Everything I Do-3





Relena got up on shaky knees after having a good cry in the middle of a battle. What was wrong with her? This wasn't a good time to be showing weaknesses. Many other people had taken more lives than she had. Heero couldn't even count the amount he had killed. But she still had emotions and a heart, and she didn't want to become a ruthless cold-hearted killer like the pilots had become. She watched the long tedious process of reverting back into someone with emotions Heero was currently going through. Would that ever happen to her?

If she was to survive this night she had to put it out of her mind and become like Heero. She wished she could stay here and go to sleep, but that would be dangerous, not to mention unproductive. She had people to find, and friends to save. If only she could gather the courage.

She scolded herself for being stupid and weak. She didn't want to prove Wufei's hypothesis of woman being the weaker gender to be true. Everyone knew it was false. She checked the pistol her victim had dropped and found he had used his last bullet on her. It didn't seem she was having any luck in the ammo department. She said an un-Relena like curse and jogged down the hallway. It was time to kick some ass- assassin style.

She quickly rounded a corner and bumped full force into someone. She had her gun to his head and fixed Heero's most unemotional look on her face. During the years she had discovered it was more threatening than looking mean.

Duo looked into his predator's eyes and widened his own. He looked around in confusion as Relena slammed her gun his chest.

"Is that you Rel, or has Heero taken to wearing a wig and girly clothing."

"Duo?" She laughed nervously as she adjusted her gaze to one of mirth. "What are you doing here?"

"What am I doing here? What the *censored* are you doing here? Did Heero get you out of that little cubbyhole he stashed you in? Where is he, I'm looking for him?"

"I'm looking for him myself. I think he's on the third floor. Do you know where Sally has set up her hospital?"

"Why, are you hurt? You have a bruise right here." He tenderly traced a finger down her jaw and she swallowed a yelp of pain.

"I'm fine, you should see the other guy."

Duo snorted. "Showed him what a little hell-raiser you are aye?"

She looked into his eyes and whispered in a hurt little voice. "I killed him."

Duo looked astonished then enveloped her in a hug. "It'll be ok Relena. Soon the memory won't be as sharp. It hurts doesn't it? I remember the first time I took a life."

"I don't think this is the time. There's a group of mean looking blue- coats coming our way." She pointed to a group of three coming down the stairs. Duo grabbed his gun and stood in a come-hither stance. The men just continued to run by them as if they weren't there. Relena figured someone must have scared the heck out of them. One of them slipped on the slick steps and brought the rest down a few flights with him. Relena and Duo looked down from the landing and saw one of them had fled, one had the bones in his leg protruding at a painful angle, and the last was obviously dead.

Duo tucked away his gun and took Relena's arm charmingly. "Well that takes care of them. Where to, my lady?"

"I want to find Sally to see if she knows where the rest of the girls are."

"That's exactly what I'm looking for Heero for. He would know where Hilde is. He knows everything."

"You're in the middle of a battle and all you can think of is your girlfriend. Shows where your priorities are."

"Yeah, well I thought maybe I could get a little quickie. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Duo stopped his distasteful joke as a figure in black jumped out in front of him. Relena got between the two of them before a shooting match developed.

"I know this is the best time to kill each other off without consequences, but I believe we need all the fighters we can on this side."

Wufei grumbled about onnas always figuring out his devious plans while Duo sighed. "I would have figured you'd have heard us Fei."

"I did. The two of you were talking louder than a cat in the heat."

"Gee thanks for that thought."

"My pleasure."

Relena tapped her foot impatiently. "You two are just as bad. I need to talk to Sally."

Wufei nodded solemnly and opened a hidden door he had been protecting. "Someone came here a little while ago mumbling about you saving his life. I didn't think it was true."

"It's true."

Sally looked up from tying a tourniquet around someone's sliced arm. Relena went over and gave her a hand while she set the poor lad's leg.

"You've made one family very happy Relena. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

"I don't think so. From the story I gathered from the little girl, you killed someone. The first time hurts, but gradually the pain lessens."

"Are we talking about murder or sex?"

"At least you still have your wit."

"And my life."

Sally chuckled. "That's the spirit. Tell me what you came here for as you assist me take out this bullet."

Relena dutifully picked up a sponge as blood started to seep out of a wound in the person's side. For the first time she looked at the poor patient. "Oh God! It's Hilde."

Duo let out a strangled scream from half-way across the room and bound over a few injured people lying on the floor. He pushed Relena out of the way and took the hand of his love. Sally calmly handed him a sponge and he tried to franticly wipe away blood. He got a look at the person's face and squealed.

"That's not Hilde!"

The girls burst out laughing. Relena pointed to a person sleeping at his feet. "That's Hilde."

"Hilde babe! Are you all right? I was so scared."

Sally confidentially whispered to Relena. "She's going to be pissed for being awoke. I told her to take a nap half an hour ago when she almost collapsed on me."

"So she's all right?"

A thwacking sound came from where Duo was crouched on the floor. He rubbed his head ruefully as Hilde gave him back his gun, of which she had used the butt of to bash in a portion of his skull. Relena turned her attention back to Sally and the patient whose blood she was soaking up.

"Do you know where any of the other girls are?" Relena said as she changed sponges.

"Not particularly, why?"

"I want to know if they're safe, and if they need any help."

"Catherine is the only other one in the castle today, and I believe she's with Trowa."

Relena looked alarmed. "I just left him half an hour ago and she wasn't there."

Sally looked unconcerned. "I'm sure she's fine. If she was here I'd be putting her to work anyway."

"I'll tell her if I see her." Relena handed the soaked sponge to a perplexed Duo and strode out of the room. Hilde ran up and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Good luck finding him."

"Thank you." She continued out of the room and into the unknown battle awaiting her.

"Are you sure she'll be ok? I rather wouldn't patch together pieces of her mutilated body for a funeral."

"I think Heero may be right when he insisted she was the strongest out of all of us." Duo absentmindedly rubbed his stomach where her gun had been pressed minutes before. "Do you guys ever have the feeling there is something your not being told?"

"All the time, especially about those two."

Relena stepped out the door only to be confronted by an over- zealous/protective Wufei who had been standing guard. She blocked his well-aimed punch and flipped him over her shoulder and onto the floor.

"Don't you think it would be smarter to fight people coming to the hospital and not away from it?"

"No one should leave once they come."

"Okaay, well I'm leaving now."

"I am not stopping you." Relena took her foot off of his chest."

"No, I suppose you're not."

She turned and walked down the hall towards the back stairway. Wufei looked up to the heavens and fiddled with a scrap of Gundam in his pocket.

"Nataku, look over her. She needs the help of the strongest warriors."

He didn't have long to dwell on thoughts of his lost wife he realized as he turned around. He had work to do. He came face to face with a bloody woman who somehow snuck passed his defenses. She collapsed into a bleeding heap in his outstretched arms.

"Help me." The breath seemed to be drawn out of her in this heroic last effort to be strong. Wufei lifted his gory hand from the gaping wound in her back.

"Colonial Noin? Noin? Noin!" He picked up her still body and rushed into the makeshift hospital. Sally grabbed a man with a broken leg and flung him off a table to make room for her newest patient. Wufei set her gently down and stood back, ready to help any way he could.

Duo knelt down beside the man with a broken leg who was gesturing rudely to Sally as he moaned in pain. Duo grabbed the leg just below the knee and was about to pull.

"Wait, do you know what you're doing?"

"Not at all. I've watched Heero before, and he was self-administering the setting." Duo yanked and the offensive man fainted in pain as his bones popped back in place.

Sally, completely professional, tried administering CPR to her best friend. The room collectively held its breath as an attempt was made to bring the famous female warrior back from death. Sally looked down into the blank open eyes of her oldest friend and a tear trickled down her face.

"I can't get her to breath." Sally whimpered and threw herself at the body. Wufei grabbed her from behind and held her against his shoulder. He gently stroked the hair that was coming unraveled out of its practical braids. Duo thanked God for the CPR course he had taken and set to work continuing the mouth-to-mouth administration. Sally pushed Wufei away in a hard smooth move and composed herself for the job that was ahead as the rest of the room mourned for the loss of a great fighter and friend. "There has to be something I can do."

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