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* * * * Chapter 7-I hate you
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Relena sat in a chair, arms tied to the back, facing a door. The room was small and two mirrors made ups the walls on her sides. Guards flanked the door, rifles held across their chests. Relena was finished with crying. Now she was infuriated. Whoever was the brain of this operation was going to pay. If she ever got out of here alive, she would make sure of that.
Silently she fumed, adrenaline and hate coursing through her veins like poison. Her hair was in her face, but she took no notice. Instead she glared at the ground, her beautiful cerulean eyes hiding fire. Her whole body was shaking with the anger that possessed her. She sucked in a ragged breath and blew out quickly, her heartbeat speeding up.
A "captain" was to interrogate her, eh? Well, it would be a very short session, she could guarantee that. She would die before she told them anything. She could endure torture. They had already given her the worst possible pain: separation from her brother. What could possibly be worse than that?
She got her answer in a few seconds. A knock on the door sounded, and one of the guards opened the peephole and then quickly shut it. He hurriedly found the right key and opened the large lock. Relena braced herself for the monster that would come through that door.
The door swung open and in strode the leader of the guards and right behind him, none other than Heero Yuy. Relena's jaw fell and her eyes seemed to grow to the size of saucers. She was completely overcome with shock and just sat and gaped. When she finally could think, the first thought that sprang to her mind was how handsome he looked. He wore a deep green officer's suit, with several decorations. His hair was the same wild mane it had always been, but it looked like he had attempted to comb it.
Relena shook these thoughts out of her head, closed her mouth, and hid her surprise. He was responsible for her capture, he was responsible for their imprisonment, and he was responsible for separating her from Milliardo. She glared at him, the man who would most likely be responsible for her death.
He paced the length of the room in front of her, staring at her with interest. She met his gaze and glared into the dark eyes. He stopped in front of her, arms crossed.
"I suppose you are wondering why I brought you here." He said, and his mouth formed a cold, small smirk. She remained silent, still looking into his eyes with all the hate that was in her. He raised an eyebrow, still smiling.
"I'm sure you are curious. Say it. 'Why am I here?'."
"Rot in hell."
He laughed icily and walked toward a mirror.
"Yes, I did always admire your spirit when you had passion." he turned toward her. "Of course, that was the only thing I admired about you." He started to encircle the chair. She turned her gaze toward the ground again.
"When I first met you and began to see who you were, I knew I had to convince you I fought for peace. I, of course, didn't. I fought to be dominant. To crush all the other fools who thought they could rule the Earth and colonies. I am the only one who really knows what it will take to do such a feat." He stopped in front of her. "I am the Perfect Soldier."
She kept looking at the floor. He paused for a long time and then continued.
"I always hated saving you. In general, I hate you. You are such a waste of skin." Relena felt a small twinge of hurt." I did it to ultimately convince you that I was 'the good guy'. I never liked you. You were, and still are, weak." He spat the last word out as though it were an acidic insult. "
"You expect everyone to be a complete pacifist, tree hugging, animal lover like you."
He put his face directly in hers. She remained staring at the floor.
"Well guess what? It doesn't work that way." He stood back up. "There will always be powerful leaders such as me and the weak dreamers like you. You always put peace first. It was your life. You didn't have any personal scheme. You were just a fool for 'peace'." He said 'peace' in a simpering tone, giving her another snide smirk.
Slowly, ever so slowly she was putting it all together. And as each piece was put in the puzzle, her heart was slowly being eaten away. How could she be so stupid? He was right about everything! He was the deep voiced leader! And he would hold her for ransom, the ransom being complete power. She had helped him win this. This whole crisis was her fault. Suddenly, she heard him speaking again.
" No one suspected that I would kidnap you. I, the unofficial bodyguard of Relena Peacecraft. And now, since everything has been complete chaos inside the 'peaceful' world with trying to find you, I have completed construction of my own army of Gundams."
Relena instantly looked up in complete disbelief. Heero laughed at her reaction.
"Yes. I have modeled them after my own Wing Zero and intend to dispatch them just in case your peace promoting friends don't surrender."
Relena found her voice once again. She spoke without looking at him. She could not look at him. Instead she kept her eyes straight ahead.
"And then what will you do with me? Will you kill me? Will you.rape me?" Her voice cracked. "Is that one of the perks of the job?"
Suddenly there was a loud 'thump' from behind one of the mirrors. Relena and Heero both turned their heads to look.
Behind one of the sound proof, two-way mirrors, Milliardo had lost control of himself at his little sister's words. He had screamed and thrown himself against the glass. The Chinese man next to him was now holding a gun to the white-haired head. Wufei snarled mercilessly, and hit Milliardo with the butt of his gun, momentarily stunning him.
"You do that again and you will never know what happens to her."
In his mind, Milliardo ran through all of the horrible, tortuous things he would do to Yuy if he ever got his hands on him.
Meanwhile, Heero turned back to Relena.
"I know exactly what I am going to do to you."
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In the conference room, hardly any peace seemed to exist at all, there was so much shouting. Everyone had a different view on whether armistice should exist. Finally, one of the Senators shouted for order. Everyone quieted down to listen. The Senator stood.
"There are obviously many different courses we could take on this subject," he said loud enough for all to hear. "Some ask how we will be able to defend ourselves without weapons. Defend ourselves against what, hmmm? Other weapons perhaps?"
"You don't have to have weapons for a civil war to occur!" someone shouted.
This sparked a whole new series of arguments and shouting. It ended very suddenly when the doors flew open and quite a few security agents entered, walking very quickly. The Senator who had been talking previously bristled.
"What is the meaning of the interruption?" he demanded. "We are in the middle of a very important discussion!"
Several of the agents went to hook up the videophone, a few others drew all the curtains, and the last one began to explain hat the disruption was for.
"We have just received word from the terrorists who captured the Vice Foreign Minister. They wish to speak to those gathered."
Everyone was silent immediately and waited, holding his or her breath. At the end of the table, farthest from the door, the videophone was connected and turned on. The room was filled with one large gasp and many people started whispering as Heero Yuy's face appeared on the screen. Quatre sat in his chair and put his hands behind his head. Heero began to speak and everyone was instantaneously silent.
"Good morning, politicians. I am here to propose a ransom on the Vice Foreign Minister's life." Heero moved out of the way and Relena could be seen on the screen, tied to the chair. Immediately, mutterings of sympathy could be heard all around. She looked exhausted and old. Her face had lost all sign of hope, that was obvious. It seemed as if she knew that all was lost and there was nothing she could do about it. She said very quietly and very reluctantly:
"It's all over. There's nothing you can do."
The Senator spoke up.
"What price?" He knew it was going to be high, but the Minister was a key role in any sort of peace discussion. That's why the day's conference had been such a disaster. She had not been there.
Heero's face immediately came back on to the screen.
"You must immediately call upon the earth and all the colonies to put up an armistice."
The Senator had opened his mouth to agree when the representative from L12 cried out. "NO! Are you all fools? We are talking to a terrorist! As soon as we put all our weapons down, he will strike!"
Heero yelled over him.
"I will give you 24 hours. Here are my demands, you can keep them in mind while discussing the ransom of the Vice Foreign Minister: First, no one is allowed to leave the mansion or make any connection with the outside world. Second, if you do agree to my ransom, the earth and colonies must immediately destroy all weapons. Third, if I even get the slightest notion that there will be an attempt to rescue her, I will kill her. If you decide to promote an armistice, I will inform you where she is located. And finally, If you do not agree with my terms, I will kill her."
He put his hand up to block the camera's view and they could here some muffled talking in the background. He took his hand away.
"The Vice Foreign Minister wants to add something." Relena once again appeared on this screen, this time her eyes were pleading with them.
"Do not try to resist. Do what he says. He has a task force of over one hundred Gundams to atta-" the connection was suddenly cut off.
She had said something that he could not allow them to hear. But they had heard it. And all stood speechless by what they had heard. More than one hundred Gundams was practically invincible. The Senator cleared his throat.
"Well, I guess that decides it for us. We will have to surrender."
"We CANNOT allow this! We cannot go down without a fight!" the representative from L12 shouted out.
The colonel who had been talking to Quatre earlier stood up.
"Fight? You mean slaughter! It would be impossible to stand up to that firepower! Thousands of lives would be lost in vain!"
"Live today, fight tomorrow," the Senator added quietly. He sighed. "The colonel is right, we must survive. We have to give in to his demands." The representative of L12 turned a very crimson color.
"Fine!" he shouted. "FINE! I will fight him. And I am sure my colony will join me." Everyone looked up at this comment. Someone spoke up.
"Fight with what? You and what army? How can you fight without mobile dolls?"
Quatre took the perfect cue and stood up.
"Yes, funny you should mention the army of L12. Because I happen to have a little tape here," he pulled a cassette tape out of his pocket, "that says you have your own little stash of mobile dolls."
Quatre smiled and raised his eyebrows. The representative's red face quickly paled and he tried to bolt to the doors. Immediately two agents were on him, each one holding an arm.
Quatre picked up and rang a small bell. A butler entered the room carrying a tape player. He set it on the table and Quatre stuck the tape into it and pressed the play button. Out of the tiny speaker came the voice of the L12 representative.
"Is everything ready?"
Another voice replied:
"Yes, everything is in its proper place. No one will suspect a nature preserve to contain hundreds of thousands of mobile dolls."
Everyone stared at the tape player, realizing that there had not been a gas explosion on L12.
The representative's voice laughed.
"I know. In a few weeks, the meeting for the discussion of armistice will take place. I will argue in favor of weapons and that way no one will be able to discover us. If they pass the armistice, there will surely be a check on every colony for weapons and that would bring everything we worked for crashing to the ground."
"What happens if someone does try to expose us?"
"Then we will destroy all our weapons and deny it. But I doubt that will happen. No one has any idea of our revolution. Not even the Preventers."
"All right. But make sure you have all the details worked out."
Quatre pressed the stop button. He looked at the representative.
"So," he said, "It looks like Heero Yuy is quite the copy cat. Wouldn't you agree?" He motioned to the guards. "Take him away."
They wrestled him out of the door. The Senator sighed and turned to Quatre.
"So, all of his dolls are now gone from the 'gas explosion'?" Quatre shook his head.
"No. My spies inform me that they have located another source of weapons. If we act fast enough, we may be able to stop them before things get difficult. I didn't have the time to plan another explosion. You will have to send your men to catch them."
The representatives of L11 and L13 nodded to him and got up to leave. Someone yelled to stop them.
"We cannot make any connection or Heero Yuy will attack! Remember?"
Quatre laughed.
"No my friends, that was just a ruse to get the representative to slip. Heero will do us no harm. Please continue."
The representatives walked out of the doors. But colonel spluttered in disbelief.
"But why didn't you just tell us? It would have been so much easier." Quatre's face grew grave.
"There are many reasons for that, but right now I cannot answer them. I must go into hiding. There are still many supporters of L12 among us and I cannot stay. Please decide a fate that will stop all of this madness."
And he left.
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When the videophone had first been set up, Heero had sent everyone out of the room. When the connection was cut, he turned to Relena.
"I wish I could explain, but I have to go." She didn't even respond. She just kept staring at the floor. Heero looked at her for a few seconds. The room was silent. He knew there wasn't time, but he just enjoyed her presence for those brief seconds and then continued. He packed up the videophone and locked the door. Then he went to each mirror and gave a brief knock. Duo and Wufei both came out of the hidden doors.
Relena looked stricken. She stared at Duo and whispered: "How could you do this?" He just shook his head and patted her shoulder as he went by.
"Just take it easy." was all he said.
She turned around to watch them go. Heero pushed the wall so that it opened a crack and held it for Duo and Wufei to slip out. He brought his gaze up to meet Relena's eyes. But he couldn't look at her. Not after what he had done. He, too, silently left the room and the wall closed.
Relena was left all alone. She was so confused. What just happened? And then she cried. She cried because she thought she had failed the earth and colonies. She cried because she thought she had lost her brother forever. And she cried because she thought she had never had Heero.
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Ho-HUM! Geez, I'm sorry I haven't updated in foooooorever, but I've been quite busy lately, what with exams from hell and Christmas stuff. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed. And even if you didn't, there's a little button down here that you can click on and tell me what you thought. I'll appreciate it. Thanks.
* * * * Chapter 7-I hate you
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Relena sat in a chair, arms tied to the back, facing a door. The room was small and two mirrors made ups the walls on her sides. Guards flanked the door, rifles held across their chests. Relena was finished with crying. Now she was infuriated. Whoever was the brain of this operation was going to pay. If she ever got out of here alive, she would make sure of that.
Silently she fumed, adrenaline and hate coursing through her veins like poison. Her hair was in her face, but she took no notice. Instead she glared at the ground, her beautiful cerulean eyes hiding fire. Her whole body was shaking with the anger that possessed her. She sucked in a ragged breath and blew out quickly, her heartbeat speeding up.
A "captain" was to interrogate her, eh? Well, it would be a very short session, she could guarantee that. She would die before she told them anything. She could endure torture. They had already given her the worst possible pain: separation from her brother. What could possibly be worse than that?
She got her answer in a few seconds. A knock on the door sounded, and one of the guards opened the peephole and then quickly shut it. He hurriedly found the right key and opened the large lock. Relena braced herself for the monster that would come through that door.
The door swung open and in strode the leader of the guards and right behind him, none other than Heero Yuy. Relena's jaw fell and her eyes seemed to grow to the size of saucers. She was completely overcome with shock and just sat and gaped. When she finally could think, the first thought that sprang to her mind was how handsome he looked. He wore a deep green officer's suit, with several decorations. His hair was the same wild mane it had always been, but it looked like he had attempted to comb it.
Relena shook these thoughts out of her head, closed her mouth, and hid her surprise. He was responsible for her capture, he was responsible for their imprisonment, and he was responsible for separating her from Milliardo. She glared at him, the man who would most likely be responsible for her death.
He paced the length of the room in front of her, staring at her with interest. She met his gaze and glared into the dark eyes. He stopped in front of her, arms crossed.
"I suppose you are wondering why I brought you here." He said, and his mouth formed a cold, small smirk. She remained silent, still looking into his eyes with all the hate that was in her. He raised an eyebrow, still smiling.
"I'm sure you are curious. Say it. 'Why am I here?'."
"Rot in hell."
He laughed icily and walked toward a mirror.
"Yes, I did always admire your spirit when you had passion." he turned toward her. "Of course, that was the only thing I admired about you." He started to encircle the chair. She turned her gaze toward the ground again.
"When I first met you and began to see who you were, I knew I had to convince you I fought for peace. I, of course, didn't. I fought to be dominant. To crush all the other fools who thought they could rule the Earth and colonies. I am the only one who really knows what it will take to do such a feat." He stopped in front of her. "I am the Perfect Soldier."
She kept looking at the floor. He paused for a long time and then continued.
"I always hated saving you. In general, I hate you. You are such a waste of skin." Relena felt a small twinge of hurt." I did it to ultimately convince you that I was 'the good guy'. I never liked you. You were, and still are, weak." He spat the last word out as though it were an acidic insult. "
"You expect everyone to be a complete pacifist, tree hugging, animal lover like you."
He put his face directly in hers. She remained staring at the floor.
"Well guess what? It doesn't work that way." He stood back up. "There will always be powerful leaders such as me and the weak dreamers like you. You always put peace first. It was your life. You didn't have any personal scheme. You were just a fool for 'peace'." He said 'peace' in a simpering tone, giving her another snide smirk.
Slowly, ever so slowly she was putting it all together. And as each piece was put in the puzzle, her heart was slowly being eaten away. How could she be so stupid? He was right about everything! He was the deep voiced leader! And he would hold her for ransom, the ransom being complete power. She had helped him win this. This whole crisis was her fault. Suddenly, she heard him speaking again.
" No one suspected that I would kidnap you. I, the unofficial bodyguard of Relena Peacecraft. And now, since everything has been complete chaos inside the 'peaceful' world with trying to find you, I have completed construction of my own army of Gundams."
Relena instantly looked up in complete disbelief. Heero laughed at her reaction.
"Yes. I have modeled them after my own Wing Zero and intend to dispatch them just in case your peace promoting friends don't surrender."
Relena found her voice once again. She spoke without looking at him. She could not look at him. Instead she kept her eyes straight ahead.
"And then what will you do with me? Will you kill me? Will you.rape me?" Her voice cracked. "Is that one of the perks of the job?"
Suddenly there was a loud 'thump' from behind one of the mirrors. Relena and Heero both turned their heads to look.
Behind one of the sound proof, two-way mirrors, Milliardo had lost control of himself at his little sister's words. He had screamed and thrown himself against the glass. The Chinese man next to him was now holding a gun to the white-haired head. Wufei snarled mercilessly, and hit Milliardo with the butt of his gun, momentarily stunning him.
"You do that again and you will never know what happens to her."
In his mind, Milliardo ran through all of the horrible, tortuous things he would do to Yuy if he ever got his hands on him.
Meanwhile, Heero turned back to Relena.
"I know exactly what I am going to do to you."
* * * *
In the conference room, hardly any peace seemed to exist at all, there was so much shouting. Everyone had a different view on whether armistice should exist. Finally, one of the Senators shouted for order. Everyone quieted down to listen. The Senator stood.
"There are obviously many different courses we could take on this subject," he said loud enough for all to hear. "Some ask how we will be able to defend ourselves without weapons. Defend ourselves against what, hmmm? Other weapons perhaps?"
"You don't have to have weapons for a civil war to occur!" someone shouted.
This sparked a whole new series of arguments and shouting. It ended very suddenly when the doors flew open and quite a few security agents entered, walking very quickly. The Senator who had been talking previously bristled.
"What is the meaning of the interruption?" he demanded. "We are in the middle of a very important discussion!"
Several of the agents went to hook up the videophone, a few others drew all the curtains, and the last one began to explain hat the disruption was for.
"We have just received word from the terrorists who captured the Vice Foreign Minister. They wish to speak to those gathered."
Everyone was silent immediately and waited, holding his or her breath. At the end of the table, farthest from the door, the videophone was connected and turned on. The room was filled with one large gasp and many people started whispering as Heero Yuy's face appeared on the screen. Quatre sat in his chair and put his hands behind his head. Heero began to speak and everyone was instantaneously silent.
"Good morning, politicians. I am here to propose a ransom on the Vice Foreign Minister's life." Heero moved out of the way and Relena could be seen on the screen, tied to the chair. Immediately, mutterings of sympathy could be heard all around. She looked exhausted and old. Her face had lost all sign of hope, that was obvious. It seemed as if she knew that all was lost and there was nothing she could do about it. She said very quietly and very reluctantly:
"It's all over. There's nothing you can do."
The Senator spoke up.
"What price?" He knew it was going to be high, but the Minister was a key role in any sort of peace discussion. That's why the day's conference had been such a disaster. She had not been there.
Heero's face immediately came back on to the screen.
"You must immediately call upon the earth and all the colonies to put up an armistice."
The Senator had opened his mouth to agree when the representative from L12 cried out. "NO! Are you all fools? We are talking to a terrorist! As soon as we put all our weapons down, he will strike!"
Heero yelled over him.
"I will give you 24 hours. Here are my demands, you can keep them in mind while discussing the ransom of the Vice Foreign Minister: First, no one is allowed to leave the mansion or make any connection with the outside world. Second, if you do agree to my ransom, the earth and colonies must immediately destroy all weapons. Third, if I even get the slightest notion that there will be an attempt to rescue her, I will kill her. If you decide to promote an armistice, I will inform you where she is located. And finally, If you do not agree with my terms, I will kill her."
He put his hand up to block the camera's view and they could here some muffled talking in the background. He took his hand away.
"The Vice Foreign Minister wants to add something." Relena once again appeared on this screen, this time her eyes were pleading with them.
"Do not try to resist. Do what he says. He has a task force of over one hundred Gundams to atta-" the connection was suddenly cut off.
She had said something that he could not allow them to hear. But they had heard it. And all stood speechless by what they had heard. More than one hundred Gundams was practically invincible. The Senator cleared his throat.
"Well, I guess that decides it for us. We will have to surrender."
"We CANNOT allow this! We cannot go down without a fight!" the representative from L12 shouted out.
The colonel who had been talking to Quatre earlier stood up.
"Fight? You mean slaughter! It would be impossible to stand up to that firepower! Thousands of lives would be lost in vain!"
"Live today, fight tomorrow," the Senator added quietly. He sighed. "The colonel is right, we must survive. We have to give in to his demands." The representative of L12 turned a very crimson color.
"Fine!" he shouted. "FINE! I will fight him. And I am sure my colony will join me." Everyone looked up at this comment. Someone spoke up.
"Fight with what? You and what army? How can you fight without mobile dolls?"
Quatre took the perfect cue and stood up.
"Yes, funny you should mention the army of L12. Because I happen to have a little tape here," he pulled a cassette tape out of his pocket, "that says you have your own little stash of mobile dolls."
Quatre smiled and raised his eyebrows. The representative's red face quickly paled and he tried to bolt to the doors. Immediately two agents were on him, each one holding an arm.
Quatre picked up and rang a small bell. A butler entered the room carrying a tape player. He set it on the table and Quatre stuck the tape into it and pressed the play button. Out of the tiny speaker came the voice of the L12 representative.
"Is everything ready?"
Another voice replied:
"Yes, everything is in its proper place. No one will suspect a nature preserve to contain hundreds of thousands of mobile dolls."
Everyone stared at the tape player, realizing that there had not been a gas explosion on L12.
The representative's voice laughed.
"I know. In a few weeks, the meeting for the discussion of armistice will take place. I will argue in favor of weapons and that way no one will be able to discover us. If they pass the armistice, there will surely be a check on every colony for weapons and that would bring everything we worked for crashing to the ground."
"What happens if someone does try to expose us?"
"Then we will destroy all our weapons and deny it. But I doubt that will happen. No one has any idea of our revolution. Not even the Preventers."
"All right. But make sure you have all the details worked out."
Quatre pressed the stop button. He looked at the representative.
"So," he said, "It looks like Heero Yuy is quite the copy cat. Wouldn't you agree?" He motioned to the guards. "Take him away."
They wrestled him out of the door. The Senator sighed and turned to Quatre.
"So, all of his dolls are now gone from the 'gas explosion'?" Quatre shook his head.
"No. My spies inform me that they have located another source of weapons. If we act fast enough, we may be able to stop them before things get difficult. I didn't have the time to plan another explosion. You will have to send your men to catch them."
The representatives of L11 and L13 nodded to him and got up to leave. Someone yelled to stop them.
"We cannot make any connection or Heero Yuy will attack! Remember?"
Quatre laughed.
"No my friends, that was just a ruse to get the representative to slip. Heero will do us no harm. Please continue."
The representatives walked out of the doors. But colonel spluttered in disbelief.
"But why didn't you just tell us? It would have been so much easier." Quatre's face grew grave.
"There are many reasons for that, but right now I cannot answer them. I must go into hiding. There are still many supporters of L12 among us and I cannot stay. Please decide a fate that will stop all of this madness."
And he left.
* * * *
When the videophone had first been set up, Heero had sent everyone out of the room. When the connection was cut, he turned to Relena.
"I wish I could explain, but I have to go." She didn't even respond. She just kept staring at the floor. Heero looked at her for a few seconds. The room was silent. He knew there wasn't time, but he just enjoyed her presence for those brief seconds and then continued. He packed up the videophone and locked the door. Then he went to each mirror and gave a brief knock. Duo and Wufei both came out of the hidden doors.
Relena looked stricken. She stared at Duo and whispered: "How could you do this?" He just shook his head and patted her shoulder as he went by.
"Just take it easy." was all he said.
She turned around to watch them go. Heero pushed the wall so that it opened a crack and held it for Duo and Wufei to slip out. He brought his gaze up to meet Relena's eyes. But he couldn't look at her. Not after what he had done. He, too, silently left the room and the wall closed.
Relena was left all alone. She was so confused. What just happened? And then she cried. She cried because she thought she had failed the earth and colonies. She cried because she thought she had lost her brother forever. And she cried because she thought she had never had Heero.
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Ho-HUM! Geez, I'm sorry I haven't updated in foooooorever, but I've been quite busy lately, what with exams from hell and Christmas stuff. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed. And even if you didn't, there's a little button down here that you can click on and tell me what you thought. I'll appreciate it. Thanks.