Lost Memories Part Six: Home Life By: Deadly_Leo

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM WING!! No warning or notes here, just read on!!!!! The character of the secretary is on loan from Kat Dickerson.

~*~*~*~ "Lady," Treize said groggily.

"Hmm?" Une asked without opening her eyes.

"The baby is crying. Make it stop please," he requested as his wife shifted under him to look at the clock on her nightstand.

"It's six o'clock. She wants a bottle. Do you remember how to feed her?" Une asked hopefully. If he did she was sure she could find a way to get him to do it. She could usually get him to do as she wished

"No," Treize said placing one of the unused pillows from the other side of the bed over his uncovered ear.

"Alright, but you are going to learn how to later today," Une said as she wriggled her way out from under Treize, found her slippers and walked quickly to her daughters crib.

"It's alright baby, mommy's here," she said lifting the shrieking infant into her arms.

"Lady, why hasn't she stopped crying yet?" Treize asked as he wandered into the nursery half dazed from lack of sleep.

"Because she is hungry. Hold her while I get her bottle," Une said shifting the baby into her father's arms, "You have to support her head like this," she said arranging Treize's muscular arms to fit his daughter's needs.

"She stopped crying," Treize said with surprise.

"She always stops crying when you hold her," Une managed to explain through a yawn as she headed for the door, "I'll be right back," she finished.

Opening then closing the door Lady Une made her way down the grand staircase and halfway across the foyer before she heard a knock at the front door.

'The last time I was in this position, I received a phone call saying Treize was alive. Maybe if I open the door he will regain his memory,' Une mused as she ran a hand through her hair before walking to the front door and opening it.

It was Colonel Armsfield.

"Good morning Commander Une. I am sorry to intrude at this hour, but you haven't been into the office for a few days so I thought I would stop by and see if you were all right. I also wanted to see if you had those treaty forms ready yet," he finished, giving Une an appraising look that she was too tired to notice.

'She looks worse then the last time I called this early. Treize was probably so happy to see her that he kept her up all night. Damn whore. Wonder if I could get her to do me? At least she is dressed more appropriately this time,' he thought as Une asked him inside.

"You will have to excuse my appearance, but Hotaru woke me. She needs a bottle. Just let me feed her and I will be right down," Une said hoping to return upstairs quickly so she could warn Treize not to come downstairs.

"That's all right. I will come with you, I haven't seen Hotaru in a long time," Armsfield said. He was sure that Treize would be upstairs and he was determined to try and see.

"It's kind of you to offer, but it is completely unnecessary. I will bring her and the files down," she said as she turned and made her way through the rest of the house and into the kitchen, Armsfield following behind her.

"Really it's no trouble. I can help you feed her if you need it," Armsfield offered. He was determined to get into her bedroom, but not if it meant arousing any suspicion. If she wouldn't let him come, then he wouldn't go. There was no need to make her think that he was up to something, no matter how misdirected her suspicion was.

"Thank you, but I have everything under control. I will be back in a few minutes," Une said as she finished heating a previously made bottle that she had removed from the refrigerator a few minutes before.

"I'll wait right here," Armsfield said watching as Une all but ran up the servant's staircase to the second floor.

'Now I know she is hiding him,' Armsfield thought as he took a seat at the island and waited for Une to return, beginning to visually examine the large room.

~*~*~*~ "Treize," Une said breathlessly as she rushed through the nursery door to find her husband sitting in the rocking chair by the window softly humming a lullaby to their baby.

'Now that is the Treize that I remember,' Lady thought as she quietly closed the door.

"Hey. Is that her bottle?" Treize asked, looking up from the tiny baby girl that he held tenderly in his arms.

"Yes. Treize, there is someone downstairs that must not see you. I need you to stay in the bedroom until I come back. Can you do that for me? Une asked as she walked across the room and gently took Hotaru in her own arms, and quickly placed the filled bottle in the infant's eager mouth.

"All right, but can you show me how to feed her, I really want to try," Treize asked hopeful that he might capture more time with his baby girl.

'God I wish I could. He looked so content just to hold her, and she loves being held by her father,' Une thought, remorseful for prying the two apart.

"I'm sorry sweetheart, but the person downstairs expects to see me with Hotaru. They don't know that you are alive, and I can't tell them. You can spend as much time with Hotaru as you like when our visitor leaves. Who knows, you might even get to watch her today if I go into work," Une said as she made her way towards the door, Treize following.

"Really, I could watch her?" Treize asked hopefully.

"Of course, you are her father," Une said as Treize opened the door for her, and upon closing it returned to the master bedroom.

~*~*~*~ "Here she is," Lady said as she came down the back staircase and into the kitchen.

"She's beautiful," Armsfield said with sincerity as he looked at the baby, who was now finishing her bottle and beginning to cry for more. 'She looks like her father. I wonder if she will learn to act like her mother. If she does maybe I will have a chance to date her when she is older,' Armsfield thought as Une set the empty bottle in the kitchen sink and approached the refrigerator to obtain another for the infant.

"Would you like me to hold her while you get her bottle?" Armsfield asked, eager to hold the beautiful child.

"Would you please. Thank you," Une said as the baby switched arms again.

'She really is a beautiful baby. I hope that she grows to be as beautiful as she is now, that would provide her with more clientele. I am sure that she will grow to be a beautiful whore, just like her mother unless her father can raise her more properly. Wait, that's right, they are all going to die, so it doesn't even matter,' Armsfield thought as Une began to chatter about something as she went about preparing the bottle.

He might hate Treize, but he had to respect a man that could manage to take over the world, have a family and keep hundreds of thousands of soldiers in line.

He neither respected nor liked Une beyond the point of her physical beauty and for the talent that he thought she would posses in bed. He thought Une a whore and a gold digger.

"Would you like me to take her now?" Lady asked her counterpart, bringing the man out of his reverie.

"All right," he said handing the child over to her mother before continuing, "Commander did you bring the forms down with you?" he asked, already knowing the answer.

"I am so sorry. I forgot to get them in my hurry to feed Hotaru. I can go and get them if you give me a minute," she said half rising from her stool. "No that's all right, you can bring them to work with you. I assume that you are coming in today?" Armsfield asked, knowing that she would probably say no.

"I had considered it. I think that I will," Une said as Hotaru began to refuse her bottle, obviously full.

"Oh, well, I could give you a ride if you like. I can wait until you are ready," he offered.

'Maybe if I am nice to her I can score some brownie points that I can redeem for some sort of service,' the young man thought.

"It is very kind of you to offer, but I will have to wait until Hotaru's nurse can come and I am not sure what time that will be, but thank you for asking," Une said with a smile. She liked Armsfield, he was a nice man.

"You are welcome. I guess I will see you in the office later on. I will see myself out. Goodbye," he said as he stood from his stool and turned to go as Une disappeared up the back stairs.

~*~*~*~ "Now do you remember everything that I told you. When she cries she." Une said before Treize cut her off.

"She wants to either be fed, held, needs a diaper change, or just feels like crying in which case I should just hold her," Treize said, repeating what Une had drilled into his head while she was getting ready for work.

"Ok, and you remember how to support her head and how to heat the bottle, correct?" Lady asked again as put on her white pumps, they would go well with the navy-blue pants suit that she was wearing. "Yes, and," Treize said anticipating Une's next question, "your cell phone number, pager number, office number, and doctor's number are all on your bedside table. Relax, I know I can do this. We will be just fine, won't we," Treize said, cooing the last part to Hotaru, who he held in his arms.

"I know, but it is your first day home. I was hoping to stay here with you and help you get acclimated, but I really need to get into the office. I hope that you don't mind too much. I will call if I am going to be late for dinner. Goodbye you two," Une said as she picked up her briefcase and a small stack of folders, and kissed her husband and daughter goodbye.

'I hope they are going to be all right,' Lady thought as she opened her car door, five minutes later, 'Oh well, no use worrying about it now. If anything happens I know Treize will call,' she thought as she put the car in drive and drove down the long driveway and onto the main road, then onto the Specials Headquarters.

~*~*~*~ "Good morning Commander. We didn't expect to see you in this early," Martha, Une's secretary said as Une entered her office.

"Thank you Martha. I am sorry to have to pull you away from your family at the holidays, but I am going to need you here to help with transferring the computer records. They are going to need to be sent to central processing as soon as possible. I am also going to need you to start packing the folders in the file cabinets into boxes. We can send them later. I am going to have to clean out Treize's office too," Une said, deliberately letting her sentence to trail off, and trying to muster a few false tears. She still had the part of a grieving widow to play.

"Commander, I am so sorry to hear about Commander Treize. If you ever need anything, all you need to do is call," the young women offered, with a smile. "Thank you Martha, and if you ever need anything I am always here for you," she said as she quickly hugged Martha and hurried into her office.

"She is so brave," Martha said as she turned behind her to start the sorting and boxing of files.

~*~*~*~ "All right gentlemen, lets get this meeting underway," Une said as she briskly walked into the conference room, and closed the door behind her.

"Commander," the men chorused as they all stood and saluted. Because Treize was 'dead' she now outranked all of them.

"Thank you all for coming on such short notice," Une said as they all took their seats, "I assume that you all have heard the news about Commander Treize?" Une asked, again attempting to allow her eyes to water.

"Yes, we all have Commander, and I think that I speak for all of us when I say that we are all terribly sorry for your lose. The Commander was a good man," the Lieutenant sitting next to her said.

'He still is,' Une thought as she extended her thanks to those around her who began to mumble apologizes.

"Yes, his death was a great lose to all of us, but we have to move on. That is why we are here today," Lady said, taking a pile of folders from her briefcase and placing them on the table.

"Now gentlemen, I assume that you have all drawn up the reports that I have requested," watching as they all nodded their assent, "I would like a copy of each report on my desk before you leave today. I would also." Une said, before the vibration of her back pocket distracted her.

"Excuse me please," Une requested as she pulled out her cell phone, checked the number, and moved to a corner of the large room, while the men at the table began to chatter.

"Yes," Une said as she pushed the 'on' button.

"Hey, I wanted to see how you were doing," Treize said as he relaxed himself into the rocking chair by the window. He had just put Hotaru down for her afternoon nap.

"I'm fine. Is anything the matter?" Une asked, hoping that all was well.

"Everything is fine," Treize said picking up a stuffed bunny that had been resting on the window seat, "I also wanted to know if you could come home for lunch," he said as he made the rabbit begin to walk along the seat.

"We will have to see how this meeting goes. I could be in here for awhile," Une said with a smile. It was sweet of him to call, but it was also odd. It had been only hours before he had been thought dead, now he was calling her.

"Then I will let you go. Talk to you later," Treize said, preparing to hang up.

"Okay, bye," Une said cheerfully as she pushed the 'off' button and cleared the number.

"Thank you for being so patient," Lady said as she resumed her seat at the head of the table.

"Now this is what I want done," Une said as she switched back into Colonel mode, listening to each man read off their report and calculating how long it would take to dismember each section of the World Nation. ~*~*~*~ "Hello," Treize said as he shifted Hotaru onto his shoulder so he could answer the phone.

"You really shouldn't be answering the phone," Une said precariously balancing her cell phone between her ear and shoulder, as she offered a smile and a nod to the men who where filing out of the meeting room.

"Then you really shouldn't be calling," Treize replied, also with a smile, "What's up?" he asked as he balanced the phone the way Une was, so that he could gently rub the infants back.

"I just wanted to let you know that I am getting ready to come home. I am sorry that I couldn't be there for lunch," Lady said as she walked down the hallway towards her office.

"Perfectly alright. What is your estimated time of arrival?" Treize asked as he walked into their bedroom, sat on the bed and slowly maneuvered himself so that his back was resting comfortably against the headboard.

"Maybe forty-five minutes. I still have some things to take care of here, and the drive takes half and hour," Lady explained as she walked into her office, only to have Martha hand her a small stack of release forms, and a pen.

"Better make that an hour," Une corrected as she stepped into her inner office and sat at her desk.

"I'll be waiting," Treize said with a mischievous smile. Noticing Hotaru had balled her fingers into tiny fists, Treize turned his attention back to his daughter and kissed one of the miniature balls.

"You do just that. I have to go. See you when I get home," Lady said as she listened to Treize tell her goodbye and hung up the phone, placing it in her pocket and continuing with her work.

~*~*~*~ "Goodnight Maratha, thank you for coming. I really appreciate it," Une said, locking the door to her office.

"You are more then welcome. I wish that I could only do more," Martha said as she and Une walked out of the building.

"What you have done is more then enough. I'll see you tomorrow," Une said with a smile as she left Martha and exited the building.

"You know, you really shouldn't be alone at this time," Martha called from across the parking lot.

"But, I'm not alone. I have my daughter," Lady replied.

'And Treize,' she thought as Martha smiled nodded and continued to her car, while she unlocked her car door.

'What am I going to do about Treize?' Lady questioned as she opened the door, closed it and started the engine.

'He is going to be a problem. His amnesia alters everything about our relationship. What if he changes because he can't remember anything,' she thought as she left the parking lot and began towards home.

'I will just have to be careful not to get too close. It is going to be the hardest thing I have ever done, but he will change, and I can't allow myself to feel for him like I used to,' Une thought as she took a left turn and headed towards the sea.

~*~*~*~ 'Seven o'clock precisely, Treize used to wait for me on the bottom step if I was late,' Lady thought as she opened the front door and announced that she was home, watching as her husband nearly ran down the stairs to greet her.

"Welcome home," Treize said kissing Une's cheek as he took her briefcase from her and placing it on the floor next to her, helped her out of her coat.

"Thank you. I take it Hotaru is sleeping. Are you hungry yet?" Une asked, knowing the inevitable answer. Treize was always hungry.

"I just her tucked her in and I'm famished," he answered, watching as Une knowingly smiled and led the way to the kitchen.

"What are we making," Treize asked as Une rolled up her sleeves and put an apron over her suit and began to bustle around the kitchen with the ease of a master chief.

"You're favorite, fettuccini alfredo. I can handle this," Lady said shooing her husband away and onto a stool at the island, as she took a blue box of noodles out of a cupboard set it on the counter, and then crouched to hunt in a lower cupboard for a saucepan and a large pot for the noodles.

"Are you sure?" Treize asked again as Une started to remove the required cookware.

"Positive," she said standing, "We should be eating in about half and hour," Une said as she turned to the sink to pour water into the large pot and turning on the back burner, put the pot with the noodles on to boil.

"When this boils, I will begin to make the sauce," Une said as she joined her husband at the island, "So how was your day?" she asked as she sat and placed an elbow on the island and her chin in her palm.

"Active," Treize said, mimicking Une's posture. For a moment he stared directly into her eyes, and saw how tired she truly was.

"That's good. You didn't have any problems at all?" she asked with a smile, trying to stifle a yawn, though it eventually escaped her lips.

"You are tired, you shouldn't be cooking," Treize said, reaching over to stroke Une's, cheek, "Let me finish," he said with such an alluring smile that it could have melted stone, as he repeated the motion.

Too tired and enticed to protest Une spoke, "You can try. For starters, you might like to know that your pot is boiling over," she said taking great pleasure in watching Treize scramble to avoid disaster.

"What do I do?" Treize asked, fighting to disguise his panic.

"Turn it down to nine. Then start on the sauce, but watch that you don't let the noodles boil for too long or they will be mushy," Une said with a smile.

'It was sweet of him to offer, but at this rate, he will either burn the house down or we will never eat. The former Treize could cook a four course meal, witch was always helpful in these situations,' Une thought as Treize turned the back burner down, as instructed, and stared at the empty pot next to the stove. "I admit it, I have no idea of what I am doing or making," Treize said as he turned around to find Une already getting off her stool and taking out the ingredients needed for the sauce, "Thank you," he said as Lady drew closer with her ingredients.

"Can you get the heavy cream, milk and the block of parmesan cheese out of the refrigerator, please?" Une asked as she began measuring out the few dry ingredients, after turning on the burner to heat.

"Of course," Treize said, beginning to turn away, then stopped to look at Une. She looked so tired, so very tired. 'Stress,' he thought as he walked to the refrigerator, opened it and began his hunt for the items.

When he turned Une was struggling to empty the scalding pot of noodles into the strainer.

"Damn it!" Une exclaimed when a rogue splash of water landed on her hand, causing her to nearly drop the pot. Thankfully the rest of the noodles slid quickly out.

"Goddamn it," Une murmured under her breath as she ran the wounded appendage under cold water.

'Put ice on it,' a voice said in Treize's head as he put the ingredients on the counter and reached into the freezer to collect a few cubes of ice, before wrapping them in a nearby dishtowel.

"Here," Treize said, pulling his wife's hand out from under the water and placing the towel on the red mark that was now forming.

"Thank you," Une said, trying to fight back tears. It wasn't really the physical pain that made her cry, she had been burned before, but many things.

"Does it really hurt that badly?" Treize asked, noticing that Lady's eyes had begun to tear.

"No, it's just a lot of things," Une said, casting her gaze toward the floor.

"Would you like to tell me about it?" Treize said, tilting Une's chin up, so that he could look into her deep brown eyes.

"It's a lot of things, don't worry about it," Une said trying to turn away, but Treize had stopped her.

"Tell me, please," Treize persisted as he removed the ice from Une's hand, placed his hands on her hips and in one motion lifted her onto a counter, before turning to the stove and turning the burner off.

"Like I said, it's a lot of things," Une said from her perch, as Treize came to lean on the counter next to her.

"Like?" Treize questioned.

"Like what's happened to you and how it alters our relationship. I'm not sure how to handle this, and it frightens me," she said, swinging her legs a little, "I thought about it on the way home, and I don't know what to do. This isn't easy for me," Lady said as she placed a hand over Treize's.

"Do you think that this is easy for me? Do you really think that I am having a picnic beating myself up trying to remember something, anything!" Treize bellowed as he pushed himself off of the counter to stalk around the room.

"You don't have any idea what it is like to be in a house that you know you grew up in, made memories in and not be able to remember any of them," he said, silencing Une as he began to speak again.

"You don't know what it is like to hold your own child, your child and not be able to remember when that angel was born. Please, don't try to tell me that you understand because you couldn't, no one can. You don't know what it is like to look into the eyes of the person you love, and not be able to remember any of the memories that you made together. And yes Lady, I do love you," Treize said, stopping feet away from her.

"How could you, you can't remember what love is," Une said unhappily, casting her gaze down at the floor.

"Don't tell me that, because that is the one thing that I can truly remember. I can remember what this feeling is, and I know that I feel it for you and for Hotaru," Treize growled, closing the gap between himself and Une.

"I'm sorry. Treize, don't," Une said watching as her husband stepped in front of her and tilted her chin up, forcing her to look at him when he spoke.

"Lady, I love you," Treize said a moment before he covered her lips with his, and with a quick flick of his tongue, parted Une's lips and engaged her tongue in a light duel.

"Treize, no, we shouldn't," Une said ending the kiss and attempting to push Treize away, but he wouldn't move.

"Tell me you love me," Treize said, taking Une's hand and entwining their fingers.

He needed to hear it and was determined to have her say it. He thought that once she admitted it, things would go a little smoother.

"I.can't."Une whispered as Treize lowered his head so that their noses where almost touching. She couldn't he wasn't the same, he couldn't be.

"Tell me," Treize commanded, before his eyelids closed involuntarily and the little voice returned, brining images with it.

"Treize, are you all right?" Une asked. He didn't look well.

"I can see you. You look so frightened. I'm not sure why. I touch you and you tremble," he said entering a trance like state. It was all so clear.

"There is a lamp on. It is very warm. I glance out the window and I can see countryside. This is a foreign land. I kiss you and you tense. You have never done that before," Treize said, watching as more images came, images that showed two lovers together for the first time.

He might not have stated all that had happened that night, but Une knew what he was seeing.

"Treize you look ill. Sit down," Une said climbing down from the counter and helping Treize onto a stool.

Treize opened his eyes, "I hope that ever time I remember something it is not going to be like that," he said, watching as Une crossed to the sink and poured him a glass of water, which he gratefully excepted.

Treize took a drink of his water and upon placing the glass on the surface before him posed his only question, "What did I see?"

"It was our, um, wedding night," Une said blushing a little as she took a seat across from him. "Oh," Treize said, his eyebrows rising a little.

'God he's gorgeous, and he is mine and I love him. There are no two ways about it. I love him. I love him for who he was and for he is now,' Une thought as her husband took another drink of water.

"I love you," she said before Treize had finished putting his glass down.

"I'm sorry?" Treize asked, placing the glass on the counter.

Smiling, Une repeated the statement, watching as Treize also began to smile.

"Was that really so hard?" Treize said placing his hand over the one that Une had left on the table.

"I was just afraid that you had changed, but you haven't," Une said broadening her smile.

There was a moment of silence in which the couple reaffirmed where they stood in their relationship.

"So, why don't we finish making dinner," Une said to break the silence.

"All right, as long as you direct me," Treize said smiling

"Well then, lets get to work," Une said as the two set about finishing dinner, glancing at each other when they thought neither was looking. Nothing had changed. To Be Continued.