Crazychickie4life: Ok guys, thank you for reviewing, as usual. And I know that it took me longer then the past few chapters, but I finally finished this one. Okay some people seem to believe that I actually hate Relena. That's NOT true. I love Relena, I just got carried away with the torture bit. And I'm still not sure if there is going to be an execution scene for Josh and Kayla. Most likely not but the door is still open to that. But that would most likely be in the sequel so go ahead and write if you want me too in your reviews. Hope this chapter is alright for you guys...not to boring.....the pains of writers block when your reading another good book at the same time you should be writing. Hehehehe. Anyway ENJOY! ^ ^

Chapter 21:Queen of Hearts

Heero's POV

Heero had woken up that morning to Relena's brother's screams.

"What are you doing here? Why are you in my sister's bed? Relena don't worry, I'll get him away from you"

Heero noticed he was still holding onto Relena, so he only pulled her closer to him, but not hurting her in anyway. He guessed it was a subconscious thing, where he needed to make sure no one was going to take her away from him again. After all she had been through a lot, and he felt as if they had been separated for so long, he was not going to let anyone take her away from him, even if it meant taking out his gun and shooting anyone that came close to the bed.

"Milliardo, leave him alone. The whole thing was a whole misunderstanding." She looked up at Heero with her large blue eyes and Heero almost melted inside.

"No Relena, he was a big misunderstanding. What he did to you was wrong, and he should be tried for murder." Zechs looked coldly at Heero with a look that said 'get away from my sister now or you will be dead within moments'

"NO! Heero wouldn't try to hurt me, I only thought he was behind it because Josh almost convinced me, I don't even know why I had believed him in the first place. I guess I was in such shock after....after being...r..raped......All I know is that Heero would never try to kill me.!"

Relena, as if asking for his support grabbed fistfuls of his shirt in her hands and held onto him more tightly. Heero didn't mind though.

Heero made a daring move in front of her brother, and pulled her head onto his chest, yet again her head lay under his chin.

Heero looked up at Zechs defiantly.

"Zech's let's not get into this right now, all I can say to you is that I would never try and hurt her. The real reason I had left her in the first place was so that I could find Josh and Kayla and dispose of them after they attempted murder on her the first time. But by the time I got to Hawaii and looked around for them, it hit me that they had run off already and had a hidden agenda. I still can't figure out how they located us and how they knew I would go looking for them, but it doesn't matter at the moment. Relena is safe now, and she needs her rest if she plans on recovering. So would you leave us alone now?"

Zechs sent a pleading look Relena's way, but she only nodded to him in encouragement. He gave one last look their way, and then turned away biting his tongue, and he left the room.

Relena's POV

Finally her brother had left her and Heero some privacy. She was glad she hadn't had to deal with Zechs all that much at the moment. She didn't have enough energy to put up with him, especially if he were to begin his rambling about putting her back in her old political position. She believed she would explode.

She now fully believed that Heero had not tried to murder her. She wasn't even quite sure why she had believed Josh in the first place. She was beating herself up inside because she should have more trust in the one she loved.

But she also guessed that she was so shocked with the rape and all that she had actually believed every word Josh had said, just so that she could blame someone for laying her fate out for her. "Heero, I'm sorry that I didn't believe you. I feel so stupid, I shouldn't have listened to Josh in the first place, especially after what he did to me" She shuddered. The pain she had experienced had only happened two days ago, and the memories were still fresh in her mind. It scared her that she had been so vulnerable. But at the same time in those moments she had wished death upon herself again.

Strangely though she found that every time she was with Heero now, she not only felt safe and loved, but she also felt the need to stay alive.

"Don't worry Relena, you went through a lot, I understand your situation. How are you doing?"

She hadn't even noticed the pain from her wounds until he had just mentioned it. She looked up at him and smiled.

"I'll be fine eventually, I just have to rest. But I'm actually hungry now"

He bent down kissed her lightly on her lips and was about to pull back when she kissed back, first lightly but then their kiss grew more passionate as he let out all his frustrations into her mouth and she let all her pain into his.

He looked into her eyes after the kiss had broken, due to their lack of oxygen, and she could feel the love radiating off of him. She wanted to kiss him forever, his lips tasted so good and his tongue in her mouth was like heaven. But what if he didn't want to be with her forever? What if after she had been tainted, he didn't want to be with her like that anymore. What if he would leave her and then she would be alone for the rest of her life which she had always feared was her destiny.

She needed to find out if he still wanted to be with her.

Heero's POV

He could see her face battling in a mix of emotions. He thought he read fear on her face. Immediately he was alarmed.

"Relena what's wrong?"

"I..Heero do you...love me even though I was violated?" She looked up at him. She was truly serious about this. Hadn't he already told her he loved her. And why was she asking him if he still loved her even though she had been raped? Didn't she understand that he would love her no matter what happened to either of them?

"Relena, why don't you believe me when I tell you I love you. I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true. I wouldn't lie to you at all. I love you"

Relena looked very much relieved. She yet again smiled at him.

"I love you too Heero"

They yet again leaned towards each other and kissed

"Now how about I find you some breakfast?" Heero asked

"mmmm that sounds good"

With that Heero left his position on the bed resentfully but purposely in search of a meal fit for a queen. His queen. Relena the queen of his heart.

Relena's POV

A few weeks had past and she had slowly began to recover. She of course was becoming more and more agitating to the people around her, but she had a purpose for doing so. They had all (her friends, her brother, and Heero) told her she could not leave her bed until she was fully healed. That was 3 weeks after she had returned home. She endured several counselling sessions to make her more 'stable' even though she was over the rape and she felt as confident of herself as ever. Of course she had objected to going to see a counsellor in the first place, but everyone forced her to go. So she listened to the counsellor blab on about nothing in particular (Dr. Roselini seemed to have no knowledge of how a rape victims felt and treated her like she was some sort of fragile, unstable, temperamental, lunatic doll). Every session she took, the doctor would somehow work her way to her relationship issues, and ask "And how does that make you feel?" every 5 minutes. Relena swore that was the only sentence she heard the woman speak.

She also endured several doctor visits to check up on her health. She was recovering nicely, and she was very healthy, but the frequent doctor visits were driving her insane. She knew that she should see a doctor every once and a while, just to make sure she was healing right, but someone, which she guessed was Milliardo, scheduled twice a week doctor appointments.

Thankfully through the ruckus, Milliardo hadn't brung up her future career. She figured Heero had talked to him, after she had begged him to. Heero had told her he had been planning to do so for a while, but ever since Heero was living in the mansion (she had made Milliardo agree to give him a room) he had been avoiding him at all costs, and Zechs did likewise.

She was tired of being a sitting duck. She hated being cooped up all day in a stuffy warm room. A T.V had been brought up to her room for entertainment. She had spent countless hours each day watching Soaps on the electronic box, and watching the same plots repeat themselves on different titled shows. Most dealt with the murder of a main character, a kidnapping of a person and a pregnant woman carrying the child of the man that died, but was hiding it from her husband who believed the baby to be hers. Oh and had she forgot to mention that the kidnapped person was the man who is the father of the baby, who the woman thinks is dead, but actually was just injected with poison that turned him into an alien? It was all confusing.

She also spent a lot of time sleeping. She noticed she had, even though it was a short period of time, gained a little weight, well at least all the weight she had lost when she had decided not to eat much, and she had a little more then before.

'If I don't exercise soon, I will become a shrivelled vegetable, with ruined eyes (from watching t.v) and overweight. Soon they'll have to use a crane to lift me out of the bed alone.'

Her wounds did not hurt anymore, and her bruises had long since faded away. The bump on her head had died down, and her ribs were almost back to normal. Her bullet wound had almost closed over completely, and she thankfully didn't have any scars left on her body.

It had been explained to her that when she had undergone surgery to get the bullet wound removed, they had used a special type of stitch to stitch her wound back up, and it contained an agent that fought away scar tissue, so she didn't have to be ashamed of wearing her bathing suit outside.

Now if only she could get outside again. She would be able to escape and then go surf! But she knew she wouldn't leave for a third time. Things could only go to ruins like they had before. No she had to stay and fight her ground this time. She couldn't always run away from her problems. If she stood and fought, then she would come out in victory and the bonus would be that no one would be looking for her, because they would already know where she was, and she'd have their consent.

She had to do some major planning though in order to persuade Milliardo that she was going to move somewhere, not go back to office and instead continue her dreams to become world surfer champion.

She sighed heavily. Well she had spent enough time lying in bed vegging, it was time to work up a plan. With something finally occupying her time, she set to work.

Heero's POV

Heero had, per request of Relena, talked to her brother about her position in the politics world. When he had gone to meet with Zechs he was surprised at how well the whole thing had went. He had expected Zechs to debate and fight for control of his sisters life, but he was proven wrong.

Zechs had actually agreed with Heero that Relena should not resume position had FM. Heero found out that he blamed himself for Relena getting hurt, because if he hadn't forced Relena back into office, then she wouldn't have run away, and then nothing would have happened to her. Heero knew that Zechs was responsible for her misery, but he didn't believe that the Relena was hurt because of him.

No Heero took full responsibility for what happened to her, and he was ashamed at his own stupidity.

Heero had asked Zechs what he had in store for Relena and all Zechs reply was

Flashback

"Yuy I know that your in love with my sister. I can tell by the way you look at her, and by how much time you spend with her. I am no fool" Zechs had looked him in the eye very determinedly as if he was spreading around his point.

"And do you care if I love her?"

"Frankly I do. Because I love my little sister, and I would not want any harm to come to her. But I do believe that you would not harm her, because if you were to, then I would strangle you without a second thought" Despite how tough Heero was, he had gulped at that statement. But had kept perfect eye contact with Zechs the whole time.

"So would you mind if I eventually moved her out of the mansion, to a secluded area and get her back on track with surfing. And if I were to eventually marry her...?"

"You're a good man, I would give you my blessing if need be. But if you hurt her, I swear I'll kill you. I now understand that you actually saved my sister in the first place after the incident, but you were stupid to leave her alone. Other wise there was nothing else you could do. In the future I expect you to take more care of my sister."

Heero and Zechs had exchanged a small grin, before Heero left Zechs' office.

End Flashback

Heero had been very happy that Milliardo had given him his blessing. What was better was that Relena would finally be proclaimed his, and he would spend eternity with her in a nice home near a body of water where she could surf all day long, and he could watch her, in her bathing suit.

Heero slapped himself on the head to get the next string of thoughts out of his head, and then headed out to a store. He had a plan that he was forming in his head. He needed to propose to Relena in the most perfect way, and to do that he needed to buy some things first.

A.N So how was that? Curious about the next chapter? It will be the last one to the fic, I'm quite certain on this. I know about 10 chapters ago I said the story was almost over and I dragged on a bit, but oh well you guys enjoyed it right? Anyway, don't worry the sequel still has yet to come! Review!REVIEW!ReViEw!