Quatre's blonde eyebrows went up "Miss Relena? Is that you?"

Relena nodded and fingered her hair "I know I look very different but I had to. I wasn't kidnapped Quatre. My brother hired these people to rescue me from Trieze. They're taking me to him."

She explained quickly before any damage was done, well, any more damage anyhow.

Quatre shook his head "Why didn't you tell me?"

Relena put her hands on her hips, she was indignant "Trieze has the entire mansion wired. I couldn't have told you without alerting everyone."

Quatre nodded and stepped closer to her but stopped at the too familiar sound of a gun's safety. Quatre turned and aquamarine met sapphire.

Relena went in between the two fighting mad men, "It's okay Heero, this is my bodyguard. He isn't going to take me to Trieze. He's just here to make sure I'm okay."

Heero didn't lower his gun "Well than tell him you're okay and get him off the ship." Quatre glared at him "I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying with Relena. I swore to serve and protect her and her alone."

Relena walked up to Heero and lowered his arm "It's okay."

"He nearly killed Duo" Trowa spat angrily.

Relena looked at Quatre "You what?" Quatre laughed nervously "Yeah… about that… is he okay?"

Trowa crossed his arms and glared at the man who nearly killed one of his best friends. Wufei stepped up "My name is Chang Wufei. Welcome to my ship…"

"Quatre Rabarba Winner."

"Oh so you're Quatre. Relena has mentioned you a few times in our conversations." Heero scowled, still angry at the blond "Funny. She failed to tell us you'd be stopping by."

Wufei had Cathy land the ship a few days later. "Are we at Sirendan already?" Relena asked.

Wufei shook his head "We're still a week away from there. We need to restock our supplies though. We have to fly over the ocean and I don't know about you but I don't want plunge into a watery grave anytime soon."

Relena shook her head and looked out the window of the bridge. "Where are we?"

Wufei put on his bag "Juno, our contact owns a bar here. She can provide us with the proper supplies."

Quatre paused his conversation with Trowa and appeared behind Relena "Are you saying you're bringing the second richest and most important woman in this world into a sleazy bar?"

Wufei walked past him, his face neutral "Yes. I am."

At this curt answer Quatre's face turned red, Relena shook her head "Quatre. Relax. Relena Dorlin is dead remember? My name is Andrea now."

Quatre scowled and muttered something that sounded like 'Andrea my ass' but she wasn't so sure. He put a protective arm around her and followed Wufei closely.

The bar defiantly wasn't anything like what Relena was used to but it wasn't what Quatre was expecting, first off there wasn't a bar fight going on when they opened the door. A woman sat behind the counter, her brown hair pulled into two spirals at the nape of her neck.

"Wufei! You're here already?"

Wufei nodded and sat down on a stool, the rest of the team streamed in and took empty chairs wherever there was room.

Quatre looked around the room and spotted a chair in a dark corner, leading Relena to the seat he whispered, "Try not to draw attention to yourself alright Ms. Relena."

Relena nodded and sat down to where he indicated. Quatre sat in front of her shielding her from prying eyes with his body.

She was used to being protected such as this by Quatre. He did this every time she went out. Always protecting her. Never letting his guard down. He ate nothing except a bit of everything that was given to Relena to make sure it wasn't poisoned. Never letting his hand waver from his belt, his fingertips were resting on the hilt of his sword.

Relena never noticed.

Wufei looked at the tense Soldier and shook his head "Do you think we should tell him this bar is the most secure place on the continent?"

He asked the older woman behind the counter.

She laughed, "Now where's the fun in that? I'm rather enjoying his discomfort."

Wufei shook his head "Sadistic wench."

Sally hit him upside the head "Shut up."

Wufei dodged her hand and drank the mug of beer before him, he wore no smile but there was an odd glint of humor in his obsidian eyes.

That night, in Sally's house atop the bar the group reviewed their supplies.

"We need food and water that's for sure. And another intake manifold… a carburetor, batteries… fuel… " Trowa listed counting on his fingers.

Wufei stopped him "But nothing really expensive right or hard to get right?"

Trowa nodded but stopped "We need another electron tracker. And a pulsate cannon-"

Quatre stood up "A pulsate cannon! That's all? We're crossing an ocean with nothing but a pulsate cannon to defend Miss. Relena?"

Relena placed a hand on his shoulder "Quatre! No one knows I'm even alive! It's okay!"

Quatre crossed his arms "But there are air pirates out there! And we have nothing for a shield but a plasma barrier!"

Trowa looked alarmed "How did you know that?"

Quatre glanced at him over his shoulder "I couldn't very well sneak on this ship without disabling your rather pathetic, poor-excuse of a shield."

Duo turned red "Well we're sorry we don't have billions of dollars to spend on anything we want. At least we have a shield you stuck-up, little rich boy, son of a bitch!" He stormed out of the room, Hilde gave an apologetic look at Wufei before chasing after him.

Relena glared at Quatre "Now look at what you did!"

She turned at went in the direction that Duo and Hilde went.

Quatre glanced around the room silently he hung his head in shame. "I didn't mean to upset him…. I just can't let anything bad happen to Relena…. I promised her…"

Wufei sighed, "Quatre… we know how precious Relena is to you… we also know that we would never let anything bad happen to her either…"

Dorothy put a hand on his shoulder "Besides… we are Air pirates too. We know how to take care of our own. And I'm beginning to thing of Relena as one of us too."

Quatre smiled thankfully "I'd better go apologize to Duo… He's still kinda sore about me beating him up I think too."

Heero stood in the corner of the room watching all of this play before him, his face an expressionless mask.