A/N: Sorry for the long lack of update, especially after my bastardry of the previous chapter, but I've been supremely busy with school and my new youtube show. Btw, if you are interested in seeing Heero take on Captain Planet...yeah, Captain Planet, with a couple of humorous scenes with Heero and Relena, watch episode 1! More specifically, part 4. My channel is youtube .com/CFFOwner. (kinda being cheap with the free advertising, but oh well.)

February 11th, 1780, Sanc Manor, Virginia

Relena was suffering from shock as she watched the arrogant planter approach her. He smirked and strutted in confidence as if he owned the place. She threw the book she was reading at him, which he easily blocked, however, it gave her time to make her way toward the kitchen.

She grabbed a frying pan and attempted to hit James over the head with it. However, he easily blocked it and sent it flying with his hand.

"You would do best to not resist." He warned.

"Get out of here!" Relena growled in an almost war cry fashion.

James snickered. "I love it when you're feisty." He grabbed her wrist and led her back into the living room. He then threw her down onto the couch. She continued to struggle but he pinned her down to the couch with little difficulty. "You will apologize to me for your insulting behavior!"

"I won't apologize for telling the truth!"

"We'll just see about that." James replied through clenched teeth.

Heero again spurred Zero in full gallop, there would be no rest. The poor animal must be exhausted from the earlier fighting and now this sprint. He would make sure that the horse got ample food and water to assist it in recovering from its exhaustion as soon as possible. It wasn't much further, he'd have to hurry.

"You get out of here!"

James turned to look toward the owner of the voice. It was Relena's old cook, Tabitha, holding a knife in a threatening position.

"Oh so it's you…I remember you, you insolent little nigger!" James sneered in disgust.

The old slave attempted to rush him with the knife, but James easily brushed her aside with a boot to the gut. He did not even have to leave the pinning position that he had placed Relena in.

She screamed, but he quickly muffled her mouth.

"Miss Relena!" Her slave and designated bodyguard, Kenneth, shouted upon finding out his charge's predicament.

Kenneth breathed in a nervous breath and ran at James, tackling him to the floor and releasing Relena from his grip. She immediately went to check on Tabitha.

James recovered from the tackle, as Kenneth could not secure a pinning position on him. James kicked Kenneth hard in the ribs, eliciting a howl of pain from him. He then picked Kenneth up and punched him in the mouth, causing a massive gash on impact with the teeth. The metallic taste of blood flooded Kenneth's mouth. He attempted a swing on James, which was easily parried. The young planter pushed Kenneth into the nearest wall, and then arrogantly wiped the blood that had gotten on his hand from his earlier blow on the slave's face.

James continued to arrogantly smile and backed away, daring Kenneth to try another attack.

Heero could now see the lights of a plantation in the distance. But would he get there in time, was it already too late? James had had a hell of a head start on him, as he left before the earlier skirmish had begun. He continued to rush toward the distant home.

Relena took the knife that Tabitha had been carrying and attempted to slash James with it from behind. James, however, heard her footsteps, and easily parried the attempted attack, pushing her back. He took the knife and kicked it under the sofa so that no one would surprise him again.

Heero slowed Zero down to a canter as he paced the outer grounds of Relena's manor. Where was James? If he had gotten inside, how did he? This was more complicated than it should have been, and Relena was in danger. Heero grunted and moved on.

"This sassiness of yours must end, Relena." James declared as he threw her to the floor.

Relena collided with the floor with a painful thud. James looked at her angrily, then ran and gave a bone-crunching kick to Kenneth's gut as he saw him struggling to get up. Relena could hear the poor man's ribs crackling from the stress, and she desperately hoped that none of them had been broken. What was she going to do? Everything that had been tried was ineffective, the fear really began to kick in as Relena saw James raise his arms in victory as he watched Kenneth squirm on the ground. His characteristic cocky smirk accompanied the victory taunt and he began to slowly make his way toward Relena. She attempted to move away from him on all fours, crawling backwards, as she did not want to turn her back on him at the moment.

"Stop fighting Relena. Realize that you cannot win against me."

Relena's eyes still held their usual fire. This angered James further. He continued to move toward her at his cocky, methodical pace.

"Submit!" He yelled.

Relena didn't exactly know what he meant by 'submit' but she sure as hell wasn't going to let him fulfill his fantasy.

James got to her and pulled her up from the floor by her hair. She screamed, showing true fear for the first time. She tried in vain to stomp on his feet, but her legs could not reach them from the position that she was in.

Heero had heard Relena's scream from the entry point he had found- it was quite easy to in the middle of the night in a plantation with no one else living in it at the time. He rushed to the source of the noise to find that James was grabbing her hair. He growled and tightened his fist, as he was ready to hit something.

Relena spotted a figure in the shadows out of the corner of her eye. At first, she could not make out the shadowy form, but as he slowly stepped closer her eyes widened in shock, and then lit up with a faint hope.

"Heero! Help me!" She cried out.

James sneered. "Heero?" He laughed. "Talking to thin air isn't going to intimidate me." Then, the corners of his eyes noted a moving shadow, turning around, he saw into the storming blue eyes of Heero Yuy, who slowly walked toward him expressing seething rage. James' expression changed immediately. He let Relena go and backed away slowly, looking as if he'd soon a ghost.

Heero continued to approach him slowly, making sure to put Relena safe behind him. James continued to back up, and then took a desperate swing at Heero, his fist making contact with his right cheek.

The punch, however, did no damage to Heero except to make him angrier. James' face then turned desperate, and he raised his hand as if asking for mercy.

The blow that Heero gave to James right above his nose showed that he was not in the mood to give any. James staggered and held his head in pain as Heero delivered an equally hard punch to his gut. As the red-haired planter doubled over in pain, Heero delivered a knee to his face, knocking him down to the floor and causing bleeding similar to what James had caused Kenneth earlier.

James tried to get up, but Heero grabbed his neck and threw him into the wall, then knocked him back down to the ground with another right to the temple.

James finally got back to his feet and attempted a swing on Heero, which was easily parried, and then received a left hand to his chin. Blood was obscuring the Virginia planter's eyes as he stumbled to his feet.

James finally realized the severe disadvantage that he was in and began to make his way to the door as fast as his aching body would allow him. Heero then seemed to have lost his patience and pulled out one of his pistols on his belt. The low sound of the flint cocking back sent a chill of finality into the Sanc Manor's parlor.

As Heero pointed his pistol at the stumbling Greer he peered into Relena's eyes, which were wide with fear and shock.

Then bullets crashed through the windows and the sounds of gunshots filled the air, with flashes of black powder coming from outside. Heero instinctively got to the ground and made his way over to Relena, shielding her with his body.

James stumbled his way out the front door of the plantation and made his way back to his horse with the assistance of his friends Alexander Hawthorne and Theodore Woodrow.

"Where were you?!" James said as he grabbed Theodore by his collar. "Where WERE you?!" He growled.

"You told us to leave you alone." His friend replied.

James released his friend in anger and confusion.

"And while you were out on your little escapade." Alexander cut in. "Our contingent was ambushed by the Gundam Dragoons."

James grimaced.

"That's probably why Yuy found you over here." He continued. "We were crushed! Many of our men were killed!" He shouted in frustration and anger.

James slapped Alexander. "You talk to me like that again and I'll make you wish you didn't" He snarled.

Suddenly, flashes of gunpowder went off with the crackling of muskets. One of the men in their company screamed and fell off his horse, hit with a bullet.

"The Gundams!" Theodore shouted and fired off his musket in their general direction.

Heero continued to shelter Relena as the sound of more gunfire erupted from outside. The blue fog of combat filled the moonlit air outside.

"Are you ok?" Heero had to nearly shout at Relena.

"I am, thanks to you." She said shakily.

"Well, you're not staying here any longer."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm sending you to your uncle in Williamsburg." He replied emphatically. "You'll stay there until this whole mess is settled."

"HEERO!" A voice shouted from outside.

Heero looked up to see Trowa right outside of Relena's parlor window.

"We found them coming over here. We should be able to chase them down pretty easily!"

"I have to go." Heero whispered to Relena.

"No!" She pleaded and held on to his arm. "Heero, don't go! We can leave together! We can go west, past the frontier, and leave all of this chaos and war behind. Let's leave…please!"

Heero stood there in mild disbelief. This was the first time that he had heard Relena waver from the Patriot cause. However, given what had been happening to her, it was not hard to imagine that even she had reached her breaking point.

"Relena, eventually this war will be over, and then we'll be together. But I cannot leave my duties as a soldier in the Continental Army."

"But Heero, it's been going on for five years, and there's still no end in sight!"

"It will end. I promise you that." He reassured.

"Heero! You coming or not?" Trowa yelled from outside as the sound of horses thundered off toward the distance.

"Go to your uncle in Williamsburg, you'll be safe there." Heero all but ordered.

Relena nodded in sad affirmation. Heero then grabbed her chin and kissed her. He then left the way he had come, to go mount Zero and catch up with the rest of his men. She in the meantime slumped to the floor crying as distant gunfire continued to fill the air.

A/N: Sorry this chapter was so short, but there really wasn't anything more to put in here.