Title: Heaven In Her Eyes
Author: Amber
Pairings: Hetro
Disclaimer: Gundam belongs to Gundam and any scene or plot similarity to
another person's story, movie or anime is purely coincidental and
unintentional. AU
Notes: Unbeta-ed so there is probably a cornucopia of mistakes.
Relena slowly opened her eyes giving her mind a moment to shake off the misty confusion of sleep before she pushed herself up. Automatically she scanned the building filing away how many were within and where as she tried to determine what time it was and how long she had been out. Startled she paused there was a large area of static that tickled a long forgotten memory. Carefully she honed in, tentatively exploring it. She unconsciously tilted her head giving away her deep concentration, brow furrowed she sought answers unaware of her silent observer. J frowned he shifted restlessly as he thought about how he had just left Heero it wasn't too hard to figure out what had prompted his current attempt around the reprogramming done on him. Relena's situation or Relena herself must have must have inadvertently set something in motion. "Ready for that tour now," she whispered?
J blinked smiling ruefully, "I must be getting old a few years ago you couldn't have done that to me." He studied her silently a moment. "Relena, I am not sure that's wise for many reasons. Now more than ever speed is of the essence you need to be back on earth where you can be protected."
Her head came around at that and stared him down with sad resignation. "Do you think there is anywhere left now where that is possible?" He quietly moved to the table and sat a pair of shoes down within reach before gently clasping her shoulder he didn't offer platitudes just silent support. "Come, we'll take the long way to the other side of the complex and meet the car waiting to take you to transport." Relena's hand reached for the shoes then clenched before she nodded with a strained smile.
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Zechs pushed his reports aside and rubbed his temple trying to will away the headache that had been pounding at his skull for the last hour. He could find no logical reason for it and none of his previous tricks from the past for circumventing it had worked. Finally in desperation, he tried to follow the familiar mental pathways to Relena to reassure himself she was alright only to have the pain to spike with an intensity that almost had him blacking out. Now for the first time in his life he was about to forget his need to guard against showing any weakness and seek a medtech for some kind of relief from the pain. He was so out of it he never felt the approach to his room until they pounded on the door. Gritting his teeth he reached for his helmet, now physically shielded as well as mentally he pushed himself upward. "Come," he said brusquely.
His friend of several years Lucrezia Noin threw the door open. "We just lost several colony delegates, relations between the colonies and earth has broken off, and they've recalled the representatives and placed ours on transport for home." Zechs shrugged, "I cant say I'm surprised." Noin nodded and turned to go. "Who were they?"
"Gordon, Shapiro, Weaver, Rendon, Paachenko." Again he shrugged as if to say it was expected. "We lost Minister Darlian and initial reports are unsure about his daughter she was with him and at this time they don't know if she's dead or alive. There is no body." She trailed off startled as he spun around and pushed her aside striding down the hall toward the Officer's rec room. "Zechs?!"
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Heero watched the car pull up then stepped from the shadows whether it was his movement or she sensed him he couldn't tell but she turned glancing up at him. Her distraction caught the doctor's attention and he turned seeing Heero it seemed he became even more eager to get Relena away. Heero smirked until he felt a gentle brush against his shields. Light tentative with just a hint of fear, almost as if she was afraid she would succeed it had him shifting his gaze back to her and it held until she was finally urged within the car. Once she disappeared from sight Heero's face hardened with determination and promise as he turned his gaze on Dr. J he would find out the answers and god help anyone who got in his way.
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Milliardo pushed the door closed silently and stepped into the room. He stood at attention the picture of calm professionalism but inside he seethed with a rage so all consuming it was a miracle that it hadn't manifested itself in some outward sign by now. Trieze turned from studying his garden and smiled. "Zechs what a pleasant surprise." His welcoming expression died as he studied the correct posture and stiff silent demeanor. "Zechs?"
"Excellency," he nodded with cold formality. Trieze waved off impatiently, "enough we're friends." The cold impersonal mask shifted and Trieze assumed somewhere behind the polished chrome the true face of Milliardo Peacecraft met his gaze. "Is my sister alive?"
"Ahh I see. Yes your sister is alive." Zechs smiled cynically, "but it wasn't for lack of trying eh?"
"Milliardo.. "
"I go now Excellency to investigate reports of object inexplicably falling to earth."
"Then its begun." Zechs bowed with silent precision he stepped back saluted then turned toward the door before he opened it he spoke so softly it almost went unheard but the meaning was unmistakable. "Never let me find out who went after my sister Trieze."
"Milliardo."
"Never. Or I will deliver them back to you in pieces."
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Relena had been back a week now and it had been the most horrendous time of her life. Her mother had been hysterical upon return and it took all her skills and the assistance of a large quantity of pharmaceuticals to insure her rest. Her life it seemed was to fall back into some semblance of the former routine despite the tragedy and the attendance to necessary details with the funeral lord knows what she would have done without her mother to focus on. The news was now full more and more with reports of fighting and terrorism against the prevailing government. Then reports started to trickle in about giant mechas destroying military associated facilities and she knew somewhere out there Duo and his friend were alive and responsible. Somehow, Relena knew things would never be the same change was upon them all now whether they were ready or not.
A month later Relena lost her mother. The woman that had tried to be a mother to her committed suicide. Unable to cope with the death of her husband, inadequate to deal with the world around her becoming ever harsher, devastated by the knowledge that even her 16 year old daughter was better quipped to be more self reliant. She simply went to sleep to never awaken. It was then that Relena Darlian died and in her place Relena Peacecraft was reborn no longer holding out hope for her brother's return she chose instead to master her won fate. Closing the door for the last time at the house she had spent most of her childhood she silently said goodbye and headed toward her destiny.
Relena slowly opened her eyes giving her mind a moment to shake off the misty confusion of sleep before she pushed herself up. Automatically she scanned the building filing away how many were within and where as she tried to determine what time it was and how long she had been out. Startled she paused there was a large area of static that tickled a long forgotten memory. Carefully she honed in, tentatively exploring it. She unconsciously tilted her head giving away her deep concentration, brow furrowed she sought answers unaware of her silent observer. J frowned he shifted restlessly as he thought about how he had just left Heero it wasn't too hard to figure out what had prompted his current attempt around the reprogramming done on him. Relena's situation or Relena herself must have must have inadvertently set something in motion. "Ready for that tour now," she whispered?
J blinked smiling ruefully, "I must be getting old a few years ago you couldn't have done that to me." He studied her silently a moment. "Relena, I am not sure that's wise for many reasons. Now more than ever speed is of the essence you need to be back on earth where you can be protected."
Her head came around at that and stared him down with sad resignation. "Do you think there is anywhere left now where that is possible?" He quietly moved to the table and sat a pair of shoes down within reach before gently clasping her shoulder he didn't offer platitudes just silent support. "Come, we'll take the long way to the other side of the complex and meet the car waiting to take you to transport." Relena's hand reached for the shoes then clenched before she nodded with a strained smile.
****************
Zechs pushed his reports aside and rubbed his temple trying to will away the headache that had been pounding at his skull for the last hour. He could find no logical reason for it and none of his previous tricks from the past for circumventing it had worked. Finally in desperation, he tried to follow the familiar mental pathways to Relena to reassure himself she was alright only to have the pain to spike with an intensity that almost had him blacking out. Now for the first time in his life he was about to forget his need to guard against showing any weakness and seek a medtech for some kind of relief from the pain. He was so out of it he never felt the approach to his room until they pounded on the door. Gritting his teeth he reached for his helmet, now physically shielded as well as mentally he pushed himself upward. "Come," he said brusquely.
His friend of several years Lucrezia Noin threw the door open. "We just lost several colony delegates, relations between the colonies and earth has broken off, and they've recalled the representatives and placed ours on transport for home." Zechs shrugged, "I cant say I'm surprised." Noin nodded and turned to go. "Who were they?"
"Gordon, Shapiro, Weaver, Rendon, Paachenko." Again he shrugged as if to say it was expected. "We lost Minister Darlian and initial reports are unsure about his daughter she was with him and at this time they don't know if she's dead or alive. There is no body." She trailed off startled as he spun around and pushed her aside striding down the hall toward the Officer's rec room. "Zechs?!"
***************
Heero watched the car pull up then stepped from the shadows whether it was his movement or she sensed him he couldn't tell but she turned glancing up at him. Her distraction caught the doctor's attention and he turned seeing Heero it seemed he became even more eager to get Relena away. Heero smirked until he felt a gentle brush against his shields. Light tentative with just a hint of fear, almost as if she was afraid she would succeed it had him shifting his gaze back to her and it held until she was finally urged within the car. Once she disappeared from sight Heero's face hardened with determination and promise as he turned his gaze on Dr. J he would find out the answers and god help anyone who got in his way.
**************
Milliardo pushed the door closed silently and stepped into the room. He stood at attention the picture of calm professionalism but inside he seethed with a rage so all consuming it was a miracle that it hadn't manifested itself in some outward sign by now. Trieze turned from studying his garden and smiled. "Zechs what a pleasant surprise." His welcoming expression died as he studied the correct posture and stiff silent demeanor. "Zechs?"
"Excellency," he nodded with cold formality. Trieze waved off impatiently, "enough we're friends." The cold impersonal mask shifted and Trieze assumed somewhere behind the polished chrome the true face of Milliardo Peacecraft met his gaze. "Is my sister alive?"
"Ahh I see. Yes your sister is alive." Zechs smiled cynically, "but it wasn't for lack of trying eh?"
"Milliardo.. "
"I go now Excellency to investigate reports of object inexplicably falling to earth."
"Then its begun." Zechs bowed with silent precision he stepped back saluted then turned toward the door before he opened it he spoke so softly it almost went unheard but the meaning was unmistakable. "Never let me find out who went after my sister Trieze."
"Milliardo."
"Never. Or I will deliver them back to you in pieces."
**************
Relena had been back a week now and it had been the most horrendous time of her life. Her mother had been hysterical upon return and it took all her skills and the assistance of a large quantity of pharmaceuticals to insure her rest. Her life it seemed was to fall back into some semblance of the former routine despite the tragedy and the attendance to necessary details with the funeral lord knows what she would have done without her mother to focus on. The news was now full more and more with reports of fighting and terrorism against the prevailing government. Then reports started to trickle in about giant mechas destroying military associated facilities and she knew somewhere out there Duo and his friend were alive and responsible. Somehow, Relena knew things would never be the same change was upon them all now whether they were ready or not.
A month later Relena lost her mother. The woman that had tried to be a mother to her committed suicide. Unable to cope with the death of her husband, inadequate to deal with the world around her becoming ever harsher, devastated by the knowledge that even her 16 year old daughter was better quipped to be more self reliant. She simply went to sleep to never awaken. It was then that Relena Darlian died and in her place Relena Peacecraft was reborn no longer holding out hope for her brother's return she chose instead to master her won fate. Closing the door for the last time at the house she had spent most of her childhood she silently said goodbye and headed toward her destiny.