Child of Hope
Chapter Three
(AThis is not a good idea.@) Says Hilde to herself. (AToo many children today. Too many noises.@) See sits on a bench in a light yellow summer dress. She sits with all the other mothers who are either reading or gossiping about this and that. Hilde sits in the middle of them. She would blend in with them if it were not for her stressed expression. Her hands lay on her lap gripping her dress as she tries to keep her eyes on her son. (AGreat idea Duo.@) She says sarcastically. (APutting our son in a playground full of screaming children...wonderful.@)
"All right Hilde babe. Here's our plan."
"Our?" She said in disbelief.
"Yes. Despite our differences in views and morals, we can come together when really needed." Said Wufei, holding an ice pack to his swollen eye.
"Very well, let me hear it." Hilde shifted her sleeping son a bit to get him in a more comfortable holding position.
"We will act like the incident tonight was an attack on Relena. Which will mean bump up security around her, nothing new. But you will go to a park, a small park so it is easy to follow John around while he plays. But we need to make it look like we think he is in no danger..."
"But Wufei and others will be there keeping an eye on him. So if they try anything, we will be there." Said Hero.
"Won't it look odd with you guys there?"
"No. We will be undercover. They won't know a thing."
"Fine..."
("Fine? I had to say fine?") Hilde sighs and lets go of her dress to let the blood circulation flow again. ("Was there ever so many kids here?") Says Hilde to the outpour of children running around. She has been here before but never has it been so crowed.
"Mrs. Maxwell?" Says a sweet voice. Hilde looks up to see the maid from last night, who is dressed in regular clothing. Suddenly Hilde hears a scream. She stretches out her back to look over the maid and children to find her son. Upon seeing him safely playing on the swings, Hilde lets out a sigh of relief. She relaxes and turns her attention back to the maid.
"Hello. What are you doing here?"
"We will act like the incident tonight was an attack on Relena. Which will mean bump up security around her, nothing new. But you will go to a park, a small park so it is easy to follow John around while he plays. But we need to make it look like we think he is in no danger..."
"But Wufei and others will be there keeping an eye on him. So if they try anything, we will be there." Said Hero.
"Won't it look odd with you guys there?"
"No. We will be undercover. They won't know a thing."
"Fine..." Hilde hugs Jonathan tighter as she plays the scenario of their plan in her head. Duo goes more into detail of their job tomorrow with the other pilots. Unnoticed by them all is a little maid, secretly listing to their plan. She smiles as she creeps down the hall, a plan of her own turning in her head.
"I was given the day off. How are you? And your son?" She says, smiling brightly. Hilde stares at the young maid making her very uncomfortable. Noting this, Hilde takes a deep breath before speaking.
"Everything is fine. I am here just with my son." Hilde recites the little planed speech Hero laid for her. "Enjoying the day. How about you?"
In a van . . .
"I hate these headphones. Hear me Hero. Hate them." Says Duo as he turn to face Hero. "Look. They don't even fit. Keep falling off." Duo demonstrates by letting go of the headphones and letting them slip around his neck. Hero ignores him as he silently watches the play ground, looking for anything suspicious. Duo rolls his eyes and continues to listen to Hilde's conversation with the young maid.
"Damn kid." Wufei mumbles. His job is to watch Jonathan but the highly active youngster doesn't make is job easy. Earlier that day, before anyone was around, they put up cameras around the small park to make it easy to follow Jonathan. However, Wufei is having to switch from camera to camera every five seconds, just to keep up with the kid. "Maxwell!" He yells in frustration. "You take over! He's your son, so you follow him around. The kid is making me sick." Duo just laughs to himself and throws the headphones to Wufei as they switch places.
In the park . . .
"That's quite a long drive. Isn't?" The maid nods. " I'd say it's about an hour drive from here to Relena's. " Says Hilde.
"Yes, but I don't mind." She smiles gently. A short pause takes over before any of them speak. "Isn't it a long drive for you to come here? I thought you lived thirty minutes away from Miss Relena's. The other way." Hilde is a lost for words, knowing she is caught.
"Well . . .Yes. But I like this park better. It's smaller and has less kids running around."
"Yes . . ." Says the maid as she look out to all the playing children. "Less children." Her voice is emotionless. Hilde looks out also and a deep embarrassment colors her face. There must be sixty children here in this one park. Hilde looks around and counts all the 'parents' she can see.
("Ten . . .eleven, twelve!") Hilde sinks in the bench as she pounders this new revelation. ("Twelve adults are in this park. Not including myself or her. And I'm guessing sixty children, not including my son are in this park. Hmm. Sixty divided by . . . that's five children to each adult.") "Too many children." She whispers as she rubs her face. Hilde shakes it off and returns to her son. ("It's nothing.")
In the van...
"Damn!" Duo hits the panel.
"What?" Hero says.
"Stupid bus is blocking one of the cameras."
"Which one . . . Wait. I see it."
"Yeah, it's right out front." Hero taps the small window that divides the driver from the back. Sally wakes up and moves her hat up to look at Hero. She opens the window.
"See the bus?" Sally looks out her side window. "Who's driving it?"
"A man." Sally looks again. "He's opening the door now . . ."
In the park . . .
Hilde listens to Wufei as he tells her of the bus. She is relived. A field trip would explain all the children running around. However, Wufei does seem concerned. Suddenly a bell is head from the bus and a large group of children run to the bus. The maid stiffens to the sound. It's not a normal bell sound.
"Mommy!" Hilde stands up as she sees her son being pushed by the large group of children to the bus.
"Jonathan!" Hilde screams as she runs to her son's aid. "Dammit! It's the children! The children!"
The van's door burst open and all rush out as the try to intercepts Jonathan. Cars screech by them as they try and not hit the pilots. This is a great delay. Duo feels helpless as he is slowed down by the oncoming traffic.
"Damn you! Out of my way!" Hilde pushes and shoves her way through the sea of children. Jonathan cries for his mother as he is being shoved on the bus. He takes hold of the door frame of the bus to stop his abduction. But the children are relentless. Hilde pushes it up a notch and mauls through the crowd.
"Stop her! She's hurting the children!" Yells someone. The adults rush to what seems as an attack on helpless school children. The maid hears this and looks to see the pilots now trying to push past the children.
"They won't make it!" Thinking fast she runs toward Hilde with the other adults. As they work their way to Hilde, she runs past them and past the bus. Once she feels she has run enough, she stops and faces the bus.
"Mommy! Help!" Cries Jonathan. Hilde reaches out for her son but with the children pushing her it is very hard. Just as their fingertips touch Hilde is thrown to the ground the opposite way. The adults from the park stop her and hold her down. Duo punches a man in the face as he tries to stop him. But people from the cars that where run off the road from earlier take him and the others down.
"No!" Screams Hilde as she sees her son disappear on the bus. "You don't understand!" Hilde and the others stop as they hear the bus screech away. "Jonathan!"
The bus speeds down the road, away from the park. Jonathan looks behind him as he sees his parents among the mob of adults. He sits back down and looks at the child next to him. They stare strait ahead, never blinking. No sound is coming from the once lively children. Some he remembers playing with.
"W-what do you want?" Nothing. He sinks in his seat and starts to cry.
The driver looks at Jonathan in the mirror. He doesn't understand why their leader would want such a useless child. He glares a Jonathan a little longer. If he hadn't stared those extra few seconds he would have seen her. He would have been able to break or even go around her. Instead the young maid is able to leap through the front window, snapping the drivers neck as they collide.
Not long I know . . . sorry. I have been having a really bad time lately and have not been in any mood to write. But, it's over and I'm back! Will get the next part out soon! So don't worry. Thanks and Review! ^.^