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Thanks Silver Wing, Mizu-Chan!, Crazy-gurl, Winnie, deathangel, Ley, Kmf, Artemis Nightingale (you'd better finish that story!!) They Call Me Joe, Stephanie and last but not least mya. Yeah I hope you like this chapter it's longer than the last you don't need to worry about that! It was a one-time thing I mean really that chapter was so short in my mind anyway I write longer chapters than that. Heh well I hope you like this one.
A Chapter 15
By The Pretty Penwriter
Juliana never left the building she never left the building as it exploded, they saw no one leave the base. There was no shred of hope that she had survived, and maybe she had finally found peace. But that wasn't to say that no one was sad because of her leaving. The final question remained though; who was going to tell Relena?
Two days later and Relena had finally regained consciousness she looked around the room quickly it had a sterile smell to it and it was intensely white. I'm in a hospital but where is everyone and where is Cr-Juliana? Relena thought as she slowly yet painfully sat up in bed and slowly placed her feet over the side and onto the cold linoleum floor she stood, and felt a slight draft. Damn hospital gowns she thought. She shook her head and then spotted the bathrobe in the corner she took it and wrapped it around herself.
"Somebody up there likes me." She mumbled and quietly tiptoed out of the room and into the adjourning room, it was empty she frowned and scrunched her eyebrows together.
"Where are you Juliana are you out there with the others but if that's so you would've already been in here and why aren't you in here either." Relena mumbled to herself, she shook her head.
She shuffled back across the floor and into her own room, she stepped towards the door and opened it placing her hands on her hips she managed her best glare,
"And why are we all out here?"
No one was able to laugh, smile or even smirk her happy disposition quickly changed, her eyes worried and she suddenly felt very sick. She covered her mouth with her hand and ran to the bathroom, something really bad must've happened for me to feel like this she thought and felt another presence in the bathroom, she could tell by his aftershave that it was her brother. He held back her hair as she vomited into the toilet until she was through, then she heard water running and felt him tap her shoulder he offered her a wet paper towel, she took it gratefully and wiped her mouth. She then stood and gargled with the little travel size mouthwash and spat it into the sink, she gripped the sides of the sink until her knuckles went chalk white taking a deep breath she asked,
"What happened?"
"I'm sorry Relena I know how close you two were…"
She clenched her teeth and eyes together,
"Just tell me." She rasped her voice suddenly hard to use.
"I'm sorry Relena but Juliana didn't make it."
Tears silently rolled down her cheeks she didn't say a word or sob, he touched her shoulder gently,
"Just leave me alone for now all of you."
"Relena…"
"Please." She begged
Milliardo shook his head but left out the room anyway closing the door behind him. Relena looked at the mirror, her grip tightening even more on the sink, until she just let out a strangled sob and sank to the floor. Not caring about the pain of her healing ribs but only about the pain her heart felt.
Heero balled his hands into tight fists after he heard her cry his bangs hiding his tearful eyes he, shoved his hands into his pockets and stalked off down the hallway.
Three days after hearing about Juliana's death Relena had been home for about a day all she did was sleep and rarely ate food if any at all. Everyone else had decided to stay with the mourning princess she hadn't even said a word since that day in the hospital not even a cough.
//Relena sat in her big plush chair her feet rolled beneath her reading her book when her balcony doors crashed open the air ever so gently moving the drapes, she glanced over and sighed. She closed her book, stood and was almost to the doors when a hooded figure stepped into the room Relena gasped,
"Who are you?"
"Why don't you know?" a voice said it was one of the most hideous she had ever heard.
The figure swiftly moved towards her with an odd limp until it was about a meter in front of her it threw off it's cloak and Relena let out a blood curdling scream.//
It was the third nightmare she had since the day she heard the news but this time it was worse, this time she had actually screamed out loud.
There was a pounding of feet towards her door and someone, she didn't know who opened it, she didn't care she was sitting on her bed her knees pulled up to her chest rocking back and forth repeating,
"No."
"Relena…" she heard someone say she didn't acknowledge it only continued what she was doing already.
She heard more footsteps and some footsteps approach her and grab hold of her shoulders tightly she looked lost and afraid into the sapphire orbs.
He pulled her into his arms and smoothed back her hair she only sobbed that one word over and over. Heero stepped out of the doorway and punched the wall in the hallway.
"Heero..." Duo started
"Don't you see this is killing her THIS it doesn't matter if she made it out of the base…because she's dying now can't you see it!" he exclaimed and stalked off down the hallway.
Duo shook his head and closed the door leaving the two siblings alone.
It was bright morning by the time Relena was once again calmed and put to sleep, her brother left the room looking way beyond his years and dragged himself down the hallway to his own room everyone stayed away from both they each had a way of dealing with their own grief. It was about noon when Relena's balcony doors open once again but this time two figures stepped into the room.
'go ahead I think it's okay now.' A male voice said
'Alright.' A very weak female voice said.
The feminine figure stepped towards Relena's bed and sat upon it barely moving the springs she brushed her hair back from her forehead, Relena stirred ever so slightly.
"Relena wake up please." The voice pleaded softly,
Relena slowly opened her eyes and bit back a scream she looked up at the face and gasped
"no but what how?"
"You know a funny thing…we Peacecrafts never die not even when we want to." The woman murmured
Relena's violet eyes locked with her silver ones.
"Is this a dream?" Relena asked
The other woman pinched her hard.
"Ow…so it's real."
The other nodded; Relena threw her arms around her and cried softly.
"Shh…it's okay, I'm okay see in the flesh."
Relena once again looked up at her visitors face there was a deep gash in her left cheek and she was very pale but other than that she looked the same.
"Oh Juliana…I'm so happy." Relena cried.
"Yes so am I sister…we should tell the others come on." Juliana said and briefly stood up and walked five steps before her legs crumpled beneath her.
The young man with auburn hair and sky blue eyes was quickly by her side he picked her up she glared at him and was about to argue but settled for a pout and crossing her arms. Relena chuckled slightly and Juliana turned her glare to Relena who held up her hands in surrender.
"Okay lets go down into the dining room through the back stairway I like surprises I'll go down first. To make sure the coast is clear." Relena said mischief gleaming in her eyes; Juliana shook her head and leaned her head against his chest tired.
Relena snuck down the stairway and looked out no one was there no one at all. They must be having lunch good for me she thought and stepped into the living room; after the other two stepped through the door she closed the door. She stepped out of the living room signaling them to stay there and closed the door then she stealth fully made it to the kitchen luckily all of them were there except Milliardo. She loudly cleared her throat and smirked as she saw them jump.
"Hey everyone, what's for lunch…some of my friends are hungry and would like some sandwiches." She said
Everyone in the room was staring at her their mouth agape; Duo even had a burger mid air to his mouth. Relena just sidestepped them all and made a couple of turkey sandwiches piling them onto a plate, and prepared to leave but when she reached the doorway she called back,
"And when you revive from you stupor you can come and meet them."
They stared after her for about a full minute and then shook themselves and followed her to the living room when she opened the door there was a man with auburn hair and sky blue eyes was sitting on the couch, while a woman with long brown hair sitting in a chair had her back to them she turned her head ever so slightly and looked at them. There was a collective gasp through the crowd of people who had entered the room.
"FOOD!" exclaimed the man and he nearly took all the sandwiches off the plate.
"Oh how ever so nice of you Ray to leave me but a crumb." Juliana mumbled
"Yeah you can't eat solid food yet, you have to stick to soups and things that aren't hard to swallow Julie." The man said between bites.
"Where's my gun?" Juliana asked
The man reached behind his back and pulled out her ten-shooter.
"You little thief give it to me so I CAN shoot you." Juliana growled
"Nope it's mine now." He said smiling and then began finishing his sandwich.
"Ramón!! The agency thought you were dead!" Noin exclaimed
He looked to her and smiled widely "Who me die never but, since Une and your idiotic husband…"
"HEY that's MY brother you're talking about only I can call him an idiot and you'll die as soon as I find a gun!" Juliana interrupted
"Well as I was saying since the two wouldn't listen to me I had to go undercover and seem as if I were dead, you guys didn't believe me about the organization that tried to kill all of you ironic, but I dug deeper and posed as one of their generals. I saved her from the building she tried to kill me but that's life." He shrugged
"Okay Jules time for you to explain." Relena said.
Juliana's eye clouded over and a shadow passed her features,
"Fine, as I said I had a meeting to keep with my parents. I reached their chambers a short time after I left you all….
**Flashback**
Juliana kicks the doors open and steps into the room and ducks, barely missing the bullet that just whizzed by her head.
"Rei…." She growled.
"Oh my mistake I was aiming for your head." She corrected
"Your aim is just as bad as your jokes, always has been." Juliana sneered holding her own gun in her hand.
"Well seems like your in a bad mood, would that be because you found out the truth?"
"Oh yes and the fact that all of your prisoners are long gone from here and that means your death, correct?"
Rei growled, "You! It's all your fault!"
Juliana smiled and fired her own gun clipping Rei in her shooting hand causing the gun to fly.
"Now lets see here…" Juliana said and shot off all five of Rei's fingers on her right hand.
Rei screamed out in pain, "Ha you don't have any more shots left." She snickered.
"Oh but you remember I have a ten-shooter." Juliana said then shot her in the chest twice.
Rei fell to the floor blood gurgling out of her mouth her body twitching; Juliana stepped next to her and whispered into her ear,
"You never remembered things well."
Juliana then sidestepped her and went towards the main chamber she looked into the room and sure enough the two people were in there comfortably sitting in large leather chairs.
"I suppose you want to know why?" a female voice asked
"Yes Mrs. Wright I do."
Both figures stepped out of the shadow and revealed a older man his black hair flecked with gray and his brown eyes laughing at her, the woman with blonde hair with a few specks of gray here and there and deep blue eyes.
"Oh Cressa you were special, you were supposed to rule the world by our ideals and it would've worked if only you hadn't begun remembering. You were to be queen of the world just like your sister had been but you were to have a different path, don't you see that if the world found out that a Peacecraft wanted to rule the world that they let them. You Cressa were to be the queen of the Earth and the colonies." The woman said
"You're mad." Juliana said shaking her head and then narrowing her eyes.
"No we're brilliant the plan would've worked too if only you hadn't begun remembering and so we staged our murders and went into hiding within the organization. Now you'll have to die along with your siblings for the plan to be complete." The man said
"Heh too bad they've escaped." Juliana smirked crossing her arms.
"WHAT! Oh no you're lying they wouldn't leave without you." The man said
"That's what you think Artemis."
"Geneva it can't be true can it?" the man asked
"Yes look in her eyes she's telling the truth…I guess this is the end for us my dear." The woman said shaking her head.
"I won't let it end this way! They must still be in the building!" the man exclaimed and then moved over to the desk and hit the red button activating the self-destruct.
"Now you will all die!" he said wildly.
Juliana shook her head and then shot him through the forehead she then turned to the woman, but before she could shoot there was another shot Juliana looked down at her stomach the woman had shot her. Juliana clenched her teeth together and shot the woman straight through her forehead.
"Well I'm spent." Juliana said softly.
Her feet slowly padded across the floor and out of the chambers. She made it down the stairs into the basement and then into the sewer she got a few more feet before the base blew knocking her to the ground a piece of shrapnel flew cutting her cheek. She fell on top of glass cutting her legs, arms and hands.
Out of the smoke she saw a figure approach her and unclipped one of the grenades from her belt holding it in her hand.
"Cressa!" the voice called for her
She neither moved nor made a sound and waited face down on the ground the grenade waiting in her hand.
A man made it through the rubble and looked at her,
"Oh my God Cressa are you okay come on we have to get out of here." He said
Juliana could see him more clearly now her had dark brown hair and bright blue eyes.
She pulled the pin out of the grenade. He heard the small *ping * that it made and picked up her hand he took the grenade and threw it as far as he could. He then gently picked her up and carried her away from the rubble to the awaiting shuttle…
** End Flashback**
"And that's about it Ray bandaged me up and I couldn't go anywhere for a while cause well I'd been shot." Juliana finished
"Not that you didn't try Relena this girl is crazy all she tried to do was either kill me or run. How can she possibly be related to you?" Ramón asked
"Hey you're talking about my little sister here so stop." Relena said
"I could've sworn I was older than you…how many years younger am I?" Juliana asked
"Slightly less than a year."
"Okay so I'm 20 that's fine so when you're 50 I'll still be 49…I can see some advantages." Juliana said
"Oh yeah at least I can drink alcohol."
"I can too and I could probably drink more than you." Juliana said
"No I mean legally."
"It's legal as long as no one tells that is." Juliana countered.
"You're becoming a pain in the ass you know." Relena growled.
"Yeah I have to make up for some years by the way where is our lovely brother so I can annoy the hell out of him." Juliana said
"No you can't not for another two weeks or else you may rip the wound open for the fourth time!" Ramón said
"And for those first three times I was trying to get my gun to shoot you, you were annoying me trying to sing like that really there should be a law." Juliana said
"What I can sing."
"Sure you can although it sounds like a cat choking up a hairball." Relena said
"Okay now you're picking on me, great you two really are sisters." He mumbled and pouted crossing his arms over his chest.
Juliana rolled her eyes and then spotted Quatre standing right next to her looking at her a content smile on his features she smiled back up at him and reached over and took his gun then pointed it to Ramón.
"Hey Ray lookie what I got!" she exclaimed
His eyes widened "Oh shit." He said and began scrambling away from her behind the chair.
She gave the gun back to Quatre "I wouldn't really kill him." She smiled again then she grimaced placing her hand over her stomach. When she pulled her hand back it was covered with blood.
"Ray you suck ass at bandaging wounds…Quatre, Relena can you two help me?" she asked
"Fine, Quatre you'll have to pick her up though she can't really walk with out falling." Relena pointed out
Quatre shook his head and bent to pick the young woman up.
"Maybe I should shoot Ray in his stomach and let him suffer." She mumbled into his shirt.
He laughed, "If you do that you'll be the one bandaging it."
"It'd be worth it."
He carried her up the flight of stairs to Relena's room while Relena got the medical supplies. He laid her on the bed and she pulled up her shirt slightly to look at the wound and sighed,
"I guess this means I'm bedridden."
"Yeah that doesn't look so bad you didn't rip it that much." Quatre observed.
"What do you mean I ripped it, it just won't heal…I guess I did rip it I mean I've been moving around a lot." Juliana sighed
Quatre smirked "You are stubborn I'll give you that."
"Everyone gives me that." She smiled.
Relena finally came back with the first aide chest and opened it.
"Well that took you a while." Juliana smirked
"They moved it, I haven't lived here for two years you know." Relena countered.
She removed the gauze and antiseptic she dabbed a little of the antiseptic onto a piece of cloth then applied it to the wound.
"GOD DAMMIT!" Juliana shouted
"You could've warned me." She whimpered
Relena laughed nervously, "Sorry about that." She said and then while Quatre gently held her up began wrapping the gauze around her stomach tightly and clipped it tight.
"There you're done." Relena said
"Finally…um Quatre you can let me go now and I have to talk to you privately." She added glancing at Relena.
"All right I'll leave you two alone I have to speak with Heero myself." Relena added before she left closing the door.
"Quatre." Juliana said softly taking his hand into her own.
He looked at her and nodded signaling for her to continue.
"You're a kind person and I'm sorry if I hurt you or anything because I heard that you liked me…"
"Yeah just forget it."
"No you don't see Quatre I like you too…I kind of think that I have um fallen for you so to say." Juliana said and then looked away from him.
He reached out for her chin and gently turned it so she was once again looking in his eyes.
"That's funny, I feel the same way for you." He said softly before he kissed her.
Relena walked back down to the living room hearing the conversation everyone was having,
"The Peacecrafts live through everything." Lucretzia remarked
"Yes we do." Relena said stepping into the room.
"Oh Relena is she okay?" Duo asked
"That girl lives through anything but she's confined to the bed otherwise she'll open the wound again." She answered
"Good I'm glad that she's okay I mean I'm surprised that she's still alive and I feel sad about what she had to go through." Duo remarked
"Yeah so do I but she'll pull through…say where'd Ray go?" Relena asked
"He had to report to Lady Une." Heero said appearing at her side.
"Oh yeah…Um Heero could I speak to you for a moment?" Relena asked
He nodded, she walked out of the room and he followed her.
She lead him to the garden and sat on a stone bench he sat next to her and she seemed to be looking everywhere except his face.
"Relena…" he murmured
"Heero I heard that conversation you and Duo had before we were taken…and I do love you, you must know that." She sighed and then continued, "Heero after you told me that you didn't return my feelings I was broken and scared. I deteriorated from what I was a prominent delegate to a drunk. I drunk heavily and then drove home at speeds over 90 and I hated myself Heero, I hated myself for breaking down and being weak. But then after I was kidnapped and the world thought me dead I realized that I could start over that I could be me again to be strong. And I wanted and needed that, but I soon realized that I couldn't keep running from my problems from you Heero. I love you but I don't think I can be involved with you right now I think it would be even better if we could go back in time and meet all over again." Relena explained shaking her head.
Heero stood and she looked over at him, he stuck out his hand.
"Hi my name is Heero Yuy you are?" he greeted.
Relena smiled and stood as well she took his hand.
"Relena Peacecraft."
THE END
"Okay yeah this chapter was mad long but I sorta kinda combined this chapter with the epilogue screwy ain't I?"
"Yup."
"Oh yeah I have to tell Heero Wufei is stealing his lines."
I dial Heero's number.
"hello Heero oh well Wufei is stealing your lines..."
"I'm here already where is he?"
I point out side of the room to Wufei in a dress trying to figure out a way to remove the make up and get inside the room to hurt Duo and me.
Heero smiles
I blink then blink again and faint.
"Dude you scared her…if Trowa were to start laughing I think she'd have a heart attack."
"I'll stab her in the heart!" Wufei shouts
"Wufei I hear that you've been stealing my lines is that true?" Heero asks.
"Yeah and what are you gonna do about it!"
**Click** "Do you really want to know?"
Wufei begins sweating "Oh so you need a gun eh why not fight like a man and begin a sword fight?"
"This is quicker and less messy." Heero counters.
"Um uh LOOK THERE'S RELENA!! "
"I'm not falling for that one again." Heero says and rolls his eyes.
I begin to open my eyes "Oh Heero's about to kill Wufei no big deal." I go back to sleep and then jump awake.
"What!! Heero you can't kill him I'm renting you guys out and any damage to you will be billed to me please Heero don't!"
"Hn."
"If you do Heero I'll kill Relena."
"Hn."
"Then I'll destroy your laptop and in a fic I'll have you wearing pink and living in a land of fluffy bunnies!"
"Anything but the bunnies!" he exclaims and assumes the fetal position on the floor.
"O_o to think Heero's afraid of bunnies…" I say frightened and surprised
"Well now I guess I'll kill Duo now."
"Stop Wufei otherwise I'll turn you into a woman!"
"ummm" he turns and runs away
"O_O Wufei can run in heels?" I say surprised
"I'll just tape this…"Duo says as a side note.
**sigh** "Only you, Quatre and Trowa are under control…the others are loco hombres."
"Uh are you starting to speak Spanish?" Quatre asks coming from out of nowhere.
"Ce hablo en espanol."
"Stop now you're starting to scare me." He mumbles
"que mi amigo?"
"Just stop."
"No."
Okay that's a wrap I have to have these guys back by Tuesday otherwise there's a late charge…Please can I get at least 50 reviews I only need 5 please if you're the 50th I'll say thank you and say you're the best! Hehe well I hope you enjoyed the story and be sure to check out my new story "Losing sight of my Mind." Some say it's good I just like the plot =P
Well Arigato Minna-san
