Silent Accomplice

[Coley Merrin]

This is a silly little ficlet in regards to my own challenge, hehe. In the middle of my 9,000 projects and school it wrote itself. It's merely supposed to be happy and not have much redeeming character insight value. Anyway! Enjoy! :0)



Silent Accomplice

By Coley Merrin



Relena Darlian was tired. She was frustrated. And she was enjoying the object of her current frustration shudder before her.

"Why do you have to be so stubborn? What is it about you that just makes you so unable to give in? You could smile, or laugh, or... would it *really* kill you to talk a bit more? It?s not as if I don?t enjoy staring into your eyes, but after 15 minutes it gets a bit... unnerving. But you wouldn?t know how that is, you?ve got a core of solid steel after all."

She huffed, and her silent listener stared meekly on. She sighed.

"Why didn?t you ever kill me like you said you would?" her ever present bear sat on her bureau and absorbed her tirade. It had been in attendance for many of her tirades, few as they might be, but very seldom were they actually directed at a specific person in its presence. "There are times I wish you had, and times I?m so glad you didn?t, and times I wish I could just.... see you."

The other occupant of the room still stared cold eyed at her, not moving, not replying, not caring.

"Then sometimes I think... if he can?t kill me, what if I did? Kill myself, I mean. It?s insane, that thought, and I would never..."

I would never kill myself, she finished internally. Relena smiled, breaking off in the middle of her thoughts to rub the head of her companion. His light brown fur was still as soft as the day Heero had given it to her, and his eyes were bright in the light of the room. Heero can?t hear me, she scoffed, I don?t know why I?m even yelling at my poor bear.

Heero paused outside of her door, then upon a second thought, knocked. When she had answered the knocking she stepped aside in confusion as he came in and cast a look around the room.

"Heero...?" she began.

He opened his mouth to start out casually, but the attempt was futile.

"I don?t know where you got ideas of killing yourself from but you can just stop now," he said rather crossly.

She gaped a bit more at him realizing just what he had just said. Had she exclaimed that only minutes ago? She was quite certain he wasn?t psychic, and so the only other options would be either he was camping outside her door (something she expressly didn?t want) or he had planted some sort of listening device in here. Both options made her very, very angry.

Heero Yuy had faced many things in his life, many of which he did not wish to remember. In recent years he felt he had seen many sides of Relena... Exhausted Relena, Happy Relena, Relieved Relena, Righteous Relena, even Playful Relena. But until this very day he had never thought he would have the opportunity to see Angry Relena. He felt that was a wonderful reason for retreat, and his mind agreed it was very logical. He could just slip out, wait until she cooled down (hiding if necessary), and live to fight another day. The door sliding locked behind him told him two things. One, his logical brain was a bit slower in determining tactical options that previously, and two, he was screwed.

Relena glowered at the back of his head for several moments, practically challenging him to turn and face her. Despite that It took all that she had not to let her eyes wander uninhibited down his body, and she was suddenly glad as turned his head, his body following slowly, as if it hurt him to move closer to her. As he came to a halt she opened her mouth to give him what for and realized he wasn?t looking at her. Not exactly. He seemed to have retreated within himself. Coward, her mind sneered, but she retracted it instantly because she knew exactly how incorrect it was.

"Back up," she commanded, using her index finger to point, but not prod him into backing up.

Oh, he was so screwed, his mind mourned. And whipped! The woman in front of him under weighed him by some 50 pounds, and at best she knew how to throw a right hook that would do little damage to him. Yet still she was backing him further into her den and he was lifting nary a trained fingernail to stop her. His knees hit the seat of her chair and he stopped, waiting for the finger to pile drive itself into his traitorous heart. But she paused, tilting her head to look at him.

"Sit," she commanded, sweeping away to pace as his backside met the chair seconds later. He watched her for a second before turning his guilty eyes to the source of the transmission he had heard..

"Where is it?" she demanded, sending his eyes front and center.

He stared at her. She stared back. He swallowed. She glared. He attempted to avert his eyes. She was having none of that.

"You have put some kind of sound device in this room," she said in a very diplomatic Relena tone, as she stalked forward. "I asked you where it is. I know you can hear me, and I know for certain you know what I?m talking about. Don?t give me that innocent expression, Heero Yuy!"

He opened his mouth to reply but shut it instantly as her forward motion brought her into his face. Their noses brushed as she peered not quite trustingly into his eyes as if they would tell her where the bug was hidden. His eyes widened noticeably as he found an angry, but very sexy Relena Darlian nose to nose with himself, and fought back a wildly errant thought of kissing her (not errant when he let himself imagine it, his mind corrected).

"It?s an invasion of my personal space, and you know it!" she said, narrowing her eyes at him.

Aha! His mind crowed. An opening. He narrowed his eyes right back at her.

"Speaking of invasion of personal space," he not quite breathed, as he let his eyes wander down what of her face he could see in her nearness. Her head rolled back away from him as if she was on a track. Score one, he thought.

She had not been entirely unaware of his presence either. His lashes were entirely too thick and inky for his own good, and if she ever had him unconscious she had a hard time saying just what part of his anatomy she would have the hardest time not touching. Lips, hair, eyelashes... she banished the thoughts before they got her blushing.

"How long have you had me bugged?" Relena asked, abandoning the previous question for a question that might have a safer answer.

For Heero however, the answer was no safer than any of the others. He was dedicatedly studying a point over her shoulder while he contemplated what to say. The truth was going to hurt, him most of all.

"A few years," he stated clearly.

This she took in stride, barely. Her mind could not fathom just what he might have heard in a "few years." It was akin to letting someone in your house and then belatedly discovering you?d left your underwear lying around.

"Where is it?" she repeated quite pleasantly. She felt she was doing well under the circumstances. It wasn?t every day one discovered their "crush" if you will had been covertly spying on them. She was not an intensely private person, but there were limits. And by the look on Heero?s face, the slightly "I?ve not been a bad boy, honest." look, he had some idea of it too.

"You don?t want to know?" he said, meaning to make it a statement and having it morph into a question at the last second. He groaned internally. That was going to go over real well.

"I don?t want to know. I think you?re quite mistaken there."

"I can take it out, and you?ll never have to know..."

Surely there was no desperation in his tone. She knew there wasn?t in hers.

"Take it out of *what* precisely, Mr. Yuy?"

Oh, he?d backed himself into that one all right. Mr. Yuy? Had she *ever* called him Mr. Yuy? Maybe on occasion when she?d had to introduce him, but... to his face? It raised his fear level over whether or not she was going to speak to him again after this was all over with.

"It?s nothing, really..."

"If it were nothing," she explained patiently, "you wouldn?t have a problem telling me."

She watched him patiently. He was almost expressionless now, but every once in a while he?d send a glance over to her dresser. This she didn?t think much of at first (although until she looked closely the whole initial underwear thought plagued her) but upon a second and third look her attention was brought to the small stuffed animal perched like a king upon his throne.

"Oh no," she said.

"Oh no," he echoed.

"You?re joking?" It was her turn to turn statement into question. He blinked at her. "You never said anything," she muttered, "therefore you can?t be joking. You put a bug... in my teddy bear??"

"It was for your own safety," Heero rushed to his defense. Getting up and taking a hold of the bear he paused before going on. "It?s equipped with state of the art tracking devices with built in audio sensors that have a broadcasting range of a good several miles." He was staring at the bear cradled in his arms somewhat like a mother and her newborn. "They change frequency for added protection and can only be listened to from a specially tuned device, of which I have the only ones."

"Ones... plural?" she asked in disbelief.

"I wasn?t going to take any chances if I broke one and not having a backup. Besides, if someone was able to get one away from me, what would it matter if they had two? The plan was flawless..."

"Plan. The mission. Your only birthday gift to me was a way to listen to me and track me down."

"It was for your protection," he restated. "You should be glad I worried. Besides, I gave you a card."

"Really, Heero, I?m touched."

The sarcasm in that statement was only slightly biting.

"How many... devices are in there?"

"Two in each arm and leg, two in each eye, two in the nose, one in each ear, and 4 in various parts of the torso. I couldn?t take the chance of one getting ripped off. They only work one at a time, so I?m able to switch at will between them, thus being able to track and listen to at least two parts of the bear at once."

"Oh, dandy," she moaned. "You are so thorough sometimes it pains me. If I said to take them all out now, what would you do?"

"I?d tell you that you?d have to dismember your bear with your bare hands."

His statement was matter of fact, but he was pleased at the horror in her eyes at the possibility of taking the bear apart. If she was that fond of the little thing, she certainly had some feelings for the giver.

She sighed. "And you think it would be in my best interest to keep them there."

He nodded, and it was no surprise to her.

"What do I do with you?" Relena muttered. "You know all of my secrets."

"You could always..." he began.

"I?m not going to kill you," she said with a fiercer glare than earlier.

"...keep me," he finished lamely to his own ears.

She blinked at him. Then blinked again. Then suddenly the absolute absurdity of the whole affair crashed down on her and she sat heavily on the bed while peals of undignified laughter washed over her. He had just begun to enjoy the sound of her laughter when she abruptly stopped. Her face turned towards him, her cheeks flushed and her eyes bright.

"Maybe we should ask the bear," she said innocently.

"I, uhm," he almost stuttered. "I don?t think he?s going to answer."

"Sure he will," she said, returning to Heero?s side. "He?s practically begging me to kill you, because of all the pain you inflicted upon him to get those chips in there."

"He?s inanimate."

She raised an eyebrow.

"He doesn?t feel!"

Then the other brow.

"*It* doesn?t feel, I mean!"

She smirked at his struggling expression.

"It wouldn?t care."

Her foot began to tap.

"You can?t blame me for..."

"Heero," she finally interrupted. The man would not speak to her, and then he rambled on the most insane things.

"What?" he inquired, feeling his rambling time coming to a close

"Shut up. Good gracious. Those are two words I never expected to use on you."

He edged away slightly.

"But no matter what he says... I?m still not going to kill you."

"Oh?" There was an almost playful note to her now, something he was glad to see under the circumstance.

"Yeah," she smiled, touching the head of the bear he still held. She could stay mad at him until her dying day and still it would do her no good. Reaching up, she cupped her hand behind his head, and pulled him close enough so she could touch her lips to his. The way he tensed up at first she might as well have bit him. He got it figured out a moment later and attempted to step forward to kiss her back, but she pulled herself away before he could. She wasn?t entire over her exasperation with him yet.

"I guess that?s all we needed for tonight. Let?s get some sleep, shall we?"

Heero allowed himself to be led out the door and stared blankly as it shut in his face. How very fitting after all that had transpired for her to lock him out of her room. As he lay in bed a short time later he stared at the receiver on the pillow next to him. From the speaker drifted the quiet sounds of Relena?s even breathing. Sometimes when she hugged the bear tight he could even hear her heart beating. Thoughts of longing began to cross his mind as he heard mumbling start to come from the other side.

"G?night Heero," she whispered against the bear?s fur. "Love you."

He stared in slack jawed amazement and was about to drift off into the arms of joy when a final word hit his ears.

"Bastard."

And for the first night in as long as he could remember he fell asleep with a smile on his face.

[pilot03]

I loved the story. Hahahaha. Teddy Bears aren't real....it's the clowns you have to watch out for....or porcelian dolls. Creepy.

[Kari]

Teddy Bears and bugs . That's normal with Heero.
I liked the story .

[Wingnut]

Serves you right Yuy. :razz:

p03: Porcelian dolls are forbidden on my premicies and all clowns nearing my domicile are given one and only one warning shot before they are terminated. Kirby Marrow(sp) is an exception to said clown rule.

[Sovereign of Silence]

ha great story good for u heero :razz:

[GundamVixen]

LMAO!!

I loved it!! I couldn't help giggling all through it!!

Thank you!

[Omnicat]

AW! ! ! *fangirlish squealing* That was so, so...

a) cute
b) sweet
c) funny
d) romantic (Gundam style)
e) all the above

And it's all so wonderfully in-character too... it would be so like Heero to plant some bugs in her birthday gift. And the notion that he'd been sleeping with the transmitter on next to him all those years was absolutely adorable. I love it! Hugs to you, Coley Merrin!