Hello everbody! Well I'm still going, I just can't seem to stop even though I should but hell I always put off school work until the last minute anyway so I might as well do something sort of useful in between instead sitting like a blob or napping. Anyway the title is a song by the eagles about a one night stand with a girl that's going to send this guy to hell. So the one night stand part doesn't apply but hellish woman certianly do. So I don't think there are really any warnings yet, there might be a little swearing cuz I swear like a sailor and it just kinda transfers over...there's a little Relena bashing cough a lot of Relena bashing...a little angst but nothing good old Quatre can't fix so be prepared the the next chapter will have a sap warning. Okay I'll save the rest of my babbling for the end.
These Boots Were Made for Racing
Good Day in Hell
"Hello Heero Yuy." Came an eerie lilting voice from the center of his hotel room where now stood the young blonde he had met in the bar.
"What are you doing here?" Heero asked. He was pretty sure that he hadn't invited the blonde leech to his room at any point during that night. In fact he was positive that he hadn't even told her where he was staying.
"You didn't call me and it's been over a day. I got worried." She sang sweetly but there was something possessive in the gleam of her cornflower blue eyes, and Heero didn't enjoy feeling like somebody's dinner. She stood from the couch and walked over slowly toward Heero, he wasn't sure but he thought she was trying to be seductive. He backed away a little but realized he was already practically pushing himself through the door. He really regretted closing it when he walked in.
"I must have lost your number." Heero said trying to be polite but the unmistakable glare and the way he stood so tensely told otherwise. The look that crossed her face told him that she had never felt so insulted in her life. He got the feeling that nobody ever turned this girl down. She was probably the daughter of some rich businessman or probably a politician. That would explain her pitiful attempts the other night to explain current bills being passed in congress to him. She was such a fake human being that he wondered if she even knew who she was. She did however have the grace of a politician's daughter. She quickly recovered and was smiling brightly at him before he could fully place the spark that flashed in her eye.
"Well that's alright, I'll leave right next to your phone so you can't lose it." And she pulled out what looked like a business card and slid the corner of it under his phone. He watched the strange young woman do all this and then it hit him that she was just some girl he danced with once and now she was standing in his hotel room.
"What are you doing here?" He asked with a little suspicion seeping into his cold monotone voice and she noticed it but kept on smiling with her perfectly shaped iridescently white teeth surrounded by bright pink lip gloss. She was covered from head to toe in different shades of pink again. He wondered if everything she had ever owned in her life was pink, her diapers, her first bike, her car, her dog.
"I came to make sure your feeling alright and see if you wanted to go to lunch." She smiled even wider, and it frightened him just a little, as she walked over to stand right in front of him in what was supposed to be a seductive pose. All it did for him was make him want her to leave as quickly as possible. She leaned in a little and the iciness of his glare doubled, even the dense blonde picked up on it and backed away slightly.
"I'm sorry I have a previous engagement." His cold tones and glares didn't seem to put a damper in this girl's pink bubbly world. She did however let a very sour look pass over her features briefly when he shot her down. Again probably something she had never before experienced.
"Oh! Well I suppose we'll just have to get together some other time." She said in the most dignified way she could muster though Heero could see the anger seething in the blonde's eyes. She was so fake and so very spoiled that he almost pitied her. When she had to learn to survive on her own, no daddy to do it all for her, he knew she was going to have a hard time. Her whole little world was going to burst in a devastating way. He opened the door for her and though she was still insulted she walked out very politely. He decided that he should be polite to the poor girl in return. He followed her out and walked her to the elevator doors. She stood in front of the shiny metal doors for a moment before she turned back to Heero with her smile back in place.
"I do so hope I will see you again Heero Yuy. I find you very interesting." She stepped over to him and before he could respond she hugged him tightly. He thought it was so odd that he barely knew this woman and she was throwing herself at him. He knew that some people recognized his face from his racing career but he didn't have die-hard fans or anything like what Duo had. Strange women didn't just walk up to him and do things like this. He looked around for some help and what saw was the most heart-braking sight in the world. Duo stood in the hallway staring at the blonde clinging to Heero's neck, he was holding a pair of swim trunks limply in his hand. He just stood there and watched while the blonde turned away and got into the elevator she waved to Heero before she left but the short haired boy didn't even see it. His deep cobalt blue eyes had locked with a pair of hurt violet ones.
"I brought you shorts back." He held them out to Heero with a slightly shaky hand. Heero walked over and took them his fingers briefly intertwining with Duo's. The longhaired driver let his hand fall loosely to his side and just stood there. It was odd to have Duo standing there completely silent it made Heero want to think of something to say, anything as long as it didn't have to do with the blonde.
"I didn't know you'd be busy." Duo's meek voice was devastating to Heero's ears, it was even worse than the silent Duo.
"I'm not…I mean I wasn't. She just showed up out of nowhere, I don't even know her." Duo just looked like he was going to hit Heero in the face. Heero didn't understand why this always happened every time he got a little passed Duo's mask. Every time he tore down a few of Duo's walls something would happen and he would have to start earning the boy's trust all over again.
"Yeah right Heero. She's some kind of super spy who staked you out to find where you live and broke in when she saw you leaving yesterday and has been waiting for you ever since to administer her deadly hug attack. Come on Heero get real." Duo was fuming. He didn't understand why this always happened when he tried to trust someone. There was just no one in this world, except Quatre, that he could open up to without getting hurt.
"I'm not going to pretend I know how she got in there, but everyone knows where the racers stay she could have asked the clerk downstairs for me." Heero tried to explain his situation to Duo, but he could see that it wasn't going to do him any good. Duo had already made up his mind about what had happened and no matter what Heero said he wasn't going to get Duo's trust back. It had to be Duo this time, Duo had to decide for himself that Heero was worth trusting.
"If you had a date with her you should have just told me. I feel bad that I took up some of your precious time with her." Duo spat out a lot more angrily than he had intended. He didn't want Heero to see him vulnerable.
"Duo I don't know how she got in there." Heero pleaded with Duo, he wasn't ready to loose everything he had gained with Duo. They were so close to having a solid relationship, but they weren't there yet it was still fragile. He had gotten past Duo's mask but he hadn't proven himself worthy of the boy's trust yet, and this new situation was the last thing he needed to happen.
"I can't believe you lied. You said you couldn't stand her. Yeah I remember her from the club, I know she gave you her number. What did you do call her right when you got here? Why didn't you just tell me the truth? I don't need to be babied. If you liked her then you liked her. Nothing you I can do about it." It was Duo's increasingly casual tone that scared Heero the most. Duo was putting his mask firmly back into place. He was acting like he didn't care and soon Heero would never be able to break through that mask again. He had to do something drastic.
"I'm so sick of this Duo. Why can't you just trust me, is it really that hard? Every time I reach out to you I just get pushed away. Damn it Duo every step I take forward you take two back. I'm tired of it." Heero didn't know if it was a good idea or bad idea to push Duo's insecurities like that but he had to do something. He knew it had snapped something inside Duo too, he just wasn't sure if it was realization or pure hatred.
"So I'm too much more you to handle?" Yep, pure hatred had won. "Well if you hurry I bet you could catch her."
Duo began to walk away quickly mumbling about him being the one to reach out to Heero and this is what he got in return. "Serves me right, I can't believe I told him about the gang." Duo roughly jammed his key into his door and pushed it open with so much force it hit the wall and bounced.
"Damn it Duo, stop walking away from me!" Heero yelled down the hall, but all he got in response was Duo's door being slammed.
"So what happened this time?" Trowa's voice drifted calmly from the elevators, Heero was surprised to see the couple there but even more surprised that he hadn't noticed their presence. He really wasn't in the mood to deal with Quatre's puppy eyes or Trowa's lectures.
Heero growled and stormed off into his room, slamming the door behind him with enough force to rival Duo's. The couple was left standing in the aftermath of the clash of racing titans and couldn't help themselves from rolling their eyes.
"I'll take the angry Asian, and you take the pissed off American." Trowa sighed just slightly to his boyfriend and Quatre felt that the situation was almost humorous.
"And we'll meet again somewhere in the middle." Quatre said shaking his head as he went on his way to Duo and his hotel room.
"Hopefully with all our limbs still attached." Trowa commented off-handily as he too turned to make his way over to the room he shared with Heero. Quatre smiled at his boyfriend's retreating form, few people had ever understood him like Trowa could. Even Duo didn't know about his most intimate thoughts like he was now able to share with Trowa.
Quatre walked into Duo's room without bothering to knock, he just pulled out his key and let himself in. He found the boy throwing stuff around and slamming drawers just fuming and mumbling bitter words under his breath. He sighed and watched his best friend for a few minutes before he decided to interrupt the destructive tornado force of Duo Maxwell.
"Duo what on earth could you be so mad about?" Duo paused briefly to glare at the blonde and it almost rivaled one of Heero Yuy's best. Duo continued throwing around clothes like he couldn't get them far enough away from him.
"Quatre I want to go out. I don't care where I just want out of this building." Quatre watched with mild amusement as Duo ran back and forth changing his clothes and throwing his whole closet around the room. He seemed to be looking for something but Quatre had more important issues to discuss.
"Want to tell me why you and I are about to pull a Thelma and Louise?" Duo stopped ripping the room apart and threw himself onto the big bed he and Quatre shared. The blonde walked over and dropped down on the bed next Duo, they both put their hands behind their heads and stared at the white ceiling.
"He's right, I push people away. I even push you away sometimes Quatre. I'm scared of trusting people, of letting them trust me, of letting them get close. I'm so afraid I'm going to screw up and they're going to get hurt that I take the easy way out and just distance myself." Duo sighed and kept staring at the wall, Quatre knew that this was far from over but the first step had been taken Duo was admitting that his worries were unrealistic.
"I saw a girl hug him and I think it's the end of the world. Why am I so messed up? I know I'm being stupid. I know that all my greatest fears are just stupid things left over from my childhood. I need to get over this unreasonable fear. Quatre you're still alive right, no one's going to die just because of some childhood invention to cope with all of tragedy in my life." Quatre smiled sadly and turned to face his teammate and best friend. Duo turned his head to face his childhood friend and Quatre saw that he was so bare. Heero must have done something to shatter the boy's mask because there was nothing left of it. It was just Duo, Quatre hadn't seen that face in years.
"No Duo, no one will die if you're near them. And I feel just fine despite all the practical jokes you've played on me." They both laughed a little and Duo turned back to the ceiling, the blankness of it was a bit of a comfort to him.
"When the gang died I blamed myself. When the church…after the accident I gave myself rules to follow so I wouldn't get hurt. But Q, no matter how much I tell myself it's just some dumb thing I made up when I was a kid to save my sanity, so I could function in life. No matter how much I tell myself all this I'm still scared." Duo smiled ruefully at his blank ceiling, now it was Quatre's turn to sigh.
"Duo you're scared of more than just some silly curse you made up as a kid. You've hid yourself for so long that you're afraid to let someone new in, letting them see the real you. You're scared it's going it hurt, and I mean you're scared it's going to hurt you." Quatre rubbed a hand along his best friends arm in a comforting way. Duo patted the blonde but continued staring at the ceiling. Quatre was a little worried about the distant expression on Duo's face, he knew the boy had a lot of demons to com to terms with but he was a strong boy who had been through a lot and survived with most of his sanity intact.
"I know Quatre. I think that I've almost been using my childhood fears as a safety net. If things got too complicated or too deep for me then I would just back out and tell myself that I was doing it for the other person. To protect them." Duo looked down at himself then right back to the ceiling. "I'm tired of running Quatre. I'm tired of trying to outrun my past. It's about time that I let it pass me don't you think?" Duo smiled and it was small but brilliant. It made Quatre smile too he knew his friend would be ok.
"So how about you go tell Heero you're done running?" Quatre asked, he knew Duo was still fragile but he also knew how strong the boy was and he was counting on that strength right now. There was a pause but Duo slowly nodded his head and Quatre smiled big at him.
"You know, this room would look so much better painted blue." Duo commented as he lugged himself off of the bed. Quatre stared at him funny for a second then he remembered Duo had been tearing apart the room just a few moments ago.
"Duo what were you looking for?" Quatre asked hoping that Duo would continue this amazing openness.
"Oh…my cross. I just sort of wanted it." Quatre smiled faintly and nodded. He stood up and went over to Duo's sock drawer. He slid the drawer completely out of the dresser grabbing a small shiny box with carvings on it that Duo didn't even remember putting in there. He opened the box and pulled out a beautiful silver chain with a simple silver cross dangling from the end of it. Engraved on the back of the cross were the names of everyone who had died in Duo's life. Duo stared at it for a second. He usually kept it hidden so he wouldn't be tempted to get it out and start reliving his past over and over again, but today he felt string enough to wear it without the breakdown that usually occurred. Quatre handed it to him and he put it on himself smiling the entire time, and it felt good to have that comforting weight around his neck instead of the huge weight he had been carrying on his shoulders all these years.
"Heero what are you doing" Trowa asked watching his friend storm through the apartment throwing clothes everywhere and mumbling resentments. Trowa watched with calm amusement from the entryway as Heero yanked the phone of the jack and ripped a small piece of paper out from under it.
"If I'm going to be accused of something I might as well have done it." Heero replied angrily as he roughly dialed the number that was on the card that Relena had left for him.
"Heero you're being irrational, that's very unlike you." Heero just glared daggers at his friend and refused to put down the phone. Pretty soon a cheery and totally fake little voice answered the other line.
"Relena Peacecraft speaking." Heero suddenly doubted everything he was doing but he was so angry that he just threw caution to the wind and didn't care if this was just a huge mistake that would only make things worse.
"Relena? This is Heero we spoke a little while ago in my room." Heero said and cursed himself for being such an idiot. Heero couldn't help but feeling like he was in a business meeting whenever the girl spoke though, like she required the up most formality and respect if you wanted a response.
"Of course I remember you. Did I forget something?" Her falsely sweet tenor grated on his nerves but it was too late now.
"No, I was just hoping that your invitation to lunch was still open." Heero stated, it sounded like he might have intended it to be a question but Heero wasn't very good at adding affect to his voice. Relena couldn't honestly tell if he was really interested in lunch with her, but it didn't matter she would accept.
"Of course it is Heero, say twelve thirty we meet in the lobby of your hotel?" That gave him twenty minutes. Good he wanted to get out of this place and the sooner the better.
"Sounds perfect I'll see you then." And in his haste to get his angry revenge on Duo he rudely snapped the phone back onto the receiver without a goodbye or acknowledgement of any kind. Relena was a little stunned by how rude the boy was after all Jay had always told her that he had raised the young man to have the best manners in any situation. Speaking of Jay, she decided she should probably call in with the news of her successful entrapment of Heero Yuy.
"Well that was the stupidest thing I've ever seen someone do." Trowa commented from where he stood in the middle of the room. Heero just continued running around the room changing his outfit from his beach swim trunks to something he could go out into public in.
"Shut up Trowa, I don't need this right now." Heero grabbed his dress shoes and a pair of black dress socks to match his black pants.
"Since I know you wont tell me what happened I'll just give a generic lecture to think about as you go on a date with a strange girl you don't even like just to get back at Duo." Damn Trowa caught on quick. Heero just glared even harder at the boy who he knew was about to make him fell immensely guilty and he just didn't want to deal with it right now. He was already regretting the call but it was too late now.
"I know you're afraid that you're going to fail this boy. I know that even deeper still you're afraid that he's going to just keep on rejecting you no matter how close you get. And I know that even though you don't always realize it, you aren't exactly the most understanding guy in the world and you have never apologized. Now I'm not saying you were in the wrong on this one, all I'm saying is that if there was a misunderstanding it's much more likely that you just blew up and got angry than tried to apologize and comfort Duo." Trowa watched as his friend's actions slowed down and smiled when Heero's shoulders sagged.
"It doesn't matter Trowa, if I can't help him now than how will I ever be any good for him. If both of us are scared and just keep pushing each other away how will we ever be together? Opposites are supposed to attract but all we seem to do is try our best to repel the other and then when there are moments that we do come together something in this world tears us apart. It so much work Trowa." Heero sighed collapsing back on to his and Trowa's bed.
"But that's what makes it worth it. Heero Yuy you have never like to chose the easy path in life. What makes Duo any different, why isn't he worth the effort?" Heero just shook his head.
"He deserves someone who can comfort him Trowa, I could never offer him what he needs." Trowa was already shaking his head before the words were out of the boy's mouth. He couldn't believe that this was Heero Yuy, or had Heero always had these insecurities and just hid them well. Had Duo done something to blast Heero's perfect mask to pieces?
"How do you know until you try?" Trowa admonished, his friend just refused to think clearly. This was so obviously a bad idea but Heero was dead set on letting Duo know that he had to make a move, and Heero wouldn't wait forever, that now he wouldn't listen to a word Trowa was saying.
"I have tried, I just got done trying my best and then this morning all this happens. Why can't he just trust me?" Heero told his friend with a strong hint of frustration in his voice that made Trowa wonder just what exactly had happened yesterday and last night.
"Well this isn't the way to earn his trust." Trowa threw back at him and Heero knew he was right, but at the moment he was so angry that his usually very premeditative mind was on the fritz. He was acting on pure emotion, a long time ago someone had told him that was the only way to live but he had never understood what that meant. Jay had taught him that in order to get anywhere in life you had to have a plan and plans would never go wrong. Heero had a hard time believing in fate and that if you follow your emotions everything will work out in the end. Right now though he didn't care he just knew that Duo had infuriated him and now he wanted to…well he wasn't sure what he wanted to do. Maybe to hurt Duo back, maybe to make Duo realize that he wasn't going to wait forever, or maybe it was to just prove to himself that somebody wanted him even if it was a blonde ditz.
"Don't you think I know that? But somebody has to do something drastic or that boy will never let anyone near him. He has to choose to trust me and he has to want to come to me. If pushing his buttons is what it takes to get him to, then so be it. You know you've gotten a lot more talkative lately." And with that Heero Yuy stormed out the door to go meet his fake date and see what the future held for him. Trowa just shrugged and watched his best friend make the biggest mistake of his life hoping that there would some kind of life lesson at the end of all this.
Heero slammed the door behind him and made a direct path for the elevator he stood impatiently and pressed the button for the ground floor at least three times. He stood there staring at the elevator doors as if sheer will power could force them to open when Duo stepped out into the hall. The longhaired driver saw Heero waiting for the elevator and knew that it was now or never because if he let the boy leave without talking to him he would never gather the courage to do it again. He took a long, deep breath and lat it out slowly as he made his way over to where Heero Yuy stood. Duo stood still for a few minutes just staring at the man who in a matter of days had turned his world upside down and he realized that his world had been toppled because he wanted Heero Yuy to topple it. That it wasn't some kind of fate he was trying to fight, he was fighting himself. He wanted Heero Yuy, he wanted him more than he had wanted anything in his life.
"Hey Heero." Duo called out and the boy turned to him quickly he looked almost surprised to see Duo standing there. It took the Asian teen a few minutes to respond.
"What are you doing here?" Duo looked affronted, he was reaching out again and he felt like he was only getting shot down. This was not going as he had planned. He wasn't going to give up though Quatre had convinced him to do his best and he wasn't going to let Quatre down. He took another deep breath and pushed along.
"You looked very dressed up." He tried to say it with sincerity and curiosity but Heero just looked angry still. He wasn't going to give Duo an inch here, the boy just wasn't going to forgive and forget was he?
"Yeah well I have a lunch date." Heero said coldly as though they had never met before or like they hated each other. Duo couldn't believe that after all that had happened and he was here putting himself on the line but Heero was going to give him the cold shoulder.
"I thought we were going to meet for lunch." Duo asked still trying to be the better man but it was getting harder. Heero wasn't exactly making it easy for him either with all the iciness in his voice and he even refused to meet Duo's eyes.
"Relena called and I decided to go with her." That cold voice answered and Duo finally snapped. He had tried to be nice, he had tried to be forgiving, he had tried to reach back out to the boy and restore their great friendship but Heero was just going to be an ass and there was no getting around it. His anger rose to it's boiling point and he knew he was going to blow and there was no stopping it.
"Relena…the dumb ass blonde from the club, the one that was just hanging all over you, the one you don't like!" Duo yelled at the boy that had managed to capture his heart and was now ripping it out of his chest and searing it in a frying pan. How could Heero do this to him after all that he had shared of himself. Had last night mean nothing to Heero, because it had been a big damn deal to Duo. Heero stared at him, still not meeting his eyes, and he noticed a shiny silver cross dangling from Duo's neck. He had never seen the boy where anything religious, he knew now that the boy had grown up in a church but he didn't think Duo was a religious man. Then again there were a lot of things he still didn't know about Duo Maxwell.
"Well she doesn't think I'm a contagious disease, so I reconsidered." Heero raised his voice in return, not by much but it wasn't the perfect monotone that he had been using. Duo was floored, how could he think that Duo thought of him like that. Until last night sure Duo had been pulling away but he had had his reasons. He thought Heero had understood that.
"I hope you two are very happy!" Duo yelled right back and stormed away from Heero he was so sickened by the other driver at the moment that he couldn't even look at him. Heero was also so angry that he had forgotten that he was waiting for the elevator and it had long ago opened and shut its doors. He cursed under his breath and started jamming the bottom floor button again. He was so angry and guilty that all he wanted to do was run after Duo and say he was sorry a thousand times but his pride held him still. Duo ran to the end of the hall and brushed past Quatre who had come out when the yelling started. The longhaired boy slammed the door to his room and flung himself on the couch he was so angry but what made him even more angry was that if Heero had ran in there at that moment and apologized he would forgive him.
"Big mistake." Quatre said to Heero as he walked across the hall to frustrated Asian teen waiting impatiently for the elevator. Heero turned fiercely to look at the blonde and glared with all his might but Quatre didn't even miss a step.
"Oh, and why's that." Heero spat out with anger seeping into every word. Quatre just stared annoyed at the boy before him. He knew that he and Duo would be great together but that didn't mean his protective hackles hadn't been raised for his best friend's feelings. Heero had hurt the boy and Quatre wasn't too happy with that.
"He was just coming to apologize for what he's put you through and tell you how he feels." Quatre said in a very irritated voice and Heero's face fell. The dark haired boy stopped frowning and the crease in his eyebrows disappeared, he looked lost for a second before his face turned totally neutral. He stared unseeing at the silver doors of the elevator for a long time before he very slowly turned to face Quatre.
"I'm such an ass." He said with such a sense of doom that Quatre couldn't help but feel a little bad for the mean way he had spoke to the guy, but he couldn't help it Duo was upset and it always made him want to strike out at whoever had done it. Duo's done so much for him in the past to protect him and make him feel wanted and he had never been able to really repay his best friend. But he did get to growl at the occasional boy who hit on his friend and ended up ticking him off.
"I've been trying to tell you that for the past half hour." Trowa's strong voice surprised Quatre and even Heero spun a little to look at his friend. Trowa chuckled and walked over to where his boyfriend and best friend stood. The tension in the air was so thick Trowa could almost taste it.
"But it's done and over with and now we have to decide what to do about." Trowa was always rational even in the few situations where Heero lost his cool, Trowa was always ready with a cool head and usually a good solution. Of course he usually chose to keep quiet and let Heero flounder for a bit first.
"You really do talk a lot more." Heero said and Trowa just shrugged his shoulders giving his boyfriend a quick mischievous smile that was not lost on Heero Yuy. It seemed that Heero wasn't the only one who had found someone that could break through masks and layers.
"So he does have feelings for me?" That sentence coming from Heero Yuy was the strangest thing Trowa had ever heard in his life and obviously Quatre thought it was a very bizarre sight too because the blonde burst out laughing hysterically. It took him a few minutes to calm down and Heero was staring at him as though he were mad.
"Honestly, you two are so blind I'm almost scared of what you're relationship would be like. If we can get you two together that is." The blonde struggled to say between giggles. Trowa looked over at his best friend and they shared a look at the blonde's expense in that secret eye language that only they understood.
"What do I do now?" Heero asked Trowa because he was so used to the tall boy having the answer on the rare occasions that he couldn't think of one.
"Cancel the date with the bimbo." Trowa said with that rare humor of his that few people saw but all who did loved.
"Thank you Trowa for stating the obvious…for the first time since I've known you." Heero stared strangely at his best friend somewhat surprised by all the humorous responses he was getting. "I mean about Duo, how do I get him to ever trust me again." He asked back in his near monotone but there was still a hint of emotion in there that he hadn't had before he met Duo. Trowa almost smiled at the race driver and Quatre just all out beamed at the boy. The blonde was impressed with how much understanding Heero had of his friend, it was trust that Duo had the hardest time giving to others and Quatre was glad that Heero was seeking it.
"His heart trusts you, we just need to get his brain to catch up. And actually Wufei and I have been conspiring and we've come up with a pretty good plan." Heero was surprised that it was the blonde that came up with a solution and not Trowa, but then again there must be something very special about this young man for Trowa to have taken to him.
"I guess I should go cancel the date with the ditz." Heero said and then swore when he noticed the elevator doors had already opened and shut again. Quatre laughed at him and even Trowa had to snort but he regained his composure quickly when Heero glared at him.
"That sounds like a good idea." Quatre said reassuringly to the young driver but there was still a little humor in it. "You and Trowa take off for the afternoon, Trowa will explain to you what's going to happen. I'll go get Duo. See you at eight Trowa." Trowa nodded and Quatre took off at a light jog down the hall to his and Duo's room. He gave a quick thumbs-up before he checked the door and, finding it unlocked, allowed himself in shutting the door behind him. Trowa turned back to Heero and pushed the button for the ground floor and Heero glared at the stupid elevator doors refusing to miss it this time. The doors slid open after a few minutes and Heero stepped in right away with an almost smiling Trowa following right behind him.
"So what is this grand-master plan of Quatre's?" Heero asked but Trowa just shook his head.
"Call the bimbo first." Heero chuckled lightly and waited for the elevator doors to open then he made his way across the busy lobby to a line of pay phone booths. He opened one of the empty ones and grabbed the shiny black receiver putting a couple of coins in at the same time. He dragged the crumpled business card that the blonde had given him out of his pocket and dialed the numbers for the second time that day in a span of an hour. A few rings later the blonde's voice answered in that nails-on-a-chalkboard high screeching voice. Heero cringed but plowed on anyway trying his best to be polite, after all she wasn't a bad person just really annoying.
"Heero! To what do I owe this pleasure, we don't meet for a few more minutes right?" She sang to him sweetly, so sweet that it made him a little nauseous.
"I know this is really short notice, but I'm afraid I have to cancel our lunch this afternoon." He tried to sound sincerely disappointed but he really just wanted to get off the phone, he couldn't stand talking to her for very long.
"Oh, well I won't say I'm not a little let down, but I understand. Did a big emergency happen at the track?" She was just so nice and naïve. He hated to be the one to burst her pink bubble so he decided to go along with it.
"Yeah, an emergency happened." He said since he considered what happened with Duo an emergency. Though Relena probably didn't want to hear that he was canceling because he had to do something extraordinary to win back the trust of the only person he had ever had any kind of romantic feelings for.
"We'll just have to reschedule, you call me later and maybe we could catch dinner or go out tomorrow." Her voice was so well planned, liked an actor. There was a perfect balance of disappointment and hope that made him feel guilty for ditching her and want to agree to a date just to make up for her hurt.
"Yeah, I have to go now." His usual monotone clicking back into place as it usually did when he was in an uncomfortable position. That was the one thing that he had never been able to shake from his days with Dr. Jay. He hung up and stepped out of the booth joining Trowa at the front door. The cinnamon haired boy smiled just slightly at his friend and they left the hotel to follow a crazy plan cooked up by a crazy blonde and a scary ass Chinese man. Heero was a little less than hopeful that this would all work out.
"Jay?" Relena said to her cell phone as she sat in the back of her pink limo and watched as Heero Yuy left his hotel with a taller man beside him. She flipped her long blonde hair over her shoulder and pressed her little phone closer to her ear to hear the old man on the other line.
"Yeah I just got off the phone with him, he cancelled." She could tell he was frowning on the other line and she would be getting a cut in pay if she were allowed to keep her job. She had to say that this was the first job she actually wanted to keep Heero was a gorgeous young man.
"Did he say why?" Came the ancient yet sharp tongue of the old scientist that had raised and molded Heero into the athlete he was today. With technology unheard of and chemical engineering deemed unholy he had created the child known as Heero Yuy from just a regular baby in a rundown orphanage.
"No, he lied. But I think that racer with the long hair, the one that danced with him in the club, he may be apart of this if not the reason." She informed the old doctor. She knew she was scraping for information, but she really needed this job. Jay had never paid higher for information on anyone else, but he had a big interest in this boy. She had heard rumors that Heero was the only one of Jay's projects that had escaped with their lives and Jay seemed desperate to get him back. She supposed that if Heero wanted to he had enough reasons and evidence to put the old doctor in jail for a very long time. There was a loud sigh from the other end and she knew that Jay had either gotten very frustrated or had heard something he could use and was now thinking of how.
"Get me Hirde." He said after a while and Relena knew he was talking to his secretary, a cute boy with dirty blonde hair that suited Jay's tastes, she shuttered. Hirde was an assassin for hire and she was the best at her job. She was ruthless and an amazing actress, she got into people's lives and minds and gained their trust then stabbed them in the back in cold blood. She's your best friend one minute, your midnight assassin the next. Her calling card was that her murders were so brilliantly done that they always looked like suicides. That's why she got into your mind first so the reason for suicide was not only believable by the cops but friends and family too. She was the best and Jay always got the best.
"I'm sure she'd be more than happy to do this for you, sir." Relena said, she knew Hirde loved working for Jay because he paid the best and gave her the most interesting targets. Relena had to admit she'd hate to see the cute Asian boy die but this was her job.
"She just got back from a job in New York, I'll have her on the target's trail by this afternoon." Relena told her boss hoping that she was doing what he wanted so she wouldn't get fired or worse. She liked Heero, he was cute and mysterious, but this was business and she would love whomever Jay paid her to love.
"No, I want you to stay on the target. What is the name of the longhaired young man?" There was something disturbing in the man's voice when he asked that question. Relena actually hesitated at that murderous growl, but she was trying to keep her paycheck and her life. And she liked the thought that she would get to continue following Heero without interference.
"Duo Maxwell, sir." She finally said and the old man let out a sinister chuckle.
"Good girl. Keep following Heero and try to get closer to him, don't worry about this Maxwell boy getting in your way anymore." His menacing old voice cackled over the phone and Relena cringed, sometimes she hated her job but at least she would now have Heero all to herself without that braided idiot getting between them. She wanted Heero Yuy the first time she saw her target at the track and she always got what she wanted. She was going to follow that gorgeous ass until he was in love with her and now no one could stop her.
"Thank you sir, I will do my best for you." She heard him make a noise of acceptance and she couldn't help but think that he sounded a lot like a mafia boss just then. She smiled grimly feeling somewhat unsatisfied with the arrangement and yet she couldn't put her finger on why. She supposed it could be that she always got what she wanted because she was the best and killing Duo Maxwell to get Heero Yuy to love her seemed like cheating, but it didn't bother her enough to say anything to Jay. And what did she care, she would get Heero Yuy and Duo would be put out of his miserable existence. She laughed maniacally in her mind.
"See that you do Relena, your pay check depends on it." She was about to say something but there was a loud click on the other end signaling to her that Jay had hung up his phone. She cursed him under her breath and closed her shiny pink cell phone running her pink manicured finger over the cover.
"Pargan, the target is leaving the parking lot. You know what to do." The old driver nodded to his young master. He hated what Relena had become but he had promised her father before he died that he would protect the girl with his life. He turned the key and once again set out to follow the young man that she had taken such an interest in. Maybe this boy could help her finally get back to who she used to be, a happy spoiled little girl who loved and adored her father.
Jay sat for a moment at his desk with his lips pursed tight and his chin resting on his folded hands. He was debating whether or not Heero's life was worth all this, but the boy was his most successful experiment he was the only one whose body hadn't rejected the serums. Heero's body had actually accepted all the alterations to it and had mutated wonderfully with all the chemicals. He was everything Jay had hoped for, he was the perfect human, but Jay needed him back to perform experiments to figure out how to perfect the serums so they could be patented and sold. He new the military would pay a pretty penny for all his strength, agility, and cognition increasing chemical formulas.
"Michael, once you get Hirde on the phone I want you to contact Lady Une" A feral grin passed across the old man's tight lips.
"If Relena was right about the Maxwell boy being friends with the Winner son then it won't be long before they pay a visit to Treize. Tell her that I have a way that she can pay her debt to me and get back at the man who had stolen her heart then tossed it aside for a blonde surfer." There was a pause on the other line of the communicator, he knew going with Lady Une was risk but she was the only one that could help him get his assassin close to that attractive young driver. His dry cackle echoed on the speakerphone and Michael couldn't repress the cold shutter that passed down his spine. The old man was still perplexed at how that longhaired loud mouth could catch the attention of his perfect creation. How it was possible that Heero was anything but annoyed or disgusted by a boy of such inferiority was beyond him. The doctor thought about it for a second and decided that when he got Heero back into the labs he would have to test the boy's sexual weaknesses. 'Yes' he thought with a disgusting grin on his face, 'that will be interesting.'
Okay so sorry about all the grammer issues, not really my strong point, but what did you think? A little bit of a twist eh? So I took Relena the stalker to a more literal thing, she was pretty damn good at it in the show she might as well get paid for her efforts. Yep Jay is evil, I just can't help it he has all the makings of an architypal mad scientist but they made him a good guy...sort of. So Gundam Wing doesn't really draw a line between good and bad that's what made it interesting right? Perhaps I won't draw a very clear line either, Relena's a little evil yet you pity her a little right? When Pargan talks? Ok so it's hard to pity Relena but you will learn al little more about her soon...not too much she doesn't have a huge role just one key part but I'm not saying what it is. I thank everyone who takes the time to review and I hope I'm not dissapointing you. next chapter of The Cursed No More is coming up soon, that one is so fun to plan and write.