Get Rel

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

Okay, school has started for me again. So, I no longer will be able to do weekly updates for a while, I will try to update every other weekend but I can't give you any guarantees so just bare with me. And I will have Lena's tale out shortly. Thank you all!

Somewhere in the middle of the second movie half, if not the entire, room had fallen asleep using each others' shoulders, knees, or the backs of furniture as pillows. Even Heero was used as a pillow by Vicki until he cautiously got up and went to his bed to sleep.

Even though he had been about the last person to fall asleep, Heero was the first to wake the next morning. Despite the fact that he was no longer a soldier Heero just couldn't break the habit of waking at the crack of dawn, which most people would find inhuman.

Not liking the feeling of being in a house filled with Relena's allies, Heero slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and shirt then went outside with the intent of walking around the block a couple of times.

Despite the fact that he had actually admitted, in his mind, that he loved Relena it just didn't seem to add up in his head. The only examples of love he had to compare his with were from a few songs that he had heard and the Noin-Zeches relationship. Everyone working as a preventer knew of Noin's longstanding love for the older Peacecraft child but also of how Zeches was either blind or didn't wish to commit.

Heero couldn't really relate to any of these which led him to question if he was truly in love.

"I care for her but that does not mean I'm in love with her. I don't need to be around her all the time but I always need to know if she's okay," Heero pointed out to himself then argued, "then again, I did make that vow to protect her so I this need to know if she is alright could be from that."

Then there were people that described being in love as thinking that the person who you were in love with was the most beautiful thing. Heero could never say that Relena was a beauty; was she pretty? Yes, but he never once thought that anything article of clothing brought out her eyes or anything, or that she looked very sensual in an outfit. Not even at charities when she would have to dress up did he ever find himself thinking that.

Relena had never been a person to be very sensual but rather she liked being very innocent and wearing something that she felt comfortable in. It was bad enough that all the eyes of the press were always upon her, she certainly didn't wish to attract anymore attention with her attires. That was why she wore long skirts or dress pants often to work.

"This is the workplace, it's not a place-to me-to pick up a date or attract the infatuations of others," he had once heard Relena explain to Hilde one day when Hilde was trying to get Relena to wear a shorter, sassier skirt.

Other people often wrote love as being unable to get that person out of your head. "Well," Heero commented, "I can't get her out of my head but that's due to the fact that I'm trying to figure her out."

Heero almost laughed at himself, this was something that the preventer shrink would have had a field day with. Mrs. Comenski had been trying for the last two years to open Heero up and failing miserably. Now, he had opened up to himself and what did he do? He tried to bury it by analyzing his actions and motives, it wasn't quite working and it worried Heero.

He didn't know how to handle emotions and now he didn't have anyone to help him without some form of teasing.

With a sigh, Heero looked up to find that he was in front of Jason's house again. He had gone around the block already? He must have been in thought longer than he had thought he was.

"What am I to do when I do catch up with Relena…?" he began to wonder as he unknowingly stared up at one of the windows of the house.

His thoughts were interrupted as the door to the room with the said window opened and in stepped a person with shoulder length hair. Seeing this Heero was about to look away, even though the shade was down, as the shirt was coming off.

What were you doing? he chided himself about to go inside, but he took one last look up to the window.

The person was done putting the shirt on and was currently about to open the shade. As the shade came rolling up the person looked outside the window.

Everything stopped, including all rational thought, as Heero looked up at the face of the one person he most desired to find. Relena…

All Heero wanted to do was yell out her name but apparently his vocal cords weren't working, leaving his mouth to just flop up and down soundlessly.

Unfortunately, it had been Heero's brain to stop and not Relena's; she looked down at him and her eyes widened with fear before she dashed away from the window and out of the room.

"Relena!" He had meant to really shout it but instead her name came out as a mutter of disbelief. It took Heero a couple of nanoseconds to realize that this was he chance to get her.

Quickly Heero jumped onto the porch, inside the house, and bounded up the stairs, taking them two at a time until he got to the top. "Rele…na?" he murmured as he found the hallway to be completely empty and all the doors but the bathroom to be closed.

She must be in one of the other rooms, he decided about to open the first door, Jason's dad's room, but Heero quickly withdrew his hand as he heard another door start to open.

Out from Jason's room filed Frankie, Robin, Salem, Joey, Ricky, and Jason. They were apparently all laughing about something, thus most of their faces were red and Joey was wiping some stray tears from her eye.

The first instinct Heero had was to demand 'where is she' but he knew that that would only confirm any suspicions that they obviously had of him, Relena's wide eyes proved that much to him. So to keep the group from inquiring any questions like, 'Eiji, what are you doing up here?' or 'Eiji, are you okay you look like you saw a ghost', Heero began to go up to the attic area.

Stepping onto the first step he decided to play stupid and still make inquires about Relena.

"Who was that girl?" he spoke up, interrupting the groups chatter.

Everyone exchanged questioning, bewildered looks until someone spoke up.

"What girl? Cause you know, there are quite a few girls in the house right now and it's kind of hard to tell you who this girl was without clarification," Robin pointed out to him.

Resisting the urge to roll his eyes in frustration, Heero clarified a bit, "I saw a girl with dark blond hair in the bathroom."

That didn't seem to be enough clarification for them. "Are you sure it wasn't Frankie or Robin?" Joey offered.

"Are you even sure it was a girl?" Salem added and Joey nodded her agreement.

Why were they questioning him like that? Of course he knew it was a girl, he saw her face more than anything else but he couldn't quite say that since they would argue that some males had fairly feminine faces.

"I saw the outline of breasts, so yes, I'm sure it was a girl," he lied. He had seen nothing apart from her hair and face, but it would make them stop questioning what gender this person was.

"So then it could have been me," Frankie shrugged as though it was no big deal.

True, remarked Heero, holding the girl's gaze. "This girl had shoulder-length hair so it couldn't have been you." Heero had been looking for some sort of flinch or other tell-tale sign that would have proved to him that Frankie was Relena.

There was none. Frankie held his gaze evenly, not even challenging him to prove it.

'Then you must have been seeing things because Frankie and Robin are the only two with dark blond hair, unless Vicki recently died hers, and none of them have shoulder-length hair," Ricky stated.

Heero had never talked to the short boy before but he knew of Ricky through Ringo. Apparently Ricky was the shorter, younger brother who had the nasty habit of horning his 'thieving' skills because he wished to become a master thief. Whether that was true or not, it didn't matter but something was off with the guy. Heero could just feel it as Ricky looked up at him with a lopsided, cocky grin.

Feeling slightly disappointed, Heero reminded himself that there was never much hope of them telling him anything useful since they were Relena's friends and they were all very willing to help hide her among them. Still, he had hoped one of them would have slipped up a bit to give him a clue as to which one of them was Relena.

What if she's still hiding in one of the rooms trying to put on her disguise? his mind suggested. It wasn't that farfetched of an idea; in fact, Relena could very well be hiding in one of the rooms still, just waiting for him to leave so that she could come out without having to be under his questioning gaze.

"Why do you ask anyways, Eiji?" Joey inquired with a cocked head.

Shrugging Heero offered lamely, "Curious is all."

"Oh…" was all that Joey had replied but Heero could tell that she wasn't buying it as she eyed him. He held firm under her open scrutiny.

"Well, sorry to have disappointed you but there's so such girl here that we know of. Perhaps your eyes were playing tricks on you from the lack of sleep you must be getting. How can you get up so damn early in the morning?" Jason declared before heading down the stairs with her friends in tow. "Now what were you saying earlier Salem?"

Standing on the stairs for a few seconds, Heero stepped up a step or two then sat down and waited. If Relena had truly been hiding in one of the rooms she should walk by the stairs anytime soon and then he'll have caught her.

So there Heero sat for five minutes but no one passed by the stairs. It didn't disappoint Heero because it had in a way narrowed down his suspects of possible Relenas but at the same time it still put him at square one. Even though Relena had not passed by the stairs, it didn't mean that she wasn't still hiding in one of the rooms.

In either case, one thing was true, Relena knew who he was or at least had a good guess. That look of pure fear that he saw in her eyes when they came upon him made it quite clear; she had figured out that either he was 'Eiji' or that 'Eiji' was a preventer.

Giving up on waiting, Heero went up to his room while beginning to formulate a plan in his mind. He needed to start getting it together now because he only had a matter of weeks before he could execute it.

Picking up his cell phone, Heero speed-dialed a number and waited after three rings before someone had answered the phone.

"Hello?" was all Heero had to hear to know it was the exact person he wished to speak to.

"Zeches, I have a plan on how to get Relena."

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