Chapter 8: Giving up

Mnemosyn smiled, closed her eyes and then whispered into Relena's ear. "Thank you for your help. She'll appreciate it...my demon." Her dulled blue eyes turned crimson and her hair, now shortened to above her shoulders, was a deep blue almost purple color that changed almost in the blink of an eye.

The beeping of a machine woke Relena from her trance as she looked at Lethe. "What the hell just happened?" Duo said, looking at Lethe.

"I-I really don't have the vaguest idea." Relena said shell-shocked at what the golden haired person told her.

Doctor's came rushing in. "Get out. Now!" The doctor ordered. Duo held his ground.

"Get out now, or I will have you removed." He turned to look at the other doctors and nurses in the room. "Quickly!" The doctor looked back at Relena and the other two.

"What the hell is going on now?" Duo asked.

"It seems that your friend, he seems to be giving up. He's loosing his temperature quickly, and we have to hook him up to more machines to monitor him. He's under much strain; he'll be lucky if he can last the night. His wounds are deep and bad. If he wakes up, then we'll have to put him into a barbiturate coma, until is body completely heals and he's back physically and mentally." He sighed and then, walked them into the waiting room.

Relena stood there. Not moving. The others looked at Duo, the unconscious Lethe, and then Relena who stood there wide-eyed, looking down the hall to where Heero was.

"What?" Sally and Wufei said at the same time. "What is going on?" Wufei asked before Sally could beat him to it.

"How's Heero?" Quatre asked, looking sympathetic at Relena. "Did the doctors tell you how he's doing?"

Trowa remained silent. "Lady Une, I think you had best get back to the Preventer's headquarters." He didn't look at her at all when he said this.

Une nodded her head. "I understand." She got up and left. The clicking of her heels on the tile stopped as she went out into the rain to get a taxi.

"Why did you do that?" Sally asked angrily. "Heero needs all of us." She said quietly.

"The headquarters was attacked. Une can try and calm the chaos and disappearance of Relena and Quatre. She'll be there too, to prove that what she says will get rid of their precautions." Trowa stated, not averting his eyes from Relena who hadn't moved at all.

Duo stood there also, looking as if he saw everyone massacred.

"What is it?" Wufei exclaimed, hating not knowing what was going on.

Relena fell to her knees, not even flinching as she hit the cold tile. "If?" She said quietly. Tears threatened to overflow, but she held them in check. "If?" She said louder.

"What do you mean by 'if?' Relena?" Sally walked over and knelt by her. She looked into Relena's eyes. They seemed to speak for her.

Duo collapsed on a couch. "I don't believe it..." He said. "No way..."

"What the Hell is going on for Gods' Sake!" Wufei yelled.

Duo looked at him and Trowa. His look was so depressed and Relena's sudden sobs racked her body and the hallway, echoing back and forth. "They said that he's giving up." Was all he said, which almost came out as a whisper.

"What!" Quatre shouted, jumping out of his chair. "Heero is-is dying?" He said in disbelief. All the Gundam pilots had had the 'devils luck' and they had escaped death so many times that it seemed almost natural. Heero had almost always been the one to go through a lot of pain. Once, he self-detonated and ended up sleeping for a month. He'd always gone through a lot of pain but he always ended up pulling through, no matter how impossible it seemed.

Relena cried even harder now after hearing this. Sally glared at Quatre who looked back at her with a puppy-dog look saying 'sorry'.

The doctor that led them away from the room came back, shaking his head. Relena looked at him. "He's not dead! He can't be!" She sobbed. "If he dies, then I go to!" She looked around and saw a gun in its holster on Quatre's waist. She lunged for it, but Wufei knocked her away from him. She sat on the floor, now crying even harder.

Sally took a gulp of fresh air and stood off the floor. The doctor placed a hand on her shoulder. "I don't know what to say...I am truly speechless." He said.

"So he's gone. He's really gone?" Sally said quietly. "I don't know what Relena's going to do without him..." She trailed off. "Trowa. Get Milliardo on the phone, we need to get him over here." Trowa got up and left them, looking for a vid phone to contact Milliardo. After a couple of tries, he manages to get him to come over here as fast a s he could since it involved his sister. He knew how much she relied on Heero, if he died, who knows what would happen.

"I'll be over in ten minutes. I'm not far since Noin told me to come to this colony because of a terrorist group. Tell Relena to hold on." He instructed and then the line went blank as he rushed into his car. "I'll make it in five minutes. Relena could do anything if he dies. She might even..." He brushed that thought away of his sister committing suicide.

"What are you talking about?" The doctor asked, confused. Sally looked back, just as confused in his face.

"Huh? What do you...?" Sally stopped as she saw a figure. Her eyes opened wide.

"Milliardo?" She asked, confused. "How did you get here so quickly?"

He looked at her, his long white hair a little drenched like his clothes from the rain outside. "It involved Relena. I had to come..." He looked at Relena who was crying her heart out. He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into a light embrace. She cried even harder now.

"He's-He's gone..."She wailed.

TBC

Author's note:

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I got to make the summary but FFN kinda screwed it up and butchered it:

Summary:

Relena stared at the other captured person in the room. "Uh…mister?" Heero turned around and shot a glare at her. "What?" He snapped. She blinked and then said, "There's a…hole in your shirt."

Love, Red Tail