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AN: Hi there! Sorry this chapter took so long to get out. Agh, I just started my first year at high school and all the upperclassmen dislike freshmen. -_- Ah, to be a freshman. Anyway, I'm not sure if I should continue really because a.) I've got no time b.) It doesn't seem like anybody is reading this fic and c.) Life is always interfering. So who knows, I'll decide when the time comes. Please enjoy this chapter!
Suspicions
She was frozen, like a still life trapped in motion. This man, whom she felt as though she knew all her life, wasn't a man she'd ever remembered. He was real, but not in her mind. All he was to her was just a man.
She tried to move, but his muscle bound arms held her in place whether she liked it or not. She liked it, it's just that she was...a bit uncomfortable.
"Will you come back with me?" Heero asked, pulling her back a little to look into her eyes. She let him search hers for a little before tearing her gaze down to the floor.
"I don't know."
She knew that was a blow against his hopes but she'd need Dr. Maffis's permission to reside in the Yuy residence. Wait a second, she was already part of the Yuy residence.
Heero schooled a wounded look, briefly. He seemed slightly shocked that she didn't say yes to him.
"I understand."
Relena was finally allowed out of his embrace. For a moment, she felt as though she belonged, but still, her emotions lay elsewhere.
"Heero, I never meant to hurt you," Relena said, finally having a little fun with this acting.
She picked up her wedding ring, looking back over to Heero to see his reaction. He flinched a little, his eyes watching her intently.
She then played a sad smile on her face as she fingered the ring, turning it over in her fingers slightly. After a couple beats of nothingness, she slid the ring onto the proper finger. She looked down, still marveling at the adrenaline rushing through her.
"I'm not saying yes." Relena stepped towards Heero and placed a hand on his cheek. "And I'm not saying no."
Heero seemed to totally fall into her soft words. It rang hope in his heart where the darkness had taken over when she had left and never returned.
"Then, maybe?" A small smirk passed his lips. Relena winked and suddenly, the tense situation was lifted off both shoulders. Of course, having totally separate meanings in this way, but nonetheless, gone and insignificant.
Heero raised a hand and caught hers, which still rested on his cheek. Slowly he slid it off and held it tenderly. Then he leaned his head down to hers, lifting up her chin-
"Relena! I can't BELIEVE..." Duo bounded into the room, Quatre running in after him. "Um, was this a bad time for you? Cause I can leave."
Heero had a questionable look on his face; Relena read it perfectly.
"Okay, now this is starting to look like a reunion." Relena gave Heero a quick peck on the lips and then made her way to Duo who was still in mid- stride.
"Duo Maxwell," Relena greeted. "I'm glad you came. But how did you know I was back?"
Duo's eyes shot immediately over to Quatre.
"Mr. Winner?" Relena scolded playfully.
"I'm sorry Relena, it's just that I thought everyone would've wanted to see you again, so I took the liberty-"
"In blabbing to everyone that you were finally home!" Duo finished for Quatre. Quatre turned a light shade of pink.
"Yes, since we all haven't seen you since your wedding." Quatre added as his excuse.
"Ahem!" Duo crossed his arms. "Well, SOME of you haven't, but I believe I have. I'd like you to know that Heero and I are best buds. Right Heero?"
"Hn."
"Proof enough," Duo said, totally blowing off Heero's blunt reply. "Oh yeah, Relena, Hilde said she'd come in once she was done crying."
"Crying?" Relena gasped.
"No, not like the world is going to end crying, it's more like, my best friend has finally returned crying, you got me?"
Relena nodded, a tad uncertain.
"Well then everyone, I think it's time to go home." She was right, it was late and she was already tired.
"Wait a second you!" Duo lunged towards Relena and hugged her, TIGHTLY. Her toes were barely touching the floor and by the time Duo was done, Relena wobbled backwards into Heero, who caught her in his arms.
"Sorry Lena." Duo scratched the back of his head. "I guess I got carried away."
"That's all right."
They all made their way out of her office, Relena the last one out. She had much she wanted to ask Brian. She looked around and didn't see Brian anywhere. Shrugging, she told Denise to go home and make herself something nice to eat. She turned off the lights and smiled.
When she had first walked into her house, her and Heero's house, she had the impression that they were fairly wealthy. It was large, grand, and had the finest landscaping she'd ever seen...
It was the only landscaping she'd ever really seen.
But despite that, it was beautiful. Flowers accentuated the house from all around, trees limbs swayed in the lazy wind. The grass was lush and a dark green, so soft under her light footsteps.
Heero had opened the large wooden door to all of them, the intricate carvings bordering the door caught Relena's attention. Angels with their eyes closed and hands clasped together bulged out from the wood, as if they were caught while trying to escape. Vines wrapped around their lower torso, their small wings rested tightly against their backs.
She must've been standing on the brick steps for quite a while because everyone was inside and Heero was still waiting. Waiting just for her.
"Relena?"
She turned and looked at him.
"I'm just amazed by this..." she murmured, making a sweeping motion with her hand in the direction of the carvings.
Silence.
"I remember when you wanted that."
Relena raised an eyebrow but listened all the same.
"You said that at your father's funeral, they had a picture portraying this scene."
"I remember that," she said quietly. None of what she said was even remotely true.
Heero's eyes seemed to smile at her, the pain she had witnessed earlier was just a wandering echo that he seemed to be pushing aside just fine now.
"Let's go inside."
Relena nodded and solemnly walked into the house. The air was cool on her skin, the usual cozy feeling of home wasn't there, misplaced by the expanse of the room. She heard hearty laughing emanating from the room up the hall to the right. As she proceeded down the hallway, she took a glance out to the open area at the end of it. For a moment she swore she saw a pair of eyes staring back at her from the shadows outside of the large window she was looking at.
She felt him behind her.
"Heero, I'm very tired. Do you think that we could continue this," she paused, "reunion, somewhere along the lines of tomorrow?"
He nodded.
"You'll see the stairs if you backtrack and take a left."
She almost said thank you but felt a cold tingling sensation run up her spine.
She spun around, now they were eye to eye with each other. She was afraid that he was becoming suspicious.
"Heero, I think I would still know my way around this house even with my absence."
Now she definitely saw the suspicion in his eyes. But he merely shrugged, kissed her lightly on the cheek, and walked down to where Duo and Quatre were.
Relena shook her head.
Did she just say something stupid? Did she just jeopardize all she'd work for?
No, she was just being paranoid. That's right, just paranoid.
Trudging up the stairs, she noticed that there weren't any pictures or painting hanging upon the walls. Just blank, white walls.
It reminded her...
"Relena, psst!" a voice beckoned to her from atop the stairs.
"Brian, where the hell have you been?"
She heard snickering. She felt heat creep up her neck, the type that only formed when anger brewed.
"You know, Dr. Maffis sure didn't prepare me for this. He never told me ANY of this! So you go off wherever to leave me to fend for myself?" Relena crossed her arms when she got to the top. "Well I refuse to speak to you unless an apology is granted to me from you."
"I'm sorry, so sorry. Could you please get your ass up here?"
She followed his voice into a large bedroom. The bed was king size, the comforter a hue of off white. Brian was sitting on the windowsill that could probably seat three more people. He stared out to the expensive landscaping and sighed.
"You're so lucky to be living like this." Brian noted out of the blue.
"Where are you staying? Dr. Maffis never mentioned that to me."
"That's none of your concern."
Relena put her hands on her hips.
"Oh please, I have a right to know. What if I want to contact you?"
Brian fished something out of back pocket.
"Here." He thrusted it out. Relena stepped forward, grabbed it, and snorted.
It looked like a mini walkie-talkie. It was black, owned a small antennae, was rectangular with smoothed edges, had round speaker type thing, and displayed one button in the center.
"What is this?" she pressed the button.
"ARGH!" Brian pulled something out of his ear.
He rubbed his poor ear and glared at Relena.
"You can't have the ear piece and verbal transmitter this close to each other while both are activated."
"Why?" Relena pressed the button again and heard a sharp high frequency sound spill from the tiny ear piece in Brian's hand.
"Cause I'll most probably go temporarily deaf."
"Oh, that's a bad thing?"
"Ha, you're such the jokester." Brian muttered sarcastically. "It's one way though, you can only talk to me."
"Well obviously," Relena snorted. "A little ear piece like that isn't capable of two way. There's no-"
"Whatever." Brian exhaled loudly. "Technicalities are a bitch."
Relena felt too weary to argue so she sauntered over to the bed and fell upon it. She especially enjoyed the faint 'whoosh' she heard from the down feathers that gave way to her weight.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow sunshine. Get a good nights sleep."
Relena sat up and amusedly watched Brian fumble with the window latch.
"Aw, big boy bodyguard can't open my window." She teased.
After a few minutes of cursing, Brian managed to open the window. A warm breeze filtered in.
"Adios." He was about to slide down when Relena stopped him.
"You do know that you are jumping from a second story window."
"Yup."
"And you do know that there's a possibility of you break various limbs and such."
"Uh huh."
"And you do know that I never want you climbing through this window to get into the house."
"Why?"
"Try the door. I mean, you're a master at picking locks, so use your skill. Your only skill."
"Ouch. Well ma'am, I'm off."
With that he slid down. Relena watched as his hands disappeared from the ledge of the window.
"Good ridden."
"Hey! I heard that!"
Relena smiled and lay back, enjoying the balmy air on her face. Judging by now, Brian was in the garden, making his way to who knows where. She loved the window's view of the garden; it uplifted her spirits. Soon the garden would die away though, it was nearing the end of summer.
All things come to pass.
"Relena, where are you?" Heero's call was enough for her to shoot up and run out of the room.
"Just looking at the garden from the window."
"Oh."
Oh?
"I thought you were tired."
"I am."
Heero appeared from a room opposite from where she was standing.
"Then come to bed."
Relena curled her fingers around the mini walkie-talkie.
"All right."
Their room was most impressive, so much more than the one she was in previously. King size bed of course, but the down comforter was a light blue and the pillows were light and fluffy compared to the other ones. The window was about two times larger than the one she was looking through and so was the sill. Heero seemed a little distracted as she observed her surroundings.
She was almost finished with her little tour when she came to the nightstand. On it was a little crystalline dove. Gingerly, she picked it up, afraid that it was delicate enough to crumble in her hands.
"It's beautiful." She gasped.
She'd never seen anything like it before. Sure, Dr. Maffis had trinkets galore but never did he have one as glorious as this.
Heero said nothing. He just walked over to her, snaked his arms around her slender waist, and rested his chin on the crook of her neck.
For such a quiet, dismal looking guy, he really knew how to make a girl feel special and cared for.
"Time for bed, ne?" Relena whispered, setting down the dove and taking her newly freed hand to stroke the side of his face.
"Hm." He agreed. "Definitely."
He released her and walked into the bathroom.
"You taking a shower?" Relena asked.
"Yup."
"Okay, I'll be in bed."
She waited until he closed the door to set down her walkie-talkie and frantically search for her wardrobe. After opening a couple drawers, she found success and peeled off her starchy political attire. It felt so relieving to slip in the silky nightgown that clung to her figure.
She looked at her form in the dresser mirror, the greenish sheen from the nightgown's material adding to her minute distaste.
"I really need to work out more," she reminded herself, twirling a little to see the fluid motion of the fabric. She heard the water running in the bathroom.
This wouldn't be so bad, so far she was enjoying herself despite the few uncomfortable encounters which she think she handled quite well.
Her eyes rested on the reflection of the bed. She didn't realize how tired she felt until now. Climbing into bed she didn't bother of thinking to brush her teeth or anything. She just wanted to rest.
When Heero walked out of the bathroom, he saw Relena sleeping peacefully, her hair splayed all around her head like a halo. She was his angel, his angel forever.
After drying himself more and running a comb through his damp hair, he pulled on some shorts and retired as well, although it was still a fairly early hour. He rested beside her, one arm draped around her. He pulled her back to his bare chest and sighed.
This is how it was supposed to be.
Relena groaned a little. Heero hugged her closer.
He didn't know how he had forgotten how good this felt to have her safely in his arms. He had been such an idiot. He couldn't believe that he'd once been so ignorant towards her emotions that he tuned her out sometimes. No, he wouldn't allow that again. It had been his fault in the first place, he knew that, and he wouldn't make the same mistake ever.
The crickets' ballad overlapped the darkness as night approached the young sleeping couple. Serenity seemed to be the only feeling existing. All seemed right again, so perfect. So calm.
"How much more time do we give the subject?"
"Let's wait and see, I don't want our little Claire to feel uncomfortable at all before blood is spilled."
"Right. Then approximately four months?"
"Let's keep that as an estimate, shall we?"
"Yes sir."
"Although, that would be an opportune time to strike, thanks to Quatre Reberba Winner."
AN: Okay, there might be a large gap in time when the next chapter comes out...if ever. -_- I definitely have to get my priorities in order, but I LOVE to write so it's hard to do things the RIGHT way. Please review and tell me if I should continue this story or not. If people like it well enough I'll continue but if not...*tear* We'll just have to see what happens. Thanks for those of you that have reviewed in the past!
AN: Hi there! Sorry this chapter took so long to get out. Agh, I just started my first year at high school and all the upperclassmen dislike freshmen. -_- Ah, to be a freshman. Anyway, I'm not sure if I should continue really because a.) I've got no time b.) It doesn't seem like anybody is reading this fic and c.) Life is always interfering. So who knows, I'll decide when the time comes. Please enjoy this chapter!
Suspicions
She was frozen, like a still life trapped in motion. This man, whom she felt as though she knew all her life, wasn't a man she'd ever remembered. He was real, but not in her mind. All he was to her was just a man.
She tried to move, but his muscle bound arms held her in place whether she liked it or not. She liked it, it's just that she was...a bit uncomfortable.
"Will you come back with me?" Heero asked, pulling her back a little to look into her eyes. She let him search hers for a little before tearing her gaze down to the floor.
"I don't know."
She knew that was a blow against his hopes but she'd need Dr. Maffis's permission to reside in the Yuy residence. Wait a second, she was already part of the Yuy residence.
Heero schooled a wounded look, briefly. He seemed slightly shocked that she didn't say yes to him.
"I understand."
Relena was finally allowed out of his embrace. For a moment, she felt as though she belonged, but still, her emotions lay elsewhere.
"Heero, I never meant to hurt you," Relena said, finally having a little fun with this acting.
She picked up her wedding ring, looking back over to Heero to see his reaction. He flinched a little, his eyes watching her intently.
She then played a sad smile on her face as she fingered the ring, turning it over in her fingers slightly. After a couple beats of nothingness, she slid the ring onto the proper finger. She looked down, still marveling at the adrenaline rushing through her.
"I'm not saying yes." Relena stepped towards Heero and placed a hand on his cheek. "And I'm not saying no."
Heero seemed to totally fall into her soft words. It rang hope in his heart where the darkness had taken over when she had left and never returned.
"Then, maybe?" A small smirk passed his lips. Relena winked and suddenly, the tense situation was lifted off both shoulders. Of course, having totally separate meanings in this way, but nonetheless, gone and insignificant.
Heero raised a hand and caught hers, which still rested on his cheek. Slowly he slid it off and held it tenderly. Then he leaned his head down to hers, lifting up her chin-
"Relena! I can't BELIEVE..." Duo bounded into the room, Quatre running in after him. "Um, was this a bad time for you? Cause I can leave."
Heero had a questionable look on his face; Relena read it perfectly.
"Okay, now this is starting to look like a reunion." Relena gave Heero a quick peck on the lips and then made her way to Duo who was still in mid- stride.
"Duo Maxwell," Relena greeted. "I'm glad you came. But how did you know I was back?"
Duo's eyes shot immediately over to Quatre.
"Mr. Winner?" Relena scolded playfully.
"I'm sorry Relena, it's just that I thought everyone would've wanted to see you again, so I took the liberty-"
"In blabbing to everyone that you were finally home!" Duo finished for Quatre. Quatre turned a light shade of pink.
"Yes, since we all haven't seen you since your wedding." Quatre added as his excuse.
"Ahem!" Duo crossed his arms. "Well, SOME of you haven't, but I believe I have. I'd like you to know that Heero and I are best buds. Right Heero?"
"Hn."
"Proof enough," Duo said, totally blowing off Heero's blunt reply. "Oh yeah, Relena, Hilde said she'd come in once she was done crying."
"Crying?" Relena gasped.
"No, not like the world is going to end crying, it's more like, my best friend has finally returned crying, you got me?"
Relena nodded, a tad uncertain.
"Well then everyone, I think it's time to go home." She was right, it was late and she was already tired.
"Wait a second you!" Duo lunged towards Relena and hugged her, TIGHTLY. Her toes were barely touching the floor and by the time Duo was done, Relena wobbled backwards into Heero, who caught her in his arms.
"Sorry Lena." Duo scratched the back of his head. "I guess I got carried away."
"That's all right."
They all made their way out of her office, Relena the last one out. She had much she wanted to ask Brian. She looked around and didn't see Brian anywhere. Shrugging, she told Denise to go home and make herself something nice to eat. She turned off the lights and smiled.
When she had first walked into her house, her and Heero's house, she had the impression that they were fairly wealthy. It was large, grand, and had the finest landscaping she'd ever seen...
It was the only landscaping she'd ever really seen.
But despite that, it was beautiful. Flowers accentuated the house from all around, trees limbs swayed in the lazy wind. The grass was lush and a dark green, so soft under her light footsteps.
Heero had opened the large wooden door to all of them, the intricate carvings bordering the door caught Relena's attention. Angels with their eyes closed and hands clasped together bulged out from the wood, as if they were caught while trying to escape. Vines wrapped around their lower torso, their small wings rested tightly against their backs.
She must've been standing on the brick steps for quite a while because everyone was inside and Heero was still waiting. Waiting just for her.
"Relena?"
She turned and looked at him.
"I'm just amazed by this..." she murmured, making a sweeping motion with her hand in the direction of the carvings.
Silence.
"I remember when you wanted that."
Relena raised an eyebrow but listened all the same.
"You said that at your father's funeral, they had a picture portraying this scene."
"I remember that," she said quietly. None of what she said was even remotely true.
Heero's eyes seemed to smile at her, the pain she had witnessed earlier was just a wandering echo that he seemed to be pushing aside just fine now.
"Let's go inside."
Relena nodded and solemnly walked into the house. The air was cool on her skin, the usual cozy feeling of home wasn't there, misplaced by the expanse of the room. She heard hearty laughing emanating from the room up the hall to the right. As she proceeded down the hallway, she took a glance out to the open area at the end of it. For a moment she swore she saw a pair of eyes staring back at her from the shadows outside of the large window she was looking at.
She felt him behind her.
"Heero, I'm very tired. Do you think that we could continue this," she paused, "reunion, somewhere along the lines of tomorrow?"
He nodded.
"You'll see the stairs if you backtrack and take a left."
She almost said thank you but felt a cold tingling sensation run up her spine.
She spun around, now they were eye to eye with each other. She was afraid that he was becoming suspicious.
"Heero, I think I would still know my way around this house even with my absence."
Now she definitely saw the suspicion in his eyes. But he merely shrugged, kissed her lightly on the cheek, and walked down to where Duo and Quatre were.
Relena shook her head.
Did she just say something stupid? Did she just jeopardize all she'd work for?
No, she was just being paranoid. That's right, just paranoid.
Trudging up the stairs, she noticed that there weren't any pictures or painting hanging upon the walls. Just blank, white walls.
It reminded her...
"Relena, psst!" a voice beckoned to her from atop the stairs.
"Brian, where the hell have you been?"
She heard snickering. She felt heat creep up her neck, the type that only formed when anger brewed.
"You know, Dr. Maffis sure didn't prepare me for this. He never told me ANY of this! So you go off wherever to leave me to fend for myself?" Relena crossed her arms when she got to the top. "Well I refuse to speak to you unless an apology is granted to me from you."
"I'm sorry, so sorry. Could you please get your ass up here?"
She followed his voice into a large bedroom. The bed was king size, the comforter a hue of off white. Brian was sitting on the windowsill that could probably seat three more people. He stared out to the expensive landscaping and sighed.
"You're so lucky to be living like this." Brian noted out of the blue.
"Where are you staying? Dr. Maffis never mentioned that to me."
"That's none of your concern."
Relena put her hands on her hips.
"Oh please, I have a right to know. What if I want to contact you?"
Brian fished something out of back pocket.
"Here." He thrusted it out. Relena stepped forward, grabbed it, and snorted.
It looked like a mini walkie-talkie. It was black, owned a small antennae, was rectangular with smoothed edges, had round speaker type thing, and displayed one button in the center.
"What is this?" she pressed the button.
"ARGH!" Brian pulled something out of his ear.
He rubbed his poor ear and glared at Relena.
"You can't have the ear piece and verbal transmitter this close to each other while both are activated."
"Why?" Relena pressed the button again and heard a sharp high frequency sound spill from the tiny ear piece in Brian's hand.
"Cause I'll most probably go temporarily deaf."
"Oh, that's a bad thing?"
"Ha, you're such the jokester." Brian muttered sarcastically. "It's one way though, you can only talk to me."
"Well obviously," Relena snorted. "A little ear piece like that isn't capable of two way. There's no-"
"Whatever." Brian exhaled loudly. "Technicalities are a bitch."
Relena felt too weary to argue so she sauntered over to the bed and fell upon it. She especially enjoyed the faint 'whoosh' she heard from the down feathers that gave way to her weight.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow sunshine. Get a good nights sleep."
Relena sat up and amusedly watched Brian fumble with the window latch.
"Aw, big boy bodyguard can't open my window." She teased.
After a few minutes of cursing, Brian managed to open the window. A warm breeze filtered in.
"Adios." He was about to slide down when Relena stopped him.
"You do know that you are jumping from a second story window."
"Yup."
"And you do know that there's a possibility of you break various limbs and such."
"Uh huh."
"And you do know that I never want you climbing through this window to get into the house."
"Why?"
"Try the door. I mean, you're a master at picking locks, so use your skill. Your only skill."
"Ouch. Well ma'am, I'm off."
With that he slid down. Relena watched as his hands disappeared from the ledge of the window.
"Good ridden."
"Hey! I heard that!"
Relena smiled and lay back, enjoying the balmy air on her face. Judging by now, Brian was in the garden, making his way to who knows where. She loved the window's view of the garden; it uplifted her spirits. Soon the garden would die away though, it was nearing the end of summer.
All things come to pass.
"Relena, where are you?" Heero's call was enough for her to shoot up and run out of the room.
"Just looking at the garden from the window."
"Oh."
Oh?
"I thought you were tired."
"I am."
Heero appeared from a room opposite from where she was standing.
"Then come to bed."
Relena curled her fingers around the mini walkie-talkie.
"All right."
Their room was most impressive, so much more than the one she was in previously. King size bed of course, but the down comforter was a light blue and the pillows were light and fluffy compared to the other ones. The window was about two times larger than the one she was looking through and so was the sill. Heero seemed a little distracted as she observed her surroundings.
She was almost finished with her little tour when she came to the nightstand. On it was a little crystalline dove. Gingerly, she picked it up, afraid that it was delicate enough to crumble in her hands.
"It's beautiful." She gasped.
She'd never seen anything like it before. Sure, Dr. Maffis had trinkets galore but never did he have one as glorious as this.
Heero said nothing. He just walked over to her, snaked his arms around her slender waist, and rested his chin on the crook of her neck.
For such a quiet, dismal looking guy, he really knew how to make a girl feel special and cared for.
"Time for bed, ne?" Relena whispered, setting down the dove and taking her newly freed hand to stroke the side of his face.
"Hm." He agreed. "Definitely."
He released her and walked into the bathroom.
"You taking a shower?" Relena asked.
"Yup."
"Okay, I'll be in bed."
She waited until he closed the door to set down her walkie-talkie and frantically search for her wardrobe. After opening a couple drawers, she found success and peeled off her starchy political attire. It felt so relieving to slip in the silky nightgown that clung to her figure.
She looked at her form in the dresser mirror, the greenish sheen from the nightgown's material adding to her minute distaste.
"I really need to work out more," she reminded herself, twirling a little to see the fluid motion of the fabric. She heard the water running in the bathroom.
This wouldn't be so bad, so far she was enjoying herself despite the few uncomfortable encounters which she think she handled quite well.
Her eyes rested on the reflection of the bed. She didn't realize how tired she felt until now. Climbing into bed she didn't bother of thinking to brush her teeth or anything. She just wanted to rest.
When Heero walked out of the bathroom, he saw Relena sleeping peacefully, her hair splayed all around her head like a halo. She was his angel, his angel forever.
After drying himself more and running a comb through his damp hair, he pulled on some shorts and retired as well, although it was still a fairly early hour. He rested beside her, one arm draped around her. He pulled her back to his bare chest and sighed.
This is how it was supposed to be.
Relena groaned a little. Heero hugged her closer.
He didn't know how he had forgotten how good this felt to have her safely in his arms. He had been such an idiot. He couldn't believe that he'd once been so ignorant towards her emotions that he tuned her out sometimes. No, he wouldn't allow that again. It had been his fault in the first place, he knew that, and he wouldn't make the same mistake ever.
The crickets' ballad overlapped the darkness as night approached the young sleeping couple. Serenity seemed to be the only feeling existing. All seemed right again, so perfect. So calm.
"How much more time do we give the subject?"
"Let's wait and see, I don't want our little Claire to feel uncomfortable at all before blood is spilled."
"Right. Then approximately four months?"
"Let's keep that as an estimate, shall we?"
"Yes sir."
"Although, that would be an opportune time to strike, thanks to Quatre Reberba Winner."
AN: Okay, there might be a large gap in time when the next chapter comes out...if ever. -_- I definitely have to get my priorities in order, but I LOVE to write so it's hard to do things the RIGHT way. Please review and tell me if I should continue this story or not. If people like it well enough I'll continue but if not...*tear* We'll just have to see what happens. Thanks for those of you that have reviewed in the past!