Chapter Seventeen

Lucrezia had been worried about Relena's pregnancy ever since Lady Une had reported her missing. She had been wondering whether she should have told Milliardo.

Now that they were certain that Relena's disappearance was directly linked to Heero's and that the perfect soldier was responsible for the shuttle killings, Lucrezia had no more doubts.

She went to Milliardo's office, located next to her own. Milliardo was speaking to someone through the videocom. It was Duo Maxwell.

Lucrezia waited till the conversation was over and, before Milliardo could say anything, she said:

"Milliardo, I know I should have told you straight away but I promised I wouldn't. I don't know how should I say it to make it easier to cope with so I will just say it…"

"What is it?? You're giving me goose bumps…" interrupted Milliardo growing more and more concerned.

"Well…Milliardo, your sister is pregnant" Lucrezia said at once.

"WHAT!!??" Milliardo shouted getting up from the chair so suddenly he actually toppled it over.

Lucrezia thought of running as fast as she could. She would rather face fifty starving lions than Milliardo when he was angry and now, he had every right to be furious.

"She's almost three months pregnant, she told me three weeks ago before this operation started" added quickly trying to calm him down.

"When? And specially, WHO?" demanded Milliardo.

"I'm not sure I should tell you…I promised Relena I wouldn't…" said Lucrezia bracing herself literally.

"I don't give a damn who you've promised it to. I demand to know who was the bastard that made my little sister pregnant, she's only eighteen for crying out loud!" kept shouting Milliardo going beyond furious.

"Well, I don't think you will let go unless I tell you so I will, it was Heero. After the terrorist attack in the palace almost three months ago. She asked him to stay with her for the night and he did" explained Lucrezia knowing that Relena would probably kill her for this.

"HEERO?? ASSASSIN HEERO?? THAT FUCKING BASTARD! THAT EVIL FUCKING RAPIST SON OF A BITCH!! I AM GOING TO KILL HIM!!" shouted Milliardo going all red because of sheer anger.

"Milliardo, it was consensual. You know you're sister is in love with him…and in any case, now we have a much bigger problem. We should focus on this now…" tried to say Lucrezia.

Making a visible physical effort to calm down, Milliardo picked up the chair and sitting down said in a whisper:

"You're right…but I will kill Heero as soon as I see him…no way he's getting away with this…In any case, Duo Maxwell is coming here and has brought with him Trowa and Quatre. They offered themselves to help. Sally and Wufei are also on their way here. They should arrive anytime now…"

The videocom interrupted him. It was Sally.

"Just wanted to say that I believe we've found some kind of secret base, in reality it's been Wufei to spot it. He was running a thermal scan and has found something beneath the surface at about three thousand kilometres from where you are. That is not even thirty minutes away by shuttle. What do you want us to do, Milliardo?"

"Ok. You come here with Wufei, I would like to leave you two with Lucrezia in charge of the security of the base, I will call Duo and ask him to go straight there. I am heading there myself right now. Please transmit the coordinates to the database so I can forward it to Duo…" replied Milliardo.

"Roger that…" said Sally.

"Thanks Sally…" said Milliardo cutting the conversation. He then turned around to see Lucrezia ready for one of her arguments so, before she could speak Milliardo said:

"No, Lucrezia, you are not coming. I want you to stay here. This may not even be the real thing and if this is the case, then I will need someone I can trust here. Ok?"

"Ok. But please, be careful…" said a sad Lucrezia.

"I'm always careful, besides that is my sister and my future nephew or niece out there…" added Milliardo leaving his office.

Had it not been that the situation really didn't call for it, Lucrezia could have smiled: Milliardo was already thinking of the little being growing inside the former Queen of the World as a member of his family.