Lost Love, Lost Prince and Marriage?
Chapter 7, Part 2
Brother Found, Soldier Lost
By Güera
Middle of Night - August 10, AC 198
All I could do was stare. I was completely shocked by her beauty. How someone could be that beautiful I didn't know and I didn't care. I just looked at her, mesmerized by her. Her precious sky blue eyes I couldn't see because she had her back turned to me. But I could clearly see her long light brown hair. Shining in the moonlight, glimmering under the stars. I wanted to approach her but I couldn't. When I finally had enough courage to walk up to her, someone else was there. I hadn't noticed that person before. Relena had her back to me but he did not. I could see his hideous face, smiling back at me. Mocking me, because we both knew he had won and I had lost. I faced the truth and it hurt. More than when I freefalled down a side of a cliff. That time I had broken my bones, but now they had broken my heart. The pain was so great. Yet he was laughing at me, at my pain, it gave him great amusement to see me like this. His hazel green eyes dancing at my misery. His face. How I hated his face. My eyes filled with resentment, jealousy, envy and hate. His arms made their way to Relena's waist, and her arms were around his neck. He gave her a kiss on the cheek. How much more of this can I take? Gideon stopped looking at me and stared into the eyes of the beauty before him. They stared at each other for a few minutes and their faces drew closer and closer. No, Relena don't kiss him! But it was too late. Their lips touched and both had their eyes closed. No. I can't let Relena fall in love with this guy. I pulled out my gun out of my pocket. I clicked the safety off and aimed carefully. Boom! Blood was everywhere. Gideon Galileo was on the floor struggling to stay alive. I smiled. Now nothing stood in the way of Relena and me. I turned to look at Relena and got the shock of my life. The beautiful pacifist princess was holding a gun to my chest. Tears were running down her cheeks. She quickly pulled the trigger. Boom! Total darkness. That's all I saw. I couldn't open my eyes. My chest hurt. Especially my heart. But the pain from the bullet wasn't much, the fact I had just learned hurt even more than any number of gunshots could. Nothing mattered anymore. Not even my own life, not that it ever did. But I thought Relena would give meaning to my life. I guess I was too late. I let the pain affect me. I let the wound slowly kill me.
I woke up sweating. It was just a dream. Good. I actually thought that one was real. Why have I been having these nightmares? They all started at the beginning of the week when Gideon Galileo came to Relena's house asking for her hand in marriage. Of course she refused but they went out. And since then they've been going out every night. I have to follow them, since I'm Relena's bodyguard but it pains me to look at them. Gideon tells a little joke and Relena laughs. Her sweet innocent laughs. How I despise him. And to think he was the one that sent that shout out to Relena on the radio. Every night I have to see them having dinner or watching a movie and once I watched them dance. Together. Like a couple. That should be me. But I'm too much of a coward. I wrote Relena a letter telling her how I feel. I was going to leave it in her room and disappear but he showed up first. But the worst part of the week has to be Hilde's wedding recitals. She's worse than a drill Sargent. I am going to be Duo's best man. That right there is bad news. I can't even remember agreeing to that. Their wedding is next week. Relena is planning to go with Gideon which means I'll go by myself if I even decide to go at all. I got out of bed and looked at the clock in my room. It read: 3:42 a.m. Great! I'll never get back to sleep. Relena wakes up in a little less than two hours. Relena. I'm going to go see her. I took the letter with me just in case I got brave. I walked out of my room and headed to Relena's.
Odelia POV
Just as I predicted my brother walked out of his room and headed for Relena's. How predictable he is. He's been doing this every night since she got a new boyfriend. Just as he's been doing. He watched her sleep. I made my presence known to him. He looked at me but quickly turned back to Relena. He must love her. That's perfect. After all they are going to get married. I already know he's my brother. Last week I took a cloth full of his blood and tested it against mine. There's no doubt about it. This love-crazed soldier is my brother. Too bad he doesn't know he's destined to marry his love. I'll try to tell him.
"Hello little brother." I said to him.
"I'm not your brother." He said without even turning to look at me. These gun dam pilots are so rude. I tried again.
"Why do you keep saying that little brother? There's a 1% chance that you are my brother." I said smiling.
"And a 99% chance that I'm not." He said. He makes me so frustrated.
"Don't you wish you were my brother so that you could marry her?" I said taking a quick glance at Relena then looked straight at him.
Heero POV
I would love to be her brother but I know the know truth. I'm not. She was expecting an answer. "No." I said. She looked shocked. I guess that wasn't the answer she was expecting. So I guess everyone knows how I feel about Relena everyone except her. Thankfully no one's told her. I looked at her sleeping body. She looked at her sleeping body. She looked so beautiful. My angel. The Angel of Peace. I would anything to protect her. Anything. Suddenly everything changed. Danger. She's in danger. Someone shot the window. The same one I climbed in through. I ran quickly to Relena and woke her up. She woke up fast. She looked at me with those blue eyes. There was fear and confusion in her eyes. I had no time to waste. We broke eye contact as two men with guns crashed through the window breaking the rest of it. Relena got out of her bed and started running. Still half asleep though she ran right into them. One of them had something in their hand and put it against her nose covering her mouth too. I could still see her eyes. They were looking straight at me. Her eyes pleading for me to help her. But I couldn't not without compromising her safety. Her eyes closed and Relena went limp immediately. Morphine. I couldn't let them hurt her. As soon as she fell both of them tried to throw her limp body out the window. Now's my chance. I gave the one with the morphine a blow to the head knocking him unconscious. I caught Relena before her precious head hit the floor.
Diff. POV
His arms went securely around her waist barely lifting her off the ground. Quickly he lifted her higher into the air, so that she had leaned against his muscled chest. A hand came up to take her back but missed and instead clashed with a strong arm. In the darkness anyone could barely see so mistaking it for the princess they pulled on it. The force was so strong Heero was pulled onto the terrorist. He was surprised to be caught off guard and had no chance to defend himself. As the hand came up to hit him, another intervened. Blocking the blow and saving them. With a mighty kick sent the stranger flying from where he entered. Heero was shocked by her strength and agility. Quickly without making a sound, she distanced herself from Heero and Relena. As she was leaving, she noticed no one was following. She signaled with her hand for him to follow. Heero understood. He became more alert, defensive and careful. Relena's head hung from Heero's arms and her feet dangled. Odelia and Heero silently along the darkened hallway. Not making a sound as they continued to walk. Another crash was heard, more of the strange men came, each holding some sort of weapon. All five of them circled Heero and Relena, trapping them. Heero looked at each and every one of them, waiting for their attack. Two came foward, one with a knife and the other with a gun. Both were equally dangerous. Closer and closer they came. Heero could not handle one of them much less five of them, not with Relena in his arms.
"We want the Vice Foreign Minister." The first one said.
"You can't have her!" A female voice yelled. Out of the shadows came Odelia. She fought against the three by standing terrorists while Heero was left with the two that were advancing quickly. The more they advanced, the more Heero retreated. 'I can't take the risk of them hurting Relena.' Heero thought. Odelia was busy trying to fight the three at the same time. One hit her on the head while another took a stab at her heart but missed and made her arm bleed instead. The last one gave her a kick in the stomach, stopping her breath. Each attack was countered by another attack. Three against one. Each side equal in strength and speed. Each equal in determination and cause. But one was stronger. The three quickly got tired as they were not planning on such good defense. One by one they tired and made a small mistake. The first one to go down didn't kick hard enough and got elbowed in the face. The second one was so tired and tried to pull out his gun, in the half second he was distracted Odelia grabbed hold of him and threw him over the edge of the balcony. Blood was heard splattering everywhere as his body hit the cold, dark floor below. The breaking of his bones was heard but not seen. She was too being cornered. Each step taking her closer to the stairs. He struck but hit only air. Thrust foward he fell, tumbling down the stairs. Not even halfway down was he dead. Breaking his neck in the long fall. The chocolate browned haired boy was not so lucky. The two attackers were still potentially dangerous. And so he kept retreating not wanting to get his angel hurt. His angel was unconscious dangling from his strong arms, not letting go. The one with the gun stepped foward, in front of his partner with the knife.
"Give us the minister!" He said.
Heero gave them a glare and said. "You can't have her." In such a cold voice that it shattered his confidence. But the second one was unaffected.
"You have been warned." The second one said. He lunged foward and thrust his knife at Heero's neck. In his defense Heero leaned backward so the attack was unsuccessful. With the unconscious Relena in his arms and his sudden movement, Heero lost his balance. His feet ceased touching the ground. His back hit something hard but it wasn't the floor. His back bent backwards and he lost his grip on Relena. She fell over his face. Heero caught her before she fell out of his grasp. Only both of them were going to fall. He thought quickly and tried to grab hold of something, anything. His hand found the rail of the balcony. One arm held them up while the other struggled to sustain Relena within his grasp. His arm was locked around her waist. A very uncomfortable position for him. His muscles strained under the pressure. The two terrorists looked over the edge to take a look at the fallen two. Instead they saw both of them still alive and hanging my Heero's strong arm.
"If we can't have then we might as well kill her." The one with the gun said and aimed his gun at Heero's arm.
"NO!!!" Odelia yelled and threw both of them over the edge. Both of them over the edge of the balcony. Barely missing Heero. Their screams were heard all over the mansion. Odelia calmed a bit after that and looked over the edge at her brother. Heero was still barely holding on. His arms still holding Relena in his grasp. His eyes were looking up at her, asking for her help. His hands were soaked with sweat and he was losing his grip. "Let go of her!" Odelia yelled down at him. Heero shook his head. Odelia kneeled down to try to help him. She got a hold of his arm. Now he was hanging by Odelia's arm. Only she alone wasn't strong enough to pull both of them up. "Let go of her or you'll both fall!" Odelia screamed at him.
"Never." Heero said and look down at his angel. His arm holding her waist. Her head and hair hanging. So precious, beautiful and essential to the peace. 'There's no way I'm gonna let my angel fall, not only is she important to the world but she means more to me than anything.' Heero thought as he looked down at her. Odelia's grip was loosening as well as Heero's. Relena was slipping through his arm. In mere seconds she had fallen through his grasp and was now doomed to meet her death on the cold ground. Odelia could finally lift Heero up but he didn't want to. "No! Relena!!" He yelled and tried to go after her. The only thing holding him back was Odelia trying to pull him back up. Heero pulled backwards and she let go but hit her head hard against the rail. Heero went down as fast as he could. He caught her just before she hit the ground. In one swift movement he grabbed Relena and flipped over so that it was him that hit the floor. His body bounced slightly when it hit the cold dark floor. Relena was safe and unscathed in the impact. Although Heero wasn't so lucky. His head was bleeding severely. And even though the fall wasn't as high as a cliff he hit pretty hard. He wasn't the only one hurt thought, Odelia was hurt too. The sudden crash with the rail gave her a headache and a black eye.
"Ouch." She said as she got up. She remembered about Heero. "What happened?" She looked down and saw the perfectly safe Relena on top of her bleeding brother. "Oh, no. Odin." Odelia said and ran down the stairs to where they were. Relena was perfectly safe, just unconscious because of the morphine. Odelia carefully lifted her off and laid her aside. She checked her brother. He was unconscious too but his head was bleeding severely. His head was so soaked in his blood that Odelia couldn't find the wound. "Damn. I'm gonna have to take him to a doctor." Odelia said.
Güera
Chapter 7, Part 2
Brother Found, Soldier Lost
By Güera
Middle of Night - August 10, AC 198
All I could do was stare. I was completely shocked by her beauty. How someone could be that beautiful I didn't know and I didn't care. I just looked at her, mesmerized by her. Her precious sky blue eyes I couldn't see because she had her back turned to me. But I could clearly see her long light brown hair. Shining in the moonlight, glimmering under the stars. I wanted to approach her but I couldn't. When I finally had enough courage to walk up to her, someone else was there. I hadn't noticed that person before. Relena had her back to me but he did not. I could see his hideous face, smiling back at me. Mocking me, because we both knew he had won and I had lost. I faced the truth and it hurt. More than when I freefalled down a side of a cliff. That time I had broken my bones, but now they had broken my heart. The pain was so great. Yet he was laughing at me, at my pain, it gave him great amusement to see me like this. His hazel green eyes dancing at my misery. His face. How I hated his face. My eyes filled with resentment, jealousy, envy and hate. His arms made their way to Relena's waist, and her arms were around his neck. He gave her a kiss on the cheek. How much more of this can I take? Gideon stopped looking at me and stared into the eyes of the beauty before him. They stared at each other for a few minutes and their faces drew closer and closer. No, Relena don't kiss him! But it was too late. Their lips touched and both had their eyes closed. No. I can't let Relena fall in love with this guy. I pulled out my gun out of my pocket. I clicked the safety off and aimed carefully. Boom! Blood was everywhere. Gideon Galileo was on the floor struggling to stay alive. I smiled. Now nothing stood in the way of Relena and me. I turned to look at Relena and got the shock of my life. The beautiful pacifist princess was holding a gun to my chest. Tears were running down her cheeks. She quickly pulled the trigger. Boom! Total darkness. That's all I saw. I couldn't open my eyes. My chest hurt. Especially my heart. But the pain from the bullet wasn't much, the fact I had just learned hurt even more than any number of gunshots could. Nothing mattered anymore. Not even my own life, not that it ever did. But I thought Relena would give meaning to my life. I guess I was too late. I let the pain affect me. I let the wound slowly kill me.
I woke up sweating. It was just a dream. Good. I actually thought that one was real. Why have I been having these nightmares? They all started at the beginning of the week when Gideon Galileo came to Relena's house asking for her hand in marriage. Of course she refused but they went out. And since then they've been going out every night. I have to follow them, since I'm Relena's bodyguard but it pains me to look at them. Gideon tells a little joke and Relena laughs. Her sweet innocent laughs. How I despise him. And to think he was the one that sent that shout out to Relena on the radio. Every night I have to see them having dinner or watching a movie and once I watched them dance. Together. Like a couple. That should be me. But I'm too much of a coward. I wrote Relena a letter telling her how I feel. I was going to leave it in her room and disappear but he showed up first. But the worst part of the week has to be Hilde's wedding recitals. She's worse than a drill Sargent. I am going to be Duo's best man. That right there is bad news. I can't even remember agreeing to that. Their wedding is next week. Relena is planning to go with Gideon which means I'll go by myself if I even decide to go at all. I got out of bed and looked at the clock in my room. It read: 3:42 a.m. Great! I'll never get back to sleep. Relena wakes up in a little less than two hours. Relena. I'm going to go see her. I took the letter with me just in case I got brave. I walked out of my room and headed to Relena's.
Odelia POV
Just as I predicted my brother walked out of his room and headed for Relena's. How predictable he is. He's been doing this every night since she got a new boyfriend. Just as he's been doing. He watched her sleep. I made my presence known to him. He looked at me but quickly turned back to Relena. He must love her. That's perfect. After all they are going to get married. I already know he's my brother. Last week I took a cloth full of his blood and tested it against mine. There's no doubt about it. This love-crazed soldier is my brother. Too bad he doesn't know he's destined to marry his love. I'll try to tell him.
"Hello little brother." I said to him.
"I'm not your brother." He said without even turning to look at me. These gun dam pilots are so rude. I tried again.
"Why do you keep saying that little brother? There's a 1% chance that you are my brother." I said smiling.
"And a 99% chance that I'm not." He said. He makes me so frustrated.
"Don't you wish you were my brother so that you could marry her?" I said taking a quick glance at Relena then looked straight at him.
Heero POV
I would love to be her brother but I know the know truth. I'm not. She was expecting an answer. "No." I said. She looked shocked. I guess that wasn't the answer she was expecting. So I guess everyone knows how I feel about Relena everyone except her. Thankfully no one's told her. I looked at her sleeping body. She looked at her sleeping body. She looked so beautiful. My angel. The Angel of Peace. I would anything to protect her. Anything. Suddenly everything changed. Danger. She's in danger. Someone shot the window. The same one I climbed in through. I ran quickly to Relena and woke her up. She woke up fast. She looked at me with those blue eyes. There was fear and confusion in her eyes. I had no time to waste. We broke eye contact as two men with guns crashed through the window breaking the rest of it. Relena got out of her bed and started running. Still half asleep though she ran right into them. One of them had something in their hand and put it against her nose covering her mouth too. I could still see her eyes. They were looking straight at me. Her eyes pleading for me to help her. But I couldn't not without compromising her safety. Her eyes closed and Relena went limp immediately. Morphine. I couldn't let them hurt her. As soon as she fell both of them tried to throw her limp body out the window. Now's my chance. I gave the one with the morphine a blow to the head knocking him unconscious. I caught Relena before her precious head hit the floor.
Diff. POV
His arms went securely around her waist barely lifting her off the ground. Quickly he lifted her higher into the air, so that she had leaned against his muscled chest. A hand came up to take her back but missed and instead clashed with a strong arm. In the darkness anyone could barely see so mistaking it for the princess they pulled on it. The force was so strong Heero was pulled onto the terrorist. He was surprised to be caught off guard and had no chance to defend himself. As the hand came up to hit him, another intervened. Blocking the blow and saving them. With a mighty kick sent the stranger flying from where he entered. Heero was shocked by her strength and agility. Quickly without making a sound, she distanced herself from Heero and Relena. As she was leaving, she noticed no one was following. She signaled with her hand for him to follow. Heero understood. He became more alert, defensive and careful. Relena's head hung from Heero's arms and her feet dangled. Odelia and Heero silently along the darkened hallway. Not making a sound as they continued to walk. Another crash was heard, more of the strange men came, each holding some sort of weapon. All five of them circled Heero and Relena, trapping them. Heero looked at each and every one of them, waiting for their attack. Two came foward, one with a knife and the other with a gun. Both were equally dangerous. Closer and closer they came. Heero could not handle one of them much less five of them, not with Relena in his arms.
"We want the Vice Foreign Minister." The first one said.
"You can't have her!" A female voice yelled. Out of the shadows came Odelia. She fought against the three by standing terrorists while Heero was left with the two that were advancing quickly. The more they advanced, the more Heero retreated. 'I can't take the risk of them hurting Relena.' Heero thought. Odelia was busy trying to fight the three at the same time. One hit her on the head while another took a stab at her heart but missed and made her arm bleed instead. The last one gave her a kick in the stomach, stopping her breath. Each attack was countered by another attack. Three against one. Each side equal in strength and speed. Each equal in determination and cause. But one was stronger. The three quickly got tired as they were not planning on such good defense. One by one they tired and made a small mistake. The first one to go down didn't kick hard enough and got elbowed in the face. The second one was so tired and tried to pull out his gun, in the half second he was distracted Odelia grabbed hold of him and threw him over the edge of the balcony. Blood was heard splattering everywhere as his body hit the cold, dark floor below. The breaking of his bones was heard but not seen. She was too being cornered. Each step taking her closer to the stairs. He struck but hit only air. Thrust foward he fell, tumbling down the stairs. Not even halfway down was he dead. Breaking his neck in the long fall. The chocolate browned haired boy was not so lucky. The two attackers were still potentially dangerous. And so he kept retreating not wanting to get his angel hurt. His angel was unconscious dangling from his strong arms, not letting go. The one with the gun stepped foward, in front of his partner with the knife.
"Give us the minister!" He said.
Heero gave them a glare and said. "You can't have her." In such a cold voice that it shattered his confidence. But the second one was unaffected.
"You have been warned." The second one said. He lunged foward and thrust his knife at Heero's neck. In his defense Heero leaned backward so the attack was unsuccessful. With the unconscious Relena in his arms and his sudden movement, Heero lost his balance. His feet ceased touching the ground. His back hit something hard but it wasn't the floor. His back bent backwards and he lost his grip on Relena. She fell over his face. Heero caught her before she fell out of his grasp. Only both of them were going to fall. He thought quickly and tried to grab hold of something, anything. His hand found the rail of the balcony. One arm held them up while the other struggled to sustain Relena within his grasp. His arm was locked around her waist. A very uncomfortable position for him. His muscles strained under the pressure. The two terrorists looked over the edge to take a look at the fallen two. Instead they saw both of them still alive and hanging my Heero's strong arm.
"If we can't have then we might as well kill her." The one with the gun said and aimed his gun at Heero's arm.
"NO!!!" Odelia yelled and threw both of them over the edge. Both of them over the edge of the balcony. Barely missing Heero. Their screams were heard all over the mansion. Odelia calmed a bit after that and looked over the edge at her brother. Heero was still barely holding on. His arms still holding Relena in his grasp. His eyes were looking up at her, asking for her help. His hands were soaked with sweat and he was losing his grip. "Let go of her!" Odelia yelled down at him. Heero shook his head. Odelia kneeled down to try to help him. She got a hold of his arm. Now he was hanging by Odelia's arm. Only she alone wasn't strong enough to pull both of them up. "Let go of her or you'll both fall!" Odelia screamed at him.
"Never." Heero said and look down at his angel. His arm holding her waist. Her head and hair hanging. So precious, beautiful and essential to the peace. 'There's no way I'm gonna let my angel fall, not only is she important to the world but she means more to me than anything.' Heero thought as he looked down at her. Odelia's grip was loosening as well as Heero's. Relena was slipping through his arm. In mere seconds she had fallen through his grasp and was now doomed to meet her death on the cold ground. Odelia could finally lift Heero up but he didn't want to. "No! Relena!!" He yelled and tried to go after her. The only thing holding him back was Odelia trying to pull him back up. Heero pulled backwards and she let go but hit her head hard against the rail. Heero went down as fast as he could. He caught her just before she hit the ground. In one swift movement he grabbed Relena and flipped over so that it was him that hit the floor. His body bounced slightly when it hit the cold dark floor. Relena was safe and unscathed in the impact. Although Heero wasn't so lucky. His head was bleeding severely. And even though the fall wasn't as high as a cliff he hit pretty hard. He wasn't the only one hurt thought, Odelia was hurt too. The sudden crash with the rail gave her a headache and a black eye.
"Ouch." She said as she got up. She remembered about Heero. "What happened?" She looked down and saw the perfectly safe Relena on top of her bleeding brother. "Oh, no. Odin." Odelia said and ran down the stairs to where they were. Relena was perfectly safe, just unconscious because of the morphine. Odelia carefully lifted her off and laid her aside. She checked her brother. He was unconscious too but his head was bleeding severely. His head was so soaked in his blood that Odelia couldn't find the wound. "Damn. I'm gonna have to take him to a doctor." Odelia said.
Güera