Chapter 11: The Girl and her Dog

"Hurry!" He shouted and went over to help Relena carry Heero. They rushed down the fire stair. A car was waiting for them, since Milliardo had to get to the hospital by his own transportation.

"Lets get to the airport shuttles. We need to get back to earth and we can all rest in my home. She said, putting the seat belt over Heero's form. His breath was labored, but he would pull through, hopefully.

"He's back." She whispered. "He's back." She said happily, for once believing her own supportive words. The others looked at his now peaceful face and then back to Relena.

They smiled at them.

'Maybe there is such things as a happy ending.' Relena thought.

A couple days past and nothing would keep the soldier down when he woke up, not even Relena, who was getting ready to use force or sedatives on him. He was training himself and not relenting on his search for Sogran, who they hadn't bothered to get out of the fire. He discovered he survived, appearing once at a meeting, but then disappearing after causing uproar.

Relena made her first appearance to the public soon after they reached Earth, so as not to cause any more stirring fears between the earth and colonies. Everything was slowly getting into place as it had been before all this madness. Heero was getting better, returning to what was normal for him. None of this surprised them; even after all he had been through.

"I swear. He's the perfect soldier in more than one way." Duo said angrily, while sitting on the porch drinking lemonade with the others while Relena was trying to get Heero to come and join him as he did push-ups over on the grassy hill that lead down to some wood's from the porch. "How many is he on?" Duo asked.

"A hundred." Trowa stated, noting the small layer of sweat on Heero's face as he turned to look at Relena. He wasn't surprised, he was still recovering but one hundred push-ups were a lot for all he had been through.

"Damn!" Duo said. He plunged his hand into his pocket, producing a five-dollar bill.

"Here." He grunted, depressed. "Should have known better that he could do over fifty." He muttered to himself.

Trowa happily took the five-dollar bill and put it into his pocket, grinning, which made Quatre laugh. Wufei and Sally sat next to each other, enjoying on another's company, talking about affairs and such. They all knew that something was growing between them.

Relena came walking up, grabbing two glasses of lemonade, grinned happily at the other two, then walked back to where Heero was now doing curl ups, despite his slight red streak of where the cut had been and the bullet wound in his back. It didn't hurt him anymore though. He stopped what he was doing when Relena walked over. She reminded him of the girl with the flower, handing him a glass of lemonade, the wind blowing her white lace dress. He took it and placed arm behind his head. He looked up at the sky on the grassy hill of the Peacecraft estate.

Relena lay down next to him, both of them sipping their lemonade, except Heero, who sat their randomly drinking it between intervals, thinking about something, which Relena had no idea what about.

Relena looked at him. She couldn't keep it a secret. Maybe if she could relieve him of some of those pained memories. "Who was she?" Relena asked.

Heero looked at her, confusion riddling his face, which he quickly hid and looked away. Relena could tell he still didn't under stand what she was asking. "Who? That Lethe or Mnemosyn person?" He asked, looking up at the sky.

Relena shook her head. "The girl with the flower. The one with the dog." Relena asked.

Heero snapped his head in her direction. She saw a quick glimpse of the pain he had long endured about the little girl, but quickly hid it like the confused expression he hid.

He sat up on his side, almost completely facing her.

Relena liked the look of his chest, he was thin (which lead his opponents to think he was weak, which he wasn't) and yet well muscled, the white bandage wrapped around his lower abdomen to protect the now small cut which was still healing. "How did you—?" He asked, confusion riddled in his voice.

"Sally found out." She stated. "I'll keep annoying you until you tell me. Maybe it'll help relieve some stress." She said softly.

"Stress? What are you talking about?" He said calmly, plopping back down onto the soft green grass.

"Keeping everything hidden from us, we don't really know anything about you're past, you know." She said. "Isn't it stress to keep everything inside at all? I mean, I've been stressed thinking if I should tell you about us finding out about the girl and her dog. Sally said that you would kill her." She said.

"I wouldn't kill any of you for finding something out about my past. You would have found something sooner or later...I mean you all seem so desperate to know about, which I have no clue why." He said, making Relena smiled at this. He seemed more normal around her than others, which made her, feel special.

"Why do you want to know?" He questioned, looking at the slowly moving clouds above.

"Because, I guess human's are just like that." She said. "People have to now sometimes without having a really good reason that can justify their actions.

"Then I guess I'm not human." He said, almost sadly Relena thought.

Relena looked at him with pity in her eyes. "You are human, though you try not to act it, that or your just used to it." She said. "Stop trying to dodge the question, I'll annoy you until you do tell me." She said teasingly.

He looked at her, raising an eyebrow, which showed that he wasn't trying to dodge the question. "Is that so, huh?" He said and raised his head back to the sky. He closed his eyes and told her his response. "Fine." He said calmly, knowing that she would annoy him until he told her.

He was taken back to that day...

A lost past. Not lost to the possessor though, the owner of the memory, unless you forget. How could he forget though? It was impossible, the screams of the soldiers didn't haunt him or make him have nightmares, but they were still there. He had to show no emotion. None at all. Pain especially. That one time...when he let everything slip, there was so much and he learned his lesson.

Code name: Heero Yuy. A trained guerrilla fighter and first class assassin and trained for almost anything involving hacking, and military weaponry. Trained to be the perfect soldier, and dubbed that during the Eve Wars, or the AC 195 wars.

Ever since the colonies were built, there had never been peace, though they were close when Heero Yuy, almost twenty years ago tried to spread his ideals of peace, but in the end was shot by an OZ officer that changed the course of history. The colonies were oppressed by the Alliance and were killed if they attacked the Alliance.

"Heero?" The doctor asked, to the young future pilot of the wing Gundam who was in his sleeping quarters, taking a rest before his next mission.

Heero opened up one of his prussain icy blue eye and then the other noticing that it was the doctor and not some idiot coming to give him more information than he already knew about the place to attack. He already had everything under control. He would use bombs and attach them to a detonation switch and everything would be up in flames in less than five minutes.

"Yes?" He responded in his normal monotone voice.

"Well, the other scientists are going to observe your mission." Heero nodded and got to his feet. He had removed his green forest tank top and placed it on a chair while he rested a little bit. It had been a hard training session today. He had cuts and wound marks on his body, but he had bandaged them quite well. He grabbed it and then put it over his arms and slid it into place. He picked up his gun and a small detonation switch. He picked up a bag full of small but extremely powerful explosives. He walked out of the room, the doctor still standing in the hallway.

He walked out of the secret base and saw it was a sunny day. He had time to get the explosives in and enjoy himself. He hadn't gotten any sleep and rarely did. It was another thing to train against. He had gotten a small break at twelve o'clock midnight, which lasted for about ten minutes, then they gave him places to hack into and then they would give him firewall programs to crack. Then he would have to go through an obstacle course and do track training. Though, these weren't your normal track exercises, these were long runways of cement that lasted about a mile and they set off an explosive to see how fast you can get to the other end before you get caught in an explosion. Then he would have to do some mobile suit training and then some weaponry. This lasted all night and he when he got missions at night, he would have to make up his training when he got back, no matter how exhausted.

He noticed that he had reached his destination, taking all the back roads so that he wouldn't look suspicious. There it was, an Alliance military base. It stood atop a green hill, looking over the town below it.

The citizens wanted to have the base put there so that they could be protected from the rebels. To the other colonists, they were traitors, accepting the Alliances oppressing ways.

He sneaked stealthily into the military building, placing the bombs all over the places that would make the building and mobile suits collapse. Then he left just as quiet and unnoticed as he went in. He ran and then rolled down the hill, laughing. The military didn't mind the civilians who strolled up the hill since it had a pretty view, but they put up a tall barbed wire to keep intruders out from the military area that they were using.

He closed his eyes and enjoyed the sunlight that poured over his body. He hadn't been out for awhile in the sun. He actually thought that doctor J gave him this mission so he could get a chance to get out of he base and get some fresh air. Then again, he was just a item used for combat and such. That was what he was trained for. He quickly pushed that thought away, not wanting to ruin this pleasure that was only as shallow as his skin. Deep down he felt nothing that was what he was trained to feel.

Little did he know he was being watched by one of the spies for the doctors, who was recording every move that he made for the doctors to look over and see if and what they needed to train him more in. He closed his eyes, breathing in the fresh air.

"Boy. Are you lost?" A young girl's voice rang through his ears. He opened his eyes and looked at her. She had a white dress on with a white summer hat on too, shading her face. She had a small golden retriever on a leash.

He looked away from her to the fake sky of the colony. "I've been lost every since the day I was born." He said, no emotion what so ever.

"Oh. That's sad. I'm not lost. I'm taking Mary here for a walk." She said cheerfully. Mary, the golden retriever jumped up and down playfully. She bent down to pat the head of the puppy, which licked her hand gently in return. "Here." She said. In her clutched hand was a yellow flower that resembled a poppy.

She passed the flower over to Heero, then turned and headed back towards the town where she lived, laughing all the way having races with Mary.

Heero stared at the flower, not looking away from her diminishing figure as she ran back to her home, her sanctuary. She had one... a place to go home, he didn't have any place. His home was the battlefield where he felt whole, where he felt completed.

He heard the beep on his timer as he sat there the whole time, then tucked the flower into the safety of his pocket. He stood up, forgetting how the doctor's were observing him and then leapt over the fence easily and then looked blankly at the building before him then turned around, making sure there were no other people straying from the building.

He raised his hand in front of him. He hit it hard enough for it to make the so familiar pip sound as the explosions set off a chain reaction.

He lowered his head, a small smiled tugging on his lips. "Mission accomplished." He said and was about to leave when a large explosion nearly made him fall to his knees from the force. They weren't supposed to be that forceful. He turned sharply to see a mobile suit fall into another and hit each other like dominoes. He stood there, wide eyed as he watched the town go p into flames, hearing their screams as they silenced slowly by the roaring of the fires.

Snow began to fall, covering the charred buildings, none standing more than a two story, all being in crumbles. He walked across a certain building and found the body of a young dog. Mary and a torn dress...

He looked at the flower... "Mission accomplished." He said in his normal monotone voice, then felt the presence of someone watching him and dashed off back to the base.

The television blared in the base of the area where Heero was. "There were no survivor's and the cause of this is a explosion making a chain reaction hitting the town full force." The woman reporter said sadly. "The number of deaths is not confirmed, but it is approximately over one hundred thousand, due to the immense size of the place destroyed, not including the deaths of the military personal." She continued sadly. "Families and relatives of people mourn today along with the rest of the colonists for this tragedy." She finished off.

The device was turned off as Heero slammed his head into the pillow, remembering the flower he placed on the grave. He looked at the gun nearby, but knew his purpose wasn't yet fulfilled, despite him trying to resist it.

The voices of the doctor's and their heated argument came wafting into the room, with a closed door. He took a steady breath, trying to kill the voices wandering around in his head. They talked about him...about retraining, but Dr. J said it wasn't right. Heero didn't care what they decided, he didn't have anywhere else to go anyway, so what ever they decided he would go with...

Relena leapt for joy inside her skin. She moved closer to him.

"I was on a mission, a simple one. Destroy an alliance military base." He said. "I did, and that included the mobile suits that were there also, but one set off after another." He calmly. He didn't go into full detail either though, since there wasn't much to go into for. " The city was in complete ruins. There was a girl who met me during the day before. She gave me a flower."

He said, feeling Relena's stare on him. He opened his eyes and glanced at her and she blushed, noticing that he had known she was staring at him the whole time. "It was the first time any one showed me kindness before. That flower didn't mean a lot, but..." He said, almost directly at her, then turned to look at the sky once again. He closed his eyes; Relena looked at him, knowing he was trying to find how to put what he was going to say into words.

"But...?" She asked, trying to help him.

He sighed, opened his eyes looking at the sky. "I killed her. She was caught in the explosion with her dog. She was the only person who ever showed me kindness before back then and I brutally killed her." He said. Relena looked at him opened her mouth to say something but, before she could, he continued on. "I went down to the city to look at the ruins. I found her room I guess. It had a burned dress on a cement block, a bear, and the body of her dog, singed and curled up. I took the dog, buried it and placed the flower on the grave. Some one must have been spying on me I guess." He half laughed to himself. "So they had to retrain me." He looked at her. All emotions he was feeling right now masked. "That's all." He said.

"Oh." Relena said sadly. "I- I don't know what to say." She muttered to him.

"I hate pity." He said in a monotone voice. Relena laughed, making Heero looked at her oddly. A small smile crept onto his lips. She could be so odd at times it was amusing to him. Relena smiled at him with pure pleasure. She made him smile! Even if it was a small one, it was a smile!

Relena snuggled against Heero, feeling him not flinch or move away from her touch, moved closer so they were side by side, watching the sky and the clouds. Heero, enjoying the setting so much, fell sound asleep without Relena even noticing at all. He hated to admit it, but he was still exhausted from the work out he was giving himself and he had a feeling the other's knew it also but didn't mention it. Now he knew why they were acting a little different from before. Sally must have told them all he decided. 'She must have told them about the girl and dog too.' He slept quietly.

"Heero," Relena asked quietly. Maybe she could get more out of him. "Who raised you, was it some one before Dr. J? He couldn't have taken care of you for all that while since he would be a doctor in OZ during that time. He also said when he met you, so that means..." She noticed his silence and got up from her spot and saw he was sound asleep. The sun was now over head clearly. They had spent over an hour there. The other's came to see how they were doing, noticed Heero was asleep and ended up dragging him inside to the building before the rain-threatening clouds hanging just barely over the sun got them soaked.

Heero woke up with a start in a room inside the house. It had only been an hour into the storm and it sounded like a hurricane. The thunder sounded like the bullet. The bullet that had killed him.

Sometimes he would miss him, he had been like a father to him, nicer than what he had to be around the trainers and such to make it look like he was training him harder than he was. Sadly, he was getting older but in the end the person who hired him for his last job had betrayed him. To silence him and out of hatred. He was going to abandon him on that colony, the one where he ended up meeting Dr. J who was in the same program, Zyte, as he was before Odin got shot.

Seemingly, the organization had been looking for Heero so they could continue training him to become the perfect soldier, but he had seemingly just...vanished. They were most please when the Doctor showed up with him and ended up being one of his caretaker's and partial trainer, though he stayed at the base with his other "teachers".

"Heero?" Relena appeared as the door opened. "Are you all right?" She asked, noticing the thin layer of sweat that covered his body. His breathing was harsh and he looked at her, a pained look in his eye. She rushed to his side. He flinched slightly when she touched him.

"What is it?" Relena asked.

Heero shook his head. He let out a strangled laugh to get the worried look off Relena's face. "It's nothing, really." He said, though Relena could tell he was lying.

"You're lying." She stated. "Tell me." She said forcefully.

Heero sighed. This would be the second time she would win, but... maybe she was right, maybe it was too stressful keeping everything locked up inside. "I was just thinking about someone." He stated, falling back onto the pillows, lying on top of the comforter.

Relena walked around the bed and sat beside him. "Thinking who?" She asked. Maybe I'll get more out of him.

Heero looked at her. "Someone." He said, "Someone from a long time ago." He said with no emotion.

"Who?" She asked again, still as persistent as ever.

"The person who looked after me and taught me a lot of survival skills. Until he died. Then Dr. J found me." He said, closing his eyes, then opened them five minutes after Relena spoke.

"Someone raised you other than Dr. J?" 'So I was right!' She thought happily. 'Someone else did raise him!'

"Yeah." He said, looking at her. "Why do you want to know?" He said, raising an eyebrow. He reached for something in his bag, pulled it out and placed something on his head, on the side away from Relena.

"Because." She said, crossing her arms, looking at the ceiling. Heero put something around his ear when Relena was looking at the ceiling.

"His name was Odin, Odin Lowe, and that's all I'm saying." Heero said defiantly. He closed his eyes.

"What are you doing now?" Relena asked. Heero opened an eye and looked at her. She moved closer to her as he offered her an earpiece connected to a plain and sleek CD player.

'He listens to music?' Relena thought. 'Cool! He's just as normal inside!' She thought sweetly. 'I hope...' She was happy he opened up to her more when the others weren't around.

"Hold on to me now,

You know I can't stay long,

All I wanted was to say I love you and I'm not afraid.

Can you hear me?

Can you fill me in your arms?

Holding my last breath

Safe inside myself

Are all my thoughts on you?

Sweet raspier life

It ends here tonight

I'll miss the winter

A world with a fragile things

Look for me in the wide forest hiding in a hollow tree I know you hear me

I can taste it in your tears.

Holding my last breath

Safe inside myself

Are all my thoughts on you?

Sweet raspier life

It ends here tonight

Loosing eyes to disappear

You pray your dreams will leave you here

But still you wake and know the truth: no ones there

Say goodnight

Don't be afraid

Calling me

Holding me

As you fade to air..."

The last music slowly faded. The CD shuffled the music, giving the next song a mystery to the users.

"I'm so tired of being here,

Suppressed by all childish fears

If you have to leave

I wish that you just leave,

Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone,

These wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just real

There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you'd cry

Id wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream

Id fight away all of your fears

I held your head through all of these years

And you still have

All of me.

You used to captivate me by your resonating light...

Now I'm bound by the life you left behind...

Your face, it haunts...

My once pleasant dreams...

Your voice has chased away...

All the sanity in me...
These wounds won't seem to heal

The pain is just too real.

When you'd cry

Id wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream

Id fight away all of your fears

I held your head through all of these years

And you still have

All of me.

I tried to tell myself that you're gone

But thought you're still with me

I've been alone all along

When you'd cry

Id wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream

Id fight away all of your fears

I held your head through all of these years

And you still have

All of me."

Relena looked up to see Heero's peaceful expression. He'd gotten the chance to relax over the last couple of days more than he was used to, even though Relena explained it wasn't even a rest with all the training he had done.

He was mad at the fact that he had been captured because of exhaustion, and he didn't plan on that happening again so he figured he had to train harder to have a higher limit. It was that simple.

Relena and the other's took away his lab top and he couldn't use the Peacecraft's database since he was under almost constant watch, either by one of the Gundam pilots or a servant or some person. It was really getting on his nerves.

He opened his eyes, feeling Relena's gaze on him. "What?" He asked, only to have his voice muffled by a pillow being slammed into his face. Relena laughed. Heero glared at her. 'Wicked child.' He thought playfully almost.

He picked up his pillow, tossed his CD player with accurate aim into his duffel bag with his small possessions. He then reached behind him in the blink of an eye and hit her, not too hard, but as hard as she hit him, only lighter since she was after all, not as strong as he was. He glared at her, grinning evilly. They started a pillow fight, but ended in less than ten minutes after Relena pleaded mercy. They fell onto the feather-covered bed exhausted.

"You had all of your stuff in boxes." Relena asked.

Heero nodded. "I was getting ready to move." He said.

Relena looked at him. "Duo said that you were moving around a lot. Where were you planing on moving next?" She asked him.

"I got an apartment near a family that knows me. We're aquatinted and I'm a friend with their daughter. She's my age and we met during the war. They were part of an opposing group and started the rebellion."

"What's her name?" Relena asked feeling a little bit jealous.

"Miyyuuki." Heero said simply. He remembered her a little from when he visited to get the apartment, she had grown up, but was still quite childish but serious at the same time.

TBC

Author's note: Don't own Evanescence if I didn't mention that before.

Yeah, the whole dream sequence on rembrance of the day when the little girl died was going to be a story that I was going to do, but yeah…lazy me (plus, I have a lot already ) decided to include it when I went into detail on the little girl and her dog.

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Plus, if you want a good read check out my sister's story, Passion's which is an X-men fusion with GW that kicks ass!

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