Jealousy
Chapter 5: Separation
Pairings: Too many to list
Disclaimer: I own nothing therefore I get nothing

Warnings: none

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Summary: A very pregnant Duo has been missing for over twenty-four hours. Heero is extremely worried and has now contacted Preventors HQ to inform his team members and boss of his wife's disappearance. The race is on to find Duo before she gives birth but is time on his side? Or will someone else interfere?

Enjoy!

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Heero and the other pilots found themselves waiting in the office of Relena Peacecraft of the Sanc Kingdom. The former Wing Zero gundam pilot knew the Vice-Foreign Minister was somehow involved with his wife's disappearance.

Quatre stood as look out as Heero, Trowa, and WuFei did a quick search of the room.

Heero found three well-placed cameras. Trowa uncovered at least a dozen mini-microphones, and WuFei pulled out five listening devices.

They dumped all of the equipment on the desk and waited. A short time later the young Minister appeared in all her glory.

"Heero! It's so good to see you again," she greeted giving him a long lingering hug. "Hello Mr. Barton, Mr. Chang, Mr. Winner."

Heero pried Relena from around his neck. "We're going to get straight to the point Relena – where's Duo?"

Relena was taken aback by the question as she sat at her now cluttered desk. Looking shameful at being caught she schooled her features. "I don't know what you're talking about Heero. I last saw her was on L1 with you," she huffed.

"I'm not going to rest until I find her!"

"Miss Relena, please if you have any information on Duo's whereabouts tell us," Quatre pleaded.

"Like I said. I haven't seen her. Besides, why would I want to help find her-"

"She is my wife damn it!" And she is about to give birth!"

Relena stared in cold unemotional cobalts. "She came between us, Heero!"

"There is no 'us'! When are you going to get it through your head!"

Relena paused a moment after Heero's outburst to recompose herself. Breathing deeply she tried again. "How rude of me. Gentlemen please be seated."

The Minister finally took notice of the damaged devices on her desk.

"Let's just say we enjoy our privacy," Trowa said. One emerald eye sparked at the anger in Relena's face.

"I have these devices in my office for a reason!" She made a sweeping motion of her right hand over said devices.

Heero turned to the rest of his team. "Guys give the Minister and I a few minutes alone."

Quatre placed a hand at the small of his partners back leading Trowa out the office. WuFei glared at the blonde before making his exit.

"Relen-"

"Heero, you know as well as I do that Duo only stayed with you for the recognition of being a gundam pilot. He – I uh mean she came from L2. What kind of talent could a street urchin have coming from a deplorable colony like L2."

"Don't! I'm not in the mood for your bullshit Relena. I should have done what I wanted to the first time that I met you."

Relena walked around to the front of her desk and stood close to her beloved. Heero cupped her cheek in the sweetest caress. Relena closed her eyes, tilting her head ever so slightly to receive a kiss from Heero. This was what she had been dreaming of.

"And what did you want to do Heero?" she asked dreamily.

She could feel his hand sliding down to her neck until, "Kill you."

Heero unholstered his weapon pointing it at her heart. "If any thing happens to either Duo or my son I won't hesitate to pull the trigger," Heero threatened.

Not saying another word to her, Heero left Relena shaking in fear. How dare he threaten her like that?! Relena stood alone in her office fuming, but she wasn't worried. Heero was just confused – it would take some time before the drugs or whatever Doctor J gave him to completely wear off then he would come to her - free of that wretched low-life and unwanted child.

Relena swiveled in her chair to gaze out of the tinted window behind her. She buzzed maintaince to clean up her desk and security to rewire her office.

The Gundam pilots were too close for her liking, but they had no proof as long as she remained calm and focused. They would never find any evidence she was involved.

"The pieces are set."

But little did Relena know she had set a change in motion that would have serious consequences.

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"Ahh!" Duo screamed as another contraction ripped through her. "Stay away from me!" She was fighting the medical staff. She knew with her heart that if they got a hold of her she would never see her son.

Duo bit her all ready bruised lips breathing deeply. He contractions were closer together. Her water broke a half hour ago, and the medical staff rushed into her room to take her baby, Heero's baby, their son.

The door bang opened again and in that short lapse in attention the male orderlies grabbed each of her arms dragging her back to the birthing bed.

"Noo! Please don't this!" she cried but her pleas fell on deaf ears.

Relena sat next to the bed reaching over to remove the damp strains of chestnut hair from Duo's Elven face.

"Shh, it will all be over soon. Once you have this child Heero will be mine."

"Get away from me you bitch!" Duo spat.

"Now that's no way to treat someone who holds your life in her hands," Relena mocked.

"Fuck you!"

"Ms. Doylan we must get started," the obstetrician cut in.

Without another word Relena left the makeshift delivery room. In the distance behind the Vice-Foreign Minister, Relena heard the anguished screams and cries of Duo delivering the son she would never see.

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Three days later

Sally entered her office with a stack of files of patients she had seen over the last 24 hours. She still needed to get the boys in for their annual physical, but with the all out search for Duo being conducted, their time was very limited.

- Doctor Chang, please report to emergency room 5. Code: Yellow -

Sally didn't waste any time at dropping her workload on her all ready-cluttered desk and sprinted to the ER ward three floors down. She entered the chaotic ward weaving in and out of other doctors and nurses who were busy tending to gunshot wounds, domestic violence victims, and the occasional scraped knee.

"Oh, thank God, Dr. Chang," one nurse greeted in relief, handing Sally a clipboard. "We have a new born male. About 2-3 days old, abandoned. He's relatively healthy as far we can tell, but Dr. O'Shea is running some additional tests on the little guy."

Sally groaned. She hated cases like this. She quickly scanned the chart, satisfied with the results. She made a few extra comments and gave it back. "What do you need me for?" she asked.

oOoOo

Sally somehow felt she would come to regret this decision in years to come. If she was perfectly honest with herself this was a situation she would never want to be in again. The social workers didn't have the time to fully investigate the abandoned baby due 'overload' cases. If she didn't intercede, the baby would just end up somewhere where he would probably be abandoned again or worse yet, sexually abused or dead. She didn't want that to happen, which was why she was standing in her best friend's living room.

"Hello, Sally. How are you? And is this who I think it is?" Noin said.

"Where's Zechs? I thought he was going to be here as well?"

"He was but Lady Une called him in to work. She needed to meet with him and the others. Apparently, there was a break in Duo's case." Noin replied.

They knew that Duo was a touchy subject for Heero and seldom mentioned it for fear of him losing control. None of them would forget it.

One of the other Special Forces team leaders had been taunting Heero for weeks following her kidnapping about how she left him for another man and that she probably killed that bastard of a child. Without warning Heero had punched him in the face then proceeded to beat him up. Not even Quatre, Trowa, and WuFei could get him off the stupid jerk. Sally was finally called and gave Heero a strong sedative. The other team leader was on life support after that.

Heero had beaten the guy within an inch of his life. Not that anyone had blamed him. They saw it coming, it was only a matter of time before Heero went ballistic.

"I guess domestic life doesn't agree with the Lady," Sally teased, shaking her self from the gloomy thoughts. "Anyway, I have everything here that you could possibly need for him."

Noin was thankful for the distraction. She gently patted the baby on the back cooing softly in his ear. "Don't worry. We still have all of that stuff from when Milliardo was born."

Said person ran in the room at top speed crashing into his mother's legs but stopped when he saw her holding a small bundle. The azure-eyed youth glared questionly at the wrapped thing. Noin lowered herself down so he could get a better view. She pulled back the soft blue blanket to reveal a sleeping…

"Baby?"

Noin nodded her head. "What are you going to do with it?" the five year old asked.

Sally clammed a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing at the blunt question.

"Well, Daddy and I are adopting him because nobody else wanted the responsibility of caring for him, and besides this just saved us a whole lot of work," Noin replied.

Young Milliardo still wasn't too sure about having a baby take-up his mommy's time. He scrunched his delicate nose at the horror implied - a lot of down time from his mommy.

Sally said her good-byes with a reminder to have Zechs come back next week. She didn't have to worry over the baby's well being – Zechs and Noin would make sure the little guy had the best of everything including the love he deserved.

oOo TBC oOo

A/N: Well, it's coming along. Tell me what you think. Your comments and suggestion are welcomed.