DISCLAIMER: Still don't own it, still don't own it, still don't own it, blah, blah, blah.
I also thank "ally127" a good writer that pointed out a mistake in grammer and punctuation I made in the lst chapter. It was really late when I wrote it, and when I looked at it I knew something was wrong with it but I just couldnt put my finger on it. Thanks for pointing it out. So I thought I'd update the next chapter I bit early just for you. Thanks. "ally127"
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Une sat at her desk while pondering the happenings of the last half hour. She had two meetings in that time. One with the Vice Foreign Minister Relena Darlian, the other with Preventor Hilde Schbieker. Both it seemed were pregnant. Hilde with Yuy's child and Relena with Duo's child.
Not all together unexpected. Still, not the best of surprises.
Relena had talked to her about working with the Preventors after she had the child. Not wanting to travel. Hilde talked to her about her Convalescent leave after she has the child. Possibly getting out of the Preventors.
Relena had yet to tell Heero, and Hilde had yet to tell Duo. They had yet to tell each other for that matter. She already knew that this was going to get messy before the end.
Perhaps this was a bad time to tell everyone about her relationship with Quatre. . .
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"Hilde, can we talk?" Duo asked carefully, hoping not to get her angry with him again. Even though she had reason to. One of the reasons he had yet to tell her. "I'm sorry that I mistrusted you. By the way, I got drunk a while ago and got Relena pregnant."
He sighed and looked at his reflection in the mirror. It didn't matter how many times he practiced telling her. It never came out right. He didn't deserve to have her take him back. Not after all this. She was better off without him.
Relena. Now that was another problem entirely. Pregnant with his child. He'd never been too keen on having kids. He liked the bachelor life. Not having to worry about life's problems. Hilde understood that. That was one of the reasons he liked her so much.
Relena pregnant with his child. Funny. He thought he would be more shaken up about this. Yet he wasn't. Perhaps he just hadn't come to fully face it yet, or the shock had yet to wear off.
In either case, he knew what he had to do. He had to accept responsibility for it. For what happened and for the child. He knew what it was like to grow up without parents. No way in hell any child of his was going to experience that. Not if he could help it.
That didn't solve the problem with Hilde though. No matter how he thought it through, everything he planned failed. He couldn't expect her to take him back. All he could do now is hope that Hilde and Heero would still be his friend after everything happened.
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Heero sat down in the chow hall for lunch. Meanwhile wondering why Wufei was walking around with such a lost expression on his face and Sally was looking like she just won the lottery. Who knows, maybe she did.
Aside from learning to be a good father and changing diapers, he felt it could only get better. He'd gotten through his emotional problems. Most of them anyway. Hilde and himself had talked some things over. Though they had yet to tell anyone that she was pregnant.
He was the prefect soldier. He didn't expect everyone to jump up with joy at the news. They could either accept the information, or they couldn't and it really wouldn't matter to him anyway. Cold perhaps, but there was no point in blaming him for everything when the blame could easily go in any direction. He regretted nothing.
In this, people were going to get hurt. Emotionally that is. Relena and him had never had a very stable relationship. He honestly didn't know what real love was to begin with. Still didn't. Perhaps this just confirmed his suspicion that there was nothing really there for either of them.
Hilde on the hand, he wasn't so sure of them. He felt protective of her for some reason. Reasons he didn't understand. Only the need to follow his instincts. Perhaps it was because she carried his child. Perhaps they had bonded because of it.
He certainly felt closer to her because of it. But that might also be because they had been living together for a while now. He really didn't understand emotions at all. It made him wonder how he ever gave the advice to follow one's emotions. Must have been the head wound he had at the time.
Relena sat down in front of him at this table. Much to his surprise. Though he showed little sign of it. However he could easily tell something was bothering her. "What's the matter?"
She fidgeted in her seat a little. "Heero, I'll just come right out and say it. I'm pregnant. With Duo's child. After we broke up Duo and I got drunk and did something that I regret. But I don't regret the child. I don't expect you to come back to me. I just hope we can still be friends after this." She said quickly before standing up from her seat and walking quickly out of the galley. Earning lots of odd stares from everyone else in the chow hall.
Heero fell back in his chair. Surprise written a little more clearly on his face. You know, he really should have seen this coming. Yet he hadn't. Relena was right. He really was dense when it came to these matters.
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Hilde walked through the halls of the building looking for Heero. She wanted to tell him that she had talked to Lady Une earlier that morning and told her that she was Pregnant. But Heero was no where to be found. He wasn't in his office. And oddly enough, Duo was putting his things back in his office with Heero. Perhaps he had finally come to his senses.
Walking past the chow hall, she didn't expect him to be there. As lunch had finished an hour ago. She back stepped a few paces to the door to see shockingly enough, Heero was still sitting there. Cold food in front of him in the empty galley and a perplexed expression on his face. If that was even possible.
"Heero?" She addressed him carefully. Not wanting to get a jump on him or suprise him or anything. He looked up from his cold food at her with his mask back in place. "What's up?"
"Relena's pregnant with Duo's child." He stated it as if it were the most well known fact in the world. And it actually took a moment for it to sink in for her.
"What!? Why that little two timing. . ." She cracked her knuckles in frustration. Angry that she had to find out this way. Duo should have said something to her! She shouldn't have to find out like this!
"She also apologized to me." He nodded his head slightly to himself. She knew Heero had some problems when it came to working through his emotions. Most likely why he had been sitting there for an hour.
"You didn't go back to her did you?" She asked quietly. Watching his expression remain the same as he shook his head negatively. She felt relief pass over her. All though why, she wasn't sure. It wasn't as if She and Heero were going out or anything.
They sat like this for a few minutes in silence. If she kept this up she just might be sitting here as long as Heero had been. Trying to figure out what the hell was going on around here. It was relationship chaos.
"I feel like I'm stuck in a bad soap opera." Hilde muttered to herself. How was she supposed to sort through all of this if something else kept getting thrown in her face? "What other surprises could possibly come up?!" She asked exasperatedly.
Heero looked about to open his mouth to say something when a noise caught their attention. Looking to the end of the chow hall, the broom closet opened from the inside and out walked Trowa. Followed by Dorothy. He wrapped an arm around her shoulder as they walked out while she contently squeezed his rear with her hand. Walking out of the galley as if they hadn't even seen them. Probably didn't.
Heero coughed lightly and looked away while Hilde ran a hand over her face. Her head sank slowly to the table with a thud as she held back a laugh. "I'm sorry I asked."