Overload Zero: Relena 2

[Krazy_kool_Snowborder_Chi]

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. I wish I did.

I have to thank all you people again who are reading this. For my first Heero and Relena fic I'm getting good reviews. Thanks. They are appreciated and cuddled. I cuddle flames to. I enjoy constructive critisim.
Krazy

(A month after New Years)
Relena lay on the floor of the female washroom in Preventer HQ for the tenth time that morning. She sighed and began to stand up cautiously from the white tiled floor and walked out of the stall to see a very concerned and very pregnant Sally standing there with her arms crossed across her chest. Relena rolled her eyes and moved the wall mounted vanity.
?How many times have you been in here this morning?? the Chinese woman asked as she cocked her eyebrow.
?My first,? Relena lied and began to splash cold water on the back of her neck.
?Now I know you?re lying,? Sally said as she uncrossed her arms and walked towards Relena.
Relena glanced up to see Sally come closer to the mirror. The simple moment of flicking her eyes up caused the room to spin and Relena was forced to shut her eyes and grip the edge of the vanity.
?Ok this is the tenth,? Relena gasped as the room continued to spin in the dark.
?Thought so,? Sally said as she took hold of Relena?s arm and moved her towards the ground.
Once on the ground, Relena relaxed as the dizziness began to subside. Sally placed the girls head in what was left of her lap. Hilde chose that moment to walk into the bathroom.
?Good, Hilde can you run to the office and get my bag?? Sally asked her partner.
Hilde took one look at the pale Relena and nodded. Hilde left the bathroom quickly and returned. Hilde crouched next to the pale Relena and quickly assessed her friend. Sally unbuttoned the sleeve of Relena?s dress shirt and rolled up the sleeve to see if the wound on her arm was festering and that what was causing the nausea and dizziness. The wound did not show signs of festering or infection. Sally breathed a sigh of relief. She then began to rack her brain for other things that could cause what had happened.
?Sally?? Relena?s faint voice startled the girl from her thoughts.
?What?s the matter?? Sally asked
?I feel really sick,? she said in a childish voice.
Sally laughed and then smoothed the blond?s damp hair away from her face.
?Did you eat anything today hon?? she asked.
Relena halfheartedly shook her head. She places a hand on her head as the dizziness returned. Sally gave Hilde a look as if to get one of the guys. Hilde silently got up and left again. Hilde returned a few moment latter with Heero in tow. Relena could hear jumbled orders and words but quickly drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

~*~

Heero sat by the bed in the Preventer infirmary that Relena had been left to rest on. Sally had informed him that the moment she woke up to contact her. He sighed and sat back in the chair and watched the blond sleep. He had been on his way to get a cup of coffee when Hilde had run into him. The blue black haired pixie girl had pulled him by his left hand into the woman?s washroom to carry Relena to the infirmary. That had been at ten that morning. It was now nearing four and Relena had not woken up yet. He ran a hand through his hair and sat back in the chair beside the bed. Closing his eyes he began to feel the fear and stress of the day set in when a knock came at the door. Opening his eyes, Heero was greeted to the sight of his girlfriend, Sylvia Noventa. She smiled at him when she spotted him at the other end of the room. Heero stood up and closed the distance.
?What are you doing here?? he asked.
?What no hello or welcome kiss?? she replied in mock hurt.
Heero gave her a small peck on the cheek and mumbled a hello.
?That?s better,? Sylvia said with a smile, ?As for me being here. Duo told me you were here with Malena. In fact he said you had been here all day.?
Heero scratched his forehead, ?Yeah sorry for not calling you to tell you that I would be busy.?
?That?s alright. I had meetings all day but now I?m ready,? Sylvia said with a grin.
Heero scratched his forehead again, ?Dinner??
Sylvia put her hand on her hip, ?Don?t worry I took the liberty to order in. We can sit by the fire and eat and then you can tell me about you day.?
Heero nodded and placed a small kiss on her lips.
?Where?s Sally?? a voice croaked out.
Heero turned to see a confused Relena sitting up in the bed. He moved beside her and she looked at him.
?Where am I?? she asked.
Sally came into the room at that moment. She smiled to see that Relena was up and at least talking.
?Heero why don?t you go home and enjoy time with Miss Noventa?? Sally suggested.
Heero nodded and led Sylvia out of the room. Relena looked at Sally in confusion and asked the same question again.
?Where am I Sally??
?In the infirmary at HQ,? the Chinese woman told her.
?Why am I here? And why does the room seem to spin?? She said putting her head back down on the bed.
?Relena do you remember being in the bathroom this morning?? Sally asked in a soothing voice.
Relena groaned in acknowledgement.
?Well you ended up fainting on us and have been asleep since then. I took the liberty to run some test and I have some good news,? Sally declared with a smile.
Relena flung an arm over her eyes to block out the light in the room. She waved her other arm to tell the Asian woman to continue.
?You?re pregnant!?
Relena sat up and looked at Sally with wide eyes. She then vomited onto the floor.

~*~

?From what I can tell it?s going to be a girl, but you?re only a few months along. You?re also lucky that I can tell you who the father is.?
Relena interrupted her friend, ?its Heero.?
Sally nodded and then placed a piece of paper beside her, ?I?ve given you a mild anti - nausea medication. It shouldn?t harm the baby in anyway but it will enable you to keep down your food. You?ve got to keep healthy. I?ve also prescribed a multi-vitamin.?
Relena nodded and then picked up the paper and placed it in her pocket. Sally sighed.
?Duo said he would drive you home. In fact he?s out their waiting for you.?
Relena nodded again and then slowly shifted herself off the table. Sally watched as the lethargic Relena made her way to the door of the infirmary.
?Are you going to be ok?? she asked.
Relena turned to face her. There was sadness in her eyes and she looked like she had been run over with an oil truck.
?Yeah,? she replied and then began to make the trek the car.
Hilde came in from the other door and stood next to Sally.
?Is she going to be ok?? Hilde asked.
Sally shook her head, ?If you found out you were carrying the child of a man that you had given up long ago because he was part of your past, you?d feel like she does.?
Hilde sighed and ran a hand through her now shoulder length locks.
?I wish she didn?t feel like that,? Hilde said and wrinkled her nose.
?Why?? Sally said and unconsciously ran a hand across her own stomach.
?Because once she does, you know think about the past, she throws herself into her work and it?s not good for her health,? Hilde said and then went about placing clean bedding on the table.
?I know,? Sally said and went to help Hilde.

~*~

Relena lay on the couch in her tiny apartment. Today had been one whirlwind of a day. First she had been sick in the female washroom of the Preventer HQ; she had then fainted and had been asleep for six hours. Relena?s hand trailed down to her stomach and rubbed the flat surface of her stomach. It had been the kicker to an already troubled day. She was pregnant with a little girl or boy. Sally had said it was too soon to tell the sex of the baby, but it was healthy and doing well.
There were a couple of questions that plagued her mind. How was she going to tell her brother and how was she going to tell Heero? Her brother would be easier. Getting him to calm down was going to be hard.
Better talk to Lu and see what she has to say. She thought and then dragged her self off the couch to the kitchen to see if she could find something to eat. She opened the fridge and pulled out the Tupperware of spaghetti from the night before. She placed it in the microwave and set the timer for a minute. Leaning against the counter Relena became lost in thought as she decided how to tell Heero. A knock at the door startled her from her thoughts.
Once she opened the door she was greeted to a pair of cold Prussian blues that seemed to flicker with anger and concern. Relena leaned on the door as the dizziness of being up and about settled in and awaited the Perfect Solider to speak.
?Are you ok?? he asked in a low voice.
Relena nodded and then walked from the door to the couch and laid back down on it. Heero closed the door and walked further into the small living room until he loomed over Relena?s sick form. Relena groaned and then reached for the garbage can to retch into. Heero immediately went to Relena?s bathroom and retrieved a washcloth and wet it with cool water. He returned to Relena in the living room and placed it on her forehead. Relena mumbled an appreciative thanks.
?So what?s wrong?? he asked as he cleaned her up.
?Nothing that Sally couldn?t handle,? Relena said giving Heero a weak smile.
There was silence between the two as Heero continued to sooth Relena.
?How was your date?? Relena finally asked.
Heero cracked a grin which shocked Relena.
?It was ok. Nothing special just food and talk,? He said and then placed a hand on Relena?s forehead.
?Why aren?t you there?? Relena asked with childlike innocence.
?Sylvia had work to do and I wanted to see how you were doing,? Heero answered in a soft voice.
Relena closed her eyes again and then mumbled incoherently. Heero repressed a sigh and then stood up to rinse out the washcloth. Relena continued to mumble about something. Heero caught the jumbled words and took them as nothing.
?Heero do you remember that night we had a few month ago?? She finally blurted out.
Heero stopped dead in his tracks at the mention of their rendezvous a few months back. He stayed silent.
?I just want to know if you used protection?? she asked talking as if she were intoxicated.
Heero consider her question as the night flooded back to him. It had surprised him when the shivering Relena had shown up at his door after her rejection of him at the club. She had flung herself into his arms and then the rest was a blur. There was no thought to protection on his or her part. He never kept condoms around. In fact that night with Relena had been his first as he knew that it had been hers as well. He also never thought to ask Relena if she was on birth control. It had never crossed his mind. Relena?s question seemed to puzzle him until it dawned on him. Crouching down low, Heero leaned in close to the queasy woman.
?Relena are you pregnant?? he asked in a voice that was barely above a whisper.
Relena?s eyes flung wide open at his question in answer to her question. She sat up quickly from her lying position on the couch and faced Heero. The dizziness came on in waves and her stomach began the motions of heaving. Heero guided her back down to the couch and placed the now empty garbage can near her head. His eyes never left her, always staring at her as if to drill a hole or strip her of her soul. She finally managed to answer his question.
?Yes,? she gasped as she felt tears unexpectedly come to her eyes.
Heero cringed and then fell back onto his bottom and began to run a frantic hand through his unmanageable mane of chocolate brown hair. Relena continued to silently sob to herself.
?Whose is it?? his voice finally breaking the silence that had seemed to envelope them as they sat in Relena?s tiny apartment.
?Heero,? she gasped as the tears seemed to fall more freely then they had ever in her life.
Heero stood and began to pace the length of the space. Relena tried to calm down from her emotional distress and put on a calm face to discuses the coming problems diplomatically. The Japanese man stayed silent for the longest time. He finally sat down in an over stuffed chair across from the couch. Relena stood up and moved cautiously towards the kitchen. Heero continued to watch as she opened up the anti nausea pills Sally had prescribed for her that afternoon. Relena quickly swallowed the pills and made her way back to the couch.
?So what are you going to do?? Heero asked as Relena settled back down on the couch.
?I guess I?m going to raise this child. He or she is going to grow up happy, health and know a life without war, or poverty. He or she will live in a peaceful world,? Relena gulped as she felt her stomach trying to rid itself of the pills and water that had only traveled to it a few minutes.
Heero nodded agreeing to what Relena had just said. Relena closed her eyes and tossed an arm over her eyes to shield them from the light of the room.
?Then why tell me?? came the voice of her guest.
Relena sighed as she thought of a reply to his query. Heero was being stubborn, but she had expected it. It angered her to no extent.
?So that you knew, you knew you had a piece of you that was living because of the peace that you created and maintain,? she accidentally spat out in anger.
Heero grunted and then stood to leave. Relena sighed sadly and then uncovered her eyes and turned to face the departing Heero.
?I didn?t expect you to want to take part. Hell I?m still deciding whether or not to take part. I just want you to know.?
Heero stayed silent, his back to her and then left the tiny apartment. The echo of the shutting door stayed with Relena for the rest of the night. The sound had felt as if someone had taken a gun to her heart and shattered what was left of an already broken core.

~*~

?So where did you meet, this guy?? Hilde asked as she bounced from one foot to another.
?I was in the baby section of the department store looking for a crib. He was there looking for his sisters newborn,? Relena said with a small laugh.
?What?s he like?? Sally asked as she cradled her newborn girl in her arms.
The trio had met up at Hilde?s for tea. They had met up to talk to catch up and swap stories on pregnancy, raising kids and handling life. Relena sighed as she picked up the cup and began to sip away at her herbal tea. She put the cup down.
?Well he?s really cute, has sandy blond hair. He works for an advertising firm here in the city as a design artists. He?s been married once and has a two year old son that he misses dearly because his wife lives on L5 and he only gets to see him for two weeks of the summer,? Relena said and then picked up her cup again.
?Hilde where can I find the new pack of diapers that you just bought,? Duo cried out from the kitchen.
Hilde sighed and then threw up her hands, ?There under the change table where they can be found usually.?
Duo came walking into the living room of the house that Hilde and he had bought after they had found out about Ruth. He was wearing a pair of coveralls and grease smeared across his left cheek. In his arms was a gurgling toddler that was Ruth. Her long auburn hair was falling out of the pigtails that Hilde had managed to get in before Duo had taken her outside to the garage. There was also a grease mark on her forehead. Hilde sighed with anger and then took the happy tot from her father?s arms.
?Just one moment,? she said in annoyance and then left the room with the dirty child.
Duo shrugged his shoulders and then left the room. Relena began to squirm feeling the discomfort of the baby and how active it was being.
?How has she been treating you in the last few days?? Sally asked as she noticed Relena beginning to wriggle in pain.
?Not to good. Keeps me up half the night and then causes a lot of discomfort while am at work,? Relena replied.
?And Lena when do you go on your maternity leave?? Sally asked with a cocked eyebrow.
?Not till next week,? she replied.
Sally was not convinced; Relena rolled her eyes in frustration and then placed a hand on her bulging belly.
?I?m only a month away from my due date. My duties at HQ are considerable light. I watch what I eat, and have even tried to stay on somewhat of a normal sleeping schedule.?
?But Lena??
?But Lena nothing. Sally I?m not you. I?m not freaking because that would cause the baby to come early,? Relena said trying to reassure her friend.
Hilde returned with a cleaner Ruth in her arms. She sat down in her spot and picked up the juice she had been sipping on.
?So what did I miss??
Sally began to laugh, ?You know you sound more and more like your husband each day.?
Hilde scowled but then turned to Relena, trying to change the subject.
?So have you decided on a name??
Relena did not answer and chose to stare at the cup that she held. Sally raised her eyebrow at Relena?s silence. Hilde began to giggle.
?You don?t have a name picked out,? It was Duo?s voice that surprised Relena.
The braided American had come to collect Ruth from her mother. He was somewhat cleaner then he had been when he had first come into the house with the dirty Ruth. He was dressed in a white tee shirt and a pair of baggy black jeans.
?You have to have a name Lena. It?s just not right,? he exclaimed and then sat down next to her with the restless Ruth in his lap.
?I just haven?t given it much thought,? Relena said meekly.
?Well we?ll help you think of one,? Hilde suggested to the three gathered there.
Still the baby was not named.
By the time Relena had left the Maxwell?s the four had not come up with a name. They had even called Quatre to ask for suggestions and still they had not come up with any that Relena felt was suited to the bulge under the white button down shirt she had worn that day.
As she made her way to her car, a tiny ripple in her abdomen stopped her. It shocked her but Relena soon shook it off and drove home to the tiny apartment near the water.

~*~

Relena sat in the uncomfortable chair in the grey office that she called hers the next day. She sighed and then looked out the window on to the street below. As she watched the cars pass by not caring that the building they were passing was their protection to the peace that had lasted, she never notice that the green eyed clown come into her office and place a small white wicker basket on her desk. It was Duo?s rambunctious giggling that caused her attention to switch.
?Surprise!? a small group of people shouted as they crowed into Relena?s office.
It seemed that this was planed. Hilde stood next to Duo on his right, holding a huge stuffed bear. Trowa stood to Duo?s left and his arms where crossed. Heero stood in the doorway cursing Duo and Hilde for blocking his way to his own desk. Relena smiled at the three who had shown up.
?You did this for me, so I?m returning the favour,? Hilde said and then smiled.
Hilde placed the Bear next to Relena?s desk.
?The baskets filled with goodies that Quatre thought you would need,? Trowa said and gestured towards the basket on her desk.
Relena smiled and then stood up to hug the three. As she hugged each friend individually, a sharp pain gripped her. She stifled a yelp and then sat back down.
?Well I have work to do,? Hilde said with a wave and then left.
Trowa mentioned the same thing and Duo followed his lead wishing Relena a good day.
Heero grumbled as he finally made it to his desk. Relena watched him sit down and burry his head into his work. She sighed and then began to rifle through the contents of the basket. She laughed as the ?101 Baby Names? stood out on the very top. Heero?s head shot up and gave her a cold questioning look. Relena ignored it and continued to go through the basket.
After she was done and had neatly packed away the contents and placed them next to the big bear, Relena busied herself with her work. She was half way through the progress reports Une had given her to do when she felt another sharp pain grip her. Relena let a tiny gasp out before she could stop herself and remember that Heero was in the room. Heero looked up from his work. He had a concerned look in his eyes but quickly masked it with the coldness that usually shone in them.
Relena stood up from the desk and began to walk towards the door. She thought that it was just a cramp and maybe walking it off would help. It never happened. Once she had arrived at the door, she fell into a heap of throbbing pregnant woman. Every thing else was a blur. She only remembered Heero calling out her real name. This shocked Relena because no one was supposed to use her former name around others at the office. It was out of the ordinary to see him do this. It touched her.

~*~

?His name is Liam Milliardo Noin,? Lu said as she brought a blue fuzzy bundle out to see the people who had gathered in the hospital waiting room. Every one began to crowd around the ex-OZ officer to catch a glimpse of the new arrival, every one but Heero. He sat to the side watching as friends and family gathered around the baby.
?Why did she add Milliardo?? Duo asked angering the blond haired man of that name.
?Why shouldn?t she?? Milliardo said angered at the American.
Duo began to cower behind his wife, ?Sorry.?
?Can I hold him?? Quatre asked and awaited for Lucrezia to hand him Liam.
Lucrezia nodded and then placed the fluffy blue bundle into Quatre?s awaiting arms. Quatre?s face became a light as he held the newborn Liam in his arms. Trowa looked at Noin evilly. She had put ideas into his head that He did not want there. But he could change, if Quatre wanted him to.
?I?m so glad he?s healthy,? Hilde said as she hoisted Ruth onto her hip.
?Healthy babies can come early,? Wu Fei said with a frown as he tried to quite the fussy Mulan.
?I?m just glad he?s here. No more complaining about pregnancy,? Duo said.
?You?re going to have to go through with it next nine months,? Hilde said in annoyance.
?You?re pregnant?? Duo exclaimed
?Just what we need, another Maxwell,? Wu Fei said with a sigh.
?Watch it Wu,? Duo said point his finger in the face of the Chinese man.
Lucrezia left the bickering that had erupted among the men and approached the place in which Heero had chosen to seclude himself.
?I can?t believe it,? he said in a low tone surprising the woman.
?Can?t believe what Heero?? she asked.
He looked up at Lucrezia. His eyes were red and the coldness they usually harboured was gone.
?I?m a father,? he said softly.
Lucrezia laughed quietly and then placed a hand on his shoulder.
?And Relena?s a mother. You?ll get used to it,? She sighed and then left the awe stuck man.
Liam began to cry and he was placed back in Lucrezia?s arms and taken back to his mother. Heero watched as the group of people milled around. Lucrezia came back out and hugged Milliardo who stood near the door of Relena?s room. He watched as Duo made a big scene about Hilde being pregnant, tossing Ruth into the air. He watched as Trowa and Quatre sat down in the chairs and began to talk about something. He watched as Wu Fei held his baby girl and Sally standing next to him both in deep conversation. They were all happy, all safe, and all oblivious to that fact that they had once been the most deadly war machines. It boggled him that they could go on and live the life that they had created. He stood and left the others behind. He needed time to think.

TBC?

[Dark Mistress]

AHHH Please continue!!! Awesome story!
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