For Rel
Note: I don't own Gundam Wing or the characters.
"My, that was interesting," commented Hilde to herself as she drove in her jeep back to the hotel, unbuttoning the top buttons of her blouse and shrugging off her blazer just when her cell phone rang. "Not now…!" Placing the ear piece connecting to the cell phone, Hilde pressed the send button. "Preventer Hilde speaking."
She would have almost dropped the phone, if she was holding onto it that is. Instead she began crossing over into the other lane in front of another car, almost causing a collision. "The case is what?!" she practically screamed over the phone as Heero repeated the information he had just given her. "Closed case? Why?"
Listening intently to what Heero told her, Hilde had to agree with the reason for Lady Une closing the case, but now that they had some kind of a lead it was a disappointment to her, and she knew it was going to be for both Duo and Heero when she tells them. "Guess I'll have to check my e-mail for my next assignment. Anything else, besides this wind of bad news that I really didn't want to hear?" Hilde sighed, feeling like she wanted to pound her head into the steering wheel as she listened.
"What?! A letter?! From Relena?! When did you get it?! Where is she?! Did she mention me or how she's doing?!" interrogated Hilde frantically once she returned to her senses.
On the other line Heero explained to her what the letter consisted of and that there was no return address. "I see…at least we know that she's still alive and well, eh? Though I don't understand why you were given the letter today of all days!" Hilde remarked not bothering to ask why he got the letter, for she knew the answer to the question.
"If you're glad that she's still alive than why do you sound like you just found out that she was dead? …Calm down, it was only a question," sighed Hilde making a turn. "Yeah I got the 411 on the 'For Rel' girls. Very interesting and a bit curious. …Apparently they all went to the St. Gabriel Institute before the Eves War even began, but than one by one each of the girls had to go to a different country for school. …Of course I know where, come on Heero I'm not that stupid."
There was a bit of silence where the only sound made was Heero's trademark 'hn' that most likely went along with a glare. "Draca moved to Texas, Lynn to France, and Salimar went to Korea. …None of the girls have parents, each of them are orphans. …Thought you didn't believe in coincidences, Heero, but you're right, it is a nice coincidence," snorted Hilde. "Their guardians? Well, Draca's was her Uncle…William Ison. No, I didn't get his address. …Sorry, it slipped my mind!"
Waiting a bit, Hilde heard Heero snort and was most likely thinking how amateurish she was for not asking about the Uncle's address. "Are you quite finished yet, Heero? …Good, now Salimar has a grandfather in Moscow, Russia but she didn't stay with him during her years of high school. Than Lynn was brought up during her last high school years by a foster family in France."
Sighing as she grasped onto whatever patience she had left in her, Hilde counted to ten mentally. One would never believe that the perfect soldier could actually start getting on someone's case, the person would only have to listen real closely to his incoherent muttering than they would hear a lot of things people think Heero's incapable of saying in words.
"For a guy who lost Relena you're quit the perfectionist, aren't you?" Hilde countered and completing in silencing Heero's muttering. "Listen Heero, I made a mistake whoopee-do, so did you, quite a few times I might add, so you have no right to berating me for not thinking of getting names. Anyways, I can always as them about it later." There was a bit of protesting on the other side of the phone.
"So what if I'm on a new assignment, I can always look up the girls' guardians, right?" pointed out Hilde pulling up into the parking lot of the driveway. "That's what I thought! Thank you for keeping me informed Heero. …Bye." Hanging up the phone Hilde took out the cell phone and put it on top of the files as she went up to hotel to check her e-mail.
Relena, where the hell are you? What's with the letter? wondered Hilde.
In England Duo was having a great time looking over the upper level of the duplex that Taye Chap-or Adem and Siege Witt-stayed at before moving off somewhere else. They had made a clean sweep of everything in the place before but he felt the need to make one last look over despite his new orders from Lady Une. "There has to be something here that they had missed the last time a sweep was made," muttered Duo as he examined the living room that was bare of anything but a couch, chair, coffee table, and entertainment set.
Something caught his attention while he was tapping the wall in the living room. The sound wasn't correct, something was out of place with the sound that was emanating from the wall. "Hollow? Why would the wall be hollow?" questioned Duo getting an idea as he pulled out his cell phone.
Dialing a number he only had to wait for one ring before he got an answer. "Yo, Heero, I have a request before I head out to Spain," Duo informed him as he began to chip away some of the paint on the wall. "I can't get a request if it has to deal with Relena? Damn, than do you think the landlords of this place Relena called will be mad if I cause I hole in one of the walls?"
The answer Duo got wasn't the one he was hoping for but it was the answer he was expecting, a 'yeah'. How natural to get a short, simple answer like that from the perfect soldier. "Kind of figured that, but than what do you want me to do?" demanded Duo. "Can't get in contact with the landlords when they're in Switzerland and since you advised me not to tear down the wall, that kind of leaves my options very limited. Get my drift?"
"Oh, so you're going to be the one to break down the wall huh? Be my guest man, I have to be on a plane for Spain in an hour," Duo approved than was about to hang up. "Hey, Heero, was there someone living downstairs when we searched this place."
There was a moment of silence when Duo stopped picking at the paint and his mood turned completely serious. "That's what I thought. Thanks a lot though man, and don't worry. We'll find her eventually," assured Duo hanging up the phone. "Alright than Mr. Lampe, who the hell are you really?"
Taking one last glance around the place Duo turned and left with the nagging feeling that there was something important behind that wall. Something that he and the others are supposed to find, the only thing holding them back was the law and Lady Une. Nothing else would have kept Duo from tearing down that wall at that moment except for those reasons. Perfect Relena, when you're out of office you start to use the law to your advantage, aggravating us so much. At least it's Heero's problem now, smirked Duo ascending the stairs to his car.
"If Jackson doesn't live downstairs, than who does?" Duo thought out loud to himself as he got into the car. "Guess it's time to do some researching of my own while in Spain."
Who is Relena poll:
Draca: 2
Salimar: 2
Lynn: 1