Love, Red Tail
A Perfect Collection
by: Lost-Remembrance
Chapter Nine
She was pulled to her feet rather roughly, tears streaming down her eyes as she stared at barely alive people, thin as skeletons with their bones showing so much it was painful to look at them. And it was despite their body condition, the haunted look in their eyes chilled Relena to the bone. How such a man could cage human beings, from women to children in cages and do weird experiments to them, torture them and screw with their lives.
The hallway was damp, the musk smell of mildrew lingering in the air and wall paper peeled off the walls and yellow-tinted lights flickered on and off in the hallway as she passed through, the only sounds were of her feet padding lightly on the floor and the clicks of the man's shoes connecting on the blood-stained tiles.
Then, an arm jerked her to a halt and she stared at a slightly larger cage, one that she assumed was for two humans. Tears glittered in her eyes once more when she remembered the looks given to her, accusing her of this. It was her fault—she promised a better and safer world for the humans of the colonies and of the earth.
How could she have been so mistaken? Were her ideals of peace and a war-free life for mankind really just a silly dream, a stupid ideal that could never be achieved.
The click of a look drew her out of her straying thoughts and Relena looked up just in time as she was roughly shoved into the reeking cage, the heavy emotions running through her almost tangible in the small cubicle. She felt sorrow tinge at her wounded heart, tearing her soul even more and more into shreds.
She saw movement in the corner of her eye, blinking in shock and spinning around. The grin from Sakui she could almost feel as her eyes widened and she collapsed into a heap on the ground, using her arms to hold herself steady.
A bleeding, and rather injured former Gundam pilot by the name of Heero Yuy looked up, vision swaying before his eyes from the blood loss. Hopefully, Duo was okay after that shot fired at him. If he was killed…Heero didn't even want to think of that. When his vision momentarily stayed for him, he caught a glimpse of golden hair and aquamarine eyes staring at him as his vision swayed and darkened once more. His hair was matted down with blood, obscuring his vision even more as he lowered his head with lack of strength.
"Heero…" He heard her whisper.
It took the rest of his energy to open his mouth, sore from clenching his teeth so much in anger and, much as he hated to admit it, pain. And frustration. He knew that the bastard—another name for Sakui that he had become familiarized with his first few moment in this hellhole.
"Relena…"
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Une growled in frustration, placing her palms on either side of her head and rubbing her temple to try and stop the stress that had building up on her shoulders. The Preventer's were already edgy as it was, stapping at the least possible threat as one of the pilots of the Gundam's was missing. Not good at all. Not to mention the other pilots were in a rather challenging mood since the disappearance of Relena and Heero.
But, the day hadn't gotten any better.
It all started out with a simple package, mailing address for it to be sent back if it couldn't make it to the small parcel's destination. So, to put it simple, there was little suspicion to the brown package. Of course, if they were smart enough to think that maybe the return address wasn't even verified…
Quatre almost had a mental breakdown and Wufei went pale-faced and Duo screamed, dropping the package in shock as he walked as far back as he could until his back connected with the wall. Trowa's nerves were shaken, eyes filled with concern.
White rose petals were scattered around the box, dipped in blood that was congealing on the carpet off the once beautiful flower. There were pictures in the package, plastic wrapped around the inside to keep the blood from leaking out. Blood pooled in the box, splashed over the glossy pictures.
And they were pictures of Heero and Relena…
Une clenched her eyes closed at the memory. The forenic team had taken samples of the blood, the investegation team looking into the new case deeply.
Then the results of the blood came back. A positive to their suspisions—it was Relena's blood mixed with someone else's that was unrecorded in any files, assumed as Heero without an doubt.
She grapsed her pen, looking down at the paper giving all means of retaliation and methods of rescuing Relena Darlain and Heero Yuy to the other former Gundam pilots. She closed her eyes, signing her name down on the warrant. Even if it meant another war, the soldier protecting pacifism and the one fighting for it had to be saved, at all costs.
TBC
Note: Sorry about not updating more--the celebration was continued on today for the Infamous Day of Updates 'cause the internet was down and all I could do was write more chapters.
Sorry about that and thank you to all the reviewers and readers::glomps:
Short, I know… need to work on updating the other stories as well. Hope y'all liked this chapter even if it was kind of boring…
Love, Red Tail