Chapter Two
"These Walls."
By: Dreamer
Song by: Trapt
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Something missing
Left behind
Search in circles
Every time I try
I've been here before
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I get up and put on the Preventer uniform that I've come to know and almost love for the last five years since the war. It got old quick and I was there in the office seven days a week almost twenty-four hours a day. I tried to convince the Lady to let me live in my office, but she wouldn't let me. So I sold the old wrecking yard to move into an apartment closer to the building so all I had to was walk to work. It was far better than wasting money on car insurance and payments for twenty minuet drives to and from work. Plus the Scrap yard carried too many memories for me. I couldn't bare to live there. At least not without her. It's been about two months since I've seen her and I haven't so much as gotten any word from her.
I walk down the street barely noticing anyone and enter the building as I call Hell. It wasn't the people that worked here that was the problem, it was all the work. If it wasn't one thing on day, it was always shit the next day. I go to the break room and clock in and then head up to my office. My job was security or being a bodyguard for Ms. Peacecraft. Most of the time that bastard was doing the security on the building while I was out doing field work. Which didn't bother me that much.
I opened the door to my office and there's a note on my desk. It tells me that I have to go some place or another with Ms. Peacecraft. I smiled, it was better than filling out paperwork today. In a way I pity that bastard because the one who did building security on Fridays was suck doing the weekly report. Usually when there was bodyguard work I have to go in and give a report to the Lady herself in person. That was a daily report. Lady Une would rather have me do bodyguard work than building work because I would never do the paperwork, what was the point? She figured out that I would do a verbal report that day, so I'm a bodyguard.
Then Mr. Peacecraft enters my office and briefs me on my mission. He tells me it is somewhere, I don't care where, but I know that I've been there.
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I've seen you before
I can't escape walking through these halls
Hard to find a place where there are no walls
And no lines begging me to cross
Only straight ahead better move along
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I show him my respect and leave, he's only the second highest ranking in the building, next to Une herself that is. Then the bastard, then me, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei. I probably would be the last ranking if I wasn't a bodyguard to Ms. Peacecraft. I'm then walking down the hall and I guess I'm wrapped up in my thoughts because I barely catch the glimpse of blonde hair out of the corner of my eye. I then feel a hand on my shoulder. I turn around to face Ms. Peacecraft. I give her my famous smile that seems so distant now. I haven't smiled in about a year and two months.
She returns the favor, which seems to bring some color to her face... it's been looking a little pale lately.
"Why?" She asked softly reaching up with a shaky hand.
Her silky hand reached up and touched the side of my head. She runs her delicate hand through what's left of my hair. Her hand slips down to the back of my neck and she finds the braided tail of mine. Her touch puts shivers down my spine but I force myself not to move. She then fades out of sight, my eyes are slowly closing. I feel her fingers curl around the small braid and she lifts it up from my shoulder.
"Max, we can't have this," she said pointing it out, I love it when she uses my nickname.
I must've scared her because my eyes snapped open and my hand caught her wrist that held my braid. There for a minuet I held that bastard's steely gaze, but I soon turned the puppy look on her.
"Please?" I begged. "Can I keep it?"
It had to be how I said it, because she erupted into laughter. When she was able to get her diplomatic look back on she nodded her head slightly.
"When you get a minuet, I need to see you in office. Mr. Maxwell," she said.
I stopped in my tracks and turn my head so I can see her out of the corner of my eye. She's wearing a baby blue outfit and white shoes. It looks wonderful on her it's just that she's a bit pale.
"Yes, Ms. Peacecraft," we've now turned on our formalities.
"I want to see you before we leave," she commanded walking off.
It wouldn't be the first time that she's called me in there before we've gone on some diplomatic journey of hers. I know I shouldn't go because I've always thought that she belonged to that bastard that I worked with the last six years. But then again I could be wrong, just like I was with her.
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Like Clockwork
I commit the crime
I pretend to be
Everything they like
I've been here before
I've seen you before
And I'd trade everything for this
Why do I read the writing on the wall
I won't lose my place in line
I've been here too long and I've spent to much time
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I wasn't going to show up in her office until it was time to go, but I couldn't stop myself. She had that power, whenever she wanted me all she had to do was command me to come there. I was like a dog, I obeyed and came to her when she called.
I approached her doors and knocked on them, there came a muffled "come in." I pushed open the doors and then they shut with a click, it automatically locked. There was only two people with the pass codes. Ms. Peacecraft and myself. That bastard made the system and he promised Ms. Peacecraft's brother that he wouldn't break in it.
We were close and she would've told me if he had, but he hadn't. Something else was keeping him busy for the last six years. For some reason he left this beautiful flower to grow and bloom without him.
"Ms. Peacecraft, you wanted to see me?" I asked formally.
She removed her jacket piece that was apart of her dress suit and looked me over. Placing her hands on her hips she looked at me, she was pissed.
"You're late, Duo," she said moving closer to me.
"I'm sorry," I said as she put her arms around my neck and pushed off my Preventer jacket.
Just then I noticed that there was soft music playing in the background. She looked at my arms and noticed that they were well defined.
"Is something wrong?" I asked.
"You look better than the last time I saw you," she comment softly.
Without being able to hold it back anymore, we came together in a soft kiss, one that grew deeper and deeper as her fingers stroked the back of my neck.
Later
I rushed her into her private bathroom and went to open the door, because someone knocked on it. It was Mr. Peacecraft.
"Is something wrong?" I asked smoothly.
"I just wanted to check on Relena," came his reply.
"She's in the bathroom getting for ready the meeting. I had just come up here to check on her," my lie worked.
Zechs trusted me more than that bastard to protect his sister. He knew I wouldn't have sex with his sister... little did he think. But she was the one who came down on me first. So she started it and when Zechs finds out, I'm not going to have my ass chewed out for it.
"She's fine," I assured him. "If something goes wrong I'll let you know."
He nodded and left.