Missing by a Mile ch 23/?? Romantic Comedy

[blackrose]

<center>Missing by a Mile
By the Black Rose</center>

AN: A special thanks again to Stella for beta-ing. And for everyone's encouragement that I continue? *hugs* Thank you so SO much for reading. Love, Rose

WARNING: LIME!!!

Chapter 23


The skirt, Heero decided, was an absolute nuisance. It could have at least had a slit up the side to mid-thigh; that would have been perfect. Instead, it completely covered her leg. His eyes traveled up, searching for touchable skin other than her forearm, and he scowled at not finding any within his reach. Come to think of it, her top really needed to go, too. He turned the steering wheel and raced around the corner. Evening air seeped into the car through her open window, thick with starlight; he swore he could even hear it sing with something like electricity.

He slowed the vehicle to pull into the long driveway that led to the secluded storage shed. His hands itched to touch her, but that damned skirt?.

They inched to a stop and Relena got out to unlock the door. He waited, then pulled inside the small building at the back of the property.

The single light bulb sparked in the darkness, and it hung over the front part of the car. Heero rolled the vehicle forward until the light was no longer directly overhead, casting the front seat in mild shadows. Relena walked in after him and approached the other side of the car.

"I usually park it?"

"Get in."

"Huh?" Her eyes widened and she looked startled by his command. But he had been waiting long enough?. He gave her a look and leaned over to unlatch the passenger door; she raised an eyebrow and backed away.

"I don't think so."

"Why?"

She took another step towards the exit door. "You're looking at me like?"

"Like?" His eyes traced down to the triangle cut out above her breasts.

"Like that?"

He slowly dragged his attention back up to her face. Even in the less than bright lighting he could tell she was crimson.

He smirked.

She retreated another step.

Heero nudged the car door open, and arched an amused eyebrow in her direction. "Like what?"

"Like a caged animal eyeing a piece of meat."

A slow grin overtook his features. She gasped and moved further away.

Heero eyed her up and down one more time, then sprang from the car. Relena took off and dashed out into the night.

He sprinted after her and caught her a few feet from the exit. She squealed and tried to twist from his grasp, but he held her tight.

"Heero!"

"Hn?" He bent his head to taste the flesh of her neck. She squirmed in his embrace, but he didn't let go.

"Not here? Heero!"

They stumbled back towards the shed, Heero steering as best he could while walking backwards and nibbling at her throat. "Mmmmmm, why not? Wing doesn't mind."

"B-but Heero, it'd be so much comfier in my bed, and we wouldn't have to leave until morning."

He pinned her up against the side of the building. "Maybe I've always wanted to take advantage of you in Wing?"

She gaped at him. "Heero!" He brought his mouth down on hers and commanded a kiss from her lips. When it broke, however, she renewed her struggles.

"It's not your Gundam, though."

The thought sounded logical, but he didn't really want to think right now. He?d finally managed to hitch up that cursed skirt. His fingers traced along the smooth skin of her thigh.

"Too bad."

A small set of hands found their way to his chest and seemed awfully intent on pushing him away. "Heero?."

He let out a long sigh and loosened his hold. "Promise me nothing will happen between here and your room to prevent this."

"Nothing will happen.? She pressed her forehead against his, then nestled her silky hair under his chin. "I don't know that I could take another night without you, either."

He blinked. "Relena?" He glanced down, but she hid her face in his chest. Heero pulled away to look her in the eye. She blushed again.

"Contrary to popular belief, women have sex drives, too."

He pulled her towards the house. "Then let's go. Mine's in overdrive."

She grinned. "You sure you don't want to wait until after we're married? What kind of a gentleman are you?"

His shoulders stiffened, but he continued his swift pace beside her. "I've never claimed to be one, Relena. You know that."

"Good. Then I'll let you in on a secret." She paused and he glanced at her from the corner of his eye. She was still smiling ? probably teasing him.

"I never did like gentlemen."

Heero couldn't help but let one side of his mouth tuck up into a grin. "Rebellious. Just like your father."

"Oh?" She stopped in her tracks. "And how much did you know about my father?"

Not good, must keep walking? "Enough." He grabbed her hand and tugged on her arm, trying to get her to move. She pulled from his grasp. Heero sighed.

"Dr. J was familiar with his political views, his connections, his work. Darlian was killed for not keeping his dissenting opinions against the Alliance to himself."

Relena tilted her head and gave him a soft smile. She linked her arm through his and began walking with him to the front of the house. "So were you really ordered to kill me?"

He felt his throat tighten and he glanced away. "Yeah. Yeah, I was."
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His hands were addicted to her. That was the only thing he could figure. They hadn't been able to stay off her for more than five seconds since the evening started. When they had reached the front porch, she had given him that innocent look that set his heart racing, and then accused him again of eyeing her for his next meal. She wasn't far off. He was planning on having her for breakfast.

Heero grabbed her arm and pulled her against him; his hands quickly left her limb to settle on her waist and then smooth down. He sealed his mouth against hers and steered her backwards towards the front door. Her fingers threaded through his hair then settled on either side of his jaw. Her lips nibbled at his mouth, until he deepened the kiss; she kissed back with equal passion ? stirring his blood and igniting a fire in the pit of his stomach.

He bent slightly at the knee in order to wrap his arms fully around her upper thighs, then hefted her a foot off the ground ? just enough to get her inside. She laughed as he carried her in and kicked the door shut behind them. He smirked up at her and she leaned down to give him a kiss?.

The air was stifling, his hat had fallen off somewhere behind him, sweat trickled down the side of his head. He pushed her roughly against the wall of the foyer; her soft gasps fueled an overwhelming hunger for her skin.

"Uh, He-Heero?"

He sucked at her neck and his left hand snuck under her blouse; Heero's palm came to rest on the curve of her ribcage while his mouth trailed to her collar bone. Relena?s right leg came up to wrap loosely around his thigh. He pressed closer; a low moan escaped his lips as she slipped her hands beneath his t-shirt. Soft fingers traced over the surface of his chest. He wanted her, and unless he was seriously misinformed, it seemed she wanted him, too.

"Aah?bedroom?" Her voice changed to a hiss when his hand found her breast.

He groaned. Heero knew he could take her against the wall. He may not have had any practice, but he was sure he could figure it out. "Can't wait that long, Relena." He went back to sucking her neck while his hand gently massaged her breast. "Here," he whispered against her ear.

"Mmmmm, we can't."

He pressed the lower half of his body into her abdomen. "Why not?"

"Because I for one would end up scarred for life."

Heavy footsteps sounded from the hall, and in an instant, long platinum hair and ice blue eyes appeared in the doorway.

Heero detracted himself from his date and whirled around to face the intrusion. Zechs?s stare flicked to his sister, but came to rest long and hard on Heero.

"Yuy. Kitchen. Now."

The Preventer growled. "Five minutes."

"Five minutes. But no sex in the foyer."

He glared at the retreating figure of Relena's brother. "I don't think anyone's that quick."

Zechs paused, glanced back over his shoulder, then disappeared through the kitchen door. Heero turned back to Relena. She was doing her best to readjust her clothing.

"That was embarrassing."

Her date shrugged. "This shouldn't take long."

"I'll wait for you upstairs."

He nodded and watched her smooth her skirt down before climbing the stairs up to her room. She paused halfway. "Heero?"

"Yeah."

"I want to?Tonight. Please don't take long, but no matter what, if I fall asleep, wake me up. Promise me?" She glanced at him over her shoulder. He nodded to affirm her request and she smiled at him before continuing on to her room.

Once she was safely inside, Heero turned to follow Zechs's lead into the kitchen. He didn't know for sure, but the former Zero pilot could certainly guess at some of the choice words he'd be hearing out of the elder Peacecraft?s mouth.

"You're lucky I don't feel like kicking your arrogant, self-serving, single-minded, unworthy ass."

Yep, no surprises there. Except for maybe the 'I don't feel like' portion of the statement. The Zechs he knew always felt like kicking his ass. "You're so predictable." Heero's lip curled up into a snarl. "Tell me this isn?t the reason you brought me in here." He narrowed his eyes at his former enemy. "You knew it would come to this. You knew when you approved the mission it would go this far. Don't pretend otherwise."

Blue eyes the same color as Relena's became rock hard chips of ice. The room even seemed to cool beneath his frosty gaze. "No, it's not why I called you in here."

Heero sucked in a breath and crossed his arms. "Good. So let's hear it."

"There's been a security breach. Preventer wants all the house surveillance records in order to track just how deep the breach went, and try to trace the culprit. I thought you'd want to know."

"Have they identified the target?"

"No. All they know is that a breach occurred and a preliminary investigation suggested Relena was a likely candidate."

"I see." Heero took a seat at the table.

Zechs leaned against the countertop and stared at him again. "That's all."

"Yeah." Heero studied the floral pattern on the tablecloth.

"So were you really ordered to kill me?"

"Then why are you still here?"

"What do you care?"

He reached for a glass and poured himself some water. "As much as my protective brother side wants to ring your neck ? and I do want to ring your neck - she's happy. That's what matters to me."

Heero snorted. "How can you tell?"

"Yuy, whatever self defeating thoughts you're having, get over it."

"Wait, so now you want me to sleep with your sister?"

A dark shadow passed over Zechs's face. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.? Hands flew up to his temples and he shook his head. "Erase erase erase. Okay, so back to my pep talk?"

Heero glanced at the glass. "Are you sure that?s just water in there?"

Zechs scowled and cleared his throat. "Maybe I really should have you reassigned to Antarctica to protect my sister's virginity?"

The dark-haired Preventer scowled. A slow smile spread across Zech?s lips.

"You have no sense of humor."

"So I hear."

Relena?s brother smirked. "Anyway? No, you're never ever going to deserve her, at least not in my eyes. But the war is over. It's been over seven years now. You'd think in that time you disappeared you would have figured that out."

Heero shook his head. "It doesn't excuse the things I did. I held a gun to her head on more than one occasion and either didn't get the chance to kill her, or lacked the guts at the time. By all rational accounts, she should be dead, and by my hand no less. How can she want?"

Laughter, loud and jovial erupted from the taller man. Heero glared at his old enemy.

"I'll be damned."

"What?"

"For all your denials and non committals, and your 'I just want to protect her' nonsense?." Relena's brother chuckled again. "Get going, before she loses her nerve, or I change my mind and beat you within and inch of your life." Heero stood from his seat. The blond man grabbed the Preventer's shirt and pulled him up to match Zechs's over six foot height.

"But you're marrying her, do you understand me?"

"Tomorrow."

"She agreed?"

"Yes. Tonight. She promised we could get married tomorrow."

"Good." He released Heero from his grasp. The younger man turned towards the door.

"Yuy."

Heero froze in his step. "Yeah."

"Sometimes we're given gifts we will never feel like we deserve. Just thank your lucky stars and guard them as the treasures they truly are."

He bowed his head. The moonlight dusted her hair with silver. Her eyes glowed as she looked up at him.

"You were there, too. Always with me."

Mission accepted.

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Heero charged through the door and made a beeline for the stairs leading up to Relena's room. It'd been only about ten minutes, surely she couldn't be asleep already, and she had said she wanted him to wake her?. His conversation with Zechs had only slowed his blood from a rapid boil to a short fused explosive device. He was so close to completing Operation Early Wedding Night, even if it wasn't all that early.

He took the stairs two at a time, bounded forward, and grabbed the door knob.

Ka-click!

Heero froze. He knew that sound?.

"Master Yuy, kindly let go of the door."

The bodyguard swallowed a groan and dropped his hand.

"Arms in the air. Please."

Heero raised his limbs in a gesture of surrender.

"Now, if you would be so good as to turn around."

The Preventer slowly pivoted on his back foot to face his captor. Pagan stood in a dark shadow across the hall; the faint light from the wall sconces illuminated the silver metal of a revolver. The man was good. Heero couldn't act as long as his opponent was beyond normal reach. Although, he wondered if the supposedly kindly butler and grandfather figure to Relena would really shoot him.

Former Gundam pilot and assassin attacks butler. Old man kills VFM bodyguard in self defense.

Headlines flashed in his mind and he frowned. Considering Pagan's rather obvious dislike for him, he decided not to press the issue.

For now.

Besides, how could he explain to Relena that he harmed Pagan so he could sleep with her? He'd be divorced before they made it to the alter.

"You are going to descend to the bottom of the stairs and take two steps forward. I will be right behind you. Do not try anything, Master Yuy. You might not think me capable of killing you, but I would hate for this gun to go off accidentally and postpone your wedding plans. Especially when I just want to discuss a few things of a particular importance."

Heero glared at Pagan, but did as he was told. At the bottom of the steps, he took two paces forward and waited for further instruction.

"Now, turn to your right and take two more steps then stop."

The Preventer complied.

"Thank you."

Heero rolled his eyes. He wasn't sure what was more annoying, the fact that he knew Relena was waiting for him only a few yards away, or the politeness with which Pagan even held people up.

"All right, Master Yuy. We are going to walk down the hallway to the third door on your right. All the other rooms are locked, and there are no other exits. I will remain a safe distance behind you. When you arrive at the door, open it; there is a folder on the table against the wall with some information you may find interesting. Or, you can easily overpower me at the threshold. But how will you explain that? I have my story already laid out."

"And that is?"

"Ah, Master Yuy, you can't expect an old man to give up his one advantage so easily. I may be an old fool, but I am not so foolish as that." He made a motion with the gun. "I'm ready whenever you are, sir. Though I may remind you a certain young lady still expects you tonight."

Damn. Pagan was not playing fair.

[melodrama]

Ohhhhh Rose... you are sadistic aren't you? You do realise what you've just let yourself in for right? Lots and lots of abuse. And I won't say I didn't warn you. LoL

But another cool and fun chapter, none the less... even if it was too short and had a truly malicious ending.

And no one believes me when I tell them you're evil incarnate. pfft. Suckers.

Don't keep us waiting too long for more!

Love ya!!

Mel

[Sai Hikaru]

ah Rose, tis chpt was just so great!!! So glad dat Heero finally get Relena, well almost. so wuts gonna happen nxt? wut is in the folder and would the expected lemon come out soon!??!?! can't wait to find out!!!! luving the stori every bit hope to see da nxt post soon!!!

[blackrose]

Ohhhhh Rose... you are sadistic aren't you?

That's much better. I hear you've been spreading vicious rumors that I'm nice. Well, I'm not. So yes, sadistic is good...

You do realise what you've just let yourself in for right? Lots and lots of abuse. And I won't say I didn't warn you. LoL

I know you did. And I totally suck because I wanted to get this chapter posted before we hit Anime North and didn't. *sobs* I'm just really not entirely happy with it... Originally, this was all part of 22, but the vicious break between Heero starting to tell Relena about his past and then wanting to tear off Mr. Skirt bugged Stella. Since there really isn't anything to tell right now, I just chopped it and made them 2 separate chapters. Fortunately, on one hand, I got ch 22 up sooner because of that. Unfortunately, because of May committments, ch 23 took longer. And yeah, I should have just posted it here Wed night. I regret that I didn't.

But another cool and fun chapter, none the less... even if it was too short and had a truly malicious ending.

Just what are you trying to say?

Hey, I'm just tying up loose ends. This chapter was fun with a bit of lime. Next chapter will be more plot and Ryan's favorite: sap. But you can't expect me to write a wedding with no sap!

Mel: O.o
Rose: What?
Mel: O.o
Rose: WHAT? What, you don't believe they're getting married in the next chapter?
Mel: Not in a million years.
Rose: Dammit. Knew I couldn't fool you. Okay okay, so maybe they're NOT getting married in ch 24. But we're getting closer! I have a few plot things to tie up, and Relena's already consented. Huzzah! So, I'm just trying to wind it all to a close. *sigh*
Mel: They're not buying it either.
Rose: Buying what? You don't think it's going to have a happy ending where Heero and Relena get married?
Mel: Didn't say that. *narrows eyes* I just KNOW you.
Rose: I haven't the faintest idea of what you're talking about. *tapes Mel's mouth shut* ^____________^

And no one believes me when I tell them you're evil incarnate. pfft. Suckers.

Uh, DUH. I thought it was well documented by now that I am.

Mel: MMmmmmmff! FFmmmFF!!!
Rose: EXACTLY.

Don't keep us waiting too long for more!

Well, I'm going to try not to. I have some things started in ch 24 already, and a vague outline as well. I'm juggling a bunch of stuff right now, but I hope to maybe get some work done on it soon. I WANT to.

*hugs* Thanks for reading, Melly-chan!

Love,
Rose

[blackrose]

ah Rose, tis chpt was just so great!!! So glad dat Heero finally get Relena, well almost.

*giggles* The story of his life. ALMOST. *snickers*

Heero: I'm glad you're amused.
Rose: Yes yes, I am, actually. *giggles* Pagan...*snerk* kidnapped you! *guffaws*
Heero: I will get my revenge. You know this.
Rose: *sighs* Yes yes, I know.
Heero: *smirks* Good.

so wuts gonna happen nxt? wut is in the folder and would the expected lemon come out soon!??!?!

The contents of the folder will be revealed early in ch 24. The only hint I'll give is that perhaps not everyone is in the dark as to where Heero had been the last few years, or...what he'd been up to.

can't wait to find out!!!! luving the stori every bit hope to see da nxt post soon!!!

Thank you so much for reading, and for the kind reply. I feel a little apologetic towards this chapter, but I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope ch 24 will be better, and longer.

*hugs*

Love,
Rose

[RyanEX2000]

WHile having Heero demonstrate his Perfect Soldier attributes on Rels. loyal,yet irritating butler may not be the best way to get on her good side there's only so much frustration a guy can take.

Seems everyone wants to make sure Heero doesn't mess up theis time.Nice.But nontheless they could mind their own FREAKIN' business.Too much protection could drive even the most dedicated guy off.And I'm sure little miss Rellie wouldn't like that.

[silversong]

Rose, you're still a tease. That's one mean cliffhanger.

It's lovely, I love all the distractions in Heero's way. (is feeling mildly sadistic tonight, thank you, Rose)

Hmm.. the only thing I really have to bug you with is Love's Labours Lost. (still swears that she will not be completely converted to 1xR no matter how hard Rose tries) Well, which ever fic, please don't dawdle!

~Silver

[RyanEX2000]

WHile having Heero demonstrate his Perfect Soldier attributes on Rels. loyal,yet irritating butler may not be the best way to get on her good side there's only so much frustration a guy can take.REVENGE Yuy.REVENGE.

Seems everyone wants to make sure Heero doesn't mess up theis time.Nice.But nontheless they could mind their own FREAKIN' business.Too much protection could drive even the most dedicated guy off.And I'm sure little miss Rellie wouldn't like that.

[Numena]

Gah! Why must you torture us so?
It's so very cruel...
Evil cliffhanger :evil:
Wonderful chapter!! I love Zechs.."erase erase erase" moment..That was great. And poor Heero..so close and yet so far.. *insert evil laughter here* Kidnapped by Pagan! I'll never get over that..that's just too perfect..
hehehe..Can't wait to see what happens next!!

[Morrighan]

Ahh...!!! That was EVIL!!!! :evil: Why'd ya do that?!?!?!?!?! MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're being so sadistic, Rose!!! Bring out the next part soon!!!