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Ch. 13 - Morning Sickness

When Relena awoke the next morning Heero had both his arms wrapped around her with his hands lying on her stomach. – He's not going to let me out of his site until the baby's born, is he? – She laughed a little to herself.

She let her mind wander to what it would be like to have a little one in the house. True, she had always wanted children, but she had never actually pictured having them around before. Would it be a boy or a girl? Did it matter? - It certainly doesn't matter to me. I wonder if Heero has a preference. He'd probably want a boy, but if it were a girl. My, she'd never be allowed out of the house! – Again she began to giggle, this time rousing her slumbering partner.

"Hmm?" He grumbled, trying to part the cloud of sleep surrounding him.

"It's only five thirty, you can go back to sleep." She whispered, closing her own eyes again.

"Is something wrong?" He sounded so worried for her. It almost made her laugh again.

"No, nothing's wrong. I just woke up so I was thinking a while, that's all."

"You need your rest. Go back to sleep."

"Yes sir," she joked, again breaking out into her quiet laughter.

Heero stayed awake until he heard her breathing slow, then he allowed himself to drift back into a very light sleep. – I can't really sleep. If something should happen, I'd need to wake up as quickly as possible. What if she needed me? –

Six came too soon and Relena tapped the clock off and went about her normal morning routine: shower, brush teeth, hair, pick out clothes, put on clothes, breakfast, and dash to the office with Heero one step in front of her clearing the way. This monotonous life had come to actually be amusing to her. Heero now not only checked every nook and cranny for anything out of place, but now he also checked under the spider webs in them, just in case.

"Heero…really…all this isn't necessary."

"If you insist on walking to work this morning, I insist on double checking every possible mishap."

"What if I break a heel?"

"I didn't think of that!"

"Heero." She rubbed his back with the palm of her hand. "I'm fine, really."

"I know, I just…I want to be extra careful now."

"I know you do, but this isn't necessary. If it makes you feel better, I'll ride in the car. Just let me stop and get a magazine on the way." When Relena had been permitted to walk to work, she often stopped at a little news stand and purchased some business magazine, the paper, or occasionally something a little more girly about the latest fashions or some nonsense that didn't really concern her but was fun to read.

Heero permitted her and when they arrived, she began to survey her choices for the day. "You the lady on the cover!" The merchant chattered.

"I'm sorry, sir, I don't know what you're talking about."

"You, on cover, see?" The man held up a tabloid, to which Relena sighed, assuming it to be the same horrendous story. However, the date was of that day.

"I'd like to purchase that along with this." She handed him a business magazine, having lost her heart to look for something fun, then handed him the money. "Thank you."

"No thank you!"

She rushed back to the car to an impatient Heero, who had been watching her in dismay. "What took you so long?"

"Look." She shoved the paper in his face without even reading it herself.

"Relena Yuy's secret love affair?"

"What!"

"Yeah, that's what it says."

"Give me that!" She snatched it back. "Page three." She quickly flipped to a giant picture of her in Kevin Beaumont's arms, dancing dangerously close. "The new paparazzi princess was spotted at the home of Kevin Beaumont last Thursday evening. The two dined together, where she told him of her pregnancy." Her mouth fell open. "How do people find this stuff out?" Her eyes darted back to the paper. "The paternity of her child is not known, but it is apparent Mrs. Yuy has been having an affair with Mr. Beaumont for some time, perhaps as long as her oh-so-sudden marriage. Mr. Beaumont nor Mrs. Yuy have made any comment on the situation."

"Relena, you have to put this to rest somehow."

"How? You tell me how and I will!"

"You have to talk with Kevin."

"But Heero I-" Before she could finish, her thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of her cell phone. "Hello? Oh, Milliardo, hi…"

"How are you feeling?" There was just something she didn't like about his tone of voice.

"I'm quite all right."

"Anything I need to know about?"

-He must have read it…- "I'll talk to you when I get to the office, ok?"

"Good, because I'm all ready here waiting on you. You're one minute late."

"I had to stop to pick up…I'll talk to you when I get there." Click.

"What did he want?" Heero stared blankly at her.

-I swear if all of this stuff that the media has made up turns him back away, I'll kill them all. No, you can't Relena. You're a pacifist, remember- She sighed deeply.

"I'll take that as you're not going to tell me."

"No…no…I just…I'm sorry. We're going to talk when we get to my office. I have a feeling he's gotten the latest copy of Relena weekly."

"Hn."

The car slowly came to a stop, and Heero opened the door and got out. After taking a quick glance, he offered her his hand and helped her out of the car, but before she took one step toward her office, she froze.

Heero saw a man in a black business suit emerge in the doorway. He looked about 6'2 with dirty blonde hair and piercing green eyes. He almost looked like a beach bum, but he was well-groomed. He was handsome, but not enough so to completely distract Relena as he seemed to be doing.

"Relena, darling, so nice to see you again." He smiled at her deviously and held a air much too thick of charm in his sweet-talker voice.

She was frozen in time, as if trapped by the fear or making any wrong move, and so she stood, feeling helplessly alone, even with her husband at her side.

"I just wanted to clear up a few things." He continued, motioning her to walk with him.

Almost instinctively, she followed command, but Heero grabbed her arm and shook his head. "I have to…" She protested, and he let her go, eyes boring into her as she left his side.

"Well, well, it looks as though you patched things up real nice with that husband of yours. I believe your exact words were 'If I never see Heero Yuy again it will be too soon.'"

"Well, I was drunk and angry. Besides, that is none of your business any longer. Why are you following me?"

"My dear, I'm not following you. Everything is just overly coincidental."

"Overly something perhaps, but not coincidental. You knew good and well who I was, so you tracked me down to my home. You established a business, made me think I was going crazy, then drove my name in the ground."

"No, my dear, from what I've heard, you did a good enough job of that without me."

"If it weren't for you spreading things about you and I that are completely not true, both of us know, I could have had my career back! I would have had my normal life back! No, you had to go and throw accusations up in my face, but not even face to face, in a tabloid!"

"Calm down, darling, I never sent anything to the tabloids."

"Regardless of weather you or someone you know or whoever did, if you would just leave this fictitious, sick relationship you've created in your mind and out of the tabloids, we'd both be better off."

"Is that what you really want? Me to not ever say another word about our relationship?"

"Yes, keep your ideas of some relationship that could have been to yourself, please."

"Well, it's been nice talking to you again."

"Please don't try to contact me." Relena walked as quickly as she could back to where Heero stood waiting.

Kevin Beaumont leaned his head over as if looking at something on the ground and whispered into the mike tucked under his collar, "mission accepted. Start phase two." He picked his head up and smiled at the figure bouncing away. "Well Relena, if you don't want you and I to have the relationship of the century, let's see how you like bachelor number two."

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