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Chapter 5.



"Did you just shoot him?!" Quatre looked stricken and furious as he marched over to Duo.

Trowa had already drawn his gun and had took aim at Duo with narrowed eyes-barely containing his own rage.

On the floor Heero groaned.

"That's impossible!" the Chief suddenly seemed vaguely interested in the situation unfolding all around him.

Duo leaned down and threw Heero's limp arm over his shoulder, "No…it was just a tranquilliser-I took some just in case the situation got rough. I thought we gave up killing?" he looked pointedly at Quatre.

Trowa lowered his gun and it disappeared.

"Oh" Quatre looked ashamed and had to draw his eyes away from Duo's glare. Trowa himself felt rather foolish.

The awkward silence that followed was broken by a sigh from Duo, "Come on-lets just take him to the hospital in the Preventers HQ, the security's better and I don't think Heero will be up to escaping for a least a few hours".

"Yeah, Sally said that she'd wanted to run some blood tests" Quatre was still red-faced and ashamed.

"And Heero's more likely to co-operate in this condition" Trowa also agreed with a quieter voice as well as void of emotion, "Sorry Duo".

Duo just started to walk towards the entrance that they'd came through not that long ago.

Silently Quatre went to the other side of Heero and took his other arm, Trowa simply followed.

The two police officers were left struggling to understand what had just happened.



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The next day things were quiet, "Hasn't been like this in a long time" Sally commented to her unconscious but valuable patient.

As expected-she got no response.

Quatre, Duo and Trowa were sound asleep, the past few weeks finally taking their toll.

Even though she'd suggested that they go 'home'-where ever that might be for them now, they'd all ignored her suggestion and slept in one of the base dorms.

The Base Dorms were really just waiting rooms with beds and showers, some of the other Preventers usually used them between missions when they couldn't be bothered going home.

Since they were still technically getting rest then Sally had decided not to voice her concerns.

The war was over but people were still suffering and she looked at the boy who had always been so strong throughout it all.

He slept.

His face looking as relaxed as it had when Duo's little tranquilliser had finally got a good grip in his blood stream

He looked unbelievably young and innocent considering that he was a merciless assassin ... once.

'No' Sally's expression melted into sadness from a faint smile, 'that's too harsh.'

Nonetheless Heero's soft breathing had kept her occupied for most of the night and some of the morning, so far.

She'd run blood tests, a scan and pulled up his old medical file which she had managed to dredge up from her time in the Alliance.

There was a massive difference, concerning both injuries and his blood.

She was a tad angry at the boy when she'd discovered how much he had not been taking care of himself.

He was far too dehydrated, even for a Gundam Pilot-not to mention starved.
His immune system had probably crashed because of these two factors, causing a mild but developing fever.

His injuries had obviously been shabbily taken care of by the pilot himself and by the looks of it-he'd only sufficiently managed to patch himself up just to hang on a little longer.

Sally frowned, judging by this data and taking into account Heero's own 'miscalculations' -he'd no intentions whatsoever of surviving after his last personal mission to end the war once and for all.

Her building anger died down fast into pity, pity for Heero. And she knew it was wrong to pity one so strong but the Pilot in question had not been able to see any other way out but through his own demise and that was truly heartbreaking.

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Relena PeaceCraft had finally arrived at the Preventers Headquarters-a difficult place to find since it kept relocating itself.


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Author: Geez….do you guys have any faith in me whatsoever?! - I'd never kill Heero, having said that-neither would Duo! Those two are my favourite characters-i would never kill them or make them (that) evil ;)
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