Disclaimer: you'd think after so many times of writing these stupid things that you wouldn't have to write them. Anyway I do not own Gundam Wing or anything else copyrighted in this story. So please no suing.

Note: words in italics are meant for emphasis between ''and italics are thoughts.

This is the sequel to "Losing Sight Of My mind." I strongly urge you to read that story first before you read this one or you may be confused this is after all a sequel and you have to know the previous events or you may be able to pick it up from here on in, it depends on how you look at it.

                                  Hush Not A Word

                                                By The Pretty Penwriter

A group of people sat in a large room all staring at the woman shock, surprise and love written on most of their faces.

"Lucretzia how...when…where??" Quatre Winner asked

Lucretzia smiled and moved a long black strand of hair from out of her eyes.

"Oh Quatre human beings find ways to survive, the will to survive is the strongest force in the world." Lucretzia explained her voice light and airy.

"Where have you been all these years?" Catherine asked her voice shaky she still wasn't finished crying.

A dark shadow crossed over her features and her eyes hardened, she turned her gaze from them to a nonexistent spot on the floor. 

"Lu??" Sally questioned and touched her arm.

      Lucretzia's head snapped up and for a moment her eyes seemed lost as if she didn't know where she was and who the people were. She blinked and it was as if realization dawned on her, she closed her eyes and shook her head as if to clear her jumbled thoughts and to find something to say. She opened her mouth to say something but thought against it, instead she stood up from her chair and walked into the kitchen. The occupants in the living room could here the clanking of glass against glass and she returned carrying a glass containing a dark liquid, she took a sip from it and nodded. She resumed her position sitting in her chair and took another sip. For a moment it didn't seem as though she would speak that she would only continue to sip her drink but when she did speak she did so in such a manner that it chilled everyone to the bone. Her grip tightened so much on the glass that it cracked.

"You want to know where I've been for the past 29 years???? Simple I've been in hell." She said her voice so cold and hollow.

Sally made a move to hug her but Lucretzia pulled back, "I do not want your sympathy, it is all in the past." Lucretzia said and stood placing the glass on the tabletop.

She could hear the pounding of feet on the floor above her, the other people who she did not know or trust were upstairs keeping an eye on the smaller children and some of the adults were up there as well. She began to pace her hands clasped behind her back her eyes hard and cold, she was contemplating something.

"Lu…what are you thinking about?" Hilde asked softly.

"What I'm always thinking about, survival. If you all were able to find me then…" she trailed off and stopped to look at them her eyes calculating who was to be trusted and who was to be wary of.

"What Noin what?" Milliardo asked

She froze then and there her skin color paled immensely.

"You used to call me Lucretzia." She murmured her voice distant.

She shook her head and then began pacing once again contemplating.

"I don't think I can stay in this house anymore." She muttered her pacing quickened.

"Why, what are you running from?" Heero asked

"Many things and it's not just my safety that I'll have to think about." She said and her pacing slowed.

"What…wait a moment here. Lu can you just explain things from the beginning?" pleaded Duo.

She looked to him her eyes holding despair and another emotion Duo couldn't identify.

"I can't, then you'll be in danger." She said

"Ha danger yeah right we're ex gundam pilots Lu and we know how to protect ourselves." Duo pointed out.

"But what about your family?" Lucretzia asked and stopped her pacing to stare at him with her intense blue eyes.

She began pacing again "This thing is bigger than The Alliance, OZ, The Romefeller foundation and the White Fang no one can fight it." Lucretzia said

"So you've just been running." Wufei pointed out.

"As I said I do not only have my safety to worry about." She replied dryly.

A dreaded silence fell over them. The silence was only interrupted by the turning of the doorknob and the opening of the front door, they all tensed except for Lucretzia. A young girl stepped into the house her platinum black hair covering her bright amber eyes, she didn't seem surprised to see them there nor like she thought they were strangers.

"I'm back." She announced to the people in the room.

Lucretzia's eyes lit up like a match in the darkness and a smile grew on her face, she hugged the young girl.

"Oh April you've been gone since forever." Lucretzia complained

"Oh please you always exaggerate no matter what." The girl replied and dropped the duffle bag onto the floor she nodded her head in the direction of the group of people.

"Who are they?" she asked

"Oh you know the people I told you about when you were little." Lucretzia said and poked her in the arm.

"So those bedtime stories were actually true, and here I was thinking you were just a crazy old bat." The young girl cracked

"Me crazy??? Never." Lucretzia said in her defense.

Heero cleared his throat, "Who is this?" he asked and pointed to the young girl.

"Didn't anyone ever teach you that pointing is rude?" the young girl asked curtly.

"April…" Lucretzia started.

April held up her hands in surrender and nodded her head.

Lucretzia locked eyes with April and it was as if in that moment an unheard message passed between the two, April nodded once again.

"Well her name is April and she is my daughter." Lucretzia stated.

TBC

Oh I know you hate me for leaving it there but you have to admit that's a good place to leave off at just to keep you guys coming back. As always criticism and approval