Chapter Five
Relena spent the short trip from the clinic to the palace immersed in her thoughts. This time she had little doubts about telling Heero. In fact she was going to do so the minute she saw him. Besides, although he had never said it with words, Relena was more than sure that he returned her feelings, even if it was in his own particular way.
Like, for instance, the way he made love to her. Heero even managed to be passionate. Not in the hot quick way of 'I'll take you here and now' but in the way that, if he wanted to make love, he would just let her know, again, not with words but with gestures, like that night, four weeks ago, when Heero had shown Relena how wrong she was thinking he did not want to make love to her.
Relena had got used to that side of his personality. Heero could manage some long speeches in his school or in some of the seminars he attended, but when it came to things like feelings, he preferred a more direct approach. In any case, Relena was happy that their relationship had taken the final step into some kind of normality.
Not that their relationship would ever be normal for it would be impossible. Both of them had been through too much to just forget and pretend to be normal. This applied specially to Heero. It had already been a miracle that he had been able to, through therapy, feel again some of the normal, human feelings. He had just not mastered very well how to show them nor how to express them verbally. But Relena did not care, she was happy the way things were. At the end of the day, she had felt attracted to Heero because of his extraordinary personality, so she did not want him to change that much, specially now that he looked so relaxed and happy.
She brought her hand to her tummy. She could not feel it yet but, knowing that a new life was growing inside her once more, made her feel whole. A feeling that she had believed long lost. Of course, this baby could not replace in any way the one she'd lost but, like she had promised to herself, her first, lost baby, would occupy a special place in her heart forever…
"Mrs Yuy? I have Mrs Maxwell on line 3. Do you wish to take the call?" she heard her bodyguard's voice coming through the intercom.
"Sure…thank you" said Relena snapping back to reality.
Pressing the button next to the screen in her limo, saw the sweet looking face of her best friend. The signal came from the videocom of a small civilian shuttle.
"Hi! Relena, you will never guess were we are heading to…" started Hilde with a huge grin. Relena did not want to get paranoid but, Hilde's grins were looking every day more like Duo's.
"Nope, but I hope you're going to be kind enough to tell me…" replied Relena smiling back.
"We are about to land in New Port city!" almost shouted Hilde excited.
"What are you doing in Sank?" asked Relena pleased that she would have the chance to see Hilde.
"Well, do you remember the doctor from L2 you recommended?" asked Hilde.
Relena nodded.
"Ok. He has asked one of his colleagues here in Sank to examine my case so, here I am…listen, would you be free to meet me, say in, half an hour? I know you're busy but…" said Hilde hopeful.
"No…today I took the day off…I would be more than happy to see you and, if you want, I may come with you to see the doctor, well, that is if Duo doesn't mind, of course…" said Relena.
"You don't mind, do you?" Relena saw Hilde tilting her head towards the shuttle pilot, obviously Duo, Relena heard his cheery voice saying 'no problem'.
"Of course he does not mind…anyway, were would you like to meet?" added this time talking to Relena.
"I need to pop by the house one minute to leave some documents and to grab my briefcase because I need to write some notes on a new treaty but, I could pick you up from the airport in half an hour's time…" offered Relena.
"I thought you said it was your day off…" said Hilde frowning.
"I know, and it is…is just something I need to do today…" Relena tried, in vain, to justify herself.
"Whatever…you work too hard…anyway, I'll see you in half an hour…can't wait!" said Hilde excitedly.
They closed the communication. The minute they arrived, Relena asked to both the chauffer and the bodyguard to stay in the car because she would be needing the car immediately.
She greeted Paygan who, as usual had come to open the door for her, and told him her plans as she walked to her studio. There she took the folder containing all her medical documents from her safe and shoved in the papers that the doctor had given her. Glancing at her wristwatch she saw that she was already late for her appointment so, instead of putting the folder back in the safe, she just left it on her desk. They would be alright there for a few hours, she thought. Then she literally ran back to the car.
Heero parked his car near the entrance of the palace. He was tired that evening, two of his three instructors had called in sick and Heero had to handle most of the lessons by himself and, was definitely not looking forward the sponsor visit he had scheduled for the next day. In order to set up the school without anyone's help, Heero had to get some sponsors that had ensured the first capital he needed. The problem is that, even though he no longer needed them, they had signed a four year contract so they had the right to visit and to enjoy the exhibitions done by the best pilots of each promotion. Heero definitely did not enjoy that. He just liked piloting and teaching how to pilot. He had been relieved when he had been able to afford someone to handle his administrative tasks for him.
As soon as he crossed the threshold, Paygan informed him that Relena was out with Hilde. Heero felt a bit disappointed. He had been looking forward seeing her. For some reason, she seemed to be able to put things in perspective. Especially in bad days like today.
Thanking Paygan for the information, Heero headed to Relena's study. He thought that maybe, his wife would have left a note of something. She usually left a quick note if she was not going to be home.
Turning on the light Heero saw no note but, instead, saw a folder with some documents coming out of it. He went to the desk with the intention of tidying it up. Taking the file he saw one piece of paper falling from inside it. Leaving the folder back on the table bended down to pick up the sheet.
He saw immediately it was a medical document. He did not mean to read it but a word printed on the sheet attracted his attention. 'Pregnant'. He started reading the whole thing and, at the end of it he had to sit on Relena's chair.
Relena was pregnant. This document had today's date on it.
He was going to be a father.
Heero could not believe it. He decided to check for more documents to see if there were some more remarks made by the doctor. He wanted to know everything. Heero did not realise that Relena would probably get mad with him for this clear violation of her privacy, but again, for an ex-hacker like him the word privacy meant nothing.
Then, he came across something that he surely should have never seen.
It was the dossier made by Sally in Mars. The only set of documents that mentioned anything about Relena's miscarriage. They had been marked as highly confidential and they were the only existing copy. And reading them, Heero understood why.
After reading them Heero was shocked. This was a new feeling for him. He did not know how to call it, it was a very strange mixture of anger, frustration and sadness. Relena had got pregnant, naturally, seeing the dates, it had to be the result of that single night they had been together. She had lost the baby when she had been shot and, he had known nothing. He had been a father-to-be and had known nothing about it. Why? Why was it that Relena had not told him about it? He believed, no, he trusted that Relena told him everything…He trusted her. Only her. He did not trust anyone else. And now…
He was so absorbed in his thoughts that did not notice someone gasping by the studio's door.
"Heero…what are you doing here?" asked Relena.
"Excuse me, have you seen my sister?" asked Trowa to Cyndy, one of the majorettes that worked in the circus.
"Let me think…Ah, yes, I'm not sure but I overheard Patti talking about something like going to the shops with her for the last accessories for the wedding or something…I don't know for sure if they were talking about this afternoon though…" explained the sweet looking girl.
"Ah, ok…thanks…." replied Trowa turning around to head towards his caravan.
Trowa got inside his caravan incredibly angry. If this was what was going to be his sister as a married woman, then, he had had every right to get upset when she had told him about the wedding. Today they had to rehearse their new show. He had been very insistent about it in the past few days. And what had happened? Catherine had forgot about it.
He decided to wait till she got back to talk to her. This was intolerable.
Trowa was reading some book while lying on his bed when the videocom buzzed. He pressed the button next to his bed, the screen was fairly close so he did not need to get up. It was Quatre and Dorothy.
"Hi! How are you?" asked the blond man.
"Not very well…I'm having a hard time with my sister here…today she even forgot we had to…oh, forget about it…what's up?" asked Trowa not wanting to say too much about his problems with his sibling.
"Well, we have very good news…" said Dorothy smiling.
"Ah, what is it?" asked Trowa trying not to sound as eager as he was.
"We've found a girl called Midii. We could not find a picture of her anywhere but we had some good descriptions by her neighbours and it looks like it's the one we are after…" said Quatre.
Trowa sensed that there was something else that they did not want to tell him.
"Ok. Then, I'll go and see her…" said Trowa resolutely.
"Well, we will forward you her address…but, Trowa…she's not living alone…she's living with a man…" said Dorothy checking carefully for any change in the man's legendary, immutable expression.
"That does not mean anything…" said Quatre being his ultra optimistic self.
"Exactly" agreed Trowa.
"Ok, then, do you want us to help you with anything else?" offered Dorothy.
"No, thank you, you've done enough…" said Trowa.
Closing the communication, Trowa decided to pack up his essentials. His fax started beeping and he saw on the screen the address that Quatre and Dorothy had promised to send. He did a print out and taking it, grabbed his small rucksack.
He opened the door to leave to find Catherine about to knock on his door.
"Where are you going?" asked the red head seeing him with the small rucksack.
"I've got some business to take care of…" said Trowa not hiding how angry he was.
"I'm sorry baby…I know I have screwed up…I totally forgot our appointment…I just…" began to say Cathy.
"Don't worry…now you'll have all the time in the world…I won't be here to distract you for at least a few days…tell your fiancé I will be back, whenever I'm back…" said Trowa pushing her out of the way.
"Trowa…but…" said Catherine upset.
But Trowa had already left. Leaving a teary Catherine wondering if he would be back in time to give her away to her husband-to-be, now, this wedding did not seem such a good idea to her after all...
END OF CHAPTER FIVE