Afraid To Love Chapter 2

[WingZero2118]

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing and Co. They belong to Bandai and Sunrise. This story is for entertainment purposes only. I am not making a profit from it.

Note: Trowa and Catherine are not brother and sister in this story. If you dont like it I'm sorry but that is how I wrote it.


Afraid to Love


Chapter Two



Just as Quatre had informed Heero, he was woken about an hour later by one of Quatre?s servants and told that dinner would be in five minutes in the dining room. Refreshed from his quick sleep Heero washed up and walked to the dining room to join the others.

Heero entered the great hall that Quatre called a "dining room". In the center of the hall was a vast table made out of beautiful rose colored oak. Heero slowly took in the entire room, marveling at its vastness and beautiful tapestries. He then noticed that Catherine and Trowa were already seated at the far end of the table absorbed in conversation, and hadn?t noticed Heero had entered the hall.

"It?s been a long time Trowa," he said walking over to them.

"Indeed it has my friend. A lot has changed over the past year but you don?t look a bit different." Trowa got up and embraced Heero. "I believe you remember Catherine?"

Heero smiled and replied, "Of course I do. How could I forget a pretty face like that." He then took Catherine?s hand and gently kissed it.

"My Heero, you have changed," giggled Catherine. "I never knew you to be such a charmer," she said, smiling up at him.

As Heero lowered her hand he noticed a wedding ring. "So, Trowa, when are you going to tell me the good news?" he asked.

"Huh?" Trowa looked slightly confused at this statement. Then his face broke into a wide smile. "That?s right," he laughed. "May I formally introduce you to Mrs. Catherine Barton."

Catherine blushed at these words, and smiled up at Trowa.

"So how long have you two been married?" Heero asked.

"Eight months to the day."

"Wow. That?s quite a while. I?m happy for you two." Heero paused for a moment, trying to think of what to say next. He was just about to ask Trowa if he had been in contact with Relena over the past year and how she was doing, when Quatre entered the hall.

"Sorry I?m late everyone. I had a very important call that I had to take. I hope the three of you have taken the time to catch up." Quatre said all of this in a rush.

"No need to apologize Quatre," Heero said, "It gave Trowa, Catherine and me time to do some much needed catching up."

"Wonderful," replied Quatre, "now if you three are ready I?ll have dinner served."

"Great! I?m starving," answered Trowa.

The dinner was fantastic. Heero didn?t remember when the last time was that he had had a meal that wonderful. He was absolutely stuffed.

"That was an excellent meal, Quatre. You really know how to treat your guests." Heero commented.

"Thank you Heero. But it was really no trouble at all. I?m just glad that my friends are here to share it with me." Quatre smiled at them after these words.

There was a brief pause in the conversation and then Heero turned to Quatre and asked, "Quatre, how?s Relena doing?" Heero asked this so suddenly that Quatre, Trowa, and Catherine were all a bit stunned.

"Relena?" Quatre said quite cautiously. "She?s doing well. I haven?t spoken to her in weeks though, and she never replied to my invitation. I?m hoping that maybe she just forgot to send a reply and will show up in the next two weeks."

Heero?s heart dropped and his eyes fell from the group at this statement. From the moment that Quatre had told him that he had invited everyone out for the holidays he had been telling himself that he would be seeing Relena soon. Now to find out that she might not be coming??.

?She has to come,? he thought. ?I need to see her so I can get this off my chest so that maybe I can sleep again at night.? "I don?t mean to be rude, but I think I?ll turn in. I?m still quite exhausted from my journey. See you tomorrow.? And with that Heero got up from the table and headed to his room.

"I never would have dreamed it if I hadn?t seen it with my own eyes," exclaimed Trowa. "That?s the closest I?ve ever seen Heero come to actually showing emotions, especially towards Relena."

"He?s in for a big surprise," said Quatre triumphantly. Quatre had a gleam in his eye and a small grin started to form on his face. "I called and spoke with Relena as soon as Heero arrived. She will arrive here in two days."

"You?re kidding?!" shouted Catherine.

"No, I am far from it," Quatre re-ushered them. "It?s time those two finally got together, even if it means a little prodding in the right direction by us."

The grin on Quatre?s face had now broke into a smile, and was soon joined by the matching smiles on the faces of Catherine and Trowa.

"Quatre, you amaze even me sometimes." Quatre?s smile grew even lager at this remark and was now spread from ear to ear.

"Why thank you Trowa."

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That night, after everyone was asleep, something very unexpected happened. As Heero tossed and turned in bed, his thoughts again turned to Relena. Then as if a time bomb had gone off in his brain, that all too familiar dream sequence started again. As it progressed, Heero began to talk in his sleep, as if responding to what he saw in the dream sequence.

"No, don?t go out there," he mumbled. He started to toss and turn more violently as the dreams intensity grew and headed towards its cataclysmic end. "No! Relena!" he said a little more loudly. And then it happened as always. The Relena in his dream was murdered right in front of his own eyes in such a way that it seemed so real. His mind sparked causing him to scream out, "NO! RELENA!"

He awoke with a jolt and sprang upright in bed, heart pounding, and his breathing fast and shallow. He looked around the room and realizing where he was finally told himself, ?It was just a dream. It was just a dream.? He put his head in his hands and rested his elbows on his knees and just sat there shaking from the vision.

Then all of a sudden the door burst open and Quatre, Trowa, and Catherine rushed in. All three of them were a little short of breath and had concerned looks on their faces.

"Heero, are you alright?" Catherine finally asked.

"We heard screams and wanted to check on you." added Quatre.

"Yes, I?m fine," Heero replied dryly. But the look on Heero?s face told them otherwise.

"Are you sure you?re ok?" Trowa cautiously asked again.

"I said I?m fine," retorted Heero. "It was just a bad dream, that?s all. Now all of you stop worrying about me and go back to bed."

"Heero, we?re not trying to force you to tell us anything, but that doesn?t change the fact that we do worry about our friends when they wake us up with screams in the middle of the night," Quatre stated calmly.

Heero sighed. "I appreciate your concern Quatre, but it really was nothing more than a really vivid, bad dream. Now if you don?t mind, I?m going to try and get some more sleep, and I suggest that the three of you do the same. I?m not trying to be rude, I just don?t feel like discussing this right now."

"That?s perfectly alright Heero," replied Quatre.

"Yeah, we?ll let ya get back to sleep now," added Catherine.

And with that, Quatre, Trowa, and Catherine left Heero alone in the room.

?Why am I coming unglued now? This is just what I don?t need. They?ll never understand what?s going on, so it?s best if I just don?t tell them.?

Heero sat on the bed and thought about everything that was running through his head for the longest time before finally drifting off into a deep, dreamless sleep.

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The next day went by quick and uneventful for the most part. Heero quickly associated himself with the grounds surrounding the palace. This was quite a task as the grounds were rather large. This proved to be a great help to Heero in the end for it wore him out so much that he slipped straight into a deep sleep and never once had the chance to dream about Relena.

Little did he know that as he was exploring, Relena was packing her things for her departure to Quatre?s.

The next morning Heero felt refreshed and alert like never before after a well-needed rest. At that very moment hundreds of miles away on a private jet, Relena Peacecraft was waking up and thinking about the one person that she was traveling half way across the globe to see, Heero Yuy. I

n four hours time the two of them would reunite for the first time in a year and a half. It was the moment that Relena had been praying forever since the day that Heero walked out of her life for what she thought was for good, and the moment that Heero secretly yearned for in his heart.





Please let me know what u think of the story and whether or not I should keep writing more.
Please contact me at mmileusnich@yahoo.com with comments and concerns

[AngelOfDeath]

Hooray! Paragraphs!

Hehe. I like it when people talk about their relationships in months. It makes me think of a small child. "Our marriage is 21 1/2 months today!" Hohoho. Or in days, that's even better.

[Eienvine]

This is cute! I really like it! I'm excited to see where it ends up. Keep up the good work.

[miz_lou]

^_^ I always throught that Trowa and Katherine weren't brother and sister either

....er, now to the main characters

I like the way you use Heero's dream to allow him an emotional outlet but keeping in consistancy with his emotional wall I love how you overlap Relena getting ready to come see him with Heero stirring on his side of the world. Very sweet.

Quatre always did have a strategic mind, didn't he? [Zero System Leader]

On to the next chapter~