Between Love and Hate
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A/N - Sorry for the slightly longer than usual wait. This chapter was kind of difficult. However, all is well ,becasue it's here now and is not even shorter than the rest! (It's five o'clock in the morning... i have to wake up soo, and i havent even been to bed (cries)) So sorry if i'm not talkative...
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Chapter five: Meeting again
Heero walked towards his old friends, taking moderately large strides but he halted suddenly at the sound of someone calling out his name. He turned around to face Nicola, who was scurrying down the long corridor to catch up to him, her long dark hair floating around her shoulders as she moved. He smiled lightly and waited patiently for her, and as soon as she was close enough, he slipped his hand gently into hers and turned around to face his friends again.
To say that they were surprised would have been an understatement. They stared at him, somewhat confused, with widened eyes and mouths agape. Heero frowned slightly at their actions, and watched, waiting for them to snap out of their dazes.
"This is Nicola." He told them in his monotonous voice. Nicola smiled at each of them in turn.
"Nikki, actually," she corrected, she glanced around them, scanning Heero's long time friends carefully, and was shocked to come face to face with a pair of rather cold and angry cerulean blue eyes. They glistened at her dangerously, with a somewhat threatening appearance; however, Nicola was not faltered in any way.
"Umm… it's nice to meet you Nico- Nikki." Quatre said, breaking the awkward silence that had settled amongst them, he glanced back up to Heero quickly and then back to Nikki again.
"Yes it is… very nice to meet you." Noin told her, thrusting her hand forward, Nicola stared at her hand for a second, warily, before placing her hand within it and shaking gently. "Do I know you from somewhere? You look somewhat familiar."
"You've probably seen me before, "Nikki paused, and smiled at Hilde, "My full name is Nicola de Rivera." She told them, her English powerfully accented with her Spanish tone.
"The- The Nicola de Rivera?" Quatre asked, feeling unsure of whether he was asking the right questions, "The model?"
"Yes, that's correct." Nikki answered, feeling embarrassed.
"Oh," Quatre said, running his eyes over her again. "Ouch." An agitated Relena nudged him sharply in the ribs, stopping his gaze from lingering on the girl any longer.
Heero sighed, finding the conversation tiresome, and ran a hand through his unruly hair.
"It's nice to see you again Quatre, Noin, Trowa…" He paused; coming upon the form of the girl that he had been trying to avoid for the last three years… 'Relena,' he nodded his head, silently in her direction.
Relena looked unimpressed by this, and only glared at him, as if waiting for something else to be said.
"Where's Duo?" Heero asked Quatre, ignoring Relena's hostile glares.
"He's… I don't actually know. I can never keep track of everyone in this house." He chuckled good-naturedly and met Heero's gaze. "Would you like me to show you to your rooms?" He asked him, and then turned slowly to Relena, waiting for them to answer.
"Yes please," Relena answered, and Heero nodded his head in agreement.
Quatre started down the hall, after giving Nikki one last curious glance, towards the large marble staircase.
Heero and Nikki followed, Heero sliding his hand out of hers to wrap around her waist as they walked.
Trowa pushed Relena gently, after the others, and she snapped out of her daze, turning around to glare into the emerald eyes that had broke her from her reveries. But as she glanced towards the others, she followed them reluctantly, Trowa following close behind her with her bag.
They climbed up two grand sets of staircases before they finally came to the floor on which they had been allocated their rooms. Quatre stopped at one of doors and Heero glared at the varnished timber.
"This, Heero, would be your room. I take it you two are sharing a room? Yes?" Quatre asked inquisitively, raising an eyebrow towards Heero and Nikki.
"Yes." Heero answered, not bothering to explain, it was after all, self-explanatory.
Quatre unlocked the door with his large set of keys and smiled to them; Heero grabbed both his and Nikki's bags and walked into the room, inspecting it with interest.
"Whoa, it's beautiful-" Nikki turned towards Quatre who was still standing in the doorway, leaning heavily against the doorframe, "Mr Winner was it?"
"Yes, Quatre Raberba Winner, but you can just call me Quatre," he straightened himself up before sighing gently, "Well, I'll leave you two to adjust to your room and settle down. Please meet downstairs in the lobby again at around six o'clock, I will then show you around the main rooms to help you become acquainted with the household. After that we shall have dinner." He nodded his head towards them, bowing slightly before disappearing behind the closing door.
Heero studied the room. It was decorated with such elegance; the wallpaper was a dark royal blue with a faint silver line, bordering the top and bottom. The floor was covered with strips of expensive mahogany wood, polished and varnished stylishly, and there was a large four-poster, canopied bed sitting in the centre of the room.
Heero sighed, it was so like Quatre to do this, have everything decorated so sophisticatedly. He glanced over to Nikki, who was wandering around the room, studying everything with wondrous amazement. For a girl as wealthy as she was, she was impressed quite easily. He noticed that she was scrutinizing a small lamp in the corner of the room, which cast a warm welcoming, but dull light across the room, slightly illuminating her face.
"Do you want to start unpacking now?" He asked her, she started at the sound of his voice, and jumped around to face him, "What's wrong?" He asked distractedly.
"Nothing, I just… forgot you were there," she answered honestly.
"You forgot I was here?" He walked towards her slowly, his face showing that he was not impressed by her answer, she giggled.
"Yeah well, all you do is stand there silently; it isn't hard for someone to forget your presence is in the room," Heero was now very close to her and she took a small step forward, smiling up at him, "I'll unpack once I'm finished this."
"Finished what?" Heero frowned down at her questioningly, and as her lips flew against his, he tensed, his eyes opening wide with shock, but he eventually relaxed, and kissed her back, wrapping his arms securely around her small body.
"That," she told him whilst pulling out of his arms and moving towards her suitcase, with intentions of unpacking. Heero glanced towards his own, rather small bag and compared it with hers. There was a sizeable difference. He sighed, knowing that it would probably take her a while before she was finished and headed toward the door. Once reaching the handle, he turned back to Nikki, who was busily unpacking her clothes.
"I'm going for a walk, I shouldn't be too long." He told her and opened the door. Once outside, he was greeted by a cold silence. He frowned; looking up and down the corridors, locking everything he laid his eyes upon safely in his memory.
He was intently staring around him as he walked down the long corridor, with intentions of exploring the place and getting to know every small corner and object off by heart, but his mind was drifting. He had found that this sort of thing had not happened for a long time. But now that she was back, it was a whole different matter, he was losing focus again and his thoughts kept drifting back to that memorable moment three years ago. He grew frustrated just thinking about it, 'how could she have done such a thing?' He would never have expected something like that to have come from Relena Peacecraft of all people. He made a mental note to never underestimate Relena and her mysteriously deceiving mind again.
Heero was so preoccupied with his musings that for once, his finely tuned ears did not pick up the light patter of feet running quickly towards where he was now headed.
He turned a corner sharply, his eyes now glaring at the ground beneath him, and his head bent down. He felt something suddenly bash into his strong chest and he stumbled back a few feet, gasping in surprise and staring at the small form lying at his feet. The great Heero Yuy, for once in his life, had been caught off guard.
Relena glared up at him with wide, shocked eyes before trying to get up. Heero thrust a hand towards her, and she glared at it for a few moments, cautiously, before accepting his offer and taking a hold of his hand.
Heero pulled her to her feet roughly, and with a little bit more force then he had initially intended. She came swinging into him, her body closely pressing against his, so close that he could feel the unsteady rise of her chest and the rapid beats of her heart. Heero chanced a quick glance towards her eyes, and once she had locked gazes with him, he couldn't seem to look away.
He suddenly felt extremely warm, with his body pressed against hers, and his heart rate quickened considerably. He silently cursed the effects that she was having on him.
"Umm, sorry," she told him, her eyes now averted down, whilst she was brushing off her clothes.
"Don't worry about it," Heero replied, his voice was emotionless and devoid of any life. He started to walk past her, to carry on exploring the unknowns of the large house, but she stopped him.
"Heero," Relena grabbed his arm loosely, "Look, three years ago… I… uh… just wanted to apologi-"
"You know what?" Heero asked her, interrupting her speech, his voice was icy and hostile, "Save it. I don't care. I don't want to talk to you at the minute," he pulled his arm from her grasp and without shooting her another look, or even another glare, he continued down the hall.
Relena stood, stunned, watching him slowly disappear from her sight.
-8-
Once Heero had rounded the corner, and was safely out of her sight, he sighed deeply. He knew what he had done was cold and hostile and something that Nikki had been relentlessly trying to drill out of him for the past three years, but he just didn't feel ready to deal with her yet.
She had lost him the best job he had probably ever had; she gave numerous people a false reason to hate him… Zechs mainly… and she made him feel… well he didn't quite understand what it was that she made him feel, but what he did know, was that he didn't like it.
He didn't like how his temperature would suddenly escalate rapidly once she appeared, or how anytime that she would send him one of those fleeting glances, his heart would crazily start hammering in his chest… No, he didn't like any of these.
However, he had one thing to be proud of, and that was the fact that he didn't let others see how she affected him.
Now, his only problem was working out why, exactly, his body reacted in this way to her minor actions.
Running a tanned hand through his thick unruly hair, he started walking down the hall again. He was going to explore, maybe that would clear his mind.
-8-
Relena stood in shock, staring at the end of the corridor where Heero had just disappeared. 'What just happened?' she asked herself unsurely.
'He couldn't possibly be still sore about the whole job thing, right?' She sighed, and walked in the opposite direction from him.
There were so many things that she had wanted to say. And Heero showing up with a girlfriend certainly didn't help matters, in fact it had made everything ten times harder for her.
She could never have pictured Heero with a girlfriend. It was one of those things, which she could just not imagine. It was just beyond reasonable in her mind. It could never happen.
But it did. It happened, Heero had acquired a girlfriend, and the world had still not ended. Yet.
The weird and yet annoying thing was, that she was in fact, jealous. Not of Nikki, no, no, she didn't want Heero. She was jealous of Heero, because he had had a good and eventful three years away from her. He was the happiest she had ever seen him and his relationship seemed very stable, there was no abuse, no hatred, and certainly no jealously. They loved each other, so much that you could nearly feel it.
She sighed and pulled her head back so that she was staring at the ceiling, before shaking herself and running a hand through her hair, frustrated.
He had obtained everything that she hadn't in those three years. He had obtained everything that she had wanted to obtain. Love, in a loving and happy relationship.
'Where did I go wrong?' She asked herself.
Where had she gone wrong were Heero had gone right. Was this her punishment for getting him fired? If it was, it certainly wasn't the fairest of punishment. Beatings and verbal abuse was certainly not a justified punishment for such a simple thing, which she hadn't even meant to happen.
And most of all, in the end… he washappy.
'Life isn't fair.'
Then there was that thing that happened to her every time that she was around him. That frisson… the shiver that she always got, running down her spine every time she met his eyes. The weird feeling she got, as if her heart was fluttering in her chest, whenever he was in close proximities. All the things that didn't seem to effect him, not even when they were so close to each other, like they had been only two minutes ago, when she had stared into those oceans of blue eyes. The eyes that had seemed so emotionless and cold; he had still felt nothing but hatred for her.
What did it matter anyway? It wasn't as if she liked him that way.
Relena made a mental note to stay away from him for a while, for two reasons. One, being that she needed to give him time to cool off, as seeing her again had obviously disturbed him greatly, and two, being the fact that she did not like those feelings that emerged from within her whenever he was near.
It was too much for her to cope with.
She would just apologize later on in the week. Maybe then, he'd be slightly more willing to listen.
'Never hate your enemies...it will cloud your thinking.' --Michael Corleon Godfather III
Ahhh... eyes threatening to close on me, so i cannot say much lol. I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter and i look forward to waking up tomorrow... or in a few hours, to checking to see if i have any glorious reviews... i really love em, no joke, they make my day... every day! I LOVE you guys! (sorry for any typing errors... very, very tired... stupid exams)
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