Trowa raced out the door just as a flying pan was flung through the air, almost rebounding off Wu fei's car. Jumping of his slouching position against the hood of it, he lashed out in anger when he saw the small dint and chipping of his beloved car, well almost as beloved as his bike.
"What the hell is going on?" his angry gaze swinging to Trowa, who was already jumping into the other side of the car.
Trowa's gaze encountered Wu fei's and he swallowed, suddenly feeling guilty, even though he wasn't in any way responsible at least in his opinion.
"Not my fault," he defended himself, then remembering why he was running was starting the engine even before Wu fei jumped into the car.
Pulling away from the house with a squeal of breaks, it took all of Wu fei's patience to not demand what the hell had gone wrong.
Driving in angered silence, he pulled in of the road at a gas station ten minutes from the house.
Turning to Trowa, he stopped at the shocked look on his friends face, "You seemed shocked by something, what did that woman do to you apart from injuring my car that is?"
Trowa managed to shake himself out of his shock to answer, "It wasn't her… I've never seen you to actually have patience… it freaky…" he paused and Wu fei could feel his face flame in slight embarrassment "Its Rei, she says I need it to do stuff…." His answering look told Trowa not to ask what the other stuff was…
Pulling himself together with difficulty, he answered "Heero had been there, but when I asked her was she sure when he left, she kind of got a bit angry…" finishing subconsciously, if anger was something you could actually call it, more like a bomb going off, he thought to himself.
Wu fei bit of his instinctive reaction to curse and instead managed to answer in a steady voice "You know she is sensitive to anybody questioning her word.."
Laying his hands on his phone, he picked out Quatra's number and was ready to dial when he asked, "So what do we know?"
Trowa frowned "Basically nothing, from what I can gather he is on his way back home, but that was all I got before she started throwing things!" he rubbed his arm absentmindedly where a flying plate had hit him.
Wu fei hit the call button and gave quatra the news but by then it was to late, and Usagi had disappeared, so now they had two people missing. Nobody thought to connect the two until much later.
Heero brought logs in from outside and set about getting some heat into the cabin where he had brought Usagi.
From her corner, wrapped in enough blankets to keep a hospital warm, Usagi watched with bemused eyes, gladdened by his actions for he had already spoon fed her soup and had done it with out complaint even insisting on it that she hadn't had the heart to tell him that she could feel herself.
And yet saddened that she cold tell he was hiding something from her, and it wasn't good. But she had a lot more patience then people gave her credit for, and she was prepared to wait.
Three hours passed, the cabin felt like a sauna, and Usagi was rapidly loosing any patience she thought she had had.
He had been plentiful with the small talk but nothing important, like where he had been or what the hell was going on, for some reason she knew the recent attempts on her life where not related to her alter ego on the racing circuit.
Finally she had had enough. Pushing the blankets of her, because Heero had refused to let her get rid of them even when the cabin had become a sauna and it had been easier to agree then argue, she got to slightly weak legs and starring at his back tried to burn daggers into it so he would at least look at her. When this didn't work, her patience ran out, with a burst of adrenaline her feet began to run and jumping into the air she grabbed on to his back, swung her arms around his neck in a vice like almost strangling grip and pressed her face to his ear. "If you don't tell me what the hell is going on, I'm going to cause a few bruises!" her whispered threat would have done a lot of damage in any different circles but to Heero they meant nothing. He knew where she had been and could feel her grip weakening even as she finished her threat.
Grabbing her hand in a light grip, he swung her from around his back into his arms princess style and walking to the couch, sat on it keeping her on his lap even as she tried to move away.
Looking at her once, it was enough to stop her struggling; she could see the torment written in his eyes.
"This is difficult for me," he stopped and gathering his thoughts began to speak " when I was young, it was understood that I would marry a girl called Relena, but as we got to know each other I knew I could never spend my life with some one like her. She was so selfish, the way she treated animals was appalling but what horrified me even more was the way she treated her servants." He paused lost in his memories "When she was seventeen I got friendly with one of her servants, who was worried about Relena. She told me she had seen her young mistress start to beat herself up and blame other people for it. I had often wondered where many of her bruises and cuts had come from but I bought her excuse that she was just clumsy. It was when she became pregnant that I knew there was something wrong with her. She knew I was retreating further and further from her every day and she did the only thing she could think of to bring me back but I knew along with my friends that we had never been that way with each other. But my parents and hers didn't believe me and they ordered me to do the rightful and dutiful thing. That night I left and moved in with one of the guys. They where moving here to start college and I decided to go with them." His voice belied the difficulties that he had gone through and even though it had been over tree years ago, to him it had felt like a lifetime.
Rubbing her hand against his back, Usagi was hocked by what she heard. It never entered her mind to question his word and for that, even if she never knew it would endear her to Heero even more.
Heero continued but this time his voice broke with remembered emotion. "Three weeks ago I contacted my family, the first actually conversation I had had with them since I left. When I left, Relena went mad and they put her into a home, however they told me that when they had questioned her she admitted that she was pregnant but the baby wasn't mine. She gave birth to a little girl but died due to complications with the birth. The baby was given away and her parents have never seen it. I think it was her way of making sure that her baby would be brought up right, and not spoiled rotten like she had been."
Usagi could feel his pain but still she couldn't quite connect up what this had to do with her problems, and so she asked.
Leaning his back against the back of the couch, Heero blew out an impatient breath "The way I figure it, and from what I can remember Relena had one servant who was her friend and personal lapdog and I don't use that term lightly. I figure Katherine may have got it into her head that I was the one that had done her mistress wrong and I was to pay. And seeing as Its clear that I care for you the bests way to do that would be to harm you." He was oblivious that her body tensed in shock at the last statement.
Laying her head on his shoulder, she starred at the dwindling fire for a while letting the silence lengthen. "So how do we get proof of this?"
Kissing her forehead in a soothing manner, "Its been sorted by a friend, we'll know in the next few days" and he closed his eyes pretending to sleep knowing that he had only given her a bare outline of the threats and attempted blackmailing he had his friends had gone through at the hands of Relena, knowing that no one could understand the twisted nature of her until they had actually experienced it for themselves.
And listening to the fire crackle, he felt Usagi's body go slack against his. Pulling an afghan from the couch he wrapped her in it and fell into an untroubled sleep himself.
I know its not much but its something, can u feel the ending coming? And for all you who think its Relena, I tried to warn you. I wrote this on the bus down from college so sorry for the spelling mistake. It's a bumpy road.
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Special shout out to damia queen of the gypsies.. I bow down to your superior writing skills and yet really really happy that u like the story…
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