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When Relena woke up, she was in a bed, hooked up to some machine. There was a small television beside her bed, on some weird cartoon soap opera. She could breathe, ironically enough, and moved her head to look around the room. The I.V.s didn't make her feel good at all. What happened? Where was Heero? He was unconscious and bleeding, wasn't he? But he….
Relena tried to get up, but she had absolutely no strength whatsoever. The door opened. Heero stepped in. Dry blood was visible on his face and hair and clothes, some of it her's. He looked cold and unfriendly and mysterious; just like when she first met him. He saw Relena's open eyes. His hard features softened, his heart warmed. He fell to her bedside, his face full of mixed emotion. He brushed her bangs away from her lovely blueish-grey eyes and looked deep into them. She looked into his wild, Prussian blue eyes. She looked into those wild, beautiful, untamable eyes that never lost their wild, even if he showed a melancholy emotion.
"You're alive," he whispered, assuring her. Relena tried to speak, to tell him how much she loved him, how she wished she could pay him back for all the times that he almost died for her, purely because he wanted to. But all she could do was let a few big, hot tears roll down her cheeks. Heero wiped away the droplets with genuine affection. He gently kissed her cheeks and forehead. I'll be right back, his wild Prussian eyes told her. He left. She wanted to cry out to Heero, tell him to come back and never leave her, but she could only moan and let out a few more tears.
Heero was on his way to get Relena something to drink, when a news report on a nearby TV sidetracked him. Vincent had been arrested on three counts of attempted homicide and aggravated assault. He was going to be given a trial in 30 days and held in prison until then. Heero felt a slight relief, but he didn't think it was enough. Just sit back and let justice take its toll, Dr. J had always told him growing up. He warned Vincent, but Vincent didn't want to listen. Heero tried to forget about killing Vincent, but he had warned Vincent. Now Vincent owed Heero his life.