This is how it should be, he thought to himself, Me and Relena, together like this. This feels… right.

Somewhere I Belong Chapter 14 A wrench By: Miguela

Heero held Relena gently, his arm around her shoulders, and they talked quietly. Heero told her of his job on L1, and how they had cleaned up the colony that he was currently living on well. Relena listened and commented on how his apartment was blown up as a message to him.

"Heero, do you think we can beat them?" she asked him as she pulled away from him and sat facing him so he could lay back and get some rest.

"I think that we can," he said to her as he put his arms behind his head to cushion his head. "Do you believe in me, Relena?" he asked her quietly.

"Of course I do," Relena said to him gently as she started to shift and fiddle with her hair, "I'm just worried, Heero."

He nodded in understanding, "We all are," he said to her gently. "Could you get me a laptop, Relena? I want to listen to music."

"You mean your Linkin Park?" Relena asked him with a smile as she went in to her purse, "I brought your old MP3 player, though I don't know if your music tastes are still the same."

He shrugged as he took the MP3 Player from her, "Thanks Relena," he said to her, "And I have another favour to ask you."

She set her purse aside as she stood from his bed, "What is it, Heero?" she asked him gently. "At this point, I'd do anything, I'm just so happy that we're not fighting any more."

"Could you start calling me by Lee Kodora?" he asked her, "That's my real name, and Heero Yuy was just a code name."

Relena nodded, "Sure, He-Lee," she said to him with a smile, "I just think that Heero Yuy suites you so well. Doctor J knew your heart when he gave you that code name."

Heero smiled at Relena as he set the MP3 Player on his end table and sat up slowly. "Do you have your speech ready?" Heero asked her quietly as he started to check the bandages on his chest. They were stuck to the bullet wounds in his side and chest. He gently and gingerly peeled them off and changed them himself as Relena watched and assisted him when she could.

"Maybe you should let the doctor do that for you, He-Lee," she said to him gently as she started to clean the wound on his back. She ran her fingers along his shoulders and back gently. "Lee, you're full of scars," she said to him sadly.

"Scars prove that I've lived through many experiences," Heero said simply as he leaned forward for Relena. He let Relena work as he set up the MP3 player to blast music so that he could sleep peacefully. Ever since the end of the war, he kept having nightmares about all the people that he had killed over the years and he found that the music pulled his mind away from the depressing thoughts. He smiled, Relena knows me too well, he thought as he let the music play from the head phones.

Relena rested against his back after she had finished with the wound on his back. "Lee, promise me that you won't do anything crazy," she whispered, "I don't want you to fight to the death over this."

"My life is worth more than that," Heero said to her gently. "They're not going to kill me, Relena. I haven't experienced life yet, I have to do that before I die."

Relena nuzzled into his shoulder and the two of them stayed that way for a while. Heero was certain that Relena had fallen asleep against his back as he gently turned and let her rest against his chest so he could lie back with Relena.

I promise that I'll protect you, Heero thought to himself as he held Relena gently, And if these feelings between us continue, I'll have no choice but to stay with you forever. Heero fell asleep with Relena's gentle breaths tickling against his collar bone and his favourite music playing softly beside him.

It didn't take long until Heero was back on his feet. He always healed at an incredible rate and the two gunshots were no exception. Within two weeks, he was moving about with no problems and after another week and a half, Sally cleared him so he could resume his duties.

Wufei seemed to have gotten Heero's message and kept a close eye on Quatre, who was acting more and more suspicious every day. Everywhere that Quatre went, Wufei was close by. Trowa's arm healed with no problems and he took over protecting Relena with Wufei and Quatre.

Heero spent as much time as he could with Relena, between her speeches and announcements on her campaign trail, Heero wanted to spend as much time as he could. After three and a half weeks of resting, Heero left his hospital room and went down to the gym in the lower sections of the base. He had changed in to a pair of gym pants that he had had Relena buy for him and a Preventers t-shirt and had his uniform in a gym bag. With his music blaring from the MP3 player, Heero worked out as hard as he dared on the machines and cooled down with an hour run on the treadmill. His subordinates stared at their superior in amazement as Heero jogged away. Duo came down and Heero watched him exchange banter with the other Preventers in the gym and came over to Heero.

"Lee, what in the Hell are you doing?" Duo demanded in amazement as he watched Heero run and start to build up a sweat.

"I need to start training again sometime," Heero said simply as he slowed the machine to a walk so he could have a decent conversation with Duo. Duo started on the machine next to Heero.

"So, are you and Relena back on good terms?" Duo asked cheerfully as he looked at his old friend. "You two seem to be spending a lot of time together these days."

Heero didn't bother to reply to Duo's attempt at gleaning information from him. Instead, he asked, "Have the Black Wolves made any more attempts at Relena?"

Duo sighed and shook his head, "Everything's been quiet," Duo said simply, "Though I noticed that Quatre was talkin' to himself earlier today."

"Be on your guard around Quatre," Heero said to Duo, "I think that he might be being controlled by Halen Chambers and the Black Wolves. I noticed that he's been acting strange since we got back from Colony Six. Quatre may no longer be acting of his own free will."

"Right," Duo said as he nodded, "Wufei's been keepin' a close eye on Quatre."

"I asked him to," Heero said to him as he wiped the sweat from his face and neck. "I don't want the Black Wolves to get a tip off that we know, but at the same time, I can't just pretend that I don't know either."

"And how are we going to take the Black Wolves down?" Duo asked curiously, "Colony Six's been destroyed, so how are we going to lure them out?"

"Colony Six has been destroyed?" Heero asked incredulously.

Duo nodded, "They self-destructed about a week ago," he said quietly, "Though I don't think that they did it willingly. How are we going to handle these psychos now?"

"Voting for the new president of the ESUN will begin in another week," Heero said to Duo, "If they're going to try and get rid of Relena and control the Earth Sphere, it would be an ideal time to harm Relena. In order to stop them from harming her, I think that we need to start trying to trace the transmitter in Quatre back to the source. That way, we'll find out where they're hiding out and we'll strike before they attack Relena again. Duo, I think that you should spend as much time as you can with Hilde, we may be going in to dangerous areas where we may loose our lives."

Duo nodded grimly to Heero statement, "I already thought of that too," Duo said quietly, "But how will we trace the transmitter on Quatre without him knowing?"

"I'll figure something out," Heero said to him simply as he stopped the treadmill and hopped off. "Meet me in the large conference room with Wufei, Trowa, and Quatre in two hours."

Duo looked at Heero incredulously as he headed for the shower. Heero stood under the hot water and let it soak his neck and hair thoroughly. He gingerly touched the scar on his chest from his intended suicide and marvelled at how it didn't hurt him as it usually did. Yet another scar, he thought sourly, I'm just covered in them now. He found the scar on his abdomen from and ran his finger over the freshly healed skin. He sighed and started to wash the sweat from his hair.

Once he was done showering and getting changed into his Preventers Uniform, he headed up to the large conference room to start putting his plan in motion. He gathered the necessary supplies from the supply closet and started to set up a transmission detector. It would be able to pick up the radio waves being sent or received from Quatre. This would help them find the Black Wolves and stop them from harming Relena.

As he was setting up the machine, he listened to his MP3 player, tapping his toes every so often as he got everything set up. As expected, after two hours, all the Gundam Pilots showed up at the conference room, looking rather confused as to why Heero had called them there. Heero had set up his laptop on the projector so he could outline a fake plan so that Quatre could relay the information back so they could trap the Black Wolves. It was a simple plan, though it didn't lack any of his cunning.

"All right, this is the plan," Heero started as he flicked the switch which turned off the lights and started the transmitter, "We're going to have to get Relena off this colony and back to Earth by safe means, so we're going to have to have two shuttles, one with Relena and one as a diversion. One will be leaving from point T5 at the back of the colony and the other will leave from D6. The purpose of this trap is to get Relena to Earth and lure out the Black Wolves." He checked the transmitter as it printed out coordinates. "Does anyone have any questions on this?" He neglected to mention that this would never take place, though he would relay that information to each of them, minus Quatre, separately. He had the place of where the Black Wolves were hiding and he would find them.

Heero took Duo aside as the group disbanded to get ready for Heero's fake plan. "Tell the others to gather here," he said to him quietly as he handed Duo a scrap of paper with the coordinates from the transmission. "Don't tell Quatre. I want to catch the Black wolves by surprise."

Duo nodded and headed out with a flick of his braid. And now, we're going to start getting into place, Heero thought to himself, they're going to regret having dealt with Lee Kodora.