Too Lost to be Saved
by: WolfCry17
Disclaimer: Well, it's obvious I don't own Gundam Wing, or I would making readers pay to read my work and living a life of luxury. Clearly, this is not the case. sniffsniff
AN: Hi everybody! Again, sorry for the problem with the previous chapter!!! But, I uploaded my next chapter...YAY! I know there hasn't been much Heero X Relena moments in my previous chapters, but from now on, there should be plenty and plenty of great moments, I hope! I can't even tell you how hard this story has been to write without trying to rush through it just to get to the juicy parts. I have nearly torn my hair out! heehee! But neway!
I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to review my story! I really appreciate your thoughts so much! And really, if anybody has any suggestions or tips, shoot even flames, I welcome all! I like flames just because they make me laugh! But they also help me sometimes, well, everything helps, but if there is anything, please, don't hesistate!
NafX: Thanks you so much for reviewing, and I know I am cruel! Truthfully, I like to be cruel when it comes to cliffhangers, really! HeeHee! But, here's the next bit, so I hope you enjoy it! Thanks again!
sylsch: Thank you very much! I am glad you like my fic, and you'll have to read on to find out what happens to Relena!
Airen2: THANKS!!!! Thank you so much Airen2... when I read you last review, you really made my day... I was doing flips in the air! Not really. But, if I could... no, I don't think I would do it then either. Talk about back pain!!! yuck! It still made my day, and I started writing the next chapter write then and there! HEE HEE! Neway, thank you so much, as always, I appreciate everytime you review! And I hope you like this next chappy, the one you were checking fanfiction everyday for! ;P (I LUV YA!) ;P
Melodi Moon: Yes, Melodi Moon, it was a song by Evainescense, and I don't blame you at all for asking, since it uploaded kind of weird last time, but hopefully the revision helped! I am glad you liked it, I was really hoping it would set the mood. Thanks so much for reviewing, I really appreciate it!
raigne: I know how much everyone hates cliffhangers, but they're just so much FUN!!! Sorry! I am glad you enjoyed it, and I appreciate you taking the time to review my fanfic. I also love Evaniescence! It's my fav. group! And sorry, but you'll have to read to find out what happens to Relena. I never give away any clues to what's gonna happen! Thanks!!!
Psycho Kitty: I am so glad to see you back! I was afraid I lost your interest! I am so glad you are enjoying it, and more importantly, thank you so much for reviewing!!! I hope you continue to enjoy it!
ItakoDream: LOL! Thank you so much for reviewing my story! I really appreciate it! I hope you enjoy my next chapter!
Bibliomaniac: Thank you so much for telling me that the song lyrics were messed up in the previous chapter! I really appreciated that....ALOT! I fixed them as soon as I recieved your review, so I hope they're a little more presentable now! Also, thank you very much for reviewing my story! And your right, after 8 long chapters, you all deserve what I have promised all along! Lots of HXR moments! So please cont. reading, please!
Thank you everybody for taking the time to review! I really appreciate it, LOTS!!!! Sometimes, just your reviews give me inspiration to write more, and inspiration comes rarely. So, I hope you all continue to anjoy this!
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Chapter 9 Aftermath
"And the latest breaking news, we have just been informed, is an unexpected rebel attack on the Seven-Day Trial Public Announcement in ESUN Central City with the top officials present, including Vice Foriegn Minister Darlian. Let's take this to Tracy Austin who is presently on ground zero witnessing the aftermath. Tracy, it appears that the unknown rebel faction has stopped..."
"...Yes, Judy, the rebel faction does indeed appear to have ceased the shooting and escaped. According to the P.O., it was reported that snipers, strategically located, started the assault at 1430 hours or 2:30 p.m. this afternoon with no particular targets in mind, but more to cause a stir. If you look behind me, they have succeeded in at least that. Numerous innocents are wounded and the total collatoral damage was reportedly high since 4:00 p.m. We have also just recieved confirmation that all the ESUN officials are secure including the Vice Foreign Minister, but the Vice Foriegn Minister does appear to be wounded, the state of which has yet to be determined. All that is known is the minister was lifted by a helicopter to b transported to the nearest metropolitan hospital and--"
Five wordlessly-shocked pairs of eyes stared dumbfoundedly toward the shuttle screen unable to move or breath a word. Despite further report from the Inter-Spacial Newstation, all in the cabin lay eerfully silent as if the entire universe was mute.
Suddenly, the screen blacked out as the remote control was hurled into the cabin wall with a loud thud. With tightly-clenched fists, Duo grumbled under his breath. "We were too late! The enemy got to O-jousan before we could warn the others about the information we risked our necks to find." In haste, Duo sprinted out the cabin door like fire.
"Is there nothing else we can do now?" Hilde held her hand near her mouth in a nervous habit to suppress unwanted sobs as tiny drops of wetness threatened to escape the confinement of her eyes. She had only met Relena Darlian once, but it was enough to convince her of the sincerity that radiated from her eyes. Relena held a frightless spirit, which didn't surprise Hilde in the least bit once she met the taunting Heero Yuy for the first time.
A tiny, ivory hand clasped the tiny locket dangling gracefully from Middie Une's long neck as wavy locks of blonde gathered along her neck line. She sat next to a stoic Trowa and a beautiful woman whom she learned to be his elder sister Catherine. Somehow, amongst the mayhem, Middie felt like she belonged beside Trowa and his friends, not just because she held a world of knowledge that they desperately needed, but because for once in her life, she felt she was doing the right thing surrounded by the right people. Shaking herself out of her surreal reverie, Middie unclasped her necklace and slowly made her way to thetearful german girl. "I think there is still time, Hilde. We can still save her and the fate of the Earth Sphere with this."
Hilde glanced up to catch Middie's reassuring emerald orbs and toward the silver locket that dangled from Middie's fingers, that tiny locket that held a smaller microchip that held a vague key. Hilde slightly nodded. Her eyes then widened when she felt Middie draw her into a sisterly hug. Despite her doubts, Hilde accepted Middie's soothing words of comfort without question. After all, the two were like sisters the moment they met due to their similar pasts of allying with the enemy to save loved ones. Hilde and Middie understood each other, and they could already read each other's minds.
Trowa's eyes followed every movement of Middie's body, nearly shocked at the kind heart she grew to possess. He knew so little of her, always just sticking to the belief that she was a selfish traitor to boot, and now he found his heart yearning to learn more about the elder versian of the girl he fell in love with long ago. A peculiar fire surged through his body just then, and he fought to keep his body at bay.
Meanwhile, a frantic Duo Maxwell bolted into the pilot cabin of the shuttle carelessly, surprising both pilots nearly out of their seats. "Mr. Maxwell, sir, we are currently attempting to enter the earth's atmosphere. If you don't want to be thrown into the wall a couple of times, I suggest you take your seat and buckle up!" The co-pilot pointed toward the exit with emphasis.
"We have no time for that right now. Haven't you seen the news lately? We need to get to the earth now!" Duo seethed obnoxiously as he steadied himself from being knocked around the cockpit.
"No, I haven't seen the news lately seeing how I've been couped up to this forsaken cockpit for the past twelve hours, thank you very much. And with all due respect, we are going as fast as we can to get you to said earth, and it would go much faster if you would stop being an annoyance."
"Can't this piece of junk fly any faster!" Duo glanced toward the spedometer and fuel gauges suspiciously.
The pilot, obviously irritated, clenched his teeth to avoid an employee-customer conflict, especially with a customer with the upper hand. "Unless you want to land in an oversized ash heap...NO!"
"Bring on the ash heap!" Duo retaliated as the shuttle rocked side to side nearly causing Duo to lose his footing for the second time.
"Matthews, remove Mr. Maxwell and secure him to a seat please before he hurts himself. There is far too much turbulance to increase acceleration." The pilot commanded while preparing the shuttle for re- entry.
Four startled pair of eyes shot up instantly to find the co-pilot dragging a struggling Duo back into the main cabin room. "Let go of me! I don't understand why Trowa insisted I not fly this thing in the first place. I am a far more advanced pilot than the both of you put together!" Hilde nearly fell out of her chair from utter embarrassment as the co-pilot locked the cabin doors behind him.
Shaking his head, Trowa merely watched an angered Hilde Schbieker drag the overly active Duo to his seat and then proceed to sit on him to further restrain him. "Because if you were piloting, we would have made it to the earth in a huge ash heap, perfectly useless." Trowa calming buckled his seat belt and ordered the girls to do the same before raising his magazine to eye level once more.
"What the hell is with the 'ash-heap' analogy! If we were going too fast, the elctric wires would melt down and cause us to explode into a million scattered pieces that would burn up before they reached the surface. And! I would not cause us to explode or land in an 'ash-heap'!" A violent wave of turbulence rocked the shuttle causing Hilde and Duo to stumble out of the chair and roll aimlessly onto the floor in a heap.
Trowa merely smirked at the scene as he lowered the magazine in his hands. "Clearly, you have convinced all of us."
A slender arm curled gracefully over resting cobalt blue eyes as a woman laid peacefully in a cabin bed of a spacecraft. Dreary and exhausted, the dark-blue haired woman shifted uncomfortably on thin sheets that served no hint of warmth. Suddenly, blue orbs fluttered open when her entire body was roughly jerked off the bed, obviously due to an unexpected increase in velocity. "Ow! Dammit, that hurt!" Thin, elegant fingers massaged the ache on the her head in tiny circles as she grudgingly struggled to stand up, only to find more bumps and bruises in the process.
Shakily, she stalked out of the darkened room and headed straight for the pilot cockpit to find a long cascade of platinum blonde hair trailing down the pilot's chair. "Don't you know it's bad luck to awaken a restless woman and knock her straight out of bed!" Lucretzia Noin grumbled un- ladylike as she collapsed clumsily into the copilot's chair.
Zeches Marquise remained silent with fury-infested, ice-blue eyes. He merely turned the video-cam roughly toward Noin, which detailed the events surrounding the attack on ESUN Central and the critical condition of Vice Foriegn Minister Darlian. "Yuy warned me that something like this would happen. That's why he was so direct on us getting back to the Earth before something did. Now... I am too late, again!" A fist slammed down into a control panel like lightening, causing a few sparks to fly.
Noin gasped as she listened intently to the investigation findings on one of the closest friends she ever had, not to mention a possible sister- in-law. Glimpses of the past flooded Noin's memories of the times when she first brought Relena into the political arena and protected her when the Sanq Kingdom was anahilated the second time. Relena's tender, dreamful face encompassed her mind along with acoompanied worry tearing through her heart. "Oh... Zeches."
Zeches closed his eyes to ease his frustration, but nothing could shed his worry and guilt. "I left her once again, and once again, I am not there for her when she needs me the most. I am always running away from her, from my past. Why? For what end? Why can I hide behind a mask and face my enemies head on, but I can't ever seem to face her."
Noin's eyes softened, and she longed to comfort the only man she ever cared for, the only man she could ever love. "Zeches," she hesitated to find the right words to ease his mind. "Relena loves you, and she understands the reasons for your actions. She is a Peacecraft after all. And... Heero's there for her as well." It was the wrong thing to say, and she knew it the instant she said it.
Zeches' mood darkened at the thought, despite the fact that he knew Noin was just trying to comfort him. He didn't say anything to respond to her, but merely allowed the tension in the cockpit to grow more eerie. It wasn't that he hated Heero for his closeness toward Relena, nor did he believe that Heero was undeserving of her. If anything, Zeches was just jealous and angry with himself for not attempting to have a similar type of relationship with his only sister. The thought unnerved him terribly, especially when he realized that Heero knew more about his sister, even by accident, than he did.
"You know Zeches, you can't stop the way they feel about each other, well, if Heero cares for her that way anyway." Noin tried to break the silence, but the topic at hand wasn't the best medicine to do the job. Much to Noin's surprise, however, she caught an amused look from Zeches toward her input.
"You're right."
If Noin wasn't shocked before, she certainly was now! 'That's it? No angry bursts! No arguing! No disdain toward Heero!' Was Noin simply dreaming or did she just hear her lover approve of the relationship, er possible relationship, between his all-time arch-rival and his beloved baby sister.
"Yuy may not know it or even show it, but he definitely cares for her, maybe more than I once liked, but I realized, it was a good thing. Yuy and I have an unusual understandment of each other and of Relena. It's almost as if we can read each other's minds or moves. I suppose that comes from experience of fighting a single adversary for so long, but either way, I can read it from his eyes as clear as day. He didn't kill me when he had the chance to... because it would make Relena sad. Besides, he sees Relena for who she is unlike any other man who fancies her, who just sees beauty, money, and power. Actually, somehow, the whole ordeal just seems right."
With wide eyes, Noin didn't say a thing. She just fell over.
"Noin?"
Depths of darkness crept from somewhere unspoken to surround her frail body, chilling her with a bitter coldness. It flowed freely, filling every fiber in her being, numbing the boundaries of her mind, making it had for her to fight off the foreign presence. What was wrong with her? She couldn't grasp anything in this shroud of darkness that overwhelmed her. 'Heero!'
Relena extended her hand aimlessly into the depth in an attempt to reach something, to reach him, but she couldn't find him. Wasn't he just here, holding her? Her fine features hardened in frustration as drops of perspiration eased gently down her forehead. Why couldn't she reach him?
Soft, subtle moans escaped Relena's chapped lips, alarming Sally Po from deep thought. She knocked her clipboard, allowing the pencil sitting on top to fly into the air as Sally stumbled out of her chair to rush to the struggling, sleeping girl on the hospital bed. She grasped a towel and dropped it into a saucer of freezing water to dampen it. When she was satisfied, she squeezed the unnecessary droplets and pressed it lightly on Relena's forehead to lower her fever. Sally's eyes softened in worry when she watched Relena's frail form shiver from underneath the icy touch.
It was so strange...so strange. Sally had never seen anything like this before. In all her medical experience, not a single patient experienced such an abnormal combination of symptoms like this before. Whatever she suddenly came down with in such a short period of time acted like both a bacterial and viral disease.
After a few moments of pure silence, Sally suddenly smirked genuinely as she closed her eyes to hide her announcement. "You're getting rusty, allowing one to hear you so easily like that." She straightened her back while removing the damp towel from a now calmer Relena. "You might as well step into the light." She opened her eyes and placed her hands on her waist in an apparent challenge.
A grunt suddenly sounded throughout the room as Heero stepped away from his darkened corner, surprisingly, with an arched eyebrow. "You heard me?"
Her smile broadened. "Either you're getting rusty, or I am spending way too much time around Wufei. The silence that encompasses around us on every op. must be causing me to gain super man hearing. Before you know it, I'll be powered with kryptonite."
Heero flatly ignored Sally's ill attempt at a sense of humor. Instead, his concentration settled on something more appealing; a very pale, ghost like Relena. His stomach churned in an awkward shape when he gazed at her, memorizing every feature, every loose strand of hair, every curve. He had failed her terribly, and now some kind of pathogen or poison was mixing itself with her pure blood. He couldn't, wouldn't let her die before him now. Not like this. He made a silent vow to hunt down that bastard, Jackson, and slaughter him with in an inch of his life.
He listened intently to Sally's exit as the door closed behind her, leaving him to linger with Relena alone. His heart rate quickened as a lump caught slowly in his throat. His eyes illuminated over Relena's body, slowly watching her chest rise up and down consistently as he neared the rather uncomfortable-looking hospital bed. One rough hand instinctively found its way to clamp around Relena's frail, thin hand, which radiated very little warmth.
He was lost. He intertwined his fingers between hers, massaging the flesh before he brought her fingers to his lips to taste her. "Re-Relena...damn, you're beautiful." What was he saying? That really came from nowhere. Heero knew t came from somewhere, somewhere deep inside of him. All he wanted to do was surrender to it, surrender to her. "Relena, listen to me. You've got to wake up. I told you before...you're too strong for this, stronger than me." Heero felt a strange sting in his eyes as a single drop of wetness fell upon the hand that held hers.
"Dammit, Relena, you can't give up. You have to fight this, you have to-." A muffled choke sounded in the room as Heero tried to command his body to breathe. "Relena...please...don't run away from me...don't go where I can't protect you...come back to me, my love."
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A/N: I am finally done with this chapter!!!! Yeah!!! Took me long enough: two months or more...good grief. Anyway, on to some news...I have decided that in order to know if my fanfics are losing interest or not, I will only continue a new chapter to each fic if I recieve at least 4-6 reviews per chapter. This is only because I have many more ideas, but I can't start writing them until I finish one of these stories first. Therefore, I will just follow this guideline for now on.
By the way, I want you fans to decide which fanfic idea I should start on next. So, on the next chapter I post, I will have a list of my ideas and a short synopsis. I will let this little survey of mine continue until I finish one of these fics. I'll provide more info later...I need to get back to writing the next chapters for both Too Lost to be Saved and Blinded Depths!
Byz Wolfcry17
by: WolfCry17
Disclaimer: Well, it's obvious I don't own Gundam Wing, or I would making readers pay to read my work and living a life of luxury. Clearly, this is not the case. sniffsniff
AN: Hi everybody! Again, sorry for the problem with the previous chapter!!! But, I uploaded my next chapter...YAY! I know there hasn't been much Heero X Relena moments in my previous chapters, but from now on, there should be plenty and plenty of great moments, I hope! I can't even tell you how hard this story has been to write without trying to rush through it just to get to the juicy parts. I have nearly torn my hair out! heehee! But neway!
I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to review my story! I really appreciate your thoughts so much! And really, if anybody has any suggestions or tips, shoot even flames, I welcome all! I like flames just because they make me laugh! But they also help me sometimes, well, everything helps, but if there is anything, please, don't hesistate!
NafX: Thanks you so much for reviewing, and I know I am cruel! Truthfully, I like to be cruel when it comes to cliffhangers, really! HeeHee! But, here's the next bit, so I hope you enjoy it! Thanks again!
sylsch: Thank you very much! I am glad you like my fic, and you'll have to read on to find out what happens to Relena!
Airen2: THANKS!!!! Thank you so much Airen2... when I read you last review, you really made my day... I was doing flips in the air! Not really. But, if I could... no, I don't think I would do it then either. Talk about back pain!!! yuck! It still made my day, and I started writing the next chapter write then and there! HEE HEE! Neway, thank you so much, as always, I appreciate everytime you review! And I hope you like this next chappy, the one you were checking fanfiction everyday for! ;P (I LUV YA!) ;P
Melodi Moon: Yes, Melodi Moon, it was a song by Evainescense, and I don't blame you at all for asking, since it uploaded kind of weird last time, but hopefully the revision helped! I am glad you liked it, I was really hoping it would set the mood. Thanks so much for reviewing, I really appreciate it!
raigne: I know how much everyone hates cliffhangers, but they're just so much FUN!!! Sorry! I am glad you enjoyed it, and I appreciate you taking the time to review my fanfic. I also love Evaniescence! It's my fav. group! And sorry, but you'll have to read to find out what happens to Relena. I never give away any clues to what's gonna happen! Thanks!!!
Psycho Kitty: I am so glad to see you back! I was afraid I lost your interest! I am so glad you are enjoying it, and more importantly, thank you so much for reviewing!!! I hope you continue to enjoy it!
ItakoDream: LOL! Thank you so much for reviewing my story! I really appreciate it! I hope you enjoy my next chapter!
Bibliomaniac: Thank you so much for telling me that the song lyrics were messed up in the previous chapter! I really appreciated that....ALOT! I fixed them as soon as I recieved your review, so I hope they're a little more presentable now! Also, thank you very much for reviewing my story! And your right, after 8 long chapters, you all deserve what I have promised all along! Lots of HXR moments! So please cont. reading, please!
Thank you everybody for taking the time to review! I really appreciate it, LOTS!!!! Sometimes, just your reviews give me inspiration to write more, and inspiration comes rarely. So, I hope you all continue to anjoy this!
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Chapter 9 Aftermath
"And the latest breaking news, we have just been informed, is an unexpected rebel attack on the Seven-Day Trial Public Announcement in ESUN Central City with the top officials present, including Vice Foriegn Minister Darlian. Let's take this to Tracy Austin who is presently on ground zero witnessing the aftermath. Tracy, it appears that the unknown rebel faction has stopped..."
"...Yes, Judy, the rebel faction does indeed appear to have ceased the shooting and escaped. According to the P.O., it was reported that snipers, strategically located, started the assault at 1430 hours or 2:30 p.m. this afternoon with no particular targets in mind, but more to cause a stir. If you look behind me, they have succeeded in at least that. Numerous innocents are wounded and the total collatoral damage was reportedly high since 4:00 p.m. We have also just recieved confirmation that all the ESUN officials are secure including the Vice Foreign Minister, but the Vice Foriegn Minister does appear to be wounded, the state of which has yet to be determined. All that is known is the minister was lifted by a helicopter to b transported to the nearest metropolitan hospital and--"
Five wordlessly-shocked pairs of eyes stared dumbfoundedly toward the shuttle screen unable to move or breath a word. Despite further report from the Inter-Spacial Newstation, all in the cabin lay eerfully silent as if the entire universe was mute.
Suddenly, the screen blacked out as the remote control was hurled into the cabin wall with a loud thud. With tightly-clenched fists, Duo grumbled under his breath. "We were too late! The enemy got to O-jousan before we could warn the others about the information we risked our necks to find." In haste, Duo sprinted out the cabin door like fire.
"Is there nothing else we can do now?" Hilde held her hand near her mouth in a nervous habit to suppress unwanted sobs as tiny drops of wetness threatened to escape the confinement of her eyes. She had only met Relena Darlian once, but it was enough to convince her of the sincerity that radiated from her eyes. Relena held a frightless spirit, which didn't surprise Hilde in the least bit once she met the taunting Heero Yuy for the first time.
A tiny, ivory hand clasped the tiny locket dangling gracefully from Middie Une's long neck as wavy locks of blonde gathered along her neck line. She sat next to a stoic Trowa and a beautiful woman whom she learned to be his elder sister Catherine. Somehow, amongst the mayhem, Middie felt like she belonged beside Trowa and his friends, not just because she held a world of knowledge that they desperately needed, but because for once in her life, she felt she was doing the right thing surrounded by the right people. Shaking herself out of her surreal reverie, Middie unclasped her necklace and slowly made her way to thetearful german girl. "I think there is still time, Hilde. We can still save her and the fate of the Earth Sphere with this."
Hilde glanced up to catch Middie's reassuring emerald orbs and toward the silver locket that dangled from Middie's fingers, that tiny locket that held a smaller microchip that held a vague key. Hilde slightly nodded. Her eyes then widened when she felt Middie draw her into a sisterly hug. Despite her doubts, Hilde accepted Middie's soothing words of comfort without question. After all, the two were like sisters the moment they met due to their similar pasts of allying with the enemy to save loved ones. Hilde and Middie understood each other, and they could already read each other's minds.
Trowa's eyes followed every movement of Middie's body, nearly shocked at the kind heart she grew to possess. He knew so little of her, always just sticking to the belief that she was a selfish traitor to boot, and now he found his heart yearning to learn more about the elder versian of the girl he fell in love with long ago. A peculiar fire surged through his body just then, and he fought to keep his body at bay.
Meanwhile, a frantic Duo Maxwell bolted into the pilot cabin of the shuttle carelessly, surprising both pilots nearly out of their seats. "Mr. Maxwell, sir, we are currently attempting to enter the earth's atmosphere. If you don't want to be thrown into the wall a couple of times, I suggest you take your seat and buckle up!" The co-pilot pointed toward the exit with emphasis.
"We have no time for that right now. Haven't you seen the news lately? We need to get to the earth now!" Duo seethed obnoxiously as he steadied himself from being knocked around the cockpit.
"No, I haven't seen the news lately seeing how I've been couped up to this forsaken cockpit for the past twelve hours, thank you very much. And with all due respect, we are going as fast as we can to get you to said earth, and it would go much faster if you would stop being an annoyance."
"Can't this piece of junk fly any faster!" Duo glanced toward the spedometer and fuel gauges suspiciously.
The pilot, obviously irritated, clenched his teeth to avoid an employee-customer conflict, especially with a customer with the upper hand. "Unless you want to land in an oversized ash heap...NO!"
"Bring on the ash heap!" Duo retaliated as the shuttle rocked side to side nearly causing Duo to lose his footing for the second time.
"Matthews, remove Mr. Maxwell and secure him to a seat please before he hurts himself. There is far too much turbulance to increase acceleration." The pilot commanded while preparing the shuttle for re- entry.
Four startled pair of eyes shot up instantly to find the co-pilot dragging a struggling Duo back into the main cabin room. "Let go of me! I don't understand why Trowa insisted I not fly this thing in the first place. I am a far more advanced pilot than the both of you put together!" Hilde nearly fell out of her chair from utter embarrassment as the co-pilot locked the cabin doors behind him.
Shaking his head, Trowa merely watched an angered Hilde Schbieker drag the overly active Duo to his seat and then proceed to sit on him to further restrain him. "Because if you were piloting, we would have made it to the earth in a huge ash heap, perfectly useless." Trowa calming buckled his seat belt and ordered the girls to do the same before raising his magazine to eye level once more.
"What the hell is with the 'ash-heap' analogy! If we were going too fast, the elctric wires would melt down and cause us to explode into a million scattered pieces that would burn up before they reached the surface. And! I would not cause us to explode or land in an 'ash-heap'!" A violent wave of turbulence rocked the shuttle causing Hilde and Duo to stumble out of the chair and roll aimlessly onto the floor in a heap.
Trowa merely smirked at the scene as he lowered the magazine in his hands. "Clearly, you have convinced all of us."
A slender arm curled gracefully over resting cobalt blue eyes as a woman laid peacefully in a cabin bed of a spacecraft. Dreary and exhausted, the dark-blue haired woman shifted uncomfortably on thin sheets that served no hint of warmth. Suddenly, blue orbs fluttered open when her entire body was roughly jerked off the bed, obviously due to an unexpected increase in velocity. "Ow! Dammit, that hurt!" Thin, elegant fingers massaged the ache on the her head in tiny circles as she grudgingly struggled to stand up, only to find more bumps and bruises in the process.
Shakily, she stalked out of the darkened room and headed straight for the pilot cockpit to find a long cascade of platinum blonde hair trailing down the pilot's chair. "Don't you know it's bad luck to awaken a restless woman and knock her straight out of bed!" Lucretzia Noin grumbled un- ladylike as she collapsed clumsily into the copilot's chair.
Zeches Marquise remained silent with fury-infested, ice-blue eyes. He merely turned the video-cam roughly toward Noin, which detailed the events surrounding the attack on ESUN Central and the critical condition of Vice Foriegn Minister Darlian. "Yuy warned me that something like this would happen. That's why he was so direct on us getting back to the Earth before something did. Now... I am too late, again!" A fist slammed down into a control panel like lightening, causing a few sparks to fly.
Noin gasped as she listened intently to the investigation findings on one of the closest friends she ever had, not to mention a possible sister- in-law. Glimpses of the past flooded Noin's memories of the times when she first brought Relena into the political arena and protected her when the Sanq Kingdom was anahilated the second time. Relena's tender, dreamful face encompassed her mind along with acoompanied worry tearing through her heart. "Oh... Zeches."
Zeches closed his eyes to ease his frustration, but nothing could shed his worry and guilt. "I left her once again, and once again, I am not there for her when she needs me the most. I am always running away from her, from my past. Why? For what end? Why can I hide behind a mask and face my enemies head on, but I can't ever seem to face her."
Noin's eyes softened, and she longed to comfort the only man she ever cared for, the only man she could ever love. "Zeches," she hesitated to find the right words to ease his mind. "Relena loves you, and she understands the reasons for your actions. She is a Peacecraft after all. And... Heero's there for her as well." It was the wrong thing to say, and she knew it the instant she said it.
Zeches' mood darkened at the thought, despite the fact that he knew Noin was just trying to comfort him. He didn't say anything to respond to her, but merely allowed the tension in the cockpit to grow more eerie. It wasn't that he hated Heero for his closeness toward Relena, nor did he believe that Heero was undeserving of her. If anything, Zeches was just jealous and angry with himself for not attempting to have a similar type of relationship with his only sister. The thought unnerved him terribly, especially when he realized that Heero knew more about his sister, even by accident, than he did.
"You know Zeches, you can't stop the way they feel about each other, well, if Heero cares for her that way anyway." Noin tried to break the silence, but the topic at hand wasn't the best medicine to do the job. Much to Noin's surprise, however, she caught an amused look from Zeches toward her input.
"You're right."
If Noin wasn't shocked before, she certainly was now! 'That's it? No angry bursts! No arguing! No disdain toward Heero!' Was Noin simply dreaming or did she just hear her lover approve of the relationship, er possible relationship, between his all-time arch-rival and his beloved baby sister.
"Yuy may not know it or even show it, but he definitely cares for her, maybe more than I once liked, but I realized, it was a good thing. Yuy and I have an unusual understandment of each other and of Relena. It's almost as if we can read each other's minds or moves. I suppose that comes from experience of fighting a single adversary for so long, but either way, I can read it from his eyes as clear as day. He didn't kill me when he had the chance to... because it would make Relena sad. Besides, he sees Relena for who she is unlike any other man who fancies her, who just sees beauty, money, and power. Actually, somehow, the whole ordeal just seems right."
With wide eyes, Noin didn't say a thing. She just fell over.
"Noin?"
Depths of darkness crept from somewhere unspoken to surround her frail body, chilling her with a bitter coldness. It flowed freely, filling every fiber in her being, numbing the boundaries of her mind, making it had for her to fight off the foreign presence. What was wrong with her? She couldn't grasp anything in this shroud of darkness that overwhelmed her. 'Heero!'
Relena extended her hand aimlessly into the depth in an attempt to reach something, to reach him, but she couldn't find him. Wasn't he just here, holding her? Her fine features hardened in frustration as drops of perspiration eased gently down her forehead. Why couldn't she reach him?
Soft, subtle moans escaped Relena's chapped lips, alarming Sally Po from deep thought. She knocked her clipboard, allowing the pencil sitting on top to fly into the air as Sally stumbled out of her chair to rush to the struggling, sleeping girl on the hospital bed. She grasped a towel and dropped it into a saucer of freezing water to dampen it. When she was satisfied, she squeezed the unnecessary droplets and pressed it lightly on Relena's forehead to lower her fever. Sally's eyes softened in worry when she watched Relena's frail form shiver from underneath the icy touch.
It was so strange...so strange. Sally had never seen anything like this before. In all her medical experience, not a single patient experienced such an abnormal combination of symptoms like this before. Whatever she suddenly came down with in such a short period of time acted like both a bacterial and viral disease.
After a few moments of pure silence, Sally suddenly smirked genuinely as she closed her eyes to hide her announcement. "You're getting rusty, allowing one to hear you so easily like that." She straightened her back while removing the damp towel from a now calmer Relena. "You might as well step into the light." She opened her eyes and placed her hands on her waist in an apparent challenge.
A grunt suddenly sounded throughout the room as Heero stepped away from his darkened corner, surprisingly, with an arched eyebrow. "You heard me?"
Her smile broadened. "Either you're getting rusty, or I am spending way too much time around Wufei. The silence that encompasses around us on every op. must be causing me to gain super man hearing. Before you know it, I'll be powered with kryptonite."
Heero flatly ignored Sally's ill attempt at a sense of humor. Instead, his concentration settled on something more appealing; a very pale, ghost like Relena. His stomach churned in an awkward shape when he gazed at her, memorizing every feature, every loose strand of hair, every curve. He had failed her terribly, and now some kind of pathogen or poison was mixing itself with her pure blood. He couldn't, wouldn't let her die before him now. Not like this. He made a silent vow to hunt down that bastard, Jackson, and slaughter him with in an inch of his life.
He listened intently to Sally's exit as the door closed behind her, leaving him to linger with Relena alone. His heart rate quickened as a lump caught slowly in his throat. His eyes illuminated over Relena's body, slowly watching her chest rise up and down consistently as he neared the rather uncomfortable-looking hospital bed. One rough hand instinctively found its way to clamp around Relena's frail, thin hand, which radiated very little warmth.
He was lost. He intertwined his fingers between hers, massaging the flesh before he brought her fingers to his lips to taste her. "Re-Relena...damn, you're beautiful." What was he saying? That really came from nowhere. Heero knew t came from somewhere, somewhere deep inside of him. All he wanted to do was surrender to it, surrender to her. "Relena, listen to me. You've got to wake up. I told you before...you're too strong for this, stronger than me." Heero felt a strange sting in his eyes as a single drop of wetness fell upon the hand that held hers.
"Dammit, Relena, you can't give up. You have to fight this, you have to-." A muffled choke sounded in the room as Heero tried to command his body to breathe. "Relena...please...don't run away from me...don't go where I can't protect you...come back to me, my love."
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A/N: I am finally done with this chapter!!!! Yeah!!! Took me long enough: two months or more...good grief. Anyway, on to some news...I have decided that in order to know if my fanfics are losing interest or not, I will only continue a new chapter to each fic if I recieve at least 4-6 reviews per chapter. This is only because I have many more ideas, but I can't start writing them until I finish one of these stories first. Therefore, I will just follow this guideline for now on.
By the way, I want you fans to decide which fanfic idea I should start on next. So, on the next chapter I post, I will have a list of my ideas and a short synopsis. I will let this little survey of mine continue until I finish one of these fics. I'll provide more info later...I need to get back to writing the next chapters for both Too Lost to be Saved and Blinded Depths!
Byz Wolfcry17