Chapter 7 Dinner and a War
Leilani sat at a table of one of the fancy restaurant the kind that her dad hates but mom loves. However this wasn't a family dinner or one of the times she had eaten out with the Athha's or the Yamato's she was sitting with her enemy.
"So Leilani I heard you are top pilot." said Relena
"Yes, President Darlian." said Leilani as a waiter came by and dropped off a bowel of soup in front of them all.
"Please call me Relena. I want to be friends with my top pilots."
"Aunt Relena it's been so long since you came to visit us." said Marena
"I am sorry but I have been very busy." said Relena as she turned to her niece with a smile.
"Ya, busy planning a genocide." thought Leilani
"We understand." said Bernardo "Maybe once this is all over you will have time."
"Maybe but right now I want to know about you Leilani." said Relena
"What do you want to know?" asked Leilani
"Just tell me about yourself." said Relena
"Well I am an orphan and a mobile suit pilot at a mine." said Leilani as she shipped her soup.
"I read that in your file but a file is only a piece of paper I want to know about you." Said Relena
"Sorry Miss Darlain but I feel my life is not your business." said Leilani as the people around her eyes widened. Suddenly Relena started smiling.
"Very true it isn't my business." said Relena "Most people would of just told me what ever I wanted, it takes a strong person to stand up to those who are above them."
"I see." said Leilani as she tried not to death glare the woman.
"Yes, this is what everyone will be doing." said Relena "We are going to war against people who believe they are superior to everyone."
"True there are some coordinators who think they are better but there are naturals who believed the same." Thought Leilani
"We need people who will stand up to free those who are being oppressed by the coordinators." said Relena
"I just want to regain the lost honor of my teacher at the hands of Heero Yuy." said Aeneas
"Heero Yuy is confused about where he should be." Said Relena as Leilani gripped her knees so hard her knuckles were turning white. "He was turned against us by a coordinator whore."
Under the table Leilani was reaching for knife. "If she says that again, I don't care if it's against orders I will kill her." Thought Leilani
"However that isn't important he is our enemy and must be made to pay." Said Relena
"Did you date him once?" asked Marena
"Yes I did." said Relena
"What reality is she living in, my dad was to busy trying to defeat Oz to go dating." Thought Leilani
"That coordinator broke my heart by taking Heero away from me his true love." said Relena.
Leilani paused for a moment looking at the woman "She believes that…she really believes that my dad loved her." thought Leilani
"However I can't change the past all I can do is make sure that no one else has their God destined soul mate torn away from them." said Relena
"We make our own destiny." thought Leilani
"I will kill her for you; however I need to know what she looks like." said Dimitri
"That is the problem with my injuries from Peace Million explosion I lost most of my memories from that day." said Relena "All I remember is the name Lunamaria and that she has red hair."
"That explains why she doesn't realize who I am." thought Leilani
"Now Leilani." said Relena "I have something to ask of you."
"What?" asked Leilani
"I need someone who is like me to be my eyes and ears on the front lines." said Relena as Leilani's skin crawled being called like Relena. "I want you to be part of the first wave of scouts who goes in to find the enemy."
"I see." said Leilani "I will do it."
"Thank you." said Relena with a smile
"No thank you." Thought Leilani "I will be the first in, giving them a warning."
"Now lets enjoy or meals." said Relena as the main course arrived.
The rest of the meal went by the fast almost as fast as the rest of their training. Soon all of them stood in front of Zechs.
"Well we reached it." said Zechs as he walked down the line "You are all pilots in the Preventers."
"Thank you, sir." yelled all the new pilots at once.
"You are welcome, now starting Sunday you all will be heading to the lunar base to prepare for war." said Zechs "So until then you are free."
With that he walked off. "Leilani what are your plans?" asked Victor
"Rest and get ready for war." said Leilani
"Why don't you with us to our little get together." said Marena as Leilani raised an eyebrow.
"Our folks are having a get together, all the gundam pilots and their families all in one place." said Bernardo "Since Dimitri and Aeneas are coming I don't see why you can't."
"Thanks I think I will." said Leilani
A couple hours later Leilani drove up to a large house in the desert. As she walked up to the door it opened and a tall woman with long blonde hair that reached her but came up. "Ah you must be Leilani Hawke." Said the woman
"Yes, I am is this the Winner's residence?" asked Leilani
"Yes, I am Dorothy Winner." said Dorothy as she looked at the young woman "My husband's friends were talking about you."
"I hope it was good." said Leilani with a smile as she walked in.
"Yes, the kids are down the hall to the right." said Dorothy as Leilani walked pass a room were the adults were drinking a bit and talking. She walked down the marble hallway; she heard music coming from one of the doors. She opened it to find her friends standing around talking while some younger kids maybe 12 to 10 years old running around.
"Leilani." said Victor as he pulled her into the group.
"Ya." said Leilani as suddenly a young girl maybe 12 years old with black hair ran up.
"Are you Leilani Hawke?" asked the girl
"Ya and who are you?" asked Leilani
"I'm Alyssa Maxwell." said Alyssa "Are you really my brother's girlfriend?"
"What?" asked Leilani as her eyes widened.
"Alyssa get out of here." snapped Victor with deep blush as Alyssa just grinned before running off. "I am sorry about that my sister and mom have been after me to get a girlfriend and since I hang out with you, my sister thinks we are dating."
"That's ok." said Leilani as she went back to talking with her friends but she just couldn't bring herself to look Victor in the eye.
"I will be right back." Said Leilani as she walked out a side door into a large inner
"What is wrong with me?" thought Leilani as she sat down on a bench and looked up at the clear desert sky only to see that it was full of stars. "I am afraid, I am a Yuy I am never afraid. I was top in my class and part of the next generation of gundam pilots so why am I afraid?"
Just like her father she watched the night sky to calm her self down; she would always lie on the soft grass of hill near her home in orb and watch the stars while listening to the waves crash against the nearby beach.
"I guess the reason why I am scared is because I don't want to give up this life. Here I am not the daughter of one of the legendary three. Here I am a normal person and people treat me like a normal person." thought Leilani "Also I don't want my friends on either side to die…well maybe not Dimitri."
"I know who you." said Dorothy as she walked up to the young woman sit in hers and Quatra's desert home.
"What are you talking about Mrs. Winner?" asked Lei
"Do not try to fool me; I knew the moment I saw you that you were not who you say you were." said Dorothy
"I don't follow you." said Lei
"Leilani Hawke isn't your real name well at least your last name isn't Hawke it is your mother's madam name." said Dorothy "You do look a lot like her even with what I have to guess is color changing contacts."
"I am an orphan Mrs. Winner I never knew my parents." said Lei
"You act like your dad, you look up at the night sky like him and you are the sixth best pilot in the class. Probably the best because you have to hid the fact that you are a coordinator." said Dorothy as Leilani's eyes widened "You don't have to worry about me Leilani Yuy."
Flashback
"Remember do not tell anyone who you are." said Heero "Unless you know for sure that you can trust them."
End Flashback
"Ya, I am my father's daughter." said Lei as Dorothy smiled.
"You're here to stop us from attacking you." Said Dorothy as Lei nodded her head. "Sorry but you can't stop this storm. You have been around the new generation of people."
"Ya, too many people sound like the few anti-coordinator people left in our universe." said Lei "I wonder what my friends here will think about me once they find out the truth about me. I mean they are my friends even though they are out to kill me and my kind it doesn't change the fact that they are my friends."
"I see you also have your father's heart as well." said Dorothy "So my advice is simple follow your heart it will guide you."
"Now I understand why my mom liked you so much." said Leilani with a smile.
"Do you know what you are going to do?" asked Dorothy
"I can't let them attack my home but it appears that I can't get a message to them until I get back there." Said Leilani
"Sorry can't help they have grounded all space flights." said Dorothy
"I will be forced to kill the people I have been living with." Said Leilani
"I know but your goal is to make peace. I may follow Quatre's idea of peace but that doesn't mean I agree with everything." said Dorothy "Sometimes a war is needed. For years the truth has been snuffed by President Relena and she has marched this world toward war. It has to be stopped and no one here can stop them so it is up to your people to bring us peace."
"It won't be easily." said Leilani
"Nothing ever is, but tonight is possibly the last night you can be with your friends here." Said Dorothy as Leilani lowered her head. "Go be with your friends."
Leilani nodded as she headed back toward the side building and entered only to find all the younger kids had gone to bed. Her friends minus Victor where playing a card game. Slowly Leilani walked over to where Victor was eating.
"Lei where did you take off too?" asked Victor as Leilani sat down.
"I needed some air, to clear my mind." said Leilani "I am worried about what we have to do."
"Who isn't." said Victor "But don't worry I'll protect you."
Leilani's eyes widened as she looked at Victor "Protect me?" thought Leilani "I am a Yuy, I am the daughter of not one but two gundam pilots. No one has ever offered to protect me…well except my parents but they don't really count."
"Thank you." said Leilani
"No problem." said Victor with a smile that caused Leilani to smile.
The rest of their free time went fast and soon she and everyone else was heading to the lunar base and the massive amount of soldiers and mobile suits gathering there to launch an attack on her home.
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