(I come out to tell you that I do not and will never own Gundam Wing much as I wish to)
June 14th 203 A.C.
"I'm guessing that you're running from your uncles" Heero said in reference to the phone call, five worried uncles, he felt sorry for the kid.
"Heh… sort of"
"Sort of?" Duo queried. The honey-blonde youth sighed.
"Well you see… My father disappeared fifteen years ago and my uncles don't want me to find him" not a lie.
"Is it because your father's a terrorist?" Trowa's silent question caused the boy to stand up.
"My father is NOT a Terrorist" he said then sat back down and looked away "not anymore" he spoke almost inaudibly.
"Not anymore? So your father was a terrorist" Wufei noticed
"He's a pacifist, he's a good man who's sworn never to kill don't pass a judgment on him" needless to say Raylin was touchy about his father.
"We aren't passing judgments on anyone" Quatre soothed
"Wait you said your father disappeared fifteen years ago right" at Raylins nod Duo continued "and you can't be more than fifteen or so… so that would mean you never really met him" Raylin shot a glance at Heero for some reason and then reluctantly nodded. "So how do you know so much about him?"
"y-my uncles told me about him" Duo decided to ignore the strange slipup for the moment
"Then who's to say they weren't lying?" the next instance had Duo against the wall and three guns pointed directly at Raylin's head
"You..." Raylin took a breath in order to calm himself down "my uncles would never lie to me" his voice became serious, monotone oddly enough it sounded kind of like Heero's. Duo sighed
"Wouldn't lie to ya huh?" he said grabbing Raylins wrist lightly and looking him in the eye. "Not even to protect ya kid?" Quatre (the only one without a gun) put a comforting hand on Raylins shoulder.
"We're not saying that you've been lied to, we are only ruling out the possibility's aren't we Duo?" Duo nodded vigorously in the heat of Quatre's glare.
"I'm going to talk to Raylin alone. You guys can figure out what to do next while I'm gone okay?" everyone nodded as Quatre gently steered the quietly fuming youth to the living room door. "Oh and Trowa could you make some tea?" Trowa nodded and silently complied with his friend's request.
June 15th 203 A.C.
It was decided that Raylin would be taken to Preventer Headquarters (by Heero and Wufei) for DNA testing. The DNA would be tested against the known terrorists from eight to sixteen years ago. Of course they had forgotten to tell Raylin this bit of information as they were still slightly suspicious of him. Well first thing was first. They would meet with Lady Une.
To say that the elevator ride was awkward would be an understatement Raylin was still trying to figure out 1) why the heck they were taking him to Preventer HQ and 2) how the heck was he going to apologize to these guy's he was ready to apologize after Quatre's therapy session, where he -in Duo's words- dragged you into a room and forced tea down your throat, all the while not saying a word. The therapy was invented by Quatre for when the guys were angered; it worked wonders for them (except for Duo who hates tea with a passion) apologizing was becoming increasingly difficult because it had been a day since Raylin had lost his temper and everyone was so darn quite.
Heero was trying to figure out what he found so familiar about the boy. And Wufei was trying to figure out where the kid got that jacket he kept eyeing Heero's jacket (which he was now wearing over a black muscle-T and denim jeans) and then Raylin's jacket (his was over a white T-shirt and black denims) they looked practically the same except Raylin's looked older, more worn. Wufei was pretty sure that jacket only came out seven years ago. It was confusing him and Wufei didn't like confusion.
As soon as they neared floor nineteen Wufei turned to Heero and said calmly.
"I'll talk to Une you take Raylin to Sally"
"Um..." Raylin said unsure "why are you taking me to Sally?"
"We are helping you look for your father…" Wufei paused "in the form of a blood test"
"I don't think he's in the system" Raylin said sounding slightly worried
"Nonsense, in this day and age if you want a job period, you'd have to have your blood work done" it was official Raylin was doomed. As soon as they reached the nineteenth floor Heero grabbed Raylin's upper arm lightly but firmly and proceeded drag the boy out of the elevator and down the hall.
To say that Lady Une was a little angry to see Wufei so soon after the beginning of his vacation was and understatement, she was furious it had taken her months to get that workaholic idiot on a vacation and she even had to resort to extreme measures to get him to go in the first place. Apparently they weren't extreme enough. Because this idiot was now standing in her office not three days since he left seemingly oblivious to her death glare. Une sighed
"Wufei" she said calmly "I thought I gave you a vacation" Wufei snorted
"Gave me a vacation? You threatened to blacklist me if I didn't go."
"Hmmm well it seems that you enjoy being jobless considering that you are standing in my office and not enjoying the paid vacation that most preventers of your rank would be dying to have"
"Honestly the only thing enjoyable about that vacation was the interrogation" Une's eyes narrowed
"What interrogation?"
"Apparently someone knows us well enough to get past our security" a raised eyebrow
"Someone got past your security?" Une asked shocked to say the least.
"Yes"
"Where is this boy now?"
"Heero is taking him to Sally" at Une's inquisitive look he explained "he claims to be looking for his father… we decided to help him a bit"
"Alright then, tell Heero to keep an eye on him"
"Of course"
"What is the boy's name?"
"He says his name is Raylin"
"He has no last name?" Wufei looked confused for a moment hand poised at his chin seemingly in deep thought
"No" he murmured still confused "no surname" he shook himself out of his apparent trance and looked Une in the eye "I will write up my report and return to the safe house, I believe you were right in assuming that I needed a vacation"
Raylin had no choice but to fallow Heero through the corridor; even if it wouldn't look suspicious running away from a blood test it would be impossible to get out of the vice like grip on his forearm Raylin sighed, thinking of all the way's his life was about to be doomed Sally would probably just say something along the lines of "He has your DNA" or "you are his father" sighing again he began thinking of ways to get out of this.
"You know maybe my uncles were right I shouldn't be searching for him and I'd hate to waste Preventer recourses…" Heero ignored him in fact he apparently decided that they weren't going fast enough because they sped up and Heero's grip tightened on Raylin's arm, well if it wasn't going to bruise before it definitely would now. Another sigh after this he probably wouldn't live long enough for his uncles to kill him cue sigh number four.
"You don't seem very excited over the prospect of finding your father" Heero noted, aha he speaks Raylin shrugged
"I kind of got a slight fear of needles" Raylin confided
"What gave you that?" evil kidnapping scientist freaks who think your father wasn't human and are therefore trying to prove it, using you!
"You're being awful talkative suddenly" Raylin smiled
"And you're avoiding the question" Heero replied
"It's positive" Sally's voice drifted through the open doorway.
"Are you sure?" said a slightly worried female voice Heero's eye narrowed that voice was
"I've checked it at least a dozen times Relena I can be anymore sure" there was a moment of silence between the two of them "don't look so sad now Relena" Relena shook her head
"It's just… I don't know how to tell Heero"
"Tell me what?" Heero's deep voice made both ladies jump
"Heero! Um… what are you doing here? When did you get here?" Heero being Heero decided to answer only one question
"I got here about the time Sally said the test was positive, what test Sally?" Sally crossed her arms
"Heero you know I can't divulge patient information you'll have to ask Relena" she informed him
"I can still hack your computer you know" Heero said calmly he knew how much she hated it when he hacked her.
"I haven't written my report yet" she countered "like I said if you want to know ask Relena" he turned to his wife of four years
"What test Relena?"
"Who's this young gentleman Heero?" Relena asked sidestepping the subject by noticing Raylin, who was still in Heero's grasp
"Relena-"Heero began but was cut off
"Heero it's rude to not introduce someone upon arrival" and then she outstretched her hand to Raylin "hello my name is Relena Yuy"
"Um… Raylin Yuy" Raylin muttered nervously taking the hand; Relena raised a delicate eyebrow
"Yuy?" Heero groaned inwardly "Heero he could-"
"No" Heero said curtly
"But he could possibly be-"
"No"
"Let's have him over for dinner" with that said Relena kissed her husband on the cheek and rushed out the door Heero gave the fifth sigh of the day she had successfully avoided the question. There was a cough that sounded suspiciously like a snicker. Heero glared at Sally, she was enjoying this. Another cough from behind reminded him of his reason for being there in the first place. After shoving Raylin (rather violently) towards Sally he crossed his arms across his chest and leaned against the door frame. Sally gave him a questioning look to which he answered
"He needs his blood checked"
"I don't need my blood checked you guys just blew this all out of proportion" Raylin replied indigently
"…"
"Come on I just went to the wrong house that's all"
"That doesn't explain why you are so afraid of getting a blood test" Heero said calmly "now sit down and shut up, the sooner we get that done the sooner I can get home" the next part he said quietly (but not quietly enough) "and I can interrogate my wife." Sally forgot about containing her laugher.
Dinner that night was… rather scary. Of course it wouldn't have been so scary if Heero didn't glare so dangerously at his own wife, oddly enough the scariest part was that it didn't seem to affect her at all
"So Heero" Raylin said in an attempt to do away with the creepy atmosphere (wasn't that scary music in the background?) "If you had a baby what would you name it?" Relena paused in her chewing for half a second but, for all the glaring he did it, it went unnoticed by Heero.
"What business of it is your?" he asked everything
"Nothing really it's just you seem like the type of person who would be good with names" Raylin smiled weakly considering you probably have about a hundred of them!
"Well I haven't thought about it" Heero said eyeing him suspiciously
"Oh" Raylin said suddenly finding his shepherd's pie quite interesting and it was silent the rest of the night.
In a large dark room there was a round table lit by a single light from above; sitting around that table faces hidden in the shadows were several men. Preventers and politicians all nobles at some point before titles were striped from them, another thing they had in common was that they had all been a part of Rhomafeller and the wanted revenge. One man stood at the table smiling though you could not see it in the darkness.
"My friends" he said "and fellow noblemen I have found a way that we can finally rid ourselves of the meddlesome plague known as the gundam pilots"
"How?" said another "the gundam pilots names were never released we have no idea who they are" the first man's smile grew wider
"Ah but we do know who at least one of the pilots is" he threw a folder down and a few files spilled onto the table along with a photograph of a boy beaten, battered and bruised head lowered and held by two Oz soldiers his long brown hair was tied into a braid
"This my dear friends is Duo Maxwell the only gundam pilot we know of" a quick mummer rose from the others
"Wasn't he executed?" yet another man asked
"Those records were faked" someone else said
"I happen to know that he is alive" a Preventer proclaimed "he sells scrap parts to the organization"
"But he's only one pilot, that's hardly justice"
"Torture is a wonderful technique for getting answers" the first man said calmly there was a mummer of agreement
"But how do we get the boy? We can't just arrest him, he's been checked out completely" the preventer said
"Oh we'll just invite him over" the first man replied
"You can't possibly think that he'll come to us willingly and without backup" said another man from the group
"Men like that are desperate and untrusting he would never come to us!" said another
"Ah but in this time of peace people soften" the first man soothed "they lose their edge" he threw another folder on the table "they get married" the pictures in the next folder were of a woman with flowing black hair that reached her shoulder she wasn't looking at the camera and it seemed as though she wasn't even aware of her picture being taken (which was most likely true)
"You're suggesting kidnapping?" one man asked
"Of course not" the first man replied "this is merely taking a hostage in a time of war, and besides they don't deserve peace after all they have done" another mummer of agreement and it was decided.
Chapter 4 small preview
"Who's Raylin?"
"This is kidnapping!"
"Goodbye to Raylin Yuy"
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Yep Wufei got a lot of lines again… I would like to thank AnimeInTheBasement for helping me with my inspiration for this chapter and yes I was having fun with the sighs. Muwahahaha… well so much for my well laid plan of sounding like a sophisticated author. :1
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