The next morning lady Une woke up with her head lying on someone's chest. She looked up and saw Trowa's face still in a blissful sleep. She recaptured the previous day with a great feeling of security. She looked at his face wondering how long he would sleep. He opened his eyes and looked down into her eyes and started "Good morning,how do you feel this morning."
"Loved" was the only answer Trowa got.
He took her in his arms, kissed and caressed her. She felt his hands going al over her body but she didn't mind because to her he was her knight in shining armour ready to protect her from whatever danger she might get herself into. Trowa started to kiss her in a few more intimate places making her push him back.
"Haven't you had enough last night," she laughed.
"Well...I try to make up for the past four years." he joked.
"Hmm,missed me that much?" she asked while she pushed him down on the bed and started to play around with his senses. She ran her fingers through his hair while she was kissing him in his most intimate places. After a few minutes the two were quite aroused looking at each other knowing that if they wouldn't stop now they would go all the way again but lady Une couldn't resist his muscular body and continued with what she was doing. The both of them didn't think twice any more doing what they wanted the most at the time. About half an hour later the both of them were reaching their climax when Mariemaya walked in. She looked at the scene for a few seconds and closed the door again before the two of them noticed her. She waited a few minutes with a big smile,knocked on the door and entered to see her mother and Trowa holding each other with a blush on their faces.
"Hey you guys,did the two of you have a pleasant night together. By the noises I heard during the night I think you have."she said with a grin.
"Ah,...well...we..." Une started feeling ashamed but Trowa took over "We had a lovely night together,it is a shame that I must leave again tomorrow."
"So you and mum really love each other"the little girl concluded.
"And we love you too" was his response.
"I am a little young to be your girlfriend,I think you better stick with mum." Mariemaya joked. She walked up to the bed and before she knew what happened her mother picked her up laid her down on the bed and started tickling her for a while. The three of them played around for a while until Trowa decided it was time for breakfast. The two women pushed him on the bed and ran of to the bathroom. He stood up smiled while he started to collect his clothes and went out to his room which happened to be right across the hall.
After an hour they were sitting together for breakfast talking about the past few days. While they were discussing how they would be spending the rest of the day they saw Heero and Relena enter the dining room. Trowa waved at them and the couple came over. Lady Une had the impression the two of them hadn't had much sleep but then again neither had she.
"Good morning Trowa,Ann and Mariemaya" Relena greeted while Heero just nodded.
"Good morning to you two too,"Trowa said "Are you here on holiday too or are you spying on us."
"If I wanted to spy on you I wouldn't stay in the same hotel as you. No we are here to unwind a little for the weekend."Heero answered.
"What are you two really doing here?"lady Une wondered.
"Well"Heero started "I came here to tell you something. You know the day I sent you off at the office I took all the files from your desk. There was a very interesting file between them. You are looking for a missing relative aren't you?"
He opened the briefcase he was carrying and pulled out two files. He laid them in front of him as he continued his story."You are looking for your little brother Jonah well I took the liberty of helping you out since I had some time to kill back home. When I read the file and looked through the contents of a box that came with it I found hair samples which I immediately send of to a lab for DNA-testing. After a few days I got the results back and I found out there were three different sets of DNA.I started comparing them to the samples we had on file and after six days I got some strange results. First of all the samples showed that there were two people coming from the same family,your family. So the hair samples I had to work with were yours and your sister's. I was able to trace back the DNA of your mother and your father because of the genetic make up from you and your mother's DNA was on file after she had been killed. Your brother had a different father but the same mother according to the results I had but here it gets very weird:the DNA results tell me that your brother's father was no one else than the late peace oriented leader Heero Yuy who died four years before your mother was pregnant with Jonah. It caused quite a disturbance in your family since your mother was told that she would be fertilised with the seed of a Caucasian male. You see your father was incapable of getting male offspring and he wanted to have a son. In order to achieve that your mother went to a clinic to get inseminated from a donor which enabled her to get a son. After birth it became clear they were fooled by the clinic and your father didn't want this boy to be his heir. Your mother wanted to keep the baby anyway but your father didn't want it so the baby was send of to someone else six months after birth. Since then your mother was not allowed to have another child and he would see to it that his daughters would never remember they had a brother. He saw his son as a threat to him and removed everything in the house that could possibly make anyone remember him living there."
"But I don't remember Jonah living at home." lady Une started.
"No you don't because your father had your memories of that particular period in your life removed and replaced by other memories so that no one got hurt but by doing that he made the start to an even bigger problem later on in your life. Because the memories regarding your brother were not completely removed they started to live a life of their own and at some point leaked through the implanted memories and this is the reason why you ended up being schizophrenic during the war. Your mother's death made it all worse,you only remember her being killed somewhere in Berlin but that is another brain implant. In reality your father shot her at home in front of you so you had to get a new memory wipe and a reimplantation of memories. Needless to say that it also had an effect on your life later. The implantations were screwing up your real memories and they started to mix at a certain point and you didn't really know who you were and what you were supposed to do. I found that out by interviewing the people who used to work in your parents household. Even the story of your sister was quite shocking to hear. I think that triggered a part of you that had been dormant for years,the real you. In the end you ended up being two people in one,the woman your father had turned you into:Colonel Une and the real you: Lady Une. After you got yourself shot you healed yourself mentally as well as physically and became the person we now know. As for your brother now. He ended up in the hands of the man that sent your mother to the clinic that fertilised her and took care of him ever since the baby was send to him for a long time."
"Who was that man?"
"His name was Solo which was nothing more than a nickname because he was some kind of a loner. He took care of him for a long time and then he gave him to someone else who in the end gave him a chance on finding his family or what was left of it anyway."
"Who was that man?" Une asked again
"The man was a scientist who liked him very much but he couldn't teach him everything he had to know about his background since he had to train that boy for another reason than what he turned out doing in the end."Heero continued"Now I have been searching for my family as well for a long time and I have been looking for clues in order to find out about them. Dr J gave me a picture of a woman and said this was my mother. When I looked at the picture I found a lot of resemblances with someone I know. I was shocked at first but without any hard evidence there was no proof to me this woman was my mother. Now I have the proof I needed. The DNA tests confirm what I have known for four years now."
After he said it he pulled out a picture of his mother and showed it to lady Une who looked very surprised at him and started to shake.
"Heero this is a picture of my mother so if she is your mother then ..."
"I am your lost brother and DNA tests confirm it. Here is the file with the results so you can confirm it yourself." Heero said looking at her. Then he walked over to her put his arms around her and hugged her tightly. Tears were falling down their faces and they held on to each other as if they didn't want to let go of each other.
"Hey you two would you please break it up because there are two people getting jealous here"Mariemaya interrupted them. They let go of each other and looked over to Trowa ,who was smiling and Relena who was wiping a few tears out of her eyes.
"Heero,"Une started"now you know who you really are what will you be calling yourself from now:Heero Yuy or Jonah Une?"
"I will be known for the rest of my life as Heero Yuy and you can keep the entire Une inheritance for what I care. I have inherited the entire fortune of our mother and my father. My birth was actually planned by the Barton foundation and they held on to the Yuy fortune but once I was a confirmed heir they handed it over to me. As for our mother's fortune I decided to split it between us since you have as much right to it as I do. Maybe mother thought that as long as I was not confirmed dead that your father couldn't spend her entire fortune on the Romefeller foundation and Ariana and you would get a part of the inheritance after all."
"Mother knew what would happen with her money once she was dead and that was the reason you were the only heir in her will but now you and I are together at last and now I don't want to lose you again,my little brother."lady Une said with a smile
"It seems like today is the reunion day for all of us."Trowa started"Ann and me got back together as a couple,and you Heero found your family again. I 'd suggest to drink a glass of wine to that."
"So you want to have relationship with my sister"Heero teased"What will you do if I disapprove."
"Go ahead anyway it is not like you have anything to say about that."
"I won't, you are one of my best friends so I would rather have you as my brother-in-law then someone else although it is a little to soon to go into that now. Guys,Relena and I have something to tell you,you know we are a couple for some time now so we decided to get married this fall."
"You two are finally making the step,congratulations you two" Une responded.
"Yes,and would you like to be my maid of honour"Relena asked.
"I would love to but why me? I am not really your best friend and if you are doing this because Heero happens to be my brother then that is a bad reason as well. So why?"
"Once you really hurt me but now you would rather sacrifice yourself for me and the ideals I represent that is why I want you to be my maid of honour."Relena explained.
"So who is going to be the best man Heero?" Trowa asked.
"Guess.. I 'll give you a hint: talks to much"
"Duo?You are KIDDING. Why would you ask that irresponsible braid head as your best man."
"He sometimes can be a decent man and the threat of getting his head blown off might make him act the way we would like him to during the ceremony,after that I won't care less how he acts."Heero joked.
Everyone started laughing and brought up the Winner-Catalonia wedding .Everyone agreed on how things between Quattre and Dorothy had grown in something really beautiful.
"They will have a beautiful daughter in a year from now"said Heero making everyone's head turn.
"What makes you say that?" Relena asked
"I know why" Trowa answered looking at the strange glow he saw in Heero's eyes,a glow he knows to well. Suddenly Heero's cellphone rang,he answered the phone and with a smile telling the others he would be out for a while.
"Yes you can talk now."
"Well ,"the voice on the other end said "the DNA sample you asked to investigate further brought me to a very terrifying conclusion."
"What is the conclusion."
"You wouldn't believe me but the sample was from another member of the Une family as we established but it was not an aunt but a niece or sister depending from the point of view."
"What are you saying,"
"The sample suggests that this girl could be a daughter of either lady Une or her sister Ariana. The father of this child is clearly Sebastian Robert Une. I have searched the DNA database to find out more about her and there was more. The girl is still alive living on earth staying in an orphanage since AC192 sixth of June. No family ever wanted to adopt her since she remind to many people of lady Une and even the people who take care of her think this girl is lady Une's daughter so they fear that she might grow up to be like her."
"Where is the orphanage?"
"The orphanage you have to go to is in Cologne. Shall I make an appointment?"
Heero started to think about this latest revelation and wondered how many times his sisters' memories had been altered. He wondered if he could ever find out the truth about his family. Maybe going to the orphanage wouldn't be a bad idea.
"Well make an appointment with them and tell them four maybe five people will come."
"Alright chief,I 'll let you know the details as soon as possible."
Heero walked back to the table where everyone was eating.
"Something wrong back at the office,"Une asked
"No but there is something right here that is wrong,"Heero started "All the DNA samples we have been looking at were either mine,yours,Ariana's or our parents' but there was one odd sample and the expert I hired to find out as much there was possible about this sample. Now it turns out to be a sample of another member of our family. Ann have either you or Ariana been pregnant?"
"What?" lady Une wondered "I can't imagine myself being pregnant nor Ariana and if one of us was pregnant I can't remember it."
"I start to wonder how many times your memories have been altered over the years."
"Well certainly not since my fourteenth birthday because I left home and entered the academy."
"What happened on you fourteenth birthday?" Heero asked.
"I don't really want to talk about that,besides it wasn't that much."
"What happened?"Heero asked again but this time in a more demanding tone.
Lady Une suddenly looked surprised by the way that Heero was asking her what happened that day. It seemed as if he knew something she didn't want to tell especially not here where everyone else present could hear it.
"Lets go somewhere private."lady Une gestured everyone at the table to follow her to her room. Once in her room she sat down on the bed with Mariemaya next to her. Trowa sat down on a chair while Relena and Heero sat down in the sofa.
"On my fourteenth birthday,"lady Une began "my father took me to a party of the Romefeller foundation. I met several people there including Milliardo and Dorothy. Since I was a young girl I had no idea what my father was up to. He was actually trying to marry me off to one of the families present at the party. I was not really playing along with the game he wanted me to play and in the end of the evening no family of importance actually showed interest in me which was fine by me so I could choose my own life partner. When we came home my father was not to pleased and said that the next time I should behave even more like a lady or he would make sure that I became the way he wanted me to be. He told me that obedience was a women's greatest virtue and he would teach me that to. I told him to go to hell and that I wanted to have a life of my own."Then she looked at Mariemaya who now sensed there was more to the story then her mother had told her before. "I went out of the living room up the stairs but I didn't get up the stairs because he pushed me down and started hitting me with his belt. He told me that every time I would disobey him or even think about it he would give me the spanking of a lifetime. I looked at him and told him to bring it on because he couldn't hurt me more than he already had in the past. I had faint memories of him killing mother although she wasn't killed at home as I remembered. He said he could hurt me more than that so he dragged me down to the basement where he chained me to a wall. He picked up a whip and used it on me for a long time until my back was bleeding and I couldn't stand up any more. Then he asked me again if I was going to obey him from now on but I refused to do as he wanted me to. He mentioned I was just like my mother and started beating me with his fists. He made sure that he didn't hit me in the face or any other place that couldn't be covered with clothes but it hurt never the less. After fifteen minutes he asked again how I was going to behave for the rest of my life. I told him that he should be treated the same way as he had treated me or mum. He said he did a lot more to mum than he had with me up to that point and since I still refused any cooperation he was going to show me what else he had done to our mother. He took away whatever was left of my clothes and pushed me against the wall and he ...he raped me"At this point lady Une started to cry while Mariemaya put her arms around her. Heero's eyes shot flames and Trowa was clenching his fists. Relena walked over to lady Une and held her in her arms as well. Everyone was shocked about what had happened to her but there was nothing anyone could do about it now. Fifteen minutes passed before lady Une continued he story "After that I told him I would do anything he wanted me to. He held me in his arms and said everything would be alright as long as I would behave myself. I went to bed and waited until he was sleeping. The next day I applied in the academy and also filed charges against my father but the charges were dropped after an intervention from duke Dermail on his behalf. I refused to go home and my instructors backed me up since most of them had seen the wounds the cuts and the bruises I had when I entered the academy. They protected me while I tried to convince Ariana to follow me as well but she never did. She killed herself according to the reports I 've seen about her death but I still think she was killed by our father and the suicide note wasn't even real too. And Heero if there is another child in our family it isn't mine but maybe Ariana's."
"We 'll find out soon enough but to do so we first need to find out what happened to Ariana as well. If you don't mind I will exhume Ariana's remains to further prove our theory and then we decide what to do with the child that was put in the orphanage eight years ago. I hear she resembles you a lot."Heero said.
"Well Ariana resembled mother the most of us and father told us every day how much we looked like mum. I think he would have raped me more than once if I had stayed home but I think he abused Ariana instead of me as revenge for what I had done. I should have stayed home so I could protect Ariana but I ran because I was afraid of what he would think up next to hurt me. Well now I know."
A few moments later Heero's cellphone rang again,he answered the phone and the expert that called him before was on the line. "Mr Yuy I was able to make an appointment for tomorrow afternoon with the people of the orphanage and they are very happy to hear that you show some interest in this girl."
"You never mentioned her name,"Heero realised "what is her name."
"According to the director who was a nurse back then the mother,who happened to be a teenage girl,the baby was called Annie. Her full name was Annie Johanna Une but she never mentions the full name to the people because the Une family is not exactly the kind of family you want to be associated with."
"Why not?"
"I heard that Sebastian Une was a beast when it came to his family. He openly declared that every family member had to do exactly as he wanted or else he would teach them a lesson. He once even spanked his eldest daughter in public,the girl was twelve years old back then but he came down on her very hard. Everyone present saw how he kept hitting her bottom until she started bleeding. Now everyone thinks that is one of the reasons why lady Une became so cruel during the war and whatever she would do now will not help to even change the bad reputation her name has. The best thing that can happen to her is to get married and take on her husbands name or change her name to a neutral name."
"Or maybe we should start showing the people the truth about the Une family."Heero said while he hung up. "Tomorrow we can visit our younger niece. The young lady is named after her aunt according to the people of the orphanage."
"You mean Ariana did have a child and she named it Annie."lady Une spoke up.
"She did and tomorrow afternoon we will meet her,I can't hardly wait to see her but now I have to set up an exhumation."
Heero left the room followed by Trowa who wanted to talk to his tour manager since he wanted to be with lady Une when they were visiting the last relative she didn't know about. Relena and Mariemaya were looking at lady Une who was lying down on the bed crying. Mariemaya looked up at Relena wondering what to do but even Relena couldn't do more then helplessly watching how lady Une slowly was turning into an emotional wreck. Relena sat down next to lady Une,laid a hand on her shoulder and tried to comfort her but she knew she couldn't find the right words to say or the right things to do. Mariemaya put her arms around her crying mother in an attempt to comfort her but no matter what they tried Ann kept crying. She was completely lost in her feeling of guilt blaming herself for not thinking about the things that could have happened when she was away. She remembered her last conversation with Ariana who blamed her for taking off and how she betrayed the family,but in fact Ariana was blaming her for not staying with her. As tears kept coming Relena and Mariemaya held her in their arms to make her feel better. When Trowa came back in she was still broken-hearted. He took her into his arms and said that everything was going to be alright as long as she was willing to believe that she could make it happen. Somehow she started to calm down while Relena and Mariemaya were watching Trowa who seemed to have found the right words to say. About an hour later Heero came back telling he was able to get the exhumation on the condition that lady Une approved. She signed the approval and Heero took off to the cemetery where Ariana was buried.
Heero returned late in the evening and was met by Relena who had stayed behind to keep an eye on Mariemaya since lady Une was to upset by the things that were revealed today.
"Well how is Ann doing?"Heero asked a bit concerned about her.
"Not to well but she is trying to get herself together again but she is still a wreck. Everything she knew to be true no longer is true,things that were kept hidden suddenly get out,relatives that weren't there suddenly appear out of nowhere. I don't know Heero it feels like when I found out that Zechs Merquise was in fact my brother Milliardo and I was not the daughter of Erik Darlian but the daughter of king Peacecraft of the Sanc kingdom. I somewhat understand her feelings but she is given a bigger blow than we expected."
"I know first I bring her the happy news that her brother is still alive and that I am the one she has been searching for and then I have to tell her that there is a younger family member she never knew about. If I were in her shoes I would be ready to be put into a hospital but she somehow tries to cope with it. I wish I could say that I have good news to tell her but it isn't."
"What do you mean?"
"The body we found in the grave wasn't Ariana but someone who was reported missing since AC192 about two days before Ariana supposedly killed herself."
"Are you saying that Ariana is still alive?"
"I hate say it but yes I think she is still alive."
"Where is she?"
"That is a good question. Even I don't know any more where to start right now. If Ariana is still alive it is only a matter of time before she blows her cover and comes out in the open but if she doesn't we will be searching for a long time."
"Are you going to tell Ann?"
"I don't know yet,I don't want to give her false hope now because we don't know for sure she is still alive."
"Who is alive?" Heero heard lady Une say. He turned around looked at her swollen eyes and started to regret he had not taken Relena up to their room and discussed it there.
"Ann,"he began "We are not sure but we think that Ariana is still alive somewhere. I don't know how to tell you this but I have the feeling she fooled us all. The body we found in her grave was someone else."
"Ariana is not dead?I have seen her body,I have seen her being put into the coffin how can she still be alive."
Heero started to doubt her because she was sure that her sister was dead and buried in front of her. He walked over to her and looked into her eyes. Something in those eyes told him she was telling the truth and Ariana was dead. He started to wonder what other surprises there were left in his family.
"Maybe we have exhumed the wrong body"he concluded.
"Maybe not." Relena started to reason "What if Ariana never existed but was one of the memory implants to fill up the void that was created by the removal of the brother in the family."
"Are you saying that the girl in the coffin was someone who had been playing Ariana for a number of years" Heero asked.
"I have the feeling that whatever has happened to Ann must have been thoroughly planned but in the end it backfired."
"You are saying that everything I know to be true is all a lie?"lady Une asked.
"Maybe" Relena answered.
"You know what"Heero started "tomorrow we go to the nearest neurologist to see how many times someone has messed with her mind."
"So first you want to know if somebody has fried my brains"lady Une sighed.
"If your brain was fried we wouldn't have this conversation."Heero stated.
After that everyone went back to their rooms to rethink everything that had been found out that day.
"Well Doctor,do you think it is possible to find out whether someone has messed with our brains or not" Heero asked the neurologist.
"Mr Yuy I am certain that if someone had done something like a memory wipe or a memory implant on you or ms Une I will find it." the doctor answered.
"Well lets get started then"Heero said. The neurologist put him in a seat, put some kind of a helmet on his head and asked him if he was comfortable. Heero felt considering the circumstances quite comfortable. After a series of tests the neurologist told Heero he could take off the device on his head.
"Well?"Heero asked
"I don't know what has happened to your brain but it has nothing to do with a memory change."
"Then I am reassured."Heero said knowing the good man stumbled on something he better not found out.
"What exactly happened to you mr Yuy because this is not normal,your brain functions are all working at a far higher capacity of a normal human being."
"That is the result of an experiment gone wrong"Heero answered.
"What experiment?"
"That is classified information." lady Une answered.
"Ok,now lets have a look at you"the neurologist said while he moved lady Une to the chair Heero sat in. He put the device on her head and started the tests. After he had finished he looked disturbed.
"What is it?"lady Une asked.
"I don't believe this but it seems that you have had more memory corrections,if you don't mind me saying so,than I have patients at the moment. Have you been part of the mind wipe experiment that took place in the years between AC170 and AC185.Off course you don't know because that was the purpose of it. It was a secret project financed by Romefeller in order to create the perfect soldier. Actually it was nothing more than creating something like those mobile dolls we had in the last year of the war. They wiped the soldiers brain clean from any memory he could possibly have and after that they programmed him to be a merciless killer."
"Can the process be reversed." Heero asked.
"It can be reversed but the you need to get access to someone's subconscious and there we can find the back up from the original personality. Once you got that you can start rebuilding that person but that is a long process and the technology to do that doesn't exist."
"What do you need to perform such a procedure?" lady Une asked.
"First of all a device like this,"the neurologist pointed at the helmet like device he used "and I need a very sophisticated program to get access into the mind of the patient. A program like that doesn't exist because the people working on the project weren't allowed to make such a program. Once I had the opportunity to meet one of the people who worked on the project and he said that this was the worst thing he had ever done in his life. Dr Johansen then disappeared for a long time until he was arrested by Oz for building a Gundam."
"Dr J," Heero said.
"You know him?"
"Yes,I was the pilot of the Gundam he built and I think that program you referred to does exist. I only have to get it. If I give you the program will you perform the mind restoration?"
"Alright but are you sure that program can do what I just told you." the neurologist asked.
"Much more than that" Heero stated.
"What program are you talking about?" Une asked.
"The Zero program. It was originally designed to restore the minds of people whose minds were wiped. Later on they rewrote the software in such a way that it also could be used to improve the performance of mobile suit pilots. They never thought that the original program would interfere with the software improvements and that is why Milliardo and I have higher brain functions than the average human but according to J. it is not going to kill us. The only time the program did his work was when Trowa was using the Zero,it cured his loss of memories. Now it is going to do a lot more for you than it ever did before."
Heero opened his briefcase and pulled out a number of discs. He gave them to the neurologist who looked at them wondering what this program could do.
"Don't think about making copies of this program or I will personally make sure you loose your license to practise." Heero warned him.
"Can he do that"the doctor asked Une
"Yes he can"
Then lady Une put the helmet like device back on her head while Heero instructed the neurologist on how to upload the program in his computer. After a few minutes they were ready to start the procedure.
"Ann,now you have to trust me whatever happens now focus on yourself and Zero will guide you through your fake memories to your real childhood memories. If you don't focus on yourself Zero will be aimlessly searching and you will never find yourself again."
"I will Heero"
She closed her eyes and then she saw the Zero program starting up in her mind. Focussing on her childhood she saw many things which were not the memories she was looking for but al implants until at a certain point Zero stopped digging deeper. She looked at herself being in pain after being raped by her father. The program backed up this memory and began digging again till it reached a new point where she saw herself having a baby but she was very young at the time. The next thing she saw was her father on top of her having the time of his life while she was in pain praying for help. After a few somewhat better memories of herself she came across another painful memory: the death of her mother and sister. Her father had killed them both because they both were to disobedient for his taste. Then she saw herself looking at her friend being raped by her father while she was home from the academy. Two days later she was buried as her sister. The next memory she had was the day she threatened her father that she would kill him. She saw many more memories coming out ,the painful ones as well as the happy ones. From a distance Heero saw every expression on her face and started to wonder what was happening in her mind. He saw tears coming from her eyes and smiles of joy. He wished he could comfort her but he knew that this was her trip with Zero. An hour later Zero had finished and Heero personally removed the program from the neurologist's computer to make sure no trace remained of the Zero program. He looked at lady Une who was recapturing everything and then she looked at Heero and said "I used to hold you in my arms when you were a baby but father wanted you gone. He picked you up one night and brought you away to some place we would never find you. You were the reason why he had our memories wiped out but it didn't end with that. He erased every traumatic experience from our minds so he could keep on doing whatever he wanted with us. The doctor that helped him was only in it for the money but he had wiped my memories the last time in AC192 when he had raped and killed Jennifer and buried her as Ariana. He had kept Ariana alive in Jennifer who had to play Ariana every time I was home from the academy. I didn't recognise her back then as the friend I had in elementary school. The child we are going to visit is my own daughter Annie. I left her there so she didn't have to share the same fate I had and she could be given a chance at a better life. Can you imagine how relieved I was that she would remain out of our father's reach. I told him she didn't survive birth and the people at the orphanage backed me up even though I still don't know why. I got pregnant when I was twelve and six weeks before my thirteenth birthday Annie was born. Sally was right after all, I have been pregnant before the war, long before the war."
Heero's eyes suddenly started to glow as if there was something he was supposed to know. He looked at her and said "I visited you at the orphanage with Dr J. He wanted me to get to know you because you were an important part of my life according to him. I didn't know back then what he meant but now it is falling together. I remember you walking next to me holding your baby in your arms telling me how you someday would get even for the things your father had done to you."
"He died of a heart attack after he had seen you blow up your gundam and yourself. He was screaming that you had come back to kill him and take revenge for everything he had done to your mother. So in fact we did make him pay after all."
"I don't know sister,I have the bad feeling he is still around."
"If he is I will make sure he pays for his crimes the legal way and we have more than enough proof."
"Do you think a guy like him will take his chances in court?No he would rather get into a gunfight then go to trial. Lets pick up the others so we can take a look at Annie."Heero said putting an arm around her shoulders.
When they got back at the hotel Heero's cell rang.
"Heero Yuy, what's up?"
"Chief we have been looking around for the body of Ariana Une but we can't find it on the graveyard. We believe that she could be buried elsewhere but where we don't know."
"Have you tried to contact the pathologist that performed the autopsy on Ariana's remains?"
"Yes but he isn't talking."
"I will contact him myself then "
Heero was given the number of the pathologist and he immediately called him.
"Hello, Dr Braun how can I help you."
"This is Heero Yuy, the first officer of the preventers. I am looking into an old case that concerns my family. It seems like the body of Ariana Une has disappeared somewhere between your table and her grave. I am very interested to know where she is because we exhumed a body from her grave but it wasn't her's. So do you have any information as to what happened back then or do I have to force it out of you and your staff."
"Mr Yuy, I would gladly assist you but I will only talk to close relatives of the Une family about this. You are not related to the family last time I checked the preventer archives."
"You haven't read the updated files yet I notice. Since a few days ago we have established that I am lady Une's lost brother and now we need a few answers from you."
"You can say whatever you want Mr Yuy but don't you think I would believe this for a second. The only person I will talk to is lady Une and no one else."
"Fine by me," Heero said handing over his phone to Ann.
"This is lady Une speaking, why don't you talk to Heero? I have a lot already on my mind to worry about so give him the information he needs so he can start looking for Ariana or whatever remains of her."
"Is he really your brother lady Une"
"Yes he is and now tell him what he wants to know." She handed over the phone and looked over to Trowa and Mariemaya who were sitting together playing a game. She heard Heero's surprised remarks and some swearing as well but she didn't mind at all. She was organising her thoughts and wondered about what she was going to say to her daughter she had not seen in eleven years. She felt like she had abandoned her own flesh and blood while she was raising someone else's kid. How was she going to explain this all? What would her daughter say to her? Why would her daughter still want to see her? She left her behind so she should be safe and out of her father's reach but still she felt guilty about what she had done. No mother she knew had ever abandoned their child but she did and no matter how one twists and turns it she had no right to leave her alone for so long. She was her mother and she had to take care of her no one else. She started to think about the times she held Annie in her arms promising she would let no one harm her, the many hours she spent sitting next to her baby's cradle making plans for the future, the sleepless nights because her baby needed to be fed and changed. A smile came to lady Une's face when she thought about those days, those were the happiest three months of her life back then. The only happiness she had known throughout her life in those days until her father found her there and took her home to abuse her again.
"Mum is everything alright?" Mariemaya asked looking at her
"Yes sweety, I was just thinking about Annie and how lonely she must have been without me. I now wished I had taken her with me when my father had found me again but on the other hand I couldn't let her be part of the hell I was living in. I comfort myself with the thought that she at least had a protected childhood. Maybe the two of you can get along or I am going to have very hard time working things out."
"Don't worry mum,I will do my best to help you out in any way I can even if it means to shut my big mouth from time to time." Mariemaya laughed while she picked up her purse.
Heero walked over to them with a sad face on which Relena asked him what was wrong.
"Well everybody, Ariana wasn't found in the graveyard so my people started to widen the search to discover that she wasn't dead. After a long talk with Dr Braun I found out he had her moved from his morgue to the hospital after he discovered she was not dead but in a deep coma. She came out of it three weeks later remembering every thing that had happened before she ended up in the hospital. Her father had strangled her but he hadn't finished the job completely. Now Dr Braun was facing a choice: send her back or hide her somewhere else. In the end he sent her to a friend he had on L4 to pass as his lost daughter. As far as he knows she is still living there so I asked Quattre to look into that."
"So this means Ari is still alive but never took the time to contact either one of us." lady Une wondered.
Heero just nodded and left the room gesturing everyone to follow him. He wanted to go to Cologne now because at the moment there was nothing he could do for Ariana. He hoped that Quattre would be able to come up with something that could help them all.
In the meanwhile Quattre was thinking about how he was supposed to find Ariana without some kind of a description. He looked at his computer and looked into the file Heero sent him. The picture included in the file seemed a bit familiar but maybe it was the fact there was a family resemblance between the girl in the picture and the woman he knew as Ann Une. He called his sister Irea hoping she would be giving him a clue.
"Irea here,"
"Hello Irea, it's me. I have something to ask you, have you ever heard of a Ariana Une who fled to L4 to escape her family?"
Irea looked at Quattre with a very pale face gasping for air. She then sat down at her desk and turned her face away from the screen in order to hide her tears. Quattre, who had never seen his big sister like that wondered what he was going to find out this time.
"Irea, do you know something I am supposed to know?"
"Ariana... I first met her here at home where father took care off her in order to cure her from all the wounds she had. He couldn't keep her here because she was wanted by Romefeller. He sent her to a friend Mohamed Ahmadi who lived at a mining colony in those days. Mohamed wanted to take her in on one condition that when the girl comes of age and her father wouldn't claim her she had to marry you. As things stand at the moment she is of age for a year now and so will you be in one year so that means you have to marry her or you will loose control over the Winner corporation. Father called it his pact with the devil. He would have promised him every daughter he had to help her and keep you out of this as well because he promised our mother he would never arrange a marriage for any of his children. Later it became clear to him that he was only interested in the corporation and not in you or any of us even though Mohamed has several sons and no daughter. The problem right now is that Sebastian Une's body is missing so there is no proof that he is dead or alive. This means for you that you still aren't of the hook."
"Maybe Heero as man of the Une family can make him change his mind. Maybe I can throw in something to sweeten the deal. I believe that our sister Yasmina has a crush on one of his sons and I have the impression that the feelings are mutual so if they would come to me to ask permission to marry I will throw in an exclusive dowry to make sure Mohamed would back down."
"Quattre he wants you as his son in law so he can finally get into the higher circles of our society. He is nothing more than a power hungry man who wants to take over everything he can get his hands on. Last I heard he also had done some business with the Barton foundation somewhere around the period that you took your gundam to earth to fight Oz and Romefeller. The legal papers that were drafted are binding so no matter what we do he will get what he wants unless you can cough up the body of Sebastian Une." Irea said with a sad tone in her voice while she thought of a way to get out of this mess. Suddenly it hit her.
"Quattre I believe there is a clause in the contract that says that if you are to marry another woman before her she has the right to break the contract herself without any compensation to the Ahmadi family because she isn't an Ahmadi. So all you have to do is marry someone within a year. How about Dorothy?" Irea asked oblivious about the situation between Dorothy and Quattre since he hadn't told any of his sisters yet.
Quattre wanted to tell them all as soon as he got home in two days but it seemed better under the circumstances to tell Irea now.
"Hum, well, talking about marrying Dorothy within the year, I was thinking more down the lines of marrying her within a month. You see we both have been very stupid about six weeks ago and now we are paying the bill."
"I hope you're not trying to tell me that you and Dorothy had unprotected sex back then."
"Ergh, yes we had"
"You knocked her up didn't you"
"Yes I did"
"Quattre Rebarbra Winner!"
"Irea I can explain all this"
"You couldn't pull this one of at a better time."
"You are not mad at me"
"Well yes and no when were you going to tell me?"
"As soon as I got home so everyone would get the news of us getting married and also the reason why."
Irea started to laugh and congratulated him and she asked him if she could talk to her future sister in law. Dorothy was quite surprised by Irea's request to speak to her but went over to talk with her so she got to know her a bit better by the time they got together.
In Cologne a group of young people reached their destination. They looked at the orphanage Heero and lady Une visited years ago. Tears were coming down Ann's cheeks again as she looked at the building remembering the time she spent there as a twelve year old girl. Three months of peace that were necessary to organise her life again so she would be able to fight again for her right to exist. They all went in to finally meet Annie and see what has become of her. Once inside they walked over to the reception looking around the entire place.
"Good afternoon, can I help you," the receptionist asked
"Yes I am here to find my daughter Annie again," lady Une said.
"May I ask for your name?"
"My name is Ann Une. You know I stayed here for a while until my father picked me up here to take me back to the hell hole I fled from. While I was here I gave birth to Annie but somehow someone altered my memories and for a long time I didn't know I had a daughter in this world. Now I want to see her again if that is possible."
The woman behind the desk looked at lady Une and picked up the phone. She called her supervisor to meet her at the reception. A few minutes later a woman of approximately forty years came up to the group of people and the moment she saw lady Une she looked very surprised and happy.
"Ann, is it really you? How are you? Where have you been all these years and who are all these people right here with you?" she asked.
Lady Une looked at her and recognised the woman and again tears started roll down her cheeks while she spoke "I'm fine, for the past eleven years I have done a lot of things I shouldn't have done. As for the people with me I'm sure you recognise vice foreign minister Darlian, my adopted daughter Mariemaya Kushrenada and the men with us are Trowa Barton and Heero Yuy. Guys this is the woman that helped me deliver Annie, nurse Elaine. How are you?"
"I'm doing fine honey, I just can't believe that after all these years you finally came back to pick up Annie. I hope that you are ready to meet her because she has been waiting for a long time to see you again. For years we have told her your story, the story of a young girl, to young to be a mother, who gave up her daughter with the promise to return for her the moment she got her life back. We told her that it would take a long time for you to find yourself again since a lot had happened to you before you even gave birth to her and what happened with you after her birth we couldn't know. She has always said that no matter what you would come for her and then she would be there for you. Now she will finally see you for real and not a picture or a T.V. show. How happy she will be."
The woman turned to a nurse and sent her of to find Annie while she lead the visitors to a room where they would all wait for Annie. After a while a young girl entered the room looking at Elaine who just nodded and went out so the girl could get some time with the people who had come to see her. Everyone looked in amazement at the girl, everyone could have sworn apart from the blue eyes and the difference in age that she was a twin sister from Ann. She resembled her mother so much that Mariemaya's eyes seemed to pop out of her eyes. The girl looked at the company for a while and a smile started to spread across her face.
"Mummy,daddy finally you are here, I knew you would come to take me home."
"Daddy? What are you talking about?" lady Une asked.
"Well I have a picture from you both carrying me around in the orphanage. Here it is" with that she showed a picture in which Heero recognised himself and lady Une and started to laugh.
"I see where this is coming from. No, I am not your father I'm your uncle."
"What? Then this means that you are a brother of my mother and I thought you were my father."
"We forgot to write our names on the back of the picture" Heero said.
"How old were you two back then" Annie asked.
"I was thirteen at the time and Heero was nine, we both met when he came over here to visit me and you although I don't know why exactly." Ann said looking at Heero
"Dr J thought it would be best that I knew you. He said to me that if some how we meet again that I had to remember this day because we were family. He never told me how closely related we were. He also made me swear before I took the Wing to Earth not to kill you. I wondered why I should have to kill you because I only remembered you as the girl with the baby and that girl had grown up to be a mother. Not long after I arrived on Earth I started to understand why, we were fighting each other in order to establish peace. I kept my promise even though I had a great opportunity to take you out on Barge."
"Instead you decided to take out the Mercury and the Vayate." Une replied.
Heero just nodded and Annie looked at them with big eyes. For a while everybody just sat there looking at eachother.
"Who are you exactly?" Annie asked pointing at Trowa.
"I am Trowa Barton, I am your mother's boyfriend. During the war we fell in love with each other but we both walked into a battle and we both almost died. I was blown away by my best friend who had lost his mind after his father was killed and your mother was shot by a merciless engineer who only wanted to take over her job. In the end we lost every memory we had about our relation. After a while I remembered what happened but it took your mother four years to get her memories back."
"Did you remember me again to after all this time" Annie said turning to Ann.
"No, my...our father had altered my memories so I would never remember that I had been pregnant. He erased every memory I had about this place, about you, about Heero and even about the fact that I told him you were born dead. I told him because I wanted to spare you from the fate that would have awaited you if I took you with me. My childhood was not exactly happy."
It seemed like suddenly the girl was understanding where this was going. She looked at her mother and saw the tears in her eyes.
"My grandfather is also my father, isn't it" the little girl reasoned
"Yes, he was but as far as we know he is dead. I don't want you to worry about that any more and from now on I will be there for you. I came here to take you home where you belong."
The girl looked at Mariemaya remembering her as the girl that once tried to take over the world. Annie walked over to her and concluded that her mother had taken this girl in.
"Well, then you will be my stepsister. I hope you haven't grown to used of having mum to yourself all the time." Annie stated.
"Actually I have asked her in the past four years when she was going to look for another man in her life. I hoped that she would find a suitable husband and maybe have some children so I had brothers or sisters or even both. I love to have you as a sister." Mariemaya replied.
"Great, since we are the same age I think we can have a lot of fun but I think we can't swap clothes." Annie said looking at the somewhat taller Mariamaya. She wondered how tall Mariemaya would get when she grew up since she was nearly as tall as her mother.
"Mum, when can I leave here?" Annie asked her mother.
"I need to get the paperwork done first and I think it is going to take a while but maybe I can take with me to the place we are staying now. We are taking a vacation here so if you want to come along you may." lady Une proposed. She knew that she would not be allowed to take her daughter home right away but the procedure wouldn't take as long as when she wanted to adopt Mariemaya. This time she only had to prove she was Annie's mother and then after a few weeks she could take her daughter home. She left the room telling the others to wait for her while she arranged something so she could take Annie with her for a week. In the meanwhile Annie got better acquainted with the people her mother had brought with her. Lady Une walked to the reception to ask who she should talk to in order to take Annie with her for a while. The receptionist told her to arrange that with the chief of the orphanage and showed Ann the way to her office. When Ann got to the office she saw Elaine sitting behind the desk.
"Hello Ann, how did everything go with Annie?" the woman asked.
"Everything went better than I expected and I want to take her with me for a few days if that is possible."
"Off course it is, she your girl and she should be with her mother but before you can take her home permanently you have to fill out the necessary paperwork and wait for the approval of the childcare services. I doubt it would be a problem since there is to much evidence in favour of you. Even I will vouch for you. I saw the tears of happiness when you gave life to Annie, I was there to help you take care of Annie, I witnessed you waking up to feed Annie in the middle of the night, I saw you refuse others to help you with the baby while you were still to young to do this completely on your own. You were a special case and I have seen many teen mothers all older than you were who always accepted the help, girls who didn't want to carry the full responsibility on their own but you wanted to carry that load all alone. I could only admire you for it, a thirteen year old girl taking care of her baby as an adult would was something I had never seen before and never saw that again. You were far to mature for your age." Elaine said with tears in her eyes thinking about the times she offered to help Ann but she didn't trust anyone at the time to help her with the baby.
"I didn't trust anyone with my baby at the time because I had been lied to, I had been abused and everyone who was dear to me was either dead or gone. There was only dad and his henchmen left so to be sure that Annie was born in a safe environment I fled my home, a hell hole to be more precise. I have never told you exactly who Annie's father was but I guess you already know. I even hoped that I wouldn't survive the birth of Annie but I did so now it was my responsibility to take care of her. She was my baby and no one was going to take her away from me. I gave her life and delivered her into a peaceful environment where I hoped to stay until I was old enough to get a job, earn enough money to get myself an apartment so we could live together away from the hell hole I ran from. Unfortunately my father found out where I was and he came to get me here so I went home with him and lied to him about Annie. He believed me but I felt as I had betrayed Annie when I left her here. I entrusted you with her because you were the only one who had seen what was wrong with me at the time. You never pushed yourself on me you just let me do things myself but you were always there just in case something might go wrong. Once it almost did but you were there then and helped me because I was getting to tired to take care of Annie. That was the reason that I made you promise the day I left that as long as Annie was a baby only you had to take care of her and look now Annie has grown into a beautiful girl. I don't know what I can do to thank you."
"You can thank me by taking good care of her although I think that won't be a problem. You and Annie will stay with me forever even though you weren't here to see her grow up I felt your presence. I hope you will come here from time to time so we can share stories about Annie and Mariemaya. You think they would get along?"
"I honestly don't know but time will tell. I would be surprised if they wouldn't argue with each other as long as they are at home. If they have their fights from time to time I will be happy, I remember the times Ariana and I had our fights but that comes with the territory and it is always an opportunity to learn something about each other."
"That is the ever realistic Ann talking. Now I take it you want to take her to the place you are staying for the duration of your holiday. Just give me the address of the hotel you are staying so I can check up on you all. It is something I have to do"
"I understand and I wish you will call" lady Une said while she started to write down the address on a piece of paper. After that both women walked out of the office to bring the news to Annie. When they entered the room where Une left the others Annie was having a good time with Mariemaya and Trowa while Relena watched from a distance at them and Heero was on the phone again. Lady Une wondered what that would be about but for now Annie came first.
"Annie, how about this? You start packing some clothes and we all go back to the hotel we are staying." Ann asked her daughter.
"Are you sure?" Annie asked looking at Elaine who smiled and nodded. The girl grabbed Mariemaya by the arm and asked her to help packing
"Mum, how long will I be staying with you before I have to get back here." Annie asked to be sure she wouldn't pack to much.
"Only for a week because I'm not allowed to keep you longer than that until the childcare services will allow me to take you home." Ann answered.
"OK, I'll be back in a minute. Come on May I can sure use your help" Annie said dragging Mariemaya along. The rest looked amused at the two girls leaving the place. Trowa pointed out that Annie was a wild one compared to Mariemaya who was more the reserved type like her father. Ann said that she used to be a wild one too when she was young but became more at ease with age. Now she had become a reserved woman as well but she hoped that Annie would remain a wild one a bit longer than she did. Then she looked over at Heero who finished his phone call and looked at her with a frustrated face. She asked what was going on but he said he rather wouldn't want to talk about it right away since there were a lot of uncertainties about what was told to him so he had to check a few things out himself before he would tell what the call was all about. He didn't want to burden her with what he had heard over the phone because now she was happy again for the first time in two days so he didn't want to ruin it. Relena had an idea what was going on and she knew Heero would tell her when the time was right.
In the meanwhile Annie and Mariemaya entered Annie's room which she shared with another girl. That girl looked at Mariemaya and wondered who she was.
"Hey Annie who is that?" the girl asked.
"That is Mariemaya Kushrenada, my stepsister and this is my room mate Jody" Annie introduced the girls to each other
"You are the girl that wanted to take over the world, you don't look so strong." Jody started
"Well I got beaten by the gundams even though I had a strong army at my disposal but in the end it was better that I lost because the girl I was was brainwashed by her grandfather to do the things I have done. Now I am a happy girl who embraces the world as it is now."
"That's what all losers say, just like Annie" Jody said.
"Jody shut up" Annie stepped in.
"What are you going to do, shorty" Jody challenged Annie.
"Keep the two of you apart. I certainly don't want the two of you fighting over something that happened in the past. It is not her fault that your parents died in the war six years ago."
"No but her father is as well as that bitch you call your mother." Jody yelled at them.
"I can understand you frustration and you want to blame everyone who had some involvement in the war but the facts remain as they are and no matter what you do your parents still will be gone. I know how you feel. The gundam pilot that killed my father is now a friend of mine and at first I blamed him too but he was fighting a war and my father was his enemy at the time. That is how it goes in a war, it's either him or me and there is no road between. People die in a war whether we like it or not. If they didn't die in the battlefield they died as a result of a misfire or wrong conduct on the battlefield. Wars don't distinct the innocent from the warriors. Everyone to near to a battlefield dies." Mariemaya philosophised. Jody looked at her in disbelief but found there was some truth in Mariemaya's philosophy. She pushed Annie aside and walked out of the room. Annie sighed in relief that nothing happened.
"Why are you so relieved." Mariemaya asked.
"She has quite a left hook and I was afraid that the two of you would end up fighting. I've learned to shut up in time especially when somebody dares to talk about mum. She hates mum and your dad . Mostly she hates the gundam pilots for not killing our mother." Annie said.
"I see. Honestly I feel like I could have taken her if she felt the need to fight me but I'd rather not fight. Well let's pack." Mariemaya replied walking over to the wardrobe with Annie's name on it. She opened it and looked a bit surprised once she saw the contents of the wardrobe.
"Is that all the clothes you have?" Mariemaya asked.
"Yes is there something wrong with them?" Annie wondered.
"Well all these clothes look like the clothes I wear to play and nothing to wear to a party or when you go out for dinner." Mariemaya told her.
"Is that necessary?" Annie asked
"In our circles it is kind of obliged. You don't need to worry because tomorrow I will take you out shopping for the necessary additions to your wardrobe. Let's see ...um we pack this and this,..." Mariemaya choose a number of trousers and matching shirts while Annie selected her underwear and socks. They took a suitcase and put all the clothes in it and they were ready to take off. They left the room and went on their way to find their mother but when they were near the corridor where they were supposed to be Jody and a few other girls walked up to them.
"Leaving already, you wimps." Jody started
"Yes we are" Mariemaya simply answered.
"No you are not, at least until I say so. Now what do we want from you? I want you and Annie to lick my boots or I will make you." Jody ordered. Mariemaya sized up the competition and then she looked at Annie. Annie was about to get ready to go on her knees to do as Jody ordered.
"No Annie, don't. I will learn you to stand up to people like her. She is nothing than a bully with a weak hart. She is not as tough as she looks." Mariemaya told Annie while she looked at Jody who was surprised by Mariemaya's reaction.
"I 'm not weak, I am stronger than you give me credit." Jody said
"I don't underestimate your physical strength, mentally I know which buttons to push in order to gain the upper hand. I don't want to fight you but I will if you force me to" Mariemaya said
"I will break you with one hand tied behind my back." Jody answered her challenge.
"Who is underestimating who right now" Mariemaya replied stepping closer to Jody. Jody was about ten centimetres taller than Mariemaya and thirteen years old but Mariemaya seemed to look taller then she really was. Jody started to laugh stepped back and started to talk again.
"To beat you up would be a waist of time and effort so you better start licking my boots or else."
"Or else what, I think you are afraid of me. Come on you and me right here right now. Give me your best punch" Mariemaya dared her holding her hands behind her back. Jody lashed out but Mariemaya ducked and smiled. Again and again Jody tried to hit her but Mariemaya evaded punch after punch with ease.
"When are you going to stand still" Jody growled.
"And let you bruise my pretty face, no way" Mariemaya teased hoping that at some point Jody would give up. A bit later Elaine and lady Une, who were worried about the two girls, walked in the hallway seeing what was happening. Elaine wanted to raise her voice in order to stop them but Ann stopped her because she knew that Mariemaya was teaching the girl that tried to hit her a lesson. About ten minutes later Jody gave up because she was out of breath. Mariemaya smiled and started to talk.
"I wore you out and attacking you now would be fatal but I am not going to. I feel sorry for you that you can't be able to forgive and forget. I 'm not worthy to punch you out and I never will be but remember this, I will be watching you for as long as Annie will stay here." Jody suddenly punched her in the face on which Mariemaya reacted with a knock out punch. For a moment she looked at the other girls who had been watching the fight and then she looked at Annie who held her hands to her face in fear. Then Elaine stepped in picking up Jody who was unconscious on the floor. Mariemaya apologised for what had happened but Elaine had witnessed the whole thing and told her that she was the first one to beat Jody in her own game but still Mariemaya felt as if it was her fault. Elaine told her that Jody had beaten up other kids as well so in a way she deserved it that Mariemaya knocked her out even though it is not right. Lady Une looked at Mariemaya's face and noticed that she had a black eye. Mariemaya asked for some ice and walked towards Jody while she held out her hand to make up with the girl for what she did. Jody looked at her and slapped her hand away from her. At this point Elaine walked up to them and started to speak.
"Jody, if you keep pushing people around the way you have been doing since the day you came here you will be knocked out more than once. Mariemaya feels bad about the fact that she fought you. She promised herself that she would not raise her fists again to hurt somebody a long time ago but today you forced her to break that promise. Can you understand how she feels? Do you know what it feels like to be looked at all the time because of one large mistake you made as a child? I surely don't want to be in her shoes. One day you will end up fighting everyone who knows somebody who fought during the war."
"No, She will grow up to be another Zechs Merquise. He lost his parents during a war too but he swore revenge on the people responsible for the death of his parents. He became a soldier and in the end a special within the Oz organisation. After a while he took a bloody revenge on the people who destroyed his home and killed his parents. Now he hides in the shadows because he feels as if he had betrayed his parents and what they stood for. I should know because we fought side by side at one time. He should have turned away from the battlefield and let his gentle nature take over so he could bring peace to the world. He didn't and that destroyed him." lady Une said looking at Jody. The girl started to cry because now she realised what everyone around her tried to tell her. Then she stood up and walked away while Annie and Mariemaya stared at her leaving. Lady Une urged her daughters to follow her so they could leave the orphanage to go back to Bernkastel.