Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or any of its affiliates. This is, however, my fan fiction!
Written by: AnkaraStark
Author's Notes: Hey guys! This chapter is the last one I'm going to write for the next few days. I'm going to be too busy to write and upload chapters on here!
Heero: Doing what?
Authoress: None of your business, self-detonation boy.
Heero: ::glares::
Duo: ::laughs::
Quatre: We shouldn't be fighting at-
Authoress: Don't say it, blondie!
Quatre: ::frowns::
Trowa: ...
Wu-fei: Stupid onna (A/N- translation for onna: woman). Get to the story already!
Authoress: Don't push me, Woofy!
Wu-fei: Woofy?! You stupid onna!
Authoress: Me? Stupid? Loosen that ponytail of yours, buddy. I think it is cutting off the circulation to your brain! ::Sighs:: Fine, fine, I'll continue with the story.
All of the Gundam pilots: Thank God!
Authoress: ::Silences them all with her better-than-Heero type of death glare and starts the fic::
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Chapter Four: When A Nightmare Becomes Reality
Relena had spent the rest of the day in her room. She didn't bother stopping her work on her speech to go down for dinner; she had no appetite.
Glancing at the clock, she frowned. "11:00 pm." She rubbed a hand over her tired and weary eyes. She had been doing none-stop paper work for the last 10 hours. She hadn't even finished her speech. Why was it taking so long?
The exhausted vice-foreign minister crossed the bedroom to her vanity table. She sat down before it and stared at the reflection in the mirror that sat before her, the day's events ran through her mind. 'Are they going to kill me like they did Foreign Minister Grant?' she asked the reflection in the mirror silently. The girl in the mirror was about 19 years of age, but the reflection's eyes told a different story. The eyes were that of a woman who had seen so much. Her eyes were those of someone twice her age; eyes that held maturity and wisdom in their depths. She slowly shook her head and stared at her reflection, willing herself to be stronger. "It doesn't matter if they kill me- I am prepared to die."
'I look horrible,' Relena thought grimly, noting the dark circles that stood out visibly beneath her eyes, contrastingly dark against her creamy-white complexion. She reached up with one hand and pulled the release clasp on her hair clip, letting her honey-colored tresses fall upon her shoulders. She ran a hairbrush through it absentmindedly.
A small scuffling sounded from the balcony.
'Heero?' She lowered the brush from her hair and turned toward the balcony, her gaze fixed upon the French doors let led to it.
There was no answer.
Relena cautiously stood, her gaze still transfixed upon the balcony doorway. She straightened up, stiffening her spine. 'Show no fear,' she told herself mentally. Jutting out her chin confidently, she spoke in her calm and professional voice. "Who is there? Answer me; show yourself at once."
A familiar man stepped into the light that pooled out onto the balcony through the open doorway, his Prussian blue-eyed gaze fixed upon her face as he took a step toward her. "Relena. I was sitting out on your balcony and I heard you calling..."
She watched him advance toward her and stood her ground, unmoving. "Why didn't you answer me?"
Closing the gap between them quickly, he stood directly in front of her. "I had to make sure no one was in the surrounding vicinity."
Confusion clouded her blue eyes. "Why would you need to do that?"
Heero's ice-cold hand lightly brushed against her cheek as he leaned a little toward her. "I don't think your brother would be too happy to know that I'm up here with you in your room this late at night."
Relena's mouth parted slightly, shocked at both his bold move and at the below-normal temperature of his hand. "Heero, I don't think that you should-"
"-You don't think I should, what? You don't think I should do this?" Without waiting for her reply, he took another step forward and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Or do you think I should not do this?"
She let her guard slip accidentally, involuntarily gasped when Heero pulled his gun from the waistband of his jeans. "You're not H-Heero!" She tried to step backwards, but the arm planted firmly around her waist held her against him.
"Well look who just woke up! Where do you think you're going, vice minister Darlian?" he sneered as he held her close so she couldn't get away.
When she didn't answer, he pressed the barrel of the gun into the flesh on the side of her throat. "Why don't you answer me?" he asked her mockingly.
Relena ignored his question and asked one of her own. "Who are you? Why do you look like Heero?"
He let out a snort of laughter. "Sorry, babe, I can't answer the first question, but I can help you with the second one. Disguising myself as Heero Yuy made it easier to get in here. I can walk, talk, look and even act just like him."
"No one is going to believe that it's Heero Yuy that killed me. You can't fool his Preventer friends."
He smiled at her evilly and traced her jaw line with the cold barrel of the gun, sending a shiver of fear down her spine. "I fooled you, didn't I?"
He leaned down and whispered quietly into her ear. "See? I even have the exact same model gun as him! Everything is the same, so if I am forced to shoot you, my dear lady, they can trace the bullet to Heero Yuy. They can check the security cameras and such, but they won't see me. They'll see Heero Yuy standing before you now, holding a gun to your throat." After a moment, he grinned and pulled away from her ear and his voice was it's regular volume. "Oh, and I almost forgot. Heero won't have an alibi either- right about now, he should be driving over to Duo Maxwell's house to pick up some information for the Preventers." He chuckled, "but this is the kicker. Duo Maxwell IS home, but in about..." he glanced at his wrist watch. ".. Twenty minutes, Duo should be dead." He snickered and shook his head. "What a fool Yuy is. Since he is supposed to meet up with Duo, who was actually ME that made the call, and Maxwell is actually dead. And because there won't be a witness to meet with him to get the Preventers'information, AKA Duo, he won't have an alibi, which will make him look even more guilty of murder if I'm forced to shoot you. They'll find both you and Maxwell dead." He let out a chuckle. "Talk about Pilot 01 having a bad day."
Relena winced inwardly, not believing that the madman before her is actually going to try to pull this whole thing off. She frowned before asking another question. "Why are you here?"
"Why am I here? Isn't it rather obvious? I'm holding a gun to your throat and you ask a stupid question like that?" He laughed obnoxiously. "... And they say you politicians are smart!"
Relena ignored his rude comments and asked another question herself. "What would killing me accomplish?"
"Oh, vice-minister Darlian, we aren't going to kill you! We're just going to use you."
She furrowed her eyebrows and asked herself mentally, 'we? Who's we?'
After a moment of silence, he continued. "You see, Foreign Minister Grant wasn't going to go along with our plans, so we shot him. One shot straight through the temple took care of him. He was a fool. But you!" He grinned at her. "You are the intelligent one, Ms. Darlian. You know the meaning of life and how much it is worth. If you help us with our plans, you, along with many others, will stay alive. If not, then this is goodbye." He pressed the barrel further into the flesh of her throat before continuing to talk. "All you have to do is make a speech, babe. It's quite simple. And the best part is that you don't even have to write it! We've done that for you." The man that looked like her beloved Heero smiled evilly. "You've got the easy job. All you have to do is make the speech, resign from your office, and boom- you're done. We let you go. Then we simply take over earth and the colonies. If you think about it, it should be quite simple to comprehend, really..."
"You're one of the terrorists from colony LX- 528989, aren't you?"
He laughed again harshly. "That's right! You catch onto things quickly, don't you?"
Relena frowned and ignored his comment. "What makes you think I'm going to go along with this plan?"
The man's smile disappeared. "Because you don't want to die, or have hundereds of people killed in your stead. Anyways, I already TOLD you that. Don't make me repeat myself!"
'He is like the adult, male-version of Mariemeia, when she was under Dekim Barton's influence.' she thought. 'This man actually expects me to go along with his evil, manipulative plan.'
"Well, babe," he interrupted her thoughts. "What's your answer? I haven't got all night!" His grip around her waist tightened, as did his grip on the gun. "If you're as smart as I think you are, you'll do the intelligent thing and do as you are told." When she didn't reply, he glared at her angrily. "Answer me, woman!"
When Relena still remained silent, the creepy Heero-impersonator ran his hand lightly down her side and down her thigh. "Well, you may not feel like answering me right now, but by the time I'm done with you, I'm certian you'll be more than willing to talk..."
Her eyes widened in both shock and horror. Before she could stop herself, a gasp escaped her throat and she whispered,. "Oh God, no..." "She doesn't have to answer to you," a voice intervened from the balcony. "Let alone anyone else."
At the sound of the voice, Relena's gaze swept over Heero's shoulder toward the balcony, only to see- HEERO?!
The grip around her waist loosened noticeably as her captor's Prussian blue eyes widened in shock as he looked at the real Heero Yuy over his shoulder. "Y-you're supposed to be driving to Maxwell's house!"
Taking advantage of his momentary shock, she slammed her elbow into her captor's solar plexus with as much strength as she could muster. The sound of air rushing out of his lungs greeted her ears and the gun flew out of his hand. It slid across the floor and under the space beneath the bedroom door and out into the hallway. She raced across the room to the balcony and the second Heero Yuy.
"Get out of here, Relena." he said without taking his gaze away from the now doubled-over, unarmed Heero duplicate. "Go to Hilde's apartment." He pulled a gun from the waistband of his pants and aimed it at the other Heero.
"No, I'm not leaving you."
"Get out of here!" Heero shouted, looking at her. The tone of his voice told her that it was an order, not a request. He obviously did not want to repeat it for a third time. Yuy glared at her for a second before turning his attention back to the fraud just as the imposter leapt forward and tackled him. "GO RELENA!
Relena's eyes widened in surprise and she did as she was told. She raced out onto the balcony as the two duplitcates struggled and rolled on the floor, trying to take the gun from the other's grasp. and climbed down the balcony as quickly as she could. Not thinking clearly, she raced down the darkened road away from the mansion as fast as her legs could carry her.
To be continued...
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Read & Review! Yes, that means that you have to fill in the little box below to do it. It only takes a minute at most... come on, people! Hehe I thank if you do review, and thank you for reading the story if you don't! :) hehe
Sorry to have to leave you guys with yet ANOTHER cliff-hanger, but I won't be home to upload any other chapters!
Written by: AnkaraStark
Author's Notes: Hey guys! This chapter is the last one I'm going to write for the next few days. I'm going to be too busy to write and upload chapters on here!
Heero: Doing what?
Authoress: None of your business, self-detonation boy.
Heero: ::glares::
Duo: ::laughs::
Quatre: We shouldn't be fighting at-
Authoress: Don't say it, blondie!
Quatre: ::frowns::
Trowa: ...
Wu-fei: Stupid onna (A/N- translation for onna: woman). Get to the story already!
Authoress: Don't push me, Woofy!
Wu-fei: Woofy?! You stupid onna!
Authoress: Me? Stupid? Loosen that ponytail of yours, buddy. I think it is cutting off the circulation to your brain! ::Sighs:: Fine, fine, I'll continue with the story.
All of the Gundam pilots: Thank God!
Authoress: ::Silences them all with her better-than-Heero type of death glare and starts the fic::
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Chapter Four: When A Nightmare Becomes Reality
Relena had spent the rest of the day in her room. She didn't bother stopping her work on her speech to go down for dinner; she had no appetite.
Glancing at the clock, she frowned. "11:00 pm." She rubbed a hand over her tired and weary eyes. She had been doing none-stop paper work for the last 10 hours. She hadn't even finished her speech. Why was it taking so long?
The exhausted vice-foreign minister crossed the bedroom to her vanity table. She sat down before it and stared at the reflection in the mirror that sat before her, the day's events ran through her mind. 'Are they going to kill me like they did Foreign Minister Grant?' she asked the reflection in the mirror silently. The girl in the mirror was about 19 years of age, but the reflection's eyes told a different story. The eyes were that of a woman who had seen so much. Her eyes were those of someone twice her age; eyes that held maturity and wisdom in their depths. She slowly shook her head and stared at her reflection, willing herself to be stronger. "It doesn't matter if they kill me- I am prepared to die."
'I look horrible,' Relena thought grimly, noting the dark circles that stood out visibly beneath her eyes, contrastingly dark against her creamy-white complexion. She reached up with one hand and pulled the release clasp on her hair clip, letting her honey-colored tresses fall upon her shoulders. She ran a hairbrush through it absentmindedly.
A small scuffling sounded from the balcony.
'Heero?' She lowered the brush from her hair and turned toward the balcony, her gaze fixed upon the French doors let led to it.
There was no answer.
Relena cautiously stood, her gaze still transfixed upon the balcony doorway. She straightened up, stiffening her spine. 'Show no fear,' she told herself mentally. Jutting out her chin confidently, she spoke in her calm and professional voice. "Who is there? Answer me; show yourself at once."
A familiar man stepped into the light that pooled out onto the balcony through the open doorway, his Prussian blue-eyed gaze fixed upon her face as he took a step toward her. "Relena. I was sitting out on your balcony and I heard you calling..."
She watched him advance toward her and stood her ground, unmoving. "Why didn't you answer me?"
Closing the gap between them quickly, he stood directly in front of her. "I had to make sure no one was in the surrounding vicinity."
Confusion clouded her blue eyes. "Why would you need to do that?"
Heero's ice-cold hand lightly brushed against her cheek as he leaned a little toward her. "I don't think your brother would be too happy to know that I'm up here with you in your room this late at night."
Relena's mouth parted slightly, shocked at both his bold move and at the below-normal temperature of his hand. "Heero, I don't think that you should-"
"-You don't think I should, what? You don't think I should do this?" Without waiting for her reply, he took another step forward and wrapped his arm around her waist. "Or do you think I should not do this?"
She let her guard slip accidentally, involuntarily gasped when Heero pulled his gun from the waistband of his jeans. "You're not H-Heero!" She tried to step backwards, but the arm planted firmly around her waist held her against him.
"Well look who just woke up! Where do you think you're going, vice minister Darlian?" he sneered as he held her close so she couldn't get away.
When she didn't answer, he pressed the barrel of the gun into the flesh on the side of her throat. "Why don't you answer me?" he asked her mockingly.
Relena ignored his question and asked one of her own. "Who are you? Why do you look like Heero?"
He let out a snort of laughter. "Sorry, babe, I can't answer the first question, but I can help you with the second one. Disguising myself as Heero Yuy made it easier to get in here. I can walk, talk, look and even act just like him."
"No one is going to believe that it's Heero Yuy that killed me. You can't fool his Preventer friends."
He smiled at her evilly and traced her jaw line with the cold barrel of the gun, sending a shiver of fear down her spine. "I fooled you, didn't I?"
He leaned down and whispered quietly into her ear. "See? I even have the exact same model gun as him! Everything is the same, so if I am forced to shoot you, my dear lady, they can trace the bullet to Heero Yuy. They can check the security cameras and such, but they won't see me. They'll see Heero Yuy standing before you now, holding a gun to your throat." After a moment, he grinned and pulled away from her ear and his voice was it's regular volume. "Oh, and I almost forgot. Heero won't have an alibi either- right about now, he should be driving over to Duo Maxwell's house to pick up some information for the Preventers." He chuckled, "but this is the kicker. Duo Maxwell IS home, but in about..." he glanced at his wrist watch. ".. Twenty minutes, Duo should be dead." He snickered and shook his head. "What a fool Yuy is. Since he is supposed to meet up with Duo, who was actually ME that made the call, and Maxwell is actually dead. And because there won't be a witness to meet with him to get the Preventers'information, AKA Duo, he won't have an alibi, which will make him look even more guilty of murder if I'm forced to shoot you. They'll find both you and Maxwell dead." He let out a chuckle. "Talk about Pilot 01 having a bad day."
Relena winced inwardly, not believing that the madman before her is actually going to try to pull this whole thing off. She frowned before asking another question. "Why are you here?"
"Why am I here? Isn't it rather obvious? I'm holding a gun to your throat and you ask a stupid question like that?" He laughed obnoxiously. "... And they say you politicians are smart!"
Relena ignored his rude comments and asked another question herself. "What would killing me accomplish?"
"Oh, vice-minister Darlian, we aren't going to kill you! We're just going to use you."
She furrowed her eyebrows and asked herself mentally, 'we? Who's we?'
After a moment of silence, he continued. "You see, Foreign Minister Grant wasn't going to go along with our plans, so we shot him. One shot straight through the temple took care of him. He was a fool. But you!" He grinned at her. "You are the intelligent one, Ms. Darlian. You know the meaning of life and how much it is worth. If you help us with our plans, you, along with many others, will stay alive. If not, then this is goodbye." He pressed the barrel further into the flesh of her throat before continuing to talk. "All you have to do is make a speech, babe. It's quite simple. And the best part is that you don't even have to write it! We've done that for you." The man that looked like her beloved Heero smiled evilly. "You've got the easy job. All you have to do is make the speech, resign from your office, and boom- you're done. We let you go. Then we simply take over earth and the colonies. If you think about it, it should be quite simple to comprehend, really..."
"You're one of the terrorists from colony LX- 528989, aren't you?"
He laughed again harshly. "That's right! You catch onto things quickly, don't you?"
Relena frowned and ignored his comment. "What makes you think I'm going to go along with this plan?"
The man's smile disappeared. "Because you don't want to die, or have hundereds of people killed in your stead. Anyways, I already TOLD you that. Don't make me repeat myself!"
'He is like the adult, male-version of Mariemeia, when she was under Dekim Barton's influence.' she thought. 'This man actually expects me to go along with his evil, manipulative plan.'
"Well, babe," he interrupted her thoughts. "What's your answer? I haven't got all night!" His grip around her waist tightened, as did his grip on the gun. "If you're as smart as I think you are, you'll do the intelligent thing and do as you are told." When she didn't reply, he glared at her angrily. "Answer me, woman!"
When Relena still remained silent, the creepy Heero-impersonator ran his hand lightly down her side and down her thigh. "Well, you may not feel like answering me right now, but by the time I'm done with you, I'm certian you'll be more than willing to talk..."
Her eyes widened in both shock and horror. Before she could stop herself, a gasp escaped her throat and she whispered,. "Oh God, no..." "She doesn't have to answer to you," a voice intervened from the balcony. "Let alone anyone else."
At the sound of the voice, Relena's gaze swept over Heero's shoulder toward the balcony, only to see- HEERO?!
The grip around her waist loosened noticeably as her captor's Prussian blue eyes widened in shock as he looked at the real Heero Yuy over his shoulder. "Y-you're supposed to be driving to Maxwell's house!"
Taking advantage of his momentary shock, she slammed her elbow into her captor's solar plexus with as much strength as she could muster. The sound of air rushing out of his lungs greeted her ears and the gun flew out of his hand. It slid across the floor and under the space beneath the bedroom door and out into the hallway. She raced across the room to the balcony and the second Heero Yuy.
"Get out of here, Relena." he said without taking his gaze away from the now doubled-over, unarmed Heero duplicate. "Go to Hilde's apartment." He pulled a gun from the waistband of his pants and aimed it at the other Heero.
"No, I'm not leaving you."
"Get out of here!" Heero shouted, looking at her. The tone of his voice told her that it was an order, not a request. He obviously did not want to repeat it for a third time. Yuy glared at her for a second before turning his attention back to the fraud just as the imposter leapt forward and tackled him. "GO RELENA!
Relena's eyes widened in surprise and she did as she was told. She raced out onto the balcony as the two duplitcates struggled and rolled on the floor, trying to take the gun from the other's grasp. and climbed down the balcony as quickly as she could. Not thinking clearly, she raced down the darkened road away from the mansion as fast as her legs could carry her.
To be continued...
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Read & Review! Yes, that means that you have to fill in the little box below to do it. It only takes a minute at most... come on, people! Hehe I thank if you do review, and thank you for reading the story if you don't! :) hehe
Sorry to have to leave you guys with yet ANOTHER cliff-hanger, but I won't be home to upload any other chapters!