Eternally Yours

Disclaimer - Why must i repeat this EVERY time? I do not own Gundam Wing or any of its characters.

A/N- Sorry for the slight delay, i got a bit confused about the content of this chapter lol. But all is fixed now (i hope)

burgandy3721 - Hmm, yeah i got a bit lost with the fanfiction server being down, thank god its up again. Ohh really now? I think i can get in, i mean i have got Heero right here, and he expertises in that kind of thing! hehe... Now if only i could get him to co-operate with me. Thanks for the review! And seriously... Rogue...hurry... losing patience... D

Charliechaz - Ohh how i looooovvvee to tease you lol. (dangles a cookie in front of nose) can you catch it? can you catch it? huh? huh? (coughs...okay sorry) Thanks but if you do catch any mistakes (not cookies) please do tell me! Thanks for the review... (pushes Charliechaz who falls) so much for your kung-fu pose hehe...(joking!)

Chibi Horsewoman - Lol, ah well, from what i hear, laziness can be a virtue, but only sometimes! lol, tis may be a stupid question but what do you mean by ADD? (sorry) Thanks for the review.

Chapter 6: A Mark. A Mission. A Brand. A Start.

Pulling up to the docks, Heero swerved the shuttle into the spaceport, landing effortlessly yet with amazing talent, after all he was a gundam pilot. Duo, who was sitting next to him, half-sleeping, had agreed that he would drive them half way there and then the full way back, he had wanted to drive the full journey both ways, but Heero has insisted that he took over the piloting half way there. Duo jerked awake and stirred uneasily as the shuttle came to a halt.

"We here already? I feel as though I only fell asleep." He told Heero as he wiped the sleep out of his eyes.

"Hn." Answered Heero, not amused, "Come on, we're already falling off the schedule."

"What the? What schedule, you never informed me of any schedule."

"We just need to get searching for her." Duo could feel the pain in his voice as he brought his memories back to the girl that he cared so much for. It had been a week since he had last seen her, arranging this damned trip had taken way too long, and he was getting restless and impatient. Duo could see it in his eyes and he had some first hand experience of his wrath a few times on the shuttle over.

They left the spaceport and blended into the crowds on the streets easily. The colony was strangely busy, there was a disturbing tension and nervousness settled in the air as the people moved from place to place, pretending to keep themselves to themselves, but constantly being aware of their surroundings and everything that was going on around them.

As they passed a bar at the end of a street, Heero trembled barely noticeably on the spot, as thoughts ran through his mind. He wondered whether it would be too risky to slip inside and get rid of a few of the painful thoughts that had been clinging to him lately. Duo watched him amusedly as his mind wondered if he'd dare walk into the bar.

"We should maybe go in here, to see if we can obtain any information from civilians." Heero told him, looking still slightly edgy. Duo had to fight hard to contain himself from laughing; this is the pathetic excuse that he's coming up with to convince himself to get a drink?

"Okay Heero, that's a good idea." Duo told him, his eyes glinting and giving away his amusement. He opened the door to the bar, held it open for Heero to enter through, and followed him in a few seconds later.

The bar was dark with a few dull lights spreading a faint glow upon the many small tables that were positioned around the small room. To their right stood a long bar and behind it a tall guy who appeared to be in late fifties. He had greying hair, his eyes were sinking into their sockets and his beer belly was emerging from underneath his stained shirt. Duo realised that this guy must have been the owner of the bar.

In his hand he held a beer mug and a towel which he was using to dry the mug. Placed along the bar there were a few stools, it was on these stools that Heero decided to position himself and nodded to the owner of the bar to come over and serve him. He ordered a drink for himself and looked questioningly towards Duo. Duo looked longingly towards the bar; he wanted a drink so badly. He didn't know why he was so addicted to the damn stuff, but it just seemed to ease his mind at times. He knew this was exactly what Heero wanting to do, and if they were going to get anywhere in this mission, at least one of them needed to stay sober. Duo shook his head and Heero just shrugged towards him.

"Fair enough." He said before turning back to the owner who had already placed his own drink in front of him, he grabbed the mug and made his way over to a table in the back, this table was fairly sheltered from view and Duo knew instantly why Heero chose it, Heero hated having people watch him or know where he was. The table was also isolated from the rest of the room, giving Heero his sought after space and privacy.

Duo sat down, occupying the seat opposite his friend and watching him eye the drink in front of him.

Heero took a drink from his glass as the enjoying the burning sensation of the whiskey sliding down his throat. Why the hell did he get himself involved in this? Why the hell had he taken such a risk by getting himself involved with the girl. Now look where it had gotten them, she had been kidnapped by one of Relena's boyfriends and it was all his fault, because he was pretty sure the person who was behind this wouldn't actually want Lafeia, unless it was some perverted old creep looking for some form of entertainment. He shuddered at the thought, and he felt his blood boiling, they better not hurt her…

Why? Would anyone do this? He was almost positive this person was after him and the pilots, but really, luring them in by taking bait was just too damn shallow.

"Heero… Heero?" Heero shot his head up to stare at Duo angrily, his cold eyes penetrating into Duo's.

"What?" He asked before signalling to the bartender to bring another drink, the bartender nodded lifelessly and Heero turned his attention back to Duo.

"Are you okay now? You know, you don't have to make lame excuses if you want to get a drink." Duo told him, a smirk playing on his lips. Heero just growled at him and accepted his new drink; he brought the glass back up to his lips. He felt so useless… what could he do now? He couldn't even track her down, hell; she might not even be on this colony, but for some reason he felt like he could feel her here, feel her presence and feel her calling for him.

He drained the last of his glass, and again signalled for more, the bartender looked slightly shocked that he had finished the second glass so quickly but nodded his head and walked over with a third glass. Heero felt that the numbing effect wasn't coming quickly enough. He started to knock back his third glass and again began musing to himself, his head slightly bowed down, showing Duo that he was deep in thought, Duo knew all too well that he was beating himself up about what happened to Lafeia.

"Heero it's not your fault…" Duo called out to him, he watched his friend with concern, as he didn't react to what Duo was saying. "Are you listening to me Heero?" Duo prodded his friend on the shoulder hoping to get some sort of reaction, and was startled as Heero raised his head slightly, his eyes catching Duo's, they where slightly unfocused, as he swallowed the remaining contents of his glass. "Hey Heero, watch it, we can't have you having a hangover tomorrow morning…" He had never seen Heero like this, he was obviously greatly disturbed by this whole ordeal.

Heero was trying to drink himself to oblivion, where his mind could be at some sort of ease, he needed release from this constant pain, but unfortunately, for him, oblivion didn't seem to be coming any time soon. His mind drifted back to Lafeia, to all the dreams he had been having of her lately and to all the remembrances of the time, they had shared together.

"Alright man! I'm going to see if I can dig up some information off any of these people, you stay here, don't drink too much." The Japanese man didn't seem to be paying any attention to him, although Duo knew that he had heard what he had said. He walked off slowly towards the bar, sitting himself down beside some strangers.

"Hi honey! Whoa, you are so fine." A young woman turned around towards him as he sat down, Duo studied her for a few minutes, she had long blonde hair curled neatly around her shoulders and she wore a dark red dress that clung to her body. She smiled and placed a hand upon his arm. Duo glanced down to where her hand lay, staring at it awkwardly, not knowing quite what to say.

"Were you checking me out?" The girl asked shamelessly. Duo turned his gaze back onto her face.

"Uh no," he replied, his eyebrows furrowed slightly as the girl pressed her legs up against his and smiled at him flirtatiously. "Look, I just wanted to know if you knew anybody who goes by the name of Adam Roster."

"Why yes I do sweetie." Alright Duo thought, the first person he asks, and bingo, they're on the trail. "Why do you wanna know?"

"Uh…" Duo said, quickly trying to think of a cover up story, "Business matters." That was all I could come up with, aww damn Duo, you're losing you're touch. Awk well, he hated lying anyway, but that was a white lie, and hey, it was compulsory. The woman stared at him curiously, as if analysing him. "Do you happen to know where he is?" This seemed to snatch her from her reverie.

"Umm no sorry, he left this colony about three years ago, the damned boy never told any of us where he was going. But his family still live here, up on Burchfield Avenue honey." She smiled at him and he returned her smile.

"Thanks lady." Had this been on normal circumstances, Duo would have flirted crazily with the young woman, she was damn hot! However, he had Hilde, and that was enough for him. Damn, so he's not on the colony. Heero's going to freak, and at me!

Heero was still deep in thought as Duo came back to him, Duo also noticed that there were now several more empty mugs placed on the table, He sighed, and shook the shoulder of his seemingly vacant friend. Heero looked up at him, trying to focus on him, but his eyes were blurry disabling his normally sharp vision.

"She knew… Duo she knew that this was going to happen. I don't know how she knew…" His voice was slurred due to the large amounts of alcohol he had just consumed, but Duo could make out what he was saying.

"Lafeia knew? Is this what you were saying earlier on the shuttle?" Duo glanced down at his watch and noted that it was now already a quarter to eleven. Heero nodded his head in reply to his question.

"She told me the other night, she came into my room and she was real messed up, shaking really badly and stuff…" Heero wasn't talking with his usual calm and serious manner; he was now rambling, trying to fit all of his memories into one sentence. "It must have been a premonition of what was going to happen or something. It's all my fault, if I had listened to her, just took heat of what she was saying or been a little more precautious, she should have never left the hall alone." Duo sighed once again, watching his friend before he grabbed his arm hastily.

"Come on buddy, we gotta leave. It's late and we have yet again another early start tomorrow." Heero isn't usually like this when he's drunk, he normally goes completely silent, and shuts himself off from the real world. He walked over to the bar and handed the bartender the money that Heero owed him for the drinks. He was going to have to make Heero pay him back tomorrow.

Once they where back out onto the streets, Duo looked around for the nearest hotel, he spotted one, not far from there and made his way towards it, with Heero's arm slung over his shoulder. Man, we must be such a sight. Heero had gone completely silent now, and Duo wondered briefly whether he was still conscious. Heero suddenly went stiff, and stopped moving his feet, halting both Duo and him in their tracks.

"The claw, the red claw…" Heero muttered, mainly to himself.

"What?" Duo turned his head slightly so he could study his friend who now seemed completely aware and alert, it almost seemed as though he hadn't been drunk at all, although he was still a little shaky on his legs.

"She said something about the red claw… remember that for me will you Duo?"

"Okay man."

They arrived shortly at the hotel and Duo booked a room for the two of them, with separate beds, he had to state this clearly to the receptionist, as she seemed to think they wanted a double bed.

As soon as they walked into their room he noticed that it was more like an apartment, and thank God, there were two bedrooms. Duo started moving through the large apartment, exploring the rooms.

As soon as they neared the bathroom, Heero threw himself into it and Duo shuddered as he heard the violent retching sounds from the next room. Sighing and walking around, Duo examined every room in close detail. He was in one of the bedrooms, closest to the bathroom when Heero walked in, swaying slightly on his feet and collapsed on the bed, closing his eyes and preparing himself for a long sleep. Duo gazed at the Japanese man and walked over to stand next to the bed. Well it looks like he's already chosen which room he wants.

"What?" Heero asked him, all the slurring had been removed from his voice, and he now seemed to sobering up although his voice still sounded a little dry, the dehydration must be settling in. Man he's up for one major hangover in the morning. He could already tell that Heero was suffering pain from the after-effects of the alcohol, but to Heero, it was nothing, he had experienced hell and had not complained once about it.

"Adam's not on this colony Heero." Duo told his friend solemnly whilst walking out towards the kitchen. Heero's eyes snapped open and he watched as Duo came back into the room with a glass of water in his hand. Heero gladly accepted the glass and was about to down the whole thing when Duo stopped him.

"Take small sips Heero, it'll do no good if you down the whole glass at once." Heero glared at him before hesitantly turning back to the glass and taking small sips. "I was talking to some girl who knows him; she says he left here about three years ago." He watched his friends eyes fade out, almost as if losing any hope.

"It's not possible. She's here Duo, I know she is. I can feel her presence here somewhere." Heero told him, his eyes fixated on the water in front of him, he suddenly lifted the glass up to his lips and downed the rest of it.

"Are you crazy?" Duo asked him, not even noticing that Heero had ignored him and downed the glass of water anyway. Heero glared at him and he sighed. "Okay, well the guy's family still lives around here somewhere… Burchfield Avenue I think it was. We should check it out tomorrow, but for now, you gotta get some rest, and let that alcohol work its way out of your system." He noticed the empty glass in Heero's hand and frowned at his friend before leaving the room.

Heero sat up on his bed, clutching his head to try to stop it from spinning, and made his way over to his laptop, which Duo had placed the desk. Burchfield Avenue… Now all we need is a map.

-8-

Duo walked into his own room and dropped down on the bed, pulling his vidphone out of his bag he opened it up and dialled a number he knew only too well. After a few seconds, Hilde's weary face appeared on the screen.

"Duo… it's half two, why didn't you call me earlier?" she asked him groggily.

"Sorry babe, were you asleep?" he studied her face; she didn't look as though she had been sleeping.

"No," Hilde answered looking slightly flustered when Duo grinned at her, "but it's still late."

"Well I just thought I'd check up on ya, see how things are back home."

"Duo you've only been gone a day." She sounds slightly irritated Duo mused.

"I just wanted to call you to make sure things are okay. Because I'm worried, Hil, there's a lot of dangerous things happening at the minute, these guys could be anywhere, there could be a lot of them, heck there could be millions of them posted around the base at the minute. I'm worried for your wellbeing Hilde, is that really such a crime!" Oops, I hadn't meant to let that all out, so much for calm and collected. An awkward silence fell across the both of them, as they simply just stared at each other through their screens. Hilde was the one to break the silence.

"I'm sorry Duo, I've just had a lot of work and stress lately, and I guess it's making me slightly cranky." Slightly? Hell, I can't wait to see you fully cranky. I have got to call up Quatre and make him relieve Hilde of some of that work. "Duo!"

"Huh? You say something babe?"

"Never mind, you were just in a daze again."

"Oh sorry."

"Hmm. So how is it going over there?" Duo sighed at her question, what should he tell her, 'Oh yeah everything is grand!' and make up some pathetic story to cover the night's events, or the truth, 'Yeah, well Heero's got a slight drinking problem, he's trying to drown away all of his problems, and is now lying completely battered and out of it in the next room.' He decided to go with the second option, hey, he was telling the truth, and that's what matters, right?

"Oh Seriously? You have got to be joking, Heero? Act like that; act so… I don't know whether I'm using the right words, but well normal?" Hilde choked down the phone.

Normal was one way of putting it, any normal guy would do something like that if the… well love of his life, was stolen from him so suddenly, any normal guy would not just lock it up in a bottle and shove it to the back of his mind, like Heero so often does. Any normal guy would do just what Heero has done. But that is the thing. Heero is anything but normal, normal is not a word anyone would ever dream of using when describing the stoic, young, expressionless boy. In Heero's situation what he was doing was not normal, it was the opposite, it was irregular, abnormal, uncharacteristic, anomalous and deviant, and this wasn't Heero.

"Do you think there's something wrong with him?" Duo looked at her throwing her a glare that screamed, 'are you joking me?' "No," Hilde corrected herself, " I know there's something wrong with him, but you know, why all of this all of a sudden, he's been through a lot more harsher and distressing times than this, why break down that strong barrier he has always held onto now?"

Duo didn't know the answer to that question. He didn't know why Heero had suddenly and dramatically changed his ways of dealing with serious situations. What he did know however, was that Heero was seriously falling for that girl. Hopefully, just hopefully, she wouldn't be his downfall.

"I honestly don't know. Anyway, the reason that I called you was to tell you that we might have a lead. Supposedly Adam used to live on this colony, we are going up to 'visit' his house in the morning."

"That's great, just give me the address and I'll do what I can to fish up some information on him. I'll then email the information tomorrow morning to Heero's laptop."

"Okay. Burchfield Avenue, Adam Roster, try to figure out which number his house is, so we're not going on a scavenger hunt. As much fun as that seems, I doubt that we'll have the time."

Hilde giggled at his joke, and smiling sleepily, she jotted down the address and scrawled Adam's name above it.

"Okay, I'll call the offices now and get something drawn up. But I will have do this right now because I'm really tired and I need my beauty sleep."

"Heh. Yeah I can tell." Duo commented, getting ready to duck, but then he realised that she wasn't there so he simply grinned back at the scowling face on the screen. "Night babe. Love ya!"

"Goodnight Duo." Hilde said, rather frostily, but she cracked a grin just before logging off.

Heh, right now, let's go see what Heero's up to, Duo thought.

-8-

"So what is the plan, guys?" Quatre asked as he set himself down on a seat opposite Trowa and Wufei. No one decided to answer the question; they sat staring at each other waiting for another to come up with an applicable plan of action.

"Well unless Heero and Duo find any information on what is going on, then I guess there's shit all we can do at the moment." Wufei and Quatre both turned to stare in astonishment at Trowa who had for once decided to voice his thoughts, and not only that but use expletives. Trowa coughed uneasily. Not that he was uneasy around his fellow comrades; just that he felt uneasy sitting there as they gawked at him in surprise.

"Trowa is right. There is nothing we can do until then," Quatre agreed, breaking the awkwardness in the conversation, "But what if they do find out some important or relevant information, say they stumble across a base, what are we to do then?"

"I guess we have no choice but to go after them and assist them." Wufei kept himself calm and collected throughout his thoughts, however inside he was grateful that he was getting to do something constructive for once, when was the last time he had left the country on a mission… too long ago.

"Go after them…" Quatre mused aloud. "Are you sure that's the best thing to do? I mean, I am pretty sure that Heero and Duo are perfectly capable of maintaining the situation themselves, as they have been able to do, numerous times."

"I think we should leave it up to them." Trowa's friends once again turned around to stare at him. I wish they would stop doing that. It's beginning to get extremely frustrating, so what? I talk… "I mean to contact us if they are in need of our assistance." Both Quatre and Wufei nodded their heads in agreement.

"So how do you think they are—" Quatre started but he interrupted by the sound of the door behind them opening and closing shut with a loud slam. All three pilots spun around to establish who their new visitor was.

"Right! I have heard rumours of a new group, which could apparently be a threat to the peace and many civilisations. Is this true?" Milliardo asked as he set himself down beside the pilots. The pilots sat for a moment, stunned and confused as to what Milliardo was doing exactly. Milliardo glared at them and widened his eyes and added "Well?..."

"That would be correct Zech- uh I mean Milliardo." Quatre stated.

"Well what are we doing about it?" Milliardo growled in response, his light eyes glittering as his anger rose.

"Heero and Duo are out investigating the colony on which these rumours may have been hinting towards."

"I see. And have they found anything."

"Unfortunately, not yet, but they only left this morning Milliardo, you cannot possibly expect them—" Quatre was again rudely cut off.

"This is Heero Yuy we are talking about. And you are telling me Heero has not come up with anything so far?"

"No. He hasn't contacted us yet."

"Very well, when he does contact us I would like a full report of his message replayed to me immediately." And with that said, Milliardo walked out of the room, his long silvery blond hair swaying behind him.

The pilots followed him soon after, all departing in their separate directions after deciding there was nothing more to do until they were contacted.

Quatre watched as Trowa and Wufei walked away. He sighed deeply and turned in the opposite direction to his room.

-8-

"Relena please let me in…" He continued tapping at her door hoping that the sound would irritate her and that she would finally open the door for him.

"No. Go away." Relena answered stubbornly.

"Relena…" His voice softened and he stopped rapping his knuckles against the polished wood. "This isn't like you at all…"

"Quatre please… just leave me alone, I need to be alone right now."

"Relena you're upset. Let me help? Please?"

"No." She answered stubbornly, her voice worn slightly. "I thought I told you to go away."

"Relena. Please let me in." his voice was firmer and more dominating. After waiting for a few more minutes in silence, Quatre sighed and was about to turn away when he heard the lock on her door click and the sound of the door opening slowly. Quatre stepped inside the room without any reluctance and stole a brief look at Relena. Her face was pale and tired and her eyes were red and puffy, obviously from a lot of crying. He let out a sigh and pulled her into a tight embrace.

"Uh… Quatre, I can't breathe…" Relena choked. Quatre let go of her instantly but still held her at arms length, she laughed unsteadily and Quatre's concerned, anxious expression changed to reveal a still slightly concerned smile.

"Are you going to tell me what is wrong, or are you going to make me guess?" He asked her as he closed the door securely and watched her take a seat on the edge of her bed.

She didn't answer him but turned her head away so that she was facing the window and not him. Quatre sighed once again and walked over to her. He got down on his knees so that he was eye level with her and grasped her hands in his, squeezing them tightly to get her attention. She met his gaze again, but her expression stayed the same, emotionless, tired and lifeless, matched only by the same look her eyes gave him.

"It's Heero isn't it?" It wasn't as much of a question as it was a statement. Relena looked down at him confusedly.

"How… how did you…" she squeaked. Quatre smiled.

"You may keep these sorts of feelings towards a certain friend of mine a secret from the world, but you can't keep something like that a secret form the prying eyes of Quatre Raberba Winner." His smile faded gradually as he waited for some sort of response from her, to lead him to what was going on inside her head.

However, no response came.

"Relena…" he whispered softly, "please let me help, tell me what's happening." Relena sighed and glared deeply into his soft light blue eyes.

"I always thought that I loved him… I always knew that I loved him…" She pulled her gaze away from him and tried hard to fight back the tears that were threatening to overflow from her eyelids. Quatre moved slightly closer to her, urging her to continue.

"It was just so hard to understand what was happening at the time, I mean I was only fifteen at the time. I didn't know what was going on… I thought it was a teenage crush that would fade away with time…But it didn't, my feelings for him only grew stronger and stronger the more often I was around him. I became fully aware that I was in love with him… and I couldn't go on without letting him know…" She sighed heavily.

Strangely, telling Quatre her worries wasn't as bad as she thought it would be, it was actually quite relieving. "… So I told him what I felt, it was stupid, I realise that I shouldn't have told him, because he didn't reciprocate those feelings. In fact he just pushed himself away…" Quatre nodded to what she was saying, taking all of the information in. He already knew most of it, but he could see that his listening to her was helping, and after all that was what he was there for, to help her. All of the pilots had known that there had been something between Relena and Heero, some kind of frisson, but nobody had understood exactly what had been happening.

"…He just left me, in the room alone… just disappeared, off into the night, and I never seen him again until… well my party…" she lost all control of herself and burst into tears in front of Quatre, 'Great now he probably thinks that I am such a weirdo' she thought.

Quatre pulled her into another deep embrace, wrapping his arms around her gently and running his hands up and down her back, soothing her softly.

Relena was surprised that she was still able to cry so much after all the crying that she had done in the past few days. She had thought that she had used up all of her tears, but apparently not.

"You deserve better then Relena. Someone who will love you back. Heero isn't too good at the commitment thing; he doesn't care too much for anything that could tie him down." As soon as he had said that he immediately wished that he could take it back, he knew that Relena was now going to question him about Lafeia.

"But what about Lafeia, he seems pretty 'chummy' with her." she said in a bitter, mocking tone. 'Oh my…' Quatre thought, 'how am I to get myself out of this one?'

"Well I don't exactly know what's going on between them, you know Heero, the man of secrecy that he is." He coughed awkwardly and glanced at his watch.

"Look Relena, if it's going to be that much of a problem for you," Quatre sighed deeply, "You don't have to be involved in this whole affair anymore. Okay?"

Relena looked up at him gratefully; suddenly feeling like a whole weight had been lifted of her shoulders. "No." She frowned again. "I refuse to give in, for now anyway. I have to be strong, for everyone else."

Quatre suddenly pulled her into a hug. "That's more like the Lena I know." He let go of her, holding her at arms length.

"Don't let him get to you, okay? He doesn't mean to hurt you, he really doesn't." He then stood up, straightening out his suit. "Are you okay for now? I have a meeting to attend in half an hour and I mustn't be late."

"Yeah Quatre, thanks for your help."

"No problem Relena. Just you know… contact me if you ever need to speak to someone. I'll be there for you, always." And with that said he left Relena, sitting on her bed, her thoughts and memories still haunting her.

Within a few minutes, her vidphone started ringing on her dressing table. Relena wiped her eyes with a tissue, removing any excess mascara that had smudged under eyes during her brief lamentation and walked over to the dresser, glancing quickly at her appearance and hoping that no one too important was calling.

She flicked up the screen and was soon staring into a pair of tired dark blue eyes.

"Why Hilde. It's nice to see you again." Relena greeted her friend.

"As for you Relena." Hilde paused, seemingly to observe her friend from the other screen. "Have you been crying, you're eyes are all puffy." Relena, self-consciously touched her lids under her eyes, feeling for any signs of swollenness.

"No. It's just my allergies." She answered.

"Allergies? I didn't know you had any aller-" Hilde started.

"Hilde." Relena interrupted in a warning voice. "I'm rather tired, would you mind just telling me what you called to tell me, please." Hilde sighed, somewhat reluctant to give in to her friend.

"Okay then. Well we have a few leads on the kidnappers, could you call the guys and ask them to work up some information on the Roster household on Burchfield Avenue on the colony L4?"

"Yes sure, is that all?"

"Yes, but Relena, before you go, remember you can talk to me anytime okay?" Hilde stared at her anxiously.

"Thank you Hilde. But I am fine, really, now go and get some rest, you look like you've just risen from the dead." Relena commented, chuckling slightly. Hilde scoffed at her comment.

"Do I really look that bad...? First Duo then you…" She mumbled something incoherent.

"I'm only kidding you Hilde, and knowing Duo, he is too. You just look tired, that's all. I'll see you soon, goodbye."

"Cya Lena."

-8-

Relena hastily made her way down to where the pilots were staying. The sooner she gave them the address, the sooner she could get back to her own room to sleep. Making it to Trowa's door, she knocked lightly, knowing that he had good hearing and could hear it anyway.

"Relena." Trowa greeted as he opened his door.

"Trowa, are you busy?"

'Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.' --Helen Rowland

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