Get Rel

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

Thank you all for expressing your opinions on the whole Lena side story idea. I will beginning Lena's tale when school starts, so that won't be until sometime in September, more than enough time for me to hopefully finish off a fan fic or two.

Also, for those interested, yes, I do enjoy confusing you guys so much. What can I say, it's so much fun!

So, the movie was not that bad of an idea after all, considering it allowed him three hours to think while pretending to pay attention to the movie. Heero just sat there on the floor thinking during the entire movie, not because the movie was uninteresting or anything, quite the contrary really, but rather he just needed time to reflect without interruption.

It was a long reflection indeed of just sitting on the floor squashed between Jason and Vicki, who had no scruples with leaning against him and snuggling into his arm. Heero wanted to cringe but instead he just swallowed hard and continued with his thoughts.

Everyone keeps questioning me of how I feel or have felt about Relena, why? Why were there ever any rumors about me and her to begin with? Certainly she has always had this sort of school-girl crush on me from the war and I had her intrigued from the first moment, but I thought she got over that in time…Momentarily Heero's thoughts were interrupted as Joey tripped over his leg trying to get to the kitchen for a soda.

"Sorry about that Eiji," she smiled apologetically as she got up and tip-toed her way through the masses of people.

Seriously though, why does everyone seem to be under the impression that there's some sort of 'chemistry' between Relena and I? I was her bodyguard and she just happened to be the representative I was assigned to, end of story. Yet I never requested a transfer, but than again, Relena was probably the easiest client to protect, when there weren't possible assassin attempts or threats. Also, Une rarely assigned me to someone else unless it was of the utmost emergency. Why, when she would easily send Hilde or Duo off to someone else's aid in a snap, Heero contemplated.

"Moron!" Robin yelled out, tossing popcorn at the T.V. at a tall, dark haired man speaking to his blond male friend. They were now watching the second installment of the trilogy and Heero had a fairly good idea of what was going on.

"Hey, cool it man," Bobby grunted tossing some of his M&Ms at the other boy. "Jeez, it's only a movie dude. Besides, I think he's better off without the chick. I mean look at her!"

Jackson promptly slapped Bobby over the head. "Speak for yourself, I think Julie Ewile is pretty hot."

"Like I'd speak for you," returned Bobby, rubbing the back of his head.

"Shut up both of you, this is a good part," commanded Joey, sitting back down in front of her brother, handing him a soda and opening her own.

And these are Relena's friends? How in the world did she ever become friends with them without my knowing it…? Heero knew that he already knew the answer to his own question. The same way she remained friends with the 'For Rel' band, through e-mails and phone calls.

It truly bothered Heero to know that Relena had not told him about her friends before the war. Granted, he had never asked since he had always assumed that those girls that he saw at the St. Gabriel Institution were Relena's only friends.

Guess this should teach me not to be so presumptuous next time. Heero's train of thought came to a sudden halt at the last thought. Next time, the words repeated themselves in his mind. Would there ever be a next time or was this going to be the finale?

If I don't catch up with her after this well I simply leave her alone? The thought had never struck him before but now that it had it was time to confront possibly one of Heero Yuy's worst fears, giving in. She has been able to evade me and the others while concealing her true identity under some façade… Was that what this really was? All the acting that Relena did, was it truly herself or was it all that, acting?

That was always the confusing part of the entire situation, was this truly the real Relena Salimar Darlian-Peacecraft or was it another façade like the one he had seen her display at meetings or conventions? Did anyone know who the real Relena was? Did Relena know who she really was?

Sally and Noin had both at one time or another, had come up to him to tell him to lay off Relena and give her a break once in awhile since she wasn't being given the life most teenagers get.

"Listen Heero," Sally told him one time while she was staying with Relena and him in Russia a year ago. They were at the bar and Sally had ordered him a water, which was not exactly what Heero 'needed' by took anyways. "You need to loosen up on Relena, she is obviously having a difficult time right now and she needs a few days to herself. That girl, I sometimes pity her."

"What for?" Heero grunted, sipping his bottle of water.

Sally gave him an exasperated look. "I suppose you wouldn't understand it but most teenagers like yourself and especially like Relena use these high school years to discover what they really want to do with their lives and to discover a bit of who they are, where they belong among family, friends, and the world in general. Relena is not given this chance since her position is decided for her despite her lack of education, she now feels the need to be very mature, probably more mature than how she feels. And you, you keep pushing at her. So, loosen up a bit before you crush her," she advised him.

Leaning back a bit, Heero rubbed his eye a bit. Was that what his presence was doing, crushing her? Was it his presence that was keeping Relena from really being herself, or was the fact that he didn't know who she could be that was making her able to reveal her true self?

He just didn't know.

"'Let it be known, that I declare The Roquet is a masterpiece and that mine, The Sphinx, is now in retirement,'" quoted Joey. "'Good show Darcy, very well done.'"

"Lord, someone save us all," groaned Salem only to be nudged by his sister's elbow.

"Shut up," she hissed at him.

Salem leaned forward a bit and shouted, "Gladly, when you learn how to keep from quoting while watching the blasted movie!"

"Hush both of you or I'll turn off the movie," Jason threatened, successfully silencing the siblings and turning back to the movie. "What is 'The Roquet' anyways?"

"It's that big cloth of folds and knots around Darcy's neck," Joey explained.

"Oh," was all Jason said in response before turning to Eiji and muttering, "Is she talking about that huge, obnoxious thing?"

Holding back a snort, Heero nodded. "Then why didn't she just say that?" Jason mumbled, sitting back.

"Heero," Relena called him out of his little corner of her office, "what exactly is Mr. Mullens' trying to say?"

Taking the offered proposal sheet of paper, Heero quickly read over it and then handed it back to her. It was clearly written out what the man was proposing, how could anyone not understand it?

"Is he trying to propose that we set up some sort of system where we use the old mobile suites in the construction of colonies rather than disposing of them?" she inquired, looking up at Heero for confirmation.

The only sign was a curt nod.

Leaning forward in her chair, Relena grabbed a blank piece of paper and pen then began to jot down her response to the proposal. "Then why didn't he just say so without having to use all those huge, 'flourishing' words as though I'm a human dictionary? Although," she added as an after thought, "I do have you for that."

Heero glared his disapproval at the statement, and Relena noticed it.

"I was only joking," she told him, and he knew that she wasn't lying to get out of his disapproval.

"Oh…Dy is so cute," drooled Vicki, leaving Heero's arm to prop her face on her fists and stare dreamingly at the television screen.

"Aw, don't worry Eiji, she'll do that until the end of the movie or fall asleep before the end," assured Jason teasingly.

"I think I'll survive the loss," he returned. So, will you leave her be? How could he leave her be when he was so determined to catch up with her, but he was no longer in want of returning her to the life she had before. Whatever makes her happy, even if it means that she wants me out of her life, he decided.

How could Relena ever want Heero Yuy out of her life, after all, she loved him right? Does she really? Heero found himself suddenly wondering in earnest. Reaching a hand underneath him, Heero fingered the edge of her final letter to him at the train station in Italy. She had never really said in there if she loved him only that 'I think you have an idea of how deep my feelings for you are' and 'I'm not going wait around any longer for you to suddenly become my knight in shining armor'.

Those statements could have multiple translations and not all of them lead to her loving him.

Why should I care if she still had that school-girl crush on me? Heero growled in frustration. So many why questions but with no answers. Have I not made it clear in the past that she was nothing more to me than a client that I had promised to kill and to protect?

Indeed, the former Zero pilot had made that statement clear to the young Vice Foreign Minister and she had seemed to have gotten that message. So, why do I feel so crushed that no longer be taking my…Heero searched his brain for the right adjective, bullshit. That one word summed it up fairly well.

"How is a waltz indecent?" Robin questioned as the aforementioned dark haired guy stared at a ballroom filled with couples waltzing around. "Seriously, it's possibly the most innocent dances of all time, next to square, round, and line dancing."

"What the lambada? Or is that some kind of dirty dancing?" challenged Jackson.

Robin raised an eyebrow at his friend. "Do you seriously want me to answer that one?" he offered.

Noting the implicating tone, Jackson backed down. "No, that's alright, I don't need you to traumatize me anymore than I already am."

With a shake of his head, Heero returned to his earlier thoughts. What is it about Relena that has kept me coming after her? I know that I have vowed to protect her but why have I always stayed by her side or chased after her? Why has she always accepted me for who I am when all I have done is rej…correct her assumptions? Again, the questions were rolling off his thought tongue.

How come it's now that I actually care about Relena's happiness? Wasn't that what he had thought earlier, 'Whatever makes her happy'? When had that come on to him?

"Heero, you question how I know if Relena is in love with you," Noin was talking to him over the vid-phone one night as she called in for a report to give Zeches.

"Hn," he had grunted, flipping through the schedule for the next day. "What about it?"

Noin narrowed her eyes at him for a moment, "Because she once mentioned to me that she didn't care that you reject her affections as long as you were happy."

Was that it? Was that how she truly felt towards him? If so than, I'm in love with Relena.

Anything with the beside it indicates references to Pamela Aidan's Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman Trilogy, mainly the second book, Duty and Desire.

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