Chapter 21: 'Broken Wings':
Heero leaned against the wall with his back in a slumped upright position, thoughts that were like a whisp of wind slowly brushing his mind. 'No point...' His mind muttered over and over to himself as he felt the walls he built up raise higher and higher, his eyes vacant of everything. There wasn't even the slightest bit of twinkle in his intense blue eyes. They were dead. He was nothing and always would be...
'I'm sorry, Relena, I should have been able to...to protect you, but I can't even protect myself.' His mind said slowly, pulling himself from what little humanity he had. He couldn't enjoy the battlefield either...he had no happiness, no sorrow, everything seemed like a dream...or a nightmare.
Sally walked into the room after mending Trowa's arm and Wufei's, through his protests as the others helped hold him down.
Heero didn't look up, or even acknowledge her presence though he knew clearly that she was there. A happy expression came over her features as she smiled that Heero was up. "Hey, Heero...how are you feeling?" She asked, moving closer to him.
He didn't respond, he just blinked, still looking at the sheets that were on top of him. His eyes held no emotion, just a depression in them that could break someone's heart.
She looked at him as she bent down and her heart felt like someone had shot her. The look on his face was just so...there were no words she could think of how to describe it...
"No!" Relena cried, thrashing on the bed. Heero just blinked but didn't even look in her direction, not caring anymore...there was nothing he could do...he couldn't even protect a single woman from a man even though he was weaker than Heero was. He had lost and Navar had won...everything was over now...they would come back for him.
'Why should I care?' An inner voice told him. 'They wanted me to be like this. They say I still have a purpose to fulfill...' It whispered to him in a almost soothing way.
"Relena!" Sally shouted, looking back at Heero to see he hadn't even moved. 'No...' She whispered. It was as she thought...he had given up.
She rushed over to the bed to shake the girl from her dreams. Her baby blue eyes opened wide when she woke up and jerked herself up, gazing uncertainly around the room.
'Your free...' Something whispered happily to her, making her heart feel somewhat enlightened when she saw Sally. She let her gaze wander around the room, taking in everything, when she saw him...
"Heero!" She exclaimed happily, everything forgotten as tears of happiness streaked down her cheeks, washing away her fears. Gladness, like a wave, struck over her as she understood they escaped. He didn't look like he had any wounds but her lip was scabbed over, and bruises on her cheeks.
She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw that he didn't even turn to look at her, but kept his gaze fixed on the sheets. He hadn't moved at all. The look on her face made her walk backwards slightly, stumbling in her tracks as she tripped on a tile against her shoes. She let herself fall to the ground, which held as her despair...
TBC
