the way to a silent boy's heart
Disclaimers: Sadly I do not own Gundam Wing, so please don't sue me.
A.N. it took a little longer than i had thought to get this chapter up but here it is, hope that you enjoy it.
Chapter 11
Silence greeted the retreat of the four young men. As soon as they were out of the room, the room erupted into a chaos of sound. Some left the room to fine others in other rooms who didn't have any idea as to what had just happened. After all it was not everyday that you see Quatre Winner get involved in a fight let alone two in such a short time.
One such person frond Relena. She was sitting in a parlor with Michell Harrison and Selena Wilson, two young women that she had met at the party. They were sitting there discussing various things that were going on in the world today, when Marchell Jones came walking up.
"Have you girls heard the news?" she asked in an excited voice.
"What do you mean, Marchell?" Relena replied
"I mean have you heard about the fights that went on. Well they weren't really fights more like arguments." Marchell rushed on, happy to be the first to tell these three what had happened.
"No, we haven't heard anything to that liking." Selena said with a bit of a Southern accent.
"Well, the first one was with Quatre Winner and Robert Lusage. I don't know exactly what they were arguing about but all of a sudden Quatre hit him. And I mean really hit him. He was going to hit him again but this guy with a long braid stopped him." Marchell said hurriedly.
"A braid?!" Relena said startled.
"Yeah. I was wondering who he was. No on I have talked to seems to know who he is." Marchell said a little disappointed.
"If it is who I an thinking it is I'll be able to tell you who it is. But I have to know his hair and eye color." Relena told her.
"He has chestnut colored hair with the most beautiful violet eyes.." Marchell said dreamily with starry eyes.
"Oh, that's Duo Maxwell then. He fought in the was and when Dakim Barton made a mess of things last year."Relena said.
"Oh really!? Which organization was he part of in the war?" Marchell inquired.
Relena opened her mouth to answer the question, but Michell beat her. "You and Relena can talk about that guy later. Why don't you continue with your story." MIchell said a little annoyed.
"What? Oh, right. Where was I?" Marchell paused a moment to collect her thoughts. "Duo said something that only Quatre could hear and a look of remorse came over Quatre. He went over to Robert and apologized but when Duo stepped up beside Quatre, Robert looked like he could mess Duo up really good.
"Quatre got mad again and told Robert not to go there and left. Duo stood there a while before he started to walk away and Robert started to question Duo's friendship with Quatre. And he got really mad." Marchell paused for a breath.
"That makes sense. Duo never tells a lie and he hates it when people question that." Relena said sort of explaining why he would get so mad at something like that.
"But anyway, after that first time, every time that Duo tried to walk away Robert physically turned Duo around to face him again." Marchell continued with her story. "Finally Robert must have gotten tiered of trying to make Duo listen to him and decided just to punch him."
A collective gasp went through the room. They all had thought that Robert was such a nice easy going person. Selena and Michell were thinking that this Duo person must be really annoying and evil if he could get such a rise out a such a peaceful person . Relena, on the other had, was wondering why Robert would get so mad about Duo and Quatre being friends.
"Be it fortunately or unfortunately, someone stepped in and caught Robert's fist in the air. And he was fast. I mean he was standing about two and a half meters away and in the time it took Robert to draw his arm back and start the punch he was able to cover that distance. At first it looked as if Robert was afraid of him. And truth be told I would be afraid of him too. But then Robert shook it off and started getting angry at him as well. They all started to argue and then Quatre stepped in and took the argument upon himself. Quatre was getting angry again then some guy named Rashid came and suggested that they continued their discussion else where. Then Quatre headed off to his office with the three trailing behind him." Marchell concluded.
"What did the guy that stopped Robert from punching Duo look like?" Relena asked.
"He is about our age, 5'8, short brown hair that was really messy and cobalt blue eyes." Marchell described him.
"Heero!!" Relena gasped.
"Come to think of it that was his name. Man you really know a lot of the people that Quatre hangs out with." Marchell said a little surprised.
"Do any of you know where Quatre's office is?" Relena inquired.
When no one answered Relena stood up and walked to the door.
"Where are you going, Relena?" Selena asked.
"To find Rashid." Relena said turning a bit.
"How would you know what he looks like?" Marchell asked as she was the one who had witnessed the incident therefore knows what Rashid looked like.
"He's a tall man with brown side-burns and a red fez, right?" Relena said.
"Uhhhhhh...how did you know?" stuttered Marchell.
"Like you said before, I know a lot of the people Quatre hangs out with." Relena said. "When I first met Quatre he showed me a picture of a group of his friends."
Relena walked out of the room leaving three stunned young women in he wake.
"Oh shoot!" Marchell exclaimed.
"What?" wondered Michell.
"I forgot to ask her for more information on that Duo guy." Michell said in a pouty voice causing Selena and Michell to sweat drop.
Relena walked down the hall looking in the various rooms that she came to trying to find Rashid. But she was not having very much luck.
Why didn't Quatre tell me Heero was going to be here? Relena wondered. It's not like Quatre to lie. Relena looked back on their encounter earlier that night. She had thought that he had begun to say that he had heard from Heero but changed his mind. Now that Heero has showed up at the party, I am sure that Quatre know that Heero was going to be here.
But, said a small voice at the back of her mind, you said it yourself that Quatre wouldn't lie. And you know that Heero has a knack for just showing up where ever and when ever he wants.
However, Relena argued back, he wouldn't just show up at a party that Quatre was hosting, unannounced and step into a fight.
If it involved Duo, Heero wouldn't think twice about getting in the fight.
Relena stopped in her tracks. What are you trying to say?
Just that you know deep down that Heero was never for you, the voice said bluntly.
Your wrong! Relena protested. You don't know what you're talking about. Of course he is for me. We're meant to be together.
Then how come he never comes back when you call him. How some he always leaves you, the voice taunted.
How come he saved me on more then one occasion. Relena fired back.
He may consider you to be a friend of his, the voice reasoned calmly. If that is true, he might let you get closer to him if you weren't so obsessed with him. And for that reason he couldn't let you die any more that he could Quatre, Duo, Wufie or Trowa. Even though each is fully capable of taking care of himself. You should walk or do something because you just standing in the middle of the hall doing nothing is starting to attract a lot of attention.
Relena glanced around. It was true, there were several people just staring at her as if she had lost her mind. Relena started walking. Maybe I have lost my mind, Relena thought.
She headed to the coat room to retrieve her wrap. All thought of finding Rashid was gone from her head. All she wanted to do was go home and go to bed.
Relena walked out the front door of the mansion and went to find Pagan, who was with the car.
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To Be Continued...
A.N. ok i don't know if all of what i said in there was true so i made some of it up. as to how duo's hair got braided, quatre did it before they got into the mansion. i know that is not in my story so i am adding it here. anyway R&R please and thank-you. anyway....................ja