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Small note: Heero and Relena are lovers and not married.
Sorry for any confusion that may have caused.
+++ I goofed somewhere so Fanfiction.net reads 4
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Time seemed to slow down around her then utter shock ran through her body as she spun around to meet Campbell’s eyes. So cold, then he spoke.
“Minister, don’t make the same
mistakes your father did.”
Time seemed to stand still
before she finally moved, she did the only thing she could do. The only thing
her natural defenses told her to do. Her free hand raised and smacked John
Campbell across the face with unmeasured force. His head reeled back and he let Relena go. The left side of his
face turned several shades of red and Relena’s hand stung like fire but it was
a pain she barely felt.
Relena took several steps back
and tried to get a hold of what had just happened. Shockingly Campbell turned
his red face toward her and smiled broadly. By now even the private table they
had was public most of the restaurant had their eyes locked on the two. She
turned and left the restaurant keeping a cool and collective pace. Campbell’s
smile faded as he rubbed the side of his face where Relena made her blow. He
picked his glass of wine up and sipped it slowly.
She grabbed the first taxi she
could find and started to replay everything that had just happened in mind over
again. But kept coming back to the last thing Campbell said to her. Her father
was killed five years ago, and she had done nothing but try to live up to the
examples he set when he was the Foreign Minister. “‘Heero” she whispered,
suddenly doubly thankful he was here now.
~~
“That went well.” Karen
Thompson Campbell’s most trusted advisor took Relena’s now empty seat. She wore
her dark brown hair shoulder length and her brown eyes studied the man she had
worked for since the end of the war in 195. She had taken this position from
her fathers after he was killed in the final assault against Libra. Now she was
all of twenty-five years of age. A young but skilled advisor she studied all
objectives brought toward ex General John Campbell with diligence.
Campbell gave her a small facial expression showing his annoyance
at her comment and then spoke. “Since she’s going to be uncooperative we will
have to just move ahead with our other plans.”
“General I must caution you,
two Preventer agents are here on the colony and have taken a keen interest in
your activities. They are two former Gundam pilots, Duo Maxwell and Heero Yuy.
These two men also are the one’s who fished out Jamerson.” She paused looking
for a reaction from the General and then continued. “Also Mr. Yuy who if I am
not mistaken has a very close relationship with Minister Darlian?”
Campbell scrunched his face slightly.
“I’m well aware of who Mr. Yuy is and his connections to Darlian. Move ahead
with what we discussed.”
“Sir, is that prudent at this
juncture?” She spoke hesitantly, it wasn’t often she questioned the man.
“Yes… I’ve played my first hand
with Darlian. If she’s as smart as I think she is, she’ll waste no time now
gathering Mars support. The quicker the better before the door closes on me all
together.”
“What of the Preventer agents?”
“They are of no consequence,
I’m sure I’ll be meeting with them soon enough. Continue with our plans.” He
retorted sharply.
“Yes sir arrangements will be
set under way immediately.”
“And make sure Jamerson
receives his reward for a job well done.”
“I’ll make sure it’s taken care
of.”
The
lights on her hotel door blinked red again; carefully she swiped the card
through the reader and was frustrated to see another set of red lights. Relena
knocked on the door forcefully; making sure that if Heero were in the room he
would hear her. No answer, she tried her key card again with the same
disappointing results. “Now what else could go wrong?” Mentally exhausted she
asked herself moving down the hallway back toward the elevator so she could get
a new key made. The button indented and lit up to her touch. She raised her head
slowly and stared at the doors surprisingly they slid open and she was shocked
to find Heero standing before her. “Heero?” He stepped out and she collapsed
into his arms.
~~
“He
threatened my life.” His face fell and his heart skipped a beat. Relena sat
with her back against the headboard of their bed as she proceeded to tell Heero
the entire conversation from her brief dinner with Campbell. Heero sat stoic as
she spoke on the other end of the bed, maintaining some composure.
She
slid down the large bed and moved closer to him and looked directly into his
eyes. The room grew eerily quiet.
“I’m
sorry I wasn’t there to…” She cut him off shaking her head faintly. “I know.”
She pulled her back to his chest, he responded by wrapping his arms around her.
“I dread tomorrow, he accomplished what he wanted tonight, he scared me.”
Heero’s eyes narrowed and he almost said it but refrained keeping this thought
to himself, ‘Now it’s my turn to scare him.’
Instead
he leaned to his side slightly and took his hand turning her head toward him
gently until their eyes met. “No, he’s scared of you.”
She
smiled, “Really think so?”
”Yes, he knows you can stop him in the Congress.”
Her
smile faded “He can stop me as well. So it’s a standoff.”
His
communicator started buzzing. Heero looked away from Relena and proceeded to
answer the incoming call.
“Yuy
here.”
“Heero,
Duo here we have a real problem.”
“Roger
that, on my way.” Heero switched off the device and turned his attention back
to Relena. “I have to go.”
“Problem?”
Heero knew there was no getting out of this; she held hard determination in her
voice.
“You’re
going after him aren’t you?”
“Who?”
He tried his best to act surprised as he stood before her.
“I’m
not a fool Heero I know why he wants on that committee.” Heero’s eyes narrowed
again and his mind began to spin several different possibilities. He turned to
walk out of the room but stopped keeping his back to her. “There is a mole in
the Preventers, originating out of L2 that’s all I can tell you.”
“There
is that solider mode of yours creeping back in.”
“We’re
both good at using it when we need too.”
“The
difference is Heero, I don’t use mine with you.” Her words stung at him. He
turned around slowly and took in her full form. Her long golden hair playfully
danced about her face and her eyes pleaded with him to say something anything
before he left.
“What
do you want me to say?” He asked her.
“What
do you want to tell me?” She retorted.
Heero
walked back to her and kissed her forehead lightly. “You already know.”
Their
room phone started to ring. She starred back up at Heero and watched him leave
their room. Finally she reached for the phone.”
~~
Heero
met Duo in the lobby of the hotel. “What’s our problem?”
“There’s
been an accident on Mars.”
“What?”
“Two
members of Congress were killed as they were preparing to leave Mars after a
tour of the colony.”
“How?”
“Seems
a mining freighter lost lateral controls and rammed the docking bay where their
shuttle sat awaiting clearance to debark… Heero, these two members of Congress
we’re on the Defense Committee.”
“Relena.”
His voice was shallow. Heero took off running back to the elevator.
Blind
luck had the elevator doors slide open before Heero. He didn’t bother to wait
for the few people on to step off. He slammed the button for the twentieth
floor and Duo barely jumped in before the doors slid closed. Heero removed his
weapon first and Duo followed suit. The other people in the elevator stepped
back against the car wall the best they could, visibly shaken and confused.
“Sorry
folks don’t mind us.” Duo said as the car stopped on the twentieth floor.
The
two men bolted down the hallway stopping outside Relena’s suite.
Heero
opened the door and moved to the bedroom to find, Relena sitting on the bed her
face was pale.
“Is
it true are they dead?”