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Chapter 12
As she accepted a cup of coffee from Relena, Hilde sighed softly to herself.
Someone had taken her baby, and she was beyond pissed. Anyone who looked at
her would not recognize her through her grief. And the unmasked pity in
everyone's eyes wasn't doing much to help. Duo had a saying during the war
that really struck home with her. No one messes with the God of Death and
lives. Well, that was the edited version anyway. Hilde took a deep swig of
her coffee and choked a little as it burned her mouth. She was surprised and
pleased that everyone had come in their time of need. As soon as they had
gotten out of the parking lot, Duo called Heero, who had called the other
pilots; tracking them down in a matter of minutes. Hilde was willing to bet
money that Heero was the only person in the universe who could do that.
"Okay, does anyone have any reason to kidnap Marcail?" Quatre asked.
He had been chosen to take the head of this case, since Heero was too
attached to Marcail, and Duo wasn't in a state of mind to do anything.
Looking up at Duo, Hilde winced; his hair was coming out of his normally
neat braid, and his eyes were practically spitting flames. He had started
pacing hours ago when Heero had arrived, and he was still going at it.
"Hilde," Quatre said again, breaking her train of thought.
"Uh? Oh, yes, Quatre?"
"Does any one have any reason to kidnap Marcail?"
"I have been getting notes from someone but they never made any motion or
saying towards her till this afternoon," she whispers softly, trying to keep
Duo from hearing; the last thing she needed right now was for him to go
off the deep end.
"Do you have any idea who could be sending them?"
"Nope, no idea. If I did they would be dead right now!"
"I understand, Hilde," Quatre said his eyes tired but kind. "But right now I
need you to think about everyone you have come in contact with the last
three years."
"Fine, but the notes started before I left, so I don't know how much that
willhelp."
That did it; everyone in the room turned and looked at her. Their faces held
mixed emotions; confusion, anger and shock. Whether the anger was at her or
not, Hilde didn't care to find out. The speed of silence was too much for
her, though.
"Hey, we're here!" Sally Chang called, walking into the room carrying her
one-week-old Tia. Hilde was glad for the interruption.
"Onna, not so loud, you will wake her!" Wufei snarled behind her. Rolling
her eyes, Sally smiled at the rest of the gang.
"Don't mind Wufei. He suddenly hit the overprotective father stage, poor
thing. I hate to see what he is going to be like when she hits sixteen.
Maybe I will run away before then, ne? Anyway, Hilde, is there anywhere I
can put Tia for now? She's sound asleep; an amazing feat since Wufei griped
the whole way here."
"Sure. Follow me."
Chuckling in spite of herself at Wufei's offended expression, Sally followed
Hilde up the stairs quickly. After making sure that Tia was sound asleep in
Marcail's half bed, and after making the appropriate motherly comments, they
quickly returned to the war conference.
"Okay, Hilde, I have everyone briefed on what they missed, " Quatre said
once Sally and Hilde were settled back downstairs. Looking around, Hilde
noticed that Lady Une was just taking her seat.
'Great. Now that everybody and their dog is here we can get started. Oh
well. Like the old saying goes, the more the merrier. Now everyone gets to
here about mine and Duo's marriage. Yippee.'
"Now," Relena said, taking over, "you said something about these messages
coming before you left?"
"Yeah, they started appearing right before I left; it's actually part of the
reason I did," Hilde replied, biting down discomfort that she refused to
show. They were her closest friends, but the only people she felt comfortable enough for emotion were Duo and Relena, and quite frankly Hilde
felt she had shown enough in the last day to last her a lifetime.
"Okay, during the war was there anyone who particularly disliked you?" Lady
Une asked
"No," Hilde whispered, shaking her head in despair. "I don't have any idea
why someone would come after me or take Marcail. The notes they sent call me
a murderer, but it was a war; I killed a lot of people in battle. It was
killed or be killed, everyone in this room knows that."
"We all had to kill," Sally said softly. "But why would they pick you out?
You didn't have any news coverage or major publicity. Nor
did you really pull any big stunts or anything along those lines. That would
have been Duo, and they haven't done anything to him." Thinking on it, Sally
sighed.
"All she did was get the information we needed to take Libra down." A new
female voice rang out, startling everyone.
Whipping around, Hilde blinked at the sight of the newcomers. It was
Milliardo and Noin, and they looked about as happy as Duo.
"Milli and I did some thinking while we were on the plane , and the only
thing we could come up with was that something happened to you on Libra or
you killed while you were getting our information. Someone saw you and is
taking it a little hard, to say the least. That was the only major part of
your life we can think of after the research we did." Noin shrugged, the
only apology Hilde was likely to get from the pair of them. "And that was
the only major part you played unless you count helping Duo escape, which is
a legitimate possibility."
Blinking, Hilde stared at them, for the first time understanding why
Milliardo Peacecraft was one of the most dangerous adversaries a person
could have; he thought like the enemy. Of course, it helped that he had been
one for a while.
"I don't know," Hilde murmured, racking her brain. "That could be it, but
those things happened so long ago. Why would someone until now to come after
me? On both accounts I faced death, but I didn't kill anyone except for a
couple of mobile dolls. And they don't really count since they're pretty
much unmanned."
"It could have taken them that long to find you," Relena added thoughtfully.
"And your disappearance could have thrown them off as much as it did us."
"That can only mean they've been watching me the whole time to see if she
came back." Duo muttered, his eyes blazing with untamed fury.
When he got his fingers on those bastards, they were going to pay. Shooting
them was too nice. Now Duo planned to slowly torture them until every
sleepless night they had inflicted upon him was paid in full. Until they
understood that no one messes with the God of Death and gets away with it.
~~~
"Ere are ee, Styth?" Marcail asked her toy as she looks around the tiny
room where she was being kept.
"I ant to go ome" she whispered, her fear causing
her to revert back to her baby speech.
"I ant Mommy and Daddy," Marcail wailed, tears starting to leak down her
face. She was terrified;
she had her Styth to protect her but she needed Mommy to wipe her tears off
her cheeks and Daddy to beat the bad man who took her away.
"Why are you crying, little one?" A male voice rang out.
Looking up from her Styth, Marcail frowned darkly; it was the bad man who
took her away.
"Ou ook me way" she sobbed, her tears making her nose run.
"Yes, I did, sweetie, but it was for your own good."
Stepping out of the shadows, he walked closer. Marcail clutched her Styth in
front of her as if trying to bring it to life.
"Why?"
"Because your Mommy and Daddy don't love you, and the people we are going to
give you to will."
"Oo are a iar," Marcial whimpered. "My mommy aways loves ee she old ee so!"
"She lied," the man stated simply. "Now why don't you give me your toy, and
we will be on our way?"
"NO! Styth is mine!" Marcail yelled, hiding her Styth behind her back. If he
got her Styth he would get her only protection, and her tiny mind reasoned,
then he could hurt her.
"No ake Styth." She said fresh, tears streaming down her face.
"Alright. I wont take your toy."
"Not a oy. Styth." She repeated, glaring up at the man.
"Alright, your Styth. Now come on." Picking her up, he swung her onto his
hip.
"I tan alk."
"No you can't."
"Yes I tan" she repeated stubbornly, trying to squirm out of his arms,
nearly making him drop her.
"Dammit, stop squirming."
"You said a no-no word," Marcail gasped, her eyes going wide with shock.
"Mommy going to pank you ow."
"Your Mommy is never going to find me."
"Oh yes she is den daddy oing to ick ee ottom."
"Enough talk or I will spank you."
"No panken" Marcail whispered, going quiet with fear.
"Good," he muttered before getting into another car. This was going to be a
long ride.
~~~
Duo stared in shock at Hilde, then Heero. They were both looking up any
information they could find on the survivors of Libra, and of the base he
had blown up. There were not very many people to look for. Or at least that
was what Noin said when she told them that only about one thousand people
had the access or the capabilities to pull off such a major stunt. However,
trying to narrow that list down was a big job. Hilde's confession of killing
a man on while on Libra had instigated the manhunt. Duo had to physically
restrain himself from walking over to her and strangling her for her
stupidity. It was one more thing that she was in trouble with him over, and Duo was not looking forward to the long talk he was going to have with her when it was all over. But he was not backing down on Hilde anytime soon, and she was just going to have to deal with it.
Looking from Hilde to Heero, Duo blinked. Then he looked again. After
repeating this several times he blinked in shock. Hilde was typing faster
than Heero, a feat that he felt that no
mere mortals had never before achieved. But then again, she was ticked, and
Duo had seen her do some pretty impossible things when she was mad. Like
stealing information from Libra. Duo had no doubt in his mind that Hilde was
pissed when she
did that because there was no other reason that she would do such a thing.
No matter what she said on the matter there was no way that she would risk
herself at that point. But then again, she was female, and they caught on to
stuff quicker than men did a lot of times when it came to mushy stuff. Then
there was the time she had flipped off the couch and knocked a guy senseless
with her fist and the same time. Yep she was ticked and he knew it, and he
wasn't looking
forward to this argument, and there was no doubt in his mind that was what
itwould turn into. Her emotions were high, so were his in fact, and she was
already pissed, so arguing would be like poking a stick into an already
agitatedbeehive without protection. Taking a deep breath Duo sighed before shaking
his head in defeat. If you were going to jump into the fire it was better to go
feet first.
"Hilde, we need to talk."
Hilde didn't look up from her typing, if anything she got faster, but then
he was looking for any excuse to run.
"What, Duo?"
"By ourselves, Hilde."
"Later, Duo. If you haven't already noticed, I happen to be busy," Hilde
muttered darkly before her entire face lit up. "Heero, I think I found something."