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Note: *Bows deeply* FINALLY!!! I know that's what all of you are thinking. "This b*tch finally got the last chapter out!" Again sorry so much to all my faithful readers who have gone nuts waiting for this chapter, I know it seems like it's been almost a year. Please find it in your hearts to forgive and I hope you like this after waiting so long!!
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Part 16
Relena screamed like she had never screamed before. When she heard Duo's scream along with hers, it confirmed it, the once brown haired and blue eyed boy who had been kneeling by her, was now sprawled out on the floor, his blood soaking the street. She could not believe what had happened.
**Flashback**
Heero just smiled and kneeled down beside her.
They both could hear Duo still fighting with Amanda in the background, but both were confident that he could handle her.
Once Relena calmed down, she returned the smile. "You are so good to me, Heero."
Heero just blushed and Relena continued. "I really don't deserve such kindness from you, what have I ever done for you?
At this Heero's eyes widened."How can you even ask that? You opened up my heart made me realize that I had emotions, and I've realized that I..."
But he was cut off by the worst sound Relena had ever heard, a gunshot and before she knew what was happening, she saw his head snap forward and sprawl out across the floor.
**End Flashback**
Relena was now holding on to his body and crying openly. He was her love and she was never letting go.
Duo had just stared at Relena and the now unconscious Heero, he still had Amanda pinned, and as he stared he put more and more weight on her. When he saw Relena hold on to the limp body, and saw that it was defintely limp, new anger surged through him. He turned his head to look at Amanda.
"Are you happy about what you did now, bitch?" He growled putting more of his weight on to her.
"M-my poor Aiden" She whispered as she sobbed and suddenly started to try to get Duo off of her.
"Get off me you jerk!!"
Duo couldn't contain his anger any longer and broke one of his own rules that he had made up for himself, 'Never hit a girl'. He gathered up all his energy and punched her in the stomach causing her to cough up blood, this pleased him and he raised his fist to do it again, only to have it frozen in the air. He looked up to see what was the cause and saw Quatre holding on to his arm firmly and sadly shaking his head no. He blinked, confused that Quatre was suddenly there and as he looked around him, he realized that half of the guests were now outside, including the rest of the G-boys, Sally, and Hilde. He gathered a breath to calm himself somewhat and managed to speak without screaming.
"Quatre, he needs help, now." He said, knowing it was extremely serious since he had seen Heero's head snap forward.
"Already taking care of it, Duo." Sally answered.
When Duo looked at her, he saw that she was already talking on her video phone watch and heard the last part of her conversation and the most important part. "We need an ambulance and the police here quickly."
Amanda still struggled against him, but he did not move an inch. Quatre took a pained sigh, he didn't understand why something so horrible could happen when everything was going so well. He stared at Relena's back with sad eyes and noticed that she was abnormally still. He decided to check on her and went over to her.
"Relena?...um...has he moved any?" He asked noticing how tightly she was holding on to him.
"No."
"Well maybe you should just leave him lying...."
"He's gone Quatre."
Quatre's eyes widened "No!! He can't leave us already!! Did you check his pulse?"
"I don't have to, Quatre, he got shot in the head, I saw it snap forward...h-he's..gone. I just know it." She said in a voice so calm and quiet it sounded eerie to Quatre.
His eyes instantly filled up with tears. "N-no. Relena, let Sally check him first until the ambulance arrives."
"No! She won't be able to do anything! He is gone!"
"You don't know that for sure Relena, let her check." Quatre answered, more in a demand then request as he mentioned for Sally to go over.
Sally came over quickly but not before shooing away all the other guests. "Please, we need as much room as possible, please just go inside."
The other guests seemed disappointed to have to go, they wanted to see if the mysterious boy would be all right, but they listened to Sally. When she made her way next to Heero, she took in a deep breath. Blood. So much blood was all over him, the street, and Relena's once lavender dress was now a very dark purple.
"Relena?" She asked slowly. "Please put him down so I can make sure he is at least breathing."
Relena said nothing but held on even tighter. "Relena please, by holding on to him so tightly you could be making it worst."
Relena lifted her newly tear stained face to her and nodded her head. "Take him." she said softly.
Sally nodded sadly and took him from Relena's grip, lying him flat on the floor and checking his pulse. At first she smirked, she felt one, a very low one but atleast it was there but as quickly as her smirk came to her face, was how quick it left. Suddenly she felt nothing, it stopped right underneath her fingers.
"No!! You can't die! Do you hear me Heero? You can't die yet!" She yelled right into his face as she frantically started CPR.
"Breathe damnit, breathe!!....please." she finished whimpering as she was on the verge of crying herself.
She was still in the process of giving him CPR when the ambulance finally arrived along with the police, both had only taken 5 minutes but it had seem like eternities for all who were waiting. All besides Sally seemed frozen in place. Relena had stayed kneeled on the floor, Duo sat frozen on top of Amanda a few feet away while Trowa and Wufei stood near Duo in case Amanda did manage to get him off of her, they would be ready. Besides there wasn't much else they could do. Quatre remained at Relena's side whispering comforting words, that were not getting processed by Relena's brain at the moment. She could not hear his words, but could only stare at Heero.
The paramedics ran out of the ambulance and approached Sally ready with the stretcher. "Please move ma'm."
Sally gladly moved out of the way and the paramedics took over giving Heero CPR. Just when everyone had given up hope, a paramedic shouted out.
"I got him breathing again and he stirred!! He is still alive let's go."
With that no questions were asked and Heero was immediately wheeled into the ambulance. Relena shouted out "I'm going too!" and joined him in the back of the ambulance and they were on their way. Before they left however, Sally asked them which hospital they were going to and find out it was the Rosedale Hospital. She passed this information along to the other boys who were busy with the police and drove to the hospital, following the ambulance.
Two policemen gathered their strength and pried Duo off of Amanda while another kept her pinned. One looked Duo directly in the eyes.
" Would you mind telling us what happened exactly sir?"
Duo didn't feel like being polite or his happy self. " What happened? What happened!?!? What happened was that this crazy bitch shot him! That's what happened."
"Please sir, no profanities. Now, you just called this woman crazy, that is a serious offense,do you have any proof that this woman is indeed mentally ill?"
"Damn you Duo!! I'm not crazy!"
"My ass is more sane then you." He snarled.
The officer fought the urge to laugh and instead raised an eyebrow at Duo. "I do not care how smart your ass is. Now what I want is proof that this young lady is mentally ill and you have yet to given me any."
Duo stared at him silently, unsure of what to say to prove to them that Amanda was not right in the head.
"Really Maxwell it isn't that hard! It's been painfully obvious to us all that this sick onna has been obsessed with trying to get Heero under her clutches and make him her boyfriend." Wufei said, his face as red as a tomato.
"That's right sir." Quatre added. "She has been trying to get Heero to go out with her but has failed, and everyone could tell it has become an obsession."
The officer frowned at this and turned to Amanda whom his partner still had pinned down to the floor. "Is this true miss? Have you been trying repeatedly to get the victim....or rather Heero, to be your boyfriend?"
"Of course I have been trying! He belongs to me since we were young! I have only been trying to take back what is rightfully mine away from that 50 cent slut!" Amanda shouted struggling against the other officer.
"But miss you do realize that he is not a material object but a person..."
"Yes he is a person and he belongs to me!!!! Too bad he had to learn the hard way, oh well if I couldn't have him, no one could and it seems I got my wish!!!" She finished laughing in an eerie manner.
The officer pinning her sweatdropped and looked up at the other officer. "Um...Mark I think you should...."
Mark nodded quickly. "I"m on it."
He picked up the car radio and the remaining G-boys could hear him say. "Hey Sam, we are bringing in a mental patient who just shot someone, call the asylum. We will be there in 15 minutes."
Unfortunately Amanda heard this as well and began to struggle even more viciously, to no avail. Mark walked over and handcuffed her hands and stood her up. As she stood she elbowed him and ran to Trowa, rubbing up against him in a caring manner.
"I am not crazy!!! I am not! I can prove it too!"
"Oh yea?" Mark snarled. "Look Eric she wants to prove it" He added addressing the other officer.
"Let's see." Eric answered.
Amanda smiled and looked up lovingly at Trowa. "Come on Trowa-poo. Tell them I'm not crazy, that we were boyfriend and girlfriend and how much we loved each other. Tell them how much I meant to you and how sweet and nice I am."
Trowa stood stiff but smiled down at her. This gave her a ray of hope and she snuggled up even more against him as much as she could with the handcuffs on. Still smiling, Trowa spoke calmly.
"Officer Mark?"
"Yes son?"
"Take this crazy bitch away."
Mark and Eric looked at each other and laughed while pulling away a very upset Amanda from Trowa.
"Noo! I'm not crazy! Trowa you bastard how could you?!?"
But Trowa wasn't given a chance to answer as Mark and Eric literally shoved Amanda into the backseat of the police car and the last sound they heard was
"Noooooooo! Im not crazzzzzzzy!"
The boys stood watching the car leave for a while, all shaking their heads sadly. There was an uncomfortable silence and all were lost in their own questions, torturing themselves internally. Until finally one of them couldn't take it anymore.
"Damnit what the hell are we doing standing around doing nuttin?"
"We are not doing nothing, Duo." Quatre answered. "We are going to Rosedale Hospital right now. Right guys?"
"Yea." Trowa answered while Wufei stared blankly ahead and they all piled into the limo off to the hospital.
When they arrived there, their hearts sank even lower at the scene displayed before them. Relena was sitting on the floor against what appeared the door of a room, slowly rocking back and forth, while Sally seemed to be trying to soothe her to no avail. Quatre approached Sally and tapped her lightly on the shoulder. Sally jumped a bit but managed to give him a small smile.
"Oh, so the police finally let you go eh Quatre?"
"Yes, and I'll tell you what happened to Amanda later on, but any word on Heero yet?"
She shook her head sadly. "No. Being a doctor I know it's far too soon to know anything yet, but they should have at least said something, anything."
"Can't you persuade them to let you take over on handling him?"
"I tried, they say it's too personal and since I'm not under this hospital's staff they can't do that. To be honest I don't think I'd want to...it ...it is too personal."
"I...I understand." His eyes shifted to Relena. "Poor Relena, she doesn't look any better, have you been able to get through to her?"
"No. She's been off in her own little world since the accident happened. She does nothing but cry and repeat that she knows he is dead. I've tried repeatedly to talk her out of her little trance, but I think it's better to just leave her alone for now and wait until we know if he's going to make it or not."
At these words Quatre shut his eyes tightly trying to fight back the tears, but then the pain shook him so badly he just let it flow, nodded at Sally and went to take a seat on one of the uncomfortable waiting chairs where the other boys were, or rather two instead of three were. As he sat down his eyes scanned for where Wufei might be, and he quickly spotted him arguing with a nurse at her desk. He could faintly make out the arguement and couldn't help but smirk a bit.
"Listen to me Onna, what do you mean you can't tell me how Heero Yuy is doing? This is a hospital is it not? How can you not know how a patient is doing?"
"Look Sir, it is not that I don't know how he is doing, it is that I am not allowed to tell you myself. The doctor will be out shortly to inform you himself. Now please go take a seat and wait patiently."
"I have waited long enough! I demand to know how my comrade is doing!"
"If you do not go take a seat and stop ordering me around, sir, I will be forced to call hospital security." said the nurse who's eyes were now blazing with fire and unfriendliness.
"Fine!!!" Wufei shouted back as he picked up a magazine and sat down fuming.
He then began to talk out loud in an angry tone and thought out loud to himself, even though the other pilots could clearly hear him.
"Damn this whole hospital system! As if the injustice of this night wasn't enough. Now we must face the wrong doings of disgruntled nurses and doctors. Damn that weakling onna anyway. Who gave her the right to ruin our night and do that to him? No one did! So why did it happen? Why? Because this world is full of injustices, no one ever wants to listen but it is the truth...that's ...why....this ....happened."
When he finished his speech, it was finished in a whisper and the other three looked at each other, before anyone got to question anything however, Wufei got up and walked down a hallway heading to what seemed the cafe. Trowa reached for his magazine, intending to read it himself, when he noticed wet marks on the open page. He smiled a bit and mentioned nothing to Quatre or Duo.
As for Duo, if he was fidgety with just a tuxedo on, now he seemed like a fish out of water on the hard chair. Only this time neither Wufei or Quatre had bothered to reprimand him, so he continued to fidget. He was too nervous not to. Just what was taking the damn doctor so long anyway? Half an hour already, couldn't they have at least come out and say, yes he is still alive and now we are going to operate? Not even that. Man this was not good. The scene of the accident kept playing over and over in his head and no matter how hard he tried to shake it out, he couldn't. It then occurred to him that he had not seen Relena. When he spotted her, his heart sank even lower. He also felt a bit angry that no one was with her and he made his way over to her.
"How are you doing hun?" He asked giving her his best grin at the moment, considering the situation and knowing what he said was kind of stupid, but not knowing what else to say.
"........."
"Aw, c'mon don't tell me you are going to ignore me?? Me? Duo-poo? You know you can't!" He stated, sticking his face right in her way and doing his best puppy dog eyes.
Hey if you can't cheer up yourself , cheer someone else up, that was one of his mottos.
Relena couldn't help but smile at him, even if it was a fake smile, and he returned it. Even though as soon as he returned it, it was like a signal for her to cry, and she did. In fact she cried a lot more then he expected, clinging on to her soaked dress as if it were Heero itself.
Duo watched awkwardly for a moment and then took her into his arms, which she greatly appreciated and clung on to him tightly.
"Oh...Duo...he....he...I...."
"Shhhh....I know. I know." He whispered into her ear while rubbing her back trying his best to soothe her.
Unfortunately it was at this moment, that the doctor chose to make his grand appearance. Because his face was grim, everyone, including Wufei who had come back from the cafe, became very still and quiet awaiting the news.
"Hello, I am Dr. Thijet. Are you Heero Yuy's family?"
"Yes." Sally answered quickly.
He gave her a raised eyebrow as he surveyed everyone in the room. "Seriously?"
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"No. He has no family, he is an orphan, but we are his closest friends so we are his family."
"Ah, I see. Well anyway, I'm sorry to say but there is some good news and some bad news."
Everyone's eyes grew wide at this. "Yes?!?" all asked at once, their voice strained.
"Well, the good news is that the patient is still alive, the bullet did not actually go inside his head, it just grazed it. We have already operated on him and he is now in a room resting."
The following sound was of everyone letting out the air they were holding.
"The bad news is, that a good part of his skin was taken off and he has lost a lot of blood. There is still a 50/50 chance that he will survive this. Also since he has suffered so much trauma to his head leads to the fact that he might suffer brain damage when he wakes up. Another possibility is that he doesn't wake up at all and goes into a state of coma."
Everyone stared at the doctor in shock, while Relena's eyes just rolled back as she fainted into Duo's waiting arms.
Dr. Thijet winced he hated giving bad news. He took a deep breath and continued. "Well please give us a few moments to make sure that he is stable and then you may go see him."
They all nodded their heads and sat back down, Duo carrying Relena with him and sitting her in a separate chair. Sally sighed and began to shake Relena gently, then a bit rougher hoping to wake her up without the need of any smelling salts. To her relief Relena stirred.
"Huh? What happened?"
"You fainted." Sally answered simply.
Relena frowned at first wondering why she would faint, and when her memory gave her an answer, she cried out, "Oh my lord! Poor Heero! I have to see him!"
"Calm down Rellie, You know Heero is like a cat with nine lives. He will make it through this." Duo said with a smile that did not reach his eyes.
Relena nodded but still ringed her hands nervously. Sally reached out and held her hand. "We will be able to see him in a few minutes."
As if on cue, the doctor entered the lobby once more."You can all see Mr. Yuy now, he is in room 015. I must warn you though, if he does wake up he might not recognize you at first, and this is normal at first but if it continues we will have to do some studies because it will be most likely the cause of brain damage."
They all nodded sadly and never had a group of people gotten up so fast like they did, however when they finally reached his room, all stopped outside the door, took a deep breath and slowly walked in. When they all were inside, it was noticed that Heero just appeared to be asleep. He had no scars or bandages on him. Just an iv, and heart monitor were visible on him, but on closer inspection they could see the bandage on the back of his head. It felt odd to all of them, as if they were a bunch of perverts watching him sleep when he seemed in perfect health.
Relena immediately kneeled by his bed, as to not move the bed, and took his hand gently. He felt odd to her, his hands were not warm, but rather cold and clammy. This worried her, but she just held on tighter giving his hand a light kiss.
Everyone else did not know what else to do, but wait so they took seats inside the room, and left Relena alone alongside him, where she would be the most happy for now.
All were ready for a long night, and a long night it indeed was. It was full of uncomfortable sleeping positions, checking on Heero themselves, and having many interventions of the nurses and doctor, waking them up every time they checked on him. Finally, the doctor talked to them for the last time at 2 in the morning.
He seemed quite tired himself and they felt pity for him too, just like he did for them. "My friends, I hate to say this, but if he doesn't wake up sometime later this morning, he has gone into coma, because after the operation he should have woken up just a few hours later. I'm so sorry. I sincerely hope he does wake up."
Whether it be entirely too much sadness that day, or just the fact that they were exhausted and it was 2 in the morning, they just murmured their thank you's and drifted off into a uneasy sleep, with Relena staying kneeling on the floor and clinging on to Heero as if he was life itself.
Duo awoke only 4 hours later, thanks to the fact that he had fallen asleep next to the window and sunlight was beaming down on his eyes. In an effort to leave the room quietly to get some fresh air, he managed to knock something heavy over, not sure of what, and managed to wake everyone else up.
"Baka." Wufei immediately growled, while sitting up then sighed. "How is Yuy, do you know?"
Duo opened his mouth to answer, but a voice from the other corner of the room answered for him.
"No. I'm afraid he is still the same." The voice was lifeless and female.
"Relena, you've been up all this time? You really need to get some rest." Quatre said gently while yawning.
She gave him a soft glare. "How could I? I'm not resting until he wakes up, ….he just has to."
Quatre lowered his head sadly, "But still…"
"No!" She said sharply with a hoarse voice and then turned to Heero once again, except this time she began pleading with him in a soft whisper.
"Please Heero, you have to wake up. Please? You can't leave me all alone, we got over Amanda's deceptions, you have opened up to me. We have gotten so far, you didn't do it for it to end like this right? I know you didn't, so please, please try to wake up I don't want to lose you. Besides you still have to tell me what you were going to say." She finished smiling slightly, and then burst into an angry rush of tears.
"Please…please…" she repeated softly squeezing his hand and leaning her face against it letting her tears cover his hand.
Everyone else closed their eyes silently praying, that he would wake up. Their prayers were answered, because they soon heard a soft moan. Their eyes widened and all looked at each other, then at Relena. Relena was frozen staring at the figure next to her.
Heero let out another soft moan and moved uncomfortably on the bed, then slowly his eyes fluttered open. Everyone stared in shock, almost afraid that if they moved he would fall asleep again. Heero tried to turn his head and immediately cried out in pain. Relena quickly jumped up and tried her best to soothe him.
"No, don't move your head around too much, you've been hurt badly." She said sadly but her eyes were twinkling with happiness to see him awake.
"Who…who…are …you?…Where … where …am …I?" He answered his speech considerably slurred.
This scared everyone at first until Relena responded. "Heero…it's me Relena, Re-le-na You remember me don't you?." She said slowly, hoping he would understand.
He stared at her for a minute and then slowly smiled "Relena Peacecraft." He said simply, adding her last name to show he truly remembered while he squeezed her hand.
Her face bursted into the biggest smile, "Oh Heero!! I thought I lost you!" she shouted while throwing her arms around his neck, squeezing him making him wince.
"Oops…sorry." But Heero just smirked.
"Yea sure, just finish killing him off Rellie." Duo stated while walking over to the bed and smiling down genuinely at his best friend. "So, how many lives do you have left, kitty cat?"
Heero gave him a small glare but smirked. "B-baka." He said softly.
Duo's smile became bigger, "Oh yea, your fine."
Quatre was the next to come closer, "I'm so happy your okay Heero, I was so scared."
"Thank you Quatre."
"Hmph. You finally decide to wake up, eh Yuy? Serves you right, getting mixed up with crazy onnas." Wufei said popping up behind Quatre.
Sally immediately pulled him away. "Don't worry Heero he cares a lot more then that sounded…and I'm so happy you are well, I'll go get the doctor so he can check you, all right?"
Heero smiled and nodded, and continued to smile while Trowa patted him on the shoulder, "I knew you'd come back, you wouldn't leave a certain someone behind." He stated while indicating Relena with his eyes, then winked.
Heero laughed thinking something like this was odd coming from Trowa, but nodded nonetheless.
A few moments later the doctor came in and proclaimed him perfectly healthy considering the situation, and stable. That all he needed was to stay in the hospital for a week or so to recover. With this all said and done, Quatre announced,
"Well, we will go get some breakfast in the café, to give you two sometime alone." He said while ushering everyone else out and winking at Relena.
Relena giggled and looked at Heero lovingly. "Thank you….thank you." She whispered to herself while looking upwards.
Heero opened his arms out to her, asking for a hug shyly. She hugged him, and he laid her head on top of his chest, where she couldn't have been happier. They both stayed like that for a while, until a thought occurred to Relena.
"Heero?"
"Hm??" he asked sleepy, the anthestic drugs were still making him drowsy.
"What were you going to tell me before…well…before the accident happened?"
Heero winced at the memory of the terrible event, but fortunately for him, she could not seem him blush when he remembered what he was going to tell her.
"Well I was going to tell you that I….I…"
"Yes?"
"That I love you." He said quickly feeling slightly embarrassed but at the same time a great weight being lifted from his chest.
Relena's eyes teared up and she smiled the biggest smile her mouth would allow her to make. "Oh Heero I love you too! So much!" she shouted leaping up from his chest and staring into his eyes, so he could see her smile.
She saw him returning it, and could feel him lowering her head towards him and they finally shared their first kiss. So tender and loving that it left them both speechless and Relena returned to her place against his chest, finally feeling how tired she really was.
Just as she was starting to fall asleep, Heero asked "I wonder why Amanda had to turn to such a dramatic so called solution."
Relena just smiled to herself and kissed Heero's chest softly. "Oh Heero, didn't you know? Jealousy is an ugly thing." She murmered falling asleep against him, while he smiled to himself as well and followed her example by falling asleep as well. The new couple comfortably embraced, shared their dreams together.