For Rel
Note: I don't own Gundam Wing or the characters. It's a bit short since I'm busy trying to figure out how I really want to do this story, and I'm sorry. Also, I apologize for taking longer than I normally do, and as a warning, next weekend don't expect any updates, I won't be home doing any updating.
Staring up at the ceiling while having a, more or less, one-sided conversation with his superior over the phone in the hotel room that he and Sylvia were sharing for the night, Heero just sat listening to his new orders. "What?!" he growled as he sprang out of the chair he had been occupying. "Drop the search for Relena?! Why?!" There had to be a mistake, but Heero didn't reveal his doubts to this choose to his boss. No, he kept his expression blank and voice leveled, but his eyes were betraying his suppressed, burning rage.
"Yes, I'm well aware it has been five months but that doesn't mean that we should stop the search when we're close!" Heero continued to protest. "Nothing at the moment, however, I'm convinced it has something to do with the phone. I had all those phones in the house tapped, and she knew it. Yet, there are no recorded messages between the hours of eight o'clock and two o'clock, Une."
Out of frustration, and without having his laptop set up anywhere, Heero began to pace back and forth in the room, well aware that Sylvia was in the shower. "We had checked that all out, the certificates were copies from real people and the signatures forged. It wasn't some amateur that helped her," Heero told his boss attempting to maintain his calm, self-controlled self even though it was becoming quite difficult while his boss was breathing down his neck. "Understood, I shall be there tomorrow at 1400, with any evidence that we may have at all." Defeat was evident in Heero's eyes, but not in his manner or tone as he halted in his pacing when he placed the phone on the receiver.
It's all gone, our only chance to find Relena, and my last chance to actually protect her from those who want to harm her, thought Heero as he picked up the phone and dialed another room number. "Hilde, is Duo there? …Sleeping in the hallway?! Why? …I see, well that's what he gets for flirting with a trio of girls in front of you and than having the nerve to stare at another woman's chest in your presence. …Actually, I am calling to tell you that Une says that this case is closed tomorrow, unless we have evidence to point us in some direction of where Relena might be. …I tried and failed. …Hn, I'm meeting with her tomorrow, but that's what I wanted to talk with you about. Me and Sylvia were supposed to have lunch with the group tomorrow, but since I won't be there to interrogate them, I want you to check out the campus and get as much information on those girls as you can get," explained Heero hearing the shower water being turned off.
"Duo?! I want him to return to England and check out that house the phone company says she had called. …There must be a clue somewhere there. …My thoughts exactly, this whole thing was planned somehow and Relena somehow outsmarted us. …What do you mean me?! How did she outsmart me?! …That maybe, but she never mentioned anything to you or Duo, nor did she show any signs of wanting to escape. …I'll let you go than…Night," Heero finished the conversation and than hung up the phone just as Sylvia got out of the bathroom in only a red robe.
"Who were you talking with?" she asked innocently as she made her way over to the bed and laid down beside Heero.
"Hilde, to tell her that the search will be sealed as of tomorrow, unless by some miracle that we get some hard evidence," answered Heero just keeping his attention on the bumpy pattern on the ceiling.
"This search for the Vice Foreign Minister is really important to you," noted Sylvia.
"Hn, we just need her…"
"To maintain the peace," Sylvia ended the sentence, having heard it as Heero's excuse thousands of times before. She sat up and sat on her balls of her feet, eyeing Heero. "You don't seem to get Heero, peace has been maintained without Relena! Everyone else has moved on with that knowledge, you seem to be the only one stuck in the past, refusing to believe such! There's no way you can go on thinking like that, you've got to move on with your life and get past all that." At this Heero just snorted and turned his head towards the window. "Listen to me Heero. I'm not stupid, I know that you have deep feelings for Relena. Whether they be emotions of brotherly-love, friendship-love, or just the simple bond by vows love I don't know, but what I do know is that you care about her a lot more than you're willing to admit."
As he usually did when his girlfriend had him backed into a corner, Heero just directed his eyes to anywhere but on her. "See, you don't deny it for once. Bravo, but now you need to learn to let her go, Heero, for you can't live your life in the past; you've got to move on," Sylvia berated Heero. Still, he didn't reply or make any eye contact with her at all, causing her to get slightly angered by his actions. "Alright, that's it! Sleep in the hallway!"
Now, Heero looked at her, not with surprise or anything but just looked at her to see how serious she was. To his disadvantage, she was dead serious and pointing a finger to the evil hallway where, Heero presumed, he was to be sleeping that evening. "Sylvia…" he began to argue.
"No Heero, I'm being direct, you are sleeping in the hallway until you can openly admit that the others and I are right, and that you need to move on," scolded Sylvia getting off the bed and tossing Heero his denim jacket, than opened the door and pointed out into the hallway.
With an exasperated sigh, Heero put on his jacket and than made his way out into the hallway and stood outside the doorway as Sylvia closed it behind him. Now this just great, I've even got Sylvia on my case now. What could possibly be worse?! Heero wondered as he sat down against the hallway walls.
"Hey buddy, she kicked you out too?" came the oh so familiar voice of Duo from Heero's left.
Throwing Duo a 'Heero Yuy death glare' only to realize that Duo wasn't even looking at him, but at the door to his and Hilde's hotel room longingly. "Maxwell, you should talk, you were peeking down the life guard's bikini," Heero pointed out.
"What it was all just THERE!" argued Duo now turning to Heero with a look of innocents.
"Sure thing Duo, sure thing," agreed Heero in a disbelieving tone as he leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes. This was Duo's cue to shut up so that Heero could sleep, apparently he hadn't gotten the memo about it yet, or ever. For throughout the night, Duo kept rambling on and on.
Who is Relena poll:
Draca: 2
Salimar: 2
Lynn: 1