Greetings… General stuff; Gundam Wing is not mine, but I enjoy playing around with it some. I don’t pretend to be good at this writing stuff, so read enjoy, hate, or whatever. Anyways thanks for your time. General time is AC 200. EW takes place.

Thanks for all that read chapter one and left comments. Much appreciated! Here we go again. J

My Goof!!! +++ I goofed somewhere so Fanfiction.net reads 3 chapters. Currently there are only 2. My apologies for the confusion. –Thank you!

Chapter 2 “Proposal.”

“Ladies and Gentlemen from the flight deck we will be docking at L2 within the next thirty minutes. Please help us prepare the cabin for arrival by placing your…”

Heero’s eyes fluttered slightly waking from his sleep, he barely caught the announcement. At one point his senses were keen to any movement or sound around him even on the level he once considered sleep. ‘Am I getting loose, or comfortable?’ He asked himself.

“You got to admit Heero, traveling in first class is much nicer than flying our own shuttle.” Duo grinned pulling a blanket over himself.

Duo always had a way with words. No problems expressing reservations, feelings, or concerns over anything. No problem talking at all. ‘Who am I to question Heero Yuy?’ Those words rang in Heero’s head again. Duo meant well ‘But so do I.’ He told himself.

“You’re right. I don’t have to worry about us crashing with you out of the cockpit. That in itself does make this flight much more.” Pausing for a moment, “Comfortable.” Heero returned to Duo with a cool face.

 “Hey!” Duo protested.

 Heero let a smile come to his face. “Just pushing your buttons.”

“Well what’d you know? You do have a sense of humor.” Duo chuckled.

“Heero about Relena, I’m sorry if I got you upset I’m sure you have your reasons. I would just hate to see, well something bad happen between the two of you.”

Heero’s face kept its smile as warm thoughts of her flooded his mind. Her face and the smell of her perfume penetrated his soul. Slowly she faded, now his mission took her place. The brutal smell of a solider. The heart of a warrior. The warm thoughts of a lover. Did Duo know of his internal struggle? He lost his smile.

“I would too Duo. Some things can’t be helped. I will stop Campbell.”

“Um, don’t you mean we will stop Campbell?”

 Heero nodded.

“Minister Darlian. What a pleasure to see you again.” A tall and middle-aged John Campbell welcomed Relena with a broad sweeping smile and a light handshake.

 “The pleasure is mine.” Relena returned his smile and moved to Congresswoman Kate Mitchell greeting her amongst three other members of Congress and several colony delegates.

The group moved into the grand hall where the colony delegates met for business and began a day of debating various issues ranging from waste management between Earth and the Colonies; to expansion of the frontier and what role the Colonies would par take.

While Relena loved her job, some days like these marathon meetings grew tiresome fast and two days worth would be pure torture if Campbell had anything to do with it. The man loved to hog the spotlight and would do damn near anything to get his narrow-minded points across. Him and Relena had crossed paths on more than one occasion, it was no secret they didn’t care for each other. Rather than fight him directly on some initiatives she decided to take a more round about approach and work the Congress from behind lambasting him. Dirty tactics she figured but he did the same and the world of politics held its own fangs. Still, they both maintained a regal front each other.

“Speaking of the front,” Relena rolled her eyes slightly as Campbell started to speak. ‘Here it comes,’ She thought.

“I’d like to talk about Mars. The colony on Mars is still not an official member of this Government, yet this Government funds several large initiatives on that planet. Specifically I’m speaking of our costs. We need full control over future production on Mars to insure our investment is sound.

“I beg to differ Congressman. Mars as noted in its charter is exempt from Governmental control and leadership until the colony finishes its third phase of construction. The colony of Mars has been open to standard regulatory control and has provided all the necessary requirements to this Government. Therefore, meeting its obligations to us.” Relena wasted no time protesting his notion. After all, she had a personal steak in Mars.

“Minister, they are six months behind on the third phase. Are you saying we should not step in and see where our funding is going? Mars blatant misuses of ESUN funding is costing all of us and they give no guarantees of productivity from the planet back into the Earth Sphere to cover their initial costs. I propose a special delegation be placed on Mars for ESUN representation.”

“May I remind you Congressman, Mars is the largest Terraforming project of its kind in history. The closest colony is three days away from Mars making initial material transport timely and expensive. I assure you our resources are not being wasted and the Mars colony will become a member of the ESUN. The colony will contribute ten fold in mineral resources back into the Earth Sphere.

“Your assurance aren’t enough Minister, my delegation will put representatives in place today. We will give Mars a voice.”

“Last I checked the Earth Sphere Unified Nation Constitution prohibits this government from blatantly assigning a colony its own representatives. Per the constitution once the colony is complete a delegation will be elected from its members to represent it within the Earth Sphere. Do you plan on breaking the fundamental principals that this government were created on?” She hit her stride and the words danced in the air as they left her mouth.

“She’s good.” Duo said to Heero.

Heero allowed a small smile to make it’s way to his face. “This is what I call her solider mode.”

Duo laughed.” And here all this time I thought you were the one to watch out for.”

Heero turned his eyes to Campbell and studied the man. Brooding voice, tall, mid-size frame, dark bushy eyebrows, arrogance flowed through him like river. Yet he has careful never to play his full hand in public, Relena though had got him good. Heero noticed him shift more than a few times, fidget with his hands and watched his face change expressions several times publicly displaying his disagreement with Relena. She kept cool and calculated.

Relena and Campbell continued their exchange through another hour until a fifteen-minute recess was finally called.

Several small conversations started up at the recess. “Minister.” Relena turned around to find Campbell before her. “A nice spirited debate.” He paused for a moment; “I don’t want you thinking ill of me perhaps we could continue this conversation later over dinner.” The last thing she wanted was dinner with this man but she thought better of it. “I’d welcome that.”

“Wonderful, I’ll have my assistant contact yours.” She forced a smile, “Thank you.” And made her way out to the hallway to get some fresh air.

“It was getting heated in there.” She knew that voice. That voice she loved. “I dare to say that is Heero Yuy behind me.”

 “You would be guessing right!” He spun her around and their lips met. She gave him a large hug and felt his muscles relax. “What are you doing here?” “A little business same as you. “

“Business?” She inquired.

“It’s nothing serious, some branch work here, and well the chance to come spend some time with the perfect girl also motivated me to come.”

“Good answer, you’re getting too good at this stuff.”

“What stuff?”

“The telling me what I want to hear stuff. Seriously why are you here?” She kept a playful smile.

 “Relena.” Heero’s voice pleaded. He fought hard to keep any mask or wall up around her. Things felt so natural.

“I know! I’ve heard your speech a thousand times. Preventer business cannot be shared.” She let out sighing; “Still, I’m happy you’re here.”

“So am I.” He said barely above a whisper.

“So what are your plans?” She asked.

“I have some late afternoon business to take care of. Think you would be free for dinner?”

She let out a sigh and her body position changed as if she was now carrying a hundred pounds on her shoulders. “I just made plans with Congressman John Campbell for dinner. He wants to discuss, or I should say fight over Mars some more.” Heero showed no expression on his face.

“I will cancel though.” She said, perking up a bit.

“No, that’s okay. Mars is important to you. You should go, but I’ll meet you later in our room.”

“Our room!” Sounds like fun, she grinned and gave him a kiss. “And don’t think I’m letting up on your business here.”

He shook his head. 

Heero noticed the colony delegates flooding back into the hall. “I’ve got to get back.”

“Knock them dead Relena.” He gave her one of his full rare smiles and his eyes backed up the admiration he held for her.

Relena winked, “I’ll kill them with common sense.” she turned back to the conference room.

“Heero.”

“Yes?”

“Be careful.” She said lovingly.

He lowered his head to her softly and watched her slip back into the door.

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Heero met up with Duo in the foyer of the building, the pair moved out to their car and Duo proceeded to feed Heero some information he had gathered. ”Good news, he’ll be out for dinner tonight.”

“Yeah, Relena is having dinner with him tonight.”

“Lucky her. What are they having dinner over?”
”Mars.” Heero answered

“Mars? Ugh, thank god I’m not in politics. She’s pretty swift with those words of hers.”

“He’s going to move on us through Relena.”

“You think he would be that bold? Surely he has to know of Relena’s connection with us.” Duo asked.

Heero looked him straight in the eyes. “If I was Campbell it would be my first objective.” 

Duo had known Heero long enough to know to trust his partner on these things. While not perfect, Heero had a knack for getting into their objectives head. “Guess we play wait and see now.”

“Yeah. Buts let plan to move ahead with our plan late this evening.” Heero started up the car and pulled out of the garage they were parked in.

Duo’s stomach growled, “Sounds good but can we get something to eat first I’m starving?”

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“Ah Ms. Dorlian, I’m pleased to see you could make it.” Campbell stood and greeted Relena kissing her hand lightly.

“Thank you Congressman.” Relena sat down at a small private table in one of L2’s finest restaurants. Campbell following Relena’s queue did the same.

 A waiter came and poured a glass of wine for Relena. “I hope you don’t mind, I took the liberty of picking out the wine.”

“No not at all, thank you.” She gave the man a very weak smile and turned back to the menu sitting before her. The wine was a very expensive bottle of Chers’ davoi, AC 180. To Campbell’s disappointment she didn’t seem impressed. He studied Relena keenly. She was quite an attractive woman and it was hard for anyone not to notice. Once you cut through her beauty a strong willed and independent lady she was. ‘The Dove of peace? Perhaps.’ Campbell thought wryly.

“Minister, I won’t mince words with you. We have not, shall I say, seen eye to eye on many issues relating to the Earth Sphere. I have recently reassessed many stances I have taken before and was hoping perhaps we could work together on some issues,” Campbell began his show.

“Specifically?” She asked.

Campbell grinned. “The current Defense Oversight Committee of ESUN.”

Relena maintained her composure and showed slight interest with her face by nodding her head.

Campbell continued, “To put it simply Minister, I have the votes necessary to stop Mars dead in its tracks and you know I do. I have a long-standing history in defense and I would welcome the opportunity to be placed on the Defense oversight committee. You can help vote me in and in turn I’ll give you all the leeway you want with Mars.”

Her stomach turned sour and she shook her head. She was expecting something like this ‘Fight fire with fire.’ She thought. “Interesting but I’m afraid Congressman, I have no intentions of using my vote to add you to the committee and as you well know without me you have no chance of making the committee.” Her face stayed cool and calm.

Campbell let out a heavy sigh and his voice echoed slight irritation. “I was hoping we might have some ground to work on here. Alas I was wrong, I’ll just have to go around you Minister.”

“Go ahead and try Congressman. I won’t be another pawn in your pocket.” She stood up. “I’m sorry I’ll be leaving you to dine by yourself. Good day.”

Campbell grabbed her hand before she could walk away. Her head whipped around to find his eyes devoid of sentiment and his voice cold.

“Minister, don’t make the same mistakes your father did.”

End Chapter 2 – If you’re still with me. Things will start to heat up now. Just want to lay the groundwork for what’s to come. Thanks for your thoughts and comments.

 * ESUN – Earth Sphere Unified Nation

+++ I goofed somewhere so Fanfiction.net reads 3 chapters. Currently there are only 2. My apologies for the confusion. –Thank you!