Never, Ever, After

By: Prinder

Warnings: Slight swearing.

Rating: PG-13 just to be safe.

Summery: Relena really should be more careful about what she wishes for…

Disclaimer: *Grumble, grumble* *sigh* …I do not own Gundam Wing, nor will I ever own it. I am just a poor, pitiful wannabe-author that isn't worth suing, so, if you please, just don't.

"Denotes speech."
'Denotes thought.'

Denotes writing.

"Denotes over a phone or any other form of com-system."

(Denotes my interruptions.)

Chapter Five

"Are you sure that they don't suspect anything?"

"I'm sure of it. Heero and Relena have no idea about what we're trying to do."

"Have you informed the others yet, Lady Une?"

"Yes. Preventer Wind and Fire will be appearing here shortly, Quatre, we have everything under control." Une replied, exasperated with the young blonde businessman on the other end of the line.

"If you say so. Though, I'm not quite sure how he will react to us trying to set his little sister up with a war-trained assassin." Quatre said with a mischievous smile that would have made Duo proud.

"From what Noin has said, he seems to be taking it well and, in fact, almost appears to be looking forward to their wedding, strangely enough."

"Hum… Keep an eye on him, it may be nothing but there is always a chance that he may still be up to something; this doesn't feel right."

"I know what you mean and I've already sent Wufei to meet up with them as soon as possible…" Une said, pausing to look at the flashing red light as it sprang to life right before her eyes. "I have to go, I have another call on the line."

"Alright, take care and be careful!" Quatre warned as he disconnected his end of the line, making the other call automatically switch on.

"Yo, hey! Smoke and Angel have finally arrived, though, Heero seems a bit testy with Relena at the moment and Relena doesn't seem to be vary fond of him right now either." Duo said cheerfully as his face popped up onto the screen.

"What is your current status?"

"We're all set up, ready and waiting for Relena to hurry up and finish getting ready; I'll be going down to her dressing room in a bit to try and light a fire under her to see if that'll get her going faster but, other then that, everything seems to be in order."

"Good. See to it that Heero knows the escape transport vehicle is located and is aware of all of the exits available to them incase of the worst."

"Already done it…" Duo stopped to listen to the sound to thousands of clapping hands before adding, "Sounds like Relena's just stepped out on stage as is ready to give us another one of her winning--" Duo's eyes widened at the sound of a gun going off before jumping out of his seat and running out of the room saying, "WHAT THE HELL…? Sorry Une, Preventer Two out!"

*****

While Duo was saying his hasty goodbye to Preventer Earth, Heero and Relena were busy running for the nearest exit, the trap door below the floor behind one of the curtains on the stage.

"What in the world…? Heero, why are we running? Where are you taking me?" Relena demanded. 'I have to help with evacuating the other delegates!' she thought. He had a death-grip on her wrist and he wasn't about to let her go anytime soon.

"There's no time for that! I'm getting you out of here." He said, almost reading her mind, as he jerked on her arm roughly, swinging her into the tiny opening in the floor and following not long after, making sure he didn't land on her once he reached the bottom, before snagging her by her other wrist this time and quickly navigating their way through the lightless tunnel.

"Heero, where are we--" Heero cut Relena off

"Quiet… we don't want them to hear--" Heero couldn't finish that sentence because of the sudden rain shower of ammunition and splintered wood that cascaded down onto them. One of the bullets shot through his arm and into the side of his chest, rendering his right arm useless and his lung most likely punctured until he could get himself fixed up.

They crashed into a large metal door at the end of the tunnel and Heero quickly unlocked it and pushing Relena though before she could be hit herself and almost not making his own way through the door before it was too late.

"Heero, your chest, it's--"

"Yeah, I know."

"We have to get you to a hospital and soon, otherwise you might--"

"I don't need a doctor, I can handle it myself. Right now the only thing that matters is getting you to safety." Heero said firmly, his eyes glaring down at her, indicating that he wasn't in the mood for games or arguments.

"Alright." Relena sighed, resigning herself to find out later why it was so important for a low-ranking government official, such as herself, to be safe while others of much higher standing were undoubtedly being killed off at that vary moment. With a grunt, Heero allowed her to support some of his weight; she took great care not to touch the bullet wounds, and walk their way over to a steel gray armored car and slid into the front seats. Heero, after much gritting of his teeth, managed to get into the driver's side and start the engine.

"Heero, you should let me, you can't possibly drive in you condition!" Relena said as she fought to gain control of the wheel.

"I'm fine!"

"Heero! You have a wounded arm, a whole in your chest, and your losing a lot of blood! I don't think that counts you as FINE!" Relena said as she tried climbing over him.

"We don't have time for this! If we don't get out of here soon all that's happened already will have been a complete waste!" Heero argued, pushing her back roughly with his good hand before slamming on the gas and speeding out of what appeared to have been an underground bunker followed closely behind by four unmarked sports cars.

"Heero, where's your gun?" Relena demanded as she rolled down her window and leaned her head out.

"What the hell are you doing?" Heero yelled as he pulled her back in before she got herself shot or he lost control of the armored car.

"I'm going to try shooting their tires! Now hand me your gun!"

"And how do you plan on doing that? You don't know how to shoot!" Heero said, veering sharply to the right as they rode up a rather large hill.

"BET ME!" Relena said as held her outstretched hand to him, her eyes imploring him to give her a chance.

"Fine. It's on the left hand side of my jacket." Heero said, clenching his eyes shut for a moment while she retrieved it; silently cursing himself under his breath for giving it to her before having to turn sharply to the left to keep themselves from driving clear off of the mountainside.

"Thanks Heero!" She said as she checked how many bullets it held within it's clip, 'You've only got sixteen shots Relena, I know that sounds like a lot, but you have to make each and everyone of them count!' she thought as she swung the upper part of her body out her window and fired the first three shots, taking out the first car, "HA HA! I told you I could do it!" She cheered as she ducked her head back in just in time for second round of bullets to come flying at them.

"Don't get cocky, there are still three more left." Heero reminded her with a cough, his vision was getting slightly fuzzy due to the lack of blood in his system; his right lung wasn't fairing so well either as it was starting to fill up with the red, metallic tasting, substance.

"Don't worry Heero, I won't let them get us." She replied, her tone soothing to his ears, as she leaned out and fired twice. She missed both times, "Drat!" she said, still finding it hard to swear even under circumstances such as this.

"Try again!" Heero ordered as he made another sharp turn; the rode was getting gradually more and more narrow as they continued up.

"Okay." she said as she stuck her head out and immediately stuck it back in as another volley was showered upon them, hitting the left rear tire, making Heero swerve dangerously close to the edge.

"Relena, hang on!" was the last thing she remembered before everything went blank.

*****

"Preventer Wind and Fire, I have some bad news for you…"

"Preventer Four, report to Saint Lucia Hospital ASAP. Preventer One and Angel have been taken there…"

"Preventer Water, I know this is going to ruin your wedding plans, but, I regret to inform you that…"

"Hey, Wufei, come back to earth, we need to here for something, buddy…"

"Hey… I'm calling for Trowa Barton and his sister Catherine Bloom…"

"Is this the Catalonia residence? It's Duo Maxwell calling… I have some bad news…"

"Preventer Earth… I don't know how to say this but…"

"Hilde, you need to come down here right away… I have something I need to tell you…"

"Mr. Muller, you need to come down to the hospital right away. Yeah, it's about your girlfriend…"

"Mrs. Jones, Miss Dorlain is in the ICU, tell Pagan for me…"

"Mrs. Dorlain? This is Duo Maxwell, I'm calling because I regret to inform you that…"

This was one of the things Duo hated about having to have been the other commanding officer on the Preventer fleet sent to guard the princess, it makes it his job to call and tell all of their loved ones that both Relena and Heero were in the Intensive Care Unit. Heero suffered from severe blood-loss, a dead lung, a bullet wound to his right arm, a fractured left leg, and a broken left arm while Relena sported a fractured skull, brain damage, a shattered shoulder, and bullet wound to her right hand. It wasn't a pretty picture; Duo was sure Heero would pull out of it in one piece but… as for Relena, he just didn't know.

"Duo! I came as soon as I got the news. How are they?" Hilde asked as she rushed into the waiting room where Duo was located in front of a videophone trying to keep his spirits up.

"Other then what I already told you on the phone, I don't know, the doctors aren't saying anything." Duo replied as he ran his fingers roughly though his messed-up hair; he hadn't so much as finger combed it since he found them. That was almost thirteen hours ago.

"Oh god, Duo… I don't know that to say, it sounds so unbelievable…" Hilde said softly as she sat down to comfort him.

"Yeah, well, believe it babe, believe it…GOD DAMN IT!" Duo yelled, slamming his fists on the table in front of them, "Why, why them? For the longest time, Heero was the closest thing I had to a friend since before my orphan days and now look what happens? The minute I start to think that it's safe to start caring again, somebody up their thinks it's a fun idea to try and kill somebody I know off!" Duo sighed, "Maybe it would just be better if nobody ever met me…"

"Duo, don't say things like that! And don't you dare start trying to blame yourself on all this! That's just stupid! It wasn't your fault; you never could have stopped it even if you did know! SO KNOCK IT OFF!" Hilde cried, tears falling down her face as she buried herself into his chest.

"Oh shit, babe, I'm sorry. Look… don't cry, I didn't mean it… I'm just so frustrated that it had to happen to them, that's all. Stop it Hilde, you know I don't like seeing you brake down on me like this! Please, Hilde, stop, before you get me started…" Duo said as he held her close and wept silently into her hair, waiting for the worst.

"Have any of the others arrived-- I'm sorry, do you want me to--" Quatre stammered upon realizing that he had walked in on a private moment.

"No, it's okay, the more the merrier. How have you been Quatre?" Duo said as he quickly wiped away the watermarks on his cheeks as he looked over his comrade, studying the blonde carefully.

"I'm as well as can be expected. I feel as if this was all my fault, that if I hadn't tried getting them together again this wouldn't have happened." Quatre replied, as he took a seat across from the pair and sighed, letting his emotions just drain out of him.

"Everybody feels the same way, I think." Hilde replied as she studied her fingernails.

"Don't tell me that they died already?" Dorothy exclaimed as she entered the room via the swinging glass doors.

"Miss Dorothy--" Quatre said, standing up.

"No, they aren't dead yet, at least, not to my knowledge." Duo said sadly; he was really starting to get sick and tired of people asking things like that. It did little to no good with improving their situation.

"'Not to your knowledge'? What kind of answer is that?" Dorothy questioned before striding over to the front desk and saying, suddenly so that the nurse sitting there yelped in surprise, "Get me the head doctor in this god-awful place!"

"Y-yes ma'am, right away!" the shaken young woman said as she reached over to the communication system to page Doctor Maria Conner while Dorothy flashed the others a smug smile before leaving the poor nurse to her work. "Let's see if THAT doesn't get us more information or not." she smirked as she seated herself next to Quatre.

"It's good to see that you haven't changed, Miss Dorothy, how are you feeling?" Quatre asked with a gentle smile on his face, somewhat thankful that Dorothy still had her "take-charge" attitude over things.

"I'm worried about Miss Relena but other then that I'm doing rather well, don't you think?"

"I think you're handling things better then most at the moment." Hilde replied.

"Thank you. I don't believe that we've met, I'm Dorothy Catalonia." Dorothy said, shaking hands with Hilde.

"Hilde Schbeiker, nice to meet you."

"Ditto."

"I hope we aren't late…?" A slightly amused, yet bored sounding, voice said behind them, making Dorothy and Quatre turn their heads to look.

"Trowa!" Quatre exclaimed as he leapt out of his seat and rushed over to his companion to give the taller man a friendly hug. "It's good to see you again, old friend."

"You too Quatre." Trowa replied as he eased the youthful blonde back.

"Well, well, hey good looking!" Duo whistled upon noticing Catherine in a form fitting, lavender, sundress standing not much more then a step or so behind her "brother".

"I remember you, you were the one that saw Trowa when he still had amnesia." Cathy commented as she shyly took Trowa's hand.

"The one and only! I'm Duo Maxwell and this lovely lady next to me is Hilde."

"Duo!" Hilde blushed; she still had a bit of a crush on the male circus performer. "Nice to meet you Miss--"

"Catherine Bloom." Cathy interrupted.

"--Miss Catherine."

"The pleasure is all mine." Cathy smiled before turning to Quatre and giving him a hug herself, saying, "I just want to make sure that there are no hard feelings between us."

"I understood you from the beginning, Miss Catherine, you were just trying to protect Trowa from danger." Quatre replied, returning the kind gesture.

"Thanks; hello, I haven't met you, what's your name?" Cathy said, walking over to Dorothy and shaking hands.

"Dorothy Catalonia."

"Pleased to meet you. Oh and I must say…" Cathy began before dropping into a whisper so that only Dorothy could here what she was saying. Dorothy blushed and firmly shook her head "No". "That's a pity, I was so sure that you two would look sweet together." Cathy said before backing away when someone behind them coughed.

"I'm Doctor Conner; are you all here to see Miss Relena and Mr. Jessie?" a tall redhead with thick glasses asked as she glanced down at her clipboard.

"You bet we are! What's the news? How are they?" Duo asked as he stepped forward.

"Is everyone present?" the doctor asked as she scanned the room over the black frames of her glasses at the small gathering of friends.

"Not yet, but I'm sure that the others are on their way." Quatre replied.

"…I see…" Maria mumbled, biting her lip softly as she thought, "Are any of you related to either of them?"

"Jessie doesn't have any relatives and Relena's brother and his wife are still on their way." Duo replied, folding his arms over his chest; he was really starting to wonder what this woman was trying to get at.

"That's really too bad, you see, I can't release anymore information without at least one of them present."

"Wait no longer then," bellowed Zechs' husky voice as he entered the seventh floor of the hospital via the stairway; he was too inpatient to wait for the elevator. Noin hurried in after him, followed closely by Mrs. Dorlain, Elena, Pagan, Sally, Wufei, Marie-Maya and Anne Une. Doctor Conner blinked at the sudden invasion of people that poured into the waiting room.

"Well then, now that everyone is here, I think it's safe to say that both patents are doing surprisingly well, though, concerning Miss Relena, I regret to inform you that--"

"WAIT! Wait for me… forgive me for being late, I was held up at a meeting…" A lanky young man said as he rushed into the room dressed in a black and white striped business suit and a briefcase in his right hand.

"Who are you?" the doctor asked.

"J-Joshua Muller, Madam… oh… excuse me, I had to run to catch the elevator." He said as he straightened his heavily starched shirt collar.

Mrs. Conner waved her hand dismissively at him with her hand before continuing with, "As I was saying; I regret to inform you that Miss Relena has a severe concussion, undoubtedly due to when the back of her head was smashed into the dashboard of the armored car, at least that's my best guess, as she wasn't wearing a seatbelt when Mr. Maxwell found them; at any rate, the whole section of her brain in the far back of her head was pretty-much smashed in." Doctor Conner said, calmly adjusting her glasses in the bridge of her nose, waiting for the shock to wear off.

"What do you mean?" Milliardo, also know as Zechs, asked slowly, unsure if he really wanted to hear this.

"Well, sir, what I mean is, because that particular section of the brain is used for processing what our eyes see… what I mean to say is that she, your sister, is blind, sir."

*****

'In and out, in and out, in and out; keep your breathing at steady intervals' He thought as he slowly forced his eyes to open into the black-gray of the room, listening to the soft, consistent, beeping of the heart monitor at the side of his bed. 'Where…Where am I?' he trailed his eyes slowly about the room.

'In and out, in and out…' he reminded himself, noting that he was having great difficulty moving his arms and legs, though, after checking, he noticed that they weren't tied down. 'This is Saint Lucia hospital…' he thought as he read the words: property of St. Lucy ICU on the plastic casing of the monitor.

'What…what happened?' he thought, trying to remember where he was last, failing to conjure up the image. He fought the urge to yawn; he was so tired, all he felt like doing what turning over and going back to sleep.

He studied the state that his body was in; whatever happened to him had to have been quite an ordeal otherwise he wouldn't have so many tubes, wires, and bandages on himself, 'What happened…?' he asked himself once again, this time he could feel the steering wheel under the palm of his left hand, hear the sounds of guns ringing out, tires screeching, gears jamming and… screaming… 'Who was screaming…?'

"RELENA HANG ON!"

'Who… who was that?'

"Don't worry Heero, I won't let them get us."

'She wasn't…she didn't…'

"Try again!"

"Okay."

'I was…? What happened?'

"Relena… Relena, you have to stay awake… damn it! Wake up!" his voice echoed in his head, his mind showing himself diving to cover her body when she had hit her head on the hard steel dashboard as they fell…

'Fell…where did we fall?'

Flashes of the trapdoor behind the curtain; them stumbling into the front seat of the car; the mountain road appeared and disappeared before his eyes just as quickly as they came…

'The tire was shot… I lost control… it was my fault…'

"RELENA HANG ON!"

'Stop… I know… I know now, stop…'

"Heero, you should let me, you can't possibly drive in you condition!" She said as she fought to gain control of the wheel…

'I know, I should have listened…'

"…Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank you all for com--" A gunshot rang out, cutting her speech short as he snagged her by the arm and started running, pulling her along with him…

'What's wrong…? Why didn't it work…? I did everything I could… didn't I?'

Flashes of other possible options swarmed in his head like a flock of birds…

'I did everything I could! There was no other way!'

Pictures of other exits appeared in his mind's eye…

'It was the fastest way out…'

"Quiet… we don't want them to hear--"

A sudden rain shower of ammunition and splintered wood cascaded down onto them.

'There wasn't enough time to go back…' Heero thought as the door into the room was slowly pushed open.

"I suppose you could see him… but I need to remind you that he's still… OH MY GOD!" A tall woman with bright red hair and tick, horn rimmed, glasses screamed as she clutched where her heart was located when she saw his head move before she rushed him and began looking him over, saying, "This is impossible! You shouldn't even be alive right now, let alone awake! Most of your minor wounds are already almost healed…"

"Hey, Jessie, good to see you up; you really had the ladies worried there for a moment!" Duo chimed in, but not before getting jabbed in the ribs by Hilde.

"Yeah, and like you weren't worried about him at all, right?" Hilde said, raising an eyebrow up at the braided young man.

"It really doesn't surprise me that he's recovering so quickly, He-- I mean Jessie-- has always been a fast healer." Sally remarked, almost letting his old codename slip.

"Really… how odd… Well Mr. McCall, no matter how fast your flesh wounds are healing up, I still feel that it would be better if you stayed in bed for a few more days just to be sure that everything's alright." Doctor Conner said as she busied herself with checking his heart rate.

"Where's Relena?" Heero asked, all but ignoring the doctor's suggestion, as he stood up on his only good leg, supporting himself by leaning up against the starch-white wall at the head of the bed.

"Mr. Jessie, sit down right now! I will not be having to pull any of those twenty-one stitches in your chest out!" Maria said, glaring at him.

"I won't say it again; where's Relena?" Heero repeated.

"Easy buddy-- Sally get the man a wheelchair-- I'll take you to her if you just chill for a bit, okay man?" Duo said, sending Sally off to retrieve the object in question, as he helped the ex-Wing Zero pilot back onto the bed while the doctor busied herself with detaching some of the equipment from the young man's body.

"I've got the wheelchair, where do you want it Duo?" Sally asked as she rolled it into the room.

"Right here is good. Thanks a bunch, Sal." Duo replied as he guided the wheelchair over to where Heero was seated before locking the wheels and helping his comrade into it's lose, sling-like, fake leather seat while Quatre adjusted one of the footrests so that Heero wouldn't jar his broken leg anymore then he already had.

"I can do this on my own!" Heero complained as he shooed them away so that he could unlock the wheels on the chair and roll it out of the room on his own.

"Mr. Jessie! You'll pull your--"

"I. Don't. Care." Heero growled, causing the red haired doctor to end her sentence prematurely, before continuing on his way.

"Alright Jessie, I'll show you where she's at, but I gotta warn you… it's not a pretty sight." Duo said as he matched his pace with his best friend as he directed him and the others down the long, desolate, hallways under the flickering florescent lights and to a door with the numbers: two-twenty-nine made out of gold-covered brass nailed just above eye level with a large bulletproof window just to the left of door to allow for visitors to see in.

Inside the room Relena lay, dressed in they typical white hospital smock, with crisp white sheets over her lean frame, her head wrapped snugly with thick medical bandages that ran from just below the base of her skull to just above her eyebrows and all the way to the vary top of her head.

"What is the state of her condition?" Heero asked, his voice betraying nothing in his eyes which seemed to shake at the sight of seeing the young woman that he had known since he was fifteen years old looking so frail.

"She's stable for now; Relena's fractured her skull, has a shattered shoulder, bullet wound to her hand, and she's blind… at least that's what the doctors' have said so far." Hilde said as she pressed one of her warm hands onto the icy cold glass of the window as she looked at the young Vice-foreign Minister lying on the hard hospital bed within.

"You didn't fair much better I hear; I checked with one of the nurses on my way up, they said that you were in severe condition when you were checked in." Quatre added, turning away from the window to regard the stoic man next to him.

"Hn."

"Ugh! Don't remind me! I swear I'm going to have nightmares for months after this!" Duo said, turning slightly green at once again recalling all of the blood the limbs twisted into unnatural angles when he found their vehicle upside-down at the foot of a five-mile high mountainside with the whole front of it completely smashed in by a two-hundred year old red-oak.

"Well, personally, I think it was a case of poor decision making on your part, Mr. McCall, that you crashed and put my darling Relena in there and I fully intend to make sure that you never work in Preventer again." Joshua said snottily, attempting to make Heero feel insignificant by glaring down at him. Heero remained unimpressed by the show of theatrics by the clearly spoiled Joshua Muller.

"You will do no such thing!" Mrs. Amanda Dorlain snapped, stepping into the fray, "I'm sure that he did everything in his power to get Relena to safety and you have no right to treat him after all he's been through already! If anybody has the right to do such a thing, it would be me, and I'm not going to do that to this poor man. I think he's suffered more then enough for something that he had little to no control over." she said firmly, finding herself strangely protective of the wounded soldier.

"I agree with Amanda," Zechs said, taking his place beside the woman who had raised his little sister and, after the war, insisted that he was going to be her son as well whether he liked it or not, "It's not your place, Muller. I suggest that you go home, you need to get yourself under control before I can allow you to see my sister."

"What is this? Have you all turned against me? Fine, I'll excuse myself; let Relena know that I send my best of wishes to her when she wakes up." Joshua huffed, his icy eyes blazing with a strange fire within them, before turning around stiffly and walking off.

"Is it just me, or is there something not right about him?" Duo commented as he scratched his head.

"He's not being completely honest with us, Duo." Trowa replied casually.

"Whatever the case, I don't want him back here. I think he's been purposely drugging the Vice-foreign Minister." Heero said, glaring at Joshua's retreating back.

"He's WHAT?" Duo gaped.

"The Haber Drug to be exact." Heero replied.

"That would explain how strange Miss Relena's been acting for the past few months." Mrs. Jones murmured, her thick accent making it rather hard for the others to understand.

"That seems to fit well with what I've been hearing lately about her." Sally commented.

"The only question is what do we do now?" Quatre asked worriedly as he returned his gaze to the figure behind the window.

"Wufei, I want you to do some digging up on Mr. Muller. I want everything you can find out on him on my desk in eighteen-hundred hours." Une said, giving out orders.

"I'll see to it that Relena gets a counter-drug shot as soon as possible." Sally announced before saluting and going off to locate the head doctor.

"Trowa, I want you to stand watch of Relena while Heero continues to recover." Une said, turning to regard tallest of the five gundam-men.

"Right. Cathy, why don't you call Michel and have him pick you up and take you back to the hotel." Trowa said, nodding to Une before addressing his sister.

"Don't worry Trowa, I've got it covered." Catherine replied with s smile as she pulled out her cellular phone and quickly pressed the speed dial to their manager's hotel room.

"I'll help Wufei, that is, if he doesn't mind?" Quatre asked, glancing at the Chinaman who gave him his nod of approval.

"Alright, Jessie, I will speak to the doctor to see if it is possible for you to stay in with Relena if you want." Une said, quickly making eye contact with Quatre, who smiled secretively in return, before focusing her attention on the man seated in the wheelchair.

"Yeah." He replied, not missing the exchange between the Winner youth and Preventer Earth. Heero drew his eyebrows together slightly, not enough to draw attention to himself, as he contemplated the meaning behind silent communication between them.

"Mrs. Jones and I will return to the hotel with Mr. And Mrs. Marquise along with Mrs. Dorlain." Pagan said as he fought back a yawn. He was starting to get tired.

"That sounds like a good idea. Hey, Duo, I've got to get back to my post; they'll get suspicious if I'm gone for too long." Hilde said as she planted a kiss on the braided man's cheek before flouncing off along with the others, leaving just Heero, Duo, Wufei, Quatre, Trowa and Anne within the halls.

"Well, we better get to work Wufei, what do you say? Some nice strong coffee in order?" Quatre said jokingly.

"You're buying." Wufei replied as they walked off.

"You have yourself a deal." echoed Quatre's faded reply.

"You two stay here; I'll be back shortly." Une ordered before she left.

"So… what do you think?" Duo asked after a long pause in the conversation.

"What do you mean?" Heero asked, turning his gaze to the window where his reflection glared back at him. He switched his nose in disgust; he looked like hell.

"Of Swiss cheese, what do you think?" Duo snapped, "I'm talking about what all that's happened! What do you think about it?"

"I think you need to stop eating so much sugar, it makes you hyper." Heero said, avoiding the subject.

"Duo, now is not the time." Trowa said, his eyes narrowing slowly in a quiet warning.

"Yeah, sure, if you say so man."

________________________________________________________________________ That took be longer then I expected. I hope you all liked it! I should have the next chapter out soon but I should be slowing down a bit; I have two other non-Gundam Wing stories that I need to work on that have fallen onto the back burner and if I don't start working on them again my mom just might have a cow!

For those of you who are interested in knowing where the votes stand as of now, I have them listed below for you:

1. I know this has already been done, but I think the person that was originally writing it stopped, and besides that, I plan to put a few new twists to if then she did, I'm thinking about going a Gundam wing/Escaflowne fic; it would have five parts to the full series, the first part would be totally Escaflowne (mostly about how Hitomi gets back to Gaea and about her and Van's son, Aden Folken de Kenzaki-Fanel, long name, I know, and how he got separated from them) "Aden! Aden, where are you?" "I'm over here mummy!". The second part would be Totally Gundam Wing (this part would be about how Heero discovers the hidden planet, a secret of Odin Lowe, Something that Dr.J left for him and eventually he gets taken to Gaea) "What's this? Cards…? That's what he left in his will for me?". The third would be about Heero wandering around on Gaea trying to figure some things out and ending up meeting Van and Hitomi and the things that happen because of it "Oh good! You're awake! I was starting to worry about you." "Relena?" "Nope! You're a good guesser though; my name is Celena". The fourth part is about Relena and the other G-guys trying to find him and somehow stumbling on the answers, and the way to Gaea themselves "How can you just stand there and not be worried about him? HOW? Heero could be lost laying in some cold damp street somewhere dying for all we know and you are all just standing there like it's no big deal!". The last is the conclusion "Oh my god! HEERO!" she ran over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck in a great bid hug, "I was afraid that I would never see you again! I missed you so much…". {Six votes here}

2. This one is completely original on my part and is an AU unlike any other, that I know of: Heero, a Bounty-hunter, gets lost in a forest while trying to track down the Infamous thief, Duo Maxwell, and finds himself having to camp inside of a cave with a peculiar stream water flowing within it, after testing it and finding it "safe" to drink, Heero has his fill of it, but, unknown to him, quenching his thirst comes at a high price. He wakes up the next morning in the body of a wolf and finds out that he can only be human if there is no sun OR moon out! And now he has either find a cure, learn how to survive as a being of the forests, or else. "Astor! Shepherd! …I hate it when they do this… You rotten dogs! Get back here!" "Well, well, look at what we have here boys… a pretty little lady lost and all alone. What do you say missy? Want old Joey and his friends to show you home?" the man snickered. "No! Let go of me! Somebody! Help, HELP!" {Five votes here}

3. This one is very common, but I'm willing to try my hand at it: Heero loves Duo, but he also loves Relena; and the feelings are mutual from both of them. What is a guy to do? This would be my first attempt at a yoai fic if I decide to do it. "The thing is, should I even try to have something more then just friendship with either of them? I don't want one of them to think that they lost me to the other…so, what do I do?" {Three votes here}

4. Locked away in a mental institution isn't what she had envisioned what would have happened to Him, him being Heero Yuy, but now, after Relena as seen him locked in there with her own eyes, can she really say that he doesn't belong there? "Damn it, Relena, listen to me! I'm not-- let go of me-- I'm not crazy I tell you, I'm not!" {Six for this one}

5. Looking down at the Scrap-yard, she couldn't help but feel more then just a touch of jealousy towards the black-haired blue-eyed ex-oz soldier, Hilde, but also knowing that she wasn't what he needed in his life; she kept her heart out of it, and started working on putting both the Deathscythe pilot and the girl together; even if it killed her. This would be my first Duo-and-Hilde fic. "Ugh! How hard could it possibly be for this MORON to pull his head out of his ASS long enough to see that this chick digs him? I can't believe this!" {Two votes here}

6. What if Triton Bloom was alive, and he wasn't Trowa? What would No-name do, and think, if he met Cathy's real brother? Would he feel replaced and out-matched compared to the real thing? A Non-romance fic, this is just about family. "You want me to share a room with him?" "Yes, Trowa, I want you guys to share a room. Don't look at me like that! It won't be so bad!" two days later: "HELP! CATHY! Trowa's lost it! I think he's gonna kill me! HELP!" {Eight votes for this one already}

7. Relena's guards love to work over-time, they never complain, they think they get paid too much for what little they claim to do, they're selfless, gentle, sweet, kind, caring, lovable...Are. You. Nuts? Felina, Jasmine, JinChi, and Fiora are anything BUT that and now that the "great and all mighty non-perfect Heero Yuy" is around, they find themselves fighting to keep the jobs that they hate, all while trying to hook the lovebirds up! "Remind me again how it was that we got sweet-talked into this mess?" "If I do recall, it was you who suggested this outlandish idea, Fiora Eleri." "…Thanks for reminding me, why oh why did I want to do this?" "Because you're a hopeless romantic at heart?" "It's either that or she's crazy…" they all looked at each other for a moment before saying, "Crazy." {Twelve votes for this one}

8. Milliardo hated action figures; they reminded him too much of his little sister's dolls, so, why he got the twelve-inch-tall Zero-One Gundam Pilot: Heero Yuy, "G.I. Joe-like" action-figure for his tenth birthday, he never knew. His sister, who had to stay at home because of the chickenpox, was enthralled when he offered to let her play with "it" whenever she wanted to. But, something is very strange happens when, suddenly, nine years latter, he comes to life! "Relena! We're home darling!" "Relena… are you feeling better?" "Not really, was your party fun?" "It was okay, here, you can play with this when you're lonely while I'm away at school, okay?" "Really? Your brand new toy? Thank you Milliardo!" {Five votes for this one}

9. What if: Western (the sequel to What if: Myth) what happens when a "city slicker" schemes to buy out a whole town that stands on the world's biggest oil-well in history? The Keeper's of Mystic return to the lands of the living again, of course! But, how are they going to be able to reunite when they can't even remember whom they were? And, most importantly, who is who in the times of sharpshooters, outlaws, and "red-skins"? "I don't know who you are and, quite frankly, I just don't care. But, if you think that you're gonna get away without buying a ticket to ride this here train, you got another thing comin'!" {Four votes here}

10. It's been done a million times before, but never in a way like this: Gundam Wing Outtakes, these outtakes, unlike most others out there, are geared more toward the funny-serious style that I am known for. "BRIAN! Stop making goggle eyes!" in this 'series' I will be using the names of the American voice actors and be telling of their exploits all through the series as if they really were the Gundam Pilots and all of the other characters. "Piffff! Hahahaha! I'm sorry Cole, I couldn't help it!" My first attempt at pure humor. {Five Votes for this}

11. What if Relena never met Heero on that beach? What if she never found out that he was a Gundam Pilot? I'll be going back through the series and rewriting it to find out. What will the outcome be? Was meeting Heero Yuy a major part of her becoming the woman she is today? I hope to try and find out. "What kind of person is he?" {Two votes here}

12. The Shreens are beings from a distant plant outside of the earth's solar system who are a race of all women who survive by attacking other inhabited planets and stealing all of their men for the use of breeding and for slaves. And now, with Heero presumed dead, it's up to Relena to stop them before it's too late. "Don't you like my pet, Queen Relena? He has the most beautiful eyes, why don't you come closer my pet so that she can see you better hum…?" Shiva said as the large figure that sat by her chair moved into the light. Relena gasped, "Heero!". My first attempt at writing lemons but since FanFiction.net doesn't allow those anymore, I'll post the lemon parts to this fic (which aren't all THAT important to the plot) on my website (which is listed in my FF.net profile). {Four votes for this one}

13. "In other news today: Relena Darlian was shot today at the peace-talks on L4, she was dead on the scene. Relena left behind her brother and sister-in-law and their two-year-old son, Zachary. Relena, if you can hear us up there, we will miss you…. And now for--" Heero turned off the TV and looked over at the cat that lay curled up on the sofa next to him; it was nursing it's single, lonely, kitten. "They didn't mention you, Indigo." the black cat ignored him, but her yellow and orange-striped kitten stopped her suckling to look up at him and mew before going back to her mother's teat. 'Something is very strange about that kitten…' Heero thought. Too bad that he didn't know how right he really was… 'Well that explains a lot.' the kitten thought as she continued to nurse, 'I died that day and then… I was, I was reborn then as, as Indigo's kitten… Poor Heero, I wish I could tell him…' {Five votes here}

14. A request was made that I try to combine Story idea number Six and Seven together. I want to know if anyone else likes this idea. {Two vote here}

15. An epilog for What if:Myth {Four votes here}

Here is the new list of FanFic Ideas that I want you all to look at, please note that I removed the one for "Never, Ever, After" and readjusted the numbers on you. Let me know what you think, okay?

Current Standings:

In first place: #7 with Twelve votes.

Second place: #6 with Eight votes.

Third place: #1, #4 with Six votes.

Fourth place: #13, #2, #10, #8 with Five votes.

Fifth place: #9, #12, #15 with Four votes.

Sixth Place: #3 with Three votes.

Seventh Place: #5, #14, #11 with Two votes.

And that's it! Please note that you can vote for as many different fics as you want.

Until next time! Byes!