Safety Chapter 8

Do I REALLY have to say it? I. Do. Not. Own. Gundam. Wing. Ok? Ok. It's also pretty pointless to tell you that there is quiet a bit of RxH and all the other basic couples.

- This is another older one. I was going to wait a week or so before putting it up, but I'm doing it now because a got an email asking me to, so tah dah! and if you like it, you should thank her.

"Here we are." Noin said showing Relena and Heero through the door. "This is where Milliardo and I are staying for now."

"You and Milliardo?" Relena asked.

"Just while we are on this colony. There are two rooms." She looked back to Milliardo as he came through the door. "How should we divide the rooms?"

"What?" Milliardo asked, a bit confused.

"We have to divide the two rooms while Relena and Heero are staying here." She explained. "Or someone could sleep on the couch."

Everyone stood and looked nervously at each other for a few seconds.

"How about Relena and Heero stay in one room and we stay in the other?" Noin suggest to Milliardo.

"What about you and Relena in one room and Heero and I in the other?" Milliardo suggested.

Heero and Relena both looked annoyed. It was after 10 and they were tired.

"We should have gotten a hotel." Heero muttered and Relena sighed in agreement.

Zechs glanced at Relena and back at Heero, then gave Noin an "I-really-need-you-to-agree" look.

Noin finally sighed. "I don't think either of you mind, do you?"

"No," they both answered in a tired unison.

"All right then," Noin said, leading Relena to their room.

Heero started walking toward the other room.

"Wait." Milliardo said firmly, "I want to talk to you."

Heero looked at him for a second, then walked over and sat on the couch.

"I want to know how you have been treating Relena."

Heero reached into his pocket. "You should look at this," Heero said, tossing him the blue crystal necklace. "Familiar?"

Milliardo examined it curiously. "Yes."

"I didn't want to show it to you in front of Relena. I think I saw it in a painting at the palace a long time ago."

"Where did you get this?"

"Vert gave it to Relena in a letter."

Milliardo sat down, looking at it. "I remember it. It was my mother's favorite necklace. Why would he give it to her?"

"The note said that he had no intention of hurting her and that his name was Vert. The rest was just a scribble, like the pen had fallen from his hand."

"Doesn't want to hurt her?" Milliardo asked. "I don't believe that for a second."

"I doubt he thought we would."

"How do you think we can stop him?"

"Kill him," Heero said, standing up. "That would be my preference, but for Relena's sake, we can just catch him."

"All right, how are you treating Relena?"

"I protect her to fulfill my mission."

"Mission?"

"My mission is to protect Relena."

Milliardo laughed a bit and sat back. "That's all this is? Well, that's fine with me."

"By the way, she chose me,"

"What?"

"She chose to go to the ball with me."

"You told her that I found a prince, right?"

"Yes."

"Are you going to go?"

"What do you think?" Heero sarcastically remarked, as Milliardo went to the closet to get an extra pillow and blanket.

"I think you wouldn't," Milliardo said, pulling the pillow out.

"You don't know me very well then."

"What if I relieved you of your mission?" Millairdo asked and threw Heero the pillow forcefully.

"I don't quit missions," Heero said, as he caught it.

"You wouldn't be. You'd only be reassigned. You could go help train new recruits for the preventers."

"No."

Milliardo looked at him curiously. "Why not?"

"Because I'm not a very good teacher," He threw the pillow on to the couch.

"I'm sure they have another mission for you."

Heero looked at Milliardo. He knew what Milliardo was getting at, but he was going to continue to dodge. "You don't think Relena is safe with me?"

"No, I don't."

Heero smirked a little surprised. "Then you shouldn't have given me the mission."

"I didn't want to."

"Then why did you?"

Milliardo looked over and glared for a second before ignoring his question. "Do you want the bed or the sleeping bag?" he said motioning toward the room.

"I'd rather just sleep out here. I'm sure you wouldn't mind having your own room."

Milliardo looked back and was about to argue, but decided he was too tired and handed him a blanket. "Fine." He went into the next room, shutting the door soundly.

Heero turned off the light, than laid on the couch to try and sleep.

About 4 am, the lights flashed on. Heero blinked and sat up.

"Oh!" Relena said, seeing him. She kept her voice down so she wouldn't wake Milliardo or Noin. "I thought you were in the room with Milliardo."

"No." he said, getting up. "Why are you up?"

"I can't sleep, but I'll go back and let you sleep more."

"No," Heero said, pushing off the blanket. "It's fine. Why can't you sleep?"

"I don't know," Relena lied, sitting in a chair nearby.

Heero got up and looked around the small kitchen for something to eat. Everything was empty.

"I can't believe this..." he muttered moving through empty cupboards.

"What's wrong?" Relena asked looking over from the chair.

"They don't have any food," he said after going through everything.

"They probably go out every night."

Heero came back and sat down on the couch. "Are you hungry?"

"A little I guess."

"Good." he said getting back up. He took his wallet out of his pocket. It only had 20 dollars in it. "We have enough to get something to eat," Heero said, looking through Milliardo's coat pocket, fishing out the keys to his car.

"Where is your car?" Relena asked, scribbling a note to Noin and Milliardo.

"It's still at my apartment," Heero said opening the door. He let Relena through and then gently closed it.

"Think they'll notice that we're gone?" Relena asked quietly as they walked down the halls of the empty dark building. It was eerie and their footsteps echoed.

"Yes, but you left a note, so we shouldn't worry about it." They stopped and waited for the elevator. Music played lightly as it dropped them down to the first floor. Relena glanced at Heero for a second, but quickly looked away.

"At least we don't have to worry about any attacks," she said quietly. The elevator beeped as they got to the bottom floor. The entire floor was empty and dark.

They walked out to Milliardo's car and got in. It was silent as they drove to the small 24-hour mart that was down the road a little bit.

Heero didn't even look up from driving. "Relena, you need to relax."

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I'm here so you don't have to worry about the attacks or anything else. You need to focus on your job. That's what's most important right now." He glanced over at her for a second then parked the car at the mart. "I also don't want you to worry about me. I'm only here to protect you." She looked down. "But that's because," he said opening the door, "I want to." He got out of the car and Relena did the same. "But if this isn't working, Zechs would be more then happy to find you a different body guard."

Relena smiled. "It's fine, Heero."

He gave a small smile and a nod in return. "All right. Let's go get some food then."

When Relena and Heero got back Noin and Milliardo were still sleeping. They unpacked what they needed to make pancakes and eggs.

"The colony that the ball is at isn't very far from here," Heero said, taking out a few eggs and putting the rest into the small refrigerator. "There wouldn't be any point to going there until the night before."

"But do we really want to stay with Noin and Milliardo is the question."

"If it's all the same to you, I wouldn't mind finding our own hotel or staying with Quatre."

"Quatre lives on this colony?" Relena asked.

"Yeah."

"Then we should at least visit him. I didn't get to talk to him at all at dinner."

"All right. When do you want to go?"

"Right after we feed Noin and Milliardo. I don't think we should ask to stay with him though."

"His house is most likely the safest place on this colony and I'm sure he has the room."

"I don't want to have to beg people for a room though."

"Quatre understands what's going on."

"But I don't want to be rude."

"Then I'll ask."

"Then you'll be rude."

"Why does that matter? It wouldn't be you that's asking."

"Let's just find a hotel. I still want to visit him though."

"If we visit him, he'll offer a room. When he does, we should accept."

"Otherwise we'll be rude," Relena sighed.

"If we stay with Quatre we have less chance of Zechs trying to visit us."

"Would that be a bad thing?"

Heero didn't answer.

"There's no reason for you and Milliardo to be fighting anymore. Why don't you both stop?"

"Because there is a reason."

"Which is?"

Noin walked in quietly, "Sorry for interrupting your little tiff, but what are you making?"

Relena blushed. "Some eggs and pancakes." she said opening the mix for the pancakes.

"Is Milliardo up yet?" Heero asked, cracking the eggs.

"I don't think so, but he may be," she said, getting an apple out of one of the bags. "So I was wondering too. What are you and Milliardo still fighting about?"

Heero glared. She knew, but she wanted him to admit it in front of Relena. Through Preventers, she and Heero had gotten to know each other well. Even if they hadn't, she could still pick up on what was going on.

"Nothing," he said casually.

Noin decided to let it go. "I caught something about staying with Quatre-"

"You were listening to our conversation?" Relena asked, a little offended.

"I didn't mean to, but it's really quiet and sound carries easily."

Relena decided that it didn't matter and let her continue.

"So are you going to stay with him? I wouldn't mind just staying with Milliardo."

"I'm sure you wouldn't," Heero said, under his breath. Relena smiled when Noin blushed slightly.

"Maybe you should stay here and Relena and I will visit Quatre." Noin threatened.

"Then all this food would go to waste."

"You've been hanging around Relena too long. I think you might actually have a sense of humor."

"That probably wasn't a joke," Relena corrected.

Noin nodded.

"What isn't?" Milliardo asked, walking in.

"Nothing." Relena said, pouring pancake batter into a pan. "We were thinking of going to visit Quatre today. Do you mind if we borrow your car?"

"You should take a taxi," Noin said.

"That sounds like a better idea," Heero said.

"Are you coming back?" Milliardo asked.

"If he offers a room, we don't want to be rude."

About the same time Duo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei were helping with a shopping trip.

"Are you sure the four of you can do this?" Duo asked the excited girls.

"Yes!" Catherine, Hilde, Dorothy, and Sally all said at once.

"Ok." Duo sighed, "We'll have to trust you guy-... I mean... ladies." He waved his arm towards the fancy boutique. "Go for it."

"I saw the perfect dress here." Dorothy said as they walked in.

"I hope it wasn't that green one." Hilde shuddered.

"What's wrong with that one?" asked Catherine.

"It's just too green." Sally said, looking at the greenest dress she had ever seen.

"I think it would suit Miss Relena fine."

"You would," muttered Hilde.

Duo, Trowa, Wufei, and Quatre sat outside the shop on a bench.

"How long is this going to take?" Duo asked out loud.

"Four women in a store buying clothes? We'll never leave." Wufei said.

"For the first time ever, I think I actually agree."

"Just as long as they pick something," Trowa said.

"It's more important that it's something that will look nice." Quatre said slightly worried over Dorothy's demand to 'help', "She is going to be in front of all those people after all."

"Do you really think it was a good idea to bring Dorothy?" Trowa asked, knowing who Quatre was thinking about.

"We need all the help we could get," Duo answered. "Though I can't believe your thinking of taking her to the dance, Quat."

"I don't see why you need to bring a woman to something anyway. If I could, I would happily go alone," Wufei said.

"I don't think anyone would mind if you went alone," Trowa said, a little annoyed.

"Are you kidding? We need Sally there so someone will shut him up!" Duo corrected. "Why are you taking your sister as a date?"

Wufei opened his mouth, but Duo stopped him before he could say anything.

"I'm going to show support for Relena." Trowa answered.

Duo sat and blinked for a second. "Oh. I get it."

"I don't," Quatre admitted, hoping for an explanation.

"If he didn't, he's going to have a ton of girls after him. This way none of them know that she's his sister, so all the girls will think he's taken." He looked at Trowa and winked. "You'd better hope Catherine doesn't find a more interesting date though. Otherwise you may be in trouble."

"I'm going to show support for Relena," Trowa repeated.

Three hours pass.

"We found it!" Hilde declared, walking out of the store with the other girls.

They all stared at the four sleeping boys.

"We weren't that long," Dorothy said.

"Better sleeping then fighting," Sally said.

"They were probably fighting before they were sleeping," Hilde said under her breath. Dorothy slowly leaned close to Quatre till she was right next to him, as if she was going to whisper in his ear.

"WAKE UP!!!" she yelled as loud as she could.

All the boys growled and held their ears as they sat up.

"What was that for?" Duo asked angrily, watching Quatre holding his head trying to stop the ringing.

"You shouldn't have fallen asleep." Dorothy answered.

"You shouldn't have taken three hours." Wufei retorted.

"Can you hear?" Trowa asked Quatre, who didn't answer.

"You know, maybe they should try to kill her instead of Relena," Duo said, standing up.

"That's not funny," Hilde said, throwing the bag at Duo.

"That the dress?" Duo asked looking in. "Ohhh... Sparkly!"

"We think she'll like it," said Sally.

"If you didn't think she would like it, why would you buy it?" Wufei asked.

"Let's go home," said Catherine pulling Trowa up.

"Ummm... Is he going to be ok?" Hilde asked, looking at Quatre.

"I'll be fine." Said Quatre, still holding his head in pain.

"At least he can still hear," Duo said.

"It's the other ear we have to worry about," said Wufei.

"This is going to be an interesting party," Trowa said half to himself.

Miles away, an important phone call is being made.

"Where are you?!" yelled Vert into the phone.

"Sir, we got word that Relena Peacecraft is going to colo -"

"Where did you hear this?!"

"From a woman outside the meeting room."

"Our times should have been correct. She was probably a preventer."

"Sorry sir,"

"Pay it no mind." He sighed. "We'll just have to plan better. The celebration of the signing is our last chance, but we know she will be there. We'll plan for that."

The next one is only half already written, so it might be a little while before I get it up.