" The hell is going on here?!!!" Relena turned and saw Zechs standing at the mouth of the cave with Chris behind him.

" I would like to know the same from you." said Wolf cooly. Relena drew away from him and started pulling on her clothes.

" Chris told me my sister hadn't returned last night so we went to look for her and found the cave. I was afraid..." he trailed off in mid sentence.

" The lightening baron afraid? Tell me, why exactly were you afraid considering she's a trained soldier run off on a military base and all?" Zechs bowed his head and wouldn't talk. " Milliardo, I'm asking nicely" Zechs still just stood there. " As your commanding officer I command you to explain yourself." Zechs drew his head up at that.

" Please, Wolf, don't press it. Let's just get out of the woods." said Chris quietly as she stepped forward.

" When did I give you permission to talk you filthy whore. For all I know you probably mentioned Relena's disappearance after sharing a bed with him." Chris recoiled hurt deeply already at having to see him with Relena. Zechs on the other hand just became enraged.

" Commanding Officer?!!! Your just a little boy with a gun who thinks he can treat equals and better men as subordinates!!!" He yelled this as he charged at Wolf. Wolf only had time to yelp before Zechs was on top of him beating the crap out of him. Chris was in a panic.

" Zechs! No! Stop this please!" but Zechs didn't appear to be listening. Relena just sat there watching. Wolf's chances were one in ten of winning. Zechs was bigger and more experienced. Chris still made futile attempts to save Wolf.

" Zechs no!!" she screamed as she grabbed hold of his arm. In one motion it swept back and shoved Chris hard. Only then did Zechs stop what he was doing. " Oh my God are you ok?!!!" he rushed over and helped her up.

" Leave him alone Zechs please." saic Chis without answering his question.

"But he insulted you to your face." Zechs looked incredulace.

" Don't hurt him. Promise me you won't hurt him." Zechs started looking down. " Promise me Zechs!" she said grabbing his shoulders. Zechs looked down at one of the small hands on his shoulders then at her

" All right. I promise." said Zechs putting his hand over one of hers.

" Thank you!" she said and hugged him.

" How touching." came that same cold voice. They looked over and saw Wolf standing with some pants on and a gun in his hand. " Now step away from him. It's about time I got rid of him, he's been nothing but a thorn in my side." Chris sat there not knowing what to do. " Well? Are you deaf as well as stupid? I said stand aside."

" Please, I made him promise he won't try to hurt you any more."

" Yes but I know now that he's not my man in truth and I can't any traitors in my army."

" This girl just saved your life you at least owe her this much." came Relena's voice from behind.

" She was doing her duty, nothing more. If she really wanted to save my life she would've shot him dead. Now get out of the way girl." but Chris would not move. ": I am not afraid to take you with him to hell. You are already in for great punishments but none the less dying is far from preferable."

" I don't care." she said quietly. " There is no honor in what you are doing, no justice. You came to us saying that you would train us to fight for a better life without famine, fear or fighting. Yet here you are ready to kill a protective older brother and a soldier who has never once before disobeyed you."

" Yes, but you're disobeying me now. It's your last chance, move or die." tears were running down Chris's cheeks but instead she just moved closer to Zechs.

" Chris, don't do this. Out of all the soldiers here, you have the most honor and I don't want to see such a soldier wasted on the likes of me."

" No, standing aside and seeing you killed would not be honorable. Zechs, we've trained, grown, eaten and laughed together if being friends means dying together then I prepared to do my duty for our friendship."

Relena had pretty much been standing there that whole time but Chris's words brought her back. This girl was younger than her and yet unafraid of what was going to happen. The man she loved was about to kill her and she still stood there waiting to die for Zechs? Would she have done that herself in this situation? Why was she standing there? If she didn't think fast she was going to lose a friend and brother! She looked over and found her gun belt lying where it had been the night before.

" Stop!" Relena screamed and everyone turned around to see her there with her gun to her head. " Stop! You can't kill them because if you do you'll be killing two of the bravest soldiers in this doomed army!"

Wolf looked over at her and all the cold and malice left his eyes. " Relena what are you doing?!!! Put the gun down...please." this was a first Wolf was actually pleading with her.

" I won't if you kill them."

" Please Relena they're not worth this sacrifice."

" That's your problem you can't look at people and see that they are more than just weapons. They have feelings as do I and if you kill them I can never look at you again. If you meant any of the things you told me last night you'll not shoot them." Wolf looked from her to Chris and Zechs. Finally he dropped the gun.

" Thank you Wolf." said Relena and she meant it. " Zechs you and I are gonna need to talk in a little while later ok?"

" I guess."

" Good. Maybe you could take Chris back to the base now?"

" Yes, of course." with that he put an arm around Chris who was still crying and led her out of the cave. When they had been gone a little while Relena turned back to Wolf who was standing there looking down.

" Wolf, please don't be angry with me. He's my brother and she's been my best friend here."

" What scares me is that you care more about them than you do about me. If they turn on me in battle what will you do there?"

" Have you got any idea how much Chris loves you? She would give her life for you. She also has one of the strongest senses of honor that I've seen. In her situation would you stand by and watch your friend die?"

" If the friend were traitorous like Zechs yes."

" Zechs was not being a traitor, he was being a brother. Some how he's gotten protective of me in these last few months and probably thought you had taken advantage of me last night. To tell the truth I sort of wonder too."

" What do you mean? I saw how distraught you were and went after you. You noticed me and followed me to the cave. I had only meant to talk this wasn't supposed to happen. I do care for you though." Relena looked up somewhat bewildered at this. " It was probably the first time I saw you. When Len took you out of the car and you were so frightened and all I wanted to do was comfort you, stop him, anything to make you feel better. I couldn't though. I was lucky to have even been brought because if people knew me for the leader I would've been dead by now. You do remember Len right?"

" How could I forget." said Relena coldly.

" He's dead. He stayed on Earth posing as the leader of this faction and your Heero finally caught up with him and killed him. They've given up looking for you since everyone told him and the other pilots you and your brother were dead."

" Heero gave up on me that easily?" asked Relena slumping down against the rock hardly able to understand what she was hearing.

" I'm sorry Relena. If it had been me I would have never stopped looking."

" He gave up on me." said Relena beginning to cry " I thought he cared at least a little."

" It's ok" said Wolf wrapping his arms around her.

Relena pushed away from him a moment. " What happened to them, the pilots, Noin, everyone?"

" Duo, Trowa and Wufei are doing what they always have I suppose since no real news has reached us about them. Quatre continues to try to make peace though it's not been working to well for him. They say he's become a heavy drinker and even married some girl by the name of Catalonia."

" Dorothy," whispered Relena.

" Noin, it's said she's all but gone crazy since she heard of Zechs' disappearance. No one really knows her whereabouts or if she's alive."

" Please don't tell my brother about this. He's got enough on his mind already without having to know the pain he's causing her."

" No, I've already told him that she married someone a month or so after he turned up missing."

" That explains why he doesn't want to talk about noin anymore I guess. What's going on in Heero's life now? Please tell me the truth."

" I don't know how to say this but...it's said that he comitted suicide. Detonated his gundam while still inside or something."

" He's dead." said Relena still to shocked to comprehend his words.

" I'm so sorry Relena, I really am." said Wolf taking her in his arms again. This time Relena didn't resist what reason did she have? Heero was gone. So she stood there letting Wolf hold her and rub her back feeling totally alone.

So they married and lived happily ever after the end! No just kidding the story isn't over yet. I've got a little more to write first. Hopefully you've liked it so far and aren't throwing rotten veggies at the computer screen but anyway I tried. Please R/R