A Perfect Collection, chapter Eight
Une spun around in her chair to look closely at the Preventer subordinate harshly, rising in a slow and intimidating way. Very slow and intimidating. The runner for the information trembled under the harsh look given to him and flinched when she walked towards him.
"What do you mean that Miss Relena Darlian is missing?" She questioned once more, slower this time to show her feelings on the matter. Not only was Heero Yuy missing in action, or more like kidnapped, Duo Maxwell recovering from a bullet wound and stress which only ended up aggrivating it more, and now…now, Relena was gone.. After being hospitalized. That left two choices; she heard about Heero and decided to search for him, which was very unlikely considering that she was hospitalized, or the criminal Sakui had managed to strike again.
She frowned, 'But what is he after? Why Heero and Relena?" It wasn't possible that the man happened to want to start a war and knew of Heero and Relena's "sublime" feelings for one another. The only clueless people seemed to be the lovers themselves. Then again, after surviving through a war, it was kind of hard for a war-born soldier such as Yuy to understand kind feelings when such would end you up with a bullet hole in your chest during the war. Friendship wasn't something people were willing to risk during a full-out war.
"Ma'am?" The door was clicked open and Sally walked in, shooing away the subordinate with a smile and promising that Une wasn't that mad. How she was wrong.
"Yuy and Darlian are gone, Maxwell's recovering."
"Recovered." Sally corrected, "He is a former Gundam pilot after all."
"Fine," Une snorted, adding a correction to her mental checklist. "Recovered. Now that's one less thing to worry about."
"Start with what you have on the guy." Sally suggested with a uncaring shrug, "Heero will be able to take care of himself." Une frowned at her remark and Sally straightened from her relaxed position. "What? Is there something that you aren't telling us?"
Sighing heavily, Une turned to look at the experience medical doctor and one of the most trusted Preventer's in the whole company. "He somehow managed to get Heero by some chemicals."
Sally stared at Une.
"There's still a high chance that the chemicals are still in his bloodstream." Her eyes were serious and they met the equally serious eyes of Sally's.
She nodded, "Just give the order to move out and we'll be on their trail with our best."
Une sighed, "Usually I hate to involve them again," A sad smile played across her features, "But…it would be best to stop this before it has any time to start. Don't let the disappearance of Vice Foreign Minister reach the press."
Sally nodded. The press would have a field day and it would be perfect for shadow power-hungry people to try and take over the colonies and earth while Earth's pacifist and the Colonies, as well as Earth's, protector gone.
Odd. Une frowned, remembering that he went after people with "perfect" talents to see if they really were perfect and treat them like animals, cages and all. Her eyes slowly widened with realization.
"He's the perfect soldier." Sally looked up with complete understanding.
"And she's the perfect symbol of peace, a perfect paciifist."
The lights were dim, shadowing so many of the odd and jumbled heaps of machine parts and odd metal bits and broken glass vials. She continued walking into the room, the man, Sakui, pushing her roughly behind the back as a reminder to make sure that she kept moving along. Glaring back, her foot connected with a trashcan and she truned to look…to find the contents blood both new and old, caked onto the metal walls of the bin.
Her eyes were wide and her hand flew to cover her mouth by reflex. The horrible stench of the place reeked of chemicals, blood, and death. Her knees felt weak and she backed away from the objects that seemed to spin around her, trapping her. She collided with something and she looked up to meet the coldly smirking eyes of Sakui. She would have glared had she not been so frightened.
Was that Heero's blood in the trashcan?
"Come on now, get going." He once more pushed her also, much rougher this time as he walked her through the halls. Then opened a door and flicked on a switch.
Relena's eyes went wide, "Oh my god…" Her voice echoed despite her speaking in a whisper. She couldn't help the tears forming in her eyes, making her vision hazy and unclear. "Oh my god…" She repeated, Sakui holding her wrists so she couldn't collapse on the ground in shock.
TBC
Author's note: Yep. Another cliffhanger. The plot begins to thicken Reviews are welcome and loved! Again, sorry for taking so long with updating. I have to concentrate on school more now since it's fourth quarter.
Love, Red Tail