Title: Une v. The Board of Education - Europe
Rating: G
Part: III
Author's Note at the end on the progress of this story.

The three young men reenter the council room and find Lady Une and Mister Greenwood looking civilly across the table at one another. "So you're back," Lady Une remarks quietly as the three retake their seats behind her.

"Yes, ma'am," Wufei says quietly as they settle in as comfortably as possible into the chairs. "Is there anything we've missed?"

"Nothing of great importance," she says dismissively. "Sally will arrive shortly with a few documents for Mister Greenwood to go over, if you all will step out into the hall and meet her." Duo is the only one of the three young men not put together enough to give their commander a skeptical gaze. In response the Chief of Preventers gives a pointed look to Heero and Wufei, lifting one brow.

"Yes ma'am," Duo speaks up for the first time in Mister Greenwood's presence. Greenwood, in turn, looks over inquiringly at the long haired young man. Duo ignores the querulous gaze as he and his two coworkers stand and file out of the room into the hallway once more.

"They certainly seem fit for their jobs, Chief of Preventers," Greenwood remarks to her, his voice a little skeptical. "Can I ask about their military background?"

"Une, my full title will take far too much time out of the cramped schedule we have," she responds, "and the three of them have no military background, or not in the sense that you mean."

"Oh?" Greenwood leans forward slightly, adjusting his glasses on his face.

Lady Une hesitates a moment, making a swift decision about the middle aged public defender before her, hazel eyes narrowing slightly to take in his neat appearance. After a moment of such intent scrutiny, when Greenwood does not appear to feel nervous or uncomfortable, a sure sign, she'd found, that someone was being honest, she comes to her final decision, and speaks in a low voice, "Not at all. None of the defendants were members of a military organization during the wars."

"They were activists against the war then?"

"No," she continues quietly, "they were Gundam Pilots."

*

Outside three young men sit quietly in the hallway, all the spitting image of silent dignity, nonchalance, and carefully checked emotion. The traffic of the hallway flows around them, a single figure moving close to them and stopping a few feet away.

"Wufei?" her voice is low and she glances around absently, as though afraid she's being followed by someone or something. "Lady Une told me to meet up with you and that you'd show me to her."

He stands wordlessly and nods to Sally, taking in the black leather briefcase she carries, for the moment looking more like an aide to their mutual employer than a field doctor and Preventers' operative, special class. "This way," he says quickly, turning and starting down the hallway towards the council room that Lady Une and Greenwood are seated in.

Sally nods and follows Wufei off, leaving Heero and Duo to sit in silence. After a short pause, Heero gets to his feet. Duo, blinking out of his stupor, stands as well, a muted, "What are you doing, Heero?" as he follows his partner down the hallway.

"I'm not going to sit around and do nothing, Duo. It's barely even eleven o'clock yet, just sitting around doing nothing is useless."

"Ok," Duo replies, shoving his hands nervously into the pockets of his dress pants, the ends of his jacket bunching up around his forearms. "But Heero, what are we going to do?"

"We're going to look up just what we're being charged with, and what they're finding fault with the Preventers over."

"Oh," Duo says, a drop in his voice even in that short syllable. Heero casts a sideways glance at his partner and notices Duo's continued dejected behavior. For a moment a frown creases his face and then he turns his attention to the direction they are heading.


A/N: I'm still having some trouble with the direction of this story, and on top of that, I'm about to get into the legal jargon section of the story, when Heero and Duo go look up what the exact charges being made against him are. So part four might take a while, unless I focus more on Sally and Wufei's meeting with Une and Greenwood in the council room. I'm also working on several other stories so... bear with me.