Disclaimer: .Yeah, right. I own gundam wing. *Rolls eyes.* We all know I don't, so I don't know why they insist on us putting these things here, But anything to avoid a lawsuit! ^_^ Oh, same thing on Kai and Katrina. But the rest of the kids are all mine! Especially Gwen, Helen, and Teddi! They're my favorite made-up people! But I guess you already knew that. Now, on with the story…if you aren't bored already…*awkward silence* You're still reading this? And I thought my life was sad!

Episode 2 : War and peace

Teddi opened his eyes, confused on why he woke up. He sat p and looked around.

Everybody was asleep.

He sighed and was about to lay back down, when he heard Gwen scream. "What the- Gwen?" He jumped to his feet and started to run, but tripped over his blankets. "Whoa!" He stood up and glared at the blankets. He heard Gwen scream again. He ran out the door, to the hallway, trying to figure out where her screams came from.

Helen looked at Katrina. "Was that Gwen?"

Katrina frowned. "I don't remember anything happening with her…"

They looked at each other as Gwen screamed again.

"Let's go find her." They ran down the hallway.

Heero shot up. "Gwen." He stood up and looked at the door, just as Teddi ran out. He looked around for his gun. He heard Gwen scream again. He sighed and ran out the door.

Gwen stared at the guy's body. She knew there'd be blood, but she didn't know that there'd be that much blood.

So much of it.

She stared at it as it flowed out of the guy's head. *You didn't have to shoot him…there. You could've shot him in the arm. Then he would've been warned, instead of dead. No! The he would've killed you first!*

She struggled to stand up and avoid looking at the gaping hole in the guy's head, but it was hard not to notice the red.

*So much red.*

She let go of the gun. *It's okay. It was either you or him. But what about mother? Do you know what she'll do to you if she finds out that you raised a weapon to another human being? Do you know how disappointed she'll be to know you killed another person? And Father! And uncle Zechs! Everybody!*

She slowly sank to the floor. She stared at the bloody hole. She closed her eyes and screamed. She kept screaming. Then she started to cry. *You didn't have to kill him! He could've been someone's father! Someone's husband or son! He didn't have to die!* She cried harder.

"Gwen!" Someone grabbed her. "Gwen! What's wrong? Open your eyes!"

Gwen shook her head and continued crying. She heard footsteps.

"Oh, my god! Gwen! Gwen!"

She kept crying.

"She's hysterical!"

"What should we do?"

Gwen opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was the hole. She stared at it, then blacked out.

"So, she shot someone and went hysterical? Why?"

Heero ran a hand through his hair. He stared at the ceiling. "I'm just trying to figure out how that guy got in here in the first place."

"But what about Gwen? This is her first kill. Heck, this is the first time someone died in that way in front of her. Don't you think you should focus your attention on her right now, and not some guy in the morgue with a hole in his head?" Duo watched Heero intently.

Heero looked down. "I failed."

Duo shrugged. "So go self-destruct."

Hero looked away from the ceiling and glared at Duo. "This is no time for jokes, Maxwell."

Duo put his hands up. "I agree. But you should be thinking of Gwen right now. She needs you."

Heero took a deep breath. "I don't think I an do that."

Duo made a face. "Why not?"

Heero just shook his head.

Duo growled out of frustration. "Damn it! She's your daughter! She's never seen this kind of thing before! None of our kids have! And she's young! And a girl! Maybe if it were Reo, it'd be a bit better, but it isn't! It's Gwen! And do you know how much greif, how much guilt she has?!" Duo watched Heero.

Heero glared at him. "What do you expect me to do, Duo? Want me to congratulate her? I promised Relena to never have our kids invlved with any kind of violence. I promised her that none of our kids would raise a hand to somebody. And Gwen went and did this."

"So, you're disappointed."

"Disappointed with myself. Disappointed that I allowed this to happen. That I didn't see this coming." Heero stared at the ceiling again. "Disappointed that I failed as a father, husband, and protector." A tear slid out of his eye. "I would talk to Gwen, if I knew what to tell her. "I never thought this would happen. I never figured there'd be any trouble. This is all so sudden, so unexpected." He cried as he thought about what his daughter was going through.

Duo looked down. "Hey, well, I'm going to go check on her. See how she's holding up." He walked out the door.

Heero sat down and continued staring at the ceiling. After a while, he wiped his eyes. "Damn it, Yuy. Don't be weak."

Gwen was staring at the ceiling, counting all the little dots on the tiles, trying to ignore everybody.

Teddi and Katrina were with her the whole time. Teddi had pulled out his violin and played a little bit, but gave up when Gwen said nothing. He looked at Katrine worriedly.

Katrina tried to ignore the fact that they would all be dead if Gwen hadn't killed that guy.

A few hours later, Quatre came in and said that they had to go to the meeting room. They walked to it slowly, glancing at Gwen evey now and then.

Gwen was ignoring everything. She was lost in her own world. As they enetered the meeting room, Gwen turned around and started throwing up.

Helen and Kai saw this and watched her sympathetically. Heero led Gwen away, Sally following.

Everybody stared at each other.

Quatre cleared his throat. "Um, well, I'd like Katrina and Teddi to take the other kids into the other room. They shouldn't be here."

Teddi looked at Trowa. "But-"

Trowa raised an eyebrow. Teddi sighed and looked at Katrina. "C'mon. Let's go." They lead the others away.The four remaining children of the gundam pilots looked at each other.

Quatre looked at them. "The reason we let you four stay is because you're all old enough to hear this and understand it."

Helen got up and sat next to Duo.

Kai glared at Wufei, as Trowa's daughter, Shelley, and Quatre's son, Thomas, stood up and sat next to thir fathers.

Quatre looked down. "I'm sure you all heard about what happened last night."

Shelley raised her hand. "Actually, I don't really care about that. Yes, I feel bad for Gwen, but just he fact that someone died here last night, and by the hand of a fifteen-year-old, and not by any of you, doesn't ease my mind."

Trowa stared at his daughter in shock. "So you'd rather be dead right now?"

Shelley shook her head. "No! That's not it at all. It's just…there was an assassin in here. Here, where we're supposed to be safe. And not you, Quatre, Wufei, Duo, or Heero, sensed his presence. In fact, youu all went to sleep, feeling safe. And Gwen could've been killed or kidnapped or… I don't even want to think about what else they could've done too her. Don't you all find it a bit unnerving that you, the trained gundam pilots, couldn't tell that guy was here, and most of all, kill him? Gwen had to and now she's going to have to deal with the fact that she killed someone. It doesn't matter if he was an assassin. He was a human being to her. Is it just me, or is that idea a bit sad?" She looked around. She noticed the expressions on the piloys' faces. "Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to feel guilty or anything. I only wanted to know if we were going to another place to hide."

Trowa looked at his daughter.

Shelley nodded. "Right. Just leaving." She quickly stood up and walked out.

Quatre put his head in his hands. "She's right. She's absolutely right." He looked up. "We're too old now. We can't even defend our families in our own hospital. We're not cut out for this anymore. We should just go into a hidden, protection service thingy or something."

Wufei shook his head. "No, because that makes us cowards and shows we're weak. I will not say I am weak."

Duo nodded. "I'm with Wu-man there."

Wufei glared at Duo. "Don't call me that."

"Right." Duo laid his head down on the table.

Quatre stared at the table. "You may not want to show your weaknesses, Wufei, but you're showing stpidity if you think you can stop whoever these guys are. Think about what Shelley said. Last night was the tip off. My party…what happened there shouldn't have if we knew about it."

"But we didn't-"

"And that's just it! We should've seen it coming. But we didn't. Twenty politicians lie dead. Duo and I are bandaged. Heero's daughter killed someone last night, while we were sleeping. What more proof do you need? We're old. We're not as skilled as we used to be. We need to figure out what to do, now that we can't protect ourselves."

Wufei glared at Quatre. "I'm not old, unskilled, or stupid!"

Kai snorted. "Yeah, 'cuz you're senile, slow, and arrogant."

Duo laughed. "That was good!"

Wufei turned his glare on Kai. "That coming from an immature brat! I see your maturity is lacking at the moment, so go to the other room, now."

"No."

"Damn it, Kai! Do it!" Wufei stood up.

Kai did the same. "No!"

They stood, glaring at each other.

Helen looked at Kai. "Kai, please do it."

Kai looked at Helen in shock. "What? You too?"

Helen stared at him. "Please, Kai. Just do it. I'll tell you why later."

Kai slammed hi hand on the table. "Damn it!" he stormed out.

Everybody stared at Helen in shock. She shrugged.

Wufei sat down slowly, his hand on his forehead. "My son…my only son…is whipped…and by that Maxwell child… My life is over…"

A thought hit Helen. She looked at Duo excitedly."I know what to do! Give me a minute!" She ran toward the door.

Duo leaned back in his chair. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Helen raised her eyebrows. "C'mon, dad! Think about it!"

Duo stared at her blanlky.

Helen sighed. "Starts with 'k', ends with 'a', and a very important person indeed." She ran out.

Duo blinked. After a minute, he slapped his forehead. "O, yeah! Duh!" He smiled at Quatre. "You're going to so love this little surprise!"

"Niety-seven…98...99..."Katrina stared at the ceiling. "This is dull." She sighed and continued counting. "One hudred…101...102...103..."

"Katrina!"

Katrina jumped. "Aaaagggghhhh!" She looked at the door. "Oh, it's just you, Helen. Geez! I thought you wre someone trying to blow my brains out."

Helen blinked. "That was a nice term to use after what just happened last night."

Katrina thought about that. "Yeah, I guess you're right." She shrugged and sat down "So, what do you want?"

Helen smiled. "You can tell everybody why you're here and stuff! Isn't that great?"

Katrina's eyes widened. "What?!" She stared at Helen in shock.

Helen frowned. "I thought that's what you wanted. What's wrong?"

Katrina made a face. "You expect me to walk in ther and tell them that they're all going to die?"

Helen looked down. "Well, not that part, necessarily. Just the reason why you're here."

"Which will lead to the dead father part."

Helen made a face. "Can't you think of a way to tell them all that without mentioning the dead part?"

Katrina looked at her. "No."

Helen threw her hands up in frustration. "Well, I thought that was the whole point of you being here!"

Katrina sighed. "Look, I can't go in there and reveal myself yo everyone. And I can't tell them that they're all going to die."

Helen crossed her arms. "You told me."

Katrina smiled a little. "Yeah, but that's 'cuz I knew you were going take it. You know damn well that your father would freak out if he was told he was going to die three years from now."

Helen's eyes widened. "he has three years to live?!"

Katrina closed her eyes. "Crap. Said too much."

Helen frowned. "I don't understand… You come here from the future to prevent our deaths, but you won't tell the five most important people we know everything you know…, Care to explain?"

Katrina sighed and loked at Helen. "Just trust me on this. I know what I'm doing."

Helen frowned some more. "Well, I don't like what you're doing."

Katrina looked back at the ceiling. "Before I came here, I was told not to reveal mtself to everybody, not tell everything I know, and not interfere with destiny."

Helen looked at Katrina frustrated. "Then, why are you here?"

Katrina closed her eyes again. "It's hard to explain."

Helen snorted. "Yeah, well it's hard to understand too."

Katrina opened her eyes and glared at Helen. "Look, you can't assume that I can go in there and tell my father that he's going to be dead and that there's nothing he can do about it, except fight. And fighting wll get none of us anywhere. I've seen that. And I don't wabt to go through all that pain again."

Helen raised her eyebrows. "Then, why are you here?"

Katrina looked down.

Helen made a face and walked out.

Katrina watched her leave, She stared at the ceiling, then slammed her hand. "Damn it!" She walked out the door, preparing in her mindwhat she was going to say.

~~~End of episode 2

A/N: Well, what did you all think? Long and boring and repetititve? I don't want to sound like a nagging FFN author, but R&R PLEASE!!!!! And tell me what you think of my charcters and stuff. Oh, and if you're confused on anything and have aby questions or comments or suggestions, you know what to do. "Til the next episode… ~_^