Disclaimer: I am merely borrowing the personalities, names and surroundings of Gundam for this story and none of them are originally mine. (I wish!)
A/N: After writing "Never Forgotten 2", I found it so damn boring and point-less. I didn't want to talk about Seung only. This fic was about Relena and Heero and I'm keeping it that way. So, I erased it and started this new one. I hope it's good 'cuz I spent the whole night writing this. Also, my other parts will have different names.
The Dream (Part 2 of Never Forgotten)
By Hot Head
"Quatre, I changed my mind. I don't want to go to the circus anymore." Relena said as she held her stomach.
"Why not?" Quatre asked worriedly.
"I' don't feel so well."
She began to think of Trowa and then Duo and then Heero. She tried not to but all she kept picturing in her mind the St. Gabrielle Institute and her fifteenth birthday. Her headache and stomach pains grew rapidly until Quatre told his driver to turn back. It lessened a bit. She saw his disappointed but worried face and changed her mind about not going to the circus. Quatre argued with her and was very concerned about her health but her pain suddenly stopped when he gave up.
"I'm glad you changed your mind." he said cheerfully.
"Me too." she said as her voice faded.
"Are you sure you're okay?"
"Yes, Yes."
"It's looked like it hurt, alot."
"Uh, it's okay, I deal with it all the time."
"Wha? You deal with it all the time?"
"Oh. Er. I just get stomach pains and headaches sometimes that's all."
"When is 'sometimes'?"
"Uh, like a few times a week, month."
"You sure your okay?"
"Yeah, Yeah."
~
They walked down Main Avenue, headed for the circus. It was cold that day and the wind was fierce. The three watched a limo turn the corners as they did. Duo was talking to Seung about his new job at the airport as Heero followed far behide them. He was extremely tired because he couldn't sleep last night. He had the strangest dream. He was walking on water when he fell in. Then an angel grabbed his hand and helped him but she was hurt and practically dieing. The angel was beautiful and felt like a lost love he cared for so much. Heero rushed her to the hospital but when he got there, there was a demon who wouldn't let them pass. Sadly, the angel died in his arms and the demon took her away. The dream kept him up all night.
They reached the circus just in time. The yellow and red tent stood proudly and steadily as the wind pushed it back and forth. They took seats far in the back. Seung left to go to the ladies' room and told them she had to do something. Duo looked cheerful and excited but Heero knew it wasn't about the show. Heero bowed his head and looked at a spot and the ground.
"What's wrong, buddy?" Duo finally asked after examining the spot.
"Nothing." Heero's head lifted, looking at the stage.
"C'mon, you can tell me."
"I told you there's nothing wrong."
"Heero, whenever you have that look on your face, I know somethings wrong."
"I told you there's nothing wrong."
"Is this about Seung?"
Heero didn't answer.
"Your worried she doesn't like you anymore, right?"
Heero sat there looking at the people walk through the entrance.
"Man, I bet she still likes ya, why wouldn't she?"
He saw Seung walk in with a tall familar-looking woman. They both talked and separted into the crowd.
"If you care about her so much why don't ya tell -"
"Are you happy she's here?"
"Yeah, of course why?"
"It doesn't feel right."
"What doesn't feel right?"
"Seung being here. Find it strange she comes back after three years?"
"No. Maybe she needed to deal with somethings."
"Like what?"
"Like, uh, er, well... She told me that after she aborted Mission M. She was very upset and Professor K helped her with stuff."
"What 'stuff'?"
Seung came back with a tired, annoyed face. She sat next to Heero as Duo waved happily to her. The lights began to dim as about forty clowns ran into the center ring. Duo clapped as the audience did but Heero and Seung sat there, quietly and seriously. They both eyed each other in disgust and then made eye contact. Heero felt there was something wrong.
"What's your problem?" Heero asked.
"I have none." Seung hissed back.
"Fine." he turned around to watch the show when she tapped him.
"Actually, something came up." she lost her foul face and found a worried and sorrowful one.
"What?"
"Well, my grandmother is dieing."
"Huh?"
"Don't joke, Heero! After I freshened up in the bathroom, I found a payphone and called her in the hospital because she was already sick. The nurse picked up and Oh, what she said!" she grabbed him and hugged him tightly. Heero raised and eyebrow and patted her back.
"Well, live with it." he whispered. She smacked him and cried in her hands. He felt guilty and comforted her.
"Sorry."
"It's okay sigh. I thought you cared about me and I thought you'd listen."
"What?"
"Don't you love me? We are suppost to be together."
He was silent.
"Don't you remember? Right before I left you said it would last for a life time. Those were your exact words."
Heero didn't answer because he did remember. Before she left with Prof. K he said that they'd be together forever but he was only fifteen and foolishly in love. He sat there looking at the spot again and wondered if she was the angel.
~
The show was finally over. Relena, who still felt a little sick to the stomach, smiled at Quatre who noticed Trowa was in the show. He decided they should go visit him. Relena just smiled weakly at him.
Mostly everyone was gone when they went backstage. Trowa was already dressed and with another visitor. It was the almighty Wufei who held his chin up proudly as they approached. Quatre introduced them to Relena who looked tired and frail. He grabbed seats for them and joined in their conversation.
"How's working with the Preventers, Wufei?" Quatre asked.
"It's okay but those weaklings can't get any work done, especially Po." Wufei answered.
"What about you Trowa? How's it been?"
"Alright, I guess." Trowa said quietly and looked at Relena. "What's wrong with her?"
"I really don't know. She don't me it was nothing but it's been going on all day."
Relena was pale and her eyes were barely open. She continuosly moaned silently in pain and exchanged perplexed looks with the three gundam pilots. Not wanting them to worry or send her to the doctor's office, she tried sit up straight and open her eyes wider. Suddenly, from the corner of her eye, she saw Heero. The three got up and stared at the new visitors. Wufei glared at the girl who attached herself to Heero. Relena turned her back to him and held her stomach tightly as the pain grew.
"You." Wufei said to the girl.
"Hi to you too, Chang." she said sweetly.
"Don't call me that, or anything."
"C'mon Wufei. Cut her some slack. She didn't mean to go." Duo said to him.
"No, she cost us the mission. She doesn't deserve to be called a gundam pilot."
"It's wasn't my fault!"
"Why'd you leave then?"
"I had to. I had more important business with Professor K."
"So, that so called engineer is more important than fighting for the Resistance?"
"Stop it you two." Heero shook Seung off and stepped forward. "The war is over, she isn't and wasn't needed. She didn't cost us anything but it was her fault that she didn't complete her missions."
She tried to keep her pain inside but it burst into this great cry. Tears drenched her tired face as she dragged herself over to Heero and hugged him . They all stared at her as Heero dragged her outside. He placed her on a metal chair and wiped her tears. She rubbed her face on his hand and looked up at him with pain and sadness in her eyes. Relena held her stomach even tighter as Heero stood before her.
~
Poor Relena. He ran his finger through her hair and out of her face. He missed her but he wasn't sure if he should. The tent was empty now and the sun was begining to set. The poor girl stared up at him as she bite her lip in pain.
"Relena.." his voiced trailed off.
"Heero, you haven't changed one bit." she managed to say.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm not doing to well."
"Why?"
"Because I missed you." she got up and hugged him once more.
He didn't do anything but stare foreward into nothing. Heero thought about Seung and how he loved her but when Relena grasped more tightly on to him, he felt warm and loved. Just then, Seung was about to step out when she saw Relena on him. She gasped and ran, terrified and heartbroken. Heero's face was grim and serious just like in the war. He sat her down firmly and stared coldly at her.
"Listen Relena. You will never love me. You can't. Understand I don't like you. I never did. I only saved you because you could bring peace to Earth and Space. Now stop chasing me and let me fight my own battle."
He ran off after Seung , not looking back, afraid to look at Relena's hopeless face.
