Author's Note: I just wanted to tell you all that I was going over the stats on my fan fiction and noticed that this story had gotten 956 page hits. This is practically twice as much as the next highest number, 455 for A Pirate's Life for Me. I want to thank all of you who read this story because it has convinced me to actually try and finish it. I had put it off because Noin's age was starting to bug me, but here I am, back to the Zechs bashing, and it's all thanks to you.

Also, if you were one of the the 412 people who read Her Protector, I would like to let you know that I posted that on a whim, and that I had originally written it on sticky notes.

And now to present…

Intrigue

By K. R. Yuy (a.k.a. Kagura)

Chapter 7: Oh the Consequences!

Zechs was highly upset by this turn of events. Heero was protecting Noin, and Noin didn't want to see him cause he, according to her, acted like a five year old in an adult's body. Relena wasn't speaking to him because he had gotten upset with her over coffee and Sally was making fun of him.

He didn't even know about the kid yet.

Relena walked down the hall of Preventer Headquarters after the meeting talking with Quatre. Her brow was furrowed in thought, her nose flaring a bit, but her concentration was obvious.

"Did you notice the way Heero and Lucy were acting?" she asked Quatre, her nickname for the person she assumed was going to be her sister-in-law for a very long time.

"I did, but I didn't think it was any big deal, other than the fact that Noin was bashing Zechs personality. I never thought I would see the day that she'd stop counting days, hours, and minutes between when they saw each other."

"No, I think Lucy's fallen in love with Heero. What about me though? I was supposed to be Heero's big love."

"You don't think we did anything do you?" Quatre asked, somewhat nervous.

"What do you mean, Quatre?"

"I mean, you don't think we did anything when we changed back?"

"Oh, you mean like doing something bad in our sleep?"

"Uh, yeah."

"I thought you meant to get Heero and Lucy together."

"Hah," Quatre burst out all of a sudden, "Wouldn't it be funny if we did?"

Relena's face broke into a smile. "It'd be utterly hysterical."

They just didn't realize how close to the truth they really were.

Lucrezia "Lucy" Noin was currently curled up in her bed at home reading Pride and Prejudice to stave of boredom. Lady Une had ordered her to return home upon hearing of her pregnancy from Sally. Sally had insisted that Noin not work, and that had gotten on her nerves. Not to mention, Sally, after having heard Relena call Noin Lucy when she stopped in to check on her, had picked up the habit and was now spreading the name all over Preventer Headquarters. Noin had caught on when Hilde came by to visit and had called her Lucy by accident. Of course, she had now taken to reading her book out loud to her stomach. She didn't know why, but it was calming herself, treating her stomach like a separate person.

" 'That is a failing, indeed!' cried Elizabeth. 'Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh'…" Noin stopped reading when she heard her front door open and shut behind someone. She carefully picked herself up off the couch, dropping the book on the side table. She was relieved to see Heero taking off his Preventer jacket and hanging it on the peg.

"How are you doing?" he asked quickly when he saw her.

"Okay. After the vomiting was the extreme boredom. I've been reading."

"I heard you…" he said, trailing off. Noin smiled.

"You heard me reading Pride and Prejudice?"

"Uh, yeah. Sounds nice."

"Oh, it's a really old book. Still a great love story though. I like it anyway."

"I'd heard of it. Never actually read it though. It's by a woman named Jane Austin, right?"

"Yup." Noin smiled as she realized she was getting Heero to speak more. "I'll make some hot chocolate, if that's alright."

Heero nodded, following Noin into the kitchen. It was in that moment, the two of them standing in the kitchen as Noin set the kettle to a boil that neither of them would have expected their lives to take a turn for the better. Heero walked up behind Noin as the kettle full of water was finally on the burning stove. He encircle her with his arms and placed his chin on her shoulder. She relaxed into his arms and closed her eyes. They stood like that until the kettle began to whistle. Noin went over to the kettle and got out the mugs and cocoa mix. He lead her over to the couch with the two mugs and they sat on the couch the entire night, their emptied mugs on the coffee table next to Pride and Prejudice and Noin sleeping quietly, her head resting against Heero's chest. It was in this quiet evening of hot chocolate and silent but understanding touches that Heero found something he thought that only Relena would be able to give him. Comfort, and a sense of relization that the war was over and he could finally move on.

Relena had done something stupid. After all the speculation her and Quatre had been through, the two of them had slept together. Granted they had used protection, but still, Relena felt that she was supposed to be saved for Heero. It didn't help that Lucy had told her earlier that day to just give up on Heero. Waiting around for a man that may never come was stupid. So Relena had taken advantage of Quatre and found that she like what he could do to her far more than she felt she would have had it been Heero. Quatre had more emotion in him, and that emotion lead to passion that Relena should have known she'd never experience with Heero. To be truthful, she had sex with Quatre about 4 times that night, and she was ready to go on to the fifth time when she turned to Quatre to realize he was beginning to drift off.

"Quatre?" she asked, tapping him on the shoulder, his member still buried deep in her. She clenched her muscles around him, startling him awake for a minute, but he couldn't stay awake any longer. Finally Relena gave in and just went to sleep, figuring they could talk about it in the morning. Quatre was giving her feelings she didn't know she could have, and she didn't want to let go anytime soon.

Zechs was wandering around the Preventer building at 2 o'clock in the morning and it was not because he was working. In fact, he was snooping. Relena hadn't been able to tell him what had gotten Noin sent home because she hadn't actually bothered to ask. Sally had refused to tell him, and in fact, so had Noin herself. She had screamed at Zechs for daring to come within 40 feet of her and stormed out of the building. Sally had started clucking about hormones and then went on for the next 20 minutes about how cute Heero and Noin were together. Zechs had heard enough and barricaded himself in his office until it was safe to come out. Now he had the time to sneak into the medical ward and figure it out for himself.

Quickly swiping his preventer ID and having the finger print scanner verify that it was, in fact, him, he went into the medi-ward with no problem what-so-ever. When he reached Sally's office, he sighed in relief when he found it fortunately unlocked. He quickly stepped over to the patient files and flipped through to find Noin's. When he read the most recent check-up report he nearly jumped out of his skin.

Lucrezia Noin was pregnant with Heero Yuy's child.

Sally sat up that night pondering what she had done wrong when she had put Heero and Noin under sleeping gas and poitioned them so that it looked like they may have done something. That's when she made a sudden realization. If it had been her fault Lucy had gotten pregnant, then she wouldn't have found out about the pregnancy for at least another week. Which meant that Heero and Noin had had sex on their own, or that the child wasn't Heero's. But Sally had done the DNA check just in case, and it was Heero's. Noin had lied to her! And with this indignant though, Sally got really mad.

It was at work the next day that the full consequences of having gotten Noin pregnant had hit him. First of all, Zechs would be pissed as hell at him. Second of all, he couldn't actually remember having sex with Noin, well except with vague excerpts of memories from the night after Zechs had called in a panic looking for Noin. The two of them had gotten really drunk that night, so everything came in snap shots. The kids had gone to bed at 8 on the nose that night. He and Noin had opened a bottle of wine, or two… he couldn't remember. He kept filling up Noin's glass and she kept filling up his. He had a vague memory of being in his own bed for some space of time. But he also remembered waking up on his couch, so at some point, he must have left her. He also remembered her being naked. And he could vaguely remember her screaming his name.

But it wasn't until he was eating lunch and Noin had called him because she had gotten sick and tired of reading Pride and Prejudice out loud to herself, that the third consequence totally hit him. He, Heero Yuy, Preventer and ex-gundam pilot, was having a kid with Lucrezia Noin, Preventer and ex-OZ employee. They were having a kid and they weren't married or anything. And then the impact of that thought hit him. Did he want to marry Noin? Well, technically, she wouldn't be Noin anymore if they got married. And to be honest he had no clue if he wanted to get married.

But he didn't have long to ponder this thought as he walked down the corridor to get coffee because as he stared down at the stack of papers he was supposed to be reading, a fist came out of nowhere and hit him in the jaw.

Zechs was pissed, but he got a bit of pleasure from hitting his target exactly where he was aiming. Heero Yuy's head snapped up and sideways as Zechs fist connected with Heero's jaw. It was only due to Heero's quick recovery skills that his papers hadn't gone flying and he hadn't fallen over. "What the hell, Zechs!" exclaimed Relena who had been walking down the hallway with Quatre at the same time and had observed the seemingly unprovoked punch.

Heero glared at the other Preventor. "You know what, I think I'm going to go home before I get more than a broken jaw," Heero bit out at Zechs. "Clearly I'm not wanted here." He turned to go back to his office and retrieve his things before leaving. Zechs however, was not just going to let Heero go.

"Are you really going home, or are you going to Noins house? Wouldn't want to leave the lady hanging now would you?"

Relena was completely confused as to what was going on. "Zechs, what the hell are you talking about?" Quatre reached up and put a hand on Relena's shoulder to try and help her keep her head.

Zechs smirked at Heero. "Did lover boy here not tell you what happened?" Heero turned around and stalked out of the building, leaving behind his uniform jacket. "He got Lucy pregnant," Zechs bit off, glaring at Heero's retreating back.

"What?" Relena whispered, her voice a deadly level. Quatre squeezed his hand against Relena's shoulder. Relena watched as Zechs walked away from her, then she turned to Quatre. "I want to go back home, now." Quatre nodded and got her back to her house, where she and Quatre proceeded to go back to their dealings of the other night.

Author's Endnote: I just want to thank all you reader's again because you have been an excellent group of people. If you actually continue to read this story as you all have for so long, even after I practically dumped this, I still thank you. Continue to review if you want. Any and all reviews accepted. Even flames.