Chapter X

Disclaimer: *hmmph… I just don’t own them… none of these beautiful men are mine. ( sad I know) **Raspberries* to those who want to sue me for I am a broke poor folk! *hmmph*

The morning light intruded upon their sleep. Relena rolled over and tried to cling to her beautiful dream for a little longer. Damn, you always wake up during the good parts. She thought. Her eyes drifted to the form lying next to her. The god she loved looked like a child in his sleep. She brushed a hand tenderly across his face. She smile at him. He was so tender with her. Everything that he had done to her during the night was always gentle and loving. She loved looking at him while he slept. He looked like an angel. The form of his naked body beneath the silken sheets was pure bliss to her. She could not imagine any man more beautiful than her Heero. He moaned her name and rolled over in his sleep. He’s so damn adorable when he’s sleeping. She giggled. Heero’s eyes began to open. "Morning sleepy head," she giggled in his ear. He smiled up at her.

"Good morning, Relena. Are you feeling OK? I didn’t hurt you did I?" he questioned. She shook her head. He reached out and held her to his chest. "I love you so much, Relena. I wanted to kill him so badly for taking you from me. What did he do to you? Only tell me if you want to," he pleaded with her. She smiled and kissed him.

"I want to tell you. Maybe it won’t hurt so much if I do," she looked into his eyes. "Well, there was that explosion then…" she rambled on. Minutes later she had told him all about her experience, bringing tears to her eyes, she finally told Heero about Andrew raping her, over and over again. "…And that’s when you and Duo came in. I wanted so bad to die, but I couldn’t because I would have broken you. I didn’t want that," she smiled. All Heero could do was to gather her in his arms and hug her.

"You are so brave, Relena. You went through hell and now I have done what I can to mend you. There was this line in this play I read by Shakespeare," Heero began. (Heero reads Shakespeare??) "and it said, ‘Love sees not with the eyes, but with the mind, and so is winged Cupid painted blind,’ and I thought of us. You loved me even with the flaws. So this is how I love you. I fix you when you’re broken, wipe your tears when you cry, love you when you feel unloved. I try to do my best and I hope it can be enough for you," he finished and looked at Relena. She was crying at his words. "Don’t cry. You are prettier when you smile," he cooed. She smiled through her tears.

"Thank you. And your bets is enough," she spoke in a whisper barely audible. He looked down to her left hand. The engagement ring was still there. He smiled and pulled her close to him in the bed, their bare flesh pulled tightly together.

"Relena, do you see that ring?" She nodded. "Well I bought that ring so you could see just how much I love you," he whispered in her ear. She leaned in and kissed her Heero. "Now, I think," he began with an evil grin on his face, "that you are not quite healed. So I believe I have more fixing I need to do," he spoke. A moment later he was upon her. She giggled at him. They began their dance for the second time.

A week later at the mansion… "Rel-chan! Girl, you look great. What the hell did he do to you?" Hilde questioned her best friend.

"He fixed me," was all Relena said. Hilde understood. The girls giggled and everyone else looked on with a perplexed look on their faces. Between the "ooohhh, how sweet"s to the "DAMN, you two did what?" to the "and you lasted that long" to the ever amazing "FOUR TIMES???" the others got the picture. Hilde nudged Duo and pointed over to Heero.

"Take notes from him. From what Relena says, HE is the MASTER of all that. HINT, HINT," she said to Duo in a not-so-quiet tone. Everyone laughed. Duo, feeling hurt, plopped down on the couch and sulked.

"Damnit Hilde, I can be like Heero!" he yelled as he scooped Hilde up and ran up the stairs to their bedroom. "We’ll be back in three hours," he smirked.

"Just what did you tell them?" Heero questioned.

"Oh, just this and that," she smiled, content in helping out Hilde’s sex life. "We won’t see them for a while." Heero, Relena, the remaining Gundam pilots and their girlfriends sat around the kitchen table and reflected on the past week. "I think Hilde will be my maid of honor," Relena said thoughtfully.

Heero nodded. "And Duo will be the best man," he said after a moment of thought. "I just hope that they can part from each other long enough for the ceremony to be held," he concluded while everyone laughed.

And so all was back to normal. And somewhere not so far away, in the rose garden Relena held so dear, a shadow crept across the wall. An evil smile crossing it’s features. The shadow spoke into the night, "Enjoy your life now. It will be forever changed later, love…" the voice trailed into the night.

Relena’s head sot up from the coffee cup she was holding. "It’s not over," was all she said. It was all that needed to be said.

Finé

or is it?

Authoress note: I took bits of inspiration from various stories that I had read. Thank you to Amanda for giving me the wicked mind to do this. And thank you to Anthony for understanding.

This was my way of telling the world about a man that should not be here. So in a way, this to is my own story. Thank you Andrew for making me strong. I wish for you a fall from your glory. Aine tèn nomes.