Chapter Thirteen
At exactly five to seven, Relena was called by the reception. The car that Mr Valliant had promised to send was in the parking lot waiting for her.
Taking her briefcase, containing all the documents that she thought might have come useful to support her idea, the blond girl left her office. This was the first time, since she had taken up the role of Vice Foreign Minister, that was leaving her office before eight pm.
Getting in the elevator with her faithful security guard, carefully selected and even more carefully trained by Heero Yuy, Relena went downstairs. She never heard her videocom buzzing, at that precise moment, inside her office.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't stop thinking, and worrying, about Heero. It was not so strange that he would not contact her for quite a long period of time, but this time was different, he was on a mission and, Heero Yuy never failed to report when he was on a mission.
Something had happened. She was sure of that. Relena had decided to leave the very next morning, to join her brother and Lucrezia in Mars. She wanted to solve this mystery herself.
They went to the parking lot where a black limousine was parked, her guard opened the door for her after she had greeted her assigned driver. She was expecting her driver to get inside the car along her, as usual, when the unthinkable happened. She heard her guard cursing and then some fist fighting, finally a gun being fired and her guard's body falling onto the ground. Then a man got in the car and, closing the door, ordered the driver to start the car immediately and go.
Relena tried to open the car's door when the man next to her stopped her by saying:
"It's useless…the car's locked. You will not go anywhere Miss Relena. Anywere else than where we are planning to take you, of course…"
The inside of the car was dark and she couldn't see very well who was she speaking to.
"Who are you? And what do you want from me?" asked Relena trying to keep herself as calm as possible.
"You'll know in due time. Mr Valliant will explain everything to you…" replied the unknown man.
"Is Mr Valliant involved in all of this?" asked Relena hoping her friend was not actually involved.
"Yes. Of course, he is the brain behind the whole operation…but I don't want to ruin his surprise by revealing too much…now Miss Relena, be a good girl and stay quiet…" replied the man.
Relena opted to obey him and stayed quiet. She was really scared. Especially now that Heero was missing, and no one, except her brother, knew where she was going to. Her secretary had gone home early because it was her grandson's birthday and Relena, after hearing the news of Heero's disappearance, had not remembered to tell her about the dinner. She was in serious trouble.
The car stopped after a while in front of Mr Valliant's residence. They led her immediately to Mr Valliant's study. She found two more men in there. One of them gave her the fright of her life.
"Representative Taylor? What are you doing here??" almost shouted Relena.
"My dear Miss Relena…you just cannot expect to know everything, can you? You're still so young and it is only natural that life has so many surprises for you…But, now, please take a sit…we will explain everything to you…I'm sure that being the sensible girl you are, you'll understand our point of view…" said Mr Valliant standing up from behind his desk.
"Understand your point of view?! You've killed my bodyguard! You've kidnapped me for pity's sake! How do you expect me to just sit down and listen…let alone, understand, your point of view? Have you all gone mad?" replied the blond girl throwing down the window her plans of staying calm.
"There, there…please, do take a seat before we change our minds about involving you in this and we have to do something not very kind to you…" added Mr Taylor standing up and showing her the chair next to him.
Relena decided that there was nothing better to do but sit down and listen to whatever they had to say.