Nicole Lamari

* I do not own any of the characters in this story besides Connie, Lindsey, Johnny (John), Zack, Niecy, Alex, Max, Lance, and Emma, and a few bad guys----Sorrow

the pairings are...1/R, 2/H, 3/D, 4/C, 5/S, 6/N

...YEARS OF SORROW...

chapter 1- The 'Happy' Reunion
copyright date-6/15/01

The year is after colony 199, peace has been preserved for three years since the Merimeia incident. Every thing seems to be normal In the Sank Palace but every one is preparing for the arrival of the gundam pilots. Though the people were hectic about the disappearance of Relena Peacecraft three years ago they finally decided to give up hope and declare her dead. Even the mighty gundam pilots gave up hope.

"oh man what a drag. Our house burned down, my mini TV just broke, were out of snacks, there's a new enemy coming, and we have to live in the Sank palace until this all blows over.*sigh* it just brings back to many memories of Relena." "Well it was you who got us into this you braided baka!" "Oh yah, how so wu-man?" "Well it was your foolish experiment with food that burned the house down, you broke the TV because I was winning a bet on the game and you decided to through a temper tantrum, You ate all the snacks, You gave the idea of self detonating our gundams leaving us defenseless and unable to defend, the Sank Palace is our last resort, and don't call me wu-man you baka!" "good point WU-MAN" wufe growls. " Guys chill where almost there." "You mean chill like Heero and Silvia, I mean look at them there actually cuddling." "Duo please!" "Alright Quatra for you........Wufei hold me" Duo grabs wufei in his arms. " Ahh....GET OFF OF ME YOU BAKA" "Guys shut-up, Silvia is trying to sleep." hero said in a cold tone. Duo puts his finger in his mouth and pretends to gag, and Hildie slaps him on the head with her purse while Heero gives Duo his death glare. "Ok Guys where here.'' Quatra steps out of the car, and every one follow. Milliardo steps out to greet them. " Ah you finally arrived, welcome." "Thank you Zechs for letting us stay here for a while." "Fine whatever, but may I ask you this? How log is a while?" "Well a few weeks months maybe even years." "OH god the girls are going to kill me!" Zechs mumbles barley above a whisper. "What did you say Zechs?" "Oh nothing Quatra, Well come in, the servants will show you to your rooms." They all walk inside and find their rooms.

" I'm going to kill him, and I mean really kill him. I'm going to tear him up into little peaces!" "Relena calm down,......... and you wont get to him until I get him first." "I've got a better idea Zachary, how about we share?" "Great plan Rena" they walk into the mansion. "MILLIARDO PEACECRAFT GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!''

"Wow who was that? She sounds pissed and..........don't think I'm crazy for saying this but her voice sounds familiar too." "That would be my little sister." "WHAT? either your talking about who I think your talking about or you have a long lost sister that Opera helped you find." "Well Duo your right that is the one and only Relena Peacecraft, she just got back from her job." "WHAT?"@o@ they all yell at once. "Wait, you mean that, that onna is alive?" "Yah your right Wufei, she is alive and don't call my little sis an onna or your going to turn into one yourself when the gang and I get through with you." "Well where was she all these years?" asked Heero "I cant tell you and besides I never thought you cared." Milliardo said as he started to walk to the stairs but he didn't make it for someone stopped him "Before you walk down those stairs your going to tell us something Zechs!" said Heero "If you really want to know, you'll ask her yourself. Now if you'll excuse me I have someone waiting for me so they can rip my head off."

"Milliardo you have better have a good excuse!" Relena said in a dangerously soft voice. "Well every other assassin was on vacation and you Guys were the only ones left." "Ok I can understand that but you didn't tell me that there would be CON-ARTISTS and OTHER HIT-MEN THERE! I thought it was supposed to be formal, and that old rich people would be there to spy on!" Just then the 10 guests walk to the stairs to get a better glimpse at relena and listen to their conversation. " Wow look at Relena and what she's wearing! I didn't think she could look so dame good!" *Shhhhhh* everyone says at once. (ok I guess you Guys are wondering what Relena was wearing, am I right? Well she was wearing a clinky black sun dress that tied around her neck and cut off at her thigh, peach stockings, black heels that tied around her feet, and her hair was in a French twist with two strands of hair to boarder her face. Well on with the story) "Come on sis, I thought you could handle it, alright?" "Oh I could handle it alright, until every guy at the 'ball'( relena makes the quote-end quote sign with her hands) started to hit on me! Oh and if you see Connie, Lindsey, and Johnny You should better be able to run! And what the hell are they doing here?" Relena said as she pointed in the direction of the 10 people standing at the top of the staircase. "I'll take your warning to heart, and their here because their house burned down and they needed a place to stay for a while." "And exactly how long is a while?" "That shouldn't concern you and any ways we have more important matters to discuss......" "Milliardo!" "All I can tell you is that we'll have a full house for a while." "Great! oh and I forgot to tell you to watch out for Zack here to." "Oh shit!" Milliardo said before jetting out of there with Zack on his tail. Just then Connie, Johnny, and Lindsey came in. "well did you get him?" said Connie. "No but Zack has him on the run!" said Lena "well that should keep him occupied for a while. And besides your brother has picked up a few pounds so a little run should do him good!" said Connie as the four walked up the stairs to their rooms, passing 10 flabbergasted people on the way.

"Wow I never new Lena had it in her." Said duo" Well it did look like she has been through allot these past years" said Quatra "yah I guess your right Q-man." "Guys I think we shouldn't be in her way for a while. And I think that we shouldn't ask any questions about her past. It might be to painful" said the usually quiet gundam pilot Trowa. "You've got a point there," said Heero as he had a very concentrated face on like he was thinking hard about something. ".........Well its late and we have a long day ahead of us."

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The next morning the gundum pilots came down stairs and into the kitchen to find Connie, Lindsey, Johnny, Zachary, and Relena in the kitchen sitting quietly while drinking their cups of coffee. Connie had Red hair and green eyes with kacki pants and a halter top on. Lindsey had shoulder length purple hair with black streaks and brown eyes. She was wearing a red tank top and black pants. John was wearing a white T-shirt with shorts on. He had hair like Heero's and eyes like Duo's. Zack was wearing a tight white tank top and black shorts. He had sandy brown hair and blue eyes. Relena had her purmed hair down, going about an inch past her shoulders. It was chin length in the front and got longer as it went back. She had a navy blue tank top on with the words 'war' in silver on it, and black shorts. "Hey Lena long time no see huh?" said Duo with a yawn coming on. "Too long" said Relena with an icy voice and icy eyes. "sssssssoooooo.......how yah been?" "Fine" "we'll are you gunna introduce us to your friends? "Whatever. Guys this is Duo (duo gave a wink at them.......mainly the girls.),Quatra, Trowa, Wuife, and Heero. Trowa, Quatre, Duo, Wuife, Heero, this is Connie, Lindsey, Johnny, and Zachary." Relena's friends did no attempt to give the former gundam piolets a greeting except a quick glance at their direction. "Sheesh...touchy. Well..where is Zechs" asked a cheerful Duo. "Um.....lets just say that he is in a time out. Well we got to run.," said an cold Relena. (not cold as in chilly) "well where are you Guys going?" asked Heero. "God she said we were going for a run is that a problem?" asked an angry Connie. "Hn....."(you could just guess who said that.) "Actually there is a problem!" Said Zechs as he walked down the stairs with ice covering his eye. "Yow....what happened to you?" "*laugh* you want to know what happened to me? I'll tell you what happened to me Duo! Little Ms. Bright and Sunshine over there, thats what happened to me (pointing in Relena's direction) and your not going! And my word is final" "God brother I should start calling you mom. Oh and you don't have any control over me or what I do." Said Relena as she walked out the door with her four other friends following behind. "Great job Z-man." "DUO!" "Well........ I'm going to get a cup of coffee now before any thing bad happens to me (dot dot dot)."

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In the yard Relena and her friends are getting ready to go for a long run.

"hey Relena are those the gundam piolets you told us about? Asked Connie

"*sigh* yep those are the ones." said Relena

"Don't worry. If you tell us to well beat the crap out of them if you want, especially Mr. Heero Yuy"

"Thanks Connie...but I prefer you not."

"Suet your self."

"HEY GUYS ARE YOU COMING OR NOT?"

"Don't worry Zach were coming." said Relena and Connie as they dashed toward the others.

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Later on that night

"Were home!" yelled Connie

"And where have you been?" asked a very angry Milliardo

"We were........." started Connie before someone interrupted her.

"That shouldn't concern you and besides we have more important matters to discuss," said a upset Relena

"And what do you mean by that?" asked Milliardo before getting a glance from Relena.

"ohhhhhh you mean that..." said milliardo like Relena just told Milliardo from her eyes.

"See ya later Guys we got some important business matters to discuss." said Connie as she walked towards the door.

"But first we need to find a secure area to discuss the matters in." said Relena

"Well we could go to the seller, it has iron walls so it wont be easy for anyone to trace our discussion. And it doesn't have any security cameras in It." said Noin

"Great job...and ill thank you later!" said Milliardo with a sly smile on his face

"Yee, Haa..sattle up pony boys and girls cuz its gunna be quite a ride to night!" said Relena in a sarcastic tone.

"Hahahahahahaaa..Great way of putting it Relena..*whew*...sattle up *laugh* its gunna be quite a ride tonight! Hahahahahahaha!"said duo as he was rolling around on the floor trying to contain his laughter while every one looked at him oddly, except for Heero for he was looking at Relena, thinking about what could have changed her so much.

"DUO!!!!"

"Sorry..*laugh*..z-...*giggles*..man.. but it was just soo....hahahahahahahah!"

Every one turned around and headed towards the door except the gundam piolets.

"Quatra!" whispered Dorothy

"Ok ok...Hey! Aren't you going to take us I mean since were your guests and all you shouldn't just leave us here."

"Fine. But you wont be able to understand a word we say."

"atleast we get to come!" said Duo as he just got over his laughter.

In the seller (different language for every one but the 5 g-boys and their girlfriends) italics mean different language...normal is normal

"what are we going to do about our little……situation?" asked Connie

"Well we know what they want…"

"Us", said Relena interrupting Noin.

"But we wont give you to them!" said Zechs

"Sorry brother but what other options do we have??" asked Relena

"We could fight," said Zach

"Baby, do you know what they are saying?" asked Sylvia

"Not a clue" said Heero

"I could ask Relena later… I mean since we were best friends and all," said Hildie

"Yah! Maybe all of us should since we are all friends," said Catherine

"Just us old girls with her, no one else." Said Dorothy

"That's a pretty good idea…. maybe we could also ask what she was up to these past years." said Sally

"Sally that's the best thing I've heard you say since this trip began!" said Wufei.

"Oh my god…did Wu-man actually use sally's name? IS IT THE END OF THE WORLD???" said Duo

"SHUT UP DUO" screamed everyone

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Later on that night:

"Relena! Can we come in?" asked Catherine from behind Relena's bedroom door.

"And may I ask who exactly is we?"

"Its me Catherine, Hildie, Dorothy, and Sally!"

"…Ok you can come in!" said Relena

When the girls opened the door they found Relena and her friends sitting on her bead.

"Ummm…. may we have some privacy?" asked Sally

"Sure. Geis?" Relena asked and they quickly left the room.

"Ok Relena we were a little curious…but what happened to you all these years?"

"I can't talk about that right now," replied Relena

"Relena, please? We just want to catch up."

"Ok but if I tell you, you cant tell anyone else. Are we clear?"

"As a picture, now can you explain what happened to you? We all thought you were dead," said Hildie

"Well I almost was…"replied Relena

"Huh?" said the girls in unison

"Ok… maybe I should start from the beginning…it was roughly about 3 weeks after the Merimea incident and Heero showed up on my door step…you could say he had some unfinished business to take care of…."

"What unfinished business?" asked Dorothy

"Dorothy!" said Hildey

"What? I want to know what unfinished business he had to take care of is that a crime???"

"She means…you know…" said Catherine

"Huh?" asked Dorothy

"She means we had sex ok? Now can I finish the story???" said Relena

"Ohhhh…ok… please continue." Said Dorothy

" Well I was so happy that he came so I thought that after he left…he would come back. But he didn't, so I became very distant and depressed. Soon I locked myself inside my room, refusing any-thing from the outside." Relena stopped and looked down

"Go on." said Sally

"Ok I can do this." Relena whispered, " Well that's when it happened."

"What happened?" asked Hildie

"We were attacked" said Relena with her voice soft and head hung low "we did everything possible to keep them from getting inside but we couldn't. Luckelly, Milliardo, Niece, and Noin weren't their…they were all at the doctor's office for their checkup so they didn't know what was going on. They barged into my room and took me… they said that I would finally be awakened, and that the thing inside me would be free…and that I would help them concour the world. Years I was kept their…constantly beaten and raped, put in cells days without water or food. And I survived. Constantly told by my friends that we would be free. Then the day of the awakining was here… all five of us were thrown into a cell… there was this great light… and the next thing we knew was that we were bulted up with electricity…then we were awakened…Im sorry but I can't tell you any more."

"Ok…we understand" said Dorothy as the girls left

They walked down stairs where the g-boys were with Silvea having an argument when it got quiet. Duo was the first to notice

"Oh no!" said Duo as he and the others looked at the teary and wide- eyed girls at the top of the stairs, when suddenly they boke out into tears. The boys quickely ran up the stairs to comfort the girls.

"WHAT HAPPENED??!??" screamed Quatre

all the girls could only say was "we weren't their for her…we didn't protect her" before sobbing again.. Dorothy was the first one to recover and the first thing she decided to do was walk up to Heero and punch him.

"You, you, cold hearted, unfeeling monster!" Dorothy screamed before spitting in his face

"I don't know what you did to her but I can tell you this, Her whole disappearance was because of you!!" screamed Hildey

"Your lucky compared to what she's been through. You think that since you were trained hard and treated badly by Dr. J gives you the right to, to think you should be pittied well guess what, she went through hell and back and still doesn't ask for anything! And I'm sorry for what she's been through and I'm sorry we promised to find out." Said Catherine

"but I....I...don't think that I should be pittied and I never asked for it." said Heero

"Shut up Heero!.... Dorothy what happened?" asked Quatera

" Im sorry, but we promised to keep it from you. But you could find out if you asked."

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The next day: the training room; at a base named C.A.T:

"I think its good that we can train again… I think were getting a little rusty."

"Speak for your self I think I'm in perfect shape," said wufei

"sure you are wu-mmm…………..wow cool! Hey Guys check out Relena! She's kicking some serious ass!!!!" said Duo. Soon everyone was watching Relena fight.

She threw her fist at John. He blocked it. She kicked him on his head, he caught her foot. While John was still holding her foot she brought her other foot up to his head and kicked him. Before he could react she kicked him in the balls, kicked his head in the air and threw her foot at his stomach, which sent him flying.

" Guess that means that I win! I hope I didn't hurt you." said Relena

"No, no its just my balls that hurt" said Johnny

"I thought you were wearing a cup?" said Connie

"Yah but they still hurt." Said John as walked to the medical bay to get some ice

"Weakling! You can't even beat a girl! And it's Relena for Natako's sake! Injustice!" yelled Wufei from across the room.

"Yah well maybe you should try fighting her!! Do you except Relena??" yelled John

"Any time! Well Wufei what are you waiting for?" yelled Relena

"*snort* injustice." Said Wufei as he took his fighting stance across from Relena

"Ready? Begin!" yelled Zach

Wufei threw his leg at Relena's head and she blocked it with one hand. Then she kicked Wufei in the gut leaving him little time to react. Then she ran over to him, and brought both feet up and kicked him in the gut again, set her hands on the ground and did a clean Round-off. He flew towards the wall but was still standing. She then got the two knives that were in her socks and threw them at Wufei. One went next to his neck and one went to his balls (didn't hit them…but almost did) She walked up to him and said, "Next time I won't miss!" took the knives and walked off.

"Hahahahahahhahahahhaaaaa…you..*laugh* should….*giggles*…you should have seen the look on Wufei's face!!! Hahahahahahahaaa!! I wish I had a camera!!!! Whew! Talk about a close encounter! Hahahahahahaha!!!!."

"Injustice." Said wufei before fainting.

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AN- I think that was a good place to leave off. don't you think? Did you like?? I hope you did!!! Remember to Review!! I know I have spelling errors so please don't remind me! -_- Im writing the next chpter soon and i cant decide to A) change it into a fantisy type thing with a big twist, or B) keep it going the way i have it-meaning that everyone is normal

Duo- Hey I love my part!
Author- Well I do too Duo
Duo-*sniff* You made me so very happy!
Author-*sniff* I'm glad your happy Duo.
Duo- Sorrow!
Author- Duo!
We run into each other's arms.
Both- *Cry* Were so happy! *sobs, sobs, sobs, sobs, sobs*