Resilient until the End

"God help us..." Heero whispered to the darkness that shifted as if laughing at this comment. 'The Sixth huh?' His mind jeered. Hadn't he learned the last time from that trip to hell with the others at that damn villa? Why couldn't it be someone else instead of him? He sighed heavily as he lowered his gun and he felt eyes stare at him.

He fell to his knees in exhaustion. His eyes were slowly closing and he saw blurry shapes moving towards him. He snapped his eyes open and level the gun at the shapes, firing the automatic gun at the smeared shapes at least a round.

Bullet holes were in the wall and they had somehow been shifted from their target. They spelled out a letter the letter 'R'.

Heero looked at the image before jerking his head to the path he came down and jumped to his feet, 'NO!' His mind raced. He ran to the front room, nearly stumbling over the dead body of the old woman and her partner.

He saw the horror in her face and he wretched nearly at the state of her body. Her throat was bitten open it seemed. The muscles and the esophagus and wing pipe were visible beneath the torn muscle. Her eyes were poked out and crushed and blood was smeared like war paint on her body.

He raced to the door, the wind trying to push him back and then deciding a new tactic, slam him into the door and crush him there until he gave out.

The other's outside who were pacing back and forth while trying to think of what to do had thought it was too quiet. They looked up when they heard a loud sound slam against the door. A sound of pain was heard also and the pilots raced over with their guns.

"RELENA!" Heero shouted out through the thick oak as the wind crushed him, making him wince and cough up some blood that found its way into his mouth.

"HEERO? CAN YOU HEAR US?" Relena shouted back through the thick hollow doors.

In truth, he couldn't hear her at all, the wind droning out her sound. He could only pray. He let out a gasp, which the others heard perfectly on the other side of the door. Heero could feel his ribs begin to bend to the pressure and he felt something rip his head away from the crack he had been shouting through.

"HEERO!" When she heard a muffled cry of protest. Something slammed heavily into the door again, again, in a repeated motion. Then the wing stopped.

Some deep crimson blood seeped through the door's bottom crack and the pilots' eyes went wide with fear and horror.

"Heero!" Relena shouted with hysteria. She clawed at the door until the wood had scratches on it and her fingernails were raw. "Please!" Tears streaked down her face, coursing rivers along each crease and indent in her face that without the sound of her sobbing would have made even the heartless soldiers from the war look down upon with pity.

"R-Re...elena..." Heero managed out as a trickle of blood came out from the punctured lung his cracked rib had created. He was beginning to have difficulty breathing.

"Heero?" Relena heard his words and listened carefully now, noting the sound of his breathing.

"Relena...you have to..." He took a breath and the others could hear he was having trouble breathing more and more as time went on. "You have to get out of here." He commanded. "Get...out..." His voice wavered as much as his vision now it seemed.

"I can't just leave you!" Relena said as she could barely see through the tears welling up in her eyes. "I won't leave you!"

"Go...for...for...M—" He never got to finish as a chain was thrown under the door's crack with what remaining strength he had. "go..." There was a soft thump and the others were wide eyed. Wufei pulled out his gun and fired at the door, trying to get the bullets to pierce the door handle.

Wufei bowed his head as the smoking barrel of the gun let off the stench of the round of bullets he hastily fired. He let his gun drop to the floor as there were no more bullets left. Relena clutched the chain and leaned on the door, crying her breaking heart out.

A gunshot filled the air. Then there was silence in the house. More blood seeped from underneath the door.

Author's note:

Muahahah! Evil cliffhangers! Sorry for such the long waits on the update. 21 stories is a lot of update y'know! The next chapter will hopefully be up soon and Relena was going to be murdered along with Heero, but may or may not now. Who did Heero fire for in the building though or whether it was suicide, what the necklace was, and more will be explained in the next chapters! I love reviews! Thank you all those who have reviewed! Red Tail