Another day, another love letter. What has become of my life? An all encompassing need to write this series has taken over, that's what has happened. Oh, well. I'll stop complaining now so you can read the fic.

Love Letters #2: Duo & Hilde

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Author: Anika

Disclaimer: If I owned it, would I waste my hard earned, valueable free time writting fanfiction about it?

Hilde sat dejectedly on the sofa, staring at the tv. She had no idea what was on, she only wanted the noise to drown out the silence that Duo had left in her tiny apartment.

Duo had left three days before with Lt. Noin to fight. He had run out with a simple goodbye, as if he was going down to the corner store for some Cheetos or something, she recalled fondly. Duo never was one to take anything seriously. Nothing, that is, except his mission - to destroy the organization Oz.

She sighed again, then turned off the television. She thought to herself, maybe if I go for a walk, I'll feel better. So she put on her fleece jacket and walked outside, feeling the artificial sunlight warm her face.

Jogging down the street, Hilde noticed how everything looked drab, almost like a faint copy of an original...something.

"This isn't working," she murmmered to herself. Her surroundings just made her feel worse. The former Oz agent decided to just go home and eat her usual gallon of chocolate ice cream. Chocolate ice cream was the only thing that could cheer her up when she got like this. Ice cream and Duo.

"Damn!" she cried, as she walked up the steps. "I can't even enjoy the thought of ice cream without thinking of him!"

She got her mail and went inside, throwing it on the kitchen table. Going to the freezer, she got her ice cream and procceeded to sit at the table and sort through her letters. Suddenly, one caught her attention. It had scrawling, rushed handwritting on it, and a red stamp that said: Return to Sender.

With shaky hands, Hilde opened the letter and read what she thought was certainly bad news.

Hey, Babe!!

If you got this letter a couple days after I left, then my plan has worked perfectly. I mailed it the day before I left, so you should get it..oh, I don't know, maybe two days after my departure. I hope you're ok. I'm sorry I just left like that, but you know how I am. Actually, that's not the reason I acted like that. It was so you wouldn't know how worried I was about all this. I don't like being worried. And I also don't like people knowing I'm worried. But you know all this, already. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm scared. Of this war, of dying, of losing you. Damn, that sounds corny, but it's the truth. If I don't make it through the war, I want you to know that I love you, and want to be with you. Now, I have to go, but I'll see ya soon, ok? Duo

Hilde crumpled the peice of paper in her hands and fought the tears that were threatening to spill out over her cheeks. Oh no you don't, Maxwell, she thought, You don't get off that easily. You don't say your goodbyes until I'm there with you.

With new resolve, she got up and went to her closet. After searching for what seemed like forever, she found what she was looking for. Her old Oz uniform.

"I might not be able to help you guys fight Oz," she said out loud, "But I can help you in other ways."

Putting the letter in her pocket, Hilde departed her apartment and locked the door. "Just you wait, Duo. You'll see that I can help you, just as much as the other Gundam pilots."

The End

If you hadn't figured it out, that's when she gets the brilliant idea to sneak on board Libra and get the info for them. Ok, I'll see you people on the next one!