. She proceeded to the large study where Quatre is presently on the phone with someone. He sure looks handsome when he's talking to someone about the business. Dorothy thought herself, as she took in his blonde hair, blue eyes, and his Arabian skin. He was wearing his customary shirt and vest, and was presently convincing someone to lower the price on something. Smiling, Quatre said good-bye and acknowledged that Dorothy was in the room.

"Hello, Dorothy." Quatre said, smiling. "How was your trip to visit your family?"

"It was quite fine, Quatre. Everybody said hi as usual." Dorothy replied. Although she didn't completely spent the whole time visiting her family...at least the point that they all said hello to him was true.

"That's good to hear." Quatre replied, as he moved a deck of papers over, leaving the desk clear. "So...how's Heero doing?"

Without betraying her surprised, Dorothy responded. " I don't know...you're his friend, you would know before I do."

"Funny...considering that you and him met each other in New York." Quatre replied, to which Dorothy slipped her mask.


"Wh--What?" Dorothy squeaked.

"Tell the truth, Dorothy...did you and Heero met in New York?"

"..."

"Dorothy...did you have dinner with Heero?"

"..."

"Dorothy!!"

"Hmm...." Dorothy replied, looking at Quatre, noticing that he was getting slightly angry.

"What did you exactly do when you left her a few days ago?"

"Like I said I spent all my time with my family." Dorothy replied, although it wasn't completely true.

"Dorothy..." Quatre said his anger from the battlefield showing.

"What?" Dorothy asked, quietly.

"I don't like you dodging my answers." Quatre replied, as he got up. "And I don't like liars, either." He said icily. Dorothy stood up and held on to Quatre's hand.

"Quatre...please..." Dorothy begged. She reached to kiss his cheek, to which he pulled his hand away from Dorothy.

"No. Trowa and Cathy's are in town. I'm going to visit them." Quatre replied, leaving a stunned Dorothy in the study. Closing the door, Quatre started for the closet. Walking by the study before hitting the door, Quatre could hear Dorothy's tears. Sorry, Dorothy...but it's for our own good for the time being. Quatre said to himself as he left the mansion to head for the circus.

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10 pm, L4 Colony time...9 pm, Sanc Time

"Hello, Quatre." Relena replied, smiling at her friend.

"Hi, Relena. How are you doing?" Quatre replies.

"I'm doing fine as expected..." Relena replied. "And you?"

"The same as you." Quatre replies. "So...what do you think about the contract?"

"The one about rebuilding the Sanc Kingdom's Castle." Quatre replies.

"I like it. The Sanc Kingdom Congress is debating about it now. I think that they are going to accept your proposal over the others. It'll be great to rebuild that castle...it's been destroyed twice in our lifetimes. Hopefully...there won't be a third time."

"I agree." Quatre replies.

"I'm going to be visiting your area, soon." Relena replied. "I have to meet with you and the other leaders."

"I haven't forgotten. That's next week, isn't it?"

"Yes." Relena replied. Both of the speakers were silent, until Quatre got an idea.

"I guess you heard..."

"I have." Relena replied. "I can't believe that Heero would go behind my back like that! I really thought that we had something wonderful between the two of us. I feel so betrayed."

"I know how you feel; I feel the same about Dorothy. I mean I let her in my life, and allowed her to feel comfortable and teaching her the joys of the world we live in."

"I did the same with Heero. I never thought that the two of them would have anything in common."

"Besides having some liking to fighting..."

"Cool attitudes..." Relena added.

"Being strong..."

"And extremely intelligent..."

"We never saw it coming!" Quatre and Relena said at the same time. For the next few minutes the two friends shared different stories about their lovers. Quatre shared about the duel they had on Libra. Relena shared her story about when they were on Peacemillion in AC 195. Quatre spoke about after Mariemaia, when Dorothy came in to stay. Relena talked about when Heero told her that he wanted to stay with her. Quatre spoke about the reactions that the Maganuc Corps and the household servants had. Relena spoke about the reaction from Zechs had when Heero decided to stay with her. These stories went on well until 2 am, Relena's time and 3 am, Quatre's time.

"I'm tired now." Quatre replied.

"I am too." Relena replied, the two friends turned off the phone and headed towards their respective rooms.

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The "Couple of Death" are visited by Heero and Dorothy as Quatre and Relena go on their secret meeting. Tune in next time to see what happens next in Misunderstood!!