D.N.A. Phoenix
Chapter 4:Orion's Future
By Kiyoko
May 8, 2001


Three years later
A.C.199


"Daddy's home!" The little brown haired toddler ran to the tall figure that came through the door. Trowa leaned down to pick up the energetic kid coming his way. The boy hit his arms with full force. Picking up his son, he spun him around before letting him rest in his arms, against his hip. At that moment Alex came in wearing a checkered apron and a wooden spoon.

"I see you've been getting Lisa to teach you how to cook again."

"I don't like to be dependent on other people."

"That's what we pay them for." She frowned then walked over to him to give him a kiss. The brunette wrapped an arm around his neck to pull him down to her. They began to deepen the kiss when someone interrupted them, " What about me mommy." Trowa and Alex pulled away from each other to look at their son.

"Orion sweetheart, I could never forget about you!" She gave him a little kiss on his cheek.

"We won again."

"I know, I never miss one of your games. C'mon, dinners almost ready. Orion, why don't you go with daddy to get cleaned up for dinner."

"O ' Tay, lets go daddy, I'm hungry."
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The next day Alex, Trowa and Orion were to attend Lavender's 4th Birthday party at the Sanc Kingdom. It would be somewhat of a reunion since Dorothy and Quatre had moved to L4 so he could run his fathers company. Duo and Hilde had moved to L2 so he could run his car company and oversee production. Orion was very excited since he hadn't seen his 'cousins' in a long time. They left their huge mansion around 1:45 in order to make it by 2:00.

The whole ride there Orion was going on about how much fun they were going to have. Finally they arrived and an excited Orion nearly fell out of the car in a hurry to meet all his friends. He, Lavender, and Heero and Relena's Daughter Aurora played together often. Trowa lifted Orion up so he could ring the doorbell that was well out of his reach. Pagan answered the door then directed them to the backyard, where the party was to be held. Orion spotted Lavender in a pale blue party dress dancing around in the manicured grass.

"Lavender!" The purple haired girl stopped her dancing to see who had called her name. She spotted Orion in the doorway and trotted over to him.

"Orion!" The two young children embraced briefly then pulled away.

"Happy Birthday Lavender! Here we got this for you." The small boy handed her an oversized bag almost as big as he was.

"Thank you Orion." Lavender took the gift and placed it with the others already stacked on the table.

"Where's Aurora?"

"She's here, lets go say hi!" The two children scampered off to another part of the yard where some other children were playing.
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"Alex."

"Hi Heero." Alex went over to him to give him a hug.

"How are you?"

"The same as when you saw me two days ago." She let out a little chuckle and Heero gave her a small smile. Relena came over to offer her and Trowa a drink and to talk.

A few moments later a familiar blonde couple came through the door with a very blonde child in between them.

"Quatre, Dorothy!" Relena cried and rushed over to embrace the couple.
Trowa and Alex followed her over to the couple.

"Trowa, it's so good to see you again."

"You too Quatre, how are things going for you?"

"Very busy. I try to catch one of your games whenever I can." Trowa walked over to where Orion was playing and picked him up to bring him over to Quatre's family.

"Orion, do you remember Quatre?"

"Uncle Quatre!" The little boy struggled to get out of his father's hold to hug his uncle who came to visit frequently on business.

"Who are they Uncle Quatre?"

"Well, this is my wife Dorothy, she was there when you were born." Orion moved over to hug his Aunt whom he didn't remember. " And this is my daughter Glory. Say Hi to Orion Glory." The girl blushed and hid behind her mother's long skirt.

"She's shy isn't she Uncle Quatre?"

"Just give her time to warm up to you." Quatre handed a package over to Glory then told her to give it to the girl with the purple hair.

"I don't want to!"

"Now Glory sweetheart, it's her birthday, we came to see her. The least you can do is give her the present and wish her a happy birthday. Remember what we said about manners?" Glory gave her dad a slight nod and took the present.

"Here Glory, I'll go with you." Orion grabbed the blonde's hand and dragged her over to Lavender.

"I'm surprised she is shy, so unlike her parents when they were young I hear."

"Yeah, I was kinda a brat, so was Dorothy!"

"Quatre! How dare you say such a thing!" She lightly swatted her hand against his arm.

"Well it's true!" His wife gave him a dirty look then left to talk to Relena and Lucretzia.

"Have you tried getting Glory into any activities?"

"Not really, we plan to start her fencing lessons in a year or so."

"Yeah, Orion starts his in a few months. Then hopefully when he is four we want to put him into martial arts. That kid had too much energy." Trowa and Quatre glanced over to where the children were; Orion was bouncing all over the place trying to pull Glory along with him, who was trying to pull away.

"Has Duo and Hilde arrived yet?"

"Yeah, I think so. I assume the little one with the braid is Trio. They must be around here somewhere. Sally is here too with Merian and Athena."

"Figures Wufei would have two girls."

"Is Wufei here?"

"No, he had a martial arts competition."

"I'm not surprised he won the gold medal in the Olympics."

"Me either, it seems all of us have done wonderful things."

"CAKE! Lucretzia announced coming out of the house followed by two people carrying a huge lavender three-layer cake. All the children stopped what they were doing and ran over to the table where the cake was placed. Lavender climbed onto the bench followed by Aurora and Orion on each side of her. Trowa's son had dragged Glory to sit next to him at the table. Zechs and Noin lit the candles on the cake. The little orchestra in the garden began to play a soft melody resembling the birthday song. Everyone began to sing.

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Lavender,
Happy Birthday to you!

"Make a wish princess." Millardo said behind his daughter. Lavender grabbed onto Orion and Aurora's hand before she made her wish. Orion in turn grabbed Glory's hand. Aurora grabbed Merian's hand, who grabbed Athena's hand, who grabbed Trio's hand. Lavender blew out the candles then closed her eyes to make a wish.

I hope we are all friends forever, no matter how far away we are from each other.

Suddenly they all felt a tingle go through their hands and broke apart. Millardo cut the cake then handed a piece to everyone. The rest of the afternoon was spent playing games and having fun. After a while the guests had left except for the pilots, their wives and children.
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"Alex, can I talk to you for a moment?"

"Sure Heero, what's up?"

"Last time Orion came over to play with Aurora and Lavender, he drew this." Heero held up an exact replica of the Dark Phoenix they had designed.

"Oh no!" Alex brought a hand up to cover her mouth.

"The drawing is perfect, much better than even an advanced three-year old could do."

"What are you saying Heero?"

"I'm saying that when we injected you with the Phoenix information it transferred to Orion as well. You must have been pregnant when we did it. We were lucky that I walked in at that time to confiscate the drawing."

"Orion will be in danger if anyone finds out."

"I know, I've already thought of that. I set up and account with 10 million dollars in it in case anything happens. You will be able to access it with out being traced to your location."

"What do you mean, "in case anything happens". Are you planning to send me away? If anything, Orion will be safer here."

"Yes, if anything happens, you have to go."

"I have to tell Trowa!"

"No, You can't. It will endanger everything we worked for! The less people that know the better."

"Can't we extract the information somehow?"

"No, we can't. Unlike you, it is built into his DNA, not stored like yours."

"No one can find out. I don't know what I would do if Trowa, Orion and I had to leave."

"Trowa can't go with you."

"Why not?! He's my husband. Where I go he goes and the other way around."

"If anything happens we need him here."

"If anything happens then he can come back!"

"No, it doesn't work like that Alex and you know it!" Alex could no longer hold the tears threatening to spill onto her face. The thought of leaving her husband and her life was too much for her.

"Please don't cry Alex, it hurts me to see you cry."

"What do you care! If anything happens you get stay here in your cozy Palace with your family!"

"You get to stay with Orion."

"Yeah, but what about Trowa! He'd be heartbroken."

"I could never do anything like that to him. I couldn't do that to my child. I couldn't have him growing up not knowing who his father was, not knowing how great of a man he is."

"Do you think I would want any child growing up without know his father! We both know what it's like. If this were my choice I would change it.

"What do you mean your choice?"

"This wasn't my decision, it was Lady Une's."

"You talked to her before talking to me! DAMMIT HEERO!" Alex screamed. Pushing him hard into the wall, she ran out of the house. She was so frustrated. How could this happen? After all the hardships she has gone through, things had to get worse. And Trowa, what would she do without him? He is the love of her life. Alex ran into the huge hedge Maze after running through it for 15 minutes, she found a corner and sat down. She thought about her life and what had become of it. She thought about all she would have to leave behind. She cried. She never cried much in life. Soldiers don't cry. The strong never cry. Whoever said that was wrong, so completely wrong. The best of the best cry. She cried. Soon she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
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"Has anyone seen Alex? She hasn't been around for a while."

"I haven't seen her. Come to think of it, when was the last time anyone saw her?" Duo said.

"The last time I saw her, she was talking to Heero." Relena told them.

"Heero, when did you last talk to Alex?"

"That was about four hours ago. I'm sure she'll be back soon."

"She just wouldn't leave for no reason without telling me." Trowa was now pacing the room.

"I'm going out to look for her."

"Where are you going to go. She could be anywhere."

"Do you know where she went?"

"Why would I know Trowa?"

"I don't know, you were the last one to talk to her."

"That doesn't mean anything."

"Are you hiding something Yuy?"

"No."

"What did you talk about?"

"Just the usual, how is your life going, how is Orion doing."

"You're hiding something."

"You're becoming delusional Trowa. Well send out the Royal guard to search the grounds."

"Fine, but I'm going to." Trowa took off down the hall to search the grounds.

"Man, he's really bent out of shape. I guess he's seen too many bad things to take anything lightly."

"We all have Duo, there's nothing we can do about that." Quatre said,

"Let's go help Trowa." The group split up to check different parts of the
estate, while Relena sent out the guards to find her.

"ALEX!" Trowa had already searched most of the gardens as well as the edge of the forest. He didn't know why he was so worried, but he was. She would never go anywhere without telling him first.

"ALEX!" He called out again. There was still one place he hadn't checked yet: The maze. She often went in there. Running to the front of the maze, Trowa ran in calling her name.

Alex heard a faint noise in the distance and woke up. She couldn't quite remember how she got to where she was. Oh yeah, her conversation with Heero. Her head hurt from crying and was now shivering in the cold. How long had she been asleep in the maze? She heard the noise again. Wait, that wasn't a noise, it was a voice; it was Trowa's voice.

"TROWA!" She managed to choke out, her mouth dry from the cold night air. He heard her call his name as he turned the corner. There she was, curled into a tight ball with her arms wrapped around her knees with her head resting on her cold arms.

"Alex!" He said as he rushed over and gathered her into his arms.

"Are you ok? I was so worried about you! Why were you crying."

"I wasn't crying."

"Yes you were; your eyeliner is running down your face. What's wrong."

"Promise me Trowa, that you'll love me forever and if anything should happen, you'll wait for me?"

"Of course, I love you with all my heart!" Alex wrapped her arms around his neck and held him in a tight grip.

"I love you Trowa Barton. I always will, no matter what."

"What happened, why are you out here. Does it have something to do with Heero?" Alex felt the tears return to her eyes.

"No." She managed to say between a sob.

"Yes it does, what happened."

"Nothing happened."

"Yes it did, tell me what happened."

"I'm sorry Trowa I..I can't."

"Why not?"


"Because it would ruin what I worked so hard to protect.""

"It's ok, you can trust me."

"It's not a matter of trust Trowa, I trust you with my life, I love you too much to tell you. Can we just go home? I want to see Orion."

"Yeah, lets go home." Trowa pulled her to her feet and looked into her eyes. He tightened his hold on her then bent down to kiss her. His lips gently brushed over hers, warming her icy lips. Slowly he pushed harder, finding his way into her mouth. Slowly Trowa warmed her body with his touch. Soon they pulled away and headed back to the Palace under the starry night sky.
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"Alex!" Hilde shrieked when she saw Trowa and Alex walking down the hall.

"Where have you been? We were all so worried!"

"I'm ok Hilde, I just needed to do some thinking." Relena called off the search of the estate and slowly people began returning to the Palace. Trowa went up into one of the guestrooms to take the sleeping form of Orion home. A few mumbles escaped his tiny mouth as Trowa lifted him out of the warm bed.

"It's time to go home sweety."

"I don't wanna go home! I want to stay with Lavender and my new friends!"

"Don't worry, they'll be here tomorrow. We can come back then."

"Okies." The little boy snuggled closer to his father as they walked down the hall.

They arrived home a little after midnight. One of the servants met them at the door to take their coats and bags. Trowa put Orion to bed in the room next to theirs then went to bed. When he entered the room, Alex was already in bed and fast asleep. He climbed into bed next to her, gently kissing her forehead before drifting off to sleep.
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The next morning Alex and Trowa woke up to find Orion bouncing on the end of their bed.

"Time to get up! I'm hungry!" Alex shook the sleep from her eyes.

"Alright sweetheart, let's go downstairs to have some pancakes. How does that sound?"

"Yummy!" The little brown-haired boy jumped off the bed then bolted out the door followed by his mother.

"You need to get up too sleepy head. You have practice in an hour." Trowa groaned then followed his family down to breakfast.

Orion struggled to get onto the chair that was twice his size. Once he managed to get seated, he picked up his napkin to drape it across his lap. A servant came out of the kitchen and placed a plateful of pancakes in front of him. Orion grabbed the syrup bottle and smeared his pancakes in the stuff. Alex had done the same as her son except she went light on the syrup.

"So what do you and Orion plan on doing today?" Trowa asked.

"Well, we are going to go shopping for a while, then we are going over to the Palace to visit more with everyone."

"What time will you be home?"

"Um, I'm not sure. Probably sometime before six. If you get home early, why don't you come and join us?"

"I'll think about it." Alex kissed him on the cheek then continued to finish her pancakes.

Later that day Alex and Orion had gone to the huge Sanc shopping center. She had brought him so he could find an adequate fencing foil and gear.
"How about this one honey?" Orion didn't answer her. "Sweety we need to chose one." Alex turned around, but didn't see him anywhere.

"Orion?"

"MOMMY!" he cried as someone was carrying him away.

"ORION NO!" Alex dropped everything and bolted out of the store. She
chased Orion and his capture out the mall and into the parking lot. The man who had her child handed him to another man while he took up a fighting stance facing Alex. She was lucky she wore pants today.

"Give me back my son!"

"Sorry lady. We have plans for him." She swung a fist at the man's face who blocked it with a lot of effort. Quickly she brought her foot up to meet his stomach. The man let out a huge gasp from the impact.

"Would you like to continue this pointless fight, or will you give my son back!" Alex spat in his face.

"I told you we have plans for him lady." She swung at him again and decked him in the jaw. The man Flung a shot at her ribs, but she blocked it easily. Alex grabbed the front of his shirt and rolled backwards putting her foot in his stomach to fling him into the wall behind her. She got up to face the other capture holding her son.

"In less you want to end up like him, I suggest you hand him over." The man put Orion on the ground and bolted in the other direction.

"Who were they Mommy?"

"Some bad men sweetheart. We have to go now." Alex picked him up and ran to hail a taxi.

"I need you to take me to the Sanc Kingdom Palace as quick as you can."

"They don't just let anyone in there you know."

"Whatever, just hurry!" The cab driver stepped on the pedal and headed to the Palace. The cab pulled in front of the huge gates and stopped.

"Thanks. " She said, stuffing a hundred-dollar bill into his hand. They got out of the car and went past the guards at the gate. Pagan answered the door and let them in.

"Everyone is in the garden Mrs. Barton."

"Thanks Pagan." Casually, as to not alarm anyone, she walked out the door into the Garden. Orion ran off the play with the other children.

"Hi Alex."

"Hello everyone. Heero, can I speak to you for a moment?"

"Sure." Together they went into the Palace and into the study.

"Oh god Heero, someone tried to Kidnap Orion today." He voice was shaky as she spoke.

"When, when did this happen?"

"About twenty minutes ago. I came here right after it happened."

"Well, what happened."

"We were searching for a rapier for him. I picked one out to show him but when I turned around he was gone. I heard him calling for me so I chased some guy out to the parking lot. The man put up a weak fight. I took Orion and came here."

"You know what you have to do."

"God Heero, I don't know if I can!"

"Go home and pack. Orion can stay here, you have to go. You know I don't want you to go. You mean so much to me. It's the only way. I'll send someone with you." Alex hugged Heero and left.
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"Glory, how come you aren't playing with everyone else?"

"They don't like me."

"Sure they do. Here this is for you." Orion handed her a white rose. Glory blinked a couple of times before accepting the flower.

"Thank you. I have to give you something in return." Glory took off her silver ring and put it in his hand. Orion studied the ring and looked at an encryption on the inside. Glory. He read on the inside.

"Thank you." The two small children hugged briefly.

"Orion, we have to go." Alex picked up her young child and headed off to her new life.

"Where are we going Mommy?"

"We're going to L4, to our new home."

"What about Daddy?"

"He can't come sweety." Orion looked back onto the city in which he was born, not to return for 12 years.


A/N: Whew! I think this is the fastest I've ever gotten a chapter out. Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed it. Reviews are appreciated!

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