Scattered
Across the Sky
By
Achiyo
Email: achiyo_nitta@yahoo.ca
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing does not belong to me in
anyway. If it did, I
would be in Hawaii with a red convertible.
"Hmm...Heero." Relena Dorlian
murmured as she stood by the large
window
of her office. It had been 2 years
since Mariemaia Khusreunada's
coup
d'etat and she had not seen him since.
She worried of course, but
Heero
could take care of himself. He wasn't
the perfect soldier for nothing.
A bird chirped outside as Relena opened a
window. She shut her eyes
as a
warm spring breeze blew into the room.
There was a faint scent of
cherry
blossoms as the trees below were smothered with pink petals.
How she wished Heero were here with her
even though he would just
stare
woodenly and blink every so often. She
knew the beauty wouldn't be
lost on
him. He just wouldn't show it, if he
did then he wouldn't be Heero.
She turned away from the window and sat
down at her desk and began
sifting
through the endless reports and documents which always ended up on
her
desk. Had she had Milliardo to help
her, she might of considered taking
the
rule of the Sanc kingdom into her hands but her brother was off on Mars.
Relena signature and briefed and
authorized all day, sometimes
blurring
secretaries and official documents together. More than once she
said
something along the lines of, "Colony L-2 XLSS002 Trade Agreements
please
find the original copy of Mary or contact the ambassador if you can't
find
it. By the way can you send in Weapons
Prevention Act; the rough draft
with
Josephine if you see her."
Finally she sank down into her chair and
turned to look outside
again. The sun had set, last glimmers of a dark
gold cut in fading streaks
across
the indigo sky. The first stars had
started to shine with ghostly
light
and the garden below were cast into shadow.
She stared into that shadow thinking how
hypnotizing that darkness
was. She cleared her mind, "How
strange. I usually look at the
sky." she
said
out loud. She looked up at the endless
sky because she always knew
Heero
was there, out there in the never ceasing darkness. Maybe this meant
Heero
had returned to earth? She smiled at
the absurdity of that thought,
Heero
Yuy was of the stars.
Heero blinked as he awoke in the shuttle.
"Please buckle your seat belts. We will be entering the atmosphere
in 5
minutes." The stewardess said mildly from the front.
He snapped on the silver buckle and
waited. Why he was coming back
to the
earth he had no idea. The perfect
soldier had no idea what he was
doing
with is life after the need for soldiers was gone. Heero had
travelled
from colony to colony in search of some purpose. He had found
none,
only a brief excuse to fight during Mariemaia's take over of earth.
Wing Zero was gone, destroyed in the name
of peace, by his own
decision. He regretted that but he knew there was no
place in the new
pacifist
world for weapons of mass destruction like the gundams. He was
sorry
for destroying the Wing Zero. Scary as it was, the Zero system had
given
him purpose when he had none. He smiled
ironically, he could sure
use
that right now.
All the others were fine, they had paved
new lives for themselves.
Heero
checked on them, they never saw him but he always made sure they were
okay. After all, they were his best friends.
The shuttle had started to descend. It rocked slightly as it was hit
by
turbulence. Heero glanced out the
window, flashes of blue and white
rushed
by the window as the shuttle continued to descend. He kept looking
out the
window intently, as if expecting Virgos or Space Leos to come and
pick a
fight. He knew better, everything had
changed now. For better or
for
worse he couldn't decide.
Mariemaia sat at her window, gazing out
into infinity. Her bare
feet
were cold, she tired to tuck them into her nightgown. The room was
dark,
she was supposed to be asleep hours ago.
These days she couldn't sleep; she felt as
if the weight of the
world
was on her shoulders, like before and she was afraid she would fail.
Like
before. Mariemaia took a shaky breath,
it wasn't right that she
someone
as young as she should be worrying about the world. She knew this
too,
but some small dark part of herself constantly mocked her saying how
people
still rebuilding their houses and their cities because of her.
Because
she was too dense to see through her grandfathers schemes.
A large spark descended in the sky like a
star falling slowly.
Mariemaia
looked up, those stars had been her home once.
But all that
seemed
long ago and hazy. She didn't remember
much of her life in the
colonies
and for some reason she didn't care.
Everything she could want she
had now
and was content.
It was strange to have shuttles descend at
night, bad visibility or
something. It must be something important, she thought
as she watched the
spark
disappear behind the horizon.
"Everything will turn out
right." she said to her former
home, "I
just
know it."
Heero looked at the dimmed city lights and
resumed walking along the
dark
highway. He gave an inaudible
sigh. At least when there were bad
guys he
could steal a car and say it was part of a mission, but now he
couldn't
do that and feel justified.
He didn't know where he was going, maybe
he could trust all that
corny
stuff Relena was always preaching, trusting fate and so on. Relena,
maybe
that's where he belonged, with that girl.
The one who he couldn't
kill,
wouldn't kill because...he stopped walking.
He just wouldn't, she was
too
important to too many people and even himself?
He continued walking
again.
A car passed him and stopped ahead, he
ignored it, one door opened
as he
walked passed and she stepped out.
"Heero would you like a ride
somewhere?"
"Hn." he replied, and turned to
the car, opening the passenger side
door. He looked over the roof at her and gave a
tiny smile that anyone
less
accompanied to him would of missed and got in.
Relena smiled to herself and got into the
car. She pulled it out
of park
and started to drive. She said nothing
to the man beside her.
There
was no doubt now that he was man, not like the first time she had
seen
him. Half dead on a beach, he was a boy
then but not now.
"How have you been Heero?" she
asked finally.
"Fine, How is the world?" He
replied.
She laughed, and her heart and soul was in
her laugh. He looked at
her
expressionless, his eyes reflecting curiosity.
"I don't know, you would have to ask
the world that." She said
smiling
and glanced over at him. He looked out
the side window at the dark
trees
flashing by quickly.
She sighed and continued to drive. "Do you have anywhere you want
to
go?"
"No." he replied, still looking
away.
So she drove, her destination unknown just
like his. She was not
tired
but more awake and alert than she had been during the day. He didn't
say
anything, and for the first time neither did she.
Sunlight cut across the sky behind
them. So they had been traveling
west
all this time, Heero noted coolly. He
also noted Relena's stamina, she
had
been driving all night and didn't look the lease bit tired. Somewhere
to his
left a seagull cried. They were by the
seashore? How far had Relena
driven?
Relena gave a little sigh and squinted
against the glare of the sun
in the
rear-view mirror, "Heero, I'm getting tired do you think you could
decide
where you want to go?"
He wanted to smile, he had heard the
slightest bit of irritation in
her
voice. So the great Vice Foreign
Minister was human too. Some part of
his
mind ask his 'she is. are you?' And he
couldn't answer that. "Here." he
said.
The car pulled to a stop at a desolate
beach parking lot, somewhere
distant
there were the lights of residential housing.
She got out of the car and leaned against
it squinting into the
sun. She watched as he walked to the chained
fence, this place seemed
familiar
to her. She yawned and leaned more
heavily against the car. It
would
be a beautiful day.
He walked along the fence for several minutes until he came to a
set of
stairs, he walked down and watched the waves lap at the sand over
and
over again. The only time he had ever
been to the beach was that first
time
when he met Relena Dorlian.
Heero couldn't remember what had happened
inside of Wing Gundam,
only
that he was falling and the repetitive lapping of water as he drifted
into
darkness. It was beautiful here, too bad he didn't notice that the
first
time. But then he was noticing Relena,
and almost regretting that
the
pitiful naive girl was going to die for helping him, a soldier dead
before
ever going into battle. But she didn't
and for all his pessimism
neither
did he.
Everything came back to her! He thought furiously, everything!
Heero
kicked at a pebble only to realize it was part of a larger rock and
stubbed
his toe. Throbbing pain shot up his
foot, even if he didn't show
it. Relena is human, that little voice said
again, are you? Heero clenched
his
fists as he stood on the deserted beach waiting for the pain in his foot
to go
away. He felt his nails dig into the
skin and that skin break. A
tiny
rivulet of red trickled down his hand and dangled, catching the
dawn
light, gravity not strong enough to claim it for the earth.
"Am I human?" he asked out loud,
"Do I have somewhere to belong?"
You feel pain, you bleed, and you feel
sorrow, happiness and love.
That
small mocking voice in his head now said, no longer mocking but
sincere. You are human and you do belong, here on
this beautiful planet
you
fought to protect. It is glad to have
you.
Heero turned away from the beach and the
rising sun. He smiled as
he saw
Relena dozing against the car door. He
gently moved her over and
got
in. Starting the engine and driving
away, finally sure of himself.
" - when a person dies, there is
always another of him or her
different
perhaps but still the same person. So
you see Relena, no one ever
really
dies. And when I die, I'll still be
here, but maybe in space as a
doctor
or in Africa as a lawyer. But I won't
really be dead." her father
explained
to her.
Relena nodded solemnly, and smoothed out
an imaginary wrinkle in her
blue
dress, "I understand Father."
She woke to the sun in her eyes,
she looked to the side at Heero,
there
was something different about him and she understood. Heero Yuy was
the
soldier was dead and Heero Yuy was here in his place.
Mariemaia sighed as she slept by the
window. "The world is will be
just
fine." she murmured.
Author's
notes: Well what did you think? Its a Heero and Relena, (if you
didn't
get it) fic. I'm not very good with
these sweet mushy things but
just
think the rest of the story would go something along the lines of
happily
ever after. Why was Mariemaia in
this? I'm not sure...I think I
just
needed another character. Oh well, if
you have any comments, criticism,
insults,
ideas, suggestions, praise !!! or anything along those lines then
send it
along.
Oh
yeah...email: achiyo_nitta@yahoo.ca
