Epilogue
New Jersey 1888
"There you are!" Relena exclaimed finally finding what she had been looking for, realising she was talking aloud to herself.
Heero was in the office with Duo and Hilde was too busy taking care of her baby to help her as much as the half German girl would have wanted. Finally, after almost two years Relena and Heero were moving to their own house.
Relena sat down holding the wooden box that contained all the letters she had been writing to Hilde, to her brother and to Trowa Barton.
She had not seen the French man in just over two years, precisely since her wedding day.
Relena remembered the day like if it had been yesterday…
"MILLIARDO!!!" shouted Treize seeing the man he considered his best friend leave with Relena, Trowa and the two Asian men. Then, seeing that the platinum blond man wouldn't turn around, the governor quickly got on his horse and started chasing him.
"MILLIARDO!!! WAIT!!!" Treize kept shouting till, finally, Milliardo decided to stop briefly, just long enough to say:
"Nothing you'll say will make me change my mind…".
"I don't want you to change your mind…your sister is pregnant…there is nothing we can do about it but…you understand that your actions will…" Treize started saying but Milliardo, lifting one of his hands, made a gesture that stopped the dark red haired man.
"I know…and…to be perfectly honest, I don't care anymore…she's the only family I've got left…I'm not going to condemn her to an unhappy life…" Milliardo said determinately.
"Well…you're going to get in trouble…you know that, don't you?" Treize said with a sad voice.
"Yes, I know…but, I've had enough of living abroad…I've decided to move back to England, I have my family's manor there…." Milliardo said shocking Relena in the process.
"Milliardo…you…" the girl started asking.
"I've been thinking about it for a while…Lucrezia wants to be closer to Sicily…she's been missing her country almost as much as I've missed England…" Milliardo replied with a very strange look in his eyes, then he added, "You're more than welcome to come and live with us…".
"No, thank you. Heero and I would like to go to America. I have a friend living there..." Relena said looking briefly at Heero to see if he agreed with her. He nodded to show her he did.
Hearing this exchange Treize had to give up and, that same evening Relena and Heero became man and wife.
Relena's wedding had not been like she had planned in her little girl dreams. The church was dark and was lit with a few candles. There were no flowers decorating the room and her dress was a complete mess since she had been sitting on it for most of the day. Heero was wearing Trowa's jacket and he looked kind of funny with his Japanese style 'trousers' on the bottom half and a very proper, elegant tuxedo on the top one.
But Relena didn't care about it. The important thing is that, from that day, no one would separate her from Heero. The law was in her favour now for, being Heero's wife, she no longer depended on Milliardo.
Their wedding night was one of the most romantic nights of her life. Heero, although was a man of few words, proved himself a very caring, tender lover.
She remembered how scared she was at first when they were, for the first time, alone in a room with the whole night ahead.
Heero, seeing the fear, had kissed her softly and had told her:
"There is no rush. If you're not ready, don't worry…we've got our entire lives to do it…".
Relena, hearing this made an effort to shake the fear and the apprehension off.
"No…I want to do this…I love you Heero…and this is our wedding night…" Relena said as resolutely as she could.
Heero kissed her again, more passionately this time. Slowly he started undressing her and at the same time trying to get rid of his own clothes.
Finally, peeling off her chemise, Heero said:
"You're so beautiful…".
That night Relena understood why Midii and Trowa couldn't wait till marriage. Making love was an incredible experience. The pain she was expecting was so brief and followed by such a wave of pleasure that she didn't even remember it now.
They fell asleep in each others arms knowing that, from that night onwards, they would belong to each other.
Relena remembered the two years that followed their wedding night. They had left Burma together with Lucrezia and MIliardo. They had settled very well in the Peacecraft's manor in Penzance. Relena had travelled with them because she wanted to show Heero the place where she had grown up. From there they would sail to New York where Hilde was already waiting for her.
Trowa had also moved to Europe. After the whole affair he was left with little choice. He decided to leave the plantation to his sister Catherine as a wedding present after she had confessed she wanted to get married. From the last letter he had written to her, he seemed very happy. Midii had given him a beautiful baby girl that looked just like her and was now expecting their second baby.
The Winners had also decided to move once again. They had bought a house in the south of Spain and were living there with the twins Dorothy had just had.
The only ones that had stayed in the Indochinese region were Sally and Wu Fei but, after the first insurrections from the native people and, sensing the trouble ahead, Wu Fei and Sally decided to accept Lucrezia's invitation to move to England and now they lived there with their little boy.
Relena couldn't repress a smile remembering the day when Heero and Duo had met. Just like she had imagined Duo was the perfect opposite of Heero. Always happy with a great sense of humour and a positive attitude towards life, Duo was making titanic efforts to get Heero to become, as Duo often put it, more human. The American man, unbelievably, was beginning to succeed and Heero was now even able to make jokes, mostly about himself or Duo.
At first, before moving to their own house, Relena and Heero had moved in the Maxwell's residence and, as Relena had predicted, Heero soon found employment with Duo. He showed everyone how good he was organising things and soon the entire logistics of Duo's business were in Heero's hands.
Relena discovered that her friendship with Hilde had grown stronger even though they had not seen each other for a quite a long time. She had been thrilled to hear she was expecting her first baby.
Unfortunately, that had reminded her of something that had been bothering her for a while. Relena and Heero had been married for over two years and they still had to have a baby.
But Relena new that sooner or later, it would come.
A few days later, the Yuy's were visiting the Maxwell's to see how they were doing with little Gabriel. He was a bit of a handful, just like his father, Hilde said laughing.
Duo and Heero were waiting for dinner to be ready talking about business, as usual.
"Guys…cannot you talk about anything else?" Hilde said bored of hearing the same conversations going on and on between the two men.
"Yes darling…we could speak about something else but…I don't think it would be a very appropriate conversation for you to hear it…" Duo said winking an eye to Heero who knew just how much the American man liked to wind his wife up.
"OH!! You can be so vulgar!!" Hilde said pretending to be offended. Then the woman turned around to go to the kitchen where Relena was preparing the gravy.
On her way there, the half German girl heard a thump coming from the kitchen. Running towards it to see what it was, Hilde found Relena laying unconscious on the floor.
"HEEROOOOO!!! DUOOO!!! HELP!!!" the two men heard her shout making them get up with a jolt.
Soon Relena was being visited by a doctor while Duo was trying his very best to cheer Heero up while Hilde was tending her baby.
Finally, after what seemed ages to Heero, the doctor came out of the room where Relena was.
"What's wrong doc?" Duo asked nervously hoping the good man had good news.
"Nothing out of the ordinary. Mr Yuy…your wife is expecting a baby…" the doctor said smiling patting Heero's left shoulder.
"WOW!!! Man you're going to be a daddy!!!!" Duo shouted getting so excited that it looked as though as he was the one becoming a father.
Heero didn't say anything. He walked in the room where Relena was resting and sat by her side on the bed. The slight movement made Relena open her blue eyes.
"What am I doing here?" the girl asked a bit confused.
Then, holding one of her hands, he finally said:
"Relena, we're going to have a baby…".
Relena couldn't believe her ears. A baby. They were going to have a baby. She was finally giving Heero a child. But something was wrong. Heero looked so serious, almost as if he was angry.
"Heero? Aren't you happy about it?" Relena asked slowly fearing the answer.
"What? Of course I am…is just that…I…Relena, do you think I'm going to be a good father?" Heero asked so childishly that Relena burst out laughing.
"Of course you silly…you're going to be a great father!!" Relena said still laughing.
"How do you know?" Heero insisted.
"Because I do…you're a great husband, therefore you'll be great as a father…" Relena said getting serious.
Heero hugged her in response.
"I love you Heero Yuy" Relena whispered.
"I love you too Relena…" Heero said looking at his wife.
And, just like in the fairy tales that Relena had read so avidly when she had been a little girl, the prince and the princess lived happily ever after.
THE END
A/N: Please don't hate me! I know it has taken me over two weeks to post the epilogue but, after reading a few of the reviews for chapter 15, I decided to rewrite it so it would include some lime and lots of sappy moments. I really hope everyone is happy with the end because I don't think I'll write a sequel, the reason being because I'm working on a fan fiction that has nothing to do with GW. Also, because sometimes a story is best left without a sequel…
Before leaving you alone, I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart that has read this story and, for those kind enough to review it: YOU'RE TRULY GREAT PEOPLE!! YOU'RE THE BEST INCENTIVE IN THE WORLD, THANK YOU FOR EXISTING!!
A big hug to everyone,
Sanae
