Get Rel
NOTE: I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters.
Zeches had no idea that Adam, Sage, Draca, and Lynn were so impossible. Now he understood why Duo and Hilde had gotten frustrated with them when they had asked where Relena was.
They talk in riddles, he thought as he sat across from the four of them. "Tell me where my sister is," he commanded coolly.
"Your sister…Oh, Relena, that's right, you're her big brother aren't you?" grinned Draca. "Shouldn't you know, since you are her brother…Wait a minute, she didn't even know where you were or where to find you. I forgot about that."
Zeches cringed on the inside but kept a straight face on the out. He hated the fact that he had never communicated with Relena of where he was or his activities, or permitted Noin to tell her where he was. He just wanted to keep her safe from any of his 'bad luck' that seemed to follow him around wherever he went.
First he lost the Sank Kingdom and his parents, next he had to be separated from his sister, then the gundams came along, the damnable war, Zero, Eypon, and then the White Fang. He seemed to have the worst luck in the universe, and it scared him that it may follow him even after the war.
"Tell me everything that you told Heero and the others," he ordered coldly.
Adam laughed. "Dude, you are not the only one who follows orders. Any information that we gave to Heero, Hilde, or Duo was meant for them and they alone. Relena likes to specify who we are to give location information out to."
"But you know where she is," Zeches presumed as he leaned across the table looking straight at Lynn, trying to intimidate her into spilling everything with his icy eyes.
To this Lynn broke out into a smirk. "If we do, we are not to say so."
"Wait a minute," Sage interrupted, "isn't it the other way around? If we do not know, we are not to say so?"
"Was it that way?" Lynn asked innocently. "Oh, I must have misinterpreted Relena's instructions then." She shrugged it all off as though it was her mis-translation to her directions, still Zeches had the suspicion that she had not misinterpreted her orders.
"You four do realize that I can make your lives a living hell if you refuse to tell me all that you told Heero," Zeches warned in an intimidating manner that it would make almost anyone quake in their shoes or begin to sweat, but it didn't have any affect on these four.
"We were well aware of the consequences when we first took up this task of keeping Relena hidden from the Preventers, Mr. Peacecraft, but we took up this task anyway. If you were in our situation you would be sitting where I am and saying the exact same thing back to me," Draca replied with a poker face.
Zeches just got up and left the room and went straight to Lady Une's office.
"Um…Mr. Peacecraft, Lady Une's in a meeting right now and you know how she hates to be interrupted!" the secretary, Shun-li, warned as Zeches stormed past her and entered the office anyways.
"Une!" he roared as he interrupted his superior's briefing with Preventer Po and Chang. Huh…maybe…
"What do you want Zeches?" sighed Lady Une as she removed her glasses and massaged her temples. The elder Peacecraft child was becoming a thorn in her side now and it was bothering her very much.
"I need to borrow Po and Chang. Perhaps they can gather information out of those four better than I," he answered.
Lady Une glared at Zeches. "I shall not put any other Preventers, other than you, on this case Zeches," she hissed at him.
"I do not ask them to be put on the case with me, all I ask is that you lend them to me to get some information out of those four friends of Relena's," assured Zeches.
Lady Une made a waving gesture with her hand that told Sally and Wufei to go on and get the information as soon as possible. Saluting to their superior the trio made their way down the corridor.
"What information do you need us to retrieve from these civilians?" Sally inquired.
"Just where Relena is located now. They refuse to tell me, so I am taking a guess and thinking they may tell you two, as long as I am not present," Zeches explained. "Be careful when talking to them, they will be suspicious of you two suddenly being present and being 'put on the case'."
"They can't be that troublesome," snorted Wufei looking indifferent about the situation.
Sally rolled her eyes as she and Wufei entered the interrogation room.
"Hey, hey! Look here freaky darlings, it's the good doctor and the Chinese Darcy!" exclaimed Draca.
"Come to question us about Relena as well?" asked Sage with a yawn, he was becoming quite bored with this.
"Not at all," smiled Sally as she sat down across the table while Wufei stood behind her, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. "We came here to see how you all were doing."
"Oh…?" Lynn questioned quirking an eyebrow. "Do tell…"
*****
Heero ate Chinese take-out food with Jason, Robin, Frankie, Joey, and Salem in the kitchen. He didn't particularly like Chinese food but he was not about to complain after surviving off of beef jerky and coffee for the entire day.
"Prepare to fight, Jason!" challenged Joey holding out a chopstick as though she were holding a sword and ready to duel.
"I accept your challenge, you fiend!" Jason accepted doing likewise. The girls went at it, until Jason's chopstick flew out of her hand and at Salem's face.
"Hey!" cried Joey's outraged brother.
"Sorry Salem," Jason grinned as to pulled out her other chopstick and continued the duel.
Heero ignored the entertainment and decided to size up his enemies to distinguish who Relena could most likely be.
She could not be Salem, for he is too silent for her to be him. She could be Jason, perhaps even Joey or Frankie, or even someone like Robin, but Robin seems a bit too quiet and reserved to be Relena, Heero thought as he felt a patch of chicken fried rice land on his lap. Instead of looking down at his lap Heero just glared at Robin, who obviously was the person the fried rice came from.
"Um…whoops," shrugged Robin with an innocent smile. "It was her fault!" Robin pointed at his cousin who just gapped at accusation.
"I did no such thing! How could I?" protested Frankie tipping her carton of food for Robin and Heero to see. "Especially when I'm eating sweet 'n' sour chicken instead of chicken fried rice, Robin?"
Robin just whistled and then made his great escape out of the room.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" everyone heard Robin scream, sounding very much feminine like, as he stumbled back into the living room.
Heero leapt to his feet, tossing aside his own carton of sweet 'n' sour, he need to be able to protect everyone in the room should it be the worst case scenario such as a robber, a homicidal maniac, or a murderer. The former Preventer tensed as the person entered the room. It was a fairly tall fellow that looked identical to Jason, save for the streaks.
"Thomas! What do you think you were doing creeping about the house at night when I have my friends over for supper?!" scolded Jason still fighting against Joey as she spoke.
"Is that anyway for you to greet your own dear, old, loving father?" the man named Thomas joked as he out stretched his arms as an invitation for a hug. Jason just shook her head and so her father approached her to give her a hug.
"Uh…Thomas," Jason began as she dodged Thomas' bear hug and made a quick dash to Heero's side. "Have you met Eiji yet? He's that exchange student that we were informed would be sent to us."
Thomas grinned a huge toothy grin that Heero could compare to one of Duo's grins, as he pulled Heero into a hug.
"Nice to meet you Eiji, welcome to our humble home!" greeted Thomas.
A handshake would have done just as well! Heero's mind screamed as he tried to breath through the bear hug.
After eating supper and picking up all the dropped food Heero sat in his 'room' starring up at his ceiling while his cell phone was wedged between his shoulder and ear.
"Heero, these people are inhuman!" Duo screamed. "This guy, Bobby, his hand has a mind of its own or something and seems to be very attracted to light! I swear the damn thing likes to touch any bit of light it can."
"Don't worry Selfie you only need to put up with it for perhaps another week or so, that's about all really," Heero assured. "Besides it's not as though you were hugged by Bobby's father."
Duo laughed heartedly at Heero's traumatizing experience. "Jason's dad hugged you?!" he asked as he continued to laugh.
"We really should have chopped off that braid of yours," Heero said off-handedly, though it's meaning got across to Duo, who shut up immediately.
"You are not to touch my braid under any circumstances!" ordered Duo.
"You boys need to relax. Do either of you have any solid ideas of who Relena could possibly be?" Hilde's voice interrupted, for they were on a three way line coming from Amy's house.
"No," both men stated.
"Okay then, let's get some sleep and then maybe try doing some real investigating tomorrow at the college," Hilde suggested. "Night boys."
"Night Mindy!" Duo returned.
"Good night Selfie," Hilde said before hanging up.
"See you tomorrow Heero," Duo told his partner before hanging up.
"Hn," was all Heero could say then he hung up and blew out the candle by his bedside, the only source of light that he had.