A/N: This is a very eventful chapter. I just needed it so the fanfiction would not go on forever…sorry if things happen fairly quickly…Ah, as usual, thanks for the reviews…you are wonderful people!

Chapter Eleven

The day had finally arrived. Midii was helping her future sister in law to get ready. The blond girl was very impressed seeing how calm Catherine was. Even thought she had only known her for two weeks, Catherine had managed to amaze Midii. Firstly giving her a first rate welcome. Catherine had made every effort to make her feel home. This even before knowing her story.

Midii had only felt a bit out of place when Trowa had asked her to stay while he spoke to his sister. She had heard everything that Trowa had to say. It had been very moving seeing Catherine's reaction.

"Are you stupid? How could you think I could push you aside like a useless object? You're my brother for pity's sake!".

"Yes, that's what you say now but…what's going to happen in the future…Cathy, I don't want to be alone anymore…" confessed Trowa.

Midii had never seen him like that. He was so full of emotion. Mainly sorrow but, in the last two weeks he had seen an entirely different Trowa. He was different in every way from the no name person she had met.

"Don't worry about that. You'll never be alone anymore. I promise you that. Trowa, Michael may be my husband but, you are my same flesh and blood. I will always be there for you if you need me. But, you have to understand that I need to look after myself too. It may sound selfish to you now but, I need to make my own choices and live my own life…do you understand?" said Catherine holding Trowa's face with both hands.

"Yes. I do…is just that…I'm worried…and, how can you be sure that Michael is the one for you? He's so old…" insisted Trowa.

"Oh…Trowa…It's true, Michael is older than I am but that does not mean I cannot love him, in any case, I feel that he's the one…even so, it's just a feeling and like with every feeling it may change with time…for the best or…for the worst…but I think it's a risk worth taking…Trowa, being scared of your feelings just keeps you alone…don't forget that…" said Catherine.

Catherine then looked at Midii, then she diverted her gaze back to Trowa.

"The only feeling that I can guarantee that will never change is the love I feel for you…I already lost you once…I will not allow this to happen again…Now…we have a show to prepare…" and, with this said, Catherine released Trowa's face and turning around Midii asked,

"Midii, that is your name, isn't it?".

"Yes Miss Bloom…" Midii replied.

"Ok…I have two things to ask you: first, don't call me Miss Bloom, call me Catherine, you're not so much younger than I am; second, would you like to learn the art of knife throwing?"

Midii had been very reluctant to both things. She felt a bit intimidated by Catherine so it didn't came natural calling her by her first name. Knife throwing? That sounded so dangerous!

In any case, after two weeks, Trowa's sister had managed to get her to call her Catherine and the red head was teaching her how to throw the knives…surprisingly, she was quite good at it.

"Are you ready Catherine?" asked Midii.

"Almost…I just need to put this bloody thing in place…it just would not stay on…" replied Catherine talking about the small tiara that held the veil in the right place.

"You just need to put some hairclips here to help the tiara with the veil's weight…" said Midii pinning the portion of the veil directly connected to the tiara with some hairclips.

"Ah…that's better…Thanks…" said Catherine happy with the result.

"Cathy…are you ready? Everyone is waiting for you…" said Trowa from outside the door.

"Come in, I'm ready now…" replied Catherine.

Trowa opened the door, seeing his sister, the man seemed to lose his voice.

"Do I look so bad?" asked Catherine.

"No…actually…I…You look gorgeous…Cathy, I think I'm not taking you anywhere…" said Trowa leaving Catherine with the doubt of whether her brother was joking or not.

"I'm kidding you silly…Now, I think you're more than fashionably late…let's go…" said Trowa seeing that his sister had not got the joke.

The ceremony was beautiful. After they newlyweds had left for a week long honeymoon to the Moon, Midii and Trowa were left taking care of the tidying up. It had been a home made affair so they did not have a cleaning crew to help them except some circus staff that had volunteered to help.

"It was beautiful…" commented Midii enjoying a cold drink after the effort.

"Yes it was…I'm still a bit worried but…hell, what can I do…Catherine is even more stubborn than I am…it's a lost battle…" said Trowa.

"Talking about battles…I'm happy mine is over…" said Midii. Quatre had been a guest to the wedding, he had already left because he had to deal with some urgent business, before that he had told Midii that the judge, hearing his declaration regarding Bill's behaviour at the bar and the testimony that Sunflower had given, had decided to issue a two years' sentence in prison. After that, he would be in parole for at least another six months and, the judge had also decided to issue a restraining order that prevented Bill to go anywhere nearer than 500 meters from Midii for the rest of his life.

"Yes…I'm happy of that too…now, you're free to do whatever you want…" said Trowa looking at her.

"Yes I am…" said Midii with a very small voice.

"And…what do you want to do?" asked Trowa sounding a bit insecure.

"I would like to stay here…with you…" admitted Midii.

Trowa turned to face her and asked:

"Why is that?".

"Well…I'm actually getting good with the knife throwing thing…" Midii replied jokingly.

"Ah…really…I better watch out, with you and my sister around…you'll be a deadly pair…but…is that the only reason?" asked Trowa.

"No…" replied Midii.

"Is that so? And…tell me…what would the other reasons be?" asked Trowa taking a step closer to Midii.

"Only one…" replied Midii looking at Trowa briefly before turning her gaze away from him while rapidly blushing.

Trowa closed the space between them and said:

"I'm glad to hear it…" then lifting her head with his index finger under her chin, he bended down her petit form and, finding her lips, kissed her softly.

Three months later, the big event that all high society had been waiting for, was finally taking place. The entire Colonial Hotel in L4 was booked for it. All 600 of its rooms were full. The garden had already been set and a huge marquee stood there with the banquet ready to be served.

In one of the penthouse suits, Dorothy was directing everybody in what needed to be done. She looked completely composed. Like if she had been getting married all her life. Relena and Hilde, both beginning to show their pregnancies, where trying to stay out of the way of the many maids that were busy helping their mistress. Dorothy really looked beautiful, having such long hair, the stylist had the idea of using her hair as the veil. It was all filled with little white roses following a pattern. Then, from a tiara in the front, it fell a very small veil that was to cover her face and could be put behind over her head after the ceremony.

What was even more spectacular was the dress. It was in a perfect princess style, with a big low neckline that left her shoulders uncovered and a very generous part of her breasts. She was wearing a diamond and pearl necklace that matched the tiara and the earrings. The dress was done in the best white silk that was produced.

The skirt was huge and its tail covered a large portion of the floor. Relena thought of her own wedding and how much simpler it had been. She was honestly horrified over the size of this wedding. Again, Quatre's family was one of the wealthiest of the colonies and…the Catalonia's were a very old aristocratic family and, being the only survivor, Dorothy had accumulated a very vast fortune. Dorothy was almost as rich as Relena.

As soon as Trowa arrived to take her to the altar, Relena, walking close to her best friend, told the brunette about what she'd been thinking.

"Then, imagine how I feel…I only had a few friends and a nice home cooked dinner in my wedding…" said Hilde remembering her own wedding.

"Oh yes…well, Dorothy likes doing things in big style…" said Relena.

"Huge…you mean…" corrected Hilde laughing.

"Anyway, let's enjoy our last stay in outer space…from next month no more trips to the colonies for us!" said Relena.

The two women walked down the aisle behind the bride. There were over 800 guests there. Quatre looked incredibly handsome in his black tuxedo. He turned around and as soon as he saw Dorothy his eyes got all shiny and he smiled so much you could almost see his wisdom teeth. You could tell he was happy even though he would have preferred a smaller wedding.

Relena and Hilde aligned themselves with Sally, Midii and Lady Une. This last one was to be witness.

Lucrezia and Milliardo were left sitting by one side since they had to look after little Zach that was in one of his inspired days. He would not stop for a minute and Lucrezia had to run after him a couple of times. Lucrezia almost wished he had never learnt how to walk!

In the other side, Heero, Duo and Wufei were joined by Trowa as soon as he gave the bride away. Rashid was also there and he was going to be Quatre's witness.

After what probably was the longest ceremony in history, Dorothy became Mrs Winner. Everyone moved to the huge marquee to celebrate the event.

"I gather, since you never spoke again about it to me, that you never spoke to Wufei about you know what…" said Lucrezia having left Zach in the good hands of his aunt Relena so she could rest for a while.

"As a matter of fact I have…" said Sally mysteriously.

"And what happened?" asked Lucrezia worried about her best friend.

"Well…I asked him what did he want from this relationship and he said that he did not understand my question…I thought he was just being his usual self and then…" said Sally giving Lucrezia a kitten smile.

"What happened?" asked Lucrezia not being able to cope with the suspense.

"Well, he then told me that he had understood the question and that he was surprised because he thought we must have been psychic or something…then, he gave me this…" replied Sally producing a gold chain that was hanging from her neck and that went well beyond her neckline.

Hanging from it, a beautiful solitaire. Lucrezia's eyes grew to an almost unnatural size.

"Sally? Is that…" she managed to ask.

"Yes…Wufei has asked me to keep it a secret because he does not want everybody to hassle him about it…he asked me that, if I did not mind, he wanted to make the announcement shortly after this wedding…and, of course I don't mind…besides, I've enjoyed enormously keeping it a secret…" said Sally.

"Even from me…" said Lucrezia a bit offended.

"I'm sorry…I couldn't tell you through the videocom so I wanted to wait till we saw each other in person…Ah, I was also shocked when I found out about Relena's and Hilde's pregnancy…thanks for telling me!" said Sally now being her turn to be offended.

"Well, this is a draw now…besides, neither Relena nor Hilde wanted anyone else to know about it till it was safe…you know about the three months myth…" said Lucrezia.

"I know, I know…" replied Sally.

"Sally, by the way…who's that blond that is dancing with Trowa?" asked Lucrezia.

"I think Wufei said something like being Trowa's girlfriend…they live together in the circus or something…" explained Sally hiding her ring again.

The two girlfriends exchanged some more gossip while the party was going on.

Four months later, Heero was getting ready to leave the school. He had left Duo in charge since he had to meet Relena to go to the hospital for her last scan. She was due in less than two weeks and Heero was getting increasingly nervous about the whole thing. He was going to be a father and he could not wait to show everybody and most importantly, to himself, that he was capable of taking care of a small baby.

He went to the school's car park to get his car. He got inside and tried to start it. The car would not start. He tried again. Nothing. Getting out of it he got annoyed. This was impossible. He always kept the car in pristine order. What was wrong with the damn thing...it had to pick up the worst day to break down. Heero opened the bonnet. With only a superficial check, his highly trained eyes found the fault immediately. Someone had cut the cable that gave electricity to the starting engine. It had clearly been sabotaged. Heero thought of Relena. Something wrong was about to happen. He could sense it.

END OF CHAPTER ELEVEN