Chapter 3
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing! Will you go away now?
Lawyer: No, I think not.
Hee-chan: Why not!?!
Lawyer: Because. I rather like this story. I think I'll stay and see how it turns out.
Hee-chan: -_-' God help me.
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Duo followed him into the gorgeous house. Upon entering, his jaw dropped again. He had walked into a huge living room with a wooden floor that simply shinned. The room was complete with a coffee table surrounded by comfy looking chairs and couches in the corner. The living room branched off into a hallway containing doors that were opened and closed. Duo followed Heero into one of the opened rooms. Inside was a minature library. The walls were covered in shelves lined with nothing but books. In the middle of the room was a desk. Upon the desk was a laptop and a set of keys. In the corner of the desk was a pencil holder and beside the laptop was a full stack of papers. Heero went over and grabbed the keys, heading back out. He stopped in the hallway and turned to Duo.
"You wanna drink?" he said, remembering his manners. Duo could do nothing but nod. Heero spun back around and headed for one of the closed doors. Opening the door, he revealed a full kitchen. Duo was again struck speechless. The kitchen was pure white with tile flooring. It was lined with counters on the right and opposite side of the wall. Between various counters were the refrigerator, washing machine, garbage disposal, and sink. Some of the wall was lined with various pots and pans.
Heero walked over to the refrigerator. Opening it, he pulled out two beers, handing one to Duo and keeping one for himself. The two men popped the beers open, and walked out of the room. As Heero lead the way back down the hall, Duo noticed there were no steps. No steps but a second story. This confused Duo, but he had no time to think of it as Heero walked back through the front door, closing it after Duo came out. Then, walking over to the garage, he popped open another keypad and punched in different numbers. The garage door opened revealing a Dodge Viper and a Harley.
"Holy shit! Thats a Dodge Viper equipped with a standard 8.3-liter, V10, 500-horsepower engine and 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive!" he said all in one breath. Then he turned to the Harley. "And a Harley......how did you get all this?" he asked, turning to Heero. Heero, though, said nothing but walked to his car as if Duo wasn't there. Pulling out the keys, he unlocked and opened the door. Then he looked over at Duo.
"Thanks for the ride" he said and began getting in the car.
"Hey, wait!" yelled Duo and he ran over to the passanger side, knocking on the window. Heero rolled down the window. He knew this wasn't going to be easy.
"What?" he said.
"Where ya going?" he asked.
"Somewhere," Heero responded and began closing the window again.
"No wait!" Duo put his hands in the window in an attemp to get them to stop going up. Heero sighed and rolled it back down.
"What?!" he said, irritated. He had to get to Lady Une and let her know he was alright.
"I wanna go!" said Duo in a whinny voice.
"What are you, like 8?" Heero asked sarcastically. Duo stuck out his bottom lip and sniffed.
"Please!!!!" he whinnned. Heero rolled his eyes.
"Get in..." he said, earning a "YES!" from Duo as he hopped in the passanger seat. Heero pulled out of the driveway in his gorgeous black viper and pulled off onto the street. He stepped on the gas hard, speeding by houses and people. Duo noticed ahead, some cops sitting....waiting to catch someone who was speeding. And Heero was deffinatly speeding.
"Uh, Heero, man....you think you should slow down? There's some cops right there." he warned. Heero said nothin, but hit the gas harder, speeding right past the cops, doing 80 in a 25 zone. "Shit Heero, are you nuts?" he asked and threw on his seat belt. When the cops pulled them over, he didn't wanna get another ticket for not having a seat belt on.
But the cops didn't pull them over. On the contrary, they waved at Heero as he passed and went back to watching other cars. Duo turned around and looked at the cops as they sat there, quickly dissapering in the distance. Duo turned back around and look at Heero, mouth open. Heero had a small smirk on his face, as if he was enjoying totally confusing Duo. And he was.
"What.....did they......but you...." Duo was at a loss for words. Heero looked at him for a moment and turned his gaze back to the road.
"The cops know if I'm speeding that I have a mission to get to." he explained.
"So what if you pass a cop that doesn't know?"
"Every cop knows. If they pull me over, they know the consequenses." said Heero as he looked in the rear veiw mirror and switched lains.
"The consequenses? What are the consequences?"
"I'll kill them." he stated. Duo gulped and sat back, looking out the window.
They arrived at Preventers Headquarters in no time. Instead of going into the parking lot though, Heero pulled around the building and parked in a garage.
"I didn't know this was back here!" he said in amazment. Heero said nothing as he got out of the car and locked it. Duo follow in suit. Outside the garage was tall grass that came well past both the mens head. As Duo looked around, he realized it would even go past Trowa's head. "They need to cut the grass." he said, not really talking to anyone. Duo started back around the building before realizing Heero wasn't with him. "Hey!" he turnd around and ran back to the garage in time to see Heero enter the thick, tall grass. Duo quickly followed, though it was hard to tell where Heero was. The grass covered him well.
Soon, they reached the back of the building to a door hiding by the grass. Heero opened the door and walked in. They entered into what looked like the back stairs. These stairs were used incase the elevator didn't work. Heero climbed the steps 6 storys, with a puffed out Duo following. At the top was two doors. One was labeled 'Floor 6', the other 'Janitors Closet'. Heero walked over to the janitors closet and pulled out his keys again. Picking out a certain key with a triangle shape on the top, he insertered it into the key hole. As he opened the door, he revealed not a janitor's closet, but a hallway.
The hallway was all cement and the sound of Heero and Duo's shoes resounded off the wall as they walked in. There were no windows, only small lamps hanging from the cealing. At the end of the hall, there was a door. As they reached the door, Heero turned to Duo with a stern look on his face.
"If you tell anyone any of this is here, I will kill you." he said, hand on the doorknob. Duo nodded. Heero turned back to the door and opened it. He entered into a room, through the side, that had a warm feeling coming off its walls. It was an office. This room, too, had no windows. Almost against one wall was a wooden desk. On the desk was a laptop, a phone, and some papers. Against another wall was a leather couch. A wooden coffee table sat infront of it. On the opposite wall was what appeared to be a hospital bed. Beside the hospial bed was a door, across from the door they had just entered. Behind the wall that had nothing, Heero could heard the hustle and bustle of people at work.
Heero threw his jacket on the desk chair and sat at the desk, pushing a button on the phone. While holding the button, he hit two numbers, holding them each for about five seconds. Then her released the button. He looked up at Duo and motioned to the couch, letting a "Take a seat" excape his lips. They sat in silence for a moment. Then, suddenly three long tones echoed the room, coming out of the phone. Then Lady Unes voice sounded.
"Heero? Is that you?" the voice asked.
"Who else would it be?" he replied in a "Duh" kinda voice.
"Where have you been?"
"You don't want to know."
"Are you ok?"
"I'm fine.
"Stay there. I'll bring the doctor up." she said, and her voice left. Heero sighed and looked at Duo.
"She never believes me." he said
"With good reason." Duo replied with a grin. Heero knew he was talking about the cut on his stomach. The two men sat in silence and waited. Heero thought to himself. *Lady Une's gunna be mad when she finds out Duo knows. And Relena too. Sigh. I can trust Duo, right? He's never betrayed me before. But I wouldn't let him go on missions with me. He is needed too bad. I know about him and Hilde. He thinks I don't but I do. I've kept track of eveybody. I know he's planning to ask her to marry him soon. He got the ring last week. I'm sure he would have asked her already if I hadn't turned up. He has to stay alive, for her if nothing else. I couldn't take him away. What if something happened on a mission? I could never forgive myself.*
His thoughts were cut short as the door to his right opened. He turned to see Lady Une walk in, a doctor following.
"Heero! Where have you been! How come you haven't checked in! I was worried about you." her back starightened as she noticed Duo sitting on the couch. "Whats he doing here?" she turned back to Heero, very serious.
"He figured it out." Heero said. "You just had to call and ask for me, didn't you?" he said, alittle irratated.
"Well Heero, the mission was over a week ago. I hadn't heard from you. I thought you were hurt. Or worse. I was just checking to see if Relena or Duo had heard from you. Seen you. Anything! Wait.....how did you know I called them?" Heero took a deep breath.
"I was there." he said, looking her right in the eyes.
"You were there? What do mean, you were there?" she said, her eyes narrowing.
"Just what I said, I was there."
"Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine."
"Lier!" Duo said. When they all turned and looked at him, he looked around as if looking for whoever had said it. The doctor rushed over to Heero and looked him over.
"Where are you hurt, Heero?" he asked.
"No where, I'm fine." he said, glaring at Duo. The doctor look back at Duo who streched and rubbed his stomach. He turned back to Heero and pulled his shirt out of his kakies, lifting it up.
"Tisk tisk tisk. You call this nothing?" he said and pointed to the hospital bed.
"I'm fine!" he said again.
"Just lay down, Heero!" said Lady Une in a commanding voice. Grumbling, Heero walked over and layed down on the hospital bed. The doctor walked over and lifted Heero's shirt again to get a good look.
"Well, its stiched nicely. Looks like you've already been looked at. I can take the stiches out now, if ya like? You'll just have to be careful not to reopen the wound. That'll be a nice little scar." he said as he walked back to the door to retreive his bag. Lady Une followed him back over to get a closer look. The doctor took out a pair of medical scissors and started snipping the stiches out as Lady Une began to talk.
"Who looked at you?" she asked curiously.
"I don't know. Ask Duo." he said, staring up at the ceiling. Lady Une turned to Duo.
"I don't know." Duo said. "You'll have to ask Relena. He was already stiched up by the time I got there."
"Relena?!!" cry Lady Une as she whipped around to look at Heero again. He gazed up at her cooly. "How does Relena know your alive!?" she asked.
"She saw me." he answered as though someone had just asked him the stupidest question in the world.
"How did she see you?" she asked through gritted teath.
"Look, all I know is that I passed out on her doorstep and woke up in her bed.
"And she took care of you?" Heero nodded. "Did she tell anyone else?"
"I don't know." he replied.
"Would she tell anyone else?" she asked.
"I don't know!" Heero said alittle more heated.
"Why would you go there in the first place?!?!!" she yelled.
"I Don't Know!" he yelled back.
"Well you better start knowing quick, Heero, because I want some answers. You probably just ruined everything, you know that, right? Damnit! I'm gunna go call Relena and have a talk with her. Walter, when you finish with him, come and get me." she said turning to the doctor before stomping out the door. Heero turned to Duo.
"Could you go tell her Relena knows everything I told you in the room?" he asked lazily. Duo hopped up with a "sure" and headed for the door. He dissapeared for a few moments.
"You really did it this time, Heero." the doctor said.
"Yeah, I know I did. But..." but he was cut off. A loud voice echoed from the room.
"WHAT?!" he heard Lady Une scream. Just then Duo ran in and slammed the door shut and ran over to the couch.
"Be prepared." he warned. Just then, Lady Une burst into the room, fury in her eyes. She ran over to Heero, looking like she wanted to strangle him.
"She knows?! SHE KNOWS!" she screamed.
"I didn't tell her! She overheard!" he yelled back.
"You shouldn't be talking about it in the first place!! GRR! Did you just go and admitt you love her while you were at it!?" Lady Une paced the room, clearly thinking of what she was going to do now. Heero glared at her. He sat up, seeing the doctor finished, and swung his legs over the side, preparing to get off.
"I am not in love with her!" he yelled as though he had to repeat himself. And he did. Lady Une was always telling him to just admitt to himself he was in love with her. He wouldn't do it. He was not in love with her! Lady Une spun around.
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not!"
"Why else would you go to her?" she yelled.
"I don't know!" he yelled back. "Maybe because she was the closest person I could go to!" he countered, quickly making up an excuse. Accually, he had no idea if she was the closest person or not. Apparently, Lady Une did. Her fire dissappeared and a cool smile appeared on her face.
"Ok Heero. Tell yourself that. But just so you know, Quatra was alot closer. I know where you landed. I found your gundam. Its downstairs. You knew Quatra was closer. You know where they all live. You know everything about them. How could you not realize he was closer than Relena? You did realize it. But you chose to go the distance to see Relena. How sweet. But by all means, keep telling yourself its cause she was closer." she finished cooly. Her smile irratated him.
"Now, if your quite ready, I need your help downstairs." she said, turnng on her heels and walking out the door. He stood there for a minute with his eyes closed, trying to calm down. He could feel the doctor's eyes burning into him as well as Duo's. He didn't care though. They could think what they wanted to think. He opened his eyes with a deep sigh and followed Lady Une through the door. He heard Duo quickly get up and follow him as well as the doctor.
He entered Lady Une's office. It was almost the same as Heero's in the previous room, only the hospital bed was absent. In its place was a book self, filled with books. The doctor walked out of the office into the busy hallway without saying a word. Heero knew he wasn't trying to be rude. The doc. had been here long enough to know when to talk and when not to. He gave Duo a symethetic look as he left.
Lady Une walked over to her laptop on her desk and pushed a few buttons. A young ladies face appeared in the screen.
"Oh hi, Ms. Une!" she said cheerfully.
"Hello dear. Would you kindly evacuate the vasility, please?"
"Why? Is there a problem?" she asked, concern in her voice.
"No, of course not. Thank you." she said in a voice that ended the conversation.
"Yes mam!" said the girl and closed the window. Lady Une typed in a few more keys and a man's face appeared on the screen.
"Hello, Ms. Une." said the man.
"Well, hi there. Would you be a dear and clear the halls for me?" she said with a sweet smile.
"Of course. And give my regards to our Professional Badass." he said with a smile and a wink.
"Of course." she smiled back and the screen went blank. She looked over at Heero. "Daniel send his regards."
"Professional Badass?" Duo grin. "Thats awesome! How come I don't get a awesome name like that?" Heero glared at Duo.
"Thats not his professional name. Just what we like to call him." said Lady Une. "Daniel came up with the name so we could talk about him without people knowing who he was." Before another word could be uttere, Daniel reappeared on the screen again.
"Halls cleared." he reported.
"Thank you so much." she said and flicked off the screen. "Lets go, she said, and walked out into the hall. Heero crossed his arms and follow. Duo jumped up and followed him. The three of them walked down the white halls, stopping at the elevator that was always closed off because it was broken. On the contrary, it was not broken. Lady Une hit the button and the door opened immediatly. Duo's jaw dropped as he followed Lady Une and Heero into the elevator.
"Damn. You went to the extremes to make sure no one saw Heero, huh?"
"Of course. If he gets killed, I'd have no one to go on the missions for me." she said playfully with a smile at Heero. He didn't look at her, but kept his gaze fixed on the door. He was the first one out as it opened. Duo looked around. He had never seen this part of the Preventor base. Seeing the look on his face, Lady Une began to explain.
"This is a special room we made for Heero. That elevator is the only elevator that goes down this low. We're below the basement. Heero takes his gundam here when he needs it repaired."
They had stepped out onto a platform with a railing over looking Wing Zero. Duo looked down to see about a dozen men and women working in and around the gundam to make it in top shape. Heero gazed down as well.
"When will it be ready?" he asked.
"They're just doing the finishing touches. It should be ready by tomorrow." she replied also looking down at the gundam. Heero nodded and walked back into the elevator. Lady Une follow. Duo on the oher hand, just stood there. He was amazed that all this could be under the base.
"Coming Duo?" called Lady Une. Duo quickly turned on his heels and ran into the elevator. The doors closed and Lady Une hit the basement button. When the door reopened, they were in the basement Duo knew. Only, it was empty except for a new modle mobile suit. All the people were gone.
Lady Une led the way toward the mobile suit, followed by Heero. Duo soon caught up.
"We just made this new model," Lady Une explained as she gazed up at the mobile suit. "I'd like you to test it for me, Heero. If you'd like to wait til your wound is completely healed..." but she couldn't get another word out. Heero jumped up into the cockpit and closed the hatch. Lady Une smiled and walk into a small room, followed by Duo. The room looked as though it was made of glass and you could clearly see the mobile suit from the room. Lady Une closed the door for safety purposes and walked over to the counter covered in levers, buttons, and microphones. Pushing a button she spoke into the microphone.
"Ok Heero. I'm gunna give you a simulation. Your mission is to destroy all the mobile suits you see."
"Mission Accepted." came Heero's voice. Lady Une smiled and pressed a few buttons. On a screen to the side, they saw the same images Heero saw. There were about 20 or so mobile suites. Just then, a movement to the side caught Duo's attention. He turned to see the mobile suit, occupied by Heero, move.
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I Hope everyone likes this fic! Please tell me what you think! I hope I'm not too bad a writer.......Creativity is a nessecity, huh? Hmm.....I need to do some major thinking for the fic. I've been told I need to put more detail in it, so I hope thats what I'm doing. Let me know!
~*~Strawberry Hee-chan~*~
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing! Will you go away now?
Lawyer: No, I think not.
Hee-chan: Why not!?!
Lawyer: Because. I rather like this story. I think I'll stay and see how it turns out.
Hee-chan: -_-' God help me.
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Duo followed him into the gorgeous house. Upon entering, his jaw dropped again. He had walked into a huge living room with a wooden floor that simply shinned. The room was complete with a coffee table surrounded by comfy looking chairs and couches in the corner. The living room branched off into a hallway containing doors that were opened and closed. Duo followed Heero into one of the opened rooms. Inside was a minature library. The walls were covered in shelves lined with nothing but books. In the middle of the room was a desk. Upon the desk was a laptop and a set of keys. In the corner of the desk was a pencil holder and beside the laptop was a full stack of papers. Heero went over and grabbed the keys, heading back out. He stopped in the hallway and turned to Duo.
"You wanna drink?" he said, remembering his manners. Duo could do nothing but nod. Heero spun back around and headed for one of the closed doors. Opening the door, he revealed a full kitchen. Duo was again struck speechless. The kitchen was pure white with tile flooring. It was lined with counters on the right and opposite side of the wall. Between various counters were the refrigerator, washing machine, garbage disposal, and sink. Some of the wall was lined with various pots and pans.
Heero walked over to the refrigerator. Opening it, he pulled out two beers, handing one to Duo and keeping one for himself. The two men popped the beers open, and walked out of the room. As Heero lead the way back down the hall, Duo noticed there were no steps. No steps but a second story. This confused Duo, but he had no time to think of it as Heero walked back through the front door, closing it after Duo came out. Then, walking over to the garage, he popped open another keypad and punched in different numbers. The garage door opened revealing a Dodge Viper and a Harley.
"Holy shit! Thats a Dodge Viper equipped with a standard 8.3-liter, V10, 500-horsepower engine and 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive!" he said all in one breath. Then he turned to the Harley. "And a Harley......how did you get all this?" he asked, turning to Heero. Heero, though, said nothing but walked to his car as if Duo wasn't there. Pulling out the keys, he unlocked and opened the door. Then he looked over at Duo.
"Thanks for the ride" he said and began getting in the car.
"Hey, wait!" yelled Duo and he ran over to the passanger side, knocking on the window. Heero rolled down the window. He knew this wasn't going to be easy.
"What?" he said.
"Where ya going?" he asked.
"Somewhere," Heero responded and began closing the window again.
"No wait!" Duo put his hands in the window in an attemp to get them to stop going up. Heero sighed and rolled it back down.
"What?!" he said, irritated. He had to get to Lady Une and let her know he was alright.
"I wanna go!" said Duo in a whinny voice.
"What are you, like 8?" Heero asked sarcastically. Duo stuck out his bottom lip and sniffed.
"Please!!!!" he whinnned. Heero rolled his eyes.
"Get in..." he said, earning a "YES!" from Duo as he hopped in the passanger seat. Heero pulled out of the driveway in his gorgeous black viper and pulled off onto the street. He stepped on the gas hard, speeding by houses and people. Duo noticed ahead, some cops sitting....waiting to catch someone who was speeding. And Heero was deffinatly speeding.
"Uh, Heero, man....you think you should slow down? There's some cops right there." he warned. Heero said nothin, but hit the gas harder, speeding right past the cops, doing 80 in a 25 zone. "Shit Heero, are you nuts?" he asked and threw on his seat belt. When the cops pulled them over, he didn't wanna get another ticket for not having a seat belt on.
But the cops didn't pull them over. On the contrary, they waved at Heero as he passed and went back to watching other cars. Duo turned around and looked at the cops as they sat there, quickly dissapering in the distance. Duo turned back around and look at Heero, mouth open. Heero had a small smirk on his face, as if he was enjoying totally confusing Duo. And he was.
"What.....did they......but you...." Duo was at a loss for words. Heero looked at him for a moment and turned his gaze back to the road.
"The cops know if I'm speeding that I have a mission to get to." he explained.
"So what if you pass a cop that doesn't know?"
"Every cop knows. If they pull me over, they know the consequenses." said Heero as he looked in the rear veiw mirror and switched lains.
"The consequenses? What are the consequences?"
"I'll kill them." he stated. Duo gulped and sat back, looking out the window.
They arrived at Preventers Headquarters in no time. Instead of going into the parking lot though, Heero pulled around the building and parked in a garage.
"I didn't know this was back here!" he said in amazment. Heero said nothing as he got out of the car and locked it. Duo follow in suit. Outside the garage was tall grass that came well past both the mens head. As Duo looked around, he realized it would even go past Trowa's head. "They need to cut the grass." he said, not really talking to anyone. Duo started back around the building before realizing Heero wasn't with him. "Hey!" he turnd around and ran back to the garage in time to see Heero enter the thick, tall grass. Duo quickly followed, though it was hard to tell where Heero was. The grass covered him well.
Soon, they reached the back of the building to a door hiding by the grass. Heero opened the door and walked in. They entered into what looked like the back stairs. These stairs were used incase the elevator didn't work. Heero climbed the steps 6 storys, with a puffed out Duo following. At the top was two doors. One was labeled 'Floor 6', the other 'Janitors Closet'. Heero walked over to the janitors closet and pulled out his keys again. Picking out a certain key with a triangle shape on the top, he insertered it into the key hole. As he opened the door, he revealed not a janitor's closet, but a hallway.
The hallway was all cement and the sound of Heero and Duo's shoes resounded off the wall as they walked in. There were no windows, only small lamps hanging from the cealing. At the end of the hall, there was a door. As they reached the door, Heero turned to Duo with a stern look on his face.
"If you tell anyone any of this is here, I will kill you." he said, hand on the doorknob. Duo nodded. Heero turned back to the door and opened it. He entered into a room, through the side, that had a warm feeling coming off its walls. It was an office. This room, too, had no windows. Almost against one wall was a wooden desk. On the desk was a laptop, a phone, and some papers. Against another wall was a leather couch. A wooden coffee table sat infront of it. On the opposite wall was what appeared to be a hospital bed. Beside the hospial bed was a door, across from the door they had just entered. Behind the wall that had nothing, Heero could heard the hustle and bustle of people at work.
Heero threw his jacket on the desk chair and sat at the desk, pushing a button on the phone. While holding the button, he hit two numbers, holding them each for about five seconds. Then her released the button. He looked up at Duo and motioned to the couch, letting a "Take a seat" excape his lips. They sat in silence for a moment. Then, suddenly three long tones echoed the room, coming out of the phone. Then Lady Unes voice sounded.
"Heero? Is that you?" the voice asked.
"Who else would it be?" he replied in a "Duh" kinda voice.
"Where have you been?"
"You don't want to know."
"Are you ok?"
"I'm fine.
"Stay there. I'll bring the doctor up." she said, and her voice left. Heero sighed and looked at Duo.
"She never believes me." he said
"With good reason." Duo replied with a grin. Heero knew he was talking about the cut on his stomach. The two men sat in silence and waited. Heero thought to himself. *Lady Une's gunna be mad when she finds out Duo knows. And Relena too. Sigh. I can trust Duo, right? He's never betrayed me before. But I wouldn't let him go on missions with me. He is needed too bad. I know about him and Hilde. He thinks I don't but I do. I've kept track of eveybody. I know he's planning to ask her to marry him soon. He got the ring last week. I'm sure he would have asked her already if I hadn't turned up. He has to stay alive, for her if nothing else. I couldn't take him away. What if something happened on a mission? I could never forgive myself.*
His thoughts were cut short as the door to his right opened. He turned to see Lady Une walk in, a doctor following.
"Heero! Where have you been! How come you haven't checked in! I was worried about you." her back starightened as she noticed Duo sitting on the couch. "Whats he doing here?" she turned back to Heero, very serious.
"He figured it out." Heero said. "You just had to call and ask for me, didn't you?" he said, alittle irratated.
"Well Heero, the mission was over a week ago. I hadn't heard from you. I thought you were hurt. Or worse. I was just checking to see if Relena or Duo had heard from you. Seen you. Anything! Wait.....how did you know I called them?" Heero took a deep breath.
"I was there." he said, looking her right in the eyes.
"You were there? What do mean, you were there?" she said, her eyes narrowing.
"Just what I said, I was there."
"Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine."
"Lier!" Duo said. When they all turned and looked at him, he looked around as if looking for whoever had said it. The doctor rushed over to Heero and looked him over.
"Where are you hurt, Heero?" he asked.
"No where, I'm fine." he said, glaring at Duo. The doctor look back at Duo who streched and rubbed his stomach. He turned back to Heero and pulled his shirt out of his kakies, lifting it up.
"Tisk tisk tisk. You call this nothing?" he said and pointed to the hospital bed.
"I'm fine!" he said again.
"Just lay down, Heero!" said Lady Une in a commanding voice. Grumbling, Heero walked over and layed down on the hospital bed. The doctor walked over and lifted Heero's shirt again to get a good look.
"Well, its stiched nicely. Looks like you've already been looked at. I can take the stiches out now, if ya like? You'll just have to be careful not to reopen the wound. That'll be a nice little scar." he said as he walked back to the door to retreive his bag. Lady Une followed him back over to get a closer look. The doctor took out a pair of medical scissors and started snipping the stiches out as Lady Une began to talk.
"Who looked at you?" she asked curiously.
"I don't know. Ask Duo." he said, staring up at the ceiling. Lady Une turned to Duo.
"I don't know." Duo said. "You'll have to ask Relena. He was already stiched up by the time I got there."
"Relena?!!" cry Lady Une as she whipped around to look at Heero again. He gazed up at her cooly. "How does Relena know your alive!?" she asked.
"She saw me." he answered as though someone had just asked him the stupidest question in the world.
"How did she see you?" she asked through gritted teath.
"Look, all I know is that I passed out on her doorstep and woke up in her bed.
"And she took care of you?" Heero nodded. "Did she tell anyone else?"
"I don't know." he replied.
"Would she tell anyone else?" she asked.
"I don't know!" Heero said alittle more heated.
"Why would you go there in the first place?!?!!" she yelled.
"I Don't Know!" he yelled back.
"Well you better start knowing quick, Heero, because I want some answers. You probably just ruined everything, you know that, right? Damnit! I'm gunna go call Relena and have a talk with her. Walter, when you finish with him, come and get me." she said turning to the doctor before stomping out the door. Heero turned to Duo.
"Could you go tell her Relena knows everything I told you in the room?" he asked lazily. Duo hopped up with a "sure" and headed for the door. He dissapeared for a few moments.
"You really did it this time, Heero." the doctor said.
"Yeah, I know I did. But..." but he was cut off. A loud voice echoed from the room.
"WHAT?!" he heard Lady Une scream. Just then Duo ran in and slammed the door shut and ran over to the couch.
"Be prepared." he warned. Just then, Lady Une burst into the room, fury in her eyes. She ran over to Heero, looking like she wanted to strangle him.
"She knows?! SHE KNOWS!" she screamed.
"I didn't tell her! She overheard!" he yelled back.
"You shouldn't be talking about it in the first place!! GRR! Did you just go and admitt you love her while you were at it!?" Lady Une paced the room, clearly thinking of what she was going to do now. Heero glared at her. He sat up, seeing the doctor finished, and swung his legs over the side, preparing to get off.
"I am not in love with her!" he yelled as though he had to repeat himself. And he did. Lady Une was always telling him to just admitt to himself he was in love with her. He wouldn't do it. He was not in love with her! Lady Une spun around.
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not!"
"Why else would you go to her?" she yelled.
"I don't know!" he yelled back. "Maybe because she was the closest person I could go to!" he countered, quickly making up an excuse. Accually, he had no idea if she was the closest person or not. Apparently, Lady Une did. Her fire dissappeared and a cool smile appeared on her face.
"Ok Heero. Tell yourself that. But just so you know, Quatra was alot closer. I know where you landed. I found your gundam. Its downstairs. You knew Quatra was closer. You know where they all live. You know everything about them. How could you not realize he was closer than Relena? You did realize it. But you chose to go the distance to see Relena. How sweet. But by all means, keep telling yourself its cause she was closer." she finished cooly. Her smile irratated him.
"Now, if your quite ready, I need your help downstairs." she said, turnng on her heels and walking out the door. He stood there for a minute with his eyes closed, trying to calm down. He could feel the doctor's eyes burning into him as well as Duo's. He didn't care though. They could think what they wanted to think. He opened his eyes with a deep sigh and followed Lady Une through the door. He heard Duo quickly get up and follow him as well as the doctor.
He entered Lady Une's office. It was almost the same as Heero's in the previous room, only the hospital bed was absent. In its place was a book self, filled with books. The doctor walked out of the office into the busy hallway without saying a word. Heero knew he wasn't trying to be rude. The doc. had been here long enough to know when to talk and when not to. He gave Duo a symethetic look as he left.
Lady Une walked over to her laptop on her desk and pushed a few buttons. A young ladies face appeared in the screen.
"Oh hi, Ms. Une!" she said cheerfully.
"Hello dear. Would you kindly evacuate the vasility, please?"
"Why? Is there a problem?" she asked, concern in her voice.
"No, of course not. Thank you." she said in a voice that ended the conversation.
"Yes mam!" said the girl and closed the window. Lady Une typed in a few more keys and a man's face appeared on the screen.
"Hello, Ms. Une." said the man.
"Well, hi there. Would you be a dear and clear the halls for me?" she said with a sweet smile.
"Of course. And give my regards to our Professional Badass." he said with a smile and a wink.
"Of course." she smiled back and the screen went blank. She looked over at Heero. "Daniel send his regards."
"Professional Badass?" Duo grin. "Thats awesome! How come I don't get a awesome name like that?" Heero glared at Duo.
"Thats not his professional name. Just what we like to call him." said Lady Une. "Daniel came up with the name so we could talk about him without people knowing who he was." Before another word could be uttere, Daniel reappeared on the screen again.
"Halls cleared." he reported.
"Thank you so much." she said and flicked off the screen. "Lets go, she said, and walked out into the hall. Heero crossed his arms and follow. Duo jumped up and followed him. The three of them walked down the white halls, stopping at the elevator that was always closed off because it was broken. On the contrary, it was not broken. Lady Une hit the button and the door opened immediatly. Duo's jaw dropped as he followed Lady Une and Heero into the elevator.
"Damn. You went to the extremes to make sure no one saw Heero, huh?"
"Of course. If he gets killed, I'd have no one to go on the missions for me." she said playfully with a smile at Heero. He didn't look at her, but kept his gaze fixed on the door. He was the first one out as it opened. Duo looked around. He had never seen this part of the Preventor base. Seeing the look on his face, Lady Une began to explain.
"This is a special room we made for Heero. That elevator is the only elevator that goes down this low. We're below the basement. Heero takes his gundam here when he needs it repaired."
They had stepped out onto a platform with a railing over looking Wing Zero. Duo looked down to see about a dozen men and women working in and around the gundam to make it in top shape. Heero gazed down as well.
"When will it be ready?" he asked.
"They're just doing the finishing touches. It should be ready by tomorrow." she replied also looking down at the gundam. Heero nodded and walked back into the elevator. Lady Une follow. Duo on the oher hand, just stood there. He was amazed that all this could be under the base.
"Coming Duo?" called Lady Une. Duo quickly turned on his heels and ran into the elevator. The doors closed and Lady Une hit the basement button. When the door reopened, they were in the basement Duo knew. Only, it was empty except for a new modle mobile suit. All the people were gone.
Lady Une led the way toward the mobile suit, followed by Heero. Duo soon caught up.
"We just made this new model," Lady Une explained as she gazed up at the mobile suit. "I'd like you to test it for me, Heero. If you'd like to wait til your wound is completely healed..." but she couldn't get another word out. Heero jumped up into the cockpit and closed the hatch. Lady Une smiled and walk into a small room, followed by Duo. The room looked as though it was made of glass and you could clearly see the mobile suit from the room. Lady Une closed the door for safety purposes and walked over to the counter covered in levers, buttons, and microphones. Pushing a button she spoke into the microphone.
"Ok Heero. I'm gunna give you a simulation. Your mission is to destroy all the mobile suits you see."
"Mission Accepted." came Heero's voice. Lady Une smiled and pressed a few buttons. On a screen to the side, they saw the same images Heero saw. There were about 20 or so mobile suites. Just then, a movement to the side caught Duo's attention. He turned to see the mobile suit, occupied by Heero, move.
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I Hope everyone likes this fic! Please tell me what you think! I hope I'm not too bad a writer.......Creativity is a nessecity, huh? Hmm.....I need to do some major thinking for the fic. I've been told I need to put more detail in it, so I hope thats what I'm doing. Let me know!
~*~Strawberry Hee-chan~*~