Crazychickie4life: Hey everyone! Yes, I'm still alive, no this story was not going to just be left to die. I am not an evil authoress, and I do intend on finishing every story I begin. Sorry about the wait, I guess I just got massive writers block, and I also did not feel up to writing. Every time I sat in front of my laptop to write, I got bored, and shut my laptop off. I finally received my inspiration to write again, when I read a few people's stories that made me highly jealous and want to continue on with mine --; (I know, weird huh?). Anyway, I'm back, hopefully the story will continue on, on a more.....sequential pattern, but I'm not so sure yet so don't butcher me.
A side note: If you want me to dedicate the next chapter to you, then write me a reasonable review that gives me some suggestions that I could possibly use for the next chapter, and any ideas you have in the future. The person that has the best ideas, will be dedicated the next chapter! Go you w00t! So get in there and participate!
Side note 2: a lot of you seem to think I might kill off Relena. There are no promises there yet, ya never know - (I'm currently singing a chant I made up, called I 3 Relena)
Chapter 12: Not A Tear Shall Fall
Relena sat cross legged on her bedroom floor, a cup of herbal tea in one hand, her other supporting her chin. A wedding magazine lay open in front of her, opened to a page showing an elaborately done wedding, white roses were neatly arranged everywhere possible, the happy couple staring deeply in love in each others eyes, hands clasped together. Pews and pews of guests filed to the back of the room with elegant white ribbons and lace decorating the wooden benches. On the brides side were several bridesmaid's, each with their hair in beautiful up does, and midnight blue bridesmaid dresses. On the groom's side were some close friends of the groom, and his best man and ring bearer. Each of them had designer tuxes on, crisp, and traditional black and white. The bride was sporting a very valuable diamond and gold wedding band, while the groom had a fancy gold band, intertwined with many markings. Some of the relatives and friends of both sides were weeping joyously into handkerchiefs, and even the minister seemed to be very happy with the young couples decision to join in marriage.
Relena sighed heavily, imagining Heero and herself on their wedding day. The moment flashed before her, a premonition, or just a peek of a Kodak picture, either way, she could see it, and the anticipation grew inside of her, as did her frustration.
Yes she understood the doctors and Heero were just looking out for her well being, but she had rushed to get everything rounded up, all the I's dotted, and the T's crossed. But, her efforts had been fruitless. She had, earlier that morning, had to make the dreaded phone call to her wedding planner, explaining the situation, and asking if she would hold off on the wedding for another month. The wedding date was now set for October 23rd. Relena pouted gloomily as she realized that she would have to keep the very pretty dress she had ordered in her closet for another whole month. She also realized that seeing as how she was now carrying a baby around, she would gain some weight, not much, but some, by the time a month rolled in. In other words, the set back would now cause her to have her to get her dress modified to fit her and baby.
Then there was also the fact that it was an inconvenience to the guests currently staying at their home. They had taken time off for their wedding, only to come and find out it was being postponed for another month. To say Relena felt bad wasn't even the half of it.
And why was it that Heero seemed to behave so oddly around her? It had seemed to her, as if he was treating her like a porcelain doll, a doll that was so precious, dainty and old, that it could collapse at any moment and shatter to bits. She hated that he was treating her in this way, and did nothing but add to her list of frustrations.
On top of all that, she also woke up rudely, to a bout of unwanted morning sickness. Heero had calmly sat by her side the whole time, speaking words of encouragement, pressing a cool cloth to her head the whole time, and holding her hair up for her.
She knew he loved her, and she loved him to, but she found it highly embarrassing for him to have to watch her cough up her cookies. So, (and she thought that this might have to do with her pregnant mother mood swings) she had 'politely', asked him to never assist her in the bathroom again. She could tell through his frown, that he was confused, although he did not display it, and somewhat stunned. But at the moment, she hadn't cared, not that she didn't feel remorse now.
It had been two days since her return from the hospital, and the house was dead quiet. The boys had all left on some apparent 'mission' , while the girls had gone shopping. Relena, had caught on to the fact that he did not want her to be by herself, ever. But what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him? Right?.
Although an invitation had been extended to her, to participate in the glorious shopping event which the girls had already planned for a while, she had politely declined due to her current un inspired shopping mood.
So, Relena continued flipping through the magazine, idolizing some of the beautiful girls and their gorgeous dresses. And she sighed some more.
Relena was startled out of her reverie, when Shia decided to catch her off guard.
"Shia what do you think your doing little missy?" The cat glared up at her with her pudgy face, and tentatively brought it's paw to rest on Relena's leg.
Ever since Relena had returned home from the hospital, Shia had become attached to her, more so then ever before. Catherine suggested it was because Shia was beginning to sense Relena's baby, and felt somewhat protective of it. Heero said it was because the cat could sense the baby, and wanted to eat it. Relena believed Catherine on that one. Of course it made perfect sense.
The cat began to slowly bring her paw across her leg, and into the hole created when Relena crossed her legs. One by one, the fat cat brought each leg across Relena's, until finally she had managed to plop herself down, nestled on her legs.
Relena let out a small 'oomph' as the added weight pressed down on her. The cat then began to purr, as she nuzzled closer to Relena's belly, and licked Relena's arm with her sandpaper tongue.
"You are just to kawaii!" Relena pet the cat between her ears, and listened as the cat purred even louder.Relena giggled, between the cat's purring and her own giggles, she never heard the front door open and close silently downstairs. Nor did she hear the footsteps of someone creeping up her staircase. It was only when Shia pounced off her and hissed and growled in the direction of the hallway leading to her bedroom, did she realize something was not quite right.
"Hello Relena, I've been looking forward to this for a while now".
::Heero's POV::
Heero had left the house earlier that morning to a grumpy gloomy Relena, and an excited bunch of girls. As far as he knew, while he was out with everyone in their search for Josh, the girls were going to monitor Relena, both health wise and safety wise.
Heero had also neglected to tell the girls of Relena's current condition. He was worried that, since girls have a tendency to gossip, that if he were to explain the situation, one of them might accidentally let something slip, and he would not allow that.
Heero had also decided to only explain the situation with Trowa and Wufei, trusting them with the information. He had to tell someone, just in case something were to ever happen to himself or Relena. Both had provided him with sympathetic glances, neither wanting to imagine what it would be like without the ex princess.
He knew he could not do much to save Relena or the baby at the moment, and right now the danger wasn't as high as it would be within the next few months. So, he decided his main focus for the next few days should be to terminate Josh and find Kayla, and possibly terminate her as well. The threat of her physical well being at the moment, was the only threat he was concerned about, or the only concern he would allow himself to worry about. Josh and Kayla would be as much of a danger to Relena as her baby would, if something were not to be done immediately.
With the help of hq, the guys were all checking out various areas where Josh and Kayla's description seemed to match up. But every time they seemed to check somewhere for them, they were no where to be found, and no clues had been left behind to give them any ideas as to what they were up to. This frustrated Heero to no end.
Another thing that frustrated him, was when his pregnant soon to be wife decided to tell him not to help her out anymore when it came to 'bathroom issues'. Did she not understand that she needed his help? He needed to take care of her to make sure she survived the pregnancy.
A thing that seemed to surprise him however, was that ever since she came home from the hospital, no reference to her surfing career had been made, and she even had denounced his sleeping quarters on the couch as off. But, after this morning where he had apparently angered her, she called it back on.
Sometimes Heero would never understand her. As far as he could see, all he had done was help her out, there was nothing wrong with caring.
"Oi Heero, is this the next address?" Duo questioned from the front of the group. Heero checked the street sign, the house number, and nodded his head without expression. He had memorized each and every location in a small diner where Duo had insisted they eat breakfast.
Knocking on the door, Duo rocked back and forth on the balls of his feet, frustration and restlessness overcoming him. When no one responded, Duo knocked again, this time harder.
"Baka, stop it, you'll collapse the building" Heero stated monotonously.
"Open up!" Duo shouted.
"Shh!" Quatre said with a blush of embarrassment towards his friends actions.
Duo made to bang on the door again, and this time Wufei stopped him by grabbing his wrist. All the while, Trowa stared at the pack behind covered eyes, his dark hair gleaming in the sun.
"We'll come back another time" Quatre stated while trying to break the war that was about to happen between Wufei and Duo.
Before another word could be uttered however, a man yanked open the door with more force than was necessary, holding a revolver in one hand, pointed directly at Duo.
"What ya all want? I ain't done nothing. This is trespassin!" The man was fairly tall, with a stomach that would put Santa Claus to shame. His white muscle t-shirt, too short and too tight, came up just above his belly button to reveal a fair amount of unwontedly seen skin. His shirt also carried the burden of several food stains, mustard one of them, or at least the guys hoped. His jeans were fairly loose, and would have been fine, had he zipped up the half zipped zipper. He was un shaved, hair was unkempt, and his cheeks held a bright red furious color to them, making it seem as if he had just run a marathon.
"We have come here to look for a man wanted on several charges and is very dangerous." Duo said brightly.
"Why ye askin me fer, and what gives you the right tah bang on me door?" The guy asked, not putting down his weapon even an inch.
"Because we think that you may have seen this man before and would like to question you for further possible details that may help us on our search. My partner has a deficiency that provokes him to occasionally become mildly destructive."
"Really? I wanna see some papers" the guy said, still not putting his guard down. Quatre officially handed him the papers, and they all awaited the man's approval as Duo glared menacingly at Heero. Heero glared back at Duo with an infamous death glare, and Duo instantly backed down.
"Fine, ya'll can come in fer a moment". The man dismissively pocketed his weapon and moved back to allow them room into his flat.
Taking a quick observation of his surroundings, Heero noticed that the room's were quite neat and tidy, unlike the man who had shown them in. Heero started to wonder of this man had a deficiency of some sort, but for their own health, he decided not to ask.
"One more question before you begin questioning me. Why's do ya allow a destructive person to follow ya's around?" the man asked.
"Sir, that is confidential information that I cannot reveal at this point in time." Heero informally announced.
"Right, right" The man bobbed his thick head up and down to show his approval.
"Now where we beginning?"
::Relena's POV::
Relena wanted to scream, but as if sensing this reaction, the person roughly covered her mouth. Relena, defensively, bit as hard as she could, and the twirled around long enough to see that the person she feared it was, was indeed Josh.
"Godamnit that bloody hurt! You haven't been a very good girl lately have you?" Josh asked angrily, slowly walking towards Relena, who defensively backed up, slowly coming closer and closer to the wall, just where he wanted her. A glint in his eye terrified Relena to no end, memories and nightmares shot back up to her memory, and suddenly she began to find it hard to breath.
"What did I tell you bitch? Did I not say that you were not to tell anyone about our encounter a while back? But no, you had to go and tell your precious Heero, didn't you?" with each step she took backward, he took one forward. Eventually, space ran out, and Relena could not think clearly anymore. She was now backed up against the wall, and he had his hands on either side of her head, his face dangerously close to hers.
"Why didn't you obey me?" His voice grew louder, and his face screwed up into a look of pure hatred. He backed up, only enough to bring his hand back, and harshly deliver a blow to her face.
Relena touched the red hot spot with tears stinging in her eyes. She knew that this was going to bruise, he had hit her very hard.
"I don't ever want to see you tell anyone about me ever again. Make up a story, tell them I went to another country, I don't bloody care. But I'll be damned, if you say one more word about our encounters from now on, I'll make sure that your precious baby doesn't live at all." Relena gasped in horror and pain as Josh punched her stomach once. Not hard enough to damage anything to the baby, but hard enough to hurt. How did he know about the baby? She wondered in her dazed state of mind, as Josh delivered blow after blow to her body.
Eventually he stopped, and her body fell completely numb.
"If anyone asks where you got these bruises from, you fell down the stairs, but the baby is okay. You understand me?" Josh asked, power radiating off his voice.
Relena only nodded.
"Or else your precious bundle of joy will be lost before it can even poke its head out and say peek a boo. Got it?"
Relena nodded once more, she was in too much pain, and was to frightened to do anything else, even the tears hadn't flown from her eyes yet, just stung the corners, as if waiting to fall.
"Good. Next time, we'll have some more fun" Josh smiled at her, and then walked out of the room.
Relena dared not move until she heard the slam of the front door, at which point she ran as fast as she could locking the doors, windows, and any other way he could get into the house.
Even though she was completely terrified, and wanted nothing more then to curl into a ball in the corner of her room and cry, she had to make sure that she obeyed him so that she could save the baby. Hurrying to her makeup stand, she quickly, and with shaky hands, began applying layer after layer of heavy cover up to hide all the bruises that were slowly beginning to form on her face.
It would be easily understandable if she lied and told them that the bruises on her body were from falling down the stairs, but the ones on her face would be hard to explain. Looking herself over in the mirror, finally satisfied with her work, she realized she wouldn't be able to cry either, because her salty tears would ruin the freshly applied makeup.
Relena was tired, in pain, and she couldn't even relieve herself by even shedding tears. Instead, she settled for burying herself under the covers of her bed, completely tense, thinking at any moment Josh would barge into her room again, and weeping in her heart, terrified of what Josh was going to do to her the next time they met.
A.N. I know it's sad, but I had to put more Josh being evil in there, so don't jabber on about how I'm always so mean to Relena. Trust me I 3 her, and am very very very very jealous of her! Now go and review for the chance to have a chapter dedicated to you! (see the side note)
