Crazy Little Thing Called Love : Chapter One

[Krazy_kool_Snowborder_Chi]

A/N: Ok so I know I haven?t got the next chapter up for Overload Zero but I got this brilliant alternative universe fic while I was browsing the web. So here it is. Enjoy

Disclaimer: I don?t own Gundam Wing. Flames will me placed in the McD?s Compacter, which I know how to operate. I also will give any one a big hug for a good flame cause I like constructive criticism. Hasta.

Relena Darlian sighed as she pushed away from the computer desk. She removed the glasses from her face and began to rub her eyes to removed the crusties that had built up from looking at the screen for to long. The only sound in the room was the sound of the printer printing out the pages of her latest novel 'Say it Once'. It was a romantic thriller about a reporter in the early nineteen twenties and her pursuit for the perfect story to prove that she could do anything and that love was for the weak, Only to find that in her travels she could fine the perfect love as well.
The sound of the phone ringing startled the writer from her relaxed state. She stood from the comfortable desk chair and then walked to the phone and picked it up before the machine did.
?Hello, Relena Darlian, how may I help you?? she said in her tired yet still polite voice.
?Princess it?s me,? the voice on the other end stated in a jovial voice.
?Duo?? she exclaimed into the ear piece.
?The one and only,? he replied in a mocking voice.
?I can?t believe that?s you bro. Where have you and my lovely sister in law been off to lately? We miss you here in New York?? she said excitedly.
?Here and there, and I missed you to,? he replied in a casual tone.
?That?s good. I read you?re article on backpacking through India. You make it seem all too romantic,? she said and sat down on the floor.
?Well I could same the same for you sis. You have the best selling romance of all time and number one on the New York Times Best Sellers List for thirty consecutive weeks. Hilde?s dying to read it,? he said congratulating his sister.
?I just finished my next book,? she said in a soft tone.
?Wow another book in less then six months. What do you do? Collaboration?? Duo asked in a surprised tone.
?No, I just type really, really fast. Plus this was an idea that I had planed from my days back in high school and we were both reporting for the school paper,? she replied as she got up from the floor and began to pace the length of the room.
?Whatever. Any ways I?ve got to catch a flight to San Fran. Me and Hilde will be in New York in less then a month. We?re going to come and celebrate you?re birthday.?
?It?s Hilde and I. And you call your self a writer,? Relena said with a frown.
?I didn?t say I was a good one now I did. I see you in a month,? with that the phone on the other end went dead.
Relena hung up the phone and went back to the computer to cheek her print job. It told her that she only had an hour and a half left of waiting. Relena shrugged and then went to get her coat. If anything she was going to go out for dinner because she was hungry.

~*~

Relena walked into Winner Publishing and straight to the twentieth floor of the building. Today she was giving her editor the manuscript of ?Say it Once?. As she exited the elevator she was greeted to the sight of Cathrine Bloom behind the desk. Relena smiled at the sectary who promptly handed over a stack of pink papers. Relena looked down at them quizzically.
?This is a result of you not coming into the office regularly,? Cathrine said with a laugh and then went back to answering the phones.
Relena gathered the pink papers together and stuffed them into the grey attach? case she carried. She sighed and then traveled down the rows of cubicles towards her Editor?s office. As she passed the many office workers she greeted some of them and stopped to talk to a few. She had almost made it to her Editor?s office when the nasally voice of a woman stopped her.
?Ms. Darlian, I need to talk to you,? the voice made Relena cringe.
She turned around and came face to face with Dorthy Catalonia, her personal assistant when she was in the office.
?Yes Dorthy?? she replied as the blond haired girl with weird eyebrows crossed the distance from her assigned desk to where Relena was standing.
?I received a call from Mr. Barton about the planes for the release party for the audio version of ?Tempest Love?,? she said in a smug voice.
Relena rolled her eyes and then nodded her head, ?Tell him to call me on my cell phone. He already has the number.?
Dorthy nodded and took the note down on the pad of yellow paper she kept around for such situations.
?Anything else?? Relena asked impatiently.
?Oh you older brother called wanting to discuss matters of family importance,? she replied.
Relena sighed.
?If Mill calls again, tell him to get back to me in a month about those matters of family. Tell him that Duo?s coming home in a month as well and that?s why,? Dorthy went about jotting the note down.
?Thanks,? Dorthy said smugly and then went bouncing back to her desk.
Relena groaned and then turned back to the focus of her visit today. Seeing her Editor.

~*~

Heero Yuy sat behind the massive oak and mahogany desk in his office. As the head editor of the Winner Publishing Corporation, he was doing his job. He read and corrected manuscripts for the Publishing firms top writers. But the manuscript in front of him was the worse yet. It was dull, boring, already been done. Heero rubbed his temples as he corrected another spelling mistake and circled a fragmentation. He needed a break.
It came all too soon for the editor. There was a knock at the door and in walked Relena Darlian. She was smiling and caring the ugly grey attach? case that she normally carried for when she brought in manuscripts.
?Ah another manuscript Relena. People are going to start to think you have no social life,? Heero replied with a chuckle as she set the attach? case in one of the leather chairs that faced his desk.
Relena just pulled off her glasses and began to wipe them with the edge of the blouse she wore. Once she was finished she put the eyeglasses back on her nose and proceeded to pull the copy out of her bag. Heero studied her as she did so. Relena was a wife thin woman with no body. It was made worse by the peasant style skirts and tops she wore. He figured it came with living in the East Village as long as she had. Her dirty blond hair was always pulled back in a messy bun and she forever hid behind her glasses. He had heard that her mother had been a beauty but Relena lacked any of that supposed beauty. It did not matter that much anyways in what she lacked she made up in other areas. She was a great writer as well as kind, caring, and a great cook.
She laid the tome in front of him sending lose papers to scatter everywhere. Heero continued to stare at her.
?Call me when you want to do the adjustments,? she said softly and then packed her bag up to leave.
Heero nodded and then looked down at the huge volume in front of him. He scanned the title and then laughed. Relena turned around to face the man again.
?What?s so funny?? she asked.
Heero looked up to the writer, ?Another romance??
Relena shrugged her shoulders, ?It?s what I?m good at.?
?Well do you not think you?re talents would be better spent at writing gritty fiction?? he suggested.
Relena flopped down into the other chair and frowned, ?I?ve tried. It was what I was writing before I came to Winner Publishing as an Editor.?
Heero furrowed his brow, ?And you?ve never let me read any of this??
Relena shook her head and then stood up, ?Look I?ve got to go. Just call me when you?re ready to make the changes.?
With that Relena was out of the office leaving the editor to him self.

~*~

She waited for the F to come into the station. It would take her home to her little studio apartment between First and A. She sighed and began to read the paper as people in business suits and Armani came and went on the different trains. She felt somewhat out of place in the lower end of Manhattan dressed the way she was. Trips to lower Manhattan were few and far between because of this. In the lower end you had to conform, become a slave to fashion and work. In the east village she was able to be happy and free. She loved to write there. Most of the characters in her books were pulled from her life there. Each one a representation of the life around her.
Most of her books she had found some way of writing her family into the stories. In her first romance novel, ?Gideon?s Game? she based on her brother Duo?s romance to Hilde. There courtship and meeting were a perfect fairy tale that needed to be told. Something that Relena wished she had.
The book was published under the Harlequin title, but it caught the attention of the Head of Winner Publishing, Quatre Winner. He was impressed with her knowledge and hired her as and editor yet soon after her next Harlequin romance that became one of the top selling novels in Harlequin?s history well Mr. Winner let her write for them. Her first book had been a fiction book
The train came roaring into the station and Relena got up to take the subway home. She left the paper on the bench not noticing the headline. In big bold letters of the New York Times was the headline. ?Missing Heir?s to the Peacecraft Family Presumed to be in New York?.

~*~

?So what do you think?? Relena asked biting her nails
Heero looked at the woman over his shoulder and chuckled softly. She was leaning over his shoulder almost in tears. She was dressed in a long brown skirt that seemed to float around her, on her body she wore a tight hugging wife beater and a sports bra peeked out from under it. He could hear the clicking of bangles and wooden necklaces she wore as she continued to bite her nails.
?Stop biting your nails, it?s a nasty habit,? he said and Relena quickly pulled her hand away.
Heero turned back to the large manuscript in front of him. He finished looking at the last page and then snapped it shut. Relena was back biting her nails and jumped when he did that.
?So?? she asked still anxious
Heero leaned back in the chair and gave her a small smile, ?I think you have another hit here. Even I was impressed and I really hate romance novels. There is nothing I really see in changing accept for a few spelling mistakes, that I think you missed when you edit it, and a small sex scene.?
Relena smiled and then touched the manuscript on the desk. She then started to head towards the door.
?What no thank you Heero,? he said standing up from his desk.
?Thank you Heero,? she called over her shoulder as she left the office.
Heero continued to stare at her retreating back. His office phone ringing brought him back from his trance.
?Yuy,? he said casually.
?Heero, it?s me Milliardo. Have you seen my sister recently?? a man on the other end asked franticly.
?She just left my office,? Heero replied sitting back down in the leather chair, ?why??
?Oh god she?s going to kill me,? Milliardo said and then continued to babble on in French.
Heero sat up and tried to calm his old collage buddy down, ?It?s ok, Relena?s to carefree to truly hurt any one especially her half brother.?
?No see that?s not true,? Milliardo said coming back into English.
?Then what is it that will lead Relena to kill you,? Heero said as he leaned back into his chair.
?Our Grandmother is in town and she really needs to talk to us,? Milliardo stressed.
?Well I?ll drop by her apartment after work,? he said trying to reassure the stricken brother.
?Could you do that, it would be helpful. Relena never told us her address after she moved out of father?s apartment in Greenwich Village,? he said.
Heero could hear the beeping on his end of the line, ?Listen I?ve got another call coming in so I?ll see you later.?
?Come by, Lu hasn?t seen you in ages and neither has Monique. I?d bet she?d loved to be spoiled by Uncle Heero,? Milliardo said in a mocking tone.
Heero laughed at his friend?s comment and then said his goodbye. He went about his daily life and continued on, never once stopping to think why it was important that Mill get in touch with Relena.


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[Hitomi Lei]

I LOVE this...you really must continue....AU's are my new fave thing to read...teeheehee...okay...so I'm hyper...but Milli speaking french is soooooooooooo sexy...and the whole writer thing is good too!!! And Duo as her brother? I love that idea!!!! teeheehee...

[blackrose]

It reminds me a bit of the Princess Diaries - I'm not entirely sure why. Probably the missing heiress. But cute so far!

Relena get OUT of those drab dresses and seduce your editor!

More soon?

Love,
Rose

[Sai Hikaru]

wow realli cool starting...so wuts gonna happen nxt?!?!?! plz hurri wif da nxt chpt realli want to no wuts gonna happen wif Relena...and would she get 2gether wif Heero!??!?!?!