A/N: I feel that it is my duty to explain the current situation, in terms of this story, in relation to the major plots of the Gundam Wing. In this story the events of the "Endless Waltz" movie are slightly different. For sake of ease and convenience the main plot of the movie will be referenced as such except a few key details. Instead of the Christmas revolution being lead by Dekim Barton and Mariemaia Khushrenada, it was lead by the remnants of the White Fang lead by Quinze, who survived the events on the Libra during the series. Other than that the events of the "Endless Waltz" movie remain the same. Relena was kidnapped and then the force took control of the presidential shelter and blah, blah, blah. Now it is the year After Colony 207, and for those of you who didn't know, this would make Heero, Relena and the rest of the Gundam fighters 27 years old.

I hope that you will enjoy this FanFiction, because I am trying to make this a piece that everyone can enjoy while retelling a story with certain people in a different context. Enjoy!

Ch. 2:

As Relena… Peacecraft?

The sun was high in the sky as Relena sat in her office in her house. It had been many years sense the war and Relena's time as Vice-Foreign Minister. She was now just a consultant to the government, but the people still wanted her to stay in a position of power so they tried to force upon her the title of Queen. It took many press conferences and interviews but finally the people relented and she was able to finally live her life the way she wanted to.

Relena sighed and leaned back in her chair. She was growing tired of politics, the President of the Earth Sphere United Nations wanted to bring her in as part of his cabinet after an illness had taken his previous Secretary of State. She was getting calls every day from his office pleading for a meeting, but for right now Relena wasn't interested in politics at the moment; she was more interested in a tall, dark haired, icy blue eyed man who was currently away on Preventer business. She knew that it was to be expected because he had his own duties with the Preventers, but she still wished that he would at least call her. It had been three days since she had spoken to him, and this worried her. Usually if a mission took this long he would have called or at least had word sent through the Preventers, but this time nothing.

She had just started to think up ways on how to get some information out of one of the other Preventers when her cell phone rang on her desk. As she reached to grab it she noticed the caller id, it was Duo Maxwell.

"Perfect just who I wanted to talk to," Relena thought when she picked up the phone.

"Why Duo, to what do I owe this unexpected call," Relena said joyously, but there was no response from the other end of the line. "Duo?" Relena asked nervously, "What's wrong?"

"It's Heero," Duo said in a voice barely over a whisper.

"What's wrong with Heero!" Relena exclaimed, fear beginning to creep into her voice.

"We don't know."

"What do mean you don't know?" Relena was beside her self with worry. Heero wasn't supposed to be put out on any overly dangerous missions any more because he identity had been compromised over four years ago because of that event. Unconsciously Relena's fingers began to clench as she raised her left hand to her heart. Adorned upon her ring finger was a ring of what looked like pure silver setting with three brilliant diamonds laid into the ring.

"I'm right outside," and as he said this Relena moved to the window of her office to see that Duo was in fact standing by a parked car in front of her house and he was looking right up at her, "so hurry and get your things and come on down Lady Une wants to talk to you."

"What does she want with me?"

Relena saw duo shaking his head out the window, "I'm not to sure. All I know is that it involves Heero and the mission he was on." That was all that Relena had to hear. Within seconds she had grabbed her coat and was sliding into the passenger seat of Dou's car.

The drive to the Preventer's HQ would normally have taken over half an hour but Duo managed to make it there in less than ten minutes. And in no time at all Relena was ushered into Lady Une's office, with Duo trailing behind her. Lady Une, or if one wanted to use her official Preventer title of Commander, was sitting behind her desk reading a report with a very tired look upon her face. It wasn't until Relena made a slight cough that she looked up from her report to stare at the young woman in front of her.

"Ah, Relena it seems that Duo was able to bring you here faster than I expected." There was a tone to the older lady's voice that did not spell of good tidings to come.

"Yes, I believe he violate several traffic laws in getting me here, but that is not the important problem here is it?" A life of politics had taught Relena to keep control of her emotions and to never let them show especially when they could interfere with the job at hand.

"Ah, yes." Lady Une said with a slight smile that had no warmth behind it. "Well then we should get down to business," as she gestured for Relena to take the chair in front of her desk. Relena quickly sat down, she want to hear about what had happened to Heero already and it clear shown in her eyes because Lady Une began talking as soon as she had settled herself behind her desk.

"Preventer Rorschach…"

"Heero," Relena said curtly. She hated the code name that Heero had chosen for himself and she wanted to keep this conversation grounded in specifics not in impersonal references.

Noticing the tone in which Relena stated his name Lady Une relented and continued, "Heero was sent on official Preventer business at Colony L7. During his trip he was suppose to meet with leaders of the colony to discuss the benefits of having a Preventer's HQ in the colony as soon as possible. As the colony was just recently completed and opened itself to the public."

"You sent Heero to a diplomatic meeting?" Relena was astonished. It was true that over the past ten years that Heero had mostly dropped he former cold and distant personality and had opened up more, which most people had associate to his relationship with her, but still Heero was the last person that she would have expected to send on a diplomatic meeting.

"It wasn't really our option. The colony delegates asked for a Preventer Agent to meet with them and once I explained to them that most Preventer Agents where either busy or undercover one of the delegate's suggested that Heero meet with them. Once his name was mentioned the other delegate seemed set on him and no one else. It was then that I called Heero over and asked him if he would meet with the L7 delegates. I knew that diplomatic meetings were not his area of expertise, but he accepted, but when I suggested that you accompany him he refused to allow you to become involved."

"Why?" Relena was shocked. Heero didn't want her to accompany him on this mission even though she was the politician and he was the soldier.

"I am not sure. Maybe he suspected that something like this might happen and to his credit it would seem like a good plan to get you into a trap Relena," and then as almost an after thought she add, "plus it wouldn't have been the first time that it happened."

Relena remembered the time of the White Fang Coup when Quinze and the remnants of the White Fang had taken her captive. It was a time of instability in the earth's sphere as the ESUN had just had completed its first year of rule, but the idea of war was still so fresh in the people's mind. The White Fang had taken advantage of that and launched an attack upon the earth that almost destroyed any home for peace. Instead the ESUN emerged from that conflict, with the help of the gundams and their pilots, stronger with the people's confidence in the peace that they desired.

"So that's why Heero didn't want me to come along, because he was worried about me." The idea was slowly sinking in. Heero had once again put himself in the line of fire to protect her. It was a situation that she had been in many times over the past years, but the idea still did not sit well with her and it did not sit well with her now, especially not now with… with what they had now.

"I believe so, but fate is cruel because we have not heard from Heero in over 48 hours and during his last communication it seemed like he suspected that something was amiss."

"What do you mean it seemed like?"

"Exactly that Relena. Heero wouldn't say anything specific. He just said that he had met briefly with the delegate and that they would have a more in depth meeting tomorrow."

"BUT then why did he think was amiss?" Relena stated interrupting Lady Une. The suspense that was hanging in the air could be cut with the oh-so-clichéd knife.

"I was just getting to that Relena. It was then he seemed to go into thought and reminisce about the events during the White Fang Coup stating that it was 'too perfect' at the colony, just like it was during that time when you were kidnapped."

"And now Heero's been taken captive!" Relena exclaimed, suddenly standing up from her chair startling both Lady Une and Duo who had remained silent in the background during most of the conversation.

"Relena, now is not the time to get distressed," Dou stated as he tried to reassure her, but it did not help. The floodgates had been opened and Relena's emotions had come spilling out. The only thought that was going through Relena's head was that all of this was not real. There is no way that Heero could be help captive, no one could beat Heero.'

It was then that Lady Une stood up and stated in a very commanding tone, "There is no use in getting hysterical now Ms. Peacecraft."

But this only added fuel to the fire as Relena whirled to turn around and stared at Lady Une with such a fire that it almost seemed to ignite the air between them as Relena practically almost yelled, "That is not longer my name I went through so much to get what I have now and you will call me by that name and no other!"

After the outburst from Relena the room went unearthly quiet. It was as if the room and been transported into space because no sounds were heard. Not the almost constant noises from outside the office and the building itself, neither from the city outside the large windows of Lady Une's office. The silence was held for what seemed like an eternity as none of the occupants inside dared to move. It wasn't until the door to the office opened and four people entered that the silence was finally broken, but still no one spoke until one of the people with long platinum blonde, almost white, hair stated, "Well then Relena what do you want us to do?"

The question immediately split the tension in the room. Relena turned to face the four new entries into the office. They were all very familiar faces. The two on the left were none other than her brother Milliardo Peacecraft, who now went by his old alias Zechs Merquise and his wife Lucrezia Noin. Relena's expression instantly softened as she stared into her brother's deep silver blue eyes and it wasn't until Noin had walked over to her and gently placed her arm around her did she break down in silent sobs.

Zechs then to Lady Une and asked with just a hint of malice, "I thought that we weren't suppose to start until we all were here?"

Lady Une let out an exhausted sigh and replied, "It seemed as if I didn't take in Mr. Maxwell's excessive driving into account." And with that both of them turned to face the man in question.

"Hey don't look at me," Duo answered pointedly, "You ordered me to bring her here a.s.a.p. and that's what I did."

"Yeah, but you could just have driven a little slower?" came a sarcastic question from a dark haired man. It was this man and another woman standing beside him that completed the new arrivals to the office.

Duo rounded on him and said in an exasperated tone, "how about next time you try and drive with Relena staring daggers at you the entire time. I was scared that she was going to kill me if I too to long getting here."

"You know that wouldn't have happened Dou," came a reply from the dark blonde woman standing beside the man. Sally Po and Wufei Chang stood relaxed in their Preventer uniforms. To an unknowing party they might have seemed uninterested in what was going on but that was as far from the truth a possible.

Coughing lightly Lady Une signaled for the conversation to return to topic as she explained the situation to the newcomers. The tension soon returned to the room as the people digested exactly what Lady Une was saying. Wufei was the first to speak, "There must be something else going on. There is no way that Heero would have gotten captured with out a fight," as Duo nodded in agreement.

"I agree," Zechs said, "Yuy is more than a handful. If someone tried to take him down it would not have gone unnoticed."

"So then what then has the delegates said to his disappearance?" Sally asked.

"There has been no communication from the colony," Lady Une replied, "The colony has gone dark."

"Oh great this sounds just like another White Fang Coup just waiting to happen," Duo sighed throwing his hands up into the air. "Sorry but if I have to get out old Deathscythe again it will not be done just to put down a small terrorist group."

"But these people don't really seem to be all that smart do they?" Wufei stated. "I mean they took the one guy who most would know by now would be the biggest problem to any uprising. I mean after it became known people started steering clear of Relena and the threats against her all but stopped just because he was around her."

"That would be the point Wufei," Noin replied after helping Relena into the chair in front of Lady Une's desk. "To take out the most dangerous person to their plans. It became easier because the media found out that Heero was the pilot of Wing Zero and with that he became known as the one who saved the earth's sphere not once but twice."

The group of people continued to discuss what was going on and what the next step of action should be but Relena was only half paying attention. It seemed like a cruel sense of irony that their roles almost seemed to be reversed now. Heero was missing or being held like a political prisoner and it was her being debriefed in the Preventer's HQ. She now knew what Heero must have felt each time something had happened to her.

It was terrifying to her to feel as if there was nothing that she could do and she addressed the room at large, "Is there anything that I can do? Is there anything that I can do? As Relena Peacecraft… No as Relena Lowe there must be something that I can do."