Chapter Twenty Seven
The shuttle was ready, Relena could not wait to get to Earth but, before leaving, she had a really long conversation with Lucrezia and Milliardo. They had been thinking about postponing the wedding and Relena had told them not to even consider doing such thing.
"Milliardo, it took you forever to gather the all the courage you needed to propose. Do you think I will allow you to postpone the wedding now? Are you joking? Do you know how long poor Lucrezia has been waiting for you? No, dear brother, you are marrying this woman or my name is not Relena!" the vice foreign minister said resolutely giving no room whatsoever to any disagreement.
"Ok, ok…I just thought that, after all you've been through and all…" Milliardo started saying but interrupted himself seeing his sister shaking her head.
"Your wedding has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with you…I will be thrilled to see you two married and happy…I'm serious, I want you two to be happy, you deserve it so…" said Relena looking at the two of them. It was quite hilarious seeing the blond girl being so determinate and imposing herself on Milliardo and Lucrezia, even though her short, small frame was being towered by the two older people.
"Ok…I promise we will go ahead with the wedding…" surrendered Milliardo hoping that this would calm his sister down.
"Good boy…" replied the girl patting her brother's arm.
"Relena, if you're ready, we have to go…" intervened Sally.
"Sure, now, I hope to hear from you two soon…otherwise you'll have me sending you a priest up here to make sure you DO get married…" warned Relena while hugging her brother first and then Lucrezia before turning around and leave.
The couple watched her leave, then looked at each other and smiled. This girl was really the most obstinate person on Earth.
As soon as they touched down, Relena, regardless of how desperately she needed to rest, demanded to be taken to the hospital where Heero was. Sally tried to persuade her but, of course, she failed, so she ended up going to the hospital with the younger girl.
They got there just outside of the visiting times. Relena was about to start one of her speeches when Dr Greene, seeing Sally, approached the two girls and, speaking to the nurse, said:
"They have my authorisation to visit a patient. I take full responsibility…" .
Relena and Sally followed Dr Greene after having thanked him. Dr Greene took them to one of the sections in the psychiatric ward. Relena saw all sorts of sick people. There was a woman that, sitting on her bed, kept rocking back and forth singing some monotone tune with a very small voice. Then they saw someone eating his own hair and two male nurses trying to stop him. Relena started feeling very sick. She had never seen such collection of freaks…her heart started contracting painfully, especially because she knew that Heero was there too.
Anger started building up and, when they got to Heero's room to find him unconscious and tied down to his bed, Relena simply exploded:
"Dr Greene, I want, no, I demand that Heero is removed from this hospital AT ONCE…He does not need this, he needs to be in a place where he'll be surrounded by people that love him…".
"Relena!" exclaimed Sally, looking at Dr Greene apologetically.
"I agree with you…Miss Peacecraft. The only problem is that, as you know, Mr Yuy has nowhere else to go…" said Dr Greene.
"That's not true. He's got somewhere to go. I will take him this minute to my home. I'm sure it won't represent too many difficulties to organise his transfer there, besides I can offer him an entire wing of the palace. I also want to select a group of nurses that will take care of him around the clock. And, naturally, I want the best panel of psychiatric doctors for him. I want for Heero the best that money can buy…" said Relena back into full politician mood.
"Ok. I will grant this request to you Miss Relena. I will even recommend a list of doctors and nurses to you, if you wish me to do so…" replied the doctor looking like he was grateful to hear her words.
"Fine. Now, what do you need me to do?" asked Relena.
"Just follow me, we'll need you to sign a few documents and I will then give you a few names…" said Dr Greene starting to walk towards his office followed by the small blond girl. He quickly turned around and looked at Sally with a look that seemed to say 'this friend of yours is stubborn, isn't she?", Sally returned the look that seemed to reply 'you've no idea…".