Conspiracy
Chapter Two
“It is true!” Shinigami insisted
interrupting Quatre’s gentle tone. However, the Arabian went unfazed by his friend’s
rude conduct.
“But Duo we have no way of finding
Heero’s location. He may not even… have a location.”
“You sayin’ he’s dead, Q- man?”
“No, not really! I just…”
“I say the reckless, son of a bitch
got himself killed along time ago.”
“Oh come on Zechs! Is that anyway to
talk about your future brother- in- law?”
“The day I let Yuy marry my little
sister is the day when Hell freezes over.”
“Oh, wake up and smell the ammonia,
Zechs. It’s already been there, done that, and now it’s doing it again!”
“Maybe we should at least try to
find Heero,” Quatre slowly spoke up, while looking at the ground to escape
Preventer Wind’s death glare sent in his direction.
“Finally, someone agrees with me!”
“I object!”
“Wu- man! What d’ hell are you a’
doing?!”
“Lady Une put me in charge of this group and I will not
go wasting our resources and valuable time to find some idiot to whom you think
could win this war for us!”
Duo slumped into his bed in overdramitized
exasperation. Closing his eyes he breathed out, “Okay, now we are back were we
started from.” He blinked open his eyes and rested them solely on Zechs.
“Let’s recap, shall we? Who saved us the first time
against White Fang with no help what so ever from you, eh, Zechs?”
The older man grumbled and the braided one put a hand
up to his right ear mockingly and spoke in an annoying singsong voice, “I can’t
hear you!”
“Yuy!”
“Now, now, was that so hard?” Just as the words flowed
effortlessly from his mouth a mischievous smirk graced his mouth and a devilish
glint twinkled in his indigo eyes.
“Okay, round two! Who saved us from the Mariemaia
Incident with no help what so ever from you, eh, Wufei?”
“Yuy.”
“Exactly. Do you see a pattern forming here or do I
need to shove those sticks up your asses even further?”
“Duo, it’s not that we are nothing without Heero,
but we are nothing without our Gundams.”
“Okay, so I can admit that either way is basically a
lose- lose situation, but I can’t see why you just won’t agree with me!”
“Because we don’t won’t to stoop down to your level.”
“I never thought I’d say this to you, Barton, but if
you start givin’ me the lip,” he balled up his hand and waved it threateningly
at the acrobat. “This fist will go right through your lip!”
“Weak coming from a man who can’t even stand on his
own.”
“That was low, Wufei, even for you.”
~ * ~
Relena sighed as she moved away from the door of the
shelter to walk back to a large pile of gray rubble to sit next to Nion who was
vigorously typing on a laptop that had the Preventers’s insignia on the top of
it.
The Princess sat down next to her sister- in- law
and leaned against her as sibling would do. However, when the other woman halted
in her fingers’ dance, it alerted the golden haired twenty- one-year-old.
“Something wrong, Nion?”
She could not stop the smile that immediately wove
itself on her face as Relena addressed her by her maiden name. Even now after
nearly being married to Zechs for almost three years, her associates still had
the habit of being called ‘Nion’. Heck, her husband still called by her maiden
name.
“Relena, you look like you could use a good girl
talk.”
Now, it was Relena’s turn to smile but the tone it
held was more of sadness then of happiness. The girls she had met during or
after the war in some cases had become her closet friends. This turn of events
began to happen in the year of AC 197. It was during this time that the Earth
Sphere United Nation had become stable with peace.
They had met at the Earth Sphere United Nation’s First
Annual Winter Ball that had been a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of
the Eve Wars and the first anniversary of the Mariemaia Incident. (It was only by
the year of AC 200 had it become an ‘annual’ event.)
The girls, Relena, Catherine Bloom, Hilde Schbieker,
Sally Po, and Lucrezia Nion, had all finally met and with a lot persuasion on
the Pilots’ parts, they had become friends even to the point were they could
second guess another’s actions.
However, they all were very busy women. Relena, of
course, being the Vice Foreign Minister and the Princess of the most important
kingdom in the ESUN, she had very little time. Catherine was the star of the only
existing traveling circus. Hilde was a co- owner of the Maxwell Incorporated
Scrapyard. Sally was a full time Preventer/ MD. While, Nion was Vice President,
or second in command of the Mars Terraforming Project.
Even though, the group only got to get together a
few times that did not mean that the tragedy did not hit them hard.
At the age of twenty- one, Catherine Bloom died on
the day of July 15, AC 198 from natural causes. She had come down with typhoid
fever on July 3rd of that year and did not recover. She had passed
on nearly two weeks after being diagnosed with the sometimes-fatal virus.
Relena had smiled because Cathy had come up with the
‘girl talk’ bit and they (as in the Gundam girls) to this day said the line in remembrance
of their knife throwing friend.
“Well, Nion, it’s just that I’ve been having these
nightmares…”
Standard Disclaimers Apply