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Smirking at the phone Mark grinned at Mitchelle. "Why hello Darling how is it down where you are."
"I am not your Darling...And it's just fine now what do you want?" She snaps her green eyes flashing dangerously.
"Well just to let the cat out of the bag so to say."
"What did you do this time?" Mitchelle felt cold fear rip through her stomach. There were only two things she could think of that would cause that look grace his face. One she didn't want to think about the other...well the other scared her silly...he wouldn't would he?
"I have the Yuy kid as well."
He did..."ARE YOU CRAZY." She ranted disbelieve written on her face.
"What?"
"You...you kidnapped two gundam children? Have you lost your mind especially with one of them being the perfect soldier's child?"
"The Gundams are nothing I tell you. They can not touch me."
"Do not contact me again." She orders before shutting down the phone. Grabbing a communicator she starts issuing orders. "We have twenty four hours to move people. I want nothing left. Lets go NOW." Shaking her head she sighed.
"You're on your own now." Touching the picture frame that held her and Mark, they were both smiling then. "I am sorry, my brother." She whispers a tear coursing down her check before she furiously brushed it away. This was not a time to be weak...she had to be strong. She was packing her bags and running like a mutt with its tail between its legs...and maybe just maybe Yuy wouldn't find her.
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"Heero...Heero...come on old buddy look at me." The only response that Duo got for his troubles though was a glare before Heero returned to his computer.
Relena for all of her pain managed a small chuckle at that one. Looking up from her book Hilde smiled at her friend. It was sheer pandemonium around the Maxwell house for the first two hours after Chris had been taken. From comforting Relena to convincing everyone that she was not staying in bed to actually calming Milliardo and Heero down enough to make them see reason, and not to storm off and just start shooting anyone suspicious.
"Hilde?" Relena says softly.
"Ya?" Looking up from her book once more Hilde frowned a concerned look framing her delicate features.
"How do you stand knowing that he could be in trouble, hurt or even worse?"
"I don't." She admits. Shaking her head she sets her book down. "I just sit back and pray that he will be alright, or at least I sit back now. Relena, don't ever get shot people treat you like you're three when you do."
A chuckle escape's the Vice Minister's mouth at that. "I handled two wars, got the perfect soldier to admit that he was in love with me and had a baby. The latter of the three in it self is a accomplishment and yet I can't handle the fact that my baby is gone."
"It's one of the pros and cons of being a mother, Relena. We bear a burden that no one but another mother can understand. Our children are our most precious burden. They mean the world to us and when something happens to them our hearts rip in half. They cry we want to cry with them, they get hurt we want to rip the persons head off who hurt them. It's our greatest strength and our greatest weakness, our love for our children. We can be lifted or brought down by it."
"When did you get so poetic?" Relena questions desperately wishing for half of the assurance Hilde had radiating off of her.
"When Marcail was born. That is another thing. Our children bring out the best or worst of us, that is definitely one of the worst." Making a face Hilde grins at Relena before sobering up again. "I need to make a phone call okay?"
"Sure go ahead. I am going to go and bug Quatre for information he is the only one who seems to be willing to tell me anything." Nodding her head in agreement Hilde walks back to her and Duo's room. They had without really saying anything started over as husband and wife. From the start with no interruptions, and when they got their daughter back would learn what it's like to have a true family. A first for the both of them, but first she needed the reassurance of a friend and a mother.
"Hello?" The women on the other end of the vid phone said a smile playing across her face.
"Hello Mary."
"HILDE...OH MY GOD, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
"On the colonies, and Mary please stop screaming."
"You're okay then?" She questions a grin spreading across her features.
"Me? In a way."
"What happened?" Mary demanded her voice ringing with authority. Mary had always been able to read her like a book and it seemed like this was no different. Even across thousands of miles and on a vid phone.
"Marcail was kidnapped." She breathes her face crumpling once more as tears started to leak down her face. "And I can't do anything to help."
"Oh, Hilde." She murmurs softly tears threatening to spill down her own face. "I am so sorry."
"It's not your fault." Hilde replies confusion shining on her face. "So why are you sorry?"
"Because I can't give you a hug when were like this." She replies honestly a frown creasing her pretty features. "Listen let me put Mark to bed okay? I will get back to you in just a second."
Whipping her tears from her face she nods her head. "Okay."
A few minutes later true to her word, Mary showed back up a concerned look on her face. "Okay Hilde start at the beginning."
An hour later Hilde finally had it all out, between bouts of crying, frustration, and anger she managed to keep from actually having a nervous breakdown.
"Okay let me get this straight." Mary murmurs hand held to her for head. "You're married to a gundam pilot, hang around people like the vice foreign minister, and have terrorists or slave sellers kidnapping your children and its normal?" At Hilde slight hiccup she bursts into laughter.
"What?" Hilde wails a look of shock showing on her face at her friend laughter how could she be laughing at this.
"Oh dear, Hilde I always knew there was a lot of stuff that you were not telling me but I never thought in a million years that you were in that world."
"What world?" Hilde questions her confused look becoming completely befuddled.
"You're in the Gundam world, a world of hero's and legends. I would never have thought that sweet, funny and hyper Hilde would be a part of it much less one of its main players. Girl you have a inner strength if your surviving that world so use it...fight for your baby and bring Marcail back or I will come up there and personally help you whip up on them."
"Uh?"
"What you don't think that I just sat back in the war and let it go past me did you?"
"Uh...um..." That just caused Mary to laugh even harder.
"Oh, Hilde I would love to continue this chat but I must go. I have work in the morning."
Nodding her head Hilde finally managed. "And just what were you during the war?"
"Me?" At Hilde nod she grinned. "I was a sniper." At her friends shocked look she laughed helplessly as she shut the connection off.
"Of all the...And I never knew." Hilde mumbled just as Duo threw the door opened.
"We found them." He said. It was all he needed to before Hilde was up and out of the bed, running for the living room.
"Hilde are you sure that you're fine?" Duo questions.
"Yes Duo I am more than fine I am perfectly okay."
Nodding his head he shakes his head. "I just don't want to lose you, I just got you back." He eyes softening at that. She smiles tenderly at him. And for a moment he forgot that he was going in to a kill someone and that his daughter's life was in danger. For in that moment he knew that no matter what happened for the rest of his life she would never leave him.
"I am not leaving Duo, never." She murmured as if to reassure his thoughts. Placing a quick kiss on her lips he smiles back at her.
"I know." Before once more becoming the God of Death, it was time to make someone pay. They were at their first checkpoint out in front of the main warehouse. It was currently midnight and there was very little activity going on.
Smiling once more Hilde moves silently down the road to hook up with Relena. They had been instructed to stay out of line of fire and had given their silent promise to do just that. So here they were once more Duo and Heero, the God of Death and the Perfect Solider ready to take on the world.
"Just like old time uh?" Duo laughs to himself before grinning. "Is this guy stupid or something?" Duo mumbles to Heero about the lack of security.
"No, just overconfident." Heero replies in his monotone voice. That caused a slight shudder to rack Duo's body. It had been so long since that voice had been heard and quiet frankly it scared him silly. Heero had sworn to never hurt another sole so long ago...but then again there was one thing that you didn't do. That was mess with Heero's family. They were sacred and off limit's as far as he was concerned and if you laid a finger on them you would pay. He had gone through so much as child and as a teenager that his family was the one thing he protected more than the peace they loved. Come to think of it though he was the exact same way.
Nodding at each other the two ex-terrorists snuck easily into the compound. "For one of our talents this is no problem...so why the easy entry way?" Duo grumbles his blood was singing for revenge and it would have it one way or the other.
"Overconfident" Heero repeats calmly nothing showing in his voice but Duo knew as sure as he knew his own hand that he was taking everything strategizing, analyzing and devising. Someone was going down tonight.
Shaking his head Duo grinned to himself, sensing the guard before the he had a chance Duo moved quickly and a few moments later an unconscious guard laid there. Nodding at Heero they continued there ascent deep into the content of the complex never noticing the silent shadows that followed them.
~~~
"Was it a good idea to let those two go in there alone?" Noin questioned Sally from their viewpoint above the building. The place was surrounded by artificial hills and had once been a mansion. Or at least it looked as if it had once been a mansion there was nothing else that they had been able to come up with between the two of them that resembled it.
"Yes." Sally murmured softly. "The questions we should be asking ourselves is was it wise to leave Hilde and Relena by themselves?"
"I am sure that Relena won't try or do anything stupid." Noin says her eyes leaving the building. "Milliardo and Heero would kill her themselves."
"That never stopped her before, the threats of killing I mean."
"Please don't say that in front of Milliardo he is still not over that fact that is his sisters husband swore to kill her as many times as he did."
"Grudges fad fast for him uh?"
"You have no idea." Noin murmurs while chuckling slightly. "When we fight he apologizes within minutes I think he is sill scared that I am going to leave him."
"Hasn't he learned that you are never leaving him, yet? My lord you have three children."
"The past is sometimes very hard to get over." Noin explains. "His especially."
Opening her mouth to answer Sally was cut short by the explosion that ripped through the building. "OH MY GOD." Were the only words she managed to utter, that was once she got her mouth working again.
~~~
Looking at the rumble in front of him Duo had to admit to himself that he hadn't lost his touch. Looking around at the deserted room he scowled before following Heero down the hall. They were somewhere in the middle of the place but it was obvious to them that someone had been remodeling. What looked like an old mansion on the outside was really a huge castle.
"This way." Heero says calmly never looking at the huge opening that Duo had made for them. It wasn't needed or at least Duo hoped it wasn't because if it was that meant that Heero was losing his touch. Which could be fatal later on, yet by watching the way Heero was sneaking around he didn't think that was a possibility.
"Hold it right there." A deep male voice rang.
'I am so getting tired of that line' whipping around Duo froze gun in hand. For there standing in front of him was a man. He was shorter than Duo and had a pudgier belly than Duo was used to seeing on young men. His hair was ruffled normally this would have been cause for Duo to disregard him except for one thing he had Marcail in a death grip and Chris tucked in his other arm and a gun was pointing at Marcail's head.
"What the." Duo growled taking a step forward. The sound of a safety being taken off a gun froze him in his tracks. "I said don't move."
"What do you want?" Heero questions his own gun lowered but even from his position Duo could see the dangerous look flashing in his friends eyes. "I want revenge."
"For what? And why did you bring my family into it" Duo growled.
"Because that low life you call a wife killed my brother on Libra so in return I am taking her daughter. It doesn't concern you now, move."
"You know I am really getting sick of that phrase." Duo growls low in his throat his own anger starting to burn hot. How dare this man call his pixie a low life?
"So you take your men and go and nothing will happen to you." The man warned.
"Mark right" Heero said calmly his voice devoid of any emotion. Jerking slightly a slight grin tugs at the man's lips. "Ah I see the perfect solider knows me. Should I feel honored?"
Blinking Duo almost jerked with shock. The shadows behind the man seemed to solidify and move. Watching he blinked in fascination as the shadow's then seemed to continue there movement towards the back of the mans head. A few moments later it almost seemed as if the shadow's at chosen to exact revenge from the man because a solid thunk was heard and the man was unconscious on the floor a second later.
"Did we get him?" A female voice that sounded an awfully lot like Relena rang out a moment later. Heero must have though so to because his whole body froze.
"I should think so." Hilde's voice rang out that alone caused Duo to freeze that meant two things. One they had gone against direct orders and two had endangered their lives needlessly once again. Before he could issue a word of rebuke though a shrill, "MOMMY", rang through out the room as mothers and children were reunited.
~~~
"He is going to be locked up for a very long time." Lady Une promised with a grim grin. "He will be lucky if he gets out for the turn of the century."
Nodding her head Relena sighs before letting a grin bloom on her pretty features. "Good and if you have any trouble with getting any papers and such let me know. I can guarantee that I can get them with little or no problem."
"And if she can't I bet we can get Heero to." Hilde says with a grin on her face. "With a little help from Quatre I am sure."
"Now that you mention it Senate Member Grission, the one who normally handles our cases, has refused to help us."
"Grission?" Relena repeats her eyebrows flying upwards at that. "He always was a fool, I will take care of it. It is not hard to convince him that it is in his best interest to do something. Wasn't he in a blackmail case last year?" At Lady Une's nod she grins. "All right consider it done."
"All right then this meeting is finished you are free to return to your children ladies." She grinned at them. They were all still at the Maxwell house and would spend the night there leaving in the morning. They were there as a security pre-caution just in case one of the Mark's supporters were on the lookout for revenge.
~~~
Smiling down at the sleeping Marcail, Hilde grinned to herself. It had been a long day for all of them but once Marcail and Chris had realized that they were safe they had never shut up.
"Mommy hey no et ee dan?" Marcail said tears in her eyes as she clung to Hilde for life support. "No sweetie they aren't going to get you again."
"Are you sure?" Chris questioned his eyes wide. One hand was latched onto his Relena the other to Heero but he hadn't taken his eyes off of Marcail. "I don't want the bad man to hit Marcail again."
"He hit Marcail?" Duo's voice said fury radiating from his every move.
"He tried to but I got in the way." The little boy admits his eyes wide before turning his head to the handprint on his neck. "It only hurt's when you touch it."
Looking at the mark with horror written across her face she blinks. "I'll kill him." She promises.
"No mommy I kill him." Chris says his dark eyes mirroring the expression of absolute emotionless that mirrored Heero's.
"He hurt me, he is mine to hurt."
Blinking at the boy next to her Marcail frowns. "Ee is ine." She repeats glaring at Chirs. "When ee get old dat is." She says pointing to herself frowning furiously at the boy. "Sides Styth help me and dat is dat."
Scowling at her he frowns "Styth is a crappy Gundam, Wing could kick it's butt any day."
Her eyes narrowing even farther her violet eyes practically spit sparks at him as she leans over as to get as close as she could without leaving the protective safety of Hilde arms. "Isten here oy, Styth could kick Wing's butt any day." Speaking almost completely clear she finishes. "Cause Wing only as a gun Styth has a Styth and a gun and a better ilot," Pointing at herself for in fases she nods. "ME." Finished she sat back with a satisfied smirk as she looked at the sputtering boy in front of her.
Chuckling at the memory Hilde brushes a strand of hair behind her daughters ear. She had even protested a bath though she was sure that the tiny girl would as soon as she got over the fact that she really was home. Tonight's story had been about a princess who had been rescued by her daddy before she had been forced to some terrible fate. Marcail of course had told the story. A strong hand wrapped itself around her wrist causing her to frown, she knew that hand and the only way that it would grab hand like it was could mean only one thing. World War three was about to erupt in the Maxwell house.
"Duo I swear if you wake her up" Hilde threatens. Not replying Duo pulls her after him out of the room and down the stairs towards their room. If Hilde had not been so busy glaring at his back she would have noticed a couple of things. One of them being that Heero and Relena broke out of their argument as they passed, staring at their backs in shock, another being that the people in the hall were practically jumping out of there way to keep from being plowed over by the God of Death and his wife. Turning once they were in the safety of their room he turns the full intensity of his glare onto Hilde, only to be met by hers.
"Hilde if you ever do something like that again." He growls low in his throat.
"What Duo are you going to lock me up like a child?" Her brows flying to her hairline she smirks at him. "I don't think so, unless you want to be castrated that is."
"I just found you dang it I am not loosing you so soon."
"You won't." She replies meeting his angry gaze. "Your just mad because I beat you to the punch."
"What?" He snarls.
"MOMMY." Marcail's scream ripped through the night air. It took the Maxwell couple 3.2 seconds to reach Marcail's room. Duo had his gun out and Hilde had a bat that she had picked up on the way only to find Chris sitting in Marcail's crib rocking her as she cried. How he had gotten their Duo had no idea and quiet frankly he really didn't want to know.
"Bad dream." He explains laying the now sleeping Marcail back on the bed before neatly jumping out of the crib and walking out of the room and past all the bystanders that had come running at the scream. All of them were in various states of sleeping or were in wrinkly clothes that had been worn all day.
"Don't say it." Duo and Heero as warn everyone. "Don't even say it."
"Hilde." Relena chirps. "I do believe they bonded on their little trip." Hearing a two groans of dismay the two women broke into hysterics before simultaneously grabbing their perspective men.
"Time for bed sweetie." Hilde says around her chuckles.
"Bed time." Relena teases. Shaking her head Noin looks at Milliardo. "Oh God." They moan together before giggling. "Can you just see them together as a couple in 20 years?"
"Only if she doesn't kill him first." Sally replies.
A very loud "SHUT UP." Was heard down the hall, it sounded suspiciously like Heero and Duo but then again you could never be sure.