MOBILE SUIT
GUNDAM WING'S
Beauty
AND THE
BEAST
- Chapter: 8
Cadet Noin: Hi! Peoples I've recovered from my state of exhaustion how long this will last I don't know -_-* It'll probably end tomorrow. Well I'm sure you don't want to listen to me to complain so without further adieu, Disclaimer: I do not own the gundam characters they just work for me in this play. Don't sue me I have to buy Christmas presents!!! On with the story!!!
Cadet Noin: Lucretzia began to feel the full affects of staying so long in the snow, she shivered all over and her hands shook as she tried to drink her tea. Ms. Une right away spotted Zechs's wound and had brought bandages and medicine and other materials for his wound. Lucretzia had been afraid he would die but Ms.Une assured her it would take more than that to kill his "Excellency". But Ms. Une was a bit small for cleaning the wound and asked,
Lady Une: Miss Lucretzia could you please take care of his wound while I get more supplies? I can't believe how worried master Zechs was when Noin disappeared, he was so upset
Cadet Noin: Ms Une had seen what had happened when Lucretzia had gone missing and wasn't home when she had been expected…
*Flash back*
Zechs: what do you mean she went outside?!
Quatra: well master we thought she would like to go out side she'd been out of spirits…
Cadet Noin: the chibi trembled as he spoke, the head housekeeper had a more parental aspect….
Lady Une: You cannot keep her caged up like some exotic bird Millardo she's a human, no matter how protective you want to be!
Zechs: that's not the point what if at night when I'm... in one of my raves that that damn fairy puts me under she outside, what if I kill her instead it's too dangerous! And don't call me Millardo,
Cadet Noin: he said back to a more calm voice
Zechs: that prince is dead. I have to go find her I know something happened and I don't like it all.
Cadet Noin: and with that he swept out of the castle in a mad rush to find her.
*End of flashback*
Cadet Noin: Lucretzia cautiously crept over to the sleeping man. She at his side unsure if she should touch him.
Noin: to think the once masked monster is now my savior
Cadet Noin: opening his blood stained jacket she could see where Ms.Une had begun to clean it. Slowly she took the warm soaked towel in the white basin on the floor. She also now realized that they were the only two people in the room.
Zechs: huh..?
Cadet Noin: Zechs moaned as he felt a painfully stinging against his flesh he wearily lifted his eyes. God his hurt he felt as if someone had continually slammed his metallic mask on his head. The throbbing was unbearable. As his vision became clear his realized where he was, back in the castle. And looking down he found who was cleaning his wound.
Zechs: it's her
Cadet Noin: he concluded when he saw a pair of violet eyes looking up at him.
Noin: are you all right?
Zechs: she sounds worried is she concerned about me? No... Of course not why would she be she should hate me I tried to kill her father and I'm the one who is keeping her here. …Why didn't she run away? She could have left me for dead….
Noin: he's staring at me what's wrong with him?! He not answering! Are you all right Zechs?!
Cadet Noin: as he became more aware and the warmth of the fire warmed hmm he could feel his senses coming back to him but he regretted that they had because he could now feel the distinct burning on his chest the alcohol stinging his skin all he could think of was the pain,
Zechs: argh I was stabbed prettily badly… argh it hurts!
Noin: don't sit up it will make it worse!
Cadet Noin: Beauty yelled pushing him back against the chair.
Zechs: why did you out of the woods
Cadet Noin: he growled his voice full of hostility.
Noin: am I a prisoner?
Cadet Noin: Zechs looked up at her surprised by the indirect question. His answer was hardly heard when he whispered his reply,
Zechs: no
Noin: then that's why I went there I wanted some freedom I was scared and lonely how would you know about that? You're not a prisoner! here even if you I am not, I am. Ever since I met you have been spoiled and ever since I've been her I can remember anybody who could wallow in such self-pity! Why has happened to you so bad that you are here?
Cadet Noin: nothing could have prepared her for his response, he laughed. It wasn't a cheery are happy laugh it was a hollow and empty laugh of a man that thought he had lost his soul.
Zechs: you are not the prisoner my lady,
Cadet Noin: as odd smile escaped his lips
Zechs: I am.
Noin: What do you mean?
Zechs: do you what it's like to live in alone with your guilt? To be so ashamed of your appearance that you cannot leave? To imagine the estrangement you would face around others questioning eyes?
Cadet Noin: he said motioning to his helmet.
Zechs: there's hardly anyone here I can talk to, only my servants who although I trust wouldn't understand. Do you know many times I planned to kill myself? Only to fail because I am a coward. Could you understand?
Cadet Noin: Zechs slumped back to his seat his head down and his back slumped over eyes staring to the floor.
Noin: yes.
Cadet Noin: Beauty lifted her eyes from staring into the fire, the glowing light reflecting in her eyes.
Noin: before I came here I was mocked, stared at, everyone admired me for what I looked like but nothing else, everyone assumed that such a pretty face had nothing inside to be worth hearing to be this play thing to be gawked at!
Cadet Noin: she shouted angrily as the bottled up of hatred surpressed for many years came spilling out.
Noin: they thought I was odd for all I did was reading not like the other girls, my own sisters hated me, there was no one I could talk to but my father… my mother was killed when I was six, when the alliance started to take over….
Cadet Noin: beauty whispered stifling a sob.
Zechs:.….. I see.
Cadet Noin: he looked up at her forlorn face his eyes hardened with realization seeing that she had gone through as much pain as he had. Slowly he replied,
Zechs: My parents were also killed by the alliance….
Noin: oh…
Cadet Noin: right there and then beauty decided that maybe this man wasn't so bad after all. She could now see what he really was … scared frightened and she could now see what her father had, that she hadn't been able to till now, this man needed some one to care for him.
Noin: thank you… for saving my life.
Cadet Noin: Zechs stared into her eyes stunned of the look of resolution in them. Slowly in a soft rumbling unsure voice he replied.
Zechs: your welcome.
Cadet Noin: the one man beauty had thought of, as a monster was now her savior.
Later that night
Cadet Noin: When beauty went to bed that night Zechs once again slipped out into the forest. Beauty's room was unusually hot and stuffy. She went over to the window and opened it a bit, then went back to bed. At 3:00 she woke to hear the sharp horrible scream of animal being killed. Her heart racing and the sweat trickled down her face. When she had calmed herself down enough she tried to close her eyes and return to a quiet slumber but all through the night she tossed and turned through a restless sleep wondering what poor animal had just died.
A shadow crept into the room; Zechs breathed heavily for a while his hands dripping with blood. He saw the window open; the curtain swaying in the wind catching his attention quickly he hurriedly shut the window and locked it. Noiselessly he crept over to her bed and just stood there for hours just watching the sleeping figure, skin aglow from the moonlight shining from the now shut window.
End of part 8
Cadet Noin: well what do ya think spooky eh? ^.~ I hope you liked the chapter, hopefully I'll get the next one up A.S.A.P. whoo hoo! Christmas break! Does a little dance and runs away laughing like a maniac.
Wufei: *rolls eyes and shakes his head* that is one crazy onna. * Continues to polish his katana*
Cadet Noin
