Untold Secrets

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When Angels Fall

Introduction:

             The year is After Colony 201.The Gundam Pilots had all gone their separate ways after their Gundams were destroyed. Wufei joined the Preventers and Trowa joined soon after. Heero also couldn't stay hidden and not fight so he too became a Preventer. Duo's junkyard went down hill soon after he became head of it so he also joined his friends as a Preventer. Quatre however did not become a Preventer. Instead he managed his father's estate and all the things left to him after his father's death. The boys would get together often and each time they would beg Quatre to join the Preventers. But Quatre would just smile and give no explanation except to say that he couldn't. The boys would argue and give excuses for Quatre. They would remind him that the Maganacs had agreed to look after his father's things. But always Quatre would just smile and say, "That's not it." And the guys would reply with the same thing. "Then what is it?" they would ask. Quatre would just smile and nod and that would be the end of the conversation. Until the day when Heero got a call from a very confused friend…

            "Hello?" Heero answered. There wasn't a sound on the other line and Heero thought that the other person had hung up. Heero was about to do the same when he heard some breathing on the other end of the phone. "Hello?" Heero asked again.

"Heero…" A quiet voice said.

"Quatre is that you?" Heero asked, worried.

"Heero I need to talk to you…" Quatre said in a quiet voice.

"What is it?" Heero asked shutting his laptop.

"I never told anybody about this…" Quatre said. "I didn't really need to…until now."

"Quatre what is it?" Heero asked.

"I have a daughter…" Quatre said. Heero didn't say anything. "Heero…Heero? Are you still there?" Quatre asked over the phone.

"I'm still here Quatre." Heero replied.

"Did you hear me? Heero…? Did you hear me? I said I have a daughter Heero. A daughter…" Quatre said his voice cracking.

"It will be okay Quatre." Heero said.

"No it won't!" Quatre almost yelled. "I'm not married and I have a daughter that's 7 months old." 

"Just calm down." Heero said trying to calm his friend.

"Her mother is dead!" Quatre said finally breaking down.

"Listen to me Quatre! You're 21 you can get through this!" Heero yelled into the phone.

"I'm sorry but I just can't deal with this." Quatre said.

"Yes you can." Heero said a little calmer now.

"How?" Quatre asked. "How am I supposed to get through this? Am I supposed to put her up for adoption? Send her to some foster family? She needs me Heero. Before she had a mother, but now she needs me!" Quatre said.

"She does need you." Heero said.

"Then what am I supposed to do?" Quatre asked. Heero heard a baby cry in the background and wondered how Quatre had gotten himself into this.

"Quatre, did you know you had a daughter?" Heero asked looking for some answers.

"Yes." Quatre said.

"But…why? I mean…"

"I wanted to marry the mother but I didn't' know when I asked her to marry me that she was pregnant." Quatre interrupted.

"Was it your child?" Heero asked.

"Yes." Quatre sorrowfully.

"Would you have still married her if you knew?" Heero asked.

"Yes!" Quatre said. "I would have insisted. When I did find out after the baby was born I asked her again to marry me…but she wouldn't.' Quatre said. "I supported them…she at least let me do that. But she wouldn't marry me. That's why I never became a Preventer. I knew that one day I would have them to look after. I just didn't expect it to be so soon." Quatre said.

"I'm coming over." Heero said after a minute's thought.

            Heero looked at the baby in Quatre's arms. She had big blue eyes and a small round face. Her hair was the same color as Quatre's and she looked just like him. "She looks just like you." Heero said.

"I know." Quatre replied.

"What's her name?" Heero asked taking the baby from Quatre.

"Amanda." Quatre replied again, sitting down beside Heero on the couch.

"Do you know what that means?" Heero asked.

"No. What?"

"Worthy to be loved" Heero answered. The baby drifted off to sleep in Heero arms and Quatre stared at Amanda for a long time. Heero finally gave her back and started to leave. "You know what to do." Heero said. "You're her father. All you have to do is love her. Don't worry about what other people think. Just love her and everything will work out." Heero left and Quatre sat and looked at Amanda and promised to love her for the rest of her life…no matter what. What he didn't know was that he would only have 17 more years to love her and then she would be taken away.