What the Future Holds

Chapter 26

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 Heero was watching the others as they bickered about what to do. For some reason, he enjoyed it when they did this. It gave him a chance to study them, something he did all his life. He suppose the reason for that was that he wanted to see how people who were raised relatively normal behaved in times of extreme emotion since he couldn't feel it. Duo and Millardo had arrived and the two were bickering with Wufei and Trowa. Lucriza and Hilde were fighting with Catherine and Sally. Hannah, though, was watching everyone like her brother.

 Heero leaned back into the chair he was sitting in. His gaze switched from each person and he was growing annoyed. Here they were, some of the best fighters in the universe, and they were fighting over how they were going to survive twenty or more men. It was pathetic in his eyes but then again, only minutes ago he was doing the same thing. He brought his attention back to the arguments.

 "If we do a surprise attack, it'll be easier," Millardo said.

 "It'll be the same if we hit them head on," Trowa said. So that was that argument. Heero turned to the girls.

 "Relena and Amber can't fight," Sally said.

 "We need as many people as we can get," Lucriza said. So that was argument number two. 'This is crazy' Heero thought as he stood up. No one noticed and continued to argue. Heero rolled his eyes and screamed, "SHUT UP!"

 Everyone stop speaking and stared at Heero in shock. Duo mouth was open and he looked to be the most shocked.

 "If I hear one more word, I'll kill all of you myself. Now, I want everyone to sit down and try and relax while we wait for Leanna to get the others here. Any objects?" Heero asked, forcefully. He glared at each person as he asked the question, and everyone but Millardo shook their heads.

 It annoyed Millardo that Heero, who was years younger, always seemed to be bossing him around. Maybe that was why he never liked Heero. Maybe it was jealous. Or maybe it just irked him that someone younger was in control.

 "If you don't mind, I think I'll wait outside," he said and left.

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 Amber was leaning against the wall when Leanna came into her line of vision. Leanna had nothing but guns in her arms and it shocked Amber.

 "What's going on?" she asked.

 "Take a gun and go out on to the deck. Quarte and Reuben are out there and they'll tell you where to go," Leanna said. Amber gave her a look but took a gun and went to the stairwell. Leanna knocked on the door and Relena answered a few minutes later. Her eyes widen when she saw what was in Leanna's arms.

 "What are those for?" she asked and immediately felt like an idiot. It was obvious as to what the guns were for but she was a pacifist. She couldn't use a gun to take a life. It wasn't what she taught but the small desire that she could began to rise inside her. She immediately smothered it.

 "Heero said to make sure everyone had a gun," Leanna said. At the mention of her husband, Relena felt a small fear mixed with something else. Something she couldn't describe.

 "What about Hannah and Victoria?" she asked, a small fear of having her daughter tainted by this began to bloom. She tried to imagine her four-year-old daughter just holding a gun and shuddered.

 "He didn't say. Go on to the deck. I all ready sent Amber there," Leanna said.

 "But Marie…" Relena said to buy time. She was going to do everything she could to keep from touching that gun. She wasn't afraid of what touching it would do; she was afraid of what it symbolized.

 "I don't know. I guess Heero forgot about her. You need to go now," Leanna said. Relena slowly put her hand out and quickly snatched one of the guns. She paused at the feel of it in her hand. It was cold and heavy and just didn't feel right. She let out a shudder and turned to leave.

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 Michael Wright saw the two men on the deck. They were watching him and his men. He knew the one with blond hair was Quarte but the brown haired looked to be Heero Yuy but he couldn't be. He looked too young but then again, he was far away. But didn't Heero Yuy have a son?

 "John," he said to the man next to him, "Does Yuy have a kid?"

 "He has two kids and two ex-step kids, I guess you call them," John said.

 "Is one of them a son?" Michael asked.

 "That's the oldest of the four," John said. Michael nodded and turned back to the boat. A new person had come on the deck and was talking to Quarte and the Heero Yuy look-a-like. This person had red hair and was a woman. She talked to the two men and then went inside a small structure on the deck.

  A few minutes later another woman came out on the deck. Michael's eyes widen when he saw who it was. It was Relena Peacecraft-Yuy. What was she doing on this boat? Michael looked more closely and saw a light reflecting off something in her hand. Was that a gun? he thought. What had happened on that boat?

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 Janie sat up in the bed. It all felt so unreal, so very unreal. Jake was reading a something on the table and wasn't paying any attention to her. That was unusual because Jake always treated her like fragile china that was about to break.

 There was a knock on the door and Jake called for the person to come in. It was Amber. She didn't look up from the floor and didn't speak. She carried a tray and set it on the table. She then turned and left quickly.

 Janie's eyes couldn't have gotten any wider. Jake looked at her with an annoyed look.

 "Well aren't you going to get up?" he asked irritated. What was wrong with him? He was always so sweet and laughing with her. What was going on?

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Ja ne,

Pinkmoon