Heartless Joy
Chapter 2, Remebering
SilverRose82
Dark Angel : Now you got me confused. What are you confused on?
calikocat : Relena's not that bad. Yup, It's showing that you've put me on there.
julie
Dingzhe no Megami
sailorbardock1980
WikeD tEnShI
Hmm, I said on my LotR/SM story that I wouldn't update because the WB was showing a LotR special, well it ended about eight minutes ago……. I so suck at reading those TV guide things, that come with the Sunday paper, right. So I saw the last twenty minutes of it because the clock on my computer said it was six when it was seven….. Eeh They'll show it again or it's somewhere in that third or fouth disk that I got with the extended version of the movie. Rambling sorry.
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"I don't understand. Why would she throw everything away?" Mina asked as she along with Quatre watched Serena run after Ben with Rini and Mariemeia trailing slightly behind her. The entire family had smiles on their faces as Serena tackled Ben to the ground while Rini and Mariemeia started tickling him.
"I believe that we hurt her more than we will ever know possible the day we rescued her from that OZ base. Heero and Wufei both destoried the shuttle that Treize was on that day along with eight or nine others. That little girl, Mariemeia is the daughter of Treize, we have reason to believe that he knew of her postion when she walked onto that base, but said nothing. And in his will put Mariemeia in her care because Gundam Pilots have a way of staying alive." Quatre told her quietly as he watched Serena turn and glaze at the window he and Mina where standing in. A smirk graced her features for a moment before she sprinted off with Ben after her. Rini and Mariemeia were content being little cheerleaders and cheering on their parents.
"What about Duo? He still has feelings for her." Mina whispered as Quatre turned tired aqua eyes onto his wife.
"I don't know." Quatre answered as he turned to leave Mina alone at the window. Catching her hand within his, she turned light sky blue eyes towards him smiling slowly she could only nod before following him towards the dinner hall where everyone was to be having lunch. Allowing the pilots to work out schedules and let the others catch up on old times.
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"Rena I don't know what to tell you." Ben spoke up as he walked out of the girls' room that night having put them to bed. Serena glanced over at him as she put her wet coppery coloured hair up in a bun. Water ran down her back and chest as gravity played a part in creating minature rivers that made her already tan skin sparkle in the light of the moon.
"There's nothing to tell. We have to work with them, I have to get along with them." she shrugged before sitting down on the bed. Raising her eyes to meet his, sapphire clashed with ice blue, closing her eyes she wrapped her arms around her knees.
"Rena you can always go back home." Ben told her as he knelt before her. Serena's head snapped up as she glared at him.
"I will not run like a coward. I did three years ago I will not do it again." Serena hissed as she stood to leave the room.
"Rena, that's not what I meant and you know it. You're uncomfortable here, I won't be surprised if Duo does try to get you back." Ben sighed as he followed her into the living room.
"Ben, I was one of the most feared woman in the war, I can carry five of the most deadly cobras and not get bitten, I was trained to take the power of the systems, I was the first pilot." Serena cried as she dropped onto the ground. "I was trained and tainted to become a shadow, how is it that coming back here messes everything up?"
"Rena, you spent two years down here becoming who you should have been. Your parents have destoried most of our lives and we are finally free of their orders. I'm not proud of this but we are the two most feared people in the colonies we protect because at a moments notice we could blow them up." Ben told her as he reached down to pick her up, holding her to his chest he lay his head a top hers. "This is our second chance. We can stay together like we've done for the last eighteen years or we can try to make a future that is uncertain. We know what our future will be if we stay together and either way as long as you are happy nothing else really matters."
Serena held onto his white, wife beater as the stared out the window of their apartment. Staring out at the park, the trees were dark but she could see them waving in the night wind. Whispering words of comfort, Ben lifted her into his arms before carrying her back into their room, ever since they were little the two would sleep in the same bed together. Old habits would never die with them. Serena curled up against him as he rested a hand on her stomach.
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Serena walked into Relena's office the next day, her hair pulled back in a fishtail braid, a pair of tight low-rise jeans and a black stretch tanktop graced her form. Ben walked in after her, baggy black jeans and a red button up was over a white, wife beater, his hair hung in his eyes. Looking around the room he noticed that they were the first in the office other than Relena.
"Take a seat, the others will be here shortly." Relena told them, Serena sat down as Ben stood behind her. Relena only shook her head as she leaned back in her chair. "Do you think that my having body guards will raise suspicion, with peace being created?"
"No, you are a head figure in the Earth Sphere, there will always be people going after you for that reason alone." Serena told her as she watched the others walk into the room by looking into the window behind Relena's desk. Relena nodded as she smiled at the others, she wasn't sure what to think about the new Serena. The woman before her was nothing like the one she had grown to know, she was more like the woman she had first met five years ago. Cold and putting on an act of being extremely sure of herself.
Cold eyes landed on Duo Maxwell as Serena studied the pilot leaning against the wall opposite of her, his eyes studying her as he listened to what was going on around him. He still had his long chestnut braid, his eyes however, had become harder over the years, he had filled out more but his body would always be on the lean side. Turning to look at the others in the room she was happy to find that they had found someone to complete them. The girls oddly had taken to following her on extended missions such as the one that lead her to Earth.
Now that, that had ended with her abrupt leave she had time to think about why they even tried. She didn't even know why the four of them had even tried to befriend her all those years ago. She was a killer while they were all civilians. Leaning her head against Ben's stomach she rolled her eyes as she listened to the meeting.
