Visions

Part II: The First Shot and The Truth of The Twins

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, and Quality Paiges owns the original ideas for Pacifica and Justice. This version of them though is my own invention! I hope people don't think I'm smart enough or old enough to have come up with the time/space continuum either, cuz I didn't.

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She happened to glance over his shoulder and saw a familiar blond head, in the window. Her eyes opened wide, and Heero spun around. He saw a face in the window, and brought his gun out to shoot her.

Pacifica saw Heero going for his gun, and tried to dodge out of the way, but she wasn't quite fast enough. She got shot in the upper left arm. Without crying out, she made her way back to a small tear in the time/space continuum. She stepped through biting her lip. Her father stood on the other side. He turned around to see her step through the portal.

She looked him over as she pulled the bullet out of her slowly. He stood about the same height as she. His hair, once deep brown, was now streaked with gray, but it still fell to cover his eyes nicely. His eyes, they were Prussian blue. Such a pretty blue, but her eyes were the same color as her mother's. Her father's build was slim, not bulky like some of the other people she knew.

"So who shot you?" asked her father, as if he already knew the answer.

"You did!" she replied indignantly as she inspected her arm to see if she needed to sew it up, or just wrap it.

The older Heero smiled, "I told you so," he stepped over to look at the wound himself. "You shouldn't have gone back that quickly, and no you don't need to sew it, just wrap it good." He said softly. "How was Justice?"

Pacifica picked up a roll of gauze from the first aide kit. "He was fine. He seemed a bit stressed out, but who wouldn't be," she said softly.

"And your mother?" Heero's words came out in a hoarse whisper.

"He said she's fine. The rumor has it that she's pregnant, but he said it's just that. A rumor," Pacifica said as she finished with the gauze and replaced it in the kit.

"I can't wait to see her again. It's been ten long years, with out her," Heero said softly.

"And it's all my fault, isn't it Dad?" Pacifica put the first aide kit on the shelf and turned to her father with tears in her eyes. "If I hadn't have had that birth defect, that required me to go to a specialist, we would have been with Mom for these last ten years!"

"Pacifica, that's not true. There are a million other ways that I could have been taken from your mother. That you could have been taken from your mother," he said softly. "I can think of a few that are far more permanent. Such as death, I'd've taken a bullet for your mother, and died doing it. You could have been killed a million times over."

Pacifica sat on the steps, her eyes bright with the unshed tears of years, "It's still my fault."

Heero shook his head, "No it's not. If it's anyone's fault it's mine. I'm the one that was attached to the zero systems, you just inherited it."

She looked up at him imploringly, "How many more times do I have to go back?"

"Until we get help, the help we need," Heero said quietly.

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Guys, here's the deal, in case you didn't get it. In Pacifica's time line, and consequently Justice's, they were born twins. At birth Pacifica was diagnosed with a disease, but the doctor's couldn't pinpoint it to cure it. So she was sent to the farthest colony from Earth, with her father, Heero Yuy, as her mother had to stay and give lectures. While Heero was off with Pacifica a war broke out. The two pairs haven't seen each other in ten years. Heero has raised Pacifica and can relax around her, Relena raised Justice. Paci's disease will be discussed later. They way they travel through time was given to Paci and Justice when they flew zero systems, they've been time and dimension hopping for awhile now.

Thank you, please R&R

~Mel