Disclaimer Gundam Wing is © to its respective owners and I don't claim it, but I do hold all copyrights to Camille so don't bother trying to steel her.


A/n: Yes it may seem Heero is a little OOC, but remember this takes place inbetween timelines and people change. You have to admit, he did seem so much different during Endless Waltz then he did during the first season, or what ever you want to call it. At any rate, Heero's reactions are that of human nature, seeing behind the stone cold mask, he is human just like everyone else.


Chapter 2


She sighed as she slumped back in her seat after Heero had agreed to take her shopping. It may have been true that Camille needed to go, but she wasn't one of those type of girls that could max out a credit card at a mall in one day unless she had no other choice. Using her cell, she called the bank to check up on her bank balance while Heero drove on. Placing it back where she kept it clipped to her waist band, she turned to Heero. Her heart was telling her something was wrong.

Without giving it a second thought she reached over and started to rub his shoulder closest to her. Heero sighed the only sign that he knew she was even still there as a flashback had hit him full force. Fearing that what she was doing was hurting him more then helping him, she pulled back and returned her hands to her lap not daring to make a move during the rest of the ride. :Poor Heero, I wish there was something that I could do for him: she thought to herself as she felt the car come to a stop and the soft click of Heero undoing his seatbelt.

Wordlessly they entered the busy store with Heero holding Camille on her feet for a few moments before spotting a wheelchair. Placing her in it, he started pushing her through the store trying to help her find what she was looking for. Finding the female section rather quickly, he was glad that for once he wasn't lost, or even worse yet Relina had seen him pushing a girl through the female protection section of the local store, but that thought was caught short when Relina's fimular voice rang through the air. "Hi Heero, I didn't know you shopped here." She stated simply for the moment ignoring Camille who was getting rather cramped from the waist down from all things her monthly. However, it took Relina all of two seconds to spot her. "Is this a family member of yours Heero?" she asked.

Heero tried ignoring her not responding like was normal for him. After all he had gone out of his way to rescue her those times due to mission orders or so he told himself. To be quite honest he had thought of her from time to time, but couldn't see her more then just a friend, but even that was debatable by her actions. True peace had been holding nicely for about three months, but Relina hadn't seemed to change much. Her starting to cause a commotion had caused everyone to look at the young blonde like she belonged any place else but on the street. "I'm here with a friend helping her to do some shopping, maybe you can help with this department." He replied if only to shut her up as he pointed to Camille who looked almost like a female version of Heero when he had on his mission mask while she tried to ignore what was going on around her. This didn't last long however when Relina's laugh cut through the air acting as if she had just relized where Heero was standing. Needless to say not only Camille found this a little aquard, but Heero couldn't hide the feelings creeping to his face no matter how hard he had tried to break through and replace his emotionless mask that the public saw. "Oh my god… Heero Yuy showed emotion!" she continued, and by now everyone in the store was gathered around the small group.

Using what color vision she had and some quick reflective tequines, Camille piled the cart with what she would need motioning for Heero to get her out of there while the store delt with the blonde polition turned child or so it seemed. Taking her to the counter she paid for her items even though Heero had offered to do it for her.

The car ride was just like on the way to, but this time they were on the way back. Neither felt like talking as Camille sighed trying to think of what to do. Heero was having a hard enough time calming down from the episode in the store and it pained Camille to see him like this figuratively speaking. Once again she slowly reached over to him feeling him relax this time under her touch. "Why don't we go back to your place, and I'll massage your back for you." She suggested feeling much better herself now that she was clean and had washed away some of the pain half expecting him to protest to the idea of being touched in any fashion by anyone at all especially one of the opposite sex.

Heero drove back to his small apartment only giving Camille a grunt as a form of reply. Knowing him, it was rare that he said much of anything in the way of words, and since he had done a lot of talking already today he was most likely going to avoid using his voice at all costs. Some things he was having trouble with, like when Camille had touched him that moment in the car on the way to the store, the first night that she was found by him and he had to nearly force himself to share the same bed with her, the touch on the way home with an offer to do more once they were safely off the road. This alone got the wheels in his head turning and his head and his heart were seemingly doing flip flops in his body seemingly fighting over each other. Every time she touched him, it reminded him of the times in the past when she would, and how she showed she cared about him, forcing him to get more sleep when she knew he needed it, but something in his mind was blocking out all the fine details of the girl he had dubbed his angel, and the longing he had kept deep within his heart hidden from the rest of the world, even from Camille, or so he had thought to be in the arms of his angel, that had saved him time and time again from himself without even knowing it. It wasn't until he drove Camille back to his apartment, and what she had said to him, that he thought about it more openly not trying to push it back in the deepest reaches of his young mind.

Pulling to a stop in front of his apartment, Heero helped Camille out before going back out to gather their things they had picked up at the store placing them rather quickly on the floor not caring about the contents spilling across the carpet.

As she had promised, Camille started to rub his back in soft circles lovingly remembering when she would do this for him way before all this war mess had really started, but she couldn't help but wonder if he remembered her. Closing his eyes he let himself relax against her resting against her for support. While she worked on him wondering how she looked so week but felt so strong, strong enough to do this for him. Dozing off memories came flooding back ones he had long since forgotten.

Flashback

The sound of pounding footsteps echoed through the air as a sprint sprinted jumping over a fence and landing to roll on his back looking up at the sun and the clouds, that was until something blocked his vision. Sitting up suddenly alert, he saw a girl nore more then about 5 or 6 years of age standing over him. "Are you lost?" she had asked him holding her dog on its leash.

"I've been lost ever since the day I was born." Came his reply as the dog licked the little girl's face.

"That's to bad, I'm not lost, I'm just taking Marry out for a walk. " she said as the little dog ran about at her feet. "Here I'll give you this flower," she added handing him a simple flower with yellow pettles on it and a long thin green stim.

The boy couldn't help but smile at the little girl as he took the gift watching her run off with the little dog dragging her along. Later that same night, he stood a top that very same hill a trigger in his hand. With one click of the trigger explosions sounded and he started to say , "mission ex…." But when the building next to the base fell due to a mobile suit crashing into it, his face took on a look of horrified shock.

Dropping the trigger, he ran to the fence watching the destruction his hand clutching that little flower like a lifeline as his body shook. It wouldn't be until the next morning when the fire died down that he would be able to go back and hope that he didn't do what he thought he had, as he ran back to the base that served as his home not bothering to hide his emotions. A girl had heard him and came to check on him letting him cry against her.

That very next day he returned to the remains he had created just the night before as snow started to flutter at his feet. Walking through the rubble, he spotted the chard remains of a teddy bare, and as he walked on the body of the dog. Kneeling down, he scooped up the dog and returned to base with it in order to prepare to barry it. Voices echoed all around him of Dr J, and a man he wasn't to sure of, who seemed to be the boss. Locking himself in his room, he let the tears fall for one last time that same girl returning giving him the shoulder he needed to cry on. That would be the last time that he showed emotion up until now.

End Flashback

Safe worm, protected, those feelings were what Heero Yuy felt as Camille held him. During his nap, he had become restless dreaming no doubt about something in his pain filled past. She sighed wishing there was more that she could do for him, but as it stood right now, she had done all that she could possibly do being that she was only human after all. Her mind had flashed back to the night after the dog and girl accident and she remembered holding Heero like this then, but the only difference she was awake and so was he. Although she had to wonder if he remembered her even though back then they didn't exchange names. The only reason she knew of Heero's name was because she was over hearing a conversation between Heero and the One armed man, known as Dr J. In that conversation, he had informed Heero, that his "code name" would be Heero Yuy named after the leader who was killed just 20 years ago defending the colonies, and who was working with a man on earth so that Earth and the colonies could live as one in a manner of speaking.

Heero blinked his eyes open sighing contently from the feelings he was getting. For a moment he had forgotten everything, including where he was. Once his sleep filled mind cleared where he was, was no longer an issue, but what sent him on high alert, was the fact he was sleeping rather Suggestively in Camille's lap, while she didn't seem to mind at all absently stroking his wild brown locks in between her fingertips. She was humming a toon to him and his mind flashed back for a moment trying to recall it. Without a doubt, he had found his missing angel, and he was determined not to ever let her out of his sight again. "Please don't leave me." Heero stated suddenly causing Camille to stop what she was doing and look rather confused down at him.

"Heero, what's wrong?" she asked as she held him closer to her trying to reassure him everything was going to be alright.

"Please Camille, don't leave me." He repeated latching onto the front of the shirt that he had given her to use.

"Oh heero, its alright." She replied soothingly to him holding him close to her wanting to protect him from what ever it was that was bothering him so. "I promise that I won't leave you." She replied as she held him there for several long moments wishing she knew what to do for him.

After what seemed like hours, Heero sat up and pulled himself away from her his mind and emotions back in check. Sitting along side her he reached for the side of her face stroking his thumb over her cheek. A smile spread across his lips as he saw the look in her one good eye, making him feel that he could do that for hours on end and she or he would never tire of it.

Getting up a few minutes later, he sighed casting a glance over his shoulder. She had promised not to leave him, but he couldn't for the life of him understand why he had asked such a question. The stranger part to this was the fact she had agreed to stay with him, someone she didn't even know or so he had thought. Her voice seemed so fimular, and he held his head in pain as another flashback hit him.

Flashback

It was nearing the end of the war, and the Earth had just recently declared its defeat. Relina was in the hanger with Heero begging him not to go. "If you loved and cared about me like you have claimed, then you would let me go and fight. All I ask is that you believe in me." He had said before pushing her away sitting back in his seat, his seatbelt harness strapping him in. A girl had been heading for where Relina was hanging off a rafter using the hatch to jump off and sending her back to where she wanted to go. Once the girl was in the clear, Heero shut the hatch bringing Zero to life turning away fighting tears for the first time in a long time.

"How could you treat that boy like such crap!" the girl had screamed defending Heero. "He is doing this to put an end to this war so people like you and me don't have to!" she hissed.

"But he is setting himself up to die, don't you care rather or not he lives!" Relina shouted back.

"And like you do?" the person asked her eyes fixed on the young girl's face.

"I know that I want to stop him from dying….and you are not." She spat back.

"Relina you need to grow up. Wars aren't won by one person saying stop. Many people have to fight for their rights…but…you, you have had everything handed to you on a silver platter. You don't know what its like to struggle, the biggest disapoitment in your life was a father that was rarely around….a father, that in so many words fought for you, so you could live in this world….and…how do you repay him? Blaming everything on weapons isn't the answer." She started.

"But the battles fought today are meaningless, my father died because of this war, so how can you say things like this! You have no idea either." Relina interrupted.

The sound of flesh hitting flesh echoed through the air as the stranger smacked Relina across the face. "Every day people have to fight a battle personal or otherwise. The battles going on right now may seem meaningless to you now, but at the same time they are very important. In this final battle, people are searching for themselves. Heero and your brother are fighting to find the deeper meaning of life, for themselves. In order to do this, they must face each other and finish what they started, even if its only proving to themselves, they really haven't got a reason to keep fighting like this. I for one believe in what Heero is doing, and I pray for his safety, but I also know that he understands the deeper meaning of what it is to fight and what it means to be a soldier. Because a true soldier goes into a battle wanting to come out on top, but knowing that they could be going in to die." She snapped back tears in her eyes as she left Relina to think about what she had just said. However, she didn't know that Heero had heard every word, and the tears he hid were not for Relina, but for the person that understood him. It was at this point he had found a reason not to die and fight more to stay alive. He knew getting Relina to forget about him was meaningless, but that didn't mean that if he didn't die he couldn't search for the one person that truly did understand him.

End Flashback

Heero fell to the floor with a thud hitting his head on the counter as he did so. Hearing the thud, Camille had come out to check on him her body still trying to recover from the shock of the night before. Fear filled her body when he didn't respond. Upon checking his head, she felt blood poring from the cut and she gripped her cell with shakey hands in order to make the hardest call she would ever have to make…