Get Rel

NOTE:  I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters.

"I do not get how you can be so uptight and not smile when the sun's out as it is now!  Come on, let out a smile, Heero, surely you can do that at least once for me," implored Relena, as Heero had once remembered her being before any of this run across the globe happened.

Heero did no such thing and just stood by Relena as she sat on the hillside.  Realizing that he was not about to give her the pleasure of seeing him smile Relena just shook her head and stuck out her tongue.

"Fine, be that way!" Relena teased before she began to roll down the hill, knowing full well of the grass stains that she would be getting on her light green dress.

"Relena, this is no time to act childish!" Heero called after her in his monotone yet commanding voice.

All he got in return was Relena's girlish giggles as she kept rolling until the bottom of the hill, then she called up to him with grass sticking out of her hair in all directions.

"Come and catch me then Heero!" she called.

Heero groaned as he took a step then embarrassingly out of character tripped and tumbled down the hill himself.

THUD!!!!!  Heero slammed onto the floor, hard and in the process had knocked his head against the night stand.

"Ow…!" he groaned.

"Ricky, give me that back you little thieving raccoon!" Heero heard someone yell from downstairs.

"As I said before Frankie, come and catch me then if you want your ramen noodles so badly!" teased Ricky as something was knocked down and there were a few more 'thuds' close to Heero's door.

Is that what Jason meant by her house being "invaded", this intolerable noise?! Heero wondered as he got up and slipped on a pair of jeans, having slept in his boxers and yesterday's shirt.  As he opened the door to the hallway someone fell through the door and landed on his foot, hard.  "Hn!" he grunted looking down to see Frankie lying on his foot.

"Ow!" she laughed as she opened her eyes and smiled up at Heero.  "Hey Eiji, we didn't wake you up did we?"

"That's a good question," Heero forced himself to say instead of grunting and glaring.  Can't behave like normal or else that may give these people a hint of who I actually am, he reminded himself.

"Hurry up Frankie, I've got him," cried Frankie's cousin from down the hall.

"Alright!" cheered the tomboy as she quickly got to her feet and dashed down the hall.

Grumbling Heero headed down the hall to the stairs, passing Robin, Frankie, and a tied up Ricky in the hallway.  Sparing a glance at the trio Heero continued downstairs and went into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee, he rarely ate breakfast.

In the kitchen he found it crowded with not only Jason and her father but also Ringo, Joey, Salem, Kaitlyn, Darrell (Joey, Salem, and Kaityln's father), and Joe (Frankie's father).  All eyes turned to Heero at his entrance and watched him as he went to the pot of coffee and poured himself a mug, the crowd of eager watching company seemed to muffle some laughter as they watched Heero put his mug of coffee to his lips to take a sip.

Still not taking a drink Heero shifted his eyes about the room at all the on-looking eyes that were glued to him, each impatient to see him drink his coffee.  It was all very odd to Heero and the last time he recalled such an event was when Duo had slipped mustard into the coffee pot at the Preventer's Headquarters.  The other preventers had been watching him earnestly then, just like the company before him was.

Removing the mug from his lips Heero watched as his audience turned back to their previous activities.  Deciding that there was nothing extremely wrong with his coffee Heero took a sip of it.

The reaction of the coffee got a second-ever seen-expression of disgust, to the point where he began to turn green.  Conveniently, Jackson decided to waltz into the kitchen through the back door, right in front of Heero no less, when Heero sprayed the tainted drink out of his mouth and all over Jackson.

"Luh!" cried Jackson as he wiped his coffee stained cheek with the back of his hand.  Tasting the coffee Jackson quickly spat it back out.  "What the hell is in the coffee?"

The crowd was in a fit of hysterical laughter; in fact most of them were either laughing themselves silly on the floor or leaning on the counter for support.  Both Heero and Jackson sent death glares at the group but that didn't stop their laughter.

"Did he drink it yet?!" inquired Ricky as he bounced into the room eagerly, only to find Eiji glaring at him and Jackson taking off his shirt.

"What the hell did you put into the coffee, you little weasel?" Jackson exclaimed.

Robin entered the room and grabbed a shoulder bag, glancing at the scene for a moment and biting back a smile, he put on his bag and grabbed a set of car keys from the table.  "It's flour actually, doesn't it taste great?" winked Robin showing the keys to the group.  "Anyone who needs a ride can get one with me right now for the eight o'clock classes."

Heero looked down at his watch, 7:13 am, he needed to get to his eight o'clock class, British Literature.

"Yeah, give me a ride Rob," nodded Ringo as he began to walk up to Robin, only to trip over his own feet and fall face flat on the floor.

"Ringo, you okay?" chuckled Jason when she entered the room, right when Ringo had fallen.  Ringo just mumbled something.  "Robin, I need a ride too, but I get to drive, you are not exactly the most confident driver in the world," Jason stated, snatching the keys from Robin's hand.

Robin just made a face at Jason before shrugging and nodding his head as though seeing some truth in Jason's statement.  "You can drive but only if you promise not to take any 'detours'," Robin agreed.

"Do I look like Joey to you?" Jason muttered as she exited the room with the other two carpool companions following.

Heero finished cleaning up his flour coffee mess and decided to go back upstairs when he heard the faint ringing of his cell phone.  Dashing up the stairs, taking two at a time, he made his way to his room.

In his room he found his cell phone on the floor, apparently he had knocked it down when he bumped his head, so he picked it up and answered the person who was phoning him this late in the morning.  Early morning to him meant 3:00 am and late morning was anything past 6:00 am.

"Yuy," he stated when he answered the phone.

"Hey, are you going to give me a ride or what, Eiji?!" came Duo's pretend female voice on the other side of the phone.

Heero rolled his eyes as he bit back a grin.  "Sure Selfie, whenever you're ready to be picked up," Heero told his partner as he pulled his shirt over his head and tossing it off to the side.

"I'm ready to go right now," Duo told him as Heero heard Bobby in the background yelling at what sounded like his…hand?

"Fine, I'll be there in five minutes," Heero sighed as he picked up a shirt that read "Vacuums Suck", certainly not a shirt he had picked out nor one that he would wear on a normal basis.

"Try to make it five seconds," Duo almost pleaded before hanging up on Heero.

Shoving his phone into his pocket Heero put on his new shirt and grabbed his duffle bag for his college classes.  He couldn't help but think how ridiculous it was that he was going to college, after all he never truly went to school and any of the high schools he had entered in during the war he was always an outcast, by choice.

This should prove to be very interesting.  Hopefully it won't be in vain, he thought, grabbing the keys to the car.

*****

Zeches had been waiting on the two preventers for the last five hours, which he felt was more than enough time to extract the information he needed, so he decided to call Wufei and Sally to meet with him.  When he went to the door and glanced inside he found the 'For Rel' group and Sally talking animatedly with each and even Wufei was putting a few comments that didn't consist of the word "woman".

He couldn't believe it, to say the least!  Still he opened the door catching only the words, "…that was the best part of the entire book!" from Draca before it went silent.

"Po, Chang, may I have a word with both of you?" Zeches requested, sparing the band a glare.

The preventers exchanged a glance before shrugging and following Zeches out of the room, but Sally stopped at the door and called over her shoulder, "Darcy's proposal scene was the best scene!"  Draca just shook her head as the door closed.

"What have you two found out?!" demanded Zeches, eager to know the result of the interrogation.

"We found out that the group enjoys reading classic romance novels by Jane Austen," grumbled Wufei crossing his arms and leaning against the wall.

"What about Relena?  What did you learn of her whereabouts?" Zeches pressed on.

"Well, we found out that she has a major fancy for plays and musicals.  Did you know she took part in almost every play she could since the age of six?  I'll be impressed if she doesn't somehow become an actress or something," Sally remarked.

"What of her whereabouts?!" yelled Zeches.

Another glance was exchanged between the two preventers before Wufei spoke up again.  "We can't tell you," he stated.

Zeches glared at the former gundam pilot and then raised an eyebrow.  "May I ask why not?"

"They made us promise not to ever tell you where she was," Sally told him, but upon seeing his frustration in his eyes and posture she quickly added, "but they never said we couldn't show you."

Zeches looked at her with interest.  "Then show me."