AN: well......chapter 16...that's all i'm gonna say. ^-^ so there.
Summer Fun
"Heero . . . " Relena could only look down at the one she truly loved. Hoping that he'd survive this encounter with death. Just like the many times before.
*God, why does this always happen!?! Every time when I'm with Heero, I always put HIM in danger. And the threats are meant for me, ME!! He is the one who always gets hurt, and me, the PRINCESS OF SANK and QUEEN OF THE WORLD comes out with NOT ONE SCRATCH! He takes all the pain and suffering for me. Why, why is that?!" Relena sobbed as more tears streamed down her face.
"WHY!?!"
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Tiffany's adrenaline that was racing through her blood finally started to slow. Trying to calm herself down from all the anger that she released on the gundam pilot 02, Duo. She was amazed and shocked that she took on a GUNDAM PILOT! Of course she didn't know it was one in the first place, but still. You would have thought that a gundam pilot would have overcome you and 'retaliated.' But in this case, it's a totally different story.
Tiffany just stared at her friend, and felt completely hopeless. Just how Relena felt, but both were determined to help Heero out.
"Relena . . . " Tiffany's voice wavered, thinking that Relena might just snap at any moment now. Relena didn't look up nor answer her in anyway. Tiffany didn't want to speak, just a little pause to make sure that she wouldn't disdain Relena in any way.
~Sigh~ "Relena," she began again. "He needs medical assistance. So I'll . . ."
"I'll go and call an ambulance." Duo cut her off, both sadness and sorrow heard fully in his voice. "That's the least I can do . . . for now." Duo began a mad dash to the house, leaving the three stunned friends, a crying Relena and shot Heero behind.
*Hang on Heero, buddy. I'll make sure you survive this.* "YOU CAN COUNT ON IT!" He shouted, as he disappeared over the sand dune.
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"Relena . . . " Heero barely said over a whisper. RJ, Jacelyn and Tiffany didn't hear it, but Relena sure did.
"Shh, Heero. Save your strength." Relena tried not to move too much, that would only cause him more pain.
"NO," he said hoarsely. "I . . . I need . . to sa . . . say this." The look in Relena's eyes objected to what he wanted, but her heart told her different. So instead of thinking and going with her mind, she went along with her heart instead. She nodded her head eventually, telling him to go on.
Finally getting her consent, Heero tried to say what he wanted. He opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out as another wave of pain shot through his body. He shut his eyes abruptly, hoping Relena wouldn't be too worried about him. But to no avail, Relena only called out his name in fear.
*Her voice seems so distant, but I'm right next to her . . . right?* Heero began drifting off back into the place where he was. The place full of nothingness. He would not have any more battles to fight, no more missions, no need for his strength, his mask to hide his emotions. He wouldn't need any of that, the 'perfect soldier' facade and emotional barriers. He wouldn't see the stupid baka who shot him, wouldn't see his comrades, not even his . . . his Relena. Yes, she was his. Her feelings were plain as day. He knew her feelings for him. Listening to her cries in the middle of the night, the calling of his name and the clutching of the bear tightly against her chest. The very one he gave to her on her birthday. It would drive him crazy every time he heard her lost in those nightmares. But the 'perfect soldier' kept him at bay somehow, but Heero Yuy the man just wanted to hold and comfort her, to chase away her fears. Heero loves her . . . HE LOVES RELENA PEACECRAFT.
"Heero, HEERO!!" Relena desperately tried to bring him around. She searched his face for any signs that he was. Her eyes then lit up with hope when he barely opened his eyes. Tears glistened in Relena's eyes as the moon lit up her features. *So beautiful.* He thought.
"Relena . . . I . . . "
"Heero, Heero no, Heero . . . HEERO!!!!"
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"How's 'jousan doing?" Duo solemnly asked. RJ just came out of her room. It was two hours since this mess began.
~Sigh~ "Relena? She doesn't seem to be taking this well. Actually I think she's being rather hard on herself." RJ answered.
"Well of course she's gonna take it hard." Jacelyn said semi-sarcastically. "She loves Heero so much, she even told me that she wished she was the one who took the bullet. So that this wouldn't have happened to him."
"In fact there's more than just that." Tiffany overheard the conversation while she was on her way to her room.
"What do you mean?!" Duo demanded. He did shoot Heero, but felt that it was his duty to protect Relena now. And in order to do that, he'd have to know everything that she was thinking. She just might as well commit suicide.
The adrenaline in Tiffany's blood began to rise once more. *He may be a gundam pilot, but I'm not going to let him hurt Relena any more than he already has.*
"Well!?!" Duo practically yelled, but trying to keep calm for Relena's sake.
"Hey, you better watch what you say, 'cause Tiff ain't just any ol' gurl. That I can assure you." Jacelyn stood up for not only Tiffany, but for Relena as well. No one knew about this guy named 'Duo'. All they knew was that he was a gundam pilot, the pilot named 02, and that he was the one who SHOT Heero.
"Yeah," Tiffany began. "Don't you remember what I did to you before?!" She raised her left eyebrow in curiosity to his reaction and response.
"Hey lady, I don't know who you are," he looked at Tiffany. Then turned his head to face both RJ and Jacelyn. "Or the two of you. But I intend to keep 'jousan safe in Heero's place." Normally Duo was a carefree person, but when it came to being serious, he was like a totally different person. He changed ever since the war and Mariemaia's.
"Well then I think it's time for introductions." A cold, emotionless voice, just like Heero's said. The only difference was that it was a female voice.
"Relena, I . . . "
"Cut it Duo!" She stated. It stabbed Duo like a cold piercing blade. "I don't want to hear it. But I want to know that you won't attack my friends, the way you did to Heero and I."
Duo just stood there silent, hearing the voice of the girl who was standing in front of him. That was not the Relena he knew.
"Tiff," she called to her friend. Tiffany stood strait and glared at Duo. "My name is Tiffany Lee. I'd say more, but not on these circumstances."
"Jace" Relena called her up next.
"Jacelyn, but I think that's all you need to know." She said coldly.
"And RJ"
"I'm RJ, Heero's friend." Short and simple, nothing more.
Duo didn't know what to do. He just stared at everyone, pausing to memorize the faces that were accompanied with the words that were just said. After that moment of silence, Duo didn't quite know what to do. Stunned, all he could think of was his own introduction.
"Umm . . . hi. I guess you know I'm Duo. But my name is Duo Maxwell." Thinking like the old gundam pilot he was, he just snapped and thought he could cool down the heat between everyone. "I may run and hide, but I never tell a lie." He gave off his ever-so-famous grin. (AN: and kandy, i know ur dyin' now! *smirk*)
Unmoved by his strike at humor, Relena just glided past everyone, on her way down the stairs. Duo caught her right arm as she past by.
"Relena, ar . . . "
"Leave me alone Duo." She spat venomously. "You've done enough already."
Duo, being Duo, didn't get the hint to stay away. "Relena, I need to know . . ."
"Duo I'm warning you." Relena managed to give Duo one of those 'Heero Yuy glares'.
"No, hear me out Relena." Relena just kept silent. "I have to know that you won't try anything, NO stunts. Don't do that, understand."
Relena gave off a small smile, but not of the one that she would always radiate to her friends, the politicians and the media. No, this was not the same smile you would see graced on Relena Peacecraft's face. This one was out of pure bitter, hate and anger. (AN: geez Ls, why that turn of events?)
Duo noticed this and let go of Relena as if she were poison to him. He backed off a bit, and hit the wall behind him. He turned to see what he bummed into, then whipped his face back to Relena's. *Okay, maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all. The direct approach sure didn't work.*
"HA! That's a laugh. Are YOU going to protect me now, the way Heero did for me back there? Huh?! Well, if you want to do that," Relena paused and tried to hold back, but couldn't. "WHY NOT TRY GETING A GUN AND POINT IT TO YOUR HEAD, THEN PULL THE TRIGGER!!! 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE JOB PRACTICALLY IS, DUO. SUICIDE!!!!" Relena began trembling in her furry. Duo couldn't see her eyes. Her face was cast down, and her hair was blocking his view. He heard her sobbing, and knew that she started crying again. The lone tear that fell to the carpet below was more than enough to confirm it.
*Why, god, I just want to know why. That's all . . . WHY!!!!* Unknowingly to Relena, she said that out loud. Everyone heard because of the dead silence in the hallway. No one knew what she really meant, that is all except Tiffany. She knew exactly what Relena meant.
"Relena," Tiffany whispered, as she walked over to her anguish friend. She placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder, and felt the quivering of Relena's body under her touch. "Don't think like that. That's not the Relena I know. In fact, that's someone other than Relena Peacecraft. You know that it's not your fault that Heero got shot. He wasn't offered the position of being your bodyguard, OR forced into it. He took it upon himself to protect you. It was his choice and his ALONE." The last word struck home.
"BUT WHY?! WHY!?! He just keeps on putting himself in danger every time he's around ME!!! I'm the danger, not the assassins. I'M THE ONE WHO KEEPS ON GETTING PEOPLE HURT AND KILLED!!!!" Relena shrieked. She couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed her head as if she was in great pain of some sort. What was so painful to her was seeing the images of Heero getting shot, and not her, over and over again. She couldn't stop the images, she couldn't stop them at all!
"No, no . . . NO!!!" Relena collapsed onto the wall on the side of her. Tiffany acted on instinct and moved to catch Relena before she hit the ground. But Duo was too quick for her and got to Relena first.
Duo looked at Relena, seeing that she was a total wreck. Her hair was a heap of golden tress, her face was one of horror, fear and utter terror. But what mostly caught Duo off guard was the look in Relena's eyes. What he saw in her aquamarine depths was more than enough to kill Heero himself if he saw what lay there. All there was left in those eyes, the ones that saw the future of mankind and the right pathway to peace, was now blank. No emotion, it was as if she was just a doll to play with. To be toyed with and then tossed aside as if it were nothing but JUST a toy. One that was expendable and was nothing more. But then he saw something else in those eyes of Relena Peacecraft. One that brought back the 'jousan he knew, a streak that sought out for the need, the need to know and the need of determination and hope. He saw Relena come about, but just for a single moment before she lost consciousness.
"Why . . . I just want to know . . . why . . .?"
AN: so is Heero dead, or alive but just barley? and is Relena going to survive this alone, without her perfect soldier to giver her strength and hope? will Duo ever be forgiven for what he's done. or for that matter will he survive the furry off Tiffany, RJ and Jacelyn?
REVIEWS, REVIEWS!!!! lol...well, u know i always ask for them! *smirk* tm (shh, i'm just borrowing Heero's trade mark for a while, he he) ;)
Summer Fun
"Heero . . . " Relena could only look down at the one she truly loved. Hoping that he'd survive this encounter with death. Just like the many times before.
*God, why does this always happen!?! Every time when I'm with Heero, I always put HIM in danger. And the threats are meant for me, ME!! He is the one who always gets hurt, and me, the PRINCESS OF SANK and QUEEN OF THE WORLD comes out with NOT ONE SCRATCH! He takes all the pain and suffering for me. Why, why is that?!" Relena sobbed as more tears streamed down her face.
"WHY!?!"
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Tiffany's adrenaline that was racing through her blood finally started to slow. Trying to calm herself down from all the anger that she released on the gundam pilot 02, Duo. She was amazed and shocked that she took on a GUNDAM PILOT! Of course she didn't know it was one in the first place, but still. You would have thought that a gundam pilot would have overcome you and 'retaliated.' But in this case, it's a totally different story.
Tiffany just stared at her friend, and felt completely hopeless. Just how Relena felt, but both were determined to help Heero out.
"Relena . . . " Tiffany's voice wavered, thinking that Relena might just snap at any moment now. Relena didn't look up nor answer her in anyway. Tiffany didn't want to speak, just a little pause to make sure that she wouldn't disdain Relena in any way.
~Sigh~ "Relena," she began again. "He needs medical assistance. So I'll . . ."
"I'll go and call an ambulance." Duo cut her off, both sadness and sorrow heard fully in his voice. "That's the least I can do . . . for now." Duo began a mad dash to the house, leaving the three stunned friends, a crying Relena and shot Heero behind.
*Hang on Heero, buddy. I'll make sure you survive this.* "YOU CAN COUNT ON IT!" He shouted, as he disappeared over the sand dune.
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"Relena . . . " Heero barely said over a whisper. RJ, Jacelyn and Tiffany didn't hear it, but Relena sure did.
"Shh, Heero. Save your strength." Relena tried not to move too much, that would only cause him more pain.
"NO," he said hoarsely. "I . . . I need . . to sa . . . say this." The look in Relena's eyes objected to what he wanted, but her heart told her different. So instead of thinking and going with her mind, she went along with her heart instead. She nodded her head eventually, telling him to go on.
Finally getting her consent, Heero tried to say what he wanted. He opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out as another wave of pain shot through his body. He shut his eyes abruptly, hoping Relena wouldn't be too worried about him. But to no avail, Relena only called out his name in fear.
*Her voice seems so distant, but I'm right next to her . . . right?* Heero began drifting off back into the place where he was. The place full of nothingness. He would not have any more battles to fight, no more missions, no need for his strength, his mask to hide his emotions. He wouldn't need any of that, the 'perfect soldier' facade and emotional barriers. He wouldn't see the stupid baka who shot him, wouldn't see his comrades, not even his . . . his Relena. Yes, she was his. Her feelings were plain as day. He knew her feelings for him. Listening to her cries in the middle of the night, the calling of his name and the clutching of the bear tightly against her chest. The very one he gave to her on her birthday. It would drive him crazy every time he heard her lost in those nightmares. But the 'perfect soldier' kept him at bay somehow, but Heero Yuy the man just wanted to hold and comfort her, to chase away her fears. Heero loves her . . . HE LOVES RELENA PEACECRAFT.
"Heero, HEERO!!" Relena desperately tried to bring him around. She searched his face for any signs that he was. Her eyes then lit up with hope when he barely opened his eyes. Tears glistened in Relena's eyes as the moon lit up her features. *So beautiful.* He thought.
"Relena . . . I . . . "
"Heero, Heero no, Heero . . . HEERO!!!!"
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"How's 'jousan doing?" Duo solemnly asked. RJ just came out of her room. It was two hours since this mess began.
~Sigh~ "Relena? She doesn't seem to be taking this well. Actually I think she's being rather hard on herself." RJ answered.
"Well of course she's gonna take it hard." Jacelyn said semi-sarcastically. "She loves Heero so much, she even told me that she wished she was the one who took the bullet. So that this wouldn't have happened to him."
"In fact there's more than just that." Tiffany overheard the conversation while she was on her way to her room.
"What do you mean?!" Duo demanded. He did shoot Heero, but felt that it was his duty to protect Relena now. And in order to do that, he'd have to know everything that she was thinking. She just might as well commit suicide.
The adrenaline in Tiffany's blood began to rise once more. *He may be a gundam pilot, but I'm not going to let him hurt Relena any more than he already has.*
"Well!?!" Duo practically yelled, but trying to keep calm for Relena's sake.
"Hey, you better watch what you say, 'cause Tiff ain't just any ol' gurl. That I can assure you." Jacelyn stood up for not only Tiffany, but for Relena as well. No one knew about this guy named 'Duo'. All they knew was that he was a gundam pilot, the pilot named 02, and that he was the one who SHOT Heero.
"Yeah," Tiffany began. "Don't you remember what I did to you before?!" She raised her left eyebrow in curiosity to his reaction and response.
"Hey lady, I don't know who you are," he looked at Tiffany. Then turned his head to face both RJ and Jacelyn. "Or the two of you. But I intend to keep 'jousan safe in Heero's place." Normally Duo was a carefree person, but when it came to being serious, he was like a totally different person. He changed ever since the war and Mariemaia's.
"Well then I think it's time for introductions." A cold, emotionless voice, just like Heero's said. The only difference was that it was a female voice.
"Relena, I . . . "
"Cut it Duo!" She stated. It stabbed Duo like a cold piercing blade. "I don't want to hear it. But I want to know that you won't attack my friends, the way you did to Heero and I."
Duo just stood there silent, hearing the voice of the girl who was standing in front of him. That was not the Relena he knew.
"Tiff," she called to her friend. Tiffany stood strait and glared at Duo. "My name is Tiffany Lee. I'd say more, but not on these circumstances."
"Jace" Relena called her up next.
"Jacelyn, but I think that's all you need to know." She said coldly.
"And RJ"
"I'm RJ, Heero's friend." Short and simple, nothing more.
Duo didn't know what to do. He just stared at everyone, pausing to memorize the faces that were accompanied with the words that were just said. After that moment of silence, Duo didn't quite know what to do. Stunned, all he could think of was his own introduction.
"Umm . . . hi. I guess you know I'm Duo. But my name is Duo Maxwell." Thinking like the old gundam pilot he was, he just snapped and thought he could cool down the heat between everyone. "I may run and hide, but I never tell a lie." He gave off his ever-so-famous grin. (AN: and kandy, i know ur dyin' now! *smirk*)
Unmoved by his strike at humor, Relena just glided past everyone, on her way down the stairs. Duo caught her right arm as she past by.
"Relena, ar . . . "
"Leave me alone Duo." She spat venomously. "You've done enough already."
Duo, being Duo, didn't get the hint to stay away. "Relena, I need to know . . ."
"Duo I'm warning you." Relena managed to give Duo one of those 'Heero Yuy glares'.
"No, hear me out Relena." Relena just kept silent. "I have to know that you won't try anything, NO stunts. Don't do that, understand."
Relena gave off a small smile, but not of the one that she would always radiate to her friends, the politicians and the media. No, this was not the same smile you would see graced on Relena Peacecraft's face. This one was out of pure bitter, hate and anger. (AN: geez Ls, why that turn of events?)
Duo noticed this and let go of Relena as if she were poison to him. He backed off a bit, and hit the wall behind him. He turned to see what he bummed into, then whipped his face back to Relena's. *Okay, maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all. The direct approach sure didn't work.*
"HA! That's a laugh. Are YOU going to protect me now, the way Heero did for me back there? Huh?! Well, if you want to do that," Relena paused and tried to hold back, but couldn't. "WHY NOT TRY GETING A GUN AND POINT IT TO YOUR HEAD, THEN PULL THE TRIGGER!!! 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE JOB PRACTICALLY IS, DUO. SUICIDE!!!!" Relena began trembling in her furry. Duo couldn't see her eyes. Her face was cast down, and her hair was blocking his view. He heard her sobbing, and knew that she started crying again. The lone tear that fell to the carpet below was more than enough to confirm it.
*Why, god, I just want to know why. That's all . . . WHY!!!!* Unknowingly to Relena, she said that out loud. Everyone heard because of the dead silence in the hallway. No one knew what she really meant, that is all except Tiffany. She knew exactly what Relena meant.
"Relena," Tiffany whispered, as she walked over to her anguish friend. She placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder, and felt the quivering of Relena's body under her touch. "Don't think like that. That's not the Relena I know. In fact, that's someone other than Relena Peacecraft. You know that it's not your fault that Heero got shot. He wasn't offered the position of being your bodyguard, OR forced into it. He took it upon himself to protect you. It was his choice and his ALONE." The last word struck home.
"BUT WHY?! WHY!?! He just keeps on putting himself in danger every time he's around ME!!! I'm the danger, not the assassins. I'M THE ONE WHO KEEPS ON GETTING PEOPLE HURT AND KILLED!!!!" Relena shrieked. She couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed her head as if she was in great pain of some sort. What was so painful to her was seeing the images of Heero getting shot, and not her, over and over again. She couldn't stop the images, she couldn't stop them at all!
"No, no . . . NO!!!" Relena collapsed onto the wall on the side of her. Tiffany acted on instinct and moved to catch Relena before she hit the ground. But Duo was too quick for her and got to Relena first.
Duo looked at Relena, seeing that she was a total wreck. Her hair was a heap of golden tress, her face was one of horror, fear and utter terror. But what mostly caught Duo off guard was the look in Relena's eyes. What he saw in her aquamarine depths was more than enough to kill Heero himself if he saw what lay there. All there was left in those eyes, the ones that saw the future of mankind and the right pathway to peace, was now blank. No emotion, it was as if she was just a doll to play with. To be toyed with and then tossed aside as if it were nothing but JUST a toy. One that was expendable and was nothing more. But then he saw something else in those eyes of Relena Peacecraft. One that brought back the 'jousan he knew, a streak that sought out for the need, the need to know and the need of determination and hope. He saw Relena come about, but just for a single moment before she lost consciousness.
"Why . . . I just want to know . . . why . . .?"
AN: so is Heero dead, or alive but just barley? and is Relena going to survive this alone, without her perfect soldier to giver her strength and hope? will Duo ever be forgiven for what he's done. or for that matter will he survive the furry off Tiffany, RJ and Jacelyn?
REVIEWS, REVIEWS!!!! lol...well, u know i always ask for them! *smirk* tm (shh, i'm just borrowing Heero's trade mark for a while, he he) ;)