EPILOGUE

It had been two weeks since Relena had regained consciousness, the first time she had been awake only for a few minutes. Heero had taken the chance to tell her the three words she had not yet heard from him.

"Relena! You're awake! I was so scared…I…thought you were going to leave me and…I would have never told you…" Heero said not caring whether his sleeping baby would wake up.

"Tell me what, Heero?" asked Relena with a very weak voice.

"That I love you…I always have but I've been a dick not telling you before…" replied Heero sad.

She looked at him amazed, then, seeing him so depressed, tried to joke about it:

"Alright…now I know I'm dead and I'm in Heaven…" .

Relena fainted right after saying those few words, probably even speaking had been too much effort for her. Sally, after being literally dragged there by a highly distressed Heero and checking on her patient, had told him not too worry, Relena was no longer in a coma, she was just sleeping. She and the doctors couldn't really tell him how come Relena had managed to recover so quickly.

They said it had to be some kind of miracle. That gave Heero an idea.

The next time Relena woke up, Heero, introduced the baby to his mother. Relena tried to lift her hand to touch him and with Heero's assistance, she managed to sit up a little bit so she could see the baby better. Then Relena asked:

"What's his name?".

"I haven't decided yet…I wanted you to choose it with me…" replied Heero.

"Well…what do you think about…I don't know…William?" suggested Relena.

"William? Is not bad…but, I was thinking of something different…you know…everything around us has always been very chaotic…first the wars, then my stupid reluctance to accept my feelings, then we got kidnapped and now all of this…even so, we've been able to stay together and…now, we've made this…" Heero said looking down at their baby, then added, "that's why I think that…the best name for our baby is Kiseki…".

"Kiseki? What does it mean? Is it Japanese?" asked Relena puzzled.

"Yes…it's the Japanese word for 'miracle'…after all, you, me…this baby…us…it's all a miracle…we're a family now…I've never thought I would see the day I would have my own family…I still can't believe it…but, what I want you to believe is that I give you my word I will do my best to take care of you two" said Heero very serious.

"Heero, I've always believed in you…you know that. So… Kiseki it is then…I actually like it…Kiseki Yuy…sounds good…better than William Yuy anyway…" said Relena smiling.

"Kiseki Yuy-Peacecraft" said Heero taking the baby in his arms and smiling at him.

Seeing that smile, Relena thought that, if it was possible, she was falling even more in love with her husband.

Finally, after another week, Sally and the doctors from the hospital decided that Relena was strong enough to cope with the shuttle flight back to Earth.

Sally and Wufei, who had been taking care of the investigation and writing the report for Lady Une, were going to come back with them. During the flight, and while Relena had been sleeping, Wufei had told Heero and Sally what had been happening with the investigation. Genix's director was now in jail accused of high treason and to complot against a political figure. He knew what they were going to do to Relena for he had actually been part of the whole project. Genix had been used as a cover for the real cloning project. The satellite's remains had been examined thoroughly and all lead were being followed so they would not leave anything out of it. Wufei told Heero that the entire thing was over.

As soon as she was settled in New Port City's hospital, Relena enquired Sally about what had happened during her absence. Sally, not wanting to lie, explained everything to her with Heero's and Wufei's help. Relena was, to say the least, shocked when she found out about what Quatre and Trowa had done but was not as upset as they had all predicted. She just asked for Lady Une to come to pay a visit to her as soon as the Preventer's chief could make it. Lady Une was there that very same day.

"As much as I hate bothering you with this things while you're still recovering, we really need to decide what should we do…I've already blocked Quatre's and Trowa's ID cards so they will not leave their respective colonies till we decide on the punishment that will be imposed" said Lady Une after exchanging some pleasantries with the young politician.

"Punishment? Lady Une…I know that I'm the leader of the disarming movement, and I was not happy at all to hear that the gundams were back but…it's the second time I get kidnapped for non political reasons…Two years ago, I got kidnapped so I could help with a sick project to destroy both Earth and the colonies…this time, they wanted my baby to make an army of perfect soldiers…these two 'incidents' have made me think that, maybe, we should actually have some kind of back up…Although I would have never thought I would ever say something like this, I believe that…under some circumstances, the gundams may come useful…for this, I have decided to keep them. With two conditions, one is that I don't want to know where they will be kept, that is for you and the gundam pilots to decide. The second condition is that I would like all of you to have some kind of device that will allow you to, in case the occasion calls for it, destroy them at once…I trust you'll deal with it as soon as possible, also, I would like you to give their ID's back to Quatre and Trowa".

Relena finished her speech feeling a bit tired. She had actually thought about it during the whole day. Unfortunately, this was yet another sign that her total pacifism idea was only a utopia. Something that could not exist till EVERYONE in this word would not think like she did. Her mission was to, slowly, convince everyone that the way forward was a peaceful, weapon-free world where mutual respect and kindness would replace all the diffidence and hatred the world was filled with.

Relena knew that, sooner or later, people would realise that by themselves…they were already doing so but…she would never stop working for this goal, even if it took her entire life to achieve it. The fact of having those five, extremely brave men, helping her with her cause, not to mention Lady Une, Noin, Sally and the rest of the people that truly wanted this peace to last, made Relena feel very fortunate.

Lady Une left the room promising to organise things as soon as possible, she would take care of communicating Quatre and Trowa her decision.

A couple of days later, Heero was sitting, next to Relena on the couch placed near the hospital bed since Relena had been allowed to get up from bed for the first time when, suddenly, the door burst open to show the head of an overexcited Duo.

"I'm going to be a daddy…I'm going to be a daddy…Hilde is giving birth!!" he shouted. His smile was so huge that it almost reached his ears.

"Well, shouldn't you be with her then?" asked Heero being his practical self.

"AH! Shit! Yes…oh fuck, she's going to kill me!" replied Duo, his smile fading only slightly. He closed the door and left running.

"I'm going to be a daddy!! I'm going to be a daddy!!" Duo chanted while rushing to the room where his wife was.

"Where the fuck have you been?" asked a very upset Hilde.

"Sorry baby, I went to tell Heero and Relena about…you know…we're going to be parents!!" said Duo so overjoyed he couldn't stay still.

"NO?! Really?? I didn't bloody notice!!!" Hilde shouted at him getting even more upset.

Finally, after a while, Hilde gave birth to her baby.

"It's a gorgeous baby girl!" announced the doctor giving the baby girl already wrapped with some cloth to a very exhausted but happy Hilde.

Duo just stood there staring at, the now two, most important women in his life. He leaned closer to see his new baby daughter's little tiny face when the baby girl decided to open her eyes.

Duo, already overwhelmed by all the emotions in his heart, seeing those two beautiful violet eyes that looked so much like his, started feeling weak when, all the sudden, everything went black.

"DOCTOR!! What's wrong with my husband?" asked a very worried Hilde seeing Duo collapse and hit the ground.

"Oh…don't worry…he's just fainted! It's normal…it happens very often…" replied a nurse checking that Duo had not hurt himself during the fall.

"Oh!! Not again!!" Hilde said, she wanted to be angry but she couldn't, after all, this one of the things that she liked the most about her husband. She only managed to smile and say:

"Baby, meet your father, is the one on the floor!".

END OF ONCE IS ENOUGH PART TWO

A/N: It's finished, (sob, sob…) Oh well…I hope you liked it. Sorry for the last scene, after so much drama and romanticism, and with Duo in it, I thought a touch of humour would be a nice way to finish it…

Anyway…I would like to say a huge, gigantic, enormous thank you to everybody that has read and reviewed this. I would like to mention some people but I don't want to risk forgetting someone so I won't.

Take care and be good,

SANAE