Get Rel
NOTE: I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters.
With it being Friday evening Heero was doing his best to avoid the crowd in the street outside, he was doing this avoidance by tapping on laptop. However, his antisocial ness didn't go unnoticed for long.
"Eiji?" came a voice followed by the tell-tale sounds of a footsteps bounding up the first staircase then his.
Jason's head peered from the stairway. "Eiji, oh, there you are!" she smiled. "Come on down, your friends are out and waiting for you to join in."
"What friends?" he replied. The last time he had checked he didn't have any friends, comrades, yes, but no friends really.
At his question Jason just rolled her eyes. "Mindy and Selfie you pimp. Now come on before I sic my dad on you," urged Jason heading back down the stairs.
Friends…Wasn't there a time when Relena had said something like that to him?
"Do you treat all your friends like that?" Relena asked him while they were in Heero's car, one of the most well protected vehicles the Vice-Foreign Minister could be in.
Heero had just complete ignored Duo in his usual indifferent manner when exiting Relena's hotel and it seemed that Relena was bothered by it. Though why, he had no idea since it wasn't the first time Relena had seen Heero treat Duo like that.
"Like what?" Heero inquired.
"With that cold silence act," Relena elaborated, leaning her head against the window.
Thinking back on that day, Heero noticed that Relena looked rather pretty even though there were signs of sleep deprivation around her eyes. She had looked more like a woman than just some official he had promised to protect.
"How can I when I have no friends?" Heero had answered his employer's question.
Her eyes closed as though in pain and sighed, "Maybe that is because you don't consider those of us around you as friends."
She was right, he never considered anyone to actually be his friend, not even Relena. How in the world did you ever get Sylvia as your girlfriend? he asked himself. Perhaps you should stop looking for Relena…The thought was quickly pushed aside. I made a promise and I'm sticking to it!
Closing his laptop Heero got off his bed, went down the stairs, and out of the house only to see that Jason had lied. Duo and Hilde were not out there waiting for him. No, Duo was busy talking animatedly with Jake and Kaitlyn while Hilde and Amy were trying to keep Bobby from putting his hand into the fire grilling the hot dogs.
With a shrug Heero went to the one place where he could sit without seeming to be antisocial while not talking. He plopped himself down on a porch with one of the college kids, Warren, as his only companion. Both just exchanged glances and that was all.
"Someone should go talk to them," Jason stated to her small posse of friends while she eyed the only two social outcasts, Warren and Eiji.
"Let's send Joey over," suggested Frankie with wink while she drank her bottle of Root Beer.
Jason and Vicki both gave her a warning look. "That will promise only a fight between her and Warren, and you know that, Francis," Jason replied with an edge to her tone.
"An interesting fight at that," grinned Frankie.
"How about no fights for once," recommended Vicki. "There's one almost every weekend as it is so let's break tradition for once."
"Okay, I was only joking anyways," Frankie nodded.
"Vicki, who should we send over to keep those antisocial boys company?" Jason asked as she rolled her eyes at the tomboy of the group.
"I'll go," volunteered Vicki, "but I'm taking Robin with me for protection." She grabs two Pepsi bottles in one hand and then reaches behind Jason, grabbing Robin's arm and leading him towards the aforementioned boys.
Frankie snorted at the 'protection' line. "Have fun!" she called out when Robin turned to give her a 'help me' look.
Heero had been observing the girls little talk and only caught a little of what they said due to his lip reading skills, but when he saw Vicki and Robin approach them he knew what was going on. They were coming to 'chat'.
"Hey boys, watch are you doing?" Vicki greeted, dropping Robin's arm and handing Warren a bottle of Pepsi.
Taking the bottle Warren retorted, "Sitting."
"Sounds like fun, I'll join you and watch everyone else," Robin commented, situating himself between the other men.
Vicki pouted, it was obviously not what she wanted to happen. "That's not fun! Come on Warren, let's go mingle," she urged as she snatched Warren's free hand and began dragging him towards the mob of people.
"Vicki!" called out Robin but it was no use, Vicki just ignored him. "So, Eiji, what's with the antisocial mood? Are we not 'cool' enough for you or something?"
"Hn."
Robin glared at him from the corner of his eyes. "Keep doing that and I'll take the 'hn' as a 'yes' all the time," warned Robin, leaving any humor behind.
The threat didn't bother Heero one bit. "You're the third person to threaten that," Heero told him.
"Good, someone should," remarked Robin taking a sip of his Coke bottle then wiping the corners of his mouth with his sleeve. "Who are the others?"
"Selfie and a girl I knew," replied Heero not wanting to discuss the topic any further.
"Girlfriend?"
Heero glared at him, clearly stating no.
"Good point," continued Robin as though Heero had just replied verbally, "a girl would obviously have to put up a lot of shit to be your girl." There was a hint of laughter twisted with meaning. It was clear enough to Heero that Robin was trying to convey that he thought Heero to be an impossible kind of guy, and maybe it was true.
Even if it was or not true, Heero still raised an eyebrow. "Why's that?" Directness always worked best for Heero rather than beating around the bush for answers.
"You're antisocial, you reply in minimum words, and your favorite phrase is 'hn'," listed Robin. "Plus you clearly have no idea how to act around people of your own age group, which kind of makes me wonder if you were in the military at all."
"You depicted that much?" Heero inquired refusing to reply to the military portion.
"Kind of hard not to get that kind of an impression about you. Anyways, that's how Frankie described you as, not I," he corrected offering his soda to Heero.
"Hn," grunted Heero only to have the soda forced into his face.
"Yeah, I figured you wanted to know that and to have a sip of soda," Robin said.
Heero glared at the kid, he hadn't said anything and he certainly didn't want any soda, especially not Coke. So naturally he pushed the bottle away from him.
"You said yes," grinned Robin as he cocked his head at Heero.
For a moment Heero was mesmerized but then he just rolled his eyes and groaned, "You are annoying for a guy."
At this insult Robin laughed, "Same could be said about you, you have the personality of a stump." There were glares from both sides of this conversation and they were equally matched, except that Heero's looked as though he could freeze fire. "So, about this girl…" spoke up Robin starring-no longer glaring-into Heero's eyes, "who is she?"
Heero stiffened. He really didn't want to talk about Relena, especially not to someone who could possibly be a friend of hers. "None of your business," snapped Heero.
"Girlfriend huh," he simply stated.
"Why do you keep assuming that?!" demanded Heero, annoyance lacing his voice.
Robin's eyes widened for a moment before he questioned back, "Why are you so reluctant to talk about her? If you're so unwilling to share the tale than what other suggestion is there other than that she was an old flame of yours."
"It's in the past," Heero muttered, keeping his eyes away from Robin's.
"Well, it obviously affects you even now, so tell me the story," insisted Robin
With a slow sigh Heero began is revised-very revised-tale of Relena. "She was a girl I knew, not exactly a friend or a significant other, and I was very protective of her since she was very naïve. One day, she changed-grew up I suppose-and became someone I didn't know," Heero explained leaving out some 'minor' details.
"So you ran from her?" Robin pressed.
Heero shook his head. Of course he didn't run from her, he was the one chasing after her! "No, she ran and I didn't follow," lied Heero, he was following her trail whenever he could find it.
"Did you love her?"
Love? The idea had been pronounced a few times by Duo, even Noin sometimes, but Heero always brushed it aside. How could he have been in love with Relena when he was the perfect soldier, a soldier with no emotions? He could never have been in love with her.
"No."
Robin swallowed hard, obviously thinking hard about the wording of his next question. "Then why do you look like someone just died?"
There was no answer, and there would never be an answer until Heero figured it out for himself.
However, Heero was spared of doing so when a voice requested, "Excuse me miss, but may I have a word with him…"
Surprised by the voice both Heero and Robin looked at each other then up at the person. It was Zeches-Mr. Nottingham-towering over them with his commanding air that demanded to be obeyed.
"To whom are you calling 'miss'? Last time I checked we were 'sirs'," Robin pointed out, keeping back his sarcasm as best as he could, but it was in vain.
"Sorry," apologized Zeches, matching Robin's tone. "Dude, go away so I can talk to him," he indicated to Heero.
With a glance at Heero Robin got up and shrugged, "Sure thing, dude, since you're rude enough. Check you later Eiji." With one last icy glare, that almost surprised Heero, Robin marched back to the crowd to rejoin Joey's social group.
Once Robin was out of earshot Zeches turned back to Heero with an amused smirk on his features. "Never would have thought you'd go for orange, Heero."