A Daughter's Will

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or any of it's characters.

A/N: I know, I FINALLY updated! Sorry, for taking so long. I know it's been almost a year since I first started this fic. On the bright side, the computer is uncrashed. I was smart enough to save all my documents on a disc this time, before it crashed. And I definitely know where I'm going with this fic (no writer's block here :D ).So, expect more updates sooner.

On another note, I'm going back and revising "An Orphan's Life". There were a couple mistakes ( as well as story errors) that are KILLING me, so I'm going back to fix those. So, go reread that soon, if you want. Now, then, go on and R&R, and I'll see you next chap!

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Jacob was dreaming, he was sure. But what of wasn't quite so clear. It may have been about Caterina. Or maybe Lisette. Or it could've just been everybody.

All he knew, though, was that there was the light melodious jingling of music of some sort, coming somewhere nearby.

It was then that he woke up and realized that the ringing was coming from his front pocket, his cell phone's ring tone not quite promising it would stop anytime soon.

He sighed and took it out of his pocket, wondering what time it was.

Sunlight was starting to stream into Lisette's hospital room, casting a golden surreal glow around them. It had to be at least six or seven.

"Yes?" he asked quietly, answering his phone with what Caterina lovingly called his "morning voice".

"Jacob, are you aware of what time it is," his father's deep, rough voice asked.

Jacob frowned, wondering what on earth and the colonies Zechs was talking about, and then groaned when it hit him that he had missed getting up in time for the mission.

The very important mission he was supposed to lead.

"Dad, I'm so sorry. I don't know what happened. I fell asleep here and-"

"Well, it's a little late for apologies... We really needed you."

Jacob sat silently, knowing there was nothing he could say to make the situation better. There was really no excuse for him to miss something that was so important to the base.

He started at the phone, wondering what he should say to Zechs.

His father seemed to understand. His tone grew soft as he said, "Don't worry. We still got it done. Mitchell took over. Did a damn good job, but nothing compared to what you could've done."

Jacob made a face, wanting to know what had happened, but knowing at the same time that discussing those things were highly off limits and top secret. "I don't know what to say, Dad."

"Well, that's something I would expect. Granted, I should've known you were going to slip up at some point. I have been working you too much and too hard these last couple of months. It was only a matter of time before sleep would finally beat you. You really do need a vacation."

Jacob frowned when his father paused, seeming to hold back on saying something. "Dad?" he asked, wondering what it was. He stood up and walked over to the windows nearby, glancing out at the awakening city below him.

Zechs sighed on the other end and took a while before answering. "I take it you were with your sister all night."

Jacob frowned some more, not understanding what that had to do with anything, nor how his father knew. "Yeah... I thought she might have needed some company."

Zechs took another long pause before going on. "So, you most likely haven't spoken to anyone, right?"

"Yeah," Jacob replied slowly, looking away from the window for a second.

"Well, it appears that I'm assigning you a new mission. Fairly easy stuff compared to what you've been doing lately."

Jacob made a face, not understanding why his father kept changing subjects. "Dad, what are you talking about?"

"There was an attack last night at the Preventer's party. Three people died, one is in a coma and ... Elysia is all right. But it seems to be that-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, dad, wait a second. What do you mean Elysia is all right? She was hurt?" Jacob stared at his phone in disbelief.

"Well, yes and no. There's still a lot going on, investigation wise. But, so far, she seems to be the only one who got out of it alive and well... Your uncle, though, was pretty upset." He paused to let it all sink in.

Jacob closed his eyes, trying to get over this new information. "So, what are we going to do now?"

"Well, my son, as I said, you have a new mission."

Jacob nodded slowly and waited. "Okay. And it is...?"

"You are to protect your cousin at all costs. You are to watch her day night, wherever she goes, and whoever she's with. I'll give you the full and complete mission files later, but right now, you need to kiss your sister goodbye, and get your ass down here at the hospital. You have some hovering to do while she gets interviewed by the investigators."

Jacob looked over to Lisette, whose stillness unnerved him, and nodded some more. "Yeah, dad, okay. I'll be there in ten minutes."

"Good... Be careful, Jacob."

"I will. Bye, dad."

"Bye."

Jacob hung up his phone and looked back out the window. The city seemed so peaceful in the early morning hours. It was hard to believe that in just a few hours there would be more riots and fires breaking out. The place was really falling apart.

He sighed and looked back to his sister, walking over to her regretfully. He took her hand in his and whispered," Bye, Lis. I'll see you tomorrow. Happy New Year." He leaned down and kissed her gently on the cheek, and slowly walked away, letting go of her hand.

While he walked down the hospital's hallway, buttoning his jacket up, he couldn't help but wonder if she was ever going to wake up.

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Jennifer stood outside one of the many boutiques that were on the outer streets of the Sank Kingdom Plaza, hugging herself in an attempt to keep warm. She had been waiting for Elysia for nearly an hour and a half. She had called Elysia at her apartment three times and there was no answer. Similar attempts at Theo and Caterina's house phones and cells proved useless when they, too, didn't answer. She was starting to get angry, pretty sure that they had all stayed out late having a good time while she was left alone in her small house with nothing to do.

She looked at her watch one last time, then decided to just shop around by herself. If Elysia was going to show up, she would've done it by now. Now, Jennifer would have to spend the day by herself. So much for hanging out and picking up guys.

She turned around and walked into the plaza, heading for the main shops. Maybe some nice new clothes would cheer her up. Or a book of some sort. She wandered around, glancing here or there, trying to decide just what it was she wanted and where she should even go. She had so much money, but she really didn't need anything in particular.

She was just turning a corner when something bright and shiny in a store's display window to her left caught her eye. She paused to see just what it was, as more shiny objects came into her view. She smiled as she realized that the objects were pieces of a miniature circus. She stared at the display window's contents for some time, studying all the little parts of the tiny version of what looked like her childhood home.

There were the brightly colored, sometimes striped, big top tents, as well as the animals' cages. Here or there within the little circus a shiny and colorful clown would stand out, holding balloons, a little horn, or just be smiling. She held back a laugh at the thought of Theo wearing the bright greens and blues the clowns had on and smiling dorkishly at the people passing by.

As much as she hated to go inside the store and behave like a seven-year-old again, she couldn't resist the little circus. She turned around quickly towards the store's entrance, excited and curious to see what was in it. She let out a small cry of embarrassment as she wound up walking straight into the male customer who was just heading out of the store.

"Oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed as the man fell back a bit, nearly dropping his shopping bag.

He surprised Jennifer instead, as, instead of looking at her angrily, he smiled warmly at her, regaining his composure easily and shrugging it off. "It's okay. I'd rather get bumped into by a beautiful girl such as you, then a cranky, ugly looking guy." He brushed his coat off with his left hand and then looked back to her with shining, bright, blue-green eyes. "Which has happened before and more than once." He held his hand out to her, grabbing hers in his as he brought it to his lips in an elegant manner, kissing it lightly, while never taking his eyes off of her. "I don't normally talk to strangers, especially those strong enough to knock me over, but I'm quite taken by you."

Jennifer gave a nervous laugh, as she wasn't quite sure what to do. Sure, she wanted to meet guys, but never in her wildest dreams did she expect this to happen. "I... uh..."

He gave a laugh and let go of her hand, taking a step back and giving a bit of a bow. "I apologize. I can understand you're position right now, as it must be rather awkward. My name is Jonathan Bradford. I tend to speak my mind, much to my friends' annoyance. But I'm sure they'll fill you in on all that later."

Jennifer smiled back, liking that he was at least honest, and then crossed her arms, realizing something. She tilted an eyebrow at him and asked," Are you already implying that I'm going to be sticking around you for some time?"

He laughed at her statement and gave a shrug. "I suppose so. You caught me." He raised his hands up as if surrendering and stared into her eyes, mesmerizing her with just how beautiful his eyes were. "Am I wrong, though?"

She smirked at him, not wanting to say yes or no. He was quite handsome and, as far as she can tell, friendly in a non-psychotic way. Would it hurt to say yes?

She glanced to his right hand, where he held his shopping bag, deciding to dodge the question. "I didn't break what was in there did I?"

He frowned a bit, not understanding what she meant, until he followed her gaze to his hand. "Oh, this thing." He lifted the bag up and pulled out a little cardboard box, opening it carefully, and then gently pulled out what was inside. "See?" he asked, turning it to show her a miniature carousel in all its sparkling gold and pink glory. "It's for my cousin. She's turning six this year and she goes crazy for these things. Loves to collect 'em."

Jennifer's jaw dropped as she leaned down to get a closer look at the sight of the small figurine and just how beautiful it was. The details were amazing, especially on the three horses that circled it, one brown, one white, and another tan. There were tiny light pink roses and gold garlands that surrounded the round top as well as the bridles on the horses and the bottom. All the different shades of pink and gold and light magenta, along with glitter everywhere, made it look so magnificent.

"It's beautiful," she breathed, taking her eyes off of it for a second to look at him.

He smiled and pulled it back towards him, putting it back into the box, much to Jennifer's disappointment. "You think so? I just thought it was kinda cool looking. I was so tired of seeing green mixed with blue and orange and yellow. Those aren't really little girl colors."

Jennifer nodded and stood up straight. "Orange and blue's a really bad combination, even for a clown."

Jonathan smiled at her some more, switching the bag to his left hand. "So, you've seen a clown wear those colors before?"

Jennifer nodded enthusiastically. "Yep. I grew up in a circus and my best friend and my brothers were forced to wear the most hideous things you can think of in the name of entertainment. Lucky for me, I was a girl. I got to wear pastels, which were much more tolerable."

Jonathan's eyes widened in amazement when he heard this. "You grew up in the circus! Wow, that must've been a load of fun!"

Jennifer made a face and shrugged nonchalantly. "Not really. I mean, on occasion, yeah, but there was always some form of work that had to be done, before we actually got to go and have fun." She cringed at the memory of having to help Theo clean the animal cages when they both had ditched a performance to go play in a nearby lake and catch tadpoles. Trowa, Kate, and her parents weren't too happy with them. They were young, yes, but they already knew their obligations to the circus. That and they didn't say where they were going and their parents had grown upset, thinking the pair had been kidnapped or killed or something even worse...

She faltered at the thought and memories of her family. It had seemed so long ago, but she remembered them so well. Was it really only twelve years ago that they were taken away from her?

Jonathan seemed to notice her sudden change in moods and, seeming to know she was a bit emotional at the moment, extended his arm out to her in a happy manner, hoping to cheer her up. "Well, my lady, I think it's about time I take you somewhere and get you something to eat. And then we can bore each other to death with random stories of our lives. "

Jennifer stared into his eyes again and couldn't help but smile at what she was seeing. She looped her arm into his and pushed away her thoughts, so as to make her smile more sincere. "All right. But you're paying, since you offered."

Jonathan gave a big laugh and pulled her close to him. "I wouldn't have it any other way."

The two laughed some more together and walked away down the plaza.

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"All right, Elysia, tell me the last thing you remember from last night. " Shane Maxwell leaned back in his chair that was next to Elysia's bed and studied her thoughtfully, pen and paper ready.

Elysia was sitting up in her bed, feeling a lot better after her rest. It was about eleven in the morning now and she was being interviewed by the head of security about the previous night's events. Jade was standing by the door, her presence needed as she was Elysia's doctor. Heero and Theo were also in the room, standing by as her moral support.

She frowned and looked to Theo, who was on the other side of her bed, looking at her worriedly, her hand in his. "Um," she said slowly," I was..." She made a face, unsure of what to say.

Theo was about to open his mouth to help her out when Shane cut in.

"Ah, uh. Nope. She's gotta do this on her own. No help from anyone. Any little thing said may warp her memory and make her think she saw what she didn't really see." He looked at Elysia expectantly. "Well?"

Theo frowned and looked to Heero questioningly, whose silence throughout the whole interview thus far was starting to weird him out.

Heero merely nodded the confirmation to Shane's explanation and studied his daughter, waiting for an answer.

Elysia tried as much as she could to remember, but nothing was coming. She gave up and looked at Shane, shaking her head.

Shane raised an eyebrow and looked to his notepad, scribbling some things down. "You sure?"

She nodded slowly, her head starting to hurt a bit.

Shane looked to Jade. "What do you say about that, Hon?"

Jade walked closer to Elysia. "You don't remember telling me when you woke up that you last remembered dancing with Theo?"

Elysia thought this over, ignoring the increasing pain in her head, and then nodded her head. She couldn't believe she had forgotten that. "Of, course! Now, I remember." She thought a second, then looked to Jade. "And you made fun of me, I believe."

Jade smiled and looked to Shane. "Well, she's right about that."

Shane wrote this down and looked back to Elysia. "All right... Let's start from the beginning then. What was the first thing you did yesterday?"

Elysia made a face at the question. "Woke up."

Everybody in the room held back their laughter, as Shane rolled his eyes.

"Okay, fine. What'd you do after you woke up?" he asked.

Elysia thought some more and said everything as it came to her mind. "I... got up and ate breakfast... Got dressed... Went to work... But then your dad came by for one of his visits and saw that I wasn't looking too well, so he sent me home early..."

Shane wrote all of this down, glancing back and forth between Elysia and his notepad. "Do you remember what time that was?"

Elysia nodded and said," About twelve thirty... I got home around one... And fell asleep." She stopped and looked to Shane, wondering what the relevance was to all of this.

Shane raised his eyebrow at her, waiting for more. "When did you wake up?"

Elysia opened her mouth and then stopped. She looked to Theo confusedly, unsure of the answer. "I ... I don't... know."

Shane raised an eyebrow at this, but wrote it down anyways. "So, you don't remember waking up or getting ready for the party?"

As Elysia struggled to remember, her head started to hurt more. She unknowingly gripped Theo's hand tighter as she closed her eyes, trying to ignore it. "I... I recall getting my dress out of the closet... And..." She put her other hand to her forehead, the pain becoming more unbearable.

"Elysia?" Theo asked concerned.

"I..." Her eyes grew tighter as the pain got worse. She rubbed at her temples with her free hand as she forced her mind to get over this and get out what she could remember from the night before. She managed to gasp out," Green... eyes," before doubling over, grabbing her head from the sharp, stabbing pain she was feeling.

Theo jumped to his feet and tried to hold her steady as she began to cry out. He looked to the others helplessly and confused.

Jade walked out of the room quickly and then returned a minute later with a syringe in her hand. She leaned over Elysia, pulling her arm out and injected it.

Theo felt Elysia steadily lighten in his arms and then completely stop tensing up as she leaned back into him, her cries down to small whimpers.

He looked to the others and made a face.

Shane sighed and stood up, brushing himself off as he closed his notebook shut. "I need to speak with you guys outside." He looked to Theo. "You can stay here. I'll fill you in later."

Theo narrowed his eyes slightly, never too happy when Shane told him to do something, but nodded anyways, knowing full well that he wasn't going to be leaving Elysia anytime soon.

Heero stood up and walked out, Jade and Shane not too far behind.

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"All right. We've obviously had some trouble getting information out of her. It appears she's been drugged with some sort of memory loss agent." Shane sighed again and rubbed his eyes tiredly. He looked to his left at Jade, who had her arms crossed. "I'm going to need you to take some blood tests. You know, the whole nine yards. See if-"

She pulled out her clipboard filled with Elysia's papers and handed them to him. "Way ahead of you, Maxwell. I did it right away. Checked her for every Preventer's drug in the database. Thought we should make sure and have an idea on what it is exactly we're dealing with."

Shane smiled slightly as he looked at the papers. "I knew I married you for a good reason." He sifted through the papers, trying to find the test information. "And what were the results?"

Jade crossed her arms again and looked to Heero. "Well, she tested positive for three of them. Which have the worse combination and side effects when put together."

Shane looked up worriedly as Heero shifted his weight on his legs, trying to hold back his apprehension about his daughter's safety, "Which ones are they?"

Jade sighed and looked through the small window in the door to Elysia's room. "I think it's fairly obvious." She looked to Shane expectantly. "You probably have an idea already."

"Hypnos?" He asked.

She nodded. "Along with Psyche. The last one hasn't even been named yet, as it's still being tested. So, I'm rather baffled as to how it got into these terrorists' hands." She raised an eyebrow. "Unless, of course, it's one of our own involved."

Heero frowned, as he thought this over. The first two he had known about from Duo. Hypnos was a particular drug the Preventer's used in order to put any dangerous criminals in custody in a comatose state, so as to prevent the suspect from causing harm to anybody who was watching him or her.

Psyche was a drug used to cause memory loss, so that any witnesses or criminals would forget ever talking to any of the Preventer officers. It was useful for any random civilian who happened in on something they weren't supposed to know. Also, the person who was injected with it was susceptible to mind manipulation. A person could be lead to believe whatever the officer told them.

But the last one...

"What does the third one do?" he asked Jade.

"Well," Jade looked up thoughtfully as she bit her lip. "As we saw with Elysia, it was made to work with Psyche. Whenever a person attempts to remember something that has happened within the six to eight hour period before the drug was injected, the drug sends a signal to the brain that triggers massive migraines. The more a person tries to remember something, the more pain he or she feels, hence, they don't want to remember and end up being lousy witnesses. " She motioned towards Elysia's room. "Which is the case here."

"Why is it still being tested then?"

Jade let out a sigh and shrugged. "There have been harsh side effects... Some of the migraines get so bad they cause hemorrhages in the brain. Blood clots appear and travel up there. Sometimes, a tumor even forms." She motioned around with her hands. "The worse one is seizures. They last long after the person has... died..." She looked down. "In all honesty, I don't know why none of this has happened to Elysia. She's a damn miracle, considering the drug isn't exactly safe."

Heero let out an air of hopelessness. "So... There's a chance she might..."

Jade looked up at him as sympathetically as she could. "Yes and no. She appears to be out of the woods right now. No head trauma, loss of speech, no paralysis. As far as I can tell, either those guys were idiots and didn't give her enough of the third drug, or Hypnos may have countered it's effects."

"Or Elysia didn't have as much as the other victims," Heero mused.

Jade nodded. "That too."

The three stood silently, thinking this over. It was all so complicated, but it made sense. They looked up as Theo opened the door and walked out into the hallway.

"She's asleep now," he announced as he shut the door quietly and stood in front of it as though he were guarding the room. "So, what's the deal?"

"Well," Heero started, looking to Jade,"first off, is Elysia all right enough to come home?"

Jade grabbed the charts and papers back from Shane and quickly skimmed through them. "She's looking all right to me." She looked up to Heero quickly. "However, I would like to keep her here a bit longer for a bit of reassurance that her health is okay. You know, observation and the likes. Make sure nothing happens."

Heero nodded and then frowned when he remembered something. "For how long?"

Jade looked to her watch and shrugged. "About later into the night. I'll say 8 or 9-ish."

Heero made a face and let out a sigh of frustration. "Damn. I'll be at work." He glanced to Theo. "Can you get her?"

"No problem," Theo answered, knowing that he was lying. He would have to call in to the factory and make sure it was okay. But that was never something easy. Especially when getting the previous night off was such a hassle. Oh, well. I just won't call in at all. They won't care. I'll tell them later what happened and that I wasn't able to call earlier..

Heero nodded and looked to Shane and Jade. "All right. So, Theo will be here to take Elysia home. Is there anything else I need to know?"

Jade nodded back. "Yep. Medications and whatnot. It's very important that Elysia take it, because the-" She cut herself off as she realized she almost mentioned Elysia's still unknown pregnancy. She started over. "Because we don't know if the drugs are still affecting her." She turned away to walk down the hallway. "Follow me. I'll explain it all to you."

She walked off, Heero not far behind.

Theo and Shane looked at each other quietly. Both were wondering if Elysia was really okay, but neither wanted to ask. They couldn't imagine their lives without her.

Shane broke the silence, as he was never one to stay quiet too long. "She'll be all right. I know it... I just hope we get these guys before they strike again."

Theo frowned at that. "You think they'll do something like this again?"

Shane nodded. "This isn't a one time deal. They want something. If only we knew what that was. And why... Why Elysia was a target too."

Theo grew silent again. That was the one thing nobody could understand. Why was Elysia attacked too? Nobody knew who she was. The pilots and their kids had passed her off as a niece of Quatre's so as to prevent any questions on her identity and her striking resemblance to Relena Peacecraft. Why would someone go after her?

"Theo?" Elysia's soft voice called from the room, interrupting Theo's thoughts.

He looked to Shane and gave a slight smile. "I'll be right back, "he said, opening the door to the room and walking in.

Shane shrugged and looked down at the notes he'd taken. It was going to be hell trying to gather what useful things he could from them. What confused him the most was when Elysia mentioned "green eyes". If she had been referring to Theo, why didn't she just say his name? Then again, it could've been Jennifer or anyone in Trowa's family. Green eyes weren't exactly an uncommon trait.

He looked up when he noticed someone walking up to him. "Jacob? What are you doing here?"

Jacob strolled over to Shane and stood next to him, shaking his hand. "Here for business. I've been assigned to watch over Elysia. I came here to oversee the interview with the head of security."

Shane made a face and motioned to Elysia's room. "Sorry to say, but you're too late. I just did it. Got what I could from her, but it's going to be a lot of trouble trying to piece it all together."

Jacob frowned and shook his head. He had rushed over to the hospital, but hadn't made it in time. Then again, from how Shane was reacting, he didn't miss much. "Mind if you fill me in?"

Shane glanced to Elysia's room seeing that Theo was busy holding her again and gave a shrug. "What the hell? I've got nothing better to do. It wouldn't hurt to work with a M.I.A agent on this."

Jacob's eyes widened as he looked around quickly, making sure nobody was around to hear. "Shh! You don't want to get me killed do you?"

Shane paused and thought that over. "Well... Nah. I don't want to hear Caterina whine." He threw an arm around Jacob's shoulders and started to walk down the hallway toward one of the empty waiting rooms. "C'mon, buddy. I'm just teasing. Let's go figure this thing out."

Jacob reluctantly followed, not wanting to leave Elysia as he had technically started his mission. But Theo was with her and Shane did need his help...

"All right..." He took a couple steps forward, as Shane began to walk down the hallway. "I expect copies of your reports, by the way."

Shane waved a hand in dismissal. " I know, I know. You Marquise agents sure are pushy about that stuff."

Jacob held back a laugh at that sa they went on their way.