What the Future Holds

Chapter 19

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William looked up from Lady. Three men. He knew who they were but he didn't think that his sister would bring them or at least two of them. He had expected Quarte. He had expected Heero and Trowa but not these two. Who else did Leanna bring, he wondered. They were staring at him like one would stare at someone they hated. And he didn't doubt for a second that they hated him.

He tiled his head slightly, smiled cruelly, and cheerfully asked, "Why should I?"

They stared at him for a moment in shock. Stare at him like he was insane. He hated when people looked at him like that. He wasn't insane like those fools thought. He didn't need that torture, that pure torture of being judge, of being studied. He lost the smile and glared for a moment.

"Maybe I should just go ahead and kill her like I did her daughter," he said. He watched as the three men's eyes widen in horror. See, he wasn't insane. He had taken every precaution necessary to make sure that they didn't leave. Would an insane man do that, he wondered. He was suddenly reminded of Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart. In it another man was trying to convince everyone that he was sane, much like William. And William believed that the man in that story was insane. 'But I'm not and this is completely different' William thought. He turned to Lady and raised the bloodied knife.

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Heero shined the light in the small room. Reuben was standing and Sophie and Sammy lay asleep on either side. Victoria curled against Sophie and Hannah-Marie curled next to Sammy. Heero, Wufei, and the girls walked into the room, Heero hugged Reuben and they began whispering to each other. Cathy began to wake Sammy and Hilde woke Sophie. The girls woke slowly and sat up immediately when they did. The two younger girls woke up next to them. Hannah-Marie screamed with delight and ran over to Heero, who picked her up and held her. Victoria looked around staring at the strangers she had just been thrust to. She remained still while everyone else hugged and laughed. Catherine finally noticed her.

Catherine knelt down next to her and asked, "Are you alright?"

"Yes ma'am," Victoria said. Nothing much could be said after that for Jake ran into the room.

"Heero, something's wrong with Janie," he said. Heero looked over at him and asked, "What is it?"

"I don't know. All I know is she's cold and that Trowa seems worried. Do you think she's going to die?" Jake asked. Heero rolled his eyes, grabbed the panicking Jake and walked out of the room with the others following him. Leanna, who was stilling looking though the guns, got up and followed.

When they got into the room, Heero walked over to Relena and gave her Hannah-Marie. He wrapped his arm around her, turned to Trowa, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"She won't wake up and she's cold," Trowa said. Heero's eyes narrowed. He looked over her and asked, "Do you think its hypothermia?"

Jake whimpered slightly and Heero turned to glare at him before he turned back to Trowa. Trowa nodded.

"Oh, God," Heero and Jake both said. Though one said it with fear while the other said it with annoyance.

"What are you going to do?" Relena asked, quietly.

"Everyone take off your coats. Trowa help me turn her," Heero said as he slowly and cautiously slipped his hand under her head.

"But if you move her, won't you cause some cardiac problem?" Catherine asked and Jake's eyes widen.

"She has to be moved gently or yeah, that will happen," Heero said. Trowa had cautiously slipped his hands under her back and he and Heero were slowly turning her to her side. When they had done that, everyone had their coats off and Heero was wrapping them around Janie.

"Jake, I want you to lay next to her. Trowa, come me," Heero said as he stood. Trowa stood and asked, "Where are we going?"

"To get the others. They should have been back by now. Leanna, were any of those guns loaded?" Heero asked as he walked to the door where Leanna stood. Jake, by this time, was lying next to Janie and had cautiously wrapped his arm around her.

"Yeah, I'll go get them," she said and went out into the hall. Trowa had reached the door and he and Heero whispered for a moment. Then Heero turned to the others and said, "No one is allowed to leave this room and if you have to move Janie, do it cautiously and without any sudden movements. Are you all going to be okay?"

"We'll be alright," Wufei said. Leanna returned and hand Heero and Trowa two guns. With one last look, they turned and left.

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"Why do you want to kill her?" Millardo asked. He was slowly advancing toward William and Lady. Lady by now was standing and slowly heading toward Quarte and Duo.

"I want what was stolen from me," William said not noticing Lady was getting away from him.

"Which was?" Millardo asked as he took a step closer.

"My daughters and if you take one more step closer I'll kill her," William said. Millardo stopped and Lady halted, her breathing hard.

"Just let her go," Millardo said. William laughed insanely. Everyone flinched.

"Let her go," he mocked, "Now why would I want to do that?"

They stood there in horror. Fear, that cursed emotion, began to creep into their minds and Lady began to tremble. The fear began to over take them and they couldn't move, couldn't think. It all seemed so hopeless, so bleak. This man was insane and was going to try and kill someone. And they could do nothing, nothing, about it. But they didn't have to. For a gun shot cut though the silence.

They all turned and saw Heero and Trowa, guns raised and pointing at William.

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"Move or I'll kill you," Heero said in that monotone voice that Duo knew when Heero was fifteen. And then, for a moment, Duo saw those sapphire eyes. He saw the uncaring, the non-emotional, the indifference he saw when Heero was only fifteen. Only fifteen. Only fifteen. Only fifteen and already he was a force to be reckoned with. He was dubbed the "Prefect Solder" and was only fifteen. No wonder Heero hated the nickname so much.

The glare was there. The glare Duo knew so well and had dubbed "The Glare of Death." Only fifteen and could glare like that. Only fifteen and he knew more about weapons, military strategies, and military objects than most people knew at forty. And he was only fifteen.

But he wasn't fifteen anymore, Duo reminded himself. Heero was thirty-eight years old. He didn't glare like that anymore. He did care, was emotional, and wasn't indifferent. But yet, it was there, as Heero was suffering a setback.

And Trowa. The indifference he showed during the war was there in those emerald green eyes. The indifference that said what did it matter? It was just one more person to kill, just another human being to hurt. Just one more building to demolish. Just another thing to destroy. Only seventeen and Trowa held that indifference. Only seventeen. Only two years older than Heero and there was the indifference.

But he wasn't seventeen; he was forty-one and that indifference wasn't suppose to be there. What was supposed to be there was the happiness of finally falling in love, of his firstborn on the way, and yet it was there. Why?

And suddenly he knew why. That happiness was almost taken away and Trowa was after revenge. And the same with Heero. The family he had work so hard to gain, so hard to get was being taken from him. The love that he was deprive of as a boy wasn't going to there anymore and now both men were going to make William pay for almost destroying what they where never allowed to have. It almost frightened Duo.

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