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 Ten
Sirens blared and red lights flashed as she ran down the hall, her high-top sneakers a sharp contrast to her uniform that consisted of an army-green t-shirt, standard issue jacket and tight-fitting skirt. Mentally she made a note to do-away with the movement-hindering design as soon as she possibly could. "What is going on here?" she demanded as she skidded to a halt, the soles of her shoes screeching with complaint on the polished steel floors.
"Ma'am!" One of her men saluted, "One of the prisoners has escaped." he said, directing her attention to the large gaping whole in the outside side of the cell's wall.
"We WHAT?" Anne gasped as she looked out the opening in awe, 'It's not possible!' her mind cried, 'There is no way that Joshua Muller could have escaped on his own…'
*****
"…Understood. Preventer One out." Heero said in monotone before disconnecting the link.
"So, he's broken out?" Relena asked absentmindedly, still slightly stunned from the news.
"Yeah. We need to get you to a safe--"
"No!" Relena said, cutting Heero off and catching Quatre's attention from his position by the bay window in the sitting room.
"Wh- But Miss Relena, it wouldn't be safe for you, I mean, what if he comes after you?" Quatre asked as he turned around to face them, his crystalline eyes widened into a look of worry.
"I dare him to show up here, I'm not afraid to die and I refuse to be cowed by him any longer!" Relena replied as she stood up and felt her way over to the wet-bar in the corner of the room to get a drink. Quatre turned to Heero.
"We can't just let her stay here like a sitting duck! She'll get herself killed! We have to do something Heero," the blonde said urgently. Heero refused to comment. "Please Heero," Quatre begged, "Do something."
"There is nothing I can do. She has little will to survive, so little that she's drowning in her own--"
"Heero Yuy! Don't speak like I'm not in the room. I will not tolerate being treated in such a way! If you two have something to say, say it to my face." Relena cut in, slamming her water glass onto the bar's black marble tabletop
Heero snorted, "Alright." he said as he stood up and, in two long strides, he was directly in front of her, staring down into her sunglasses as he said, "You've been drowning in your own self-hate for so long that you can't even see the light anymore. You've become the one thing that I've grown to detest."
"Oh, and what's that?" Relena asked, tapping her foot.
"Someone like me."
Relena's eyes widened behind their dark shades. 'Is it true, is it really true? Have I really become so cold?' she asked herself before lowering her head in shame; she didn't want to become like that, not after struggling so hard to free him from it for so long. "What do you want me to do?" she whispered as she reached up and carefully removed her sunglasses, seeing the image of her pitiful state being transmitted from his eyes.
"Step down from your position." Heero ordered.
"What? But I can't just--"
"Step down from your position as Vice-Forgien Minister." He repeated, his tone carrying a silent warning to what he would do if she didn't comply.
"Done." she finally said after a pause.
"Take the first flight with me to L4, you'll be safer there." Quatre said.
"Leave? No, I can't--"
"DO IT!" Heero shouted. If this was what it was going to take to ensure her safety, becoming a dictator to her, then so be it.
"Fine." She mumbled, her voice trembling slightly at the harsh treatment by the two Gundam Pilots.
"I'll inform your brother of our plans." Heero said, his face softening slightly from its fierce glare that had trained itself onto her person only moments before. Quatre didn't miss this subtle change but chose to leave it alone for the time being as he took Relena by the arm and lead her upstairs to pack while Heero turned and went back to the videophone and made contact with Zechs' office.
"Are you sure that this is a smart move? It would be better for her if we held her here." Preventer Wind said after Heero had explained the situation.
"That would be the first place that they would look for the Vice-foreign Minister. We need to keep a low profile otherwise--" Heero's voice was drowned out by an ear-splitting screech, making him dash out of the living room and up the stairs in the time it took for Preventer Wind to bat an eyelash. Upon entering the room, with his pistol cocked, Heero was met with the most puzzling of scenes.
"…Oh god, no… This is all my fault…" Relena murmured over and over again as she and Quatre sat next to her radio, listening as the news continued to play.
"…Mr. Eleri and Mr. Wong could only say this, quote, 'Let us assure you that even though you've taken three of our most loved children before their time, we will not rest until you and your men responsible are brought to justice.' end quote. I repeat, Miss Eleri, Miss Wong, and Master Eleri were found dead this morning, their bodies were found mutilated and hanging by their feet from the Cinq Kingdom Spaceport walkways, in the cargo sector, no witnesses reported." The man on the radio station said.
"Poor Gethin, poor Chin. They must be really taking this hard; I knew one of their kids, it's horrible to think that he was murdered in that way." Quatre commented sadly.
"Which one was that?" Relena asked, watching as Heero lowered his gun and returned it to its hiding place, tucked neatly into the back of his jeans.
"Darren, Gethin's youngest. His older sister was one of the girls, the other had to have been her best friend, Miss Wong." Quatre replied.
"All the more reason we should leave quickly, there is no telling when they'll make their next move." Heero replied as he walked stiffly into the room, casting his gaze about him as he went.
"You're right, let's go." Quatre said as he helped Relena to her feet as Heero took her suitcase before heading out to Quatre's car. Heero paused to tell Milliardo what happened over the videophone before disconnecting and following the other two into the, antique, white a Continental.
*****
"I didn't like that answer, Heero."
"Too bad. It's all you're going to get."
"Who are you to tell me when, where I go and with whom I go with?"
"The person who is trying to keep you alive, for one reason." Heero replied calmly, his fists clenching and unclenching rhythmically in time with each word. She was purposely making things difficult for them. Quatre only shook his head with bemusement as he watched them argue back and forth about her being able to attend Sally's wedding.
"Well, isn't that funny, I don't seem to recall wanting to stay alive, not if it means living in hiding like this. I'm not afraid of death Heero, you honestly should know better then to use that excuse." Relena retorted.
Quatre took a sip of his neglected coffee, grimacing at the cold and bitter taste it had. 'Too bad that Rashid can't brew a good cup of coffee to save is life.' Quatre mused before making a mental note to have Abdul make the next pot, ducking as Relena, by sheer luck, threw a vase at Heero's direction, missing the unruly-haired pilot by a good two feet, and smashing it into the wall behind the blonde, honorary, Arabian. 'Did she have to throw the one from the Chin dynasty? There goes a quarter of a million down the drain.' Quatre thought with a sigh. This was going to be a long day.
"Weren't you a pacifist?" Heero questioned from his place in front of the raging young woman.
"Past-tense, WAS, I was a pacifist. I am going to that wedding Heero, whether you like it or not, I am going and that's that." Relena seethed from her spot by the table where the Chinese vase had once proudly stood.
"Not until Joshua is in custody." Heero stated firmly.
"The wedding is two weeks away. They're bound to have caught him by then, I'm sure of it, don't say no until then, please?" Relena asked, almost to the state of begging; she wanted to be there so badly for her friend, as she intertwined her fingers with each other as she held her hands in praying motion at her chest.
"…Fine." Heero finally spat out, discontented with how quickly he had given in to the outrageous request. The thought was swiftly flushed out of his mind as she all but launched herself into him, her arms wrapping around his torso in a hug as she mumbled words of thanks into the crook of his neck. Quatre smiled knowingly at the scene before adding a call to Dorothy to his "to-do" list.
*****
"Bring him in." A dark and voluptuous figure said from her place in the deep recesses of the room as she sipped from her brandy glass.
"Yes Ma'am!" one of her minions said before pounding a hand onto his chest and leaving the room via one of the many side doors.
"How wonderful… You made a fool of us once, but now, I hold all of the cards Muller and soon, you are going to get what is coming to you, oh yes, you'll get it all right…"the woman chortled within the shadows, "Nobody toys with the Titans and live…for long." she added as two of her men returned, dragging a vary unhealthy looking Joshua before letting him drop face first into the icy floor with a "THUMP". Joshua moaned in complaint but remained still.
"Get up you lazy dog!" one of the soldiers commanded as he kicked the limp form on the floor, making Muller curl up into a ball painfully.
"Enough!" She ordered, her hand rose to end the pitiful scene as she stood from her chair, carefully setting her brandy aside as she did so. "Leave us," she said as she walked down the two steps from her throne barefooted before stopping in front of their prisoner.
"Ma'am!" her men replied, their voices echoing harshly in Joshua's ears before they left.
"I can't decide which is the greater of the two evils, being held by Preventer, or being held by you." Joshua glared as he pushing himself up with a sharp intake of air as he felt his ribs crack painfully around his lungs.
"You didn't actually think that I would let you get away with betrayal, did you Joshua?" the woman replied with a sneer as she circled him like a vulture, her curly mop of red hair glinting fire-like in the pale gleam of the lights that drifted under the doors into the room.
"I was never a part of this to begin with, Maria." Joshua smirked as he met her in the eyes.
'That's right you pathetic fool. Laugh at your death. Even you would have to admit that it was the cleverest of disguises. Who would have ever suspected the stern but sweet-hearted Doctor Conner of being the leader of the Titans?' She thought cynically as she carefully reached behind her back as she said, "You have gotten in my way for the last time!" She drew the gun that was skillfully tucked within her robes, took aim at his left temple, and pulled the trigger. Joshua fell over dead. "Get this trash out of here." She commended to loudly to her men before they took the bloody corpse out of her sight.
*****
"So, did you hear the news? He was found dead, gun shot to the head, floating in the river today." Dorothy said as soon as he had answered on the other end of the line.
"Yes I did. But, doesn't it seem strange to you? I mean, why would he go through all of the trouble of getting rid of the evidence against himself, only to commit suicide two days later?" Quatre replied as he rubbed his temples gently; he was starting to get a headache from thinking so hard.
"Do you want to know what I think? I think someone did him in." Dorothy said, not waiting for his answer.
"So does Wufei, he said that he's looking into it." Quatre commented as he recalled what the Chinaman had said to him a few hours ago via the videophone.
"How is Miss Relena doing?" Dorothy asked, changing the subject.
"She was shocked, I think, but other then that, she seemed to take it well."
"Heero still not letting her go to the wedding?"
"He hasn't said 'yes' yet, but I get the feeling that he will eventually, as soon as he realizes that she isn't going to take 'no' for an answer." Quatre replied in an amused tone.
"Smart girl. The place will be crawling with Preventer soldiers, I can't imagine anyone dumb enough to walk into the middle of that." Dorothy said with a smile.
"I don't know though, Dorothy; we've been wrong before. There is no telling what might happen now." Quatre sighed.
"I know, isn't it fascinating?"
*****
"Where IS he? Why isn't he here yet?" Sally asked Dorothy, who was one of the bride's maids, as she shuffled herself back and forth in the waiting room in her wedding dress, her movements hindered by the ridiculously padded skirt.
"We don't know yet. He could always be held up in traffic."
"FOR THREE HOURS?" Sally cried, appalled that Dorothy, who was known worldwide for her "cruel to be kind" approach to life, would suggest something so illogical.
"Aunt Sally! Please. You have to keep calm." This came from the flower girl, Sally's seven-year-old niece, Samantha.
"I am calm. I'm calm. I'm so perfectly calm that I could RING Luke's scrawny little neck!" Sally said as she made choking motions with her hands. Her mother took a step back from her, as did the rest of the women in the room.
Finally, after being at a near perpetual rage, Sally heard a knock at the door and quickly motioned Dorothy to answer it. It was Wufei. All of the women in the room tilted their heads up and shared a mental groan. He was, no doubt, there to rub it in.
"This arrived for you." He said as he handed Sally an envelope with her name written on the front in long and scrolled cursive. Luke's handwriting.
Major, thanks for being there for myself and everyone when you never had to be. What I'm going to be saying here is going to be hard. If it helps, you're a wonderful woman, Sal, and I think that the guy who gets you would be the luckiest man in the universe. What I mean to say is… Well, Sal, I love you more then anything, but… I don't know how to say this… but the wedding is off.
I wish happy life and I hope that we, at least, can still be friends.
A good friend always,
Luke Summers
Sally smiled through the tears that clung in her eyes as she finished the, not very poetic, yet honest letter. "Thanks Luke." she murmured as she dabbed the water out of her eyes with the back of her gloved hand.
"I told you so." Wufei remarked dryly once all of the other women in the room had vacated.
"So you did. Where did I go wrong, Chang?" Sally replied hopelessly.
"Nowhere." Wufei replied, making her look up at him with surprise; he so rarely said things like that that it caught her off guard.
"What?" She asked.
"Didn't you hear? I said, nowhere, you didn't mess anything up, the only thing you did wrong was start a relationship with the wrong person." He replied as he sat on the edge of the maple desk at the far end of the room, near the window, his back facing her.
"Oh really? Then, would you mind telling me who I should have started it with?" Sally questioned wryly.
"Why not? You should have started it with--" he didn't get a chance to finish as she had launched herself into him, knocking them both to the floor.
"Wufei, you are a fool." were the last words that she managed to gasp out before he silenced her mouth with a kiss. While they were caught up in the pent-up emotions and unsaid endearments that they had withheld from one another Heero, Relena, and the others were discovering news of a more unpleasant nature.
All around them came the murmurs of things like, "The wedding? OFF? Impossible!" and "This can't be. Where is Sally? How is she doing?" as Relena reached over blindly and tugged on the sleeve of Heero's suit jacket.
"Hn?" He muttered once she had gotten his attention.
"Look around the room for me please. I need to see something." Came Relena's request.
Heero nodded slightly before straightening his back from it's slouched position before casting his gaze about the room, his well trained eyes quickly filtering out the soft decorations of white roses and baby's breath before settling them on a masculine figure dressed in a white suit with black hair hanging loosely onto his shoulders with his back facing the guests.
"Who is that?" Relena asked, placing a hand on his shoulder so that she could whisper into His ear. Heero glanced his eyes down at her hand for a moment before returning them to the man in front of the priest, narrowing his eyes as he did so, but didn't offer any response. The piano in one corner of the room began to play "Here Comes the Bride" as the doors in the back of the room swung open and Sally, along with two bride's maids, the maid of honor, and the flower girl, walked in.
"We are gathered here today to witness the joining of these two people…" The priest said once Sally had traveled the length of the room and the music had stopped. Heero quickly blocked out the rest of it and settled in for a boring hour and a half.
It wasn't until Heero had just let his eyes slip closed, which was, ironically enough, just in time for the famous line: "…If anyone knows of any reason why these two should not be married, let them speak now or--" This was about the time that the windows in the chapel smashed in and people began diving under the pews to protect themselves before reaching for their firearms, which any war-hardened Perventer never went without, though most of said firearms were not much more then the average pistol. As the dust cleared a large man in a thick ski mask and dark clothing stood over the collapsed body of the priest, the butt of the man's riffle where the holy man's head once was located.
"We're looking for a man known as Zero-one." The man in the ski mask said as the rest of his men poured into the room and quickly sized control of the Preventers' arms.
"And what if we don't have, or know who is, Zero-one?" Une asked as she marched steadily forward, the barrel of a pump-action shotgun digging into her backside.
"Unless Zero-one wants you all to be killed off one by one, he'll surrender himself." the man replied.
"You want Zero-one? You got him!" Duo called out as he stood up. Hilde screamed in horror as the man's men began to move in on the braided pilot.
"No. Zero-one is me." Trowa said suddenly as he jumped up and, doing a twist in mid air, landed in the middle of the room.
"You weaklings! It is I that you are after!" Wufei called from the front of the room, his black hair out of it's usual ponytail and dressed in the white suit.
"You're wrong, it's me." Zechs said as he stood up, followed by several other Preventers who called out similar things.
"Or is it me? Can you really be sure that it is any of us?" Quatre quipped as he stood with Dorothy by his side, both leveling pistols on the leader, the other Preventers doing the same.
"Well, it looks like, if you want Zero-one, you'll have to go through all of us first." Une replied proudly.
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I'm SORRY! I know this is beyond late! Please forgive me! I know, I know! Three weeks is a lot for a person to ask for her readers, but I beg of you! Hear me out! It wasn't totally my fault! Yeah, sure I had the writers block from hell, and sure I was trying to avoid the upstairs because my little brother let something rot up there and I didn't want to smell it until he took it out. Yeah, okay, so it kind of was. But I tried! And I know it's short, but it was the best that I could do. Forgive me?
For those of you who have not voted for the next fanfic, here is the list, again:
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…". {Eight 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!" {Eleven 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?" {Four 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!" {Nine 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!" {Three 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!" {Nine 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, Keanu, 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." {Nineteen 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 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!" {Eight 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 Keepers 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'!" {Seven 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. {Seven 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?" {Three 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). {Nine 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…' {Nine 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. {Six votes here}
15. An epilogue for What if:Myth {Five votes here}
Current Standings:
In first place: #7 with 19 votes.
Second place: #2 with 11 votes.
Third place: #6, #4, #12, #13 with 9 votes.
Fourth place: #1, #8 with 8 votes.
Fifth place: #9 with 7 votes.
Sixth Place: #10, #14 with 6 votes.
Seventh Place: #15 with 5 votes.
Eighth Place: #3 with 4 votes.
Ninth Place: #5, #11 with 3 votes.
Take care, one and all!
