For Rel
Note: I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters. Plus I don't own the song that I used in this chapter (or in other chapter for that matter).
Lyrics again. Sorry!
He felt like singing, he felt like breaking out into a tap dance number, anything just to show how ecstatic he was. At last, after five months, he was going to see Relena. He, Quatre Raberba Winner, was going to get to see Relena face to face, in person. He doubted that even Heero would be so fortunate.
Why would she want to meet me at an amusement park in Illinois? Is it because it's public? Or to keep me from finding out where exactly she lives? Quatre wondered as he sat almost naked-save for the towel around his shoulders and the one around his waist-in his room after just speaking with Relena.
Mentally he replayed their conversation.
"Hey Quatre, would you like to meet me?" she asked him out of the blue and had caused Quatre to almost drop the phone.
"Wha…What? Meet you? As in person?" he stuttered.
"Yeah silly," she giggled.
"Of course, as I'm sure Lynn told you I wanted to meet with you," he told her.
"She most certainly did, and she made me promise that I would meet with you. So, when's your next free day?" Relena inquired, she knew how hectic things could be in politics. Everyday being filled with something for weeks on end.
"Actually I have a free day in two days," he told her thinking about canceling his appointment with dentist. Who needs the dentist anyway?
"Great, meet me at Six Flags in Illinois, by the carousel," she told him. "See you Quatre." With that she blew him a kiss then hung up, bring Quatre to his present state of being.
"Whoa-WHOOOO!" he whooped as he leapt to his feet and began to prance and skip around the room. "I get to see her," he sang as he slid to his closet to pick out his clothes still grooving his body to his own little beat.
Meanwhile, back in Italy Heero went down the stairs of the Noventa house dressed in a light blue shirt, with the sleeves rolled up, and blue jeans. He was "off duty" if you could call it that, in truth he was just dressing down so he would always appear to be on the job. Basically he was attempting a psychological experiment on Relena's friends.
In theory, they have not been very truthful to him because of him seeming to be "on the job" all the time, so if he appeared to be off the job then maybe they would open up a bit more. Of course that would be their downfall.
Entering the dinning room he found that no one was there. Strange, he thought as he just stood listening for any sounds. There were voices coming from the kitchen, so he followed but stayed outside the door, much like what he did the night before.
"Let's try it again," Heero heard Draca's voice exclaim.
"Okay, from the top," agreed Sage.
"Moshimo ima subete ga umaku nante ikanai
Makesou ni naru toki datte
Hitomi wo tojireba kokoro kara
Sekai ga miete kuru," sang Draca's voice gently as Heero entered the kitchen quietly, not even noticed by those present.
"In this world when life can be so tough
You must be strong
Just believe in yourself and don't you fear
So open up your mind and close your eyes
Take another look from the other side," Salimar sang as she washed the dishes, and Lynn echoed the last four words.
"Kodoku na yoru demo mayoi osoreru toki mo
Ima wa hitori demo kono ashi de doko made mo
Aruite ikeru hazu dakara," Draca returned to her singing. Then they all paused for a moment, which Heero assumed was some instrumental line.
"Just hold on tight hitomi tojita nara
Look inside yourself kagayaki ga aru kara
Yes, subete shinjite hoshii
You can take another look from the other side
"Just hold on tight kokoro kujikete mo
Reach into your soul ashita ga mienakute mo
Yes, ikiru tsuyosa ga areba
You can take another look from the other side," all three girls sang together.
"Ai no subete ni deau made...," Draca sang as a solo from the chorus.
"Kono sekai de ikinuite-iku tame no tsuyosa wo
Anata ni negatte-iru kara
Kokoro no tobira wo hiraitara
Nanika ga miete kuru," Lynn sang softly.
"Just remember you are not alone
So don't you fear
Even though you're miles away
I'm by your side
So open up your mind and close your eyes
I'll be there for you no matter where you are," Salimar's voice rang out.
"Hoshi no inochi nara nagai kedo itsu made mo
Onaji kono hibi ga kurikaesu wake ja nai
Ashita wa dare ni mo mienai," Lynn sang then paused again, meaning to Heero that they were going to sing the chorus again.
"Just hold on tight hitomi tojita nara
Look inside yourself kodou kanjiru kara
Yes, "MIRAI" shinjite hoshii
You can take another look from the other side
"Just hold on tight kokoro kujikete mo
Reach into your soul ashita ga mienakute mo
Yes, chigau sekai ga atte
You can take another look from the other side."
"Ai no subete ni deaeru ya..." sang Lynn. There was a longer pause which almost made Heero believe that they were done singing except for the fact that Lynn was pulling off a solo on the air guitar.
"Just hold on tight hitomi tojita nara
Look inside yourself kodou kanjiru kara
Yes, "MIRAI" shinjite hoshii
You can take another look from the other side
"Just hold on tight kokoro kujikete mo
Reach into your soul ashita ga mienakute mo
Yes, chigau sekai ga atte
You can take another look from the other side," the girls sang one last time together.
"Ai no subete ni deau made..." Salimar sang her first Japanese solo.
"Wonderfully done girls!" applauded Mrs. Noventa who had been sitting at the kitchen tables listening to the band intently. Beside her was Sylvia, saying nothing but softly clapping though she clearly did not enjoy the show.
With a big grin on his face as he dried the dishes, Adam began to sing in a jazz style format, which soon had Salimar and Lynn joining.
"Zappa-da zoopa-do zappa-da zappa-do-wee-ya," the trio sang in the form of question and answer, Adam questioning and the girls answering.
At that moment though, a phone rang off the hook somewhere within the kitchen stopping the singing. Sage answered it and then he quickly pulled the phone away from his ear for everyone to hear someone yelling on the other line.
"Um…uh…Heero, I think it's for you," Sage told the ex-pilot as he hurriedly handed the cordless phone to Heero.
Deciding to take the conversation with the person on the other line elsewhere Heero exited out of the kitchen, after sending Sage his trademark death glare.
"Yuy," he told the person on the other line getting the ominous feeling that whoever this person was, it was not good news.
"Yuy," shit, it was Lady Une, "what the hell are you doing in Italy?! You are supposed to be with Representative Allen from colony L-2G31SP as his bodyguard, but instead I was forced to send Brian in your stead!"
"Why Brian? He is more of a computer genius then a bodyguard," Heero inquired thinking of the only Brian that worked for the Preventers.
"He was the only one available and that I could get a hold of. Besides, I trust him to handle Representative Allen considering the fact that Representative Allen is least likely to ever be assassinated," explained Lady Une sounding rather irritated. "Now why are you in Italy?"
"I have an excellent lead on where to find Relena," replied Heero.
He heard Lady Une sigh in frustration. "We have been through this Heero, you are to look for her on your own time not while you are working!"
"I have a hunch on where she might be," he assured his boss.
"I don't give a damn, Yuy. Now, I would rather not continue this conversation on the phone. Get your ass on the first flight out of Italy and get over here! That is an order, not a request," Lady Une commanded him before hanging up on him.
"Sounds like you got the third degree from your boss," Sylvia's commented from behind Heero.
"Hn. I must leave for Japan," Heero simply told her as he tossed his girlfriend the phone and headed up to their room.
"Why Heero? What's wrong?!" cried Sylvia following him as far as to the staircase then stopping. She obviously wasn't going to get a response from him.
*****
Meanwhile, at a shuttle port in Japan a tall man with oddly lengthy blond hair got off the shuttle he had traveled from Mars to Earth on. Greeting him were Lady Une, Duo, and another agent. None were surprised when he got off the shuttle, save for the unnamed agent, but Lady Une and Duo knew exactly who he was and why he was there.
"I'm here now, so what do you have for me?" the man demanded getting straight to the point with no hugs or hand shakes for greetings.
"Come on Zeches, you can't spare Une or myself a hand shake or a "Hi, how are you doing"?" Duo grinned but then got nudged in the chest by Lady Une's elbow.
"Any leads that we now have on her are with Heero, hopefully he will be arriving at my office in a matter of hours," answered Lady Une escorting Zeches to a bulletproof Preventer vehicle.
"We, as in myself and the other pilots, did find a group of Relena's friends. Heero, Hilde, and I have been investigating them before we were instructed otherwise," added Duo climbing into the front seat of the vehicle.
"Who are these "friends"?" questioned Zeches.
"There is Adam and Sage Cole, twin brothers mind you, then there was Draca Ison, Lynn Voc, and Salimar Reigns," reported Duo as he tried to recall their last names to go with their first names.
"Very interesting…" sighed Zeches.
"Do you have any idea who those people are?" asked Lady Une.
"I have a hunch," shrugged Zeches.
"So does Heero, we must see how they compare," stated Lady Une.