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You Have A Sister?
"I can't believe she just left without saying good bye to everyone." Quatre said with a sad shake of his blonde head. "It isn't like Noin at all to just leave without saying anything to anybody."
"Well she did leave us each a letter saying good-bye Quatre." Duo pointed out though his usual grin was absent. In fact no one at the Preventers office was smiling today as word got out that Noin had left Preventers for good. "And she's right, with the war over there's really no need for people like her anymore. She always was a soldier Quatre, not a politician or pacifist."
"I know that but why did she have to leave the way she did? Noin's always been a person to meet things head on; it's not like her to slink off into the night." Quatre said as he pushed his bangs out of his eyes. "And you know it."
"Maybe she just got tired of Peacecraft stringing her along." Trowa said as he clutched his own letter a little harder then necessary. "Catherine always said that she was surprised someone like Noin put up with it."
"What do you mean?" Wufei said raising an eyebrow.
"Most of what she's done during and after the war was related to her feelings for Peacecraft. Working for Oz, training cadets, protecting Relena, going to Mars, and helping here. Milliardo was probably the reason she's hung around this long." Trowa said with a frown. "Noin is twenty- four, a lot of woman that age are already married with kids. Maybe she got sick of it."
"Yea and seeing as she's been after him for over eight years its only natural that she'd give up and leave sometime. This is all his fault." Duo said looking angry now. "That's probably why she left the way she did, because she didn't want anyone to see her upset. That bastard."
"She didn't mention him at all in any of the letters Maxwell. She said she was tired of the fighting and stress, not Peacecraft." Wufei said with a shake of his head. "Besides, Noin's too smart to throw away her career away over him."
Before Duo could give a resort there was the sound of someone yelling out in fear from a nearby room.
"What the Hell?" Duo said before the guys went off running to find out what was going on.
Five-year-old Paris Mcmaster just barely managed to avoid being body slammed into the boards and was feeling very much like a sitting duck. He'd just gotten the new hockey skates he was wearing and he was finding that breaking them in was becoming hazardous to his health. A small boy for his age to begin with Paris was at a loss as to how to find his family before he was crushed like a pancake.
"You're going to kill someone the way you're flailing around." His nine year old sister Rome pointed out as she skated smoothly to his side sending bits of ice flying up as she came to a perfect stop beside him.
"Show off." Paris muttered as he stuck his tongue out as he lifted his arms out to try and get his balance again. "I thought you were skating with mom and dad."
"Dad got a phone call from Mr. Ferio, there's been a problem with some stuff at the office and of course dad is the only one who can fix it. We have to go home." Rome said sadly as she pushed her long bangs out of her eyes as she tried to hold back a grin at the way he was wobbling without success.
"Do we have to?" Paris said with a pout as his shoulders slumped which nearly caused him to go flying. His dad had said that if they behaved he'd take them out to dinner, now he probably would be stuck in the office for the rest of the day.
"Yup, one more around the rink and then we've got to go. Race ya?" Rome said raising an eyebrow. She'd beat him Paris knew, she always did. But she often let him win and with the right tactics he might succeed in almost winning.
"Well........ okay." Paris said as he took off without waiting for her to realize he'd agreed to the race.
"Why you." Rome yelled skating after him as he attempted to use her surprise to his advantage by cheating.
Struggling simply to stay on his feet now Rome caught up with him easily but instead of zooming by she grabbed a hold of his mittened hand and slowing her pace carefully helped him make the lap without falling flat on his face again. His sister was okay some of the time Paris thought watching her give a death glare at some nearby boys who were laughing at him. Her philosophy was that she was the only one allowed to pick on him, anyone else was asking for a bloody nose.
"Just ignore them Paris." Rome said as they came to a stop at the benches where their mother's friend Umi was waiting for them. With a bright smile Umi walked over to them and helped Rome extract Paris from the snow bank he'd fallen into when he'd tried to stop on his own.
"Nice skating there you two. You're mom and dad went to get the car so that it would be nice and warm when you two were done." She said with a bright smile as she dusted Paris off. "Now lets get you two into your boots and out of the cold shall we." Umi added as she motioned to the benches. Agreeing wholeheartedly the two quickly walked carefully to the bench and with Umi's help got their skates off and their feet into their waiting winter boots.
"You two want some of this?" Umi's boyfriend Taichi asked as he walked over to them with a tray carrying four steaming glasses of hot chocolate.
"Yea!!!" Paris and Rome said as they accepted the hot treats with wide grins as the struggled to drink there chocolate without burning their tongues on the hot drink. "Thank you Taichi." They added as an after thought when their cups were half empty.
"Well lets get you to your parents before they think we kidnapped you shall we?" Umi said as she took a drink of her chocolate as well having waited till it cooled a bit. Nodding the four set off to the parking lot to wait for their black car to appear with their parents.
"There it is." Umi said and sure enough, there was their father's familiar sports car making its way out of the parking lot and towards them. Both waving wildly Rome and Paris tried to juggle their hot chocolate and keep their skates on their shoulders without much success. Waving through the glass their mother smiled at them then turned to look at her husband who had taken a hand off the wheel to return the wave. Seconds later there was a huge blast and the car had become a huge ball of flames with their parents still inside.
"MOMMY, DADDY!!!!!" Paris screamed as he and his sister jumped off the sidewalk, hot chocolate flying as they ignored the traffic as they ran to the car, to their parents.
"Heero, wake up Heero."
Coming awake with a start Heero rubbed his tired blue eyes and looked up to see his four friends crowded around him worriedly like mother hens. "What is it Quatre?" Heero asked as he sat up in his seat. He must have dropped off Heero thought with a touch of self-disgust.
"You okay man." Duo asked looking really worried which was unusual for him to say the least. In fact all four of them looked worried about something. Coming complete awake in that instant Heero instinctively dropped his hand to his lower back where he usual kept a weapon.
"Nothings wrong Heero, or at least with us." Trowa said understanding the move as one he'd made millions of times himself. "Nothing to worry about."
"Then why do you four look like your worried about something?" Heero asked as he raised an eyebrow, trying to keep his emotions under control behind his usual mask of indifference. He didn't have the dream often but when he did it was hard to forget and he preferred to suffer it alone.
"You tell us man. We were walking down the hall and heard you yelling. We came in here to hear you in the middle of a nightmare." Duo said laying a hand on his best friend's shoulder. "Pretty bad one too."
"What did I say?" Heero said, his eyes narrowing slightly. There wasn't a lot about his past they could get from anything in his dream but if he'd slipped up in any way.
"You mumbled most of it." Trowa said with a light shrug as he studied his friend. "You okay?"
"I'll be fine." Heero said with a small note of relief. Given the nature of the dream anything he might have said could have possibly damaged his position and he'd have hated to have to get rid of them.
"What were you dreaming about Heero?" Quatre asked carefully, knowing that he was treading on delicate ground. He knew that the chances of Heero telling them anything was slim but it didn't hurt to ask. Of all of the pilots he'd imagine that Heero had the worst things to dream about. Heero never talked about his past and Heero was the only one of them who'd never had a family at one time in their life.
"I was just dreaming about an incident in my past." Heero said figuring that he might as well give them a little bit so that they wouldn't set Relena or Sally after him to ask what's wrong and what they could do to help. "About the day my parents were killed." Heero added then could have shot himself so surprised was he that the words had slipped out.
"You remember the day your parents died? I didn't even know that you'd known your parents Heero." Duo said, his eyes wide at the tidbit of information. Heero had never mentioned his family period, much less that he'd had one.
"I'm sorry Heero." Quatre said not knowing what else to stay.
"Don't be Quatre, I was only five at the time, most of its a blur." Heero lied as he sent his friend a weak smile to cover up the pain coursing through him. He remembered it as vividly as if it had happened yesterday. The smell of the smoke, Taichi's arms wrapping around him, dragging him away from the wreck, Rome's screaming as she tried to break Umi's hold and the sight of his sister breaking free and nearly making it to the car before another caught a hold of her and took her away from the blaze.
"What happened?" Duo asked as he kept his hand on Heero's shoulder, surprised that he hadn't shrugged it off.
"Car bomb." Heero said shortly. A bomb meant to silence his father forever. It had succeeded taking his mother with it as well.
"That must have been hard on you Heero, were you there?" Trowa asked sensing that there was more to this then met the eye. He knew that Heero had a photographic memory and he doubted that Heero had forgotten it at all.
"My parents were on the way to pick us up after ice skating at a park near our house." Heero said as he met his friend's gaze.
"Who's us?" Wufei said picking up on the blunder.
"Me and my sister." Heero said absently as he looked down at the paperwork he'd been working on before he'd fallen asleep. He couldn't believe that he'd just fallen asleep like that; he was getting sloppy.
"Your sister!" Quatre said, his eyes wide. "I didn't know you had a sister Heero."
"What?" Heero said snapping back to attention. "What did you say?"
"You just said you had a sister, I didn't know you had a sister." Quatre said realizing that Heero hadn't meant to mention her. "Is she still alive?"
"Yes." Heero said shortly realizing too late how much he was giving away here. And yet maybe it was a good thing Heero realized as he considered Rome's words last night. He'd hidden most of his past because exposing himself meant exposing his sister but now that Rome was gone he could at least give them some idea of who Heero Yuy really was without worrying about endangering her. "She's still alive."
"How come we've never met her before?" Duo said with a mock frown. "You've met Quatre and Trowa's sisters."
"Maybe I just wanted to keep her away from a playboy like you Maxwell." Heero said with a grin. "And last time I checked we're all suppose to be working right now, not talking about my sister."
"Yuy's right, we should go." Wufei said with a nod though he was curious about this sister of Heero's. What would a sister of Heero Yuy's be like? The thought of a female version of Heero was not a pleasant thought to think about at all.
"Well at least tell us her name before we go Heero." Duo said as he gave Heero his best pleading look.
"Rome." Heero said with a faint smile on his lips: which remained as his friends exited the room to process the bombshells he'd just dropped on them. "Her name is Rome."
Milliardo Peacecraft or Zech Merquise to some exited the shuttle with a happy grin. The week long meetings he'd had to attend with Relena in the colonies had been one boring day after the other and he was more then thankful to be home.
"I swear I'm never going to a meeting held my Nevers again." Relena stated as she followed him onto the landing strip. Shading her eyes she saw three figures approaching them and raised her other hand to wave at them.
Seeing the people approaching as well Milliardo frowned slightly when he realized that Noin wasn't one of them. She was usually here to welcome him home when she wasn't away on a mission of her own and he was sure she hadn't mentioned anything.
"I wonder where Noin is." Relena said as she identified the people as Lady Une, Sally and Quatre. "She's usually here to meet you."
"Something must have come up." Milliardo decided with a shrug though his brain was saying something else. He'd mentioned to Noin that he need to see her as soon as he came back so why wasn't she here?
"Good trip?" Lady Une asked; dreading the task at hand. Despite what Noin seemed to believe Lady Une didn't believe that Milliardo saw Noin as a friend and live in bed warmer. She was sure that the aloof Colonel did love Noin; he just didn't realize it. The news she had to give him was going to hurt him, badly.
"Well we got here, didn't we?" Relena said sensing that something was wrong. All three of them looked strained and they obviously came bearing bad news. "What's wrong you guys? You look like you're off to your executions."
"We have some bad news for the two of you." Lady Une said softly. Reaching into her pockets she pulled out two letters, handing one to each of them. "Noin has resigned from the Preventers. She's gone."
"That's impossible." Milliardo said staring at the letter in his hand. "Noin loved working here, she'd never just up and quit. What do you mean she's gone?"
"Noin's resignation was official yesterday afternoon. She's officially a civilian now. She didn't leave any word on where to find her or get into contact." Sally said softly, disbelief still in her voice. Noin was her friend; she still couldn't believe that she'd planned all this without telling her. It wasn't like her.
"This is a joke right?" Milliardo said desperately as he stared at Sally and Lady Une. This couldn't be real; this had to be a mistake of some kind. A nightmare come to life. Noin couldn't have left him, he loved her and she loved him. She would have told him if she intended to leave Preventers.
"It isn't a joke Milliardo." Relena said with tears in her eyes having finished reading her letter. "She's gone for good. Why didn't she tell anyone? Why didn't you tell us she was planning on leaving Lady Une?"
"She swore me to secrecy, she didn't want anyone to try to talk her out of it. She genuinely seemed to think that it was for the best and maybe it was for her." Lady Une said with a helpless look. "I tried to convince her to at least tell you guys before she left but she said the letters would be better. I'm sorry Milliardo."
"Thanks." Milliardo said walking away without looking at anyone. As he walked he opened the letter and with a hand that shook slightly read Noin's goodbye.
Dear Peacecraft,
As you've probably already found out I've left Preventers. I entered the war to help earth and the colonies and I've done my part, now its up to you and Relena. I want to thank you for everything you've done for me over the years, your friendship has meant a great deal to me. I hope that in the years to come you'll think of me occasionally and remember me with some fondness. Stay out of trouble and take care of yourself, Relena and the world needs you.
Love,
L.N.
Closing his fist over the paper Milliardo headed into the building leaving the other four to follow him in. On the other side of the air strip a lone figure in black watched him walk out of her line of vision and with hands that shook ever so slightly turned around and headed back the way she'd come, her hair lightly blowing in the breeze. Sliding onto the bike she'd left by the hill she strapped her helmet and drove away, leaving behind the two most important people in her life.
As always thanks for reading and please review. Let me know whether to continue of not and any suggestions are welcome.
You Have A Sister?
"I can't believe she just left without saying good bye to everyone." Quatre said with a sad shake of his blonde head. "It isn't like Noin at all to just leave without saying anything to anybody."
"Well she did leave us each a letter saying good-bye Quatre." Duo pointed out though his usual grin was absent. In fact no one at the Preventers office was smiling today as word got out that Noin had left Preventers for good. "And she's right, with the war over there's really no need for people like her anymore. She always was a soldier Quatre, not a politician or pacifist."
"I know that but why did she have to leave the way she did? Noin's always been a person to meet things head on; it's not like her to slink off into the night." Quatre said as he pushed his bangs out of his eyes. "And you know it."
"Maybe she just got tired of Peacecraft stringing her along." Trowa said as he clutched his own letter a little harder then necessary. "Catherine always said that she was surprised someone like Noin put up with it."
"What do you mean?" Wufei said raising an eyebrow.
"Most of what she's done during and after the war was related to her feelings for Peacecraft. Working for Oz, training cadets, protecting Relena, going to Mars, and helping here. Milliardo was probably the reason she's hung around this long." Trowa said with a frown. "Noin is twenty- four, a lot of woman that age are already married with kids. Maybe she got sick of it."
"Yea and seeing as she's been after him for over eight years its only natural that she'd give up and leave sometime. This is all his fault." Duo said looking angry now. "That's probably why she left the way she did, because she didn't want anyone to see her upset. That bastard."
"She didn't mention him at all in any of the letters Maxwell. She said she was tired of the fighting and stress, not Peacecraft." Wufei said with a shake of his head. "Besides, Noin's too smart to throw away her career away over him."
Before Duo could give a resort there was the sound of someone yelling out in fear from a nearby room.
"What the Hell?" Duo said before the guys went off running to find out what was going on.
Five-year-old Paris Mcmaster just barely managed to avoid being body slammed into the boards and was feeling very much like a sitting duck. He'd just gotten the new hockey skates he was wearing and he was finding that breaking them in was becoming hazardous to his health. A small boy for his age to begin with Paris was at a loss as to how to find his family before he was crushed like a pancake.
"You're going to kill someone the way you're flailing around." His nine year old sister Rome pointed out as she skated smoothly to his side sending bits of ice flying up as she came to a perfect stop beside him.
"Show off." Paris muttered as he stuck his tongue out as he lifted his arms out to try and get his balance again. "I thought you were skating with mom and dad."
"Dad got a phone call from Mr. Ferio, there's been a problem with some stuff at the office and of course dad is the only one who can fix it. We have to go home." Rome said sadly as she pushed her long bangs out of her eyes as she tried to hold back a grin at the way he was wobbling without success.
"Do we have to?" Paris said with a pout as his shoulders slumped which nearly caused him to go flying. His dad had said that if they behaved he'd take them out to dinner, now he probably would be stuck in the office for the rest of the day.
"Yup, one more around the rink and then we've got to go. Race ya?" Rome said raising an eyebrow. She'd beat him Paris knew, she always did. But she often let him win and with the right tactics he might succeed in almost winning.
"Well........ okay." Paris said as he took off without waiting for her to realize he'd agreed to the race.
"Why you." Rome yelled skating after him as he attempted to use her surprise to his advantage by cheating.
Struggling simply to stay on his feet now Rome caught up with him easily but instead of zooming by she grabbed a hold of his mittened hand and slowing her pace carefully helped him make the lap without falling flat on his face again. His sister was okay some of the time Paris thought watching her give a death glare at some nearby boys who were laughing at him. Her philosophy was that she was the only one allowed to pick on him, anyone else was asking for a bloody nose.
"Just ignore them Paris." Rome said as they came to a stop at the benches where their mother's friend Umi was waiting for them. With a bright smile Umi walked over to them and helped Rome extract Paris from the snow bank he'd fallen into when he'd tried to stop on his own.
"Nice skating there you two. You're mom and dad went to get the car so that it would be nice and warm when you two were done." She said with a bright smile as she dusted Paris off. "Now lets get you two into your boots and out of the cold shall we." Umi added as she motioned to the benches. Agreeing wholeheartedly the two quickly walked carefully to the bench and with Umi's help got their skates off and their feet into their waiting winter boots.
"You two want some of this?" Umi's boyfriend Taichi asked as he walked over to them with a tray carrying four steaming glasses of hot chocolate.
"Yea!!!" Paris and Rome said as they accepted the hot treats with wide grins as the struggled to drink there chocolate without burning their tongues on the hot drink. "Thank you Taichi." They added as an after thought when their cups were half empty.
"Well lets get you to your parents before they think we kidnapped you shall we?" Umi said as she took a drink of her chocolate as well having waited till it cooled a bit. Nodding the four set off to the parking lot to wait for their black car to appear with their parents.
"There it is." Umi said and sure enough, there was their father's familiar sports car making its way out of the parking lot and towards them. Both waving wildly Rome and Paris tried to juggle their hot chocolate and keep their skates on their shoulders without much success. Waving through the glass their mother smiled at them then turned to look at her husband who had taken a hand off the wheel to return the wave. Seconds later there was a huge blast and the car had become a huge ball of flames with their parents still inside.
"MOMMY, DADDY!!!!!" Paris screamed as he and his sister jumped off the sidewalk, hot chocolate flying as they ignored the traffic as they ran to the car, to their parents.
"Heero, wake up Heero."
Coming awake with a start Heero rubbed his tired blue eyes and looked up to see his four friends crowded around him worriedly like mother hens. "What is it Quatre?" Heero asked as he sat up in his seat. He must have dropped off Heero thought with a touch of self-disgust.
"You okay man." Duo asked looking really worried which was unusual for him to say the least. In fact all four of them looked worried about something. Coming complete awake in that instant Heero instinctively dropped his hand to his lower back where he usual kept a weapon.
"Nothings wrong Heero, or at least with us." Trowa said understanding the move as one he'd made millions of times himself. "Nothing to worry about."
"Then why do you four look like your worried about something?" Heero asked as he raised an eyebrow, trying to keep his emotions under control behind his usual mask of indifference. He didn't have the dream often but when he did it was hard to forget and he preferred to suffer it alone.
"You tell us man. We were walking down the hall and heard you yelling. We came in here to hear you in the middle of a nightmare." Duo said laying a hand on his best friend's shoulder. "Pretty bad one too."
"What did I say?" Heero said, his eyes narrowing slightly. There wasn't a lot about his past they could get from anything in his dream but if he'd slipped up in any way.
"You mumbled most of it." Trowa said with a light shrug as he studied his friend. "You okay?"
"I'll be fine." Heero said with a small note of relief. Given the nature of the dream anything he might have said could have possibly damaged his position and he'd have hated to have to get rid of them.
"What were you dreaming about Heero?" Quatre asked carefully, knowing that he was treading on delicate ground. He knew that the chances of Heero telling them anything was slim but it didn't hurt to ask. Of all of the pilots he'd imagine that Heero had the worst things to dream about. Heero never talked about his past and Heero was the only one of them who'd never had a family at one time in their life.
"I was just dreaming about an incident in my past." Heero said figuring that he might as well give them a little bit so that they wouldn't set Relena or Sally after him to ask what's wrong and what they could do to help. "About the day my parents were killed." Heero added then could have shot himself so surprised was he that the words had slipped out.
"You remember the day your parents died? I didn't even know that you'd known your parents Heero." Duo said, his eyes wide at the tidbit of information. Heero had never mentioned his family period, much less that he'd had one.
"I'm sorry Heero." Quatre said not knowing what else to stay.
"Don't be Quatre, I was only five at the time, most of its a blur." Heero lied as he sent his friend a weak smile to cover up the pain coursing through him. He remembered it as vividly as if it had happened yesterday. The smell of the smoke, Taichi's arms wrapping around him, dragging him away from the wreck, Rome's screaming as she tried to break Umi's hold and the sight of his sister breaking free and nearly making it to the car before another caught a hold of her and took her away from the blaze.
"What happened?" Duo asked as he kept his hand on Heero's shoulder, surprised that he hadn't shrugged it off.
"Car bomb." Heero said shortly. A bomb meant to silence his father forever. It had succeeded taking his mother with it as well.
"That must have been hard on you Heero, were you there?" Trowa asked sensing that there was more to this then met the eye. He knew that Heero had a photographic memory and he doubted that Heero had forgotten it at all.
"My parents were on the way to pick us up after ice skating at a park near our house." Heero said as he met his friend's gaze.
"Who's us?" Wufei said picking up on the blunder.
"Me and my sister." Heero said absently as he looked down at the paperwork he'd been working on before he'd fallen asleep. He couldn't believe that he'd just fallen asleep like that; he was getting sloppy.
"Your sister!" Quatre said, his eyes wide. "I didn't know you had a sister Heero."
"What?" Heero said snapping back to attention. "What did you say?"
"You just said you had a sister, I didn't know you had a sister." Quatre said realizing that Heero hadn't meant to mention her. "Is she still alive?"
"Yes." Heero said shortly realizing too late how much he was giving away here. And yet maybe it was a good thing Heero realized as he considered Rome's words last night. He'd hidden most of his past because exposing himself meant exposing his sister but now that Rome was gone he could at least give them some idea of who Heero Yuy really was without worrying about endangering her. "She's still alive."
"How come we've never met her before?" Duo said with a mock frown. "You've met Quatre and Trowa's sisters."
"Maybe I just wanted to keep her away from a playboy like you Maxwell." Heero said with a grin. "And last time I checked we're all suppose to be working right now, not talking about my sister."
"Yuy's right, we should go." Wufei said with a nod though he was curious about this sister of Heero's. What would a sister of Heero Yuy's be like? The thought of a female version of Heero was not a pleasant thought to think about at all.
"Well at least tell us her name before we go Heero." Duo said as he gave Heero his best pleading look.
"Rome." Heero said with a faint smile on his lips: which remained as his friends exited the room to process the bombshells he'd just dropped on them. "Her name is Rome."
Milliardo Peacecraft or Zech Merquise to some exited the shuttle with a happy grin. The week long meetings he'd had to attend with Relena in the colonies had been one boring day after the other and he was more then thankful to be home.
"I swear I'm never going to a meeting held my Nevers again." Relena stated as she followed him onto the landing strip. Shading her eyes she saw three figures approaching them and raised her other hand to wave at them.
Seeing the people approaching as well Milliardo frowned slightly when he realized that Noin wasn't one of them. She was usually here to welcome him home when she wasn't away on a mission of her own and he was sure she hadn't mentioned anything.
"I wonder where Noin is." Relena said as she identified the people as Lady Une, Sally and Quatre. "She's usually here to meet you."
"Something must have come up." Milliardo decided with a shrug though his brain was saying something else. He'd mentioned to Noin that he need to see her as soon as he came back so why wasn't she here?
"Good trip?" Lady Une asked; dreading the task at hand. Despite what Noin seemed to believe Lady Une didn't believe that Milliardo saw Noin as a friend and live in bed warmer. She was sure that the aloof Colonel did love Noin; he just didn't realize it. The news she had to give him was going to hurt him, badly.
"Well we got here, didn't we?" Relena said sensing that something was wrong. All three of them looked strained and they obviously came bearing bad news. "What's wrong you guys? You look like you're off to your executions."
"We have some bad news for the two of you." Lady Une said softly. Reaching into her pockets she pulled out two letters, handing one to each of them. "Noin has resigned from the Preventers. She's gone."
"That's impossible." Milliardo said staring at the letter in his hand. "Noin loved working here, she'd never just up and quit. What do you mean she's gone?"
"Noin's resignation was official yesterday afternoon. She's officially a civilian now. She didn't leave any word on where to find her or get into contact." Sally said softly, disbelief still in her voice. Noin was her friend; she still couldn't believe that she'd planned all this without telling her. It wasn't like her.
"This is a joke right?" Milliardo said desperately as he stared at Sally and Lady Une. This couldn't be real; this had to be a mistake of some kind. A nightmare come to life. Noin couldn't have left him, he loved her and she loved him. She would have told him if she intended to leave Preventers.
"It isn't a joke Milliardo." Relena said with tears in her eyes having finished reading her letter. "She's gone for good. Why didn't she tell anyone? Why didn't you tell us she was planning on leaving Lady Une?"
"She swore me to secrecy, she didn't want anyone to try to talk her out of it. She genuinely seemed to think that it was for the best and maybe it was for her." Lady Une said with a helpless look. "I tried to convince her to at least tell you guys before she left but she said the letters would be better. I'm sorry Milliardo."
"Thanks." Milliardo said walking away without looking at anyone. As he walked he opened the letter and with a hand that shook slightly read Noin's goodbye.
Dear Peacecraft,
As you've probably already found out I've left Preventers. I entered the war to help earth and the colonies and I've done my part, now its up to you and Relena. I want to thank you for everything you've done for me over the years, your friendship has meant a great deal to me. I hope that in the years to come you'll think of me occasionally and remember me with some fondness. Stay out of trouble and take care of yourself, Relena and the world needs you.
Love,
L.N.
Closing his fist over the paper Milliardo headed into the building leaving the other four to follow him in. On the other side of the air strip a lone figure in black watched him walk out of her line of vision and with hands that shook ever so slightly turned around and headed back the way she'd come, her hair lightly blowing in the breeze. Sliding onto the bike she'd left by the hill she strapped her helmet and drove away, leaving behind the two most important people in her life.
As always thanks for reading and please review. Let me know whether to continue of not and any suggestions are welcome.