Chapter Six

Flowers- I'm glad you understand the frustration that my friend was feeling. She literally tried to call off her wedding four times, but her fiancé said no.

Heero's eyes widened, hearing Tony's words. How did this escalate into Relena wanting his job? Relena gave no inclination of wanting it. She had enough on her plate as it was. Had Tony completely lost his mind? Heero stepped in, seeing the shocked look on her face.

"She doesn't want your job, Tony. She wants to call off the wedding. I don't know how you got those two mixed up, but your job is securely yours."

"I don't buy it!" Tony snapped, pushing himself off of the desk and facing Heero. "You two are against me! Conspiring! Miss Darlian, former queen, wants nothing more than all of the power in the world! I'll tell you now, you have it and it would be best if I took it from you. You will marry me! You will be kept at home with children. It isn't right for a woman to have so much power."

"Excuse me?" Relena stood, planting her hands on the desk and scowling furiously at her fiancé. "I have no such power. You are blinded by greed. I didn't want to become queen which is why I hastily accepted my dismissal when Treize relieved me. And, if you think marrying me will keep me from my job then you're sadly mistaken. I love my job no matter how stressful. I love maintaining peace alongside with the Preventers. It's what we all had strived for during the war. No one, not even you, can keep me from doing what I do best."

Tony leered at her, "I can and I will. I'll stop you and this man from conspiring against me."

"Heero, leave now." Relena snapped suddenly.

"Relena, I don't thi—"

"That's an order!"

He left, confused about her order. She had never ordered him around before. She always gave him free liberty to do what he wanted. For the first time, she told him what to do, and taken completely by surprise, he did what she said. He walked out, closing the door behind him, but didn't go far. His back was planted firmly against the frame and an ear all but pressing against it. Tony was still screaming, convinced she wanted his job and that he and Relena were conspiring against him. Heero had never seen such a bad case of paranoia in all his years, especially when he thought he had seen it all. Every bad side of a person was shown in war and death. But, there was no war. No one died. Why were Tony's true colors finally appearing?

Relena hadn't raised her voice once in the half hour it took to calm Tony down. He left stiff and still fuming, but reassured of his position. When Heero was allowed back into the office, Relena was tense and flustered to the point that trying to continue her reports was futile. The arguing had stopped but the wedding was still on to both of their dismay.

That night, after a quiet dinner between bodyguard and charge, they sat in silence. Relena hadn't brought her work home and Heero was lost in thought about today's events. Relena hadn't mentioned the argument. Heero continued to open his mouth as if to say something about it, but he couldn't string enough coherent words together to get his thoughts across to her. He was baffled by Tony's decisions. It was becoming unbearable. The politician was inconsiderate and greedy.

Was it possible to not allow someone to break up with them?

Finally, after hours of silence, she spoke up, "What should we do?"

Hanging his head, "I don't know. Should we just contact the press and tell them the wedding is off? I mean, I can't think of anything else."

"Going to the public is tacky."

"We could always call your brother." Heero suggested, stifling a menacing chuckle.

"He's on Mars with Noin. It would take weeks for him to get here and by then the wedding will have already happened. At this rate, I think I'll have to go through with it. File for a divorce a couple months later?"

"No, I won't let you." Heero nearly begged, reaching for her hands.

"I don't know of anything else, Heero. I know I won't be speaking to him for a while."

Rubbing the back of her hands and thinking quickly, "I could ask Duo for a suggestion…"

She grimaced, "Do you think that's a good idea?"

He shrugged, "I don't have anything else."

The next day, the American pilot arrived on Earth, grin spread across his face and a fist in the air as he climbed off of the spacecraft. "I'm here to mess things up!"

Heero shook his head, "Subtly would be advisable."

"Nah! It's my specialty."

Heero and Duo walked out of the hangar, plotting as many things as they could. Heero was to the point where pointing a gun at Tony and threatening his life was more appealing than behind the back plans. Threats always seemed to work out better for him. Duo was much more creative about scheming and black mail, but it didn't seem like the right way to go. True, Heero and Relena were becoming desperate and needed other ideas, but what the American pilot was suggesting was below Relena's morals.

"Listen, I know a few ladies that would love to get into Tony's office. I can try to send them there when he's working late and they could seduce him?"

"No thanks, Duo. Guilt would only make things worse."

"Well, what's saying he's not already cheating on her? I mean, they don't live together. And when was the last time they've had sex?"

Heero growled, "I don't want to think about it. If I know Relena, she hasn't slept with him yet."

"I don't believe that! At the beginning, she was all lovey-dovey with him. I'm sure she let loose one night."

Heero clenched his fists, wanting to punch the pilot more than he had ever wanted to in his life. "Can we just focus on this?"

"Yeah, yeah," Duo said, sliding into the Preventer car. Heero followed, but stayed silent. Duo had made a good point. It was clear Tony didn't actually have real feeling for Relena, so what's to say he isn't already cheating on her?

"Recon time," Heero said, deciding suddenly the best course of action for them.

"You've got it, buddy."

That night, Heero told Relena he was taking Duo out for some drinks. He didn't tell her where they would be or why they decided to hit the town, but she didn't protest. She was relieved to see the former pilot and was grateful for the alone time so she could catch up on her work.

Dressed in black, the men stalked the Parliament building from across the street. Standing on top of the Preventers building and binoculars pressed firmly against their eyes they say Tony was still in his office. His jacket had been removed and his red hair was disheveled.

"He's a workaholic like Relena," Duo commented.

"Of course he is, he wants Relena's job."

Duo sighed, "Man, I wish we could see what's on his computer."

"We can, Duo." Heero said, turning away and going back down to the computer room of the Preventers. By the time Duo joined him; Heero had already hacked into the computer's system and searching for Tony's screen. It was easy enough, mostly because Tony was the only one working on a Friday night.

Once Heero pulled up the screen, he and Duo had to sit back and gawk in shock.

Just adding some more drama! What did they see on the screen? lol