Jealousy
Chapter 15: Attacked
Pairing: Heero/Duo
Disclaimer: I don't own so don't ask
WARNING: none
Summary: Hayate is where he belongs now with Heero and Duo. Heero and the other Gundam pilots are going to earth with a search warrant. Will Relena be arrested for kidnapping? Or will she walk away?
Special thank you to: Elliott's girl, Hitokimi, d, Fantasy or Reality, Serenity Maxwell, yaeko,and to those who have read and didn't review, thank you for reading thus far. I hoped you enjoyed it.
Note: Unfortunately, I will not be able to update every week. I've started a new position that is taking me from my writing, so I will only be updating now every other week until I can get accustomed to my new schedule.
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The Firestorm team that went to earth was divided into groups. The first group consisted WuFei and Trowa. They went to the deserted underground parking garage to investigate the homicide. The second group consisted of Heero and Quatre. They went to the Sanc Kingdom with the search warrant as well as forensic and K-9 units.
The Peacecraft palace was getting a thorough search through. Zechs had also accompanied them to locate secrete passages. Unfortunately, because of safety precautions for the Minister only Heero and Quatre were allowed access in the underground tunnels and hidden corridors of the stone fortress, but they still handled a dog, so it could detect Duo's scent. At least that was Quatre's reasoning for having the animal, conveniently forgetting that Heero could also detect his wife's scent.
As for Duo, Lady Une made her wait at home; this gave her time to get acquainted with her one-year-old son.
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Nothing ever turns out how one plans his or her day. Duo went back to Sally as requested to under go a series of tests including a physical. The medical center was thankful empty in the early morning hours and Duo was able to by-pass the media that usually hung out by the front entrance.
After a long drawn out conversation with Heero, Duo decided that it would be in their son's best interest to leave his name as it was and they would only change his surname and fill-out the proper forms with the courts to legally have Hayate's records official.
Duo some times stand out in a crowd when she wasn't being incognito, but her day so far was turning to be uneventful. That was until she ran into Noin.
Mother and son entered the small waiting room only to be confronted by the very woman who wanted to keep them apart. Hayate quickly ducked behind his mother seeking her protection as Noin reached out to him.
Shocked and hurt by him running from her, Noin turned hateful eyes on Duo.
"Well, I see you have all ready managed to turn him against me," Noin sneered.
"Don't be ridiculous, Noin. He's doing what is natural for him. How much damage do you think I can do in a short amount of time?"
"You're a Gundam pilot. I know what you are capable of."
"I don't have to justify my son's actions because you're the one who's feeling hurt."
"He's my son! I raised him. Gave him a nurturing home and you took him from me!"
"No, Noin, Hayate was never your son," Duo replied.
The one sentence was a slap to the face.
The one sentence, Noin knew to be true and she heard it from her husband countless of times in a more loving and caring tone, but hearing it from someone other than Milliardo sounded harsh and cruel.
Both women stood in tense silence with Hayate slightly quivering behind his mother's legs.
"Look, Noin, I'm sorry-"
"No, Duo, you're right. I had no right to even think it least of all say it."
Noin turned around and left not bothering to wait to be called.
"Mrs. Yuy?"
Duo looked down at her son and picked him up to comfort him and went into her appointment.
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The agents spent an entire day at the Peacecraft palace and came up with nothing. Things didn't get any better once WuFei and Trowa arrived with news of how their investigation went.
"Are you sure, WuFei?"
"I'm positive, Heero. Duo's death signature was evident – it was a goddamn massacre. Now, here's my theory based on the coroner's report, the pictures and the crime scene: Maxwell was either sexually assaulted or she was about to be, I'm leaning toward the latter than the former.
"Also one of the victims was striped down to his under shorts and three of them were indecent," WuFei summed up for his friend then lowered his voice on the last bit of information. "There was also a high volume of semen present."
Heero stared incredulously at the former Shenlong pilot. "What did Sally say after her initial exam of Duo?" WuFei asked.
Heero shook himself. He couldn't believe that his wife was gang raped – there was no possible way. "She said that everything was fine. Sally said nothing about Duo being assaulted," he hissed his temper rising wishing those guys weren't dead just so he could put a bullet in them, but his next words were cut off as a familiar scent caught his attention.
They were in the south-west wing near one of the towers. Heero opened the door to a large spacious room with security doors leading to the balcony. A canopy bed was in the middle of the room, Heero fingered the linen and think curtains on the bed as Quatre went through the chest-of-drawers and the closet.
The next room over was some type of medical lab. The lab was empty but the hum of the computers could be heard in the quietness. By the looks of the lab it was use no so long ago. Everything was clean. No dust could be found any of the surfaces or the windows.
Still there was nothing.
The fucking place had nothing, yet Heero's nose was telling him otherwise.
"I hope everything is to your satisfactory, gentlemen?"
"What is this lab used for?" Trowa asked not bothering to look at Relena. She was examining one of the computer's hard drives while simultaneously checking for missing data on the others.
Relena didn't like her either. She was as much of a bitch as Duo.
"This is the medical facility for this part of the palace. Each wing has a fully equipped lab similar to this one just in case something happens to any of the guests who are staying in this section," Relena answered truthfully.
"Well, everything is clear, Heero. We're finished here. I'm going to check on Quatre and Zechs," Trowa announced ignoring the shorter female.
"I'm done with my report too. I'll see you back a HQ. Good day Minister," WuFei said leaving Heero alone with Relena.
Now realizing that she was alone with Heero, Relena cast him a bright smile. Heero cringed. He felt like a lamb being sent to the lions den, but this was business.
"I'd hope we could have talked under better circumstance, Heero."
Heero came flushed to Relena – the bane of his existence. His hand traveled along her arms until she leaned into his touch. His face only inches apart from hers.
"I know that Duo was here, Relena."
The spell broken, wide cornflower eyes stared unblinking into cold expressionless Cobalt's.
"Duo was never here, Heero," she answered too sweetly.
Heero sniffed her – inhaling deeply. "You reek of fear as well as arousal, Relena, like a bitch in heat. Do you not know that I can smell that on you as well as the others? The only difference is that none of them can filter Duo's scent like me. No amount of cleaning solution is going to wash out her scent."
He continued to assess the shivering blonde in front of him. Heero chuckled as she tried to break free of his hold.
"I do not have to stand here and be insulted-"
"Oh, I think that you do, Relena." His grip tightened. "Were you hoping that after Duo and my son were dead that I would reciprocate your feelings? The truth of the matter is that you didn't plan on me being chemically matched to someone.
"Face it, Relena, you never had a fucking chance in hell with me – you're too weak. I need a strong woman who can think on her feet in life or death situations. Not whine every time she gets a paper cut or be scared out of her mind if someone puts a gun to her head. You're too emotional. Emotions will get you killed," Heero seductively whispered in her ear bringing her to tears, but his next words cut to the quick.
"Hell, even if Duo had been a male, there would still have been a way for us to produce an heir, away for me to love 'him' because 'he' completes me.
Tears now spilled forth. "Why? I would have been good for you, Heero?" Relena sobbed.
She didn't want to hear this. Could Milliardo have been right? Again she blamed that whore and mad scientists.
"You kidnap my pregnant wife. Did you honestly think that I would ever give up finding them?"
Heero pushed Relena away from him – disgusted that he had to stand that close to her. The shove was so forceful that she fell. Heero reached into his jacket pocket and threw an envelope to Relena.
"What's this?"
"I'm serving you with a Restraining Order – you are to stay away from me and my family – if I ever catch you within 200 feet of us I will kill you – Minister or not."
She fumed. /You are mine/
Before Heero could figure out what was happening, Relena launched herself at him. She jumped onto his back as he tuned to walk out of the door, hooking her legs around his waist locking them at the ankles.
One of her hands fisted in his hair while the other struck out repeatedly at any open place on his back and neck. Heero back into the stone wall to knocked her off. He repeated the action three more times until Relena fell unconscious. She slumped to floor as Heero slipped her arms and legs from around his body.
He bent down and threw the Minister over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Heero was unexpectedly greeted at the end of the corridor by Zechs and the other ex-pilots. Scrapping and thumping was muffled as Quatre placed his ear to the door to hear what was being said between them after WuFei shut the door behind them to allow Heero and Relena some privacy.
Throwing the doors open, cracking the frame in the process, they bumped into each other coming to a sudden stop. They had heard the struggle, but what they saw was something out of the movies. Heero calmly walked passed them not saying a word with Relena draped over his right shoulder.
Once they were back in Relena's office (where he dumped her unceremoniously onto the sofa), Heero went to the security room, there he reviewed the tape with audio, watching as Relena attacked him.
The security guard burnt an Mp3 disk for him. Well, it was a good thing at the position of Vice-Foreign Minister was only a term of five years and not a life time post or else Heero would be playing body guard to an in-mate Minister.
The Minister (just like every body else) was not above-the-law. Relena lashed out and threaten a government Law Enforcement Agent.
Heero smirked. Even though they didn't find anything linking Relena to Duo's abduction, he had more than enough evidence to get her thrown out office with at least two ears of jail time plus twelve months of probation.
And that thought alone was pleasing whole heartedly to bring a smile to his otherwise none expressive visage. He just prayed to the powers that be that this small punishment would appease his wife.
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A/N: Well, how was that? I hope it was worth the wait. Did you think that Relena was going to get busted? Yeah, I did too but it didn't happen but Heero knows the 411. Tell me your thoughts. Your comments and suggestions are greatly welcomed.
Nemesis