Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing.

AN: Okay people, this didn't turn out the way I wanted but I'm going to post it anyway. I may revise it later when I'm no longer mad at it. However I must warn you! There is a sequence--a letter to be exact--in here that is rather touchy. No real foul words but the subject matter is not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!

Within Relena's Shame: Chapter Four
by Wicked Child

His heart was pounding in his chest to point he felt it hitting his ribcage. The closer he got to the house, the worse the situation became in his mind. What was he going to find upon returning? He hoped to God that the woman didn't kill herself. He would never forgive himself of such a tragedy. Her death would be far worse than Meiran's.

The guards posted knew his car and waved him through immediately. They had been told that Agent Chang would be returning quickly due to an emergency and for them to leave protocol out of the way. The only other person in the Preventer organization feared more than Heero Yuy was Chang Wufei. And as he passed the guards, they could see that he was very upset. An upset Chang Wufei was worse than an enraged Lady Une.

Upon reaching the home's entrance, Wufei jumped from his car, barely putting it park before running inside. Davis met him in the hallway and quickly led him to the garden.

"What's happened? Where's Relena?" Wufei demanded.

"She's in the garden. She won't let anyone near her. Not even Pagan can calm her down. She just keeps screaming and breaking things."

"What does she scream?" Wufei had heard many screams in his young life, mainly those of death. He truly feared what scream he would hear from his friend.

Davis shook his head before answering. "It's rather unintelligible. But I do know she's called for you, sir."

Wufei nodded before bursting through the French doors leading from the family room into the garden. What he saw broke his heart and made the Preventer silently enraged. Wufei's eyes were wide with horror. There had only been one time in his life that he had felt such rage at the sight before him.

Relena was turned away from him, her attention focused on ripping out her precious rose bushes by hand. She tore ferociously at the once beautiful bushes, not caring if she hurt herself in the process. All of her attention was focused on removing such vile reminders of what she no longer was. What she would no longer be in anyone's eyes. Not her own, not Pagan's, not her brother's, and certainly not his.

"Relena," Wufei said as he approached the seemingly mad girl. His heart was still pounding in his chest but had calmed slightly when he realized she was still alive. The site before him disturbed him beyond words. "Relena," he called again more forcefully.

Relena looked up but did not see him. In her mind's eye all she saw was Heero looking at her disgusted by what she had become. No!

"Relena honey, it's me, Wufei." As he approached her, he saw the girl was still not focusing on what was before her but still lost in that part of her mind that drove her to such an extreme.

He moved forward but Relena lifted a hand as though to stop him.

"Don't come near me," she commanded.

Wufei obediently stopped. After a moment of silence, he began moving forward again.

Relena saw this and scrambled away. She quickly got up and ran a few yards away from him.

"No!" she screamed. "Don't come near me!"

Wufei's heart began pounding again. He had never seen her in such a state. He did not know how to bring out of it. He looked to Pagan and Davis, both standing helpless in back of him.

"Relena, it's me. This is Wufei you're talking to. I won't hurt you, you know that." Wufei began moving toward her again.

Relena's eyes seemed to focus again, the clarity evident to all those present. "Wufei," she whispered finally comprehending.

Wufei nodded and moved more quickly to his friend.

Relena's sobs were muffled behind her hands as she buried her face in them. She then fell to the grass as her sobs become uncontrollable.

Wufei kneeled next to her, wrapping his arms protectively around her. It was safe to say the woman was hysterical as he looked around the once beautiful garden. Statues were broken, thrown from their pedestals. All of the rose bushes had been ripped out; most of those Wufei knew had been there for many years which meant that Relena had to be severely upset to have pulled them out including the roots.

He felt Relena wrap her arms around him, clutching at his white shirt. Her hands bloodied and blackened by the stems and thorns from the roses she had tried to remove. Wufei felt his own rage as it had only begun to boil.

"Why Wufei? Why?" she sobbed into his chest.

Wufei didn't know what she was referring to and he didn't dare ask. Instead he said softly as he rocked her back and forth, "Shush baby, shush."

"Why won't he leave me alone? Why does he keep coming back?" Her tears staining his shirt.

"I don't know baby. I don't know."

"Why? Why?" Her voice cracked and nothing but her sobbing could be heard.

Wufei kept rocking her back and forth saying, "I'm here baby. I won't leave you again." He closed his eyes in hopes of stopping the tears threatening to escape. "Shush baby."

~~~

Heero Yuy stood in the doorway of the French doors watching the little scene, anger coursing through his body. After Une had let him go, he had sped to the home not caring what laws he broke. Fear gripped his heart once he read the address. He knew Chang's absence had something to do with Relena. But why?

The guards didn't even give him any trouble when he arrived. He was the one that ordered them to be posted there in the first place. Upon seeing their superior, they gladly and swiftly let him through, passwords be damned. As he had pulled up to the front door, Heero noticed the other Preventer's car was still running and the driver side door left open. He had absently noted a package in the backseat.

Presently, his eyes were glued to the scene before him. What anger he thought had dissipated between the office and Relena's home came back tenfold. He didn't fully comprehend what was going on but he knew that he should have been the one holding Relena.

From his vantage point he could see the smears of blood on the Chinese man's shirt from where he had been griped by the sobbing Vice Foreign Minister.

~~~

Pagan turned to see the other man standing in the doorway, eyes smoldering with pent up rage and anger.

"Master Yuy," he said.

Heero's eyes darted over to the old retainer. His anger raised another notch. "You lied to me Pagan."

Pagan gave him a slight nod. "It had to be done. It was my mistress' wish. But now is not the time." He looked back at the two figures in the destroyed garden.

Wufei slowly stood, bringing Relena with him. They saw him whisper something to her as he picked her up and turned around to face the other three men. His eyes landed on Heero and his face darkened.

He carried Relena over to Davis. "I want a thorough search done of the surrounding area. I want a five mile radius to be searched, noting anything out of the area."

Davis nodded and ran inside the house to give out the order.

To Pagan, he said, "I want you to follow me to Relena's room. You'll need to bandage her hands." Pagan nodded his understanding.

Wufei looked at Heero. Either he followed me or he conned Une into telling him. Bastard. "Move."

Heero locked eyes with his "friend" before looking down at the woman in his arms. Her face was red and stained with tears but she seemed to have passed out from crying. He noted Wufei's protective hold around Relena. He also noted how Wufei's hold became even more protective, if not possessive, the longer he looked at the blonde.

"We're going to talk Chang." It was an order.

"Move Yuy. I need to take care of Relena first before I deal with your pathetic ego."

Heero's eyes flashed dangerously before he moved to the side.

Both Wufei and Pagan made their way to the stairs before disappearing from Heero's line of sight. He then turned his attention to the garden, or what was left of it.

Relena did this on her own. Why?

He began making a search of his own of the mainly destroyed areas. She had treasured this garden. It had been another one of her sanctuaries. What made her destroy it?

Looking through the remains of one of the rose bushes, Heero noticed a piece of crumpled paper, next to it was a red envelope. He reached for it.

~~~

Wufei gently laid the now unconscious woman on her bed while Pagan went into the adjoining bathroom to prepare the bandages.

Wufei looked around the room, noting that everything was as they had left it that morning. He sighed in frustration.

What happened? He had left the house and everything had been fine. Relena had been happy, Davis had been performing a perimeter walk, the guards scanning the surrounding area as usual. What happened?

"Pagan. What went wrong?"

The old man walked into the room with a small bowl, washcloth, and bandages. He shook his head. "I do not know Master Wufei. I had been napping at the time it all started. The next thing I knew, Relena was screaming and trying to destroy her roses."

Wufei nodded though it was not in understanding. "Did Davis say anything?"

"Not that I know of. But I do remember her holding a piece of paper at the beginning of the incident. Where it is now, I do not know."

Wufei nodded again. "Thank you Pagan. Take good care of her. I'll be back soon."

"Please do Master Wufei. You seem to be the only one who can reach her."

Wufei left the two and made his way back down the stairs. There had been a paper. Did the rapist leave another letter, one that Relena found? He hoped not, but he knew that his hope was in vain.

"Chang."

Wufei whipped around and came face to face with a pissed Heero Yuy for the second time that day.

"What do you want?" he hissed.

"The truth for once."

"Good luck." Wufei turned back around and made his way to the garden.

"Looking for this?" Heero asked him tauntingly.

Wufei turned and saw that the other man was holding a crumpled piece of paper in his hand the directly resembled the stationary used in all of the other letters.

"Where'd you get that?"

Heero lowered his arm. "In the garden. It was among the rose bushes. What was left of them anyway." He looked down at the offending and vile piece of paper. "What the hell happened to Relena? Why wasn't I told?"

"I'll deal with that later. Give me the letter." Wufei had walked back to his fellow Preventer, hand outstretched expectantly.

Once again the two men were locked in a battle of wills, but this time Heero backed down. Pushing Wufei into a corner wasn't the smartest thing to do and he wouldn't receive the information he sought. He handed Wufei the letter.

"It isn't pretty."

Wufei sighed. "They never are." With trepidation, Wufei read the letter.

Hello lover,

I see you've healed from our last encounter. You heal beautifully. I've tried getting in contact with you but that Chink of a bodyguard keeps intercepting my letters. Such a nuisance. I may just get rid of him next time. Would that upset you? You seem rather fond of him. Then again, you seem fond of any man with slanty eyes. Whore.

I see you haven't informed your murderer. Are you ashamed my little whore? Ashamed of what you really are? Are you afraid they'll find out? Afraid that he'll find out? Are you ashamed that he'll find out that his little whore has been whoring behind his back? When he does, he won't want you. No one will want you. You'll only have me because everyone else will leave you, knowing what you really are.

You'll be alone my little whore. You know that's what you are, don't you?

WHORE! WHORE! WHORE! WHORE! WHORE!

Love you always

P.S. You're so beautiful when you read. But Duo Maxwell could never be a hobbit, he's too stupid for even that failed race.

Wufei's heart sank. If this is what Relena had read, there was no doubt in his mind that it would have been the root to her mental state.

"Shit."

Heero looked at him. "What?"

"If you want to know the truth, follow me." Wufei led the other man into his office, closing the door with a gentleness he did not feel.

Heero looked around the room. Pictures and notes were scattered everywhere. Some had pictures of Relena in them looking bruised, others were of locations, and other inanimate objects.

Wufei moved some papers around and indicated that Heero should have a seat while he himself remained standing.

"As you know, Relena has been out of the public eye for nearly a month now. As you may have already guessed it wasn't due to exhaustion from work."

Heero just stared hard at the man standing before him. He felt his pulse quickening as the truth was about to be revealed.

"Relena was raped Heero."