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Chapter 6

What's Lost? What's Gained?



He arrived at Preventors base and proceeded to walk up to Une's office.

"I need three months vacation." She looked up from the report she was reading and stared at him.

"Are you going to go to that bar?" She questioned him.

"No."

"Good, then you got three months." She then continued reading the report.

Several Months Earlier.

She lay down on the hospitable bed. It would only be a matter of days before her daughter was born. She thought of Heero, what it would have been like if he was there in the hospital room with her, comforting her, telling her she was beautiful when she was to go into labor and her hair was wet against her forehead and she looks like she's been through hell. She smiled at the thought, Heero complimenting someone, or even mentioning a bit of sympathy or encouragement.

Present Day.

First he went to the colonies. He searched every money transaction and hospital record there was to try and see something that might lead to her. He checked possible addresses she had when she was on vacation. Nothing came up. He searched the moon colony. It wasn't until he met up with Duo that he had another idea.

"Man, I got to meet another mars shuttle half way for parts again. Sorry Hilde looks like I'm going to be gone for another 2 weeks." Duo apologized to his wife as of late; they had been married last month.

"Duo, do you really need to go?" She pleaded with him.

Heero just listened to it from the room he was renting from them while he was on L2. It came to him. Milliardo had said something about going to mars before he and Noin had disappeared. He still remembered it when Zechs talked to him about it. "It was a perfect place for a dead man to go." He had said. 'What about a dead woman?'