I'll Love You in Silence

Chapter 4

Man and Wife

By Güera

"Mr. Lowe, please look at me." A woman said to a young man staring into space. He did not react to the woman's words. "Mr. Lowe, please. Your wife is calling you." This shook Heero out of his day dream. In which he was dreaming about the beautiful woman he met earlier. The woman that didn't speak nor hear. But he had to call himself away from that dream to talk to his nightmare or better known as his wife.

"What were you doing?" An accusing voice asked him. A woman came up on the screen. She had a head of very light brown hair with soft green eyes that did not match her personality. Heero took in a breath and tried to control and summon his pacience to deal with this woman.

"I'm working, Silvia. That's what I do here." He said as calmly as he could without trying to sound sarcastic. Although his attempts did fail.

"Don't be smart with me Heero. I'm sure you were with another woman. That's why you took so long in answering me. Where is she?!" She yelled at him. Her eyes filled with the fire of jealousy.

"Silvia, calm down. There is no other woman here except Lucrezia and you know she's my secretary." Heero said trying to calm her wife down from one of her constant accusations. One day he would actually like to cheat on his wife so he would be guilty for something he actually did.

"Don't lie to me. Lucia is beautiful, you were probably with her." Silvia said once again falsely accusing Heero. Lucrezia or known as Lucia is beautiful and kind but not a pleasant woman to be around while she is angry. But despite that Lucia already has herself a man, no one knows who he is and she won't reveal his name but she is deeply in love with him.

"Don't be ridiculous. Lucia and I don't have anything. She has whoever she has and I have you." He said but thought it was unfortunate for him.

"When are you coming home?" She asked again. She could not accuse him of that, so she tried a different tactic.

"Whenever I finish working." Heero said. While thinking hopefully it will never end. He enjoys his work he does at the embassy. It is always enjoyable. He loves working with the people from other countries. His job is not really stated as a job, it's more of a duty for him. He does what is necessary to keep peace between the Sanc Kingdom and others. However hostility sometimes grows out of his control and the help from others is needed. That rarely happens, on the occasions it does occur, he always has others to help him. But now with the added immigration from Earth to the Colonies in outer space, more people start to resent the governments on Earth. They are more free on the Colonies, more rights are given to them. Or so they believe. Heero cannot communicate what he thinks is going on in the Colonies because he doesn't know, but he has heard the rumors and they are not good. Some of them say that the Colonies are secretly constructing weapons of masss destruction to wipe out all life on Earth. Others say that they are creating an army to overtake the Earth and make it their own. There is so much hostility between the Earth and the Colonies that even with help, Heero and the others cannot calm it.

"When will that be? Don't tell me another war is starting."

"Please Silvia. Don't even joke about that." Heero said to her. Another war would be horrible. So many lives were lost in the civil war they had. The kingdom was still recovering. Yet this woman jokes about that matter as if it was no big deal. "I have to work now. Goodbye." He said shutting off the screen and ending their conversation. How can he deal with this woman day after day surprises everyone, including his own family. Heero let out a deep sigh, he rubbed his temples in an attempt to soothe his headache; it did very little to help him.

"Heero, buddy." Duo said walking into his office like he was accustomed to doing. He saw Heero in his condition and knew immediately what troubled him. "Silvia called right?" He asked guessing the exact thing.

Heero nodded but his headache did not lift. They had to leave and go home, though that's not where he wanted to go. He stood up and took his jacket, heading out the door and leaving his office. Duo began to speak of his day and Heero listened only to part of his words. His mind was troubled by other things besides his wife. Duo went home to his apartment and left Heero to do what he wishes, and was ready to cover whatever Heero said he was to his wife. Heero did not wish to go to his home and did not. He rather instead went to his only sanctuary he had left. The only place he did not allow his wife access to, despite her requests and pleas.

Once at his sanctuary he laid on the bed, he knew so well. He rested a bit, as this was the only rest he would get. Silvia nags him all night and all day, making it impossible to ignore her voice. Although his mind was set on his wife, he dreamt of something else. Or rather someone else. A woman, beautiful and kind that spoke in silence.

Relena. This name brought a smile to his lips as he slipped more and more into unconsciousness. Dreaming of her made him happy.

After countless hours of restful sleeping, Heero realized he had to go home. Regardless of whether he wanted to or not. But as he got home to the mansion, where many people lived, he would not realized that in that same mansion the one person he was thinking about resided there as well. He walked up the stairs slowly to his room, dreading the incident that will result from arriving but knew it was his obligation as a husband to be with his wife, despite his discomfort.

He arrived at his room, taking one more breath of freedom as he prepared to open the door into his prision, but it opened to reveal a very angry, barely dressed Silvia Noventa.

"Where have you been?" She whispered at him. It was late at night, most people were sleeping, and although Silvia would not care enough for the others, she would not be disgraced by everyone knowing that her husband didn't come home.

"I fell asleep at my apartment." Heero said calmly, he entered the room and began stripping himself of his clothes. His wife did not believe this story, despite it being the truth.

"Who is she?" She asked as she closed the door and faced him. He ignored her and pulled off his watch. "Tell me who she is!" She said yelling in a loud voice, despite the other people in the mansion.

Heero was tired of all her accusation and decided it was time for him to at least play a joke on her. "Fine, you want to know? Her name is Relena. Now shut up and let me sleep." It was a simple fib, although some truth did lie in that sentence.