Disclaimers: ::checks watch:: Wait for it, wait for it... ah! I am now the proud
owner of... ummm well nothing to do with GW if that's what you want to know, but now I
am the proud owner of my very own piece of lint!! Boy that was sooooo worth everything
I owned! ^_~
Authors Notes: ::whistles:: Woah, over four months since the last chapter! I'm
surprised you guys haven't tarred and feathered me and thrown me off a cliff!!
::gulps:: Not to give you guys any ideas of course... 0_0' Well anyway, (tho I seem to
say this ALOT, sorry :/) I am very sorry for taking this long with the 6th chapter.
::bows:: Now on with the story! ^.~
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*Fairy Tale Endings: Chapter 6*
A Gundam Wing Fanfiction By Jadet
Copyright 01'
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Wufei snorted for what seemed the millionth time and reassembled the Mobil suit's main
computer. Two minutes was all it took to dismantle the suit, program an error into its
central processor, and reassemble it, but it was still too long to Wufei. In two
minutes anything could happen. He was taking a chance as it was, programming the error
into the suits during the break shift of the guards.
Grunting silently with satisfaction, Wufei replaced the computer into the last doll and
closed the hatch. That program error should make it where none of the suits could fire
any weapons and explode five minutes after take off. In other words the pilots had just
enough time to curse their machines before it blew up with them in it. He was proud of
himself. Voices alerted him to the return of the guards and Wufei melted into the
shadows, taking his laptop and equipment with him.
[Now lets see those weaklings use these toys] Wufei thought with a smirk and disappeared
into the darkness, intent on contacting the others on the new development.
The guards were none the wiser of their midnight visitor.
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Relena woke up to a splitting headache. Turning on her side, she hid her head against
the pillow she was cradling and groaned slightly, confused. What on earth had she done
to get such a horrible headache?
"Is she awake yet?"
Stilling her motions, Relena cocked her ears at the familiar voice. That was Duo's
voice that asked someone else if she was awake. Now she was really confused. She
vaguely remembered him showing up on her doorstep about a week ago, saying something
along the lines of Hilde kicking him out for a few days and could he stay with her? It
struck her as slightly weird. Hilde and him lived on L2, why would he come all the way
to earth to stay with her when he had other friends closer? But Relena was never one to
refuse a friend anything she could provide and had let him stay. Besides with the ice
queen and daughter staying with her, she needed an ally besides Caleb.
That still didn't explain why she had woken up with such a headache or why he was in her
room inquiring about her. What had she done that she couldn't remember? Frowning
lightly she searched her brain for anything and was completely taken surprise by the
answering response from her bedside.
"No."
Relena froze, her body going taunt. She stopped breathing as well and listened to her
heart frantically beating. No, it couldn't be... it just couldn't! Softly she felt a
hand brush away a few tears that had leaked out of her eyes without her notice then move
to stroke her hair.
"Relena?" A deep voice whispered, the hand continuing to stroke her hair. No words
could move beyond the blockage in her throat. The hand continued its gentle stroking.
The action was so familiar and strange at the same time that more tears leaked from her
eyes.
"Hey Heero, she just wake up?"
[Heero? No, that was impossible. Totally impossible...] Her heart thudded even louder
against her chest and without her notice she shook her head lightly, biting her lip
between her teeth. He couldn't be here. He died almost two years ago in a battle. He
left her all alone to the wolves of politics with only a child to remind her that she
hadn't been imagining him that night!
The hand stilled on her hair and slowly withdrew. "No, she's just dreaming," came the
denial and Relena guessed the voice must have seen her head shake in denial.
"Okay man. You think you could watch the kid? Trowa and I are gonna go get some of her
stuff from the mansion."
"Hn."
The warm presence by her side shifted and moved away from her. Relena stayed where she
was, pushing down the instinct to follow the deep voice she heard only in her dreams.
Laying as still as she could she waited until both pairs of footsteps retreated from the
room and the door close behind them before she opened her eyes.
Relena leaned up and stared around her, heart pounding in her chest. It looked like a
hotel room she was lying in. Old but clean looking curtains covered a window just in
front of her while to her right was a small bathroom. She was lying on a queen size
bed. They must have just put her on it for she was on top of the sheets with only her
shoes off.
It took her a few minutes to gather up her courage to get up from the bed. When she did
she went straight to the bathroom and looked into the mirror. Disheveled hair framing a
pale face and wide sea green eyes stared back at her. A small looking purple bruise was
already forming on her left temple. Furrowing her eyebrows, she pushed away the golden
blond hair hiding the bruise from her. It was about the size of a quarter but growing
bigger by the minute. The longer she stared at it, the more images pressed against her
mind.
Flashes of Duo carrying groceries and getting hit from behind made her back away from
the mirror.
[That's right. We were attacked coming back from the market. Duo got hit on the back
of the head by a couple of thugs and pulled me down with him and....] Relena pressed a
hand against her mouth when the rest of that night pressed itself into her mind. [And
someone saved us.]
Eyes wide, Relena looked back into the mirror. "Heero...."
Could it really have been him? After these past couple years of nothing, thinking he
was dead, he was actually alive? When she had found out back then she thought she
wouldn't have been able to keep living. Heero was her world and she had loved him with
every fiber of her being. Though he never said the words she always knew he cared for
her. Chance after chance came to him to leave her and each time he came right back to
her, and she returned the emotions full back. So when they told her he had died she
died too, inside. If it hadn't been for Caleb she would have never lasted this long.
Relena didn't think she would be able to handle it if she was wrong and it wasn't
Heero's voice she had heard or him she had seen the night before. She didn't think she
could take the pain of disappointment. But she had to go find out.
Relena turned away from the mirror and looked towards the door at the other end of the
room. Faintly she could hear someone talking, or gurgling, outside the door. She took
a few steps, then a few more, until she was standing in front of it. Taking a deep
breath to steady suddenly jumpy nerves, she quietly turned the knob. The sight she
beheld when she opened the door made her breath catch in the back of her throat.
It really was Heero. He really was alive! Joy she thought she could never feel again
overwhelmed her and more tears brimmed in her eyes. Heero really was alive and was at
the moment pacing the room with a bundle in his arms. When he turned back to walk
towards her door again Relena recognized the bundle as her son.
Surprise flickered in her eyes. Caleb never let strangers hold him. It even took her
brother almost a year before Caleb would allow his uncle to pick him up without
screaming his head off and struggling. Relena was the only person Caleb trusted fully.
That obviously wasn't the case now. As Heero walked around the room Caleb contently sat
in his fathers arms, babbling on and on in baby talk while he played with something
around Heero's neck. On closer inspection Relena recognized that it was a chain of
some kind and what Caleb found so interesting was a ring hanging from it. More tears
filled Relena's eyes. He still had the ring she gave him from years ago. Before every
mission he went on Relena gave him that ring for protection and told him to return it as
soon as he came back. It was supposed to be an extra incentive for him to come back to
her. Relena never got back that ring from the last mission he went on.
Heero finally spotted Relena standing in the doorway to the bedroom and stopped walking
around the room. Caleb, curious why this man had stopped walking, turned his head in
the direction of where Relena was and gurgled happily but made no motion to be released
from his father's arms.
"Relena," Heero murmured, letting his usually impassive Prussian blue eyes warm. Relief
washed through him. She really was okay. Relena stood where she was, still in shock.
It was Caleb's gurgling that broke through her shock and made her walk towards them
until she stood in front of Heero.
"Heero?"
Heero didn't say anything to the unasked question but instead smirked slightly. Relena
looked from Heero to Caleb then back to Heero.
"You're alive."
The statement was a little ridiculous but Heero nodded, careful not to move Caleb.
"Yes."
The slap came out of nowhere. One minute her hands were laying limply by her side, the
next her right hand was poised in front of his face, his burning cheek a testimony of
how hard she had slapped him. Heero turned back his head from the position it had been
in because of the slap and looked back at Relena. Tears fell in streams down her face
and her eyes reflected the hurt she was feeling. No anger came from Heero however. He
had expected her to be a little hurt when she found out he had kept his presence from
her this whole time. But it had been for her own good and Heero felt no need to justify
his actions right now. He would do whatever it took to protect his family, no matter
the cost.
Relena lowered her hand back to her side. "Oh Heero..." This time Heero was ready to
catch her when she threw herself in his arms. Sobs rocked her body and she clung to
Heero's body desperately, afraid that if she let go he would disappear again. Heero's
lips twitched in what could have been a smile or maybe not but his free hand snaked
around her waist and held her close. This is what he had dreamed about for two years.
He didn't care if he had to kill that Reginald guy, no one would ever take her from him
again.
Caleb turned his head from side to side to watch both his parents. Deciding he had to
cheer up his mom a bit he reached out a pudgy hand and patted her head from his position
on Heero's arm. Relena looked up and laughed softly, reaching to take him from his
father. Once Relena had him protectively in her arms, Heero wrapped both of them in his
arms and let contentment flow over him.
They all stood like that for as long as they could for they knew it was going to be
awhile before any of them would be able to do this again.
A storm was coming and it threatened to tear everyone apart.
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The man glanced up from his computer when a knock came at his door. Quickly shutting
the down program he was running, he silently closed the laptop up and hid it in a desk
drawer and locked it. Only after slipping the key into his pocket was the man ready for
company.
"Come in."
His secretary stuck her head in and saw him going through some papers. "I'm sorry sir
but someone here to see you."
The man nodded and his secretary pulled back her head. A second later a woman entered,
long blond hair billowing out from behind her. Narrowing gray blue eyes, she placed one
manicured hand on his desk, disrupting the order of the papers he was looking at. He
glared up at her but she glared right back.
"We have to talk."
The man narrowed his eyes slightly but leaned back in his chair. "Fine, talk."
Satisfied that she had his attention, the woman pulled back her hand and began stalking
around the room. "We have a problem. I can't find her or the brat anywhere. She
didn't come back last night and the kid turned up missing this morning."
Leaning forward in his chair, the man looked pensively at the woman pacing in front of
him. "What do you mean? Where could she have gone and taken the kid without you
noticing?"
"That's what I'm telling you! I don't know!" Frustrated the woman ran a hand through
her hair and stopped in front of his desk. "She left last night to get some groceries
and didn't come back. I don't know when the brat disappeared but I'm having a hard time
trying to keep this quiet!"
The man stood up and began pacing himself, a hand under his chin. "This isn't good. We
needed both her and the child to complete the plan." Suddenly the man stopped and
looked at the woman suspiciously. "Are you sure that there isn't anything else weird
about this? Did she leave with anyone last night?"
The woman considered it a minute, tapping her inch red nails against her teeth as she
thought.
"I'm not sure. I think she might have left with that man that came a week ago but he is
always coming and going without a word that I can't be sure. He was gone all last night
though and I haven't seen him this morning."
The man nodded and began pacing again. "Okay then we'll start with him. I don't have
to tell you that we need both her and the child to end this thing do I?"
She shook her head, scoffing. "Of course not. This has to work so that both of us can
get back that little bitch for what she did to our father."
"Yes, that is true." He turned away from her for a second to search through some things
in his bag. Finally finding what he was looking for, he turned back to her and handed
her the object. "Well when she comes in, put this in her drink. That should do it."
The woman took the object from him and looked at it carefully. After a minute she
smiled and nodded, starting to walk out of the room. "I understand." Abruptly she
turned back around and studied him with a critical eye. "Brother?"
He lifted his eyebrows. "What?"
"Close your zipper."
The man flushed and turned around to do as he was told.
His sister left the office with an exasperated expression on her face.
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The second in command was laughing as she dialed up the number for the Commander. When
his face appeared on the screen she saluted him before grinning broadly.
"Sir I have some interesting news you might like to know."
The commander quirked an eyebrow and looked to the side. After a second he looked back
at the screen, a tired look on his face. "What is it? Report."
"It seems sir, that we have competition for the pleasure of killing Miss Relena." The
second in command laughed again at the expression on the man's face.
"What?"
"Well I have just gotten a report of a attempt on her life that we did not plan. There
have been others too that were not from our organization."
The commander raised a hand to his face and let out a breath. "Oh Allah, I do not need
this." Looking back up at his second in command the man allowed a cruel, amused smile
to flash across his face. "You have my permission to terminate the problem."
The woman smiled and saluted again. "Yes sir." Reaching over she clicked off the com
link and leaned back in her chair. It really was funny that those... -weaklings- were
trying to get rid of Relena also.
A frown flashed across her face. It was just as well however. With this recent
annoyance she did not have to report the problem of 01. Baring her teeth, the second in
command rose from her chair and walked over to the television monitors that graced the
side of the room. Pressing a few buttons, she brought up the image of the training
captain that had been responsible for 01's escape. She smiled, satisfied, as she
watched the captain scream as he was whipped again. She really should have known better
than to trust Stevens with such a task. Not everyone was up to tangling with a Gundam
Pilot.
Still this did work out to her advantage. If she knew Wing Zero's pilot like she
thought she did he would be back soon, alone. When he did come back then she could have
her fun and still leave enough for the commander. And since 01 would come here of his
own free will the commander wouldn't be angry with her for disobeying orders.
Her happy thoughts were interrupted when the building rocked from an explosion.
Clutching the monitor council until the shaking stopped, the second in command yelled
for someone to tell her what the hell was going on.
Her right hand man answered her, a small cut on his forehead bleeding. "One of the
pilots thought to test one of the Mobil suits and blew up!"
The second in command's mind raced as she considered why such a thing would happen.
When she did she narrowed her eyes dangerously. Turning to look at the boy next to her
she snapped out her orders.
"Find that stupid idiot that disobeyed my orders and see if he's still alive. And find
out what the damages are!" The boy nodded and turned to leave when she stopped him.
"Oh and Lieutenant?"
The boy turned around to look at her. "Yes maim?"
"Find the one called Chang Wufei and bring him to me, ASAP."
He bowed to her before leaving. The second in command looked after him, an unreadable
expression on her face.
[Damn you 04!]
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Wufei snarled and quickly gathered all of his possessions. It would just figure that some hard-headed idiot would have to go and test the Mobil suit before their first battle was to start.
Pounding footsteps rang from outside his door as people ran to see what had happened in
the Mobil suit hanger. Wufei ignored them all. Checking to make sure he had everything
one last time, Wufei closed his bag and ran to the door. It opened with a whoosh and
Wufei looked both ways before hurrying out of his room and into the hallway. The door
closed silently behind him.
[I must get to the shuttle before they discover the error program] Wufei thought and ran
quickly down the hallway. Except for a few stranglers headed towards the hanger no one
was around as he made his way to the shuttle bay. It wasn't until he was about to board
the shuttle he ran into resistance. Turning Wufei saw one of the higher ranking
officers pointing a gun at him from a platform.
"Chang Wufei, give yourself up immediately. If you do not I will shoot you."
Wufei smirked. "I do not give up to weaklings."
The boy frowned and clicked off the safety on his gun. Something quick flashed in the
corner of his eye. Wufei was just as fast. Shots were fired rapidly then silence. Two
bodies fell to the floor with a thud.
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To be continued in Chapter 7...
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Again sorry this took so long. I hope it was worth the wait!!
owner of... ummm well nothing to do with GW if that's what you want to know, but now I
am the proud owner of my very own piece of lint!! Boy that was sooooo worth everything
I owned! ^_~
Authors Notes: ::whistles:: Woah, over four months since the last chapter! I'm
surprised you guys haven't tarred and feathered me and thrown me off a cliff!!
::gulps:: Not to give you guys any ideas of course... 0_0' Well anyway, (tho I seem to
say this ALOT, sorry :/) I am very sorry for taking this long with the 6th chapter.
::bows:: Now on with the story! ^.~
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*Fairy Tale Endings: Chapter 6*
A Gundam Wing Fanfiction By Jadet
Copyright 01'
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Wufei snorted for what seemed the millionth time and reassembled the Mobil suit's main
computer. Two minutes was all it took to dismantle the suit, program an error into its
central processor, and reassemble it, but it was still too long to Wufei. In two
minutes anything could happen. He was taking a chance as it was, programming the error
into the suits during the break shift of the guards.
Grunting silently with satisfaction, Wufei replaced the computer into the last doll and
closed the hatch. That program error should make it where none of the suits could fire
any weapons and explode five minutes after take off. In other words the pilots had just
enough time to curse their machines before it blew up with them in it. He was proud of
himself. Voices alerted him to the return of the guards and Wufei melted into the
shadows, taking his laptop and equipment with him.
[Now lets see those weaklings use these toys] Wufei thought with a smirk and disappeared
into the darkness, intent on contacting the others on the new development.
The guards were none the wiser of their midnight visitor.
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Relena woke up to a splitting headache. Turning on her side, she hid her head against
the pillow she was cradling and groaned slightly, confused. What on earth had she done
to get such a horrible headache?
"Is she awake yet?"
Stilling her motions, Relena cocked her ears at the familiar voice. That was Duo's
voice that asked someone else if she was awake. Now she was really confused. She
vaguely remembered him showing up on her doorstep about a week ago, saying something
along the lines of Hilde kicking him out for a few days and could he stay with her? It
struck her as slightly weird. Hilde and him lived on L2, why would he come all the way
to earth to stay with her when he had other friends closer? But Relena was never one to
refuse a friend anything she could provide and had let him stay. Besides with the ice
queen and daughter staying with her, she needed an ally besides Caleb.
That still didn't explain why she had woken up with such a headache or why he was in her
room inquiring about her. What had she done that she couldn't remember? Frowning
lightly she searched her brain for anything and was completely taken surprise by the
answering response from her bedside.
"No."
Relena froze, her body going taunt. She stopped breathing as well and listened to her
heart frantically beating. No, it couldn't be... it just couldn't! Softly she felt a
hand brush away a few tears that had leaked out of her eyes without her notice then move
to stroke her hair.
"Relena?" A deep voice whispered, the hand continuing to stroke her hair. No words
could move beyond the blockage in her throat. The hand continued its gentle stroking.
The action was so familiar and strange at the same time that more tears leaked from her
eyes.
"Hey Heero, she just wake up?"
[Heero? No, that was impossible. Totally impossible...] Her heart thudded even louder
against her chest and without her notice she shook her head lightly, biting her lip
between her teeth. He couldn't be here. He died almost two years ago in a battle. He
left her all alone to the wolves of politics with only a child to remind her that she
hadn't been imagining him that night!
The hand stilled on her hair and slowly withdrew. "No, she's just dreaming," came the
denial and Relena guessed the voice must have seen her head shake in denial.
"Okay man. You think you could watch the kid? Trowa and I are gonna go get some of her
stuff from the mansion."
"Hn."
The warm presence by her side shifted and moved away from her. Relena stayed where she
was, pushing down the instinct to follow the deep voice she heard only in her dreams.
Laying as still as she could she waited until both pairs of footsteps retreated from the
room and the door close behind them before she opened her eyes.
Relena leaned up and stared around her, heart pounding in her chest. It looked like a
hotel room she was lying in. Old but clean looking curtains covered a window just in
front of her while to her right was a small bathroom. She was lying on a queen size
bed. They must have just put her on it for she was on top of the sheets with only her
shoes off.
It took her a few minutes to gather up her courage to get up from the bed. When she did
she went straight to the bathroom and looked into the mirror. Disheveled hair framing a
pale face and wide sea green eyes stared back at her. A small looking purple bruise was
already forming on her left temple. Furrowing her eyebrows, she pushed away the golden
blond hair hiding the bruise from her. It was about the size of a quarter but growing
bigger by the minute. The longer she stared at it, the more images pressed against her
mind.
Flashes of Duo carrying groceries and getting hit from behind made her back away from
the mirror.
[That's right. We were attacked coming back from the market. Duo got hit on the back
of the head by a couple of thugs and pulled me down with him and....] Relena pressed a
hand against her mouth when the rest of that night pressed itself into her mind. [And
someone saved us.]
Eyes wide, Relena looked back into the mirror. "Heero...."
Could it really have been him? After these past couple years of nothing, thinking he
was dead, he was actually alive? When she had found out back then she thought she
wouldn't have been able to keep living. Heero was her world and she had loved him with
every fiber of her being. Though he never said the words she always knew he cared for
her. Chance after chance came to him to leave her and each time he came right back to
her, and she returned the emotions full back. So when they told her he had died she
died too, inside. If it hadn't been for Caleb she would have never lasted this long.
Relena didn't think she would be able to handle it if she was wrong and it wasn't
Heero's voice she had heard or him she had seen the night before. She didn't think she
could take the pain of disappointment. But she had to go find out.
Relena turned away from the mirror and looked towards the door at the other end of the
room. Faintly she could hear someone talking, or gurgling, outside the door. She took
a few steps, then a few more, until she was standing in front of it. Taking a deep
breath to steady suddenly jumpy nerves, she quietly turned the knob. The sight she
beheld when she opened the door made her breath catch in the back of her throat.
It really was Heero. He really was alive! Joy she thought she could never feel again
overwhelmed her and more tears brimmed in her eyes. Heero really was alive and was at
the moment pacing the room with a bundle in his arms. When he turned back to walk
towards her door again Relena recognized the bundle as her son.
Surprise flickered in her eyes. Caleb never let strangers hold him. It even took her
brother almost a year before Caleb would allow his uncle to pick him up without
screaming his head off and struggling. Relena was the only person Caleb trusted fully.
That obviously wasn't the case now. As Heero walked around the room Caleb contently sat
in his fathers arms, babbling on and on in baby talk while he played with something
around Heero's neck. On closer inspection Relena recognized that it was a chain of
some kind and what Caleb found so interesting was a ring hanging from it. More tears
filled Relena's eyes. He still had the ring she gave him from years ago. Before every
mission he went on Relena gave him that ring for protection and told him to return it as
soon as he came back. It was supposed to be an extra incentive for him to come back to
her. Relena never got back that ring from the last mission he went on.
Heero finally spotted Relena standing in the doorway to the bedroom and stopped walking
around the room. Caleb, curious why this man had stopped walking, turned his head in
the direction of where Relena was and gurgled happily but made no motion to be released
from his father's arms.
"Relena," Heero murmured, letting his usually impassive Prussian blue eyes warm. Relief
washed through him. She really was okay. Relena stood where she was, still in shock.
It was Caleb's gurgling that broke through her shock and made her walk towards them
until she stood in front of Heero.
"Heero?"
Heero didn't say anything to the unasked question but instead smirked slightly. Relena
looked from Heero to Caleb then back to Heero.
"You're alive."
The statement was a little ridiculous but Heero nodded, careful not to move Caleb.
"Yes."
The slap came out of nowhere. One minute her hands were laying limply by her side, the
next her right hand was poised in front of his face, his burning cheek a testimony of
how hard she had slapped him. Heero turned back his head from the position it had been
in because of the slap and looked back at Relena. Tears fell in streams down her face
and her eyes reflected the hurt she was feeling. No anger came from Heero however. He
had expected her to be a little hurt when she found out he had kept his presence from
her this whole time. But it had been for her own good and Heero felt no need to justify
his actions right now. He would do whatever it took to protect his family, no matter
the cost.
Relena lowered her hand back to her side. "Oh Heero..." This time Heero was ready to
catch her when she threw herself in his arms. Sobs rocked her body and she clung to
Heero's body desperately, afraid that if she let go he would disappear again. Heero's
lips twitched in what could have been a smile or maybe not but his free hand snaked
around her waist and held her close. This is what he had dreamed about for two years.
He didn't care if he had to kill that Reginald guy, no one would ever take her from him
again.
Caleb turned his head from side to side to watch both his parents. Deciding he had to
cheer up his mom a bit he reached out a pudgy hand and patted her head from his position
on Heero's arm. Relena looked up and laughed softly, reaching to take him from his
father. Once Relena had him protectively in her arms, Heero wrapped both of them in his
arms and let contentment flow over him.
They all stood like that for as long as they could for they knew it was going to be
awhile before any of them would be able to do this again.
A storm was coming and it threatened to tear everyone apart.
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The man glanced up from his computer when a knock came at his door. Quickly shutting
the down program he was running, he silently closed the laptop up and hid it in a desk
drawer and locked it. Only after slipping the key into his pocket was the man ready for
company.
"Come in."
His secretary stuck her head in and saw him going through some papers. "I'm sorry sir
but someone here to see you."
The man nodded and his secretary pulled back her head. A second later a woman entered,
long blond hair billowing out from behind her. Narrowing gray blue eyes, she placed one
manicured hand on his desk, disrupting the order of the papers he was looking at. He
glared up at her but she glared right back.
"We have to talk."
The man narrowed his eyes slightly but leaned back in his chair. "Fine, talk."
Satisfied that she had his attention, the woman pulled back her hand and began stalking
around the room. "We have a problem. I can't find her or the brat anywhere. She
didn't come back last night and the kid turned up missing this morning."
Leaning forward in his chair, the man looked pensively at the woman pacing in front of
him. "What do you mean? Where could she have gone and taken the kid without you
noticing?"
"That's what I'm telling you! I don't know!" Frustrated the woman ran a hand through
her hair and stopped in front of his desk. "She left last night to get some groceries
and didn't come back. I don't know when the brat disappeared but I'm having a hard time
trying to keep this quiet!"
The man stood up and began pacing himself, a hand under his chin. "This isn't good. We
needed both her and the child to complete the plan." Suddenly the man stopped and
looked at the woman suspiciously. "Are you sure that there isn't anything else weird
about this? Did she leave with anyone last night?"
The woman considered it a minute, tapping her inch red nails against her teeth as she
thought.
"I'm not sure. I think she might have left with that man that came a week ago but he is
always coming and going without a word that I can't be sure. He was gone all last night
though and I haven't seen him this morning."
The man nodded and began pacing again. "Okay then we'll start with him. I don't have
to tell you that we need both her and the child to end this thing do I?"
She shook her head, scoffing. "Of course not. This has to work so that both of us can
get back that little bitch for what she did to our father."
"Yes, that is true." He turned away from her for a second to search through some things
in his bag. Finally finding what he was looking for, he turned back to her and handed
her the object. "Well when she comes in, put this in her drink. That should do it."
The woman took the object from him and looked at it carefully. After a minute she
smiled and nodded, starting to walk out of the room. "I understand." Abruptly she
turned back around and studied him with a critical eye. "Brother?"
He lifted his eyebrows. "What?"
"Close your zipper."
The man flushed and turned around to do as he was told.
His sister left the office with an exasperated expression on her face.
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The second in command was laughing as she dialed up the number for the Commander. When
his face appeared on the screen she saluted him before grinning broadly.
"Sir I have some interesting news you might like to know."
The commander quirked an eyebrow and looked to the side. After a second he looked back
at the screen, a tired look on his face. "What is it? Report."
"It seems sir, that we have competition for the pleasure of killing Miss Relena." The
second in command laughed again at the expression on the man's face.
"What?"
"Well I have just gotten a report of a attempt on her life that we did not plan. There
have been others too that were not from our organization."
The commander raised a hand to his face and let out a breath. "Oh Allah, I do not need
this." Looking back up at his second in command the man allowed a cruel, amused smile
to flash across his face. "You have my permission to terminate the problem."
The woman smiled and saluted again. "Yes sir." Reaching over she clicked off the com
link and leaned back in her chair. It really was funny that those... -weaklings- were
trying to get rid of Relena also.
A frown flashed across her face. It was just as well however. With this recent
annoyance she did not have to report the problem of 01. Baring her teeth, the second in
command rose from her chair and walked over to the television monitors that graced the
side of the room. Pressing a few buttons, she brought up the image of the training
captain that had been responsible for 01's escape. She smiled, satisfied, as she
watched the captain scream as he was whipped again. She really should have known better
than to trust Stevens with such a task. Not everyone was up to tangling with a Gundam
Pilot.
Still this did work out to her advantage. If she knew Wing Zero's pilot like she
thought she did he would be back soon, alone. When he did come back then she could have
her fun and still leave enough for the commander. And since 01 would come here of his
own free will the commander wouldn't be angry with her for disobeying orders.
Her happy thoughts were interrupted when the building rocked from an explosion.
Clutching the monitor council until the shaking stopped, the second in command yelled
for someone to tell her what the hell was going on.
Her right hand man answered her, a small cut on his forehead bleeding. "One of the
pilots thought to test one of the Mobil suits and blew up!"
The second in command's mind raced as she considered why such a thing would happen.
When she did she narrowed her eyes dangerously. Turning to look at the boy next to her
she snapped out her orders.
"Find that stupid idiot that disobeyed my orders and see if he's still alive. And find
out what the damages are!" The boy nodded and turned to leave when she stopped him.
"Oh and Lieutenant?"
The boy turned around to look at her. "Yes maim?"
"Find the one called Chang Wufei and bring him to me, ASAP."
He bowed to her before leaving. The second in command looked after him, an unreadable
expression on her face.
[Damn you 04!]
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Wufei snarled and quickly gathered all of his possessions. It would just figure that some hard-headed idiot would have to go and test the Mobil suit before their first battle was to start.
Pounding footsteps rang from outside his door as people ran to see what had happened in
the Mobil suit hanger. Wufei ignored them all. Checking to make sure he had everything
one last time, Wufei closed his bag and ran to the door. It opened with a whoosh and
Wufei looked both ways before hurrying out of his room and into the hallway. The door
closed silently behind him.
[I must get to the shuttle before they discover the error program] Wufei thought and ran
quickly down the hallway. Except for a few stranglers headed towards the hanger no one
was around as he made his way to the shuttle bay. It wasn't until he was about to board
the shuttle he ran into resistance. Turning Wufei saw one of the higher ranking
officers pointing a gun at him from a platform.
"Chang Wufei, give yourself up immediately. If you do not I will shoot you."
Wufei smirked. "I do not give up to weaklings."
The boy frowned and clicked off the safety on his gun. Something quick flashed in the
corner of his eye. Wufei was just as fast. Shots were fired rapidly then silence. Two
bodies fell to the floor with a thud.
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To be continued in Chapter 7...
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Again sorry this took so long. I hope it was worth the wait!!