For Rel
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Okay for the people that have problems with my grammatical errors, I'm sorry. I am naturally bad at grammar, one could teach me repeatedly about everything in the English grammar and I would never get it. Even if I re-read my chapters I will not be able to catch my grammar mistakes. As far as having others read it (as I know you were going to suggest) there is no one around to read it for me. Though I could always put off these updations and find someone. Up to you people, you're the reviewers and all I am is the author, person who just writes this down.
Heero was torn between two decisions as Sylvia dragged him towards Draca, Sage, and the Marquise, to run away or to go through with this plan of action. His "human" side-if that's what you want to call it-told him to run and find Relena without having to speak directly to her friend-or her. Still, his soldier self argued that he needed to go in order to get closer to attaining his mission of finding Relena and it was his job to interrogate all that might have been involved in her disappearance. So, he kept approaching Draca and her friend just as the Marquis went off to attend to other guests.
"Sage, great performance!" complimented Sylvia coming up to her long time friend and Draca. Neither one of the band members looked surprised to see Sylvia but they did seem to be put off guard by Heero's presence.
"Huh, thank you Sylvia, I hadn't expected you to be here tonight but, of course, you're the new vice foreign minister, you're supposed to be at events like this one," greeted Sage ignoring the fact that Draca had just rolled her eyes. "Oh…huh…Sylvia this is Draca. Draca this is my friend…"
Taking the opportunity to cut in Draca quickly informed her friend, "We know Sage." Her tone held the edge of irritation but at least it had kept Sage quietly though his shoulders slumped forward in rejection. "What can we do for you lovers?" Now there was venom lining Draca's voice as she directed the question at Sylvia.
Sylvia promptly ignored Draca's tone and turned to Heero to see if he wanted to start the questioning, or if she should begin it. He wanted to start them. "Where…?" he began but he was interrupted.
"No, I don't know where Relena is," Draca told him turning her attention to him. She seemed rather exasperated and quite annoyed by the questioning that she must have figured was coming.
"That wasn't what I meant to ask you, Ms. Ison. Where did you meet Relena?" Heero asked keeping his voice emotionless and calm. It was his gift and curse for having been an assassin, to have limitless patience for ignorance from the "enemy"; in this case, Draca.
"At the St. Gabriel Institution," answered Sage for his friend as he quirked an eyebrow at the preventer.
"Both of you met Relena there?" Sylvia inquired to satisfy her curiosity for this newfound fact about Sage's life that he had so conveniently left out. This made her a bit suspicious of him and what else he could have hidden from her.
" Yes, both of us. Why would you like to know how we met someone you never knew?" challenged Draca getting on the defensive side of the questioning. Judging by her consistent tone and it being directed at Sylvia, Heero drew to the conclusion that she really wasn't fond of Sylvia, or himself really.
"Getting the facts," he retorted attempting to keep the peace between the two girls for as long as he could, even if it killed him to do so. Though he found it odd to know that the person who is maintaining the peace at present was letting some female band singer get under her skin with a few sentences.
"Of course," scoffed Draca before Sage put his hand over her mouth to get her to shut up for a few moments.
"You met our dear Lena there too right, Heero?" Sage mentioned only to receive Heero's trademark death glare. "Always a great place to meet people, no? I think so since I met so many of my…"
"I didn't meet her there," interjected Heero sending Sage a warning glare telling him to keep from babbling about his life during the rest of the interrogation if he didn't want a gun in his face. Yes, Heero carried, at the very least, one loaded gun tucked in the back of his pants, number one place to hide a gun.
"Oh, my mistake," mumbled Sage rolling his eyes as he looked off towards the men's bathroom door.
"When was the last time you saw your friend?" Sylvia questioned keeping her voice cool and steady as she held eye contact with Draca, unblinking.
Putting a finger to her chin, Draca hummed thoughtfully as she thought back to when the last time she saw Relena. "Well, about five months ago on the news. Long report about her disappearance," she replied knowing that wasn't what Sylvia meant but she didn't care, it answered the question.
"Face to face," added Heero making the question a bit more detailed as to not get another sarcastic answer from the girl; she was annoying him deeply.
At his slight change in tone and the ever so slightly twitching of Heero's left eye, Draca looked upon him in an amused way. In her eyes Heero could tell that she was laughing gaily at him and that she was enjoying every minute of this interrogation to the fullest. "Not since After Colony 193, before I moved," she said automatically. It certainly didn't take much thought since that was a year that was hard to forget with the departure of all her real friends.
"The last time I spoke with her was during the war while she was in the Sanc Kingdom, but other than that it has only been a few calls and e-mails," Sage put in figuring they would want his answer as well.
"Nothing was ever spoken as to where she has been hiding?" Sylvia spoke up eyeing Sage with suspicion, watching him to see if he made one of his lying habits that she knew very well. That was the up part of Sage, he couldn't tell a lie without indicating it as a lie. No need for a lie detector for this boy.
"Not a word in the last 6 months," Sage responded reaching up to rub away the exhaustion from his eyes.
"Really? Last time she spoke to me was right after I saw the news report about Lena's disappearance," shrugged Draca thinking back to that only to find it quite amusing. At this bit of information Heero was about to comment about it but the girl continued, this time chuckling a bit. "Though I must say that it's very much like her. Pick up and run off for a while, though perhaps not for five months consecutively."
"How is that like her? For the Vice Foreign Minister has no record of ever being a run away before taking office or during her time in her position," demanded Sylvia, really having no idea if any of that was true.
Sighing Draca began explaining her friend to Sylvia as if she were talking to a child. "Lena had the habit of running away from home, for a few hours during the whole, whenever she needed to be completely alone, or when he father was away for work. Sometimes it would be for the entire night."
"Impossible, Relena is incapable of such an act," snorted Heero finding all this to be rather had to believe. Come on, Relena Dorlian, the child that had been placed in the position of Princess, then to Queen, and then to civilian during the Eve War. Relena Dorlian, the teenaged girl surrounded by her ideals that were sometimes impossible or even unrealistic, not only to himself but to the world. Relena Dorlian, the little girl that held the entire peace between countries, Earth and Space together. He couldn't see her as capable of running away.
Yet his statement rewarded him with surprised looks from Sylvia and Sage, and a question gaze from the over-protective Draca. "Are we talking of the same Relena? As in Relena, the Vice Foreign Minister, Dorlian? The Relena that was stuck being popular no matter where she was?" she asked as though there could be another Relena they were discussing.
"Hn. Yeah that would be her," grunted Heero recalling how Relena was quite popular with both sexes when he went to the St. Gabriel Institution; she had been treated like a Goddess by her piers.
There was a cynical expression from Draca as she stepped right up to Heero, invading into his private space. "How well do you think you know Lena, Mr. Yuy?" she dared him to answer.
"Very well," he countered defying her boldness with his intense eyes, they have worked in the past so why not now? "I was her head bodyguard for six months and her "friend" during the war. I believe that I know her better than most would think." His voice seemed to be losing its icy edge and turn to poison and spit.
"Interesting, than you should know that Relena was quite capable of doing a lot of things. She wasn't popular for no reason- something other than her money-she took part in a lot of school activities such as drama and school plays, bet you had no idea about that," stated Draca.
"In fact I did," confirmed Heero, it was in her file from the school; he had done a lot of homework on his employer.
"Oh, than do you know how good she could be?" questioned Draca. Nothing passed through Heero's mouth but, just like with Relena, no words were needed for his eyes never seemed to lie. "I didn't think so. Amazing that you think that you know her so well only find out that you don't know a thing."
"Back off Draca, just because Heero never knew Relena as a very close friend like you, doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything about her. He probably knows more detailed information about her life than you will ever know," defended Sylvia stepping between the two. "I'm fairly certain that you don't know everything about Relena that you believe you do know."
"Perhaps, but perhaps I do know," smirked Draca. "Do you even remember what her voice sounded like?" The question was spoken in such a low voice that Heero almost didn't hear it.
He's answer would be "no"; he didn't know what Relena's voice sounded like. Five months without hearing it and with Sylvia's voice in his head there just didn't seem to be room for Heero to recall what Relena's voice sounded like no matter how hard he tried to remember.
Before deciding to end the conversation and head over to Lynn, Draca gave Heero a nod telling him that she knew he didn't remember her voice. Now she knew as well, the one thing Heero refused to admit to anyone, even himself. "Now, if you'll excuse us, we must set up for one last song by request of Marquis Welitz." With that she slid past Heero and Sylvia, heading straight for the instruments with an air of smugness around her.
"Sorry about that you two, she was really close to Relena, almost as close as Adam was," reasoned Sage giving Sylvia a peck on the cheek before taking off.
"So, that didn't quite go as well as I would have liked it to have gone," remarked Sylvia dryly turning to her boyfriend. There was a distant look in his eyes and a pinch of realization dawning in his persian orbs. "Don't let her words get on your nerves Heero, you knew Relena as well as anyone could."
"Did I?" wondered Heero but Sylvia decided it best not to assure him for it would only lead into a long philosophy fight. Not the way she would like the evening to end in.
Of course you did, she thought.
Draca- 2
Lynn- 3
Salimar- 2