I am almost afraid to post this chapter because I know people have been waiting for literally months to receive it. So you guys can just string me up by my noose right now I am so sorry but don't worry the story will be finished. School just started again and I took classes all summer and on top of that my computer decided to break down on me for a very long time. Yes, I have been extremely busy. Nursing school is not easy and it is so hard to find time to do anything that I really enjoy doing. So here it is enjoy it will be done soon!

Relena sat frozen in horror as Sally watched her.

"Relena, did you hear me?"

"Yes….yes I heard you Sally…I'm just not quite sure what to say…"

Sally shook her head, "How could you have been so careless Relena?" she demanded. "You have priorities, you have duties to uphold! This could cost you your whole career as well as Heero's!"

The doctor marched across the room. "What are you going to do?"

"I do not know," Relena said in disbelief.

A knock came on the door. "Who is it?" asked Sally.

"It's your Commander!"

"Enter!"

Commander Une entered the room, frowning at the two other women. "What is going on in here? Sally you said you needed to speak with me on a matter concerning Relena?"

Relena looked away in anger. She was not in the mood to be lectured, there was too much on her mind…

Sally sighed, "It appears that the Vice Foreign Minister is expecting."

The look of shock that crossed the head of the Preventers face was priceless. "But…how can this be? Relena? Please explain yourself at once."

Tears welled up in Relena's eyes. All at once she felt like she was back to being ten years old again…powerless…intimidated… "I'm sorry…" she finally managed to choke out.

"Who is the father?" demanded Une.

Sally looked over to Relena. Relena simply shook her head and looked away. Sally turned back to Une. "Heero Yuy is the father of this child."

Une's face fell slightly but she held her ground. "Very well…" she muttered. "The Vice Foreign Minister's guard detail will double and Heero Yuy will be dismissed from her entourage…"

"What?" cried Relena in horror.

"Relena, I will not permit him to be your escort any longer. He broke the Preventers code of conduct. The punishment will fit the crime and even though Heero Yuy is one of the finest soldiers we have, this event will not be ignored."

"But you can't!" cried Relena.

"His emotions must not interfere with his duties!"

"There must be some other way!" insisted the poor girl. She was beginning to feel dizzy again.

"There will be no exceptions…"

Relena grabbed her head and tried to control the spinning room. Sally stepped forward and held out her hand to the young woman.

"Relena," she said softly. "Take my hand, you need to lie down."

"No!" she screamed. Her knees gave in and she sank to the ground in a heap of sobs. Sally moved to help her, but Une held out her hand.

"Give her some time on her own to think things over. Yuy, will not be notified until then." She walked out of the room.

Sally moved to follow her but paused at the door, looking back at Relena.

"Relena…" she began.

"Leave me!" she cried through her tears.

Sally closed the door.

0000

"What are you doing here?" demanded Heero.

The old man stared at Heero with inquisitive eyes. They watched as he sat himself down in a chair by the door.

Wufei took a step forward, his hand moving towards his gun. "Must I reiterate Yuy's question?"

"No need for intimidation, Mr. Chang," said Dr. J quietly. "I am here strictly on business…and it looks o me as if you could use an old man's help."

Duo stared at the mad scientist appearance and frowned. True it had been some time since they had last laid eyes on the strange inventor, but it did not account for the number of years it appeared that the old man had aged.

"Excuse me for the intrusion," Duo said light heartedly, "but do you mind if I ask you wy you look so…so…so much older? I mean I know it's been a little while but, man I didn't think that it has been that long."

"Because, Duo Maxwell," replied the scientist. "It has been 'that' long since I saw you last. Fifteen years to be exact."

"I'm not following this," frowned Duo.

"I have come to you with very important information regarding you intruder."

"We're listening…" said Wufei darkly as he leaned against the wall.

"First off" said Dr. J, "I believe this belongs to you Heero, my boy." he pulled out a case and handed it to Heero.

Heero glanced at the case and opened it. In his hands was his laptop, safe and unharmed. "Where did you find this?"

"It was delivered to me. It was placed in my care with strict orders that it never leave my hands. But, now it belongs to its rightful owner."

"Explain yourself," demanded Heero. "You are not the man I once knew."

"I am not, but at the same time I am the same. You see, I have come to you from the future in hopes of correcting a mistake that was made in the past."

"The future," sniffed Wufei. "I do not believe it, time travel is impossible."

"Nothing is impossible with a brilliant mind," stated Dr. J. "Some years from now, I will have created a powerful time traveling machine. I used that same machine to travel to you today, back to the past. You see me as a much older man because I am much older than when you last saw me."

"You came here from the future," said Duo slowly. "Right…and I'm from Crypton, you may call me Superman!"

"Shut up you baka!" exclaimed Wufei.

"What is your purpose here?" asked Heero.

"I am here to correct a horrible mistake that was made in the past," said Dr. J. "I am afraid the whole reason the future is so corrupt is my fault. This time machine enabled a very ordinary man to gain a massive amount of power. The future begins with the overall destruction and disbandment of the ESUN…"

"But how can the ESUN fall when it is so strong?" asked Duo.

"The future holds many things. The ESUN will fall and it will only take a matter of a few years to do so. Your lives will change forever. Some of you will be lost, some of you will be found. Either way, all of you are going to lose one of the most precious things in your life."

"How does the ESUN fall so quickly?" asked Wufei.

"All of its leaders were hunted down by this ordinary man I was speaking of. They were murdered in cold blood, while the others fled in terror. The rest of the world went under when the ESUN fell, while the Gundam Pilots were divided forever and struggled to unite the people once again."

"You said all the leaders of the ESUN were killed in the future?" Heero questioned.

Dr. J looked at Heero gravely, "Yes."

There was a silence that filled the room. All eyes were fixated on the strange scientist who had traveled so far to reach them. Duo's lips opened as he asked the question on everyone's mind,

"Even…Relena?"

Dr. J's eyes grew serious and he turned his gaze upon Duo and said sternly, "Yes, even Relena. She will be the first to die."

0000

Relena lay on the floor. She felt a sharp pain give rise in her gut. Struggling to breathe Relena grabbed onto the chair and cried out loud. Something was wrong. What was happening to her? Was this how her life was supposed to turn out? A young woman, unwed, expecting her first child. It was not how she had planned her life. The pain began to rise. It was sharper this time. Relena gasped out loud and struggled to rise to her feet. She fell to the floor again however, doubled up in pain. A sharper pain struck her now and her whole body trembled. She could not hold it in anymore, Relena screamed.

In the next room over Heero heard her before anyone else. Despite the startling news from Dr. J he leaped from his chair, threw open the door, and burst into her room.

The sight of her body crumpled up on the floor nearly made him sick. He rushed to her side and picked up her form. She was sobbing uncontrollably, clutching her abdomen.

"Relena, tell me what's wrong!" he cried.

Sally rushed into the room and knelt down beside him. "Put her on the bed right now!" ordered the doctor.

Heero did as he was told. Sally went to work immediately listening to Relena's abdomen and examining her. She peered over at Heero.

"Wufei, get him out of the room now!"

"What?" exclaimed Heero.

"I said remove Heero Yuy from this room this instant and get my team in here!"

"What the hell is going on with her?" demanded Heero. "Sally, tell me what is going on!"

"Get the hell out of here Yuy!" she cried angrily.

Wufei grabbed Heero and slowly brought him out of the room. Heero struggled with him.

"Yuy!"

Heero turned to face Commander Une. "Get into my office immediately!"

When they got in there, Une slammed the door and ordered him to sit down. "You will contain yourself, Heero Yuy!"

Heero sat silently and glared at her with his dark eyes.

"Do not jump into a situation of which you have not been briefed," Une began.

"Well maybe if you would have briefed me on the situation we would not be having this problem," Heero said coldly.

Une stared at him, "I will be blunt. From now on, you will no longer be serving on the Vice Foreign Minister's Guard detail. You will assume a new position and Duo Maxwell will take over yours."

Heero was silent as the grave. He glared at her questioningly. "What may I ask has brought upon this sudden change?"

"You have broken a very thin line that runs between the Preventers and the Vice Foreign Minister…"

"The relationship between Relena and I does not in any way interfere with my work…" Heero began.

"Look at what just happened!" exclaimed Une. "You lost control of your emotions just minutes ago and you dare sit here and tell me that you can handle the job! I think not."

Heero sat quietly, his anger burning deep inside of him. "I made my promise to protect her…"

"Well you can do it from afar! You have done enough already…"

"What do you mean?" asked Heero.

"Relena is pregnant, and the child is yours!"

0000

Sally walked out of the room and stared at Commander Une.

"Well?" asked the Head of the Preventers.

"She is resting comfortably," replied Sally.

"And the baby?"

Sally bowed her head, but nodded, "The baby is safe, but if Relena remains in this stressful atmosphere, I am afraid it will take its toll on her body. She is still just in the first trimester, it can be a dangerous time."

"Yes, I know."

"What of Heero?" asked Sally.

Une shook her head, "He disappeared from the room after I told him. I wasn't about to be the one to try and stop him either."

"Despite the fact that he has been dismissed from her guard detail, I think it vital that he remain a part of her life throughout this pregnancy. Relena will need it."

"I agree. I just don't know if Heero agrees. I did not even get a chance to talk things over with him."

"We cannot worry about just Heero and Relena right now. Commander, we have lost many men today and we need to figure out why."

"Yes, I know," mumbled Une as she rubbed her forehead. "I only wish I knew where to start."

000

"Heero!" called Duo. The former pilot of Deathsycthe struggled with his injuries as he made his way onto the roof of the Preventers Headquarters. E knew where the Perfect Soldier sought solitude from the world. He was the "best friend" for nothing. And there he was, standing in the darkness, on the roof's ledge staring silently at the ground below.

Duo approached him quietly, trying not to make his presence known.

"You should be resting," said Heero grimly as he turned to face him.

"I'll never know how you do that," replied Duo. "Come inside, man, we've been worried."

Heero did not reply, but simply turned around and took a step closer to the ledge.

"Heero, what are you doing, man? Stop this right now," Duo said desperately.

"Hn," was the only answer he received.

"Look," said Duo. "This isn't going to be easy for anyone right now, but each of us has to keep our priorities straight. Right now, your priority is to be near Relena. She needs your support and she needs your help."

Heero leaned forward slightly and looked down to the ground of the Preventers compound below. For years he had been distant from the world, no one would have really cared up until now…Was this life of his for real? Is this what they called living? To constantly be hound by drama and episodes that altered your very being? Father…he was going to be a father…he never even had a father himself. What exactly did a father do?

"Heero," Duo nearly sobbed, "please come on, just come down with me. It's going to be okay…you'll see."

Heero stepped away.

000

AN: Yikes short I know! But it is a chapter and I'm going to start on another story soon too! I love my readers so much so please stick with me, I promise promise promise I will pull through for you guys!