A/N: Due to health issues I haven't been able to upload this chapter even though I already had it written. I apologise to everyone that has been waiting for me to update. I hope you haven't given up on me!

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Now, back to the fic…

Chapter Fourteen

Entering the side room, Relena was about to turn around to speak to Quatre when she saw Wu Fei through the door that led outside. He was standing by a carriage.

"Come on Miss, we don't have time to waste…" the Chinese man said then, as to prove his point, Quatre said:

"Wu Fei, hurry up and punch me…".

"What?" almost shouted Relena not believing her ears thinking that the nice Arabian man had gone mad.

"Miss get on the carriage at once…" insisted Wu Fei pushing her towards it. Relena boarded the carriage without a second thought. Within a fraction of a second, she saw the Chinese man punching Quatre on his face, the blond Arabian man falling on his back apparently unconscious and Wu Fei sitting on the driver's seat to get the carriage moving as fast as possible.

"Wu Fei!! What have you done?" Relena asked finally recovering from the whole thing.

"I'm taking you to Heero…what you've seen was just part of Trowa's plan…don't worry about Quatre, he actually volunteered for it…" Wu Fei said turning briefly to give her what it dangerously looked like a smile.

Meanwhile, in the church, Trowa ran to protect Midii from the soldiers that were about to capture her while Treize and the French governor were doing their best to calm everyone down.

"Midii, now's the moment to escape…" the French man whispered.

Then Midii, fired the pistol's only shot hitting a white marble column provoking the even bigger commotion she needed to distract everyone's attention.

At this point, Midii escaped through the same side door she had came from, opposite the one Relena and Quatre had used to escape. Then, Milliardo, the quickest to recover, fled towards the door trying to follow the platinum blond girl. Trowa, afraid that Milliardo would actually catch his lover, shouted:

"Forget about her…go and get Relena, we have a wedding to celebrate!".

Milliardo stopped and turned to go to the other side door to retrieve his sister while Trowa prayed that Wu Fei had made it on time and hoping that Quatre would be alright.

He got an almost immediate reply when Milliardo, coming out from the small side room, shouted:

"Relena's disappeared!!!".

"What??" asked Trowa pretending to be shocked and realising that he was much better actor than he had thought.

"No way!" said Lucrezia and Sally at the same time looking at each other with discomfort while Catherine was swearing in French.

"We've got to find her…" said Treize ready to intervene incredibly annoyed with the whole confusing situation.

"Hang on…where's Quatre?" Trowa asked suddenly trying to buy as much time as possible.

"I'm here…" Quatre said coming in the room rubbing his left cheek that was getting a nasty shade of red.

"What the hell has happened to you Winner?" asked Milliardo so shocked that he was ready to believe that pink elephants actually existed and that they could fly.

"I don't know, I got Relena to sit down and I turned around to come back here when somebody hit me and knocked me on the floor. I tried to follow them outside but I fell again, unconscious…I'm sorry…" Quatre said playing the part even more convincingly than Trowa himself.

"This is a mess!! We'll have to go and get her…I'm pretty sure I know who the person was…" Milliardo said.

"I'll come with you…" Treize started saying only to be interrupted by Trowa:

"No…Mr Khushrenada…this is my fiancée we're talking about…I'll go and find her…she's already escaped once…she won't do it twice…" Trowa said and, determinately started walking to where the horses were hoping that Treize would stay there, the French man really didn't want the British governor to follow them.

Milliardo looked hesitantly at the British governor not really knowing what to do. Then Treize said:

"Milliardo, you go and find your sister, I will stay here and take care of your guests…".

"Alright then…thanks…" Milliardo replied turning round to leave glad Treize did not look angry.

Getting out of prison, as Heero had predicted, was a piece of cake. He thought that the guards really needed a lot more training than they had. They had not even noticed he had escaped.

Now, he all he had to do, was to run to the point were he was supposed to meet Wu Fei and hopefully Relena.

The old barn was just behind the Winner's plantation, it had been left open by Quatre so the Japanese man could hide there.

Heero had not been there long when he heard a carriage arrive. Then he heard Wu Fei's whistle signalling that it was safe for him to come out.

When Heero came out the barn he was nowhere near prepared to see what he saw.

"Relena…" the Japanese man said seeing the blond young woman still dressed with her wedding gown. She was so beautiful that Heero felt his heart contract almost painfully inside his chest.

Relena just stood there looking at him. She wanted him to hug her and kiss her breathless but she did not move afraid that the whole thing was just a dream and she would wake up to find that nothing was real.

Finally Wu Fei seeing the whole scene, decided that if he didn't take the initiative, no one would, and said:

"Guys, I'm sorry for having to be the practical one but, you really should make a move here…".

"Excuse me?" Relena asked not fully understanding the meaning of the Chinese man's words.

"Well, we have half of the British and French colonialist army behind us, so unless you want to find yourself back in that church and Heero back in prison, we have to get you two on board on the first ship to America…" Wu Fei said losing his extremely limited patience. Really women were difficult creatures. He was happy his Sally was a lot more sensible than this young blond woman.

"Ah…ok…let's go…" Relena said feeling rather stupid getting back in the carriage. Heero, that still not saying a single word, followed her inside to sit facing her. Wu Fei sighing heavily, sat back on the driver's seat to head to the harbour.

"Heero…" Relena started saying once the carriage was in motion.

"How are you feeling?" Heero asked interrupting her.

"I'm feeling better…still quite weak but I'm much better now…I really thought I would not make it…" Relena replied glad to hear Heero's voice. She had sorely missed his very masculine monotone heavily accented voice.

Looking at him closely, Relena saw the marks caused by the 'special treatment' Heero had received while in prison. She felt sick knowing what he had been put through. She lifted a hand and tried to touch Heero's bruised cheek but Heero caught it with his and, suddenly, pulled her away from her seat and made her sit on his lap.

"You're so beautiful…"Heero said before placing his free hand behind Relena's head lowering it till his lips touched hers.

Relena felt everything spin around her. She then started feeling weaker and weaker and then, suddenly, all went black.

"Relena? RELENA!!" Heero shouted.

Wu Fei, hearing his friend's shout, stopped the carriage.

"What's wrong?" the Chinese man asked getting off the carriage opening the carriage's small door getting an immediate reply seeing the young blond woman laying unconscious in Heero's arms.

"She's just fainted…don't worry, she's been pushing herself to get better for today…as long as the fever doesn't come back, she'll be fine…" Wu Fei said closing the door and going back to the driver's seat to get the carriage back in motion.

Heero just stared at Relena's face feeling sick with worry. He put her head on his shoulder and hugged her keeping her body as close as possible to his.

"You're crazy…you should not have forced things…if something happens to you…" Heero whispered to himself not daring to finish the sentence.

Wu Fei made the horses go as fast as possible. He knew that they were being followed so it was essential he got to the harbour as soon as possible.

The Chinese man was shocked with his own behaviour. He was amazed about how much he had changed during the years. He had grown up by himself both his parents having died when he was a baby. He had been raised by his martial arts master and he would have been a heartless fighter had it not been because of Mei Lan, the stubborn Chinese woman that had been trained to be a tougher fighter than himself. She had shown him that living without feelings was useless and after many years of waiting for him to be ready, she had married him. He got mad thinking of the sorrow it had caused to find her dead after the assault his village had suffered.

He had then decided to leave China and moved to the Indochina area. He quickly gained an extensive knowledge of the place and its people and became a guide.

Then he met the two people that reminded him he still had feelings. First that half English half Chinese woman that was almost as stubborn as Mei Lan. After he found out her husband had just died and although he had felt tied to her by their common past, he had tried to fight what he felt for her but she just didn't let him put enough space between them so at the end he had given up and had admitted his feelings for her.

It had been during one of his trips to stay away from Sally that he had met Heero. Heero himself was as daunted by his past as Wu Fei was. Wu Fei knew very little from Heero's life since the Japanese man did not speak much but he knew enough to know that he had to stop him every time he had tried to kill himself.

He remembered the first time he had seen Heero trying to commit suicide. He was about to perform hara-kiri when Wu Fei stopped him and asked him why he wanted to die so badly.

Heero confessed that he had tried to kill himself while in Japan once he had realised that the samurai were doomed to disappear and to be forgotten by history. He felt dishonoured because he had not been able to fulfil his mission. As a samurai he had to die protecting the emperor but now, with the recent political developments in the raising sun empire, the samurai were no longer needed. Then his master had ordered him to leave the country and he had felt even more dishonoured. This was the reason why Heero wanted to die.

Wu Fei hoped that now that Relena had done for Heero the same than, first Mei Lan and then Sally, had done for himself, the Japanese man would forget about it and would never try to kill himself again.

After a few hours, they finally arrived to the harbour. Relena had waken up half way to the harbour but she was now sleeping, still wrapped in Heero's arms who had refused to let go of her.

Wu Fei turned a corner that would take them straight to the docking area when he stopped the stopped the carriage so suddenly it made it jerk violently.

Blocking the way to the docks with their horses, the Chinese man saw Trowa and Milliardo. The platinum blond man giving Wu Fei a murderous look.

END OF CHAPTER FOURTEEN