A warm blanket of sunshine covers Hilde's body as she sleeps. The tickling of soft grass under her brings Hilde to the realization that she is in a field. Despite the comfortable bed her surroundings make for her weary body, Hilde's logic side of her mind can't help but be startled. She should not be here, a place like this is only described by those who have ventured through the house of death and back.
"It has been years since I have felt so at peace." Says Hilde to her logical side to provide some sort of comfort. She slowly sits up to take in her surroundings . . . An endless field of sunflowers. A magnificent blue sky . . . a soft breeze. A sweet smell in the air . . . Suddenly the her mind is bombarded with memories of her past experience with a place like this and that peaceful feeling flees, being replaced by fear. She stands up and turns around to face what she thought would be the victims of James Jackson but instead finds herself in the same spot where she saw James kill the little girl.
"No . . . " She says in a shaking voice.
Hilde backs away but a hand stops. Then several hands brace themselves on her back as they lead her to the grave of the little girl. Hilde digs her heels in the ground and tries to turn away . . . but the hands are gentle and almost caring so she can't help but go with them. Hilde glances behind her to see the victims of James Jackson. They are guiding her and are all dressed in a white, almost glowing, gown. Their faces are smiling and full of life.
"Thank you . . . " They say together. Hilde can only nod. They soon stop at the spot where the girl lays.
"Save her . . . please . . . "
"How?" Says Hilde as she kneels down to the grave.
She places a hand on the ground and does a silent prayer for the little girl. Hilde strokes the grave as if it where the girls face . . . but . . . when her hand moves a red liquid bubbles up. The girls move back and hold each other as the red liquid rushes up. Hilde falls back as she watches in horror.
"Dear God . . . it's blood!"
"Save her!" Yell the girls.
Suddenly the ground rumbles and bursts open as a fountain of blood emerges. Hilde watches the fountain rise higher and higher in the air. As the blood moves up, it takes shape of a dragon, never losing its liquid form.
"SAVE HER!" Scream the girls as the little girl materializes.
She is chained to the neck of the dragon and around her neck is the bag James buried with her. The dragon opens its mouth to the sky and lets out a horrible scream . . . an unearthly sound that rips at the soul. The beast rushes down on Hilde. She can only cover face with her arms as it crashes down on her, swallowing her up. Hilde can't breathe, can't think as she is pulled down deeper in an ocean. When all seems lost, gentle hand's grab her and pull her up . . . the girls. They are standing on a rock and pull Hilde up. She takes a minute to catch her breath. A moment passes and Hilde is ready. She looks around and sees that the dragon had turned her dream world into an ocean of blood and this rock is her only salvation.
"How can I save her?" She says to the girls in front of her.
The point behind her . . . they point to the ocean. Hilde turns to see what they want and just below them she can see movement. At first she thought it to be a snake but as it crept closer she saw it to be the dragon with the girl. The beast circles them . . . taunts them with its prize . . . the little girl.
"The bag!" Hilde says, a light of hope finally making a show. "If I get the bag then I can save her! Tell me! Am I right?" She says with excitement. Nothing from the girls. Hilde turns to face them but sees nothing . . . she is in the dark, alone. "Hello?" Suddenly her body is shocked with a painful force. Hilde grabs her heart and bends over as another shock crashes over her. Voices fill her world. They are hard to hear but not their tone . . . fear. "Stop it . . . " She yells as she is hit again. "I can't do it!"
"You have to Hilde! Come on! Wake UP!" ("That voice . . . ") Hilde uses all her strength to force her eyes opens.
"Duo?" She says to the frantic man next to her. He had two nurse holding his arm. Duo gave her a big grin and was freed from the nurses grips. A doctor is then helped off the floor by the two nurses. He glares at Duo as one hand covers his right eye.
"Lady, you need to control your husband." Growls the doctor as a nurse gives him an ice pack to go over his bruised eye.
"He's not my husband." Says in a soft voice as she plays with her fingers.
"What? Then why did you hit me?"
"You didn't give me a straight answer! When I ask 'How is she doing.' You don't say . . . 'Good enough that she is alive!'" Hilde laughs at the two but then she remembered her dream.
"Duo!" She says as she sits up. "We have to go to L1! We have to go NOW!" She yells as she pulls on his sleeve. The doctor nods to the two nurses and each move to Hilde sides. Duo shakes his head and looks at her sorrowfully.
"Can't do that babe. You almost died tonight." He slowly pushes her back down on the bed. Hilde shakes her head and tries to get up but the nurses pull her down.
"NO! I have to save her! I can save your friend! I can prove that he didn't kill those girls!" Duo took a step back from her to let her words sink in. "Duo . . . " She says pleading.
"You're not going any where miss." Says a cold voice. Wufei. "Yo have some explaining to do."
"Explaining?"
"Yes, like why we found you almost dead with two others . . . "
"Others! I forgot about them!" She says cutting Wufei off. "How is she? And what about James?"
"James may not live the night. His face and ribs were beaten. Someone hit him really hard in the face with a lava lamp."
"I know. I did it." She says as a matter-of-fact. The two detectives look at each other and the doctor laughs.
"That is some trick Miss Hilde. Because when we found you, you were suffering from heart failure, We almost lost you."
"You had too much of a sedative in your system." Duo says.
"Well, I did it. I don't regret it! Now tell me about Dorothy!"
"She is in the same state as James." Says Quatre as he enters the room. "I just came from there." He walks up to Hilde and hands her a folder. "I was intrigued by what you said early on." Quatre, as if he were a lifelong friend, smiles at Hilde. "So I did some digging and found this." He taps the fold. Hilde silently opens the fold. Everyone moves in for a closer look. All that is contained in the folder is a sheet of paper. Hilde looks at Quatre with a confused look. "Read it." He simple states as Hilde begins to read. Her eyes become wide and she smiles.
"Come on Duo! We have work to do on L1!" She says as she throws her covers off her and pulls out her IV. With the folder in one hand and the other on Duo's sleeve, Hilde makes a break for the exit. However, she would have gotten out if only Duo hadn't stopped. "Duo?"
"Hilde. Must I remind you that you ALMOST died tonight?"
"It doesn't matter! You want to save your friend then lets go!"
"Uh . . . Hilde?"
"Yes?"
"You're not leaving!" Yells the doctor. He grabs Hilde's arm. "You're still under my . . . care." He pauses as he looks into a sea of midnight blue, where in its depth lies a strong will of a woman who won't be told 'no'. Sighing in defeat, the doctor let go of her arm and let her walk out with Duo right behind her.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. We come here today to reopen the L1 Conservatory as the Dale Smith Conservatory. In honor of Dale Smith who . . . " Dale Smith smiles as he the man speaks. This type of publicity will get him in office for another year. He looks to his wife and frowns.
"Smile dear." He whispers to her. His voice is low and soft but the hard pinch to her arm represents his harshness. Things are falling into place. He will win another election and finally get rid of James Jackson and Hero Yuy. All he has to do now is get rid of his wife. Dale could divorce her but that would mean he isn't perfect. He has to kill her. It is the only way she can get out!
"Ok . . . lets go over this again." Says Duo as he sits on the bed that Hilde is laying on.
"I already explained it to you Duo! Why go over again?"
"Hilde. Maybe you don't understand this but up here on the colonies, you don't say that the president is behind a hole chain of murders! He is a powerful man!"
"He is not above the law Duo." She says with a stern voice.
"I know . . . it's just that . . . " He looks over at the folder that Quatre had given them. "This here shows that Dale Smith signed James Jackson out of the mental ward with no reason as to why. And you are saying that if you can dig up a body in some place that you don't know, you can prove that Dale Smith sighed him out to kill his wife." Duo takes a deep breath and runs a hand through his bangs. "That's a lot. You need to be careful!"
"Duo . . . thanks." She says has she strokes his face. "Thanks for believing in me. Now all I ask is that you believe me to the end. Please?" Duo pulls her into a hug and kisses the top of her head.
"Ok. What can I do?"
"Tell me when and where you were at Dales party."
"Hey Janet? Did we move that girl down in room 208?"
"208?"
"Yeah, the girl who was attacked by that psycho earlier."
"Let me look . . . No. She should be there, why?"
"Well, because she isn't."
Relena stands next to her husband and wishes a meteor would come crashing down and kill her. In less than twelve hours the man she loves and has always loved will die. She looks at the Governor and his wife and other leaders of the colony. If only she could find away to save him . . . Relena sighs and starts looking at the people in the crowd. All the same people . . . nothing but the same faces of people who want to see their leaders close up and think to themselves . . . 'Hey cool! I voted for that guy!' All the same except for a little girl in a pink dress. A little girl holding a bag . . .
"Come on Wufei!" Yells Sally and the man on the floor.
"I don't have time for this woman! Let me go!" Sally smiles and pushes him down with her foot.
"I don't think so. You lost to me! Now pay up!"
"Damn you woman! Why can't I beat you!" He yells in frustration.
"Hahaha! Kelly?"
"Yes Sally?" Says a blonde girl.
"Give me some rope."
"Yes Sally." Says Kelly as she leaves. Wufei looks at Sally and starts to become worried when she laughs.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Yells Wufei from the other room. Kelly looks at her boss who is sipping some hot tea.
"That isn't fair."
"Why? He lost. If he didn't want to play then he shouldn't have said he was better than me. Humm. Better than me because I am a woman? HA! Who is weaker now?" She yells the closed door. Kelly shakes her head.
"It's still not fair."
"If he didn't like it then why is he coming back?" Sally says smugly. Over in the other room is Wufei tied to a chair. A tv set sits in front of him and the Chanel is 'We: A Chanel for Women.'
Hilde stands at the black iron gates that surround the conservatory. Out in front of her is a grassy plain with one great oak tree that is close to her. The main body of the building is to her right and the entrance is just ahead. There she can see people and tv crews standing in the front. She can't see President Smith but his wife is in perfect view. Hilde takes some time to look at the woman and sees that her eyes are following something but there is no object leading her eyes . . . until . . .
"Hilde?" Duo says as he sees her grab the iron gate. "Hilde!" She jumps over the fence and runs to . . . what? Duo can't tell. To him it looks like she is running toward Mrs. Smith but not to Hilde or Mrs. Smith. To them she is running to the little girl . . .
"GET HER!" Yells a bodyguard as they see Hilde run toward them. Duo is about to jump the fence when a crowd of people push him up against the gate, making it impossible to move. Hilde doesn't care about anything . . . all that matter is the little girl. The bodyguards rush the her and pull her to the ground. Everyone watches as the men fight with her . . . to their surprise, she is winning. Hilde pushes the guards away from her and continues on her way. "Shoot her!" Yells someone. Who? No one could tell and no one cares because that was all that was needed for hell to break lose. Bullets went flying in Hilde's direction. Many were warnings, missing her, while others came to close. Finally a bullet hits her leg sending her to the ground. Duo yells for them to stop . . . to let her go but the screams from the people over shower him. Things calmed down when no movement from Hilde is seen. The guards slowly get up.
"Uhh . . . " Hilde lays in the same spot as her dream. She grabs the grass in her fists and tries to drag herself to that spot . . . to the little girl's grave.
"Please . . . help me . . . Hilde . . . help me!" Hilde looks up as best as she can and she can see the little girl. She is kneeling in front of her with bag in hand. "Please. Take this from me! I don't want to be his pawn . . . " Hilde can't help the tears that flow from her eyes.
Doctors and nurse run all over the hospital in search of the missing Dorothy. The woman they thought to be in a coma. They searched in every room that she may have gone too. But no one ever thought to look in room 304 . . . James Jackson's room.
The sound of rusted wheels can be heard in room 304 as and IV carrier is rolled in. The light wood door is gently shut as too not make a noise to wake James. He's awake but he can't, he won't open his eyes. For he knows . . . if he does he will look into the eyes of his fate . . . death.
"Wake up . . . " Says a dark voice. The words are spoken by one person but it rings as if many had spoken it. James gives in and opens his eyes. He sees the battered body of Dorothy. Her head is down with her hair shadowing her face giving her a dark presence. "Confess! Confess!" A frail hand grips his neck. James shakes his head 'no' as this is the first time he as ever felt fear . . .
Duo hangs his head down as the guards move to pick Hilde up. ("Why couldn't I help her?")
"Look! She's moving!" Says a girl next to him. Duo looks up and sees the guards throw themselves on her . . . but it doesn't stop her . . . it won't! Relena steps toward them despite what the others around her say. Slowly her and many others walk up to the girl till the surround her. Everyone watches the girl claw her way toward what seems like Mrs. Smith until her one hand raises in the air and slams its self in the ground. There she starts to dig and dig as best as she can. An odd silence overcomes everyone as the watch Hilde try and dig at the ground. The guards even let up and the look at each other.
"What is she doing?" Whispers someone behind Duo.
"Looks like she is digging!" Says another.
"Digging?" Says Duo. He pushes the people away from him and jumps over the gate. Duo runs to Hilde's side and isn't stopped by anyone. Dale Smith looks over his wife's shoulder.
"CONFESS DAMN YOU!" Screams Dorothy. This draw attention to some doctors outside. They try to enter but the door is locked. All they can to is hear the screams from the inside . . .
"What are you doing?" Says Relena. Hilde doesn't answer but keeps digging until a white stone can be seen. Duo join Hilde and together they dig to reveal the truth to the white stone.
"AAAAA!" Scream a woman as she hides her face from the scene. Relena and the guards join in and together they uncover the little girl and James's lost bag for everyone to see.
"CONFESS!"
"All right I DID IT! I KILLED THOSE GIRLS! I EVEN KILL THE ONES ON L1! I DID IT!" Dorothy smiles and sinks to the floor as the doctors rush in. When they enter, they see the lifeless body of Dorothy and can here the murmurings of a dying mans confession.
Hilde, with the help of Duo, stands up to face Dale Smith. "Confess . . . " She growls at him. He steps back as she is lead closer to him. "Confess damn you!" The cameras flash and the tape is rolling. His whole career is at stake here but the look in Hilde's eyes is so strong that it can bring any wall down.
Dale falls to the ground and cries. He never has seen this woman, he doesn't know who that body is but some how he knows what he has to confess . . .
Hilde places some flowers by Amy Markson's grave, the little girl. She smiles and looks up to the clear blue sky. All is at peace. The girls have been avenged and so the visions and nightmares have ended. Life is now perfect. Duo comes up to her and gives her a kiss on the cheek. He tells her it is time to go. She smiles at him and says one last good bye to Amy, Dorothy and the others who had their life taken from them by James Jackson. After a moment Hilde takes Duo's hand in her's and head out to start anew with their new found friends Sally, Wufei and Mr. and Mrs. Yuy.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! o! I AM DONE! Well, I don't really like this ending but, eh? What can you do? Hope you like and REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grrrrr! Please! I'm begging here! Also! If you did like this then read my other fanfics! Enjoy and Read ON!