For Rel
Note: I realize that many people have done Relena-runaway stories, but I'm not going to do something really clichéd. NO! I want you all to do a bit of thinking for this fanfic of mine, so don't leave your brain behind somewhere.
In the small England town, not far from London, there was almost no sign of life in any of the house in the wee morning hours, except for the one light coming from an elegant Victorian house. Inside that one lighted room, the kitchen, sat a honey blond young woman sitting on one of the counter twirling her hair around her finger as she idly conversed with the person on the other line. On her lips was a blissful smile that only came to her when she had been 15 years old and Heero would just pop out of the blue to see her in his mysterious way, but now it only came when she could have a long conversation like this with one of her very long termed friends.
With Heero gone for the evening since seven o'clock and leaving Duo in charge of Relena's safety. Never the smartest idea, for that was always how Relena got these few conversation. Which had actually been becoming more frequent as well as Heero's absences at night on the weekends. Not that she minded the more talks with her old friend, since she felt the need to vent to someone and that someone was not Heero. In the beginning, when Heero first started being her head bodyguard four months earlier, until about six weeks ago than she noticed that she was only annoying him. In order to spare him, she didn't bother him with such trivial things such as what was bothering her, anything about the leaders of the colonies or countries on earth that annoyed her, or even about her dreams.
"Hey, Adam, can I call you back later? …Yeah, I hear Heero coming up the drive…Of course not! He'd take your name, age, and location than do a background check on you. In the end he would scold me for even talking with you. …I wish sometimes, just to get away from it all and see how well people can maintain this peace without me. …I've got to go now! …Yup, bye…" Hanging up the phone on the receiver, Relena crept up to the kitchen window, which gave her a clear view of Heero and a girl walking up to the front door.
Watching with squinting eyes, Relena watched as Heero gently caressed the woman's cheek and than smiled slightly at her. Next thing Relena knew was that she saw them kissing. In the beginning it was an innocent, gentle kiss, but than it turned a passionate, hungry kiss.
Eyes wide, Relena jumped away from the window, as if it were in flames. Was I dreaming, or was that Heero kissing some woman? wondered Relena questioning what her eyes had just seen. Even if he did why should I truly give a damn? It's not like he ever really showed me that I was more than a tool of peace to him, or that he felt more than a sense of protection or caring towards me. So, really why? I was over him…when he wasn't around.
The door opened and closed, interrupting Relena's musing, and than Heero appeared in the kitchen doorway with a tiny, thin smile that faded away into his normal, expressionless mask. On his lips was smeared lipstick, evidence that what Relena saw wasn't a trick of her eyes.
"What are you doing up?" he questioned glaring slightly at Relena as she grabbed her bottle of coke and had an icy expression on her face.
"Nothing, I just was grabbing something to drink and I had been working, you know something that I do almost everyday of my life now," she answered holding back anger and sarcasm that was demanding release. "What about you? Where were you?"
"No where," Heero replied coldly.
Liar! thought Relena bitterly. "Okay, but just so you know, I don't believe you," shrugged Relena brushing past Heero and making her way out of the kitchen until Heero grabbed her wrist and turned her so that way she was starring into his persian blue eyes.
"Why?"
Leaning closer until her lips were mere millimeters from his, Relena whispered, "Look in the mirror and you shall see what I mean, Heero." Pulling away from him and wrenching her wrist from his loosened grip, Relena continued on her way out of the kitchen and than headed upstairs toward the rooms. Tears were starting to sting her eyes until she couldn't take it any longer and decided to let them flow freely down her cheek.
When she entered her room, the first thing she did was grab the teddy bear that Heero had given her for her 16th birthday, and cried into it. Looking up she glanced over at her phone and recalled what Adam had told her in one of their previous conversations from weeks ago. "If it ever gets too much for you or you just need to get away to live a life of your own, give me a call and let me know. I can get you out of that mess, I'm still in England you know."
England…realized Relena. He doesn't live that far from here, in fact he only lives ten minutes away from here. I could be free from all these politics, free from a life of fear, and free from the heartache Heero causes. Though, am I ready to leave it all behind? Yes, yes I truly am ready to leave this behind. Picking up the phone, Relena dialed her friend's number expertly.
It rang once, than twice, and than he answered. "Adam?…It's Relena…yeah, um…I'm ready to go…tonight, if that's alright with you. …Thank you so much Adam, you have no idea how much this means to me! …Can't wait to tell you. …Okay, I'll see you in fifteen than? …Good…bye."
Hanging up the phone Relena went into her closet and pulled out a duffle bag of hers. Setting it on her bed she went straight to her dresser and began packing ten of her favorite shirts, four blouses, four pairs of hip-hugger jeans, and than any other articles of clothing she needed. Still having room in her bag she packed in it a few pictures of her adoptive family and her, as well as a photo album, than some of her favorite books. Getting any other essentials from her bathroom and stuffing them into her bag Relena did a mental check list and found that she had everything that she really wanted to keep with her.
"Well, it's really happening to me after all this planning and after all these weeks," she smiled in a nervous yet excited manner as she closed up her duffle bag. For, unbeknownst, to the two former gundam pilots, now body guards, she had been planning to escape her "normal" life over the past 5 months. Her plan wasn't "perfect" or very original; it was more or less a very clichéd method of escaping.
Bending down in front of her window, Relena pulled out a switchblade that Wufei had given to her during their last martial arts session, as a form of self-defense weapon. This may not have been a self-defense situation but she really was grateful for having the switchblade as she looked over the miniature alarm that was attached to the window. Heero had it installed for protection, incase someone attempted to enter the house through the window. There was one flaw though, opening the window from the inside also caused the alarm to go off, and so Relena would have to disconnect it without sending off the alarm.
"Now which one did Heero say that would disconnect it? If only I had actually been paying attention to him when he was explaining all this to me," complained Relena as she looked back and forth between the red and yellow wires. "Red or yellow? Red or yellow? Gah, who cares?!" Instead of cutting one wire, Relena cut both of them at the same time, sending off nothing. "Well, that was easy enough," she sighed opening up the window, sending off no alarm once again.
Going back to her bed she grabbed her duffle bag and tossed it onto her back with it looped over her shoulder. Originally, she WAS planning to drop the bag, but with Heero up and about that left out that option. Perching herself on the window sill, Relena leapt for the closest, sturdiest branch, and caught it. Using her legs she swung herself upwards so that she could sit on the branch and observe her situation.
"Thank you Catherine, for teaching me some acrobatics in May," muttered Relena as she cautiously climbed down the tree, making certain not to move the leaves too much. On the ground Relena kept low to the ground as she made her way past the parlor and kitchen windows. No good getting caught now.
Taking a glance around the corner of the house, Relena saw a black Chevy Convertible parked across the street with its lights off but still running. "A bit early," smirked Relena sprinting to the car, not caring if Heero saw her or not. Though she did hear the door of the Victorian house open when she got to the passenger side of the Chevy.
"Stop!" she heard Heero hiss as he drew his pistol from the holster inside his jacket. Without a second thought, Relena got into the Chevy and the driver just took off at lighting speed. In the background Heero was firing all his ammunition at the Chevy's tires, but not one of them hit their target. This made him a bit upset.
"Hn…" was all Heero had to say after what happened and than narrowed his eyes at the upstairs half of the house as he went back inside. "Relena?!"