Chapter Twenty Two
"Relena…" Milliardo said waking up to see his sister crying silently.
"Leave me alone…" Relena whispered without opening her eyes.
"Relena…" repeated Milliardo.
"Please, I need to be alone…" insisted Relena.
Lucrezia, understanding Relena's emotions, grabbed Milliardo's arm and, pushed him towards the door. Just before closing it Lucrezia said:
"Darling, if you need anything, please let us know, ok?".
Relena nodded and turned her head in the opposite direction from the door. Relena would have screamed out loud her misery had it not been because the stitches in her stomach hurt so damn much. Now that her baby was gone she felt empty both physically and emotionally. Now, she had lost the only thing that linked her to Heero. Especially now that she had seen the state Heero was in, she had lost hope that he would ever return her feelings. The worse thing is that she was not even strong enough to get up and see Heero just yet. That was the story of her relationship with Heero, always so close but yet so far…she began crying loud but realised that she could not even do that because of the pain the sobs produced in the stitches...she thought she would go mad…
Meanwhile, Lucrezia went to see Heero. He looked every bit as bad as everybody had told her. He had lots of scratches and bruises everywhere. From what Sally had said, he had been beaten up numerous times. Some of the scratches had been done on the top of older ones. But, although physically was a mess, the worst damage had been done to his brain. At the end of the day, Sally knew that all the broken bones would heal and the bruises would end up fading away. What she did not know was whether Heero would ever get back to his normal self.
The few times that Heero had waken up he just stared blankly at the ceiling and did and said nothing unless ordered to do so. He was like in some kind of coma only that he was actually conscious. Sally decided to call an specialist that had known during her time in the Alliance's Army. He was a neurosurgeon and was an expert for drug induced brain damage.
Wufei, Quatre and Trowa that were just sitting quietly in one of the base's staff common room. Then Duo came in, he had been getting his arm checked and also he had checked on Heero to see if there had been any improvement. Quatre, seeing the American man, asked:
"So how are things?"
"I'm just fine, I will have to take some antibiotics but I will be fine. The ones that worry me are Relena and Heero. Sally has just told me that Relena has woken up and with some time she will recover from her wound. I'm sure there is something they don't want to tell us but I guess they'll let us know if they think it is appropriate. The biggest problem is Heero. He is totally not reacting to anything but direct orders" replied sitting down and, for a change, looking sad.
"What do you mean?" asked Trowa breaking his proverbial silence.
"Well, the doctors have found out that he's like programmed or something. He only replies when asked yes or not questions. And he only reacts if they give him a direct order like sit up, lay down…They say it looks like a robot…It's pretty scary…" explained the braided man.
"That is so…" was saying Wufei when they got interrupted by Lucrezia coming into the room. She announced that Lady Une had just landed. She was now visiting Relena and Heero but she would come and thank them personally right after that.
Lady Une first visited Heero. She saw the state he was in: it was useless, she could not have spoken to him and could not have told him what, unfortunately, had to tell him.
She then went to visit Relena and, luckily, she was awake. She looked incredibly sad. Lady Une, of course, did not know the real reason for no one had actually told her about the miscarriage so she assumed she was upset about the whole thing. Not really knowing what to say, she told her about the Assembly's decision regarding Mr Valliant and the others. There was so much evidence against them that the Assembly had decided to do just a quick hearing. It would be almost a formality. No way they were going to get away from it. Besides they were also guilty of abducting a member of the government and causing a direct attack on her life.
Then she added something that got her even more worried and depressed if that was ever possible.
"Unfortunately we had to report the Assembly about the five people that Heero has killed, I'm not sure of what will happen exactly but I know that there will be some kind of trial against him…"
After saying this Relena tried to say something but, overcome by all the last 48 hours' events plus this new piece of news, she just fainted.