Chapter Eighteen

Hours later, it was breakfast time. Quatre and Dorothy were invited to join Heero, Relena, Duo, and Hilde for breakfast. Hilde and Relena wanted to find out what had happened with Trowa's wife.

"Thank you for joining us this morning," Relena welcomed, ushering them to the table.

"You're quite welcome, but thank you for inviting us," Quatre responded.

"You're welcome. Please have a seat," said Relena.

"I'm sure you're wondering why we asked you to join us." Dorothy and Quatre both nodded, so Hilde continued. "We are all well aware that what we are about to ask you is none of our business, it's just sheer curiosity."

"Very well. Go on." Quatre said.

"We were wondering about Midii."

"What about Midii?"

Relena cut in, "We were wondering why she hasn't been around until now, and why Trowa never mentioned her before."

Dorothy stared at her fiancé. He still hadn't told her yet either, so she was eager to hear what he had to say about this. "Please do tell dear."

"All right, Trowa, Midii, and I all grew up together. We were really close. It wasn't long before Trowa and Midii began to have feelings for one another, but they were too timid to do anything about it. I finally made them tell each other, and as soon as Midii was of age, they got married. Soon after, she got pregnant and they were very excited. One day a large rebel group came into town and began killing people, taking them as captives, burning homes, and just destroying everything. Trowa and I were out when this happened, but Midii wasn't. As soon as we returned and saw everything on fire, we rushed to his house to find nothing, no one. One of Midii's brothers survived and told us that she had been taken captive. We immediately began to plan a way to rescue her, but before we could even try we got word that she had been killed, that she was tortured unmercifully. Neither of us could take the news. I soon moved away, and he met you Captain." Heero nodded as if remembering. "It turned out someone had gotten their information mixed up about Midii. One of the soldiers took pity on her. She was very young and her stomach had become quite large. He soon freed her and she immediately began to look for Trowa, but she couldn't find him anywhere. On her journey, she came upon a small town and stayed there for awhile. She had the baby too early, and lost a lot of blood. She barely survived. Sadly her baby didn't. For a whole week she did nothing but cry. She didn't move; she barely ate or slept. I'm sure she looked terrible. Once she had the strength, she kept up with her search for Trowa. She was told that he had been last seen with Captain Yuy, but she didn't have any way to track him down. She came upon Captain Merquise and he took her under his wing. I think he pitied her for her lose. And here she is now, three years later." Quatre finished.

"Wow," Hilde breathed. The rest of the group was speechless. Here was a girl with so much heartache and she had overcome all odds and found her husband. They ate the rest of their meal in silence.

"Well, I don't know about you guys, but that meal was delicious!" Duo exclaimed after patting his belly.

"Yes it was indeed," Quatre replied with a smile. "Well, we'd best be on our way now." Quatre stood and helped Dorothy up. Everyone else stood up as well. "Thank you again for inviting us. We greatly enjoyed ourselves." Quatre shook hands with the men, and kissed the ladies hands.

"Good afternoon," Dorothy replied as she hugged Relena and Hilde. The men kissed her hand in return. "I hope to do this again sometime."

"We would enjoy that very much. Goodbye," Relena replied as Quatre and Dorothy left.

Hilde was the first to speak after the long silence. "I don't know about you, but I'm still in shock over everything."

"So am I," Duo said. "This is a really sad story. So let's change the subject. Has anyone seen Sally and Wufei together lately?"

"Yeah, why?" Hilde questioned.

"The two of them look like they're about to get married. They're all lovey dovey." He smirked. "I'm gonna have so much fun teasing him!" he said while laughing.

"You better leave him alone Duo!" Hilde warned.

"It's not going to be anything bad, just some playful teasing. I just want to have some fun!"

"Find it elsewhere." Duo pouted, but Hilde stayed firm. Relena started to giggle and passed it on to Hilde. Heero just stood there with a smile on his face.

"It's not 'that' funny," Duo said.

"Yes it is," everyone replied. They spent the rest of the day together, and Hilde made sure Duo didn't tease Wufei.