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In the Nic of
Time-Chapter Four
Year-AC 197
March 16
Opening the front door presented a
bit of a problem. Shifting Relena’s sleeping form so that he held her against
himself with one arm, he quickly, but as quietly as he could opened the door,
feeling that it would be better to be descrete than have Peygan asking why he
was returning to the house in the middle of the night with Relena. Once the
door was open enough, he shifted Relena again so that he had her in a cradling
hold and kicked the door shut after they were inside.
Stairs
or service elevator? Heero Yuy may be a lot stronger than he looks, but
even he would have trouble carrying another person up that many flights of
stairs. Elevator. Walking a quietly
as possible, Heero began making his way across the mansion.
He froze suddenly. People were talking, Duo and another voice
that he didn’t recognize. Figuring that
it must be one of those people that Relena had mentioned earlier, he continued
on his way, taking a peek as he passed.
Duo and another boy were playing
some sort of combat video game. A girl lay asleep on the couch behind them as
though she had been watching and happened to fall asleep. Duo turned around,
obviously having heard Heero walking and made some sort of choking noise.
“Hey, Heero, you gettin’ some?” he
asked, snickering
“Be quiet, Maxwell, you’ll wake her
up,” Heero hissed, whispering.
“Are ya?”
Heero blushed. “No.”
Duo snickered again. “I don’t think
I’ve ever seen you blush before, Heero.”
Heero’s eyes went from Duo to the
girl that had been on the couch, who was now trying to wrestle one of the video
game controllers from the other boy. Then she noticed Duo’s abandoned
controller and let go of the boy’s, who fell backwards and grabbed the other
one.
“Wing!” Duo protested, “I was
playing!”
“Well, now it’s my turn, you and
Vinnie have had the game for hours.”
Heero excused himself before a full
blown argument began and continued for the elevator. The rest of the cross house excursion was uneventful.
Luckily, the door to Relena’s room
wasn’t closed all the way, and Heero just bumped it with his hip to get it
opened. Then he noticed that Relena’s bed was made, so he once again adjusted
his grip so that he had one hand free, and pulled the covers back, set Relena
down, and covered her with the blankets.
He began to back out of Relena’s room, glad that he didn’t have to carry
her anymore. When he awoke on the park bench they both had fallen asleep on, he
thought carrying her back rather than waking her up would be better; they would
be together and she would be quiet
for once in her life. But carrying
someone for forty five minutes straight had it’s down sides, and he did NOT
want to explain his actions, which he would have had to do if he woke her
up. When she woke up in the morning,
she would more than likely drop it.
Standing at the threshold of her
room, Heero turned to look back at Relena again. He walked towards her again, and knelt down by her bedside. Slowly, his hand reached out and he brushed
her hair away from her face. Without
even an answer for himself as to why he was doing such a thing, Heero leaned
down and ever-so gently kissed Relena on the cheek. And then he left her to her dreams.
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Breyer’s plan was impressive,
guaranteed to work, Gundam pilots or not. Not even they could stop them
now. Sure, distroying the capital of
the Sanc Kingdom would be a large job, but they were up to it. The king’s days were numbered and after
that, they’d get his sister. The entire country would suffer for the grave
mistakes of the royal family.
The thing about Breyer’s plan that
was so perfect, was that it was so simple.
It would all be over before anyone even expected anything. Straight forward and simple. Blow the whole thing up.
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Year-AC 215
January 8
Duo tried knocking first, but it didn’t get him anywhere. He tried knocking harder next, but that
didn’t work either. He tried braking in.
That did work. His motive: find
out why he and Hilde hadn’t seen their son since Wing pulled him away the
morning before. So now, Duo found
himself in Dr. J’s laboratory, trying to figure out what in Deathscythe Hell
was going on. Instantly he knew he
would not get any answers from Dr. J.
The man was dead. From the looks
of he died due to an explosion, half of him was burned severely and there was
melted machinery all around him. And no trace of Vingt.
Pulling a cell phone out of his
pocket, Duo dialed Quatre’s number as fast as he could.
“Hello?”
“Hey, Quatre, it’s Duo.”
“You haven’t seen Katrina by chance
have you? I mean with Vingt or something.” Quatre said nervously.
“She’s been gone since yesterday,
huh?” Duo asked.
“Yes, how do you know?”
“Same with Vingt. My guess is Wing is with him, if she wasn’t,
she would have started looking a long time ago. You think Kitty is with them?”
“Probably, though I’m still worried.
I wonder if Wing’s cousin is with them, he must have gone to the meeting and
that’s where Katrina was going to the last I saw her.”
“Hey!” Duo shouted. “I know how we
can check up them!! That nerve impulses thing that they have. Vingt told me about it once, Dr. J implanted
the kids with a device that measures their nerve impulses, it’s how they keep
tabs on each other, I bet Dr. J had something like that, too.”
“Had?”
“Yeah, well, he’s passed on...”
“....”
“My thoughts exactly.”
“I wonder what happened,” Quatre
mused.
“I’m not sure, I think it was an
explosion, though, there’s a lot of melted metal where I found him...”
“Better call someone to do an
autopsy.”
“You call, and I’ll find the
impluses thing.”
“Sure, Duo.”
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Year-AC 197
March 16
When Relena awoke in her room, she
didn’t think much of it. It was, after all, where she normally woke up. It was when she realized that she was still
wearing the same clothes as yesterday that she got confused. It wasn’t like her to just fall asleep in
her clothes. It also occurred to her
that she didn’t know how she got there, she didn’t remember going to bed.
Mentally, she reviewed the day before, got up, went to a meeting, went shopping
with Hilde and Dorothy, meet Kitty and the others, used them as an excuse to
talk to Heero, went for a walk with him and never came home. He must have taken her back after she fell
asleep on that bench that they just sat on together in silence for hours.
She blinked when she realized he
must have carried her the whole way home.
How sweet. Wish I had been awake for that, she thought. I
wonder what you were thinking, Heero.
Will you even say anything or will you just pretend it never happened?
She got up, took a shower, got
dressed and went down stairs to see what sort of a mess Duo made in the kitchen
this morning. As she descended the
staircase, she saw Heero sitting in one of the chairs in the living area,
reading the newspaper. She smiled, more
to herself than anyone else, and decided against disturbing him. She didn’t see, however, Heero peeking over
the edge of the paper to watch her go by.
When Relena arrived in the kitchen,
she saw flour everywhere, including all over Quatre, Wufei and Duo, who were
all eating biscuits.
“Hey, Re! Guess what!” Duo shouted.
Relena cringed. “What?”
“We can cook!!”
Relena surveyed the kitchen again. I have never felt this sorry for the maid in
my entire life. Somewhat disgusted,
and NOT wanting to know how Duo convinced Wufei that he should help make
biscuits, Relena retreated from the kitchen. While walking away, she passed
Heero, who had abandoned his newspaper.
“Don’t go in there,” Relena told him, pointing towards the kitchen
as she passed.
Watching her go by him, Heero
suddenly reached out a grabbed Relena by the wrist in a iron grip and pulled
her back towards him. She stared at him, wide-eyed and confused. Heero returned the stare, not confused, but
with something that Relena couldn’t place.
After a few moments, Heero suddenly pressed his lips against Relena’s.
Her eyes grew even wider. The man of her dreams was KISSING her. She had been sure that he didn’t really like
her that much. He didn’t really act
like he did, sure, he always promised to protect her, but that was undermined
by similar promises to kill her. And now he was kissing her. She was too surprised to even kiss back.
When Heero finally pulled away from
Relena, he licked his lips, and stared at her again, but didn’t let go of her
wrist. He wound his other arm around
her waist and pulled her against him and kissed her again. This time, she
kissed back.
Two flour-covered Gundam Pilots
emerged from the kitchen and clamped her hands over their own eyes and Duo’s.