Found
Part 3
Relena had had the first peaceful night in 4 days. Maybe it was because she had slept with her new teddy bear in her arms, she didn't know. But she saw a rose on the night stand and a different crease was on the bed, like someone had either kneeled or sat on it. During the night she had dreamed that Heero had come and kissed her lightly promising that he would never make her cry again. She had asked him not to go, but he had said that he would return soon. She didn't know whether or not it was just a dream. She had asked him like she was half asleep. And when he had kissed her, he had laid the rose on the night stand. And there it was, so it must have been true. She rose out of bed and got dressed, making sure to weave the flower into her hair. Then she picked up the bear and headed out to the dinning room.
"Good morning everybody!" She exclaimed cheerfully.
Everyone froze and looked up at her. She let out a laugh because most of them had their mouths open ready to put a forkful in, which was also stopped in mid air. "Oh, if you guys could only see how silly you look!" She laughed again while taking a seat and setting the teddy bear on her lap.
"Good morning Relena!" Mariemaia exclaimed. "Are you going to carry that teddy bear around everywhere like a child?"
A few people coughed and cleared their throat but Relena shrugged it off. "It cheers me up. I need a little reminder of Heero around me wherever I go. And besides, you shouldn't be saying such things, Mariemaia, since technically you still are just a child." They both smiled at each other and Mariemaia went back to eating her breakfast.
"Oh, Relena!! Where did you get that rose? It's beautiful!" Hilde exclaimed.
"Yes, and it's fresh too," Treize added.
"Heero," Relena answered simply.
"Funny Relena," Duo said. "Heero would never give anybody a rose since it is a symbol of love. Now where did you get it? Did you sneak out and go to a flower shop or grocery store?"
"No, I'm telling the truth!" Relena said seriously and obviously very annoyed. "Heero gave it to me last night."
"Okay whatever. Hey Quatre! Did you know that your answering machine is blinking? I think you got a massage man."
"I do?" Quatre asked as he went over and pushed the receive button.
Heero's voice came through, "I'm sorry Relena. I didn't mean to make you cry. Believe me when I say that I will return soon. Until then, Quatre, I'm counting on you to watch over her." That was it. It was a simple message, but one that left everyone's mouth dropped; with the exception of Relena, she was smiling. "I knew it wasn't a dream," she whispered to no one in particular.
"I didn't know Heero called last night," Duo said. "And he said 'sorry' now! He never does that!!"
"Well with the way you sleep," Hilde commented. "I wouldn't be at all surprised that you didn't hear it."
"ahem Well, I'll do what he says," Quatre said. "But I can only do it until the conference and then when it's done."
"The Conference!!!!" Relena screeched noticing the time. "It's already 11:30 and it's at 2!!!!! Sorry but I have to get ready!!!" She grabbed a piece of toast with jelly on it, a glass of OJ and her bear and was off running to her room.
"Now if Relena's running to get ready because she's late," Zechs stated, "Then she must have gotten the sleep she needed."
"Obviously," Treize answered.
"Um, what are we going to do with Relena's gifts?" Duo asked. "Can we open them for her?"
"DUO!!!!"
"I deeply apologize for my tardiness," Relena said as she walked into the conference room. "I haven't been feeling well lately and I slept in today."
"Well, your only fashionably late Vise Foreign Minister, and you have an extra leeway since you were sick," a representative from colony L4 sympathized, giving a little sniff into his handkerchief to show that he too was under the weather. "Now getting down to business, there is a rumor going around that there are a few renegade soldiers that have been attempting to take 'important' individual's lives to try to start up another war between the colonies and Earth and put the U. E. S. N in jeopardy. Even a few attempts have been made upon your life Miss Relena. Is this true?"
"Not to my knowledge," Relena answered. /But if Heero had been watching over me, then he would have caught the assassins. So maybe it is true/ she thought to herself. "Although it could be true and I just haven't noticed because of my condition and perhaps of being guarded so effectively."
"That may be true," A representative from colony L1 said. "But you still have to be careful. You of all people would be on the top of the list. Obviously your protectors are doing their job."
As soon as he had said "job" a huge explosion was heard not far from where the meeting was taking place. A secretary ran in screaming, "It's started!!! We're under attack!!!"
"Vise Foreign Minister! We have to get you out of here!!" Another representative said as they were escorted by security out of the room and down the back stairs.
"Where are we going?!" Relena asked as they rounded bends in the stairs.
"There is a back way out of here," one of the security members said as they ducked from a piece of the falling ceiling and ran out into the parking lot where people were scrambling to get away from the crumbling building and explosions.
"HELP!!!!!!" Someone screamed as a piece of the building fell on their legs. Relena turned and ran towards them, fully aware of the danger she was heading into.
"It's on me! I can't move!"
"Stay still," Relena said as she tried to push the large stone off of the person, but it wouldn't budge.
"It's too heavy!!! You won't be able to do it yourself!!"
"Yes I can!" Relena screamed as she thought of Heero and his first Gundam; of how he saved her when he didn't have to from a piece of the falling debris of her old school. And slowly the ruble started to came off of the victim. "Somebody help this person!!" She yelled over the explosions. Three people came and helped her push the rest of the stone off of the person.
"How on earth could you have lifted that this far Vise Foreign Minister!?!?!"
"That doesn't matter now!!" Relena answered over the explosions. "Get this person some help!!"
"We have everything under control!!! You go!!!"
Relena grabbed her bag and started running as fast as possible. She only needed to round the corner of the building and she would be at the transportation unit and leaving for safety. But someone turned the corner and stopped her.
"What are you doing?!" She demanded.
"We're sorry Queen Relena," he said sarcastically. "But we won't let you leave until we get what we want."
"We?" But her question was cut short as something hard hit against the back of her head. To her the world seemed like it was rushing towards her as she fell. Sparks exploded in front of her eyes and she couldn't tell whether or not it was her, the building exploding, or both. She heard two shots and two bodies hit the ground. Before the darkness consumed her she tightened her grasp on her bag that held thus far the most important thing to her in the world, Heero's gift.
When she awoke she was lying in a bed with someone was pressing a cool, damp cloth against her forehead. She moaned and lifted her hand to touch a bandage that had been placed around her head. She opened her eyes to find that the rose she had left in her hair had survived and was laying on the night stand. Her bag was nowhere to be found.
"My bag! Where's my bag?!?!!" She sat up suddenly and then gasped from the pain that was exploding from her head as the darkness almost took her again.
A warm hand gently pushed her back down as she fully came back. "Shh... You've been injured, you need to lie down."
/That voice. I know that voice.../ she thought. "Heero!" Her eyes shot open and gasped once again, though because of disbelief this time. This time they were met with cool cobalt blue ones. For a while they just stared at each other, Relena not daring to speak for fear of "ruining the moment".
"Your bag was burnt. Everything was ruined except one thing," Heero said calmly. He reached back and gave Relena her teddy bear. Relena took it from him, fingers bushing his for a moment longer than needed, before she hugged the stuffed bear close like she had when she had first gotten it. She smiled and looked back up at Heero, "I never got a chance to thank you for it, now I can twice."
"Well?"
"Thank you and thank you so much," she smiled.
"Your welcome," he said smiling slightly.
"You know, you have a habit of smiling at the wrong time."
The smile was replaced by his trademark look of confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Well, not counting the psychotic smiles during battle, that one you just gave me I've only seen once before. It was right before you went to battle my brother in the first war, so that was a bad time. And now this."
"What makes this a bad time?"
"I'm injured," Relena answered in that semi-sarcastic, matter-of-fact way.
"Oh," he said lowering his eyes.
She smiled and nuzzled the bear more. "Still as small worded as usual, I see. But really, thank you."
Heero looked up to see Relena with her eyes closed holding his gift. He gave a small smile again and switched his position on the bed. Lying down beside her he wrapped an arm around her body protectively. It was a simple gesture, but one that meant the world to Relena.
"Where have you been?"
"Searching for myself," he answered simply.
"And?" She asked starting to drift off to sleep.
"I found it here."
Heero looked at Relena to find that she was comfortably sleeping. He thought about letting go of her and heading to the couch in the living room, but then, deciding not to, he tightened his grasp on her and fell into comfortable sleep.
Relena had had the first peaceful night in 4 days. Maybe it was because she had slept with her new teddy bear in her arms, she didn't know. But she saw a rose on the night stand and a different crease was on the bed, like someone had either kneeled or sat on it. During the night she had dreamed that Heero had come and kissed her lightly promising that he would never make her cry again. She had asked him not to go, but he had said that he would return soon. She didn't know whether or not it was just a dream. She had asked him like she was half asleep. And when he had kissed her, he had laid the rose on the night stand. And there it was, so it must have been true. She rose out of bed and got dressed, making sure to weave the flower into her hair. Then she picked up the bear and headed out to the dinning room.
"Good morning everybody!" She exclaimed cheerfully.
Everyone froze and looked up at her. She let out a laugh because most of them had their mouths open ready to put a forkful in, which was also stopped in mid air. "Oh, if you guys could only see how silly you look!" She laughed again while taking a seat and setting the teddy bear on her lap.
"Good morning Relena!" Mariemaia exclaimed. "Are you going to carry that teddy bear around everywhere like a child?"
A few people coughed and cleared their throat but Relena shrugged it off. "It cheers me up. I need a little reminder of Heero around me wherever I go. And besides, you shouldn't be saying such things, Mariemaia, since technically you still are just a child." They both smiled at each other and Mariemaia went back to eating her breakfast.
"Oh, Relena!! Where did you get that rose? It's beautiful!" Hilde exclaimed.
"Yes, and it's fresh too," Treize added.
"Heero," Relena answered simply.
"Funny Relena," Duo said. "Heero would never give anybody a rose since it is a symbol of love. Now where did you get it? Did you sneak out and go to a flower shop or grocery store?"
"No, I'm telling the truth!" Relena said seriously and obviously very annoyed. "Heero gave it to me last night."
"Okay whatever. Hey Quatre! Did you know that your answering machine is blinking? I think you got a massage man."
"I do?" Quatre asked as he went over and pushed the receive button.
Heero's voice came through, "I'm sorry Relena. I didn't mean to make you cry. Believe me when I say that I will return soon. Until then, Quatre, I'm counting on you to watch over her." That was it. It was a simple message, but one that left everyone's mouth dropped; with the exception of Relena, she was smiling. "I knew it wasn't a dream," she whispered to no one in particular.
"I didn't know Heero called last night," Duo said. "And he said 'sorry' now! He never does that!!"
"Well with the way you sleep," Hilde commented. "I wouldn't be at all surprised that you didn't hear it."
"ahem Well, I'll do what he says," Quatre said. "But I can only do it until the conference and then when it's done."
"The Conference!!!!" Relena screeched noticing the time. "It's already 11:30 and it's at 2!!!!! Sorry but I have to get ready!!!" She grabbed a piece of toast with jelly on it, a glass of OJ and her bear and was off running to her room.
"Now if Relena's running to get ready because she's late," Zechs stated, "Then she must have gotten the sleep she needed."
"Obviously," Treize answered.
"Um, what are we going to do with Relena's gifts?" Duo asked. "Can we open them for her?"
"DUO!!!!"
"I deeply apologize for my tardiness," Relena said as she walked into the conference room. "I haven't been feeling well lately and I slept in today."
"Well, your only fashionably late Vise Foreign Minister, and you have an extra leeway since you were sick," a representative from colony L4 sympathized, giving a little sniff into his handkerchief to show that he too was under the weather. "Now getting down to business, there is a rumor going around that there are a few renegade soldiers that have been attempting to take 'important' individual's lives to try to start up another war between the colonies and Earth and put the U. E. S. N in jeopardy. Even a few attempts have been made upon your life Miss Relena. Is this true?"
"Not to my knowledge," Relena answered. /But if Heero had been watching over me, then he would have caught the assassins. So maybe it is true/ she thought to herself. "Although it could be true and I just haven't noticed because of my condition and perhaps of being guarded so effectively."
"That may be true," A representative from colony L1 said. "But you still have to be careful. You of all people would be on the top of the list. Obviously your protectors are doing their job."
As soon as he had said "job" a huge explosion was heard not far from where the meeting was taking place. A secretary ran in screaming, "It's started!!! We're under attack!!!"
"Vise Foreign Minister! We have to get you out of here!!" Another representative said as they were escorted by security out of the room and down the back stairs.
"Where are we going?!" Relena asked as they rounded bends in the stairs.
"There is a back way out of here," one of the security members said as they ducked from a piece of the falling ceiling and ran out into the parking lot where people were scrambling to get away from the crumbling building and explosions.
"HELP!!!!!!" Someone screamed as a piece of the building fell on their legs. Relena turned and ran towards them, fully aware of the danger she was heading into.
"It's on me! I can't move!"
"Stay still," Relena said as she tried to push the large stone off of the person, but it wouldn't budge.
"It's too heavy!!! You won't be able to do it yourself!!"
"Yes I can!" Relena screamed as she thought of Heero and his first Gundam; of how he saved her when he didn't have to from a piece of the falling debris of her old school. And slowly the ruble started to came off of the victim. "Somebody help this person!!" She yelled over the explosions. Three people came and helped her push the rest of the stone off of the person.
"How on earth could you have lifted that this far Vise Foreign Minister!?!?!"
"That doesn't matter now!!" Relena answered over the explosions. "Get this person some help!!"
"We have everything under control!!! You go!!!"
Relena grabbed her bag and started running as fast as possible. She only needed to round the corner of the building and she would be at the transportation unit and leaving for safety. But someone turned the corner and stopped her.
"What are you doing?!" She demanded.
"We're sorry Queen Relena," he said sarcastically. "But we won't let you leave until we get what we want."
"We?" But her question was cut short as something hard hit against the back of her head. To her the world seemed like it was rushing towards her as she fell. Sparks exploded in front of her eyes and she couldn't tell whether or not it was her, the building exploding, or both. She heard two shots and two bodies hit the ground. Before the darkness consumed her she tightened her grasp on her bag that held thus far the most important thing to her in the world, Heero's gift.
When she awoke she was lying in a bed with someone was pressing a cool, damp cloth against her forehead. She moaned and lifted her hand to touch a bandage that had been placed around her head. She opened her eyes to find that the rose she had left in her hair had survived and was laying on the night stand. Her bag was nowhere to be found.
"My bag! Where's my bag?!?!!" She sat up suddenly and then gasped from the pain that was exploding from her head as the darkness almost took her again.
A warm hand gently pushed her back down as she fully came back. "Shh... You've been injured, you need to lie down."
/That voice. I know that voice.../ she thought. "Heero!" Her eyes shot open and gasped once again, though because of disbelief this time. This time they were met with cool cobalt blue ones. For a while they just stared at each other, Relena not daring to speak for fear of "ruining the moment".
"Your bag was burnt. Everything was ruined except one thing," Heero said calmly. He reached back and gave Relena her teddy bear. Relena took it from him, fingers bushing his for a moment longer than needed, before she hugged the stuffed bear close like she had when she had first gotten it. She smiled and looked back up at Heero, "I never got a chance to thank you for it, now I can twice."
"Well?"
"Thank you and thank you so much," she smiled.
"Your welcome," he said smiling slightly.
"You know, you have a habit of smiling at the wrong time."
The smile was replaced by his trademark look of confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Well, not counting the psychotic smiles during battle, that one you just gave me I've only seen once before. It was right before you went to battle my brother in the first war, so that was a bad time. And now this."
"What makes this a bad time?"
"I'm injured," Relena answered in that semi-sarcastic, matter-of-fact way.
"Oh," he said lowering his eyes.
She smiled and nuzzled the bear more. "Still as small worded as usual, I see. But really, thank you."
Heero looked up to see Relena with her eyes closed holding his gift. He gave a small smile again and switched his position on the bed. Lying down beside her he wrapped an arm around her body protectively. It was a simple gesture, but one that meant the world to Relena.
"Where have you been?"
"Searching for myself," he answered simply.
"And?" She asked starting to drift off to sleep.
"I found it here."
Heero looked at Relena to find that she was comfortably sleeping. He thought about letting go of her and heading to the couch in the living room, but then, deciding not to, he tightened his grasp on her and fell into comfortable sleep.