Preventer Headquarters, Luxembourg 9:00 P.M.

Sally vigorously rubbed her bleary eyes. Sleep was nature’s energy charger, but for a doctor standing in the calm center of a storm, it was a curse well resisting.

Very few times in the past had Sally ever chosen a favorite patient. It was unprofessional. However, at the moment as she spilled herself over the child’s graphs and charts, she had a gut wrenching feeling deep in the pit of her stomach that something just was not right. It was not that there was something not normal about the kid, but it was that the kid was not normal.

She was quickly jolted out of her silent reverie as she heard yelling coming from the Medical Ward, the frightened screaming of a child. Gathering her wits about her, she ran from her office with her white coat billowing out behind her.

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It had taken her a full ten minutes to calm him down. Normally, she would have thought what she found was funny. She had ran in the room in an obvious alarm to find the little boy screeching and screaming, turning and tossing, and hitting and kicking at his night nurse, who herself was shrieking like a banshee.

Now, Preventer Water sat casually at the edge of the child’s bed talking to him in a low whisper, “I’m Doctor Sally, what’s your name?” She tried to hide the grimace that crossed her face when she realized how lame she had sounded.

Silence of a stifling state resided in the small white room until a dispirited murmur echoed from his small pale mouth, “Alexander…”

“Alexander,” she repeated rolling the name over her tongue to get familiar with it. “Do you mind if I call you Alex?”

He shook his head sending his already chocolate colored disorderly hair to become more unruly. “Everybody started calling me that when my Daddy…” He trailed off when a curious look breached his innocent blue eyes. “Is my Daddy here?”

“I don’t know, Alex. What’s your Daddy’s name?”

Silence once more reigned until slowly came out his hesitant answer, an answer she was not expecting, “Heero Yuy…”

~ * ~

Former Cinq Kingdom; Same Time

“No… No! Please don’t! I… I… I love him! Please don’t kill him! Please… Please! I’ll do anything! Don’t!”

“Relena! Relena, wake up!” came the harsh whisper as the figure it belonged to pulled the Princess into a sitting position with its strong masculine arms. He leaned her into his embrace openly letting her cry into his chest.

Slowly, she opened her eyes to see a shirt strewn tightly over the man’s muscle ripped chest. She felt weight draped over her shoulders and out of the corner of her eyes what she could see through her obscured vision was what seemed to be a tattered ebony leather jacket. When she sniffled, the scent of gunpowder and grilled cheese sandwiches invaded her nostrils.

“Heero?”

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