Taste of Eternity
Disclaimer = I do not own them and I never will. ^_^
The next morning came all to quickly for Heero, as did the morning after that. The days kept coming and going, passing like mere seconds to the unhappy immortal. He didn't go to see Relena for years after their second meeting, but his threat on her life still stood buried in his heart. Heero took his mind off the mystery by watching as the world around him changed, even though he did not. Style and music were the most noticeable things, even though he didn't quite care for either. He found it interesting to watch the humans, and, with a little coaxing from Duo, enrolled at a local highschool as a transferred senior.
"Here we are!" Duo said jovially, books tucked under one arm and the other slung around Hilde's shoulder. "Vampires hit the class of 2001!"
"Shut up." Heero said automatically, shifting the weight of his backpack. "If you're going to broadcast things like that, could you at least lower your voice?"
Duo stuck his tongue out at Heero and turned to Hilde. "Come on babe, we better not be seen around this loser, he's already cramping my style." Hilde nodded and shot Heero an apologetic glance before disappearing inside the building. Heero sighed and started inside the school wondering how he let himself be talked into things like this.
"Hey!" a voice called out to him almost the second he walked into the building. "Who's the Goth?"
Heero turned around to face a burly thick-necked football player pointing in his direction. The cronies that flanked him chuckled mindlessly. Heero narrowed his eyes.
"What?"
The jock, not liking the tone in which his victim had responded, cracked his knuckles in what he perceived as a threatening manor. "I said: Who's the Goth? I love your black contacts, Gothy, they're so spooky. Where the hell did you transfer from? Around here, we don't allow freaks in our school."
Heero smirked. This human had no idea what he was getting himself into. He glanced up at the clock on the wall and saw he still had five minutes to get to his first period class. Plenty of time to kick the mortal's ass and get to Biology before the bell rang.
"Why aren't you answering, Goth?" the jock continued while his two buddies snorted in laughter. "Don't like to talk?"
Heero guessed that his enemy had finally run out of words to say, because he started walking towards him, taking practice swings in the air. Heero's muscles relaxed and he could feel Power lacing the blood in his veins. He would just have to restrain himself so he wouldn't kill the poor fool.
"STOP IT!"
Both boys stopped in their tracks at the sound of the voice. The jock's fists uncurled and he looked at the newcomer with big round eyes. "Hey there!" he began, putting a hand behind his head in a sign of innocence. "I didn't see you there baby."
The girl who had yelled at them to stop rolled her eyes and tossed her long blonde hair behind one shoulder contemptuously. "I thought I asked you to stop picking all these fights, Randy. It's really juvenile of you. Maybe I don't want to be with a guy who's into violence..."
Randy blanched. "What? Come on, I was just playing! I really wasn't gonna hurt the guy!"
The girl's aquamarine eyes sparkled mischievously. "Right, sure.." she turned to look at Heero, concerned. "Are you okay?"
Heero suppressed his smile. This human female was worried about him loosing a fight to another of her kind. It would have been funny if it weren't so pathetic.
"I'm fine." He stated shortly, glaring at her. She smiled in return and gave Randy a definite look.
"Maybe," she began, starting to inch closer to Heero, "I should be with a nicer guy."
Randy's mouth dropped open. "No way! Relena, come on, it was a joke! You're my girl, right?"
*Relena?!* Heero thought, eyes widening. *It couldn't be…*
"I'm sick of your fights and I'm sick of you," Relena was saying as she dug around in her purse, completely oblivious of Heero's dumstruck expression. Relena paused and fished a pen out of her purse. "Here," she said, grabbing Heero's hand and holding it out to her palm up. She scrawled something on his skin and recapped the pen, shooting Randy an evil glare. "You better get going." She said to him, pointing at the clock. "You don't want Coach to get mad, do you?"
Randy, still in shock about what just happened, mumbled something to his goons and then took off sprinting down the hallway, with them following close behind. Relena watched them go and then flashed Heero a smile. "Call me sometime, I always help out the new transfers." She said before ducking inside a nearby classroom.
The bell rang shrilly and last minute stragglers in the hall disappeared. Heero alone remained, looking down at what the girl had written on his palm. It was her phone number, and it matched the one Mrs. Peacecraft had given to him so long ago.
"Relena…" he said into the empty hall, clenching his hand into a fist. "We meet at last."
When the final bell rang at the end of the day, Heero met up with Duo and Hilde in front of the school. "So?" Duo prompted, shoving some of Hilde's books in his own backpack so she wouldn't have to carry as much. "How was it?"
Heero stared straight ahead, trying not to search the crowd for a certain head of blonde hair. "Fine." He said tersely, ignoring both Duo and Hilde as they chattered on about how much fun they had. "Just fine."
When the three got back to the apartment, Heero stalked off to his room, slamming and locking the door shut behind him. Duo and Hilde exchanged glances and shrugged, heading off into the kitchen to make some after school snacks. Heero, meanwhile, was leaning up against the back of the door, breathing hard.
"It is Relena…the same one." he said into the darkness of his room. "Why is she haunting me like this? Why do I even care?" The silence following his questions upset him even more. He stomped over to his CD players and randomly threw one in from his collection. Linkin Park's "Crawling" blasted through the room and shook the window panes on his boarded up window. Heero smiled, satisfied and sank down onto the floor, getting lost in the music.
Sometimes, human things could be useful, he decided, turning up the volume even higher. He knew Duo and Hilde wouldn't mind, but still, the louder the music, the better he felt. He even forgot about Relena- until the song ended.
"This sucks." He muttered, and the CD blared it agreement.
When Heero's frustration finally burned down, he reluctantly turned off the stereo and picked up the phone. If he didn't do this now, he would surely go insane. He quickly dialed the number his fingers had been itching to do for nearly two decades, and waited with bated breath as the phone rang.
"Hello?" Relena's said on from the other end of the line.
Heero visibly relaxed at the sound of her voice. "This is Heero, the guy you met this morning." He said in the lucid tone his voice usually carried. Relena smiled.
"Oh hey, I was just thinking about you. Sorry about your first impression of our school, it's not really that bad. Randy and his friends are all jackasses. I've been wanting a reason to dump him for awhile now."
"Well, thanks for what you did." Heero responded, not meaning any of the words.
Relena laughed. "No prob. Hey, maybe we can get together today and I'll show you around town. It's not easy being the new kid."
"That'd be great." Heero said in monotone, "How about I meet you at the park?"
"Okay, I'll be there in ten." Relena said cheerfully before hanging up the phone.
Heero stared blankly off into space as the dial tone buzzed in his ear. What was wrong with him? He should be trying to get away from this girl, not closer to her. And yet…
Heero closed his eyes and willed himself to the park. He appeared at the front gates in an instant, and luckily there were no humans close enough to see him teleport. Relena walked around the corner five minutes later. She saw him and waved.
"Hey, how'd you get here so fast? I'm not late, am I?" she asked worriedly. Heero shook his head.
"No, I'm just a fast walker. Come on, you can show me around the park."
Relena nodded and they stepped inside the arches.
"Why did you write your number on my palm?" Heero asked to break the silence that had already stretched between them. "To make your boyfriend jealous?"
"Ex-boyfriend." Relena corrected. "I really did break up with him. And no, I kinda just wanted you to know someone."
"Oh." Heero said, sounding a little more disappointed than he intended.
Relena laughed lightly. "Don't be so bummed," she added with a seductive wink. "I am, after all, a single woman now."
Heero smirked. This girl had guts. He was about to tell her so when she spoke first.
"Where have I seen you before?" she asked, peering at him closely. "You're so familiar."
Heero shrugged and proceeded to lie through his teeth. "Likewise. I don't think I've seen you before though."
Relena shrugged off the feeling and smiled again, telling him funny anecdotes about school and how lucky he was transferring for their last year. Heero found himself opening up around her, despite the fact that she wasn't even of his kind.
They found a park bench to sit down and talked until after sunset, which prompted them both as to what time it was.
"Omigosh!" Relena exclaimed, getting to her feet. "It's way late, I have to get going back home."
Heero got up also and looked her right in the eye. Soulless black met pure aquamarine for the second time and neither of them could look away.
"Heero," Relena began, but he cut her off by pressing his lips up against her own. It caught himself in as much surprise as it did her, but neither pulled back. He kissed her softly at first, but then more urgently. When they pulled back, their eyes were still locked on eachother.
"Goodnight, Relena." Heero said simply, stepping back into the shadows. And if Relena didn't know better, she could have sworn he vanished.
"Heero…" Relena said, her voice getting swallowed up by the silence. "Goodnight.."
Disclaimer = I do not own them and I never will. ^_^
The next morning came all to quickly for Heero, as did the morning after that. The days kept coming and going, passing like mere seconds to the unhappy immortal. He didn't go to see Relena for years after their second meeting, but his threat on her life still stood buried in his heart. Heero took his mind off the mystery by watching as the world around him changed, even though he did not. Style and music were the most noticeable things, even though he didn't quite care for either. He found it interesting to watch the humans, and, with a little coaxing from Duo, enrolled at a local highschool as a transferred senior.
"Here we are!" Duo said jovially, books tucked under one arm and the other slung around Hilde's shoulder. "Vampires hit the class of 2001!"
"Shut up." Heero said automatically, shifting the weight of his backpack. "If you're going to broadcast things like that, could you at least lower your voice?"
Duo stuck his tongue out at Heero and turned to Hilde. "Come on babe, we better not be seen around this loser, he's already cramping my style." Hilde nodded and shot Heero an apologetic glance before disappearing inside the building. Heero sighed and started inside the school wondering how he let himself be talked into things like this.
"Hey!" a voice called out to him almost the second he walked into the building. "Who's the Goth?"
Heero turned around to face a burly thick-necked football player pointing in his direction. The cronies that flanked him chuckled mindlessly. Heero narrowed his eyes.
"What?"
The jock, not liking the tone in which his victim had responded, cracked his knuckles in what he perceived as a threatening manor. "I said: Who's the Goth? I love your black contacts, Gothy, they're so spooky. Where the hell did you transfer from? Around here, we don't allow freaks in our school."
Heero smirked. This human had no idea what he was getting himself into. He glanced up at the clock on the wall and saw he still had five minutes to get to his first period class. Plenty of time to kick the mortal's ass and get to Biology before the bell rang.
"Why aren't you answering, Goth?" the jock continued while his two buddies snorted in laughter. "Don't like to talk?"
Heero guessed that his enemy had finally run out of words to say, because he started walking towards him, taking practice swings in the air. Heero's muscles relaxed and he could feel Power lacing the blood in his veins. He would just have to restrain himself so he wouldn't kill the poor fool.
"STOP IT!"
Both boys stopped in their tracks at the sound of the voice. The jock's fists uncurled and he looked at the newcomer with big round eyes. "Hey there!" he began, putting a hand behind his head in a sign of innocence. "I didn't see you there baby."
The girl who had yelled at them to stop rolled her eyes and tossed her long blonde hair behind one shoulder contemptuously. "I thought I asked you to stop picking all these fights, Randy. It's really juvenile of you. Maybe I don't want to be with a guy who's into violence..."
Randy blanched. "What? Come on, I was just playing! I really wasn't gonna hurt the guy!"
The girl's aquamarine eyes sparkled mischievously. "Right, sure.." she turned to look at Heero, concerned. "Are you okay?"
Heero suppressed his smile. This human female was worried about him loosing a fight to another of her kind. It would have been funny if it weren't so pathetic.
"I'm fine." He stated shortly, glaring at her. She smiled in return and gave Randy a definite look.
"Maybe," she began, starting to inch closer to Heero, "I should be with a nicer guy."
Randy's mouth dropped open. "No way! Relena, come on, it was a joke! You're my girl, right?"
*Relena?!* Heero thought, eyes widening. *It couldn't be…*
"I'm sick of your fights and I'm sick of you," Relena was saying as she dug around in her purse, completely oblivious of Heero's dumstruck expression. Relena paused and fished a pen out of her purse. "Here," she said, grabbing Heero's hand and holding it out to her palm up. She scrawled something on his skin and recapped the pen, shooting Randy an evil glare. "You better get going." She said to him, pointing at the clock. "You don't want Coach to get mad, do you?"
Randy, still in shock about what just happened, mumbled something to his goons and then took off sprinting down the hallway, with them following close behind. Relena watched them go and then flashed Heero a smile. "Call me sometime, I always help out the new transfers." She said before ducking inside a nearby classroom.
The bell rang shrilly and last minute stragglers in the hall disappeared. Heero alone remained, looking down at what the girl had written on his palm. It was her phone number, and it matched the one Mrs. Peacecraft had given to him so long ago.
"Relena…" he said into the empty hall, clenching his hand into a fist. "We meet at last."
When the final bell rang at the end of the day, Heero met up with Duo and Hilde in front of the school. "So?" Duo prompted, shoving some of Hilde's books in his own backpack so she wouldn't have to carry as much. "How was it?"
Heero stared straight ahead, trying not to search the crowd for a certain head of blonde hair. "Fine." He said tersely, ignoring both Duo and Hilde as they chattered on about how much fun they had. "Just fine."
When the three got back to the apartment, Heero stalked off to his room, slamming and locking the door shut behind him. Duo and Hilde exchanged glances and shrugged, heading off into the kitchen to make some after school snacks. Heero, meanwhile, was leaning up against the back of the door, breathing hard.
"It is Relena…the same one." he said into the darkness of his room. "Why is she haunting me like this? Why do I even care?" The silence following his questions upset him even more. He stomped over to his CD players and randomly threw one in from his collection. Linkin Park's "Crawling" blasted through the room and shook the window panes on his boarded up window. Heero smiled, satisfied and sank down onto the floor, getting lost in the music.
Sometimes, human things could be useful, he decided, turning up the volume even higher. He knew Duo and Hilde wouldn't mind, but still, the louder the music, the better he felt. He even forgot about Relena- until the song ended.
"This sucks." He muttered, and the CD blared it agreement.
When Heero's frustration finally burned down, he reluctantly turned off the stereo and picked up the phone. If he didn't do this now, he would surely go insane. He quickly dialed the number his fingers had been itching to do for nearly two decades, and waited with bated breath as the phone rang.
"Hello?" Relena's said on from the other end of the line.
Heero visibly relaxed at the sound of her voice. "This is Heero, the guy you met this morning." He said in the lucid tone his voice usually carried. Relena smiled.
"Oh hey, I was just thinking about you. Sorry about your first impression of our school, it's not really that bad. Randy and his friends are all jackasses. I've been wanting a reason to dump him for awhile now."
"Well, thanks for what you did." Heero responded, not meaning any of the words.
Relena laughed. "No prob. Hey, maybe we can get together today and I'll show you around town. It's not easy being the new kid."
"That'd be great." Heero said in monotone, "How about I meet you at the park?"
"Okay, I'll be there in ten." Relena said cheerfully before hanging up the phone.
Heero stared blankly off into space as the dial tone buzzed in his ear. What was wrong with him? He should be trying to get away from this girl, not closer to her. And yet…
Heero closed his eyes and willed himself to the park. He appeared at the front gates in an instant, and luckily there were no humans close enough to see him teleport. Relena walked around the corner five minutes later. She saw him and waved.
"Hey, how'd you get here so fast? I'm not late, am I?" she asked worriedly. Heero shook his head.
"No, I'm just a fast walker. Come on, you can show me around the park."
Relena nodded and they stepped inside the arches.
"Why did you write your number on my palm?" Heero asked to break the silence that had already stretched between them. "To make your boyfriend jealous?"
"Ex-boyfriend." Relena corrected. "I really did break up with him. And no, I kinda just wanted you to know someone."
"Oh." Heero said, sounding a little more disappointed than he intended.
Relena laughed lightly. "Don't be so bummed," she added with a seductive wink. "I am, after all, a single woman now."
Heero smirked. This girl had guts. He was about to tell her so when she spoke first.
"Where have I seen you before?" she asked, peering at him closely. "You're so familiar."
Heero shrugged and proceeded to lie through his teeth. "Likewise. I don't think I've seen you before though."
Relena shrugged off the feeling and smiled again, telling him funny anecdotes about school and how lucky he was transferring for their last year. Heero found himself opening up around her, despite the fact that she wasn't even of his kind.
They found a park bench to sit down and talked until after sunset, which prompted them both as to what time it was.
"Omigosh!" Relena exclaimed, getting to her feet. "It's way late, I have to get going back home."
Heero got up also and looked her right in the eye. Soulless black met pure aquamarine for the second time and neither of them could look away.
"Heero," Relena began, but he cut her off by pressing his lips up against her own. It caught himself in as much surprise as it did her, but neither pulled back. He kissed her softly at first, but then more urgently. When they pulled back, their eyes were still locked on eachother.
"Goodnight, Relena." Heero said simply, stepping back into the shadows. And if Relena didn't know better, she could have sworn he vanished.
"Heero…" Relena said, her voice getting swallowed up by the silence. "Goodnight.."